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Iwan Llewelyn-Jones
Songs Without Words
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By Iwan Llewelyn-Jones. 1. Ar Lan Y Mor - Songs Without Words. 2. Ora Pro Nobis - Songs Without Words. 3. Mae Hiraeth Yn Y Mor - Songs Without Words. 4. Pan Ddaw'r Nos - Songs Without Words. 5. Y Bore Glas - Songs Without Words. 6. I Had A Little Nut Tree - Songs Without Words. 7. Y Gwydd - Songs Without Words. 8. Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gwyn - Songs Without Words. 9. Ynys Y Plant - Songs Without Words. 10. Ynys Bellenig - Songs Without Words. More Iwan Llewelyn-Jones. Listen to Songs Without Words now. Listen to Songs Without Words in full in the this site app.
Album · 1991 · 26 Songs. Lieder ohne Worte (Songs without Words), Book 1, Op. 19b: No. 1 in E major, Op. 19, No.
0). Liszt Piano Recital.
Iwan broadcasts regularly on Radio 3, Radio Cymru and S4C and has been the recipient of several awards and honours including The Sir Geraint Evans award in recognition of his significant contribution to Welsh Music. This new album Songs Without Words is a collection of some of Wales’ best loved songs in new arrangements for solo piano as never heard before
Born and raised in North Wales, Iwan Llewelyn-Jones has firmly established himself as one of the finest pianists of his generation. He studied with Kendall Taylor and Phyllis Sellick before building a close collaboration with the French pianist Cécile Ousset. Iwan is a graduate of the University of Oxford and the Royal College of Music where he won several awards and competitions for both academic and pianistic excellence.
Franz Liszt, Iwan Llewelyn-Jones. Caneuon Heb Eiriau - Songs Without Words.
The portraits would not be complete without a Grand Finale, and who better to bring down the curtain than the great virtuoso, Camille Saint-Saëns with his Étude Toccata. Lowri Blake cello, Iwan Llewelyn-Jones piano.
Iwan Llewelyn-Jones: Best songs. DAVID CAMPBELL, David Campbell, Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, Lionel Handy, Иоганнес Брамс - Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114: IV. Allegro Brahms: Trio in Aminor, Op. 114 - Beethoven: Trio in B-Flat Major, Op. 11, 2013 04:16. Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, Ференц Лист - Années de Pélerinage: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca Liszt: Piano Recital, 2013 06:46. Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, Ференц Лист - Années de Pélerinage: Vallée d'obermann Liszt: Piano Recital, 2013 15:52.
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Warwickshire graduate Bethell to professional ranks
Warwickshire County Cricket Club has secured a three-year professional contract with Academy top order batsman and left-arm orthodox bowler Jacob Bethell.
Born in Barbados, Bethell came to Warwickshire aged 12 as part of the Club’s relationship with Rugby School and its Director of Cricket and former Club Captain Michael Powell. He subsequently played for Warwickshire’s Under 13s county age group team and Emerging Players Programme before being awarded an Academy place in 2018.
Now aged 17, Bethell played one Second XI Championship and four Second XI T20 fixtures for the Bears in 2019 and he has recently been training at Loughborough with the England Young Lions squad. In September he was part of the England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Best v Best fixtures to support the development of some of the most talented, young cricketers in the country.
“Jacob has the potential to achieve a huge amount in his professional career at Warwickshire. He can bat anywhere in the top order, he presents a very attractive slow left-arm spin option and he is a natural athlete who is excellent in the field.
Paul Greetham, Warwickshire High Performance Manager
“He came into the Warwickshire pathway as a very talented, young cricketer and we’re proud of the partnership that we have created with Rugby School in advancing his development and getting him into a position to join the professional ranks at 17-years-old.”
Michael Powell, Director of Cricket at Rugby School, said: “Jacob is a very impressive young cricketer with an all-round ability to change a game with bat, ball and in the field. Rugby School has been a great environment for him to develop and we are all very excited about Jacob’s future with the Bears.”
Bethell becomes the sixth Warwickshire men’s cricketer to have graduated from Club’s Academy in the last two years, following on from batsmen Rob Yates and Dan Mousley, seamer George Garrett and all-rounder Ethan Brookes in 2019. Seamer Manraj Johal was also awarded his first senior contract in October.
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Additionally, a further four Academy graduates were named in the list of 41 women’s cricketers to be awarded professional contracts by the ECB at the end of last year, with batter Marie Kelly and seamer Issy Wong signing for their home Central Sparks team and all-rounders Bethan Ellis and Georgia Hennessy signing for Lightning and Western Storm respectively.
“We’ve been closely following the progress of Jacob in the Academy over the last two years and he looks confident and assured whenever he takes a step up, whether that has been in Second XI cricket or with the Young Lions.
Paul Farbrace
“We’re very excited about his potential and our thanks also go to Michael Powell and his team at Rugby School is helping Jacob develop the skills set, temperament and work ethic, which can help him make it to the top.
“Whilst he will spend more time at Edgbaston training and being around the senior men’s squad, we’re committed to providing the best possible environment for Jacob to complete his studies at Rugby School and also supporting him into further education should he wish to take that path alongside his cricket career.”
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A team of Princeton biologists has found that male broad-tailed hummingbirds like this one flash their iridescent throat feathers while making a buzzing sound as part of a complex, synchronized courtship dive. Broad-tailed hummingbirds are native to Central America and summer in western United States. Photo by Noah Whiteman, University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, Dec 18, 2018 ・ 12PM
Hummingbirds dive to dazzle females in a highly synchronized display
When it comes to flirting, animals know how to put on a show. In the bird world, males often go to great lengths to attract female attention, like peacocks shaking their tail feathers and manakins performing complex dance moves. These behaviors often stimulate multiple senses, making them hard for biologists to quantify.
Hummingbirds are no exception when it comes to snazzy performances, as males of many species perform spectacular courtship dives. Broad-tailed hummingbirds (Selasphorus platycercus) fly up to 100 feet in the air before sweeping down toward a perched female, then climb back up for a subsequent dive in the opposite direction. At the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado, home to a population of breeding broad-tailed hummingbirds, researchers from Princeton University have been investigating how hummingbirds combine speed, sound and color in their displays. Their work appears in the Dec. 18 issue of the journal Nature Communications.
“The dives are truly amazing feats for such small birds,” said Benedict Hogan, a postdoctoral research associate in ecology and evolutionary biology and the study’s lead author. “We know from previous work that the males can reach really high speeds. They combine that speed with intriguing noises generated by their wing and tail feathers, and of course with their brightly iridescent plumage.” But how do these different components fit together, and what might a dive sound like and look like to a female?
A male broad-tailed hummingbird climbs upward on the final leg of his U-shaped dive past a would-be mate. Photo by David Inouye, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
To explore this, Hogan and senior author Mary Caswell Stoddard, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and associated faculty in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI), created video and audio recordings of 48 dives performed by wild male broad-tailed hummingbirds. They then used image-tracking software to estimate each male’s trajectory and speed throughout the dive. Combining these estimates with the audio data, the researchers measured the precise time at which the males produce a mechanical “buzz” with their tail feathers. The project was supported by Stoddard’s PEI Climate and Energy Grand Challenges project, “Investigating the Effects of Climate Change on Pollinator-Plant Dynamics in the Rocky Mountains.”
To incorporate information about iridescent plumage color, which is difficult to extract from the video recordings, the team headed to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Using a multi-angle imaging technique and an ultraviolet-sensitive camera, they photographed broad-tailed hummingbird specimens. Hummingbirds are tetrachromatic — their eyes have four color cones, one of which is sensitive to ultraviolet wavelengths — so by combining the photographs with a model of hummingbird color vision and details of the U-shaped flight path, the researchers were able to estimate a female “bird’s-eye view” of the male’s iridescent throat feathers.
Putting it all together, Hogan and Stoddard could determine how the events in a hummingbird’s dive unfold.
“We discovered that the most dramatic aspects of the dive — high speed, the mechanical buzz and a rapid iridescent color change — happen almost all at once, just before the male soars past the female,” said Stoddard. “These aerial acrobats deliver an in-your-face sensory explosion.”
First, the male starts the tail-generated buzz. Then his bright red throat feathers become visible to the female and quickly appear to change to black, due to his speed and orientation. During this time, the male reaches top horizontal speed. Because of his high speed, the researchers estimate that a female will perceive an upward and then downward shift in pitch as he approaches and departs.
“This is due to the Doppler effect, the same phenomenon responsible for the perceived change in pitch as a car with its horn blaring drives past you,” said Hogan.
All of these key events occur in a 300-millisecond window, roughly the duration of a human blink.
How much does the timing matter to females? That needs more study, say the researchers. For now, they can only hypothesize about the different elements of the dive display. The tightly synchronized moves might provide information about the male’s health or tap into a female’s aesthetic preferences. Whatever the explanation, the team emphasized the importance of considering timing and motion in animal courtship signals.
“In the real world, many animals strut their stuff in complex, dynamic ways,” said Stoddard. “Whether it’s a diving hummingbird or a dancing peacock spider, we need to account for motion and orientation to understand how these remarkable displays evolved.”
“Synchronization of speed, sound and iridescent color in a hummingbird aerial courtship dive,” by Benedict Hogan and Mary Caswell Stoddard, appears in the Dec. 18 issue of Nature Communications (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07562-7). The research was supported by the Princeton Environmental Institute’s Climate and Energy Grand Challenges program and a Sloan Research Fellowship to Stoddard.
Male broad-tailed hummingbirds closely time key events to produce a burst of signals for the females they are wooing. They synchronize maximal horizontal speed, loud noises generated with their tail feathers, and a display of their iridescent throat patch (gorget), all in a mere 300 milliseconds — roughly the duration of a human blink. Illustration courtesy of the researchers
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<h3>Objective</h3> Like all variants of Poker players play for a pot, a collection of bets put in by the players themselves. The game is divided into a series of various betting rounds. The game generally ends in one of two ways. Either with a showdown in which all players show their cards and the highest ranked hand(s) win, or the alternative situation in which every player except for one folds.
<h3>Terminology</h3>
Blind: Bets that are placed before any cards are dealt. One person will be the 'big blind' and will place a bet equal to the minimum bet for that round. The 'small blind' places a bet equal to half the minimum bet for that round
Bluff: The act of playing as though you have a better hand than you really do in the hopes other players will fold.
Call: Placing a bet equal to the last bet.
Check: Staying in the round without placing a bet, you can only do this if no other bets have been placed in a betting round.
Community Cards: A set of five cards played up on the table, all players can use these cards in conjunction with their own to compose a hand.
Flop: The term for the first three community cards.
Flush: Five cards of the same suit in any denominations
Fold: Exiting play for that round.
River: The fifth and final community card.
Turn: The fourth community card.
<h3>Hands</h3> Royal Flush: Hand consisting of ten, jack, queen, king, ace.
Straight Flush: Five cards of the same suit in sequence.
Four of a Kind: Hand consisting of four cards of the same denomination
Full House: Hand consisting of a pair and three of a kind.
Flush: Five cards of the same suit
Straight: Five cards of any suit in sequence.
Three of a Kind: Hand consisting of three cards of the same denomination.
Two Pair: Two pairs of cards.
Pair: Any two cards of the same denomination.
These are ranked in order of best to worst. In the case where two players place down the same type of hands, the player with the higher value cards wins the pot. i.e.,
Player 1 places down 3 jacks, Player 2 places down 3 kings. Player 2 will win the pot.
<h3>Playing</h3> The game opens with the big blind placing an automatic bet equal to the current minimum bet and the small bind placing an automatic bet equal to half. The player after the big blind will then start the round, and has the option of calling, raising, or folding. This early stage is referred to as the pre-flop stage and will continue until there are no more raises or all the players except for one have folded(in which case that player will win, although this is an unlikely occurrence at such an early stage of the game.)
After this round the dealer will turn over three of the community cards, cards which all the players can collectively use as part of their own hands, these first three are referred to as the flop, and another round of betting will commence observing essentially the same rules. Upon reaching the same condition(no more raises or all players except one folded) this round will be over. At this point the dealer turns over the turn or fourth community card.
This essentially is how the following round will also play out, with the dealer at the end turning over the river or fifth community card.
This then commences the final betting around, at the conclusion of which if two or more players are left the players will flip their cards over, and the player with the best hand wins. If a true tie occurs(example, two people have a pair of twos) then the pot is split between them. In Texas Hold'em all suits are equal, therefore only the rank of the hand, and the denomination of the cards is the determining factor.
<h3>Basic Strategy</h3> Strategy is somewhat dependent upon the betting round. For instance in the pre-flop you have access to only the information in your own hands, your own cards. Some people will only call or weakly raise during this round, but this is generally considered a weak strategy, because you're either over-betting on a weak starting hand(i.e., a 2 and 6 of different suits) or under betting on a strong starting hand(any pair, but especially high pairs like KK, QQ, JJ, etc, also connecting cards like KQ) Generally calling or weakly raising is referred to as limping, but it's better if you have a weak hand to just fold and if you have a good starting hand to raise as an aggressive strategy to compel other people to fold.
In later betting rounds your strategy alters based upon the community cards. If you start with a pair for example that's still a decent hand, but not necessarily one where you should bet as aggressively as if you suddenly find yourself with three of a kind. Unless of course you're attempting to bluff.
On EM of course play is somewhat different. In the real world you could analyse opponent body language and posture and facial expressions in order to try and determine the strength of their hand. On EM you can only go by past experience playing with that person(i.e., if they're an extremely tight player and more likely to fold rather than deal with a high risk situation you can easily get away with playing worse hands) and in a more short-term way by analysing player bets, taking care to recognise those might be bluffs.
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„The Magic Walking Stick” is a children’s short story by John Buchan. Our hero is a teenage boy who buys a walking stick from a beggar – a magic walking stick that allows the boy to visit many places at his command... It is a fantastical story about a pair of magical walking sticks; one that will cease to function if it is used for any practical purpose, and another that will cease to function if it isn’t. Unfortunately, our protagonist doesn’t know which one he possesses. This charming one-of-a-kind classic is a beautiful compilation which includes the timeless story, „The Magic Walking-Stick” and several additional Arabian Nights classic stories including; The Seven Voyages of Sinbad, The Story of the Magic Horse, The Story of the Fisherman and the Genie and more. It’s a charming and entertaining tale perfect for bedtime reading.
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The Magic Walking Stick - John Buchan
I. THE COMING OF THE STAFF
WHEN Bill came back for long-leave that autumn half, he had before him a complicated programme of entertainment. Thomas, the keeper, whom he revered more than anyone else in the world, was to take him in the afternoon to try for a duck in the big marsh called Alemoor. In the evening Hallowe’en was to be celebrated in the nursery with his small brother Peter, and he was to be permitted to come down to dinner, and to sit up afterwards until ten o’clock. Next day, which was Sunday, would be devoted to wandering about with Peter, hearing from him all the appetising home news, and pouring into his greedy ears the gossip of the foreign world of school. On Monday morning, after a walk with the dogs, he was to motor to London, lunch with Aunt Alice, and then, after a noble tea, return to school in time for lock-up.
This seemed to Bill to be all that could be desired in the way of excitement. But he did not know just how exciting that long-leave was destined to be.
The first shadow of a cloud appeared after luncheon, when he had changed into knickerbockers and Thomas and the dogs were waiting by the gun-room door. Bill could not find his own proper stick. It was a long hazel staff, given him by the second stalker at Glenmore the year before–a staff rather taller than Bill, a glossy hazel, with a shapely polished crook, and without a ferrule, like all good stalking-sticks.
He hunted for it high and low, but it could not be found. Without it in his hand Bill felt that the expedition lacked something vital, and he was not prepared to take instead one of his father’s shooting-sticks, as Groves, the butler, recommended. Nor would he accept a knobbly cane proffered by Peter. Feeling a little aggrieved and imperfectly equipped, he rushed out to join Thomas. He would cut himself an ashplant in the first hedge.
In the first half-mile he met two magpies, and this should have told him that something was going to happen. It is right to take off your cap to a single magpie, or to three, or to five, but never to an even number, for an even number means mischief. But Bill, looking out for ashplants, was heedless, and had uncovered his head before he remembered the rule.
Then, as he and Thomas ambled down the lane which led to Alemoor, they came upon an old man sitting under a hornbeam.
This was the second warning, for of course a hornbeam is a mysterious tree. Moreover, though there were hornbeams in Bill’s garden, they did not flourish elsewhere in that countryside. Had Bill been on his guard he would have realised that the hornbeam had no business there, and that he had never seen it before. But there it was, growing in a grassy patch by the side of the lane, and under it sat an old man.
He was a funny little wizened old man, in a shabby long green overcoat which had once been black; and he wore on his head the oldest and tallest and greenest bowler hat that ever graced a human head. It was quite as tall as the topper which Bill wore at school. Thomas, who had a sharp eye for poachers and vagabonds, did not stop to question him, but walked on as if he did not see him–which should have warned Bill that something queer was afoot. Also Gyp, the spaniel, and Shawn, the Irish setter, at the sight of him dropped their tails between their legs and remembered an engagement a long way off.
But Bill stopped, for he saw that the old man had a bundle under his arm, a bundle of ancient umbrellas and odd, ragged sticks.
The old man smiled at him, and he had eyes as bright and sharp as a bird’s. He seemed to know what was wanted, for he at once took a stick from his bundle. You would not have said that it was the kind of stick that Bill was looking for. It was short and heavy, and made of some dark foreign wood; and instead of a crook it had a handle shaped like a crescent, cut out of a white substance which was neither bone nor ivory. Yet Bill, as soon as he saw it, felt that it was the one stick in the world for him.
How much? he asked.
One farthing, said the old man, and his voice squeaked like a winter wind in a chimney.
Now a farthing is not a common coin, but Bill happened to have one–a gift from Peter on his arrival that day, along with a brass cannon, five empty cartridges, a broken microscope, and a badly-printed, brightly-illustrated narrative called Two Villains Foiled. Peter was a famous giver.
A farthing sounded too little, so Bill proffered one of his scanty shillings.
I said one farthing, said the old man rather snappishly.
The coin changed hands, and the little old man’s wizened face seemed to light up with an elfin glee.
‘Tis a fine stick, young sir, he squeaked; a noble stick, when you gets used to the ways of it.
Bill had to run to catch up Thomas, who was plodding along with the dogs, now returned from their engagement.
That’s a queer chap–the old stick-man, I mean, he said.
I ain’t seen no old man, Maaster Bill, said Thomas. What be ‘ee talkin’ about?
The fellow back there. I bought this stick from him.
They both looked back, but there was no sign of any old man in the green lane. Indeed, if Bill had not been so absorbed in his purchase, he would have noticed that there was no sign of the hornbeam either. The lane ran bare between stone walls up to the hill pastures.
Thomas cast a puzzled glance at the stick.
That be a craafty stick, Maaster Bill–––
But he said no more, for Bill had shaken it playfully at the dogs. As soon as they saw it they went off to keep another urgent engagement–this time apparently with a long-distance hare–and Thomas was yelling and whistling for ten minutes before he brought them to heel.
It was a soft, grey afternoon, and Bill was stationed beside one of the deep dykes on the moor, well in cover of a thorn bush, while Thomas and the dogs departed on a circuit to show themselves beyond the big mere, so that the duck might move in Bill’s direction. It was rather cold, and very wet under foot, for a lot of rain had fallen in the past week, and the mere, which was usually only a sedgy pond, had now grown to a great expanse of shallow flood-water.
Bill began his vigil in high excitement. He drove his new stick into the ground, and used the handle as a seat, while he rested his gun in the orthodox way in the crook of his arm. It was a double-barrelled 16-bore, and Bill knew that he would be lucky if he got a duck with it; but a duck was to him a bird of mystery, true wild game, and he preferred the chance of one to the certainty of many rabbits.
The minutes passed, the grey afternoon sky darkened towards twilight, but no duck came. Bill saw a wedge of geese high up in the air and longed to salute them. Also he heard snipe, but he could not locate them in the dim weather. There seemed to be redshank calling, too, which had no business there, for they should have been on the shore marshes. Far away he thought he detected the purring noise which Thomas made to stir the duck, but no overhead beat of wings followed.
It was so very quiet down there by the dyke that Bill began to feel eerie. The mood of eager anticipation died away, and he grew rather despondent. He would have been bored if he had not been slightly awed. He scrambled up the bank of the dyke and strained his eyes over the mere between the bare boughs of the thorn. He thought he saw duck moving. Yes, he was certain of it–they were coming from the direction of Thomas and the dogs. But they were not coming to him, and he realised what was happening. There was far too much water on the moor, and the birds, instead of flighting across the mere to the boundary slopes, were simply settling on the flood. From the misty waters came the rumour of many wildfowl.
II. THE ADVENTURE OF ALEMOOR
BILL came back to his wet stand grievously disappointed. He did not dare to leave it in case a flight did appear, but he had lost all hope. Gone now was the expectation of flourishing triumphantly a mallard, or a brace of mallard, before the sceptical eyes of his father and the admiring face of Peter. He tried to warm his feet by moving them up and down on the squelching turf, but his toes were icy and his boots were leaden. His gun was now under his arm, and he was fiddling idly with the handle of the stick, the point of which was embedded in the soil.
He made it revolve, and as it turned he said aloud–Bill had a trick of talking to himself– I wish I was in the middle of the big flood.
Then a wonderful thing happened. Bill was not conscious of any movement, but suddenly his surroundings were completely changed. He had still his gun under his left arm and the stick in his right hand, but instead of standing on wet turf he was up to the waist in water.... And all around him were duck–shoveller, pintail, mallard, teal, widgeon, pochard, tufted–and bigger things that might be geese–swimming or diving or just alighting from the air.
Bill in his confusion understood one thing only, that his wish had been granted. He was in the very middle of the flood-water, and his one thought was how to take advantage of it.
He fired right and left at mallard, missing with his first barrel. Then the birds rose in alarm and he shoved in fresh cartridges and blazed wildly into the brown. His next two shots were at longer range, but he was certain that he had hit something. And then the duck vanished in the gloom, and he was left alone with the grey waters running out to the shadows.
He lifted up his voice and shouted wildly for Thomas and the dogs. He had got two anyhow–a mallard drake and a young teal, and he collected them. Then he saw something black about six yards off, and wading towards it he picked up a second mallard.
He stopped to listen, but the world had suddenly gone deathly quiet. Not a sound could be heard of Thomas whistling or the splashing of Gyp, the spaniel. He shouted again and again, but no answer came. The night seemed to make a thick curtain which blanketed his voice. Bill’s moment of triumph began to change into acute fear.
Presently he discovered something which scared him worse. The flood waters were rising. The sluggish river Ale, which fed the mere, would
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British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though, more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968, due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. His most famous work is the Alexandria Quartet. His brother was Gerald Durrell.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
1.1 The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960)
1.1.1 Justine (1957)
1.1.2 Balthazar (1958)
1.1.3 Mountolive (1958)
1.1.4 Clea (1960)
1.2 The Avignon Quintet (1974–1985)
1.2.1 Monsieur (1974)
Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will—whatever we may think.
That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course ...youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Letter to Henry Miller, 1948
Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.
Bitter Lemons (1957)
It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963)
About the pre-WWII days in Kalami on Corfu (1975), as quoted in Amateurs in Eden (2011) by Joanna Hodgkin, p. 6
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Interview in the Sunday Times, 1988
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
It's unthinkable not to love — you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Interview in The Observer, 1990
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time … love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
The Alexandria Quartet (1957–1960)Edit
I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together:the city which used us as its flora-precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own:beloved Aexandria!
Justine (1957)Edit
I think often, and never without a certain fear of Nessim's love for Justine. [-] It coloured his unhappiness with a kind of ecstasy [-] Yet one touch of humour would have saved him from such dreadful comprehensive suffering.
I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together:the city which used us as its flora-precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own:beloved Alexandria!
I remember Nessim once saying [-] that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.
Our common actions in reality are simply the sackcloth covering which hides the cloth-of-gold - the meaning of the pattern. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential—the imagination.
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Balthazar (1958)Edit
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Mountolive (1958)Edit
"- the Copts — the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse than infidels, and your Crusaders massacred them joyfully.
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds (I)
the confluent smallpox - invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)
His profession [ diplomacy ] — offered him something like a long Jesuitical training in self-deception which enabled him to present an ever more highly polished surface to the world without deepening his human experience [-] for he lived surrounded by his ambitious and sycophantic fellows who taught him only how to excel in forms of address, and the elaborate kindnesses which, in pleasing, pave the way to advancement. (II)
Then he saw that she was blind, her face slightly upcast to her companion's in the manner of those whose expressions never fully attain their target - the eyes of another. (II)
here was Kenilworth now heading the new department concerned with Personnel [-] one of those blank administrative constructs which offered no openings into the world of policy. A dead end. [-] he would soon develop the negative powers of obstruction which always derive from a sense of failure. (IV)
In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he [Pursewarden] had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
The Copts — the only branch of the Christian Church which was thoroughly integrated into the Orient! But then your good Bishop of Salisbury openly said he considered these oriental Christians as worse than infidels, and your Crusaders massacred them joyfully.
Subconsciously he knew too, that the oriental woman is not a sensualist in the European sense; there is nothing mawkish in her constitution. Her true obsessions are power, politics and possessions - however much she might deny it. The sex ticks on in the mind, but its motions are warmed by the kinetic brutalities of money. (X)
Clea (1960)Edit
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
The Avignon Quintet (1974–1985)Edit
Monsieur (1974)Edit
He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one own's feelings upon the images of a beloved was in the long run, an act of self-mutilation.
The art of prose governed by syncopated thinking; for thoughts curdle in the heart if not expressed. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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Atacama Large Millimeter Array: translation
Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
ALMA logo
Multi-national
Llano de Chajnantor Observatory
Atacama Desert, Chile
23°01′9.42″S 67°45′11.44″W / 23.0192833°S 67.7531778°W / -23.0192833; -67.7531778
5,058.7 m (16597 ft)
Telescope style
at least 50 identical 12 m reflectors connected by fiber-optic cables
Official ALMA site
Official NRAO ALMA site
Official ESO ALMA site
Official NAOJ ALMA site
The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is an array of radio telescopes in the Atacama desert of northern Chile. Since a high and dry site is crucial to millimeter wavelength operations, the array is being constructed on the Chajnantor plateau at 5000 metres altitude. Consisting of 66 12-meter and 7-meter diameter radio telescopes observing at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths, ALMA is expected to provide insight on star birth during the early universe and detailed imaging of local star and planet formation.
ALMA is an international partnership between Europe, North America, East Asia and the Republic of Chile. Costing more than a billion US dollars, it is the most expensive ground-based telescope currently under construction. ALMA began scientific observations in the second half of 2011 and the first images were released to the press on 3 October 2011. The project is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2012.
2 Funding
3 Assembly
3.1 Transporting antennas to the site
4 Scientific results
4.1 Images from Initial Testing
5 Global collaboration
6 ALMA regional centre (ARC)
7 Project detail
8 Project timeline
The first two ALMA antennas linked together as an interferometer.
Three ALMA antennas linked together as an interferometer for the first time.
The initial ALMA array will be composed of 66 high-precision antennas, and operate at wavelengths of 0.3 to 9.6 mm. The array will have much higher sensitivity and higher resolution than existing sub-millimeter telescopes such as the single-dish James Clerk Maxwell Telescope or existing interferometer networks such as the Submillimeter Array or the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique (IRAM) Plateau de Bure facility.
The antennas can be moved across the desert plateau over distances from 150 m to 16 km, which will give ALMA a powerful variable "zoom", similar in its concept to that employed at the Very Large Array (VLA) site in New Mexico, US.
The high sensitivity is mainly achieved through the large numbers of telescopes that will make up the array.
The telescopes are provided by the European, North American and East Asian partners of ALMA. The American and European partners have each placed orders for twenty-five 12-metre diameter antennas, that will compose the main array. East Asia is contributing 16 antennas (four 12-metre diameter and twelve 7-metre diameter antennas) in the form of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) which is also part of the enhanced ALMA.
By using smaller antennas than ALMA, larger fields of view can be imaged at a given frequency using ACA. Moving the antennas closer together will enable the imaging of sources of larger angular extent. The ACA will work together with the main array in order to enhance the latter's wide-field imaging capability.
On 4 March 2011, ten Antennas are installed at Chajnantor.
ALMA prototype-antennas at the ALMA test facility.
The moon high above Cerro Chajnantor at sunset.
ALMA has its conceptual roots in three astronomical projects: the Millimetre Array (MMA) of the United States, the Large Southern Array (LSA) of Europe, and the Large Millimetre Array (LMA) of Japan.
The first step toward the creation of what would become ALMA came in 1997, when the NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) and the ESO (European Southern Observatory) agreed to pursue a common project that merged the MMA and LSA. The merged array combined the sensitivity of the LSA with the frequency coverage and superior site of the MMA. ESO and NRAO worked together in technical, science, and management groups to define and organize a joint project between the two observatories with participation by Canada and Spain (the latter became a member of ESO later).
A series of resolutions and agreements led to the choice of "Atacama Large Millimeter Array", or ALMA, as the name of the new array in March 1999 and the signing of the ALMA Agreement on February 25, 2003, between the North American and European parties. Following mutual discussions over several years, the ALMA Project received a proposal from the NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) whereby Japan would provide the ACA (Atacama Compact Array) and three additional receiver bands for the large array, to form Enhanced ALMA. Further discussions between ALMA and NAOJ led to the signing of a high-level agreement on September 14, 2004, that makes Japan an official participant in Enhanced ALMA, to be known as the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array.
During an early stage of the planning of ALMA, it was decided to employ ALMA antennas designed and constructed by known companies in North America, Europe and Japan rather than using one single design. This was mainly for political reasons. Although very different approaches have been chosen by the providers, each of the antenna designs appears to be able to meet ALMA's stringent requirements.
ALMA was initially a 50-50 collaboration between the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory and European Southern Observatory (ESO). The array has been extended with the help of the new Japanese, Taiwanese, and Chilean partners.[1] ALMA is the largest and most expensive ground-based astronomical project currently under construction (current cost estimate is US$1.3 billion).
European Southern Observatory and the European Regional Support Centre
National Science Foundation via the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the North American ALMA Science Center
National Research Council of Canada
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) under the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS)
ALMA-Taiwan at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA)
The complex will be built primarily by European, U.S., Japanese and Canadian companies and universities. Three prototype antennae have undergone evaluation at the Very Large Array site in New Mexico since 2002.
General Dynamics C4 Systems has been contracted by Associated Universities, Inc. to provide twenty-five of the 12m antennae,[2] and European manufacturer Thales Alenia Space has been signed up to provide the other twenty-five principle antennae[3] (in the largest-ever European industrial contract). The first antenna was delivered in 2008, and the rest will be delivered at about one per month, finishing in 2011.
Progress at the ALMA Operations Support Facility - a panoramic view.
Transporting antennas to the site
A view across the plains of Chajnantor with the ALMA construction site at the center.
Transporting the 115 tonne antennas from the Operations Support Facility at 2900 m altitude to the site at 5000 m presents enormous problems. The solution chosen is to use two custom 28-wheel self-loading heavy haulers. The vehicles are made by Scheuerle Fahrzeugfabrik in Germany and each is 10 m wide, 20 m long and 6 m high, weighing 130 tonnes. They are powered by twin 500 kW diesel engines.
The transporters, which feature a driver's seat designed to accommodate an oxygen tank to aid breathing the thin high-altitude air, can pick up the antennas and place them precisely at the site. The first vehicle was completed and tested in July 2007.[4] Both transporters were delivered to the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) in Chile on February 15, 2008.
On July 7, 2008 an ALMA transporter for the first time moved an antenna, moving it from inside the antenna assembly building (Site Erection Facility) to a pad outside the building for testing (holographic surface measurements). The antenna was of the North American VertexRSI design.[5]
During Fall, 2009 the first three antennas were transported one by one to the Array Operations Site. At the end of 2009, a team of ALMA astronomers and engineers successfully linked three of the observatory's advanced antennas at the 16,500-foot (5,000 m)-elevation observing site thus finishing the first stage of assembly and integration of the fledgling array. Linking three antennas to work in unison for the first time allowed the ALMA team to correct errors that can arise when only two antennas are used, thus paving the way for precise, high-resolution imaging. With this key step, commissioning of the instrument began January 22, 2010.
On July 28, 2011, the first European antenna for ALMA arrived at the Chajnantor plateau, 5000 meters above sea level, to join antennas already in place from the other international partners, bringing the total number to 16. It is the number of antennas specified for ALMA to begin its first science observations, and is therefore an important milestone for the project.[6]
Antenna Transport
The 130-ton ALMA antenna transporter "Otto" during its naming ceremony.
Image of telescope in transit at the Site Erection Facility.
A worker inspects a transporter.
Moonrise above the 12 metre wide access road to the ALMA High Site.
Images from Initial Testing
Antennae Galaxies composite of ESO/NAOJ/NRAO ALMA, VLA, CTIO, and Hubble observations.
By the summer of 2011 sufficient telescopes were operational during the extensive program of testing prior to the Early Science phase for the first images to be captured. [7] These early images give a first glimpse of the potential of the new array that will produce much better quality images in the future as the scale of the array continues to increase.
The target of the observation was a pair of colliding galaxies with dramatically distorted shapes, known as the Antennae Galaxies. Although LMA did not observe the entire galaxy merger, the result is the best submillimeter-wavelength image ever made of the Antennae Galaxies, showing the clouds of dense cold gas from which new stars form, which cannot be seen using visible light.
The future ALMA array on Chajnantor (artist's rendering)
The Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of Europe, North America and East Asia in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded in Europe by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), in North America by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) and in East Asia by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan (NINS) in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan. ALMA construction and operations are led on behalf of Europe by ESO, on behalf of North America by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), which is managed by Associated Universities, Inc (AUI) and on behalf of East Asia by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) provides the unified leadership and management of the construction, commissioning and operation of ALMA.
ALMA regional centre (ARC)
The ALMA regional centre (ARC) has been designed as an interface between user communities of the major contributors of the ALMA project and the JAO. Activates for operating the ARC have also divided into the three main regions involved (Europe, North America and East Asia). The European ARC (led by ESO) has been further subdivided into ARC-nodes [8] located across Europe in Bonn-Bochum-Cologne, Bologna, Ondřejov, Onsala, IRAM (Grenoble), Leiden and JBCA (Manchester).
The core purpose of the ARC[9] is to: assist the user community with the preparation of observing proposals, ensure observing programs meet their scientific goals efficiently, run a help-desk for submitting proposals and observing programs, delivering the data to principal investigators, maintenance of the ALMA data archive, assistance with the calibration of data and providing user feedback.
A starry night at the ALMA site.
At least 50 antennas of 12 m diameter located at an elevation of 5,000 m at Llano de Chajnantor Observatory, enhanced by a compact array of 4 x 12 m and 12 x 7 m antennas (consortium currently considering to build 50 or 64 [1][2])
Imaging instrument in all atmospheric windows between 350 μm and 10 mm
Array configurations from approximately 150 m to 14 km
Spatial resolution of 10 milliarcseconds, 10 times better than the Very Large Array (VLA) and 5 times better than the Hubble Space Telescope
The ability to image sources arcminutes to degrees across at one arcsecond resolution
Velocity resolution under 50 m/s
Faster and more flexible imaging instrument than the Very Large Array
Largest and most sensitive instrument in the world at millimetre and sub-millimetre wavelengths
Point source detection sensitivity 20 times better than the Very Large Array
Data Reduction system will be CASA (Common Astronomy Software Applications) which is a new software package based on AIPS++
1995 ESO/NRAO/NAOJ joint site testing with Chile.
May 1998 Start of Phase 1 (Design & Development).
June 1999 European/U.S. Memorandum of Understanding for Design & Development.
February 2003 Final European / North American Agreement, with 50% of funding from ESO, and 50% of funding shared between USA and Canada.
April 2003 Testing of first prototype antenna begins at the ALMA Test Facility (ATF) site in Socorro, New Mexico.
November 2003 Groundbreaking ceremony at ALMA site.
September 2004 European, North American & Japanese draft agreement, with Japan providing new extensions to ALMA.
October 2004 Opening of Joint ALMA office, Santiago, Chile.
September 2005 Taiwan joins the ALMA Project through Japan.
July 2006 European, North American & Japanese amend agreement on the Enhanced ALMA.
April 2007 Arrival of first antenna in Chile.
February 2008 Arrival of the two ALMA transporters in Chile.
July 2008 First antenna movement with a transporter.
December 2008 Acceptance of the first ALMA antenna.
May 2009 First interferometry with two antennas at the Operations Support Facility (OSF).
September 2009 First move of an ALMA antenna to Chajnantor.
November 2009 Phase closure with three antennas at Chajnantor.
2010 Call for shared-risk Early Science proposals.
Second semester 2011 Start of Early Science.
End 2012 ALMA Inauguration.
Looking over to the ALMA site from APEX.
ALMA Site.
Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX), single dish sub-millimetre telescope built on a modified ALMA prototype antenna
Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
CARMA a sensitive millimetre-wave array operated by a consortium including Caltech, University of California Berkeley, University of Illinois, University of Maryland and University of Chicago
Cosmic Background Imager a 13 element interferometer operating in Llano de Chajnantor since 1999.
IRAM 30 Meter Telescope (Pico Veleta, Spain), the largest millimetric telescope in the world, operated by IRAM
James Clerk Maxwell Telescope The most sensitive existing sub-millimetre telescope
Plateau de Bure Interferometer, one of the most successful existing millimetre-wave arrays, operated by IRAM
List of observatories
^ ALMA Partners
^ GD - 2005
^ ESO - 2005
^ "Giant truck set for sky-high task." BBC News website, 30 July 2007. Retrieved 31 July 2007.
^ July 2008 NRAO ALMA newsletter article by Dr. Al Wootten
^ "European ALMA antenna brings total on Chajnantor to 16". ESO Organisation Release. 28 July 2011. http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1127/. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ "ALMA Open its Eyes". ALMA Press Release. 3 October 2011. http://www.almaobservatory.org/en/press-room/press-releases/297-alma-opens-its-eyes. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
^ ARC-nodes
^ ALMA regional centre
NRAO ALMA site
UK ALMA site[dead link]
ESO ALMA site
ALMA site by NAOJ
ALMA Antennas Collect First Data, "bbc.co.uk, 17 November 2009.
Huge Observatory in Andes Takes Shape, Space.com, 7 February 2009.
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Children of Dawn
On December 27, 2018 February 4, 2019 By Jacob A PauwelsIn Short Story
At the base of the Kragen mountains was a small village named Grache. It was little more than a cluster of buildings, ten to twelve in number, surrounded by nothing but farmland for miles. Most of the buildings were unremarkable; private dwellings with a few shops peppered throughout. A little further up the road to the mountains sat a humble white stone temple overlooking the village.
On a typical morning, you could often find Father Eagen Ravenhart sitting on the steps there eating his morning meal.As a part of his morning routine, the Father would watch the sunrise over the village; buildings only jagged silhouettes as the sun began to crest the horizon, painting the rolling hills of the surrounding countryside with the pastel hues of dawn. It was truly a sight to behold; a bit of Lathander’s glory bleeding into this realm. There was a time when Eagen could almost hear the world hum awake around him, reverberating with the harmonies and resonances of the high heavens touching earth. At one time the sight and sound would have filled Eagen with such hope and fulfillment. But now, as each day the sun rose exactly as it had the day before, Father Ravenhart felt nothing.
Eagen had been given charge of Grache’s spiritual well-being as a young cleric, graduating out from under the tutelage of a much older and highly pious man in a much larger metropolis. Day in and day out, he’d tend to the needs of the townsfolk. He’d perform marriage ceremonies, bless infants, and recite funeral rites. He was present for every significant moment in the lives of each of the people who called Grache their home. And as he labored he did so in joy, and there was the hum.
But as time passed, many that he’d blessed as infants, and later consecrated on their wedding days, he’d then buried. Famines, bandits, wild beasts; the pitfalls of the savage world would take some before their time, and those same eyes that took in the dawn each morning watched the sun set on friends, neighbors, and even children, and those ears had to strain to hear the melody.
Despite all of this, he never faltered in his faithfulness to the little hamlet nestled in the mountainside. He had a responsibility to the townsfolk to be their shepherd, a pillar of the community and a symbol of Lathander’s blessed guidance, and he knew in his heart that despite his feelings, he could not disappoint them. His days were busy with the bustling eb and flow of the lives he helped to guide, and his nights were still and quiet as, through the years, the Morning Lord grew silent.
Each night, a little while after the last parishioner had left for the day, his hair still smelling of incense, Eagan would lie awake and wonder if, perhaps, that night would be his last. Maybe, just maybe, he would shut his eyes and would not have to endure another morning of the Dawn King’s hollow sunrise.
It was late on a night such as this that there came a knocking on the temple doors. It took Eagen a moment to register the sound amidst his nightly existential ponderations. Again it came, the unmistakable, rhythmic thudding of purposed hands upon the thick wood; it was not the wind, the Father had a visitor.
“Just a minute,” he called into the darkness as he took a small oil lamp from a sconce on the wall and turned its small flickering back up to a flame that would provide actual illumination for making his way to answer his late night summons. Grabbing the nearest thing to cover himself, his vestments, and throwing them on, he left his small room off the left side of the temple’s vaulted sanctuary, and made his way towards the door. Light from his lamp flickered on the rows of wood pews as large stained glass windows loomed over him at his back, rimming his balding head in dappled shades of moonlight.
It did not take the Father long to reach the door, only a minute or two, but when he took hold of the large twisted iron handles and heaved the thick double wooden doors open, his unexpected visitor was nowhere to be seen. The Father stuck his head out the doorway, peering to either side as he did, the cold night air stinging at his face. “Hello? Is anyone there?” he called into the still dark night. His call was met by only the soft rustling of leaves from a nearby tree, tousled by the light midnight breeze, and by the occasional chirp of the wayward insect or frog.
That was just great; local farmhand errand boys playing late night tricks on an old religious man- rabble rousers and buffoons the lot of them. If Ravenhart had a gold piece for every time one of the young townsfolk had shown him disrespect, he would be living the life of a noble. Lathander forgive them, they know not that they are fools…
Just as Eagen was getting ready to stomp back to bed, he caught sight of something at the bottom of the stairs; a small crate. Ravenhart recognized it as an offering crate. The townsfolk would occasionally make sacrifices and offerings to Lathander as part of their petitioning for high harvest yields, or favorable marrying partnerships. Exactly who, in their right mind, would be making deliveries at this hour however, the Father knew not.
For a brief moment, Eagen considered leaving the crate there and dealing with it in the morning, but occasionally small birds or mammals were sacrificed and it would reflect very poorly on Eagen if some stray dog or wild beast got to it in the middle of the night before it was properly offered to Lathander. That would not be an easy thing to live down, for word traveled fast and completely in Grache.
Eagen bent to pick up the crate and was surprised by the weight of it. Must not be a bird this time, maybe a piglet or lamb. Upon closer inspection, he could see that it was lined with straw, and amidst the straw was a tightly bundled blanket. Leaving the crate on the ground, Eagen lifted the bundle out. It did not squirm, or make any noise, and for a split second, the Father thought he may have been wrong in his earlier assessment and that it wasn’t a living sacrifice at all. And then, he found the loose end of the blanket and unrolled it a small amount, and what he saw then he had not expected at all. It was the face of a child, asleep, hair still covered by the blanket.
In an instant a myriad of thoughts ran through the Father’s mind. Who had left this poor babe here? Was it intended as a sacrifice? Lathander was not the type of god to demand the children of his faithful, in fact, he was the very deity of birth and renewal, and Eagan was damn sure that such an offering was blasphemous. Then why? Why leave this child with him? In such a town where more offspring meant more help on the family farm, the pure economic absurdity of abandoning one’s child in Grache gave the Father great pause.
He could not tell if it was merely the moonlight, or if the infant was the bearer of some infection or malady, but its skin appeared to have an almost grey pallor to it. That’s it, perhaps the babe was brought to him for healing, though why the child’s guardian would flee and not stay to witness their ward cured, was beyond him. Eagan raised his hand to the infant’s forehead to feel its temperature and as he did so, he brushed the swaddle from the top of its head. The babe was indeed hot to the touch, but it was what the Father saw, not what he felt, that alarmed him in that moment. In was then that the infant awoke. It stayed silent as its eyes fluttered open; staring back at Eagan with strange pupiless, fully white eyes. Even more alarming, Eagen could now see two small horns on the top of the infant’s forehead, each about an inch in length.
“By the dawn… ” he exclaimed. The infant just looked up at him, silent. It had yet to make a sound that the Father had heard, not a wail, not even a burble. Eagen found his breath shallow as he recalled tales he had heard of such creatures as the one he now held.
He recognized, though he had never seen one in Grache, that he now held within his arms a Tiefling child. They were said to be the descendants of hellspawn; to have the very blood of demons in the their veins from the ancient times. Eagen’s knowledge on these demon-folk was not extensive, but he seemed to remember hearing that though descended from demons long ago, they were not inherently demonic themselves necessarily. Still, they had a reputation for being treacherous, thieving, maniacal and generally wise to avoid.
Had this infant been left on any other doorstep in Grache, Eagen thought, the simple farmers and their wives would riot in the streets. For simple folk understand little, and all fear what they don’t understand. So the reasoning behind why this babe was left with him made some sense, but it still left Father Ravenhart with so many questions.
“What’s your name, little one?” the Father asked after a minute, mostly to himself, perceiving the babe to not be of speaking age. The only sound was that of Eagen’s own voice, but it’s gentle timbre in that moment surprised Eagen.
“Where is your mother?” It was hard for Eagen to imagine any Tiefling living in Grache. He must have come from some traveling mother’s act of desperation as she passed through the village, maybe on her way to the mountains. Regarding the simple folk, she may have very well been on the run from a lynch mob, and thought that maybe she could lead them away and at least keep the infant safe, but there was no way to know for sure.
It was then that the babe let out a small coo. The first sound Ravenhart had heard it make; one of contentment really, not trauma. Whatever this little one had gone through in the short time it was alive, they seemed to have been adequately sheltered from it, or to be taking it in stride.
“Now what am I to do with you?” Eagen said as he loosened the blanket, freeing the infant’s arms from its side. As the Father looked down on the small grey-skinned bundle, he did not feel the soul of a demon behind those small, pupiless white eyes. As he watched the babe play with its own fingers in front of its face, and as it briefly managed to grasp a handful of the Father’s beard and tug it gently before losing its fumbling grip, he did not feel malicious intent or nefarious purpose. Nor did he feel afraid when looking at the small thing in his arms that had supposedly descended from demons millenia ago. What he did feel then, a moment later, was the chubby fingers of a tiny hand grasp his finger with all of its little might, and this time, the grip persisted. And as that tiny hand held tightly to his finger, the Father felt something else. He felt a warmth he hadn’t felt in ages; the deep, humming warmth of the coming dawn.
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May 21, 2008 , at 6:22 PM
Following are the top ten states where I think we could use some fresh polling data.
10. Illinois. All the other big states get polled — even the ones that aren’t expected to be especially competitive. But Illinois seems to be taken for granted and hasn’t been sampled since February. While that’s understandable in Obama’s case, the regression model thinks there’s an outside chance that McCain could compete against Clinton in Illinois if there were a sufficient amount of backlash from Obama supporters. It would be nice to be able to test that hypothesis.
9. Connecticut. Another state that’s more interesting in the Clinton scenario than the Obama scenario, but if Clinton is making progress with the white working class, it would be helpful to know if she’s losing ground with the investor class. There’s no better place to evaluate that than Connecticut, and previous polling had shown the Clinton-McCain matchup relatively close in this state.
7. North Dakota and 8. South Dakota. Every day that goes by, our model gives less weight to the tantalizing SurveyUSA poll from February that showed Obama four points ahead in North Dakota, and therefore his win percentage goes down there. But the Dakotas have decidedly moderate electorates, and with Obama polling extremely well in neighboring Minnesota recently, we’re overdue for a check-up.
6. Massachusetts. SurveyUSA data has sometimes shown Massachusetts to be surprisingly close in the McCain-Obama matchup, whereas the only Rasmussen poll put Obama safely ahead. Getting a third opinion from a Suffolk or a University of New Hampshire would be helpful.
5. Montana. While Alaska has been polled surprisingly heavily, Montana really has not been. And yet, it might be the more plausible of the Big Sky states as it has more history of electing Democrats — including darkhorse VP candidate Brian Schweitzer as well as John Tester and Bill Clinton (in 1992).
4. South Carolina. The Palmetto state has been polled just once, and that poll put Obama just three points behind. While we can certainly make some inferences about South Carolina based on the polling in North Carolina and Georgia, this state had a somewhat special relationship in securing the nominations of both McCain and Obama, and it would be interesting to examine the localized effects.
3. West Virginia. I was disappointed that we had a meaningful primary in West Virginia and yet didn’t get a single general election poll out of it. While I don’t expect the state to be competitive for Obama, it is so idiosyncratic demographically that it would help us to calibrate our estimates in other areas. And it certainly is an interesting state for Clinton on the chance that she gets the nomination.
2. Nevada. It’s received considerably less polling attention than Colorado or New Mexico, and yet is just as important as a part of Obama’s potential Western strategy. Moreover, it’s a difficult state to get a hold on demographically, as it combines some extremely wealthy demographics with some extremely poor ones.
1. Michigan. Although Michigan has been polled some, it lags way behind Ohio and Pennsylvania in its depth of data and yet ranks second on both Obama’s and Clinton’s swing state lists. Particularly in light of Obama’s recent visit to the state and the continuing debate over the disposition of its Democratic delegates, it would be interesting to have a better idea of where we stand.
Michigan (119 posts) Nevada (113) Massachusetts (82) Illinois (68) South Carolina (66) Montana (55) West Virginia (55) North Dakota (41) Connecticut (35) South Dakota (29)
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen album flac
Emerson Lake and Palmer Prog Rock Symphonic Rock 1999 UK
Performer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Title: Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen
Style: Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock
Other formats: MMF WMA AC3 AHX AU AIFF ADX
1-1 Hoedown (Taken From "Rodeo")
1-2 Jerusalem
1-3 Toccata (An Adaption Of Ginestra's "1st Piano Concerto, 4th Movement")
1-4 Tarkus
1-4-1 Eruption
1-4-2 Stones Of Years
1-4-3 Iconoclast
1-4-4 Mass
1-4-5 Manticore
1-4-6 Battlefield (including "Epitaph")
1-4-7 Aquatarkus
1-5 Take A Pebble (Including "Still... You Turn Me On" And "Lucky Man")
2-1 Piano Improvisations (Including Friedrich Gulda's "Fugue" And Joe Sullivan's "Little Rock Getaway")
2-2 Take A Pebble (Conclusion)
2-3 Jeremy Bender / The Sheriff (Medley)
2-4 Karn Evil 9
2-4-1 1st Impression
2-4-2 2nd Impression
2-4-3 3rd Impression
Recorded live at the Anaheim Convention Centre in California in february 1974 on Emerson, Lake & Palmer 1973/74 World Tour.
Comes in a 2-disc jewel case, containing a fold-out booklet with the liner notes.
K 63500 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen (3xLP, Album) Manticore K 63500 UK 1974
MNT 63500 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen (3xLP, Album) Suzy, Manticore MNT 63500 Yugoslavia 1975
K63500, K 63500 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen (3xLP, Album) Manticore, Manticore K63500, K 63500 UK 1974
MOVLP272 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen (3xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, 180) Music On Vinyl, Sony Music, Manticore MOVLP272 Europe 2011
88 150 XET, 88150XT, 88 147 XT, 88 148 XT, 88 149 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen (3xLP, Album) Manticore, Manticore, Manticore, Manticore, Manticore 88 150 XET, 88150XT, 88 147 XT, 88 148 XT, 88 149 Germany 1974
A1 Hoedown (Taken From Rodeo)
Arranged By – Emerson, Lake & PalmerWritten-By – Aaron Copland
A2 Jerusalem
Arranged By – Emerson, Lake & PalmerLyrics By – Blake*Music By – Parry*
A3 Toccata (An Adaption Of Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto, 4th Movement)
Arranged By – Keith EmersonPercussion [Movement] – Carl PalmerWritten-By – Ginastera*
B1-1 Eruption
Written-By – Emerson*
B1-2 Stones Of Years
Written-By – Emerson*, Lake*
B1-3 Iconoclast
B1-4 Mass
B1-5 Manticore
B1-6 Battlefield (Including Epitaph)
Written-By – Lake*
C1-7 Aquatarkus (Conclusion)
C2 Take A Pebble (Including Still... You Turn Me On And Lucky Man)
D1 Piano Improvisations (Including Friedrich Gulda's 'Fugue' And Joe Sullivan's Little Rock Getaway)
Written-By – Friedrich Gulda, Joe Sullivan, Emerson*
D2 Take A Pebble (Conclusion)
D3 Jeremy Bender / The Sheriff (Medley)
Written-By – Lake*, Emerson*
Karn Evil 9
E1-1 1st Impression
Lyrics By – Lake*, Sinfield*Music By – Emerson*
F1-2 2nd Impression
F1-3 3rd Impression
Written-By – Emerson*, Lake*, Sinfield*
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Leadclass Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Leadclass Ltd.
Licensed To – Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
Manufactured By – Music On Vinyl B.V.
Distributed By – Music On Vinyl B.V.
Published By – Manticore Music Ltd.
Published By – Boosey & Hawkes
Published By – E.G. Music
Published By – Robbins Music
Published By – Josef Weinberger Ltd.
Mastered At – masterpiece
Pressed By – Record Industry – 88682
Design [Package Concept] – Michael Ross
Engineer – Andy Hendriksen, Peter Granet
Mastered By – Greg*
Photography By – Carl Dunn
Producer – Greg Lake
Recorded live on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's 1973/74 World Tour.
Sticker on plastic wrap:
"Music On Vinyl - Exclusively Remastered - 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl Pressing"
Triple-gatefold sleeve ( 'E L P' cut-out). Limited to 1000 copies.
Published by Manticore Music Ltd. Except "Hoedown" & "Toccata" by Boosey & Hawkes. "Epitaph" by E.G. Music. "Little Rock Getaway" by Robbins Music. And "Fugue" by Josef Weinberger Ltd.
First label code [LC00162] on the back cover. And second label code [LC12723] on the labels.
℗ 1974 Leadclass Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited.
© 2011 Leadclass Limited under exclusive license to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited.
Barcode (String): 8713748981402
Matrix / Runout (Side A Stamped): 88682 2A MOVLP 272 (Hand etched): GREG @ MASTERPIECE
Matrix / Runout (Side B Stamped): 88682 2B MOVLP 272
Matrix / Runout (Side C Stamped): 88682 2C MOVLP 272
Matrix / Runout (Side D Stamped): 88682 2D MOVLP 272
Matrix / Runout (Side E Stamped): 88682 2E MOVLP 272 (Hand etched): GREG @ MASTERPIECE
Matrix / Runout (Side F Stamped): 88682 2F MOVLP 272
Rights Society: BIEM/GEMA
Label Code: LC00162
VICP-60638-39 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies And Gentlemen (2xCD, Album, Ltd, Promo, RE, Jap) Victor VICP-60638-39 Japan 1999
Ladies And Gentlemen - 1974.
This live album was originally released at the height of their popularity as a Triple Album. The performances are mind blowing and were recorded on their 'Someone Get Me a Ladder World Tour', and this album captures that tour perfectly.
Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends ~ Ladies and Gentlemen is the second live album by the English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released as a triple album in August 1974 on Manticore Records. It was recorded in February 1974 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California during the group's 1973–74 world tour in support of their fourth studio album, Brain Salad Surgery (1973).
Upon its release, the 1973 LP Brain Salad Surgery had been hailed as Emerson, Lake & Palmer's masterpiece. It isn't that the group didn't try hard to give a good show; they did, but left to just his two hands, without the use of multi-tracking and overdubs to build layer-upon-layer of electronic keyboard sounds, Keith Emerson was at a singular disadvantage on some of the boldest material in the trio's repertory.
Welcome back, my friends To the show that never ends We're so glad you could attend Come inside, come inside. There behind a glass Is a real blade of grass Be careful as you pass Move along, move along. Come inside, the show's about to start Guaranteed to blow your head apart Rest assured you'll get your money's worth The greatest show in heaven, hell or earth. You've got to see the show It's a dynamo You've got to see the show It's rock 'n' roll.
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentlemen (2CD).
Ladies and Gentlemen. should be public domain. Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Medley: Jeremy Bender, The Sheriff. 3. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression. 4. 5. 6. 7. Tarkus: 1. Eruption, 2. Stones of Years, 3. Iconoclast, 4. Mass, 5. Manticore, 6. Battlefield.
Jeremy Bender, The Sheriff - Live In Anaheim 1974 Lyrics. Emerson, Lake & Palmer Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, were a sporadically active English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and have sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg Lake (bass guitar, voca. ore . Year: 1974. Take a Pebble [Live 1974. Piano Improvisations [Including Friedrich Gulda's Fugue and Joe Sulliva.
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Mercure Shrewsbury Albrighton Hall Chef Shows His Skills On TV
Nov 2019 | News
A young Shrewsbury-based chef said he had an “amazing experience” in reaching the quarter finals of hit TV show MasterChef: The Professionals.
Neil Robertson is a Junior Sous Chef at the four-star Mercure Shrewsbury Albrighton Hall Hotel and Spa, which is managed by Focus Hotel Management.
The talented 20-year-old found himself competing against some of Britain’s best professional chefs during his time on the popular TV show.
And, of course, he faced his food being scrutinised by the judges, Michelin-starred chef Marcus Wareing, highly-regarded chef Monica Galetti and MasterChef mainstay Gregg Wallace.
Neil made it to the quarter-finals of the competition, which he said he had “entered on a whim”, and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience.
Neil was born in South Africa and has lived in Wales for the past five years.
His father and great-grandfather were both chefs, and he said: “It runs in my blood.
“Ever since I started school, being a chef was all I could ever see myself doing.”
He finished school at 16 and started an apprenticeship.
Despite his age, he already has a wealth of experience behind him, from a small country house hotel in Wales, whose head chef was a big influence on him, to a six-month stint at a restaurant in Melbourne which is regularly named among the top ten restaurants in Australia.
When MasterChef announced they were looking for Professionals for their 12th series, Neil put in an application, and was then selected.
He said: “It was the most pressure I have ever been under. I did not realise how much pressure it would be.
“But the experience of working with different chefs and the feedback from such well-known judges has been absolutely incredible.
“Doing something like this means putting your reputation on the line. Doing it so early in my career meant I had nothing to lose really, so there was no better time to do it.
“It is a massive judge of character and was an amazing experience.”
Jennifer Sibbald-Wall, Manager of the Albrighton Hall Hotel & Spa, said; “We are all extremely proud of Neil.
“I think nerves may have got the better of him in the end, but he is only 20 and I have no doubt that he is definitely one to watch for the future.
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Do You Have a Favourite Logo? I Do—What’s Yours?
31st March 2020 21st December 2020 by Paul Williams
In a previous incarnation—as a more general graphic designer—I attended business networking meetings. At some of these, I did a 10-minute talk called I Am a Logo. In the talk, I attempted to explore the properties of logos, and branding, in a quirky and humorous way. It all revolved around a character called Hector the Vector.
During the Q&A session at the end of one of these, an audience member asked me what my favourite logo was. The question had me completely stumped. Embarrassingly, I hadn’t actually anticipated, or prepared for, such an obvious and simple question!
I composed myself, and gave the best answer I could, but later kicked myself as I realised I’d given the wrong answer. Yes, I’d talked about a logo I really liked—the Napster cool cat with headphones on. I liked it mainly because it was a cool cat with headphones on, but that wasn’t really a good enough answer. I’d forgotten a much more worthy contender—the rather old-fashioned, copperplate script-style logo known as the Bristol Scroll.
Why this particular logo?
The answer to that question is actually rather complicated. Has the logo inspired me with its design? No, it’s not really the sort of thing I would design. Its sinuous, late-19th century form does really appeal to me though. The classic Ford and Coca-Cola logos have the same style, and they’re still in use today. But it’s not the logo of a product, or service, that I use or follow, so I don’t have that kind of brand attachment.
In fact, I don’t believe that most logos are ‘lovable’ or even ‘likeable’, nor should they be, necessarily. Their main job is simply to be a recognisable signature. Although they can represent certain general qualities or strengths, they can by no means tell a whole story. That really is too much to ask of any logo! I think the particular appeal of the Bristol Scroll, to me, lies in the history it represents. It’s a history, both of the city of Bristol (England), where I was born and brought up, and of me personally.
An historical attachment
The Bristol Scroll was first drawn-up sometime around 1910, for the Bristol Aeroplane Company. The company designed, and made, the Brabazon, the Britannia, and many other notable aircraft. BAC later became part of British Aerospace (BAe), makers of Concorde and the Airbus range.
Bristol Commercial Vehicles (BCV), a sister company of the aircraft operation, then co-opted the logo in a redrawn form. They used it to badge their bus and truck chassis, including the revolutionary low-height double-decker, the Bristol Lodekka. British Leyland eventually took over BCV and, despite it having a full order book, closed it in 1983.
The Bristol Lodekka low-height double decker bus. This one was new to Bristol Omnibus Company in 1966 and had many Bristol scroll logos on it, including on the radiator grille, wheels and bus livery.
In the mid-1960s the logo became the fleetname of the Bristol Omnibus Company, which has since become First Bristol. In the passenger transport industry, the Bristol Scroll was perhaps second only to the London Transport roundel in its distinctiveness.
My connection to the logo
That’s where the connection started for me. You see, when I was growing up, I turned into a bit of a bus fanatic. There, I’ve said it. Look, we lived next door to the huge Lawrence Hill bus depot and repair works. The things were revving-up outside at six in the morning. I had to either love buses or hate them.
As a result, the Bristol Scroll became indelibly etched on my mind. I think that’s why I would put it top of the tree in my league of favourite logos. The Napster cat is still up in that tree, by the way—just not at the top!
The Bristol Scroll has what people call “a special place in my heart”, and it seems I’m not the only one. Although the logo fell into commercial disuse many years ago, you can barely turn a corner in the city these days without seeing it. It’s even featured on a larger-than-life ‘Bristol Lodekka’ Gromit, created for Aardman Animations’ Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Appeal. The statue spent ten weeks stationed outside the former Bristol Omnibus headquarters at Lawrence Hill, a stone’s throw from where I grew up.
The Bristol Lodekka Gromit statue created for Aardman Animations, as seen at Lawrence Hill, Bristol, features a Bristol Scroll logo. (Image: jacquemart)
The Bristol Scroll has now, effectively, become ‘Creative Commons’. As far as I know, no company actually owns the mark, and I sincerely hope no-one ever will. It has taken on a kind of ‘folk heritage’ use and now belongs to everyone, including me!
If you’d like to read more about the Bristol Scroll, I can recommend this book by Martin Curtis.
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2 thoughts on “Do You Have a Favourite Logo? I Do—What’s Yours?”
Julian Wellings says:
What a fascinating background story to this logo Paul. Talking of the Bristol Lodekka, I used to be transported to school on one in the seventies, from Stocksfield, Northumberland to Hexham Grammar School. The registration plate is etched on my mind for some reason – MHN 433E. I even found a picture of said bus on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/23207961@N07/4867979093
Paul Williams says:
Thanks Julian, I’m pleased you found the article interesting and love your recollection of the Lodekka – thanks too for the photo link, that’s a reet Bobby Dazla! It’s amazing how the most obscure things leave a lasting impression on us as children. Don’t worry – only people reading this will know your secret – could be lot worse though, couldn’t it?
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Saturday, January 30, 2016 — 1 pm
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College Goal Weekend is a national initiative designed to provide incentive and aid for high school seniors to fill out their FAFSA application. Financial aid experts from several area colleges will be on hand to guide the process. It is very important to bring the required materials to complete the application. Click here for the checklist. High school juniors are also encouraged to come to discover the changes to the FAFSA timeline and requirements for the Class of 2017. Like this Facebook page for important updates, including parking information. Register for this event.
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This event is focused on first-generation students and families with the screening of the award-winning documentary First Generation, narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood, followed by a panel discussion of such students and campus resource experts. This one-hour film illustrates how four high school students broke the cycle of poverty and brought hope to their families and communities. This event is important not just for high school seniors, but also juniors and sophomores as it is not too early to learn about college affordability. After the screening, there will be a panel discussion and the opportunity for students and families to ask questions. Like this Facebook page for important updates. Register for this event.
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Designed to be much more than another chance to get help filling out your FAFSA, “An Inside Look At College Costs” will be a joint presentation by representatives from Yale University and New Haven Promise. It will address the cornerstones of affordability, the instability of institutional and federal aid, the importances of wise choices and the timeline of expenses. Students and families will be able to ask questions and get answers from experts. Like this Facebook page for important updates. Register for this event.
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They Risk Their Lives Rescuing The War-Abandoned Pets
War is the worst human creation ever, because it only leaves victims on both sides, the winners and the losers. The victims are not only the human kind participating in the battlefields, but also innocent people and the nature they live on.
From an article ni Newsweek, one simple example of the most innocent victims of war are the abandoned pets in the warzone. Not all refugees who used to live in the warzone had time to take care about their pets, because they need help themselves.
In result, those refugees need to abandon the animals. And the abandoned animals like dogs and cats become stray. For those stronger ones, they can survive the wild life in the warzone, but for those which were highly loved and spoiled, most of them can’t survive alone.
Take example from the conditions of strayed pets in Aleppo, Syria. Once a peaceful town with hundreds of cat lovers living in the residence, this place is now a battlefield. And like other places where war take place, most of its residents choose to run away from the town, and abandoning their pets.
Meet Aljaleel, The Savior Of Strayed Cats In Aleppo
Every morning, a man named Mohamad Alaa Aljaleel go to the butcher shop to buy 4 dollars’ worth of scraps from the butcher. Knowing it is him, the butcher often gives discounts and bonus to Aljaleel, because the butcher knows that what Aljaleel buys is not to be consumed for himself.
After he gets the scraps from the butcher, Aljaleel continue to drive a little further to feed abandoned cats in the area. There are more than 150 cats are abandoned in Aleppo, which were belong to fleeing or deceased owners who once lived in the area.
The Syrian civil war is the cause of the abandonment of those pets. Aljaleel has done this kind of activity for six years since the war broke out. Being lucky enough to flee to turkey with his family and found a life there, some of his heart remains in the Syria, and that’s why he chooses to help those who need it.
“I regard animals and humans in the same light. All of the abandoned pets suffer pain, and all of them deserve compassion,” said Aljaleel as being stated on Newsweek. “It brings the kids so much joy to play with them, I take great pride in the work I’m doing.”
At first, he said that the number of cats he was feeding was not that much. It started with five cats, and the next day the number doubled, and keeps on doubling until now it reaches about 150 cats. “Cats always find out when there’s food around,” said the technician and former electrician.
Animals Also Suffer From War
In the chaotic condition of war, the lives of pets are the least considered. While actually, abandoned pets are among the ones suffer the most. Yes, people’s live matter, but that doesn’t mean that pets’ lives worth less than its owners.
Mostly, pets are abandoned in the warzone because the former owners couldn’t afford bringing it while fleeing from that place. The abandoned pets then most likely to suffer from loneliness and starvation because they use to be loved and fed by human who take care of them.
The biggest number of pets which are abandoned are birds, fish, cats, and dogs. While the cats and dogs are usually set free, the birds and fish are not, they are trapped in the cage or in the fish bowl. Those animals are practically left dead by starvation.
It doesn’t mean that cats and dogs are not in the threat of dying from starvation, but those two entrapped animals are in higher risk. Beside starvation, some other causes of death include injury, disease, and even loneliness.
People Don’t Voluntarily Abandon Their Pets
However, people are actually not voluntarily fleeing from their houses without their animals. Gerardo Huertas, the director of disaster management operations of World Animal Protection found out that pets are among the most valuable thing to be brought when leaving the houses.
“The reality is that people do not want to evacuate without their pets. In questionnaires we’ve carried out asking people what they would take with them if they had to leave their homes, cats and dogs are always on the top of the list,” he said as quoted from Newsweek.
Thus, in majority of the cases, people are actually forced to abandon the pets. Huertas first found out this fact when he observed the Nicaragua at 1989, the time when the Nicaraguan Revolution took place.
People who had animals chose to tie the animals to trees before fleeing, hoping the abandoned pets are safe from landmines. But rather than giving the animals higher hope to live, it is like letting the animals such as cattle and horses to die from starvation.
Huertas, being the one who cares about those animals, flew to Nicaragua trying to save those animals. That was when he found out that the animals were eating the bark of the trees they were tied to in order to survive the hard time.
Attempts To Rescue Abandoned Pets
Sometimes, the wild side of the animals show up in order to survive the chaotic situations. In example, during the Kosovo war, a group of once-domesticated sheepdogs became wild and created packs that soon became feral.
These feral dogs can pose threat to human who try to save them, forgetting they were once being loved by human. Feral dogs and cats may spread rabies, like what happened in Afghanistan. Report said that around 1000 people die in Afghanistan because of rabies, which they got from animals’ bites.
Pen Farthing, the founder and CEO of Nowzad, the only organization that try to save those feral cats and dogs in Afghanistan, try to fight the spreading of rabies. The attempts are like trapping the animals harmlessly, fixing and vaccinating them, and then later release them back to the street.
Not only that, Nowzad also try to rescue the abandoned animals by sending the cats and dogs to United State and Europe, with hopes that they will find a new owner and live a proper life. Surprisingly, Farthing doesn’t need to try hard to find new homes for the dogs and cats.
The soldiers who once deployed to Afghanistan, sometimes find heart connection with animals they find on the street. But taking the animals back to their country is breaking the rule of soldiers. Farthing, who once joined the army understand the feeling and work on how to help those pets.
Until nowadays, Nowzad have successfully reunited more than 800 animals with their soldiers from Afghanistan and around 40 animals from Iraq.
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By sataksigIn The SpeciesTags abandoned, cats, dogs, pets, war
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Húsares de la Princesa (1884) – An In-Depth Review (H&V Miniatures)
Husares de la Princesa the PRELUDE
One of the latest full figure releases from Heroes & Villains was sent to me a few weeks ago and it is a little gem! Húsares de la Princesa 1884 (though my box is labelled 1836, caused quite an headache when researching lol) is a delightfully detailed 54mm sculpt by Antonio Zapatero. It came in the usual H&V packaging, the box adorned with the boxart by my friend Juanma Vergera. The kit incredibly only comprises of four, polyurethane resin parts and a length of good quality metal foil for the strap to the scabbard. It depicts a unmounted Húsares, which I believe has been heavily based upon the painting by Josep Cusachs “Sergeant of the Hussars of the Princess” (below).
this painting by Josep Cusachs is I believe the inspiration for the figure
The Húsaresof the Princess were a 19th century Spanish cavalry regiment which was created on 16th of March 1833, title of “Húsares of the Princess Isabel Maria Luisa”, Isabel was the daughter of Fernando VII and future Queen Isabel II. Stationed at the Real Sitio de El Pardo, it received its inaugural banner in the Place of the Armoury of the Royal Palace of Madrid on the 19 of March and would be commanded by the Brigadier Ramón Gómez de Bedoya, an ex officer of the Real Army of Peru.
Initially it served as an armed escort of honour for the Princess however, the outbreak of the civil war ensured they would serve alongside the rest of the Cavalry Regiments. In three years they established themselves as an heroic and brave unit with major successes at the taking of Orduña in 1836, Peñacerrada and in the charge of Villarrobledo, also in 1836. These three actions meant the regiment received for each, commendations of the royal and military order of San Fernando for his banner.
the mounted Húsares were a deadly yet extravagant cavalry
After the war, the regiment was dissolved but reinstated in 1855 with the reorganisation of the regiment and it’s use as an effective combat force, and returning to the front line in the War of Africa. Again distinguishing itself in the battles of the Castillejos, Tetuán and Wad-Ras, all in 1860. It has since participated in numerous campaigns, involving the Spanish cavalry: Third Carlist War, campaigns of Cuba and Morocco. The dissolution of the Húsares by the Government of the Second Republic in 1931.
At present, the Light-Armoured Group I of the Armoured Light Cavalry Regiment “Pavia” No 4 continues to use the name of this old regiment as a mark of respect and honour.
The main piece consists of torso, crossed arms and legs and depicts our fully detailed Húsare in his uniform with fur trimmed jacket, insignia of rank and regiment, piping, trims, stripes to the trousers and lanyard. The detail is fine, delicate and crisply cast. The trousers are obviously a jodhpurs style, tucked into boots just short of the knee in length and covered in gaiters, all of these elements show attention to detail and the creases and folds in the fabric are natural and realistic looking.
The head attaches via a peg and hole assembly and includes the crumpled, peaked cap favoured by the Cavalry regiments along with the fur trim around the neck which cleverly hides the join between head and body and completes the jacket also. The facial features are great along with a hook nose and a rather extravagant moustache, which apparently was all the rave for Spanish mounted troops at the time, it added to their heroic baring.
We then have the sabre which is presented in its scabbard which again seems historically accurate with nice detailing, these were worn really low and just like another kit I have of a Spanish officer, the strap for the scabbard needs to be made out of the length of metal foil, to be honest I have never created anything satisfactorily with this material predominantly has I do not know what I need to do but I am going have to figure it out! Finally we have a small, round textured base with imprints of the boots to attach the figure. The cast is superb and the detailing is very fine and particularly impressive considering the scale. Below you can see some additional angles of the boxart by Juanma Vergera!
I recently read the introduction to Ferrer-Dalmau’s book “Art, History and Miniatures” where he discusses the lack of Spanish military Art and in many ways it seems to mirror the situation in miniature too, as such I think it is really important that these sort of subjects are represented in resin. As I have already mentioned the figure seems to be based on Cusach’s work and the pose really works for me, a snap shot in time of a sergeant of the Húsares relaxing and in contemplative mood.
Spanish military subjects are always a little quirky and their uniforms are usually rather decorative and unique making them an interesting project to paint. Heroes and Villains continue to produce high quality figures and busts at very competitive prices, collaborating with some of the true greats in our little world.
At €25 the price point is in my opinion an incredibly competitive price point, I do not actually understand how it is possible to tell the truth, making this figure even more desirable in my opinion.
Cost a little more than €25
Material Polyurethane Resin and length of metal foil
No of Pieces 4 resin parts
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analysis and admiration of the film industry, with a marketing twist
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It’s never Winter, Spring or Autumn in Los Angeles. The City of Angels feigns both seasonality and reality by entertaining two distinctive periods of the year: Summer and Awards Season. The latter is already in full swing, with the usual suspects vying for that top prize with the help of marketing budgets from their respective studios. Time and time again it’s been proven that the right messaging and meaningful narratives propel a film to glory. In 2011, The Kings Speech won Best Picture against all odds, including front runner The Social Network whose messaging ‘You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies,’ couldn’t stand up against the empowering story of King George VI. ‘Let courage reign,’ ‘God Save the King,’ and ‘Find your voice,’ resonated with Academy voters and was the edge it needed to win. As the awards are decided based on preferential voting, ultimately knowing the difference between an isolating message and a compelling one is essential in unifying voters in a universal way.
Academy voters choose with their hearts, not their heads. A trawl through the history of the Academy Awards, exemplifies how the Best Picture Oscar regularly rewards premise over craft, rather than vice versa. Although style and craft may deem a film worthy of a nomination, Academy members are at the behest of constructed narratives that build on the meaning of a movie and ensure they stand up in stature with its predecessors. Those narratives are created by employing sophisticated marketing plugs that captivate the Academy and can be the difference between a win and a loss. I’ve looked at all of this years’ Best Picture nominees and how they stack up in terms of campaign messaging.
Little Women – “Own Your Story”
What Little Women does not have on its side is familiarity. A tale that has been told numerous times on screen rarely gets that coveted best picture nod because it’s not thought to be telling of our times, or at least has less of an impact if in some way it does. Where it strays from previous attempts however is in the positioning of Jo March, (Saoirse Ronan), as a hybrid of her character and Louisa May Alcott herself. Jo opens the movie pitching her writing to a disinterested publisher and what follows is a showcase of why the chronicle of her little women is desperately needed. Gerwig’s tagline is cleverly pushed as ‘own your story.’ It’s a reference to Saoirse Ronan’s character desperately selling the rights to her story at any price, before becoming more pronounced and considered by the end, opting instead to own her copyright. In a way, the girl who is slightly embarrassed at the writing of her life is by the end empowered to own the story that ultimately made her.
The Verdict? Although a powerful narrative in this environment, Gerwig’s absence from Best Directing category almost guarantees a slash in her odds for Best Picture.
Parasite – “Act like you own the place.”
Of all the films I’ve seen in the last year, none have had such a profound impact than Parasite had, and this has my vote for Best Picture. Historically, foreign language films don’t go down well at the Oscars, mainly thanks to the conveniently placed Foreign Language Film Category, which essentially makes more room in the Best Picture category for homegrown films to dominate. A staggering amount of momentum however has built for the Korean masterpiece, Parasite as audiences have flocked to see one of the most entertaining films of the decade. Despite an absence of acting nominations at the Oscars, a surprise ensemble win at the SAG awards shows that it may not be as vulnerable as we think. Its marketing has definitely let it down, with “act like you own the place” failing to acknowledge the deep-seated class divide that the entire movie is based on.
Verdict? It’s my pick. Word of mouth and genuine adoration for this film has been the most important publicity to date and could secure a surprise win.
Marriage Story – “Sometimes the ending, is when the story begins.”
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson star as the Brookers, two young people initiating their divorce. We’re given an insight into their early years together through exposition amidst their divorce. Every memory is tarnished, as they look back on their time together through the prism of their divorce proceedings. It’s a love story told through that kind of self reflection you get after something crumbles and you’re left wondering if it even really existed. And that’s reflected in its marketing, with a smiling family portrait reminiscent of 1979’s Best Picture and landmark divorce drama, Kramer Vs Kramer, along with plugs such as ‘it’s not as simple as not being in love anymore’ and ‘sometimes the ending, is when the story begins.’ What Baumbach has on his side here is the rawness and complexity of the story, because oftentimes ambiguity in life isn’t reflected as often as it should be on film. In Marriage Story, the Kramer’s have a new face, and it’s no longer in the form of a neglectful, absent mother, the Brookers bring with them a more complex story for this century, where the blame can’t be readily attributed to either party.
The Verdict? This modern tale of the complexities of divorce may be exactly the kind of narrative that the Academy needs, but it has lost momentum to other front runners throughout awards season.
The Irishman – “A lot can happen in a lifetime.”
Not only does Scorsese take his time with the story, but he took a considerable amount of time to get the film made. The Irishman was years in the making with schedule clashes between the biggest method actors of the 20th century, but a greater hindrance was the question of who would dig deepest into their pockets to fund Scorsese’s facial technology to make his actors appear younger in certain sequences. In the end, Netflix footed the bill. The narrative for The Irishman sees Netflix use their veteran actors as a way to link the longevity of their careers with the lifetime story of Frank Sheeran. The facial technology that was used throughout gives the actors a facelift and you forget this, until the story returns to the present day in Frank Sheeran’s nursing home, crinkled and wrinkled from years of ‘painting houses.’ When it first debuted, the tagline read ‘a lot can happen in a lifetime,’ and there’s no doubt that this has played in to Academy nominations already, with acting nods for the method stalwarts Pacino, De Niro and Pesci. It’s also no coincidence that Scorsese has been injecting his personal experience into the media subtly, with a profile in The New York Times focusing on his lengthy career and his feelings on morality in his third act – a nod to Frank Sheeran contemplating his past from his nursing home in the final scene.
Verdict? As most have considered it to be one of Scorsese’s finest pieces, the longevity marketing ploy may be just what the director needs to celebrate a lifetime of contributions to film.
Joker – “Put on a Happy Face”
Todd Phillips has cleverly delivered an origin story for an infamous comic book villain, disguised in the form of a harrowing character study – all without a sniff of an action sequence. He has substituted the cacophony of orchestrated explosions we’re used to, with sequences of deep and dreary meaning, propped up by the superb performance of Joaquin Phoenix who embodies this narcissistic, self-destructive character, walking with a pronounced, jagged step, making room for his clown shoes even when he’s not wearing them. We witness the crystallization process of a deeply troubled citizen of Gotham into a manic character that stands up against everything that has made him feel like he didn’t exist. Joker’s association with the comic universe has led to some fans denouncing it, while others like myself who are less enamoured by the conventional tropes of the genre, are pleasantly surprised. Joker is a devastatingly powerful character study on the darkest moments of mental health and its tagline of ‘put on a happy face,’ is a cynical message that encompasses the very soul of the movie.
Verdict? Although Joker was fantastic and a welcome inverse of the comic book genre, I can’t see a Best Picture win – it’s been far too divisive to overcome the preferential voting system.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood – “The 9th Film from Quentin Tarantino”
Only Quentin Tarantino would consider the marketing ploy, “The 9th Film from Quentin Tarantino” to be sufficient enough to bring him through awards season, but incredibly it has. This is a self-indulgent ode to an old Hollywood that everything he’s ever done has led to. It’s not perfection, but it’s different. And he’s built a career out of being different. And somehow, he’s made his own genre of film and made his own gang that everyone wants to be part of. He doesn’t have a lot of promotional groundwork to do because he’s built a career out of being himself.
Verdict? Despite an early Summer release at Cannes, this could easily creep up on the outside track because the Academy love stories, particularly when it’s about them.
1917 – “Time is the enemy”
Is time really the enemy? For me, money and ego is the enemy here with Sam Mendes’ uninspiring account of World War 1. His two main characters are bland and stiff, and no allowances are made for character, plot or emotion – everything has been pinned on visuals. Apart from the commendable career triumph for cinematographer Roger Deakins, the accolades this film is getting is baffling and of all the nominations, 1917 seems to be consistently awarded for the craft of filmmaking, rather than taking emotions or the story into account. What Mendes has rightly been plugging in interviews is his personal inspiration for the film, his grandfather Alfred Mendes (a man who must have told long drawn out stories without any breaks) and this seems to be the emotional anchor he’s been banking on to supplement his visual achievements.
Verdict? Mendes won Best Picture twenty years ago for American Beauty, an absolute cinematic treasure. It was a worthy winner, but 1917 doesn’t stand up in stature with predecessors like that. With numerous top Guild award wins under its belt, this has indicated that it could easily still take the top prize.
Ford V Ferrari – “They Took the American Dream for a ride.”
From the outset, I’d hazard a guess that this has the worst odds at winning Best Picture. Due to a trademark war in the UK and a misguided marketing attempt, it meant that Ford V Ferrari arrived in theatres internationally branded as Le Mans 66. Beyond that, the woefully patriotic tagline of “they took the American Dream for a Ride,” won’t stand a chance against the stronger contenders. Finally, the film itself was hardly revolutionary, despite decent performances from both Matt Damon and Christian Bale. Neither are nominated in the acting races, so this is a telling indication of its sinking odds for a Best Picture win.
Verdict? Not a chance.
JoJo Rabbit – “An anti-hate satire.”
At first you wonder how a small boy who worships Hitler’s reign can sustain a full length movie, then you get into the groove of the satirical world and just let the madness unfold. JoJo Rabbit is simple and humorous in many ways, but slightly misguided in what it’s trying to convey. A tonal change at the ¾ mark happens suddenly and we see an “anti-hate satire” trying desperately to quickly shoehorn the anti-hate part in. And maybe I’m also a bit bitter because the true Bowie fan within me is disappointed that another director thinks that by playing “Heroes” at the end of a movie this is sufficient enough to make up for any exposition gaps. Overall, it’s a different kind of movie and for that I commend it, but with a few more risks and thought put in to it, it could have been elevated. I’d echo that in its campaign messaging, the “anti-hate satire” has been strong enough to keep people interested throughout awards season, but it won’t sustain a Best Picture win.
Verdict? Waikiki played it safe here and although well liked, it won’t be voters’ first choice.
And the Oscar goes to…
While 1917 is getting lauded at all the guild awards, I think the Academy will split the two top prizes, with Mendes getting Best Director. For me, Best Picture has to be Parasite. I’d argue that The Irishman and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are close behind it as these are all films whose messages and themes transcend the films themselves. We’ll have to see what compelling thematic thread sticks with Academy voters, right up until the moment they fill in that ballot paper.
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Self-employed and liberal professions
Experts and partners
Corporate income tax return
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Registration, change and cancellation of activity
Periodic return
VAT obligation
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Supply of goods - Belgium to United Kingdom
Supply of goods - United Kingdom to Belgium
Intra-Community statement
Obligation of VAT identification
Determining who is liable to pay VAT
Special status of Northern Ireland
License ET 14000: shifting of VAT to the periodic VAT return
Brexit - Supply of goods from Belgium to the United Kingdom
Impact of Brexit on the VAT treatment of supplies of goods from Belgium to the United Kingdom
What changes?
The main consequence of Brexit on supplies of goods will be the restoration of tax borders between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom. This will result in the end of the intra-Community rules currently applicable to the movement of goods from the EU to the United Kingdom (*).
The supply of goods by a supplier in Belgium to a client in the United Kingdom which is a taxable person (B2B) will no longer be treated as an intra-Community supply of goods but as an export of goods exempt from VAT in most cases, pursuant to Article 39, §§1 and 2 of the VAT Code.
The supply of goods by a supplier in Belgium to a client in the United Kingdom which is not a taxable person (B2C) will no longer be subject to the distance selling scheme but will be treated also as an export of goods exempt from VAT in most cases, pursuant to Article 39, §§1 and 2 of the VAT Code.
The dispatch or the transport of goods to the United Kingdom for the purpose of a supply with installation or assembly by or on behalf of the supplier should be declared by means of an export declaration.
The supply of goods to a traveler, residing outside EU, who carries the goods in his/her luggage to the United Kingdom could benefit from an exemption for export if some conditions are fulfilled (see Commentaire TVA - Chapitre 8 - Section 2 - Titre 2 - Rubrique D for more information in this regard).
Belgian taxable persons supplying goods in the United Kingdom are in particular advised to familiarize themselves with customs procedures and formalities regarding export of goods.
(*) See, however, the special status of Northern Ireland.
How should I, as a supplier, prove the export?
To justify the exemption, your business must be able to demonstrate that the goods have actually left the EU.
This proof can be provided by a set of documents (agreement, copy of the sales invoice, transport and payment documents, customs declaration ...). The most important piece of evidence is the export declaration filed according to the customs rules (see Commentaire TVA - Chapitre 8 - Section 2 - Titre 2 - Rubrique A - Sous-rubrique c for more information about export procedures).
It must be noted that there are also exemptions for some supplies of services related to the export of goods outside the EU. For the application of these exemptions, the United Kingdom must be considered as territory outside the Community (*) (see Commentaire TVA - Chapitre 8 - Section 2 - Titre 2 - Rubrique B et Section 6 - Titre 3 - Rubrique B for more information about these exemptions). To justify these exemptions, you must also be able to demonstrate that the goods have actually left the EU.
What regime will be applied when the goods arrive in the United Kingdom?
At the arrival of the goods in the United Kingdom (*), they will in principle be subject to an import according to the British legislation. This could result in some obligations in the United Kingdom for the Belgian supplier.
What will be my VAT obligations as a Belgian supplier?
Besides the other details required, you must indicate on your invoice (issued compulsorily or voluntarily) the following mentions (*):
« lieu de la prestation en dehors de la Belgique – article 14, § 3 du CTVA » (place of supply outside Belgium - Article 14, §3 of the VAT Code) or a similar mention when it concerns a supply with installation or assembly you have done or which has been carried out on your behalf or,
« exempté – exportation » (exempted - export) or « exempté – article 39 CTVA » (exempted - Article 39 of the VAT Code) or « exempté – article 146 Directive 2006/112/CE » (exempted - Article 146 Directive 2006/112/EC) in any other case.
The VAT identification number of the client in the United Kingdom must no longer be mentioned on the invoice.
You will also have to mention the taxable basis of the supply in box 47 of your periodic return related to the period during which VAT has become due.
Moreover, these supplies must no longer be mentioned in the recapitulative statement of the intra-Community transactions.
What about goods shipped to the United Kingdom on consignment, at sight or to be put into storage?
As regards the goods shipped to the United Kingdom on consignment, at sight or to be put into storage by a taxable person in Belgium, the simplification scheme applicable in some Member States will no longer be applied for the aforementioned transactions since the United Kingdom will no longer be part of the EU. Therefore, the export/import rules will be fully applicable (*).
The export of goods within the framework of a shipment for storage does not constitute a chargeable event for VAT.
What about supplies of goods for which dispatch or transport from Belgium to the United Kingdom will start before the end of the transition period and ends thereafter?
The Withdrawal Agreement provides that when the dispatch or transport begins before the end of the transition period (set at 31 December 2020) and ends thereafter, intra-Community rules continue to apply.
Therefore, the supply is considered an intra-Community supply/acquisition of goods or is subject to the distance selling scheme according to the current rules.
After the end of the transition period, those ongoing movements of goods will, however, have to be presented to customs at the border of the EU and of the United Kingdom. Customs authorities may request the importer to prove, by means of a transport document, that the dispatch or transport started before the end of the transition period.
The reporting obligations related to these transactions provided for in the VAT Directive, such as submission of recapitulative statements, will still apply.
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Were Hedge Funds Right About Souring On Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (AXTA)?
Debasis Saha
July 7, 2020, 8:45 PM ·6 min read
At the end of February we announced the arrival of the first US recession since 2009 and we predicted that the market will decline by at least 20% in (see why hell is coming). In these volatile markets we scrutinize hedge fund filings to get a reading on which direction each stock might be going. In this article, we will take a closer look at hedge fund sentiment towards Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA) at the end of the first quarter and determine whether the smart money was really smart about this stock.
Is Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA) an excellent stock to buy now? The best stock pickers were reducing their bets on the stock. The number of long hedge fund bets fell by 11 lately. Our calculations also showed that AXTA isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q1 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks). AXTA was in 49 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2020. There were 60 hedge funds in our database with AXTA holdings at the end of the previous quarter. Video: Watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks.
Why do we pay any attention at all to hedge fund sentiment? Our research has shown that a select group of hedge fund holdings outperformed the S&P 500 ETFs by 58 percentage points since March 2017 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that'll significantly underperform the market. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 and they lost 36% through May 18th. That's why we believe hedge fund sentiment is an extremely useful indicator that investors should pay attention to.
[caption id="attachment_255014" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Clint Carlson of Carlson Capital[/caption]
At Insider Monkey we scour multiple sources to uncover the next great investment idea. For example, this trader claims to score lucrative profits by utilizing a "weekend trading strategy", so we look into his strategy's picks. Federal Reserve has been creating trillions of dollars electronically to keep the interest rates near zero. We believe this will lead to inflation and boost gold prices. So, we are checking out this junior gold mining stock. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. We recently recommended several stocks partly inspired by legendary Bill Miller's investor letter. Our best call in 2020 was shorting the market when the S&P 500 was trading at 3150 in February after realizing the coronavirus pandemic’s significance before most investors. With all of this in mind let's take a look at the fresh hedge fund action regarding Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA).
What have hedge funds been doing with Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA)?
Heading into the second quarter of 2020, a total of 49 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -18% from the fourth quarter of 2019. By comparison, 43 hedge funds held shares or bullish call options in AXTA a year ago. So, let's examine which hedge funds were among the top holders of the stock and which hedge funds were making big moves.
Is AXTA A Good Stock To Buy?
More specifically, Berkshire Hathaway was the largest shareholder of Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA), with a stake worth $415.7 million reported as of the end of September. Trailing Berkshire Hathaway was Rivulet Capital, which amassed a stake valued at $120.3 million. Diamond Hill Capital, JANA Partners, and Renaissance Technologies were also very fond of the stock, becoming one of the largest hedge fund holders of the company. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Clearfield Capital allocated the biggest weight to Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA), around 8.19% of its 13F portfolio. JANA Partners is also relatively very bullish on the stock, earmarking 7.72 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to AXTA.
Due to the fact that Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA) has experienced declining sentiment from hedge fund managers, it's easy to see that there lies a certain "tier" of hedgies that elected to cut their positions entirely heading into Q4. It's worth mentioning that Bob Peck and Andy Raab's FPR Partners dropped the largest stake of the 750 funds followed by Insider Monkey, totaling an estimated $72 million in stock, and Eric W. Mandelblatt and Gaurav Kapadia's Soroban Capital Partners was right behind this move, as the fund sold off about $59.2 million worth. These moves are interesting, as aggregate hedge fund interest was cut by 11 funds heading into Q4.
Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks - not necessarily in the same industry as Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA) but similarly valued. These stocks are Eastgroup Properties Inc (NYSE:EGP), Solaredge Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:SEDG), LogMeIn Inc (NASDAQ:LOGM), and Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE:PLAN). This group of stocks' market values are similar to AXTA's market value.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position EGP,13,36375,3 SEDG,27,264038,-1 LOGM,28,759486,-3 PLAN,51,1608189,-6 Average,29.75,667022,-1.75 [/table]
As you can see these stocks had an average of 29.75 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $667 million. That figure was $1106 million in AXTA's case. Anaplan, Inc. (NYSE:PLAN) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Eastgroup Properties Inc (NYSE:EGP) is the least popular one with only 13 bullish hedge fund positions. Axalta Coating Systems Ltd (NYSE:AXTA) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our calculations showed that top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.4% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10.1 percentage points. These stocks gained 12.3% in 2020 through June 30th but still beat the market by 15.5 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on AXTA as the stock returned 30.6% in Q2 and outperformed the market. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness.
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Analysis: China is playing the long game against Trump
Posted By: Admin against, analysis, China, Game, long, playing, Trump
Is the US trade deficit a bad thing?
China knows what it’s doing in negotiations with President Donald Trump on trade.
In recent months, Beijing has shown a willingness to make concessions. It’s lowering tariffs on auto imports. It’s opening its financial markets to foreign lenders. And it will start allowing US automakers to make cars in the country without local business partners.
But as notable as those changes are, China is standing firm on big issues. It’s plowing ahead with its plan to dominate tech, including artificial intelligence. At the same time, China is pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into infrastructure projects in Asia, Africa and Europe — buying years of goodwill and geopolitical influence.
Trump, meanwhile, focuses on the trade deficit. But economists say that fixation is misplaced. China will continue to be a giant producer on the global stage, while the US economy is driven by consumer spending.
It would take enormous long-term guarantees to alter the trade imbalance in a meaningful way — not just increases to agriculture and energy exports, which China pledged over the weekend.
“This is China humoring the US,” said Phil Levy, senior fellow on the global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
On Tuesday, the Chinese Finance Ministry said China will cut import duties on passenger vehicles from 25% to 15% starting on July 1.
It’s a flashy move that would let the United States claim a win. President Trump singled out China’s tariffs on cars for criticism last month, pointing out that they’re far higher than the 2.5% import duty on autos levied by the United States.
Related: China slashes tariffs on imported cars
“Does that sound like free or fair trade?” Trump tweeted. “No, it sounds like STUPID TRADE – going on for years!”
When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%. Does that sound like free or fair trade. No, it sounds like STUPID TRADE – going on for years!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 9, 2018
The easing of import duties isn’t the only move China has made recently to show that it’s willing to liberalize its economy.
The Chinese government has also promised to remove restrictions on foreign carmakers that want to manufacture vehicles in the country.
Previously, companies such as GM (GM) and Volkswagen had to form joint ventures with local partners in which the Chinese companies have the controlling stake. China said last month it will phase out those rules by 2022.
And Beijing is working to lift restrictions on foreign access to the country’s banking, securities, insurance and asset-management markets, with changes expected by the end of June.
Such shifts benefit China on two fronts, according to Levy. They temporarily appease the United States, and they make it look like China is taking steps to become a team player on global trade, he said.
Related: Analysis: 3 tough questions after US-China trade truce
At the same time, China remains full speed ahead on its state-directed push to dominate high tech fields from electric cars to 5G wireless technology.
“The US is not going to change China’s approach to technology policy,” said Samm Sacks, senior fellow in the Technology Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “They certainly are not going to do it from any unilateral US action.”
Beijing is also expanding its global clout by investing in ports, rail lines and other development projects through its Belt and Road initiative.
These plays for global dominance could position China as a much bigger threat to US hegemony down the road.
The Chinese government knows that Trump remains laser focused two big issues: North Korea and the trade deficit.
Trump has made clear that he wants a potential summit with North Korea in June to happen, and he wants China to keep pressure on North Korea.
Additionally, the president’s emphasis on the trade imbalance has allowed China to provide the United States with nominal victories by making commitments to purchase more goods.
Even on this, experts are skeptical. Global saving and spending patterns are fairly entrenched, making bilateral trade deficits difficult to manipulate.
“If your metric is the US deficit on trade with China, the programs that have been unveiled so far are not going to decrease it significantly,” said Nicholas Lardy, a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and expert on the Chinese economy. “It may prevent it from increasing further.”
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Cabinet meeting in Alloa
The First Minister regularly holds Cabinet meetings in different parts of Scotland to give people a chance to raise issues directly with her.
Travelling around the country, the First Minister and her team carry out visits in the area before Cabinet to meet people and find out more about local issues. In the evening a public discussion is held, where local people are invited to give their views and quiz the Cabinet.
The first Cabinet for 2015 was held in January in Dumfries and was followed by Aberdeen in February. The third was held in Alloa on March 2, 2015.
The FM started her day in Alloa by visiting the home of Craig and Jude Deacons, and their family, to announce £70 million investment in a scheme to help eligible first-time buyers on low to moderate incomes buy a home.
The Scottish Government’s Open Market Shared Equity Scheme (OMSE) provides assistance to eligible buyers in the form of an interest free loan.
The First Minister said:
“We want to help today’s generation of young people to access home ownership where this is sensible and sustainable for them.
“We will do all we can, within our powers and our resources, to help people like Craig and Jude get a foot onto the housing ladder”
FM @NicolaSturgeon confirms £70 million investment to help first time buyers get foot on property ladder. #Alloacab http://t.co/LGjA5KWTuD
— scotgovfairer (@scotgovfairer) March 2, 2015
Jude Deacons said:
“Craig and I are grateful for the scheme as it has allowed us to secure a great first home fit for our family life.”
“As both of us were first time buyers the OMSE scheme allowed us to purchase a house fit for purpose to accommodate our two children. “
The First Minster then moved on to Williams Bros. Brewery, a local company with big plans to break into the lucrative Far East and other overseas export markets.
Accompanied by Cabinet Secretary for Food and Drink, Richard Lochhead, she toured the company’s Alloa plant where its craft beers, including Caesar Augustus, March of the Penguins and Good Times, are brewed and bottled.
“Williams Bros. are a genuine Scottish success story and recent years have seen a real growth in the company and heightened brand recognition.”
“Scottish food and drink products are renowned round the world and an expansion into new markets is a real opportunity that could hugely enhance Williams’ business. The wider Scottish economy would also benefit from the increased income through exports.”
She then met volunteers at the Gate Foodbank in Alloa to highlight Scottish Government support for those being hit hard by the welfare reforms.
The foodbank provided food for over 35,000 meals last year, an increase of over 60 per cent on 2013, made possible with support from volunteers and Scottish Government funding of £9,590 over this year and next.
FM @NicolaSturgeon visiting Gate foodbank to meet volunteers. #Alloacab http://t.co/tE0rhXb4tO pic.twitter.com/oALffxyY6g
“The number of people experiencing food poverty in Scotland is simply unacceptable, with Trussell Trust data showing use of food banks in Scotland more than doubled in the last year.
“Alloa’s Gate Foodbank is making a huge difference to the lives of vulnerable people with a significant increase in the number of meals provided or delivered last year.”
Other members of the Cabinet were also out and about in Alloa and its surrounding area, carrying out 16 events throughout the day.
That afternoon the First Minister chaired a meeting of her Cabinet in the Alloa Campus of the Forth Valley College.
Public discussion
The venue for the public discussion was Alloa Ludgate Church and was attended by over 200 people. The First Minister gave an opening address on creating a more equal and prosperous Scotland, and her team took questions on, amongst other local issues, gender balance, early years support, further education, the economy, energy policy and health inequalities.
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It does surprise me sometimes which stories have never been collected.
Considering that Gerard Jones, who wrote much of the early 90's Green Lantern titles, including Mosaic, is now in prison for child pornography, it's unlikely that DC will collect his work every again. They cancelled a whole bunch once the charges were brought to light. But the Mosaic stuff is pretty cool, and Green Lantern #19's one of my favorite comics ever. But it's completely tainted now.
Anyways, I finished reading both Scout and Scout: War Shaman by Timothy Truman, published by Eclipse comics. Those are some damn fine comics. Truman also wrote and illustrated Hawkworld, which is probably THE finest Hawkman story ever written, if not one of the finest mainstream superhero comics ever published. They truly do not make comics the way Truman made Hawkworld these days.
I also started reading J.M. DeMatteis' Dr Fate run and I'm loving it so far. Very introspective and a little goofy, but it packs a punch and a lot of heart.
#226 CrimsonMist, Jun 15, 2020
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CrimsonMist said: ↑
Considering that Gerard Jones, who wrote much of the early 90's Green Lantern titles, including Mosaic, is now in prison for child pornography...
I can see why that might influence their decision on that one...
#227 Milk Tray Guy, Jun 16, 2020
Batman '89 and Batman Returns. Dug out my original comics adaptations, having rewatched both movies in the last week following the news/rumour about Keaton returning
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That’s awesome. I remember reading a few pages of the Batman 89 adaptation in a bookstore when it came out. I never read it since.
#229 Babillygunn, Jun 30, 2020
Batman Forever original comic adaptation, after rewatching the movie a few days ago.
#230 Milk Tray Guy, Jul 6, 2020
Just finished reading Catwoman/Vampirella (1997 DC/Harris one-shot crossover) -- I've reviewed it on the Vampirella appreciation thread if anyone's interested.
#231 Milk Tray Guy, Jul 11, 2020
Just finished reading Hawkman: Awakening. This collects issues 1 - 6 of Hawkman's ongoing series.
Reincarnated across both time and space for thousands of years, Carter Hall has used the mysterious Nth metal to fight evil lifetime after lifetime. Now, as the modern-day superhero Hawkman, an ancient prophecy might finally lead him to uncover the true purpose of his immortality.
But to solve the greatest mystery of his lives, Hawkman must race around the globe revisiting his former homes - Dinosaur Island, the pyramids of Egypt, the planet Thanagar and more - trailed by the Deathbringers. They are every bit as dangerous as their name makes them sound, so if they catch up to Carter, the chain of reincarnation could stop here!
My experience of Hawkman's solo stuff is pretty limited. Most of my exposure to him has been from 'events' and Justice League. To be honest he never interested me much. He seemed to be an angry a-hole, whose sole reason for being was to shout and hit things. But a few weeks ago I saw this. The cover called it 'an adventure that flies out of Dark Nights: Metal'. Whilst Metal was far from perfect there were enough things that I liked that I paid a bit more attention to Hawkman: Awakening than I would otherwise have done. And I bought it.
The whole thing has a very strong Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider/Relic Hunter vibe. After the events of Metal, Carter Hall is plagued by visions of a coming apocalypse (brought about by the aforementioned 'Deathbringers') that seems connected to him and his past lives. He sets out on a quest, beginning at London's British Museum, to try to unravel his past and his own lost memories in an attempt to prevent the coming destruction.
I knew that Carter Hall was an archaeologist but this book really plays that aspect up. I'm a sucker for stories where people discover documents/relics than have lain 'hidden in plain site' for centuries. Carter's quest leads to several such objects - and each time he finds himself instantly transported to the time/place of their origin, where he encounters past versions of himself. To say any more about the plot would really start to spoil, so I'll just say that I really, really liked this.
Robert Venditti's writing is spot on. He has a fantastic turn of phrase. The first words on the first page ...
'I am Carter Hall. I am Hawkman. I'm an archaeologist. A scholar and preservationist of history. More than that, I am history. I've reincarnated across time, stretching back to the dawn of man. I ruled as an ancient Egyptian prince. Battled as a medieval knight. Dueled as an Old West gunhand. Yet lately, I'm plagued by the thought that the subject I know the least about is myself. That pieces of my history are missing. There remains only one truth that I know to be certain -- I am made to soar.'
... pulled me in and the quality never dropped. And for the first time I actually found Hawkman to be a person. Not just shouting, not just hitting. A person with different facets to his personality, emotions other than anger. And he was really interesting.
Bryan Hitch's artwork is excellent. His faces, figures, and landscapes are fantastic. And his action scenes are gripping, and so lifelike that you can almost see them move.
Seriously, I can't remember the last time a comic book surprised me so much. We don't get an answer to the riddle yet, but Hawkman Volume 2: Deathbringer is now on my list.
#232 Milk Tray Guy, Sep 25, 2020
Great review, as usual. My association with Hawkman has always been the same as yours. I thought he was most interesting when he was playing right wing heel to Green Arrow’s left-leaning SJW. And even then (and maybe especially then) he’s not very likable. Your review intrigued me though. I read Metal and I think that next up for me will be Death Metal. So I might give this a chance as well.
#233 Babillygunn, Sep 26, 2020
Thanks @Babillygunn Yes, I'm looking forward to Death Metal too. I also need to catch up on The Batman Who Laughs mini series. Have you read that one?
I have. And I really enjoyed it, which somewhat surprised me because I was not a fan of Metal. I think that the difference was ironically related to our previous discussion we had a couple of weeks ago. Whereas Metal tried to be a colossal “event”, The Batman Who Laughs just tried to be an intimate, self-contained adventure story. It very much succeeded whereas, to me, Metal felt too confusing and over-blown with forced stakes that were much higher than they should’ve been.
On a related note, I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but one thing that I did take away from Metal as a bright spot: if there is ever another comic that would feature a team up of Nightwing, Damien, Green Arrow and Suicide Squad, I would buy it without question. That was pure lightning in a bottle. The way Nightwing related with Green Arrow was reminiscent of O’Neil’s Green Arrow and Green Lantern. In the hands of a good writer, they’d be great together.
Agree, that was definitely one of the highlights.
Thanks for the heads-up re The Batman Who Laughs. I'll try to get hold of that as soon as I can
Just finished reading Batman: Universe (collecting Batman: Universe issues 1 - 6 from 2018/2019).
Batman takes on an old foe outside of the Gotham City limits when the Riddler's theft of a Faberge egg leads the Dark Knight thousands of miles away in search of answers, When the immortal super-villain Vandal Savage joins forces with the Riddler, Batman is transported to the Old West and meets the original owner of the egg , gunslinger Jonah Hex!
Along with Jonah, the Dark Knight teams up with fellow heroes including Green Arrow and Green Lantern on a quest to find the Riddler and crack the egg's dangerous power. But will these superheroes get the edge over the most brilliant villain Batman has ever faced? Or will the Riddler's nefarious scheme run its course exactly as the clever criminal planned?
All that's missing after those last two sentences is 'Tune in next week! Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!' And that's a clue to the tone of this. Okay, it's not quite Adam West, but it's getting there.
Writing is by Brian Michael Bendis, he of the unbridled hate following his work on Superman. I've never read any of his work at Marvel, but I see a number of people saying that his take on Daredevil showed that he'd be a good fit for Batman, and that his strength is writing for street-level characters. I found his style took some getting used to. It's very... quippy, almost distractingly so. Again, looking online I see that 'snappy banter' is Bendis' thing, and there's certainly plenty of it;
Batman: I don't fly.
Thanagarian: You have wings.
Batman: It's a cape.
Thanagarian: I'm sorry. I assumed it was for a purpose.
Batman: It glides.
Thanagarian: Aw. Cute.
Hal Jordan: Dinosaur Island!
Batman: I love dinosuars.
Hal Jordan: You do?
Batman: Of course I do.
Hal Jordan: "Batman loves dinosaurs".
Batman: I have a giant dinosaur in my Batcave.
Hal Jordan: Oh... Yeah. I need a cave.
Have to say, the banter feels more natural to me coming from Nightwing, Cyborg, Green Arrow, Hal Jordan, and Alfred (he's here, this is a non-continuity story) than from Batman. I won't lie though, some if it did make me chuckle. The plot itself isn't exactly complex. A Faberge egg possesses some strange power that can (amongst other things) zap people around the universe when they're not expecting it. Riddler steals it to order. Batman wants to know who for, and why they want it. That's pretty much it. It reads like an excuse to put Batman in some off-the-wall situations, throw in a few guest stars and generate some laughs. There's no substance to it. I realise that the story isn't meant to be particularly profound, but it feels like the comic book equivalent of fast food/empty calories.
Art is by Nick Derington. A lot of people have praised it. For me it's a little too cartoonish. I guess it fits the tone of the story, but I prefer my Bat-stories more serious, and my Bat-artwork more dramatic.
I can't say it's bad. It's entertaining enough, but I won't read it again (I'll admit I seem to be in the minority, by the way. Most of Reddit seems to praise it, and Goodreads rates it 4/5 stars).
My experience of Hawkman's solo stuff is pretty limited. Most of my exposure to him has been from 'events' and Justice League. To be honest he never interested me much. He seemed to be an angry a-hole, whose sole reason for being was to shout and hit things.
Great review, as usual. My association with Hawkman has always been the same as yours. I thought he was most interesting when he was playing right wing heel to Green Arrow’s left-leaning SJW.
I strongly recommend picking up Timothy Truman's Hawkworld and bin diving (or buying online) the John Ostrander-penned ongoing series of the same name that followed.
It deals with the Thanagarian version of Hawkman, and despite there being more than a few narrative hiccups in the ongoing series, Truman's Hawkworld is one of the most thoughtful interpretations of any comic book character I've read published by DC or Marvel. The ongoing capitalizes on it in a very clever way, especially the Escape From Thanagar arc. While I like Hawkman as a general character, it's this brief moment of Hawkman publishing history that I'm a die hard fan of.
#238 CrimsonMist, Oct 1, 2020
Thanks for the recs @CrimsonMist
#239 Milk Tray Guy, Oct 1, 2020
Finished Doomsday Clock, and would rate with an 8.
#240 Neil McCauley, Oct 8, 2020
I rated Doomsday Clock an 8 as well.
Of course, I rated it 8 out of 50. Lol. Admittedly I might’ve liked it if I had read it collected and not as it was released. The delays really killed it. But I still don’t think I would’ve liked it that much more. I didn’t like Geoff Johns’ attempt at doing an Alan Moore impersonation. I also had trouble with the Watchmen universe’s inability to tonally connect with the DC universe. In the end, neither really felt like themselves. I felt like the tease at the end of Flash Forward was more interesting than anything in Doomsday Clock. And I am going through Death Metal to get up to Speed Metal so that I can see where that plays out.
I will give you that Mime and Marionette were cool characters though.
I disagree but yeah, you're allowed yo have your opinion.
Thanks for allowing me that luxury.
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I read the 1st book in Batman: The Smile Killer and I'm intrigued enough to keep going. Andrea Sorrentino's artwork is as awesome as ever, though I feel confident in my prediction that .
I haven't come across a Batman-mythos Black Label book I haven't enjoyed yet. Damned and Harleen have been the best of the bunch. I don't necessarily dislike Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity. The story is good and I like seeing Harley Quinn as a detective, but I could've done without the section near the beginning where Harley gets into an argument with an older detective because "I'm a woman and you hate that". At least that hasn't shown up again in subsequent books in the series.
#244 DoomRulz, Oct 16, 2020
Iron Man: Enter The Mandarin
Great and fun story, with a solid origin and villain, art was good and it's a lot of fun.
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I didn’t realize that Smile Killer is a sequel to Killer Smile. I might give it a read. Killer Smile started so well only to fizzle out in the last issue. I’m going to have to see if this redeems that ending.
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What didn't you like about the ending?
Sorry I missed this post.
I thought the book opened in #1 like gangbusters and was terrifying and intriguing. At times it even made you physically uncomfortable. Then that continued through the first 2/3 of book 2, right until the psychiatrist starts to unravel mentally. In the end, when he appears in clown makeup, it completely jumped the shark for me. Book 3 was just kind of generic in my mind.
I probably would’ve liked it more had issue 1 not started off at such a high level. I guess it was unsustainable and just kind of disappointed from them on.
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The Pastor’s Christmas Shoes | A Short Story
Author Note: The crux of this short story came up in a conversation with a fellow Foreign Service Officer in Bangkok during the ‘70s. It is hoped that its theme captures the Christmas spirit. Bangkok, Thailand | December 1978 After three months of detailed work on an Abu Dhabi bridge design in the United Arab…
American Embassy Nairobi | Terror at Happy Valley! (Part Two)
Author note: For those readers who have not read “part one” of this short story I strongly suggest you “click here” and read it before proceeding. Happy Valley | 1980: A Mid-Summer Nightmare Chynna and her mom were in a real fix. A dangerous panga gang had broken into their home located in an isolated…
American Embassy Nairobi | Terror at Happy Valley!
My assignment to the American Embassy Nairobi during 1979 to 1981 occurred during a tumultuous period. The security of regions throughout the world was on the edge. Nairobi had its own security concerns as tribal factions and bandits confronted an increasingly westernized city with violence. My job at the RCO office (Radio Communications Office) was…
Cairo International Airport | Thanksgiving in August
August 1978 Preface When I departed the American Embassy Cairo after my third visit I felt good about my situation. It had been nine months since the Pakistani Air flight had touched down at Karachi where I would be assigned for two years. The RCO (Regional Communications Office) there had been a big challenge but…
American Embassy U.A.E. | The Music Man
June 1978—The United Arab Emirates I was serving the U.A.E. missions on the way to Cairo and Athens. I had begun at Muscat, Oman. It might have been Abu Dhabi or Dubai (memories fail) where I ran into CRO Wojakowski. Wojo, short and non-descript, was in his mid-thirties. A short man, he owned a bald…
The Summer of ’78 | Technology and Magic
Preface: In Profiles of the Future (1962) Arthur C Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey and others) postulated his three laws. Also an inventor, a philosopher, and a futurist the author’s glimpses into the future changed a lot of opinions. Clarke’s famous three laws best describe his ideas: Law#1: When a distinguished scientist states that something is possible,…
Darts With Donna Summer | The Disco Queen
June 1978—American Embassy Amman, Jordan I enjoyed my visits to Amman, Jordan. Hands down it was the closest thing to Israel in the Middle East. I had to believe that was due mainly to the guidance of King Hussein, one of my idols. As I’ve mentioned in several previous messages (tag: King Hussein of Jordan),…
Travel Tuesdays in the Middle East | The Only Way to Fly
Travel experts argue that Tuesdays are the best days for travel. They point out factors such as competition, demand, the economy, and seasonality. It’s always nice not to stand in long lines at departures. A flight can be more comfortable with a vacant seat next to you. But there are other reasons for traveling on…
The American Embassy Athens | A Home Cooked Meal Includes Spoiled Milk
April 1978 RCO Bob Roberson had offered for me to layover the weekend in Athens before returning to my home base at Amconsul Karachi. I accepted with the only caveat being that I attend a half-day security upgrade at Am Embassy Athens. >photo Hellenikon Air force Base, Athens, Greece circa 1976 by forgottenairfields.com I was…
The Belgium Interest, Baghdad | WATTS Up?
May 1978 TDY (temporary duty), Baghdad: The U.S. government was starting up an “interest” at the Belgium embassy. I was part of a team of OC (Office of Communication) technicians tasked with installing an HF (High-Frequency) radio system called WATTS (West Africa Telecommunication and Teletype Systems) there that had the capability to handle classified telegrams. …
Baghdad | The Casablanca Nightclub
April 1978 TDY (temporary duty), Baghdad: The U.S. government was starting up an “interest” at the Belgium embassy. I was part of a team of OC (Office of Communication) technicians tasked with installing a High-Frequency radio system there that had the capability to handle classified telegrams. After drilling into very hard walls using very dull…
Baghdad | By the Rivers of Babylon
April 1978 The ’57 Chevy driven by a black-mustached Iraqi rumbled (the shocks were all gone) down the highway from the airport into Baghdad. I bet the tires (probably retreads) had little tread wear left. Boney M album cover courtesy en-wikipedia.org We passed a billboard that advertised the Iraqi leader Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr. The old man…
Baghdad, Iraq | Arrival Resistance
April 1978 My cohort at the American Consulate Karachi, Al, had warned me. Regional Communications Officer Bob Roberson was adept at “expanding” our scheduled trips once we got out in the field. Bob’s well-crafted messages not only exonerated him but put the onus on us techs. Robertson’s message referenced the Office of Communication’s “Request for…
American Embassy Damascus | The Effect of Nilsson Schmilsson on African Violets (part II)
Late March 1978 A full day had passed at the American Embassy Damascus and I had yet to deal with the technical problem at the Ambassador’s residence that required my immediate attention. So far I had learned that CRO Wanda H. owned a pocketbook made out of the finest African elephant foreskin, that her African…
American Embassy Damascus | The Effect of Nilsson Schmilsson on African Violets
March 1978 The Foreign Service brochure had actually been correct on this one. The FS was a melting pot of people from all walks of life and all regions of the United States (and sometime overseas). It shouldn’t have been a surprise given that the government advertised that it represented all of the people. No,…
American Embassy Damascus | The Skinny on Elephant Skin
March 1978 Perhaps it was the numbing effect of my in-flight epiphany (see previous message). I have no remembrance of what Damascus International Airport looked like. A cohort had told me that every Middle East city had a character of its own and the chameleon-like American embassy changed the color of its skin to blend…
Middle East Travel | The Road to Damascus Ends at the Emerald City
March 1978 (Aboard a Jet Airliner 33,000 feet above Syria) In biblical scripture the “Road to Damascus” referred to the sudden turning point in the life of the apostle Paul (when God shined the light on him) while literally on the road to Damascus from Jerusalem. Prior to that moment, he had been called Saul,…
American Consulate General Karachi | The Return of Tony the Tiger
March 1978–Karachi, Pakistan After several days of fighting “Karachi’s revenge” I awoke in a pool of sweat sans a fever. My steadfast servant Basheer smiled. I asked him what day it was. Friday morning hearkened the beginning of the weekend in Karachi. For the first time since before I got sick I felt hungry. Basheer…
Flashback—1959 | The Abalone Cove Field Trip
Portuguese Bend, Abalone Cove, Palos Verdes Peninsula, California As the bus left the Point Vicente Lighthouse I made plans to check out both Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island again from the Walteria Library. Also, I wanted to learn how the Fresnel lens was made. Mrs. Shoulder’s brows wrinkled but she said…
Flashback—1959 | The Unforgettable Point Vicente Lighthouse
Portuguese Bend, Palos Verdes Peninsula, California The yellow-orange school bus labored up Hawthorne Boulevard to the top of Palos Verdes. Near the very top the bus driver changed gears and for a brief period the bus remained motionless as the engine struggled to obey the transmission’s command. <feature photo of the Point Vicente Lighthouse The…
Flashback—1959 | The Farmer’s Market Field Trip
Looking back I think the elementary class field trip to the Farmer’s Market was another small but important step of my coming of age in the world outside Torrance, California… 1959—The Farmer’s Market, Los Angeles, California The bus driver let out the Walteria Elementary school fifth grade class in the parking lot on the corner…
Flashback—1959 | The Fifth Grade Class Field Trip
While I was fever ridden in bed at my American Consulate General Karachi apartment oddly enough I dreamt of my childhood, beginning with a field trip our fifth grade class had made to the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles… 1959: Walteria Elementary School—Torrance, California Field trips were the neatest things that could happen in…
Flashback | 1959—The Year Began with a One-Eyed Dog
While I was fever ridden in bed at my American Consulate General Karachi apartment oddly enough I dreamt of my childhood. In particular 1959 featured many events, some which could be described as trivial, but nevertheless would affect me for the rest of my life… <feature photo of George Reeves (Superman) and his beloved one-eyed…
American Consulate General | The Karachi Curse
February 1978 After my botched date with CIA Agent Allison I returned to Am Embassy Cairo to fix the radio repeater that had mysteriously ceased to function just hours after I had boarded a plane for Karachi. I had attempted to have the crypto tech Bill H at Am Embassy Cairo look at the problem…
Caught on Film | The CIA Girl Who Waitressed at a Virginia Disco
[Part Three] February 1978 Looking back the CIA girl incident unfolds as a series of scenes, like a one-reel wonder. To bring the reader into the fold I will treat this message as such… <feature photo by lightbulbs.com Scene One—Rewind: The American Consulate General Karachi fourth floor hallway. I first meet the CIA girl… When…
The CIA Girl Without a Name
[Part Two] American Consulate General Karachi | February 1978 I stood in the middle of the fourth floor hallway at the American Consulate General Karachi with mouth agape. I had stopped the new girl in the hallway and hadn’t even bothered to introduce myself to her. She said that she worked, “Upstairs.” During our brief…
The Pharaoh’s Curse Reaches Out | American Consulate General Karachi
February 1978 [Part One] After an arduous two weeks in Cairo trudging over one sand hill after another (not literally) I packed up and returned to Karachi. The majority of my time at the “sand pile” had been waiting on a radio repeater that was intended to extend the radio network coverage from Am Embassy…
Conversations About Am Embassy Moscow | Secret Tunnels & Microwave Radiation
1978: The Shepheard Hotel Bar, Cairo Egypt I sat on a stool at the Shepheard Bar and digested what Regional Security Officer Childress had told me about the Soviets radiating our embassy in Moscow with microwave energy. While Childress went to the restroom I came to the conclusion that the only reason why he would…
Am Embassy Cairo | TUMS (Not a Remedy for a Stomach Ailment)
Late January 1978 Secretary of State Cyrus Vance spent less than twenty-four hours and a handshake with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in Cairo. I would spend three weeks at post… <feature image of microwave radiation effects on US Embassy Moscow by abovetopsecret.com Before Regional Security Officer Childress left to join his family in Rockville, Maryland on…
The Cyrus Vance Cairo Detail | Radio Interference of the Third Kind
January 1977 At the Cairo International Airport ARRIVALS hall I looked out for the embassy driver dressed in dark trousers, blue cotton long-sleeve shirt with perspiration patches in the armpits, and a well-worn black tie (the drivers all seemed to wear the same uniform). <feature photo by ghettyimages.com When the American Embassy Regional Security Officer Childress…
Rome Fiumicino International Airport | Security Lapse
January 1978 I sipped coffee in a departure lounge café at Fiumicino airport. The New Year had afforded me about two weeks at Am Consul Karachi to get my shit together. My partner Al (a fellow tech out of the Office of Communications in D.C.) and I had figured out each other’s strengths and weaknesses….
Flashback: US Army | The Road to Donnersberg and Beyond
January 1970 I finished the Microwave Radio AN/FCC-18 Multiplexer Operations & Maintenance course at U.S. Army STRATCOM headquarters in Mannheim, Germany in mid-January. My classmates and I were immediately given temporary travel orders to proceed to our various assignments at STRATCOM microwave radio stations across Germany. I received a railroad ticket that would take me…
Flashback: US Army | The Night Train to Heidelberg
January 1970 I arrived in Frankfurt, Germany after a major snowstorm. Several of us soldiers were being ferried from Frankfurt Am-Main Airport to a processing center downtown. I had learned to negotiate slippery sidewalks the hard way (I had fallen on my butt twice outside the airport). <feature photo by pinterest.com I learned that I…
Flashback: US Army, Ft Monmouth NJ | Freedom & Foreboding
Oceanport, New Jersey 1969 The importance of FREEDOM cannot be overstressed. My first true understanding of it occurred when I climbed out of the rear of a deuce-and-a-half truck wearing my US Army dress uniform at Seattle-Tacoma Airport. I stood alone with my duffle bag in tow as plumes of smoke puffed out of the…
Flashback US Army | Basic Training Blues II
June 1969 I had heard that it always rained in Seattle. Standing in formation inside the back gate at Fort Lewis, Washington at close to three o’clock in the morning it began to drizzle. Since most of us raw Southern California recruits didn’t bring a raincoat or jacket the rain and lower temperature got uncomfortable…
Flashback US Army | Basic Training Blues
June 1969 “You’re in the Army Now!” was beginning to register with me as the olive drab bus took us from the L.A. induction center out to Los Angeles International Airport where we flew a commercial airliner to Seattle. <feature photo by aahabershaw.com It was the first time I had ever flown on a jet…
Portrait of a Foreign Service Secretary | Welcome Aboard!
January 1978 | Am Consul Karachi—Stuck in an elevator (continued) After claiming she had accidentally sat on LBJ’s ten-gallon hat as an eight-year old youth BJ waited for the smile to melt off my face. Then she continued her autobiography while I fought to keep the elevator walls from inching closer … <Feature photo of…
Portrait of a Foreign Service Secretary | The Early Days
January 1978 | Am Consul Karachi (stuck in an elevator) My cohort Al had said to me on day one: “Watch out for BJ. She’s paddled around the world in a boat with one oar for the past thirty years.” When I got stuck in the Am Consul Karachi elevator with her I cursed myself…
Portrait of a Foreign Service Secretary | The End of a Career
January 1977 | Karachi, Pakistan The Saudi Air flight from Riyadh touched down at Karachi International Airport at close to eleven p.m. The Pakistani embassy driver smiled and took my luggage. It was too bad that I hadn’t stayed here long enough to meet more Pakistani people, but I enjoyed traveling. From what I had…
President Carter/Secretary Vance Joint Protective Detail | The Wrap Up
January 1978 | At the American Embassy Riyadh, Saudi Arabia From my point of view as a radio tech the Carter/Vance S.Y. protective detail was all about the arrival and the departure. What happened in the hours in between were the harmonic byproducts of the constant chatter coming out of the base station’s speaker mixed…
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DBZ Songs. Help me out here if you can :)
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dbz songs
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Could someone tell me what the song is called that is played in the very beginning of the episode in the majin saga where it shows kid buu standing on a ledge and goku as ssj3 looking at him. This is the same episode where Vegeta thinks back of all of that goku has done. Also im trying to trying to figure out the song that was also playing in I think the same episode where Goku fires a Kamehameha at Buu but buu becomes a bunch of mini buus and fires at Goku. Sorry for the long post!
P.S. Both songs are from the american episodes too.
Simlar or modified versions of two of these songs you have mentioned are also featured in the episode where gohan goes ssj2. They always did reuse some older songs or did modify them with a few added sound effects.
Really? Never knew that.
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I could tell you if I had the episodes on me but I don't. If you describe the song (tempo, instruments, upbeat/downbeat, stuff like that) I can probably give you the name because i've got all the songs on my mp3 player.
Could someone tell me what the song is called that is played in the very beginning of the episode in the majin saga where it shows kid buu standing on a ledge and goku as ssj3 looking at him. Also im trying to trying to figure out the song that was also playing in I think the same episode where Goku fires a Kamehameha at Buu but buu becomes a bunch of mini buus and fires at Goku. Sorry for the long post!
The episode you're thinking of is 'Evil Kid Buu!', I think.
I think you might actually have some songs mixed up here. The first song that came to mind, 'Kid Buu''s Theme', was a bit of a slow/fast, hi/low pumping, with bass or something(badly descripted, sorry).
Scroll to 1:30
Kid Buu's Theme
This is the same episode where Vegeta thinks back of all of that goku has done.
Nah, that's in episode "Vegeta's Respect". During one part of Vegeta's confession they played the 'victory' theme, or one of sorts.
EDIT: Oh, oh! My bad, I didn't entirely look over what you said about Kid Buu on a ledge. Of course, SS3! Ha. I have that song.
Beginning: Dabura / Buu Saga Theme
I also thought I'd mention Faulconer liked to mix his songs up when it was appropriate, so there are some songs you probably won't be able to find.
SS3 Goku vs. Kid Buu (Vegeta Realization)
Scroll through it, you'll recognize it. It was played during some of SS3 Goku's battle with Kid Buu, and some of the 'Vegeta's Respect' part. (3:25 Vegeta's Realization, rest SS3 Goku vs. Kid Buu)
I'm trying to look through some episodes to find a couple of the other songs that were played during 'Vegeta's Respect' and Goku's battle with Kid Buu. I'll get back to you.
http://www.faulconer.com/mp3/DBZ-bu/Goku Trains for Buu.mp3
(Another SS3 Goku vs. Kid Buu)
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Sorry, you just linked to warez, Prince. As I recall, the only one you linked to that is legal is the one hosted on the Faulconer site... as such, you'll be recieving a warning.
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FDA Approves Clinical Application For US Trials Of Pot For Head Trauma
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Iselin, NJ: An Israeli-based pharmaceutical company announced this week that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to begin Phase III human trials in the United States on the effectiveness of the synthetic marijuana derivative Dexanabinol for the treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). It is the first time that US regulatory officials have sanctioned such trials to take place in America.
Phase III is the final stage of drug testing before regulatory approval.
Hundreds of Americans are anticipated to take part in the trials, joining more than 500 patients already enrolled in over 60 neurotrauma centers throughout Europe, Australia and Israel. "Subject to the results of the study, we intend to submit the data of the combined international and US study to the FDA and to other international regulatory agencies for worldwide marketing approvals," said Pharmos Company President Gad Riesenfield. "If approved, Dexanabinol would be the first pharmaceutical product for head injury."
A previous Phase II trial by Pharmos of 67 Israeli patients demonstrated that Dexanabinol reduced mortality and eased intracranial pressure in volunteers suffering from severe head injuries. A 1998 U.S. Army rat study also reported that the administration of Dexanabinol five minutes after the onset of nerve gas-induced seizures significantly reduced brain damage.
Similar research conducted by scientists at the National Institutes for Mental Health found that naturally occurring cannabinoids THC and cannabidiol (CBD) are also neuroprotective. A 1999 report by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine (IOM) called cannabis' neuroprotective qualities the "most prominent" of its potential therapeutic applications.
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British-American vocabulary
Real Name: Thanasis
Location: SX
Country: United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
Postby ego » 2005-12-07, 11:26
I was wondering if there is a list of the different words used for the same things in Britain and America (flat-appartment etc). I think I had seen such a list once but I could not find it this time. If there is indeed one, could you give me the URL please?
If there is not one already, would you people be interested in making it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
and you'll find links to similar lists down the page.
Real Name: Jonathan Wing
Location: houston | tx | usa
Country: United States (United States)
Postby jonathan » 2005-12-07, 23:26
It's interesting, but after reading through that, it definitely appears like B.E. is full of more slang than A.E. is, which I would never have expected with as loose and vibrant as A.E. can be (California slang, Ebonics, etc.). But just looking at the B.E. list, it's insane how many everyday objects they use slang for!
Jonathan / ジョナサン / 조나단 / 乔纳森 / Giònata / Jônatas / Jonatã / Jonathas / Jonátan / โจนาธาน / Jónatan
中文的名字：天礼
CURRENTLY ATTEMPTING: English, 中文 (普通话), 日本語, tiếng Việt.
Gormur
Real Name: Gormur
Country: Cuba (Cuba)
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Postby Gormur » 2005-12-08, 0:39
Either my English has become "internationalized" or I don't speak like a majority of Americans, because I use a good mix of what that article deems as "British vs American", some examples (I highlighted the one I'd use)........
"Have you done your homework yet?"/"Did you do your homework yet?"
"I've just got home." / "I just got home."
"I've already eaten." / "I already ate."
From Wiki -
Where a statement of intention involves two separate activities, it is acceptable for speakers of American English to use to go plus bare infinitive. Speakers of British English would instead use to go and plus bare infinitive: thus where a speaker of American English might say "I'll go take a bath", British English speakers would say "I'll go and have a bath". (Both can also use the form "to go to" instead to suggest that the action may fail, as in "He went to take/have a bath, but the bath was full of children.")
What I say: "I'm gonna' have a bath".
There are other examples, which I'll point out later......
Ariki
Real Name: Tāne
Country: New Zealand (New Zealand / Aotearoa)
Postby Ariki » 2005-12-08, 6:10
I can just as easily say -
I've just gotten home
I've already ate
and I'd say - I'm gonna go have/take a bath...
Linguicide IS genocide.
He ingoa ōpaki a Riki; he ingoa ōkawa a Ariki.
Riki is an informal name; Ariki is a formal name.
Gormur, weren't you norwegian or had norwegian as mother tongue? when did you start learning English? Does Norwegian favour those tenses you chose in those cases?
I have the same choices as you, but I started learning English when I was 6. In my case not all of them fit with the Spanish "equivalent" but many do.
Postby Gormur » 2005-12-08, 15:51
ZombiekE wrote: Gormur, weren't you norwegian or had norwegian as mother tongue? when did you start learning English?
Hm, yes, though I can't say if that has had a direct effect on the way I'd use syntax. I also began learning English around the same time as you --I was 5. Also, part of it is that I live amongst international students, so I sometimes struggle just to keep my speech from becoming "internationalized", so to speak. Maybe it has in fact changed somewhat since my arrival in Canada (regarding syntax and vocabulary).
Does Norwegian favour those tenses you chose in those cases?
Not particularly, though you could be right -- maybe I subconciously favor the "have" tenses - "will have", "would have", "would've had", "have had", etc.
It seems as though we'd always use "have" or "had" in present and past (in Norwegian) - at least more often than it's typically used in American English.
"Have you done your homework yet?" - har du gjort leksene?
"Did you do your homework yet?" - gjorde du leksene? (this sounds awkward, in this case)
"I've just got home." - jeg har akkurat kommet hjem.
"I just got home." - same as above
"I've already eaten." - Jeg har allerede spist.
"I already ate. - same as above
The media may also influence our speech. In my case I get both US and UK English although the English I learnt at school was British English.
Those sentences in Norwegian "match" the Spanish usage of our auxiliary "haber".
I've noticed that in Latin American Spanish, the pattern seems to be like the UK-US patterns. They often would use the "did" sentences instead of "have".
Postby jonathan » 2005-12-09, 1:01
Actually though, I also disagreed with or felt taken by the comment made on that page about "did" (A.E.) vs. "have" (B.E.) constructions. I do both, and I have found that many Americans do as well. For instance, I will hear these following sentences the same amount:
"I already ate."
"I've already eaten."
The article seems to be trying to make the case that the first sentence would be American, the second British... but I highly disagree. Perhaps in Britian they do not use the first construction, but I know that in America we most certainly use both.
Gormur wrote: Either my English has become "internationalized" or I don't speak like a majority of Americans, because I use a good mix of what that article deems as "British vs American", some examples (I highlighted the one I'd use)........
Exactly! Let me just say this: I'm from Texas, and I would actually tend towards the ones you put in red myself— that's not to say the others don't sound natural or that I don't hear them used that way (with the exception of the middle one, where the non-highlighted one just seems strange). I myself just tend to use "have" constructions, because I feel they sound/feel more pleasant.
But I don't think I'm alone in this down here in Texas. I know plenty of others from whom I've heard "have" constructions. So... what perspective was this Wikiarticle written from?
Real Name: Kirk
Postby Kirk » 2005-12-09, 4:41
Well, that's the problem with generalizing about dialects--some things may generally be true but it can vary widely according to speaker/register/age/region/context. The thing is that "American English" and "British English" are definitely not two monolithic entities which are homogenous within themselves. Far from the truth.
Personally, for me, both "have you done your homework yet?" and "Did you do your homework yet?" are things that sound perfectly natural for me to say. As for the second example, I would only use "I just got home." For the third example I could use either "I've already eaten" or "I already ate" interchangeably.
The perspective the Wikipedia article was written from was that in American English the present perfect is not used in as many instances as British English. However, that's far from implying that the present perfect is not used in the US, even in the most informal of speech, as it is. That being said, there are a few rules which dictate when it's more likely that the preterit is going to be used as compared to the present perfect in American English.
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
I eat prescriptivists for breakfast.
maɪ nemz kʰɜ˞kʰ n̩ aɪ laɪk̚ fɨˈnɛ̞ɾɪ̞ks
Kirk wrote: Well, that's the problem with generalizing about dialects--some things may generally be true but it can vary widely according to speaker/register/age/region/context. The thing is that "American English" and "British English" are definitely not two monolithic entities which are homogenous within themselves. Far from the truth.
Real Name: Michael Liddell
Postby MikeL » 2005-12-11, 9:50
I have always assumed that "Did you eat already?" was confined to American English, and that it was possibly the result of a Yiddish influence. It is entirely absent from those dialects of English with which I am most familiar (southern British, Australian, N.Z. Upon reflexion I can't be sure that it isn't found in Ireland, Scotland or the north of Britain.
As a teacher of English to foreigners, I have tended to quietly ignore this usage since it inconveniently violates an otherwise fairly straightforward and very useful rule about when to use the simple past tense and when to use the present perfect!
I'm used to 'Did you eat already?' and 'have you already eaten?'
"Ya'll done ate yah grits yet?"
jonathan wrote: "Ya'll done ate yah grits yet?"
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Japan's geographic location
The official flag of Japan
(Video gaming in) Japan (in video gaming)
Japan is a country in Asia that has had a profound impact on video gaming history. Its capital is Tokyo, and the country itself is home to a number of companies and corporations related to gaming and video gaming, such as Sony Corporation, Konami, and Nintendo.
Japan uses CERO to rate its console video game content, and EOCS for personal computer video game content and software.
1 Video gaming
2 Related technology
2.2 Computing
2.3 Display technology
2.4 Electronics
2.5 Graphics
2.6 Memory/Storage
Video gaming[edit | edit source]
Main articles: Video gaming in Japan, List of firsts in gaming history, List of gaming pioneers
Japan has made numerous contributions to video games. See the articles above for further information.
Related technology[edit | edit source]
The following are examples of Japanese contributions to various technologies related to gaming, including computing, graphics, audio, memory/storage, and related electronics.
Digital Control Bus (DCB) and DIN sync
In 1980, Roland introduced the Digital Control Bus (DCB) communications protocol, using the DIN sync interface to synchronize different electronic musical instrument. It was introduced with the Roland TR-808 in 1980, considered groundbreaking at the time, followed by other Roland equipment in 1981. It was the precursor to MIDI, which adopted most of its features from the DCB protocol, including the same type of connectors as the DIN sync interface.[1][2]
Digital synthesis
Yamaha built the first prototype digital synthesizer in 1974.[3] Released in 1979,[4] the Casio VL-1 was the first commercial digital synthesizer,[5] selling for $69.95.[4] The mainstream breakthrough for digital synthesis came with the 1983 release of the Yamaha DX7,[6] one of the best-selling synthesizers of all time.[7][8]
Frequency modulation synthesis (FM synthesis)
In 1973,[3] the Japanese company Yamaha licensed the algorithms for frequency modulation synthesis (FM synthesis).[8] Yamaha's engineers began adapting the algorithm for use in a commercial digital synthesizer, adding improvements such as the "key scaling" method to avoid the introduction of distortion that normally occurred in analog systems during frequency modulation.[9] In the 1970s, Yamaha were granted a number of patents, under the company's former name "Nippon Gakki Seizo Kabushiki Kaisha", evolving Chowning's early work on FM synthesis technology.[10] Yamaha built the first prototype FM digital synthesizer in 1974.[3] The first commercial FM digital synthesizer was the Yamaha GS-1 in 1980.[11]
Linear Arithmetic synthesis (LA synthesis)
A type of sound synthesis invented by Roland Corporation, introduced with the Roland D-50 synthesizer in 1987.[12] In 1987, Roland also introduced LA synthesis to the sound card computer music market, with the Roland MT-32 sound module.[13]
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
In 1981, Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi proposed the concept of standardization to Oberheim Electronics and Sequential Circuits, and they then discussed it with Yamaha, Korg and Kawai.[14] A common MIDI standard was developed, working with Roland's pre-existing DCB as a basis,[1] by Roland, Yamaha, Korg, Kawai, and Sequential Circuits.[14][15] MIDI was publicly announced in 1982.[16] MIDI allowed communication between different instruments and general-purpose computer to play a role in music production.[17] Since its introduction, MIDI has remained the musical instrument industry standard interface through to the present day.[18] Kakehashi received the 2013 Technical Grammy Award for the invention of MIDI.[19][20]
MIDI computer music
In 1982, the NEC PC-88 and PC-98 computers introduced MIDI support.[21] In 1983, Yamaha modules introduced MIDI sequencing to the MSX.[22][23]
MIDI music software
In 1983, the Yamaha CX5 MSX computer and Yamaha MSX modules came with graphical music software for digital synthesis and MIDI sequencing,[24][23] capable of synthesizing and sequencing sounds and rhythms.[25] It provided synthesis, composition tools, and a 4-track MIDI sequencer, available on different cartridges.[26]
MIDI sound card
The spread of MIDI on computers was facilitated by Roland Corporation's MPU-401, released in 1984. It was the first MIDI-equipped PC sound card, capable of MIDI sound processing[27] and sequencing.[28][29] After Roland sold MPU sound chips to other sound card manufacturers,[27] it established a universal standard MIDI-to-PC interface.[30] The widespread adoption of MIDI led to computer-based MIDI software being developed.[17]
Music Macro Language
In 1978, Japanese personal computers such as the Sharp MZ and Hitachi Basic Master were capable of digital synthesis, which were sequenced using Music Macro Language (MML).[31] This was used to produce chiptune video game music.[21]
Computing[edit | edit source]
12-bit microprocessor
In 1973, Toshiba developed the TLCS-12,[32][33] the world's first 12-bit microprocessor.[34] The project began in 1971, when Toshiba began developing a microprocessor for Ford Motor Company's Electronic Engine Control (EEC) project, which went on to utilize Toshiba's 12-bit microprocessor.[34]
16-bit microcomputer
In 1977, Panafacom, a conglomeration of Fujitsu, Fuji Electric, and Matsushita, released an early 16-bit microcomputer, the Lkit-16, based on the 16-bit Panafacom MN1610 microprocessor developed in 1975.[35]
Panafacom MN1610, 16-bit microprocessor (1975)
In 1975, Panafacom developed the first commercial 16-bit single-chip microprocessor CPU,[36] the MN1610.[35][37] According to Fujitsu, it was "the world's first 16-bit microcomputer on a single chip".[36]
Compact office computer
Compact office computers originated from Japan in the early 1960s. While American offices at the time ran large minicomputers loaded with business applications, Japanese manufacturers invented highly compact office computers, with hardware, operating systems, peripheral devices and application development languages specifically developed for business applications, playing a big role in Japan's booming economy. The first office computers released in 1961: Casio's TUC Compuwriter, NEC's NEAC-1201 parametron computer, and Unoke Denshi Kogyo's USAC-3010.[38]
Compressed instructions
In the early 1990s, engineers at Hitachi found ways to compress RISC instruction set so they fit in even smaller memory systems than CISC instruction sets. They developed a compressed instruction set for their SuperH series of microprocessors, introduced in 1992.[39] The SuperH instruction set was later adapted for the ARM architecture's Thumb instruction set.[40]
Digital system design, and digital computer theory
In the 1930s, NEC engineer Akira Nakashima laid the foundations for digital system design with his switching circuit theory, where formulated a two-valued Boolean algebra as a way to analyze and design circuits by algebra means in terms of logic gates. His switching circuit theory provided the mathematical foundations and tools for digital system design in almost all areas of modern technology, and was the basis for digital computer theory.[41][42]
FM synthesis computer music
The Yamaha GS-1, the first commercial FM digital synthesizer, released in 1980, was programmed using a proprietary Yamaha computer, which at the time was only available at Yamaha's headquarters in Japan (Hamamatsu) and the United States (Buena Park).[43] In 1983, Yamaha modules introduced FM synthesis to the MSX personal computer.[22][23]
General-purpose microcomputer
The first microcomputers based on the Intel 8080, the first general-purpose microprocessor, were Sord Computer Corporation's SMP80/x series,[44] released in 1974.[44][45]
General-purpose microprocessor
The Intel 8080, released in 1974, was the first general-purpose microprocessor.[44] The 8-bit Intel 8080 was designed by Federico Faggin and Masatoshi Shima.[46]
Yukio Yokozawa, an employee for Suwa Seikosha, a branch of Seiko (now Seiko Epson), invented the first laptop/notebook computer in July 1980, receiving a patent for the invention.[47] Seiko's notebook computer, known as the HC-20 in Japan, was announced in 1981.[48] In North America, Epson introduced it as the Epson HX-20 in 1981, at the COMDEX computer show in Las Vegas, where it drew significant attention for its portability.[49] It had a mass-market release in July 1982, as the HC-20 in Japan[48] and as the Epson HX-20 in North America.[50] It was the first notebook-sized handheld computer,[51][48][50] the size of an A4 notebook and weighing 1.6 kg (3.5 lb).[48] In 1983, the Sharp PC-5000[52] and Ampere WS-1 laptops from Japan featured a modern clamshell design.[53][54]
The first microcomputer was Sord Computer Corporation's SMP80/08,[45] developed in 1972, using the 8-bit Intel 8008 microprocessor.[44]
Microcomputer operating system
The first microcomputer with an operating system was Sord Computer Corporation's SMP80/x series,[55] released in 1974, based on the Intel 8080 microprocessor.[44][45]
The concept of a single-chip microprocessor central processing unit (CPU) was conceived in a 1968 meeting in Japan between Sharp engineer Sasaki Tadashi Sasaki and a software engineering researcher from Nara Women's College. Sasaki discussed the microprocessor concept with Busicom and Intel in 1968.[56] The first commercial microprocessor, the 4-bit 4004 Intel 4004, began with the "Busicom Project"[57] in 1968 as Masatoshi Shima's three-chip CPU design,[58][57] which was simplified down to a single-chip microprocessor, designed from 1969 to 1970 by Intel's Marcian Hoff and Federico Faggin and Busicom's Masatoshi Shima, and commercially released in 1971.[57][59]
Hardware elements providing the basis of internet technology, the three essential elements of optical communication, were invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa]: the semiconductor laser] (1957) being the light source, the graded-index optical fiber (1964) as the transmission line, and the PIN photodiode (1950) as the optical receiver.[60] Fiber-optic communication was proposed by Nishizawa in 1963.[61] Izuo Hayashi's invention of the continuous wave semiconductor laser in 1970 led directly to the light sources in fiber-optic communication, commercialized by Japanese entrepreneurs,[62] and opened up the field of optical communication, playing an important role in the communication networks of the future.[63] Their work laid the foundations for the Information Age.[60]
Personal computer with built-in floppy disk drive
Sord Computer Corporation's M200 Smart Home Computer, released in 1977, was among the first home computer, and was an early personal computer to be integrated with a built-in floppy disk drive.[64]
Personal computer with built-in hard disk drive
Sord Computer Corporation's M223 Mark VI, introduced in 1979, was an early personal computer to come standard with a built-in hard disk drive.[64]
Plastic central processing unit
Shunpei Yamazaki invented a central processing unit (CPU) made entirely from plastic.[65]
In 1967, NEC introduced the NEAC-1240, the world's first small IC computer.[66]
Stored-program transistor computer
The ETL Mark III began development in 1954,[67] and was completed in 1956, created by the Electrotechnical Laboratory.[68] It was the first stored-program transistor computer.[68][69][70]
Switching circuit theory
From 1934 to 1936, NEC engineer Akira Nakashima introduced switching circuit theory in a series of papers showing that two-valued Boolean algebra, which he discovered independently, can describe the operation of switching circuits.[71][42][72][41]
Touchpad tablet
The first touchpad tablet was invented in 1971, by Hidekazu Terai and Kazuo Nakata at Hitachi's Central Research Laboratory. It used a data tablet as a touchpad, with Japanese writing character recognition, for use with a computer.[73] Touch-based tablet input later appeared in the Japanese electronic word processor industry in the 1970s.[74] In 1976, Sharp's Takeo Hara, Takeshi Kasufuchi and Ko Ozawa invented an electrode-based touch input device, using electrode technology,[75] which was improved by Sharp's Hisao Komori and Makoto Shigeta in 1977, using electro-optical technology.[76] Sharp commercially introduced it with its Shoin WD-3000 word processor, released in 1979. It had touch-based tablet input, with a touch-pen used for entry.[77][74] This touch-based interface soon appeared in most Japanese word processors released from 1980 to 1982. A reason for this was because of the complexity of the Japanese writing system, with touch-based entry allowing typists to type faster. As better Japanese input methods developed for keyboards in the early 1980s, however, the Japanese word processor industry soon reverted back to keyboard entry.[74]
Touchscreen tablet
In 1979, the first touchscreen tablet was invented by a Japanese team at Hitachi consisting of Masao Hotta, Yoshikazu Miyamoto, Norio Yokozawa, and Yoshimitsu Oshima, who received a US patent for their invention.[78]
Transistor computer microprogram
The use of microprogramming in electronic transistor computers dates back to 1961, with the KT-Pilot, developed by Kyoto University and Toshiba in Japan.[70][79]
Two-chip microprocessor
NEC released the μPD707 and μPD708, a two-chip 4-bit microprocessor CPU, in 1971.[80] They were followed by NEC's first single-chip microprocessor, the μPD700, in April 1972,[81][82] a prototype for the μCOM-4 (μPD751), released in April 1973,[81] combining the μPD707 and μPD708 into a single microprocessor.[80]
A group of several companies began the development of USB in 1994, including Japanese company NEC.[83]
Display technology[edit | edit source]
Aperture grille
One of two major cathode ray tube (CRT) display technologies, along with the older shadow mask. Aperture grille was introduced by Sony with their Trinitron television in 1968.[84]
Color LCD
The LCD color display was invented by Sharp Corporation's Shinji Kato and Takaaki Miyazaki in May 1975,[85] and then improved by Fumiaki Funada and Masataka Matsuura in December 1975.[86] The first LCD color television were invented as handheld television in Japan. In 1980, Hattori Seiko's R&D group began development on color pocket LCD television.[87] In 1984, Epson released the ET-10, the first full-color, pocket LCD television.[88]
Color LCD projector, and 3LCD
Epson developed the 3LCD color projection technology in the 1980s, and licensed it for use in projectors in 1988.[89] The first color LCD video projector were Epson's 3LCD-based VPJ-700, released in January 1989,[50] and an LCD color video projector released by Sharp Corporation in 1989.[90] Epson's 3LCD technology went on to be adopted by about 40 different projector brands worldwide.[89]
Color plasma display
The world's first color plasma display was produced by Fujitsu in 1989.[91]
Electronic television, and cathode ray tube (CRT)
In 1924, Kenjiro Takayanagi began a research program on electronic television. In 1925, he demonstrated a cathode ray tube (CRT) television with thermal electron emission.[92] In 1926, he demonstrated a CRT television with 40-line resolution,[93] the first working example of a fully electronic television receiver.[92] In 1927, he increased the television resolution to 100 lines, which was unrivaled until 1931.[94] In 1928, he was the first to transmit human faces in half-tones on television.[95]
Handheld projector
In January 1989, Epson released the first compact LCD projector, the VPJ-700.[50]
Handheld television
In 1970, Panasonic released the first television that was small enough to fit in a large pocket, the Panasonic IC TV MODEL TR-001. It featured a 1.5-inch display, along with a 1.5-inch speaker.[96]
High definition television (HDTV), and digital television
Japan had the earliest working HDTV system, with design efforts going back to the 1970s. Japanese consumer electronics firms forged ahead with the development of HDTV technology, with the MUSE format proposed by NHK, a Japanese company. MUSE, the development of which began in the 1970s,[97] was a hybrid system with analog and digital features.[98] Until 1990, the Japanese MUSE standard was the front-runner among the more than 23 different technical concepts under consideration.
LCD large-screen television technology
Sharp Corporation invented the first large LCD displays in 1986, based on color TFT LCD technology.[99] In 1988, Sharp introduced the first commercial large LCD television, a 14" TFT LCD model with active matrix addressing. The release of Sharp's large LCD TV in 1988 led to Japan launching an LCD industry, which developed large-size LCD displays, including TFT computer monitors and LCD televisions.[100]
The first LCD televisions were invented as handheld televisions in Japan. In 1980, Hattori Seiko's R&D group began development on color LCD pocket televisions.[87] In 1982, Seiko Epson released the first LCD television, the Epson TV Watch, a wristwatch equipped with an active-matrix LCD television.[101][50] In 1983, Casio released a handheld LCD television, the Casio TV-10.[102]
LCD watches
Tetsuro Hama and Izuhiko Nishimura of Seiko received a US patent dated February 1971 for an electronic wristwatch incorporating a twisted nematic (TN) LCD display.[103] Sharp mass-produced TN LCD displays for watches in 1975.[99]
LED-backlit LCD
The world's first LED-backlit LCD television was Sony's Qualia 005, released in 2004.[104]
Surface-conduction electron-emitter display (SED)
A display technology for flat panel displays. Canon began SED research in 1986.[105]
LCD displays incorporating thin film and transistors were demonstrated in 1970 by J. Kishimoto from Canon[106] and Katsumi Yamamura from Suwa Seikosha (Seiko),[107] and further developed by Sharp Corporation in 1976.[108] In 1977, a TFT (thin-film transistor) LCD display was demonstrated by a Sharp team consisting of Kohei Kishi, Hirosaku Nonomura, Keiichiro Shimizu and Tomio Wada.[109] In 1980, Hattori Seiko's R&D group began development on color pocket LCD television, which led to the release of the first commercial TFT LCD displays by three of its subsidiaries.[87] One of its subsidiaries, Citizen Watch, introduced the Citizen Pocket TV, a color TFT LCD handheld television,[87][110] with a 2.7-inch display, in 1984.[110] By 1985, two other Seiko Hattori subsidiaries had also introduced TFT LCD handheld televisions, with Seiko's color micro-TV and the Epson ELF.[87]
Trinitron
Trinitron cathode ray tube (CRT) aperture grille television invented by Sony's Susumu Yoshida in 1968.[111]
Widescreen televisions date back to the 1970s, when Japan's NHK introduced the Multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding|MUSE high-definition television system, which was soon backed by Sony and other Japanese television manufacturers.[97]
Electronics[edit | edit source]
Avalanche photodiode
Invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa in 1952.[112]
Blue laser
In 1992, Japanese inventor Shuji Nakamura invented the first efficient blue LED.[113] Nakamura invented it with Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, for which the three of them were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics.[114]
Continuous wave semiconductor laser
Invented by Izuo Hayashi and Morton B. Panish in 1970. This led directly to the light sources in fiber-optic communication, laser printer, barcode readers, and optical disc drives, technologies that were commercialized by Japanese entrepreneurs.[62]
While working at at Tohoku University, Jun-ichi Nishizawa proposed the use of optical fiber for optical communication, in 1963.[61] Nishizawa invented other technologies that contributed to the development of optical fiber communications, such as the graded-index optical fiber as a channel for transmitting light from semiconductor lasers.[115][116] Izuo Hayashi's invention of the continuous wave semiconductor laser in 1970 led directly to light sources in fiber-optic communication, commercialized by Japanese entrepreneurs.[62]
Glass integrated circuit
Shunpei Yamazaki invented an integrated circuit made entirely from glass and with an 8-bit central processing unit.[65]
Graded-index optical fiber
Jun-ichi Nishizawa patented the graded-index optical fiber in 1964.[60]
JFET (junction gate field-effect transistor)
The first type of JFET was the static induction transistor (SIT), invented by Japanese engineers Jun-ichi Nishizawa and Y. Watanabe in 1950. The SIT is a type of JFET with a short channel length.[117]
PIN diode/photodiode
Invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa and his colleagues in 1950.[118]
Semiconductor inductance
laser|Semiconductor laser]
Invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa in 1957.[112][60]
Solid-state maser
Solid-state optical fiber
induction thyristor|Static induction thyristor]
Invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa in 1971.[112][120]
induction transistor|Static induction transistor]
Invented by Jun-ichi Nishizawa and Y. Watanabe in 1950.[121]
Graphics[edit | edit source]
Particularly well known iconic digital computer graphics images include Running Cola is Africa,[122] by Masao Komura and Koji Fujino, created at the Computer Technique Group, Japan, in 1967.[123]
3D computer graphics software
The earliest known example of 3D computer graphics software for personal computers is 3D Art Graphics, a set of 3D computer graphics effects, written by Kazumasa Mitazawa and released in June 1978 for the Apple II home computer.[124][125]
Real-time 3D ray tracing
The first implementation of a real-time 3D ray-tracer was the LINKS-1 Computer Graphics System, built in 1982 at Osaka University's School of Engineering, by professors Ohmura Kouichi, Shirakawa Isao and Kawata Toru with 50 students. It was a massively parallel processing computer system with 514 microprocessor, used for rendering realistic 3D computer graphics with high-speed ray tracing. According to the Information Processing Society of Japan: "By developing a new software methodology specifically for high-speed image rendering, LINKS-1 was able to rapidly render highly realistic images." It was "used to create the world's first 3D planetarium-like video of the entire heavens that was made completely with computer graphics. The video was presented at the Fujitsu pavilion at the 1985 International Exposition in Tsukuba."[126]
Memory/Storage[edit | edit source]
After Shuji Nakamura's invention of practical blue laser diodes,[127] Sony started two projects applying the new diodes: UDO (Ultra Density Optical) and DVR Blue (together with Pioneer), a format of rewritable discs which would eventually become the Blu-ray Disc.[128] The Blu-ray Disc Association was founded by five companies from Japan and two from South Korea.
The CD-ROM format was developed by Japanese company Denon in 1982. It was an extension of Compact Disc Digital Audio, and adapted the format to hold any form of digital data, with a storage capacity of 553 MiB.[129] CD-ROM was then introduced by Denon and Sony at a Japanese computer show in 1984.[53]
The compact disc was developed by Sony (Toshitada Doi). Sony first publicly demonstrated an optical digital audio disc in September 1976. In September 1978, they demonstrated an optical digital audio disc with a 150 minute playing time, and with specifications of 44,056 Hz sampling rate, 16-bit linear resolution, cross-interleaved error correction code, that were similar to those of the Compact Disc they introduced in 1982.[130]
Digital video disc (DVD)
The DVD, first developed in 1995, was created by three Japanese companies: Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic.
Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM)
The Toshiba Toscal BC-1411 electronic calculator, which debuted in 1965,[131][132] introduced an early form of DRAM built from discrete components.[132]
Flash memory (both NOR and NAND types) was invented by Dr. Fujio Masuoka while working for Toshiba c. 1980.[133][134]
Floppy disk (magnetic disk)
The first floppy disk was invented by Yoshiro Nakamatsu at the Tokyo Imperial University in 1950.[135][136] He later received a Japanese patent in 1952,[137][138] and a 1958 American patent, for a magnetic disk record sheet.[139] Nippon Columbia planned to commercialized his magnetic disc sheet recorder in 1960.[140] He licensed a number of patents to IBM,[137][141][142] reaching licensing agreements with them in the 1970s.[135][143][144]
Glass hard disk drive platter
In 1990, Toshiba's MK1122FC was the first hard drive to use a glass hard disk drive platter, replacing the earlier aluminium platters. Glass platters had several advantages, such as greater shock resistance, compared to aluminium platter.[145]
Helical scan
Dr. Norikazu Sawazaki invented a prototype helical scan recorder in 1953.[146]
Holographic data storage
In 1975, Hitachi introduced a video disc system in which chrominance, luminance and sound information were encoded holographic. Each frame was recorded as a 1mm diameter hologram on a 305mm disc, while a laser beam read out the hologram from three angles.[147]
Laserdisc digital data storage
In 1984, Sony introduced a laserdisc format that could store any form of digital data, as a data storage device similar to CD-ROM, with a larger capacity of 3.28 GiB.[53]
Micro floppy disk (3½-inch floppy disk)
Sony invented the 3½-inch floppy disk format, called the micro floppy disk. The first commercial micro floppy disk drive was the Sony OA-D30V, released in 1981.[148]
Perpendicular recording
In 1976, Dr. Shun-ichi Iwasaki (president of the Tohoku Institute of Technology) recognized the distinct density advantages in perpendicular recording. In 1978, Dr. T. Fujiwara began an intensive research and development program at the Toshiba Corporation that eventually resulted in the perfection of floppy disk media optimized for perpendicular recording and the first magnetic digital data storage devices using the technique.[149]
Videocassette recorder
The first machines (the VP-1100 videocassette player and the VO-1700 videocassette recorder) to use the first videocassette format, U-matic, were introduced by Sony in 1971.[150]
Video tape recorder
Dr. Norikazu Sawazaki invented a prototype video tape recorder in 1953, based on helical scan technology.[146]
Other[edit | edit source]
The first emoji was created in 1998 or 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita.[151]
Imageboard
The first imageboards were created in Japan. Later English language imageboards such as 4chan would be created.[152]
Textboard
Textboards like imageboards were invented in Japan. However, unlike imageboards, textboards are relatively unknown outside of Japan.[152]
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Epistolary Adventures: What About E-mail Epistolaries?
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Epistolary Adventures
One thing I didn’t discuss last time in my introductory Epistolary Adventures post is the idea of e-mail epistolaries. Over time, as letter writing has shifted to other forms of communication, namely e-mail, texting, and social media, epistolaries have also changed.
Epistolary Tradition: Only for the Elite
The original epistolary novels presented a collection of letters, in a time when letter writing was in fashion and was necessarily restricted to a certain class of characters who were both literate and had the time and opportunity to pen thoughts to paper. The common laborer, the uneducated, did not get represented in epistolaries because it wasn’t realistic for that to happen. No, there was a certain level of education and leisure that the characters had to have reached to be represented in an epistolary. That’s not to say that other characters were not represented in literature (Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle comes immediately to mind), just not in epistolary novels.
E-mail: The Great Democratizer
And then came e-mail, and iPhones, and texting, and now everyone writes. While in real life this has translated to information overload, in terms of epistolary literature, this change has revitalized the epistolary novel by opening up the form to more than just a certain class of people with the education and free time to pen letters.
E-mail: Affecting Notions of Absence and Presence
Last time, I went over the various periods of time in an epistolary (letter event time, letter writing time, letter transport time, and letter reading time). One element I didn’t cover was the notion of absence and presence.
By its very design, epistolaries invoke particular notions of absence and presence, where the implied recipient of the letters, whether appearing in the novel or not, gains a presence such that the character can be imagined reading the letters. This character, absent from the scene of writing, nonetheless has his/her presence evoked by the writer. Similarly, events referenced in letters, while not present at the time of the writing, are brought forth so that letters are enlivened. With both time and place, the absent becomes present in epistolaries.
Now, consider e-mail and texting, and its effect on the notions of absence and presence. Meg Cabot has written a few delightful e-mail epistolaries, and one, in particular, comes to mind in this context. In Every Boy’s Got One, Jane and Holly text each other while in the same room (more precisely while seated on an airplane waiting for it to take off or inside a car), so they can discuss other people present. It’s the equivalent of passing notes or whispering. Here, both parties are present, but try to evoke the absence of the people about whom they are talking.
Also, with the real-time interactivity of texting and e-mail, events at a distance can also affect what’s happening close by. e by Matt Beaumont demonstrates this to great effect. The entire novel is composed of e-mails sent around an international business office, with the events being reported from one person to another. But then, something happens to a few employees who travel for work to Mauritius, and it immediately has repercussions for the staff back in England. Because of the immediacy of e-mail. Indeed, electronic communication subverts the traditional notions of absence and presence of epistolaries, which I think is marvelous.
Digital Footprints: Updating the Archives
Now we come to the fun stuff. (Okay, I’ll be honest. I find this all fun, and you may well be rolling your eyes at the whole idea of any of this being fun. I accept that.) Previously, I discussed the archives of an epistolary as being the physical letter or collection of letters being left behind. In traditional epistolaries, the physical letter can be tucked into a pocket and revisited lovingly, it can be hidden for safety only to be revealed at a later time, burned or otherwise destroyed. There is one letter, and its existence can be troublesome to the writer, recipient, or whoever is discussed in the letter.
When we move to electronic communication, the archives are different. Meg Cabot’s Boy Meets Girl updates the concept of the letter-gone-awry by choosing an e-mail configuration that limits the number of copies of any message to two (as opposed to other mail servers that are backed up and on the cloud). It is a sort of stepping stone as far as updating epistolaries go, but a good way to step into the modern epistolary age.
But if you want a haunting look at the digital footprint left behind by a teenage girl, check out Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight, where a mom shows up at her daughter’s school to find the daughter has plummeted off the roof of the school. By digging through her daughter’s digital fingerprints (e-mails, social media posts, etc.) she is able to reconstruct the events that led up to her death.
Non-tech Epistolaries
And then there are present-day epistolaries that forego technology altogether. Two examples are Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher and Punkzilla by Adam Rapp.
Being set in the modern age, where everyone and their grandchild has access to e-mail, it becomes imperative to answer the obvious question of why written letters are being used. And each of these stories does address that question, to the point that it becomes an integral element that defines the premise of the story. After all, if in modern times, a character rode around town in a horse and buggy, there would most assuredly be some interesting backstory that would explain the quirkiness of the character that led to that choice. Indeed, writing paper letters (or choosing to write an epistolary novel set in present time using paper letters) says something, and it makes sense to exploit that something for the sake of the story. Indeed, why ignore the elephant in the room when you can dress it up in a tutu and put it on stage?
E-mail Epistolaries for the Win
Never thought you’d think this much about epistolaries or e-mail or e-mail epistolaries, did you? I love them. These are definitely not the only epistolaries out there, but I’m trying to show some restraint here. But if you think about how people communicate, and how the changing forms of communication seep their way into literature, surely it’s clear that the literature itself must change to encompass the changes of people. Not every story can be told as an epistolary, but now, with more and more people writing (even if they don’t recognize texting and e-mailing as forms of writing), more stories can be told as epistolaries. Which means the form is more relevant now than ever.
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Coke unveils its first new flavor in over a decade
The new flavor of Coke will hit stores nationwide on Feb. 25. Photo courtesy of Coca-Cola.
Feb. 10 (UPI) — Soft drink giant Coca-Cola has introduced its first new flavor in more than a decade.
The new flavor, Orange Vanilla, in Coke and Coke Zero Sugar, will hit stores nationwide on Feb. 25, the company said in a statement Friday.
Coca-Cola began testing new Coke flavors a couple years ago after the successful relaunch of Coke Zero Sugar.
“The growth of Cherry Coke and Vanilla Coke — and their zero-calorie variants — has been really strong in recent years even with very limited marketing support,” Coca-Cola brand director Kate Carpenter said. “We knew we had an opportunity to give fans the variety they crave without sacrificing the Coca-Cola taste they love.”
Focus groups also tried flavors from Coke’s international market, including raspberry, lemon and ginger, which CNN reported are popular in Asia, but Orange Vanilla, available for a limited time in Canada, was the favorite.
“We wanted to bring back positive memories of carefree summer days,” Carpenter said. “That’s why we leaned into the orange-vanilla flavor combination — which is reminiscent of the creamy orange popsicles we grew up loving, but in a classically Coke way.”
Coca-Cola introduced flavors for its Diet Coke, including Blueberry Acai and Strawberry Guava, earlier this year, with other new flavors, including Ginger Lime, Feisty Cherry, Zesty Blood Orange and Twisted Mango. But this is the first new flavor for regular Coke since Vanilla Coke, which the company re-launched in 2007, since it was phased out after its initial launch in 2002.
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Eto’o picks Messi’s Successor At Barcelona
Joseph1 week ago
Eto'o picks Messi’s Successor At Barcelona
The legendary striker, who thrived in Catalunya during his playing days, believes the Blaugrana have a suitable heir to the current king of Camp Nou.
Samuel Eto’o believes Ansu Fati is “the one to take over from Lionel Messi” at Barcelona, with those at Camp Nou having to start contemplating life without the six-time Ballon d’Or winner.
The Liga giants have seen their talismanic captain make one push for the exits, with the summer of 2020 dominated by speculation regarding the mercurial Argentine’s future.
Messi was eventually talked into staying put, as he revealed to Goal that he will be honouring the final year of his contract.
No fresh terms have been agreed in Catalunya, though, and the 33-year-old is free to speak with interested parties now that the January transfer window has opened.
Barca have not given up hope of extending their career-long association with an all-time great, but the clock is ticking as free agency looms large.
If Messi were to move on at the end of the season, with Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain among those said to be keen on doing a deal, then a sizeable void would be left in the Blaugrana’s ranks.
Filling the biggest of boots will be an almost impossible task, but Eto’o feels that 18-year-old forward Fati could be the man to succeed a fellow La Masia academy graduate.
The former Barca striker told SPORTbible of a potential changing of the guard: “I think [Fati] is the one for the future.
“He’s currently doing amazing stuff so I think the club really needs to groom him and take very good care of him.
“Let’s hope he’s the one to take over from Messi.”
Eto’o was on Barca’s books when Messi broke through as a precocious teenager, with five memorable years spent trophy-collecting at Camp Nou between 2004 and 2009.
At the peak of his powers he landed La Liga and Champions League crowns under the guidance of Pep Guardiola, but the Cameroonian icon who went on to enjoy similar success with Jose Mourinho at Inter claims to favour Portuguese passion in the dugout over Catalan charisma.
Eto’o said of the bosses he thrived under: “I am more friends with Jose Mourinho’s style. It’s a question of style, they each have their own way, I prefer Jose Mourinho.
“However, Pep is a top, top coach, so I don’t think you can make a decision, but I can tell you that there is no other coach, no other manager, who will get to motivate his players as much as Jose Mourinho does, for me the treble with Jose is the special one.
“Now there are more coaches with their own style. Yet, in terms of motivating and getting the most out of their players, that is Jose Mourinho.”
Source: Goal
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by Hard Of Hearing Music April 21, 20209:40 am May 2, 2020
Mystic Peach challenge the stigma against mental health.
South-coast favourites Mystic Peach release ‘Normal’, a story of alienation and self-consciousness.
NEW MUSIC | MYSTIC PEACH | WORDS BY BRAD SKED
Following on from the likes of Hotel Lux and Drug Store Romeos from the often under-looked part of the country in terms of emerging music, being Hampshire, the anthropomorphic mystical fruit Mystic Peach have been carving a name for themselves in a short-time. The Southampton trio who mould psychedelia, garage-rock, shoegaze and scuzzed-out indie have unleashed a new single ‘Normal’ – an angst-filled sonic-chasm that’s released via Bandcamp.
After recently having their tour across France with Temples cancelled due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, as well as being unable to make their U.S tour dates, Mystic Peach have sadly had a calamitous start to 2020, but luckily that hasn’t stopped their output. Morphing their influences, Mystic Peach have released ‘Normal’ (a release previously exclusive to 7″ label Flying Vinyl) with all money from sales going to Tonic Music For Mental Health, a not-for-profit organisation based on the south-coast that challenges the stigma of mental health through the medium of music.
On the single itself, guitarist/ vocalist Curtis Gale explains: “The song is about alienation, self-consciousness & rebelling. Life moves fast and I wasn’t up for it. I’ve seen what this ‘normal’ life can do, 9-5 routines and shitty public transport where people can’t even look at one another in the eye. I don’t want to be a part of it”.
Mystic Peach are a blistering force, witness the monstrous coil of psychedelia, shoegaze and fuzz-pop that is ‘Normal’ from one of the most exciting acts on the south-coast right now. It’s a song of reflection and feeling distanced from the modern world, poignant in these times of self-isolation and quarantine.
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Two charged after a man carrying a baby was shot outside a Vancouver restaurant
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By Jon Azpiri & John Copsey Global News
Posted October 6, 2020 10:11 pm
Two men were charged with attempted murder, Wednesday, following a brazen daylight shooting outside a restaurant on Tuesday afternoon in Vancouver’s Dunbar neighbourhood, police say.
Liban Hassan, 35, and Ahmed Ismail, 24, remain in police custody, and are due in court next week.
Vancouver police on the scene of a daylight shooting that sent one man to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, and narrowly missed a woman and child outside a Dunbar neighbourhood eatery Tuesday afternoon. Global News
Read more: Did Canadian politicians know the victims of a targeted shooting at a trendy Richmond restaurant?
A man carrying a baby in a car seat, a woman, and a three-year-old child were exiting the Bells & Whistles restaurant near West 29 Avenue and Dunbar Street just after 5:30 p.m. when two suspects opened fire, police said.
A 42-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to hospital, police said. No one else was hurt.
“These two kids definitely had some guardian angels looking out for them that night,” spokesperson Const. Tania Visintin said.
The suspects took off in a vehicle, collided with a parked vehicle and then fled on foot, police said. They were arrested shortly afterwards.
One person told Global News they saw the suspects hiding in a yard when officers moved in.
Read more: RCMP still working to determine if Surrey break-in, shooting were targeted
Police believe the shooting was targeted.
“This was a reckless act in a heavily populated area, very early in the evening,” Visintin said.
“It’s frightening for the neighbourhood and the consequences could have been far worse. This type of crime is not welcome in Vancouver.”
Anyone with dashcam footage from between 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the area of West 29th Avenue from Dunbar to Alma is asked to call investigators at 604-717-2541.
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Car thief turns around to ‘lecture’ mom who left child in back seat
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New commission for Allison Cook
foto Pierre Debusschere
New commission for cycle of 4 songs for female singer, piano and live electronics will be premiered by soprano Allison Cook on 4th of April 2017.
The standard repertoire of classical song recitals for female singers consists of such pieces as Schumann’s “Frauenliebeund Leben”or Shoenberg’s” Das Buch der Hängede Gärten, Op. 15. The musical language and the thematics of the works are reflecting the realities of the times. The female voice is expressing her emotions in a way that is envisioned from one perspective.
How differently would emotions, topics and lyrics be reflected in the form of modern recital song? I would like to take on this challenge in putting the outmost importance in authenticity and contemporaneity of the message in the song recital form of our times.
The cycle is commissioned by “De Munt” theater in Brussels.
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Game of Thrones Season 1 Episode 8 is where the Season really starts heating up, though I suppose you could say that with pretty much every episode, so as a result there are some banging quotes. Check out our best quotes from Game of Thrones Season 1 Episode 8.
1. “If you lose your father dies, your sisters die, we die” – Catelyn Stark
When Robb asks his mother about the stakes of the war they start to free Ned and the girls, Cat provides a grave and honest response: win this war, or the Starks will perish.
2. “And if the day ever comes when you’re tempted to sell me out, remember this: whatever their price, I’ll beat it. I like living” – Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion shows he has intelligence as well as humor and gold while walking back from the Eyrie with the sellsword Bronn, who won Tyrion’s freedom by beating Lysa’s champion in a trial of combat. Though the two are being friendly to each other, Bronn is still a sellsword, and Tyrion says if Bronn ever wants to sell Tyrion out then he’ll double the price. He says all this while whistling merrily.
3. “In my own bed, at the age of 80, with a belly full of wine and a girl’s mouth around my cock” – Tyrion Lannister
When asked by the hill tribes of the Vale how he would like to die, Tyrion’s answer includes all the things you might expect from his dying wish. Wine and sex.
4. “I can, and I will” – Daenerys Targaryen
The rise of Daenerys from a girl sold into marriage into a Khaleesi of the Dothraki and the rightful ruler of the seven kingdoms is one of the main themes in Season 1, and each episode she warms into her position a bit more. This time, after Jorah tells her she can’t save all the slaves from a village the Dothraki have just sacked, she shoots him down, adamantly saying she will. This also marks the beginning of her exploits to stop slavery in the world.
5. “Tell Lord Tywin winter is coming for him. 20,000 northerners marching south to find out if he really does shit gold” – Robb Stark
After capturing a Lannister scout in their camp, Robb decides not to kill him, instead letting him go as a sign of confidence to intimidate Lord Tywin. He tells him that the might of the North is marching towards Tywin to find out if the common joke about the head of the Lannister family — that he shits gold — is true.
6. “The realm, my lord. Someone must” – Lord Varys
We’re unsure if we should believe Varys when Ned asks him who he serves and the eunuch replies with the Realm, but we’d like to. In the egotistical world where each person looks out only for themselves, no one is left to serve the people’s common interest, which Varys is claiming he does in this quote.
7. “Your meat… is bloody tough!” – Greatjon Umber
After Robb’s direwolf bites off the fingers of the Greatjon for raising a weapon against his liege lord, something that Robb informs everyone that Ned said carried the death penalty, it looks as though fighting between the Northern families may erupt over dinner. The Greatjon defuses the situation though, by taking the way out that Robb gives him (that he was going to cut Robb’s meat with the weapon he drew) and saying it’s tough.
8. “You wouldn’t know him” – Bronn
As Tyrion is introducing Bronn and the Hill Tribe leaders to his father, using their names and their father’s names as is custom, he pauses at Bronn. Bronn fills in for him, simply saying to Tywin that he wouldn’t know him. Bronn doesn’t care to pander to the most powerful man in Westeros.
9. “Even now I could cut through the five of you like carving a cake!” – Ser Barristan Selmy
After Joffrey and Cersei effectively kick Barristan out of the Kingsguard, the Knight chucks down his cloak out of disgust. He then raises his sword, eliciting the five Kingsguard to do the same. His power and skill in combat is legendary, though, and we see this from his confidence where he claims even in his old age he could kill them all handily.
10. “I tried telling your brother, he’s marching the wrong way. All these swords, they should be going North, boy. North, not south. The cold winds are rising” – Osha
Osha says to Bran what she said to Robb, that the Northern houses were marching the wrong way. While they head south to fight one war, a more deadly force is amassing in the cold, deep fringes of the North.
Check out some of the other great quotes from Game of Thrones Season 1 with our quote compilation of S1 Episode 7 and Episode 1.
Image credit: HBO
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Path labs earned crores off H1N1 hysteria in Mumbai
Private laboratories in the city made staggering profits as around 15,000 panic-stricken citizens spent over Rs 8.25 crore on H1N1 tests this year. Worse, less than 20% tested positive for the virus.
September 12, 2015, 08:03 IST
MUMBAI: Private laboratories in the city made staggering profits as around 15,000 panic-stricken citizens spent over Rs 8.25 crore on H1N1 tests this year. Worse, less than 20% tested positive for the virus.
Authorities in Maharashtra and Mumbai have been crying hoarse about indiscriminate tests on patients in blatant defiance of Union health ministry guidelines which state that only serious and hospitalized patients need to be tested. On the ground, though, people with even regular cold were advised the expensive test, which costs between Rs 4,500 and Rs 6,000.
Dr Mini Khetrapal, the BMC's epidemiologist, said only the around 1,335 patients found to be in need of hospitalization for H1N1 since January needed the test. However, she added that patients will have to share part of the blame as many insisted on getting tested despite being advised otherwise.
Seven laboratories, five of them private - SRL Diagnostics, Metropolis, Suburban Diagnostics, Sunflower Diagnostics and Dr Lal PathLabs - have been accredited to carry out the H1N1 test in Mumbai. In February this year, the state had urged each of these labs to charge reasonably.
"A few of them claimed to have slashed their rates to Rs 4,000 but they continued to charge a few more thousands under different overheads, such as disposables," said a senior state official.
Currently, all private labs charge between Rs 4,500 and Rs 6,000. The cost increases by another few thousands when the samples are sent from private hospitals. An Andheri resident was shocked when he was charged Rs 13,000 for the test by a leading hospital. "When we questioned the hospital, they just told us that additional precautions have to be taken," he said.
The laboratories, though, said they only extended their services when the city was reeling under an epidemic.
Dr B R Das of SRL Diagnostics had earlier told TOI that they only tested samples against a doctor's prescription.
Dr Nilesh Shah, group president of Metropolis, said H1N1 assays (chemicals) are expensive. "The cost is, therefore, proportional to the volume of samples being tested," he added.
It may be noted that the public labs at Haffkine Research Institute and Kasturba Hospital charge Rs 2,500 for the same test.
For the full report, log on to www.timesofindia.com
by Sumitra.DebRoy
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H1N1 tests
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March data available in system from 1 May and all affected reports updated.
Claimant count
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Provisional Population Estimates for large areas for 2019 were released on 6 May. Generally we avoid provisional data to avoid changing numbers. This was an unusual step on behalf of ONS as part of measures to support the COVID-19 response. We made the data available on the 13 May and updated the affected reports by 15 May. The metadata denoted the provisional nature of the figures. ONS released the final version of the figures on 24 June. The only change from the provisional data was additional data for Northern Ireland so the English National Data Service data was unaffected beyond an update to the metadata.
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I. About the distribution tables
The table used for "synthesizing" the distribution is essentially a scaled,
translated, inverse to the cumulative distribution function.
Here's how to think about it: Let F() be the cumulative distribution
function for a probability distribution X. We'll assume we've scaled
things so that X has mean 0 and standard deviation 1, though that's not
so important here. Then:
F(x) = P(X <= x) = \int_{-inf}^x f
where f is the probability density function.
F is monotonically increasing, so has an inverse function G, with range
0 to 1. Here, G(t) = the x such that P(X <= x) = t. (In general, G may
have singularities if X has point masses, i.e., points x such that
P(X = x) > 0.)
Now we create a tabular representation of G as follows: Choose some table
size N, and for the ith entry, put in G(i/N). Let's call this table T.
The claim now is, I can create a (discrete) random variable Y whose
distribution has the same approximate "shape" as X, simply by letting
Y = T(U), where U is a discrete uniform random variable with range 1 to N.
To see this, it's enough to show that Y's cumulative distribution function,
(let's call it H), is a discrete approximation to F. But
H(x) = P(Y <= x)
= (# of entries in T <= x) / N -- as Y chosen uniformly from T
= i/N, where i is the largest integer such that G(i/N) <= x
= i/N, where i is the largest integer such that i/N <= F(x)
-- since G and F are inverse functions (and F is
increasing)
= floor(N*F(x))/N
as desired.
II. How to create distribution tables (in theory)
How can we create this table in practice? In some cases, F may have a
simple expression which allows evaluating its inverse directly. The
Pareto distribution is one example of this. In other cases, and
especially for matching an experimentally observed distribution, it's
easiest simply to create a table for F and "invert" it. Here, we give
a concrete example, namely how the new "experimental" distribution was
1. Collect enough data points to characterize the distribution. Here, I
collected 25,000 "ping" roundtrip times to a "distant" point (time.nist.gov).
That's far more data than is really necessary, but it was fairly painless to
collect it, so...
2. Normalize the data so that it has mean 0 and standard deviation 1.
3. Determine the cumulative distribution. The code I wrote creates a table
covering the range -10 to +10, with granularity .00005. Obviously, this
is absurdly over-precise, but since it's a one-time only computation, I
figured it hardly mattered.
4. Invert the table: for each table entry F(x) = y, make the y*TABLESIZE
(here, 4096) entry be x*TABLEFACTOR (here, 8192). This creates a table
for the ("normalized") inverse of size TABLESIZE, covering its domain 0
to 1 with granularity 1/TABLESIZE. Note that even with the granularity
used in creating the table for F, it's possible not all the entries in
the table for G will be filled in. So, make a pass through the
inverse's table, filling in any missing entries by linear interpolation.
III. How to create distribution tables (in practice)
If you want to do all this yourself, I've provided several tools to help:
1. maketable does the steps 2-4 above, and then generates the appropriate
header file. So if you have your own time distribution, you can generate
the header simply by:
maketable < time.values > header.h
2. As explained in the other README file, the somewhat sleazy way I have
of generating correlated values needs correction. You can generate your
own correction tables by compiling makesigtable and makemutable with
your header file. Check the Makefile to see how this is done.
3. Warning: maketable, makesigtable and especially makemutable do
enormous amounts of floating point arithmetic. Don't try running
these on an old 486. (NIST Net itself will run fine on such a
system, since in operation, it just needs to do a few simple integral
calculations. But getting there takes some work.)
4. The tables produced are all normalized for mean 0 and standard
deviation 1. How do you know what values to use for real? Here, I've
provided a simple "stats" utility. Give it a series of floating point
values, and it will return their mean (mu), standard deviation (sigma),
and correlation coefficient (rho). You can then plug these values
directly into NIST Net.
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Arsenal to announce Willian signing in the next 48 hours
Jay Puducheri | August 13, 2020 | Arsenal News | No Comments
Arsenal will announce the signing of Willian on a free transfer in the next 48 hours, according to Sky Sports.
The Brazilian will pen a three year contract worth £100,000 a week with the Gunners. He received more lucrative offers from Barcelona and David Beckham’s Inter Miami but chose Arsenal as he is attracted to the project in North London. He is excited by the prospect of working with Mikel Arteta and reuniting with Edu Gaspar, who was the general coordinator of the Brazilian national team from 2016 to 2019.
Chelsea were keen to retain the 32 year old but he rejected their two year contract offer as he wanted a three year deal. He joined Chelsea in 2013 and during his time with the Blues, he won two Premier League titles, one FA Cup, two League Cups and a Europa League. He scored 63 goals and provided 62 assists in 339 appearances for Chelsea.
This season, he scored eleven goals and provided nine assists in 47 appearances across all competitions. Arsenal believe they are signing a Premier League proven player at an affordable price especially considering they are signing Willian on a free transfer. The Gunners are looking for multifunctional players this summer and the Brazilian can play on the wing or behind the front three.
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Tracking Openness and Accountability in Government
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June 1, 2018 Patrice McDermott Administrative State and Accountable Government, Secrecy
I am more and more reminded of the Bush-Cheney Administration. Not only are the (literal) war-horses being recycled, but the enormous disdain of Congress and the refusal of any accountability to the public are painfully familiar to any of us who endured that period.
To wit, the White House is stonewalling the Government Accountability Office, according to a May 30 report in Government Executive. Not to give the current White House any ideas, but this is a mere sfumatura (as Italians would say) of the confrontation that Cheney created. The following is excerpted from my 2007 book, Who Needs to Know?
On April 19, 2001, Representatives Dingell and Waxman launched joint requests to both the Vice President and the General Accounting Office concerning the Vice President’s Energy Task Force, its members, and its proceedings.
In response to the request by Representatives Dingell and Waxman, the General Accounting Office (GAO) issued the first demand letter ever to a sitting Vice President. GAO considered its statutory authority to be clear.
Counsel to the Vice President David Addington responded to the Congressional request, explaining that the Energy Group was not subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act. As a matter of comity, though, he would provide some answers about the Energy Group’s members, staff and activities. Addington declared that GAO was seeking “to intrude into the heart of Executive deliberations, including deliberations among the President, the Vice President, members of the President’s Cabinet, and the President’s immediate assistants, which the law protects to ensure the candor in Executive deliberation necessary to effective government.”[1] GAO argued that even assuming this claim was accurate, it still had the authority to make the requests it had made.
On Sept. 27, for the first time in the 81‑year history of the agency, the comptroller general of the United States went to Federal court today to ask a judge to order a member of the executive branch to turn over records to Congress.
It was clear, even this early in this administration, that executive privilege was an issue of central importance to the Administration. As John Dean—who, as counsel to former President Nixon might be considered to know something about the abuse of power—writes, “not since Richard Nixon stiffed the Congress during Watergate has a White House so openly, and arrogantly, defied Congress’s investigative authority. … Cheney has not claimed “Executive Privilege,” for the Vice President has no such power. Rather, Cheney has claimed ‑ and Bush has backed up his claim ‑ that GAO (and therefore the Congress, too) has no authority to seek the information they have requested.”[2]
Dean also noted “the special attention” given this case:
In fact, it is unique in the history of the Department of Justice. Normally, this case would have been handled by the Civil Division of the Justice Department. But this case is one of a select few being handled by a newly created special unit under the direction of Deputy Solicitor General Paul Clement. …Not only is this nameless ad hoc group representing Vice President Cheney, but no less than the Solicitor General himself, Theodore Olson, was seated at the trial table in the Judge Bates’s courtroom during the recent augment. Typically, the Solicitor General only appears before the U.S. Supreme Court. For the SG to appear in the U.S. District Court was clearly designed to send a message to the Judge of the unusual importance the Bush‑Cheney Administration has given this case ‑‑ not to mention to prepare the SG for later arguing the case before higher courts.”[3]
On December 9, 2002, U.S District Judge John Bates, a Bush appointee and former Kenneth Starr deputy, ruled against GAO (Walker v. Cheney). The opinion reads:
“The parties agree that no court has ever before granted what the Comptroller General seeks – an order that the President (or Vice-President) must produce information to Congress (or the Comptroller General). Because the Comptroller General does not have the personal, concrete, and particularized injury required under Article III standing doctrine, either himself or as the agent of Congress, his complaint must be dismissed. Historically, the Article III courts have not stepped in to resolve disputes between the political branches over their respective Article I and Article II powers; this case, in which neither a House of Congress nor any congressional committee has issued a subpoena for the disputed information or authorized this suit, is not the setting for such unprecedented judicial action.[4]
This decision, in essence, secures the Bush Administration’s position that it has the right to withhold from the public–and Congress–any and all details of its policy-development meetings with non-governmental people. It also chills any attempt by Congress to use the GAO to monitor the executive branch.
We are not yet there, but not for the lack of trying by the Trump administration.
[1] John W. Dean. “GAO v. Cheney Is Big‑time Stalling: The Vice President Can Win Only If We Have Another Bush v. Gore ‑like Ruling .” FindLaw, Friday, Feb. 01, 2002. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20020201.html
[3] John W. Dean. “The Ongoing Fight Between the Supreme Court And Congress, as Illustrated by the GAO/Cheney Suit: Part Two Of A Series On Shrinking Congressional Powers.” FindLaw, Friday, October 25, 2002. http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20021025.html
[4] Memorandum Opinion and Order. Walker v. Cheney, 230 F. Supp. 2d 51 (D.D.C. 2002)
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RFA-AG-22-006 See Related NIA 01/04/2021 05/17/2021 06/18/2021 R01 New Approaches to Identify Neurogenesis and Study its Dynamics in Brain Aging and AD/ADRD (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AG-22-001 See Related NIA 12/14/2020 01/17/2021 02/18/2021 U24 Limited Competition: National Institute on Aging (NIA) Late Onset of Alzheimers Disease (LOAD) Family-Based Study (FBS) (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AG-22-002 See Related NIA 12/10/2020 05/15/2021 06/16/2021 R01 Aging Effects on Osteoimmunology (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
RFA-AG-21-027 See Related NIA 10/07/2020 01/03/2021 02/04/2021 T32 MD-PhD Training Program in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias and the Behavioral and Social Sciences (T32 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AG-21-021 See Related NIA 08/13/2020 01/03/2021 10/22/2022 K76 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-AG-21-020 See Related NIA 08/13/2020 01/03/2021 10/22/2022 K76 Paul B. Beeson Emerging Leaders Career Development Award in Aging (K76 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AA-21-001 See Related NIAAA 12/28/2020 02/15/2021 03/16/2021 R01 Improving Health Disparities in Alcohol Health Services (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-AA-20-013 See Related NIAAA 10/14/2020 04/26/2021 05/27/2021 U01 Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) Consortia (U01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-AA-20-012 See Related NIAAA 10/14/2020 04/26/2021 05/27/2021 U24 Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) Consortia Research Resource (U24) (Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-AA-20-011 See Related NIAAA 10/14/2020 04/26/2021 05/27/2021 U24 Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA) Consortia Administrative Resource Core (U24) (Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-AI-20-078 See Related NIAID 01/12/2021 05/04/2021 06/05/2021 U19 Immune Development in Early Life (IDEaL) (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AI-21-001 See Related NIAID 01/07/2021 05/15/2021 06/16/2021 P30 Tuberculosis Research Advancement Centers (P30 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
RFA-AI-20-076 See Related NIAID 10/20/2020 02/17/2021 03/18/2023 R01 New Technologies for the In vivo Delivery of Gene Therapeutics for an HIV Cure (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AI-20-056 See Related NIAID 10/08/2020 01/18/2021 02/19/2021 U19 Coccidioidomycosis Collaborative Research Centers (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AI-20-064 See Related NIAID 10/07/2020 01/08/2021 02/09/2021 U01 A Multidisciplinary Approach to Study Vaccine-elicited Immunity and Efficacy against Malaria (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AI-20-060 See Related NIAID 09/30/2020 01/04/2021 02/05/2021 U01 Cohort Studies To Improve Our Understanding of Influenza Immunity, Vaccine Response and Effectiveness in Older Adults (65 years and older) (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AI-20-057 See Related NIAID 09/29/2020 01/22/2021 02/23/2021 R01 Understanding the Role of the M. Tuberculosis Granuloma in Tuberculosis (TB) Disease and Treatment Outcomes (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AI-20-055 See Related NIAID 09/24/2020 01/11/2021 02/12/2021 R01 Understanding Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza to Inform and Improve Vaccine Strain Selection (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-AR-22-001 See Related NIAMS 12/09/2020 04/11/2021 05/12/2021 P50 NIAMS Centers of Research Translation (CORT) (P50 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-EB-20-002 See Related NIBIB 06/29/2020 08/14/2020 09/15/2021 R01 BRAIN Initiative: Theories, Models and Methods for Analysis of Complex Data from the Brain (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-EB-20-001 See Related NIBIB 06/29/2020 08/03/2020 09/04/2021 R01 BRAIN Initiative: Proof of Concept Development of Early Stage Next Generation Human Brain Imaging (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-EB-19-002 See Related NIBIB 06/27/2019 08/03/2019 09/04/2021 U01 BRAIN Initiative: Development of Next Generation Human Brain Imaging Tools and Technologies (U01 Clinical Trial not allowed)
RFA-HD-21-031 See Related NICHD 01/11/2021 02/28/2021 03/31/2021 UG1 HEAL Initiative: Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Pharmacological Treatments Comparative Effectiveness Trial - Clinical Sites (UG1 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-HD-21-032 See Related NICHD 01/11/2021 02/28/2021 03/31/2021 U24 HEAL Initiative: Data Coordinating Center for the Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome Pharmacological Treatments Comparative Effectiveness Trial (U24 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-HD-22-003 See Related NICHD 11/19/2020 02/28/2021 11/30/2021 P50 Contraceptive Development Research Centers Program (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-HD-21-023 See Related NICHD 08/17/2020 02/26/2021 04/01/2021 P01 NICHD Program Project Grants for HIV Research (P01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DA-21-030 See Related NIDA 01/11/2021 02/26/2021 03/27/2021 RM1 HEAL Initiative: Integrative Management of chronic Pain and OUD for Whole Recovery (IMPOWR): Research Centers (RM1 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-DA-21-029 See Related NIDA 01/11/2021 02/26/2021 03/27/2021 R24 HEAL Initiative: Integrative Management of chronic Pain and OUD for Whole Recovery (IMPOWR): Coordination and Dissemination Center (R24 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DA-21-022 See Related NIDA 01/11/2021 03/01/2021 04/01/2021 U24 HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Consortium Administrative Core (U24 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DA-21-023 See Related NIDA 01/11/2021 03/01/2021 04/01/2021 U24 HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Data Coordinating Center (U24)
RFA-DA-21-021 See Related NIDA 01/11/2021 03/01/2021 04/01/2021 U01 HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (U01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DA-21-020 See Related NIDA 01/11/2021 03/01/2021 04/01/2021 U01 HEAL Initiative: HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (Collaborative U01- Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DA-21-040 See Related NIDA 12/28/2020 01/09/2021 02/10/2021 R01 Leveraging Big Data Science to Elucidate the Mechanisms of HIV Activity and Interaction with Substance Use Disorder (R01 - Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
RFA-DA-21-016 See Related NIDA 12/23/2020 01/26/2021 02/27/2021 R43/R44 Novel Approaches to Decrease Stigma of Substance Use Disorders in order to Facilitate Prevention, Treatment, and Support During Recovery (R43/R44 - Clinical Trials Optional)
RFA-DA-21-032 See Related NIDA 12/22/2020 12/26/2020 01/27/2021 R43/R44 Digital Technologies to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Context of Substance Use Disorders (SUD) (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DA-21-006 See Related NIDA 07/17/2020 09/15/2020 10/15/2022 U01 BRAIN Initiative: Tools for Germline Gene Editing in Marmosets (U01 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DA-21-019 See Related NIDA 05/12/2020 06/20/2020 07/21/2021 U01 Single Cell Opioid Responses in the Context of HIV (SCORCH) Program Expansion: CNS Data Generation for Chronic Opioid, Methamphetamine, and/or Cocaine Exposures (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DA-21-005 See Related NIDA 03/24/2020 07/13/2020 08/14/2021 R61/R33 Exploiting in vivo or in situ imaging approaches to understand HIV-relevant processes in the context of substance use disorders (R61/R33 Clinical Trials Optional)
RFA-DA-19-019 See Related NIDA 12/10/2018 12/10/2018 09/09/2021 R43/R44 HEAL Initiative: Americas Startups and Small Businesses Build Technologies to Stop the Opioid Epidemic (R43/R44 - Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DC-20-002 See Related NIDCD 09/22/2020 09/23/2020 06/14/2023 R25 Otolaryngology Residency Mentored Research Pathway (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DC-19-001 See Related NIDCD 07/03/2018 09/04/2018 06/05/2021 R21/R33 NIDCD Hearing Healthcare for Adults: Improving Access and Affordability (R21/R33 Clinical Trials Optional)
RFA-DE-21-002 See Related NIDCR 12/14/2020 01/10/2021 02/11/2021 UG3/UH3 Engaging the dental workforce to end the HIV epidemic in the U.S. (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-DK-21-001 See Related NIDDK 01/13/2021 03/22/2021 11/04/2021 R61/R33 Biomarkers for Diabetic Foot Ulcers through the Diabetic Foot Consortium (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DK-20-508 See Related NIDDK 01/07/2021 03/14/2021 04/15/2021 U01 Limited Competition: Revision to the Coordinating Center for Type 1 Diabetes TrialNet (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-DK-20-032 See Related NIDDK 01/06/2021 05/22/2021 06/23/2023 R34 Pilot and Feasibility Studies to Facilitate the Use of Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support to Improve Diabetes Care (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-DK-20-014 See Related NIDDK 11/23/2020 01/18/2021 02/19/2021 U24 Reconfiguration of GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) /(Re)Building A Kidney (RBK) Data Hub (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DK-20-013 See Related NIDDK 11/23/2020 01/18/2021 02/19/2021 U01 GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project (GUDMAP) - Atlas Projects (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DK-20-025 See Related NIDDK 11/19/2020 04/20/2021 05/21/2021 P30 Diabetes Research Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DK-20-033 See Related NIDDK 11/16/2020 02/18/2021 03/19/2021 P20 Exploratory Centers for Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology (P20 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DK-20-030 See Related NIDDK 11/13/2020 02/03/2021 03/04/2021 R01 Understanding the Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Gastroparesis in Adults and Children (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DK-20-020 See Related NIDDK 10/19/2020 11/22/2020 11/10/2022 R25 NIDDK Research Education Program Utilizing Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions (SPARC) - Generated Resources (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DK-20-509 See Related NIDDK 09/22/2020 01/09/2021 02/10/2021 U24 Limited Competition for Continuation of the Integrated Islet Distribution Program (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-DK-20-506 See Related NIDDK 09/10/2020 01/09/2021 02/10/2021 U01 Limited Competition for the Continuation of the Urinary Stone Disease Research Network (USDRN) Clinical Centers (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-DK-20-507 See Related NIDDK 09/10/2020 01/09/2021 02/10/2021 U24 Limited Competition for the Continuation of the Urinary Stone Disease Research Network (USDRN) Scientific Data Research Center (U24 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-DK-20-023 See Related NIDDK 09/01/2020 02/03/2021 11/18/2021 R01 Toward ElucidAting MechanismS Contributing to HIV Reservoirs in NIDDK-relevant Tissues (Cure TEAMS) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DK-20-022 See Related NIDDK 08/24/2020 02/03/2021 11/18/2021 R01 Toward ElucidAting MechanismS of HIV Pathogenesis within the Mission of the NIDDK (Pathogenesis TEAMS) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-DK-19-032 See Related NIDDK 01/16/2020 03/14/2020 03/03/2021 F99/K00 KUH Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00)
RFA-DK-19-004 See Related NIDDK 03/13/2019 10/01/2019 07/02/2021 P30 Silvio O. Conte Digestive Diseases Research Core Centers (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-ES-21-003 See Related NIEHS 12/10/2020 02/28/2021 03/30/2021 R41 Application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Advancing Environmental Health Sciences (R41 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-ES-21-001 See Related NIEHS 11/19/2020 01/26/2021 02/25/2023 R01 Outstanding New Environmental Scientist (ONES) Award (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-ES-20-018 See Related NIEHS 10/13/2020 01/02/2021 02/02/2021 R01 Utilizing In Vitro Functional Genomics Advances for Gene-Environment (G x E) Discovery and Validation (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-ES-20-014 See Related NIEHS 09/02/2020 01/15/2021 02/16/2021 P42 Superfund Hazardous Substance Research and Training Program (P42 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-ES-20-013 See Related NIEHS 08/24/2020 01/11/2021 02/12/2021 R01 RESolution of InflammaTion in EnvirOnmentally Related diseasE (RESTORE) (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-ES-20-015 See Related NIEHS 07/20/2020 10/30/2020 11/29/2022 R25 NIEHS Research Intensive Short Courses and Educational Opportunities (NIEHS RISE) (R25 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-ES-20-006 See Related NIEHS 01/28/2020 04/18/2020 04/15/2022 P30 Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers (EHSCC) (P30 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-ES-19-011 See Related NIEHS 07/31/2019 10/01/2019 10/04/2022 R21 Mechanism for Time-Sensitive Research Opportunities in Environmental Health Sciences (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-OD-20-006 See Related NIH 12/13/2019 01/14/2020 11/04/2021 R03 Small Research Grants for Analyses of Down Syndrome-related Research Data for the INCLUDE Project (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-OD-20-005 See Related NIH 12/13/2019 01/14/2020 11/04/2021 R01 Transformative Research Award for the INCLUDE (Investigation of Co-occurring Conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndrome) Project (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-OD-20-004 See Related NIH 12/13/2019 01/14/2020 11/04/2021 R21 INvestigation of Co-occurring conditions across the Lifespan to Understand Down syndromE (INCLUDE) Clinical Trial Readiness (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-OD-20-003 See Related NIH 12/13/2019 01/14/2020 11/04/2021 R61/R33 Clinical Trials Development for Co-Occurring Conditions in Individuals with Down syndrome: Phased Awards for INCLUDE (R61/R33 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-21-145 See Related NIMH 01/11/2021 02/18/2021 03/19/2021 R01 HEAL Initiative: Optimizing Multi-Component Service Delivery Interventions for People with Opioid Use Disorder, Co-Occurring Conditions, and/or Suicide Risk (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)
RFA-MH-21-117 See Related NIMH 12/09/2020 02/10/2021 03/11/2021 R21 Mood Disorders in People Living with HIV: Mechanisms and Pathways (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-21-106 See Related NIMH 11/18/2020 01/09/2021 02/10/2021 R21 Mood and Psychosis Symptoms during the Menopause Transition (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-21-160 See Related NIMH 11/18/2020 02/18/2021 03/19/2021 R01 Social Drivers of Mental Illnesses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Mechanisms and Pathways of Interventions for Youth (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-21-112 See Related NIMH 11/13/2020 01/18/2021 06/16/2022 R43/R44 Service-Ready Tools for Identification, Prevention, and Treatment of Individuals at Risk for Suicide (R43/R44 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-21-111 See Related NIMH 11/13/2020 01/18/2021 06/16/2022 R34 Service-Ready Tools for Identification, Prevention, and Treatment of Individuals at Risk for Suicide (R34 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-21-140 See Related NIMH 10/21/2020 02/10/2021 03/11/2022 R01 BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) Scalable Technologies and Tools for Brain Cell Census (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-MH-21-165 See Related NIMH 10/15/2020 02/17/2021 03/18/2021 U19 From Genomic Association to Causation: A Convergent Neuroscience Approach to Linking Levels of Analysis for Understanding Neuropsychiatric Disorders (U19 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-20-620 See Related NIMH 09/25/2020 11/07/2020 12/10/2022 F32 BRAIN Initiative Fellows: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (F32)
RFA-MH-20-556 See Related NIMH 09/17/2020 01/11/2021 10/20/2021 U01 BRAIN Initiative: Pilot resources for brain cell type-specific access and manipulation across vertebrate species (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-MH-20-600 See Related NIMH 08/07/2020 06/14/2021 07/15/2023 R24 BRAIN Initiative: Data Archives for the BRAIN Initiative (R24 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-20-500 See Related NIMH 04/15/2020 09/19/2020 06/16/2021 R34 Post-Acute Interventions for the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-20-525 See Related NIMH 04/06/2020 05/20/2020 06/21/2022 R01 NIMH Biobehavioral Research Awards for Innovative New Scientists (NIMH BRAINS) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-20-128 See Related NIMH 02/24/2020 08/03/2020 09/03/2021 R01 BRAIN Initiative: Standards to Define Experiments Related to the BRAIN Initiative (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-MH-20-555 See Related NIMH 11/26/2019 01/10/2020 10/09/2021 S10 NIMH Instrumentation Program (S10 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-MH-20-510 See Related NIMH 11/25/2019 02/02/2020 03/02/2022 R01 Laboratories to Optimize Digital Health (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-20-505 See Related NIMH 11/25/2019 01/10/2020 07/02/2021 R01 Practice-Based Research for Implementing Scalable Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions in Primary Care Settings (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-20-506 See Related NIMH 11/25/2019 01/10/2020 07/02/2021 R34 Practice-Based Research for Implementing Scalable Evidence-Based Prevention Interventions in Primary Care Settings (R34 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-20-351 See Related NIMH 11/21/2019 01/10/2020 06/11/2021 R21 Utilizing Invasive Recording and Stimulating Opportunities in Humans to Advance Neural Circuitry Understanding of Mental Health Disorders (R21 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-20-120 See Related NIMH 04/10/2019 08/06/2019 02/27/2021 R01 BRAIN Initiative: Secondary Analysis and Archiving of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-MH-20-135 See Related NIMH 04/08/2019 08/27/2019 05/28/2021 R01 BRAIN Initiative: Tools to Facilitate High-Throughput Microconnectivity Analysis (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-MH-19-135 See Related NIMH 08/03/2018 09/09/2018 05/28/2021 UG3/UH3 BRAIN Initiative: Development of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in Human and Non-Human Primate Brain (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-MH-19-147 See Related NIMH 07/17/2018 08/27/2018 03/05/2021 R01 BRAIN Initiative: Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data (R01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-MH-18-707 See Related NIMH 11/14/2017 01/14/2018 02/19/2021 R01 Confirmatory Efficacy Clinical Trials of Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Mental Disorders (R01- Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-18-706 See Related NIMH 11/14/2017 01/14/2018 02/19/2021 R34 Pilot Effectiveness Trials for Treatment, Preventive and Services Interventions (R34- Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-18-704 See Related NIMH 11/14/2017 01/14/2018 02/19/2021 R61/R33 Development of Psychosocial Therapeutic and Preventive Interventions for Mental Disorders (R61/R33- Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-18-703 See Related NIMH 11/14/2017 01/14/2018 02/19/2021 R33 Early Stage Testing of Pharmacologic or Device -based Interventions for the Treatment of Mental Health Disorders (R33- Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-18-702 See Related NIMH 11/14/2017 01/14/2018 02/19/2021 R61/R33 Early Stage Testing of Pharmacologic or Device-based Interventions for the Treatment of Mental Disorders (R61/R33-Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-18-701 See Related NIMH 11/14/2017 01/14/2018 02/19/2021 R01 Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Treatment, Preventive, and Services Interventions (R01- Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-MH-18-700 See Related NIMH 11/14/2017 01/14/2018 02/19/2021 R01 Clinical Trials to Test the Effectiveness of Treatment, Preventive, and Services Interventions (Collaborative R01-Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-21-017 See Related NINDS 01/06/2021 02/15/2021 03/16/2021 U01 Next Generation Sequencing in Post Mortem Tissue from Patients with Parkinsons Disease (U01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-21-005 See Related NINDS 11/23/2020 02/09/2021 03/10/2021 U01 Small Vessel VCID Biomarker Validation Consortium Sites (U01)(Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-21-004 See Related NINDS 11/23/2020 02/09/2021 03/10/2021 U24 Small Vessel VCID Biomarkers Validation Consortium Coordinating Center (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-21-008 See Related NINDS 10/28/2020 02/02/2021 03/03/2021 U01 Treatments for Lewy Body Dementias--Exploratory Clinical Trial (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-21-010 See Related NINDS 09/16/2020 10/18/2020 09/08/2022 UG3/UH3 HEAL Initiative: Non-addictive Analgesic Therapeutics Development [Small Molecules and Biologics] to Treat Pain (UG3/UH3 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-NS-21-001 See Related NINDS 07/15/2020 08/28/2020 09/27/2022 P50 NINDS Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research (P50 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-NS-20-029 See Related NINDS 04/01/2020 06/14/2020 06/16/2021 U01 BRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - eTeamBCP (U01 Clinical Trials Optional)
RFA-NS-20-006 See Related NINDS 01/02/2020 02/24/2020 10/04/2022 R01 BRAIN Initiative: Biology and Biophysics of Neural Stimulation and Recording Technologies (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)
RFA-NS-19-043 See Related NINDS 11/14/2019 01/09/2020 11/12/2022 K99/R00 BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-19-044 See Related NINDS 11/14/2019 01/10/2020 11/12/2022 K99/R00 BRAIN Initiative Advanced Postdoctoral Career Transition Award to Promote Diversity (K99/R00 Independent Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-20-011 See Related NINDS 10/04/2019 12/08/2019 09/09/2022 R43/R44 HEAL INITIATIVE: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management (R43/R44 - Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-20-010 See Related NINDS 10/04/2019 12/08/2019 09/09/2022 R43/R44 HEAL INITIATIVE: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management (R43/R44 - Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-20-008 See Related NINDS 10/04/2019 12/08/2019 09/09/2022 R41/R42 HEAL Initiative: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-20-009 See Related NINDS 10/04/2019 12/08/2019 09/09/2022 R41/R42 HEAL Initiative: Development of Therapies and Technologies Directed at Enhanced Pain Management (R41/R42 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-19-006 See Related NINDS 10/22/2018 12/04/2018 06/28/2021 U24 BRAIN Initiative: Research Resource Grants for Technology Integration and Dissemination (U24 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-19-011 See Related NINDS 10/03/2018 11/13/2018 04/16/2021 F99/K00 NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award (F99/K00)
RFA-NS-19-003 See Related NINDS 08/29/2018 09/30/2018 10/30/2021 U19 BRAIN Initiative: Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - TeamBCP (U19 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-19-001 See Related NINDS 08/28/2018 10/14/2018 10/30/2021 U01 BRAIN Initiative: Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulating Technologies in the Human Brain (U01 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-18-020 See Related NINDS 03/14/2018 04/15/2018 05/05/2021 R01 BRAIN Initiative: New Technologies and Novel Approaches for Large-Scale Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (R01 Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-18-019 See Related NINDS 03/14/2018 04/15/2018 05/05/2021 U01 BRAIN Initiative: Optimization of Transformative Technologies for Large Scale Recording and Modulation in the Nervous System (U01-Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-18-021 See Related NINDS 12/21/2017 01/23/2018 02/23/2021 UG3/UH3 BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Invasive Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-18-022 See Related NINDS 12/21/2017 01/23/2018 02/23/2021 U44 BRAIN Initiative: Next-Generation Invasive Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (U44 Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-18-023 See Related NINDS 12/21/2017 01/23/2018 02/23/2021 UH3 BRAIN Initiative: Clinical Studies to Advance Next-Generation Invasive Devices for Recording and Modulation in the Human Central Nervous System (UH3 - Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-18-014 See Related NINDS 12/14/2017 02/15/2018 11/10/2021 R34 BRAIN Initiative: Targeted BRAIN Circuits Planning Projects TargetedBCPP (R34 - Clinical Trials Not Allowed)
RFA-NS-18-011 See Related NINDS 11/08/2017 01/21/2018 02/23/2021 UG3/UH3 Translational Neural Devices (UG3/UH3 - Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-NS-18-012 See Related NINDS 11/08/2017 01/21/2018 02/23/2021 U44 Translational Neural Devices (U44 - Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-OH-20-003 See Related NIOSH 11/21/2019 11/22/2019 01/30/2022 T03 Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Training Project Grants (T03)
RFA-OH-20-002 See Related NIOSH 11/21/2019 11/22/2019 01/30/2022 U01 Commercial Fishing Occupational Safety Research Cooperative Agreement (U01)
RFA-OH-20-001 See Related NIOSH 11/04/2019 11/04/2019 02/19/2021 U60 Miner Safety and Health Training Program - Western United States (U60)
RFA-OD-20-011 See Related ODP 02/07/2020 06/08/2020 07/11/2022 K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K01 - Independent Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-OD-20-010 See Related ODP 02/07/2020 06/08/2020 07/11/2022 K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K99/R00 - Independent Clinical Trial Required)
RFA-OD-20-009 See Related ODP 02/07/2020 06/08/2020 07/11/2022 K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K99/R00 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-OD-20-008 See Related ODP 02/07/2020 06/08/2020 07/11/2022 K01 Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award in Tobacco Regulatory Research (K01 - Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
RFA-OD-19-028 See Related ODP 09/25/2019 01/13/2020 02/14/2021 R01 Tobacco Regulatory Science (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)
RFA-OD-19-022 See Related ODP 07/08/2019 09/09/2019 03/09/2021 R21 Secondary Analyses of Existing Datasets of Tobacco Use and Health (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
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Ray Fisher confirms removing from the movie in essay about DC boss
Ray Fisher has taken to his social media to announce that he has received official word from Warner Bros. that he has been removed from THE FLASH film as Cyborg but the lengthy essay also takes aim at DC boss Walter Hamada and Fisher is making it clear that he will not go quietly into the night.
The tension between Fisher and the higher-ups that worked on the 2017’s Justice League is no secret. It all began when Fisher went public with allegations about Whedon’s unprofessional behavior on set which also implicated former co-president of DC, Geoff Johns. There was a subsequent investigation that resulted in Warner Bros. parting ways with Whedon and what appears to be a “phasing out” of Geoff Johns. While many might believe that Fisher got what he wanted, the actor is adamant that Hamada interfered with the investigation because of his personal relationship with Johns. This is why on December 30, 2020, Fisher stated that he could not “with a clear conscience—participate in any production associated with the current President of DC Films, Walter Hamada.” Given the fact that Warner Bros recently re-upped Hamada’s deal to stay with the studio, it likely left them in a position to part ways with Fisher and his role in The Flash. Fisher hasn’t looked at this as a defeat. In fact, he seems more fired up to keep this fight going. Check out a snippet of his essay below:
I have received official confirmation that Warner Bros. Pictures has decided to remove me from the cast of The Flash. I strongly disagree with their decision, but it is one that is unsurprising. Despite the misconception, Cyborg’s involvement in The Flash was much larger than a cameo—and while I do mourn the lost opportunity to bring Victor Stone back to the screen, bringing awareness to the actions of Walter Hamada will prove to be a much more important contribution to our world.
On December 30th 2020, I made it clear that I cannot—with a clear conscience—participate in any production associated with the current President of DC Films, Walter Hamada. The reasoning behind that declaration was twofold: 1) Walter’s purposeful attempt to undermine the Justice League investigation in order to protect his friend, and former co-president, Geoff Johns. 2) Walter’s attempt to protect himself by contributing to the public dissemination of lies and misinformation about myself and the Justice League investigation in Warner Bros. Picture’ September 4th statement to The Wrap.
Bear in mind, Walter Hamada interfering with the Justice League investigation is a completely separate issue than the investigation itself. And while Walter’s behavior was not a point of focus for the investigation of the Justice League reshoots, his dangerous and enabling actions during the investigation process must be called to account.
The full statement, which you can check out below, goes on to describe his discussions with Hamada beginning from the start of the allegations through the start of the investigation that was launched by Warner Bros. They go into detail about Hamada’s alleged undermining of Fisher’s claims and what he believes were Hamada’s attempts to dissuade the actor from making the allegations a bigger issue. As I said before when discussing this dispute, it’s hard to know what really happened since I wasn’t there but Fisher’s determination and passionate desire to see this through makes me believe some of his claims. I’m sure he’s aware he could lose a lot on this and he’s a small fish in a big pond, but that isn’t stopping him. I think there is some validity to what he’s saying and the fact that he appears undeterred, speaks volumes to me.
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Sri Ramakrishna realizing the states indicated by the scriptures
Sri Ramakrishna realizing the states indicated by the scriptures:
I meditate on Sri Ramakrishna realizing the states indicated by the scriptures through his own pure mind and eagerness to realize God.
(Ref: Sri Ramakrishna the Great Master - Part 2 - Ch 8)
Ref: Sri Ramakrishna the Great Master - Part 2 - Ch 8: Sri Ramakrishna realizing the states indicated by the scriptures: Haladhari, the son of Sri Ramakrishna's uncle, came to Dakshineshwar probably in 1858 and served in the Radha-Govinda temple. Haladhari was devoted to the rites and practices mentioned in the scriptures. He regularly read books like Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavad Gita and Adhyatma Ramayana. Once after finishing the temple service he took a pinch of snuff and started a discussion on these scriptures. Sri Ramakrishna came there and said: "I have realized all the states of which you read in the scriptures; I can understand all these". Haladhari could not believe these words of Sri Ramakrishna. He said: "Indeed! You are a big fool. Is it for you to understand all these things?". Sri Ramakrishna said: "I say in truth, One who is within this (showing his own body) explains everything regarding the One of whom you spoke just now". Haladhari could not appreciate this.
Haladhari's opinion of Sri Ramakrishna: When Haladhari saw Sri Ramakrishna performing the worship in the temple with tears flowing from his eyes, singing devotional songs charged with great emotions and his great eagerness for realization of God, Haladhari thought that these states were due to an infusion of divine spirit within Sri Ramakrishna. He said on many occasions: "Ramakrishna, I have recognized your real nature, ... there is surely a charge of divinity within you". But the moment he sat to discuss the scriptures with a pinch of snuff, he became a different man. Then he could not relate the states mentioned in the scriptures with the spiritual states of Sri Ramakrishna.
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Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement
Henry’s Story
Our History and Future
Welcome to the Carl F. H. Henry Institute for Evangelical Engagement at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
We exist to engage the Christian church and the broader culture from a Henry-shaped theological worldview and posture. It is our desire, like Henry, to speak wisdom in a confused age, to offer what Henry called “true Christian hope that is Christological in its foundation” in his magisterial God, Revelation, and Authority.
Here at the Henry Institute website, you’ll find information about our work, key resources for enhanced Christian cultural and theological engagement, and materials–many of them hard to find–related to Henry’s life and work. Our goal, after all, is not simply to remember one of the twentieth century’s greatest theologians. We want to extend his legacy into the future through a program of winsome and rigorous thought applied to the great questions of the day.
To stay informed on our programs, please check our Twitter feed, @HenrySBTS. Thank you for visiting, and please come often.
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Historic District Board Approves Butterfield Redevelopment Design, Final Crucial Test
By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong, Contributing Editor | May 22, 2015
Putnam County Legislature OKs rental of space for senior center
By Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong
At literally the 11th hour, the Cold Spring Historic District Review Board last Thursday (May 14) voted 3-2 to approve the design of the proposed Butterfield redevelopment, clearing another hurdle on the oft-contested project’s path to realization.
The action in Cold Spring followed by nine days the decision by the Putnam County Legislature to endorse a letter of intent from the county executive branch to take space at Butterfield for a senior citizens center.
The plan of the Butterfield redevelopment shows Buildings 4-5-6, an interconnected whole, as the second structure from the upper right. (Click to view larger PDF.)
Another event, a public hearing by the Cold Spring Planning Board on subdividing the Butterfield tract, drew no attendees Wednesday night (May 20). The redevelopment plan calls for a mixed-use complex of condominiums for retiree-age residents, two retail-office buildings (including one suitable for a governmental presence, such as the senior center) and three single-family homes on individual parcels, Lots 1-3.
HDRB deliberations
In voting against issuing a certificate of appropriateness for Butterfield, the two HDRB dissenters, members Kathleen Foley and Carolyn Bachan, objected to the size of some elements. The majority, HDRB Chairman Al Zgolinski and members Peter Downey and Michael Junjulas, found no fault with building dimensions, and Zgolinski and Junjulas praised aspects of the development.
Already scheduled at a later hour (8 p.m.) than most civic committees convene, on the last possible day the HDRB could act, given the legal timeframe for declaring the design appropriate (or not), the meeting drew a near-capacity crowd to the Village Hall, including Paul Guillaro of Butterfield Realty LLC, the property owner, and his associates.
Ray Sullivan, project architect, launched the proceedings by explaining that in response to concerns about the height and roof of the condominium bloc “we took about two feet out of the roof line and dropped it down.”
But the meeting stalled and recessed when Bill Florence, village attorney, hit a deer while driving to the meeting to confer privately with the HDRB prior to its decision. Florence eventually turned up, and after subsequently reconvening in public session the board fine-tuned its resolution on granting a decision of appropriateness, using a laptop passed from one member to another, before an audience scarcely diminished by the late hour. The board finally voted around 11 p.m.
In voting, Foley and Bachan sought to explain their opposition. In the months they worked with Guillaro’s team on the architecture, Foley said, “I think we made great strides” in making the various buildings comport with their Cold Spring surroundings. But she questioned the “quite small lots” for the single-family homes and remained troubled by “the mass and scale of the multifamily [condominium] homes. They’re orders of magnitude larger than anything else in the village,” except, perhaps, for the Haldane school buildings, she said.
Interconnected, with a car garage below, Buildings 4-5-6 appear as one large structure in the plans.
“They are a very internal and urban design that, I feel, is not compatible with the village. Because the mass and scale of that building outweighs the positive aspects, I vote ‘no,’” Foley announced, later adding: “I think there is a very dangerous precedent set in this approval in regard to mass and scale.”
Paul Guillaro (file photo)
Bachan spoke in similar terms. “I think the change in character this will bring to the village is just so contrary to what the village has stood for, for so long,” she said. “In this case, I think it’s gone way, way, too far.” She said the Butterfield project calls to mind construction in once-charming Hudson Valley towns downriver and warned of “Westchesterization.”
“Putting behemoth buildings … of the scale of Buildings 4-5-6,” she said, “is not compatible with the scale and character of the village. I vote ‘no.”
Zgolinski noted that the long building they dislike contains parking and that if it were designed differently the parking lot would go outside and consume green space. “You’re going to have more asphalt” that way, he said. “I don’t agree with the comment that this building is too massive for the village.”
Junjulas concurred. Guillaro’s team listened to the HDRB over the preceding months and “did a great job of tying everything together — everything we asked for,” he said.
When the meeting ended, Guillaro told Philipstown.info that “I’m happy; exhausted. I’m glad it’s over and moving forward.”
“I’m thrilled,” said Donna Anderson, a senior citizen and ardent advocate of the project. “It’s been a long road.”
During its formal monthly meeting May 5, the county legislature passed a resolution approving rental of space at Butterfield for a county senior citizen center. The resolution did not call for placing other county facilities at Butterfield, despite comments by County Executive MaryEllen Odell and others in recent years about bringing auxiliary offices of several county agencies and departments to the site. For example, in her March 2014 State of the County Address, Odell mentioned plans to open offices of the personnel, sheriff’s, clerk’s and tourism departments at Butterfield. Odell and other county officials have not explained why their thinking changed.
The county legislature’s May 5 resolution directed the county administration to continue negotiating a lease with Guillaro for the senior center. The resolution, which mistakenly referred to the Town of Philipstown, not the Village of Cold Spring, as the local government with jurisdiction over Butterfield, also cited an “attached” letter of intent outlining details of the county’s intentions. However, the letter was not provided to the press and public with other background materials from the meeting.
Emails sent to Odell and Deputy County Bruce Walker by Philipstown.info requesting a copy of the letter produced neither an answer nor the letter of intent.
About Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong
Armstrong was the founding news editor of The Current (then known as Philipstown.info) in 2010 and later a senior correspondent and contributing editor for the paper. She worked earlier in Washington as a White House correspondent and national affairs reporter and assistant news editor for daily international news services. Location: Cold Spring. Languages: English. Areas of expertise: Politics and government
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Fitch Ratings Upgrades Bond Rating for the Town of Hilton Head Island
Carolyn Grant , Communications Director, 843-341-4618
Hilton Head Island, SC – Fitch Ratings (Fitch) has raised its bond rating for the Town of Hilton Head Island's special obligation revenue hospitality fee bonds from an AA to AA+.
The higher rating resulted from Fitch’s recent review for the issuance of the series 2019 hospitality fee bonds. Fitch also upgraded the rating on the Town's series 2011A and 2011B special obligation hospitality fee bonds from AA to AA+ and affirmed the Town’s general obligation bonds at AA+.
As part of this most recent review, Moody’s (Aa+/Stable) and Standard & Poor’s (AA/Stable) also reaffirmed their ratings for the Town’s hospitality fee bonds. Earlier this year, all three national bond rating firms affirmed the Town’s general obligation bond ratings. They are:
Moody's Aaa/Stable Outlook
Standard & Poor’s AA+/Stable Outlook
Fitch Ratings AA+/Stable Outlook
The hospitality fee bonds are being issued to refund Series 2011A and Series 2011B hospitality fee bonds in order to take advantage of favorable market interest rates and generate savings for the Town. The original bonds were used to finance the Town’s contribution for a sewer expansion project and other capital improvements.
"This is very good news. We are very pleased with the upgrade from Fitch Ratings and the reconfirmation from the other agencies. This is another affirmation from independent rating agencies' examination of the Town's operations and finances since Hurricane Matthew, and the Town's response to the hurricane," said Stephen G. Riley, Town Manager.
"After the operational and financial difficulties caused by Hurricane Matthew three years ago, Town Council responded strongly to help restore the Island and its reserves. This also affirms that the steps Council took, including raising reserves and preserving additional debt capacity for future emergencies, contributed to a favorable rating for the Town," Riley said.
In its report, Fitch cited a number of factors supporting the Town’s strong rating, including:
The growth in pledged revenues from the hospitality fee and the Town’s exceptional financial profile.
Management’s prudent debt and reserve policies including increasing its reserve policy this year and reserves held outside the General Fund.
Management’s notable experience and ability to rebound from storms.
Strong financial practices and budgetary policies including the Town’s first adoption of a biennial budget for fiscal 2020 and 2021.
Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s were similarly complimentary regarding the Town’s financial practices and policies.
Rating agencies often cite factors in their ratings such as the Town's strong financial position, supported by comprehensive fiscal policies, diversified revenues, ample financial reserves, history of operating stability and a low direct debt burden coupled with debt capacity saved for future emergencies. The rating takes into consideration the Town's importance as an established tourism destination and its large tax base.
For more information on the Town’s fiscal operations, visit www.hiltonheadislandsc.gov.
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Top 10 Minecraft Mods You Need to Try
31 December 2020Ananto Joyoadikusumo
These are the mods that are either extremely popular, useful, or game-changing.
There are thousands of mods in Minecraft that have been created throughout its history. These mods range from simply modifying your interface to completely creating a whole new biome. Needless to say, picking the top 10 out of the supposed 55000 mods is very difficult. Mods that are on this list are usually either extremely popular, useful, or game-changing.
Optifine
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Optifine is perhaps one of the most used utility mods in Minecraft. As a utility mod, this means that Optifine’s purpose is solely to enhance the gaming experience of Minecraft. It boosts the graphics by tweaking Minecraft’s lighting and rendering systems to increase their visibility. More importantly, it was intended to also boost the performance of the game, though the opposite might happen in some cases. Optifine is also needed if you want to use any sort of shaders. It also gives you extra options and controls for customization purposes which you can see on their Wiki page. Generally, there is really no reason why you should not download this mod.
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WorldEdit is a must-have mod if you love playing creative mode and doing large builds. It is also probably one of the most popular mods and building mods in all of Minecraft. The mod allows you to conveniently place, replace, or delete large batches of blocks. If you are like me, the most frustrating and boring section of a build is repetitively placing blocks across a large area. The process can take hours of mindless work. WorldEdit can do this work in a split second and save you a lot of time and sanity.
ComputerCraft
ComputerCraft is a mod that allows players to use and program computers and robots in their Minecraft world. The robots in ComputerCraft are called Turtles and are programmed through computers. The programming language used in the mod is the Lua programming language. I feel that this mod is the most impressive on this list. It creates a whole world of possibilities and automation in Minecraft. It also has the potential to teach players about the world of programming while playing Minecraft – killing two birds with one stone if you ask me. There is no denying that there is a learning curve for this mod, but there are plenty of guides out there to get you started with ComputerCraft.
Buildcraft and Thermal Expansion
I included these two mods together because they come hand in hand with each other. BuildCraft and Thermal Expansion are the OG’s when it comes to technology mods in Minecraft. Back in Minecraft 1.2, all the technology mod packs will always include these Buildcraft and Thermal Expansion. Since these 2 are technology mods, they add many new blocks and interactions that allow you to build a wide range of machines and automation devices. Both these mods are still in use and updated until this very day.
Better Portals
Better portals allow you to see the other side of the world through any portal, and without the need of entering the portal. The mod also removes the loading screen transition. This is perhaps the most straightforward and aesthetically pleasing mod on the list. It also adds another level of immersion when playing Minecraft. The mod really changes the experience you have when entering nether or end portals.
IndustrialCraft 2
IndustrialCraft 2 is another technology mod, similar to BuildCraft and Thermal Expansion. However, a major feature of IndustrialCraft that distinguishes itself from other tech mods is the nuclear reactors. Of course, with nuclear reactors comes nuclear bombs. Streamer Disguised Toast shows the power of the nuke by detonating it inside the OfflineTV Minecraft Server a couple of weeks ago, which creates a pretty spectacular scene. Allowing players to be a nuclear physicist and creating a weapon of mass destruction inside Minecraft puts this mod as one of the most interesting Minecraft Mods out there.
JourneyMap
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JourneyMap is one of the oldest mods in Minecraft that is still widely used until this very day. The functionality of the feature it provides will greatly improve your Minecraft experience. Just like the name suggests, JourneyMap provides players with a map that maps your Minecraft world as you explore it. Keeping track of locations and their coordinates won’t be much of a hassle anymore with this mod. Note that the mod still needs to be personally configured to your own liking before it can be fully functional. The sheer usefulness and functionality of JourneyMap make it one of the best Minecraft mods.
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Aether is one of the oldest and largest mods in all of Minecraft. It was released in 2011 and immediately rose to popularity in the community. It was so popular that people thought it was part of vanilla Minecraft. The Aether is a mod that adds a new realm called the Aether realm. Similar to all realms like The Nether, the Aether realm includes a wide variety of new mobs, blocks, and items. No other mods in Minecraft were able to be as well-built and large-scaled as Aether. The success of the Aether mod also prompted Mojang to hire its creator, kingbdogz, back in 2019.
Similar to all the technology mods that got mentioned above, there are also magic mods in Minecraft. The most popular magic mod of them all is Thaumcraft. Thaumcraft adds tons of new features such as alchemy, golemancy, and thaumaturgy. These new features will really take a lot of time to study. Most mod packs in Minecraft include Thaumcraft just because of its sheer magnitude, maybe even more than BuildCraft or Thermal Expansion.
Biomes o’plenty
If you are looking for a biome mod to add to Minecraft, I heavily suggest picking Biomes o’plenty. Biomes o’plenty is perhaps the best and most popular biome mods in Minecraft. As of writing this article, the mod adds an astounding amount of 60 biomes to the game. Moreover, these biomes also really look beautiful and are constantly updated.
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Faces of Menlo
Bonnie McGregor is on a mission to integrate the Menlo Park VA and surrounding community
by Linda Hubbard on July 27, 2011
When you listen to Menlo Park resident Bonnie McGregor enthusiastically talk about her experience volunteering at the Menlo Park VA, you wonder why their aren’t hundreds like her.
“This is a wonderful place staffed by wonderful people,” she says. “You can just feel the warmth.”
Standing outside Building #360, a community living facility for older vets, Bonnie seems to know everyone coming in and out of its doors. And she believes she shouldn’t be the only one: Her goal is to more fully integrate the Menlo and veterans communities.
“Recently the Menlo Park Chorus did a Memorial Day concert and have committed to doing a fall concert in October,” she says. “The inspiration and gratitude generated by these and other events is heartwarming. And it connects the two communities in a meaningful way.”
Call for food and sponsorship donations to support upcoming BBQ
To further stir the inter-community pot, Bonnie is helping plan a Western Family BBQ for the veterans of building 360 and their families on August 6. It’s her belief that this group of vets has fewer opportunities for recreation. “There will be games for the grandchildren, a square dance exhibition, Western line dancing, and live country music,” she says. “We will have a special area where the veterans can have portraits made with their family members. It promises to be a memorable day.”
Having already lined up a corps of volunteers to help out (but don’t let that dissuade you if interested!), Bonnie is now looking for sustaining sponsorships — so that the event can be held annually — and food donations, for example, cases of diet and regular soda.
Donations can be dropped off at the administrative building at 795 Willow Rd in the Voluntary Services offices on the second floor. Sponsorship checks, which should be made out to Palo Alto VA (note, Bonnie says it’s very important to write on the memo line: MENLO PARK VA #360 BAR B Q) and mailed in care of Alberto Villareal, VA Voluntary Services, 795 Willow Rd., Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
Interested in learning more about the event and volunteering at the MP VA in general? Bonnie is more than happy to answer questions: (650) 322-0847, bonnie.mcgregor[at]gmail.com.
Bonnie McGregor July 27, 2011 at 7:31 am
Thank you so much Linda! Great exposure for the upcoming Bar B Q and volunteer opportunities at the Menlo Park VA.
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Te Voimla (Shes Not There) - various - Music Story 12 (Vinyl)
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The song She's Not There was written by Rod Argent and was first released by The Zombies in It was covered by Bel's Boys, Walter Chancellor Jr. , The Latin Sound of .
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"She's Not There" is the kind of song that makes you think its composer is a major talent destined for a long and prolific career, which is not quite what happened. In , Rod Argent, the keyboard player in the Zombies, was challenged by U.K. Decca Records producer Ken Jones to write a hit record for his group, which had just won a talent.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the Vinyl release of She's Not There on Discogs. Label: Deram - DM • Format: Vinyl 7 Neil MacArthur - She's Not There (, Vinyl) | Discogs/5.
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The Story Behind The Song: She's Not There by The Zombies. By Will Simpson (Classic Rock) 02 April A band of Herts teenagers hit the big time with this ballad of emotional detachment, a peak they'd never scale again. Classic Rock told the tale of this classic in Shares.
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Feb 12, · The Quests (American) record their own arrangement of The Zombies' "She's Not There," written by Rod Argent. Although this studio recording, engineered by Dave Kalmbach, was not put on any of The.
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She's Not There essays are academic essays for citation. These papers were written primarily by students and provide critical analysis of She's Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan. Border Crossings and Their Impact on the Surrounding Society: How Breaking the Boundary of Race Poses a Bigger Threat to Others than a Crossing of Class or Gender Would.
She was there. This was an EXCELLENT piece of music. I got it just in time for an audition, and managed to get a leading part! The arrangement was very accurate to what i have heard, and it was perfect for an accompanist to sight read. Thank you music notes!
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Women at Work - Edition 6
2 months ago by egomonk • 5 min read
This week's edition of Women at Work is packed with value so grab a cup of tea and hunker down. We'll unpack Susan Wojcicki's amazing run as CEO at YouTube, understand the role race plays in the pay gap, share insights about choosing a business partner, and whole lot more. What would you like us to focus on? Let us know.
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👑 LEADING LADY - SUSAN WOJCICKI OF YOUTUBE
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Susan Wojcicki was appointed as the CEO of YouTube in 2014 and is the longest-tenured CEO in its history. Her vision has made YouTube the second most visited online platform globally, with nearly 2 billion monthly users. Susan was also Google's first marketing manager and worked on some very crucial marketing campaigns.
Origin Story: Susan was born on July 5, 1968, into a family of professors. She studied history and literature at Harvard University and went on to do her MS in Economics and an MBA as well. However, she soon discovered she had a keen interest in technology. Luckily, around the same time, Susan rented her garage to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who were working on their then-new search engine company called Google.
The Emergence: Susan's career before Google included working in marketing at Intel, Bain & Company, and R.B. Webber & Company. In 1999, Susan joined a 15 member team at Google and became their first marketing manager. Apart from executing highly successful marketing campaigns, Susan also played a pivotal role in Google's growth by spearheading its two largest acquisitions - Double click and YouTube. In 2014, Susan was appointed as the CEO of YouTube and has managed to grow it into a cash cow worth more than $160 billion.
Growth Story: Susan's inspiring vision and management skills have been the driving forces behind the accomplishments of Alphabet subsidiaries - YouTube and Google.
At Google, Susan played a vital role in generating revenue through advertisements and managed campaigns using AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, and more.
She is also the brain behind the iconic Google Doodle and other exciting features such as Google Images and Google Books.
When Susan was Vice President of Google, she immediately realized the potential of YouTube and led its acquisition for $1.65 billion in 2006.
She also managed the acquisition of DoubleClick, an Internet ad agency, for $3.1 billion in 2007 and helped cement Google's dominance for the next decade.
Rise of a Giant: Susan and her stellar team have managed to accelerate growth at YouTube, and its recently launched subscription service - YouTube Premium - has also been wildly successful. Here are some stats to make sense of the YouTube phenomenon -
Annual Subscription Revenue: $3 Billion (2019)
Total Paid Subscriptions: 2+ Million
Annual Advertisement Revenue: $15 Billion (2019)
Upload Rate: 500 hours of video every minute (2019)
Team: 1100 and growing
Susan's Net Worth: $580 Million
Bold Choices: As a person from a non-technical background, Susan has never shied away from speaking her mind and sharing her ideas in a room filled with experts. Her firm conviction in her own talent and expertise have shown undeniable results.
Susan's first target in 2014 was to get users to watch a billion hours of video on YouTube daily and achieved it in 2 years.
She helped develop additional monetization options for YouTube creators, including channel memberships, merchandise, and Super Chat, ensuring all parties benefit from the platform.
Susan took a strong stand against videos that potentially violated its guidelines on hate speech and violent extremism and reworked the platform's policies. Under her leadership, YouTube removed 8.3 million videos in Q1 2019.
Since she took on the role of CEO, YouTube's percentage of female employees has risen from 24% to nearly 30%. She has strongly supported paid maternity leaves and is a well-known advocate for women's rights at the workplace.
Susan is a driven woman who has been using her privilege to advocate for equity in opportunities and skills at YouTube and other spaces. She took the chance of being at the right place at the right time and used it to break through the glass ceiling in technology.
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Tag: Edward Wakeford
Shell – Everywhere You Go
Both beautiful and inspiring, the artwork that Shell used on their posters was a shift in advertising for two reasons: They were selling the ambitions of the motorist beyond commuting; a generation of day-trippers without trains. Also they were presenting modern art to the public in an era when museums charged admission. The posters were pasted on the sides of petrol stations, lorries and billboards with that simple line “You Can Be Sure of Shell”.
Shell Mex Limited appointed a new Publicity Director in 1932, Jack Beddington. His insight turned the British Shell advertisements of the 1930s into one of the classic campaigns of the twentieth century. The genius of the campaign was to let artists depict Britain in their own styles, they would paint an image and whatever their style, it was surrounded by text. There would be no need for product placement, for models holding petrol cans, it was a campaign exposing the beauty and wonder of Britain and modern art.
Some of these posters were exhibited at the New Burlington Galleries in 1934. Below are two quotes from different reviews on the exhibition that show the surprise of critics to Beddington’s use of modern artists in poster design.
It is now a good many years since, under the able directorship of Mr Frank Pick, some of our best designers were encouraged to show their works in public – using the expression in its broadest sense. People who never though of going to picture galleries could, for the first time find delight in good pictorial art even in an Underground station and in the street. –
Apollo, January to June, 1934, p322 †
If it can be hoped that big firms like Shell-Mex are really going to patronize art as intelligently as this, we shall expect to be seeing in a few years’ time at Christie’s, not the sale of the collection of the Duke of Frumpshire, but of the Gas Light and Coke Company. If the princes of commerce are going to behave like princes we shall have some fun. ‡
The Everywhere You Go series is one of the more curious for it is before the typographic design for the posters had settled down, a range of typefaces, colours and sizes are used. The first offering by W J Steggles has the tag line in lowercase. Steggles was part of the now fashionable, East London Group of artists, he painted various scenes for Shell posters, as did his brother Harold and
Elwin Hawrhorne.
Walter James Steggles – The Thames at Cookham
Edgar Ainsworth – Gordale Scar
Elwin Hawrhorne – North Foreland Lighthouse
Robert Miller – Devil’s Elbow, Braemar
Harold Steggles – Bungay
Rosemary and Clifford Ellis – Lower Slaughter
Graham Sutherland – Oust Houses nr Leeds, Kent
M. A. Miles – Polperro Cornwall
Charles Mozley – Boxhill
John Armstrong – Newlands Corner
Graham Sutherland – The Great Globe, Swanage
George Hooper – Kintbury Berks
John Armstrong – Near Lamorna
Paul Nash – Rye Marshes
Edward Wakeford – Gravesend
† Apollo, January to June, 1934, p322
‡ W.W.Winkworth – The Spectator – 29 JUNE 1934, p15
Catherine McDermott – Design Museum Book of Twentieth Century Design, 1998, p319
Tags BP, Charles Mozley, Clifford Ellis, Edgar Ainsworth, Edward Wakeford, George Hooper, Graham Sutherland, Harold Steggles, Jack Beddington, Paul Nash, R&CR, RandCR, Robert Miller, Rosemary and Clifford Ellis, Rosemary Ellis, Shell, shell mex, Shell Poster, Walter James Steggles
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Aix Em Klemm is the moniker of the ambient music project consisting of Adam Wiltzie (Stars Of The Lid / A Winged Victory For The Sullen) and Robert Donne (Labradford / Anjou). As Wiltzie told Sadness Is In The Sky fanzine, his collaboration with Donne began when "we all met during a Texas swing of a Labradford tour that Stars Of The Lid opened for back in 1996. They stayed at my house for a few days and we became close."A year later Wiltzie was asked to join Labradford for their Mi Media Naranja European tour of 1997 as the sound technician. This tour also included Bruce Gilbert of the legendary band Wire who was the opening act and joined them in the van for the entire tour. With Gilbert's nightly improvisations of minidisk field recording explosions running through a Sherman Filterbank, it left a profound effect on Wiltzie and Donne, and led to inspiring internal philosophical discussions on the importance of improvisation. After concluding six weeks in the van, the idea of creating a unique collaboration separate from their other projects was realized. The duo exchanged tapes over the course of a year and then Donne ventured to Austin, TX for a week to record at Wiltzie's home studio in 1999. The in-person collaboration moved much more quickly than the exchange of tracks by mail. One track on the Aix Em Klemm album, "Sparkwood And Twenty-One", was written and recorded in one day. The duo took the mysterious name Aix Em Klemm and the self-titled debut was released in the autumn of 2000.As of late, Wiltzie lives in Brussels, and Donne joined Stars Of The Lid on their last tour of Europe in 2016 playing modular synth. They still collaborate musically so new Aix Em Klemm recordings remain a possibility."The two extracted some morsels of sound from their respective group's structures and constructed an altogether different and Zarathrustian 'building of sound'-one that combines the haunting spirits of the old with the mystique of the new unknown." -Tape Op
Label: KRANKY
Catalog: 44
Aix Em Klemm
Artist: Aix Em Klemm
1. The Girl with the Flesh Colored Crayon
2. 3X2 (Exit)
3. Sophteonal
4. Prue Lewarne
5. The Luxury of Dirt
6. Sparkwood and Twentyone
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Grants & giving
Adamas to Present at Upcoming Evercore ISI Conference
November 24, 2020 at 4:03 PM EST
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADMS), a company dedicated to developing and delivering medicines that make a meaningful difference to people affected by neurological diseases, today announced that Neil F. McFarlane, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, is scheduled to present at the Evercore ISI 3rd Annual HealthCONx Conference on Tuesday, December 1st at 11:45 am Eastern Time (8:45 am Pacific).
The presentation will be webcast from the investor relations section of the Adamas website at http://ir.adamaspharma.com/events-presentations. Archived versions of the webcast will be available via replay for 30 days following the presentation.
About Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
At Adamas our vision is clear – to deliver innovative medicines that reduce the burden of neurological diseases on patients, caregivers and society. We are a fully integrated company focused on growing a portfolio of therapies to address a range of neurological diseases. For more information, please visit www.adamaspharma.com.
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2016 Stance ISA World Adaptive Surfing Championship
#ISAworlds #InspiredSurfers #theuncommonthread
Pre Event
Stance ISA Adaptive Surf Clinic
Friday December 9th, 2016
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Seeking a role
Handing in your notice
Seeking talent
If you are a senior Payroll professional with a commitment to providing an excellent service, looking for a senior payroll position in a function with a reputation for providing a quality service, this Payroll Manager position with King’s College London may be the right next step for you.
King’s are a world-class institution and hold a place as one of the top 10 UK universities in the world. With over 31,000 students from 150 countries and over 8,500 employees, King’s provide world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. King’s strategy is to inspire future generations through a rounded education and contribute insights and solutions for the world’s diverse challenges.
Not only offering a market-leading pension and benefits package, this role also offers a brilliant opportunity to join an organisation that really values and looks after its staff and prioritises employee wellbeing.
Reporting into the Head of Payroll and Pensions, key responsibilities will include:
Leading the delivery of an efficient Payroll service, proactively business partnering with key stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure needs are being met
Continuously develop the Payroll service, identifying areas to improve and working through improvement projects in line with best practice
Working collaboratively with the Head of Payroll to work through solutions to issues, ensuring the Service runs smoothly
Acting as the first point of contact for the Service, dealing with enquiries in a professional way and delegating appropriately
Maintaining a calm and sympathetic manner when dealing with stakeholder issues, using tact and emotional intelligence to work through problems
Assisting with the reconciliation of Payroll accounts including PAYE & N.I.
Managing and supporting a large payroll team, motivating staff and ensuring staff are developed and that performance reviews are conducted.
The successful candidate will have experience working in a large payroll function and will be able to manage a strong team. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, as is the ability to balance multiple priorities and deliver timely and high-quality results. The Payroll Manager must be able to build relationships across the organisation and support and motivate a strong team and should be comfortable carrying out the responsibilities outlined above.
Experience working in Higher Education would be beneficial but is not essential, candidates are encouraged to speak with Kate Marriott at Ivy Rock Partners to find out more information.
Application deadline closed.
Offered Salary
Head of Finance & Resources
Salary: £60,000 - £65,000 per year
We are supporting an Academy in London to recruit a new permanent Head of Finance and Resources. This is a great opportunity for a Finance Director or Head of Finance (ideally with some education/charity sector experience) to work closely with an ambitious CEO and Governing body, and play a significant […]
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DJ-1 mutations are a rare cause of recessively inherited early onset parkinsonism mediated by loss of protein function
Electronic letters
P J Lockhart1,
S Lincoln1,
M Hulihan1,
J Kachergus1,
K Wilkes1,
G Bisceglio1,
D C Mash2,
M J Farrer1
1Department of Neuroscience, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, USA
2Department of Pathology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Correspondence to:
Dr P J Lockhart
Birdsall Building, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, 4500 San Pablo Road, Jacksonville, FL, USA, 32224; caseyandpaulhotmail.com
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jmg.2003.011106
PARK7
protein instability
EO-PD, early onset parkinsonism
ORF, open reading frame
PD, Parkinson’s disease
Parkinson’s disease (PD; OMIM #168600) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterised by bradykinesia, resting tremor, muscle rigidity, and postural instability. The pathological features include loss of dopaminergic neurones, in particular within the substantia nigra pars compacta, and eosinophilic, cytoplasmic inclusions termed Lewy bodies.1 Although rare, familial forms of parkinsonism provide a powerful tool to determine the molecular pathways perturbed in idiopathic PD.2,3
Three loci have been associated with autosomal recessive early onset parkinsonism (EO-PD): parkin (PARK2),4 the as yet unidentified PARK6,5 and DJ-1 (PARK7).6 Loss of Parkin function is the predominant genetic cause of EO-PD in Japanese, Northern European, North American, and North African populations. Homozygous and compound heterozygous parkin mutations account for approximately 49% of familial and 19% of sporadic EO-PD (with onset prior to 45 years).7–13 Although the gene has yet to be identified, linkage analysis of chromosome 1p36 interval suggests that PARK6 mutations may also account for numerous families with EO-PD across Europe.14 Most recently, mutations in DJ-1 (PARK7) were identified in consanguineous Dutch and Italian kindreds affected with EO-PD. In the Dutch kindred, a 14 kb genomic deletion removed the promoter region and the first five exons (Δ1−5). In the Italian kindred, a highly conserved amino acid (leucine) was altered to proline (497 bp T→C; L166P). This substitution was predicted to disrupt protein folding and was demonstrated to affect cellular localisation.6 Both mutations showed complete segregation with disease in homozygous individuals, while heterozygous carriers were unaffected, suggesting that loss of function of DJ-1 is pathogenic. To date, DJ-1 Δ1–5 and 497 bp T→C (L166P) mutations have only been reported in the original Dutch and Italian families and in ethnically matched control individuals.6 There have been no reports on the frequency of DJ-1 …
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Hungary Magazine Non classé
Meet Coffewear, the young Budapest-based brand redesigning your waste
Budapest, Hungary – Hungary might be one of the worst recyclers in the EU, that doesn’t mean nothing is being done about it. Following the philosophy of “nothing is trash”, the small Budapest-based brand Coffewear is one of the many grassroots initiatives committed not to let your waste, well, go to waste, and dedicated to promoting upcycling in Hungary.
Founded in 2017, Coffewear works with a wide-range of wasted single-use materials – particularly coffee packaging, but also reused plastic, tea packaging, coffee-capsule packaging or tailoring waste – to promote zero-waste and turn them into stylish, ready-to-wear products like wallets, bags, cases and backpacks.
“I first started Coffewear as a side-project while I was still at the university”, explains 23-year-old founder Csenge, who studied textile design in Budapest and just came back from working in Hamburg, Germany, during the summer. “It wasn’t easy to launch this simultaneously to my studies, and I had to dedicate almost all of my free time to this project”, she confides. “But thankfully, I also received a lot of help from people around me”.
“I had many friends working in coffee shops across Budapest, and started reusing some of their packaging to create small accessories. They were mainly personal orders at the start, but I realized people really enjoyed them, and it slowly grew into the business I manage today”.
Credit: Coffewear
Now joined by Claudia, who mostly handles Coffewear’s social media and marketing strategy, and an assistant to help her in the design and creation of new pieces, Csenge partnered with over half a dozen coffee shops in the Hungarian capital, collecting their wasted material and upcycling them for various purposes.
“Our main activity is the creation and sale of daily accessories, including wallets and small bags, but we also use all this material to create decorations for public and cultural events, including a techno party on a boat or for an art gallery in Budapest”, she says.
But then, COVID-19 came along, forcing Hungary to order a strict lockdown and leading all the coffee shops to close down. “Thank God I had a lot of packages and material already stored when the nation-wide quarantine came into effect, so we were still able to work and create new products during the lockdown”, Csenge declares. “But it was very hard for many people. Even though things have started to get better during the summer, a few of the coffee shops we worked with had to shut down permanently”.
Summer is usually one of the busiest times of the year for Csenge and her team, who take part in many design markets and summer festivals to present their brand, explain how everyone can contribute to the upcyling process and lead workshop sessions to teach groups of several dozen people to create their own designs with collected waste.
“Summer festivals, including Bankito Festival or OZORA, are a great place to build the awareness for our brand and show people how they too, can contribute to the upcycling process in a creative way and friendly atmosphere”, Csenge notes. Due to coronavirus-related restrictions, all these festivals were of course cancelled this year, but the young Hungarian designer remains optimistic.
“After many difficult months, I’m starting to see the light”, she says, hopeful that Coffewear will continue to expand and widen its network outside of Budapest and, maybe, beyond Hungary too. “We would very much like, and are seriously thinking about working abroad, including in Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic”.
Be sure to follow Coffewear on Facebook and Instagram, or check out their website!
TagsCivil society • Climate & Environment • Hungary • Innovation & Entrepreneurship • Interview
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Rapid and Reliable Diagnostic Algorithm for Detection of Clostridium difficile
Lukas Fenner, Andreas F. Widmer, Gisela Goy, Sonja Rudin, Reno Frei
Lukas Fenner
1Microbiology Laboratory
Andreas F. Widmer
2Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland
Gisela Goy
Sonja Rudin
Reno Frei
For correspondence: rfrei@uhbs.ch
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.01503-07
We evaluated a two-step algorithm for detection of Clostridium difficile in 1,468 stool specimens. First, specimens were screened by an immunoassay for C. difficile glutamate dehydrogenase antigen (C.DIFF CHEK-60). Second, screen-positive specimens underwent toxin testing by a rapid toxin A/B assay (TOX A/B QUIK CHEK); toxin-negative specimens were subjected to stool culture. This algorithm allowed final results for 92% of specimens with a turnaround time of 4 h.
Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) is a frequent cause of nosocomial diarrhea (1, 4). Recently, new virulent C. difficile strains causing outbreaks have emerged and were associated with increased morbidity and mortality (5, 6). The diagnosis of CDAD is usually based on a clinical history of recent antibiotic usage and diarrhea in combination with laboratory tests. Therefore, rapid and accurate microbiological diagnosis is urgently needed. The current cornerstone of laboratory diagnosis is the detection of toxin A/B from fecal samples. Fecal toxin assay by cell cytotoxicity neutralization assay (CCNA) is still regarded as the gold standard. CCNA is more sensitive than toxin detection by immunoassays but has a turnaround time of up to 3 days, is labor-intensive, and requires facilities for cell culture (3, 10, 11). Toxin enzyme immunoassays are more rapid and easier to perform but are suboptimal if used as stand-alone assays due to the low sensitivity compared to CCNA or toxigenic C. difficile culture (3, 7, 10). Today, many laboratories rely on C. difficile toxin A/B testing alone despite the limits of this approach and have abandoned bacterial culture (2, 3). Detection of the C. difficile-specific enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase antigen (GDH) may in part replace culture techniques and therefore be an alternative to culture (9, 10, 12, 13). Until now, our laboratory routinely tested stool specimens for toxin A/B (CDIFF TOX A/B II; TechLab/Wampole, Blacksburg, VA) and performed stool culture including isolate toxin testing. To assess the performance of our toxin assay as a stand-alone test, we performed a retrospective study analyzing all C. difficile laboratory data from a 25-month period between 2004 and 2006. Among 2,940 specimens tested, the sensitivity and specificity were 50.7% and 99.4%, respectively, compared to toxigenic culture (data not shown). Therefore, we developed a test algorithm that should provide high sensitivity, rapid turnaround time, and ease of performance. We prospectively evaluated a two-step algorithm including a screening assay to detect C. difficile-specific GDH followed by a rapid toxin A/B test during a 12-month period beginning in June 2006.
All fecal specimens from adult patients suspected of having CDAD were kept at 4°C until processed or saved at −70°C if the specimens could not be processed within 24 h. Stool cultures were plated on selective cycloserine-cefoxitin-fructose agar plates (CLO agar; bioMérieux, Marcy l'Etoile, France) without any delay and incubated in an anaerobic chamber for 48 h according to standard laboratory methods. C. difficile colonies were identified on the basis of their typical morphology on agar plates and by the Gram stain, characteristic odor, and unique pattern of fatty acid metabolic products by gas-liquid chromatography. Fecal cytotoxin was detected using the new rapid immunoenzymatic membrane test TOX A/B QUIK CHEK (TechLab/Wampole) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The C. difficile-specific GDH was detected using C.DIFF CHEK-60 (TechLab/Wampole), and the results were read by an Opsys MR spectrometer (Dynex, West Sussex, United Kingdom) at a wavelength of 450 nm. An optical density of 0.12 or smaller was interpreted as negative. Samples with an optical density between 0.12 and 0.25 were repeated in duplicate. If the sample was GDH screen positive but the stool culture was negative or if the sample was GDH screen negative but the culture was positive, PCR was used to resolve the discrepancies. In this case, DNA was extracted using QIAmp DNA stool minikit (QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany) and a PCR for the GDH gene (gluD) was performed as previously described (13). All C. difficile isolates were tested for the presence of the toxin A and B genes (tcdA and tcdB) by a multiplex PCR (S. Persson, M. Torpdahl, and K. E. P. Olsen, submitted for publication) and for toxin A/B by TOX A/B QUIK CHEK using a suspension of 5 to 10 culture colonies in dilution buffer. A true GDH-positive stool sample was defined as a sample with positive C. difficile culture and/or positive gluD PCR directly from stool. A true positive sample for toxin A/B was defined as a sample with a toxigenic C. difficile culture (toxigenicity determined by PCR).
A total of 1,468 consecutive stool specimens from adults were tested during a 12-month period between June 2006 and June 2007. Overall, the prevalence of positive C. difficile culture was 10.4% (Table 1); among those, 82.5% were toxigenic as determined by PCR (Table 2). The sensitivity and the negative predictive value of GDH assay were 93.4% and 99.2%, respectively, compared to culture (Table 1). A high percentage of stool specimens (87.3%; n = 1,281) were GDH negative. Of the 1,281 GDH screen-negative specimens, 10 were positive by culture and therefore would have been missed by the initial GDH screening; 5 of these 10 samples had a negative gluD (gene for GDH) PCR, possibly indicating very low bacterial load. No explanation was found for the residual five discrepant results. Subsequently, all GDH screen-positive specimens were retested by a second test, the rapid toxin A/B immunoassay. Of the 187/1,468 GDH screen-positive specimens, 69/187 (or 4.7% of total specimens tested; Fig. 1) were also positive for toxin A/B by the rapid toxin A/B test. The specificity and the positive predictive value of this toxin assay were calculated to be 97.1% and 96.5%, respectively (Table 2). Compared to toxigenic culture, the sensitivity was low (52.9%). The remaining 118/187 specimens (corresponding to 8.0% of total specimens) that were GDH screen positive but negative for toxin A/B were resolved within 48 h to 72 h by culture, including isolate toxin testing. Of these, 73/118 were culture positive and 45/118 culture negative. Among these culture-negative samples, 40/45 were also negative for the C. difficile-specific gluD PCR performed directly from stool and therefore interpreted as false positive in the GDH assay (Fig. 1), whereas 5/45 were gluD PCR positive, suggesting failure of culture. Isolate toxin testing showed in 49/73 a toxigenic culture and in 20/73 a nontoxigenic culture, while 4/73 strains were not available. Toxin A/B testing by TOX A/B QUIK CHEK from culture isolates proved to be reliable, with high sensitivity and specificity (Table 2). GDH screen-negative and GDH screen-positive stool samples with a positive toxin A/B test result required no further testing. Thus, a turnaround time of less than 4 h was obtained for 92% of specimens (Fig. 1).
GDH testing as a first screening assay performed well compared to culture and/or PCR and was in the range of previously reported sensitivity of 85 to 93% (8-10, 12, 13). In contrast to previous reports, GDH-positive specimens were retested by a rapid toxin A/B test instead of time-consuming and labor-intensive CCNA (10). A toxin assay is necessary since the GDH assay cannot distinguish between toxigenic and nontoxigenic C. difficile strains. The sensitivity was low (52.9%) compared to toxigenic culture if the toxin assay was performed alone, similar to previous reports which used other toxin assays (3, 8, 10). For the remaining stool specimens that are GDH screen positive and negative for toxin A/B (8% of all specimens), a stool culture should be performed since these specimens may represent nontoxigenic strains, a false-positive GDH result, or toxigenic strains missed by the stool toxin testing. Toxigenicity of isolates can be accurately determined by the same rapid toxin assay as that used for stool specimens. C. difficile stool culture requires expertise and anaerobic culture facilities. However, culture of GDH screen-positive but toxin-negative stool specimens increases the yield of toxin-producing C. difficile missed by stool toxin testing. In addition, culture of GDH screen-positive stool specimens would allow further investigations such as antimicrobial susceptibility testing, ribotyping, and determination of other molecular properties.
In conclusion, our proposed algorithm allows reliable exclusion of C. difficile without additional tests if the GDH screen is negative (87.3% of all tested specimens). GDH screen-positive samples should be further processed by the rapid toxin A/B test, allowing definite diagnosis in another 4.7% of total specimens within 4 hours. Therefore, our two-step algorithm enables the abandonment of routine culture in 92% of stool specimens. Additionally, it reduces the turnaround time significantly while providing accurate results.
Proposed algorithm for detection of C. difficile in fecal specimens submitted for C. difficile testing. Tests used are C.DIFF CHEK-60 for C. difficile specific antigen (glutamate dehydrogenase) and TOX A/B QUIK CHEK for toxin A/B (both TechLab/Wampole). The percentage values refer to the total numbers of stool specimens analyzed (n = 1,468). Results for nine specimens (0.6%) which did not fit into the described categories are not included.
Performance of GDH test in stool specimens compared to C. difficile culture and/or PCR for gluDa
Performance of C.DIFF TOX A/B QUIK CHEK for stool specimens and isolates compared to toxigenic C. difficile culturea
We thank TechLab/Wampole Inc., Blacksburg, VA, for providing C.DIFF CHEK-60 and C.DIFF TOX A/B QUIK CHEK kits and Heike Freidank for critical reading of the manuscript.
Received 26 July 2007.
Returned for modification 20 September 2007.
Accepted 2 November 2007.
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Trae Tha Truth: Houston’s Untouchable Street King
Published on: Jul 24, 2015, 6:30 AM
by Ural Garrett
The level of influence Trae Tha Truth has within Hip Hop reaches pretty far beneath the surface. Besides having connections to some of the culture’s most iconic veterans, the ABN captain manages to even have today’s hottest emcees from Rick Ross and Lupe Fiasco to J. Cole on speed-dial. That level of respect extends to his own city. Just this week, he held his annual Trae Day celebration. Not only does the yearly event serve as a cool free concert, it serves a greater purpose through medical examinations and school supply giveaways. It’s clear Trae has the streets on lock through honest dedication to his city, a rarity in Hip Hop these days. Topping everything off is an animated video series that continues to be one of the most hilarious things one will witness on the internet.
Still managing to flood the industry through a slew of releases, today Trae drops his newest album Tha Truth. Of course, the album has Houston’s own collaborating with artist including Future, Boosie, Nipsey Hussle, DeJ Loaf and T.I. among others. Setting down with DX, Trae talks the respect he receives, Tha Truth and his cartoon.
Trae Tha Truth Explains The Making Of “Tha Truth”
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DX: So you’re out here in LA, talk about how you feel about being out in LA you’ve been here for the last two weeks. What you been doing out here?
Trae Tha Truth: It’s family out here man like I said. I got relationships and history with a little bit of with everybody. Usually when I come out here, it’s work. Real work with me because I am always doing something man. That’s what I’m doing now. Right now, I’m probably 30 minutes late to where I am supposed to be. I’m jumping from spot to spot. It’s always that so, I always appreciate anytime I come out here and it’s just a good environment. Especially for me not being here all the time, you can appreciate it a little more as opposed to awww we see him everyday.
DX: You got Tha Truth coming man.
Trae Tha Truth: Tha Truth is on the way
DX: It’s been awhile since your last full-length album Street King.
Trae Tha Truth: Yeah, that was the last official. Man, that might of been close to almost five or six years.
DX: Considering the amount of material and mixtapes you’ve released between then and now, how do you create an album people are willing to pay for? What’s going through your head when formulating an album, which is a whole different undertaking than a mixtape?
Trae Tha Truth: It wasn’t that I went in there with the motive of doing an album because I have over four hard drives and over 1,300 songs sitting up. So with the album, that’s not the hard part. I always shout out to my brother J.Cole. I am a type of person that sheds light where it needs to go and I was getting ready to put out another mixtape but he was like you need to gone take your lane. You’ve been doing it so long why not make your stain on the game for what you’re known for; doing the best. He felt like don’t give it away, Iet people have something that they could take super serious. At first, I thought about it and I was still thinking about doing a mixtape but, then I ran with it. I was like man I’m going to put an album out because it’s so crazy. I have so many songs. I already have the albums lined up. Like right now on July 24th, they’re going to get Tha Truth, a couple of months later they’re going to get the 2nd half of Tha Truth because Truth was originally 24 songs. So, they going to get the second half. It’ll be Tha Truth or titled something else then This is already in order. I took him up on it man and he helped me to understand. When you really passionate the way we are about music, than we need to do it for us and the ones that really matter. Not thinking about the record sales, not thinking about what’s going to be a single, not thinking about if I don’t have that big record or that big radio hit. Just go in there and do you. With that being said, this album is going to be a perfect representation of me and where I’ve been as far as the last five or six years for those who’ve really been wondering. I mean you know you might catch me on a feature but you really not knowing what’s going on with Trae himself so I think this is going to be the perfect answer for a lot of people. Plus, I think it’s probably going to be one of the most passionate albums since a Pac or somebody man because when you get real personal and your venting the way we do. People tend to intake it way different then when me just going in there making a record for the moment.
DX: Let’s talk about TI’s involvement and your association with Grand Hustle. What’s his involvement?
Trae Tha Truth: When it comes to the album, one thing with me and TIP, we’re brothers. Like our relationship; it’s different. It’s nothing really to do with music or business. So when it comes to the zone with him doing what he doing or doing what I’m doing, we just go in there and do it. When it’s time for one of us to handle for the other we just go ahead and jump in and do what needs to be done. When it come to me and him we pretty much got it with the music so we just go in there and do us. It was to the point he had to tell me to stop recording because as I keep recording, songs got better and better and bigger and bigger. It’s like how you really going to have the lineup for what you are going to put out because you are constantly recording songs and you’re going to keep moving something out of the way. So, I had to slow down a little but the music with us; we got thousands of records. I got a thousand records, I know he do and then together, I know we gotta another 40 or 50 records probably sitting up with the whole Hustle Gang stuff everything.
DX: So how exactly do you, even with formulating an album when artists have that many tracks, what are you looking for when it comes to placing tracks or even deciding where things are going to go?
Trae Tha Truth: It’s all about my mood at the time that’s just what it is. I don’t go in there like I gotta have this kind of record or that type of record because my album is me man at the end of the day. I just go in there and whatever come about and I’m comfortable with it, than that’s what it is. I got a lot of records that had the potential to be on this album but they didn’t make it. Maybe because I didn’t listen to them at that time and I wasn’t in that mood.
DX: So what is the mood of the project, what can you describe it as?
Trae Tha Truth: Its more personal. This would be my…you know how everybody was familiar with Pac when he was going through a tough time in his life and he came out with “Me against The World” and it kind of introduced everybody to him again. Those who knew him really appreciated and those who didn’t know him they really grasped to him so this would be my “Me Against The World”.Of course when All Eyez On Me came out that was his classic it was understood then. This is going to introduced a lot of people in the industry and people who don’t know me to the type of music that I am capable of doing being within Hip Hop.
DX: You mentioned being banned from the radio, is the radio even important anymore?
Trae Tha Truth: For me, I am bigger now than I was when I had radio. You can always appreciate it but when you learn without it and you accept without it you’ll be alright regardless.
DX: We got the internet now.
Trae Tha Truth: Yeah, by far the streets everything man.
DX: Once you have the streets behind you it’s like…
Trae Tha Truth: I have always had that so and now shout out to of course HipHopDX and all the Hip Hop blogs that are supportive of me so that’s just where I am at with it.
Trae Tha Truth Talks The Importance Of Trae Day To Houston
DX: You sound very humble but you know you’re re so important to Houston. I remember out at Trae Day…
Trae Tha Truth: Yeah, it’s coming up again.
DX: Exactly, I think I went to Trae Day in 2011 and I remember I was in the back, and I remember seeing Lupe.
Trae Tha Truth: That’s my brother man.
DX: Yeah, talk about your relationship with Lupe and then we can segway into your feature you did on Testuo & The Youth.
Trae Tha Truth: Me and Lupe family. Like I’m good with the majority of artist out there, like I got my history with them individually. Our relationships be to where it don’t even be about the music. We just really be family. I know Lupe family, Lupe know my family and my kids. It’s to where my momma be looking for him to call from time to time. So our relationship is way different. When it comes to him, he always shows up to support. Like he might randomly just pop up in Houston and just come to where we at so that’s most definitely family.
DX: The “Chopper” on Testuo and The Youth was fire though.
Trae Tha Truth: I was actually in Atlanta recording, he told me he had something for me to do and he sent it to me. Then, I sent it right back. He told me it was probably one of the hardest verses on there and it made me feel good. I remember I was in Houston, Andre 3000 told me, me and him was chopping it up and he was like ‘Yeah I heard you on that new Lupe.’ You know for cats like me, that’s a blessing to hear something like that because you know Andre one of the dopest out there. It’s good though because it woke a lot of people up who didn’t know who I was or wasn’t in tuned with me. You can only imagine if I am doing that on features what am I going to be doing on my own project.
DX: Going back to Trae Day, talking about the importance because in July that would be what, what number with that in July?
Trae Tha Truth: It could probably be close to number eight maybe, seven or eight maybe.
DX: That’s eight, so that mean you’ve given out hundreds of backpacks…hundreds of school supplies and stuff….
Trae Tha Truth: Ahhh no no no no. I give out each Trae day I give out no less than a thousand of backpacks. Trae Day, the mayor and the city of Houston gave it to me for being on of the big homies out there. I just genuinely have love for kids. Even though it’s a celebration for me, I go get all they school supplies, they school clothes, they immunization shots, HIV Testing, carnival rides, games, animals-the petting zoo, face painting and I bring a lot of entertainers from across the world just to come kick it. For a lot of kids, it’s hard times, so they not really going to be able to go to a concert, sit up and go spend they money to go do this or do that. So, I bring them right there to you. If you see them on TV and you had your dreams that you would one day meet them,here they are right here. You can go touch em right now. That motivation in some way is different for me. When I see their smiles and their energy they get from it, that’s gives me my kicks just knowing I can be that big homie for them.
DX: You talk about the kicks you get from it. What’s been the most surprising moment that you’ve seen in any of the Trae Days? What was the most enlightening moments to where you realized like wow I’m really doing something important?
Trae Tha Truth: Everything it means so much in different ways. You get little kids crying telling me thank you, you get the Trae Day start and it’ll be a line around the block. People be very appreciative and supportive because not only about me and what I am doing. The fact that they support for me with what I am trying to do means a lot too. It be people other than just from Houston, it be people from everywhere that come out.
Trae Tha Truth Talks Popular Animated Web Series
DX: Do you ever see yourself running for an office position in Houston?
Trae Tha Truth: People always feel I will. Have I ever thought about it ? No, but my word count out there, so it is possible ?..Maybe. Am I? I don’t know.
DX: You got Trae Day, your musical output, and then one of my favorites is the web cartoons you have.
Trae Tha Truth: My cartoons is with JS; Jay Suge. Me and him have been rocking a long time. The cartoons just kicked back off. One of them was “420” where Snoop and RiFF RaFF was on that one. We did another one and the new one coming out with B.o.B. I got them just coming randomly man.
DX: Let’s talk about the growing pains of involving that because you’ve been doing that for a while now.
Trae Tha Truth: Awhile back I signed with What The Funny [WTF] with Marlon Wayans and a few more people. It did good for it but a lot of sites like yourself and other places weren’t able to pick it up because it was more exclusive to them. So, it kind of slowed the momentum down just a little. Now we’re getting everybody back accustomed to the show. Back to where we’re doing our own thing. That ran it’s course and I’m pushing still.
DX: I hear you, so let’s get into Houston rap. What do you feel about the next generation of Houston rappers coming out.
Trae Tha Truth: I congratulate everybody doing they thing. I stay in my own lane doing me and I always been a firm believer of anybody pushing to do their thing, I am going to support it. That’s just me. I don’t have the ego. I don’t have that pride to where I have to feel like I am better than everybody else because it was a point in time when I was back coming up. At the end of the day, keep doing your thing. Man, I tell any artist, not just Houston artists in general, stay doing you. If that what you really feel, you passionate about and you believe in it, who gives a damn about what anybody else think. Nigga do what you gotta do. You gotta think, everybody wasn’t embracing me music wise; still not, but it’s not going to stop me. I’ve been banned from radio for six years and ain’t stopped yet. So, I done seen the good and the bad. Anybody doing they thing just keep doing you.
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Rupert spills the beans on Angie
The email inbox here at Hoaxtead Research is a funny thing. We receive all sorts, from death threats and lectures from people who still believe there’s a cult operating in Hampstead, to tips and information about ongoing stories. But every now and then we find something truly special—as we did last night.
Rupert Quaintance IV was arrested on Wednesday last, and while we’re still in the dark about his current whereabouts and legal status, we were most interested to receive an email from someone who was in touch with him via Facebook text in the days leading up to his arrest.
Our anonymous informant offered us a series of screenshots from a conversation they’d had with Rupert. We think they offer some intriguing insights, not only into Rupert and his relationship with Angie, but his opinion of the Hoaxtead pushers as a whole, and the potential future of his so-called ‘documentary’.
We present the screenshots to you here, just as we received them:
There you have it: Rupert finds Angela “disgusting”, “abusive”, and “gross”, and he was unimpressed with her claim that they were “in love with each other”. We wonder whether Angie really does understand the depth of Rupert’s loathing for her. As we’ve seen, she has an uncanny ability to twist reality until it suits her purposes, and there’s no reason to believe she’d do any differently in her relationship with Rupert.
We were interested to note that Rupert is dismissive of the “MKULTRA porn” that Angela and her fellow Hoaxtead pushers find so fascinating; and he says “I have distanced myself from all of them. I’ve seen all I need to”.
Is it safe to say that having accepting Angela’s generosity in paying for his flight to London, Rupert suddenly discovered that he’d bitten off far more than he could chew?
He sounds deeply disappointed in his grand European adventure now: not only does he despise Angie, but even the sainted Kevin Galalae is starting to sound like a less than delightful travel companion. (Not that anyone could have predicted that.) He’s broke, he’s been arrested, he’s disgusted with the entire business.
In fact, here are a couple of snippets from Rupert yesterday, responding to a slagfest between Angie and Yannis:
If we didn’t know better, we’d say the fight’s gone right out of him. Ah well, bravado and big talk will only get one so far. If Rupert’s wise, he’ll take that as a lesson.
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137 thoughts on “Rupert spills the beans on Angie”
Gone but not forgotten Rupert…. Not by a long chalk. After what you’ve done, of your own volition, you don’t get to come back from this. NO matter how you paint it you issued threats against innocent people. Desecrated things that matter, and made false accusations against people who had done nothing wrong. – all in pursuit of some childish idiotic ‘dream’ you have of fame. You’ve hurt little children; left them with nightmares, maybe scarred them for life. Disrupted the lives of decent families. No….. You don’t walk away from that.
You’re NEVER coming back from this and can forget any ideas of ‘making it’ in entertainment. You never had any skill or talent anyway – but this ends it. Take yourself OFF the internet completely and hope and pray somebody lets you shovel shit for a living.
How to deactivate your account Rupert…..
1) Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page.
2) Click “Security” in the left column.
3) Choose “Deactivate your account”, then follow the steps to confirm.
And BTW I think the lads may be round for a chat later. Don’t get up though; they’ve got a key……
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/resources/images/1926763/
It’s simple. People have been terrorised by the stuff and people he thinks is so great to get involved in …….. for ratings …….. a quick buck. Well done Rupert.
Well, it’s not like we didn’t try to warn him….
He obviously has no concept of the damage he’s done or how angry people are. Quite why he would chose to exploit and offend the very people that might have helped his ambitions is beyond any fathoming. But he needs to understand his days as a backwater hotel clerk were the pinnacle of his career.
It’s interesting: I think one reason people are so furious with Rupert is his incredible arrogance, combined with the truly terrible choice he made to follow Angie, who is clearly a foul individual, a liar with no conscience and no scruples. So many bad choices, and where has it led? Hardly to the success and fame he craves.
He obviously thinks increasing an Internet radio station’s ratings is worth it. He’s more mercenary than I thought, and that’s an incredible streak of cruelty to carry round. I pity him to be honest. It is a trait of psychopaths. As is grandiosity.
I saw him be rude to the Erith woman. That sealed it for me. That was him being natural, himself, with a woman who did nothing more than look out of her front door at what was going on in the alley by her flat.
Yes, that was Rupert in an unguarded, unrehearsed moment. It was not a pretty sight.
Rupert is a spoilt brat, lazy and dim-witted. And fundamentally dishonest. This is one reason why he thinks fame can simply be grasped without paying the appropriate dues. – He’s never grown beyond that childish ‘pretend’ stage where one day you can be a Fireman and in the afternoon a Doctor; his life is just play-acting. And he’s got away with that because no-one has made him stand on his own two feet. ….This internet ‘radio’ station? Just a child’s toy really; the 21st century equivalent of a CB set! ‘Film maker’? Wandering around like some twelve-year-old with a toy camera…. It’s all just childish fantasy.
But I’m afraid he went far too far when he started interfering with the real lives of grown-ups.
Yes, that’s the real crux of it: when his actions started causing people to fear for their children’s safety, it stopped being fun and games.
I think Joe Kerr says everything I think so no need to repeat it except I don’t forgive anyone who has contributed to the attempts to destroy even further, the lives of the 2 kids in this drama and their father and all those other innocent North London folk including that poor woman who fled her church flat with her kids.
Everyone else’s comments are also spot on.
And you do not get to tell the world : ” these people want to fuck little kid’s arseholes and it almost makes you want to try it to see what it’s like” or say you pissed up against a church wall ( I’m non-religious but have total respect for anyone’s religious beliefs and would never insult them for it) of infer you carry a knife which is a serious crime in the UK and then ramble on about how many bloody guns you and your mum have, and put these things on the web for the direct purpose of making people believe it’s true and then back peddle like crazy. moaning when it all goes arse over tit.
And staying with and being friendly with people like Power-Disney and then calling her all sorts of names because the whole shemozzle fell apart just shows that you ain’t no Southern Gentleman and are still just an arrogant prick.
Is there a link to that? I missed that. Need to see any Rupert Action that re-enforces his capacity to be a Class One Prat.
Yes, it’s not as if Angie wasn’t obviously a lying manipulator from the start. Seems odd to be surprised now.
It was on his GoFundMe page, I believe.
I watched the video on his GoFundme page (hard going- arrogance abounds) but I had to stop for a while after spluttering my tea yet again when he boasts the:
“trolls said I would be arrested..and I came through here twice now and no problems whatsoever” LOL.
It’s true..he cannot deny we didn’t warn him about everything that has unfolded.
Also note : Angie has now added a post to her Irish demo stating “this is how the Irish do it” (apparently the Irish ‘do it’ like every other bloody nation does) several hours after Hoaxtead queries the photo and one cleverly unmasked it as not a snap taken in London.
Poor Angie- it’s all unraveling.
Is Rupert still in England?
It seems to me that Rupert must be waiting for a court case otherwise why is he sticking around.
Perhaps he didn’t listen to the people on here because we told him so and that made him want to stick by Angela longer than he has.
At least he has finally realised what she is.
I don’t understand re the Yannis “YUCK” Emmanuol situation why Rupert didn’t just delete the whole thread where he says he’s had enough etc. If it was too much just delete…
As for tor this Quaintance goose ludicrously stating the UK will be “legalizing child sex abuse” perhaps he should read this report:
“”Even if the true prevalence of child sexual abuse is not known, most will agree that there will be 500,000 babies born in the US this year that will be sexually abused before they turn 18 if we do not prevent it,” according to the Children Assessment Centre (CAC).
The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau report Child Maltreatment 2010 found that 16% of young people aged 14 to 17 had been sexually victimized in that year, and over the course of their lifetime, 28% of young people in the US, aged 14 to 17, had been sexually victimized.”
Quaintance is a vacuous lightweight phony who seized upon a scheme fomented by an Irish scammer as a way of getting a free trip to the UK but it blew up in his face.
# and what DID happen to those pals in Rome on their hunger strike? Dropped for being no longer of use?
The real problem for Rupert Wilson Quainance is that he has now ensured an entire internet trail of his infractions, scams and arrest has been laid out for all the world to see. We still don’t know the details of his arrest but we will eventually.
When people go for a job these days (unlike in my youth) there are another 200 seeking that job. Antone with the slightest mark against their name doesn’t get past first base. Unfair but that’s reality and probably as true in Culpepper as in London.
If his dad does work associated with the CIA I reckon he would be appalled with his son’s reckless adventure. Rupert should atone for his actions by taking up genuine charity work in Culpepper- feeding the homeless and so on until he has redeemed himself.
Sounds to me by the very muted way he is posting remarks and his “I’m outa this particular scam” and ” I wuz fooled by a crazy lady” he may still be in the UK and has been advised by a lawyer to cool his language.
I think if he were back in the USA he would be laying into how ghastly and corrupt the British cops are and the legal system is run by pedos and The Cult deliberately silenced the Great Warrior etc etc, yadda yadda, blah,blah blah.
## I still believe it’s all about a visa irregularity and it’s not uncommon for Immigration to delay immediately deporting an offender and because illegal workers are such a huge problem they may chose to charge him and put him through the court process for maximum publicity.
Of course even I can be wrong !!
LOL, Angela will shit when she sees this.
And Rupert will be so pissed off when he realises his convo wasn’t as private as he thought. EC’s contact has really done a number on him and stabbed in in the back. So sneaky, so mean…and I for one truly appreciate it. Hehe 😀
Roger Flutterby says:
A lot of these old posts and comments have taken on a whole new meaning now. LOL 😀
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/qbert-gets-cold-feet
I’m trying to find an old screenshot of a conversation that Danielle George (I think) had with Rupert around March/April, in which he admitted that the donations to his GoFundMe (especially Angie’s £1,000) were a bit much and implied that he was regretting getting involved…
Sorry, I can’t find the screenshot in question but this is a related one, posted at the time:
Oh now I see the Rome hunger striker IS Kevin Galalae- so hard to keep track of these truthers.
I see there is yet another of these ‘TV Networks ” which are just Youtube channels but this one called WHDT World Television service goes all out with a suited talking head and a back drop that looks very kosher and so on but really- it’s just another form of deception by amateurs imitating real TV networks and trying to give the appearance of a solid entity when it’s just cheap smoke & mirrors.
On this one the ‘newsreader’ says in 2014 that Galalae’s hunger strike may force The Pope to ..oh I don’t know…do something like come out of The Vatican and speak to Kevin but of course he did sod all connected with them.
What a strange world they inhabit. I mean we do live in a strange world full of media we can’t really trust but this Truther Mob take it to a whole new level where they fool themselves and a few 100 devoted followers if they are lucky.
And they call us a Cult !!
Oh and lest we forget:
(Go to 4:57)
Back-tracking par excellence:
From early April:
I wonder whether it was Papa Quaintance the Turd or Ma Kazza who used to whack Rupert with a paddle.
And it does rather beg the question of why she’s been unable to upload any real pics of the child abuse rally that she, ahem, definitely did attend.
My prediction is that in her next video, Angie will bang on about how Rupert was brainwashed and/or mind-controlled by the cult while he was in police custody.
Rupert handled this opportunity badly, he would have been better to have taken note of journalists such as Louise Theroux in approaching the Hamsptead subject from a less confrontational, objective and open-ended point of view. I doubt many of those opposing the hoax were willing to talk to Rupert, so all he has is the material of crazies such as Jake Clarke and Neelu Berry to play with for his “documentary.”
Rupert Wilson Quaintance IV was never middle of the road in his public actions and words, he waged war on the innocent victims of this hoax, he waged war against Satanism, he waged war on the children. Rupert is the one Satan Hunter who has pissed me off the most.
People’s mothers read about all this stuff that Abraham Christie and Ella Draper torturned their children into saying about them. People’s mothers know about shit through people’s doors. People’s mothers know about emails sent to everyone at their child’s workplace. People’s mothers know that their children have fireproofed their doors against arson and petrol bombs. People’s mothers know their families have had to move. People’s mothers know their grandchildren have had to move school because of a pair of evil POS.
Rupert and his mum get really butthurt. People in the UK are supposed just be all smiles and nicey nicey about all this utter evil.
I think we’ve got to wait until Thursday for the latest update “show”.
Madam says she is travelling tomorrow.
Well it’s not to Luton’s Coral Unit or Luton Airport but to Lanzarote.
Nice work if you can get it.
Funny how Angela never explains how she gets the money she lives on, or how she pays for all of her travel, mmm…
From what I have heard, the present Pope is quite good at getting back to people if they approach him through the regular channels. I don’t suppose he would get back to anyone who was clearly mad and accusing him of being involved in a New World Order depopulation plot.
The truth is more like, Rupert’s had a complete break from the manipulating Angela and come to his senses finally.
He’s realised all the people he’s involved himself with in this hoax are “nuts” in some way.
He can’t wait to get back home to Mom and wants to break away from everyone involved with this Hampstead saga, but they came on his fb page and stirred things again for him.
Yucky Yannis and Agitator Angie.
He will come out of this realising there was no such thing as a free lunch.
As for any future career well there probably never was going to be one anyway.
Rupert had all the privileges and didn’t get anywhere…
Angela Power Disney is now carrying Rupert’s baby, after their nights of sexual passion.
amama says:
Nevertheless “they’re all nuts” is a sign that a glimmer of reality is beginning to shine through the brain clouds. “All nuts”. Group psychosis, folie a multitude.
This is fascinating stuff. We did speculate that Rupert might not be as green as he is cabbage looking. The thing is, Hoaxtead is not the sort of subject that can be turned into a documentary. The involvement of children makes it almost impossible to do without breaching existing court orders or further invading the privacy of the victims. The Hoaxers can be exposed, but their victims will want to remain anonymous.
She will have about every benefit and hand out milkable from the system,together with a few charity wheezes,insurance fiddles and no doubt other yet to be uncovered earners.
The woman is one of lifes opportunists and void of any scruples or conscience. She considers herself entitled and can do precisely as she pleases.She even believes she has the big G covering her arse!!!If anything does not “fit” with her world(like say the truth)she will seek onlt to to eliminate it.
Nothing will ever change inside Angie but the world can hopefully learn to give her a wide berth.Sadly after all this there will be fresh victims and until she is raptured in one way or another that is the unfortunate situation.
I suspect her kids bit by bit will gravity away from her grip and she may at best receive occasional duty xmas cards etc.The real worth and wheat in life will seep away through the cracks and Angie will end up as a sack of shit decaying in an obscure u bend of history.Not a beautiful life.
What a fucking idiot he is…..
I’m certain they have the equivalent of our FE/HE colleges over there. If he wanted to get into performance why didn’t he sign up for a course, join some theatre groups, perhaps even move on to study at Bachelor level? Too lazy and stupid to pay his dues that’s why.
Journalists such as Louise Theroux are educated people who took the time to learn and understand the rules and work with the backup of a team of experts….. Directors, Commissioning Editors, Lawyers and Paralegals, Researchers, PR, Technicians et.
Rupert is (literally) some wanker with a flea-market tripod, a shitty toy video camera of the type your Granny might take on holiday, lacking the patience to edit and with no clue of how the law or the world works.
That prank is just nasty 😮
Actually, if you know what you’re doing a subject like Hoaxtead might well yield, or at least contribute to a legitimate documentary. A skilled professional would understand perfectly how to work within the constraints of standard reporting restrictions. An honest agent would faithfully report the story that emerges. And they would understand the limits that professionalism places on someone positioning themselves as an insider; especially in terms of their future reporting.
Rupert, on the other hand, is every bit as cabbage as he is cabbage looking. He’s done, I doubt the hotel will have him back now, they’ll be made aware of his antics and the likely impact on bookings. He should perhaps apply to the local Cleansing Department; though I can understand if people object to him walking the streets and coming near their children.
Seems to be a film prop….. I agree, you shouldn’t go around doing that to people, but it’s really skilfully made.
Keep digging, fruitloop!
By the way, how’s this for shoveling? She’s posted that comment under the pics of her posing by Big Ben etc., not of the one of the Dublin water bill march that she hilariously tried to pass off as a London child abuse rally. She knows full well what pics we’re referring to.
And as for Kristie Sue Costa, the mad bint has actually been PMing a number of us (not the other way round), desperate for dirt on Angie’s fake pic and ‘alleged’ no-show. LOL
The KSC ‘article’ is up:
https://www.facebook.com/notes/believe-the-children/panem-circenses/251732221889110
This really is a bloody soap opera, isn’t it. And in this Angie v Kristie episode, it’s impossible to know who to root for, as they’re both arseholes. A plague on both arseholes, I say.
“Since early-2015, there have been extensive online efforts to discredit the testimony of the two children involved in the Hampstead allegations, and in particular, the integrity of their mother who first reported the allegations to authorities.”
Actually, Kristie Sue, Ella discredited herself bye…er…NOT reporting the abuse to the authorities. No, that was left to her brother-in-law Jean Clement, because Ella and Abe couldn’t be arsed.
How she manages all this when her bank account is empty I really can’t fathom.
Yes, that’s my understanding as well.
KSC has written a whole section on ‘Spreading Horrible Rumours’.
“Angela claims the information came from a reliable source (in her opinion) yet has not seen any concrete evidence to confirm or deny the allegations to date. Quite an irresponsible act to publish such allegations without seeing the evidence, or doing a little research…”
No hypocrisy there, then.
Incoming…… A collective response to Rupert follows.
1) You’re a liar… There is blending in and there is rolling about in the shit. Delusional idiot that you are, you thought you could just play Journalist and score a free world tour. You backed the wrong donkey. But in the process you CHOSE to abuse a lot of innocent people. As Joe points out, many of them are the very folk that could have assisted you in your aspirations. Your doors are now closed.
2) You got caught in the middle because you ran there and started goading people. Take a look in the mirror you fucked-up puny little stick insect. Yes, you’re not only a ‘disappointment’ your a fraud and a failure. And there is a cost to that.
3) You want to apologise? Then you remove EVERY piece of social media content you ever posted and you leave a single paragraph apology on them all. You go back to Virginia and live the life of the nobody you are. And pray, just pray, that when you inherit nobody comes after you for every sorry penny you never earned. Be aware that you’ve upset REAL Journalists REAL Lawyers and REAL entertainment people. Lift your face off the floor you’re sweeping and they’ll see to it you’re living in a cardboard box under a bridge just like your Italian friends. Capiche?
4) You didn’t get “investigatey”. – That’s nowhere in your skillset. You are a delusional arsehole. Your and your family’s name are now MUD thanks to your antics. You’ll get your shitty little toy camera and flea market tripod back. Expect your holiday snaps to be erased; but in any case… Use a frame of it and a great big huge machine will come along and sue the Quaintance clan into obscurity. – We don’t care if your brother has a machine gun or mommy packs a piece in her knickers. What we do will be legal and justified, unlike the shit you got up to.
5) We expect to see you deleting yourself by 00:00 hours GMT on the 20th of September.
Oh, now, don’t confuse her with facts. You know how she gets.
Hahahahahahaha!! 😂😂😂
Nobody believes for a moment you were ever going to “burn the activists down”. IF that were the case you would NEVER have used rhetoric that left little children frightened to go to sleep at night in case you ‘kicked down the doors’ of their school or even their home. You wouldn’t have hurt and frightened little old ladies by implying you were literally pissing on their sincerely-held Christian beliefs ( some fucking ‘conservative’ you are!) and waiting around the corner with a ‘biscuit’ (i.e. blade) in your pocket!
Where the fuck do you get off leaving some respectable straight-laced old person too frightened to go to church on a Sunday?
It’s quite comical that you tried to play the tough guy Rupert, you’re such an underdeveloped little man! But still, anyone who knew what they were doing and was capable of infiltrating such a group would have known better than to cross that line. Incidentally – the ‘group’ responsible for the above response includes the very Lawyers who hope to have the opportunity to financially cripple you and your family. And some very angry policemen too! You have a chance to walk. – Walk! Fast and far!
For Ghost of Sam, if you have not found it already.
Rupert being “charming” from about 2m20 on
uh?, dont know why that is not showing but for Ghost of Sam.
Go to his Facebook page
hi its rupert
click on videos and it is a fairly recent one labelled ‘UK Pedos: Update 2’. He starts his ‘hearts and minds’ charm offensive (!) on the local people at about 2m20s
Don’t worry, mate – it is showing. If you can’t see it, it’s because you’ve been blocked by Rupert. And don’t take that personally – he does it to all of us, LOL.
Whatever Rupert has been busted for, his experience has reduced him to a cowardly cringing puppy.
Yes, the problem of course is that when we expose her lies, she must lie about having lied. It’s all very complicated.
He was that already. – Thought he could snarl like a big dog.
Oh, at very least. And I will see your “they brainwashed/mind-controlled Rupert” and raise you a “they injected Angie with cancer”. I’m still fully expecting a cancer scare from her, and I’m sure it’ll be linked in some way to “MKULTRA”.
I had a puppy once who used to run around yapping and piddling on the carpet. If you scolded him, he’d yap louder and piddle more…he never really seemed to realise that the yapping and piddling were what caused the scolding.
Eventually, that dog was able to be housetrained. I wonder if the same will be said for Rupert?
Yes, I think “what’s wrong with Angie” comes down to a malignant personality disorder. She’s stated this in at least one of her videos, seemed to think it was a joke. It’s not.
He is a cringing puppy with no teeth.
She’s already done the cancer scare thing, though. She mentioned it the other day, saying she was cured using cannabis. She must be running out of scam ideas now.
Yes, before he decided to come here to raise hell, he might have thought just a little bit about the people he would be attacking. It’s not as if this was a spur of the moment decision: he and Angie had plenty of time to work it all out, and the hoax has been debunked several ways, in various places around the internet.
I cannot imagine being so dense as to think that he’d be welcomed, or even received neutrally, by people who have been through what the victims of this hoax have endured.
Two new ones from MKD/CCNE:
Not really…… Talk is circulating now of the Quaintances being sued. Certain individuals have obtained diagnosis of what for the moment I’ll mis-label ‘PTSD’ type ilness as the result of what Rupert did aggravated by Karen’s involvement/endorsement. And some of these people have the knowledge connections and financial clout to start proceedings against him through the U.S. courts. – Unlike Rupert, they’re not fantasists. And are angry enough to start throwing six-figure lawsuits at both Rupert and Karen.
He and his family might not be left with a house for him to be house-trained to!
Haha, Angie will be over the moon to see she’s been soundtracked by her bête noire Cliff Richard 😀
Running out of scam ideas? Angie? Nevah!
Not odd, just dishonest.
You mean the one that ahem, definitely did happen? The one that didn’t consist of two Collies and a man who thought he was going to meet Stirling Moss? The one that didn’t collapse due to being overrun by nutcases?
what a coincidence! sabine who was involved in the hollie greigg scam was good friends with ella, what are the odds?
Astonishing, isn’t it? We posted a series about the genesis of the hoax some time ago; it might be time to revive those posts. 🙂
The very one! I’m waiting for a firsthand account of the event…will let you know when it comes in.
I thought she was a huge fan of Cliffs? Especially as her life is all about driving as fast as possible towards the edge of one!
If she is, she hides it very well!
He couldn’t have regretted it that much as he kept asking for more money at every opportunity that he had.
Surely if yesterday was any success, numbers wise then Angie wouldn’t hesitate to post the photos up. So i think her silence says it all.
He was that…… In fact he was milking it for all he was worth right up to the point where the Police lifted him. He’s only back-pedalling now because he realises he’s in serious trouble, his toys have been taken off him and there is a very good chance he and his mother are going to be hit with substantial lawsuits.
And it is a pleasure to see Rupert for the coward that we said he was all along.
No wonder Cliff says they have almost destroyed his life.
How many goons are there out there just like this Irish battleaxe that simply accept any accusation as long as it involves their favourite subject- child abuse (apart from one of the allegations had Cliff on roller skates, skating down a High Street and suddenly veering into a ship to grope a lad and out again and then return a few minutes later, quick fumble and then zoom off on his skates!)
Whatever happens with this Hoaxtead case which I believe will peter out of it’s own accord eventually given the main players are now all facing court and are bound to be given even stricter silence orders – I’m determined this Power-Disney dame is not let off the hook. She must pursued and exposed so no-one gets taken in be her again.
As for Rupert Quaintance now claiming he was never really part of these fanatics, who does he think he’s kidding? He actively encouraged people to post images of the children. And now I’ve seen his arrogant go at some poor lady who opened her door and probably wondered why some goon was wondering up and down her alley way- he shall not be forgiven for his rudeness.
Obviously no-one went to that rally because they weren’t going in the first place. For the vast majority of Hoaxers this matter is already becoming a bore and they are looking for a new sensation. It was just the hardcore and they all got arrested, except Angie and her pathetic attempt to pretend there was a rally- she’s just one really bad liar.
The Hollie Greigg case proved you could cause immense damage in people’s lives (the falsely accused) and almost get away with it. But those brave ladies fought back and eventually cleared their names but it took a few years.
i think Ella took note and thought she could cause the same grief for her ex-husband but with the career criminal Abraham Christie on the case the whole thing blew up into a drama that hit the national media and blew up in their faces.
MK Ultra 666esque level of dark image play there Spiny.Top work 😉
Rupert on APD “Lets just say when I visited her, oh it was terrible.”
Call me inquisitive, but I’d love him to expand on that..
And lest we forget they got the scamming bastard Robert Green incarcerated.
He says he has a recording of Angela and Kevin being abusive to him. I’d pay to hear that.
I dont suppose he has made contact with that nurse at Jakes clinic whom he insulted and blazened across the internet.He is in damage limitation made. When he is back in his safe space with momie he will most likely revert to type eg complete wanker.
His antics are unforgivable even if he was an 18 year old kid,the fact that he is pushing 40 makes this individual terminally beyond the pail.Well done Karen for defending him and not reigning him in.Shit child, shit parents.
This is exactly why people are talking about going after them financially Mik. When he was posting here as FOTW the other night he was as arrogant as ever and only started to get rattled when it became clear he was fooling no-one. Once he gets back to the US he will start imagining himself invincible again. Him and the old bat that raised him need hitting where it hurts; with these ‘types’ that’s in the pocketbook.
Yeah come on Rupert if ya gonna splll the beans go the full hog.
Actually Sam/Lisa, one of the big problems with the Hollie Greig case is that the authorities FAILED to clear the names of the people Green had defamed. The ladies you refer to didn’t get anyone put away. – Green was jailed for breach of the peace, mainly on the basis that he had frightened people on a certain Aberdeen housing estate. Which – like the carry on with Neelu and Sabine – was a completely inappropriate charge. Green only went down because instead of defending himself he tried to use his own trial as a platform to pursue his wider bizarre agenda. His subsequent visits inside were due to him breaching various orders and conditions.
It’s was, I’m told on good authority, said by one of Scotland’s leading criminal defence lawyers that Green’s conviction was “unfortunate and unnecessary”. – But (as was also put to me) ‘his own mother’ sitting as Sheriff would have had no choice but to convict him and the complete pile of bloody nonsense he offered as a ‘defence’ was of absolutely no relevance to the charge he was facing! There isn’t a shred of doubt that beyond what she was compensated for the allegations in relation to Hollie Greig are not supported by a shred of evidence, and actually debunk themselves (like Hoaxtead). But the one thing that keeps it ‘in the air’ is that the whole debacle represents a twisted failure of justice. – The links to McKenzie and other well-known scammers, and even (arguably) a now-convicted child rapist only make the waters surrounding the Hollie Greig hoax muddier!
Don’t tell him that…he’ll have a pay-per-view site up next, LOL.
I know, it’s interesting. Not quite the way Angie would like the world to see it, but that’s no surprise.
Am I the only one who finds it amusing that the way the nutters convince one another that their ‘news channels’ are legit is by dressing them up to look like…well, the dreaded mainstream media (MSM)?
Rupert: “…I’d really like my equipment back…” seems to be the crux of the biscuit, IMO.
I think he’s hoping that “I totally agree with the police now”, etc., will facilitate the return of his equipment.
But I already bought it, through a “seized items” auction, and crushed it in an industrial garbage compactor 🙂
What a terrible thing to do, JS! Now you owe Rupert at least $5.
Rupert has said himself that his dream is to live by being on camera and has looked at Alex Jones as an inspiration. However, most of what Jones puts out is attacking adults that to some degree expect to be attacked. Politicians and big business…etc.
This case involves the average person and their children. People have truly been harmed by this case and they are still being attacked. To put it mildly, Rupert was very misguided to have chosen this as a subject matter, regardless of how neutral he now claims to be. Even more misguided to have aligned himself with Angie, one of the worst for spreading misinformation, disinformation and outright lies.
As others have said, the most interesting documentary angle would be looking at the dynamics of Angie and her friends. If you look at documentaries about WBC, survivalists, UFO enthusiasts, Scientologists…etc, what makes it interesting is the relationships between those members and what brings them together. The likes of Angie, Sabine, Neelu, Belinda…etc, really are a cult. A cult worthy of investigation. The only real cult in this case.
Very much so, Dave. Scarlet Scoop was saying that when she founded the blog a year and half ago, but it bears repeating.
C.I.A says:
https://m.facebook.com/notes/believe-the-children/panem-circenses/251732221889110/?__mref=message_bubble
Rupert can dream, as many do, until he’s blue in the face. But he’s clearly unprepared to learn the basics of the craft to which he aspires. He’s what we call a ‘mug punter’. And has bought the snake-oil version of media success. He’s not bright enough to realise that people like Alex Jones are just the 21st century evolution of the old side-show travelling salesmen. And they are basically there to shift ‘Dr Good’ style rubbish. – Additionally, these guys are seriously invested in the literacy of their genre and the technology which underpins it….. It’s a cold business.
Rupert remains just a random tosser with a toy video camera. – And it’s maybe part of the great game that the likes of Alex Jones isn’t honest enough to reign a clown like this in. He won’t be ‘too keen’ on competition for his audience share. And where it does ’emerge’ it will be from within a carefully vetted ‘inner circle’. As for Angie, Neelu Sabine and the rest of the ‘McKenzie Group’ scams. – They seem to be part of a relatively small ‘pool’ of London based criminals that have been running various scams since at least the early 1980s. I do know of people who are researching themes surrounding them. More than that I’d prefer not to say.
He’ll get his toy rubbish back eventually, minus the harassing material which will be erased. Of course, he MAY have to return to London to collect it; by which time he’ll be banned from entering the UK. – I did enjoy “Catch 22”.
What he had was cheap junk anyway.
I can’t find the comment now, I think it might have been from Joe, about Deatheaters and how clownish showboating not only contributes nothing to Child Protection but actively distracts from the serious work on Child Protection issues. I wanted to say how much I appreciated that comment, whomever you are.
Particularly disturbing to me is Deatheaters obsession with the mythology of child “snuff” porn, and like so many similar conspiranoids, their uncritical acceptance of Dave McGowan’s “The Pedophocracy” as an accurate revelation & analysis of “what’s really going on”. Actually, McGowan was a sh*t researcher, none of his material was original research – he simply compiled other people’s paranoid misinformation into one grand thesis with no understanding of the original source info that he misquotes and misinterprets to serve his own purposes.
For example – in the late 1990’s the Russian Mafia was running some boy-porn operations and selling videos of their “work” over the internet. (They were selling some of the ‘models’ too, even more disturbing!)
The FBI, Interpol and Russian police worked together to bust one of these operations, which had a “pedo necros” listing in their ‘catalog’. (These titles turned out not to be actual “snuff”, just child S&M being marketed that way). Police investigators turned this operation into one of their favorite and most effective stings. They traced the server through which the porn operation was marketing their stuff and caught the operator by surprise, at the controls. Instead of shutting it down, they replaced the operator with a specialist investigator who took over the controls and carried on the operation for several months, playing the role of the server operator. This allows them to access the info about customers necessary to trace them, research them, and target the ones with access to children for priority arrests.
After the conclusion of the police sting, when the operation really was shut down and customers were arrested, the Italian press published some email conversation evidence which revealed the true depravity of some child porn customers. One example, which I’m not going to quote precisely, went like this:
Snuff seeking customer: “I’ve been burned before. How do I know this will be the real thing?”
Operator: “Trust me, this one dies”
McGowan and his idiot fans use this as proof that the Russian mob really was selling “snuff” porn, demonstrating that they don’t understand the “Operator” in that conversation was THE POLICE INVESTIGATOR, dutifully playing the role of mobster porn marketer. Although he knows better, he is doing his best to lure this customer into making a purchase – he REALLY wants this snuff-seeking sicko’s info, from the purchase, because he is the type of depraved pervert who will be targeted for priority arrest – for obvious reasons.
McGowan’s naive assumptions about this are accepted as fact by people like Deatheaters and the misinformation about it is repeated over & over throughout their networks.
It possibly was myself Justin; I’m not alone in questioning this infantilisation of what is a particularly dreadful, soul-sucking and just ‘dirty’ form of abuse. One of the lowest ebbs humanity can sink to.
In the late 90s the internet was much smaller and slower. And I understand where the press ‘were coming from’ in publishing that account as they did. Hindsight being 20:20 I doubt the wisdom of it though as it does seem to have encouraged a fanciful narrative. Surprised they could stream much in the way of video back then. I’ve recently learned that even these days material is typically sent on USB media, partly to evade the attention busy servers might draw.
I see a comment above about will Angie pull a cancer scare. No doubts. She is like Janet Schrodenberg (sorry if thats bad spelling) She has claimed many times to have had cancer. Ironically dim jim is talking to her and her good friend Adeybob on twitter, even with the news their good friend Darren Laverty is looking to be sentenced for trolling a survivor and Sonya Poulton. He really doesn’t have a good nose for wrong’ens. Janet is harbouring her brother in holland, i won’t begin to talk about her brother and his crime, its too horrid to post.
I am aware of certain feuds between people, convictions, arrests. I generally keep my opinion to myself really.
The sting with a police operator is how Sabine’s friend got caught and convicted.
Fair dues
There’s a truly interesting story about who actually benefits, has their aims furthered, by lurid tales of child abuse cover ups. I can tell you, Anjem Choudary’s very last tweet, one last year, gone because his account was deleted, included the hashtag #TedHeath. He was also complaining about child protection. Also, who also is well know for government sponsored media peddling outright conspiracy stuff? Iran and Russia for a start off the top of my head. Which politician is riding the wave of support from basement conspiracists and admires Putin?
I’m not conspiracy minded myself but I have seen this stuff benefit bad people. When people trust no one in government or authority someone is going to step into that vacuum and I only see bad portents so far.
I’m somewhat aware of the technique Ginger….. The police do what they need to do. If they’re banging these perverts up they get no criticism from me.
@Joe – sorry, I might not have given you a wrong impression from my bare-bones account of that operation. My understanding is, the mobster’s website had a catalog divided into categories, under each of which there were small ‘teaser’ clip samples from the VIDEOTAPES that they were selling. People might recall this case from the surprising revelation that the mobsters actually used a well known international courier service to deliver the video cassettes to their customers.
And as JK said, Rupert’s only regretting it now because he realises he’s in big trouble and his toys (i.e. camera equipment) have been confiscated. I very much doubt there’s a genuine sense of remorse for the damage he’s done.
Agreed, Dave. Before we let Jones off the hook, though, I feel I should point out that he too jumped on the Hampstead bandwagon at one point and sought to fan the SRA flames. Somewhere there’s a video of him ranting about it but I can’t seem to find it.
Is this the comment you’re looking for, Justin?:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2016/09/17/will-angie-show-her-face-at-todays-protest/#comment-43374
Ah! I see! I did wonder, but then you can put nothing past these characters. IIRC correctly sending a video file was just about possible back then, but it would have been at very low resolution and reduced frame rate. And possibly taken days to download. – And right enough, what would cause the minimum suspicion BUT a mainstream courier.
Hey diddle,diddle
The bats on the fiddle
The old cow jumped over the moon.(Resulting from a serious bullshit generated methane overload)
The coyote did laugh
to see such fun
because her shit stirring spoon is now firmly stuck right up her arse.
Angie spotted embarking on a new career stealing Xmas tress.
The more I think about it Spiny, Jones has run plenty of stories as sickening as this case. I missed the video in which he discusses this. Interestingly, Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars, called this as a hoax early on, and has also had run ins with Rupert.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she does really get throat cancer or emphysema the amount of fags she gets through.
Don’t wish it upon her or anyone but it would be ironic if she did as who would believe her?. I also think the cigarettes are why she has that throaty voice and note, she is always coughing.
I think Angela Power Disney has a natural nose for associating with paedophiles, hence her choosing Rupert and Jake, both who I think are latent paedophiles. I think all efforts to keep Jake and Rupert away from children will save a child from being badly raped or abused.
For those who may have missed it first time around, the Radio 4 documentary ‘The Satanic Cult That Wasn’t’ by David Aaronovitch does a decent job and generated the usual flack from the usual suspects (always been a source of great disappointment that Bea Campbell still props up the belief in SRA)
But, anyhoo, worth a listen, as is the two parter, The Anatomy of a Panic, that R4 did a month later about the history of SRA..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05r40r5
Angie as always posting endless links to dodgy satanist pedo tales (is this what she means by being an “activist” against child abuse?- surfing the net?)
These clots never do real research though. One of her latest grabbed my attention because it mentioned Australia but alas, it lead to the well known “truther” nutcase Henry Makow.
I chose a random paragraph (can’t take reading their entire B/S) and yes, there was one glaring and idiotic mistake which amply demonstrates this dangerous mob of sheeple (they are the ‘sheeple’ blindly accepting every nutcase’s web rantings.
It claimed the US Federal Reserve also own the Reserve Bank in Australia. Not so-the US Federal Reserve is a privately owned entity that wields much power.
The Australian Reserve Bank is a government body and always has been. It’s directors and CEO are government appointees and it oversees control of private banks with some of the strictest controls on banks in the world, so much so that an Aussie bank has never gone bust and they all make huge profits with the Reserve Bank setting interest rates and this is one reason why Australia wasn’t hit by the 2007/8 financial collapse in the US and basically rode out the calamity relatively unscathed.
So no devil-worshipers there.
Yes, why bother with actual research when you can rely on guesswork and innuendo?
You can generate judge the worth of these programmes by the volume of screeching they elicit from the other side.
#Yup
I think the pay out to Hollie by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board (am I right?) seemed to confuse matters a lot and made people assume there was more substance in the outlandish claims than there was. We have seen something similar with Bishop Bell recently. I know some clerics who are very angry that the Church of England paid out a lot of money on the basis of very little investigation and managed to blacken the reputation of a man who many still regard very highly.
Hollywood has a lot to answer for. Usually characters in movies become great successes through “putting their heart into it” or “really wanting it” rather, than studying or training over a period of many years (not that that would make an interesting story line).
I hope the investigations into the McKenzie Group are going to produce some results.
The CICA payout was made on the basis that – on the balance of probability – she was abused as a child. And it’s actually fairly clear who is implicated in that. It’s also the case that the evidence surrounding THAT issue implicates the mother as being complicit in covering up that abuse. The waters were muddied further by the determination of some factions to discredit these official findings…… i.e. It wasn’t enough to clear the names of the defamed and debunk Anne Greig’s fabrications. It remains the case therefore than many credible people are convinced there was ‘something to hide’; although it’s not what Green tried to promote. The recent conviction of Hugh Mitchell may light a few lights, time will tell, the Police need the opportunity to do what they need to do. But it I hope it will all unravel in the end.
You’re right in suggesting the CICA payment was conflated by Green and his cohorts as if it proved other things had happened. It was effective because that (court) decision has weight, and trying to debunk it only drew suspicion on the people doing so. But then that IS Green’s (and McKenzie’s) ‘way of working’. The Irony is that if he had been convicted in some way that allowed his fairy stories to be explored in court, not only would the people he defamed had their names PROPERLY cleared in court (as they have a right to) but it might well have brought a whole house of cards tumbling down. It’s really not good enough that the only place these women have been vindicated is in an article written by a spud-faced wee nyaff who many people opine might well wind up on a sex-offender’s wing himself one day!
And this is where the interesting comparison with the Berry/McNeill case comes in. – They ‘got off’ quite easily on a technicality. Had Green offered any kind of relevant defence, the probability is that he would have walked too! That’s not just my opinion but one I’ve heard from a well-known Scottish QC! The question that arises from this is why did the authorities go to such lengths to avoid PROPERLY shutting the hoax down? SO, why ARE the authorities – the Crown Office and the CPS – fucking these cases up so royally? Answers on the back of an open cheque for about £500K please!
The amount of public money and police time wasted when these cases aren’t prosecuted properly is downright criminal.
I know a man who was generally regarded as a “wrong un'” by people in the village. He did a lot of minor things and was filmed by the police doing something serious which should have put a stop to many of his activities. The case fell through thanks to the intervention of a senior police officer who happened to be a member of the same golf club. The man in question continued in his ways and is now in prison for the murder of his own wife. (I can’t be more specific – I am very close to my source who knows exactly went on but has sworn me to secrecy).
I’m sure she’s already stated on previous videos that she has been diagnosed with COPD due to her smoking.
Lmao, classic picture Spiny. He does have bit of a bean head doesn’t he?
Then there is the more routine human cost…… Is it not the case that someone felt sufficiently unsafe in their flat near the church that they moved out? And we have another family just moved up here from Hampstead that include this very hoax among their reasons for getting out! The Hollie case wrecked businesses and severely disrupted lives, for what? – I do realise that people may be jealous of the Hampstead lifestyle and in some cases people might have rubbed others up the wrong way. But by what measure is hoaxing any way to ‘deal with’ such things?
I think it may be a symptom of “post-factual” politics. If reality doesn’t suit you, just make shit up. Quite depressing really. The French Revolution was in part started by scurrilous pamphlets about the alleged sex lives of Lois XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Whatever corruption there was in the ancien regime, drowning nuns in the Seine wasn’t the answer to anyone’s problems.
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****** * ********** trial update: Day 3
First, a word of explanation about the odd title of today’s court report. It seems that the Crown Court at Southwark is now listing this case as a series of asterisks, due to the Court Order made under s45a, Youth and Criminal Justice Act 1999, which we mentioned on Monday. We are following their lead, and will be changing the titles of the previous posts as well.
Court very nearly started on time today, with legal teams on both sides turning up only about 10 minutes late…but then it turned out that they needed just a bit more time to ensure that their evidence was in order, and so there was a brief adjournment, with court resuming at 10:47 a.m.
Once the jury was seated, the admissions were read into the record. Admissions constitute a series of facts which both prosecutor and defence agree are accurate.
In brief, the admissions consisted of joint acceptance that in 2014 two children made false allegations of SRA against various people including their father, their teachers, children and parents in their school, social workers, and police officers. Both sides agreed to the facts of the police investigation, the children being taken into protective custody, and the fact-finding hearing which led to the 19 March 2015 judgment by Mrs Justice Pauffley. It was agreed that a massive amount of information was released onto the internet, in contravention of a court order intended to protect the children in the case.
It was further agreed that the defendant was arrested in Erith, at which time his MacBook computer and external hard drive were examined by police. A GoFundMe account was discovered, which at the time contained $5,072 in contributions. In addition, a Skype conversation between Sabine McNeill and the defendant was discovered, containing a link to the website http://www.hampsteadchristchurch.com. This site contained a link which contained the names of the five witnesses in this trial, as well as a reference to one of the witnesses being “constantly on the move”. The hard drive contained an Excel spreadsheet last updated on 30 July 2016, containing the names of all five witnesses.
It was further agreed that the original version of the defendant’s first YouTube broadcast about Hampstead, in which he discussed kicking down doors and taking blood samples, was broadcast in February 2015, and that it was reposted at least once since then under a different URL.
Witness: Steve Martin
DC Steve Martin, a member of the CAIT (Child Abuse Investigation Team) took the witness stand, noting that his involvement in the Hampstead hoax went back to its genesis in 2014, and that he had continued to be involved with the accused and exonerated families. On the stand, he was questioned about three particular pieces of evidence: the original YouTube video; the defendant’s show on American Freedom Radio in which he stated that he “didn’t want to kill them, only to beat them up real good”; and the defendant’s Facebook post containing a selfie of himself outside Christ Church Primary School, which was posted on 5 September 2016.
DC Martin played the original video, in which the defendant was heard to say, “If nobody else wants to do it, I’ll do it”, stating that he would be willing to go to Hampstead, kick down doors, and take blood samples from the accused.
Next, DC Martin played the American Freedom Radio audio clip from approximately 1 hour and 2 minutes. In this clip, the defendant stated that he had seen a video of the two children at the centre of the Hampstead hoax, that he had made a response video, and that he had been trolled for it. He stated he wanted to get the names of those who had allegedly abused the children, and that he would get those people to tell the truth. During this show he stated, “I want to go the violent route. I don’t want to kill them, just beat them up real good”.
On the defendant’s public Facebook page, which had at that time approximately 5,000 friends and 7,000 followers, he posted on 5 September a photograph of himself in front of the school, with the comment, “This is what I look like at a moment of acute defiance”. Under the photo, a friend of the defendant commented, “Is there a biscuit in your pocket?” to which the defendant replied, “Knife?” The friend said, “Biscuit knife”, to which the defendant replied, “Sharp ham”.
DC Martin stated that on the defendant’s computer, a link to the HampsteadChristChurch.com site had been found, accessed via a link sent by Sabine McNeill on Skype. While the list containing the names of the five witnesses was not on the homepage of that site, someone using the defendant’s computer had visited the site on numerous occasions, either by searching on a search engine or via Facebook link.
On the hard drive recovered from the defendant’s room, a file was found marked AB, containing an Excel spreadsheet named “Cult details” and dated 16 April 2016. DC Martin showed this spreadsheet to the court onscreen. The spreadsheet contained the headings “Count” and “Parents and Children”, and contained personal details regarding numerous people.
When the defendant was arrested on 13 September 2016, said DC Martin, he was interviewed at Bethnal Green police station. At that time, his solicitor advised him not to comment. However, on the date of his bail return, he indicated to DC Martin that he wished to make a statement. He was interviewed without a solicitor, though he was reminded that should he wish to stop the interview at any time and bring in a solicitor, he could do so.
DC Martin and prosecutor Martyn Bowyer read aloud from the transcript of that interview, with DC Martin playing himself and Mr Bowyer taking the part of the defendant. During this interview, the defendant stated that he had become disillusioned with the people who had wanted him to come to the UK. “I hung out with those people, and I’d be happy to let you know more about them”, he said. Later, he noted that “the dumbest thing I did was to go to Angela Power-Disney”.
He noted that a person called “Kevin Justice” also annoyed him. “He seems to puff up, maybe to assert himself physically”, he said, adding that possibly this was because this person could tell that “I wasn’t really into what they were doing”. He stated that in respect of the “journalistic investigation” he had planned to do, “I found absolutely nothing” to incriminate any of the accused in the Hampstead case.
“When I got here I should have gone to the police and said, ‘I was funded by people I don’t like’,” he said, adding, “I was just going through the motions”. The defendant said he realised he had been wrong, and that since that realisation he had “just been trying to weasel out”.
The defendant also said he was being harassed online. He said he had gone to the church: “I was only going there to take pictures,” he said. “I was only there to show up the people who said I couldn’t”. He stated that he had not spoken to anyone while he was at the church and school.
In explanation of the conversation about the biscuit and knife under the Facebook post, the defendant said that this had arisen from a private joke between himself and his friend. This joke had originated when his friend had thrown a ham sandwich in a tinfoil wrapper at his head, which the defendant had found very funny.
The defendant said he was “aware of the collateral damage” from his activities, and noted that while he was “not asking for pity”, he had “never been taken this seriously before”. Asked whether he understood why people were scared, he said he did. “I was being a jerk online and things got out of control”, he said.
Witness: Defendant
In the afternoon, the defendant took the stand and was questioned by Mr Tom Stevens for the defence.
The defendant stated that prior to his involvement in the the events leading up to this case, he had been an hotelier in his hometown in the United States. Asked about his stint on American Freedom Radio, he said he had been broadcasting there for about a year before he made the post referring to “beating them up real good”. He admitted that he had been in conflict with the law on one previous occasion, involving a “tiny amount” of cannabis and a pipe. This occurred in 2001.
Asked about the circumstances under which he’d posted the YouTube video on 16 February 2015, he stated that he’d been made aware of the Hampstead children’s story, and that it seemed to meet the criteria for a video, due to its provocative nature. He made the video right after watching a video of the two children making their allegations, and had edited it and uploaded it an hour or two later.
Referring to the video of the children, the defendant said, “The content made me angry….Some pretty bad things were talked about. I had a sort of gutteral anger”. The reference to “kicking down doors” of churches and schools was a direct response to the video he’d seen, he said, adding, “It was hyperbolic, a figure of speech….I didn’t think it would happen”. He also said that the expression “kicking down doors” is common in America, and doesn’t imply any intention to actually do it.
“It was how I felt at the time,” he said, “I didn’t anticipate it would take on a life of its own”. Asked whether he had any intention that the accused in the case should see the video, the defendant said it had been intended for “his audience”.
Referring to the American Freedom Radio broadcast, the defendant said he had made it whilst he was in Holland. He said the people at home had wanted an update from him, and that he had also been experiencing considerable harassment online. Mr Stevens noted, “This is what you meant in your (police) interview—you’d had a negative response to your (earlier YouTube) video, and you were on the receiving end of people saying negative things about you”. The defendant agreed, stating he’d been “intimidated for about a year”, which had affected him. “I was very tense, and I was trying to maintain myself at work”.
The defendant stated that before leaving for the UK, he had received “threats about when and where people were going to meet me”.
Asked why he had made threats on the American Freedom Radio broadcast, the defendant said that this had been a response to the people who had been trying to dox and threaten him.
“Was that directed at the parents?” Mr Stevens asked.
“No,” said the defendant. “I was trying to express my frustration. I don’t know why I thought that would straighten things out. I had no intention to beat anyone up”.
Asked who would usually listen to his American Freedom Radio broadcasts, the defendant said, “Conspiracy theory buffs”. Mr Stevens asked whether the defendant had any idea that the people named in this case were listening to his broadcast. “No, only my family and the harassers”, the defendant said.
Mr Stevens asked who the main harasser was.
The defendant stated, “[The father in the Hampstead case]”.
He noted that he wanted out of his current city when he left the USA, due in part to the loss of his job and in part to the evolving political situation there. “It was an opportunity to travel”, he said. “That doesn’t happen much”. He said the first place he wanted to visit was the UK, but that he had interviewed Kevin Galalae who was going to Italy, and decided to accompany him there, to assist him whilst he was on his hunger strike in front of the Vatican.
Asked about the source of funding for his travel, the defendant said, “It was mostly from me. I sold everything”; the GoFundMe site was meant to supplement the money he was already putting into the trip. In a Skype comment, he stated, “I’m going to the UK to fight pedos. Please share”, which he characterised as a “brief way to say that it was going to be an investigation”. This message was sent to multiple people. The defendant claimed he was being sarcastic in characterising his trip this way: “It wasn’t meant to be taken literally”.
Mr Stevens asked the defendant about the £1,000 donation from Angela Power-Disney. The defendant replied, “She is…I guess you can call her an activist”. He guessed that she had contacted him because of the YouTube video he’d made about Hampstead.
Judge Griffith asked the defendant whether Angela had been actively interested in Hampstead. “Adamantly”, the defendant said. “She didn’t accept the outcome”.
The defendant said that the more he and Angela had talked, the more she had tried to take over and influence him, scheduling his itinerary and planning what he could do. “I never said yes, she just donated”, he said.
When his plane landed in the UK, he was “petrified”, due to the people trolling him online.
“Why did you come, then?” asked his barrister.
“Because I said I would, and I was at the point of no return”, the defendant said. However, he quickly realised that much of what he’d said when he was at home would not be attainable in reality. “I wanted to prove I’d looked into it, and then get out”.
The defendant travelled to the Canary Islands at Angela’s invitation, but he cut that trip short. “She was not a nice person”, he said. “I thought it would be best to put some miles between me and her”.
Once in the UK, the defendant said that at some point he went to Hampstead, for two reasons: “to prove it does exist, and because a lot of things were being said about me being a scam artist, and I wanted to be absolved from those accusations”. He said he had been told that he would be killed if he went to Hampstead. “The trolls reached a fever pitch, and I felt trapped”, he said. “My defiance was against people speaking badly about me”.
Mr Stevens asked whether he was referring to anyone mentioned in the indictment for this trial, and the defendant said he was not. He said he had no plans to meet anyone in Hampstead, and said he would have turned around and left if he’d seen anyone near the school. He said he was not aware that the day he posted the Facebook post was the first day of school.
“My motivation was that I was getting taunted, and I reacted to that”, the defendant said. “I didn’t want to release the picture but I didn’t want to be called a chicken”.
“Who did you think would view it?” Mr Stevens asked.
“I wanted my family and the people who were taunting me to see it”, the defendant said. He also said that he didn’t think anyone would interpret the “banter” about carrying a knife as a threat. “I just didn’t want to bend to the people who were harassing me”.
Asked about the Excel spreadsheet found on his hard drive, the defendant said he didn’t know how it had got to him, but that he understood that the author of the sheet was the mother of P and Q. He stated that he was not familiar with any of the names on the sheet, except one.
He stated that he had no memory of checking out the HampsteadChristChurch.com site, adding that he knew it contained a list of the accused in the case, but not what that meant.
The defendant said that when he heard the witnesses testifying in court yesterday, he found it very painful. “I had a panic attack”, he said, adding that he’d found it very upsetting.
Cross-examination of defendant
Noting that the defendant had stated that the abuse he experienced online had affected his life negatively, Mr Bowyer asked, “Before you even left (the USA), you realised the serious, devastating effects of posts online”. The defendant disagreed that this was true.
Asked about why he had published the video about Hampstead, when his usual video fare consisted of more lighthearted material, the defendant said, “Sometimes I don’t make a distinction (between lighthearted stuff and paedophilia”. Mr Bowyer asked, “Don’t you think you ought to?”
“Now, yes”, the defendant replied.
Mr Bowyer asked whether the defendant was aware that the case about which he’d made the video was in court, or whether he knew how the material he’d included in the video came to be online.
“No,” said the defendant. However, he added, “there were so many outlets doing it. It was on LiveLeak, and I thought that was a tacit green light”.
Mr Bowyer suggested that the defendant was not an “investigative journalist”, and said his degree of journalistic integrity would not match that of any actual news outlet. “No, it’s the internet”, the defendant said. “We are still discovering how it affects people”.
“To the extent that you were fearful, can you see how (your behaviour) could have affected the witnesses?” Mr Bowyer asked.
The defendant responded that this had been unintentional. “I’ve never gone over the edge like that”, he said. “I didn’t know I had, at the time”.
Mr Bowyer asked why those who the defendant claimed were harassing him had been angry with him. “It was just character assassination”, the defendant replied, adding that it “made him furious”.
“Did it cross your mind that you should leave it alone?” Mr Bowyer asked.
“Even bad press is good press”, the defendant responded, adding that he had been “angry and excited”. “There’s a saying that if you hit a nerve you must be doing the right thing”, he said.
Mr Bowyer asked whether the defendant thought any of the people named in this case had been among those harassing him. The defendant said he thought this was possible, but that it was more likely that others were doing it.
Mr Bowyer noted that having attracted a degree of attention, the defendant had begun to attract “activists” such as Angela Power-Disney and Sabine McNeill, who wanted him to campaign on their behalf. “Not specifically”, responded the defendant.
The defendant agreed that Angela disagreed “extremely” with the High Court judgment on the Hampstead case.
“Do you remember when she tried to supply you with the names of the accused?” Mr Bowyer asked. The defendant said his memory of this was hazy.
“Someone sent you an Excel sheet. Was it her?”
“Maybe, I can’t remember”.
Asked why he continued to engage with Angela, the defendant said, “She got really nasty when I started to question where she got her information”.
“If you’d been given information about how to track [the father in the case] down, would you have taken it?”
“We know his name appears on your computer, and we know you accessed a site with information as to where [the father] was alleged to be”, Mr Bowyer said.
“Yes, I might have, and put it in the file”, said the defendant.
“Did you have any reason to believe he might be in America?”
“I heard he might be in San Francisco or Los Angeles”, said the defendant.
At this point, the proceedings were adjourned for the day. The case will resume tomorrow morning at (dare we say it?) 10:00 sharp.
As we have been saying, it’s extremely important that no one on this blog speculate on the outcome of this trial in any way. In addition, it’s now equally important that the defendant not be named here, lest we find ourselves in contempt of court. Thank you all very much for your cooperation.
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I am confused, are we in prosecution or defense stage in court proceedings now?
Sorry, we’ve moved on to defense. I’ll try to clarify.
Excellent update and for me, the most interesting post on this case yet.
Once again, thanks, EC and your Reporter.
Ethel Aardvark says:
Thanks for the update, EC. Just about to read it now.
One thing I can say is that it’s really pissed Angela off, which is most satisfying in light of her utterly disgraceful bullying, slander and privacy invasion against an innocent social worker. So double thank you, Your Howlness 🙂
I guess Angela Power Disney is considered a ******** and a ******* by everyone in this matter. I also think she is a ***********.
Great reporting, thanks for the update. Does any one know whether there will be an outcome tomorrow?
Sir Henry Rawlinson says:
Stressing that I reference more general matters rather than the case itself; it’s always a source of great bemusement to me that those who routinely issue threats against others so often feel ‘threatened’ by the prospect of arrest and/or detention. Similarly that so many self-styled ‘investigative journalists’ adopt that pretence without a jot of training or awareness of what the job entails or the rules that genuine professionals must observe.
Incidentally, the s45a order is there to protect the children… As anyone who actually has studied media law (i.e actually Is a journalist or media professional – unlike Angie or her kind) ‘jigsaw identification’ is a concern. So, one imagines, is the public gallery filling up with baying lunatics.
Jelly Shouldn't Run says:
When declaring yourself intellectually superior to Noam Chomsky just isn’t enough…
…what’s needed is an angry, shouty video rant about how “stupid” Chomsky is a “creep”…..
By the way, her anger about Mr. Chomsky stems from his ‘failure’ to believe in her 9/11 conspiracy theories!
Yes, that woman never learns.
Some fascinating stuff coming out. Good reporting. I will keep my opinions on the content to myself for now.
Tomorrow will be the second half of the cross-examination, followed by summing up. I don’t know if the jury will be instructed, but we expect a judgment on Tuesday (because of the bank holiday).
Couldn’t have said it better myself, SV..
Frankly Debbie dimwit would struggle to establish intellectual superiority over a plastic garden gnome!
I agree, excellent reporting.
I’d like to comment about APD but will wait until after the Verdict.
It has been reported in the Mail too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4817638/US-blogger-threatened-draw-blood-parents.html
Excellent reporting, thank you. Won’t comment on the case except to say that if I were APD I would be expecting a knock on the door sometime soon. Please delete if inappropriate.
Congratulations ********** You’re famous http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4817638/US-blogger-threatened-draw-blood-parents.html
MonsterRavingGoonies says:
One has to wonder why Angel Powered Dizzy has only copied day 1 to her FB page but not the subsequent reports, would it be perchance because she has been mentioned both days……not in the best light either if I may be so bold as to say!
Great reporting by your reporter, this is what I would call true professionalism instead of the raving lunatics reporting the rubbish they constantly copy & paste!
Slightly off-topic, but I’ve just been reminded of a case back in 2001 where one Christopher Loosemore (then 17) and another boy of 14 wandered into the Liberty Bank in Middletown (Portland) and handed a teller a note claiming they had a gun and demanding $30,000…
The police quickly caught up with the almost-appropriately named Loosemore hiding in the apartment of a girl he was apparently trying to impress with his ‘hard man’ act. There was some digging done at the time, and it seems poor Christopher was ‘one of those sad kids’ nobody took seriously, always a looser, unemployable, tried to paint pictures of himself living the life of a tough guy when the reality was he played the role of big fish to a gang of children that had the measure of him. He felt ‘egged on’ to do the robbery – couldn’t pull out for fear of losing face etc. – Oddly enough, none of that provided him with any basis for a defence; he still robbed a bank and went down for it.
With precedent like that in mind, and there’s lots of it, some people (many associates of Belinda McKenzie for instance) might find that stuff like ‘peer pressure’, ‘trying to impress people’, trying to ‘keep face’, making up shit about trillion pound liens, claiming you were ‘obliged’ to commit a crime because you couldn’t obtain lawful remedy (as claimed by Caul Grant) in relation to some other crime etc… It’s all just complete and utter bullshit.
I also find myself reflecting upon the prosecution of Robert Green. – Did he or did he not frighten the living daylights out of an ordinary Aberdeen tiler and his neighbours and thereby breach the peace? The prosecution proved he did just exactly that, and despite Green’s best efforts to deflect the court’s attention onto other matters, the clown talked his own way into jail. – Was it Einstein who said, doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is a sign of madness? I can’t help thinking the head of McKenzie Industries didn’t get that memo.
“jigsaw identification’- havent heard it called that before but thats exactly what happened a while back in a fairly local(ish) case to me- where both the victim and the accused werent allowed to be named- the victim (for obvious reasons such as her age etc) but the accused name was withheld as well because he was a relative- hence identifying him would make it trivially easy to identify her
Blimey, for the first time ever Angela’s ‘journalism’ has scored more than two stars 😀
Oh, that’s interesting, as I’ve been checking to see if they covered it in the Ham & High but they haven’t and yet it’s made it into a national tabloid paper!
How come the Mail are naming the defendant, btw?! (Not that the Mail are known for their integrity.)
Just google the phrase. It’s a ‘key concept’ in relation to what you can and cannot report and specifically taught in most of the basic media law units… For example what’s wrong with the following sentence (apart from the spelling and grammar!)…
“Goodwin Grope of 43 Poshnbex Avenue, Binworthy was today sentenced to twelve years in prison for the sexual assault of his fifteen-year old neighbour”
Given that victims of sexual assault always have anonymity – and that’s compounded by the fact his victim was a minor; how many fifteen year olds might live in Poshnbex Avenue Binworthy? – This is an example of where you probably couldn’t name the offender (and a judge might make a specific order to that effect) because it makes it very easy for the victim to be identified and their rights breached. If you dig around you’ll find examples where judges have made such orders and been accused by loonies of protecting the offender; when in fact it’s done for the victim’s sake. …For similar reasons you cannot name schools, workplaces, clubs etc.
Sorry mate but that’s incorrect – she has covered each day. I’ve been saving the screenshots – along with those of comments she’s posted elsewhere – and if it’s deemed appropriate, I’ll happily post these after the trial.
Incidentally, I’d like to reiterate that she didn’t even know about the trial at all until I PMed her on the morning of day one and she posted a comment about it within a few minutes.
Good question. We’ve sent a query to the court about it. Will let you know.
Yes, exactly. We were initially told by the judge that the witnesses were not to be identified, but now it appears that the defendant is to be anonymous as well.
They appear to have a poor record on apostrophes too. To wit:
“One of the mother’s told Southwark Crown Court…”
I’d imagine the court have adopted this ‘technique’ to minimise what any ‘disruptive’ types might easily find out and make the life of those who steward the precincts easier. There is no ‘harm’ in not naming the defendant here as far as I can see, but equally well I don’t imagine there is actually a bar on naming him.
LOL I noticed that too.
Their spelling’s iffy too:
“…to kick out doors down…”
…Has that actually been handed down in a specific order? Or is it just that the court has taken his name off the public roll?
@SV –
* ***** ****** ***** ****** ** ********** * fuddle-duddle *** * stegosaurus ** ********* ** **** ******. * **** ***** *** ** * walrus-face.
I blame the cheep doggy tipwritterz they supply jurno lists with these days!
Well, it’s all a bit puzzling to be honest. Yesterday his name was published in full on the court schedule, but by last night it had changed to the all-asterisk format. It remained that way today, and when our reporter asked the reply was that it might be better to anonymise the defendant’s name too. I tend to think it’s excessive, but unlike an accredited journalistic site we rely upon the goodwill of the court officials who allow us to take notes in court (subject to the judge’s approval), so felt it best to go the extra mile.
How long before we get an angry video rant about all this from Mad Moo, I wonder. The Daily Mail article will annoy her further, of course. Ditto APD.
Both. The order itself says that no one may be named whose identity might allow identification, directly or indirectly, of any child mentioned in this case. And the court has anonymised his name online.
If that was the only thing they had a bad record for. The comments section is a hoot though or can be depressing, I tend towards the latter recently.
No worries,, I had only looked at her FB page & was surprised she wasn’t posting it all there, but I see now she is twisting things again on there to make herself look super important. 😏 Thank you for letting me know. 🙂
EC, I’m not sure which schedule you’re viewing but the name was printed in full on this one:
http://xhibit.justice.gov.uk/southwark.htm
However, it was “frozen” at 10:57 and not updated at any point afterwards.
Please delete this link and comment if you deem it inappropriate.
Sorry but to reiterate, it is her Facebook page I’m referring to. She has posted about each day on there.
I think the Mail will argue that the order applies to the parents of children and the teachers; if you you know their names you know who their kids are… It’s not unknown in cases that might attract attention for the defendant to be anonymised like this; that way they can ‘filter’ enquiries as to which court when at the front bar. – But from the blog’s point of view there’s certainly no harm in being cautious; the Mail have lawyers to hand to argue their corner!
The extra mile is well worth travelling. Whatever the outcome I’d expect the blog to come under attack from the lunatic fringe after the trial; no point in enabling them to any degree.
This is what I’m going by, Ethel. Honestly, as I say I find it a bit confusing as I’ve never known of a public trial that anonymised the name of the defendant, but I’m not an expert in court reporting either, so I’m proceeding with (perhaps too much) caution.
…Not long Liza, and that might be an issue.
Another possibility is that the police have intelligence that some sort of disruption might be being planned by certain parties. The conversation here may be contained and the management anxious to ensure fair pay; but that won’t necessarily be the case in the darker corners of electric looneyland.
Haha He looks like a right yob in those photos. And to all the satanic hoaxers, take note of the part where it says “The children were taken into TEMPORARY care” Haha!
Oh for feck’s sake, who let Alan ‘Sieg heil’ Alanson out of his cage?
listen with mother says:
Great bit of reporting here, so interesting to hear the details, the police work, forensics, ‘his’ story.
My apologies for misleading anyone, I myself can only see Day 1. Mind you, that could be due to my old eyes. Thank you for the clarification.
it wasn’t me what did it Guvner, honestly.
yet pandering to the audience says:
So he went ‘not guilty’ then…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-couple-cleared-of-satanic-abuse-claims-to-get-3-4-million/
“Texas will pay $3.4 million to a couple who were wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades on prosecutors’ claims that they sexually abused children as part of satanic rituals at a day care they operated.
Dan and Fran Keller learned Tuesday that they’ll receive the payment from a state fund for the wrongly convicted, the Austin American-Statesman reported.
A judge in June approved a request from Travis County District Attorney Margaret Moore for a declaration of innocence for the Kellers”.
Sounds oddly familiar…..
Be interesting to see what this ‘therapist’ has to say for themselves these days- do they have even a twinge of remorse for what they have put innocent people through??
(and although I’m not a big fan of the US habit of suing people- in this case I actually think the compensation being awarded is actually far less than they should be getting considering the time they spent in jail and the loss of both income and a good proportion of their lives), and of course even now there will be far too many wackjobs like APD and her ilk still willing to ‘beLIEve the children’ and making any possible return to normality for the Kellars extremely unlikely
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Hill_satanic_ritual_abuse_trial
“In the summer of 1991, the therapist of a three-year-old child being treated for behavioural problems due to her parents’ divorce alleged that the Kellers had sexually abused her. The child’s mother contacted the police, who alerted the case’s eventual prosecuting attorney, who contacted a friend whose child was also enrolled in the day care and being treated by the same therapist. During the time leading up to the trial, two other children from the day care offered similar accusations. According to the children, the couple served blood-laced Kool-Aid and forced them to have videotaped sex with adults and other children. The Kellers, they said, sometimes wore white robes and lit candles before hurting them. The children also accused the Kellers of forcing them to watch or participate in the killing and dismemberment of cats, dogs and a crying baby. Bodies were unearthed in cemeteries and new holes dug to hide freshly killed animals and, once, an adult passer-by who was shot and dismembered with a chain saw. The children recalled several plane trips, including one to Mexico, where they were sexually abused by soldiers before returning to Austin in time to meet their parents at the day care.”
Yes angie we know you like to sprout “A LOAD OF B+++”+CKS”
Nice of you to admit it for once though
(have you checked out the extradition treaties of your list of hideouts recently, you might be in for a shock)
Don’t worry Angela, Your time is gonna come.
Tis 🙂
With a lotta, lotta, luck she will be “important” soon, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more.
I’m not so sure APD will actually be annoyed.
She thinks she is UNTOUCHABLE. Mmm…
I reckon she’ll be loving it but she doesn’t really know ALL that has been said in Court, only what is reported here and that piece in the Daily Mail.
Journalist my arse!
Shut yer moosh Angela, you haven’t got a f…… clue.
Attention seeking, trouble maker you are at the very best.
Let her walk around with her head up her arse.
I’m hoping that what that VILE lump Caul Grant spouts about KARMA comes to fruition.
And from my knowledge APD is definitely not the only one treading on thin ice.
This all could get very, very interesting.
Got to also say that Belinda looked a lot more healthy Wednesday.
Best song Lennon ever wrote, that was.
I agree 100%, Captain, but I’d be a traitor to my user name and mission statement were I to comment on anything more important than grammar 😀
MRG, if you’d like to see them all, PM me on Farcebook and I’ll send you the links/screenshots 🙂
I can’t post them here, out of due deference to legal restrictions.
Babs – check out her Farcebook page – she is already annoyed. Extremely annoyed! Hehe 🙂
Now, that’s one of the screenshots I declined to post, out of deference to the legal restrictions/contempt rules. Are we sure that this one is ok to have up?
I’ve so far archived 15 screenshots of Angela and Bellender’s posts/comments about the trial, which I’ll be happy to share after the trial is over (possibly with some sensitive parts blanked out).
Mad Moo’s under starter’s orders again. Buckle up 😀
Noam Chomsky eat your heart out! 😀
Blimey, this is one of her most unhinged ones yet. Does she really believe all this crap? I do genuinely think she may have a drink/drug problem.
Next on Dave... says:
I’ve just realised that this is an old one but she’s been re-promoting it on Farcebook. I don’t recall hearing this one before, though.
David Shurter in a moment of self-reflection looked in a mirror.
With the end of this trial in sight, time to roll out the Bork.
Sergeant Sirius Crook-Hunter of the Marrakesh Fraud Squad says:
Another new scam brewing for Hopeless Girl? (And Teflon, or whatever the fuck his name is.)
“And Teflon, or whatever the fuck his name is.”
I think Teflon would be an appropriate nickname for all three of those dodgy fuckers.
Yep, hence why I felt sick and didn’t stay for the afternoon session.
Not on fb anymore Angiewatch, but more than happy if she is annoyed!
The fear is setting in probably.
Oh gawd!
Is Belinda posting too?
Hope she’s not in contempt of the Court!
Had forgotten all about Mad Manna. Communism failed did it? Must be my imagination that Russia & China are now 2 of the most powerful nations on earth.
Nothing scheduled today and there’s a different case in Court 7:
Scarlet Overkill says:
More phone harassment by ‘Neelu of the Chaudhari clan’, including some extremely serious slander against the SRA’s CEO (“He is an illegal slave trader of humans”) 😦
RQ was listed this morning on the system. I think a short case is being heard in room 7 whilst the powers that be are getting things together for the RQ case today.
Is Neelu saying that the solicitors are guilty of being associated with SRA? *joke*
The system at time of writing has relisted RQ allocated to room 7; waiting to begin the case.
The good news for Angie is that she hasnt got very far to fall having already descended deep into the sub basement of the human condition.She wont have to suffer the bitter wranglings of remorse either given the total absence of anything resembling genuine conscience.But that is her lot,her sparse and shallow allocation.
Still,she can be worried,be very,very worried as the past revisits its genesis.Tap,Tap,Tap. MU HA HA HA HA
Over to you Vincent:
They’ve been at it since day one, and not just on the most obvious platforms either Ethel. Their ‘plan’ will be to draw others into commenting (i.e. directly debunking them) and by that means try and either scupper the case or lay the groundwork for later vacuous ‘appeals’ and/or fundraising. I think the authorities are keeping a weather eye on them though.
Very considerate of Neelu to share with the general public regular updates of her progressive unhingement from reality.
Outlook:All rather bleak.
Gnome Chompsky is more of a burger man I think…
I thought all slave trading was illigal, but where does she get her evidence from, who has she been talking to. I bet she’s been making it up, and what is her obsession with treason, does she really know what it means, or was it just a big word she learnt from some pne else from planet Zong.
Case is now under way with witness 5 continuing to give their evidence as per
Also, discovered a Satanist who ate a yellow jelly baby. #jellybabygate
So you are feeling Satanic, its xmas, and you got some jelly babies to lawfully and without prejudice shove things up the arse, decorate and eat. Here is a nice idea to decorate your home, especially if you got a Satan Hunter visiting.
#jellybabygate
I see they’ve re-instated the full name.
Well if you are going to massively slander some one, why not pick some top lawyers?
I’m not sure if Angie, and her associates, fully appreciate their immense irrelevance to the matters in hand.
Turning first to her vacuous comments. Facts have been agreed, admitted and entered into the record; what does Angie fail to understand about this? Equally well Angie (I know you do read this) the S45a order now gives all the children involved in the Hampstead Hoax lifelong anonymity… And that effectively extends to the parents and teachers too as talking about them would lead to the ‘jigsaw identification’ scenario I mentioned earlier…
These are both things you would realise if you had even basic training as a journalist. What’s “bollocks” is your claim to that professional title as you clearly know fuck-all about the job!
Likewise, isn’t it interesting that Angie isn’t in court? Not as a witness nor as observer? – One imagines she wouldn’t be welcome as the latter; and is clearly of no relevance to the case. It’s fairly obvious she’s finding the lack of attention frustrating.
Yet again I’ll stress that the following observations relate to matters in general and NOT the case in question…
Courts operate with a laser-like focus on the matters in hand… Did individual ‘A’ commit act ‘B’ contrary to statute ‘C’. – That’s it! that’s all they are really interested in. The Robert Green case I referenced elsewhere is a good example of this at work. – Did Green’s actions frighten and alarm people and by that means breach the peace? The proof of that was easily provided and yet, for all his days of rambling, Green provided not one scrap of evidence to counter that proof.
You see that’s the thing with courts, they will often tolerate irrelevant testimony – particularly in criminal trials – in the hope that relevant matters will emerge; but there is no loss of focus… No inability to boil away the waste in order to distil the truth.
In Green’s case it’s reasonable to suggest that, by alarming and giving rise to fear among the population of a certain Aberdeen district, he hoped to raise a rabble and gain aggrandisement for himself. But of course, ‘right thinking people’ don’t generally take to the streets pitchforks at the ready! And it was proven in court that Green knew or ought to have known that his actions would cause fear and alarm and proved that they did!
By this means the ‘mens rea’ (guilty thought) and ‘actus reus’ (guilty act) are established as fact and it is proved beyond any reasonable doubt that a crime was committed. In Green’s case the ‘actus reus’ was established by something as simple as an Aberdonian Tiler giving testimony that he was made alarmed and made to feel fear for the safety of his grandchild. – All of Green’s superfluous waffle didn’t defeat that.
Let me turn now to a different example…
This fearsome weapon is made of chocolate. It’s quite amusing I think… Jolly japes.
But suppose, as a prank, you walked into a bank with it, brandished it around, walked up to a teller and demanded money. – What do you, as a reasonable person, think would happen? Viewed from twenty feet away by a member of the public who is not ‘in on the joke’ what would be made of it? – Particularly if they didn’t know you from Adam.
Does anyone seriously think they wouldn’t be charged with attempted armed robbery? Or that a Police Officer wouldn’t be justified in tazering them to the ground?
Would it be a defence to claim in court that you only indulged in this prank because your mates ‘egged you on’ to do so? – Maybe it would if you were nine or had an IQ south of about 70. But suppose you were a grown woman of 40 who laid claim (even if vacuous) to a degree-level education and a professional background? – “Big boys said I should do it, then they were horrible to me and ran away”.
But! That innocent bank-teller still nearly had a heart attack, was terrified and now lives with PTSD! – who knew that could happen? …Well, anybody with enough sense in their heads to be walking about the streets on their own should. Ignorance is not a defence, nor is stupidity (no matter what Belinda says).
So – What’s your next idiotic fairy story Angie?
Confuseddotcom says:
The memories these therapists come up with show who the real perverts are. What a sicko to introduce those ludicrous claims of murder, mutilation, sex tapes and the rest to the minds of very young children. What a minute, sounds like child grooming Abraham Christie did exactly the same in his sexually perverse month long torture sessions to two children he had only met months earlier.
To think Angie downplays Abe’s role to that of a patsy! Only a dirty paedophile supporter would claim Abe is innocent when all the medical evidence, the childrens own words and rest of the details all name Abe as a bully and child abuser.
Angie showing us all that she cannot read or deliberately taking things out of context. The blog post clearly stated that the joint acceptance of the SRA claims being false Referred to a point the prosecution and defence BOTH agreed on. Is angie claiming that is incorrect and disputing that FACT.
Abe Christie has a very long criminal history… I’ve often wondered if there is some old association between him and APD from her ‘London days’? For there seems to be some credible evidence she was part of a particular ‘set’ back then.
Hmm vid not playing here.
For the record ,Vincent Price reading of Edgar Allan Poes poem “The Raven”.
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
The rule is know your shit. The noob journalist takes a few hours to learn the rules of the game, and longer how to write like a journalist. Noob lawyers who desire to assist the unfortunate need to know the rules of court, law and procedure, and how to apply that information to any situation to leverage the advantage for their client. The track record of Belinda McKenzie, Angela Power Disney and their like is dire: clients lost 100% custody of their kids; went to jail; got sectioned; suffered unnecessary legal bills. Appeal to the public mob has its use, but has no impact upon convincing police, judge and jury to venture too far from procedure and law; the mob is useful to soften or harden judgements, rather than influence law; the outraged mob can emotionally influence a judge to harden a judgement, and the sympathetic mob, soften the judgement. At the least, a wise and knowledgeable representative of a client can win some ground for them, even in the most challenging of circumstances; the law seeks to be fair, often offering concessions to make it look it is fair.
That poor woman went off to make a cup of tea when Neelu launched into her Treason Tirade.
Seeing Neelu is suing them for fraud and operating with counterfeit currency they should respond “well send us you lien and we’ll pay you compensation with counterfeit currency”.
Poor Ved just doesn’t have the panache with these phone calls as the Late Great Irish Comedian Patrick “Talmudic Law” Cullinane. His would rise in tempo to a brilliant finish with a cutting and thigh slapping punch line like “you can stick your ambulance up your arse”.
You can’t beat the old comedians.
It’s good to see that Angie is being talked about and held in such high regard. 🙂
DragonsandKungFu says:
Pedo Protector and defamation Queen back at it again.
Queen of limbo once again. Apparently people who have met her think she is “not a nice person”.
Problem is she gets off on this shit. The fact she was named as a player in a crown court trial to do with Hampstead will go to her head, especially as she has got off scot free and let another sucker take the shit. She’ll dine out (metaphorically) on this for months
Angela Power Disney is a shepherd who whilst she is at liberty to do the things she is doing, will bring more sheep into her designs to inflict suffering on the people of Hampstead. Jake Clarke and RQ are sheep she manipulated, used, and had destroyed. The old saying, slay the shepherd, the sheep will scatter. Disney must be a top target to take down.
Regretfully I must disagree SV… Jake Clarke, I will concede, may well lack capacity – but he is exceptional in that respect. And otherwise, all of the people who involve themselves in these frauds are the unmitigated authors of their own misfortune.
She was ‘named’ yes; but consider by whom and in what context. Clearly she wasn’t considered of sufficient relevance to actually be called. One day, I’m sure, she will feel the cuffs on her wrists.
I’m not surprised as 45A only applies to the names of children under 18 and not defendants:
(3) A reporting direction may be made only in respect of a person who is under the age of 18 when the proceedings commence and who is—
(a) a witness, other than an accused, in the proceedings;
(b) a person against whom the offence, which is the subject of the proceedings, is alleged to have been committed.
Though obviously it’s much wiser to follow the lead of the court as there may have been a different reason for withholding his name.
Oh do stop talking crap Angie.
Not sure that is a good idea, unless you don’t like your home.
When I met her she started telling me some tale about how her car had been sabotaged and she crashed it off the Freeway in USA!
Blamed it on something sinister, I can’t remember off hand who or what it was allegedly all about.
I thought it was a really tall tale and I didn’t warm to her.
Dressed up to the 9’s in Red with one of her trademark hats. Looked like she was off to a wedding.
Everyone else was dressed very casual.
She stood out like a sore thumb with her great nephew in tow, poor lad.
He seemed bemused.
What’s she complaining about Fostering Targets for?
She claimed she had been a Foster Parent!
HYPOCRITE.
He was giving evidence at 10.40 am in Court 7.
I see there is no hearing tomorrow listed for him.
That’s from Court Serve.
Haven’t a clue how to share the link.
Yes indeed, I suspect there will have been. – Although don’t the Jigsaw identification rules effectively (though not explicitly) also protect the parents and teachers?
Many thanks for offering to send me links,/screenshots. It is much appreciated. I have contacted you via pm on FB.
Wasnt able to find a copy, but WHEN (and not if) angie goes down in flames, I would love the classic Vincent Price laughter from Thriller…
Love his work, but jeez that laugh just sends shivers down your spine…
http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Southwark-Crown-Court.php
I had a look on this one
Before the Court status servers went down yet again, both sides were involved in technical legal issues. I understand the judge is off on Friday.
A real shame for Angie that consumer demand for sanctimonious bullshit never really took off,otherwise she would be absolutely sodding minted by now.
If Angela Power Disney had got her hands dirty with the real stuff, selling manure from local farms to the weed growers etc, she would have no need for gofund or nicking money from hungry African orphans.
What? Honest toil? Don’t you know all hoaxers hold people who actually work for a living in complete contempt?
Dr Danish-Quack! Totally unqualified for his VOLUNTARY (unpaid, because he’s not qualified to assess or treat actual trauma victims) interference in family court cases. His hero is…Colin Ross, naturally!
He believes in “aura reading” and “psychic abilities”.
Lol, anyone in need of a laugh. Abraham’s friend, commenting about Flat Earth on 3 of her alias’s.
and just a reminder to the Hoax promoters, whose side again was it that was meant to be into Satanic drug parties? Lol. Surely Evidence one of Abraham’s friends is into weird shit by their standards. Imagine if she had been a friend of RD’s? They would be naming her as the Satanic Queen.
More importantly, anyone who professes to belief that deliberately abusing children, in any way, can have a CONSTRUCTIVE impact on their development, (i.e., the creation of multiple “selves” with specialized skills & abilities), is not just a quack…they are an EVIL quack.
Deliberate, repeated abuse of a child can only have a DESTRUCTIVE impact on their development. We’ve discussed this in detail here before.
Just a thought… Could I possibly ask everyone to independently google the phrase “sharp ham” ?
btw I am not saying dressing up like that is remotely Satanic or wrong in anyway, just an example of how the Hoaxers would react if they had found something like that about one of the innocent people accused in the Hampers Hoax. They would run with those images for years. Personally I think it looks quite cool for a party.
If you are doing a google image search, may I suggest keeping the quotation marks along with the phrase.
As much as I like English Wine and Cheese 🙂
Yes indeed… Keep the quotation marks. Please resist the temptation to repost your findings though; I should have been clear on that. But it seems the phrase does have a particular meaning.
I have also just been educated as to what exactly a “biscuit knife” is… Apparently it’s a small knuckle-duster type device with a sharp serrated edge parallel with the handle. – I’m told it’s favoured in some circles because it creates a particularly nasty wound which is difficult to stitch and consequently leaves a horrific scar. – Hardly the stuff of genteel conversation inspired by the W.I.
Another one at it promoting tabloid nonsense and whatever they can no matter how pathetic. Old Mad Moo certainly spend a lot of time deflecting attention away from those involved in the Newcastle Case.
Biscuit in Rap Slang is also a gun, obviously irrelevant to anything, just interesting.
Or, apparently, in American parlance, this…
I’m told it ‘works better’ when disguised as a money clip or hidden in one’s shorts!
That’s the image I had saved, like a lock knife.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-worst-attempts-to-start-catchphrase-in-rap-history/
My source on this side of the pond works in A&E – Apparently the knuckle-duster type device can be had from the shadier market stalls and has various names. The American ‘version’ however seems to be marketed under just exactly that label. I stress of course that I’m simply trying to understand the general colloquial meaning of these things. – Quite interesting.
I remember years ago I had a lock knife for playing out in the woods as a kid, my friends all had army knives and even machetes. Today none of those would be legal, let alone being a 13 year old wearing army fatigues and running round the countryside carrying them. Lock knives are illegal to carry in public in the UK.
“Lock knives
Lock knives are not classed as folding knives and are illegal to carry in public without good reason. Lock knives:
have blades that can be locked and refolded only by pressing a button
can include multi-tool knives – tools that also contain other devices such as a screwdriver or can opener”
https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives
Ah! Blue remembered hills…
I have a fishing knife; but it’s kept in a locked part of the tackle box at all times. Apart from specific sports, carrying a knife, even a penknife was always ‘frowned upon’ as something only ‘certain types’ indulged in.
Drat,there was me thinking Sir Henry was plotting to invite us all to dinner at one of his fine country mansions.Mines a half by the way.Hic.
I don’t think she has much of a grasp, she tried to prosecute the queen for treason a few years ago. Though she had thought that through a bit and had a reason why Mrs Mountbatten-Windsor is NOT the queen, viz. the stone of Scone is false (it’s a Welsh cake or something) and so the coronoation DIDN’T COUNT.
Narcissistic conspiracy theorists like treason though; they believe that anything which doesn’t go their way is driven by a huge conspiracy and the whole machinery of state is against them in some monstrous plot which is contrary the true interests of the people (identical to their interests of course) and thus must be treason. Also there is a freeman on the land import from the US – in the US officials swear to uphold the constitution so the argument is that by finding against the fotler the judge is in breach of his oath, not complying with the constitution and thus treasonous. This is then imported into the UK without any thought that oaths here are completely different. Roger Hayes’ mob of supporters tried to arrest the judge for treason for example as they said he was not acting under his oath.
Seems she’s a ‘one trick’ model now well past her sell-by date. The look would indeed be quite cute for a Halloween party or the like I suppose; if only the person sporting it didn’t stink like a rotten manure midden and wasn’t completely off their fucking rocker!
Half bottle by the looks of that glass!
Does she understand something rotating slowly does not create a blur? Filming the moon over a few days a month etc then speeding up footage much like how we can look at a plant growing and it does not show as blurred. Time and motion?
Oh gawd knows what the hell she’s thinking… Her few remaining braincells are a stewed as a well boiled teabag.
The problem with interpretating slang and code words, is that they have different meanings to different groups of people, depending on their circles etc.
Take the Wikileaks emails of John Podesta for example. Due to 4Chan’s history of using Cheese Pizza as code for Child Porn, a troll took that information and used various other terms to send people looking through 10 years worth of emails for supposed “code words”. TThe term Cheese Pizza itself, I do not believe was even referenced in those emails. It didn’t seem to matter how unlikely that a group of middle aged, so called elites, would even be aware of internet paedophile slang let alone be using it in emails.
Earlier I was catching up on the George Webb and Jason Goodman comedy saga, and came across an article on a site about the dirty bomb threat causing a port to be closed down.
http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2017/08/false-claims-by-george-webb-and-jason.html
Another article on that site was about an FBI most wanted man who had supposedly being sighted. The man was wanted for the honour killing of his two daughters. After the act he had apparently called one of his brothers and asked to meet up for “Coffee” which according to the site had been their code word for Trouble/Help.
“Yaser Said told daughters Aminia, 18, and Sarah, 17, he was taking them to get something to eat before he shot and killed them on January 1st, 2008. On January 2nd, 2008, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Yaser Abdel Said, in Dallas County, Dallas, Texas, on charges of Capital Murder-Multiple. On August 21, 2008, a federal Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution warrant was issued by the United States District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas, Texas. Uncovered cellphone records showed Yaser Said making multiple calls to family members (his brothers) immediately before and after his daughters’ deaths. Then he disappeared.”
“Yaser Abdel Said called his brother Mohsen Said on his cell phone after the murders of Amina and Sarah Said to meet for coffee (‘coffee’ meant trouble, need help)”
https://pibillwarner.wordpress.com/2016/11/14/has-fbi-top-10-most-wanted-yaser-abdel-said-been-located-in-cairo-egypt-his-kidnapped-niece-and-nephew-are-there/
Just two examples of code words meaning different things to different groups.
I was sent this Gem on Sunday about that particular incident.
But Alex Jones says he was beating up guys that weighed hundreds of pounds more than him and was really good looking, thats why the Satanists tried to recruit him. He also says in certain areas of America you cannot throw a stick without hitting a group of devil worshippers.
Those are very fair points… But there is, I think, a difference between ‘code words’ which may or may not mean something and a live vernacular. Something similar is true when a conversation is clearly moved into a particular – actually very specific – frame of reference.
Yeah, you are right. Thinks are pretty clear to me about certain phrases, in context.
What a pathetic sack of sh*t.
F*ck off, Alex!
Har-dee-har-har!
(That was actually very heartening! Nobody wants to talk to him, and everyone knows he’s a heartless child-hating racist windbag. Hooray!)
Sir Henry: to reiterate – on that listings page, the full name has never been removed. It was a different listings page where that was the case:
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/trial-update-day-3/#comment-76506
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Tom Dunn: Following Angie in all things
Saturday was Thomas Dunn’s birthday. By sheer coincidence it was also Adolf Hitler’s natal day, but of course that has nothing to do with Dunn.
Err, not much to do with him.
Dunn celebrated the day by gorging himself on his favourite breakfast comestibles, then taking to his bed to deliver a few “seig heils” of his own.
Aside from some hilarious chitchat about the helmet of salvation and the breastplate of self-righteousness (he takes a C cup, in case you were wondering), much of his rant was dedicated to railing against “the satanic underground cults, the paedophiles, the child rapists” who he believes inhabit the UK in general and Hampstead in particular.
“We cannot allow them to get away with this!” he screamed at one point, adding later, ““Every person who raped a child on Wednesday in Hampstead, you will bow before the king of kings!”
Apparently those who rape children on the other six days of the week get a free pass?
Plus frankly, if people are raping children (on any day of the week), wouldn’t it be preferable to have them arrested, tried, and sentenced to prison? Bowing before some über-king seems a bit lame, if we’re honest.
Dunn repeats the ‘white powder’ rumour
Dunn refers several times to the Hampstead children and a protected witness, and repeats the lie that the witness forced one of the children to sniff a white powder, which made him feel dizzy. It’s odd that we’ve been able to find no trace of the child actually saying this on any of the videos which Sabine McNeill released, though it did appear in some of her writings.
More to the point, in the medical examination, Dr Hodes (who sided with the mother regarding the sexual abuse allegations) stated she’d found evidence of THC, an active ingredient in cannabis, in the children’s hair samples. She said nothing about any other drug, including cocaine, which is what the “white powder” rumour seems to imply.
It’s pretty easy to determine where Dunn picked up the “white powder” rumour: his mentor, Angela Power-Disney, has mentioned it several times, including in a video interview with Jason Goodman of “Crowdsurfing the Truth”. [You’re sure that’s not ‘Crowdsourcing‘? Oh, never mind—Ed.]
Like much of what Dunn has parroted about the Hampstead hoax, it seems very unlikely that he has bothered to do any actual research himself, but has merely swallowed Angela’s lies and inaccuracies holus-bolus.
Threats against protected witness
Referring to a protected witness, Dunn shrieked,
“We think he’s living in California—is anybody concerned about this?
Is anybody concerned about the accused paedophile and rapist living in California?
FBI? Coming to my house? Does anybody care about this?
These people don’t quit until they’re forced to quit! I’m not saying that, the children said it. And they said it real good! I sure hope the FBI is watching this guy like a hawk.
This sounds an awful lot like a request to his deluded followers to hunt somebody down—something the FBI should probably know about, especially as they have already enraged Dunn by daring to turn up on his doorstep and ask him some questions about his previous threats.
Dunn’s response to this perceived insult is to shriek into the camera,
They’re censoring us and they’ve taken down our video of Ella. They want the truth censored. they’re calling the police on us and they’re calling the FBI on us but that only emboldens us to speak out more!
Hmm. Isn’t this the strategy Angela employed following last summer’s visit by the gardaí, when all her tech was removed for investigation? That worked like a bleedin’ charm, didn’t it?
Instead of informing her that they were coming to arrest those of us who’ve been pointing out her criminal activities for the past four years, the “friendly” gardaí told her a few weeks ago that the results of their investigation had been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions, where a decision would be made as to whether to prosecute, and if so, what the charges would be. Angela responded to this, as we know, by going on a drinking binge, and finally checking herself into rehab—possibly the first sensible thing we’ve seen her do.
As for Dunn, while his helmet of salvation and breastplate of self-righteousness might help him out in his next cosplay adventure, we strongly suspect that they will be of no use whatsoever when the FBI next come to call.
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50 thoughts on “Tom Dunn: Following Angie in all things”
It’s great to see your new youtube channel up EC.
But just to make sure you understand: Youtube is not your friend.
I put some stuff up about Abe Christie that I think you would find very interesting. But Youtube deleted it. I have some other friends who put some other ‘interesting’ stuff up. That got deleted as well.
So just know that there are people watching your channel. Some of them can’t sub to you (they sub but they get deleted). Many of them can’t comment on your videos. It’s incredibly frustrating, and that is why I don’t use Youtube as a ‘platform’ any more.
They will allow you to exist within your own little echo chamber. They will also allow ‘trolls’ to abuse you. But if some people give real information, they will just delete what they have to say and cut out their tongues.
Youtube is cancer.
They give a voice to the mangelas and the dunces, but erase at source some of us with real information.
I only drop by now and again. There is no point in engaging with you. It all gets deleted. There are so many things you don’t know as well. But it’s a real task to get this information to you. Some of it might be valid, some of it rubbish. But it’s just getting it out there that is the real difficulty.
I’m seeing you covering stuff and coming around to stuff that we were trying to get out to you in the last six months past.
I realise this sounds a bit paranoid.
It’s late here.
Keep on doing what you’re doing. It’s making a difference all the same.
Really, what we have to say is not so earth shattering, but it’s the shutting down of lines of communication between us that is so utterly frustrating.
There are no ‘scoops about Ted Heath was a pedo, kind of thing, but more stuff like, xxx is a wrong un’, don’t waste your time on them. We see you go round in circles.
But you do come to the right conclusions eventually.
Youtube is not your friend. Just remember that.
‘…he takes a C cup, in case you were wondering’
If he can’t find a breastplate I believe Playtex still do a Wonderbra.
Thanks for the caution. Should you ever wish to contact me directly, you can use the “Contact us” box at the top of the blog—I receive emails directly from that, and they are not public to the blog.
I’m also trying to envision him in the helmet of salvation. It’s not a pleasant thought.
Is Dunny’s helmet of salvation what makes him such a dickhead? 🤔
“Angela responded to this by going on a drinking binge and finally checking herself into rehab”
Interestingly, she said she was going in for two weeks. It’s been nearly four so far 🤔
Hugh Mungus-Titzling says:
Thanks for letting us know, MC. I shall have to peruse their catalogue later. For educational purposes, you understand.
For anyone who missed this last night, it seems Devine’s not happy about losing his Facebook account (and being suspended from his four back-up accounts) and he’s blaming us for it – perish the thought 🤭🤐😇
Had to laugh at “there’s so many sockpuppet accounts on Youtube, it’s unreal”
Says the man with at least 5 accounts on Facebook and an unknown number on youtube….
(and really, an hour eight of him droning on about whatever pops into his vacuous mind…)
Remember less is more…
Yeah, it’s weird how he spends 8 hours a day telling us to “keep it simple, stupid”.
I don’t think sock puppets are a secret anymore. Didn’t Amazon cut down on fake reviews? For some reason the talk about bra cups made me think of “Judge” Rinder and the mankini* https://youtu.be/j2CbJvqe4cQ
Being more serious, Mr D seems to want to believe doctors when it suits him (I was thinking of AD here), for instance he wants to believe Dr Hodes although a different opinion was given later, but then he witters on about how good hemp is. (I know there have been some people who have said marijuana helps their pain but I’m not sure it’s a good idea for it to be dispensed willy-nilly).
* Not a real judge – I think the cases are real but they are for entertainment, not legally binding.
Joe Friday says:
I’m fascinated that Dunn was visited by the FBI. We have that in common. My visit was in 1977 in a New York hotel after I “passed” a counterfeit $5 note in the Deli.
I can’t tell you how polite and nice the 2 agents were. All they wanted to do was track down the source of my note which happened to be a bank a few hours earlier ( US dollars must be the easiest in the world to copy).
In fact one agent phoned me the following day to confirm what I said and to thank me for “my co-operation”.
I bet if I wasn’t innocent I’d have been on their radar for the the next few months I was in the US.
The FBI are legendary for their manner which is always professional & polite when dealing with so-called “civilians” (thank the alleged cross dressing J.Edgar Hoover for that).
If Dunn was visited over Hoaxstead he’s really fooling himself if he thinks he’s now not on the FBI radar. There is a method to the politeness of the FBI. It disarms those they really suspect of illegality as they probe even deeper. (ask anyone from the Mafia who tremble when they hear the FBI is showing interest.)
He’s FBI visit is the best news I’ve heard for yonks.
Few grammar mistakes there & I’m sober !!!
Mr. D? Do you mean Dunn or Devine?
I thought it was three months?
By Mr D I meant Mr Devine but then I realised Tom Dunn is also a Mr D which was why I said AD the next time. Tinribs, I can proofread other peoples’ writing wonderfully, my own not so well.
I just had a thought (though I daresay others have had the same thought previously) but if people who contribute to this blog really had the powerful connections opposing voices believe them to have wouldn’t the opposing views have been shut down by now? And I mean, really shut down, not banned from social media platforms for a few day (and even that hasn’t been achieved easily from what I can make out).
Also, why do folk think “Hoaxtead” is a group? I have commented here sometimes over the past few months but I don’t belong to a “group”. I don’t even live in London. Personally I’d run a mile if anybody tried to involve me in Satanism*. The only people I’ve seen comment here who might have a link thus are HH and SV (and I’m not sure how much they are leg-pulling) and one is in the USA and the other in Australia so how the heck would anybody think they would be coming to Hampstead to take part in a group? Well, Concorde was a fast plane but it’s been discontinued.
* Though there are some nutters on YouTube who think Catholics worship Lucifer. In the service I attended on Sunday we renewed our baptismal vows and renounced Satan and all his works.
Possibly but her blog post said a few weeks:
https://angelascaches.org/last-post-for-a-few-weeks-satanic-ritual-abuse
To be honest, she probably said both. She’s another one who changes her stories more often than her underwear.
Interesting points there, CAW.
One thing – James definitely isn’t leg-pulling. He’s very serious about his religion and it means a great deal to him.
Joe Friday's cat and part-time typist says:
Yeah but I’m not. Hic 🍷
Devine is live on YT now. I can’t link it, though, as the children and their father have been named.
Facts Over Fiction says:
I’m not holding my breath…
Oh right, it was that cave-dwelling wackadoo who said three months.
@Liz Wales
https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/2018/10/06/new-evidence-shows-ella-failed-polygraph-test
Well: this is surprising. Just received from Praterson….
Not sure what has made him suddenly decide that both Finchley Road and Hampstead are hoaxes. There really is no telling what goes on in his mind.
Fred Fintstone says:
Hey, don’t drag me into this!
MouseAnnony says:
The idea that Roman Catholics are actually (if not knowingly) worshipping Lucifer is older than nutters on YouTube. C.H. Spurgeon saw Rome as the place where Satan’s seat was.
https://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Voice/Spurgeon.On.Catholicism.html
Read all that sort of crap in the FIEC (Fellowship (sic) of Independent Evangelical Churches) newspaper back in the 70’s too – my ex’s parents, and her too, attended an FIEC “church”. And of course ecumenicalism is Satanism in disguise, too.
Depressing, or what.
“By their fruits you shall know them”……
Syntax not simtex. So funny.
Though there are some nutters on YouTube who think Catholics worship Lucifer.
I can confirm that that is not true. In addition to the yearly renouncing I’m also a godfather to a niece and a nephew so have an extra two pro bono renouncings under my belt. Although I am a bit of a goth and I am enjoying season two of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
I also should admit that I was a bit surprised when our local Easter services went ahead. Neelu had assured everyone in February that the Pope was going to make an announcement and the Catholic Church was closing down for good in March. Still the internet is a bit slow in my parish, so I’ll await the news to finally arrive at some point.
HartyJay says:
Wow has he turned on the dark side and come to his senses, that doesn’t ring true imo but I hope he has
It was hard to keep track of Andy’s lies in that broadcast, not to mention those of his idiotic supporters in the chat.
Great fruitloop quote from him, mind:
“You keep that truth from not getting out and I’ll keep that truth from getting out.”
I think that’s unlikely; more probably he is (as usual) confused. 🙂
That one was definitely a classic.
There’s a good’un in this one too, from this rather irate Australian gentleman – “You arseholes are causing mental health.”
By the way, he totally loses it with MKD at 12:52.
Devine was saying it was EC who put out the rumour that Abe sold hemp, lol. Then when Steve Douglas and I pointed out that it came from Abe himself, he switched to asking what’s wrong with selling hemp! Strawmen-R-Us 😀
Oh and he’s claiming that we said Ray Savage doesn’t exist! 🙄
And there was me thinking that Cat cared about children…
Meanwhile, her bid to get arrested continues apace:
What’s a pertner? 🤔
Deinve @ 35:20 – “If you are hurting children, you all deserve killing, mate.”
You’re basing your statement and belief that there is a mind that works for anything to actually “go on”.
And just when you thought he couldn’t get any more desperate, he’s now sharing old Chris Everard videos to support his Hampstead allegations 😂
Why is it, when I see “The Cat” insult “the Hoaxsted twats” and so forth, I automatically hear this Eddie Izzard live stand up in my head (remembering when he was younger).
And actually you can get away with anything! I mean, John Major got away with a very good one just recently, he was talking about civil service, and there was a reporter that came out saying it was very wasteful or whatever, and Major said, “If you don’t think that civil service is the best in the world… then you should!” Kind of a dodgy argument there, you know… “Then you should.” I remember when I was five, going, “You smell… ‘cause you do! You’re a twit… ‘cause you are!” (rolling eyes) “Then you should!”
And she STILL hasn’t responded to EC’s offer of a live Q&A session. Seems “The Cat” is a pussy after all.
Not much of a lady is she lol defending abe Christie aswell this chick would make the devil blush doesn’t she know dr hemp has got a few skeletons in the cupboard or does she choose not to believe them lol some ppl smh
True. Foolish moi.
Yes, when children of rich people die, it’s okay by her. Apparently.
Does she not realise that no matter how much money that man has, he will never be able to buy back the lives of his children?
Yes, she’s been flirting with Christie the child torturer—it’s sickening to watch tbh.
Yes, that offer remains open, Cat.
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While PE firms reevaluate the business landscape and focus on the health of their current portfolio companies, global PE deal activity is decelerating, down by 36 percent in 1H20 compared to 1H19. Payments, leasing and financing, and asset/wealth management were the most targeted sub-sectors in 1H20. Private equity investors are now in a familiar position, sitting on an abundance of dry powder which is expected to fuel PE deal making going forward.
Top Financial Services deals
Among the top 15 FS deals for 1H20, banking continued to dominate the overall deal landscape, accounting for 67 percent of top transactions. Insurance sector deals accounted for 27 percent while investment management accounted for 6 percent.
The average deal size for the top 15 FS deals was approximately US$7.6 bn in 1H20 — mega deals were present in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic with four high-value transactions announced (value >= US$10 bn) in banking and insurance. Domestic deals remained prevalent with 80 percent of the largest deals while cross-border transactions were more subdued, accounting for 20 percent of large transactions during the period. Merger/consolidation remained a key deal rationale. On the buy-side, bidders from North America (particularly, the US) and Asia (particularly, China) remained active.
Top five active transaction markets in 1H20
The US, China, the UK and India remained the largest transaction markets in 1H20, similar to 1H19. They were joined by Canada, however, deal volume remained relatively flat for the nation compared to last year.
Overview of the top cross-border and private equity deals in 1H20
Cross-border deal activity was subdued due to travel restrictions which impacted buyer/seller interactions. Moreover, unlike 1H19, PE deal activity cooled due to tightening credit availability and the widening perception of the value gap between investors and business owners. High-value transactions were scarce in 1H20 with even large transactions topping out at only US$1-2 billion. In 1H20, alternative strategies such as joint ventures and distressed debt grew in popularity. Opportunistic investing will likely fuel deal volume in the second half of 2020.
Overview of total potential assets
Total FS potential assets (approx. 500) as at June 2020:
Approximately 66 percent of total potential assets relate to the banking sector followed by insurance (20 percent) and investment management (14 percent).
Europe boasts the highest potential FS assets available on market (46.4 percent).
Markets with attractive and relatively high volume of available assets include the US, Italy, Australia, India and Indonesia.
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Asset Atlas 1H20: The financial landscape
Global financial institutions may temporarily put M&A on hold.
Asset Atlas 1H20: Top highlights
In 1H20, the financial services deal environment saw a steep decline triggered by COVID-19.
1H20 saw a decline in deals.
Asset Atlas 1H20: Banking sector
Analyzing global banking deal opportunities
The Global FS deal activity tumbled in 1H20.
Asset Atlas 1H20: Insurance
Deal trends and opportunities in the insurance sector for 1H20
Sector analysis of insurance.
Asset Atlas 1H20: Asset Management
The ripple effects of the pandemic in the asset management market
Asset Atlas 1H20: Private Equity
Drop in valuations could drive PE firms to pursue carve-outs
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Learning Islamic Rulings
A Muslim is required to learn about the Islamic rulings in all aspects of life—acts of worship, social relationships, among other things—in order to carry out his duties with accurate knowledge and immense certainty, as the Qur’an states, “Whomever Allah wishes to show goodness, He gives him understanding of the religion.” (Saheeh Al-Bukhaaree: 71; Saheeh Muslim: 1037)
Therefore, he must learn all about the religious duties he is required to undertake, such as purification, the manner of performing the prayer (salaat ) and the lawful and unlawful foods and drinks in Islam. He is also urged to learn about acts which are recommended but not obligatory.
The Five Islamic Rulings
All human actions fall into five categories:
Fard (Obligatory): This denotes those acts which Allah commands Muslims to do. Those who do them will be rewarded, but those who neglect them will be subject to punishment. Examples of such acts include the five obligatory daily prayers and fasting during the lunar month of Ramadaan.
Haraam (Prohibited): This denotes those acts which Allah has prohibited. Those who leave them will be rewarded, but those who engage in them will be punished. Examples of such acts include drinking alcohol and committing illicit sexual intercourse.
Mustahabb (also called Sunnah: Recommended): This is used to describe acts which are rewarded but not punishable for their omission, such as smiling at people, initiating the greeting of Islam (by saying Assalaamu ?Alaykum) when meeting them and removing dirt or harmful objects from the road.
Makrooh (Disliked): This denotes those acts which Islam urges its adherents to avoid. Those who avoid them will be rewarded, and those who do them will not be subject to punishment. They include such acts as fiddling with one’s fingers during the prayer.
Mubaah (Permissible): This denotes those acts that are neither forbidden nor recommended. They are rather neutral and thus subject neither to reward nor to punishment. They include eating, drinking and talking.
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DIRA MORTIS – No Clean Singing Streams Ancient Breath Of Forgotten Misanthropy Album From Polish Death Metal Act
photo by Marcin Studzinski
No Clean Singing is hosting an exclusive stream of Ancient Breath Of Forgotten Misanthropy – the monstrous third album from Polish death metal outfit, DIRA MORTIS – alongside a track-by-track breakdown of the entire record. The album is playing just days ahead of the record’s official release this Friday, December 25th through Selfmadegod Records.
On Ancient Breath Of Forgotten Misanthropy, DIRA MORTIS brings forth seven massive tracks of classic death metal tracks influenced by the likes of Incantation, Immolation, and Autopsy. The album was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Roslyn Studios with producer Krzysztof Godycki (Kult Mogi³, Morda Stigmata, Stillborn, Ulcer), and completed with cover art and layout by Bart³omiej Kurzok and photos by Marcin Studzinski. The album’s intro and outro were produced by £ukasz “Zenial” Sza³ankiewicz with Elene Aladashvili on vocals, and the track “Twilight Of Divine Purgatory” features a guest solo by Uappa Terror.
With their advance stream of the album, No Clean Singing writes in part, “It’s entirely possible that DIRA MORTIS do wish peace on earth and good will among men and women, but judging from the album it’s also likely they don’t believe that will happen naturally or through divine intervention. It will require a determined fight and an unquenchable spirit, and this raging, riotous, yet somehow even poignant album would make a good soundtrack for what is required.”
Visit No Clean Singing now to stream DIRA MORTIS’ Ancient Breath Of Forgotten Misanthropy early and check out the track-by-track feature RIGHT HERE.
Selfmadegod Records will release Ancient Breath Of Forgotten Misanthropy on CD and digital platforms on Christmas, this Friday, December 25th. Find preorders at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
DIRA MORTIS came into existence in 1998 in Gorlice, Poland, and continues to serve a powerful dose of ominous cemetery stench death metal. To date, the band has released records through the likes of Defense Records and Let It Bleed, with two full-length albums among a long line of demos, EPs, and more fleshing out their discography. In 2014, a compilation featuring the band’s early demos called Rusty Razor Cuts was released, and the following year, the band released their second album, Psalms Of Morbid Existence, which was highly appreciated in the music press and was promoted on many shows in Poland. DIRA MORTIS has played live alongside the likes of Marduk, Immolation, Parricide, Deformed, Antigama, Hypnos, Patologicum, Terrordome, and Chaos Synopsis.
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‘The Trip to Greece’ Review: Steve and Rob Get Older, But These Movies Never Do
In times like these, a movie like The Trip to Greece could seem a little cruel. Here are two successful actors roaming Europe, dining in the fanciest restaurants imaginable, spending unseemly amounts of money, all to write one single article about the local culinary scene for The Observer. Eating in restaurants? Tourism? Enormous print journalism budgets? In the spring of 2020, the plot of The Trip to Greece sounds like more of a fantasy than Star Wars.
The actual film itself is timelier than you might expect, even from its opening scenes, which proceed in much the same fashion as the previous three Trips. In each one — all of which initially aired as six-part BBC TV series that were cut down to feature-film length for American release — Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon play loosely fictionalized versions of themselves and embark on a culinary tour of a European locale. In 2010’s The Trip, Coogan largely undertook the journey to impress a woman — when they broke up just before their travels he reluctantly invited Brydon along to keep him company. In between gastronomic delights, the pair trade celebrity impressions and try to make each other laugh — not so much to pass the time as to prove, once and for all, which of the two highly competitive frenemies is funnier.
By The Trip to Greece (which follows The Trip to Italy and The Trip to Spain), no additional motivation is required; this is simply something the two men do together. There’s even less setup than usual; as Greece begins, Steve and Rob are already in Turkey, where they plan to retrace Odysseus’ path home following the Trojan War. Steve seems a bit more relaxed than in previous Trips; his anxiety about his perpetually floundering career is less pronounced. He even seems less exasperated by Rob’s presence and his nonstop impressions. Occasionally, he looks like he might even value his travel partner’s company.
Director Michael Winterbottom, who collaborated on all four Trips with Coogan and Brydon, continues the aesthetic he established in each of the previous installments: Gorgeous vistas of Steve and Rob’s car touring through the rugged European landscape, dinners shot at impossibly scenic restaurants punctuated with comedy-enhancing cutaways to busy kitchens, where anonymous chefs are hard at work preparing the sublime cuisine. Steve and Rob supply the requisite improvised impressions that have become The Trip’s trademark.
On Steve and Rob’s first stop in The Trip to Greece, they pause for a photo op in front of the famous Trojan Horse, a clear signal from Winterbottom and company to look beneath the film’s deceptively simple facade. Coogan and Brydon’s innate comic chemistry is an undeniable piece of The Trip’s appeal, but focusing on it obscures how these men use their banter to work through their fears and insecurities in a way that would be hailed as brave works of autobiography if they took place in a drama instead of a buddy movie about guys who like to imagine what Hercules in New York would sound like if it starred Werner Herzog instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
As The Trips have progressed, their endings have become more experimental, and more surprising. The Trip to Greece arrives at a very unexpected destination, one foreshadowed by an earlier scene where the two friends debate who should wear the mask of comedy and the mask of tragedy during the photo shoot for their latest Observer article. As the real world has made clear so many times over the past several months, those masks are just as easily traded in our own lives, which can careen off in unexpected directions at a moment’s notice.
The marketing materials for The Trip to Greece warn that this will be the final installment of the series — which, if true, would be a tragedy in and of itself. (Rob and Steve should continue doing these until they’re physically incapable of driving a car or they make The Trip to America, whichever comes last.) If this is The Trip’s finale, the movie — and particularly its final 15 minutes — concludes in appropriately bittersweet fashion that suits not only the ending of a great film series but the collective mood of our home quarantine era as well. The Trip to Greece reminds us that anyone who gets to take a picturesque holiday with good food and friends should savor every last second of it. Because it won’t last forever. And it could all end when you least expect it.
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Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci (right) consults with an actor from his film The Last Emperor (1987).
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99 Percent Lifestyle #5
In Volume 5 of 99 Percent Lifestyle, our three central features have a strong reinvention theme. We speak to former UFC fighter Justin Wren about how he has freed a Pigmies tribe in the Democratic Republic of Congo, share the work of an unsung hero who has reinvented a community through education in The Gambia and we also look at Awesome Merchandises expansion into the US market.
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Court Orders Tiger King’s Jeff Lowe to Hand over Big Cat Cubs and Their Mothers
Texas Lawyer Who Was Fired After Filming Himself at Capitol Files Lawsuit Declaring Trump’s Impeachment ‘Null and Void’
‘Those Bullets Ripped Daniel Apart’: Video Shows Officer Fatally Shooting Man in the Back (VIDEO)
Alberto LuperonAug 9th, 2018, 3:02 pm
Warning: This video is disturbing.
Video released Tuesday by the Davidson County District Attorney’s Office shows that Metro Nashville Police Department Officer Andrew Delke fatally shot a fleeing Daniel Hambrick during a foot chase.
Now, Hambrick’s family wants the cop charged with homicide, according to The Tennessean.
“He was a great child,” said Vickie Hambrick. “I just want justice for my son. That’s all I ask for. And for all the young black guys and young women, I want justice for them.”
Hambrick was black. Delke is white.
“He shoots him repeatedly from behind,” said family attorney Joy Kimbrough. “He shoots him in the back of his head. In the back of his head. They shot him in the back. The police officer fired four times, three of those bullets ripped Daniel apart. He fell to the ground, where he was cuffed and left, left there like a dog. Worse than a dog.”
A police union pushed back on the homicide accusation. They argue that the shooting was justified because Hambrick allegedly had a gun on him. The Metro Nashville Police Department posted a picture of the firearm after the July 26 shooting.
“Mr. Hambrick refused to drop the pistol,” said James Smallwood, President of the Fraternal Order of Police, according to the outlet. “Had he dropped his weapon and just kept running, the conclusion of that incident would be much different than what we are faced with today. I am confident that Mr. Hambrick would still be alive.”
The union attacked the footage as “grainy,” and said it should’ve been released with the other evidence at the end of the investigation in order to provide proper context.
Footage was released after it was determined that making it public wouldn’t interfere with the probe. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation continues to look into the incident.
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Nacirema Operating Company, Inc. v. Johnson
PETITIONER:Nacirema Operating Co. Inc. and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
RESPONDENT:William H. Johnson, Julia T. Kloseck, and Albert Avery
LOCATION:Bethlehem Steel Corp. High Pier
DOCKET NO.: 9
LOWER COURT: United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
ARGUED: Mar 25, 1969 / Oct 20, 1696
REARGUED: Oct 20, 1969
DECIDED: Dec 09, 1969
Erwin N. Griswold – Solicitor General argued the case for the petitioners in No. 16
John J. O’Connor, Jr. – For the Respondents Johnson et al.
Randall C. Coleman – For the Petitioners in No. 9
Ralph Rabinowitz – For the Respondent Avery
These are two consolidated cases involving the same Respondents. William Johnson and Jonathan Klosek (husband of Julia Klosek) were employed by Nacirema Operating Company as longshoremen and Albert Avery was employed by Old Dominion Stevedoring Company. Johnson and Avery were injured and Klosek was killed during separate accidents that occurred while on the dock unloading a ship. The Deputy Commissioners of the United States Department of Labor denied claims by the men and their families under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Worker’s Compensation Act (the Act) because the injuries did not occur “upon the navigable waters of the United States” as required under the Act. The district court upheld those decisions and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed.
Are injuries to longshoremen that occur on piers permanently affixed to shore compensable under the Longshoremen’s and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act?
Earl Warren:
Number 528, Nacirema Operating Company Inc., petitioners versus William H. Johnson et al case.
Yes, and number 663, John P. Traynor and Jerry C. Oosting, Deputy Commissioners, petitioners versus William H. Johnson.
Mr. Coleman?
Randall C. Coleman:
Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the Court.
The issues before the Court today are whether pier injuries to longshoreman are injuries which occurred on navigable waters of the United States and are thus within the coverage of the Longshoreman’s Act.
That question was answered in the affirmative by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and therefore as one of the reasons that the Fourth Circuit decided the case affirmatively was that the Admiralty Extension Act broadened and expanded the coverage of the Longshoreman’s Act.
The Court will also have before it the Admiralty Extension Act and whether or not it did in fact extend the coverage to the Longshoreman’s Act.
The facts in the case are undisputed and I will give them, Your Honors together with the history of the case.
These consolidated cases arose from pier injuries to three longshoremen.
One of the injuries resulted in the death of the longshoreman.
The cases arose, two of them, William Johnson and Joseph Klosek arose in Maryland and one Albert Avery arose in Virginia.
They were pier injuries under virtually identical circumstances because all three of the longshoremen involved were, what is known as slingers.
They worked and were working at the time of the injuries in gondola cars on piers.
They were slinging on cargo which was attached to ships’ falls or cables which then loaded the cargo which was being slung on to the vessel.
The piers in the — well the pier in the Maryland case was on the Patapsco River.
It extended out into that river approximately 600 feet, I believe, and there’s no question that the Patapsco River is navigable waters of the United States.
The pier in the Virginia case, city piers of north of Virginia extended I think about a thousand feet into the Elizabeth River.
There’s also no dispute that the Elizabeth River is on navigable waters of the United States.
It was found as a fact and not disputed that these longshoremen in both cases might have been working on the pier at one time.
They might also have gone aboard the vessel.
They sometimes switched positions.
It is also found as a fact and undisputed that these particular piers were piers which were erected on pilings.
And certain small craft could get under them, and I think canoes and rowboats were named. Large vessels could not because the piers instructed them.
The Deputy Commissioner Oosting in Virginia and Deputy Commissioner Traynor in Maryland both found that the injuries to these men which resulted when cargo swung against the men, in the case of Joseph Klosek, he was knocked out off the gondola car to the dock and sustained fatal injuries.
The other two men Johnson and Avery were pinned against the side of the railroad car.
The Deputy Commissioner found that those injuries, both Deputy Commissioners, found that those injuries were injuries which did not occur upon navigable waters.
The opinions of both the Deputy Commissioners were then appealed to the district courts first to the Eastern District of Virginia and to the District Court for the District of Maryland.
And the district judges, Judge Hoffman from the Eastern District of Virginia, Judge Watkins from the District of Maryland affirmed the findings of the Deputy Commissioner.
The cases were then appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
They were first, the Avery case and the Johnson and Klosek cases were first argued in separate panels, and after that they were consolidated and the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit en banc heard all three cases.
They reversed the two district judges.
Certiorari was applied for by the Nacirema Operating Company in the Maryland case by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in the Virginia case, and by Solicitor General on behalf of the two Deputy Commissioners and with us before the Court.
The principal point upon which I rely is that for some years, the piers have been considered extensions of the land.
I believe that was the law some time ago and is presently the law.
The point was never mentioned by the Court of Appeals below and I think the Court of Appeals might have had somewhat difficult time answering the question.
A number of cases from this Court were cited, they were on page 10 of our briefs.
The most recent that I can think of, of this Court is the opinion announced by Mr. Justice Black in Swanson against Marra Brothers which I think is certainly still the law, it certainly the most well known case.
I will only quote that portion of the opinion which relates to this point.
“Swanson was a longshoreman who was injured on the pier when a life raft fell from the ship and injured him.”
And this Court said without dissent, but since the Act, that’s the Longshoreman’s Act, is restricted to compensation for injuries occurring on navigable waters, it excludes from its own terms and from the Jones Act, any remedies against the employer for injuries inflicted on shore.
The Act leaves the injured employees in such cases to pursue the remedies afforded by local law.
The Court then and prior to that had always considered pier injuries to be shore injuries, and I submit Your Honors that that is still the law.
The Court, this Court has always followed I believe, the line of demarcation which was set out in the Jensen case years ago, and that line is the line between state and federal coverage.
And specifically it’s the line between navigable waters and land, or extensions of the land.
I think that has always been the law.
So far as I know, there has never been a decision, except that of the Fourth Circuit which disputes that pier injuries are considered as land injuries.
The injuries in this instance, all having occurred on the pier don’t fall within the stated exception of the Act, which is any dry dock.
Dry docks were explained and detailed as to what they were by Mr. Justice Douglas in Avondale Marine Ways against Henderson I think.
And it was clearly pointed out that the types of dry dock referred to are not wharfs or piers, as they were in this instance.
The case does not — the injuries do not fall within the Court’s exception which was in Mr. Justice Black’s decision in Davis against the Department of Labor in the twilight zone.
The twilight zone as I understand it is that sort of hazy area between the ship and the pier where it’s difficult to determine which coverage does apply.
And the Court in the twilight zone cases has held that there may be both state and federal coverage and the injured longshoreman may elect.
The case most heavily relied upon by the court below was Calbeck against Travelers Insurance Company.
I hope since it was discussed at some length that this Court won’t consider it presumptions of me, in particularly Mr. Justice Brennan to try to state what I think that case held.
I do not think that the case held as the Court of Appeals below said it held that pier injuries could be covered by the Longshoreman’s Act.
That was a case Your Honors will recall which involved two or more shipyard workers who were injured aboard ships which were on navigable waters under new construction.
They were ships under construction.
Now the Court had before it, its prior holding in 1922 of Grant Smith-Porter Ship Company against Rohde, and that case long ago had established that there was a local concern in navigable — in ships that were under construction in navigable waters.
And where there were such local concern that the State Compensation Acts could apply that there and in that instance the state acts may apply and federal coverage did not come into effect.
Now, I gathered from Mr. Justice Brennan’s opinion that this Court was very much concerned with whether or not in all the cases where there was local concern, and particularly in the very case it was before it there would definitely be coverage for longshoremen who were injured.
There was the fear, I got from the opinion there was the fear that there might not be state or federal coverage somewhere for those men who were working in areas that the pre-1927 decisions had set aside as local concern areas.
So the court in reversing the Fifth Circuit, I believe it was the Fifth Circuit, in reversing the Fifth Circuit held that what this Act meant was precisely what it said.
It wanted to cover injuries which occurred to longshoreman on navigable waters.
It didn’t mean all injuries.
It meant injuries on navigable waters.
There was no dispute that there is no dispute.
There can be no dispute that ships under construction just as much as ships that have been built are on navigable waters if they are afloat or in a dry dock or a marine railway.
Abe Fortas:
Well, on of these men was knocked off the pier into the water, was he?
No sir, not —
Your Honor that was a case that was not brought up on certiorari.
There were two men in Norfolk, I can’t recall the other man’s name, but you’re quite right.
Well, —
One was knocked off.
Well would that make any difference?
Your Honor, to me it makes a difference in that — well, I felt too that that man was injured on navigable waters.
I think this is totally situs-oriented and that a man who sustains his injury in the ocean, or in the river, in the water is clearly on navigable waters.
Well that gets it down to pretty — to a point that does of the greatest appeal to legal technicians, doesn’t it?
I suppose whenever you draw a line, it’s a difficult line to draw, yes sir.
Well, here’s a man on a pier — there are two men working on the pier and now this is a crane, isn’t it or a line swing that’s attached to the ship?
This — well let’s see.
In each instance particularly — well I know in the Maryland case, there was a derrick or crane on a ship and from that derrick or crane, the line descended to the gondola car and hoisted the steel beams, that was the same was true —
So here — there’s a ship here and there’s a crane on it, a line coming from the crane, two men working on the pier in my hypothetical situation.
And they’re both hit.
One of them was just knocked to the floor, to the floor of the pier and he sustains injuries, he’s not covered.
His fellow worker is knocked off the pier and into the water and that being navigable water, he is covered, is that about it?
That’s exactly it, Your Honor.
I know — I recognize — I can’t dispute that incongruities are going to develop wherever line is drawn.
Potter Stewart:
Didn’t the Deputy Commissioner make an award in that case with that?
That’s what I thought.
He made that precise distinction?
And that precise distinction is made by the cases isn’t it?
Thurgood Marshall:
Mr. Coleman, suppose a man is —
I’m not sure the Deputy Commissioner did Your Honor.
I know the Court of Appeals held —
Well I thought I read the briefs the Deputy Commissioner had unlike these other cases?
I believe the Deputy — that’s right, it did uphold the award in that case.
I haven’t born that one as closely that —
No, because that’s not before us, but I thought I read in the briefs —
I believe —
— or a footnote somewhere that the Deputy Commissioner had made that precise distinction?
For the man knocked into the water and drowned —
What happens if the longshoreman is on the ship deck it did not into the pier?
The injury occurred on the ship Your Honor.
That case was covered by this Court, the Admiral Peoples is the same idea as the — it happened to be the gangway in that case.
And that was it, that’s why I can’t see the difference when he’s on the pier and gets knocked into water.
Your Honor, again you’re hitting me right where that line is drawn and it’s tough.
But you can’t give the line up, obviously?
You can’t do you?
No sir, I can’t give the line up.
But all that the Court of Appeals has done below is it just redrawn the line.
It’s just a question of where you are going to draw it.
Wherever its drawn, somebody on the other side of it whose agreed is going to be nudging and say “I ought to be on that side of it.”
And I think that this is a clearly established line.
I honestly think it’s a logical line to draw that is navigable waters.
It was drawn by this Court for constitutional reasons, navigable waters and the land.
Now, there are a number of examples that show what might happen if it were extended further shoreward.
They might sound farfetched, but they’re not farfetched if the Court adopts the status approach that was adopted by the Fourth Circuit, anytime the status approached — approach is adopted, it’s going to be extremely difficult to tell what to do about that line.
But if a clear situs approach is adopted, you know if it happened on navigable waters.
It was covered by this Act.
If it happened on land or extensions of land, it’s covered by the state Act.
The Court in Calbeck went on to point out that the pre-1927 decisions which has been referred to in the respondent’s brief as static decisions where we should not freeze the line, were those very decisions of local concern, so I — and it was brought out in the Calbeck case just as it was brought out in the Parker against Motor Boat Sales before it, that the local concern doctrine was said to have been read out of the Act.
And that it simply means that where there are navigable waters, and the Court used to term navigable waters frequently, where there are navigable waters, that is where the federal Act applies.
The Court also recognized in the Calbeck case the Jensen line of demarcation.
It had recognized it in previous cases.
The Court cited in the Calbeck case, the Fifth Circuit case of DeBardelen which quoted that Congress intended to exercise to the fullest extent its power to act in this area.
The fullest extent was determined by the Court sometime ago to be where there are navigable waters and apart from land or extensions of land which were then the domain of the State Compensation Acts.
Judge Sobeloff in the majority decision below stated that it would have been interesting if the three courts or at least in the Fifth Circuit which decided the case contrary-wise from the Fourth Circuit.
If the Fifth Circuit had considered the impact of the Calbeck decision in reaching the result which was opposite this one, the Fifth Circuit did not in precise terms refer to the Calbeck decision.
It did however refer “to the extensive scholarly opinion of Judge Watkins who had at length discussed the Calbeck case because the Calbeck case had been argued to him.”
And in the Ninth Circuit case, which also held that is Houser against O’Leary, which also held that piers are extensions of the land and that pier ridges are covered by the state Act rather than the federal Act.
There the Calbeck case was discussed at some length.
Byron R. White:
Did you suggest that the admiralty jurisdiction at its maximum extension would not reach an injury on a pier?
Now, wait a minute, the Admiralty Extension Act, Your Honor —
I understand that.
I understand the admiralty but you — a while ago you said it had been determined that the maximum extension of the admiralty jurisdiction still didn’t reach injury on a pier?
No, Your Honor, you misunderstood me.
What I said was that the Longshoreman’s Act does not — no extension of the Longshoreman’s Act will reach a pier injury because that is not on navigable waters.
Now, I — perhaps what you’re asking me Mr. Justice White is do I contend that Congress hasn’t the right in the exercise of its maritime jurisdiction to move all the way into the pier and thus let the Longshoreman’s Act cover that?
I think sir that was the very point that was in Jensen at Knickerbocker and Dawson where they held no and it’s the same Constitution.
And it’s —
So you do say that admiralty jurisdiction ends with the pier.
Not admiralty jurisdiction.
Admiralty jurisdiction goes on land, Your Honor’s decision in Gutierrez by virtue of the —
Admiralty —
Admiralty Extension Act.
But by the —
But jurisdiction under this statute is strictly limited to navigable waters by its terms.
Then what about the Congress saying that it isn’t, but I suppose it could, is that it?
Now that’s where it should be decided.
I think maybe Congress could but it would be faced with this Court saying it couldn’t back in Jensen and Knickerbocker and Dawson.
Hugo L. Black:
You think Jensen is still the law?
I beg your pardon sir?
It hasn’t been overruled.
I remember Your Honor’s decision in Davis against the Department of Labor when no one there suggested that it would be appropriate to try to overrule Jensen because of the confusion it would create.
Now, I’m mindful of the fact that the Solicitor General suggest that in an appropriate case, it might be a good idea.
But he also points out that this wouldn’t be that case, because this calls for strictly an application of the Longshoreman’s Act.
What — what power do you think Congress was exercising in passing the Longshoreman’s Act?
It was exercising the power granted it under Article III, I think it is the maritime power in the area where the states may not act.
And that act — and where that maritime jurisdiction extends under the very lengthy discussions in those three cases Jensen, Knickerbocker and Dawson was again navigable waters because the lands were within the exclusive jurisdiction of the state.
Now, I’m not at all sure that that would be followed now.
All I know is that’s what it has been for some time.
The Court wrote fairly convincing opinions.
But what was the power of Congress, I suppose in passing the Admiralty Extension Act was the maritime jurisdiction?
Well, they merely expanded the admiralty tort jurisdiction, and I’m not sure whether that was commerce or whether it might have been Maritime, I don’t know.
I think it might’ve been commerce but I’m not sure.
But I know that the approach given by the court below which is a status approach certainly contradicts any idea that the Admiralty Extension Act extends — extends the coverage of the Longshoreman’s Act.
I finally point out that the Court in the Calbeck case also quoted extensively Senate Report 973, which was the crux of the legislative history in a footnote and in part it said “injuries occurring in loading or unloading are not covered, unless they occur on the ship or between the wharf and the ship.”
That’s what Congress intended and as I understand this Court’s decision in Calbeck and many others, it felt the same way.
And certainly did as recently as Calbeck.
Now, to the Admiralty Extension Act, I believe the reading of the Act itself makes it fairly clear that the court below in finding that the Admiralty Extension Act did extend the coverage of the Longshoreman’s Act was mistaken.
The second part of the Admiralty Extension Act to which very little attention seems to have been paid, and which was not commented upon is that in any such case, suit may be brought in rem or in personam according to the principles of law and the rules of practice obtaining in cases where the injury or damage has been done and consummated on navigable water.
Now one thing that is definite about the Longshoreman’s Act, suit is not brought.
The Longshoreman’s Act is — involves an administrative proceeding where in a claim is filed with an administrative agency.
It can’t be done in rem.
It can’t be done for damages — for damage, it is done for injuries.
And it is strictly and purely an administrative proceeding.
And to argue as is argued below and by respondents that the Admiralty Extension Act expands.
It is completely contradictory to the same argument that the Longshoreman’s Act is status-oriented, because if there’s one thing the Admiralty Extension Act is, it is clearly situs-oriented.
And as review of the District Court on the civil-sided court?
Not an admiralty —
Review of the Deputy Commissioner’s?
It was in admiralty.
It is an admiralty?
Right now it’s civil, it’s just called a complaint civil — it was in admiralty, yes sir.
Considered an admiralty not a —
The appeal was taken up in admiralty, yes sir.
I don’t think it proves anything sir?
Well, that’s not your viewpoint.
No certainly not.
The — what the Admiralty Extension Act has done and did for these longshoremen, is give them the right to do what they done.
When there’s a pier injury caused, that is the Maryland longshoreman, caused by a vessel and there’s some fault, they have the right to sue the third party, and they’ve exercised that right.
So I think the Admiralty Extension Act applies only to a right which they have exercised and does not expand the rights they have which are considerable under the Longshoreman’s Act.
Unless there’s some further questions.
Thank you, sir.
Mr. Solicitor General.
Erwin N. Griswold:
Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court.
The question in this case is solely one of statutory construction.
Though there is of course a constitutional background.
In some ways as Mr. Justice Fortas has indicated, it’s in a sort of never-never land.
But I think that it helps if we focus on the fact that we are dealing with the construction and application of a statute which was passed by Congress in 1927 more than 40 years ago, and has never been amended.
It’s appealing to think that the time has come when the statute here involved should be given a broader sweep as the court below has done.
But it’s an appeal I submit that should be resisted in the interest of proper allocation of governmental powers.
We’ve become accustomed to growing and expanding constructions of the Constitution, and there’s reason for this.
Since constitutions are often written in general terms and they are hard to change.
In the area of statutory construction though, Congress always has the power to amend the statute if it thinks that is desirable.
And in the allocation of powers between the great branches of the Government, it’s the function of Congress to amend statutes and not of the court.
As this Court itself pointed out in the Pillsbury case involving the Longshoreman’s Act some years ago.
We don’t contend that the proper construction of the statutory provision is a matter of black and white, as legal questions rarely are.
But there are elements which we believe point clearly enough to a decision.
The relevant language is in Section 903 of Title 33 and is set out just about the middle of page 3 of the Government’s brief.
Beginning with fourth line of that provision, I would call attention to three elements in the statutory language.
There is first, occurring upon the navigable waters of the United States.
Now, upon is a common word and common words often have many shades of meaning.
This word in this place must take its content in part at least from its background, the most important element of which was the Jensen case.
The dictionary definition of upon is short and sweet.
I looked it up this morning in the second edition of the Webster’s International “upward so as to be on.”
And that makes it turn to on and on as defined as the position of contact with or against a supporting surface.
I don’t think the dictionary definition helps a great deal, but it does make it apparent that here the men were upon the pier and not upon the water.
But in addition to the Jensen case, there was also the Nordenholt case and not to mention the Cleveland Terminal and Valley Railroad case, both of which were well known when the statute was written.
In both of those cases, pier injuries were held to be outside the admiralty jurisdiction.
It said that these piers were above the water, and that indeed small boats and canoes can travel beneath the piers on the water.
But that’s not where the injury occurred.
It occurred on a pier which is a structure fixed in land.
Now when these workmen were on the pier, they were above the water surely, but they were not upon the water they were upon the pier.
Suppose they’ve been on a bridge over the water but resting on the two banks of the navigable stream?
They would then have been above the water, and thus upon the water in the same sense that they were here.
But no one would say that a person on a bridge was upon that water even though ships could pass underneath.
Next, we come to the phrase immediately following (including any dry dock).
Note that this is including any dry dock, not any dock or any dock or pier.
The fact that Congress expressly included any dry dock is some indication that it did not include other docks or piers.
I don’t suggest that the other construction is impossible.
I do submit that it is unlikely and that the construction which would make the applicable — the Act applicable to injuries occurring on any dock or pier is not only unnatural in the light of the situation which Congress understood when it wrote the statute.
But also makes this phrase of little use in the statute.
Such a construction should I think be avoided.
And finally, in these same few lines of the statute, we come to the last clause and if recovery for the disability or death through workman’s compensation proceedings may not validly be provided by state law.
Now it’s said that this last clause was written out of the statute by this Court’s decision in the Calbeck case.
I’m planning to devote the final portion of my available time to a discussion of the Calbeck case, but I will say now that I don’t think the statement I have just recounted is true.
Writing provisions out of the statute is not the function of the Court.
And I don’t interpret the Calbeck decision as attempting to do so. On the contrary, the present case is I submit an excellent example of a situation where this final clause is applicable and is dispositive of the question of construction and of the litigation.
Turning specifically to the question of construction, I’ve already referred to the language of the statute but the argument is confirmed by the legislative history.
The statute including this jurisdictional language was of course passed following the Jensen decision and the two cases where the Court struck down the first two attempts of Congress to deal with the problem.
Not only was the Jensen case there was clear territorial implications, but this Court had already decided the Nordenholt case in 259 U.S. in an opinion by Mr. Justice McReynolds who was the author of the Jensen opinion.
And the Court held that an injury to a longshoreman on a pier was covered by the State Workers’ Compensation Law.
This is no — this was no mere straining to find some way to provide compensation.
The Court in its opinion referred to the doctrine that locality and I’m quoting “locality is the exclusive test of admiralty jurisdiction.”
It said, Eisends who was the injured workman, was injured upon the dock, an extension of the land, “See Cleveland Terminal and Valley Railroad Company against Cleveland Steamship Company.”
This was the setting in which Congress legislated.
Its understanding was made explicit in the report of the Senate Committee which is set forth on page 13 of the Government’s brief.
Now the Senate Report said that injuries occurring in loading or unloading are not covered unless they occur on the ship or between the wharf and the ship so as to bring them within the maritime jurisdiction of the United States.
In the process of enacting the statute, we have further evidence.
For there was at one time in the Bills as they went through Congress a general provision that it should apply to any employment performed on a place within the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States, except employment of local concern, and of no direct relation to navigation or commerce.
All of which would have been very uncertain in scope and would have yielded would’ve meant itself to a construction in this case in accordance with that of the court below.
But Congress took that out and substituted in its place the language which has persisted unchanged for more than 40 years upon the navigable waters of the United States including any dry dock.
This showed a clearly territorial approach which is surely understandable in the light of the decisions as they stood at that time.
Next, I would point out that this was the immediate and long continued consistent administrative construction of the statute which should be given great weight at this late day.
Almost at once, and in a long series of rulings, the administrative agency charged with the application of the statute construed it not to apply to pier side injuries as it has done in this case.
And finally, since the statute was enacted, this Court’s decisions lead to the same conclusion as long ago as 1941.
This Court said in Parker against Motor Boat Sales and I quote, “The field in which a state may not validly provide for compensation must be taken for the purposes of the Act as the same field which the Jensen line of decision excluded from state compensation laws.”
Without affirming or rejecting the constitutional implications of those cases, we accept them as the measure by which Congress intended to mark the scope of the Act they brought into existence.
And shortly thereafter in Davis against the Department of Labor, the Court said that “Congress as by the Longshoreman’s Act accepted the Jensen line of demarcation between state and federal jurisdiction.”
And more specifically in Swanson against Marra Bros. Company, to which Mr. Coleman has referred, the Court held almost directly that a pier side injury was covered by the Longshoreman’s Act citing and relying on the Nordenholt case.
I turn now to the Calbeck case, which is of course an important authority in the construction of the Longshoreman’s Act.
My submission is that it supports our construction of the statute.
Some language in it is taken out of context to sustain the contrary argument.
But that argument will not survive, I submit, when the language is placed in the context of the decision as a whole.
In the first place, we must give consideration to the actual facts of the Calbeck case.
The language of an opinion of course takes significance as applied to the facts which were before the Court.
And in the Calbeck case, the Court was dealing with an injury to an employee who was working on a ship which was afloat on navigable waters.
This is the clearest possible situation within the admiralty jurisdiction and within the Jensen case.
The workmen there were on the water side of the Jensen line of demarcation.
And what the Court said has great relevance to injuries which are so clearly maritime that this was the area on which the Court focused is clearly shown by the repeated references in the opinion to “injuries incurred on navigable waters.”
This phrase occurs at least nine times in the opinion with slight variations. As to such injuries, the Court did use some rather broad language, but it was only such injuries that were actually before the Court.
That the Court did not intend to go further is shown by its reference to the ex-adoption of, and here again I quote “the Jensen line between admiralty and state jurisdiction as the limit of federal coverage.”
And its reference to the fact that in Davis against the Department of Labor, the Court had pointed out that, and again I quote “the Act adopts the Jensen line of demarcation.”
It should be observed too that the in the Calbeck case, the Court at page 129 cited the Nordenholt case with approval.
Where it had been held just before the enactment of the statute, that injuries on piers were on the state authority side of the Jensen line of demarcation.
Thus, Calbeck when closely examined deals only with the water side of the Jensen Act of demarcation.
It accepts —
Suppose there were a — suppose Mr. Solicitor General it were a floating pier upon tombs, there are some, does that make any difference?
Yes, I think the floating dock might be the equivalent of a vessel, I don’t know.
Then it would be upon navigable waters.
I can only say that we don’t have that case here.
I understand we don’t have that case here.
But it’s just the fact that it’s above the water and not on it that makes a —
Certainly a barge floating beside a ship which is being used in unloading a ship would be within the admiralty jurisdiction.
And I don’t recall a case which has involved a floating pier.
But I think that it’s very likely that that would be held to be within the admiralty jurisdiction.
Certainly, it was not the situation which was involved in the Nordenholt case which was a fixed structure built on land.
Calbeck as I have said does accept the Nordenholt case and makes it plain that a pier side injury such as that involved here is and always has been understood to be covered by the state acts.
And is thus outside the scope of the Longshoreman’s Act not only because the injury is on the state side of the Jensen line of demarcation, but also because coverage of the Longshoreman’s Act is expressly excluded by the final clause of Section 3 (a) since a remedy under the State Act is clearly available.
And this is the case it seems to me where that final clause can properly be applied.
In the Calbeck case, the Court did quote some rather expansive language from Judge Hutcheson in the De Bardeleben Coal case.
But nevertheless, the case itself involves injuries which were clearly on the water side of the Jensen line of demarcation.
Congress did undertake to use its authority to the full as it then understood its authority to be under this Court’s decisions.
In undertaking to meet its responsibility, it drew the line which it understood to be the Jensen line of demarcation to which this Court has frequently since made reference.
Though it may be that it could draw the line some place else if it were enacting the statute now, and I think it could. This is the place where it did draw the line when it enacted this statute in 1927.
Nothing that has happened since is an appropriate reason for a court to draw the line someplace else that is the responsibility and the prerogative of Congress.
We’ll recess.
John J. O’Connor, Jr.:
I should like to define the issues involved in these cases.
At the conclusion of my introductory portion, I’ll be very happy to proceed in which ever direction you suggest.
One, discuss the points set forth in my brief but in a different sequence.
Two, limit my discussion basically to the philosophy of five cases of this Court commencing with O’Donnell versus Great Lakes and terminating with the Reed decision.
Or three, devoting the time I have allotted to responding to any questions you may care to direct to me.
First of all, these cases involve longshoreman who are members of a gang, a work unit, actively engaged in discharging cargo from a vessel alongside of a pier.
Their duties, their rest periods, their lunch periods require them to go back and forth between the vessel and the pier.
They’re doing the same work.
They’re receiving the same pay.
They are exposed to the same risks.
We’re not dealing in this case with anyone running to an office downtown, anyone working in a machine shop, anyone driving a laundry truck.
My second point is the issue in these cases is not of constitutional magnitude.
Jensen, Stewart, Dawson these cases held that admiralty was exclusively federal and that states could not be permitted to invade that domain with or without attempted congressional sanction.
The crucial question in these cases is this.
May the federal government legislate in a field where the states may also have exercised some dominion?
These other cases we’re looking in the opposite direction.
They were — the issue there was one of permissiveness by this Court and not a limitation on the power or the authority of the federal government.
The third point, there are two basic sources of jurisdiction for Congress, one the admiralty article, two the commerce article.
I’m afraid I must differ with the distinguished Solicitor General when he appeared before you a few moments ago.
He indicated that the exclusive source of admiralty jurisdiction was locality.
Locality determines jurisdiction with reference to torts.
But admiralty also has the contract aspect and there, it’s the nature of the contract and not the locality.
In addition to this, we have the commerce power.
These two powers are totally separate distinct independent.
They may be exercised jointly or independently.
In the Longshoreman Act, Congress was aware of and actually did exercise both of these powers.
The next point I find myself in agreement with the Solicitor General, we feel that these cases revolve about the correct liberal interpretation of the simple term “upon the navigable waters of the United States.”
The Court of Appeals held that this term applied equally to all structures on navigable waters whether the structure happened to be a pier or a ship.
And also to all injuries, whether the longshoreman happened to be aboard the ship on the deck, or on the deck of a pier.
The final comment in this introductory portion I should like to make is this Your Honors.
Under the Maryland law, the widow and the family would receive a maximum of $15,000.00, under the federal statute the benefits will be in the neighborhood of $63,000.00.
We submit that a hidden issue in this case the cause to the insurance company and ultimately to the stevedoring contractor.
And as this Court has repeatedly held that is not a valid issue.
The human cost of doing business should be born by the industry and not by the victim of the industry.
The — before I leave that, I think Mr. Justice Fortas directed a question to the Solicitor General and inquired “suppose we have a floating dry dock belay that a floating pier, what would be the ruling in such a situation?”
Well it so happens that there has been such a case.
And this is illustrative of the conflict and the confusion which is existing throughout the country today.
A recovery for the longshoreman was awarded by the compensation commissioner.
As I recalled it, this recovery was affirmed by the District Court.
It then went up to the appellate level in the Fifth Circuit.
The same circuit that has provided several of the authorities relied upon by the petitioners in this case.
The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in a decision in 1967, I’m not sure whether it’s Travelers versus Shea in 382 F.2d. or Nicholson versus Calbeck in 385 F.2d.
But the Court of Appeals reversed and held that the injury was not compensable under the Act.
Now, my first point, if you wish me to follow the brief basically.
Alright, but suppose I take the first point that I may deviate to another system Mr. Chief Justice.
My first point is, in addition to mean factually upon navigable waters, piers or their indispensable edge-ons, the facts of these cases are conceded.
We might say that there’s a veritable tidal wave of navigable waters in these cases.
First, we have the Solicitor General’s brief.
He says the relevant facts are not in dispute.
Then we have the admissions on the pleadings and the Klosek and Johnson cases.
I’m on page 29 of my brief at this point.
And of course in these undisputed verities is the fact the piers involved on our controversy are “upon navigable waters.”
Now going back to Johnson and Klosek, in our complaint for review which was filed on the admiralty side in the District of Maryland, we asserted “the complainant was working as a longshoreman on the 600 foot Bethlehem Steel High Pier located upon navigable waters” that’s our allegation.
Paragraph two of the answer of the petitioner in Nacirema in this particular case reads as follows.
“This respondent admits the matters and facts alleged in the second article of the complaint.”
Turning our attention briefly to the Avery case, there is an expressed stipulation to that effect.
That appears at page 9 of the appendix that the pier is upon navigable waters.
Over and above that, in the finding of fact by Deputy Commissioner Traynor, he held as a fact “the surface of the pier is situated over the navigable waters.”
And of course we have the admissions made by Mr. Coleman when he first appeared before you.
He stated “there’s no question that the Patapsco River is navigable waters of the United States.”
Point three of his concession was that the pier was located on pilings and its small boats could navigate under them.
It is our position that this often by itself is dispositive of the issue involved in this case.
Now, suppose I pass on to an analysis of the principle and philosophy in the — what I consider the five leading cases.
My brief, I believe, contains references to 60 some odd cases.
I think these are the most important.
The first one is O’Donnell versus Great Lakes Dredge and Dry — Dock Company.
This particular decision involved a suit by a seaman incidentally where back in — that’s right 1943.
This case involved a suit by a seaman who was working on a type of vessel that transported sand.
This sand was taken ashore by some sort of a pipeline system.
He was ashore repairing a gasket on this discharging device.
He filed a suit under the Jones Act and his claim was denied by the lower court.
This Court entertained certiorari, issued the writ and the case came up for disposition.
Now, we feel that it’s extremely interesting to note that O’Donnell in 1943 interpreted the scope of the Jones Act and fundamentally the same words as this Court did some 20 years later when it delineated the borders of the Longshoreman’s Act in Calbeck.
In O’Donnell Mr. Chief Justice Stone in resisting an attempt to restrict the coverage of this beneficial Seaman’s Act stated, I quote this is on page 39 of the opinion.
“Congress in the absence of any indication of a different purpose, must be taken to have intended to make them” — them is the words of the Jones Act — “make them so far as the words and the Constitution permit and to have given to them the full support of all the constitutional power it possesses, hence the Act allows the recovery sought unless the Constitution forbids it.”
That is the end of the quotation.
The Jones Act as you may recall was passed in 1920.
It took that Act 23 years to come before this Court for the final interpretation.
The Longshoreman Act is taken a bit longer.
The second case I should like to discuss briefly with you is Avondale Marine Ways versus Henderson.
This is a 1953 decision of this Court in which the Court issued a per curiam decision representing the views of eight members of the Court.
There was no dissent, one judge did not participate.
O’Donnell I believe was also a unanimous decision.
In Avondale, the Court was dealing with a dry dock case.
The Longshoreman Act covers two categories of workers.
It covers your longshoreman who’s working on the pier and the ship and also covers your dry dock employees.
In Avondale, the situation is set forth in a footnote in the lower court’s opinion.
The factual backdrop was this, this is footnote 2.
By stipulation or by the uncontroverted testimony, it was established that at the time of the explosion on the barge, the barge had been hauled out of the Mississippi River on the cradle of a marine railway.
We’re dealing with a marine railway not technically a dry dock.
And that both cradle and barge at the time of the explosion and for sometime previously thereto, had been at rest ashore at a point 400 feet from the water.
To the predecessor court, it was so obvious that the Longshoreman Act should be liberally construed and applied.
It did not even bother with writing an opinion.
It had a one sentence per curiam affirming an award in favor of the man who was injured on this barge 400 feet inland of navigable waters.
Not on a dry dock but on a marine railway.
Our analogy there is that if the dry dock portion of coverage is to be applied with sufficient liberality as to embrace someone 400 feet inland, certainly a man injured on a pier just a few feet from the edge of the ship and still at that time physically upon navigable waters should also be held to be encompassed within the protection intended by Congress when this Act was passed back in 1937.
The third case of course is our incomparable Calbeck.
That has been pretty well commented upon already.
I don’t know whether any further elaboration is required at this time.
I don’t want to belabor it.
The courts have not concurred in the views expressed by Mr. Coleman when he tries to place a very limited application on this case.
Now as we all know, a case has basically two components.
First it has the precise determination of the issue based on the particular facts.
Secondly, from that precise determination it transcends into establishing or following a principle.
Now the principle of law, we all know the facts of Calbeck.
Simply that although in the past state camp was held applicable to a launched but uncompleted ship.
The lower court I think said it’s about 57% complete.
Although the past law stated that the state could award compensation.
Calbeck held that nevertheless the compensation, the Longshoreman’s Compensation Act also applied to that situation.
And the mere fact that there may have been recognized or permitted stated jurisdiction did not oust the federal government either Congress or the courts of its or their control and jurisdiction over admiralty matters and navigable water.
We feel we have the same precise situation here.
In Calbeck, there’s no question that the statutes of Louisiana could apply too and be availed out by that workman.
Similarly here, there’s no question that the statutes, the workman’s compensation of Maryland could apply to Mr. Johnson and also to the widow of Mrs. Klosek.
But we submit that is totally insignificant.
This case is not one of constitutional scope.
We’re not determining how far can the states go.
We’re merely deciding if the state was permitted in the past to exercise some jurisdiction in this field.
Does that mean if we have been ousted of our tradition authority, which of course is all way back of 1789?
The next —
What do you do with the last part of 903 (a)?
What is that Mr. Justice Fortas?
It says that after providing a compensation shall be payable in respect of disability or death if the injury occurred on navigable waters.
And it says “and if recovery for the disability or death may not validly be provided by state law.”
Well Calbeck very effectively disposed of that sir.
I’ll see if I can get the precise quotation from that decision.
Yes sir, on page 117 of 370 U.S., this Court asserted.
Let’s see, that was a 6 to 2 decision.
“Our conclusion is that Congress invoked its constitutional power so as to provide compensation for all injuries sustained by employees on navigable waters whether or not a particular injury might also have been within the constitutional reach of a state workman’s compensation law.”
Well do you say that that’s the answer to my question?
That was one of the main points that was emphasized and stressed in the Calbeck case, in the briefs and also in the opinion of, I forgot who authored the opinion in the Fifth Circuit.
Is there any further elaboration you would like sir?
Well, I suppose that calls for study and not elaboration.
Thank you Mr. Justice Fortas.
The next case I should like to discuss briefly with Your Honors is Gutierrez versus Waterman Steamship Corporation decided in 1963, and authored by Mr. Justice White.
That was a decision by this Court that divided the 8 to 1.
This is frequently been referred to as the “beans on the dock case” in Puerto Rico.
A longshoreman filed a suit and recovered in his action.
This was appealed to the First Circuit and the lower court’s decision was reversed.
The recovery was taken away from him.
Then it came up before this Court on writ.
I’d like to read these excerpts from the opinion.
This is 209 of 373 U.S.
“Respondent contends that it is not liable at least in admiralty because the impact of its alleged lack of care or unseaworthiness was felt on the pier rather than aboard ship.
Whatever validity this proposition may have had until 1948, the passage of the extension of Admiralty Jurisdiction Act swept it away when it made vessels on navigable water “liable for ‘damages or injury’ not withstanding that such damage or injury may be done or consummated on land.”
On page 210 we find this excerpt and I read it principally because of the situations conjured up in the brief submitted by an amicus on behalf of petitioners.
“Various farfetched hypotheticals are raised such as a suit in admiralty for an ordinary automobile accident involving a ship’s officer on ship’s business and port, or for someone slipping on beans that continue to leak from these bags in a warehouse in Denver.
We think it’s sufficient for the needs of this occasion to hold that the case is within the maritime jurisdiction under 46 U.S.C. Section 740, when as here it is alleged that the shipowner commits a tort while or before the ship is being unloaded.
And the impact of which is felt assure at a time and place not remote from the wrongful act.”
What’s the —
This quotation Your Honor?
From Gutierrez, the Gutierrez decision.
The final excerpt is this brief paragraphed on page 215 of the same decision.
“We agree with this reading of the case law and hold that the duty to provide a seaworthy ship and gear, including cargo containers applies to longshoremen unloading the ship whether they are standing aboard ship or on the pier.”
We think we have a very analogous situation here.
We feel that the Longshoreman Act applies whether the man is on the deck of the ship or on the deck of the pier.
And the basis of that is that the foundation of the Longshoreman Act is the admiralty power of the United States.
It is the same power which gave rise to the enactment of the Jones Act, which again was an employer-employee relationship.
The admiralty article of the Constitution also confers admiralty jurisdiction on this Court.
This Court in exercise of that jurisdiction and in recognition of its humanitarian objective to protect maritime workers has been constantly extending the seaworthiness or the unseaworthiness doctrine.
We feel that it’s almost incomprehensible to hold that this open-end unseaworthiness protection is available to a longshoreman if he’s injured on the pier, and yet the protection expressly designed for him by the Longshoreman Act has denied him when he is injured on that same pier.
The final case is Reed versus S.S. Yaka.
That was decided the same term of the Court 1963.
This particular opinion was authored by Mr. Justice Black.
It represented the views of seven members of the Court.
In that case, we were dealing with a situation where the injured person filed suit against the bareboat charterer who was also his employer.
There was a provision in the Act which exonerated the employer from a damage suit.
The Court of Appeals held that since a suit could not be instituted in personam, therefore a suit could not be instituted in rem.
This of course was an in rem proceeding, so the lower court held that he had no cause of action.
This Court took the case and of course held otherwise.
I’m reading now from page 415 of 373 U.S.
We have previously said that the Longshoreman’s Act “must be liberally construed in conformance with its purpose and in a way which avoids harsh and incongruous results.”
We think it would produce a harsh and incongruous result one out of keeping with a dominant intent of Congress to help longshoreman to distinguish between liability to longshoremen injured under precisely the same circumstances, because some draw their pay directly from a shipowner, and others from a stevedoring company doing the ships service.
The analogy here I think was sort of anticipated by Mr. Justice Fortas when he said, “suppose this sling of cargo struck two men working on the pier, just knocking one down or over to the edge of the pier and flushing the other one off into the water.
The one that went into the water would be covered.
The one who had the misfortune to just be knocked sideways a little distance would not be covered under our — under the theory that is argued for by the petitioners in this particular case.”
And we say this would be harsh and incongruous result, because their dawned the same precise type of work.
Was it reasonably clear before the Admiralty Extension Act that injuries on a pier were not — injuries on a pier to a longshoreman were not actionable in admiralty?
I really can’t directly answer that sir.
I tried to find out Mr. Justice White just at what point a pier being an extension of land came into the law books.
And I couldn’t locate it.
Now it makes —
Well, what gave rise to the Admiralty Extension Act?
I wish I could answer that sir but I can’t.
Perhaps the Solicitor General when he comes back before you may be able to fill that void.
But you are using the Admiralty Extension Act —
Yes sir, I am.
— in your argument aren’t you?
But you don’t know what gave rise to it?
Well, possibly the — back in 1865 or thereabout that was a situation where for some sparks from the funnel set fire on the shore.
Well, what was the so-called Jensen line?
The Jensen line Your Honor, as I understand it, is solely a decision that the states cannot legislate in the admiralty field.
For the simple reason that must be uniform — I beg your pardon?
And did the Jensen case defined what that line was between the — did it have anything to do with docks and gangplanks and ships?
Jensen itself, Your Honor — Jensen was a longshoreman who operated an electric truck who went back and forth from the pier to the ship.
He was killed when he was taking cargo out off the ship’s hold on to the gangway.
It somehow it became filed up, he went back and he hit his head on the ship and sustained a broken neck.
So Jensen sustained his injury as a result of striking the ship.
It was held that his injury was within the federal domain and that the New York State Compensation Act could not be applied.
That’s the factual backdrop of the Jensen decision.
Following that we have Dawson and Knickerbocker-Ice case, and the — belay that.
Following that, Congress tried to pass two different laws, but neither one passed judicial scrutiny by this Court because both laws tried to confer on the state authority to act in this field.
And this Court stated that that would interfere with, disrupt and perhaps destroy the uniformity that we must have in the admiralty field.
What do some of the cases mean when they say that the Longshoreman’s Act adopted the Jensen line?
That escapes me, Your Honor, because this Court has never held that Congress did not have the authority to legislate in this particular field.
I think one of your questions directed to Mr. Coleman and —
I know but the Court has indicated the — this Court has indicated that the Longshoreman’s Act adapted the Jensen line.
Now, whatever that line is?
Well I don’t think it’s —
Hasn’t the Court so indicated that the Longshoreman’s Act adopted the Jensen line?
There are — yes sir.
There are dictas in the various decisions which expressly refer to the Jensen line of demarcation.
That is absolutely correct.
Between what demarcation?
Jensen actually was injured as a result of a ship — might I say ship born injury because he struck the side of the ship.
And also, it’s been universally held that a — except that I shouldn’t say held, because I don’t think it’s been expressly before this Court in dicta has appeared in different cases.
It has been sort of universally accepted that on board ship or on board the gangway federal on the pier state.
I believe at one time with reference to pier injuries, they even held that depends on what direction what you’re going.
If you’re going from the pier to the ship, it’s land.
If you’re coming from the ship to the pier, you’re still on a ship until you reach the pier.
But I think these hairsplitting distinctions have all been done away with.
And again Your Honor, I think we’re dealing in this particular case or these cases with a liberal interpretation of a liberal statute, Workman’s Compensation Law.
So these distinctions which might have to be measured by maybe Johansen blocks the real delicate calipers shouldn’t take up the time of the Court, where I think we should be dealing what is fair and equitable and what did Congress intend by passing this Act to aid and assist these men that were exposed to these numerous damages and injuries because of the hazards of their occupation.
The final excerpt from Reed versus Yaka is the following.
“As we said in a slightly different factual context all were subjected to the same danger, all were entitled to light treatment under law.”
In the conclusion portion of my brief commencing on page 34, I set forth various anomalies and bizarre situations which the petitioners are requesting this Court to ratify and support.
If I may touch briefly upon the legislative history of the Act, if one thing stands out pre-eminently, it’s the congressional resolve to avoid the constitutional pitfall of lack of uniformity which caused Congress to stumble in its two earlier attempts to help longshoremen.
The preoccupation of the chairman with uniformity and his apprehensiveness over its possible vitiating absence, seamen were left out of the Act.
The only omission to seamen, everything else there is to extend and enlarge it that’s why they put in “including any dry dock”, because in normal common sense factual appraisal, a dry dock is not upon navigable waters.
So that was a term of inclusion.
The chairman was concerned because seamen were omitted.
And this preoccupation is apparent throughout all the proceedings, the Senate hearings and also the hearings before the House of Representatives.
Now with represent — with reference to the uniformity of full coverage, there was just about unanimous accord.
The committees in both Houses wanted to avoid the constitutional flaw in the law.
Labor both the ILA and the shipyard unions wanted full coverage.
Management supported it, in fact Mr. Keating was very critical who represented the shipowners and a very noted admiralty proctor at that time.
He was critical of the Act because he was afraid that wasn’t embracive enough, it didn’t include everyone.
And that was one of the reasons why they changed the terminology from a place upon — place in admiralty jurisdiction and provided that it’s not a question of local concern and whatnot.
The government agency entrusted with the administration of the Act when it all facets of the job covered.
And to argue that the Congress of the United States deliberately excluded 25% of the longshoreman workforce, statistically 25 were on the pier and 75 are aboard ship.
To argue that, that they’re not protected by the Act is driving to defeat the very uniformity that Congress not only strove for but actually achieved.
My final comment will be this Your Honors.
It may come as a shock to petitioners who are so patently outnumbered of some pre-1927 views, but one can not thrust the mighty 42-year oak of the Act back into its embryonic acorn.
Both the seaworthiness doctrine and the Act, and we may also interpolate here the Jones Act as well, are traceable to a common origin solicitude for maritime workers who spend their lives in such a hazardous occupation.
As the seaworthiness doctrine has grown, as the application of the Jones Act has been extended, these have expanded these have developed down through the years, so to it is respectfully submitted must the Longshoreman Act.
Ralph Rabinowitz:
My name is —
Mr. Rabinowitz.
— Ralph Rabinowitz from Norfolk, Virginia and I represent longshoreman Albert Avery who has been attempting to get compensation under this Act since 1961.
I take it the question before the Court is, did not Congress whose dominant purpose was to help longshoremen intended the Longshoreman’s Compensation Act to cover injuries caused by ship’s gear to a longshoreman in the ship’s gang working the ship from a pier built upon freely flowing navigable waters.
Going right to Calbeck, the Solicitor General would have us disregard what he calls broad language.
The Court was construing the very coverage language that we are involved here today with 903 of the Act.
And the Court said in Calbeck, “Our conclusion is that Congress invoked its constitutional power so as to provide compensation for all injuries sustained by employees on navigable waters whether or not a particular injury might also have been within the constitutional reach of a state Workman’s Compensation Law.”
Yes, but you rather slipped over a rather key phrase that is on navigable waters.
Yes, Your Honor, and this injury was upon the navigable waters.
This injury was upon the navigable waters both factually and legally.
Now going right to the question that was asked about Jensen, which I think the Court has asked.
Jensen was a case that said “state compensation commissions you can’t touch these people because this is an admiralty matter.”
After that the states over reacted to Jensen.
For example, the best illustration of that is a case called Anderson against Johnson Lighterage Company, 120 New York 55.
That’s a case where a longshoreman on the dock, he was on the dock and he slipped down on the dock.
And it was in 1918 which is right after Jensen in 1917.
Now, the New York people wanted to give this fellow compensation.
It went up through the courts, through the Court of Appeals of New York, which included Cardoso, and reading Jensen the said “we can’t give this fellow compensation, why?
Because in Jensen the court had said the work of a stevedore is maritime in nature and his employment was a maritime contract.
Injuries which he received were likewise maritime and the rights and liabilities of the parties in connection therewith were matters clearly within the admiralty jurisdiction” and so even the fellow on the dock couldn’t get compensation.
Then the Nordenholt case came along and this is history which Mr. Justice Brennan went through in the Calbeck case to come out with the holding in Calbeck, which is very important to this Court.
Now you come up with Nordenholt.
Now in Nordenholt, the Court said “well, this fellow fell down from a bag of stock of pile on the dock and there’s no pertinent federal statute.”
And they started the local concern doctrine, or they said it’s a bad result, let’s start a local concern doctrine.
Let’s say that fellow who fell on the dock and his mother won’t be able to get compensation, he was killed because of Jensen.
If we say that, he won’t get compensation, let’s start the local concern doctrine.
And they said “there’s no pertinent federal statute and the — that result will not do material prejudice or will not affect materially the maritime jurisdiction of the United States.”
And so they started the local concern doctrine.
Now let’s go back to poor Johnson, poor Johnson the fellow in New York. After the Nordenholt case came out he said “I fell on the dock too.”
He went back and asked for a rehearing and the New York courts said “no, no, no we don’t care about Nordenholt.
We still think Jensen doesn’t let you get compensation because you are fulfilling a maritime contract.
You are a stevedore.”
And citing Imbrovek, which I never can pronounce, I don’t know if that’s quite correct.
But the Court in Jensen said citing Imbrovek that “this is a maritime matter.”
This is exclusively within the cognizance of maritime matters.
The Constitution Article III Section 2 gives these powers to admiralty which is a federal domain, area of federal conference.
Now this is what the Court meant I believe in Calbeck.
When Mr. Justice Brennan said at 37120 “there emerges from a complete legislative history a congressional desire for a statute which would provide compensation for all injuries to employees on navigable waters; in every case that is where a Jensen might have seen to preclude state compensation.”
I think that’s important.
Remember poor Johnson here on the dock.
The New York court saying “you can’t get compensation” because Johnson said it appear to us that you can’t get compensation because of Jensen.
So I think that’s what the Court’s were talking about and that’s what Mr. Justice Brennan, so precisely set out in Calbeck.
And that’s why he said “we can’t allow this area of federal domain to be — to depend on whether or not a state act applies or not, we can’t let that happen, this is a Longshoreman’s Act.”
And that’s precisely what he said.
And that’s why it is important to remember that Calbeck said “it is sufficient to say that Congress intended the Compensation Act to have a coverage coextensive with the limits of its authority.”
Excuse me Your Honor, Justice Black?
Limits of what?
Limits of its authority, limits of its authority.
And its authority is the admiralty in maritime jurisdiction of the United States, if Your Honor please.
And the Extension Act, going to that question, the Extension Act.
The Extension Act only cleared up a fuzzy area.
It’s been applied retroactively, it’s been applied retroactively.
Mr. Justice Hand in the Second Circuit had held in the Strika case that dock side injuries were within maritime competence without benefit, without benefit of the Admiralty Extension Act.
And I believe it’s clear that you just cleared up an area that was fuzzy.
Now the basis of the Act —
What was the basis for this Court (inaudible) jurisdiction?
Admiralty tort jurisdiction, they were old cases that said that.
Yes Your Honor, they were old cases that said, pre-1927 cases that said that they were not within the admiralty tort jurisdiction.
One that a seaman or a long — a seaman that was injured on the dock couldn’t sue the vessel?
There were cases, pre-1927 cases that said that.
Were they ever changed or overruled that you know of?
Well the Strika case did and that was before the Extension Act.
Strika was a longshoreman who was injured in the dock, if Your Honor please.
What’s the citation of that here?
He is hurt by something falling from the vessel or either swinging low or something like that.
Whose case was that?
Justice Learned Hand.
Strika against Netherlands Ministry 185 F.2d 555, Second Circuit.
And the other case is — were cases in this Court?
There were cases in this Court that pre-1927 cases did not — that said docks —
Well, Strika couldn’t very well overrule them, couldn’t it?
Strika got around them.
I don’t remember how Judge, but to be precise and correct to tell Your Honor, I direct myself to this Court.
It would not — if he expressly —
Well if you look at the legislative history of the Admiralty Extension Act?
Well, do you know why it was passed?
I think it was passed and this is just to surmise.
It’s not based on a study of the history that —
Well never mind then.
Going on to the argument, it is clear that Calbeck expressly repudiated a determination on the basis of the line of demarcation.
And this is quoting from Calbeck again.
“A line of demarcation as a static point fixed at pre-1927 constitutional decisions.”
The Court in Calbeck holds if there are areas where the states may act or may not act.
But this has not effect on whether federal compensation applies.
There’s nothing in the history — I have read the legislative history of the Longshoreman’s Act, and the — it’s one time when the employer’s and the employee’s representatives were together.
They all wanted a broad Act, and there’s nothing in that Act or the legislative history which shows anything but a congressional interest in covering workers in maritime employment injured as these fellows were right beside the ship, working the ship, they could’ve gone aboard the ship if their employer had said “go aboard the ship” that morning they would’ve been aboard the ship.
If one of their fellows had said “I want to switch places with you today” they would’ve been aboard the ship.
There’s no difference in the hazards or the work they do.
Going now to and closing as I see my time is close to ending.
It is ended.
Has it ended?
May I say one last thing Judge and I will close with that if you — Mr. Chief Justice?
I say to this Court in conclusion that this case could be affirmed and should be affirmed.
It could be affirmed on a very narrow ground, and that is that all these fellows, all these longshoreman, remember this is an Act called the Longshoreman’s Act passed for the benefit of longshoremen, were injured by ship’s gear while serving the ships.
And they were on areas.
They were on areas that were constructed over the navigable waters of the United States, as simple as that.
And I respectfully suggest to the Court that that is the proper result.
And I respectfully pray that the Court affirm the judgment of the en banc court of the Fourth Circuit.
Mr. Coleman.
I have about a minute left.
I’d like to call Mr. Justice White’s attention and I won’t attempt to read it.
But in — at page 25 Your Honor of the appendix, Judge Watkins the District Court — the district judge who decided these cases did go into the legislative history of the Extension Act.
And the last thing I would say, Your Honors, is that I think it becomes abundantly clear why the argument made by respondent should be made to the legislature when one considers that there are states in which the benefits afforded by the state acts exceed those afforded by the federal acts.
And in those states, I would suggest that perhaps this action would not have been brought.
And this is not a case of no compensation.
These men have gotten state compensation.
It’s just a question they’re trying here to get compensation under an Act, which we submit, Your Honors, does not apply to them.
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Big Hero Six Review
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This week the movie Big Hero Six came out on DVD after a large success in theaters. Although this movie has not had much attention, amid with all the other movies coming out at the same time, the profit that has been made shows its success. With $111 million dollars made in the first two weeks of its release in theaters it is bound to make a large profit on DVD.
The story takes place in San Fransokyo where two orphan brothers live with their eccentric Aunt Cass. The movie begins with Tadashi rescuing his little brother, Hiro, after a robot fight. Although Tadashi is older than Hiro they are both engineering geniuses. After meeting a few of the students at Tadashi’s school Hiro is eager to enroll. To do so, he had to create and amazing invention to be shown at a large exposition. After getting into the school there is an accident at the exposition leaving one professor inside whom Tadisi attempts to rescue before the building explodes killing both. Hiro’s friends ( Tadashi’s classmates) attempt to cheer Hiro up but he shuts everyone out until he accidentally activates Baymax. Baymax is a large plush robot that was built to be a healthcare assistant. While Baymax is activated Hiro finds one of his microbots that has activated itself. Baymax then takes the microbot, and using it like a compass, they find a storage facility full of Hiro’s microbots and a masked man who is uses Hiro’s invention to attack him and Baymax. When Hiro’s friends find out, they are eager to help stop the masked man, so they suit up and become Big Hero Six.
I loved this movie and it has something for all ages. Disney and Marvel have truly outdone themselves. The movie includes several Disney “easter eggs” as well as an appearance from Stan Lee. I highly recommend this movie.
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Buzz Aldrin Goes After Anti-American Moon Landing Movie
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“First Man”–a new movie depicting the moon landing–is getting some harsh criticism… from Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to step foot on the moon.
The film, which depicts the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing, has been heavily criticized in the media for leaving our a key scene: planting the American flag on the surface of the moon.
The star of the film, Ryan Gosling, who is Canadian, said that the choice was made because they wanted to portray the moon landing as a “human achievement” rather than an American one.
“I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement–that’s how we chose to view it,” Gosling said. “I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.”
But Aldrin, apparently, didn’t agree.
On Sunday, the 88-year-old astronaut tweeted two pictures: one that prominently depicts him and astronaut Lance Armstrong planting the flag on the moon, and another that shows Aldrin saluting the flag in his spacesuit.
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Humber Arm
British Steam merchant
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Name Humber Arm
Type: Steam merchant
Tonnage 5,758 tons
Completed 1925 - Sir W.G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Owner Bowater´s Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd, Corner Brook
Homeport St. John’s
Date of attack 8 Jul 1940 Nationality: British
Fate Sunk by U-99 (Otto Kretschmer)
Position 50° 36'N, 9° 24'W - Grid BF 1251
Complement 43 (0 dead and 43 survivors).
Convoy HX-53
Route Corner Brook, Newfoundland - Halifax (25 Jun) - Ellesmere Port
Cargo 5450 tons of newsprint, 1000 tons of steel, 450 tons of pulp and 300 tons of lumber
History Completed in July 1925
Notes on event
At 07.53 hours on 8 July 1940 the Humber Arm (Master Jack Rowland Morbey) in convoy HX-53 was hit in the foreship by one torpedo from U-99 and sank 60 miles south of Fastnet. The master, 41 crew members and one passenger were picked up by HMS Scimitar (H 21) (Lt R.D. Franks, OBE, RN) and HMS Vanquisher (D 54) (Cdr C.B. Alers-Hankey, RN) and landed at Milford Haven.
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Terri Irwin speaks about her grief at the loss of husband Steve Irwin, during an interview on Sunday Night.
'It's always there': Terri reveals heartbreaking grief
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IT IS nearly 12 years since his untimely death but wildlife warrior Steve Irwin is still constantly in his wife's mind.
In a rare interview on Sunday Night to air tonight, the mother of two opened up about her ongoing grief.
"Every day it's difficult, and after 11 years the grief goes from being a rock in your heart to walking beside you," Irwin said.
Steve Irwin with Robert at Australia Zoo in 2005.
"It's always there, and I never really know when it's going to hit me. And sometimes it can be the most inopportune time that I feel overwhelmingly emotional but, you know, it's okay."
Steve Irwin died at the age of 44 after being pierced in the heart by a stingray while filming a documentary in Queensland.
The couple had two children together - Bindi, 19, and Robert, 14.
"For years I still had Steve's clothes in the cupboard," Irwin said, appearing in the interview as part of a broader story on crocodile culling.
"Do I miss him? Constantly. But I think I was so lucky to get my happily ever after. I married this great guy who was a stack of fun and we went on all these adventures, he was very strong-willed, we had these great arguments about things, it was just the most fantastic time of my life. The best part are our two kids. We ended up with two perfect children."
Steve Irwin gets Hollywood star: Steve Irwin's legacy has officially been immortalised on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this morning.
Irwin is a fierce anti-culling campaigner.
"He (Steve) had such a love and passion for crocodiles," she said. "That honestly was what first attracted me to him, besides the fact that he was a pretty fine-looking bloke. He spoke of them with such love and compassion … it was impossible not to fall in love with crocs around Steve because he had such an affinity for them and understood them so well."
She continued of the debate: "The saltwater crocodile is anapex predator, which is integral to the ecosystem. Without apex predators, everything underneath them suffers. Every country has them - lions, tigers, bears. We have crocodiles. Should we lose crocodiles, everything in Australia would change. It is quite sobering what is happening in the world as we lose our apex predators."
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2200 lives lost: 'We don't have a justice system'
25th November 2020 4:17 PM
UPDATED 26th November 4:56 AM
by Mark Furler
Tiny white coffins. A young woman killed by a man she was trying to help. A mother still struggling to work out why her daughter was taken more than 30 years ago.
Broken hearts that will never heal.
This is the real pandemic in Australia - one that has claimed more than 2200 women and children.
They are deaths that consume award-winning journalist Sherele Moody who has spent much of her own personal time detailing and documenting them in her crusade against senseless violence.
On Tuesday, women and men from across Queensland and beyond gathered for the launch of All That Remains, the Red Heart Campaign's memorial website to women and children lost to violence.
For Moody, the memorial is deeply personal.
"We all have a moment in our lives that either breaks us - or makes us. My moment started on May 22, 1990 when my mother's husband abducted, raped and murdered nine-year-old Stacey-Ann Tracy in Roma,'' she tells those gathered.
"His name was Barry Hadlow. He was a convicted child killer who was on parole for the murder of five-year-old Sandra Bacon in Townsville when he chose to end Stacey's life.
"His actions were life altering for many people - for Stacey's family, for her friends and for myself and my family.
"And that impact continues to be felt today. Stacey's death lead me down the path of journalism and her death is a key part of why I advocate to end violence."
The RED HEART Campaign founder and award-winning journalist Sherele Moody with Sonia Anderson, launch the world-first online memorial. Picture: Liam Kidston
The memorial website features tiny red hearts for the children lost and larger hearts for women taken too soon.
Behind each of the hearts are details of the tragic stories, like that of toddler Hemi Goodwin-Burke who was beaten to death by his babysitter Matthew James Irelend.
Ireland drunkenly beat Hemi over a two-hour period while babysitting him at the family home in Moranbah in March 2015.
The little boy's body was covered in 78 bruises from being kicked and punched repeatedly.
Hemi Goodwin-Burke. Goodwin-Burke Family
Hemi's grandmother Lyn told this week's memorial launch of how Hemi's mother raced into a plane in her pyjamas to get to her son in hospital before he died.
"I drove 800 kilometres to get there, tried very hard not to kill anyone or myself."
She said it was still hard to relay the impact of what happened.
"Do I tell you about my son having to turn his son's life support off, how he held him and felt his last breath taken?"
"Do I tell you about everyone else crying, the doctors, the nurses, even everyone else in the other rooms at the hospital?
"Do I tell you about the police coming and taking his body because that was now evidence?
"He was tagged and bagged and taken.''
Matthew Ireland with toddler Hemi Goodwin-Burke, whom he beat to death.
Ireland had his charge downgraded from murder to manslaughter with a sentence of just four years for the death of the 18-month-old.
Judith Anderson, the mother of Annette Mason, is still clearly haunted by the death of her daughter in Toowoomba in 1989.
Annette, just 15, was found concealed under a doona in a sunroom of of a house she shared with two other women at 131 Anzac Ave.
No one has ever been charged with her murder.
Judith told of how she had moved to the Gold Coast for work so she could get bond money together to get a home for her family.
She returned on weekends and the plan was for Annette to move to the Gold Coast as well before she was killed in a crime that shocked the Darling Downs.
Judith struggled for the right words to say as she told of the family's quest for inquests to discover who was responsible for her daughter's death.
But her message was powerful as the emotion in her voice: the violence must stop and those responsible must be brought to justice.
Bianca Faith Girven 22yrs. Pic : supplied SUPPLIED
'We really don't have a justice system, we have a legal system'
Sonia Anderson, whose daughter Bianca Faith Girven was strangled to death by a man she was trying to help, told the launch Australia didn't have a justice system but a legal system.
Bianca was murdered by her boyfriend, Rhys Austin, in 2010 at the foot of Brisbane's Mount Gravatt Lookout.
The two 22-year-olds had been the best friends since high school.
On that horror night, under a full moon, Austin told Bianca to jump in the back of a van because he wanted to tell her a secret.
"He said, 'You are going to die'," Sonia told The Australian. "He wrapped himself around her so she couldn't struggle and he said, 'You're not going to survive this'."
He never went to trial for Bianca's murder after being found of unsound mind. He claimed he was driven by voices in his head.
Bianca Girven’s mother Sonia Anderson with a picture of Bianca
Adding to the pain was the fact that his psychiatrist wrote a book detailing the crime.
Sonia sat through a book launch and admits losing it.
"For the first time in my life I publicly lost my cool.
"I just had to hide because I had been betrayed and humiliated.''
Even as the mother of the victim, she was not given access to the psychiatric reports on Bianca's killer.
More than 10 years later, Sonia is still going through court cases resulting from her daughter's murder.
"There is no closure after murder,'' she says.
Since then, she's been consumed by campaigning for change.
"I actually thought I was going to make a difference and it would stop,'' she says of her initial naivety.
But she also knows that Bianca's story, and her relentless campaigning, help to convince the Queensland Government to introduce the nation's first 'non-lethal strangulation" laws that recognise "choking, strangling and suffocating in a domestic setting" as a serious criminal offence with a maximum penalty of seven years' jail.
She says Bianca, who even as a young woman was passionate about helping homeless women and victims of violence, would have been among those who gathered for the memorial launch this week had she been alive today.
Kay McGrath on the pandemic of violence in Australia: Kay McGrath speaks on the pandemic of violence in Australia against women and children.
'This is a wake-up call to all of us'
Queensland Great and veteran television journalist Kay McGrath, who hosted the launch, paid tribute to the incredible work of Moody in creating the memorial.
McGrath, who co-chairs the Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council, said Australia had to show the same resolve and urgency in fighting violence against women and children as it had with tackling COVID-19.
She said the The Red Heart Campaign's memorial was a "really graphic and horrifying picture of the extent of violence against women and children.''
"This is a wake-up call to all of us when you see the powerful image of the lives lost and you hear the stories behind these hearts.''
"Here we have got another pandemic that has been raging in Australia and around the world for countless years - that is the murder of women and children.
"So why is it as a society we can't harness the energy, the outrage, the courage and the strength to call out this violence in a similar way that we are tackling a health pandemic.''
"It is really time that we understood the severity and impact of these deaths on individuals on families and on communities.''
"It starts around the kitchen table. It starts with role modelling in the family homes and it goes out into the community, into the schools, into the workplaces, into government, into the corporations.''
"If each and every one of us begin to own the issue, we can and we will end the violence against women and children.''
IN HER OWN WORDS, SHERELE MOODY TELLS OF MEMORIAL
Sherele Moody writes below about her work building the memorial
Over the past five years I have - as of today - researched and documented the unlawful killings of 2281 women and children.
In August last year, I asked my friends and supporters to take a huge leap of faith by investing in a crowd-funding campaign.
My dream was to build the world's first fully interactive online memorial to women and children lost to murder, manslaughter and other forms of violence.
That crowd-funding campaign raised a little over $16,000. I set aside some of the money for the artworks on this site.
The images you see on the Memorial were created by artist, lawyer, anti-violence advocate and incredible warrior Amani Haydar. Amani's artwork and her advocacy is inspired by her mum Salwah, who was murdered by her dad.
The rest of the money raised was used to fund the website development undertaken by Sunshine Coast-based Digital Nomads HQ.
Myself and the Digital Nomads crew met in September last year. During that meeting I gave them a very concise brief.
Over the following months they created a program from scratch that would import all of the stories of violent deaths that I had written.
They created the incredible user interface - that is the wall of interactive hearts - and we are still working together to improve the memorial's functionality.
The memorial was designed to show the impact of violence on Australia - behind each interactive red heart sits the story of a woman or child killed in Australia or Australian victims killed overseas.
You can hover over a heart to see some brief info about the victim for whom the heart belongs. Then tap the heart to read the victim's story, access media reports and to see their photos. Large hearts are for women and small hearts are for children.
Where possible the names of victims and their photos are used. But for the victims who cannot be identified, we have two brilliant images created by Amani.
This ongoing journalism-based story-driven project aims to document and commemorate every Australian woman and child killed unlawfully from white settlement to current day.
The memorial has a strong statistical element. I designed the project to deliver data breakdowns in what I believe is Australia's first real femicide and child death census.
One of the many entries detailing violence deaths in the Red Hearts memorial.
This is what the data extracted from the memorial tells us:
NSW is the most dangerous state to be a woman or child in Australia. It has the highest number of women and children killed.
It is closely followed by Victoria and Queensland. The ACT is the safest place in the country for women and children.
53% of the women and children documented on the memorial were killed by family members, partners or former partners.
16% of victims were killed by strangers, 12% were killed by people known to them - for example colleagues, neighbours or clients.
Women and children are more likely to be bashed to death, with blunt force trauma involved in 25% of killings. Asphyxiation is the next most common cause of death, accounting for 15% of killings around 7% of victims were raped and 18% of deaths involved sharp objects.
It will come as no surprise to hear that the data shows gendered violence is the major problem for women and kids, with 78% of these deaths perpetrated by men. Just 7.4% of the women and children on the memorial were killed by women.
Partners, strangers, fathers and former partners were the main killers. Around 15% of the cases on the memorial are unsolved and 11% of the deaths were murder-suicides.
In creating the memorial, I used the journalism skills I have honed over the 25 or so years I have spent working in the media.
I drew on every ounce of knowledge available to ensure all the stories are sub judice proof and defamation proof.
Ensuring these stories meet basic media law standards is vital as one wrong sentence or paragraph could result in a jury being dismissed, I could go to jail for contempt or someone could sue me for defamation.
Each death is researched and documented using a wide variety of sources including first-hand accounts from family members, coroners' reports, supreme and appeal court judgments, media archives and police sources.
Most importantly, I've tried to ensure the stories don't cause extra grief for families but that they provide an appropriate level of accuracy and openness to ensure those who visit the memorial are given an honest view of the epidemic of violence against women and kids.
While the technology, the statistics and the journalism behind the memorial are important, these are not the soul of the project. The soul is in the stories of the people whose lives were erased.
The people on this site were once living breathing humans whose existence had importance for families and friends.
I know every face, every name and every story on the memorial. I know many of these victims' families and I know the incredible trauma everyone endured.
Their lives were stolen in the most heinous of ways, leading to relentless distress, anger and turmoil.
This is most evident in the stories of nine-year-old Stacey-Ann Tracy and five-year-old Sandra Dorothy Bacon.
The memorial is a tribute to their young lives, their unfulfilled futures and the bravery of their families and friends who were forced to navigate the distress and darkness that only those touched by murder can understand.
This project is also a pledge to every Australian woman and child lost to violence - our nation cannot change your stories, but collectively, we can change the stories of those who follow in your footsteps.
Because after violence, hope is all that remains.
Mark Furler has been a journalist on the Sunshine Coast for more than 30 years. He wrote his first feature article at university on the cycle of domestic violence. Sherele Moody works as part of his team overseeing regional news sites.
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September 29, 2017 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday September 30, 2017
McMaster going tobacco, smoke-free
McMaster University will become the province’s first tobacco and smoke-free campus next year.
As of Jan. 1, 2018, using tobacco and all oral smoking devices will be prohibited on McMaster campuses.
This includes the Hamilton campus, inside and on the grounds of the Ron Joyce Centre in Burlington, as well as at all McMaster-owned properties.
The university said it is working to help students, faculty and staff adapt to the new policy and educate the community before it comes into effect.
“McMaster University recognizes the unique relationship that many Indigenous cultures have with traditional and sacred medicines,” says a post on Mac’s Daily News website. “As such, exemptions to this policy will be granted, upon request, to members of the McMaster University community.”
There will be phased-in enforcement of the designation starting in January.
For the first months, anyone found in contravention of the policy will be asked to stop or referred to supports and resources. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)
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Saturday May 6, 2017
May 8, 2017 by Graeme MacKay
Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday May 6, 2017
Shoreline and flood worries as wind and rain hit Hamilton and region
A flood watch was in effect for Hamilton as the city and much of southern Ontario brace for several more days of rain.
The Hamilton Conservation Authority (HCA) says this forecasted rainfall may result in further increases in water levels and flows in area watercourses, with the potential for significant flooding.
There is further concern about the potential impacts of northerly winds on the shores of Lake Ontario. Those winds may increase the risk of shoreline flooding and erosion, with Lake Ontario levels already high.
The latest rainfall — from Thursday through to Saturday — comes on top of records numbers for the year so far.
“This has been a record rainy first 125 days of a year, never has there been so much rain in that period in the Hamilton area,” said Dave Phillips, Environment Canada.
Phillips says Hamilton has received about 87 per cent more rain than the city would normally get so far this year.
The potential rainfall may also result in local drainage issues in low-lying or poorly drained areas, and storm sewer systems may become overwhelmed in intense rainfalls over short durations. (CBC News)
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Editorial Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Thursday March 15, 2001
Canada bans animal product imports from EU
The federal government has expanded its ban on imports of meat products from the European Union in a bid to protect Canada from an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease threatening to devastate Europe’s livestock industry.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced yesterday that it will not allow imports of pigs, uncooked pork products, some unpasteurized cheeses and dairy products, and semen and embryos from certain animals.
Canada already bans imports of beef and lamb from Europe due to concerns about mad-cow disease.
Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief said, “It’s the very same as we’ve been treating the United Kingdom for a couple of weeks.”
The government will also block imports of used farm equipment, which could carry the foot-and-mouth virus.
Britain has been devastated by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth, which attacks cattle, sheep, hogs and other animals with cloven hoofs.
The virus, which causes blisters on the tongue, gums, nostrils and upper part of the foot, is usually not fatal to animals but it can cause great weight loss since animals can’t eat. There is no risk to humans. (Source)
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Brexit: We are all Ultras now…
By Victor Hill 09 March 2018
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The Brexit negotiations have entered a critical phase. Decisions made by both sides in the next three months will have long-term consequences. In a state of conflict, all sides become extreme.
A modern English Civil War
The classic schoolboy pseudo-history 1066 And All That asserted that, during the English Civil War, the Cavaliers were “Wrong but Wromantic” while the Roundheads were “Right but Repulsive”.
History has repeated itself in the internecine Brexit debate. The Brexit Cavaliers want to restore sovereignty over our “borders, money and laws”– even if that comes at a price – short-term at least. The Remainers believe that this is to take huge risks with our prosperity. From a purely risk management point of view, the Remainers are right. (Though, as the Blair-Major-Heseltine-Clegg-Thornberry line-up confirms – they are repulsive.)
Such is politics, the enemies of this Tory government will do anything to undermine it – romantic or not. When Mr Corbyn rose on Monday, 26 February to pronounce Labour’s Damascene conversion to the Customs Union (in contrast to the manifesto on which he had fought the 2017 election campaign), at a stroke, he delivered a House of Commons majority for a Soft – or I would prefer to say, a Fake – Brexit. The Labour Party – the same Labour Party that wants trades unions to rule the roost and for capitalism to be castrated – is now in bed with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI – the mouthpiece of the fat cats who run the constituents of the FTSE-350) and the Institute of Directors (IoD).
The entire British establishment – the deep state – is Remainer to a man and woman: and if they cannot have Remain then they want the nearest thing to it, which is to stay in a customs union as near to the one we have had hitherto. Now, I explained three weeks ago why that would not really be Brexit at all and would place the UK at an asymmetrical disadvantage as the EU negotiates new trade deals going forward with Japan, China and the rest. The goods we sell abroad would have to accept EU trade rules without our having any say in how they were made. A half-way house is not really a house at all.
The Labour leadership thinks it has been clever to say that it will keep Britain in a customs union with the EU because this looks reasonable and would certainly please the EU elite who are aghast at Britain’s refusal to mimic Norway. This raises the possibility that Theresa May’s government might be defeated in the House of Commons over the (Mrs) Soubry (Conservative, Broxtowe) amendment proposing that Britain stays in “a” customs union after Brexit, if enough Remainer Tories were to vote with Labour. And all kinds of long-retired political has-beens have ghoulishly come out of retirement to stir this bubbling cauldron.
Melanie Phillips of The Times thinks that Mrs May is so concerned about this that she’s thinking of scheduling a confidence motion, daring the Tory Remainer rebels to vote her out of office and risking the arrival of Mr Corbyn into Downing Street in a chariot of fire. The extreme political irony is that Labour’s Trotskyite leadership has taken the side of big business against the inclinations of its traditional support base – the indigenous working classes who, driven largely by concerns about uncontrolled immigration, overwhelmingly voted Leave.
Europe takes an Irish hostage
Then, on Wednesday, 28 February Monsieur Barnier and his team published the draft treaty supposedly based on the agreement on the Phase I negotiations signed hurriedly in the wee hours of 15 December. (You recall that Mrs May and Mr Davis were unceremoniously whisked off to RAF Brize Norton in their pyjamas in order to join Herr Juncker for twilight croissants and brandy in Brussels. Sign here, Madame…)
The EU mandarins’ iteration of that exquisitely vague agreement – the one that assured regulatory alignment between Northern Ireland and the Republic – was that Northern Ireland would have to remain in the customs union if the rest of the UK left it. Otherwise, there would be a hard border in Ireland which is evidently a very bad thing. It is a bad thing, they imply, because it would be in contravention of the Good Friday Agreement (the 20th anniversary of which we mark next month) and would put the Northern Irish peace process at risk.
The European Union is specifically and deliberately trying to re-draw the boundaries of a sovereign state by force majeure.
So the EU is basically saying: Either you agree to split the UK into two quite separate economic zones – effectively splitting the Single Market that is the four nations of the United Kingdom – or you are endangering the peace process and the future of Ireland. Mrs May made quite clear at PMQs that very day that the European proposals were entirely unacceptable.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said that Europe was using the question of the Irish border to stymie Brexit. For once, the Blonde One was clearly right. In fact, he understated his case. The European Union is specifically and deliberately trying to re-draw the boundaries of a sovereign state by force majeure. That is normally called an act of war.
It is not just that the European elite has exceeded its brief and, for the first time in its history as far as I am aware, tried to impose boundary changes on a member (or soon-to-be-ex member) state; it is also that it is cynically interfering in a partisan way in a deep and complex historical dispute it does not understand. It is clear that there are elements within Irish politics – not Mr Varadkar’s Fine Gail, who are concerned about a Sinn Féin resurgence – which seek to capitalise on Brexit to advance their ultimate aim of a united Ireland. Some commentators have expressed the view that Sinn Féin’s withdrawal from the power-sharing agreement in Northern Ireland last year was calculated to leverage the fall-out from the Brexit vote.
This might be a good moment to re-read the Belfast Agreement of 1998. This was a bilateral understanding reached between the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in consultation with numerous community groups and political parties (and yes, paramilitaries). The European Union was not even mentioned in the text.
It is actually a brief document, narrow in scope, covering just three areas: (1) the creation of a democratically elected Assembly in Northern Ireland in which all communities would be represented; (2) the creation of a North-South Ministerial Council for ongoing consultation; and (3) the creation of a British-Irish Governmental Conference. As far as I can work out, by the way, the last body has never even convened. Maybe it should so now – without European interference. The main thrust of the Belfast Agreement was that Northern Ireland’s affairs should be deliberated fairly by local parties.
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There is nothing in the Belfast Agreement about trade, commerce or the management of the Irish-UK border. The fact is that the frictionless, seamless border came about because peace was established in Ireland – not the other way round. To argue that an (entirely unnecessary) hard border in Ireland would destroy the peace process is nefariously to confuse cause with effect.
Another point. Most of Ireland’s exports to the UK and to the EU beyond are not shipped across the Irish border at all. They are shipped from Dublin/Rosslare to Holyhead in Wales!
But Monsieur Barnier & Co. are determined that the real hard border will now have to run down the Irish Sea. That is a real threat to the status quo created in 1998. When Boris Johnson compared the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic as akin to that between Camden and Westminster, he trivialised an important issue. But it is not true that the British side has not advanced solutions. There were plenty of outline solutions in Mrs May’s Mansion House speech of Friday, 02 March.
Mrs May’s third major Brexit oration
The speech should have taken place in Newcastle, a great Northern British city. Instead it took place in the City of London – because of Snowmageddon!
For the Remainers and European adversaries who had accused Britain of lacking detailed proposals, this was a speech heavy with technical detail. I’m not going to analyse that detail here: but I would encourage any analyst from any opinion group to read the speech which is available on the Conservative Party website. It was a confident and insightful overview of policy options, brimming with solutions rather than problems. It was the most comprehensive outline of what a UK-EU trade deal would look like.
The reception within the Tory Party was fulsome. It seemed (for a moment at least) that the Moggists and the Soubrinis might live happily together, after all. That did not last long. And there are many issues, not least fisheries, that will rankle going forward.
The reaction in Brussels was cool, with the usual recycled language about a lack of detail and objectives. A press conference by President Tusk resembled Napoleon the Pig rehearsing the sheep in Animal Farm: Customs Union – good; trade deal – bad. Baaaa…
As expected, the voters of Italy turned to the populist right last Sunday. The left was thrashed; the pro-European mainstream lagged; and the right-of-centre alliance came second. The populist Five Star Movement led by 31 year-old Luigi di Maio came in first with 32.7 percent of the popular vote, gaining 122 seats out of 630 in the Chamber of Deputies and 112 seats out of 315 in the Senate[i].
I discussed Italy two weeks ago. My point here is that Five Star leader, Signor di Maio, who will probably end up as Prime Minister when a coalition is finally formed (though don’t hold your breath), is apparently warmly disposed towards Britain. He has publically expressed the view that Brussels is being intransigent in the Brexit negotiations. Could he prove to be an ally for Britain?
The French and the Germans, who sit together in the drivers’ car of the European train, have long since regarded Italy as their drunken uncle.
Forget it. Whether a broadly Eurosceptic government is formed in Italy or not, the European elite has already decided to marginalise the Italians just as they will marginalise the Hungarians further when Mr Orbán is re-elected in Hungary on 08 April. The headline in Le Monde (the organ favoured by Paris and Brussels insiders) on Tuesday (06 March) read: L’Italie: une catastrophe pour l’Europe. Meaning that the elite will just ignore it. The Five Star Movement hardly impinges on Brussels’ consciousness at all.
The French and the Germans, who sit together in the drivers’ car of the European train, have long since regarded Italy as their drunken uncle. Despite his amazing cultural achievements, his undoubted intelligence, generosity and humour, he has become a liability. He can always be relied upon to embarrass the family by falling off his chair at formal lunches or by farting loudly in church during sermons. Running to fat, he has become a spendthrift with little evidence of income. Although still dazzlingly charming, especially with the ladies, he has been caught trying to sell family heirlooms. One day, sooner rather than later, he will have to be put into care – for his own good, of course. And whether he likes it or not.
Battle lines
Steve Bannon of Breitbart fame believes that the EU is treating Britain like North Korea. In Italy for the elections there last weekend, he described the treatment of Britain in the Brexit negotiations as “vicious and dismissive”.
If there were a second referendum, would you vote otherwise than how you voted in June 2016? Most Brexiteers I speak to (admittedly in my personal self-reinforcing feedback loop of pro-Brexit opinion) think that they have become more Brexit-inclined than they were during the referendum campaign. The behaviour of the Brussels elite has reconfirmed the worst prejudices we ever held about them. The European Union – at least as exemplified by the European Commission and Council and the rest of the ungainly Brussels machine – comes across as arrogant, truculent, intransigent, myopic and stubborn…Moreover they are dishonest – a libertarian intellectual friend of mine recently wrote about the putrescent feculence that flows from Brussels…
And whatever must they think of us…?
For my own part, my starting point – that there is an unbridgeable gap between the intellectual cultures of the Franco-German tradition on the one hand and the Anglosphere on the other – has been solidly re-enforced. The Franco-German stance, which arises from the intellectual tradition of Descartes, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, is deterministic and ideological. The Anglophone tradition, which arises from Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Mill, is sceptical, empirical, liberal and pragmatic. I do not say one is better than the other: it is just a fact of life.
The Frenchman argues from first principles that in order to have frictionless trade, it is necessary (il faut que…) that both sides of the border adopt identical standards. (Even though, already, the fiscal and legal regimes differ substantially.) And the Anglo-Saxon will argue that, given good will and a little smart technology on both sides, there must be a solution somewhere…
This cultural Europhile has, reluctantly, become a Brexit Ultra. As for the Remainers – they are now Ultras too. Their only hope is to either perpetuate this most unhappy, and deteriorating, relationship – despite the will of the people. Or, to kidnap the country as a member of a customs union over which we have no say at all. That is an extreme position. As The Mogg says: We would be a vassal state.
If we should be depressed by the outlook for the Brexit negotiations, the good news just keeps on coming.
First up, on the day that Mrs May set out her vision of the way forward the Office for National Statistics revealed that the British government had run a current budget surplus of £3.8 billion in the nine months to 31 December 2017 – the first such surplus since 2001 as tax revenues leapt ahead of spending. I wrote further to the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement last November that the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) forecast was unrealistically gloomy: but this outturn is beyond anything that the most ardent optimist (i.e. me) could have anticipated then. The full set of numbers will be available further to the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, scheduled for next Tuesday (13 March). I hope to analyse that next week.
Secondly, the UK economy seems to be doing better than we thought. Industrial output surged by 1.5 percent in January as the Forties North Sea oil pipeline re-opened. The trade deficit shrank in December to £3.15 billion from £4.9 billion. UK exports are expected to grow by as much five percent this year according to Capital Economics. Economic growth is likely to be more like 1.9 percent this year – actually ahead of the European average. The services Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) recorded a better than expected figure of 54.5 in February, up from 53 the month before. Both manufacturing and services are thriving; however, the UK retail sector is flagging – I’ll have something to say about that shortly.
Thirdly, Britain continues to attract large-scale foreign investment despite Brexit uncertainty. Last Friday, as the Europeans poured scorn on Mrs May’s speech, German industrial giant Siemens AG (FRA:SIE) gave more details about its plans to build a new £200 million train rolling stock production line in Goole, Yorkshire. This will prospectively employ 700 people directly and will create about 1,700 supply chain jobs[ii]. The boss of Airbus UK has also been in ebullient mood this week.
In my piece for the January edition of our magazine I pronounced myself an optimist on the outlook for markets in the English-speaking world. But there are two types of optimist. There is the optimist who believes that the plane will land smoothly, despite the extreme turbulence. And there is the optimist who believes that the plane will probably crash: but that the passengers will limp away from the wreckage relatively unharmed – and will go on to lead fulfilling lives.
I am now the second type of optimist.
[i] The new Italian electoral system, adopted November 2017, is fiendishly complex. I refer readers who are interested to the Wikipedia article on the Italian general election, 2018 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_general_election,_2018
[ii] See: https://www.ft.com/content/272446b4-1dfd-11e8-aaca-4574d7dabfb6
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John Davis says:
And from a purely risk management view the Leavers are wrong (and as the Johnson-Farage-Smith-Gove-Hannan-Paterson-Raab-Baker-Bone-Hoey line-up confirms – they are repulsive). See, juvenile insults can work both ways. The enemies of government are the European Research Group, who seek an ultra-Brexit of the worst kind. Wealthy Tories whose mantra is growth through pain (not theirs of course), cloaked in an anti-EU message for the benefit of the electorate.
May’s speech was as vacuous as usual. Long on fine words, meaningless on content and full of unobtainable aspirations aimed at her own back benches. It boiled down to a demand that we be given whatever we desire because we are British. This has been the tone all along from a government that refuses to understand that they have been engaged in a process, not a negotiation. And of course we have Hammond, pleading for fair play like a child in the playground. Embarrassing doesn’t cover it, especially when we are told that we hold all the cards and have them over a barrel. The EU is a body of laws, rules and regulation. 37% of the electorate decided to leave and drag everyone else out with them. The EU did not kick us out, we opted to resign. Pretending otherwise is a Brexiteer trick, an obfuscation to support a position which even the government has shown will make us much poorer.
As for the rest, your optimistic assertions are true Brexiteering in the face of reality. Aston Martin choosing to build their new car in the EU, Euroclearing moving to Brussels, those impact assessments Davis tried desperately to hide, The US State Dept saying no to an FTA without their agriculture heading the list, along with the loss of protected status of our food brands, and so on. The hits just keep on coming but people like you are immune to them. They are not supportive of your ideology so must be dismissed, ignored, not heard. Brexit inflation pushes up prices but we should all shop at Lidls. The Good Friday Agreement is blocking progress so its time to scrap it. No hard border needed, technology will solve any problem. No matter that such technology doesn’t exist and wouldn’t solve the need for sanitary and phyto-sanitary physical checks. That’s just detail inconvenient to your chosen position so brush it aside.
The polls show quite clearly that the majority of those who failed to vote in the referendum have moved to the Remain side. The majority of people are being pushed into something they did not vote for and do not want. Demographics shows that by the time of the next election there will be a Remain majority as older Leave supporters die and younger Remain supporters take over. Coupled with the enormous economic hit coming down the track a push to rejoin the EU will be undeniable and will succeed, but you will have lost us our currency, our rebate, our influence and our national pride. Shame on you for trying to pretend otherwise.
Cal Pout says:
21st March 2018 at 10:15 am
A nicely balanced riposte (not) – thank-you.
Why are Remainers so vitriolic, self-opinionated and 100% convinced they are correct?
p.s. “… lost us our currency…”? I’m not sure I understand the reasoning/rationale behind this comment.
Stephen Tye says:
An excellent summary of the position we find ourselves in. Dealing with a vicious wounded animal snarling in its corner – the EU has shown its true French/German colours. Anyone wishing to stay in this dysfunctional mess needs their heads examined.
Lawman says:
It is difficult to disagree with the content of this article. Whether you are Remainer or Leaver, surely we can agree that:
(1) the way that HMG, and the opposition, has handled the review and negotiations since the Referendum is incompetent
(2) the EC has been offensive and arrogant, ignoring the future position of EU states and further alienating the UK.
Likewise, whether Remainer or Leaver, the prospect of a ‘Customs Union’ seems the worst outcome. Why not stay in the EU if we are to continue all the disadvantages but give up any say or influence on the EU’s future?
The final criticism is for proponents of Leave. It would clarify the position if they could outline:
(1) the implications if we leave with no co-operation from the EC. There has been vague talk of ‘WTO terms’, but what is the realistic future if this happens? Admit that for a certain period we shall be worse off economically; that may be acceptable if thereafter things improve
(2) what realistic options exist which are better than ‘hard Leave’ which can be negotiated with the EC? Not unrealistic wishes for staying in the single market while not being bound by EC law, being able to negotiate third party trade agreements, and stopping free movement of labour.
Then we can say “Well this is the worst position, but let us try for that.”
I voted Remain in the referendum, but have now swung over to Leave in response to the insufferable attitude displayed by the EU in its negotiating stance:
– insisting on agreeing the “exit bill” before any of the terms of the final settlement are known.
– threatening to force us out of organisations like Euratom, Europol and other non-EU pan-European arrangements, even though we were members long before we joined the EU
– demanding that EU citizens living in the UK remain subject to EU legal jurisdiction, not British (do they expect this of Canada, or the US, or Turkey?).
– always demanding “more detail” from the UK, trying to box in our negotiators, whilst providing nothing themselves
– trying to split the UK apart, as Victor Hill discusses, whilst appearing to make no effort at all to find a solution to the Northern Ireland border problem, or given that so little trade relating to the rest of the EU crosses that border, just leave Ireland and the UK to find their own solution
– just a general mean-spirited tut-tutting attitude that is incredibly patronising and destructive to the whole process.
For the Remoaner John above, the EU is a Franco-German bloated socialist plutocracy helping big business kill competition with massive regulation. Any movement of the UK towards more free market economics by leaving this tired federation will result in more prosperity for more people, while the EU declines.
The most successful economies in the last 50 years are Hong Kong and Singapore. Free market outposts. Low tax, low regulation etc. The difference is that the UK is a 3 trillion dollar economy. This prospect frightens the EU to death.
Besides, outside of London and Scotland (who voted for nationalisitc reasons) the Leave vote was 60% and the Remain 40%. Check again. That margin is sliding nowhere near pro-Remain.
Oh and this video from 2001: Brexit – A Space Odyssey says it all –
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HomeNews and ViewsWhat we learned about navigating global MedTech Regulation pathways
In the first of our Longitude Prize Sprint virtual events, we convened experts from around the world to explore the subtle and distinct variations in regulatory standards for medtech products, particularly between developed and developing countries. 70 people participated: Longitude Prize competitors, researchers and other players in the diagnostics product development space.
Here are our key takeaways from the discussion:
1. Product developers need support through regulatory and validation processes. When we surveyed attendees, two-thirds of those on the call told us 'navigating regulation and clinical validation' was the most difficult area to overcome when developing diagnostics to help tackle AMR.
2. Risk-based framework is the holy grail of all regulatory agencies globally. While there are subtle differences in the mode of regulation amongst regulatory agencies of different geographies, all regulatory agencies use a risk-based regulatory classification to categorise medtech products during development and introduction. Patients’ safety and good science underly decisions of all agencies.
3. Get in touch with a regulatory agency from the word ‘go’. All experts urged the medtech innovators to seek advice from regulatory agencies, especially those in their target markets, early on in their product development cycle such that there is clarity about the regulatory burden that the product needs to overcome. However, as of August 2020 many agencies have little bandwidth for non-COVID tests. With limited direct access to regulators, outside experts may be able to fill immediate gaps in helping test developers with filing strategies.
4. Don’t underestimate the growth potential in different markets. Lakshman Balajepalli, Head of Quality and Regulatory of Ras Life Sciences, told us that the population of the Middle East & North Africa is close to 500 million people, making it a springboard for global expansion. Similarly, it was highlighted by Dr Malathi Lakshmikumaran, Executive Director of Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan, that India, with 1.3 billion population, is fast emerging as a significant market for in vitro diagnostics. The Indian regulatory system is rapidly changing and aligning to global standards.
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5. Covid-19 has exposed the fragility of global supply chains. Covid-19 has exposed the fragility of global supply chains. Turn-key disease solutions or end-to-end solutions will become increasingly attractive to certain countries as they emerge from the pandemic. NSF International’s Robyn Meurant reminded listeners to make the product something that the market wants, not what you think they want.
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6. Find allies, make friends: In a globalised world, the benefit of strong tactical and technical relationships cannot be underestimated. For product developers with limited clinical testing or marketing experience, finding a supportive and trusted partner can be a game-changer, plugging gaps in expertise and vital know-how. Meurant recommended contacting non-profits groups that are active in health delivery and that are adept at navigating the lay of the land.
7. Did you know that regulatory authorities collaborate across borders? Today, pre- and post-market compliance product issue alerts are shared between the competent regulatory authorities. Dr. Sally Hojvat, former Director of the Division of Microbiology at FDA, explained to us that if one authority in Europe finds a particular product with performance problems, they will alert the FDA in the US and vice versa.
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If you would like to find out more, stay tuned for video recordings per session. The event details and agenda can be found here.
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Part 19: Video 15
Couldn’t think of something more clever. CAN’T ALL BE WINNERS.
Stage notes!
100 pt. Requirements:
-Clear time: 3:50
-Enemies killed: 37
-Mission: N/A
The stage itself is filled with easy-to-kill enemies, so hard mode doesn’t hurt you that much, save for not letting you kill Poplans whenever you want to with the Tenshouzan. As for the boss though, well, have fun trying to hit him.
The Temple of Wind is…odd. Unlike Ice and Fire, we’re not getting any real examples of “air” here; admittedly, it’d be hard to flood the stage with liquid oxygen, but on the other hand, we’re not given any wind effects, or open-air segments, or anything that really screams “this is the air stage”. Instead, the stage attempts to embody the element by bringing in things last seen in the airborne bomb mission, and by making the path fold in on itself as it steadily travels upwards.
Said elements (the laser-producing generators) are interesting enough, but because there’s no real enemy presence within their little rooms it feels more like an easy maze than the frantic time-is-of-the essence race around obstacles that the bombing mission had, and furthermore because the other electrical bosses we’ve had took place in decidedly non-aerial locations there’s not exactly a plethora of other things to base the stage on, which makes it a little boring. They even actually have to go and pull some enemies from the Forests (Poplans, Saranets) to get a diverse cast, which is pretty funny. Plus, the reuse of the background and textures for the third time here starts to grate, especially seeing as the last stage had some cool ice and water effects changing the look, which is kinda eh.
In fact, it looks even more familiar than that…almost like…we’ve been here before…
That’s a screencap from the first of three Neo Arcadia areas present in the first game, called the “Neo Arcadia Shrine”, a stage which bears a STRIKING resemblance to our Temple of Wind. It might just be me, but there’s quite a few things that make me question the originality of the level:
- The platform seen up there^ ONLY appears in this one stage of Zero 2, in the same place as it did in the first game, and is guarded by bees here in the same general places vultures were on guard
- The first laser area exists in the same place as an equivalent enclosed structure filled with electrical traps, while the second exists in the same place as another structure with a midboss in it
- The second area was immediately followed by a series of thin platforms leading upwards, just like here
- The textures from the shrine were lifted and recycled for those of the temples
Again, could be nothing, but I swear whenever I run the area it gives me an enormous sense of Déjà vu I just can’t shake. HERE’S a NA Shrine video if you wanna check for yourself; there’s differences, but they’re remarkably similar, at least until the second mid-boss.
It’s not overly difficult, at least not as much as the Temple of Fire, but the entire last segment is littered with enemies that are partially/entirely invincible and is remarkably annoying, which makes the stage in general seem kinda mediocre.
Character bios!
Harpuia – Armed Phenomenon
EMP Missile +: Releases a barrage of 5 horizontally-flying missiles from his backside. Said missiles drop in altitude until reaching Zero’s current height, then fly forwards. Jump over first, stay under second, jump third, et cetera. Yells out “Stop!” whenever he uses this, though it’s more directed at himself than at Zero.
Afterburn: Drops in altitude, engages engines, and flies across the stage. Dash under to avoid.
Panavia Tornado: Produces a torndado from his turbines and flies across the stage, sweeping the twister along with him. The tornado does no damage, but DOES push Zero back in an attempt to knock him off the stage. Dash against the wind to get through.
Fighting Falcon: Goes off-screen, appears in the backround, and flies towards the foreground. Only damages when at his closest to the screen, so just move out of the way. He’ll fly towards one of the sides of the room, and reappear in normal side-view at that side.
Arc lightning: Produces a continuous line of electricity from one claw, then the other, and proceeds to move forwards slowly while sweeping them low along the ground. Either dash under him when he starts the move or hang out on the side of the platform and wait it out.
EX Skill: Black hole bomb: Charges a small pinpoint of energy on his headjewel and releases it to the middle of the stage. The energy then compresses and forms a vortex of wind, which begins sucking up random debris from juuuuuuust off screen. The debris will travel into the epicenter and disappear, damaging Zero if they hit him; the vortex will then reverse directions and spit all the contained material back out towards zero. Stay at the far end of the stage, jump or smash anything that gets too close.
Harpuia gets his share of the giant robot love, but in his case the transformation is against his will – hence the “UWAAAAAAAAH” at the beginning. Those baby elves seem to be bad news.
Harpuia’s battle is a lot like Leviathan’s, what with all the changing of sides, and like his two Guardian friends only his head is vulnerable to damage, which means that you’re only gonna be able to hit with the shield boomerang and buster shot in select instances. As such, this is usually a job best left for your saber and ice chips, a combo which he is no less weak to than he was last time. ‘Course, if you’re on hard mode, you’ll just have to veeeery carefully chip away at that health bar.
His moveset consists of upgraded moves from the past, like his missiles or the tornado used in last game’s EX Skill, and generally hit hard and fast, but unlike some of the other Armed Phenomenon moves none of them are excessively unfair or hard to dodge. They’re telegraphed well, are powerful but not overpowered, and are pretty universally visually satisfying, which makes Hapruia’s AP one of my favorite bosses in the game. He gets a lot of really awesome moves, and though his EX skill still carries the sin of being overly long, it’s pretty dang sweet and gets a pass from me because of it.
Also, he’s a jet.
This makes him about 400% cooler than any other boss design automatically.
There’s some good variety here with attacks at long, mid, and close range, and there’s generally more than one way to dodge attacks (like shooting his missiles down yourself with the X form), which all comes together to make a fight that feels really fair. I’d normally be continuing this a bit by complaining about this or that but nope, Harpuia’s a bro and this is a fun fight, that’s all there is to it. Too bad he’s not behind his own mental wheel at present!
Elpizo, Dark Elf + Baby Elves
Our first glimpse at the much-hyped “Dark Elf”, plus Elpizo and his infant cronies. Appearing as an overly large cyber-elf, and sporting both the standard Cyber Elf hoop wings and radiating stands of an ominous black cloth-like material here, in-game it’s more of a large, dark purple orb. Presumably due to Cyber X’s influence, it’s still partially sealed, which apparently means half the thing’s animation frames get removed. It’s still plenty powerful though, allowing a powerhungry Elpizo to single-handedly overpower and contain Harpuia, and is thus not something to be trifled with.
As for the Babies, young as they are, they’re really not in command of their own actions and are instead simply following Elpizo’s lead. It’s still not entirely clear what they are, though the fact that Elpizo felt they were necessary to finding out about the Dark Elf suggests a link between them.
We already knew they possessed nearly limitless energy, hence Ciel’s study of them, but here we get the first glimpse of their power – they’re capable of controlling the minds and bodies of Reploids, taking over the body of Harpuia and forcing him to fight against Zero. Significantly more ominous than previously thought, these babies may become a handful in the future.
Extra notes!
This is the last stage we have before the final showdown, though I’ll be doing one more extra thing beforehand. However, mediocre as the stage itself is, the boss and accompanying dialogue are amazing, and not just because it’s a fun fight. It’s easy to miss, but Zero and Harpuia get both a good bit of development and a nice bookend here. See, you can visibly notice Zero inching up on Elpizo during the sequence, but he never attacks, seeing as Harpuia’s at risk. Furthermore, even when Harpy begs Zero to kill him, he refuses, instead opting to save his life by beating the elves out of the guardian.
Being a man robot of few words, Zero doesn’t really say anything here, but he’s repaying the debt he owes by sparing Harpuia’s life – Zero got saved by Harpuia at the beginning of the game, Zero’s saving Harpuia at the end, and in recognition of that Harpy leaves the finale up to Zero.
It’s nice and subtle, and a good example of how well the Zero games are written when compared to some of the other Megaman entries. Harpuia always steals the good scenes.
Two new tracks this time round. The first is the new stage theme, called “The Cloudy Stone”. It’s a super-cool name, but the track itself doesn’t really live up to the hype in my eyes – It’s got a lot of really heavy bass, but also an annoying discordant electronic sound underlying a good portion of the song that I’m really not a fan of. When it ends, it’s good enough, but kinda generically ominous and I just don’t care for it.
The second track is titled “Harpuia”, although it’s really not related to him specifically at all-it’s more a theme for when the Baby/Dark elves are doing their thing. I’m sure he doesn’t mind, though, seeing as he’s the only one to get a music track named after him. Always hogging the spotlight, that Harpuia.
As for the sound, it’s a nicely satisfying “OH SHIT” track, but only ever plays for short bits at a time so you’ll likely ignore it for the most part.
The Cloudy Stone
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Jolen Anderson Joins BNY Mellon as Global Head of Human Resources
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NEW YORK, July 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY Mellon has appointed Jolen Anderson as Global Head of Human Resources. Ms. Anderson will join the company on September 2, 2019, reporting to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Charles W. Scharf, and will be a member of the firm's Executive Committee.
"I have known and worked closely with Jolen for several years and am thrilled to attract someone with her incredible experience to BNY Mellon. She is a versatile leader who has demonstrated a commitment and passion for building talent in a global organization. Her experience with developing a high-performance culture linked to business success will serve our organization well as we continue to grow and evolve our business," said Mr. Scharf.
Mr. Scharf added, "Our people are our most critical assets, and our key differentiator. At the same time, we face intense competition for talent in this very dynamic industry. Jolen will help ensure we continue to attract and retain top talent while also fostering our diverse and inclusive culture."
"I'm excited to join BNY Mellon, a company with a tremendous legacy operating in an industry that is undergoing significant transformation. I look forward to working with BNY Mellon's leadership team and employees around the world to ensure that the Company maintains its enviable culture while continuing to cultivate the best team to deliver business results," said Ms. Anderson.
Ms. Anderson joins BNY Mellon from Visa, where she most recently served as Senior Vice President, Chief Diversity Officer and Chief Counsel, Employment and Social Responsibility. As Chief Diversity Officer, she was responsible for the strategic development and implementation of Visa's Global Diversity and Inclusion strategy, leading the implementation of enterprise-wide efforts to attract, develop and retain top performing talent in an inclusive work culture. She also led a team providing legal support to the Global Human Resources organization, including counseling senior executives and the board of directors on employment, executive compensation and corporate governance matters.
During her Visa tenure, Ms. Anderson also held the position of Chief Human Resources Officer for the Client Organization, where she led a team of professionals around the world to serve as strategic advisors on all HR-related topics, creating and executing talent strategies aligned to business priorities.
Prior to joining Visa, she practiced law at a Chicago law firm where she represented parties in labor and employment matters.
Ms. Anderson has been recognized as a top contributor and thought leader in her field, including being named one of the "11 Women Who are Changing the Face of Finance" by Forbes, "Most Influential Women in Business" by the San Francisco Business Times, "Top Executive in Diversity" by Black Enterprise, to name a few.
She is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Social Policy from Northwestern University, and she serves on the board for the San Francisco African American Art and Culture Complex.
BNY Mellon is a global investments company dedicated to helping its clients manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. Whether providing financial services for institutions, corporations or individual investors, BNY Mellon delivers informed investment management and investment services in 35 countries. As of March 31, 2019, BNY Mellon had $34.5 trillion in assets under custody and/or administration, and $1.8 trillion in assets under management. BNY Mellon can act as a single point of contact for clients looking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute or restructure investments. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK). Additional information is available on www.bnymellon.com. Follow us on Twitter @BNYMellon or visit our newsroom at www.bnymellon.com/newsroom for the latest company news.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's CIMB Group Holdings Bhd on Tuesday committed to phase out coal from its portfolio by 2040, saying it was the first banking group in Malaysia and Southeast Asia to do so.
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What's Meta? How Meta is different from other sites
Meta Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for meta-discussion of the Stack Exchange family of Q&A websites. It only takes a minute to sign up.
The company’s commitment to rebuilding the relationship with you, our community
My name is Teresa Dietrich. About a month ago, I joined Stack Overflow as Head of Product and Community, reporting directly to the CEO. During my years as an engineer and technology leader, I saw the impact this community and site has on people across the world and I am very excited to be here. While I have personally gotten a few answers from Stack Overflow over the years and have seen so many engineers I work with rely on it daily, I’m new to both the SE/SO Community and to the company. In my new role, however, I’m committed to learning about and rebuilding the relationship and trust between us all.
I understand our community ranges from users who visit only to find an answer, through increasingly deeper levels of engagement, to our curators and high reputation users at the core. I recognize I’m coming to this position at a low point in the relationship between the company and our most avid community members - those who are active on Meta and our Moderators. I know that there is a lot of work to do to repair our relationship with the community and I’m here today to show you how we plan to do that.
Over the last month, I have spent time listening to and asking questions of our Community Managers, our Engineers who are long-time community members, and those throughout the company with community involvement. I have been digging into our data and the feedback from our Site Satisfaction Survey and The Loop. I have been reading what you’ve said to us publicly including your posts on Meta and the Open Letter to Stack Exchange. Please consider what I write below to be a response to the Open Letter along with some of the other issues I’ve seen.
In the letter, you mention Tim Post’s 2018 blog post, Our Theory of Moderation Re-visited. Tim got it right when he said then that we had run afoul of these five principles. We have done so again since this blog was posted, and we likely will again in the future, unintentionally. From everything I have learned so far, I believe the unifying theme across our core community members, our moderators, our employees and company leadership is that everyone cares deeply. I believe - with a stronger relationship and better processes for feedback between us - that we can prevent larger incidents and learn from the ones that got us where we are now. I support these principles and we are recommitting to them and will show that commitment through our actions.
I believe that my position here now means that accountability for the company’s relationship with the overall community, particularly meta, starts with me.
I want to personally apologize for our actions or inactions, as the case may be, in the past that had a negative impact on our relationship. While specific recent events may have individually caused harm, years of neglect and a growing distance from our community led to those events and it will take conscious effort to repair the damage.
I want to start by establishing transparency with the community, and I know that transparency is an easy word to say but harder to define and put into action. I believe that transparency comes down to two core actions: expectation management and context setting. We (the Community, Product and Engineering teams) will endeavor to clarify and reset when necessary what you can expect from the company. We will also provide as much context as we can for policy, decisions, and actions that we take within legal and regulatory constraints - we want you to understand why we’re making changes, not just that we’re making them.
How will we do this? First, we established four themes for our community work this year.
Understand our Community -
We will seek to better understand our community and the user segments within it. We will work to better understand the pain points and needs of our users and deliver solutions to them through our features and initiatives.
By being increasingly transparent we aim to regain trust with everyone - from brand new users to you, our most dedicated community members.
Represent our Community -
As we better understand our community, we will represent you to the teams within the company whose decisions and actions impact you.
The employees at the company continue to change and come from a variety of backgrounds. We commit to helping everyone in the company learn about all of you and the site to empower them to make better decisions.
We will develop a community language and framework to educate the company and bring them along on the journey.
Improve Feedback Metrics -
Our users have shared that they don’t feel heard by Stack Overflow. We will define a framework for the various types and methods of feedback and dedicate time to processes and outreach that identify ways we can be serving them better and facilitating better two-way communications.
Increase Community Engagement -
Though our active user base continues to grow, our engagement has remained the same. What this means is that while more users are coming to the site every month, the number of users who engage meaningfully in the site does not increase proportionally.
To change this dynamic, we will balance investing in improving our tools and features that benefit our long-term users with initiatives that convert new users into engaged ones.
We want to build long-term relationships with as many of you as we can by providing useful features that deliver value to you. If engagement is not growing with the overall user base, a lower percentage of you are getting value from these interactions each year.
Working directly with targeted groups through UX research, we will identify and invest in features and tools that will improve the experience.
Based on these themes, we are building our Community Roadmap of initiatives. I will share the Q1 roadmap with you all within the next week in a blog post and will take part in an accompanying Meta discussion (update: The 2020 Q1 Community Roadmap was released on the blog and on meta on Feb 25). I considered sharing it here but believe there is enough to share about the process and initiatives to warrant its own separate post and discussion. I commit to sharing these roadmaps with you regularly going forward.
Initiatives Launched:
We have continued to publish “The Loop” monthly to share the UX research and product exploration going on within the Product, Design, Community and Engineering teams within the company. We will continue to solicit feedback through The Loop as well.
We have established what we believe are clear and open guidelines to deal with situations where moderators may need to have their privileges revoked or to be reinstated. We know the processes aren’t perfect yet and you have shared how you would like us to improve them. We’ll be reviewing your feedback and work to incrementally improve these processes for transparency. Our goal is a set of procedures that work to protect all users, the Community as a whole, and the company while being respectful of our moderators.
We have released an updated Privacy Policy that incorporated feedback from Community Managers along with a meta post for questions and discussion that accompanied the update.
Initiatives in Progress:
We have defined a standard process for new policy or process review that includes Community Managers, employees who are long-time community members, and Moderators before being shared and put into place. Our plan is to provide new policies to the planned Moderator Council for feedback periods before they are made official. We will then share it with all Moderators through the Stack Moderators Team for advance notification. We value the deep understanding that moderators on the network have of their communities and users, and welcome honest, respectful feedback from the greater Stack Exchange Community.
We are encouraging employees to be active within the community, both officially on metas and for fun in their areas of expertise or interest, and will be providing simple guidelines and a helpful FAQ for employees in the next week (update: the guidelines and FAQs were shared with employees on Feb 25).
We are defining our commitment to responding to Meta posts & Moderators questions through our new standard process and will be sharing that with a group of Moderators for feedback. We will share it with you all within the next two weeks (update: our commitment to responding to Meta and Moderators was posted on March 4).
We have drafted our followup and clarification on the Content Licensing issue and will be publishing that within the next two weeks (update: our followup regarding content licensing was posted on March 3).
We will be creating a Moderator offboarding process, including a survey and interviews with departing Moderators. Our goal is to take the time to listen to and understand why a Moderator has chosen to resign and how we can improve the site, processes, and policies. We will send this survey to the recently-resigned moderators so that their suggestions can be considered (update: The survey was sent to moderators on April 3rd and made available on MSE on April 7th).
We want the relationship between the company, the community and its moderators to be based on open, transparent communication that will be made in good faith. I believe the deterioration of communication and trust has been a problem for quite some time. I believe that re-establishing transparency and open, two-way communication will be a key ingredient in rebuilding the relationship between the community, moderators, employees and the company.
To all of the moderators who have resigned or suspended your activities over the past few months: your presence and impact is missed. We value all of your work to keep your sites clean and communities healthy. We understand the many reasons why you felt that it was necessary to step down and that it was a painful decision. We are working on many of the issues that influenced your decisions to leave, and we aim to back these intentions up with actions, accountability, and consistent open communication. If you feel that your issues continue to go unaddressed, I invite you to post about them on Meta in a respectful way. And if you choose to apply for moderator reinstatement, we look forward to hearing about this as well and to seeing you back on your sites.
While I am only a month into this role, we have a lot more plans in the works around how we gather feedback, encourage collaboration, improve curator tools, and improve the quality and relevancy of content - and we are excited to work together with you to make sure this platform meets the needs of our entire community. I personally commit to reading and responding within Meta at least once a week going forward and you might see me hanging around on Travel, too. I sincerely hope these commitments and actions will contribute to rebuilding our relationship and trust, and I look forward to engaging with you all more as we go on this journey together.
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Thank you and welcome to Meta! This seems like a positive message and I hope that y'all will be able to follow through on this. I am excited to see the first results of this work and I hope for a better community-company relationship from now on. – MEE Feb 19 '20 at 16:03
That was quite a read - but a good one. One caveat and suggestion I'd like to voice, though: don't wait for the ex-moderators to come back by just going "hey, just apply for reinstatement". The process is neither transparent nor open, and I doubt any of them would go for it due to that. Take the first step and contact them; amongst other spots, there's a discord server a lot of them hang out in, along with a few SE employees. This would be a great place to start. – Sébastien Renauld Feb 19 '20 at 16:05
Thinking about it, one of the issues of this fiasco has been no real line of communication. I know I've had neutral feedback nuked from orbit for no other reason than "cleaning up", and I know for sure that I'm hesitant on posting anything anymore due to this; setting up an open DMZ to have honest, open communication would be a major step forward. Right now, the comms channels feel like shams (like the moderator reinstatement or the loop - which has glaring statistical issues on results published) or openly hostile. – Sébastien Renauld Feb 19 '20 at 16:12
Could you (briefly, very briefly) explain what your role in the company is? I understand you must be upper management, but I'm afraid that "Head of Product and Community" doesn't mean much to my business-ignorant ears. Would that make you the person ultimately responsible for the entire public Q&A network? – terdon Feb 19 '20 at 16:56
Have you also read the Lavender letter written from the LGBTQ+ segment of moderation and the community? – doppelgreener Feb 19 '20 at 17:06
Well, Monica has left, but I'm sure you could contact her iff you really wanted. You would learn a lot, I'm sure. – Martin Schröder Feb 19 '20 at 17:36
@ReinstateMonica-M.Schröder if Teresa wants to talk I am certainly open to that. The agreement does not forbid it. She sounds sincere about wanting to fix things, and if so she should want to reach out. My contact info is public. (I was alerted to this post.) – Monica Cellio Feb 19 '20 at 18:13
@terdon My title is Chief Product Officer and I report directly to the CEO here. I have responsibility for Community with the Community teams now in my org. I have responsibility for all of the Products including Public Q&A Platform as well as Talent, Ads and Teams. Does this clarify while meeting the very briefly request? – Teresa Dietrich♦ Feb 19 '20 at 18:18
"Understand our Community" You just fired numerous veterans that already did this, and now you want to re-invent the wheel by discovering what those people already know? The leadership decisions in your company simply don't make any sense. Over and over, through the whole of 2019 to this date, the leadership decisions don't make any sense. This is the root of all your problems. It's far too late to fix things now. I don't want to hear what this company has to say, I don't want to deal with this company and I certainly don't want to be the customer of this company. – Lundin Feb 20 '20 at 7:50
@SaraChipps Respectfully, reinstating Monica would go a long way to reassure the community of your intentions. She should not be forced to re-apply, as she did not choose to step down. Prove us wrong. Thank you. – Boaz Feb 20 '20 at 10:29
This reminds of so many other corporate disasters. Corporations are more than willing to talk your ears off, to "communicate" with you. They always deny there is a problem, until that doesn't work. Then they'll deny the problem is serious, until that doesn't work. They'll be glad to setup committees, working groups, and so forth to study the problem and make recommendations. Assuming good intent for every one of these efforts is simply agreeing to be Charlie Brown every time Lucy offers to hold the football. If SO wants to improve then should do something substantive first. – President James K. Polk Feb 20 '20 at 14:18
The single thing that I am absolutely the most angry about from all this fiasco was the high-placed employee explicitly attacking a dedicated volunteer, by name, to the media. We, as individuals, do not have the kind of clout to answer back against such attacks. SO used the clout that they got from volunteer labor to attack a volunteer, and the person who did so remains a part of the future here without any apparent consequence. It's hard to reconcile, hard to accept, and hard to trust a company that is comfortable with this state of affairs. – Chris Feb 20 '20 at 14:55
@SaraChipps "We've been working on that internally especially given recent data unearthed by the team." Err... so, now when data shows that Meta users are not so insignificant, you are willing to pay attention... The problem is, not that you were not paying attention when you though we are insignificant, but that you have shown complete and utter disrespect to us, while at the same time you were repeating mantra "about building inclusive and diverse community". Even if original numbers were correct, your behavior was beyond unacceptable. – Resistance Is Futile Feb 21 '20 at 11:46
I've compared this problem to that of resource starvation in naive CPU schedulers, @resistance: when load is high (and it always is here), low priority "threads" never get a chance to run. Indeed... This algorithm was codified in at least one internal document when I left: concerns from people with low measurable influence were not to get a response. I hope this will change; there are more than a few skilled computer scientists whose knowledge could be brought to bear on the problem if only it were to be recognized by those doing the scheduling. – Shog9 Feb 21 '20 at 15:54
Why is this getting so many upvotes when it's all about trying to move forward, rather than actually addressing the issues we've got around here? What we need first and foremost is to move backwards, to undo the harmful changes that have been made in the last few years. Until SE makes this the highest priority, it'll keep alienating the community. "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. -- C. S. Lewis" – Mason Wheeler Feb 21 '20 at 16:27
I want to be hopeful. I really do. But I can't. The company has burned through all its goodwill, with me, at least. I want to think this is the first step to recovery, but I thought that about every communication from SE to the community. I'm not willing to believe in yet more words. Words are cheap. Words we have received in abundance.
The follow-through on those words, however, has told an incredibly different story. The company fired the very people that were trying to preserve the communication between us. The company has not met the commitments it made. Until there are clear, concrete changes in how the company treats us volunteers, and, more importantly, holds itself accountable to the communities, I can't see this as anything more than words.
In the words of Jerry Maguire, "Show me the money".
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I share this sentiment. When I wrote that wretched Firing Mods and Forced Relicensing post almost 5 months ago, this statement was roughly what I was hoping for as a “good-faith effort towards mending the rift”. But so much more harm has been done in the meanwhile that I'm keeping my expectations very low. Teresa has a long list of really important items, but following through will be non-trivial. In the past, the community managers who noticeably cared had no real agency left. – amon Feb 19 '20 at 17:25
I totally understand this sentiment and if I were in your shoes I would feel the same way. I personally believe actions are much more powerful than words in nearly all situations. I promise to back up these words with action, starting with the commitments I made above. We have a long backlog of stuff we need to work through and deliver to you all, but we are adding to it daily, prioritizing it based on feedback and ensuring we deliver it. – Teresa Dietrich♦ Feb 19 '20 at 18:46
I really agree with this post, the problem is that it's like the 5th time I've agreed with such a post. We've had the same promises from Fullerton, Chipps, the new CEO (sorry forgot name), and a few others I think. And that's all I'm just the last ~6 months. Every time the top response is 'good start, now follow it up'. Every time things just get worse – David says Reinstate Monica Feb 19 '20 at 22:41
I'd be careful about saying "Words are cheap" indefinitely. There are 100 different things this community wants. The root problem has always been Meta falling upon deaf ears. This post, unlike the others, shows a real understanding of the current situation. To me, the fact that the CPO has taken time to understand the issues is a very real action. – Nathan Merrill Feb 20 '20 at 3:18
@NathanMerrill No, the root problem is that the company suddenly launches Poorly Considered Feature out of the blue. Then when meta complains it falls upon deaf ears, but the root problem is the person who decided to launch Poorly Considered Feature. The root problem isn't even that Poorly Considered Feature was released without community feedback, but that someone came up with it in the first place. – Lundin Feb 20 '20 at 13:37
@Lundin Releasing a Poorly Considered Feature is a symptom of not listening. These were obviously Considered Features, as they spent time and money. What makes them Poorly Considered Features is the lack of understanding of how the site works. Updating the licensing is a good idea at it's core, but the implementation of how they do it makes all the difference. – Nathan Merrill Feb 20 '20 at 14:07
This post, unlike the others, shows a real understanding of the current situation. I'm gonna have to disagree with you, @NathanMerrill. From a cynical standpoint, it's PR spin, meant to continue to placate everyone and continue doing free labour for the benefit of SE. I want to believe it's more than that, but we've been through this song and dance too many times to take SE at their word anymore. Until I see actual changes, I'm assuming this is nothing more but the same. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. – fbueckert Feb 20 '20 at 14:16
@NathanMerrill I'm more thinking about features like "lets make our front page a messy paywall" or "lets launch pornographic ads network-wide". That's not just a lack of understanding of how the site works, it's a lack of understanding how humans and the world work. – Lundin Feb 20 '20 at 14:18
The feature wasn't "Launch pornographic ads" or "Make a messy paywall". It was "Add advertising" and "Build Teams for SO". I can get behind monetization models, but not in the way they did it. – Nathan Merrill Feb 20 '20 at 14:21
@fbueckert my last response wasn't a proper full one. From my reading of the post, it really appears as if Teresa spent time going back and reading and considering the posts made by meta, and actually gets it. I don't know if that is true. But to me, that appears to be the case. Whether the words show true understanding of the site is up to the reader. If there really is understanding, then there was real action going on. If there isn't understanding, then I agree: they are vapid words. – Nathan Merrill Feb 20 '20 at 14:37
@NathanMerrill And the only way to know which one is correct is through those changes. I've had enough of listening. I want to start seeing. No, I need to start seeing. – fbueckert Feb 20 '20 at 15:17
@NathanMerrill Except SEI didn't "add advertising" - they went from a curated advertising model to just using Google Ads for the site. The problem that people had wasn't hat the advertising existed, it was that SEI forfeited their control of it ... because "reasons" ... and introduced a platform that presented people with NSFW ads. – anonymous Feb 20 '20 at 16:51
Oh. have they finally noticed how badly they've damaged the relationship? Well, that a step. There must be some interesting statistics there :-), which I'm sure we won't get. But rebuilding what you've blown to smithereens for no reason at all is quite another matter. – user625792 Feb 20 '20 at 19:26
Completely agree. I really hope this is the start of a great thing - but I can't help but see the parallels to this post, which started off with a great positive reaction, and then tailed off to be the second most downvoted post ever when it became clear the words were mostly, if not entirely, empty. Certainly nothing against Teresa, and I wish her all the best - but we (as in the community) would be foolish not to be rather sceptical at this point. – berry120 Feb 20 '20 at 20:36
@GeorgeMReinstateMonica "There must be some interesting statistics there :-), which I'm sure we won't get." The bit of statistics that were shared basically stated that they did not see any significant change in behavior but that the reach of meta may be larger than previously assumed. Either they have already seen an effect but don't want to disclose it, or they fear of what might happen (they might assume inertia in the system), or they have changed their view of the data or this is just words. One or a combination of these things. – Trilarion Feb 21 '20 at 10:10
While I am rather pessimistic about whether anyone will manage to clean out the Augias' stable of fiefdoms and overall dysfunctional culture that Stack Overflow the company seems to have become on the inside.... this is definitely a breath of fresh air and the first corporate communication in years that sparked hope in me that something could, maybe, actually meaningfully change in company-community relations. We'll see.
There are a number of things the company could do that in my view would signal that it is actually willing to put its money where its mouth is:
Offer to unilaterally and unconditionally free Monica Cellio from whatever non-disclosure agreement is in her settlement, if this is something she wants to revisit. Right now, it is looking like she is being pressured to shut up by an authoritarian government threatening her loved ones or something. It's a terrible look, and as far as I'm concerned, I have no interest in contributing anything to the place, and would not shed a tear if it crashed and burned tomorrow, as long as this is not fixed. (If Monica then chooses to continue to not talk about how the legal action was resolved, that is perfectly fine and totally her right, of course. But then we will know it is because she wants to put things behind her, not because she is being gagged on pain of being driven into ruination.) Failing this... find some other damn way to make this truly right. Because as it stands, it doesn't really feel like it is.
Offer to unconditionally, retroactively increase severance pay for Shog9 and Robert, and possibly the other employees that were let go, to four weeks' wages and benefits per year worked, or whatever else is reasonable, and acknowledge the departure and momentous influence the two CMs had on what Stack Overflow is today, in an official blog post. I know our preoccupation with this may look silly to you; parting ways with people when new leadership comes in is par for the course for any high-powered company, and obviously any business has the legal right to pay just as little severance to former employees as it absolutely has to. However, Stack Overflow has an unorthodox, symbiotic relationship with its community. A proper send-off both financially and in honouring their impact is important to that community because being a company that does right by its employees is part of the unwritten contract that motivates the often highly-paid professionals that keep the site running to donate meaningful slices of their time to a for-profit enterprise. That the company didn't look out for its employees and the volunteer community that helped build the place had to step in to help out is a disgrace, and it can't be good for the morale of the remaining employees, either.
In regards to not making the payment conditional on a non-disclosure agreement - this may look like a huge concession, but might actually work out to the company's advantage. The dirty laundry now being aired in public on Twitter (very responsibly, politely, and professionally, I might add) by some ex-employees who apparently didn't sign such a document may look ugly at first - but I am certain it will actually turn out to be a net long term benefit for company-community relations. Because everyone involved with the site sensed all this internal dysfunction all along. We just couldn't put it into words because they lacked information. Now it can be talked about... both inside and outside the company... and fixed. Well, maybe.
Give consideration to the idea of spinning off the public side of Q&A into a nonprofit. I know this probably looks insane to you. But it could (to stick with the Greek mythology) be the strike cutting through the Gordian knot: separating the concerns of the for-profit company and those of building a library of knowledge that is free and open to the world forever. Opening up the possibility of the public Q&A part becoming partly funded by donations or the communities themselves... while still serving the for-profit company's goals in a multitude of ways, as a prestigious flagship, funneling customers, showcasing the Q&A product, and many others.
Whatever you do, please have all community-facing employees continue this new, awesome, largely bullshit-free style of communication - even when having to announce stuff that people won't like. The Stack Overflow community is very intelligent, and can smell dishonesty from a mile away. Continuing the course of the last few months - of radio silence and insincere communication - would be a sure-fire way to destroy what little trust there is left.
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The Stack Overflow community is very intelligent, and can smell dishonesty from a mile away You'd like to think so but I'm not sure that's so, c.f. the way in which the CEO's apology was initially highly upvoted then downvoted. It's true that the community cares about tone and whether things seem to be written by a human (see also the "cluetrain manifesto"). – ChrisW Feb 21 '20 at 12:51
@ChrisW You'd like to think so but I'm not sure that's so OK, let me rephrase: "The Stack Overflow community is very intelligent... and too damn trusting for its own good." A prerequisite to investing hundreds of hours into something like this, for sure 😄 – Pekka Feb 21 '20 at 13:51
@ScottSeidman many signs suggest the public Q&A part is not the biggest driver of revenue, possibly not even profitable on its own. The money is made in the Jobs and Teams products, it seems. A public Q&A nonprofit would continue to serve SO's commercial goals wherever it can, for sure, but would be somewhat more independent and protected from whatever abuses the sales team might otherwise inflict on it down the line if revenue doesn't develop according to the owners' desires – Pekka Feb 21 '20 at 13:53
@Pekka and yet without the public Q&A the jobs section becomes your average recruitment board, without its privileged place and its massive pool of eyes that are 100% in the developer market. There is some serious synergy and it'd be dumb for somebody to pretend it does not exist. I mean, fuck, I found my last two jobs through SO. – Sébastien Renauld Feb 21 '20 at 14:21
@Pekka we're in agreement, I was just saying that the relationship is more symbiotic than the last few months' attitude from management would lead people to believe. – Sébastien Renauld Feb 21 '20 at 14:30
Comments are not for extended discussion; this conversation has been moved to chat. Tried to... intelligently leave some of the highlights that wouldn't seem out of place but this got a bit too into the weeds for comments. :) – Catija♦ Feb 21 '20 at 22:38
This is a fantastic well written post. I basically have turn away from the community as a whole because the person delivering the message could not be take seriously in my view. At any rate, I guess I will peek in from time to time. – Neo Feb 24 '20 at 14:56
@Pekka do you know if there's an easy to browse archive of everything George Stocker said on Twitter about SE? Maybe a PDF or post or something? – jrh Feb 24 '20 at 19:49
@jrh I started archiving them in January for Rebecca Stones who is behind the Great Firewall, here but I'm waaaay behind. I might do an update at some point but can't promise an ETA – Pekka Feb 24 '20 at 22:44
Yep. There are users who keep saying the Monica thing is a done deal and we should put it behind us. It's absolutely not. Settlements can be revised. The only path forward still involves that. And, as I keep saying, the people responsible for this mess need to be sacked. They're all out of chances. – StackOverthrow Feb 27 '20 at 10:57
I think the key metric here might be whether this new bs-free communication style is still present 6 months from new. – Steve Bennett Feb 28 '20 at 0:19
Also, expect a +500 rep from me as well on this brave, inspiring and visionary action. – einpoklum Feb 29 '20 at 21:30
@ChrisW: It wasn't very skillfully written. Ms. Chipps' posts were easy to see through, Fullerton more difficult, but to me it really stood out. Now, this post by Teresa Dietrich is skillfully written, to the extent that it sounds relatively genuine and upfront to me (or at least - I can't find obvious faults in it). – einpoklum Feb 29 '20 at 21:42
What is the Augias' stable of fiefdoms? My Google search for "augias stack overflow" returns this answer as the top result... – Will Mar 2 '20 at 17:25
@Will It's a reference to one of the Labours of Heracles. – AmaiKotori Mar 2 '20 at 17:36
Over the last month, I have spent time listening to and asking questions of our Community Managers, our Engineers who are long-time community members, and those throughout the company with community involvement.
Many of the most respected Community Managers saw their employment end with SO/SE within the past month, many long-term site moderators have resigned, and quite a few high-reputation users have suspended activity or deleted accounts. Some details were shared by the departing employees and it seems there is a problem at the core of company. While this post makes a solid attempt to address this growing disconnect between the Company and the Users it seems odd then that some of people best suited to assist in this endeavor are no longer here.
I wish you the best in your new position and look forward to initiatives you laid out. I hope you can quickly build the trust of the community because I know it will be difficult to replace people who spent years developing these relationships. I also hope these efforts are not "too little, too late".
SkoobaSkooba
Thanks for your encouragement. It has been a very difficult road to travel and we sorely miss all of our past CMs. This announcement is meant to reinvigorate the care and attention that we've always known to be important and necessary. Teresa gets it and I'm glad she's here to lead us into better situations as we continue to work side by side with you all. – Juan M♦ Feb 19 '20 at 16:44
I agree with the sentiment, but... trust is never built quickly. It will take time. – gerrit Feb 19 '20 at 17:06
@JuanM "we sorely miss all of our past CMs" - even the two that were fired? And if you miss them, why fire them? Or is that meant as a personal statement expressing discontent with your upper management? Sorry, but a sentence like that at this point in time is just adding fuel to the fire... – l4mpi Feb 20 '20 at 9:15
@l4mpi It's clear now that the Community Management team have been as badly treated by senior management as the community itself. Jon Ericson and shog9 have posted on blogs, twitter etc that it's been like this and getting worse since 2015, when senior management took away their autonomy, started micro-managing them to do things they knew would end badly, and demanded the entire company treat users as nothing but sales leads for SO Jobs, Enterprise and (recently) Teams. The CMs have been doing good work under very difficult circumstances not of their making. – user56reinstatemonica8 Feb 20 '20 at 9:49
@user56reinstatemonica8 Thank you for that. Your comment was very meaningful to me. – Juan M♦ Feb 20 '20 at 21:06
@l4mpi I'd like to point out that Juan (and other employees like him) are not responsible for firing Shog and Robert, and for Jon's departure. Upper management is. While I share your frustration on the subject (don't we all?), we have to take into account that they most probably had nothing to say in these cases. We can't put every SE employee/manager in the same basket and treat them like they are a single unit. – Laf Feb 20 '20 at 23:29
@Laf I'd like to point out that if "upper management" disagrees with JuanM, then everything JuanM says is meaningless PR spin. – user253751 Feb 21 '20 at 10:50
@Laf what user253751 said. The "we" in the quoted sentence implies that Juan speaks for a group of people, but it's entirely unclear to me who this group is. Is it "all CMs who have to deal with the fallout of the bad management decisions", or is it "the community team", or "all of SE", or some other group? It seems like he's at most speaking for the CMs only (because whoever fired Shog and Robert probably doesn't miss them). But in that case, this statement isn't worth much because as demonstrated CMs are powerless in the face of certain people with director roles... – l4mpi Feb 21 '20 at 13:01
@user253751 Maybe Juan speaks for himself and not for the company. Teresa did say she'd like the staff to come and interact with the community. I presume every staff's recent posts are in line with this "policy", which is a good thing for us. I get that he works for SE, but at some point we have to cut him (and other CM's) some slack. Teresa said she wanted to improve things, other staff'ers are posting more often than they did during the last 6 months/last year, this is an improvement, albeit a tiny one. [...] – Laf Feb 21 '20 at 14:19
[...] But if every time they post here we keep pounding on them, they will see this increase in interaction with the community as being worthless. If they don't live up to the expectations they are setting, we get to pound real hard on them, but if they show positive signs, we're slowly becoming the sour one that can't see any sort of progress at all. – Laf Feb 21 '20 at 14:19
Thank you. I hope this is "this time for realz".
I was one of the proponents of the open letter, and I set up the site to host it. I thought it had the potential to create some momentum behind changing things at the company, and I was disappointed when all it got was a wishy-washy response that gave few solid commitments and then petered out never to be heard from again. A further response was promised but never materialised.
Then, Stack Overflow apologised. Twice. The first was... not great. The second - from David Fullerton - seemed to have potential; it acknowledged the major issues and tried not to place fault anywhere but the company, and I hoped that might be the sign of actual change. Then... that came to nothing as well; the commitments it promised were barely delivered, and then only as an afterthought.
And then Stack Overflow decided to gut its community management team by removing two of its most prominent and experienced members. I'd stuck with things up to that point, but that was my final straw - I didn't go out with a bang, just faded into the background and stopped participating.
If these are solid commitments, not afterthoughts, I'm looking forward to coming back - but I hope you can understand that I won't believe it until I see it. Actions speak louder.
ArtOfCodeArtOfCode
Thanks @ArtOfCode. "Actions speak louder" — we totally agree. Many actions are planned. Looking forward from hearing your thoughts on progress (in public or you also know how to get a hold of me privately as well). – Yaakov Ellis♦ Feb 20 '20 at 9:18
Thanks Art, now I don't have to write anything :) – James Feb 25 '20 at 15:24
Well said, very well said. – Cardinal System Feb 26 '20 at 23:31
To start off, thank you for posting this. This is the most promising thing I've seen since I stepped down as a moderator several months ago. This is the first thing I've seen that gives me an actual glimmer of hope that I could get on board with having a diamond again.
"...I personally commit to reading and responding within Meta at least once a week going forward..."
Do you believe that once a week is enough to keep on top of issues that the community raises? Meta has a tendency to move rather quickly; I'm usually here for roughly fourteen hours a day, six days a week, both keeping an eye on the main site and hanging out in the Tavern on the Meta, and I still entirely miss some important things. Do you have a system in place for making sure that things don't get missed due to the fast-paced nature of Meta?
MithicalMithical
I left an infernal script for this purpose on the internal GitHub server, if anyone can figure out how to run it... – Shog9 Feb 19 '20 at 16:18
@Shog9 read that as 'infernal github server' and was nodding... – djsmiley2kStaysInside Feb 19 '20 at 16:18
The third bullet in the "Initiatives in Progress" section is our company's plan to reinvest in Meta. And no, once a week is not enough time to stay on top of all of the issues on Meta but she'll have the CM team and others reading and sharing along with her. We're committing to working together on this. – Juan M♦ Feb 19 '20 at 16:19
We're also working on trying to get @Shog9's infernal script up and running :P – JNat♦ Feb 19 '20 at 16:19
@JNat I give it 6 to 8 weeks ... ;) – rene Feb 19 '20 at 16:31
@djsmiley2kTMW Fun fact, there's also an infernal github server, officially; a bunch of people in the office signed the case's lid when it was bought sometime 2016ish? ...then it had unending hardware issues. We ditched it for a VM, but it's still sitting in the rack to this day in case someone dares challenge the curse. – Shane Madden Feb 19 '20 at 17:21
@JNat I'm sure there's someone you could hire as a consultant to do that. – Andrew Leach Feb 19 '20 at 17:44
@mithical I agree its not enough time if that was all we were doing. We are working to publish our commitment to responding to Meta posts from the larger community team. So we will have a whole team keeping an eye on the site and a process to ensure we are aware and responding on the site. I believe in underpromising and overdelivering so I will strive for more but this is my personal commitment to always maintain. – Teresa Dietrich♦ Feb 19 '20 at 18:15
@TeresaDietrich Well said! – called2voyage Feb 19 '20 at 18:38
@Shog9 Hey, maybe they'll bring you back as an external contractor: Stack Overflow's Infernal Script Barterer. (Role may also include cajoling and pleading and, in the case of printing, minor blood sacrifice.) – wizzwizz4 Feb 21 '20 at 15:19
@wiz hiring Shog as external contractor was suggested directly to the CEO of SE, and ignored, as expected. They don't want him back. – Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating Feb 23 '20 at 8:06
@ShadowWizardisEarForYou suggested by whom in what forum? – TylerH Feb 24 '20 at 15:40
@TylerH meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/393552/… under "Community managers released from service". – Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating Feb 24 '20 at 15:44
@ShadowWizardisEarForYou That doesn't show what you've claimed. – TylerH Feb 24 '20 at 15:51
@TylerH how so? Aaron suggested this to the CEO directly, just to get the lame "Cannot comment". Which is wrong. CEO of a company can comment on anything he wants to, he just doesn't want to. – Shadow Wizard is Vaccinating Feb 24 '20 at 16:13
To all of the moderators who have resigned or suspended your activities over the past few months: your presence and impact is missed. [...] If you feel that your issues continue to go unaddressed, I invite you to post about them on Meta in a respectful way. And if you choose to apply for moderator reinstatement, we look forward to hearing about this as well and to seeing you back on your sites.
I'm not a moderator, but it seems to me this is very late, and not really going to do much for the moderators who have quit or are no longer actually performing moderator actions.
The damage done to moderators is real, and I doubt there is much that can be done at this point to bring them back. Would you want to risk being on the receiving end of the reputational damage that was done to Ms. Cellio?
Focusing on the requests that moderators have made over the past couple of months, instead of hand-wavy non-apology apologies, would be a welcome departure from the status quo as it exists up to this point.
In short, action not words.
Max VernonMax Vernon
Quote from the post (a bit above your quote): "We will send this survey to the recently-resigned moderators so that their suggestions can be considered.". I'll be waiting this survey before voting on antything – Tensibai Feb 19 '20 at 16:20
"About a month ago, I joined Stack Overflow as Head of Product and Community"..... it takes time to get your head around a company, and then to try and get your head around a community as.... vibrant and challenging (in a good way) as SE's is going to take even longer. I think bashing them for this isn't nice. – djsmiley2kStaysInside Feb 19 '20 at 16:20
please, I'm not bashing anyone. I'm simply stating what needs to happen, IMO. – Max Vernon Feb 19 '20 at 16:22
"In short, action not words." - yes, but they're being transparent about it. Several things they're doing have been mentioned, and we have actually mentioned that we want more transparency a couple times. – Zoe the 1337 Princess Feb 19 '20 at 16:22
I'd actually say that we need better actions and words. Don't discount the immense communication issue the SEI and the community have had. This is a good step forward in that area at least (assuming they keep moving forward in this direction). – Rubiksmoose Feb 19 '20 at 16:24
Agreed with all of the above. A personal apology is a nice first step but, coming from someone new who wasn't involved in anything that went down, it's hardly meaningful. A personal apology from those involved and a non-personal apology from the company would be much better. That said, the communication and community commitments are excellent and I hope it pans out. Of course, they did fire the people who were doing the best at those things.... – user154510 Feb 19 '20 at 16:27
I tend to agree with this answer. I like nice words. I'm a big believer in nice words. I try to write nice words... But it is actions that tell you whether nice words are sincere. There is a certain action the company must take which has been pending for several months... It could be done well, or it could end up being another slap in the face for the volunteers who've dedicated so much time here. I will withhold judgement on these words until I see how that action is taken. – Shog9 Feb 19 '20 at 16:30
@Shog9 I actually disagreed with this answer specifically because it did not withhold judgement on the words and simply assumed that no actions can be taken to move things forward. Recently we've had miscommunication after miscommunication and attempts to repair that aspect should not be discounted I think. Of course it is all meaningless if not followed up by actions, but words are faster and easier than actions and it is a good first step. – Rubiksmoose Feb 19 '20 at 16:35
I didn't read it that way, @rubiks. Max notes that there are many, many extant pleas from moderators and curators; I happen to know there are also dozens of heartfelt emails from the same. Starting with them would indeed be a good show of good faith. IOW, before asking for more feedback, start by listening to what has already been said. – Shog9 Feb 19 '20 at 16:39
@Rubiksmoose - I didn't want to leave a long winded wordy answer. I don't think I was rude to Teresa, even if I didn't explicitly mention that an apology is a good thing. This event (and the surrounding issues) demand far more than simply more words. – Max Vernon Feb 19 '20 at 16:39
@MaxVernon: I don't think you were rude at all, FWIW. I just don't really think I share your outlook. In the end though, we all seem to agree. Actions must follow through on these words or they are worse than meaningless, they are a slap in the face. – Rubiksmoose Feb 19 '20 at 16:42
@MaxVernon I agree with your last comment, but your answer seems to ignore what's in the bullet points above the part you quoted and it sounds like their planned actions don't exists at all. – Tensibai Feb 19 '20 at 16:42
@Rubiksmoose where does this answer assumes that "no actions can be taken to move things forward"? – Lamak Feb 19 '20 at 18:51
@Lamak I'd rather not debate this in the comments here. It's not really useful to the answerer and usually not helpful to either person arguing either ;-) I didn't downvote or anything so what I think has little impact regardless. – Rubiksmoose Feb 19 '20 at 19:04
@lamak is always useful – Max Vernon Feb 19 '20 at 19:16
It's nice to see something written, but I have a serious question that I think needs to be addressed and would be a good starting point for a new Head of Product and Community:
Why did Stack Exchange, Inc see a need to change things in the first place?
I've been on the Stack Overflow network from all the way back when it was in private beta and have watched things evolve over the years as things scaled. While there were growing pains, the community had sorted out a fairly decent way of moderating things. While people are correct in that it was somewhat off-putting to newcomers and a better way of integrating them into the community was needed, the system also managed to keep high-quality information on the internet as well.
Reflecting back upon the past six months to a year, I get the impression that Stack Exchange, Inc. started trying to dictate to the community how to operate. As I write this, I even see a "Teresa Dietrich is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct." banner despite the fact that I have over 10,000 reputation and, in theory, should be an established member of the community. While a minor quibble, it it something that gives an impression that professional adults don't always care for.1
Beyond the impression of trying to tell the community how to operate, I've also gotten the impression that Stack Exchange, Inc. (SEI) just doesn't care. I seem to recall a comment by the Director of Public Q&A about Meta users being irrelevant because they could "fit in a New York City apartment" which not only contributes to the impression that SEI doesn't care, but that as an organization you are fairly condescending as well. Exacerbating this impression are comments a Community Evangelist2 made about a "eureka moment" regarding Meta... when a Stack Overflow Meta user pointed out the role that Meta plays (with data) back in July 2019 almost six months before SEI had the same eureka moment. For extra irony the analysis links back to the question that has the user analysis as an answer without mentioning it. In the academic circles I travel in, a peer reviewer would rip someone apart for plagiarism for doing that.3
So where does this leave things? I'll be honest, I'm pessimistic about SEI and the Stack Exchange Network in the future. I've actually told junior developers and students that while Stack Overflow is a good place to look things up, they might want to reconsider contributing free labor to a poorly managed for-profit company. My own use of the site has pretty much been limited to passive reading and I'm reluctant to contribute anything beyond Meta posts like this.
Perhaps more importantly, the direction the company has gone, has lead me to recommend against using Stack Overflow for Teams or posting to the Developer Jobs site.4
So to return to the original intent of this post, I'm keeping an eye on the direction that things are going but I really would like to know why the dramatic shift happened in the first place. I'm a fan of project postmortems and I get the impression that there are some lessons to be learned here. For myself at least, that would be a good place to start rebuilding trust in the brand.
To address the one comment that's been getting upvotes, that was intended as a side comment on the direction of where the network has been going. I understand why it was added, but on the same token: "Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions"
I know the network is vast and you can lose track of things, but some roles within the company demand a bit more.
It's debatable if it actually is plagiarism of course, but a manuscript would need to be revised to acknowledge it (e.g., "A similar idea was presented by...").
To give a bit of context, I work at a large organization with over 10,000 employees.
regarding the item about not having the "be nice" banner show up for high rep users; there are more than a few very high rep users who are total assholes. Not to put too fine a point on it. – Max Vernon Feb 19 '20 at 17:17
@MaxVernon Of course and I can be an asshole myself at times as well. However, it's also something that's condescending to see and gives a bad impression. Also, there's been some research starting to filter out that "nudges" like that don't really have much impact upon people's behavior. – anonymous Feb 19 '20 at 17:23
Why did [they] . . . change things in the first place? is exactly what a lot of us are thinking. SO used to be a pretty self-sustaining community. Even with this post, it still feels like we're at the whim of some overlords. We don't govern the SO/SE community any longer - a "head of community" does. That's really the problem. – Qix - MONICA WAS MISTREATED Feb 19 '20 at 18:36
They also didn't really follow through on initiatives to better manage expectations of askers and improve the asking experience. Maybe they could also explain why they didn't see this as important enough to invest more resources. – Trilarion Feb 19 '20 at 20:29
I would say that plagiarism is a term too strong here and not what really happened afterall. I would say that the July 2019 post is more likely to be some information that was missed by the people who should have read it. This isn't plagiarism, it is just not researching it. And frankly, if I were a data scientist or similar working on SE, I would directly look into extracting numbers from the database, I wouldn't search MSE for something that some random user might had posted about that somewhere. – Victor Stafusa Feb 20 '20 at 5:25
@Qix-MONICAWASMISTREATED I think it comes down to two things: increasing pressure on corporate to monetize (due to VC guys knocking on the door), and increasing social media pressure (before the "incident", there were a lot of twitter threads calling out SE as a toxic place for minorities) – Don Thousand Feb 20 '20 at 14:42
@VictorStafusa Covered that in the plagiarism aspect in the footnote. As for them not searching StackOverflow Meta... what you wrote supports my argument that they aren't paying attention to what's going on. A data scientist focused on assigned tasks might not have the time, but a Community Manager or other person engaging with the community should have come across it. – anonymous Feb 20 '20 at 16:26
Well said. And I'm looking forward to codidact, trying to get involved, maybe we can restore a real community. – TomServo Feb 22 '20 at 1:16
It's odd to read an apology for something that you didn't do
Welcome, Teresa.
I want to personally apologize for our actions or inactions, as the case may be, in the past that had a negative impact on our relationship.
I appreciate that sentiment, particularly if it's heartfelt, but you didn't do any of that. Over the past couple of years, some other folks did. Not random people, but decision makers at SEI (or whatever name corporate Stack operates under).
About a month ago, I joined Stack Overflow as Head of Product and Community.
I wish you nothing but the best as you travel this journey uphill, in a snow storm ... and I hope that you can get some change implemented.
Something I'll ask you to consider about the nature of SE/SO: a substantial amount of value that the SE and SO model built and cultivated was donated (for free) by a wide variety of volunteers. I think a lot of people feel both taken advantage of and taken for granted. Burns like that can leave a mark.
Good will is a hard resources to accumulate; when you do "you'll know it when you see it."
We'll know it when we see it coming from SEI. You'll see it in return.
Here's hoping.
And as they say in Missouri: Show Me!
KorvinStarmastKorvinStarmast
Exactly how I feel. It's clever from SO having her apologize, because we don't want to criticize her because again, she didn't do anything. And, that makes us not capable of criticizing the apology when really, it should be coming from the people who made the mistakes. But whatever, these points have been hashed and rehashed, I'll watch happens to SO now with optimistic skepticism. – Don Thousand Feb 20 '20 at 14:58
Indeed. It's yet another cynical move by SO. It feels like they hired someone just to be the new "fall guy" – Aaron F Feb 21 '20 at 10:32
@AaronF Hmm, not sure. I think the SO position has changed from "damage control" to "repair" and that Teresa has been assigned the repair tasks. (I say this thanks to a few jobs I have had over the years where I walked in to replace the previous person and the assignment was "fix this." ) – KorvinStarmast Feb 21 '20 at 13:29
Many companies underestimate the value their users provide, especially when they are basically working for free, providing content or moderating without any pay. They take for granted the very people that make their company possible. Either they treat their volunteers nicely and with respect, or they'll be forced to start paying people to do what these volunteers used to do. – Scott M. Stolz Feb 21 '20 at 16:12
@ScottM.Stolz I mentioned something similar to that in this answer regarding the non profit that my brother is still a part of. – KorvinStarmast Feb 21 '20 at 16:18
Employees can get disconnected. If 60% of revenue comes from Teams, and 30% from Jobs, then the web community seems to just be a cost sink. In reality, nearly every penny of that income comes as a side-effect of the community's effort in public Q&A, so it's self-destructive to ignore it... but companies show self-destructive behavior all the time. It's like cutting product quality to have more money for advertising. There may be a short gain, but it's followed by a painful collapse. – Ask About Monica Feb 21 '20 at 22:45
She may not have done it, but she jumped onto a sinking ship. So she can go down with it as far as I'm concerned. As I've said elsewhere, I've never before seen such a precipitous fall from greatness as I have here over the past few years, and especially over the past few months. And I killed a HUGE (10000+ users) initiative to use Teams because the ship IS sinking. Unlike the OP here, I don't want to be associated with failure. – TomServo Feb 22 '20 at 1:18
@AskAboutMonica but companies show self-destructive behavior all the time you can ask my dad about his 7000 shares in GE ... yeah ... – KorvinStarmast Feb 23 '20 at 23:35
@TomServo You may be right, but I appreciate any effort to try and patch the leak ... full disclosure, I have had a few jobs where I walked in and the task assigned was "fix this thing ...' – KorvinStarmast Feb 24 '20 at 0:00
@KorvinStarmast As have I; in fact most of my career has been pulling others' bacon out of the fire. But it's hard to see this latest sweet-talking as anything but a whitewash PR stunt and disingenuous at its core. The contempt SO executives seem to have grown for the core of the community is manifestly obvious. This is what happens when non-tech types take over. – TomServo Feb 24 '20 at 0:33
@TomServo I am cynical enough to suspect that you may be right, and hopeful enough to wish otherwise ... – KorvinStarmast Feb 24 '20 at 0:49
@cp.engr a number of non-apology apologies have been issued previously, or differently described, 'official apologies' that rang hollow to a large portion of the engaged users due to actions and words not matching well. As I read through Teresa apologizing for their previous failed attempts at fence mending - that is part of what drove me to write a reply. – KorvinStarmast Feb 25 '20 at 21:13
@KorvinStarmast I was meaning to emphasize the first part of your answer, not contradict it. And maybe I was intending it against some other comment, but I don't recall, and don't have time to reread to find it. – cp.engr Feb 25 '20 at 21:17
@cp.engr no worries. The point you are making is a good one, and a number of the other answers hit it pretty thoroughly. (I was intending to agree with you with my reply comment, sorry if that didn't come across clearly) – KorvinStarmast Feb 26 '20 at 1:40
I appreciate your post but you should not be apologizing; you didn't do any of the things that you apologized for; you weren't even with the company.
I feel I should introduce myself, so you have some sense of my investment in the well-being of the company that pays your salary (indeed my investment here is a contribution to that salary, since without a large body of curated answers that generate views, there's simply nobody to advertise to). I have had a StackOverflow account for a little shy of 10 years. I'm a former mod of a StackExchange site, but I resigned from it late last year after more than 4.5 years as a moderator. Network wide I have answered over 4500 questions, for about a quarter of a million reputation, and overall I have an Impact of somewhere around 16 million people reached. In early January I passed 7 years straight (i.e. 2558 consecutive days in a row, literally every day) on my main site -- but since then I have become disengaged and I no longer come every day.
Please be aware that if there is any hint of ill-feeling in what follows none of it is intended to be directed at you; you had nothing to do with the issues, but I feel strongly about them and occasionally my feelings might show through, even as I try to avoid it.
To be honest I have spent some days debating whether or not to even reply to this; I feel that the company has exhausted the last shreds of my preparedness to extend it any further trust, co-operation or goodwill. I simply don't believe in it any more. I don't believe things will get better. I don't think there will be positive actions. I do think there will be plenty of words and there will be some small actions, but I doubt that any of them will be things that make a difference to me. It will require substantial action to change that.
It's not that I don't believe that you in particular want to make things better (or even that in a vague sense that the company as a whole doesn't wish things to be better). It's that I don't believe that the company will allow you to change any of the things that would make me feel like I would again want to contribute regularly, and most especially, that I could again safely act as a moderator.
We will be creating a Moderator offboarding process, including a survey and interviews with departing Moderators. Our goal is to take the time to listen to and understand why a Moderator has chosen to resign and how we can improve the site, processes and policies.
SO well and truly missed that boat. You don't need interviews to know what the problems are already, between questions and answers here and on the various site-metas there's literally hundreds of mods who were jumping up and down, saying more or less the same things over and over, many well before resigning (myself among them; I put off resigning for a very long time). There's been plenty of feedback.
You have a lot of it there right now - months of it (and to an extent, even years of it) - unaddressed issues from serious long term contributors who wanted things to be better.
You don't need to tell us that you'll act on feedback. You can show us what becomes of feedback, it's there waiting for action. Then you won't need to ask, you'll get regular constructive feedback again from people who want the company to succeed, no problem.
your presence and impact is missed.
The company had the opportunity to show me that - to fix things before I resigned, when it was clear I was thinking about it, and other mods had already done so. I expressed myself in clear terms, along with many others. I waited a good while, there was plenty of time. There were lots of opportunities to show me how much that was true.
Then there was another opportunity to fix things even after I resigned. David Fullerton publicly said they would fix them. I waited and waited. They didn't. Instead they delayed until the only action left was for people to lawyer up to prevent further damage to reputations, and that's what happened.
The company even had the opportunity to keep me as an active user after that. I stuck around answering questions. Things got much, much worse; most of the people in the company that I still had any personal trust in are now gone. Nearly every person I felt had any clue at all what this venture was about (from the standpoint of the people that actually generate the content) isn't here and most of the very few that still are here are doing things where I no longer see them, they're cut off from me.
The company quite deliberately walked away from me. Not once but several times. Apparently it was very important to do that -- to breach our trust repeatedly -- because the company chose to burn a heck of a lot of bridges to get to wherever they were trying to go. Why would a mod who felt they had no path left to begin to trust that the company had their back be keen to stick around afterward?
It doesn't seem to me like the company misses my contributions at all; my community has made their feelings very clear, but the company has ignored me. I appreciate your statement, but something very substantial would need to take place to make a difference to the clear impression that I have been given to the contrary.
We value all of your work to keep your sites clean and communities healthy.
I've heard something along those lines for a couple of years now. It's not that I don't believe you, but I no longer believe the company line on this. I can show you more or less the same sentiment many times.
Serious, subtantial action is needed.
We understand the many reasons why you felt that it was necessary to step down,
I feel like you're being sincere, but you only just got here. If that were true of the company, how could things possibly get to the point that they're in now? How could that be possible?
It's not like something suddenly happened and there was simply no chance to make it right. This wreck took months (or in some cases much longer) of doubling down on things that shouldn't have happened between bouts of promising to fix it.
If that's really going to change, show us.
and that it was a painful decision.
Again I appreciate the intent. However, I really doubt anyone who hasn't been in the position of helping build a community every day for many years could really comprehend the level of pain involved, nor how deep the breaches of trust were that precipitated it.
I've literally been using my (otherwise quite valuable) expertise here, adding value to this company for free, almost every single day, for the best part of a decade, helping to support and build a viable community of answerers, in my corner of it.
We are working on many of the issues that influenced your decisions to leave, and we aim to back these intentions up with actions, accountability, and consistent open communication. If you feel that your issues continue to go unaddressed,
To say things remain "unaddressed" at this point would be a very large understatement.
However, the company has made its position crystal clear on many of the main issues I have. They have outright stated they have no interest in fixing any of the things I am most worried about, and meanwhile they've greatly reduced the opportunities to even be heard.
I invite you to post about them on Meta in a respectful way.
I've posted about the problems I have already, here and on the site meta where I was a mod, for all the good it has done.
You have a chance to show us how effective your invitation is -- by all means go read what I (and many others) posted on this meta, and on the meta of the site I moderated. Much has been said over recent months (and indeed for a good while before on this meta by many people). Act on the issues that have been raised. If you are allowed to do it, you will earn back some of the trust that once existed.
Show us.
When something concrete happens, I'll believe there's finally something to be gained by reporting other things that still seem unaddressed.
And if you choose to apply for moderator reinstatement, we look forward to hearing about this as well and to seeing you back on your sites.
I couldn't consider coming back without substantive changes.
Good processes alone are not sufficient, for what should be obvious reasons, but I'll explain it a little.
Keep in mind, for example, that with the removal of a moderator, there were already processes in place, but they were simply ignored.
I see no reason to think that - whatever processes you put in place, no matter how perfect you make them - that when something unusual happens and a company employee just decides they want to, the proper process won't simply be ignored. Again.
And I expect that the company will again just back any such action to the hilt.
I have explained in detail, in a very lengthy post and in shorter doses since, why I don't feel I can act as a moderator any more. I explained some of the issues in September, and in October, and in posts since, and every single issue I had is either no better now or is actively worse now. I do not feel like anyone in the company was listening; they seem very much to be listening to their own PR, or paying much more attention to outsiders on twitter.
Show us how things are different.
We know the processes aren’t perfect yet and you have shared how you would like us to improve them.
Here's an important one: If a moderator is removed without proper process, it makes no sense for them to be subject to any process to get reinstated. The moment it is recognized that proper process wasn't followed, they should simply be reinstated forthwith, with no "process" whatsoever. You can't correct an error by treating it as if it was a correct action.
I agree with you that the process is flawed --- if we're considering a moderator that was correctly removed by proper procedure. It's utterly inappropriate for one that was not.
Anything less than that position is not justice for someone removed without proper process but rather a shameful travesty, a doubling down on company misconduct.
While things stand as they do, I can't trust that what happened to a moderator before wouldn't happen to me. I can't trust that I won't be removed for questioning the practicality of an aspect of a policy, or having personal difficulties with it that may need to be discussed at length (after all moderators are expected to implement policies, they'd better have some ability to question the details and the practicalities of their implementation).
I don't trust the company any more. I can't trust that procedure won't be tossed aside. I saw how easily it happened, and how the company dealt with that egregious breach of trust. I can't trust that I won't be subject to public smears, and with apparently no consequences whatever for the person who did it. I can't trust that one person's interpretation of what company policy might be won't trump decent, humane treatment of any long term contributor. I don't trust that lawyers won't be pulled in at the first sight of any difficulty, and they will certainly prevent the company from doing what is right, even if the company were remotely inclined to do something decent.
Putting processes in place is not sufficient -- we already had processes. What happens when the process isn't followed -- that's one of the places where you can start to rebuild the trust that was lost.
Go ahead and make that issue point 0 of the policy on reinstatement: "Policy 0. If we fail to properly follow the stated policies on removing a moderator, here is how we will fix our error ...".
And then actually show us better policies in action. Show me I can trust the company to do the right thing by us, by showing me how it acts after it recognizes what it did was wrong. Show me what the company does to fix a breach of trust. So far its every action has made me trust it less.
I've been waiting a long time for positive action.
You sound like you mean it, so I'm willing to suspend disbelief one final time. I really want you to succeed.
Show us what all this actually means.
Glen_bGlen_b
Sheesh, I guess I have to post another bounty. I feel like I want to take a highlighter to this. Key points, for me: 1) how can a contributor feel safe from the company itself after Monica; 2) despite everything, a lot of people still want these sites to succeed; 3) we've been talking about this stuff for years, please stop saying you need new input. – jscs Feb 22 '20 at 19:04
If I could pick one answer for Teresa to address in detail, it'd be this one. Processes are worthless if you don't use them. Regret without remorse is an insult to the injured. Remorse without restitution is only half a solution. – AmaiKotori Feb 24 '20 at 18:46
"with the removal of a moderator, there were already processes in place, but they were simply ignored" - this is a misconception that I keep seeing. There was a process for allowing a team of moderators to remove one of their own, but there was never (until after Monica) a process for how SE employees should handle removing a moderator. Richard/Valorum on SFF in 2015, Masked Man on Workplace in 2018, HopelessN00b on Server Fault in 2015 ... all removed by CMs without any particular "process" being applied. – Rand al'Thor Feb 25 '20 at 17:55
@Randal'Thor A valid point that it wasn't mandatory, but "The process may also be initiated by the Community Team at Stack Exchange, Inc...." Seems they could have used it and chose not to. – AmaiKotori Feb 27 '20 at 15:30
@Randal'Thor The fact that they ignored the process before doesn't mean it didn't exist. The policy says that it can be used by the Community Team, and that is the only such policy. Without any contrary policy, they are restricted to the only one which exists. It's unreasonable that they wouldn't know publicly shaming a mod was bad form, or that punishing someone for discussing the rules that were not yet in place is not a valid reason to fire someone. They clearly acted with malice, as they otherwise wouldn't have done things that everyone knows are wrong. There's no reason to defend them. – trlkly Feb 28 '20 at 13:13
@trlkly Of course they acted badly, but to say "they didn't follow the processes in place" is a false argument because there were no set processes in place for CMs to remove moderators. See: all the previous removals of moderators by CMs, which did not follow that process (no non-employees were consulted before the diamond removals) but also didn't lead to mass resignations across the network. – Rand al'Thor Feb 28 '20 at 13:31
I guess it's a start.
I'm a MSE mod, and unsurprisingly, that means that I've spent a lot more time than is probably healthy here.
I've also heard a few stories I shouldn't have, and it's worth thinking about the effects recent actions have had, both at a personal level for management level staff and as a company. While I believe assigning blame is still counterproductive, it might do well for some folks to accept and understand the very real consequences of their actions.
I'm aware that there's been a significant amount of attrition, both voluntary and involuntary, and it's often the folks most committed to the community, both in terms of employees, and community members. (And many are both, and some community members might aspire to work for a Stack Exchange they knew cared.)
There's also a handful of communities that drifted away. Many of them have chatrooms dedicated to keeping up with goings on here.
Every loss diminishes us. We probably lost a significant amount of expertise, both in terms of knowledge in the domains our sites serve and in terms of folks who know the Stack Exchange network intimately in recent times.
Trust is hard won. But many of these folks still have close enough ties to the network to care.
Winning that trust needs more than words - it needs actions. And in a community that's been told they don't matter, it might need a grand gesture.
We're battered and bruised - I know at least on MSE - the mods have been taking rotating breaks from the site because we've been hit with waves of drama.
There's been a few bright spots. Despite all of the constraints placed on them, the community team, or what's left of it, has still mostly been doing their best. They lost a lot of folks at once - and yet, despite it all, have been soldiering on.
There are lots of communities and a strong, well resourced and motivated CM team has been pretty high on the wishlist for ages.
Yaakov's been awesome (don't let it get to your head 😁). He's been a pretty good conduit both ways and gets meta. We need more folks like that.
Originally, I was going to give a few suggestions on how to make things better.
Trust is earned, not demanded. It's not bought either. So I figure that I'll trust the folks I know I can trust, and hope that they can get the right things through. So... Trust the people who've been working hard to hold the community together and listen to them. They'll have an idea of what to do if they can speak freely and without fear.
Journeyman Geek♦Journeyman Geek
The strategy, initiatives & what I said above was very much initiated and influenced from those you mention above and others. That will not change going forward. We are building an organization internally of both those whose official role is to work on Community and those who have strong Community ties to ensure we holistically understand what we are doing, why we are doing it, and what all the potential impacts will be. I think Yaakov's pretty awesome and all the CMs have been instrumental in understanding the past and deciding how we go forward. Thank you for all your work as a Mod. – Teresa Dietrich♦ Feb 19 '20 at 18:29
I don't think that assigning blame is always entirely counterproductive: while it's unlikley to fix a particular problem, it at least lets us at least help to figure out whom to trust and whom not to. And at this point, taking blame would be very productive I think; we now have our third or fourth high-level executive addressing this problem and no way to tell if the CEO and board actually realize how badly they've failed or are simply attempting yet another patch to their tatterred reputation, repeating as necessary. – cjs Feb 22 '20 at 4:38
And I've talked about it. I have always felt praising in public and reprimanding in private has always been a more compassionate and positive way to do things. I would rather the folks in question understand where they went wrong and make amends than see their heads in a pillory – Journeyman Geek♦ Feb 22 '20 at 5:33
@JourneymanGeek, if the management acknowledged that the last year many actions were mistakes, they need to analyse the failures and clarify who is responsible for them. If the person is unprofessional and doesn’t have abilities for the role, she should not stay on the position that could cause the damage to the company in a future. – Michael Freidgeim Feb 22 '20 at 14:52
And yet in focusing on one person, we kind if forget that while these were painful events we view as stemming from a single cause than a series of systematic failures of an organization. We turn the person, and the blame into a distraction from deeper, more fundamental issues. Even if one person was personally responsible, it's a failure of the organization to see, prevent and resolve those issues – Journeyman Geek♦ Feb 22 '20 at 15:51
Yaakov's been awesome: Since Monica's unjust firing, I've stepped back most of my interaction with SE but I've noticed that in that time, Yaakov has been working away, improving SE with bug fixes and implementing feature requests without making a big song-and-dance about it while the drama raged around him. It's good to highlight some of the positives and give credit where it's due. – Anthony Geoghegan Feb 27 '20 at 19:45
This all sounds super great and you sound like a great person.
The problem is that we've gotten apologies and chipper avowed plans to make things better already and they haven't gone anywhere, leading to a lot of cynicism about additional ones.
I used to be a mod. I am active on Workplace now, and they're doing a mod election, and I refuse to participate because of the repeated contempt SE has shown for the mods (and CMs, and community). I don't participate here on Meta.SE any more, I just saw this pretty much by accident as I clicked through on a night of utter boredom. I'm one of those that has been alienated by SE's actions - to be fair I felt fairly disenfranchised just over years of being a mod and not feeling very supported by SE, but this all made it 100x worse.
Incremental improvement is fine, but I think the only thing that would make me think SE was at all serious and make me consider any kind of non-arm's-length interaction with SE again is an immediate public apology and offer of unconditional reinstatement to Monica. That would be the single thing you could do, which requires practically zero effort really, that would be a real and concrete act that would let me (and, I suspect, many in the community) feel comfortable with engaging with any of this (whether she accepts or not). I am pretty sure whatever legal agreement exists between you absolutely doesn't prevent going further than what it requires.
Otherwise, to be honest, it seems like a thief sitting on top of his previously stolen loot earnestly saying "well I will never steal again!" It omits the obvious responsibility of making the current things right.
It's About The People
Something to maybe be aware of. A community is made up out of people. Not "processes", not "documentation," not "active next steps," but people. What has happened is there's been a concerted attack from SE central on people that this community cares about. In general there's been negative sentiment shown against the moderators and CMs and Meta users and site users, and in particular there have been active negative actions taken against Monica and Shog9 and Robert and others. "We (probably) won't do that again" is not exactly healing. "We have processes now" isn't healing. We don't care about your process, we care about our people. You have plenty of control over how Monica, and Shog9, and Robert, and all the others are treated right now, they all still exist. You can make all kinds of promises and put together various processes but if you can't do the right thing by our people, no one will care.
answered Feb 20 '20 at 3:31
mxyzplkmxyzplk
There's now a legal agreement with Monica, so this might well be impossible. – TRiG Feb 24 '20 at 20:31
It is very unlikely that the agreement prevents them from doing more, for example bypassing reinstatement process and just directly offering reinstatement. As I mentioned in my answer already. – mxyzplk Feb 24 '20 at 23:18
@TRiG As has been stated by the company here in meta, it didn't prevent them offering her the chance to "apply" for reinstatement, but since the process for reinstatement is entirely their own, surely they can choose not to force her to be subject to it? If they revised that process and it said "if you didn't get a proper process in order to be removed, as soon as we recognize it (which they did already), the reinstatement process is automatic, if you still want it" – Glen_b Feb 25 '20 at 9:00
"recognize that you didn't get a proper process (which they did already)" - nope. All that SE published is, in essence "the process has finished, we regret that you don't like the outcome" - nothing else. – Piskvor left the building Mar 3 '20 at 14:54
I want to personally apologize for our actions or inactions, as the case may be, in the past that had a negative impact on our relationship. While specific recent events may have individually caused harm, years of neglect and a growing distance from our community lead to those events and it will take conscious effort to repair the damage.
I appreciate you personally apologizing, but since you only just joined about a month ago, you were not involved or responsible for most of those actions or inactions. What would be much more meaningful is if we got sincere apologies from the various people actually responsible. Note I'm not talking about the now-deleted, almost non-apology, from Sara Chipps in An Update to our Community and an Apology, or even the better, but still fairly inadequate, one from David Fullerton in An apology to our community, and next steps. Instead, a sincere apology includes things like explaining why the mistake occurred, what was learned from it, what steps are being taken to avoid having it happen again, what sort of restitution is planned & being done to those harmed, etc. Most importantly, though, appropriate actions need to be taken to help show that the person actually truly regrets the mistake(s) and is taking concrete steps to address them.
Based on the past, I don't expect this to happen. However, if it did, it would mean a lot to me, and I'm sure others here as well. Also, it would help to repair and improve the relationship between the company and the community.
John OmielanJohn Omielan
Involving the moderators and the community more in the creation of new policies and features is certainly a good and very welcome thing. But how well this can work depends a lot on the details, and how willing SE is to actually change their minds upon that feedback. Based on some of the previous cases where SE asked for feedback from the moderators in the private Team or in TL I'm not yet convinced that SE is willing to fully commit to this.
Asking for feedback is only truly meaningful if the company is willing to make fundamental changes to the proposed policy or feature, if necessary. Many of the more recent cases where SE solicited feedback from moderator or meta didn't feel like this but more like SE presenting a mostly finished decision. The changes SE made due to the feedback were certainly welcome, but they were often rather shallow. For this feedback cycle to work well the big decisions need to be on the table, a possible result of moderator or community feedback should be a total reworking of a feature or policy or even scrapping the plan entirely. If the main result of asking the mods for private feedback is a bit of polishing of the language, that's not good enough.
I'm not asking for SE to let the community or the moderators have a veto for any decision. But SE shouldn't just present stuff to the moderators after the major decisions have been made.
One major issue with these new initiatives to improve community relations is that the company acted in ways that fundamentally contradicted them. The moderator council has been proposed a while ago, and while it's not that easy to make this work well, I thought that the idea had potential as long as SE could restore at least a bit of trust along the way. What actually happened is that SE fired Shog and Robert, and Jon left on his own. You're putting the remaining CMs in an impossible situation there, they have to convince the moderators that the company is acting in good faith for this kind of initiative to work, and the company just stabs them in the back and makes sure to destroy any remaining trust.
The community team is severely understaffed now, if SE is serious about improving community relations that must change. If you do not change this, you're just setting up the remaining CMs for failure, planning new initiatives is meaningless if there is nobody to execute them properly.
Mad ScientistMad Scientist
From my perspective, I've already seen some movement on responsiveness to moderator feedback (on content, not just messaging), even though initiatives like the moderator council are still in the future. Other moderators may disagree, of course. But yes, the changes in the CM team, both in terms of the expertise lost and the stresses on those who remain, do make it hard to understand the direction. – Bryan Krause Feb 19 '20 at 17:13
Given that this is allegedly a community-centric platform/medium/system/etc., I would ask for the community to have veto over certain fundamental things. Otherwise +1. – vicky_molokh Feb 19 '20 at 18:00
While I wasn't here through the past situations, I can speak to how we will do it going forward. Feedback is a tricky thing and unstructured feedback is even harder. When we go for feedback in the future, we provide the context for what we are trying to achieve with the proposed action, change, policy and the nature of the feedback we are looking for: red flags, potential negative impacts, will this help us achieve our goal, etc. One of the most frustrating interactions is providing feedback that isn't taken into account. Setting expectations for how the feedback is used will be key. – Teresa Dietrich♦ Feb 19 '20 at 18:57
@TeresaDietrich "the nature of the feedback we are looking for: red flags, potential negative impacts" -- so are you in a position to ensure that, in the future, SE won't slander anyone else to the press for politely discussing "potential negative impacts" of a proposed change? – LindaJeanne Feb 21 '20 at 0:03
@Teresa Dietrich: Should I take your non-response to my question to be my response? SE slandered someone to the press (!) for asking for clarifications, in a private channel, about an as-yet unimplemented policy (while people who said far worse intentionally trans-phobic things reportedly went un-censured), and never properly apologized for the same. Should we just "move on" without an acknowledgement that (slamming someone in the press for questions asked in good faith on a private channel) was a bridge too far, and an assurance that it won't happen again? – LindaJeanne Mar 5 '20 at 15:52
@LindaJeanne Now seventeen days plus another eight days has passed and no response. This is a worry and shows a distinct lack of transparency. The opaque nature of the processes you describe are the opposite of transparency, indeed somewhat Orwellian! – cousin_pete Mar 12 '20 at 16:02
One small bit of parting advice... You need to ignore the people who think that getting and responding to feedback from a million junior programmers on SO is more important than feedback from hundreds of highly engaged users across the network.
Turning one “promoter” into a “passive user” or “detractor” will affect SE from a business perspective far more than making a large number of only-here-for-the-answers users happy for a little while. Anyone who thinks otherwise is focused on the wrong metrics.
I think that y’all are undervaluing the communities on the smaller non-technical sites. Those communities are something that can’t be bought, and yet they’re treated like second-class users and have to make do with whatever you develop for Stack Overflow because their feedback is buried in surveys designed specifically for the trilogy. If you’re thinking that web traffic/ads is the way to make money and the smaller public Q&A sites are some sort of side effect instead of something intrinsically valuable, y’all need to stop listening to the bean counters.
SE doesn’t have to focus just on programmers to be successful. SE’s core audience should be the life-long learners, the curious, the teachers and collaborators (in the best sense of the word) regardless of the topic. Others will benefit, but those are the people you should be focused on understanding and serving. Those people, when they band together in a healthy community, solve all the problems y’all are trying to solve with policies and micromanaging how long a post can be featured for and such. The public Q&A part of SO needs to get smaller, not larger. It needs to go from a firehose to hundreds of fountains with benches under shade trees that encourage lingering. SE’s interface is inhumane when it attempts to scale up to millions of visitors a day, and no amount of chastising your users to be nicer, rewording the close reasons, or moderator diversity training will fix that.
I suspect though that SE as a company has moved into that phase where the innovation stops because investors are getting tired of waiting for their ROI. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, it’s just sad to see something special paved over.
til it’s gone?
ColleenVColleenV
Second the point on the 'non-technical' sites. Those were generally started by people already heavily involved with StackExchange through the main site. They were normal people with a wide range of other interests, and it was perfectly normal to them to take advantage of the platform to create Q&A sites for their hobbies and interests. Impact those other interests, and their interest in the main site will be dramatically diminished. – Jon Custer Feb 21 '20 at 18:01
As a SU mod - I've pretty literally been excluded from the SO survey cause I'm not a developer. SF's has a few pretty major incidents of drama with many similarities to past events, and kinda hasn't been the same since. We're often in the same boat, even as technical sites. – Journeyman Geek♦ Feb 21 '20 at 18:19
Welcome to meta (and SE in general)! We've briefly had the chance to indirectly talk on comments; after a discussion with Shog9, journeyman geek and a couple of others, I thought I'd ask this question related to the plans of SO/SE.
As I am sure you are aware, a volunteer was fed to the lions/press in the recent past, by name, and to this day, this specter lingers on. I am sure that we can agree, this kind of spotlight, even if it is corrected after the fact, tends to tarnish one's name for a very, very long while.
Shog9 briefly stated a No comment policy on talking to the press; however, I personally deem this to not be clear enough of a statement, and I'm sure I am not the only one to think so. Ever since this, I have stopped helping others completely, because of the fear that, out of the blue, something like this might happen to me. Who did it is irrelevant; after all, everybody makes mistakes. The problem, and the fear I have is that it may still be easy for somebody to do it again.
You've briefly touched on the "safe" and "positive" experience for employees on meta. I would like to ask you if you could consider the "safe" and "positive" experience of the volunteers on this site in and outside of the site as well. As a result, the question I would like to ask you is twofold:
What safeguards were put in place to prevent this kind of feed-somebody-to-the-press event from happening again?
What remediation process is there in the case that it does happen again?
I am sure we can agree that this is important. After all, imagine if this happened to me and a potential employer found the article in the press. This isn't just some small thing - real people could be having real problems due to this, and because it happened once, it's at the back of people's minds and it will be for a while, until there's more than a one-liner about what can and cannot happen. Specifics would be great.
Update from SE: Teresa has posted an official answer to this question, addressing this issue.
Yaakov Ellis♦
Sébastien RenauldSébastien Renauld
Strong agree here. Although I'm aware it is shutting the barn doors too late, this is part of the reason for my current user name. – jscs Feb 20 '20 at 17:51
Having reflected on it, I can't take any of the new promises seriously given that there still seems to have been no accountability or consequences whatsoever for the senior managers* responsible for breaking all the site's longstanding rules, precedents, principles and trust with that public slandering. (* managers plural: Jon Ericson recently blogged that the decision had been discussed and planned by senior management, excluding the CMs, for days before being carried out: it wasn't the heat-of-the-moment mistake by one individual most of us assumed it was) – user56reinstatemonica8 Feb 21 '20 at 0:41
Since I went to look it up, here's the link to Jon's blog post. – Michael Feb 21 '20 at 1:36
And as usual, the uncomfortable replies remain uncommented. Bad sign, especially as it reinforces the usual "nice talk happens, actions continue on previous course." – Piskvor left the building Feb 21 '20 at 13:07
I know that Teresa has seen this and that it is on her backlog of items to respond to. We appreciate your patience. And as she defined above with expectation management and context setting, I dont think that we are going to be avoiding talking about tough issues when they are raised in a constructive fashion. – Yaakov Ellis♦ Feb 21 '20 at 13:52
@Michael-Where'sClayShirky I think you were looking for 2019 in Review (scroll to the Job section.) – Stop harming Monica Feb 21 '20 at 18:41
@Stop Ah, perhaps. Thank you. – Michael Feb 21 '20 at 18:43
@YaakovEllis: Well - was I not correct? (In an interesting turn of events, my previous comment also seems to apply to your reply to it: "sure, we will X, just give it time"...[tumbleweed.gif]) – Piskvor left the building Mar 3 '20 at 10:54
@Piskvorleftthebuilding From the external perspective: you are correct, we have not yet responded publicly to this. From my perspective, being 100% honest: we are in the middle of tons of stuff (two more big MSE posts coming this week). We have a process in place where we are tracking all of the different issues that we want to address. I know that this general issue is on that list. We simply cannot answer every issue in a thorough way at the same time, and do a good job of it. So I am sticking by my first comment here. You can choose to believe what I say or not. – Yaakov Ellis♦ Mar 3 '20 at 11:21
@YaakovEllis: Thank you for the response. I have summarized the visible events - that is not a matter of belief or disbelief. Your new comment does sound reassuring; as I have no insight into the internals, I am looking forward to further development. – Piskvor left the building Mar 3 '20 at 12:14
@SébastienRenauld: I am literally of two minds on this. On one hand, it sounds nice to apparently have a sympathetic (?) source; OTOH, the similarity to Soviet-bloc-dissent modus operandi is too close for comfort. Thanks for the offer, but I choose plausible deniability. – Piskvor left the building Mar 3 '20 at 12:58
@Piskvorleftthebuilding I'm on the same side as you on this; I remain to be convinced, but the possibility to speak with people outside the big machine for a fireside chat isn't a bad thing. Obviously, still words, but it's nice to get an informal heads-up to where things are going. (There's also a few ex-CMs on there, people like shog9, and mods) – Sébastien Renauld Mar 3 '20 at 13:04
@SébastienRenauld: Sorry, I explicitly DO NOT TRUST this specific site, or any of its associates, with anything that happens outside of public view. I do not wish to find myself libelled - note under which answer we are commenting. – Piskvor left the building Mar 3 '20 at 14:10
(Note that even mentioning the possibility that such things may happen (or have happened) might get both of us labelled "not in a constructive fashion" and "toxic". I am confident in multiple languages, Newspeak is not one of them.) – Piskvor left the building Mar 3 '20 at 14:12
Update: Teresa has posted an official answer to this question, addressing this issue. – Yaakov Ellis♦ Jun 16 '20 at 18:48
May I suggest that instead of asking recent moderators to re-apply that you instead extend the olive branch and offer reinstatement?
This will show positive community action, 'own' the apology and remove the need for those people who are hurt/burnt to go through some needless SE corporate bureaucracy... No need to open old wounds through enforcing that process.
Congrats on your new job!
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While I understand the feeling, there's been sites where elections took place. Bringing back mods unilaterally may not always be a good approach. Speaking for myself, I wouldn't think reinstatement without my site community and their actual mods approval for example. – Tensibai Feb 20 '20 at 7:02
@Tensibai that's how it worked until October, though -- any mod who had stepped down and wanted to come back could do so for the asking. At worst, a site ends up with one more mod than it currently "needs", but that apparently wasn't a concern in the past. – Monica Cellio Feb 20 '20 at 15:15
@MonicaCellio I agree, but as things have vastly evolved since last October... I was just pointing out that may create some tensions on some sites, better check with the sites mods if they're comfortable with the idea before offering ? (which doesn't prevent to have a talk with former mods anyway) – Tensibai Feb 20 '20 at 15:20
Have any elections even finished since these changes? I know of a couple that just started. It's not like there's been a ton of backfill. – Monica Cellio Feb 20 '20 at 15:22
@MonicaCellio Well, I had asked to step down in early september, (first) elections on devops.se took place in October IIRC. Maybe I'm just a snowflake, it just sound common sense to me anyway to not enforce a decision on a site community. – Tensibai Feb 20 '20 at 15:26
Well, there are a few mods on a few sites which I'm relieved that they resigned (I won't name, I don't want to make it personal) and I really don't want to see reinstated. Also, I'm sure that I'm not the only one with that opinion. So, I think that some process is surely needed to avoid bringing back a few rotten apples that fell together with a lot of good ones during the storm. – Victor Stafusa Feb 20 '20 at 16:28
I think the reinstatement process is very important. When someone is elected mod, they're most often new to moderating. No one who's voting for them really knows what the result will be. However, once they've stepped down, there's a history that future decisions should take into account, and I believe the reinstatement process is a good way to solve that. I do feel more of the process should be handled by the person's peers (the mods of the site they stepped down from,) but I also have no issue with the CM team having veto power over any decision they make (this is a business after all.) – user400654 Feb 20 '20 at 16:29
@MonicaCellio Despite all of the convoluted steps in the reinstatement process, I am not aware of anyone who has applied for reinstatement who hasn't gotten it. Most of the steps are pretty common sense. – Bryan Krause Feb 20 '20 at 16:39
@BryanKrause Go through the SO Meta Room chat transcript a couple of days or so (I believe it was). There is such a person... It won't be too hard to find as it was one of the few exchanges amid the "New Feeds" one-boxes this past week... – Cindy Meister Feb 21 '20 at 6:03
I think a heartfelt apology, admitting that SO screwed up big time, and automatic reinstatement is key to moving forward successfully. Anything less means that the legal ass-covering still trumps doing the right thing. – David Thielen Feb 21 '20 at 13:06
Anything the corporate honchos do now, even extending the olive branch, would be so tainted as to have no meaning. They have negative credibility and would only "apologize" and "make it right" because they saw no face-saving alternative. That's no improvement at all -- they are simply, at this point, beyond redemption. – TomServo Feb 22 '20 at 1:30
I have been here for a decade, answered a few questions on SO and a few SEs. Not the highest profile user, nor the lowest. I know I am a small cog. I had a downright absurd, abrupt, weird, disconcerting Twitter chat with a SE board member which led me to say I do not know what's going on and I truly don't. I read basically one side of the happenings. And while I grumbled on Twitter I haven't joined the fray on Meta until now.
But I know one thing. I know there is one sentence that is missing and you will not be credible until that sentence isn't missing.
That is "We apologize to Monica."
You (SE Inc) did drag her name through the mud, and didn't apologize to her in public.
We are waiting.
chris neilsen
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I downvoted this because, not because I don't want Monica to be reinstated (if she wants), but because I think this isn't constructive now. They are listening now. Use this chance for incremental improvement over continuous complaints is what I think is most useful now. (So no automatic/suspicious stuff, just that I'm reading fast) – MEE Feb 19 '20 at 22:26
Maybe you read it too fast and missed the word credible or perhaps my post wasn't clear enough, I am a bit old fashioned, I know, let me try the new fashion: Press F for doubt. F F F F F F. – chx Feb 19 '20 at 22:41
(It's "X to doubt" or "Press F to pay respects".) Anyhow, upvoted! The Monica C. question is critically symbolic to anyone who's paid much attention in the past few months. If Teresa can convince Corporate to reinstate her (even if Monica doesn't accept the offer) then there is distinct hope. Otherwise? It's hard to say. – Seldom 'Where's Monica' Needy Feb 19 '20 at 22:48
There has been a (legal) line drawn under this, so don't expect to hear any more from SE Inc on the subject. Endlessly demanding more from SE Inc is pointless. If Teresa wants to take up Monicas' offer, then great, but don't expect to hear about that either. – chris neilsen Feb 19 '20 at 23:08
for some of us that is the problem (MC Situation). They didn't follow their own rules?!?!?! So what are we now to expect them to follow something else...until the decide again to not because <whatever excuse needs to go here>?!?!? It called lack of integrity/trust which is not given but earned. As everyone else has literally stated, actions speak louder than words. This stuff is not rocket science........just common sense. – Sorceri Feb 19 '20 at 23:26
Monica's question is for what we as normal users can know, solved. Maybe not in the way we wanted it, but since there is a legal agreement between Monica and SE and most of it is confidential, we can't really hope for having anything better than that, not even some comment on the issue from Monica herself. Struggling at this as an user is pointless because both parts already have an agreement on the issue and are bound to it. – Victor Stafusa Feb 20 '20 at 5:48
@VictorStafusa Monica has explicitly stated that she is still open to dialogue and waiting for the corporation to take appropriate steps that are outside the scope of the agreement (i.e. not prohibited by the agreement). The situation isn't closed, and nobody should throw Monica under the bus in this huge mess. – vicky_molokh Feb 20 '20 at 9:30
@vicky_molokh Surely, nobody should throw Monica under the bus. However, although Monica can still talk to SE and vice-versa, it appears that neither one can talk anything further about the incident in public due to legal reasons, so there is no point demanding them to do so. If there is still something to be resolved on the issue, it is probably solely to be done by both the parties in private. Then, random users in the internet have no stake on this anymore, so let's move on. – Victor Stafusa Feb 20 '20 at 16:15
@VictorStafusa Odds are high that a genuine dialogue can result in a mutually-agreed-upon revision of the agreement, the result of which we would see. There are also other actions (and statements) that are, as far as we have been told, not prevented by the agreement, nor would be possible to keep secret. So it's not like there's no way forward. It's that the Stack-Corp doesn't want to. So let's never use the word 'solved' as a descriptor of the current situation, because that implies stopping the pressure on the MC front (the bus-throwing I mentioned). – vicky_molokh Feb 20 '20 at 17:31
Welcome to Meta!
We are encouraging employees to be active within the community, both officially on metas and for fun in their areas of expertise or interest, and will be providing simple guidelines and a helpful FAQ for employees in the next week.
I'm really happy to see this. I know a number of us have complained of a lack of employee presence on the sites themselves, which certainly hasn't lessened the community/company disconnect. It lends a humanity to the company which, to be honest, has been missing for a while now. I hope to see employees visiting sites across the network for the fun of it - and I know they'll be quite welcome wherever they show up.
I personally commit to reading and responding within Meta at least once a week going forward
That's very much appreciated; I would have hoped that folks in the company would be doing this anyway, but seeing it said explicitly is nice. That said, I also hope you'll consider looking at various per-site metas from time to time. With 170+ sites, checking in on a given site with any regularity is obviously impossible, but then again, there's usually not much for you to see on, say, HSM. But . . . I think maybe keeping an eye on the per-site metas would provide you with interesting insights, like the meta posts made by departing or striking moderators and other discontented users.
If you feel that your issues continue to go unaddressed, I invite you to post about them on Meta in a respectful way.
This is also good to hear - but I'll echo what others have said, which is that many folks have articulated their feelings already, and I hope that the existing feedback, too, won't remain unheard.
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"I hope that the existing feedback, too, won't remain unheard." ty, +1, whatever. ;^) Lots of manager speak in that OP imo. This missed a great chance to say, "I read [this existing thread Y] and plan to do X about Y to effect Z. Hold me accountable if Z isn't achieved," & to do that for many iterations of XYZ. Instead we get a non-specific apology & lots of [again, pretty non-specific] management speak about goals & initiatives going forward. Learn and address your past directly or you're doomed to repeat it. Aka, "Indistinct word vomit about future rainbows & bunnies isn't progress" – ruffin Feb 19 '20 at 18:24
My name is Teresa Dietrich. About a month ago, I joined Stack Overflow as Head of Product and Community.
Kinda funny. When I heard about you joining SE Inc. in that position, and your past history, my very first idea was "maybe it would be helpful to send you a private, short, polite message on Twitter, just to indicate that there might be point of views you don't hear about from your new peers in SE Inc management". But then I reminded myself that your past history shows that you are the kind of person who figures such things all by yourself.
I am very glad it worked out this way!
Definitely a great start, I just wish this new fresh tune from a new SE Inc. employee ... wouldn't sit in the shadow of the resource actions some weeks back.
That one can't be "over" emphasized. I really invite every SE Inc. employee to go try it. Interacting with "the community" isn't always easy, but when you scroll down to the final paragraph of this answer, you might find the gold standard on how to have a good, constructive time here.
To all of the moderators who have resigned or suspended your activities over the past few months: your presence and impact is missed.
Hear, hear. Of course, it has to be seen if "your" position (about the proposed processes, even improved ones) can ever lead to the step that so many people still hope for: seeing Monica Cellio to be reinstated, without further delay, fuzz, politics.
Finally: this is a really great start. But let's be honest: we have read nice great words here before. At some point, without corresponding actions, great words turn hollow and pathetic.
I very much hope that this won't happen here. Instead, I wish you success in moving your ideas forward. And as long as you do that openly and transparent, without a hidden agenda, rest assured: we will be listening, and contribute. You see, even if we dislike this or that idea, as long as you are honest about the why and what, we will listen.
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I find it hard to imagine they will go out of their way to reinstate Monica, even though all parties are in tacit agreement that she was wronged. Reinstating her would mean having to deal with cognitive dissonance and scrutiny from the media, which SO seems to want to avoid. – Don Thousand Feb 20 '20 at 15:00
@DonThousand The same that was started by bad-mouthing Monica in the press? – Ismael Miguel Feb 20 '20 at 16:38
@IsmaelMiguel True, I'm not defending their actions, but they realized very soon that the media isn't their friend. – Don Thousand Feb 20 '20 at 16:38
They have probably thought that the legal resolution meant that the issue with Monica was resolved. It wasn't, obviously, because the community is not composed of lawyers, but of human beings. Rather, the legal arrangement simply closed off even more avenues to actually fix the problem. Trust can only be regained slowly over time, and only if SE demonstrates that they are no longer the same company that made those ridiculous and unprofessional decisions. I hope Teresa is evidence of a commitment to a new direction, and not just a distraction or sacrificial lamb. – Ask About Monica Feb 21 '20 at 22:25
Welcome. While this might seem to be beating a dead horse, I don’t think you will be able to regain the trust of the community without first repairing the most famous instance of betraying that trust: removing Monica’s diamond. I don’t want to appear insensitive, but I can’t imagine what damage (to an individual, to an agenda, or to the organization) that SE thinks would occur that would be so great as to outweigh regaining community trust, if that trust or the community was valued.
The only conclusion I can come to that makes any sense, is that neither the trust nor the community itself is seen as valuable.
PS: it’s good to see something that doesn’t look it was written by lawyers trying to avoid admitting that something negative might have happened, somewhere, sometime, to someone.
PPS: If the above is a failure of my imagination, then please clearly state what SE believes would happen that is so terrible if Monica’s status were restored.
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I don't think she has the power to do anything in the regard. There are too many people with reputations on the line at SO, and too many lawyers involved. – Don Thousand Feb 20 '20 at 15:05
I think that due to the legal agreement, neither part can meaningfully tell or act on anything further about the incident with regards to the other part. So, it is very likely beating a dead horse. – Victor Stafusa Feb 20 '20 at 16:36
@DonThousand: the “you will” was referring to corporation, not the poster. The corporation has the power, we will see if it has the desire. – jmoreno Feb 20 '20 at 21:08
@VictorStafusa: given that the offer to request reinstatement was not withdrawn, I do not believe they cannot legally act. They chose, and continue to choose, not to. I will admit that it is possibly they have real concerns and are prevented by the settlement agreement from stating their concerns, but if so, that makes the offer of considering a request to reinstate a lie to the community. Because if they legitimately have such concerns they are going to deny any such request. – jmoreno Feb 20 '20 at 21:23
neither the trust nor the community itself is seen as valuable It's not hard to see why. The meta community is tiny. Out of everyone using SO, only an abysmally low percent of people actually know about the controversy and drama happening. As long as there is new flesh asking and answering questions, they will have traffic on their site. There's no reason for them to care about these issues at all. Which is why they're virtue signaling by hiring a new person to "fix things" (who in truth has no actual power and was only hired to placate people for a while longer). – Legxis Feb 21 '20 at 10:55
@Legxis: which would make this post a lie told to the community. And I think think collectively the posters to just this thread probably represent a few million points of rep. That’s a lot of people helped. – jmoreno Feb 22 '20 at 11:03
I'm an ex-mod who resigned early in the "fracas". I want to reiterate that I had multiple reasons for resigning, primary among them was the loss of trust I have in Stack Exchange the company. In short, I had "always assumed" that my duties as a moderator put me in a vulnerable position with the community - dealing with the occasional volatile or disruptive user, and having to make tough calls where you cannot make everyone happy inevitably leads to high emotions, and upset users. In short, we put ourselves on the line (for no pay) to do the job as a moderator, and the expectation is there that when things are tough, that the company, its community managers, and other moderators would help, support, and defend, as necessary.
That last one, defend is critical. When shit happens, I expect that Stack Exchange will defend the moderators it puts in that vulnerable position. Obviously... within reason - but a moderator behaving reasonably should be held in the protection of the organization.
A lot of things happened when Monica was "fired", but what struck me most, is that Monica needed protection FROM Stack Exchange. Stack Exchange BECAME the threat.
Your note about reaching out to previous moderators is encouraging me to write this, since your post appears to be sincere (thanks for that, it's appreciated).
So, for me, to consider returning as a moderator I think there are 3 things that need to happen:
marked shift in the tone of interaction between Stack Exchange and the moderators - no idea of how this happens - SE sort of screwed things up royally and it's kind of hard to fix. I don't even think forgiveness is happening in the (ex) moderator community yet, and certainly not close to forgetting.... Trust is an elusive thing, so hard to get, and so easy to lose.... and almost impossible to restore once gone. I can't help but compare it to trying to trust a dog that bit you before.
time - it will take a while before the actions that Stack Exchange takes can set a new trend that can be "trusted" to be improving, to the point where re-establishing such a relationship is realistic.
a formal agreement, including legal protections for both the moderator, and SE in the event of disagreement, etc. The "Moderator agreement" is no longer sufficient for me to consider "reapplying" for a moderator position. It's a 1-way "contract" and does not specify limits on behaviour, procedures, obligations, or expectations in the event of issues.
So, I hope that gives you a sense of what at least one ex moderator would consider a viable path forward for Stack Exchange ... should you want me to consider returning.
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A dog's biting you is so serious and nigh-unforgivable that sfaik in civilised society you'd usually euthanize the dog or give it a better owner. Of course puppies might bite too, not exactly the same case. – ChrisW Feb 21 '20 at 15:00
Speaking of "defending" mods, we should not forget the ca-Twit-strophe of bus-throwing from a year prior to Monicagate (chronicled by Monica here: medium.com/@cellio/…). – jscs Feb 21 '20 at 16:46
Thank you for writing this, and welcome to Meta.
From Our Theory of Moderation, Revisited,
Someone wise once said that if you write it down, you’re less likely to forget. And um… that seems pretty clearly correct. So, to all 600+ of the people that make our sites work every single day – thanks for everything you’ve taught us, and for everything you do every day.
You've written "it" down twice now. Let's try not to forget a second time.
I am also glad to finally see a response to the open letter created back in October. You seem to have addressed most of the issues brought forward to the best of your ability... But as many other answers are mentioning: Actions speak far louder than words.
I have one other concern. It has to do with the recent release of Community Managers, as well as Jon's departure.
What are your plans for structuring the community management team? We've obviously built a strong bond with the recently released Community Managers. What are your plans for rebuilding that bond in your future community management team? Are you going to hire more CM's? Is there some other solution you have planned?
I wish you all the best in your new role as Head of Product and Community, Teresa. I hope you enjoy your visits to meta, even as I and many others look forward to your words being put into action.
SpevacusSpevacus
As a moderator, part of the harm I have felt is learning that our community management team has been significantly depowered, their role apparently made into one of corralling users rather than as community ambassadors. The moderators and community rely on the CMs to get things done. We need them to be empowered to do what they're good at. We need this ratcheting situation—and the ideas that have lead to it—to be recognised as self-destructive and dispelled. – doppelgreener Feb 19 '20 at 17:13
All of the current internal Community folks are now part of my organization. We are currently working through defining the framework for the work they do: tactical, operational and strategic and how they have impact. Through defining this and the Community Roadmap initiatives we will have a better sense of how many people we need to be successful and what skillsets/background they should have. We will also have the information to justify more people if needed. So my best answer is we are figuring it out together as a team. – Teresa Dietrich♦ Feb 19 '20 at 18:39
@TeresaDietrich Thanks so much for the reply, it seriously means a lot. Best of luck to you and your team moving forward. – Spevacus Feb 19 '20 at 18:45
@TeresaDietrich The justification is already clear. For example, the dozens of sites that need new elections but can't have them because only one current CM knows how to run them fully. How soon until we see job postings for new CMs? – curiousdannii Feb 19 '20 at 21:51
@TeresaDietrich you say you're at SE since about a month ago - which roughly coincides with the timing of two very important CMs being let go. Was that already part of your actions as head of the community team? Or were you hired after the fact? – l4mpi Feb 20 '20 at 10:11
@TeresaDietrich: Over the last few years the CM team has been whittled down from 14 to 6. As the team got smaller, we were asked to justify the work we were doing. It seems to me that we had already hit the limits of that strategy before Robert and Shog were let go. I'd encourage you to consider the size of community management teams on networks of similar size to Stack Exchange/Overflow. Even given the amazing work volunteer moderators do for the sites, I can't see how the current CM team isn't understaffed by an order of magnitude or more. – Jon Ericson Feb 20 '20 at 17:40
It's also worth considering that that's a direct, tangible and fairly immediate investment that could be made in the community. The CM team we have now, taking into account Jeff being terribly hands on, is roughly the size the team was in its infancy. I'd also say that to a significant extent, one of my reservations with devolution of decision making to mods - say through the mod council is that it could be used to freeze or shrink the CM team. That the team is overworked and stretched thinner and thinner is a significant concern of many in the moderator community. – Journeyman Geek♦ Feb 21 '20 at 0:20
@TeresaDietrich Perhaps rather than reaching out to the people who are left, you should reach out to the people who have left to see what they think. As Jon pointed out above, there were 14 of us a few years back and that's been whittled down. Rather than just trying to figure out what the "tactical, operational, and strategic" value of the remaining CMs is, why not also take a look at what changed to get to the point where the organization doesn't understand the role CMs play in the relationship with the community? – jmac Feb 21 '20 at 1:09
Thanks for taking the time to provide a response, Teresa.
I'm going to be honest here. The last time we went down this road, with the CEO communicating with us, I felt like there was something at least positive.
Then, it felt like the Meta community was blindsided in a horrible way. Any standing equity I felt like I had evaporated overnight.
To say that I'm bitter about how things turned out might be is an understatement. I truly feel like I've tried and tried and tried and tried again to feel like I could engage with the company on a number of issues that have hit Meta...all to just ultimately acquiesce on the current state of things and just let the chips fall where they may.
It's gotten to the point where I truly feel that the credit and good will of Stack leadership is so far in the red, that even this statement - which, and I do want to stress that I believe it to be earnest and in good faith - can't really convince me that y'all are serious about committing to Meta.
In its current state, I can't give you the loan that you're asking for. You're asking me to trust the company, and I don't believe that I can do that without getting let down betrayed burned again. I've been beaten and battered for far too long now, and I'm just tired of all of this.
I'm over the talk.
But I suppose I'm crazy, and I'm willing to give y'all one more chance. I believe that if you guys took one deliberate and explicit action right now, I could give you the loan you're seeking. This would prove that you're really committed to us, our community and you're not just trying to establish whole profits on our labor of love.
The "new" homepage - the unauthenticated experience that users get when they first come to Stack Overflow - is truly jarring. It turns our site from a place about Q&A into a marketing tool. There's plenty of feedback to chew through here, so I won't rehash it.
I feel like if you guys take action and pull that out of production for a little while - at least until the community and the company can reach a reasonable middle ground on what the actual goal is with unauthenticated users - then I can truly believe that you're willing to re-engage.
If that's too much, then at least find a better example of Stack Overflow "Supporting open source". Enough open-source projects like Spring leverage Stack Overflow as a common place for Q&A; surely the company can draw from better, less controversial examples.
Take one of these actions (or both), and sure, I'll back the loan of faith you're looking for in all of this.
MakotoMakoto
That landing page is horrible, something only a disconnected marketing manager could love. Removing it would benefit company and user alike. It would be a good test to see whether SE could actually do a simple, obvious, mutually beneficial change. So many of their recent mistakes had no-brainer solutions that they just refused to do, out of misplaced pride or just misunderstanding the circumstances and consequences. – Ask About Monica Feb 21 '20 at 21:32
That's a question of corporate culture, and is probably driven top-down by the CEO and executive staff. Do they double-down on mistakes, refusing to change course and admit error, or are they flexible enough to correct problems before they escalate? That's why I don't hold specific individuals at SE fully to blame... they were probably acting as they were expected to act. It's tough for an organization to change course, so I wish Teresa all the best. It will require determination. – Ask About Monica Feb 21 '20 at 21:41
Some thoughts on initiatives:
The initial run wasn't exactly well received and generated lots of questions on its purpose and intent
Again, the "Here's our glorious Edict" left a sour taste: Review Feedback post
This one feels more business and legalese. Ironically, the post privacy-policy-updates-feb-2020 which has a couple of discussion points has only 1 form of communication which effectively kicks the can down the road to "the near future". If you're just going to tell us and ignore questions for clarification then post it as a blog.
I want to stress that "before being shared and put into place" feels like one of the problems we've been talking about. It's fine if moderators are involved in a sort of alpha stage approach, but not opening up to meta/community for additional feedback before you "share AND put into place" is one of those pain points, we can't feel heard if you just keep making announcements.
We are defining our commitment to responding to Meta posts & Moderators questions through our new standard process and will be sharing that with a group of Moderators for feedback. We will share it with you all within the next two weeks.
I find it a bit off that "responding to the community and mods" requires a standards process
We have drafted our followup and clarification on the Content Licensing issue and will be publishing that within the next two weeks.
Good, I know this is a sore spot
We will be creating a Moderator offboarding process, including a survey and interviews with departing Moderators. Our goal is to take the time to listen to and understand why a Moderator has chosen to resign and how we can improve the site, processes and policies. We will send this survey to the recently-resigned moderators so that their suggestions can be considered.
I'm not sure why you need to send them a survey, almost all of them left feedback in a "why I'm resigning" post. Listening more would have prevented the need for all that offboarding in the first place.
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"I find it a bit off that "responding to the community and mods" requires a standards [sic] process" - I believe the idea is that, before now (at least in the recent-ish past), their responses to and participation in meta and other feedback channels has been inconsistent at best... And thus, "standardizing" the process effectively means "figuring out a process that ensures we [SE Inc.] are regularly reading and responding to Meta posts and moderators' questions". That's just my interpretation, though. – V2Blast Feb 19 '20 at 21:40
Also: "I'm not sure why you need to send them a survey, almost all of them left feedback in a "why I'm resigning" post." - I think many mods that have resigned, whether recently or further back, do not fully share their thoughts publicly when they resign, either for personal reasons or to avoid drama (or some other reason) - and also because some of that may relate to things that occurred in private channels (e.g. the TL and the Stack Mods team). SE reaching out privately to them for feedback is important too. This also applies going forward, not just to mods who resigned in the past. – V2Blast Feb 19 '20 at 21:42
(Of course, words may differ from actions, but I'm just clarifying what I think Teresa is trying to say. It remains to be seen whether SE Inc. will follow through. Sorry for the multiple comment notifications :P ) – V2Blast Feb 19 '20 at 21:44
@V2Blast I can understand the use of the survey for future events on moderation resignation, but there is a bit to be gleaned from the various metas where that information is posted as well, I think your interpretation is probably correct on feedback standards BUT much like moving from "be nice" to complicated documents, "just answer questions on meta" needs several reams of paper now – Culyx Feb 19 '20 at 21:46
I of course hope they follow through, and no worries =D – Culyx Feb 19 '20 at 21:47
@V2Blast You are on point. It is a commitment to how much we will respond and how regularly with some details on how we will ensure we meet our commitments. – Teresa Dietrich♦ Feb 20 '20 at 0:11
@TeresaDietrich that's good to know, thanks for communicating that with us! – Culyx Feb 20 '20 at 15:50
I'm a user who tends to find things that already exist here. I'm not active on meta, and I hardly ever ask questions and answers. There are many users (many of them who are active on meta) who can provide answers much better than I can.
That said, I've been watching and waiting since November or so, to see how SE handles what has been occurring. I haven't been vocal, I haven't made my opinion known until now. I suspect my opinion may reflect other users who haven't spoken up, so I'm going to tell you.
For the past few months, I've been ashamed of SE. I have some SO/SE related stuff (t-shirts, water bottle, etc.) that I've been actively not using in public because of how this has gone, and I can't support a company who would treat its volunteers, and employees the way it has. It's wrong, it needs to change, and wrongs committed by SE need to be properly righted.
Teresa, I truly wish you the best of luck fixing things that are broken, but that requires SE to stop trying to sweep problems under the rug. Stop pretending that your core community (of which I'm definitely NOT a part of), here on meta doesn't matter. They matter more than most other users who use this site in my opinion. To be fair to you, this very post looks like a step in the right direction. Whether there will be real action behind these words remains to be seen.
As things stand, unless you do something drastic, I'm awaiting an alternative, non-corporate site to be developed. I suspect there are others who haven't been speaking up who feel the same way. I'm tired of reading from certain SE employees about how it's just a small vocal minority who disagrees with SE. That attitude will ruin the company, and employees who publicly express those opinions need to be kept in check. It almost seems like it's the opposite problem: there's a small vocal minority of SE employees who disagree/dislike the community.
This was harsh, and I'm sorry for that, but I assure you that I only spoke up now because I feel you may actually be sincere, and I felt that I needed to emphasize how dire this situation is. If it was some other unnamed individuals posting this, I wouldn't have bothered to respond.
This post is definitely critical of SE, but it is also an appeal to SE to fix things, so I hope it's taken in that spirit.
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I think there a lot of people that have been silently observing from the sidelines and feel the same. I use and contribute sparingly, but I absolutely value what SE is/used to be - I have voted on meta posts, but haven't voiced my opinions because I'm not active enough to feel they are justified over members who have years invested and actually moderate/clean/etc. Still, until things are mended, I don't care to invest time in it. – OnStrike Feb 24 '20 at 17:21
@OnStrike I figured the meta/high rep users would be enough to make SE think twice about what they've been doing as well, but I keep seeing indications that SE is trying to label them as a "small minority", so I figured I would lend them my voice too, in an effort to show it's not just the "small minority" meta users who have a problem with what they've been doing. We'll see if it helps. – Chris Feb 24 '20 at 17:32
@OnStrike I feel the same way. I don't usually comment or contribute to meta, but I'm following, almost daily. And I assume there are many like me doing the same thing. I don't have anything new to say, so I use my upvote to show I agree. I used to think that my upvote (or downvote) counted, but now I'm not so sure. – Winks Feb 24 '20 at 17:54
"I have some SO/SE related stuff (t-shirts, water bottle, etc.) that I've been actively not using in public because of how this has gone" ... yeah I used to wear my t-shirt with pride, and feel cool when someone recognized it. Since around the start of october I can't bear to wear it any more. It makes me sad to even look at it. – Glen_b Feb 25 '20 at 8:39
I used to be a big supporter of SE, recommended various site to lots of people, had some merchandise I used regularly etc. Now it’s all very much the opposite. The free advertising is no more and if anyone brings up SE I caution them about what has happened. – Notts90 supports Monica Feb 25 '20 at 10:01
We will also provide as much context as we can for policy, decisions, and actions that we take within legal and regulatory constraints - we want you to understand why we’re making changes, not just that we’re making them.
In the spirit of this desire, I have a question.
When I read this, it appears to me that there's a fundamental misunderstanding underlying the desire to increase engagement. So why is this a goal?
The ideal use case for Stack Overflow is that I have a problem, I search for relevant questions, and I quickly arrive at an existing answer that provides the missing information I needed. When I'm trying to solve a problem on the clock, I don't want to spend an hour writing a good question. I don't want to spend three hours hunting down the information and posting an answer about it. I want the information to already be there in an easy to digest format.
While we addicts... I mean, more active participants take pleasure in adding to the knowledge base, most people aren't willing to spend a lot of time on doing that. (Hence the quality problems we observe on a daily basis.) They're here to get an answer, not create answers for other people to consume. They'll be much happier if they can get their answer and be on their merry way with as little effort as possible, and reading an answer is a whole lot less effort than writing an entire question, waiting for someone to answer, and then evaluating whether that answer is correct and applicable. If SO is succeeding at its core mission, then we should expect to see this sort of engagement to decrease rather than increase.
So why do you want to increase their engagement?
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"reading an answer is a whole lot less effort than writing an entire question" Maybe searching for the answer first is the point where they fail. The people who have a problem with their code may have only little understanding of their problem and then also may not be able to find existing answers. Maybe using SO as help desk is the easiest option for them. It may come down to SO is not a good fit for absolute beginners. – Trilarion Feb 20 '20 at 8:32
@Trilarion I tend to think so, but I think it's worth being open to being convinced that we're wrong. However, it seems like that is not a problem SO is interested in collecting data on and studying. They have latched onto this idea of increasing engagement, which appears to me to be presupposing a solution before understanding the problem. Since explaining the "why" is now stated as a priority, I'd like an explanation of how they arrived at that solution. – jpmc26 Feb 20 '20 at 8:35
engagement = ad-revenue (not saying that as if it's a bad thing - companies want to make money) – NKCampbell Feb 20 '20 at 21:48
@NKCampbell I would have thought views = ad-revenue. Why do people have to add content to the site for that? – jpmc26 Feb 20 '20 at 21:49
sure - but also creating new content means longer time spent on pages (ads recycle) which also drives new views from others – NKCampbell Feb 20 '20 at 21:52
I'm with jpmc on this one @teresa-dietrich in that it doesn't make sense what your team deems as engagement. – jcolebrand Feb 21 '20 at 21:15
@NKCampbell That's one hypothesis. Another hypothesis is that large quantities of lower quality and less useful content mean that the content people are looking for is more difficult to locate, which means lower Google rankings and thus less traffic, particularly less traffic from the people needing information. That would also imply that increased engagement would not last over time. That is the hypothesis SO was built upon. So the question becomes why did they adopt a different one as a guiding principle? – jpmc26 Feb 21 '20 at 22:20
Thanks so much for posting this. I appreciate the sentiment that you say that you are listening. For most of us, this is something we have yet to see from SE, but I'm hopeful to hear you saying this at the very least. Let's keep this conversation going.
Thank you for apologizing. For the past few months, it felt like SE believed they had done nothing wrong or that they were not accountable to the community. This statement is the beginning of an apology -- for the first time in a while, it almost sounds like SE is acknowledging that they have made mistakes recently. I respect and appreciate that.
However, we need a more specific apology to understand what this site will look like going forward. What specific actions or inactions are you apologizing for? The treatment of Monica, the unexplained removal of community managers, and the boilerplate responses thus far, etc., have each wounded the community. The community sees each of these instances as mistakes by SE that demonstrated directly that Stack Exchange was not interested in listening to us. Each issue requires specific and clear language for us to know if we can trust SE to not repeat these actions again. For instance, in the removal and subsequent treatment of Monica, SE did not follow their stated process, modified the process without explanation or clarification, and directly harmed her through other actions. How can we be sure that SE will not behave like that again?
If SE does not see these instances as mistakes and will not apologize for them -- if SE will handle these kinds of situations in the same (or similar) ways if they were to happen again -- it's better for everyone if you could just tell us that now. The community needs to know this before we can move on. If we don't get more specific language regarding these lingering issues, the issues will remain in the back of everyone's mind, continuing to erode away our trust.
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Others have voiced my sentiments regarding "actions speak louder than words" so I wanted to address another angle.
I firmly believe that the first step to reconciliation is transparency. Being honest regarding why things transpired the way they did and what steps you've taken to ensure they don't happen again will give the community a better idea of what they are dealing with.
The past six months have revealed through the cracks and leaks that the company - or, rather, certain folks within it - was actively stifling their CM team and preventing them from doing their jobs.
From the firing of mods to the firing of CMs - who by the way, painted a rather grim picture of recent life in their roles at SE.
So, my questions are as such:
Can we get some transparency into the claims that the CMs had their hands tied?
Can we get some transparency into why the company was being so dismissive of the community?
No canned responses saying "we're sorry, we're trying to do better" or "meta isn't scaling" or whatever the new spiel is, we just want the truth. I just don't think we can just shrug the events of the past 6 months off without any real answers.
Finally, some food for thought, if you want to the company and community relationship to improve then address the concerns of the community - a good starting point would be the overflowing feature-request tag - and treat them as the avid contributors they are.
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Those are good words; but I'll be happy for you to show me the money as it were. StackExchange needs to follow through.
I gather that management is realizing now that you can't just chase business priorities and leave your volunteer force behind. I expect management to do the absolute least possible to change their ways, while still hoping to win back our faith. That's my expectation; feel free to exceed it.
I would say SE needs to renegotiate with Monica so SE can say it was wrong without worrying about getting sued for that. And then do just that. This is social media. You don't get to play the media game like Standard Oil or US Steel. Whatever that "Moderator reinstatement policy" silliness was, it needs to be round-filed; any policy invented in the heat of controversy is done for all the wrong reasons. Moderator reinstatement should actually be an one-sided edict to the effect that Mod X's firing was reviewed and exonerated. I wouldn't even bother having an administrative reinstatement process; just declare that Mod X is welcome to run and win the next mod election.
It's not such a simple thing with employees; I don't know what to tell you about Robert and Shog9. I think the only answer there is for personnel rearrangement (i.e. other firings) to prove SE sincerely wants to return to the original, successful/profitable values. Then you could try to re-recruit those employees.
Honestly I always thought the paradigm shift driving all this pronoun/Monica/Shog9/Robert thing was the company being groomed for acquisition, and highly paid consultants telling SE that they had to change stuff to get top dollar from an acquirer like Ziff-Davis or Oath. Sillier things have happened...
Had this been said in 2019, it would have been at least plausible. February 2020, after all that? I do not believe a single letter of this: the talk is nice, but I just can't hear it over the noise of the actions.
In other words, I would REALLY like to believe this. But you know, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Such about-turn is ridiculously improbable.
Piskvor over and out.
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In other words: either it's a miracle, or it's an aberration that will be shortly corrected, or it's a trap. I'm with brother Ockham on this. – Piskvor left the building Feb 19 '20 at 20:59
(miracle: "we have actually changed and there won't be yet another January 2020"; aberration: "oh wait, that wasn't supposed to happen, retract and erase evidence"; trap: "sow uncertainty and false hope to keep the $ flowing") – Piskvor left the building Feb 19 '20 at 21:12
I don't know. Looks to me like SOI made a major investment in restructuring their organizational tree. You don't do that for s****s and giggles. – Scott Seidman Feb 19 '20 at 21:46
"Such about-turn is ridiculously improbable." - I mean, it seems pretty likely to me, at least in the sense that SE Inc. finally recognizes that when you're digging yourself into a hole, the first step is to stop digging. It remains to be seen how effective that about-turn is, given that SE Inc. has often taken 1 step forward and then 2 steps back lately - they've basically shot themselves in the foot repeatedly. But it totally seems likely to me that they are trying to right their wrongs. I do understand your skepticism, though; actions speak louder than words... – V2Blast Feb 19 '20 at 21:51
Indeed. You do that to keep the $ flowing. For example, if an IPO were upcoming, you definitely would not want your users fleeing the site...so you would say something to placate them. That would work...unless your actions were, for a very long time, the exact opposite. That's not to mention that this doesn't mention the Apparently Unmentionable Incident which catalyzed last year's descent to madness. – Piskvor left the building Feb 19 '20 at 21:56
@V2Blast: As I wrote, I would love that to be the case. Alas, I've lived for too long to believe it: when someone comes with promises "but I have completely changed, and that's the abrupt end of my previous actions, not a single drop anymore," rarely is that actually fulfilled, it's usually because they need something from you, and lapse back shortly after. Hope dies last, of course. – Piskvor left the building Feb 19 '20 at 22:02
Ah, okay. I suppose the terseness of your answer led to my misunderstanding what you were saying (i.e. what you don't "believe" about the post). To me, it read as if saying "I don't believe you're really trying to improve things" (i.e. you don't believe they're even taking these initiatives), since you said you "do not believe a single letter of this"... Rather than what you apparently meant, which is simply that you don't believe SE Inc. will maintain this sense of communicativeness/transparency/etc. for long. That's understandable, but I'd suggest editing your answer to elaborate a bit. – V2Blast Feb 19 '20 at 22:09
Edited...is it clearer now? (I am on a phone in a browser here, hence the short answer; tbh didn't even expect to be logged in anywhere, anymore) – Piskvor left the building Feb 19 '20 at 22:16
I agree with the sentiment in this answer. Basically there is still the fundamental incongruity of community and company goals. Users are not in it for the company, the company is not in it for the users. This needs to be solved and the way forward is that each side tells the other honestly what it needs and then see if there is room for compromise. Not announcements but answers. – Trilarion Feb 19 '20 at 22:34
Whatever this thing is that's up-and-coming, losing the 2k users that DVed the two previous 'apologies' is likely a boon to SE's intentions. – Mazura Feb 20 '20 at 2:39
@Mazura: Good for StackExpertsExchange then, whatever they wish to do. – Piskvor left the building Feb 20 '20 at 8:23
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Also, there’s still a lot of Perry hair…and now they’re mixing it with a lot of Perry skin, Garth-like hands-free mics and so much yellow that even Cam would be jealous.
Sigh, it seems hard to believe that just a few years ago, the siblings were lamenting “If I Die Young,” and now they’re proclaiming “Live Forever.”
They’re confused, we’re confused… Let us know what you think of “Live Forever” below.
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And so it begins. Technically, it started with Rick Perry and his money problems, but now seeing Scott Walker bow out of the presidential race it’s becoming real – there are consequences to what do you, what you say, and how much money you rake in (obvious exception is Donald Trump: see below).
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Cruz and Rubio are playing it smart. A mix of message and passion for each has suited them very well. The other candidates (Trump again excluded) have not been able to muster up that same kind of energy among their supporters. If I were a betting man, I’d wager that Bobby Jindal is the only governor left in the race that could make the same play and get support, and my guess would be that he’s playing the long game by keeping costs low and putting his message out there in any way he can. His social media game has been, as the kids say, on point lately.
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As hurricanes go, Sally was not especially powerful. Rated a Category 2 storm when it struck the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, it was soon downgraded. But climate change likely made it more dangerous by slowing it down and feeding it more moisture, setting it up to pummel the region with wind and catastrophic rainfall.
Sally was crawling at about 3 miles per hour when its eye made landfall early Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Ala., and was “inching its way inland” later in the day, the National Hurricane Center said. The slow movement, or stalling, of the storm led to staggering rain totals, with more than two feet in some areas by midmorning Wednesday and widespread flooding.
“When a storm moves slower, it lingers longer over the same location,” said Kimberly Wood, a geoscientist at Mississippi State University. “A rain rate of, say, an inch an hour — that’s not so bad if the rain only lasts 30 minutes. But if it lasts for half a day, that adds up quickly.”
Sally was not an isolated example of a stalling hurricane. “There is increasing evidence that storms are slowing down,” Dr. Wood said.
That evidence comes in part from a 2018 study that showed that hurricanes near the Gulf and Atlantic coasts were increasingly likely to stall. The study also found a clear signal of more local rainfall, said one of the authors, James P. Kossin, a researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “And it was associated with increasing frequency of stalled systems,” he said.
Climate change has also led to wetter storms, Dr. Wood said, because warmer air holds more moisture. Between the slowing speeds and increasing moisture, with storms like Sally “there’s a combination effect,” she said.
Researchers increasingly see a link between stalling of hurricanes and climate change. Rapid warming in the Arctic has reduced the difference in temperature between that region and the tropics, leading to a weakening and slowing of the jet stream and related winds that drive hurricanes’ forward movement.
Hurricanes also sometimes meander, Dr. Kossin said. Hurricane Harvey, which inundated Houston in 2017, moved back and forth over the area, increasing the deluge. Sally was heading due west, parallel to the coast, on Monday when it made a sudden right-angle turn to the north early Tuesday.
Such movements may also be linked to slowing atmospheric circulation, Dr. Kossin said. “You won’t really get meandering until you get a slow storm,” he said. “They don’t go zipping around like go-karts.”
While Sally’s winds were not as intense as the strongest hurricanes — maximum sustained speeds early Wednesday were about 105 miles an hour, about 50 percent slower than a Category 5 storm — by lingering for longer, the storm may also have boosted storm surge, the wind-driven buildup of water that can quickly flood coastal areas, often with devastating results.
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oldtimemusic » Classical music » John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra - Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra - Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack mp3 album
John Williams Soundtrack US
Performer: John Williams
Title: Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Format: XM AAC MP4 DTS MMF MP1 MIDI
The score from The Empire Strikes Back, composed by John Williams, was recorded in eighteen sessions at Anvil Studios over three days in December 1979 and a further six days in January 1980 with Williams conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. Between Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, Williams had also worked with the London Symphony Orchestra for the scores to the films The Fury, Superman and Dracula. The score earned another Academy Award nomination for Williams
Widely regarded as the finest film in the series, The Empire Strikes Back found composer John Williams in complete control of the Star Wars universe. Having already established a wide berth of memorable character motifs and notable hero/villain cues, he fleshed out the old and brought in the new with special attention paid to the movie's darker themes, resulting in one of the most cohesive and fully realized scores of his career. The Empire Strikes Back is epic, romantic, and powerful. It is George Lucas' world at its most uncompromising, and Williams' score treats its themes of heroism and betrayal like the Shakespearian tragedy that it is.
Orchestra – The London Symphony Orchestra. Producer, Composed By, Conductor – John Williams (4). Recorded By – Eric Tomlinson. Gatefold Included: 12 page full colour 1. "x11" booklet. Recorded at Anvil Recording Studios, Denham, England. Recorded on December 27, 28, 29, 1979 &.
This 2-CD set was re-released in 2004 with.
Features Song Lyrics for John Williams feat. London Symphony Orchestra's Star Wars, Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) album. 1. 20th Century Fox Fanfare Lyrics. London Symphony Orchestra Lyrics provided by SongLyrics. Do you like this album?
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). This is great music superbly performed by the London Symphony Orchestra who went on to perform the other Star Wars scores as well as many other Williams scores. I totally love the packaging too. The behind the scenes notes tell you alot about the music, the orchestrations, etc.
A1 Star Wars (Main Theme)
A2 Yoda's Theme
A3 The Training Of A Jedi Knight
A4 The Heroics Of Luke And Han
A5 The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)
A6 Departure Of Boba Fett
A7 Han Solo And The Princess
A8 Hyperspace
A9 The Battle In The Snow
B1 The Asteroid Field
B2 The City In The Clouds
B3 Rebels At Bay
B4 Yoda And The Force
B5 The Duel
B6 The Magic Tree
B7 Lando's Palace
B8 Finale
Catalog number 422 827 580-4 found on cassette
RS-2-4201 John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra - Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back (2xLP, Album, Pit) RSO RS-2-4201 US 1980
2394 257 John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra - Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back (O Império Contra-Ataca) (LP, Album) RSO 2394 257 Brazil 1980
09026 68773 2 John Williams The Empire Strikes Back (The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2xCD, Album, RE, RM) RCA Victor 09026 68773 2 Australia 1997
2394 257 John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra John Williams , The London Symphony Orchestra - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (The Original Soundtrack From The Motion Picture) (LP, Album) RSO 2394 257 Greece 1980
TRSS 023, 3216 257 The London Symphony Orchestra Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back (Cass) RSO, RSO TRSS 023, 3216 257 UK 1980
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Watching Shafali Verma In Tears Was Tough, Says Brett Lee | Cricket News
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“I really felt for Shafali Verma at the end, it was tough seeing her in tears but she should be very proud of the way she’s performed in Australia,” he wrote in his column for the ICC.
“To come out here and face your first tournament head-on is testament to her talent and mental strength, and she’s only going to get better from here,” he added.
“…she’ll learn from this experience and come back stronger. Moments like this can define you in a positive way…Don’t be surprised to see her put a big score on the Aussies the next time they play.”
The former pace ace said he expects the Indian team to come back strongly after the 85-run hiding.
“…it was a disappointing night for them but they’ll certainly be back – this is not the end for them, this is just the start,” Lee wrote.
“They’d never played in a Final before and we saw in Melbourne how vital that experience is, it takes a long time to get settled and by the time they did, unfortunately the game was gone.
“Playing in front of a crowd like that takes plenty of getting used to so they’ll be better for it, and should take a lot of heart from the way they played in Australia,” he added.
Lauding Australia’s performance, Lee said the way Alyssa Healy (75) and Beth Mooney (78) started the proceedings on Sunday, he was reminded of the 2003 ODI men’s World Cup final which Australia won against India.
“Sometimes you can bat a team out of the game in that first half, which Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Ricky Ponting and Damien Martyn did for us in Johannesburg,” he said.
“Scoreboard pressure means so much more in a Final and, as we saw at the MCG, India just couldn’t get the momentum needed for the chase,” he added.
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Henry W. Kendall Papers
The archive of the papers of Henry Way Kendall, (1926–1999), distinguished nuclear physicist and public interest advocate, contains a variety of materials: published scientific papers, writings on public issues, recordings of speeches, documentation of his scientific research and teaching, transcripts of public testimony, professional correspondence, press coverage, photographs, awards and honors (other than the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics, documented in the Nobel Prize archive), and items related to some of his extracurricular pursuits.
he contents of the general archive of Henry W. Kendall papers fall roughly into three categories: scientific papers and other materials related to his academic and research career as a physicist; articles, speeches and other materials related to environmental causes and other public advocacy, including his leadership of the Union of Concerned Scientists; and a variety of materials reflecting his diverse avocations and pursuits beyond his professional career.
Articles in scientific journals authored or co-authored by Henry W. Kendall
Ph.D. thesis and related research
Records of research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator and other facilities
Teaching materials used in his physics courses and other MIT faculty materials
Awards, honors and press coverage related to his work in physics, including the W.K.H Panofsky Prize and Nicholson Medal of the American Physical Society
Scientific Advocacy:
Articles and reports written by Dr. Kendall or by panels including him, on subjects such as nuclear power plant safety, alternative energy, nuclear arms and disarmament, environmental degradation, climate change, population growth, agriculture and resource management. These include Population, Environment and Resource Problems–A Warning from World Scientists, for the 1994 UN International Conference on Population and Development, and World Scientists’ Call for Action at the Kyoto Climate Summit, 1997. Some drafts, notes and related correspondence.
Publications of the Union of Concerned Scientists in which he played a major role, including some background materials for, notes toward and drafts of the articles. These include “The Threat of Nuclear War” (1981) and “Anti-Satellite Weapons: Arms Control or Arms Race?” (1983).
Books and book chapters written by Dr. Kendall. These include his posthumously published book A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy (2000).
Background materials, notes and drafts for speeches, testimony in hearings, and panel presentations. These include a briefing to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Assessment of Clean-Up at Three Mile Island (1980) and the White House Roundtable on Global Climate Change (1997).
Files of resources on various issues kept by Dr. Kendall, and some correspondence related to publications on them
Press coverage of Dr. Kendall’s role as a scientific expert and advocate, including reports or photographs of speeches, panels and related events
Audio and video recordings and transcripts of Kendall presentations
Awards and honors for public service and environmental advocacy
Planning materials, records and journals of mountaineering expeditions
Logs of diving expeditions
Airplane information and pilot logs
Files on navigation, photography, amateur radio, travel, skiing, climbing, astronomy, diving and other pursuits
Files on inventions, including patent application for High Resolution Phased Array Echo Imager
Samples of climbing, diving, ski and photographic equipment
Henry P. Kendall
Henry W. Kendall
Kendall Maritime Collections
Maritime Research and Exploration
William Gilkerson: Maritime Art and History
Moose Hill Farm
Kendall Whaling Museum
Sharon and Walpole
New England and the South
Henry W. Kendall Photography
Yosemite – A Climber’s Perspective
Henry W. Kendall Photo Exhibit
People, Places & Environment
Maritime and Underwater Photography
Evelyn Way Kendall
Ballooning and Early Aviation Collection
Kendall Company
Kendall-Plimpton Family History
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