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← BIGFOOT WEEK: Night of the Demon (1980)
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BIGFOOT WEEK: Creature from Black Lake (1976)
If I’ve learned anything from my week of watching Bigfoot movies, it’s that Yankees aren’t wanted in the places where Bigfoot resides. You can also rewrite that sentence to cover city folks aren’t wanted when Bigfoot decides to walk on through Western Pennsylvania or Southeastern Ohio.
This one is all about two dudes: Rives (John David Carson, Empire of the Ants) and Pahoo (Dennis Fimple, House of 1000 Corpses). That’s right, Pahoo. Dennis Fimple was 36 when he played this young twenty-something just back from ‘Nam and looking for something, anything, maybe even Bigfoot. Rives is more concerned with hamburgers, fries and Cokes. And oh yeah, redhead goddesses. Well, everyone gets what they want in Black Lake.
You get a lot of character actors in here, like Western star Dub Taylor as Grandpa Bridges, Bill Thurman whose career stretches from The Last Picture Show to Mountaintop Motel Massacre, and Jack Elam, who is the best part of this film as the tracker Joe Canton.
Elam lost an eye to a sharpened pencil at a Boy Scout meeting as a child (he also literally grew up picking cotton) before serving in WW II, becoming a studio accountant and even managing the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles. A character actor in numerous gangster and Western films, as well as TV, Elam came up with a quote that many have stolen over the years in relation to how Hollywood sees people. He said that casting directors would say this about him:
Stage 1: “Who is Jack Elam?”
Stage 2: “Get me Jack Elam.”
Stage 3: “I want a Jack Elam type.”
Stage 4: “I want a younger Jack Elam.”
He shows up in some crazy roles, such as Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing in the Cannonball Run films and in The Norseman, Charles B. Pierce’s bonkers ode to Vikings that stars Lee Majors (we really need to get to this movie).
This was re-released theatrically in 1982 as part of a multi-film package called “5 Deranged Features”. Also on the bill were Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) (under the title They’re Coming to Get You so perhaps people went thinking they were about to see the American cut of All the Colors of the Dark), The Wizard of Gore under the name House of Torture, Shriek of the Mutilated and The Corpse Grinders, but called Night of the Howling Beast.
If you’re up for seeing college students try and get laid while eating burgers and hunting Bigfoot, then this is probably the exact movie you’re looking for.
If there’s one nice thing I can say, it’s that the cinematographer of the film is Dean Cundey (Halloween, The Fog, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Rock ‘n Roll High School and many, many more great movies). There are some interesting shots and it’s not your typical dark swampy seventies affair.
If you want to check it out for yourself, it’s on Amazon Prime.
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Sabrina The Teenage Witch Aunts Headed For Netflix In Sneak Peek Of Reboot's Final Season – WATCH!
It’s happening!!
Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea, who played the lovable aunts Zelda and Hilda in Sabrina, The Teenage Witch are back in a sneak peek of Netflix’s upcoming and final season of the much spookier reboot the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Taking a hint from other mega-popular multiverses, worlds collide as a very confused Sabrina meets two bubbly sitcom stars claiming to be her aunts. The clip’s entire tone is different too, including laugh-tracks and a production crew.
Ch-ch-check out the HIGHlarious clip (below)!
Clearly, the teen drama is planning to cause a little welcome #CAOS before it’s through (its fourth and final season is headed for Netflix on December 31).
Prior to dropping the surprise, showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa took to Instagram to welcome the iconic actors to the fam, writing:
“We had thirty-six table reads for #CAOS. They were all special. They were all celebrations. This one…was a little more special, as we welcomed, with open arms, @bethabroderick and @carolinerhea4real to our #Sabrina family. They were, as you might imagine, hilarious and total pros. I’m so happy we got to honor them and tell this story with them.”
We’re so happy they get to be honored, too. And there’s more surprises coming! The creator hinted:
“guess who’s talking this season??”
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What Are the Biggest Global Threats to Public Health?
Dr. Larry Brilliant played a key role in eradicating smallpox from the world – so what are the biggest dangers humanity faces now? Brilliant rates politics as on-par with infectious disease.
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Larry Brilliant, MD, MPH, is the author of Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventures of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History. Dr. Larry was Vice President of Google and Executive Director of Google.org. He is board-certified in preventive medicine and public health and co-founder of The Seva Foundation, an international NGO whose programs and grantees have given back sight to more than 3.5 million blind people in over 20 countries. Dr. Larry lived in India for more than a decade working as a United Nations medical officer where he played a key role in the successful World Health Organization (WHO) smallpox eradication program in South Asia. He currently serves as the acting Chairman of the Board of the Skoll Global Threats Fund whose mission is to confront global threats like: pandemics, climate change, water, nuclear proliferation and the Middle East conflict.
Larry Brilliant: If I were asked what are the greatest global threats to health today I would divide that into two parts. One, of course, would be the biology the Ebola, Zika, bird flu, swine flu world and I will talk about that. But far more than that are the kind of centrifugal forces that are pulling us a part as a nation, pulling us apart as a world, the deterioration of all of the international and national organizations that we depend upon to keep us safe. The World Health Organization, which failed to protect the world against Ebola and didn't do a great job on Zika either and it will have a new leader in May of this year. There are a couple of candidates who are terrific and some that aren't so good, but either way WHO is going to be going through a period of years of introspection and re-organization.
We have a new Secretary General of the UN. He's a good guy. He's from Portugal, Gutierrez. He just started. It will be a while before he can find all the bathrooms in the UN buildings. We've just lost the head of CDC. We have a new acting head of CDC, who is also good. But CDC will go through a headless period. And then we have Trump and we have a White House which would almost reflexively discard anything that had the word of public in it and one of those words is public health. And they have not shown a keen interest in pandemics. And the whole idea of America first, which might be good for many things, is singularly not good for a global pandemic. It's an oxymoron. It doesn't work. These centrifugal forces that put us in a period of vulnerability are the gravest threats.
On the biology side, in the last 30 years we've had 30 novel here before unknown diseases that jumped from animals to humans, they're almost all viruses. In addition to Ebola and Zika and bird flu and swine flu we have coronaviruses like SARS and MERS, we have arboviruses and a lot of other viruses that continue to jump at the rate of about one a year. That rate is increasing slightly. I don't think it's increasing at a catastrophic rate. The causes of its increasing are that animals and humans are living in each other's habitat now more than ever. Part of that is the clear cutting of forests to grow soybeans and things of that nature. Another reason is that as countries have gotten slightly more wealthy they begin to consume more protein and more animal protein.
I remember when I work at a Google I gave a talk to 3000 young Indian Googlers in Hyderabad and I asked them to raise their hand if their grandparents were vegetarian. They all raised their hand. Then I asked them to raise their hand if their parents were vegetarians and about half raise their hand. And then I asked them if they were vegetarians and no one raise their hand. And I think that's leads to the increase in chickens and pigs that we've been saying in China and India, not pigs so much in India. And that means the kind of way in which Asia houses and farms are all together and you can go to Laos and see a pancake house that has pigs on the ground floor, chickens in the middle, and humans up on top. When pigs are eaten what's left to them is fed to the chickens, and when the chickens are eaten what's left of them is fed to the pigs. And of course everything is fed to humans. That's like a natural virus experiment. You really wouldn't want to do that if you were trying to keep the world safe from viruses.
So we are having more viruses jump from animals to humans for lots of different reasons related to modernity. And normally our ability to protect the world keeps apace with that, maybe even is a little bit ahead and every year we're a little bit safer. That's not true right now. Right now because of the re-organization and nationalism and re-organization and dislike for the United Nations and its agencies I think we're in a period of grave vulnerability. So it's those two things together.
The greatest global threats to health can be divided into two categories, explains epidemiologist and former head of philanthropy at Google, Dr. Larry Brilliant: there is the biological, and the socio-political. In the last 30 years, there have been at least 30 heretofore unknown viruses that have jumped from animals to humans, for worrying reasons Brilliant attributes to modernity and our increase in animal protein consumption. Still, the socio-political threats are the more immediately dangerous. There are centrifugal forces at play that are pushing society to two extreme camps. The domestic and global division caused President Trump’s ‘America First’ mentality and disregard for public health leaves us vulnerable to new viruses that, if they aren’t detected early enough, could be the next pandemic. "Right now because of the re-organization and nationalism… and dislike for the United Nations and its agencies, I think we're in a period of grave vulnerability," says Brilliant. Larry Brilliant is the author of Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History.
Larry Brilliant is the author of Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker and Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History.
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Scientists use new methods to discover what's inside drug containers used by ancient Mayan people.
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Archaeologists used new methods to identify contents of Mayan drug containers.
They were able to discover a non-tobacco plant that was mixed in by the smoking Mayans.
The approach promises to open up new frontiers in the knowledge of substances ancient people consumed.
<p>Ancient Mayans have been a continuing source of inspiration for their monuments, knowledge, and mysterious demise. Now a new study discovers some of the drugs they used. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81158-y" target="_blank">For the first time</a>, scientists found remnants of a non-tobacco plant in Mayan drug containers. They believe their analysis methods can allow them exciting new ways of investigating the different types of psychoactive and non-psychoactive plants used by the Maya and other pre-Colombian societies.</p><p>The research was carried out by a team from Washington State University, led by anthropology postdoc <a href="https://wsu.academia.edu/MarioZimmermann" target="_blank">Mario Zimmermann</a>. They spotted residue of the Mexican marigold (Tagetes lucida) in 14 tiny ceramic vessels that were buried over a 1,000 years ago on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The containers also exhibited chemical traces of two types of tobacco: Nicotiana tabacum and N. rustica. Scientists think the marigold was mixed in with the tobacco to make the experience more pleasant.</p>
<blockquote>"While it has been established that tobacco was commonly used throughout the Americas before and after contact, evidence of other plants used for medicinal or religious purposes has remained largely unexplored," said Zimmermann. "The analysis methods developed in collaboration between the Department of Anthropology and the Institute of Biological Chemistry give us the ability to investigate drug use in the ancient world like never before."</blockquote><p>The scientists used a new method based on <a href="https://www.future-science.com/doi/full/10.2144/000113133" target="_blank">metabolomics</a> that is able to pinpoint thousands of plant compounds, or metabolites, in residue of archaeological artifacts like containers and pipes. This allows the researchers to figure out which specific plants were utilized. The way plant residue was identified before employed looking for specific biomarkers from nicotine, caffeine, and other such substances. That approach would not be able to spot what else was consumed outside of what biomarker was found. The new way gives much more information, showing the researchers a fuller picture of what the ancient people ingested. </p>
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PARME staff archaeologists excavating a burial site at the Tamanache site, Mérida, Yucatan.
<p>The containers in the study were found by Zimmerman and a team of archaeologists in 2012.</p><p style="margin-left: 20px;">"When you find something really interesting like an intact container it gives you a sense of joy," <a href="https://phys.org/news/2021-01-scientists-contents-ancient-maya-drug.html" target="_blank">shared</a> Zimmermann. "Normally, you are lucky if you find a jade bead. There are literally tons of pottery sherds but complete vessels are scarce and offer a lot of interesting research potential."</p><p>The researchers are negotiating with various Mexican institutions to be able to study more ancient containers for plant residues. They also aim to look at organic materials possibly preserved in the dental plaque of ancient remains. </p><p>Check out the study published in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81158-y" target="_blank">Scientific Reports. </a></p>
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When we feel anxious, the brain's fight or flight instinct kicks in, and the blood flow is redirected from your extremities towards the torso and vital organs.
According to the CDC, 7.1% of children between the ages of 3-17 (approximately 4.4 million) have an anxiety diagnosis.
Anxiety disorders will impact 31% of Americans at some point in their lives.
Here's what you may not know about anxiety...
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0ed8bd7fb8626babd10933f7ce630f96"><iframe type="lazy-iframe" data-runner-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/w4jiLIzTAa0?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p><strong>There's a fine line between stress and anxiety - and many people don't know what the difference is.</strong></p><p>Both stress and anxiety are <a href="https://www.apa.org/topics/stress-anxiety-difference" target="_blank">emotional responses</a>, but stress is typically caused by an external trigger and can be short-term (a looming deadline at work, for example). People under stress experience mental and physical symptoms such as irritability, anger, fatigue, muscle pain, digestive troubles, insomnia, and headache. </p><p>Anxiety, on the other hand, is defined as a persistent, excessive worry. Even in the absence of the thing that triggered it, anxiety lingers. It can lead to a nearly identical set of symptoms, which is why they are often confused. Feelings of anxiety then differ from an anxiety disorder - an anxiety disorder means your anxiety typically persists for months and negatively impacts your daily functioning. </p><p><strong>There are five major types of anxiety disorders:</strong></p><ol><li>Generalized anxiety (GAD) is characterized by chronic anxiety, exaggerated worry, and tension, even when there is little or nothing to provoke it. </li><li>Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by recurrent, unwanted thoughts (or obsessions) and/or repetitive behaviors (compulsions). </li><li>Panic disorder is characterized by unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms such as chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness, and/or abdominal distress. </li><li>Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is also an anxiety disorder, and it can develop after exposure to a terrifying event in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened. Traumatic events that may trigger PTSD include things like personal assaults, natural and/or human-caused disasters, accidents, or military combat. </li><li>Social Anxiety Disorder (also known as 'social phobia') is characterized by overwhelming anxiety and excessive self-consciousness in everyday social situations. </li></ol><p><strong>Anxiety disorders can impact 31 percent of Americans at some point in their life. </strong></p><p>According to the <a href="https://www.apa.org/topics/stress-anxiety-difference" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Psychological Association</a>, 19 percent of Americans over the age of 18 have had an anxiety disorder in the past year and 31 percent of Americans will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. </p><p><strong>Anxiety may be genetic. </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/is-anxiety-genetic#:~:text=Most%20researchers%20conclude%20that%20anxiety,and%20more%20research%20is%20needed." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">According to HealthLine</a>, anxiety may be genetic but can also be influenced by environmental factors. It's possible to have anxiety without it running in your family, however, there is speculated to be some genetic component that makes anxiety more prevalent in some individuals. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5573560/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Research</a> has indicated some link between genetics and anxiety, though much more research is required in this area. </p><p><strong>Anxiety often begins in childhood. </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/data.html#:~:text=For%20children%20aged%203%2D17,also%20have%20depression%20(32.3%25).&text=For%20children%20aged%203%2D17%20years%20with%20behavior%20problems%2C%20more,also%20have%20depression%20(20.3%25)." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">According to the CDC</a>, 7.1 percent of children between the ages of 3-17 (approximately 4.4 million) have an anxiety diagnosis. Six in ten children (59.3 percent) between the ages of 3-17 have received anxiety therapy or treatment. </p><p><strong>Having an anxiety disorder can increase your risk of other physical health complications. </strong></p><p>According to research from <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/anxiety" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Harvard Medical School</a>, anxiety has been indicated in several chronic physical illnesses, including heart disease, chronic respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal conditions such as IBS, and more. </p><p><strong>Cold hands and feet? Anxiety may be the reason. </strong></p><p>If you're someone who constantly struggles with having cold hands or feet, it could be a result of your anxiety. When we feel anxious, the brain's <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding-the-stress-response#:~:text=The%20autonomic%20nervous%20system%20has,can%20respond%20to%20perceived%20dangers." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fight or flight instinct</a> kicks in, and the blood flow is redirected from your extremities towards the torso and vital organs. </p><p><strong>Anxiety can be related to anger issues and memory loss. </strong></p><p>A lesser-known side effect of anxiety is <a href="https://discoverymood.com/blog/anxiety-and-anger/#:~:text=Anxiety%20is%20often%20connected%20with,which%20can%20lead%20to%20anger." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anger</a>. When you feel powerless over a situation, expressing anger is a natural way to feel as though you have some kind of control. With chronic sufferers of anxiety, depression is the most common issue to develop, but anger is close behind. As <a href="https://discoverymood.com/blog/anxiety-and-anger/#:~:text=Anxiety%20is%20often%20connected%20with,which%20can%20lead%20to%20anger." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Discovery Mood</a> explains, "anxiety is often connected with overstimulation from a stressful environment or threat, combined with the perceived inability to deal with that threat. In contrast, anger is often tied to frustration. When anxiety is left unacknowledged or unexpressed, it can turn into frustration which then easily leads to anger." </p><p><strong>Anxiety can also cause memory problems. </strong></p><p>According to <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alzheimers-disease/in-depth/memory-loss/art-20046326#:~:text=Stress%2C%20anxiety%20or%20depression%20can,loss%20by%20interacting%20with%20medications." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mayo Clinic</a>, stress, anxiety, or depression can often cause forgetfulness, confusion, and difficulty concentrating. <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/anxiety-and-memory-1393133" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VeryWellMind</a> explains further, "memories can be affected when you are under periods of stress or experience some sort of disturbance in mood. Having a significant anxiety disorder like GAD can create some of these problems routinely, leaving you operating below your normal level of memory functioning." </p><p><strong>Anxiety can even impact your sense of smell. </strong></p><p>People who struggle with anxiety may be more likely to label natural smells as bad smells, according to research published in the <a href="https://www.jneurosci.org/content/33/39/15324" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Journal of Neuroscience</a>. When processing smells, typically it's only the olfactory system that is activated. However, in people with high anxiety levels, the emotional system can become intertwined with the olfactory system, which can slightly alter our perception of smells.</p>
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Odd-even scheme may be back, says Delhi minister
The scheme, based on the last digit of the vehicle's registration number of vehicles, was implemented twice in 2016 -- from January 1-15 and April 15-30.
"With the increase in pollution levels in Delhi, the government may have to resort to emergency measures, including the odd-even scheme," he said.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi government may bring back the odd-even scheme to restrict the number of cars on the road in view of the increase in pollution levels, Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot has said.
The minister yesterday wrote to the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) and senior officials of his ministry, asking them to be "fully geared up" for implementation of the odd- even scheme "as and when" it is announced.
The scheme, based on the last digit of the vehicle's registration number of vehicles, was implemented twice in 2016 -- from January 1-15 and April 15-30. Under the scheme, odd and even numbered vehicles ply on alternate days.
It can be implemented when air pollution levels are in the 'emergency' category for 48 hours or more.
Last week, the Supreme Court-appointed Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), a body empowered to enforce the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP), had said it would not hesitate to enforce the 'odd-even' plan, order cars off roads, and shut schools if needed.
GRAP was notified by the Centre in January this year following an order by the apex court in November 2016.
Also Read: Two-third of car owners did not drive on odd-even days: Study
According to Gahlot, procurement of additional buses by DTC would be the "main component" of readiness in case the odd-even scheme is implemented.
A major challenge in implementing the scheme is poor public transport facilities, despite a well developed Delhi Metro network.
The DTC has a fleet of around 4,000 buses, while the Delhi Integrated Multimodal Transit System (DIMTS) runs over 1,600 buses under the cluster scheme. Experts estimate that the city needs about 11,000 buses to cover all areas.
EPCA has already taken tough measures like shutting the Badarpur thermal power plant and brick kilns and banning generators after air pollution levels hit the 'Very Poor' and 'Severe' categories.
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How To Find Relationship Bliss After A Sexless Marriage
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So what do you do if you find yourself in a sexless marriage? Research indicates that testosterone has been falling steadily in men for decades so that could at least partially explain this trend. Without that knowledge, no solutions will present themselves. Try talking about what sex was like before, when things changed, and what was going on around that time. If they could change something, what would it be? Myers, sex coach and author of The Mommy Mojo Makeover. But with kids in the picture, things truly have changed. But things can get better once again, and with open communication, a sex life after kids can become even more expansive and pleasurable than it was pre-kids.
It finally got too much. Photo: istock Source:Whimn. Before I married Mark, I’d slept with four men in total. I didn’t love them all equally but to be sexual with a man, I needed a deep sense of connection to share the most intimate part of myself.
When I started dating my husband, he told me he had a low libido. After four years of marriage, the relationship has become strictly platonic.
A sexless marriage is a marital union in which little or no sexual activity occurs between the two spouses. Newsweek magazine estimates that 15 to 20 percent of couples are in a sexless relationship. It may also be known as a mariage blanc , i. Non-consummation may be grounds for a marriage to be dissolved. Sexless marriages can develop over time from a range of possible causes. According to psychotherapist Tina Tessina, “The most common causes of sexless marriages are that one partner had their feelings hurt or got turned down too many times; one got too busy or neglectful; or one or both partners has a communication problem of some sort.
When everyone around you is breaking up, you might feel that you deserve a medal just for sticking together when there are so many options out there. A whole other life and love can be only a swipe away. Staying together and passing those milestone anniversaries has its benefits — you spend your time with someone who truly knows you inside out and, presumably, is willing to put up with all your faults.
But longevity has its own pitfalls. Does it have to be the end? Or can you work through it?
But after a year-and-a-half of dating, all of that went out of the window. The love, the affection, and most devastatingly, the sex. He kissed me back.
For some people, a sexless relationship is one where there is absolutely zero sexual activity. For others, doing everything but intercourse is considered a sexless relationship. In other situations, couples might have a ton of sex at the start of their relationship and then gradually peter out to having intercourse so infrequently that it feels basically sexless. People have very different feelings about not having sex, too.
Plenty of research has found a link between sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction. In other words, being happy with your sex life usually plays a significant role in being happy with your overall relationship. Perhaps the more important question is this: How important is sex to you in your relationship s? Every person will have their own unique feelings about sex, how often they want it, and how important it is them.
Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first. Several studies this year have found that couples are having less sex or are in sexless marriages, but does that mean couples — married or otherwise — are unhappy?
Reddit has long been a sanctuary for people in sexless marriages. The poster triumphantly explains their realization after initating sex the.
We crave togetherness and intimacy! Our most intimate relationships have the ability to amaze us, to nurture us and to take us through our darkest hours. How can we live without love? A relationship this intense though, can make us feel vulnerable and hold a great deal of power over us. Still, even in the face of this vulnerability, there is no greater feeling than having a deep, spiritual connection with your lover and feeling valued and adored.
Imagine standing back to back with your partner.
Try these: time management relationship advice healthy lifestyle money wealth success leadership psychology. When you met your partner, you felt a tremendous sense of passion toward them. This manifested on both an emotional and physical level. You got married and felt like you were on top of the world. Maybe the newness of the relationship wore off, or perhaps new stressors appeared in your shared life, like kids, job responsibilities or financial struggles.
Things have sputtered out.
The growing trend of sexless marriages has spawned a rise in adult dating Looking for satisfaction after your spouse has given up is more common than you’d.
Recently, a year-old man posted something stupid on Reddit. This is not breaking news—this happens likely thousands of times per day, but the post made it over to Twitter , and people went in. The issue at hand? The haircut is just a tangible thing that you are focusing on. Reddit has long been a sanctuary for people in sexless marriages. I’m realizing how much of his joy is missing in a sexless marriage[. The traditional read: heteronormative and sexist narrative is that men are always ready to have sex, while women are constantly faking headaches to avoid it.
According to Pam Costa, M. Sex can start to become less frequent as couples encounter road bumps like depression, physical health concerns, the loss of loved ones, pregnancy, childbirth, and miscarriages, or as a result of mismatched desire levels. And no matter the reason, Costa says that honest communication about sex can help. We asked Costa our biggest questions about sexless marriages and how to address them.
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What It’s Like to Be a Millennial in a Sexless Relationship think-pieces that have tried to demonise the place where online dating and casual sex collide. My boyfriend had relocated not long after, and I saw him every other weekend, so not.
Lindsey Ellison first experienced sexual incompatibility with the man who would become her husband when she was in her mids. After a largely sexless year marriage, she decided to end the relationship, and now she’s in a sexually satisfying union with her husband of over a year. After struggling with intimacy, Ellison thought there could be something"hormonally wrong” with her.
When a doctor found no physical problem, Ellison realized the trouble was coming from a handful of issues within her relationship. When she hit her mids, Ellison gave herself permission to seek sexual fulfillment and decided to leave her"incredibly lonely” marriage. The key to finding the happiness she has now, Ellison said, was being up-front with her new partner from the get-go. Ellison closed by offering some words of advice to other women who are newly out of a relationship:.
It’s one thing if [newly single women] just — let me put it bluntly — if they just want to get laid. Go for it. I say use protection and just manage your expectations and his If you’re coming out of a relationship where you’re feeling wounded or vulnerable, my advice is to get your love mojo back on for yourself. Worry about sex, do things by yourself, go to a sex toy store, do what you need to do, and really protect yourself because you can get hurt and get sucked back into another unhealthy relationship if you don’t really know what you’re doing.
Watch Lindsey Ellison share her story in the video above, and click here for the full HuffPost Live conversation about sexless marriages.
AARP Rewards is here to make your next steps easy, rewarding and fun! Learn more. All of which is to say that by the time I lost my husband to heart and kidney disease, I was the poster girl for what it was like to live in a sexless marriage. We lived together until my husband’s death but years before we had stopped kissing, hugging or even holding hands. Occasionally I tangibly missed how when he held open a door for me, he would place his hand on the small of my back and gently guide me through.
After a largely sexless year marriage, she decided to end the I almost feel as though it was the second date [whe[when]aid, ‘Hey, FYI, these.
By Claire Toureille For Mailonline. Hayley Quinn, match. However, speaking to coincide with National Marriage Week However, Quinn told Femail that a little bit of communication, flirty messages and honesty about the state of your libidos can go a long way to keeping the spark alive. Presenter Ulrika Jonsson, pictured on Loose Women earlier this month, has revealed she had sex with her husband Brian Monet just once in eight years, and the couple are now heading for the divorce courts.
Communication is instrumental in keeping any relationship going, and when it comes to sex, voicing your need to keep the passion alive is key. This means no TV and phone during date night so that you are fully focused on one another. Breaking routine is very important so even if it’s something relatively simple like cooking someone’s favourite meal, or dressing up nicely, this can signal time that is more memorable.
Dating coach with match. Quinn added that it’s also a good idea to create a special ‘couple’ WhatsApp conversation specifically for flirting: ‘Y ou can even create a separate WhatsApp chat for your ‘couple talk’ that’s devoid of more mundane questions like, “what would you like for dinner? The dating expert said that libido can be a good indicator of what’s happening in your relationship, sex-wise, and it’s important to be on the same page as your partner.
Quinn advised to check that your partner’s needs are satisfied even if you yourself are content with the level of intimacy you’re getting. Whether this is holding hands, kissing, or a massage,’ she said. And while lack of sex can be worrying, Quinn says not to stress too much about you and your partner’s libido, as relationships are never ‘constant’.
I already knew he was 47 — a year younger than me — and divorced with two daughters. In-person, I liked him immediately, not least because he was tall and good-looking, and although he was a bit shy, I could tell he was interested in me, too. Loosened up by two large glasses of red wine, I did most of the talking, telling him all about my recent move to the coast.
We continued meeting and one evening a few weeks later, I asked Robert to stay over. I was very attracted to him, so it was a little disappointing when his erection failed. We tried again in the morning, but he had the same problem.
The sex I’ve had since I left my marriage has given me a way to live in the didn’t meet the legal definition of “sexless,” which would have qualified me, that I don’t always fuck on the first date because, reader, I always do.
From the moment I heard his almost scarily deep belly laugh and found out that he, too, grew up in the yawning northern suburbs of Atlanta and had a propensity for bar fights and tasteless jokes, we were best friends. Why not take a chance on him, as Abba would say. I was 23, and he was a grizzled-but-sparkly-eyed Sex was more of an afterthought than something that drove our dynamic. When we did it, it was brief and missionary — a brutally efficient task force. But by the time he moved in with me, he was flummoxed by post-MFA life, how to make it in New York, how to find a job.
Chronic anxiety pulverized his sex drive and left him rudderless. At 25, I was just beginning to revel in my sexuality, craving sex constantly like a hard pint of ice cream on a degree afternoon.
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Sunroof Repair & Replacement Cost Guide
Research indicates that 37 percent of vehicles sold in the United States have a sunroof. An increasingly popular feature, a sunroof is a nice amenity that admits ventilation and light on a warm, sunny day.
When your vehicle’s sunroof is damaged or suddenly malfunctions, the overhead opening can allow precipitation to enter the passenger compartment if it is stuck in the open position. Vandalism, collisions, falling objects and other mishaps can easily damage these glass panels. When a problem occurs with a sunroof, it can be very expensive to correct.
In This Guide
Average Sunroof Repair Cost
Materials Will Affect the Cost
How to Save Money on Sunroof Repair and Replacement
Types of Sunroofs
Common Sunroof Problems
How to Repair a Leaky Sunroof Yourself
Cleaning Drains with Metal Wire
Fixing the Seal
Repair Types
Cost of Parts & Labor
Cleaning Drainage Area $80 to $150
Replacing the Glass $300 to $400
Replace Broken Track or Cable $500 to 800
Replacing the Motor $200 to $500
Moonroof Replacement $1,000 to $2,000
Do it Yourself (parts only) $100 to $250
The average cost to replace a manual pop-up sunroof ranges from approximately $250 to as high as $750. This includes parts and labor. The exact fee depends on local rates, the exact size of sunroof to be installed and the materials used. The make and model of the vehicle will also affect the cost because of any special requirements or modifications needed to make the sunroof fit and operate correctly.
A top-mount spoiler sunroof features a glass panel that tilts and slides along the outside of the vehicle’s roof. Depending on the vehicle, size and materials, this type of sunroof typically costs between $700 and $1,200 to replace, including parts and installation.
Another popular version is a moonroof, which includes a power-operated sliding glass panel that slides on rail installed between the vehicle’s metal roof and interior headliner. The most popular type of sunroof installed on new may cars is also the most expensive to replace. Replacement costs start at a $1,000 and can run as high as $2,000.
Depending upon the cause of the problem and the work needed, repairs can cost from $100 to $250 for do-it-yourself parts. Auto repair shop or a car dealership fees can range from $250 to $1,000 or more.
Cleaning a sunroof’s drainage area costs approximately $125.
Replacing the track or cable, which pulls the sunroof back and forth, may require the expertise of a mechanic to remove the complete sunroof assembly and replace or rebuild it. This work can cost up to around $800.
The average cost to replace sunroof glass is between $300 and $400, including parts and labor. The process takes a few hours to complete.
Although rare, sunroof motor failures are expensive to fix. The average cost to replace a motor runs between $200 and $500.
Not including installation fees, Detroit, Michigan’s Ameristar Auto Outfitters charges from $750 to $800 for an electric spoiler sunroof equipped with a pop-up wind deflector, a sliding sunshade and dark-tinted glass. A 20″x32″ Newport Pop-Up style Sunroof featuring a dark, removable panel is available from Sunroofs Etc. in Plymouth, MN for $500, without labor charges.
The materials used to repair or replace a sunroof have a significant impact on cost. Inexpensive sunroofs are equipped with a dot matrix, screened panel that is designed to reflect back approximately 50 percent the sun’s heat. Models that are more expensive use a reflective glass that is comparable to a one-way mirror.
Aluminum or plastic handles and other hardware are less expensive than steel or carbon fiber. They are also less durable. Gaskets and seals manufactured from neoprene may cost less, but they may also deteriorate more rapidly when exposed to extreme weather conditions. Parts made from silicone are more expensive, but they generally last longer.
Auto insurance policies typically do not cover a sunroof as an individual item. The glass on a vehicle is normally insured by the auto policy’s comprehensive coverage. This coverage includes the windshield, side windows and sunroof. Although they are made from glass, this part of the policy does not include damage to mirrors or headlights.
Regardless of the cause, claims for glass damage are always filed under comprehensive coverage, which only applies to glass. The collision portion of the policy covers body damage. If the car and the sunroof were damaged in a collision, the vehicle would be covered under collision portion while the comprehensive coverage would pay to replace the glass.
If the mechanical parts of the sunroof are also damaged in the accident, they would be repaired under the collision coverage unless the terms of the policy’s comprehensive coverage specifically states that it includes sunroof damage other than glass as well.
Different circumstances may require single or separate claims based on your policy.
If the sunroof’s mechanical features and glass were broken during a storm, the entire claim may be filed under comprehensive coverage. When it is damaged during a rollover accident, it may require a claim under the collision coverage to fix the sunroof support structure and a second claim under comprehensive coverage to replace the glass. Read your policy, or ask your insurance agent to explain the terms of your coverage.
Many consumers believe that sunroof repairs cost too much. Here are some techniques that can fix the problems in the short term and save money.
Use duct tape to keep the existing roof shut.
Check out local junkyards for the glass panel, sun- or moon-roof for your specific year, make and model.
Spend $200 on a basic replacement unit.
Replace a broken motor with a used one.
Replace warped or broken tracks with pre-owned ones.
If mechanical parts are worn-out, buy a repair kit. The kit may be available online, at the dealer or auto supply store.
Save a lot of money and aggravation by installing the parts yourself.
Leaky sunroofs are often not difficult to fix. It just takes time, the right parts and the correct tools. After waiting a few days for the parts to arrive, I fixed mine for $150. The repair shop that services my car estimated that would cost approximately $500 to fix the problem.
Pop-up sunroofs feature a hinged glass panel that tilts upward. The tilting motion provides interior ventilation. The sunroof may be opened manually or electrically. It is usually removable.
Spoiler sunroofs combine the pop-up and sliding mechanisms. The tilting mechanism opens the sunroof, which then slides back on a track along the roof. Depending on the particular model, the glass panel may self-store above the roof or between the roof and the interior headliner.
Panoramic sunroofs utilize a multi-pane system that tilts and slides open further than a standard spoiler sunroof. The multiple panes form a single unit when closed. They retract on a slider track and stack against one another when opened. The sunroof is designed to open above the front and rear cabin simultaneously.
Solar sunroof use opaque glass that is inlaid with photovoltaic solar cells that can power interior inner ventilation systems from stored solar electricity. This protects the vehicle’s standard battery from discharging.
Top-mount sunroof panels are stored along tracks above the roof on the outside of the vehicle. It provides extra headroom inside the car.
Through normal wear and tear, a sunroof can begin to leak or stop working for several reasons, including broken motors, malfunctioning tracks and shattered or chipped glass.
Whether it is dripping or spilling water, a leaky sunroof can make a mess and damage the interior of your car. If your sunroof retracts properly, inspect the condition of the rubber seal that works in conjunction with the sunroof panel to prevent the entry of moisture.
Check the small holes situated at the corners of the sunroof seal for clogs. These small holes, or drains, are part of the drainage system, which funnel water through the car and onto the road. Leaves, dirt and other debris can clog the drain system allowing water to enter your car. The drainage area can be wiped cleaned and drain tubes can be removed and unclogged. If the rubber seal is irreparably damaged, it must be replaced.
Broken Track or Cable
Preventing the sunroof from sliding back and forth, this malfunction may require the expertise of a mechanic who can remove the entire sunroof assembly and replace or rebuild it.
Flying road debris or another falling object can break the glass. Similar to a broken windshield, a broken sunroof can detract from the appearance of your vehicle. Depending on the extent of the damage, the opening can allow dust and precipitation to enter and ruin the interior of the vehicle. Operating a vehicle with a damaged sunroof can cause distractions that create hazardous driving conditions.
Although replacing the actual glass is a simple fix, cleaning up the broken glass can be time consuming. Tempered glass is engineered to break into numerous small pieces. These shards of glass can fly anywhere, including inside the sunroof’s tracks and on the lubricant that help it slide on the tracks. This can increase labor costs because service personnel must locate and remove all of the shards before installing the new glass panel.
Motor Failure
A rare cause of sunroof issues, motor failure can prevent the panel from retracting properly. Replacing the component can be expensive.
Insert a thin flexible metal rod or wire into the drain tube. A bicycle brake cable has the right diameter for this task. It also has the right amount of flex to make its way through the tubes. Clean all the drain holes that you find along the base of the sunroof.
Twist the wire clockwise and counterclockwise while gently pushing it deeper into the tube. The wire should move through the tube with little resistance. This should push any small amounts of dirt, debris and other particles out of the tube as the line moves through the tube.
Be careful not to damage the drain tubes. If you feel a lot of resistance even after twisting the metal wire back and forth, do not push it any further. You will need to hire a professional to clean the drain tubes.
Close your sunroof and pour water over the glass. Check for leaks inside your car. If leaks are still present, proceed to the next step.
Check the sunroof seal for cracks or jagged edges. The seal may have dried out and cracked over time because of exposure to extreme temperatures.
Look around the area close to the seal for any indications of pooling water or mold. Some seals can sag or lose their shape. This causes water to build up in the trough. The pooled water may eventually create holes in the seal.
Apply a thick layer of black liquid electrical tape to the seal. Ensure that it covers any visible wear. The tape will dry and form a waterproof, protective barrier. Push the new tape down around the seal. Allow the tape dry according to manufacturer’s instructions.
Close your sunroof, and pour water over the top. Inspect the inside of the car again for indications of any leaks.
If you still have leaks, take the vehicle to a professional service provider. If seals or drainage tubes are not responsible for the leak, a factory flaw is probably the reason for the problem. The only way to correct this issue is to install a new sunroof.
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I have a sunroof and moonroof.. The moonroof is stationery. I had to take my car in for to water leaks, he said it it was bad gaskets in the satellite antenna so her replaced them, to no avail. I cleaned the front drain tubes myself and I thought it worked, but a week later or so it started leaking again. It got into my passenger floorboard, and leaks only on the passenger side of the car, along the trimming closer to the windows and down the pillars, ruining my airbag. It is a 07 Saturn Outlook. My question is does the stationery moonroof have drain tubes, that if clogged, water can be coming from there? I’ve really about had it with this car. I love it, but it’s my worst nightmare right now!
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‘Quite confronting’: Australia’s recession in 10 pictures
Lucy Dean
These are the images that defined 2020. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
This time last year, much of Australia was covered in a thick shroud of smoke but people eagerly awaited the new year and a new decade.
Weeks after the fireworks however, reports emerged of a deadly respiratory virus spreading from a city in China. Within months, the world had come to a standstill and Australia with it.
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For Getty Images’ director of editorial photography Cassie Trotter, 2020 has truly been a year like no others.
“Our team at Getty Images [had to] find new ways to adapt to the complexities of shooting live events and creating a historical visual record when our photographers were, at times, one of the few non-partisan witnesses,” she told Yahoo Finance.
Getty Images has released its 10 images that best reflect Australian life in 2020, and the theme is clear: empty spaces highlighting two shared struggles - a pandemic and a recession.
“Looking back at the most impactful images of 2020, it is no surprise that several of these images are quite confronting,” Trotter said.
“Though 2020 often felt that it would never end, our collection of images from this Year In Review shines a light on the moments that made us hopeful.”
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 19: A general view during the round 2 NRL match between the Canterbury Bulldogs and the North Queensland Cowboys at ANZ Stadium on March 19, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Matt King/Getty Images)
2020 marked Getty Images’ 25th anniversary, after co-founders Mark Getty and Jonathan Klein launched the business in 1995 with a belief in the power of visual content.
Getty Images chief photographer Cameron Spencer told Yahoo Finance that this year was defined - in a large part - by change.
“We didn't know what was around the corner and [that] definitely was challenging. We had to find ways to adapt and be flexible,” he said.
The nature of photography means it was impossible to work from home, and overnight the types of scenes they were trying to capture had also changed radically. However, the photographers also had access to scenes and views the rest of the country and the world did not.
A lone man walks on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House which is currently closed due to COVID-19 on March 25, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
The images of empty landmarks and desolate streets have come to represent the Covid-19 recession, with Spencer noting that these images have been mirrored around the world.
He said the images of an empty Bondi Beach or Sydney Opera House struck him, but it was the aerial shots of quiet freeways and abandoned sporting arenas that really showed the breadth of the lockdown.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 11: Bondi Beach empty on what would normally be a packed Easter Saturday on April 11, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by James D. Morgan/Getty Images)
Lockdowns and support
The Government’s first stimulus package, announced on 12 March, came to $17.6 billion and included one-off payments for pensioners and social security recipients.
On 22 March, the Government announced its second major $66 billion stimulus package which essentially doubled unemployment support. A day later, Australia entered lockdown as COVID-19 cases began to skyrocket.
People were barred from restaurants, days at the beach were off limits and schools and workplaces closed. Suddenly, life was lived indoors.
A week later, the Government introduced its $70 billion JobKeeper package as images of people queuing outside Centrelink branches drew comparisons to the Great Depression.
An aerial view of the Sydney Opera House on April 22, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)
The arts was one of the sectors hardest hit by the virus, with many businesses and employees in the sector ineligible for JobKeeper due to the casual or short-term nature of their employment.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival was one of the first events to close due to coronavirus, with the Sydney Writers’ Festival soon following.
By the beginning of April, the Australian Bureau of Statistics was reporting just 47 per cent of Arts and Recreation Services businesses were still in operation - the smallest percentage in the economy.
More than 20,000 people in the film industry fell out of work as all productions funded by Screen Australia were put on pause.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 05: A lone woman is seen looking out the window of her apartment at the North Melbourne Public housing flats on July 05, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)
Melbourne’s spike
On 30 June, the Victorian government re-introduced lockdown rules across Melbourne and several regional areas as cases began to soar in the state.
And on 7 July, Melbourne and Mitchell Shire were pushed into a six week lockdown that ultimately stretched until late September.
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 26: An aerial view over the Melbourne Park precinct on August 26, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
Melbourne and Mitchell Shire residents were told to wear face coverings, and an 8pm to 5am curfew was enforced. Additionally, residents were unable to travel more than 5 kilometres from their home other than for work and could only leave the house to exercise for one hour a day.
All those bar essential workers were to work from home.
The impact on the economy was severe: Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in November warned the lockdown would deal a greater economic blow than the 1990s recession as hard state borders went down.
“It’s easy to forget how hard the people in Melbourne had it,” Spencer said.
“They went through a pretty tough period there for a few months and I think you look at those photos of Melbourne and you appreciate that everyone was doing the right thing and thinking about the bigger picture and not just [themselves].”
Emma Watkins of The Wiggles performs on stage during a live-streaming event at the Sydney Opera House on June 13, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
Virtual living
This was also the year that everything went online. School, work, exercise, entertainment, socialising - everything. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan saw his net worth leapfrog 396.5 per cent in the year to September to US$17.7 billion (AU$23.41 billion).
“The way people socialised and the way people entertained themselves, so much became this digital interaction,” Spencer said.
“That image of Emma Wiggle is such a great picture too because she’s in the Opera House performing to nobody and you can instantly recognise her with a yellow top.
“It’s such a big thing - she’s performing obviously to lots of people who are streaming at home, and you’ve got little kids who through the year probably spent more time in front of screens than they ever have.”
A general view of Bourke Street as a lone pedestrian crosses the road on August 06, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)
The latest spending figures reveal trading conditions rebounded over November as Victoria fully reopened and record Black Friday sales injected cash back into the struggling sector.
Retail turnover for November increased 7 per cent compared to October - an increase of more than $2 billion.
But it was after a rocky year: turnover fell 17.9 per cent in April before rising gradually over May and June, only to start sliding again as Melbourne’s lockdown struck.
Even as Australians stayed home, businesses without foot traffic looked for new ways to keep afloat. Gin makers, wineries, perfumeries and even stationary brands began producing much-needed hand sanitiser, while some bars turned to delivery and cocktail packs, as Yahoo Finance tracked in its Pivot Series.
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In fact, while retail sales were largely down, alcohol sales were up by $2 billion, according to Finder analysis. Melbourne business owner Kyla Kirkpatrick runs Emperor Champagne - the largest champagne e-commerce retailer in Australia.
Her sales more than doubled during COVID-19.
An aerial view of long term car park at Melbourne Airport on August 26, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
The first sector hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, and likely the last to recover, is the aviation sector. Both of Australia’s major carriers, Virgin Australia and Qantas, have slashed their workforces while international travel remains little more than a dim hope.
Qantas saw its share price lose 33 per cent over the course over the year after sliding a staggering 70 per cent in March.
Both airlines culled flights radically early on, ending nearly all international travel and most domestic travel before gradually adding domestic flights. Qantas and Virgin Australia earlier this month announced they would take their domestic flight schedules back to 60 per cent, although Sydney’s latest COVID-19 outbreak has triggered border closures around the country.
Australia’s international travel ban remains firm until March 2021, and Qantas CEO Alan Joyce predicts most international travel won’t resume until mid-2021 at the earliest.
An aerial view of Federation Square on August 26, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
But there’s a lot of hope in these photos, Spencer said.
“While the pictures may seem gloomy, our photography was also hopefully reflecting moments of hope,” he said.
“Even though you might see someone walking on the street by themselves, in your mind you know that there’s a reason why there’s no one on the streets and the fact that we’re doing the right thing.
“Those images - looking back at them - you’ll realise that while it was a tough year, there were a lot of amazing things that did come out of it to do with compassion and people coming closer, even though we were more detached than ever.”
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Max Aub‘s San Juan closes MEI tomorrow
On Wednesday, the 30th the Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) is putting the last show in their programme: San Juan, by La República theatre company. Written by Max Aub, it deals with exile through a ship journey. With the support of the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, the play will be performed at 8:30 pm in the Teatro El Sauzal. Tickets are at 12 euros and there are discounts available. You can book them on www.meitenerife.com.
San Juan is an allegory of exile written by Aub, a Spanish author who fled to Mexico after the Spanish Civil War. It is about the tragic journey of some Jewish people in 1938 on board the San Juan, a former animal cargo ship. They travel from country to country but are rejected at every port. Nonetheless, the hope that they will be allowed to land at some point drives them on.
Nearly all the social types are on the San Juan: rich and poor, young and old, rebels and submissive, traitors and loyal, communist Jews... A piece of society that eventually shows its ugliest side: misery, despair, ambition, resignation… The boat becomes one single character with a common fate for everyone.
With the Jews and the World War 2 as a backdrop, San Juan criticises the lack of humanity, also among the Jews, who are crowded together on the old boat. A redeeming shipwreck, therefore, death, is the longed-for freedom to escape from the tragedy.
Directed by Nacho Cabrera, the cast performing the crew includes Miguel Ángel Maciel, Efraím Martín, Toni Báez, Abián de la Cruz, Idaira Lermo, Sara Álvarez, and Saulo Valerón. The play by the Gran Canaria company was performed at Teatro Cuyas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 25 and 26 September.
MEI shows, organised by the Auditorio de Tenerife, have two rates, the standard at 12 euros and one for El Sauzal residents at 9 euros. There are non-combinable discounts for the unemployed (50%), under 30-year-olds (30%), large families (25%) and students (10%). A document to prove you are entitled to the discount must be shown at the door (ID, DARDE, large family card, student card…).
Tickets can now be booked online on www.meitenerife.com, at Teatro El Sauzal box office 90 minutes before the show begins and at Auditorio de Tenerife box office by making an appointment to come Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can book your appointment for the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.
Buying the tickets implies the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Teatro El Sauzal to prevent the spread of COVID-19. You can read them on www.teatroelsauzal.com.
Mon 28Sep20
Juanjo Mena leads Sinfónica de Tenerife in the second concert this season
The Sinfónica de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is giving the second season concert at 7:30 pm on Friday, the 2nd at Auditorio de Tenerife. The programme includes works by Schumann, Shostakovich and Ginastera and will be conducted by Juanjo Mena. It is also the first time the 2020/2021 season Artist in Residence, cellist Pablo Ferrández, is taking part.
The Cabildo’s orchestra will play with the reduced orchestra now in place the Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 12 by Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich‘s Chamber Symphony, op. 110a -arranged by Rudolf Barshai- and Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 by Alberto Ginastera.
Tickets for all the concerts of the first part of the season are available from today, Monday the 28th. You can also get the Pack Otoño [Autumn Package], that includes five concerts with 10% discount.
You can book them via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902 317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.
Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public.
The Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 12 was written by Robert Schumann in 1850, during a period regarded as his most creative. Like an elegy, this composition, in which the cello has a conversation with the other instruments, evokes an atmosphere of withdrawal and melancholy.
Chamber Symphony, op. 110a -arranged by Rudolf Barshai- is by Dmitri Shostakovich and has never been played by Sinfónica de Tenerife before. It is of an autobiographical nature and quotes from many of his main works are easily identified like his First and Tenth Symphonies, his opera Lady Macbeth, or his first Cello Concerto.
Alberto Ginastera‘s Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 is one of the main works of the Argentinian composer’s “subjective nationalism” period, in which folklore and traditional music play a fundamental role as groundbreaking creative elements.
Juanjo Mena was awarded the Premio Nacional de Música in the Performance category in 2016 and is internationally regarded as one of the most renowned Spanish conductors. He is currently principal conductor of the Cincinnati May Festival. He has been principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, Guest principal conductor of the Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, in addition to principal conductor and artistic director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao.
He has led prestigious ensembles including the philharmonic of Berlin, London, della Scala (Milan), Oslo and Rotterdam, the symphony orchestras of Bavaria Radio, Bamberg, Swedish Radio, Danish National and NHK Tokyo, French National Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. In America he has conducted the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Montreal, Pittsburgh and Toronto, the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics and the Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Washington orchestras, among others.
Cellist Pablo Ferrández, Sinfónica de Tenerife‘s resident artist for the 2020/21 season has been recognised at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, ICMA Young Artist of the Year and in 2018 he won the Premio Princesa de Girona for his “exceptional talent and international scope”. In the last seasons he has taken part in music engagements like the Hollywood Bowl with Los Angeles Philharmonic, with Bavaria Radio Symphony Orchestra and has collaborated with Anne-Sophie Mutter playing Brahms Double Concerto in Madrid and Oxford; he also made his debut with Bamberg Symphony, or collaborated with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Khatia Buniatishvili and the London Philharmonic playing Beethoven‘s Triple Concerto.
Ferrández has also performed with Filarmonica della Scala and R. Chailly, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and D. Gatti, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Dusseldorf Symphony at Elbphilharmonie, Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale RAI, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta de RTVE, or Orquesta Sinfónica de les Illes Balears.
Fri 25Sep20
El Auditorio clausura con La casa de papel el Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife
El Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife (FIMUCITÉ) afronta este fin de semana la recta final de su decimocuarta edición, una entrega que un año más está llenando los espacios culturales de la isla con la mejor música de cine gracias al apoyo de Cabildo de Tenerife, Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz, Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Gobierno de Canarias, Auditorio de Tenerife y Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife. La banda sonora de la exitosa serie de televisión ‘La Casa de papel’, compuesta por Manel Santisteban e Iván Martínez Lacámara, será absoluta protagonista con el estreno mundial de su interpretación en formato sinfónico bajo la dirección artística y musical del reconocido compositor y director de orquesta Diego Navarro, director de FIMUCITÉ.
Los detalles de estos conciertos históricos fueron dados por el presidente del Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín; el alcalde de La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez; el director del festival y conductor de la Sinfónica de Tenerife, Diego Navarro; el creador de La casa de papel, Álex Pina; el actor de la serie Pedro Alonso; la cantante del tema principal, Cecilia Krull, y los compositores Manel Santisteban e Iván Martínez Lacámara.
El presidente del Cabildo dio la bienvenida a los protagonistas de los conciertos de hoy y mañana. “Esta situación que estamos viviendo de crisis sanitaria tendrá que pasar pero para volver a una realidad nueva y definitiva necesitamos a la cultura porque hay ámbitos de la vida a los que no podemos renunciar”, declaró Pedro Martín.
Luis Yeray Gutiérrez agradeció a Navarro contar con La Laguna “de la forma tan firme en la que se ha desarrollado este año; un municipio con una apuesta decidida por la cultura, que quiere ser referente cultural y que gracias a FIMUCITÉ lo consigue”.
Diego Navarro aseguró que se trata de una rueda de prensa muy especial y que “ha sido tremendo llegar hasta aquí”. “Todos los festivales del mundo de este género han cancelado sus ediciones 2020, solo FIMUCITÉ resiste, el más antiguo de Europa”, compartió el también compositor.
El creador de la exitosa serie, la primera española en ganar un Emmy, aseguró que su relación con Tenerife “es cada vez más poderosa”. “Antes escribíamos aquí y ahora hasta grabamos y venimos a conciertos”, aseguró Pina, quien forma tándem con Santisteban desde hace 25 años y considera que “nuestra forma de diseñar personajes es conmovedora”.
El actor Pedro Alonso hizo hincapié en el esfuerzo que ha hecho el equipo para sacar adelante este festival: “Es una construcción de una gran envergadura que requiere muchísimo esfuerzo”. El intérprete que encarna a Berlín en la serie confesó que participará en dos momentos de la serie cantando y que, tras los ensayos, puede decir que “la vibración en el escenario con toda la orquesta tocando es alucinante, es otro nivel”.
La cantante de My life is going on, Celicia Krull confesó que, “a pesar de que la canción pintaba muy bien desde el principio, nadie pensaba que fuese a gustar tanto, se ha buscado muchísimo en Shazam, es como un tesoro que ha creado Manel”. “Este proyecto de La Resistencia es maravillosos y le da empaque a esta música de la serie, que nos llega hasta los huesos”.
Manel Santisteban aseguró estar emocionado “y lo estoy desde el minuto uno de este proyecto, cuando Diego me llamó”. “Tenerife nos está dando una gran acogida desde que llegamos y he notado una buena energía y un nivel de implicación que no me esperaba”, explicó el compositor, quien asegura que “la Sinfónica de Tenerife es una de las mejores orquestas del mundo”.
Iván Martínez Lacámara habló de lo complicado que es elegir la música para un concierto así porque “en cada temporada de la serie puede haber cuatro o cinco horas de música”.
El Auditorio de Tenerife acogerá las dos funciones previstas de ‘Somos La Resistencia: La Casa de papel En Concierto’, que tendrán lugar este viernes y mañana sábado 26 de septiembre, con la presencia de los compositores Manel Santisteban e Iván Martínez Lacámara, y la cantante Cecilia Krull, quien interpretará sobre el escenario la popular canción principal de la serie, ‘My life is going on’.
Thu 24Sep20
Ópera de Tenerife’s production L’elisir d’amore is on at Teatro Comunale di Bologna in Italy
Ópera de Tenerife’s coproduction L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti, is reaching Italian Teatro Comunale di Bologna next week. This is a transnational project that is supported by the European Commission’s prestigious grant Creative Europe. Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is the leading theatre of the project in partnership with Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre in Georgia.
The performances at the Italian theatre were originally scheduled for June but had to be put off due to the health crisis. They are now taking place on 29 and 30 September and 1, 3, 6 and 7 October, and are the first opera performances of this institution after the pandemic. L’elisir d’amore opened at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala Sinfónica with Pablo Maritano as stage director on 24 to 27 October 2019 and was on at Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre on 26, 27 and 29 February and 1 March 2020.
The cast was selected in auditions held by the Opera (e)Studio high specialisation academy in February 2019 in Bologna, Tbilisi, Madrid and Tenerife, which were attended by 181 candidates from 33 different nationalities. The singers who took part in the original performance were María Rita Combattelli (soprano); Beatriz de Sousa (soprano); Klodjan Kaçani (tenor); César Arrieta (tenor); Alberto Bonifazio (baritone); Jacobo Ochoa (baritone); Givi Gigineishvili (bass); Matteo Andrea Mollica (bass); Sofía Esparza (soprano) and Leonora Tess (soprano). The Italian cast also includes David Astorga singer.
The project as a whole, which includes the coproduction, the tour, the auditions, the training and several other activities, is what the European Commission’s Creative Europe has singled out from the hundreds of projects received. The goal of this European programme is to support the cultural and film industries of the continent.
Opera (e)Studio is Ópera de Tenerife’s high specialisation academy for artists and has had Giulio Zappa as artistic director since 2012. This project was set up with the aim of providing training to young artists in all the opera disciplines while at the same time meeting the demands of the present work market.
L’elisir d’amore is a melodramma giocoso by Gaetano Donizetti and libretto by Felice Romani, based on Eugène Scribe’s text Le philtre for the opera by Daniel François Esprit Auber. It is one of the composer’s best-received opera buffa thanks to unforgettable melodies like ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ and a lively plot that tells us about the love affair between beautiful Adina and naïve Nemorino. It was premiered at Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan on 12 May 1832.
This week MEI presents a text by Mayorga, a singular setting, a premiere, and a true story
The Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) is presenting four shows this week: Siete hombres buenos, a text by Juan Mayorga; ¡Valientes!, with a singular setting; Informe Lope, a premiere; and Fábula del topo, el murciélago y la musaraña, based on a true story. These options of the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, will be on at 8:30 pm at the Teatro El Sauzal. Standard tickets at 12 euros and discounts are available on www.meitenerife.com.
The first show, on tomorrow, Tuesday, the 22nd is Siete hombres buenos, by 2RC Teatro. It is a text from the first play by Juan Mayorga, which was awarded Accésit Marqués de Bradomín in 1989, and is first showing now, thirty years later. It is about a government in exile for many years. Ideals have changed, past treasons return to the present, personal interests taint this government when the tyrant is overthrown and there is a chance to return.
¡Valientes! by Burka Teatro, is an apparent dramatized guided tour by an exquisite historian who is interrupted by an astonishing character, a homeless woman who is actually a fount of wisdom. They will both take the audience on an exciting, amusing journey across the stories of many women who have fought for gender equality since Antiquity. This play will be performed on Wednesday, the 23rd at MEI with a singular setting where there is no stage.
On Friday, the 25th Informe Lope will be premiered. Morfema Teatro recreates the setting of a mysterious corporation whose basements store theatre plays from all periods, including the ones by Lope de Vega. Ramírez and González, a woman and a man respectively, are the officials in charge of classifying and preparing it for “publication”. The conflict develops from the main topic it deals with, that is, the way the playwright conceived his female characters.
On Sunday, the 27th Fábula del topo, el murciélago y la musaraña, by Delirium Teatro, will tell us about the ups and downs experienced by Pedro Perdomo Pérez and his family. He was a chairperson of PSOE (Socialist Party) at the Casa del Pueblo in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the first days of the army uprising in 1936 after which he turned first into a target, then into a fugitive and eventually, into a topo of Franco repression. After hiding for 33 years at the house of two of his sisters and protected by an amnesty, he resurrects to the world at the beginning of the Transition. This show is part of Teatro El Sauzal programme.
MEI shows, which is organized by Auditorio de Tenerife, have two different rates: standard at 12 euros and El Sauzal residents at 9 euros. There are other non-combinable discounts available for the unemployed (50%), under 30 (30%), large families (25%) and students (10%). A document proving entitlement to the discount must be produced when entering the theatre (DNI, DARDE, large family card, student card…).
Tickets can now be booked online on www.meitenerife.com, at Teatro El Sauzal box office 90 minutes before every MEI show, at Auditorio de Tenerife box office by making an appointment Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can make an appointment for the box office on https://auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.
Buying the tickets involves the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by Teatro El Sauzal to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which can be read on www.teatroelsauzal.com
Wed 16Sep20
Tickets for Ígnea sold out one week before performing at FAM
The Festival de las Artes del Movimiento FAM continues its 2020 Special next Sunday at 8:00 pm with Ígnea, by Colectivo Lamajara. This new piece premiers today, 16th at the Sala Negra de los Teatros del Canal in Madrid and will be in Tenerife for a second performance at the Government of the Canary Islands’s venue Espacio La Granja, that collaborates in the festival with Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero.
The group says that in this volcano-inspired piece “with pleasure, willingly, we let ourselves burn and invoke the unstable nature of things, bringing the image of a volcano as a metaphor for these thoughts.” “In times of explosions, the apparent balance rejects instability, which is, paradoxically, one of its means of expression…”, they say.
Paloma Hurtado, Reinaldo Ribeiro and Daniel Rosado are behind the concept of this new creation, which received a Cabildo de Tenerife grant for professional stage productions. Texts are by Arantza López in collaboration with Colectivo Lamajara. The bodies in Ígnea belong to Igor Calonge, Milagros García, Paloma Hurtado, Daniel Morales and Daniel Rosado; and they are clad with costumes by Héctor León. Stage design is by Luis Crespo and Irene Cantero takes care of lighting. Original music is by Paloma Peñarrubia.
El Colectivo Lamajara is an organization of artists who share a common interest in the language of the body and its possible expressions. It is made up of emerging creators, dancers and collaborators from other art disciplines. The group organizes work cooperatively, encouraging dialogue and agreement towards a common methodology. Their main goal is to support free artistic expression, helping to produce free, eclectic creations.
The public is kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this cultural centre by the Cabildo to deal with COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask. Please see FAM upcoming events on www.famtenerife.com.
Agotadas las entradas para el homenaje a los castrati de la Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife en el Auditorio
Auditorio de Tenerife, que depende del Área de Cultura, Educación, Juventud, Museos y Deportes del Cabildo insular de Tenerife, que dirige la consejera Concepción Rivero, presenta este jueves [día 17] a las 19:30 horas el primer concierto de la temporada su Ciclo de Cámara. Al cappone, de la Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife, agotó durante el fin de semana las entradas para este concierto, un homenaje a los castrati, el canto operístico barroco del siglo XVIII, que contará con el contratenor italiano Filippo Mineccia.
La formación, que tocará en la Sala de Cámara, contará en esta ocasión con Alfonso Sebastián como clave y director invitado. Por primera vez la violinista Judith Verona hará de concertino, mientras que Laura Díaz será el violín barroco I. Sergio Suárez y Giovanni Déniz se encargarán de los violines barrocos II, mientras que las violas barrocas sonarán de las manos de Víctor Gil y Melchor García. Completan las filas de la orquesta Diego Pérez al violonchelo barroco, Juan Carlos Baeza al violone y Jorge Rubiales a la tiorba. El broche de oro lo pondrá la voz de Mineccia
Este programa titulado Al cappone no alude al famoso gánster estadounidense sin la doble pe, sino al mundo sonoro de los castrati que cantaron los mejores roles de las óperas barrocas, producto de la historia. El director artístico de la Orquesta, Conrado Álvarez, explica que la voz del invitado especial de la noche “emula, con todo intacto, a los capones o castrati, invento del Imperio Romano de Oriente para los coros bizantinos de Constantinopla, desde el siglo IV hasta siglo XIII, en desuso tras la cuarta cruzada, que brotó con fuerza en el Renacimiento llegando a su apogeo, de la mano de la ópera, nell'ottocento y al declive en las postrimerías del siglo XIX”.
“Es bueno recordar que el canto de falsete existe en la naturaleza humana desde siempre y que la técnica del falsete coexistía con los eunucos músicos desde la Edad Media, pero las exigencias de las partes vocales escritas por los autores barrocos necesitaba de la potencia, la presión sonora y, sobre todo, de la extrema extensión de la tesitura de los cantantes masculinos castrados”, explica Álvarez.
Filippo Mineccia nace en Florencia y comienza sus estudios en la Escuela de Música de Fiesole, cantando desde niño en el coro polifónico con voz blanca. Obtiene las licenciaturas de violonchelo y canto en el Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini de Florencia.
Ha trabajado con grupos especializados y orquestas historicistas de toda Europa cantado con directores como: A. Viktora, A. Curtis, A. Florio, C. Ipata, C. Aragon, C. Cavina, D. Coleman, E. Onofri, F. M. Bressan, G. Rufet, J. U. Illán, M. Valdivieso, M. Mazzeo, M. Hofstetter, O. Dantone, R. Jais y T. Engelbrock.
Domina un amplio repertorio como solista y principales papeles tales como Giulio Cesare, Sila, Ottone de las óperas de Handel, el Alessandro de Tolomeo y Dárdano de Amadigi, el Telamone de Ercole su’l Termodonte de Vivaldi, el Nerón de Ottavia restituita al trono de A. Scarlatti, Le disgrazie d’amore de Cesti, el Tamerlán de Bajazet de Gasparini o Fairy Queen de Purcell.
Cuenta con numerosas grabaciones y entre sus futuros compromisos, todos con formaciones historicistas europeas, se encuentran la Capilla de La Pietà de Turchini, la interpretación de Tolomeo en la ópera Giulio Cesare con la Academia Bizantina, o recitales dedicados a la figura del castrado Giovanni Francesco Grossi Siface, con la Orquesta Nereydas y la interpretación de Endimione en la ópera Calisto de Cavalli en Estrasburgo.
The Sinfónica de Tenerife opens the 2020/2021 season with Strauss and Mahler
The Sinfónica de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth, Museums and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is opening at 7:30 pm on Friday, the 18th its 2020/2021 season with a concert at Auditorio de Tenerife. The programme, featuring Strauss and Mahler, will be led by its principal conductor, Antonio Méndez, and includes French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig.
With the reduced version of the orchestra set up in the June and July extraordinary series, The Cabildo’s Orchestra presents a programme made up of Metamorphosen, TrV 290 by Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony nº4 in G major (arranged by Klaus Simon).
Tickets are available on www.auditoriodetenerife.com or by calling 902 317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can book your appointment for the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer your queries, Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.
Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this cultural centre by the Cabildo to deal with COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public.
Elsa Dreisig was recognised in 2016 as the best female singer at the Operalia competition called Vocal Discovery in the Victoires de Musique Classique Awards. She has been Opera for Peace ambassador since 2019 through the Crown Prince Couple's Awards. She has sung at the Berlin State Opera, Paris Opera, Zurich Opera, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence or Salzburg Festival and has collaborated with ensembles like Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre Français des Jeunes and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
Sinfónica de Tenerife’s principal conductor since the 2018/2019 season, Antonio Méndez, is one of the best-established and most sought-after conductors of his generation and has built close links with leading European orchestras. He has led different international ensembles including Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic or Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.
Todo el cielo, a dramaturgy of Canarian poems with live music opens at MEI
The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, presents the premiere of the show Todo el cielo, by Unahoramenos Producciones, at the Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) [Latin American Stage Showcase]. It is a dramaturgy of Canarian poems with live music that will be seen for the first time tomorrow Tuesday, the 15th at 8:30 pm in Teatro El Sauzal. Tickets, at a general price of 12 euros and with discounts now available, are on sale on www.meitenerife.com.
Many poets believe to be writing the same poem, that all of them in different languages, places and times have ventured into the blank page to add another piece to a wonderful, unfinished puzzle. That is how Todo el cielo came into being, a journey through Canarian poems from different periods and authors, selected by Yeray Rodríguez, that will come to life together, like voices in a choir to bring the song of the many into one single song.
Actors Marta Viera and Ruth Sánchez will bring these verses to life along with the music of Carlos Oramas, who is specialised in Baroque instruments. This play, directed by Mario Vega, has Nauzet Afonso as costume designer; the lighting design is by Ibán Negrín and Valentín Rodríguez is the production manager.
In the presentation of the show, it was said that “on these brief islands, for centuries we’ve pursued answers that poems have not fully given us; this makes the questions grow. Perhaps in the voice of others, that becomes more our own the more choral it is, we may find rather than the answer, the definite question. We have the whole sky to find out”.
MEI shows, which is an event organised by the Auditorio de Tenerife, offer two different rates: general, at 12 euros and for residents in El Sauzal at 9 euros. Also, other non-combinable individual discounts are available: (50%), aged under 30 (30%), large families (25%) and students (10%). A document to prove this condition must be shown on entering the theatre. (DNI, DARDE, large family card, student card...).
Tickets can now be booked online on www.meitenerife.com, at Teatro El Sauzal box office 90 minutes before every MEI show and at Auditorio de Tenerife box office by getting an appointment to come Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can book your appointment for the box office on www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they will also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.
Buying a ticket implies users unconditionally accept the contents of the measures implemented by Teatro El Sauzal to prevent the spread of Covid-19. You can read them on www.teatroelsauzal.com.
Unahoramenos Producciones was set up in the southeast of Gran Canaria in 1999. After some years producing very successful shows, in 2014 it focuses on social-based artistic creation. Mario Vega becomes the head of creative direction and at present all their shows have to do with social issues.
Me llamo Suleimán (2015) and Los Malditos (2016), both written by Antonio Lozano, denounce the unfair and unbalanced relationship between Europe and Africa through innovative staging that are very well-received by both critics and audiences. Both shows were granted the R for recommended show from the Theatre Commission of the RED Nacional; Me llamo Suleimán got six Réplica Awards and Los Malditos have eight nominations for the XX Premios Max.
In 2018 the company started a three-year innovation and research project called Laboratorio Galdós, Ana, también a nosotros nos llevará el olvido, by Gran Canarian Irma Correa, about the social situation of women in 1960s Spain, during the dictatorship. The show got the R for recommended show from the Theatre Commission of the RED Nacional plus 3 nomination for the XXII Premios Max.
In 2019 and 2020 the Laboratorio Galdós continues with their creative innovation and research projects, encouraging citizens’ participation and attracting audiences with two other shows of marked social conscience. One of this shows is El crimen de la calle Fuencarral, which opened on Sunday, the 13th the 2020 Special MEI.
Moria is their new play on social issues, stage research and innovation down a path that brings together passion for the theatre and an obligation to denounce social injustice. Moria is a cry to Europe, a call to European citizens to become aware of the fact that our land is once again in a most atrocious situation: the death of hundreds f people through our indifference. It was meant to be premiered at MEI 2020 but it had to be postponed due to the health crisis as it is immersive theatre.
El teatro canario, baluarte de la Edición Especial 2020 de la Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI)
El Cabildo de Tenerife ha presentado, a través de Auditorio de Tenerife, la Edición Especial 2020 de la Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI), que tendrá lugar del 13 al 30 del presente mes de septiembre en el Teatro El Sauzal. Los detalles fueron dados a conocer hoy por la consejera de Educación, Juventud, Museos, Cultura y Deportes del Cabildo de Tenerife, Concepción Rivero; el director artístico del Auditorio de Tenerife, José Luis Rivero; y los directores de dos compañías canarias que estrenan espectáculos en el festival: Mario Vega, de Unahoramenos Producciones, y Ricardo del Castillo, de Morfema Teatro.
La consejera explicó que se trata de ocho espectáculos, que comenzarán a las 20:30 horas, siete de los cuales son producciones canarias. Rivero destacó la importancia “de apostar por compañías canarias y convertirlas en el baluarte de esta edición de MEI, donde habrá diferentes propuestas pero todas de una gran calidad que ponemos a disposición de la ciudadanía para su disfrute”. La responsable insular informó de que “las entradas, a un precio general de 12 euros y con descuentos disponibles, ya están a la venta en www.meitenerife.com”.
El director artístico de Auditorio y de MEI recordó que la programación se tuvo que trasladar de la primavera pasada a este otoño y que “hemos continuado con la voluntad de presencialidad marcada por el Cabildo que caracteriza al teatro en vivo para reformular la programación, donde hay encargos directos y estrenos de obras subvencionadas por el propio Cabildo”. “Al final, presentamos una selección de espectáculos que representan el canon del teatro canario”, añadió José Luis Rivero.
Mario Vega, director de Unahoramenos Producciones, trae a MEI El crimen de la calle Fuencarral y el estreno de Todo el cielo. Vega puso en valor esta muestra “única en Canarias, que da perspectiva sobre el teatro que se está haciendo” y comentó que el proyecto Moria de teatro inmersivo que pensaban estrenar en primavera se ha pospuesto, dando paso a Todo el cielo. “Estamos muy ilusionados y nerviosos por presentar el martes por primera vez Todo el cielo, una selección de obras de poetas y poetisas de todas las islas canarias”, adelantó Vega.
Ricardo del Castillo, director Morfema Teatro, estrena en MEI Informe Lope, un proyecto que cuenta con una subvención a producción escénica del Cabildo. Del Castillo agradeció las políticas públicas insulares que dan lugar a este tipo de actividades culturales y explicó, como autor, que estrenan “un texto sobre la obra de Lope de Vega en una línea de trabajo propia que consiste en partir de obras de autores y llegar a otros planteamientos”. “Se ha mostrado a Lope de Vega como feminista y en Informe Lope planteo, mediante un modesto acercamiento a su obra, si para explicar el feminismo hay que acudir a Lope, una voz masculina”, detalló el también dramaturgo y actor.
Esta programación, que se ha coordinado con los festivales canarios Temudas y Mueca, llega a la isla a partir de este domingo con una clara vocación local y de la mano de autores como Lluís Pascual, Juan Mayorga o Max Aub, y de textos de Federico García Lorca, Lope de Vega o Benito Pérez Galdós. Muchas de estas representaciones son estrenos o primeras funciones de compañías canarias.
La segunda edición de MEI tenía previsto desarrollarse del 17 de enero al 3 de mayo de 2020 con el Foco puesto en Argentina pero la crisis sanitaria internacional obligó a cancelar la programación de marzo, abril y mayo. Esta edición especial se ha adaptado a las circunstancias y mantiene el Romancero gitano, de la Cía. Nuria Espert, y Siete hombres buenos, de 2RC Teatro.
La programación
Abre la programación este domingo [día 13] a las 20:30 horas El crimen de la calle Fuencarral, de Unahoramenos. La historia comienza con un fuerte olor a quemado que despertó a los vecinos de la calle Fuencarral de Madrid el 2 de julio de 1888. La policía encontró un cadáver ardiendo y una criada y un perro durmiendo. Benito Pérez Galdós fue el cronista de este polémico suceso real, que acabó en ejecución pública. Ahora, el dramaturgo Fabio Rubiano ha escrito una atractiva dramatización en clave de comedia que dirige Mario Vega. Este espectáculo forma parte de la programación de Teatro El Sauzal.
El primer estreno de esta edición llegará el martes [día 15] con Todo el cielo, de Unahoramenos, una dramaturgia de poetas canarios realizada por Yeray Rodríguez y dirigida por Mario Vega. Son muchos los poetas que creen que todos escriben el mismo poema. Y así nace Todo el cielo, un viaje a lomos de poemas canarios de diferentes autores y épocas que cobrarán vida juntos, como voces de un coro que hará una sola la canción de tantos.
Termina la semana Romancero gitano protagonizado por Nuria Espert con dos funciones: el jueves 17 y viernes 18. La apuesta del director de este espectáculo, Lluís Pasqual, consiste en una depurada puesta en escena, con tan solo unas butacas de teatro aderezada. La base de la propuesta es la conferencia que dio García Lorca en 1935 con introducción y comentarios a su Romancero gitano. En escena, los poemas se intercalan con esos comentarios y los recuerdos de Nuria Espert sobre sus trabajos sobre Lorca.
La recién estrenada obra Siete hombres buenos, de 2RC Teatro, podrá disfrutarse el martes 22. Se trata de la primera obra de Juan Mayorga, premiada con el Accésit Marqués de Bradomín en 1989, que se estrena con esta compañía canaria después de treinta años. Es una ficción sobre un gobierno en el exilio de una defenestrada república después de treinta años. Los ideales han cambiado, las traiciones del pasado vuelven al presente, los intereses personales tiñen este gobierno cuando el tirano es derrocado y surge la posibilidad de volver.
Al día siguiente, miércoles 23, llegará la adaptación a sala de ¡Valientes!, un espectáculo de Burka Teatro concebido como teatro de calle que se estrena en un formato íntimo. Un itinerario por la evolución de los parques a través de la historia, guiado por una exquisita historiadora, se verá interrumpido por un personaje de la calle: una mujer sintecho que bajo esta apariencia esconde un sorprendente pozo de sabiduría. Juntas harán un viaje hacia la historia de muchas mujeres que desde la antigüedad lucharon por la igualdad de género.
El segundo estreno absoluto de esta edición tendrá lugar el viernes 25 con Informe Lope, de Morfema Teatro, que recrea el entorno de una misteriosa corporación, en cuyos sótanos se almacenan las obras teatrales de todos los tiempos. Entre ellas, las de Lope de Vega. Ramírez y González son los funcionarios encargados de clasificarla y ponerla a punto para su publicación. El conflicto se desarrolla a partir del tema central que plantea la compañía, que es la manera en que el dramaturgo concibe sus personajes femeninos.
Fábula del topo, el murciélago y la musaraña, lo nuevo de Delirium Teatro, llega a MEI el día 27. La obra de Miguel Ángel Martínez cuenta las vicisitudes que vivió junto a su familia Pedro Perdomo Pérez, vocal del PSOE en la Casa del Pueblo de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria en los primeros momentos del golpe militar de 1936, donde se convierte primero en objetivo, luego en prófugo y, finalmente, en topo de la represión franquista. Tras 33 años escondido en casa de dos de sus hermanas y amparado por una amnistía, resucita para el mundo en los albores de la Transición.
Cierra la Edición Especial 2020 San Juan, la nueva propuesta de Teatro La República, una alegoría sobre el exilio de Max Aub. Cuenta el trágico viaje de unos judíos que en 1938 se encuentran embarcados en el San Juan, un antiguo carguero de animales. En permanente peregrinación de país en país, son rechazados en todos los puertos. Aun así les mueve la esperanza de que en algún momento les den el visto bueno para desembarcar en tierra segura.
Para los espectáculos de MEI existen dos tarifas, la general de 12 euros y la de residentes de El Sauzal de 9 euros. Además, hay disponibles descuentos no acumulables para desempleados: (50%), menores de 30 años (30%), familia numerosa (25%) y estudiantes (10%). Deberá presentarse el documento que acredite este descuento (DNI, DARDE, carné de Familia numerosa, carné de estudiante...) en el momento de acceso a la sala.
Las entradas ya se pueden adquirir de forma online en www.meitenerife.com, en la taquilla del Teatro El Sauzal 90 minutos antes de cada función de MEI y en la taquilla de Auditorio de Tenerife con cita previa de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 17:00 horas y sábado de 10:00 a 14:00 horas, excepto festivos. La cita para acudir a taquilla se puede pedir en www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar y en el 922 568 625, donde también se pueden resolver dudas, de lunes a viernes de 10:00 a 14:00 horas, excepto festivos.
La compra de las entradas supone la aceptación incondicional por parte del usuario del contenido de las medidas implementadas por el Teatro El Sauzal para prevenir la propagación de la Covid-19, que se pueden consultar en www.teatroelsauzal.com.
On Sunday, Auditorio de Tenerife hosts a morning concert with its singular symphonic organ
Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is giving on Sunday the 13th at 12:00 noon the concert El esplendor de un órgano sinfónico. Basque solo performer Loreto Aramendi, principal organist of the Cavaillé Coll organ (1863) at the Basílica de Santa María del Coro in San Sebastián, will play this peculiar instrument, whose pipes are placed on the walls of the Sala Sinfónica. Auditorio de Tenerife guarantees a safe cultural experience thanks to its Contingency Plan against COVID-19 and its Safe Tourism label, both certified by AENOR.
This is the first engagement this season to enjoy the experience of listening to the Auditorio’s organ, which was built by prestigious organ master Albert Blancafort and his team. It is a 21st century instrument with unique design, sound and stops that emerge from 3,835 pipes, which are placed on the walls of this emblematic auditorium and are played from a console on the stage.
On Sunday they are playing an attractive repertoire of Romantic and 20th century works preceded by a famous score by Baroque composer Buxtehude. Musicologist and organ expert Rosario Álvarez explained that this concert “mainly has transcriptions of famous orchestral works, a genre often visited by organists, given that the instrument is particularly suitable to compete against the orchestra as it is multitimbral, which favours this kind of performances”.
The expert revealed that “we should also mention the presence of French authors like Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré or Charles Tournemire, who are the result of the organ bloom that took place in France in the late 19th century and early 20th century thanks to Cavaillé-Coll instruments and the deep impression left by César Franck in a range of organists of the great Parisian churches and French cathedrals”.
For this honorary member of the Real Academia Canarias de Bellas Artes de San Miguel Arcángel “including the small piece by Hungarian György Ligeti in the repertoire provides a counterpoint to the Romantic aesthetics of the compositions by Franz Liszt and Sergej Rachmaninov”.
Tickets can be booked on our website here and by calling 902 317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also get an appointment to come to the box office from Monday to Friday from 10:00-5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can ask for an appointment for the box office on www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer any queries you may have from Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 2:00 pm except holidays.
Buying a ticket for any of the shows managed by Auditorio de Tenerife implies the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Cabildo to tackle Covid-19 with no exceptions or reservations, including wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The measures in full and the contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website.
Loreto Aramendi is an international soloist who has given countless recitals at international festivals in the US, Japan, Argentina and Canada, in addition to most European countries having played in the likes of Ópera City Hall in Tokyo, Auditorio Nacional de Madrid (Bach-Varmut), Notre Dame in Paris, Saint Sulpice, Hallgrímskikja in Reykjavik, Saint Patricks Cathedral in New York, Westminster Abbey or at the Stavanger (Norway), among others.
She has released two double CDs that were recorded with the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Santa María del Coro and at the Cavaillé-Coll at Saint Ouen Abbey in Rouen with transcriptions by Louis Robilliard.
A native of Orio, she attended San Sebastián conservatoire where she obtained her degrees in piano, harpsichord, organ and chamber music. She then studied organ at the Conservatoire National Regional in Bayonne with Bernadette Carrau and Esteban Landart, where she obtained the Gold Medal and First Prize on finishing her Improvement studies. She moved to Lyon and joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (CNSMD), where she worked with Jean Boyer, Louis Robilliard and J. von Oortmersen. She was first prize and “Mention trés bien” in addition to obtaining the Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien specialising in organ.
She furthered her training at the Conservatoire National Superieur Regional in Paris where she studied for five years with Nöelle Spieth and won First Prize on finishing Further studies in harpsichord and the Diploma in General Musical Studies. She also worked with J. Rouvier in piano. She practised piano in Barcelona for three years with Edith Fischer and Jorge Pepi. She has done improvement courses with teachers like M.Radulescu, J. von Oortmersen, W. Jansen, D. Moroney, R. Requejo, Roberto Szidon and Sakharov, among others.
She has a degree in Psychology from the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV) and currently teaches at the Conservatorio Profesional Francisco Escudero in San Sebastián.
Her next engagements include tours in the US and Japan as well as concerts in England, France, Norway, Iceland, Slovakia, Russia, Germany, Poland, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Italy and Spain.
Mon 31Aug20
Auditorio de Tenerife’s Coro Juvenil is now holding auditions
Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth, Museums and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is seeking for voices for its young choir. Registration for auditions is open as from today, [Monday, 31 August] to 18 September before 2.00 pm. You can register on the Auditions and Calls section of website www.auditoriodetenerife.com.
We’re seeking young tenors, baritones and basses aged 18 to 25 to join Auditorio de Tenerife’s Coro Juvenil this season, which is about to begin. In addition to these requirements, musical knowledge is an advantage and the candidate would need to have a flexible timetable and be available for rehearsals to suit the group’s plan at the Auditorio de Tenerife.
Once you fill in the application form online, you will receive a work that you must learn for the audition, which will take place from 21 September at the Auditorio de Tenerife.
Auditorio de Tenerife’s Coro Juvenil [Young Choir] carries out all their activity in agreement with the new safety and hygiene regulations. The island’s institution was the first auditorium in Spain to have its Contingency Plan to deal with Covid-19 certified by AENOR.
The Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife was set up in 2016 under the Education and Social Department of Auditorio de Tenerife with Roxana Schmunk as director. It includes the voices of some thirty young people aged 16 to 30 and has become a leading group in the Canaries choral culture, having also captivated audiences in different countries.
It has been internationally recognised with five gold medals and two Jury’s special prize won at the European Choir Games, (Sweden, 2019) and at the Festival de Coros de Verão de Lisboa (Portugal, 2017 and 2018). They also took first prize at the Concurso de Canto Coral de Canarias (Spain, 2017). The Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife has an increasingly successful record as they rise to new challenges.
At present the group is part of the Tenerife Artes Escénicas circuit [Tenerife Performing Arts circuit] and performs in activities designed to contribute to liven up and widen choral culture both on the island and in the rest of the Canaries. With an innovative staging, the Coro Juvenil sings a wide range of themes and music styles including sacred music, classical compositions, and contemporary music.
In their weekly rehearsals the pedagogical resources bring together emotion and art along with music learning, voice techniques and body language, with special emphasis on a real union among the singers aimed at achieving harmony to convey a unique sound chromaticism.
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North Korea South Korea
KOREAN COUNTDOWN: GETTING TOGETHER SURE BEATS STAYING APART, BEATING YOUR CHEST AND PLAYING WITH YOUR RED BUTTON
Tom Plate May 26, 2018 No Comments Kim Jong-unKorean PeninsulaMoon Jae-intom plate
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST COLUMNIST TOM PLATE WRITES – To appreciate the sageuk drama unfolding on the Korean Peninsula, understand that not just two Korean entities have starring roles in history’s cast but three. The first is the Republic of Korea of the south – developmentally accomplished, politically volatile. The second is the Korea of the north – dead-pool polity, cultish culture. The formal entity is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a UN member-state and diplomatic primate. For the DPRK – the mechanistic, militaristic superstructure- negotiating a de-nuclear deal with the U.S. may prove impossible.
But the North Korean people– 25 million souls or so – might now be sensing that going it alone for much longer is impossible, that it is time to re-tribalize, that the agony must be eased. Something has to give. And something just might happen, in part due to the strategic vision and emotional largesse of Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s president and his growing fan base.
Yes, his South Korea is not dramatically more unified politically than the Korean Peninsula, and appears to be split between those who prefer to keep what they have, and those who are willing to share. So, yet again, the fate of the Peninsula is linked to the political will and heart of outsiders.
But they may not turn out to be of decisive help. Neighboring Japan always comes up problematic, with its history of occupation of Korea negating its potential contributions. Russia is never irrelevant, but Putin, its President, is focused elsewhere, and will keep out of the path of China. From the U.S. perspective, the unwavering belief is that big China can yank little Pyongyang around at will.
If Washington’s suspicion is right – in fact, it’s questionable – then, ironically enough, the key outside player here is not President Donald Trump (only a tweet or two shy of being self-nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize!): After all, the experienced American real-estate mogul is dreadfully inexperienced in international matters. His instincts are brassy and cinematic, not careful and diplomatic; his advisors are less the cream of the U.S. foreign-affairs crop than a clamorous kennel of barky attack-dogs and preening show-dogs. If anyone can poop a potential peace party, is it not growly John Bolton, now the national security chief? Why we go to extremes to appear tough, when the whole point of toughness to avoid extremities? Mr Trump would be better off at the summit solely with First Lady Melania and a suitcase of his better instincts. Leave the hounds behind and when you need advice run it by Singapore’s experienced Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
Mr Trump has already said: “The United States is committed to the complete and permanent denuclearization of North Korea…. China can fix this problem easily and quickly…. I know one thing about your president: If he works on it hard, it will happen. There’s no doubt about it.” Our president may be foolish to believe that China’s President Xi’s snapping-fingers can so blithely bring the missile-nuclearized North Korea to its pacific senses. (The pat notion that the ideology of communism blurs borders and automatically makes irrelevant national interests is sophomoric.) But he is not a fool to hope there is something un-ordinary about Mr Xi (“a very respected man,” Trump actually says).
On some level, Mr Trump must be aware that he is no Xi. It is the latter’s genetic lineage and lifetime of hard learning and thorough training that served to put him at the top of the new colossus. In the matter of Korea, in fact, this could be Mr Xi Jinping’s moment of self-definition – and who knows, a more glorious peace-making moment for him may never emerge, no matter how many terms he serves. Great leaders step into a crisis because they know someone has to; political poseurs and bumbling bureaucrats will duck and scurry — cautious beyond sincerity. Even so, China’s President is burdened by past Chinese diplomacy that in style and substance has been so subtle and cautious as to risk being null. Can Mr Xi – perhaps behind the scenes – pull off the impossible: help seal the beginning stage of a serious deal in Singapore, should the much-hyped summit take place?
Under his government, China’s mandarin-nerd approach in diplomacy is giving way to one with more pop. This is apparent at the United Nations and at other international venues, such as the World Economic Forum in Davos. Having cooperated in the sanctions against Pyongyang, Mr Xi could now help organize, very quietly, a blockbuster bailout and security guarantee via a condominium-like agreement with Washington, all the current tension notwithstanding. His government would certainly have credibility; Mr Xi Jinping may have the right stuff. Political advisers of the special mettle of Mr Wang Qishan or Mr Wang Huning might whisper in his ear that the beleaguered Mr Trump might fork over a very nice return indeed for a Nobel Peace Prize setup.
The optimism in me likes this scenario, but optimism and Korea go together as rarely as sunshine and Chongqing. This takes us back to the two (or three) Koreas and the return of tribalism. History tells us that outside powers do not worry excessively about providing probity for smaller powers. In this analysis Mr Kim Jong-un’s most likely savior or guarantor is not Beijing or Washington but Seoul. Republic of Korea’s Lee Jae-in is eagerly waiting to deal for real (nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize). It may be getting close to the moment when the two Koreas begin to fully accept that a brighter future is to be found mainly in their own stars and in no one else’s heart. It may be impudent, but it is also necessary to ask: Who really, sincerely cares about Korea besides Koreans?
Columnist Tom Plate, the Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific Studies at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has been writing about Asia since 1996. He has interviewed South Korean presidents and is the author of the Giants of Asia book ‘Conversations with Ban Ki-moon’. An earlier version of this column appeared in the South China Morning Post. (c) Professor Tom Plate, 2018
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BILL NO A10595
SAME AS SAME AS S08599
SPONSOR Rules (Abinanti)
COSPNSR Paulin, Griffin, McDonald, Steck, Walker, Dickens, D'Urso, Mosley, Tague, Burke, Santabarbara, McDonough, Colton, Ramos, Taylor, Arroyo, Darling, Thiele, Gunther, McMahon, Reyes, Lupardo, Crouch, DeStefano, Brabenec, Mikulin, Finch, Barron, Zebrowski, Englebright, Reilly, Palumbo
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Provides a temporary retirement incentive for certain public employees (Part A); provides an age 55/25 years temporary retirement incentive for certain public employees (Part B).
A10595 Actions:
06/05/2020 referred to governmental employees
A10595 Committee Votes:
A10595 Floor Votes:
There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
A10595 Text:
IN ASSEMBLY
Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Abinanti) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to provide a temporary retirement incentive for certain public
employees (Part A); and to provide an age 55/25 years temporary
retirement incentive for certain public employees (Part B)
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act enacts into law components of legislation that
2 would enable public employers to offer a temporary retirement incentive
3 to their employees, as well as to provide an age 55/25 years temporary
4 incentive for certain public employees. Each component is wholly
5 contained within a Part identified as Parts A and B. The effective date
6 for each particular provision contained within such Part is set forth in
7 the last section of such part. Any provision in any section contained
8 within a Part, including the effective date of the Part, which makes
9 reference to a section "of this act", when used in connection with that
10 particular component, shall be deemed to mean and refer to the corre-
11 sponding section of the Part in which it is found, unless noted other-
12 wise. The benefits of this act shall not be applicable to anyone who
13 first became a member of a public retirement system of the state on or
14 after January first, two thousand ten.
15 § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds and declares that the
16 retirement benefits provided for in this act are designed to achieve
17 cost-savings for public employers and to avoid layoffs of public employ-
18 ees in this time of fiscal need. Therefore, the retirement incentive
19 benefit provided for in Part A of this act and the age 55/25 years
20 retirement benefit provided for in Part B of this act are intended only
21 to be temporary in nature for employees who are eligible to receive and
22 qualify for the applicable benefit during the applicable time periods
23 specified within each Part. Further, nothing in this act shall be
24 construed to create an expectation of a future or continuing retirement
25 benefit for any public employee who is not eligible to receive and qual-
26 ify for the retirement benefits in this act during the applicable time
27 periods.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16471-02-0
A. 10595 2
1 PART A
2 Section 1. Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context clear-
3 ly requires otherwise:
4 a. "Retirement system" means the New York state and local employees'
5 retirement system, the New York state teachers' retirement system, the
6 New York city teachers' retirement system, the New York city board of
7 education retirement system or the New York city employees' retirement
8 system, exclusive of the retirement plans established pursuant to
9 sections 13-156 and 13-157 of the administrative code of the city of New
10 York.
11 b. "Teachers' retirement system" means the New York state teachers'
12 retirement system or the New York city teachers' retirement system.
13 c. "Optional retirement program" means the programs established pursu-
14 ant to the provisions of section 181, 391 or 6251 of the education law;
15 or continued pursuant to section 3 of chapter 980 of the laws of 1962.
16 d. "State employer" means (a) the executive branch of the state, (b)
17 the state-operated institutions of the state university of New York, (c)
18 the statutory and contract colleges operated pursuant to section 357 of
19 the education law, (d) the state university construction fund (herein-
20 after referred to in this act as the "fund"), (e) a cooperative exten-
21 sion association (hereinafter referred to in this act as the "associ-
22 ation"), (f) the city university of New York as defined in subdivision 2
23 of section 6202 of the education law, (g) the unified court system, (h)
24 the senate, (i) the assembly, and (j) joint legislative employers.
25 e. (a) "Participating employer" means an employer, other than a state
26 employer, which participates in a retirement system; such term shall
27 include a community college operating under the program of the state
28 university of New York.
29 (b) "Educational employer" means a participating employer which is a
30 school district, a board of cooperative educational services, a voca-
31 tional education and extension board, an institution for the instruction
32 of the deaf and of the blind as enumerated in section 4201 of the educa-
33 tion law, or a school district as enumerated in section 1 of chapter 566
34 of the laws of 1967, as amended.
35 f. "Eligible employee" means a person who is a member of a retirement
36 system or a participant in an optional retirement program who is an
37 employee in the executive branch of a state employer or an employee of a
38 state employer or a participating employer which makes an election under
39 this section or section four of this act, but such term shall not
40 include the following persons:
41 (a) elected officials, judges or justices appointed to or serving in a
42 court of record and acting village justices;
43 (b) chief administrative officers of participating employers which
44 participate in a teachers' retirement system;
45 (c) officers described in sections 4, 41-a, 46, 61, 70, 70-a, 169
46 (including those officers whose salary is established pursuant to salary
47 plans under subdivision 3 of section 169), 180 and subdivision 1 of
48 section 41 of the executive law and any agency or department head
49 appointed by the governor, comptroller or attorney general;
50 (d) appointed members of boards or commissions any of whose members
51 are appointed by the governor or by another state officer or body;
52 (e) nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system
53 unless the chief administrator of the courts elects as provided herein,
54 which election shall cover only nonjudicial officers and employees hold-
1 ing positions in any title in the classified service of the unified
2 court system;
3 (f) officers or employees of the senate unless the senate adopts a
4 resolution authorizing the temporary president to file the election as
5 provided in this subdivision;
6 (g) officers or employees of the assembly unless the assembly adopts a
7 resolution authorizing the speaker of the assembly to file the election
8 as provided in this subdivision; and
9 (h) officers or employees of joint legislative employers unless:
10 (i) with respect to officers or employees of the legislative library,
11 legislative messenger service, legislative health service, legislative
12 ethics commission, the legislative bill drafting commission, and the
13 joint line of the legislative task force on demographic research and
14 reapportionment, the senate and assembly adopt a concurrent resolution
15 authorizing the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
16 assembly to jointly file an election as provided in this subdivision;
17 (ii) with respect to officers or employees of components of the senate
18 as identified pursuant to section 90 of the legislative law, the senate
19 adopts a resolution authorizing the temporary president to file an
20 election for officers or employees of those components designated in
21 such resolution; and
22 (iii) with respect to officers or employees of components of the
23 assembly as identified pursuant to section 90 of the legislative law,
24 the assembly adopts a resolution authorizing the speaker of the assembly
25 to file an election for officers or employees of those components desig-
26 nated in such resolution.
27 Any election under paragraphs (e) through (h) of this subdivision to
28 make available the retirement incentive program provided by this act
29 shall be in writing and filed with the state comptroller not later than
30 ninety days after the effective date of this act. Notwithstanding any
31 other provision of this act, each such filing shall specify the
32 commencement date and the length of the open period. Only one open peri-
33 od shall be made available for employees covered by elections under
34 paragraphs (e) through (h) of this subdivision.
35 For the purposes of such paragraphs (f), (g) or (h) of this subdivi-
36 sion, an employee of the legislature shall be as such term is defined in
37 section 7-a, 7-b or 7-d of the legislative law or by any other provision
38 of law which classifies employees of an entity to be legislative employ-
39 ees for all purposes, but shall not include senators or members of the
40 assembly. The term "joint legislative employer" shall mean legislative
41 commissions, committees, task forces, councils or similar bodies whose
42 membership is comprised of both senators and assembly members, or which
43 consist of commissioners, or the majority of whose membership is
44 appointed by one or more of the following: the temporary president of
45 the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the
46 senate, and/or the minority leader of the assembly. The temporary presi-
47 dent of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall be the joint
48 legislative employer of the employees of the legislature referred to in
49 sections 7-a and 7-b of the legislative law.
50 g. "Eligible title" means any title where a certain number of posi-
51 tions in that title, as identified by agency, department, work location
52 or appointing authority, college or campus, as the case may be, would
53 otherwise be identified for layoff but for this act because of economy,
54 consolidation or abolition of functions, curtailment of activities or
55 otherwise. However, an eligible title can also include a title as iden-
56 tified by agency, department, work location or appointing authority in
1 which positions would not be eliminated but into which employees in
2 titles affected by layoff can be transferred or reassigned pursuant to
3 the civil service law, rule or regulation. The determination of eligible
4 titles shall be made by: (a) the appointing authority, subject to the
5 approval of the director of state operations for titles within the exec-
6 utive branch, (b) the board of trustees for the state university
7 (including the association) subject to the approval of the director of
8 state operations, the fund, the city university of New York and of each
9 community college operating under the program of the state university,
10 (c) the person or persons who elect under paragraphs (e) through (h) of
11 subdivision f of this section to offer the retirement incentive provided
12 by this act, and (d) the chief executive officer or other comparable
13 official for participating employers other than the community colleges.
14 h. "College faculty" means an employee, not in the classified service,
15 of a state employer described in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f)
16 of subdivision d of this section or of a community college who is a
17 member of a teachers' retirement system, the New York state and local
18 employees' retirement system or a participant in an optional retirement
19 program.
20 i. "Active service" means service while being paid on the payroll,
21 provided that (a) a leave of absence with pay shall be deemed active
22 service; (b) other approved leave without pay not to exceed twelve weeks
23 from February 1, 2020 and the commencement of the designated open peri-
24 od; and (c) the period of time subsequent to the June 2020 school term
25 and on or before August 31, 2020 for a teacher (or other employee
26 employed on a school-year basis) who is otherwise in active service on
27 February 1, 2020 shall be deemed active service.
28 j. "Open period" means the period beginning with the commencement date
29 as defined in subdivision k of this section and shall not be more than
30 ninety days nor less than thirty days in length, as specified by the
31 director of state operations or by a participating employer pursuant to
32 section four of this act, by the appropriate board of trustees for the
33 state university (including the association), the fund, the city univer-
34 sity of New York or a community college operating under a program of the
35 state university or by a state employer described in paragraphs (g),
36 (h), (i) and (j) of subdivision d of this section; provided however that
37 any such period shall not extend beyond September 30, 2020 for the exec-
38 utive branch of a state employer described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of
39 subdivision d of this section (except for college faculty), not beyond
40 December 31, 2020 for participating employers, college faculty for a
41 state employer described in paragraph (b) of subdivision d of this
42 section, state employers described in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of
43 subdivision d of this section, not beyond January 31, 2021 for college
44 faculty of an employer described in paragraph (f) of subdivision d of
45 this section, and not beyond August 31, 2020 for educational employers.
46 For the purposes of retirement pursuant to this act, a service retire-
47 ment application must be filed with the appropriate retirement system
48 not less than fourteen days prior to the effective date of retirement to
49 become effective, unless a shorter period of time is permitted under
50 law.
51 k. "Commencement date" means the first day the retirement incentive
52 authorized by this act shall be made available, which shall mean a date
53 on or after the effective date of this act to be determined by the
54 director of state operations for the executive branch of the state, and
55 which date shall occur no later than thirty days before September 30,
56 2020 or for any participating employer a date on or after the effective
1 date of this act. For any other state employer, such term shall mean a
2 date on or after the effective date of this act and shall occur no later
3 than thirty days before September 30, 2020. The director of state oper-
4 ations shall notify the head of the appropriate retirement system of the
5 date of each open period applicable to employees of the executive branch
6 or of a state employer prior to the commencement date.
7 § 2. The determination of whether a title shall be considered eligible
8 shall consider whether the reduction of a specific number of positions
9 within a title would unacceptably:
10 a. Directly result in a reduction of the level of service required or
11 mandated to protect and care for clients of the state or a participating
12 employer or to assure public health and safety;
13 b. Endanger the health or safety of employees of the state or a
14 participating employer; or
15 c. Clearly result in a loss of significant revenue to the state or a
16 participating employer or result in substantially increased overtime or
17 contractual costs. However, upon the determination of the director of
18 state operations, with respect to employees of the executive branch of a
19 state employer, any titles may be determined eligible if the vacancies
20 created can be controlled by the use of transfer or reassignment
21 provisions of the civil service law, rules or regulations or other
22 deployment of state employees.
23 § 3. a. Eligibility for inclusion in the retirement incentive provided
24 by section six of this act shall be determined: (a) by seniority: for
25 participating employers and for state employers described in paragraphs
26 (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of subdivision d of section one of this
27 act, other than for college faculty; seniority shall mean the date of
28 original permanent appointment in the civil service of the state
29 adjusted to include veteran's credits for those entitled to receive such
30 credits pursuant to sections 80, 80-a and 85, if applicable, of the
31 civil service law, as established in the official records of the depart-
32 ment of civil service, regardless of the jurisdictional classification
33 of the position or the status of the incumbent; (b) by seniority, as
34 applicable for the unified court system; (c) for state employers
35 described in paragraphs (h), (i) and (j) of subdivision d of section one
36 of this act as determined by the person or persons who make the election
37 to offer the retirement incentive; and (d) for college faculty, by the
38 board of trustees of the state university, city university and of each
39 community college operating under the program of the state university.
40 b. All eligible employees serving in eligible titles desiring to avail
41 themselves of the retirement incentive provided by section six of this
42 act shall provide written notice to his or her employer on or before the
43 twenty-first day preceding the end of the open period, or before the end
44 of the applicable open period as such open period is determined by the
45 director of state operations. Failure to provide such written notice
46 shall render the employee ineligible for the retirement incentive
47 provided by this act.
48 § 4. a. On or before August 31, 2020, a participating employer or a
49 state employer described in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of
50 subdivision d of section one of this act may elect to provide its
51 employees the retirement incentive authorized by this act by (a) the
52 enactment of a local law or (b) in the case of a participating employer
53 which is not so empowered to act by local law or a state employer
54 described in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of subdivision d of
55 section one of this act, by the adoption of a resolution of its govern-
56 ing body; provided however, no local law or resolution enacted pursuant
1 to this section shall in any manner supersede any local charter,
2 provided further, that for an educational employer such election must be
3 made by July 30, 2020. The local law or resolution shall specify the
4 commencement date of the program and the length of the open period. For
5 a community college operating under the program of state university of
6 New York, such election shall be made by the board of trustees of such
7 community college subject to the approval of its sponsor. A copy of such
8 law or resolution shall be filed with the appropriate retirement system
9 or systems, and, if applicable, on forms provided by such system. The
10 local law or resolution shall be accompanied by the affidavit of the
11 chief executive officer or other comparable official certifying to the
12 information contained in subdivision b of this section.
13 b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the benefits provided
14 by this act shall not be made available to any person who (a) has
15 received any retirement incentive authorized by any provision of state
16 law, or (b) who receives, has received or is eligible to receive a
17 payment in a lump sum or in another form from a retirement incentive
18 pursuant to the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement or by
19 other arrangement with his or her employer, unless such person files a
20 written statement with his or her employer, a copy of which shall be
21 forwarded to the appropriate retirement system, that he or she agrees to
22 waive any right to such payment. A participating employer who makes an
23 election pursuant to this section and who offers or has offered a
24 retirement incentive pursuant to the provisions of a collective bargain-
25 ing agreement or by other arrangement shall prepare, and file with each
26 retirement system, a list containing the names and social security
27 numbers of all persons described in this subdivision. A participating
28 employer is authorized to exempt persons in its employ from the
29 provisions of paragraph (b) of this subdivision. Such exemption shall be
30 made part of the election made pursuant to this section.
31 c. Notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary,
32 the mayor of the city of New York may declare employees of the community
33 colleges of the city university of New York ineligible for the retire-
34 ment incentive provided by this act by filing such notification with the
35 chancellor of the city university of New York, with copies to the chair
36 of the senate finance committee, the chair of the assembly ways and
37 means committee and the director of the budget, in writing, no later
38 than the thirtieth day next succeeding the effective date of this act.
39 § 5. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any eligible employee
40 serving in an eligible title who:
41 a. has been continuously in the active service of a state employer or
42 of a participating employer from February 1, 2020 to the date immediate-
43 ly prior to the commencement date of the applicable open period;
44 b. files an application for service retirement (or files the appropri-
45 ate application and authorization form with the optional retirement
46 program and a duly acknowledged retirement incentive form for such
47 program with the appropriate personnel office) that is effective during
48 the open period; and
49 c. is otherwise eligible for a service retirement as of the effective
50 date of the application for retirement shall be entitled to the retire-
51 ment incentive provided in section six of this act. If not otherwise
52 eligible for a service retirement, the following person shall be deemed
53 to satisfy the eligibility condition of this section: a person who is at
54 least age fifty with ten or more years service as of the effective date
55 of retirement (other than a member of a retirement plan which provides
56 for half-pay pension upon completion of twenty-five years or less
1 service without regard to age); a member of a retirement plan which
2 provides for half-pay pension upon completion of twenty-five years of
3 service without regard to age who has not accrued, excluding additional
4 credit granted pursuant to this act, the minimum number of years of
5 service required to retire with an allowance equal to fifty percent of
6 final average salary under such plan, but has, with the inclusion of the
7 additional credit provided under this act, accrued such number of years
8 of credit; or a participant in an optional retirement plan at least
9 fifty years of age with ten years of service on an annual salary basis
10 with his or her employer as of the date of retirement.
11 § 6. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an eligible employee
12 serving in an eligible title who is:
13 a. A member of a retirement system and who is entitled to a retirement
14 incentive pursuant to section five of this act shall receive a retire-
15 ment incentive of one-twelfth of a year of additional retirement credit
16 for each year of pension service credited as of the date of retirement,
17 up to a maximum of three years of retirement service credit at the time
18 of retirement, provided, however, that service credit provided under the
19 provisions of sections 902 and 911 of the retirement and social security
20 law shall not be included when calculating the additional retirement
21 credit awarded pursuant to this act. For the New York city teachers'
22 retirement system, the New York city employees' retirement system and
23 the New York city board of education retirement system such incentive
24 shall be available for all purposes, including fulfilling the qualifying
25 service requirements of plan A and C, if applicable.
26 An eligible employee who is covered by the provisions of article 15 of
27 the retirement and social security law shall retire under the provisions
28 of article 15 of the retirement and social security law. The amount of
29 such benefit for an eligible employee who is covered by article 15 of
30 the retirement and social security law and retires under the provisions
31 of this section (other than a member with thirty or more years of
32 service in the New York state and local employees' retirement system or
33 a teachers' retirement system) shall be reduced by six percent for each
34 of the first two years by which retirement precedes age sixty-two, plus
35 a further reduction of three percent for each year by which retirement
36 precedes age sixty, provided, however, the foregoing reductions shall
37 not apply: (i) in any case where an eligible employee can retire after
38 twenty-five years of service with immediate payability prior to the age
39 of sixty-two pursuant to section 604-b of the retirement and social
40 security law or (ii) to any time period subsequent to the point at which
41 an eligible employee can retire for service without reduction of his or
42 her service retirement allowance pursuant to article 16 of the retire-
43 ment and social security law. Such reduction shall be prorated for
44 partial years. The amount of such benefit for an eligible employee with
45 thirty or more years of service who is a member of the New York state
46 and local employees' retirement system or a teachers' retirement system
47 or an eligible employee who is a participant in the optional twenty-five
48 year early retirement program for certain New York city members governed
49 by section 604-c of the retirement and social security law, as added by
50 chapter 96 of the laws of 1995 or a twenty-five year participant in the
51 age fifty-five retirement program governed by section 604-i of the
52 retirement and social security law, with twenty-five or more years of
53 service and who is covered by article 15 of the retirement and social
54 security law shall be reduced by five percent for each year by which
55 retirement pursuant to this section precedes age fifty-five. The amount
56 of such benefit for an eligible New York city employee with five or more
1 years of service and who is a participant in the age fifty-seven retire-
2 ment program governed by section 604-d of the retirement and social
3 security law shall be reduced by one-thirtieth for the first two years
4 by which retirement precedes age fifty-seven plus a further reduction of
5 one-twentieth for each year by which retirement precedes age fifty-five.
6 Such reduction shall be prorated for partial years. There shall be no
7 reduction for an eligible New York city employee in a physically taxing
8 position with twenty-five or more years of service and who is a partic-
9 ipant (i) in the optional twenty-five year early retirement program for
10 certain members governed by section 604-c of the retirement and social
11 security law, as added by chapter 96 of the laws of 1995, or (ii) in the
12 age fifty-seven retirement program governed by section 604-d of the
13 retirement and social security law.
14 An eligible employee serving in an eligible title who is covered by
15 article 11 of the retirement and social security law shall retire under
16 the provisions of such article. The amount of such benefit for an eligi-
17 ble employee covered by article 11 of the retirement and social security
18 law other than a member of a teachers' retirement system or a member of
19 the New York state and local employees' retirement system with thirty or
20 more years of service, a participant in the optional age fifty-five
21 improved benefit retirement program for certain New York city employees
22 governed by section 445-d of the retirement and social security law, as
23 added by chapter 96 of the laws of 1995, with twenty-five or more years
24 of service, or a participant in the optional age fifty-five retirement
25 program for New York city teachers and certain other members governed by
26 section 445-i of the retirement and social security law, with twenty-
27 five or more years of service, shall be reduced by six percent for each
28 of the first two years by which retirement pursuant to this section
29 precedes age sixty-two, plus a further reduction of three percent for
30 each year by which retirement pursuant to this section precedes age
31 sixty, provided, however, the foregoing reductions shall not apply: (i)
32 in any case where an eligible employee can retire pursuant to a plan
33 which permits retirement for service with immediate payability, exclu-
34 sive of this act, prior to the age of fifty-five or (ii) to any time
35 period subsequent to the point at which an eligible employee can retire
36 for service without reduction of his or her service retirement allowance
37 pursuant to article 16 of the retirement and social security law. Such
38 reduction shall be prorated for partial years. The amount of such bene-
39 fit for an eligible employee who is a member of a teachers' retirement
40 system or a member of the New York state and local employees' retirement
41 system with thirty or more years of service, a participant in the
42 optional age fifty-five improved benefit retirement program for certain
43 New York city employees governed by section 445-d of the retirement and
44 social security law, as added by chapter 96 of the laws of 1995, with
45 twenty-five or more years of service, or a participant in the optional
46 age fifty-five retirement program for New York city teachers and certain
47 other members governed by section 445-i of the retirement and social
48 security law, with twenty-five or more years of service and who is
49 covered by article 11 of the retirement and social security law shall be
50 reduced by five percent for each year by which retirement pursuant to
51 this section precedes age fifty-five. Such reduction shall be prorated
52 for partial years. There shall be no reduction for an eligible New York
53 city employee in a physically taxing position and who is a participant
54 in the optional age fifty-five improved benefit retirement program for
55 certain New York city employees governed by section 445-d of the retire-
1 ment and social security law, as added by chapter 96 of the laws of
2 1995, with twenty-five or more years of service.
3 An eligible employee serving in an eligible title who is not covered
4 by article 11 or 15 of the retirement and social security law shall
5 retire under the provisions of the plan by which he or she is covered.
6 The amount of such benefit shall be reduced by five percent for each
7 year by which retirement pursuant to this section precedes age fifty-
8 five, provided, however, the foregoing reductions shall not apply: (i)
9 in any case where an eligible employee can retire pursuant to a plan
15 reduction shall be prorated for partial years.
16 An eligible employee serving in an eligible title who participates in
17 a retirement plan which provides for a retirement allowance equal to
18 fifty percent of final average salary upon the completion of twenty-five
19 years of service without regard to age and who is otherwise eligible to
20 retire shall retire under the provisions of such plan. Such employee
21 shall, at the time of retirement, be credited with one-twelfth of a year
22 of additional retirement service credit for each year of service credit-
23 ed under such plan as of the date of retirement, up to a maximum of
24 three years of retirement service credit, subject to the provisions of
25 subdivision b of this section. If such employee has not accrued, exclud-
26 ing additional credit granted pursuant to this act, the minimum number
27 of years of service required to retire with an allowance equal to fifty
28 percent of final average salary under such plan, but has, with the
29 inclusion of the additional credit provided under this act, accrued such
30 number of years of credit, the benefit payable shall be the percentage
31 of final average salary that would ordinarily be applicable to such
32 individual upon retirement with such amount of credit (including incen-
33 tive credit), reduced by five per centum per year for each year by which
34 the number of years of service otherwise required to retire with an
35 allowance equal to fifty percent of final average salary under such plan
36 exceeds the amount of service credited to such employee under such plan
37 at retirement (excluding the additional retirement incentive service
38 credit provided pursuant to this act). Such reduction shall be prorated
39 for partial years.
40 b. A participant in an optional retirement program who is entitled to
41 a retirement incentive pursuant to section five of this act shall
42 receive an additional employer contribution equal to an amount, which
43 shall be calculated as follows: (one-twelfth for each year of service)
44 multiplied by (fifteen percent) multiplied by (the employee's earnable
45 annual salary rate in effect on March 1, 2020 or the effective date of
46 this act if the employee retires prior to March 1, 2020), such amount
47 not to exceed forty-five percent of such salary rate. Such contribution
48 shall be made to the employee's retirement annuity under the optional
49 retirement program up to the maximum contribution allowable under
50 section 415 of the internal revenue code. Any contribution in excess of
51 that limit shall be contributed by the employer to an internal revenue
52 code section 403(b) contract on behalf of the employee to the extent it
53 can be contributed on a before-tax basis under the maximum limits
54 allowed under the internal revenue code. Contributions in excess of that
55 amount shall be paid in cash to the participant in three equal install-
56 ments during a twenty-four month period commencing on such eligible
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1 employee's effective date of retirement. Provided, however, if the
2 employee is employed by the city university of New York and in the
3 active service of such employer on October 1, 2020 or the effective date
4 of this act if the employee retires prior to October 1, 2020, the
5 employee's earnable annual salary rate shall be the annual salary rate
6 in effect on such applicable date.
7 § 7. a. An employee of a state employer, other than the city universi-
8 ty of New York, who retires pursuant to this act may defer calculation
9 of the value of accumulated sick leave credits, if any, and partic-
10 ipation in the state health insurance plan.
11 b. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any termination pay or
12 leave arising from accrued sick leave or accrued annual leave for an
13 eligible employee who has elected the retirement incentive provided by
14 this act and who is a member of the New York city teachers' retirement
15 system employed by the board of education of the city of New York shall
16 be paid in three equal installments during a twenty-four month period
17 commencing on such eligible employee's effective date of retirement.
18 c. An employee of the city of New York or the city university of New
19 York, as defined in subdivision 2 of section 6202 of the education law,
20 who retires under the retirement incentive provided by this act, who is
21 eligible for terminal leave pursuant to an applicable collective
22 bargaining agreement or a personnel policy or rule or retirement leave
23 pursuant to section 3107 of the education law or who has an accrued
24 annual leave balance on the effective date of retirement shall be paid
25 in three equal installments two months, fourteen months and twenty-four
26 months following such eligible employee's effective date of retirement.
27 § 8. a. With respect to employees of the executive branch of a state
28 employer, any position, other than a position supported by special
29 revenue funds, vacated as a result of an eligible employee in an eligi-
30 ble title receiving the retirement incentive provided by section six of
31 this act shall be eliminated unless such position is identified by the
32 director of state operations as one into which another state employee
33 can be appointed, transferred or reassigned pursuant to the civil
34 service law, rules or regulations, in which case the former position of
35 the state employee so appointed, transferred or reassigned shall be
36 eliminated.
37 b. The director of state operations shall direct the department of
38 civil service to prepare a report designating the title, grade level,
39 salary, and classification, according to appointing authority, (i) of
40 each position which is eliminated pursuant to subdivision a of this
41 section, (ii) of each position into which another state employee was
42 appointed, transferred, or reassigned and the former position of such
43 state employee, and (iii) of each position which is eliminated as a
44 result of an appointment, transfer or reassignment referred to in para-
45 graph (ii) of this subdivision. Such report shall be available no later
46 than ninety days after the last date of the open period related to such
47 positions.
48 § 9. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of section eight of
49 this act or any other provision of law:
50 a. A participating employer or a state employer described in para-
51 graphs (b) through (e) of subdivision d of section one of this act shall
52 not be required to eliminate the positions of eligible employees in
53 eligible titles receiving the retirement incentive provided by section
54 six of this act if such employer can demonstrate that it will achieve a
55 compensation savings such that the total amount of base salary paid for
56 the two-year period subsequent to the effective date of retirement for
1 such eligible employees in eligible titles to those new hires, if any,
2 who otherwise would not have been hired by such employer after the
3 effective date of this act but for the retirement incentive provided
4 herein shall be no more than one-half of the total amount of base salary
5 that would have been paid to such eligible employees from their date of
6 retirement for such two-year period. Each such employer shall make
7 available its plans for achieving these savings.
8 b. The city of New York or the city university of New York, as defined
9 in subdivision 2 of section 6202 of the education law, shall not be
10 required to eliminate the positions of eligible employees in eligible
11 titles receiving the retirement incentive provided by section six of
12 this act if such participating employer can demonstrate that it will
13 achieve a compensation or equivalent headcount savings such that the
14 total amount of compensation including benefits paid for the two-year
15 period subsequent to the effective date of retirement for such eligible
16 employees in eligible titles to those new hires, if any, who otherwise
17 would not have been hired by such employer after the effective date of
18 this act but for the retirement incentive provided herein shall be no
19 more than one-half of the total amount of base salary that would have
20 been paid to such eligible employees from their date of retirement for
21 such two-year period. For purposes of this subdivision, the "city of New
22 York" shall mean the city of New York or a participating employer a
23 majority of the members of whose governing body are: (a) appointed by
24 the mayor of the city of New York or other citywide elected official, a
25 borough president of the city of New York, or any combination thereof;
26 (b) designated by virtue of their city of New York office or position or
27 their office or position with a participating employer whose governing
28 board is described in paragraph (a) of this subdivision; or (c)
29 appointed or designated by any combination of the foregoing. Each such
30 employer shall make available its plans for achieving these savings.
31 c. To the extent any transfer of personnel between the state employer
32 described in paragraph (a) of subdivision d of section one of this act
33 and the state employer described in paragraph (b) of subdivision d of
34 section one of this act occurs pursuant to a voluntary transfer of state
35 personnel, or otherwise, the provisions of subdivision a of this section
36 with respect to achieving savings shall be applicable. Nothing herein
37 shall be construed to impair the authority of the director of state
38 operations pursuant to subdivision g of section one or section two of
39 this act.
40 § 10. Nothing in this act shall be used to provide benefits that shall
41 exceed the limits contained in section 415 of the internal revenue code.
42 Provided, however, any service retirement benefit which has been reduced
43 because of section 415 of the internal revenue code shall be increased
44 when (and consistent with) the dollar limits in section 415 of the
45 internal revenue code are adjusted by the internal revenue service for
46 cost of living increases. Such increases shall not increase the benefit
47 in excess of the service retirement benefit otherwise payable.
48 § 11. Any eligible employee who retires pursuant to the provisions of
49 this act and enters or reenters public service as defined in subdivision
50 e of section 210 of the retirement and social security law and joins or
51 rejoins any public retirement system of the state as defined in subdivi-
52 sion 6 of section 152 of the retirement and social security law or
53 elects to participate in an optional retirement program shall if the
54 additional benefit was provided pursuant to: (a) subdivision a of
55 section six of this act, forfeit the additional benefit authorized by
56 this act at the time of his or her subsequent retirement; or (b) subdi-
1 vision b of section six of this act, repay to the state or participating
2 employer such additional contribution together with the appropriate
3 interest as determined by the state comptroller.
4 § 12. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the service
5 retirement benefit of a member of a retirement system is subject to a
6 maximum retirement benefit, the additional benefit authorized by this
7 act will be computed by multiplying the final average salary times the
8 number of years of service credit granted by section six of this act
9 times the benefit fraction of the plan under which such member retires.
10 § 13. The provisions of section 430 of the retirement and social secu-
11 rity law shall not apply to any benefit or benefit improvement provided
12 by this act.
13 § 14. The pension benefit costs of subdivision a of section six of
14 this act shall be paid by employers as provided by applicable law for
15 each retirement system covered by this act over a period not to exceed
16 five years commencing in the state fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.
17 § 15. Where an employee is eligible to receive the benefit authorized
18 under section six and the retirement benefit provided for under section
19 five of part B of the chapter of the laws of 2020 which added this part,
20 such employee may elect a section under which he or she will partic-
21 ipate.
22 § 16. This act shall take effect immediately.
23 PART B
24 Section 1. Definitions. As used in this act, unless the context clear-
25 ly requires otherwise:
26 a. "Retirement system" means the New York state and local employees'
27 retirement system, the New York state teachers' retirement system, the
28 New York city teachers' retirement system, the New York city board of
29 education retirement system or the New York city employees' retirement
30 system, exclusive of the retirement plans established pursuant to
31 sections 13-156 and 13-157 of the administrative code of the city of New
35 c. "State employer" means (a) the executive branch of the state, (b)
37 the statutory and contract colleges operated pursuant to section 357 of
38 the education law, (d) the state university construction fund (herein-
39 after referred to in this act as the "fund"), (e) a cooperative exten-
40 sion association (hereinafter referred to in this act as the "associ-
41 ation"), and (f) the city university of New York as defined in
42 subdivision 2 of section 6202 of the education law, (g) the unified
43 court system, (h) the senate, (i) the assembly, and (j) joint legisla-
44 tive employers.
45 d. (a) "Participating employer" means an employer, other than a state
46 employer, which participates in a retirement system; such term shall
47 include a community college operating under the program of state univer-
48 sity of New York.
1 e. "Eligible employee" means a person who is a member of a retirement
2 system who is an employee in the executive branch of a state employer or
3 an employee of a state employer or a participating employer who has
4 attained age fifty-five and has at least twenty-five years of creditable
5 service in a retirement system, but such term shall not include the
6 following persons:
7 (a) elected officials, judges or justices appointed to or serving in
8 court of record and acting village justices;
9 (b) chief administrative officers of participating employers which
11 (c) officers described in sections 4, 41-a, 46, 61, 70, 70-a, 169
13 plans under subdivision 3 of section 169), 180 and subdivision 1 of
14 section 41 of the executive law and any agency or department head
16 (d) appointed members of boards or commissions any of whose members
18 (e) nonjudicial officers and employees of the unified court system
19 unless the chief administrator of the courts elects as provided herein,
21 ing positions in any title in the classified service of the unified
22 court system;
23 (f) officers or employees of the senate unless the senate adopts a
24 resolution authorizing the temporary president to file the election as
25 provided in this subdivision;
26 (g) officers or employees of the assembly unless the assembly adopts a
27 resolution authorizing the speaker of the assembly to file the election
28 as provided in this subdivision; and
29 (h) officers or employees of joint legislative employers unless:
32 ethics committee, the legislative bill drafting commission, and the
48 make available the retirement incentive provided by this act shall be in
49 writing and filed with the state comptroller not later than ninety days
50 after the effective date of this act. Notwithstanding any other
51 provision of this act, each such filing shall specify the commencement
52 date of the open period.
53 For the purposes of such paragraph (f), (g) or (h) of this subdivi-
1 ees for all purposes, but shall not include senators or members of the
2 assembly. The term "joint legislative employer" shall mean legislative
3 commissions, committees, task forces, councils or similar bodies whose
4 membership is comprised of both senators and assembly members, or which
5 consist of commissioners, or the majority of whose membership is
6 appointed by one or more of the following: the temporary president of
7 the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the
8 senate, and/or the minority leader of the assembly. The temporary presi-
9 dent of the senate and the speaker of the assembly shall be the joint
10 legislative employer of the employees of the legislature referred to in
12 f. "College faculty" means an employee, not in the classified service,
13 of a state employer described in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f)
14 of subdivision c of this section or of a community college who is a
15 member of a teachers' retirement system, or the New York state and local
16 employees' retirement system.
17 g. "Active service" means service while being paid on the payroll,
18 provided that (a) a leave of absence with pay shall be deemed active
20 from February 1, 2020 and the commencement of the designated open peri-
21 od; and (c) the period of time subsequent to the June 2020 school term
22 and on or before August 31, 2020 for a teacher (or other employee
23 employed on a school-year basis) who is otherwise in active service on
24 the effective date of this act shall be deemed active service.
25 h. "Open period" means the period beginning with the commencement date
26 as defined in subdivision i of this section and shall be ninety days in
27 length; provided however that there shall be only one such open period
28 and any such period shall not extend beyond September 30, 2020 for a
29 state employer and December 31, 2020 for a participating employer. For
30 educational employers who make election after June 1, 2020, the open
31 period shall begin immediately after such election, and shall not extend
32 beyond August 31, 2020. For the purposes of retirement pursuant to this
33 act, a service retirement application must be filed with the appropriate
34 retirement system not less than fourteen days prior to the effective
35 date of retirement to become effective, unless a shorter period of time
36 is permitted under law.
37 i. "Commencement date" means the first day the retirement benefit
38 mandated by this act shall be made available, which shall mean a date or
39 dates on or after the effective date of this act to be determined by the
40 director of state operations for the executive branch of the state, or
41 for any other state employer or any participating employer which elects
42 to participate pursuant to section three of this act a date on or after
43 the effective date of this act; provided, however, that for an educa-
44 tional employer which elects to participate pursuant to section three of
45 this act, the commencement date shall be June 1, 2020; or immediately
46 after election of the retirement incentive for educational employers who
47 elect after June 1, 2020 and provided, further that for participating
48 employers which elect to participate pursuant to section three of this
49 act, except the city of New York and participating employers which are
50 not empowered to act by local law, the commencement date shall be Octo-
51 ber 1, 2020. The director of state operations shall notify the head of
52 the appropriate retirement system of the date of the open period appli-
53 cable to employees of the executive branch or of a state employer prior
54 to the commencement date.
55 § 2. a. A state employer which elects to participate pursuant to
56 section three of this act, participating employer which is not empowered
1 to act by local law which elects to participate pursuant to section
2 three of this act, or the city of New York, if it elects to participate
3 pursuant to section three of this act shall establish a commencement
4 date for the retirement benefit established under section five of this
5 act in the following manner: (a) for the executive branch, the director
6 of state operations shall establish the commencement date in writing to
7 the appropriate retirement system; (b) for state employers described in
8 paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of subdivision c of section one of
9 this act and participating employers that are not empowered to act by
10 local law, its governing body shall adopt a resolution establishing a
11 commencement date; (c) for state employers described in paragraphs (g),
12 (h), (i) and (j) of subdivision c of section one of this act, the person
13 or persons who make the election to offer the retirement incentive
14 pursuant to part A of the chapter of the laws of 2020 which added this
15 part shall establish a commencement date in writing to the appropriate
16 retirement system; and (d) for the city of New York, the chief executive
17 officer shall issue an executive order establishing the commencement
18 date, provided, however, no executive order, in the case of the city of
19 New York issued pursuant to this section, shall in any manner supersede
20 any local charter. A copy of any such resolution or executive order in
21 the case of the city of New York establishing a commencement date shall
22 be filed with the appropriate retirement system or systems, and, if
23 applicable, on forms provided by such system. The resolution or execu-
24 tive order in the case of the city of New York shall be accompanied by
25 the affidavit of the chief executive officer or other comparable offi-
26 cial certifying the commencement date.
27 b. A state employer, participating employer which is not empowered to
28 act by local law which elects to participate pursuant to section three
29 of this act, or the city of New York if it elects to participate pursu-
30 ant to section three of this act shall be required to establish a
31 commencement date under paragraph a of this subdivision for the retire-
32 ment benefit established under section five of this act. In the event
33 that a state employer, participating employer which is not empowered to
36 ant to section three of this act fails to establish a commencement date
37 for the retirement benefit established under section five of this act,
38 the commencement date for the eligible employees of a state employer
39 shall be July 1, 2020. The commencement date for the eligible employees
40 of all other employers referenced in this subdivision shall be September
41 1, 2020.
42 § 3. On or before September 1, 2020, a participating employer or a
43 state employer described in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of
44 subdivision c of section one of this act may elect to provide its
45 employees the retirement incentive authorized by this act by (a) the
46 enactment of a local law or (b) in the case of a participating employer
47 which is not so empowered to act by local law or a state employer
48 described in paragraphs (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) of subdivision c of
49 section one of this act, by the adoption of a resolution of its govern-
50 ing body; provided however, no local law or resolution enacted pursuant
51 to this section shall in any manner supersede any local charter,
52 provided further, that for an educational employer such election must be
53 made by July 1, 2020. For a community college operating under the
54 program of state university of New York, such election shall be made by
55 the board of trustees of such community college subject to the approval
56 of its sponsor. A copy of such law or resolution shall be filed with the
1 appropriate retirement system or systems, and, if applicable, on forms
2 provided by such system. The local law or resolution shall be accompa-
3 nied by the affidavit of the chief executive officer or other comparable
4 official certifying the validity of such local law or resolution. The
5 executive branch of the state shall be deemed to have made an election
6 under this section upon its enactment.
7 § 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any eligible employee
8 who (a) has been continuously in the active service of a state employer
9 or of a participating employer from February 1, 2020 to the date imme-
10 diately prior to the commencement date of the applicable open period,
11 (b) files an application for service retirement that is effective during
12 the open period, and (c) is otherwise eligible for a service retirement
13 as of the effective date of the application for retirement shall be
14 entitled to the retirement benefit provided in section five of this act.
15 § 5. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an eligible
16 employee who is: (a) a member of a retirement system and (b) who is
17 entitled to a retirement benefit pursuant to section four of this act
18 may retire during the open period without the reduction of his or her
19 retirement benefit that would otherwise be imposed by article 11 or 15
20 of the retirement and social security law if he or she has attained the
21 age of fifty-five and has completed at least twenty-five or more years
22 of creditable service. An eligible employee who is covered by the
23 provisions of articles 11 and 15 of the retirement and social security
24 law shall retire under the provisions of articles 11 and 15 of the
26 b. The director of state operations, the chief executive officer of
27 the city of New York, or chief executive officer or governing board, as
28 appropriate, of the participating employer may deny participation in the
29 retirement benefit provided by subdivision a of this section if the
30 director of state operations, the chief executive officer of New York
31 city or the chief executive officer or governing board of the partic-
32 ipating employer makes a determination that the employee holds a posi-
33 tion that is deemed critical to the maintenance of public health and
34 safety.
35 c. Where an employee is eligible for the retirement benefit under this
36 section and the retirement incentive authorized pursuant to section six
37 of part A of the chapter of the laws of 2020 which added this part, such
38 employee shall elect a section under which he or she will participate.
39 The benefits provided by subdivision a of this section shall not be
40 conditioned upon a state or participating employer making the benefits
41 of section six of part A of this act available to employees in their
42 employ. Further, the benefits provided by subdivision a of this section
43 shall not be available in conjunction with the benefits of section six
44 of part A of the chapter of the laws of 2020 which added this part.
45 d. The action of the director of state operations, the chief executive
46 officer of the city of New York, or chief executive officer or governing
47 board, as appropriate, of the participating employer in denying the
48 retirement benefit provided for in subdivision a of this section to any
49 individual shall be subject to review in the manner provided for in
50 article 78 of the civil practice law and rules. Such action for review
51 pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules
52 shall only be commenced by the individual that was denied the retirement
53 benefit provided by subdivision a of this section.
54 e. After making any such determination under subdivision b of this
55 section, the director of state operations, the chief executive officer
56 of the city of New York and the chief executive officer or governing
1 board, as appropriate, of the participating employer shall notify the
2 appropriate retirement system or teachers' retirement system of its
3 determination.
4 § 6. The pension benefit costs of section five of this act shall be
5 paid by employers as provided by applicable law for each retirement
6 system covered by this act over a period not to exceed five years
7 commencing in the state fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.
8 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
9 § 3. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
10 sion, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of
11 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
12 impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
13 its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
14 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
15 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
16 the legislature that this act would have been enacted even if such
17 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
18 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
19 the applicable effective date of Parts A and B of this act shall be as
20 specifically set forth in the last section of such Parts.
FISCAL NOTE.--Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill would provide a temporary retirement incentive for fiscal
year 2020-2021 for eligible members of the New York State Teachers'
Retirement System (NYSTRS). In Part A of the retirement incentive,
employers who elect to participate would provide certain eligible
employees a retirement incentive of one-twelfth of a year of additional
service credit per year of accrued service credit up to a maximum of
three additional years. To be eligible, a member must have attained age
50 or greater, with at least ten years of service. Members not subject
to an early retirement reduction and less than age 55 at retirement will
have their benefit reduced by five percent for each year their age
precedes 55.
Part B of the retirement incentive would permit eligible Tier 2, 3 and
4 members of employers who elect to participate to retire without early
retirement reductions upon attainment of at least age 55 with 25 years
of service. Currently 30 years of service are required.
In order to receive either the Part A or Part B benefit, an eligible
member of an employer who has elected to participate must retire during
the employer's designated open period. For Part A, such open period
shall be at least 30 but not more than 90 days in length and for educa-
tional employers, shall not extend beyond August 31, 2020. For Part B,
the open period shall begin immediately after the election to partic-
ipate and shall not extend beyond August 31, 2020. Members may not
receive a benefit under both Part A and Part B. Employers participating
in Part A or Part B (or both) would pay the cost of the retirement
incentive over a period not to exceed five years, beginning in the state
fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.
It is not possible to accurately forecast the total cost to the New
York State Teachers' Retirement System employers electing to participate
in this retirement incentive because the number of eligible members
electing to retire under the incentive, their ages and the amount of
service credited cannot be readily estimated. The Part A cost, measured
as the increase in the present value of benefit per participating
member, however, will range from 5% to approximately 250% of final aver-
age salary, depending on the member's age, years of service, and tier at
retirement. The Part B cost per participating member will range from 3%
to approximately 200% of final average salary, depending on the member's
age, years of service, and tier at retirement. The potential number of
members eligible to benefit under Part A is much greater than under Part
Member data is from the System's most recent actuarial valuation
files, consisting of data provided by the employers to the Retirement
System. Data distributions and statistics can be found in the System's
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). System assets are as
reported in the System's financial statements, and can also be found in
the CAFR. Actuarial assumptions and methods are provided in the System's
Actuarial Valuation Report.
The source of this estimate is Fiscal Note 2020-26 dated June 3, 2020
prepared by the Actuary of the New York State Teachers' Retirement
System and is intended for use only during the 2020 Legislative Session.
I, Richard A. Young, am the Actuary for the New York State Teachers'
Retirement System. I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries
and I meet the Qualification Standards of the American Academy of Actu-
aries to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
FISCAL NOTE.-- Pursuant to Legislative Law, Section 50:
This bill would provide additional service credit (one-twelfth of a
year for each year of non-sick leave, non-Article 19 service credited as
of the date of retirement, up to a maximum of three years) for certain
members of the New York State and Local Employees' Retirement System,
New York State Teachers Retirement System, New York City Teachers
Retirement System, New York City Board of Education and the New York
City Employees' Retirement System. Further, for certain members who are
not otherwise eligible for a service retirement benefit, this bill would
provide the ability to retire with reductions. This benefit would be
available to only targeted positions.
In addition, this bill would eliminate the early retirement reductions
at 25 years of service instead of at 30 years of service for retirement
during a specified 90 day period for Tier 2, 3 and 4 members of the New
York State and Local Employees' Retirement System, New York State Teach-
ers Retirement System, New York City Teachers Retirement System, New
York City Board of Education and the New York City Employees' Retirement
System. Employers electing this provision can declare health and safety
positions to be ineligible.
Retiring members may not receive both the additional service credit
and the elimination of the early retirement reductions at 25 years of
service instead of at 30 years of service.
If this bill is enacted, insofar as it affects the New York State and
Local Employees' Retirement System (ERS), the additional cost for each
member who receives these benefits will vary depending on the member's
age, years of service, retirement plan and final average salary.
We anticipate that the per-member cost (at retirement) of the addi-
tional service credit benefit will average approximately 65% of a
member's final average salary. This cost will be borne by each employer
electing the incentive over a period not to exceed five years commencing
with a payment in the State fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.
We anticipate that the per-member cost (at retirement) of the elimi-
nation of the early retirement reductions at 25 years of service instead
of at 30 years of service will average approximately 110% of a member's
final average salary. This cost will be borne by each employer electing
the incentive over a period not to exceed five years commencing with a
payment in the State fiscal year ending March 31, 2022.
Summary of relevant resources:
The membership data used in measuring the impact of the proposed
change was the same as that used in the March 31, 2019 actuarial valu-
ation. Distributions and other statistics can be found in the 2019
Report of the Actuary and the 2019 Comprehensive Annual Financial
The actuarial assumptions and methods used are described in the 2015,
2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 Annual Report to the Comptroller on Actuarial
Assumptions, and the Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New
York: Audit and Control.
The Market Assets and GASB Disclosures are found in the March 31, 2019
New York State and Local Retirement System Financial Statements and
Supplementary Information.
I am a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and meet the Quali-
fication Standards to render the actuarial opinion contained herein.
This fiscal note does not constitute a legal opinion on the viability
of the proposed change nor is it intended to serve as a substitute for
the professional judgment of an attorney.
This estimate, dated June 1, 2020, and intended for use only during
the 2020 Legislative Session, is Fiscal Note No. 2020-116, prepared by
the Actuary for the New York State and Local Retirement System.
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The Team 2019- Present
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 4, 2020
LIVERPOOL, NS — The historic Astor Theatre in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, will remain closed for the spring and summer, the theatre’s board of directors announced today in response to ongoing precautions around the COVID-19 pandemic.
All events planned for the theatre up to Sept. 1 have been either cancelled or re-scheduled. The annual summer theatre camp has also been cancelled for this year. Any tickets for live events that patrons have purchased will be valid for the re-scheduled date.
The board made these difficult decisions to respect the safety of the Astor’s staff, performers and patrons.
Kristopher Snarby, chairman of the Astor Theatre Society, thanked all of the theatre’s staff for their commitment and dedication.
“We also want to thank our community for their ongoing support and we want to assure them that this is only a temporary closure,” Snarby said. “We look forward to reopening when we can.”
The Astor Theatre is the artistic hub of Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Built in 1902 as part of Liverpool’s historic town hall, it was originally known as the Liverpool Opera House. The Astor has hosted a variety of local, national and international events, from the popular Queens County Music Festival and Liverpool International Theatre Festival to concerts featuring Rufus Wainwright and Measha Brueggergosman.
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Bombshell 7pm @ Astor Theatre
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January 29 1:30pm & 7pm
January 31 7pm
February 1 7pm
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Little Woman 1:30pm & 7pm @ Astor Theatre
Feb 5 1:30pm & 7pm
Feb 7 7pm
Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on their own terms.
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Riding the Swells
A Celebration of the Cape Island Fishing Boat
Astor Theatre
219 Main St., Liverpool, NS
February 5-28th Tuesday – Friday 11am-4pm Opening Reception Feb 5 @5:30pm-7:00pm
14 local artists featured
Refreshments served
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Feb 12 1:30pm & 7pm
Feb 14 7pm
April 1917, the Western Front. Two British soldiers are sent to deliver an urgent message to an isolated regiment. If the message is not received in time the regiment will walk into a trap and be massacred. To get to the regiment they will need to cross through enemy territory. Time is of the essence and the journey will be fraught with danger.
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The pedigree has become the movement, which ends your opponents. Was that the favorite movement for you when you were small? If that is not the case is it possible to tell us what move you prefer? And why?
The pedigree was not my favorite. I think that stone cold stunner was a favorite for me. I always thought the best moves utilized the top rope like the shooting star press and Macho Man’s high flying moves and the frog splash from the hands of Guerrero and stuff that guys like Rob Van Dam would do.
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WWE YouTube Channel Up Up Down Down is hosted by Xavier Woods and you have played video games with him on there. What are the video games you have played by now, do you have a favorite game?
I buy a Madden (American football) game each year and now play Metal Gear Solid and Batman.
You will be hosting crossfit training in Jeddah .. Remind us why you are interested in this exercise?
CrossFit is a great sport and an experience not to be missed, and that group will be a small, golden opportunity for all. CrossFit has changed a lot of where I feel that I have become flexible and I avoided a lot of injuries and that CrossFit will be the future of sports training.
You were in Abu Dhabi at the beginning of this year and now you are in Jeddah .. Remind us of your experience in the Middle East and what is the difference between the Middle East and elsewhere?
The Middle East is a lovely and fabulous.
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Auburn shooting: multiple victims have been claimed at University Heights apartment complex
“Multiple victims” has been claimed after a shooting at an apartment complex in Auburn in the US state of Alabama, police say.
The attack occurred on Saturday night at the University Heights complex, home to many students from the nearby Auburn University.
Police have not given further details, but are expected to release a statement later. They are said to be looking for a gunman.
Several emergency vehicles were seen attending the scene.
The attack occurred on Saturday night at the University Heights complex, home to many students from the nearby Auburn University
Auburn police chief Tommy Dawson told an Alabama newspaper that officers had been called to the scene on Saturday night.
He had no comment on the number of dead or wounded, or whether anyone was in custody over the incident.
Local television station WTVM is reporting that three people have died and two others were seriously injured in the attack.
The shooting happened directly in front of the complex’s main office, according to local newspaper the Birmingham News.
Auburn is the largest city in eastern Alabama with more than 50,000 people. Some 25,000 students attend Auburn University.
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Downing's Views
John Downing has been an author, reporter, editor and columnist . He has made regular appearances on radio and TV. His main field is politics but he has written about everything under (and in) the Sun.
ELWY YOST, BRIAN VALLEE, BILLY JAMIESON
THEY LEFT THEIR MARK AS UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS
Obituaries often are more bland than enlightening, reciting accomplishments and survival times at various jobs, seldom giving you the racier side or the info that hey, this person was really different.
Yet when I survey this trio of victims from the latest sweep by the Grim Reaper, it's obvious they really stand out.
Elwy Yost, who died at 86, was an unabashed lover of movies and everything about movies. And Brian Vallee, the spinner of yarns, and Billy Jamieson, the collector of shrunken heads, were men who could have easily had their life turned into movies.
I grew up starved for movies. Since my Dutch grandparents banned the Saturday afternoon double feature, I had to sneak in late and leave early. It was only when I got to Weston and its two theatres, where Yost had honed his love more than a decade before, that I went to every movie they had to offer, with side trips to the theatres in Mt. Dennis and the Junction. By then the cost had risen from the dime Yost's father had advanced him, providing he came back and told the story.
I actually got to see the start and the finish of movies, and even could stay to watch blockbusters a second time.
It was with delight I saw Yost on TVO in 1974 with his Saturday Night at the Movies. I thought it was too good to last, that the boring educational station would discover the error of its ways. But he lasted as the most popular show on TVO for most of Toronto. He was just doing what his father had got him to do as a boy, telling the stories.
His replacement for me today is the TBS channel and its main host Robert Osborne. Many a quiet night is rescued by a movie that I've never seen before, or the repeat of a classic. I know power couples who look forward to becoming couch potatoes and spending the weekend with TBS.
In the old days at TVO, it was very much the show of that bald teacher with the funny name. It certainly became a confusing muddle after he left in 1999.
There are those who would scorn his approach, that avuncular passion for movies that never had him say a discouraging word. He was not of the school that believed movies had to have a redeeming message. Movies were there as an entertaining diversion from humdrum life. As someone who will watch a great musical, like American in Paris, no matter that I've seen it a dozen times, I agreed with the non-critical approach of Yost. I'm after pleasure, not instruction.
Brian Vallee, who died at 70, showed up in my life at the same time as Yost launched his movies show with those friendly interviews with faded performers. What a character! Vallee strolled into Toronto journalism like John Wayne in Monument Valley.
He came from the Windsor Star, a provincial daily which certainly punched above its weight when it came to producing staff for the Toronto Sun, where we called them the Windsor Mafia, and indeed for all of the Toronto media.
We had an uneasy relationship because he was covering Queen's Park. I was writing a political column on Page 4 of the Sun five or six times as week. Since I was on this daily treadmill, I wandered from City Hall to Queen's Park to Ottawa in the hunt for material. He was the newcomer but there was an attitude that I was a poacher.
All this was passed over after a few drinks at the Toronto Press Club, one of his favourite haunts. Vallee kept talking and yarning and questioning at the bar, just as he did in his professional life. As Ron Base, a fellow member of the Windsor Mafia and a great writer himself, says about his old friend, he told "one heck of a story." (Although Brian also thought he played a heck of a piano. )
Vallee was a great digger in the finest tradition of investigative journalism, which is a difficult and often frustrating field. His work in TV and documentaries even made it to the Oscar stage.
Perhaps I'm filled with too much nostalgia for the good old days - which often weren't that good - but I miss the days when you could stand at the bar of Canada's press club and all the great characters, from Vallee to Norman DePoe to Duncan Macpherson, would give you the latest insult and jokes and all the gossip, including the stuff that got killed by "those idiot scared editors" out of the big story of the day.
But the press clubs of Toronto and Ottawa are no more, and so an interesting and raunchy side of journalism, right out of The Front Page, has vanished into the memory of old farts.
Billy Jamieson was a match for any character out of any press club. He was so eccentric, it was even mentioned in the obituary. Yost and Vallee would have found him as fascinating as the rest of the world did. The collector who sold the mummy of a pharaoh to an American university for a couple of million bucks. Who may have had a ghost floating over the fish tank he put in an old hearse.
All you had to do was wander his wonderful loft, carved out of an old downtown factory, with Billy holding one of his shrunken heads, listening to him in his reincarnation as carnival barker, or perhaps as an explorer finding a lost tribe, and you realized this was truly a character.
I wrote a blog last November about his Halloween party (Billy Jamieson And His Shrunken Heads). It was one of the best sites in the world for such a party with all the native artifacts and curiosities around you. In 2009, I wrote columns about him and his weird collection in November and February which would also give readers a taste of a fascinating man who, as the obit said, was a friend of the underground elite.
These dashing Three Musketeers of Toronto life always made you feel as if you just had just accessed the hidden worlds of crime, explorers and Hollywood.
They were truly unique.
Posted by John Downing at 10:06 AM
Lynda Schwalm said...
Great tribute to these great guys John. Hope you're doing well. I look forward to the 2nd installment today of your hospital saga.
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The Monthly Review, Том 15
редактор(ы): Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths
duty required in it, without fee or reward ; that the nomination of these Officers being left to the Lord-Lieutenant of each counry, it was such an accession to their power, as might enable them to make use of an undue influence in elections; that the preferences, unavoidable on these occasions, would excite heart-burn. ings, animosities, and feuds, and destroy what hofpitality and good-will was itill left amongit us ; that, as no body could be lupposed to partial to Alilitias, as to believe, that with but one Officer of experience in a whole regiment (namely the Colonel) the commonwealth would be safe in such keeping, without the assistance of some veteran, regular, and well-disciplined troops ; so it would unavoidably foilow from the mixture of both, that as often as these regulars and the militia did duty together, the fubaltern men of service among the first, would disdain to take orders from those of superior rank among the last ; or, if forced to submit, it would produce such disgusts and diffentions, as, in the end, might be of the most fatal consequence. And, laitly, having touched on the loss arising to the country, upon the head of labour, by taking 70,000 men once a year from their several occupations, and giving them thereby a habit of idleness, he pronounces, it would be one step towards converting us. from a trading to a military nation. Contending, nevertheless, for the expediency, and practibility of a Militia, and the regard due to the voice of the people, now crying aloud for it, he proceeds to subjoin the plan of one, as often mentioned in his hearing, by the noble Author of it: which, he tells us, is liable to none of the objections brought againit the other; and which, in a course of years, would accustom the whole nation to the use of firearms, and thereby answer all the purposes desired.--Por, preluppoling, that we are always to have an army on foot, the Militia here recommended, is so modelled as to ferve as a perpetual nursery of recruits for it: All between eighteen and forty, are to have leave to register themselves in their several parishes, as Militia. men, if they will, (for compulsion, in the first instance, is left out of the question) but then as they are to be supplied with arms from the Ordnance Stores, so their names are to be also entered at the War-Office: a regimental coat, hat, cockade, and 26s. per annum, at the rate of 6d. per Sunday, are presumed to be sufficient inducements to obtain a fufficient number of thefe half soldiers. A Sunday's exercise, after service, throughout the year, under thc direction of a Chelsea-Hofpital Out-pensioner, is understood to convey military practice enough, to make them fuch. The use and application of all, is contained in the following article.
That, on any occafion, when the government want an increale of the army, it shall be augmented in the manner folow
ing: The registered men shall be fummoned ; and if any vo• lunteer offer to lift, for any number of years, not less than • four, they thall be lifted regularly for such term, and fent up as
recruits for the army. And if no volunteers, or not a sufficient number, offer, then those who do not offer, shall draw lots in this manner : Suppose the whole number of registered men to be 100,000, and the government want to raise 20,000, every fifth man fhall be obliged to serve by lot. The men to whom the lots shall fall, shall again draw lots, one fifth shall be obliged to list for three years, another fifth for four years, another for five, and another for fix, and the remaining fifth for feven years. The men discharged at the end of their re. fpective terms, shall be replaced out of those who have not yet served, till the whole have thus taken their turn of service. The men who are thus lifted to replace the discharged men, shall be listed for five years certain ; so that after the first three years, one fifth part will every year be new men, and a con
étant rotation of five years service, will take place regularly,'
VI. A Letter to the Livery-Men of the City of London, on account of their late Choice of a Lord-Mayor. 4to. 4d, Robinson.
This is a warm, and not altogether unjust, invective, against a certain rafh, buly, wrong-headed faction in the city, who, rather than not gratify their malignity, have chosen to expose their folly, and impotence, by attempting what was not in their power to perform: and the Author has, at least, thewn, that he knows how to make the proper use of a victory.
VII. Motives which have obliged his Majesty the King of Pruffia, to prevent the Designs of the Court of Vienna. 4to. is. E. Owen,
This pamphlet is printed in both French and English. We need say nothing more of it, as it hath been retailed in every 1 News-paper.
VIII. A full and particular Answer to all the Calumnies, Misrepresentations, and Fallshoods, contained in a Pamphlet called, A Fourth Letter to the People of England. 8vo. IS: Harris: tak
As it was the custom of the famous Daniel de Foe, to write Answers to his own pamphlets, in order to raise, or keep up, their fale; fo the wortby Author of the Letters to the People &c. has thought fit to imitate the practice of his great predecessor, and has begun with publishing his Anfwer to his own Fourth Let. ter. If this attempt fucceeds, we may, in time, be entertained with mock Replies to the other three; and, perhaps, into the bargain, with Acknowlegements, and a Retractation, of all the Calumnies, and Scurrility contained in his Marriage-Ac. Lydia, and Defence of Popery: i. e. fi&titious Letters of a Jefuit, una der the name of Angeloni.
Tho' the ftile of our modern De Foe, on the present occafion, is ironical, he seems, however, in one place, to have been, tho Rev. Oct, 1756.
but for a moment, seriously touched with Remorse, and an inclination to pull off his mark in good earneft. Speaking of the presumption of low, ignorant, would-be-politicians,' he thus, honestly, for once, stands forth, self-detected, and self-condemned. • We frequently,' says he, (p. 2 y fee a *Trades
man fally from behind his counter, and excelet for think he does, Plato and Aristotle, in legislative knowlege, and with as much judgment as Lord Bolingbroke' has exhibited in his Idea of a patriot King, criticise, and canvass the whole kystem of the Ada -n, confident as if the whole Clue of the Cabinet had been delivered into his hands, and the defination of fleets and armies had been 'entrufted to the knowlege and direction of his brain only.
in 10, SIL S-bb-e, himself, was breda Tradesman.- 2101 IX. The School-Boy in Politics. 8vo. 6d. Hooper. sı
This initiatory diícourse is founded on the old plan, of a Political Catechism ; and as it refers chiefly, if not wholly, to the present fystem of public affairs, may not improperly be called, The Lesson for the Day. The hand that holds the fefcue, like that in the frontispiece of Mr. Dodsley's OEconomy of Human Life, is, nevertheless in the clouds; and, confequently, it is not easy to ascertain the body it belongs to. The questions put in it, as, What is Prussia about? What' alliance do you recommend to Britain? What do you judge on the report of 40,000 Pruflians to be taken into British pay ? &c. are manifestiy intended to be such as will bespeak the most Atriking answers : and which, tho' malevolent enough to those in power, are not overfavourable to those in opposition; mock patriotism being as feverely handled in them, as feeble and corrupt administration.
X. A Ray of Truth darting through the thick Clouds of Falfhood : or, the Lion, the Foxes, the Monkey, and the Game-Cock. "A Fable. Folio, 6 d. Pamphlet-shops. The Lion, is Britain ; the Foxes, our
My; the Monkey, France; the Game-cock, Ad-E-g. The Monkey invades the Lion's territories ; the Foxes, being corrupted by a present of delicious fowls, send out the Game-cock to oppose him: but, in order to favour the enemy, they file off the claws, and clip the wings of the courageous Chanticlear, and thereby render him inferior to the Monkey. The latter prevailing, in consequence of this treachery, the Foxes lay all the blame on the unhappy Cock, and resolve to facrisice him, in order to cover, and expiate, their own baseness. This despicable pamphlet is one of the many pieces daily issuing from the press, in behalf of Mr. B. none of which, however, touch the main point;--his not fighting with all the force he was sent out with. There is something very abfurd in a complaint of weakness, when, at the same time, the complainant has double the strength he chufes to exert.
XI. A Letter to a Member of Parliament in the Country, from bis Friend in London; "relative to the case of Admiral Byng; with some original papers and letters, which passed during the expedition. 8vo. 6d. Cooke.
So much bad, been writ, said, and believed, against this unforfortunate gentleman, that it., was high time for his friends to set is forth what palliatives they had to set forth, in case they enter
tained any hope of success from them; and that this expurga. story letter could come from no other quarter, is palpable; not is only because none but his friends would chuse to expose them
felves, by taking part in his quarrel, but because the materials it is founded upon, are fuch as none but those in the secret of his case, could have communicated to the public; unless we can sup: pose, what is impossible, that the admiralty, would play booty
with itself. These materials are, certain passages in the Admiral's account of the action, not inserted in the Gazette ; his let
ter of intelligence, of May 4, from Gibraltar-bay; the order of » the admiralty-board for superseding him ; the Admiral's answer ; rii and lists of the English and French squadrons at the time of the
engagement, calculated to shew the superior force of the latter, and expose those lists inserted in the Gazette. at The Letter - writer affects the character of a convert ; and as if, like St. Pauli some new light from Heaven had transformed him from a perfecutor to an advocate, he fays, “No one
was more clamorous in their exclamations against the cowardice of the Admiral; no one exalted more in the flames of his effigy?' But this is a mask he affumes, to give his plea an air of impartiality, and bespeak the more credit to his arguments. The bias of a man more than ordinarily interested for his client, appears in every paragraph he delivers ; and it follows, that proper allowance ought to be made for his prejudices accordingly: under which caution, we fhalt venture to fubjoin the Admiral's 'letter to the board, on bis being superseded, with the writer's com
upon it, as a specimen of the whole thing, which is at once so both a smart and a flight performance.s no ai
s« Gibraltar-bay, July 4, 1756. CP: O* SIR, ...?'yf!!!
By Sir Edward Hawke I have received their Lordship's orders, and your letter of the 8th of June, which I have im* mediately complied with, and have only to express my fur
prize at being so ignominiously dismissed from my employ
ment, in the light of the fleet I had commanded, in sight of “ the garrison, and in sight of Spain, at such a time, in such a
manner, and after such conduct, as I hope shall shortly appear
to the whole world. It is not now for me to expoftulate; I a flatter myself, that Mr. Weft and I shall make evident the in
jury done to our characters, which I know of nothing in the power of any Being whatever that can attone for; so high an Ee 2
* mento
opinion I have of that, which was ever unsullied before, and " which I hope to make appear has been most injuriously and. ** wrongfully attacked now, on the grounds of a falfe gasconade " of an open enemy to our King and country, and which would '« have evidently appeared, had the poffible time been allowed " for my own exprefs's arrival, in which there was nothing false, " nothing vaunting, nothing shameful, nor any thing which '" could have prevented our receiving his Majesty's royal appro" bation, for having, with a much inferior force, fought, met, “ attacked, and beat the enemy: of this it is needless for me 1" to say more at present, than that I am sorry to find Mr. West, " with the captains, lieutenants, and officers of the ships we had
our flags on board of, are to be sufferers for what I alone, as *** Commander in chief, am answerable : but it is so much of a
piece with the whole unheard-of treatment I have met with, " that neither they, the fiect, or myself, can be more astonished " at that particular than at the whole.
“ I am, SIR,
Your very humble Servant, To the Hon. J-Cd, Esq;
J. B.
The Comment. You, Sir, who are fo discerning a judge of human nature, • will find no difficulty to discover, whether this is an unaffected, • unstudied remonstrance, or a disguised artifice in the author :
the time, the occasion, and the circumstances under which, it was wrote, must manifest them to be the expostulations of a
man, rather conscious of injury than guilt; the dictates of a • heart jealous of honour, not of a head Audious of security ; * and tho' it does not amount to a pofitive exculpation of guilt, * must afford every unprejudiced person a presumptive evidence of
innocence ;---yet by a peculiar fatality attending the Admiral, • this very letter was to draw on him an accumulation of ven
geance; its smartness (to use the phrase of his adversaries) was
deemed a kind of trealon against their dignity; and a modeft • vindication of his own conduct, was construed into an infolent
impeachment of theirs ; nor, indeed, do they feem to be much out in this construction ; since such is the alternative, that what tends to exculpate the one, will be no' very favourable aiticle towards the justification of the other'; and to this CRITICAL ALTERNATIVE, I fear, 'it is, we may impute the whole unheard of treatment Mr. Byng complains to have met with. XII. An Appeal to the People: containing the genuine and entire letters of Admiral Byng to the Secr. of the Ad-amy: observations on those parts of it, which were omitted by the writers of the Gazette: and what might be the reasons for such omissions. Part the first. : 8vo. 1S. Morgan
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At #NetworkCommons, Public Health Leaders Discuss Neighborhood-Health Connection
August 27, 2015 | Natalie Orenstein
Community Quarterback
How do neighborhoods impact health?
Three public health experts considered that question during a lively online discussion Aug. 20. The conversation was part of the Network Commons, a virtual meeting place that connects practitioners committed to improving low-income communities and the lives of people living in them.
In June, we heard from community development leaders. This time, we handed the microphone to public health leaders: Anneta Arno, Ph.D., MPH (Health Department of Kansas City), David Fleming, MD (PATH, formerly Seattle and King County Public Health), and Reginauld Jackson, DrPH (Public Health Institute), with the help of our executive director, Doug Jutte, MD, MPH, who moderated.
The leaders reflected on their aha moments, their realization of the importance of place, neighborhood, and the role of the community development sector in improving health and well-being.
Community organizations and health officials are often “working in the same neighborhoods trying to affect the same lives,” Fleming said.
Jackson had his aha moment when he read David Erickson’s book “Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods” and realized that there was an entire sector—community development—addressing the social determinants of health.
Reginauld Jackson on his aha moment
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For Fleming, a mapping project by Washington’s Seattle/King County Health Department brought this profound connection between health and place to light. A collaborative called Communities of Opportunity examined census tract data across various health indicators. When they were done with the analysis, the group’s maps clearly illustrated the correlation between a neighborhood’s income level and its health. Neighborhood-level data analysis combined with intentional partnerships with the community development sector helped forward the Health Department’s population health goals.
David Fleming on work forging partnerships in Seattle and King County
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Public health data, panelists said, is one huge asset that the public health field can bring to community development. Jackson said he once met with the CEO of an international consulting company who wanted to support community work, but didn’t know where she could make the biggest difference. Data, Jackson said, can help practitioners and investors make smart choices.
But how is all this potential turned into practice? Panelists said practitioners need to look for ways to combine resources to make our work in low-income communities more effective.
Fleming notes that the first step is to “take the time at the beginning to create an effective, functioning cross-sector table.” All panelists noted the role of the Affordable Care Act and health care reform in expanding the role in hospitals in cross-sector efforts.
But communication can be common roadblock. “We frequently trip over semantics and use different language,” Arno said, pointing to industry rhetoric like Health Impact Assessment, collective impact, and community quarterback (the Network’s new Jargon Buster, coming this fall, will help). “But it’s really the same work. Sometimes the academics and purists get a little caught up with the language, but it’s all about making things actually work in a practical sense.”
Anneta Arno on how the public health field is changing
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Panelists stressed that the whole community is bearing the burden of an unhealthy population. And that all parts of a community have an interest in finding ways to improve health. Arno said effective community health work requires participation from nonprofits, private business owners, hospitals, and government. Public health, she said, can play the role of “chief health strategist,” keeping healthcare providers accountable in a multi-sector effort.
“Health equity,” Arno said, “is everybody’s work.”
Check out the highlights from the event on the Build Healthy Places Network YouTube Channel. Join the conversation by tweeting @BHPNetwork with the hashtag #NetworkCommons.
The Network Commons is a bimonthly series that was created in response to requests from colleagues (like you) who are eager to connect with like-minded leaders and practitioners nationwide. The commons aims to be a collegial space for reflection, as well as a spot to learn about cross-sector collaboration firsthand from field experts. We hope you’ll join us for our next conversation in October when we’ll hear from a panel of medical professionals. Register here.
And community development practitioners who want to know more about public health’s experience measuring health outcomes should keep their eyes peeled for the Network’s MeasureUp, a collection of resources and tools for tracking and applying community data. Also coming soon is a series of case studies highlighting community health success stories.
Resources from the event:
Community Commons
Alignment for Health Equity And Development Initiative, A Project of the Public Health Institute and The Reinvestment Fund
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Community Transformation Grant Program
Healthy Louisville 2020
Applying A Health Lens II (IOM)
Communities for Opportunity maps
The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods, by David Erickson
Natalie Orenstein
Keeping Everyone at the Table, Six Feet Apart
Interconnected: Public Health and Community Development Fit Together like Pieces of a Puzzle
Healthcare Systems Back Grocery Stores in Food Deserts
Community Innovations Survey of Community Development Corporations
What It Looks Like to Build a Culture of Health During COVID-19
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Returned items: There may be a delay clearing returned items from your account due to a high volume of returns. There are no late fines at Burnaby Public Library.
Library to Go/Overdrive ebooks and audiobooks borrowing is now integrated with the catalogue and you can see these loans and holds together with your physical items. They show up as 'digital' on your 'Checked Out' and 'On Hold' pages - like this.
Gargamel and the Smurfs
A Smurfs Graphic Novel
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Four Smurftastic stories all featuring the arch-enemy of the Smurfs, Gargamel! In "The Smurfnapper," which is also the first appearance of Gargamel, a Smurf is kidnapped by the evil wizard, who wants to use him as an ingredient in a potion. It's up to Papa Smurf and the rest of the smurfs to break into his lab and save their friend without ending up as a treat for Gargamel's cat Azrael. Also featuring "The Smurf Not Like the Others" and "The Smurfs and the Little Ghost."
Publisher: New York : Papercutz, c2011
Description: 55 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm
Branch Call Number: j Smur
Additional Contributors: Delporte, Y. (Yvan), 1928-2007
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Be prepared for 1,000-point Dow selloff before the presidential election: strategist
·Editor-at-Large
September 8, 2020, 1:43 p.m. ·3 min read
Considering the 2020 stock market has totally disconnected from the COVID-19 realities continuing to grip U.S. households — while also forgetting there is a heated presidential election underway — investors best brace for more severe plunges in equity values in the weeks ahead.
Buyers may ultimately step in on various dips thanks to the Federal Reserve’s easy money policy creating insane amounts of liquidity in the system. But sharp selloffs that rattle the cages of the bulls (and there are many) will likely be the name of the game in the near-term as risks rise around the election, a lack of new COVID-19 fiscal stimulus and sluggish economic growth.
“I think they do [need to be prepared for more 1,000-point Dow selloffs],” Miller Tabak chief strategist Matt Maley told Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade. “I don’t think we will get anywhere near that 30% to 35% selloff [like at the height of the pandemic in the winter] for the simple reason that we know that the Fed is there, and is ready and willing to inject more liquidity if they need to.”
That perspective from Maley is only mildly comforting to an investment community that printed money on big cap tech trades throughout the summer only to see gains pared aggressively out of the blue last week.
Crippled under the weight of fresh fears of equities being overvalued, the Nasdaq Composite had its worst five-day stretch in six months last week. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 had their worst five-day performances in 11 weeks. On Sept. 3 alone, the Dow plunged more than 1,000 points only to rally slightly into the close to finish down 807 points.
People walk along Wall Street in the Financial District. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Several of the market’s darlings such as Apple, Tesla, Netflix and Microsoft were pounded as investors fretted on stretched valuations and a rising number of external risks (election, lack of government stimulus, etc.). The selling pressure extended into post Labor Day weekend trading on Tuesday, sparking concerns of a deeper correction not unlike the one seen in late February/early March. Tesla’s stock — which has led the market higher for months — has lost 30% over the past five sessions.
“Last week's decline was technical in nature but fundamentally triggered. We think there is more downside over the next month but eventually leads to further broadening out of the bull market. The S&P may be range bound for the rest of year making stock picking critical,” points out Morgan Stanley equity strategist Mike Wilson.
Not everyone on the Street is ringing the alarm bells on the rally, however.
Says Oppenheimer senior analyst Ari Wald, “The Nasdaq 100 is still above its important moving averages like its 50-day and well above even the longer-term ones like its 200-day moving average. This [selloff] is really just a function of the strength we saw going into this peak. That’s the beauty of these trend lines. It keeps everything in proportion. This weakness is within the proportion of what we still see an uptrend. We see rather than something more menacing developing, we see an opportunity for longer term investors to buy this near-term weakness.”
Brian Sozzi is an editor-at-large and co-anchor of The First Trade at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn.
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Sustainable investing experts say TC Energy Corp.'s plan to decarbonize the Keystone XL pipeline is unlikely to save its fortunes, as a growing movement to divest from fossil fuels gains political clout. U.S. President-elect Joe Biden intends to sign an executive order on inauguration day to rescind the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline issued by his predecessor Donald Trump, according to transition documents. The company in turn announced that its plan for the Keystone XL project would achieve net zero emissions when it is placed into service. Biden’s move to rescind the permit for the project, which has faced controversy over its effects on landowners, Indigenous groups and the environment, may not be a surprise for investors who followed the project during Barack Obama’s administration, said Olaf Weber, research chair in sustainable finance at the University of Waterloo. But, Weber said Biden has sent a strong signal — that more projects could be cancelled — to the group of investors that were already questioning the future of Canada’s oilsands. Weber said coal and oilsands are considered particularly risky under increasingly popular standards of environmental, social, and corporate governance investing. "Generally ESG considerations do not automatically exclude certain industries," said Weber. "But there is definitely a high risk for the oilsands, in particular, that they will have less investment in the future." Weber said it could be possible for Canadian companies like TC Energy to fit into the ESG framework for some institutional investors. Royal Dutch Shell, for example, has told investors it won’t add greenhouse gases to the atmosphere starting in 2050. But Weber said that globally, financial investment is moving away from fossil fuels, particularly those that are most carbon intensive, in countries that have signed onto the Paris Agreement. He pointed to Kommunal Landspensjonskasse or KLP, Norway’s largest pension fund, which in 2019 cut four Canadian energy names from its investment list, aiming to divest from companies that derive more than five per cent of their revenue from the oilsands. Other international financial firms, like BlackRock, have made broader calls on corporations to consider climate-change risks. While the energy sector represented 23 per cent of foreign direct investment in Canada as of 2018, that was down one per cent from the prior year, according to Natural Resources Canada. "From an international perspective, we have already seen investors go out of the oilsands, " Weber said. "Canadian investors, they hesitate doing that, because it's a very strong industry in the country." In the past few years though, some sentiment has shifted. In June, 15 Canadian universities said they would regularly begin measuring the “carbon intensity” of their portfolios and would reduce it over time. In November, eight Canadian institutional investors, including the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec and Alberta Investment Management Corp., called on corporations to standardize their ESG disclosures. Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney now works on ESG issues for Brookfield Asset Management. Leanne Keddie, an assistant professor at Carleton University who studies sustainability accounting, said that these types of institutional investors have plenty of sway on companies' actions. Whether TC Energy's plan will impress ESG-focused banks and investors is the "magic question," she said. "I would think it would be difficult for them — not impossible, but difficult — to try to convince investors that this is a good financial risk," Keddie said. "You're seeing banks, finance institutions shifting away from these types of investments, too. So. I would say if Biden does cancel it ... it's just another endorsement for shifting away from these types of energy sources." While TC Energy's carbon-neutral pledge for Keystone might reassure investors, it also might be coming too late, said Ryan Riordan, director of research at the Institute for Sustainable Finance at Queen's Smith School of Business. Riordan noted that the average investor has already become much more interested in ESG. "There are investors that were perhaps, up until now, on the fence, who now throw their hands up and say... 'It's not going back to the old, Exxon, Shell, BP world. It's a new world, and so I'm going to get out of these types of investments,'" said Riordan. "But there are probably very few non-ESG-sensitive investors left." Riordan added that even those who aren't interested in the ESG framework may be skeptical of TC Energy's path forward. "Decarbonizing projects isn’t free ... so while the reputational or environmental risk around carbon might be dealt with, it's really just making a project more expensive," said Riordan. "Investors generally don't like risk, and this is just adding another layer of risk to to a project." This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 19, 2021. Companies in this story: (TSX:TRP) — With a file from Brett Bundale, Dan Healing and James McCarten Anita Balakrishnan, The Canadian Press
US transfer of power: Washington DC gears up for an inauguration like no other
When Joe Biden takes the oath of office, he'll do so in a city under siege - not from a foreign enemy but from angry supporters of Donald Trump.View on euronews
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Even Conor McGregor was praising Khabib Nurmagomedov after UFC 254 win and surprise retirement
Jack Baer
October 24, 2020, 5:37 p.m. ·5 min read
Khabib Nurmagomedov says he has fought his last fight. (AP Photo/John Locher)
With yet another win at UFC 254 on Saturday, Khabib Nurmagomedov added yet another powerful chapter to his undefeated career. And then he announced he was ending that career.
At 29-0, the UFC lightweight champion said that his win over Justin Gaethje would be his last fight. He cited the death of his father Abdulmanap, who died in July of COVID-19 complications, as the reason for walking away from the sport at age 32.
"This is my last fight."@TeamKhabib pays his respects following a dominant performance at #UFC254 pic.twitter.com/5HiUvJXBJC
It was a shocking moment for the MMA world, and one that changes the future of the entire UFC lightweight division. Still, nearly every MMA fighter in sight had nothing but praise for a champion going out on top.
Even Conor McGregor, a man that has feuded with Nurmagomedov extensively over the years, had kind words:
Good performance @TeamKhabib.
I will carry on.
Respect and condolences on your father again also. To you and family.
Yours sincerely, The McGregors.
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) October 24, 2020
Nurmagomedov’s retirement also opens the door for a new lightweight champion, and McGregor’s upcoming bout against Dustin Poirier would be a natural pick for the next title fight. Poirier himself seemed to approve of that speculation.
💎 https://t.co/4lWNuFPMcs
— The Diamond (@DustinPoirier) October 24, 2020
In his postfight interview, Nurmagomedov specifically mentioned he hopes to go out as the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in UFC’s rankings. Jon Jones, the man who currently occupies that spot, endorsed the idea, at least until he takes a run at the heavyweight crown after exiting the lightweight division.
Until I take that heavily crown, I grant you the spot. 🤙🏾 Enjoy Champ
— BONY (@JonnyBones) October 24, 2020
I want to congratulate Khabib for an outstanding career. I know he made his father along with millions of fans around the world incredibly proud today. May God continue to bless him on his journey.
And of course, fighter after fighter heaped praise upon Nurmagomedov’s win, his career and his father, including some of the biggest names in the sport:
Congratulations to the greatest champion in @ufc history. What a career, we are forever grateful for the time we got to spend with you my brother. 29-0 undefeated and undisputed. #weareaka #eaglesmma #fathersplan #heissoproud @TeamKhabib pic.twitter.com/uXjiT34JuV
— Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) October 24, 2020
He’s definitely #1 pound for pound!! Congratulations on a great career #UFC254
— Alex Volkanovski (@alexvolkanovski) October 24, 2020
Congratulations to my brother 🙏🏿🙏🏿 @TeamKhabib and keep your head up my brother @Justin_Gaethje #UFC254
— KAMARU USMAN (@USMAN84kg) October 24, 2020
Outstanding champion, incredible career and amazing achievements. Congrats and all the best outside the Octagon @TeamKhabib! https://t.co/Ze2CZrcSqT
— Jan Blachowicz (@JanBlachowicz) October 24, 2020
@TeamKhabib is the GOAT!
— Frankie Edgar (@FrankieEdgar) October 24, 2020
The BEST P4P!! #TheEagle #UFC254 https://t.co/biQI7RXv6V
— Aljamain Sterling (@funkmasterMMA) October 24, 2020
Khabib Nurmagomedov is MMA GOAT 🐐. 29-0 , beat all comers in their prime , barely lost a round , always active , no PEDs failed tests. Enjoy your retirement . CLASS 🙏🏾
— Derek Brunson (@DerekBrunson) October 24, 2020
Wow! Much respect to you 🙏🙏🙏. Good luck, God bless @TeamKhabib
— Dominick Reyes (@DomReyes) October 24, 2020
@TeamKhabib Congratulations on an outstanding performance and career. Your father would be extremely proud. P4P👑
— Leon 'Rocky' Edwards (@Leon_edwardsmma) October 24, 2020
That was beautiful. Khabib💯
— rachaelostovich (@rachaelostovich) October 24, 2020
The best to ever do it @TeamKhabib
— Cody Garbrandt (@Cody_Nolove) October 24, 2020
The lightweight division right now #UFC254 pic.twitter.com/mU3VgGtNHK
— Tatiana Suarez (@tatianaufc) October 24, 2020
Anyone else have the chills rn?
##UFC254
— Randy Costa (@RandyCosta135) October 24, 2020
Congratulations on an absolutely flawless career. The best to ever do it @TeamKhabib @ufc 👏👏🥇🏆
— Lando Vannata (@GroovyLando) October 24, 2020
Damn I feel for him 😞 https://t.co/FbZXEawEnK
— Mallory Martin (@MalloryyMartin) October 24, 2020
NO. WAY! 😱
— Danny Roberts #HC (@DanHotChocolate) October 24, 2020
🤯🤯🤯#UFC254
— Miguel Baeza (@Thunder92Baeza) October 24, 2020
Congrats on the fight @TeamKhabib If that’s your career, it’s a shame u didn’t get to fight someone coming forward and isn’t afraid to wrestle. Congrats I’ll be here when u return
— Kevin MTP Lee (@MoTownPhenom) October 24, 2020
Unreal performance by Khabib. Truly on a separate level. The only one in the GOAT discussion to retire perfect. Legend. #UFC254
— Tanner Boser (@BulldozerBoser) October 24, 2020
Khabib the G.O.A.T. 🐐 #UFC254
— Cub Swanson (@CubSwanson) October 24, 2020
The way Khabib is able to drain energy from his opponents it’s unique.
I think he deserve the #1 p4p spot.#UFC254 #khabib
— Marvin Vettori (@MarvinVettori) October 24, 2020
Getting emotional watching this. Wow. Khabib respecting his mother and following through with his word. What a man. Deffo a top 5 goat of MMA. Happy retirement. pic.twitter.com/dkqOlcS3OR
— D (@darrentill2) October 24, 2020
✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 https://t.co/wsSEzPxuF9
— GILBERT BURNS DURINHO (@GilbertDurinho) October 24, 2020
I’m 100% behind giving @TeamKhabib the #1 P4P ranking! Absolutely earned! Congrats on an AMAZING career. You are an inspiration. Much love. 🙏🏻🙏🏻 #UFC254
— Stephen Thompson (@WonderboyMMA) October 24, 2020
Undeniably the greatest lightweight of all time.. what a run! Congrats on a great career @TeamKhabib #UFC254
— Shane Burgos (@HurricaneShaneB) October 24, 2020
155ers are celebrating right now . 31 year old , 29-0 goat Khabib retiring !
Can’t disagree. What a career @TeamKhabib 🦅 #UFC254
— Alistair Overeem (@Alistairovereem) October 24, 2020
No Money Will buy this guy.@TeamKhabib we gonna miss you.#GOAT
— Alessio 'Manzo' Di Chirico (@ManzoDiChirico) October 24, 2020
Both athletes.. such a CLASS ACT! @ufc #UFC254
— Marion Reneau (@BelizeanBruiser) October 24, 2020
Big respect to Khabib man, what a performance and what a great career. Congrats Champ @TeamKhabib
— Matt Semelsberger (@SemiTheJedi) October 24, 2020
Man I’m tearing up .Khabib champ
— Belal Muhammad (@bullyb170) October 24, 2020
Retire on top! You’re the champ! Thank you for the new style in mma 🙏🏽🙏🏽 #UFC254
— Julian marquez (@JMarquezMMA) October 24, 2020
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Workers trapped week in China mine ask for pickles, porridge
BEIJING — Workers trapped for more than a week in a Chinese gold mine asked for pickles and porridge to be dropped to them while they wait to be rescued, state media reported Tuesday. The website of the People's Daily said the request came after a telephone line was dropped to the group of 11 inside the mine's No. 6 chamber. Another survivor of the mine explosion a week ago is inside an adjoining chamber while the fate of 10 others remains unknown, according to officials in the city of Yantai in the eastern province of Shandong. People's Daily said two of the miners were recovering from exhaustion and another was injured by the explosion that ripped through the mine on Jan. 10. Medicine, food and liquids have twice been delivered to the workers, enough to last at least two days, Yantai mayor Chen Fei told reporters at a briefing Tuesday morning. “Their overall physical condition seems to be pretty good," Chen said. The porridge requested, also known as millet congee, is a nourishing breakfast staple common throughout northeastern China. Pickles and chilies are often added for flavour and vitamins. A brief video clip released by the city government Tuesday morning showed rescuers cutting through metal cages used to transport miners and ore that were blocking the shaft. Hundreds of rescuers were drilling six shafts in an attempt to reach the different sections of the mine. Workers passed a note to the surface on Monday saying they were suffering from toxic fumes and rising water levels but calling on rescuers not to give up. Mine managers have been detained for waiting more than 24 hours before reporting the accident, the cause of which has not been announced. The mine in Qixia, a jurisdiction under Yantai, had been under construction at the time of the blast. Increased supervision has improved safety in China's mining industry, which used to post an average of 5,000 deaths per year. Yet demand for coal and precious metals continues to prompt corner-cutting and two accidents in the southwestern megacity of Chongqing last year killed 39 miners. The Associated Press
Windsor firefighters will soon be carrying naloxone kits to reverse overdoses
City council unanimously voted on Monday to direct the fire service to start carrying naloxone nasal spray kits. The decision came after a motion was brought forward by Coun. Kieran McKenzie. "The numbers bear out the fact that we should be looking at adding this particular service as part of the the toolkit, the broader toolkit that we have with respect to harm reduction," he said, adding that it's a service used by many other communities in Ontario. Fire chief Stephen Laforet told city council he favoured the idea, noting that firefighters arrived first on scene of a suspected overdose before EMS 25 times last year. Naloxone can save lives when administered to someone who has overdosed on opioids. It temporarily reverses the effect of an overdose. "Putting [naloxone] on the trucks right now is not a significant burden and there is potential to help somebody in the future with it. So based on that, at this point in time, I would put it on," he said. Coun. Rino Bortolin said it's a "no-brainer" for all first responders to be carrying it across the region. "Naloxone is not the end-all-be-all, but it's a no-brainer that we should have it," he said. "Firefighters who are paid to respond to these types of events, who are trained, physically active and strong, capable people can easily be trained on how to address this." "If it gets used once in five years, that once makes it more than worth it." Laforet told city council it will cost $2,000 to train the fire department and will take about eight weeks. A report to council stated that drug-related overdoses and deaths "continue to be growing problem in North America" particularly those related to opioids. The report said the annual rate of opioid-related deaths in Ontario increased 285 per cent between 1991 and 2015. It said that 2018, there were 220 opioid-related emergency department visits in Windsor and Essex County. In 2019, there were 249, which is 3.2 times greater than the 78 opioid overdose ED visits in 2007. In 2019, 47 people died from opioid overdoses, according to the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit. Council supports WPS to carry naloxone Council also passed a motion advising the police that council was in favour of them carrying the life-saving drug as well, but not everyone was in favour of this, including Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens. "Arming your police officers to attend medical calls as opposed to crime-related calls, the chief will have to make that decision," he said. Coun. Fred Francis said he felt uncomfortable "micromanaging" the police board on what to do with respect to carrying naloxone. Currently, Windsor police have officers with three units — detention, city centre patrol and problem-oriented policing — that have access to the drug.
ISLAMABAD — A Russian-American climber who went missing last week while trying to scale a mountain amid harsh winter weather in northern Pakistan has been found dead, the region's tourist police and the Alpine Club of Pakistan said Tuesday. The tourist police in the town of Gilgit made the announcement on Twitter, saying Alex Goldfarb went missing on Friday while he was trying to summit the Pastore Peak, not far from K2 — the most prominent peak on the Pakistani side of the Himalayan range, and the world’s second tallest after Mount Everest. Contact with Goldfarb was lost and a helicopter rescue and search team was sent out. The Pakistan army on Monday found the body, after a day-long search, according to alpine official Karrar Haidri. Muhammad Ali Sadpara, a famous Pakistani mountaineer who was part of the rescue team, also tweeted the sad news. Efforts were now underway to bring Goldfarb's body down with the help of Pakistani and foreign mountaineers, Haidri told The Associated Press. Goldfarb and Hungarian mountaineer Zoltan Szlanko had initially planned to scale Pastore together but Szlanko later decided to turn back. Haidri expressed condolences to Goldfarb's family, saying “I will never forget his kindness." On Saturday, a team of Nepalese climbers made history by scaling K2 in the winter season. Haidri said this has never been done in winter. Winter winds on K2 can blow at more than 200 kilometres per hour (125 miles per hour) and temperatures drop to minus 60 degrees Celsius (minus 76 Fahrenheit). Hundreds of local and foreign climbers scale mountains and peaks in northern Pakistan every year and accidents are common because of avalanches and sudden changes in weather. The Associated Press
How all-Canadian division coaches, players plan to guard against predictability this season
A degree of contempt is expected to grow between the seven teams in the NHL's all-Canadian North Division, but the number of times the clubs play each will also breed some familiarity. The shortened NHL season has each team playing a 56-game schedule within its division. Some of the Canadian clubs will see each other nine or 10 times. During a 14-day stretch within the first month, the Vancouver Canucks will face the Montreal Canadiens five times, with a three-game series against Ottawa squeezed into the same period. The Winnipeg Jets will face the Calgary Flames four times in the first nine days of February. WATCH | CBC Sports' Rob Pizzo ranks the all-Canadian division: Most players and coaches agree the games will have a playoff feel about them, but teams will also have to guard against becoming predictable. "For all the teams you are going to have to come up with different sort of strategies and ways to mix things up, especially when you are seeing a team three times in a row," said Flames captain Mark Giordano. "Little things like the way you kill penalties or the way you are on the power play, the way your faceoffs are drawn up. Teams are going to be able to scout that. "You are going to have to change things up and have a lot of different plays in your book. It's going to be exciting." Winnipeg Jets coach Paul Maurice said having a Canadian division is "going to be fantastic. The message boards are going to be awesome, funny as hell." It also means coaches will be tested on their ability to make subtle changes without completely deviating from their schemes. "You have to be real careful about how many times you are going to change your grip on your golf club because you are going to get a different trajectory every time," Maurice said. "You have to play well, play hard, but I do agree you are going to have to be fairly creative in how you approach the game." Vancouver Canucks coach Travis Green said teams are constantly adjusting for opponents. "There are wrinkles that you throw into your team for a game, but there are certain things, certain staples that every team has that [indicates] how they play," he said. "You don't want to go change your whole system from game to game. "I think it's perfecting a system that works for your team. There are different things [you can do], faceoff plays, on special teams, certain things you can change." 'Different for everybody' Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid said players will have to adapt. "You're going to have to learn on the fly," he said. "It's going to be different for everybody." Vancouver forward Brock Boeser said the schedule reminds him of his college days playing for the University of North Dakota. "You have to learn from game to game," Boeser said. "You watch film, you have to adjust to what you didn't do right in the game before and make sure you don't make those mistakes again." WATCH | NHL season begins amid rising COVID-19 cases: Toronto Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said reducing the number of opponents will make coaches focus. "It allows you to just zero in on a very small number of opponents, you get to know them very well," he said. "It frees up so much more time just to focus on our own team." Edmonton's Dave Tippett said the compressed schedule will keep coaches concentrating. "Sometimes you get into the regular season, games flow into each other," he said. "Every game [now] is going to be so important. The competition is going to be stiff. "I think it's going to be a playoff mindset coaches are really going to dig into. It's going to push coaches to be better. WATCH | CBC Sports' Rob Pizzo breaks down 9 NHL talking points: Vancouver forward Antoine Roussel, one of the Canucks who plays the game with an edge, said scores will be quickly settled. "It's going to be more edgy every night," he said. "You see the same guys all the time. "If something happens in game one . . . in game two you may have to answer the bell. The emotion and the fire in the games are going to step up, maybe linger longer." Playing more games against teams from the East will also give more exposure to young Canuck stars like Elias Pettersson and Quin Hughes. "I don't think our guys sometimes get the attention they deserve," Roussel said. "They could be in better position to market themselves as the best players in the league." Vancouver forward Tanner Pearson said the shortened season means teams must always keep an eye on the standings. "It's going to be different for a points race," he said. "You always talk about a four-point game when you play a division team. Now it's more crucial than ever." WATCH | NHL world honours Willie O'Ree on MLK Day:
Bitcoin, U.S. tech stocks seen as biggest market bubbles - investor surveys
There is growing angst among investors over financial market price bubbles, and top of the list of concerns were the cryptocurrency bitcoin and U.S. tech stocks, two closely followed surveys showed on Tuesday. According to nearly 90% of respondents in Deutsche Bank's monthly money-manager study, many price bubbles were now being blown. More generally, too, when asked specifically about the 12-month fate of bitcoin - which surged 300% last year - and electric vehicle maker Tesla which soared nearly 750% and is seen as emblematic of highly priced tech stocks, a majority of respondents said they were now more likely to halve than double in value.
Two N.B. reactor developers defend use of Liberal-connected lobbyists
The two companies developing small modular nuclear reactors in New Brunswick are defending their use of Liberal-connected lobbyists. ARC Nuclear has former premier Shawn Graham working on their behalf, while Moltex Energy is using Jordan O'Brien, the one-time chief of staff to another Liberal premier, Brian Gallant. O'Brien has lobbied several federal government departments and ministerial staffers, along with Liberal cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc, Saint John-Rothesay Liberal MP Wayne Long and Conservative Senator Percy Mockler. Moltex's Canadian CEO, Rory O'Sullivan, said they need the government relations expertise lobbyists can provide. "We are experts in nuclear energy, clean nuclear power," O'Sullivan said. "We are not experts in government relations, but it's almost as difficult. "So we are hiring lobbyists because we need to know who to go to in government, how government works. … We would love to not have any need for government at all." Public registrations show who's being lobbied Graham's public registrations show him lobbying NB Power and the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development, and contacting Louis Leger, the chief of staff to Premier Blaine Higgs. He has not recently lobbied his federal Liberal allies in Ottawa. Susan O'Donnell of the Coalition for Responsible Energy Development, which opposes small modular nuclear reactors, says the lobbying shows how political connections are driving support for a technology she calls questionable. "It's a club," she says. O'Brien would not comment on his work for Moltex, instead deferring to O'Sullivan. Graham also declined to comment, saying answers from ARC Canada CEO Norm Sawyer would suffice. Sawyer said Graham is "a bit of an ambassador for us, really." The former power utility executive, who is from New Brunswick, said Graham has advised ARC on which parts of the province could be part of its supply chain. "He knows where some areas of the province would need more help than others from an economic perspective," Sawyer said. "We use him for that piece and because of that he does talk to government a little bit, so he had to register." Sawyer said he's been able to arrange his own meetings with NB Power. Lobbyists dealing with government must register publicly Consultants and in-house lobbyists dealing with the provincial government have been required to register publicly since 2017. Graham's registration to lobby the federal government for ARC Nuclear lists him as "inactive." Until last year, Moltex was also using Moncton-based consultant Chad Peters, who has Progressive Conservative connections, as a provincial lobbyist. His registration showed he lobbied or arranged meetings with several cabinet ministers and NB Power executives. O'Brien lobbied the federal departments of Innovation, Science and Economic Development; Finance; Indigenous Services; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Foreign Affairs and Infrastructure Canada. One of the Finance Department contacts he listed on his registration was Matt DeCourcey, the former Fredericton Liberal MP who was a senior advisor to the minister of finance at the time. O'Brien also lobbied the Prime Minister's Office. "It's government relations we're buying," O'Sullivan said. we're doing the meetings and presenting. They're not doing the lobbying. - Rory O'Sullivan, CEO of Moltex Energy Canada "We're buying to know who to go to, what conversations to have, and that's been very valuable. And we're going to continue with that." He said the consultants were making introductions but "we're doing the meetings and presenting. They're not doing the lobbying." ARC Nuclear and Moltex Energy have been waiting for word of federal funding to support their development work. During last year's provincial election campaign, Higgs said a federal announcement would happen soon after voting day. Four months later, there's still no sign of it. Ottawa announced an SMR strategy in December, but with no money attached. O'Sullivan says his team was disappointed. "Of course, yeah. We were hopeful there were going to be some announcements in there." He said SMRs are "a very complicated file" that takes time for anyone to understand. Sawyer says he didn't assume that the December announcement of a federal strategy would necessarily involve immediate funding. "I didn't see that link," he said. "That was an intermediate step, hopefully, to the next step."
McGill students anxious for update in sexual misconduct investigation
Some students at McGill University say they're anxious for an update into an investigation that began before the holidays, looking into sexual misconduct allegations against a student. The investigation was launched Dec.16, after an online petition signed by more than 50,000 people alleged that a first-year student had sexually assaulted several young women on campus last fall. Some of those students filed formal complaints with the university. The petition called on the university to take action in order to re-establish trust and safety for young women. "It's making people antsy, it's making people feel paranoid, it's making people feel on edge," - McGill student on lack of update from university on sexual misconduct investigation McGill sent an email to students in December explaining that the university was looking into the case and urging students who needed support to contact the university's office for sexual violence response. Since then, the university hasn't updated students. "The lack of communication and transparency between the school and the student body just makes it seem like McGill is trying to cover things up," student Anna Ni told CBC, in an interview Monday. In addition to Ni, CBC spoke to two other McGill students who signed the petition. They are not among the alleged victims of the young man in question, but they asked not to be named so as not to face online harassment. "People are asking, people want to know, and it's radio silence from the university," one of them told CBC. "It's making people antsy, it's making people feel paranoid, it's making people feel on edge," the other said. Student under investigation still attending online classes All three students CBC spoke to said they had expected an update from McGill before classes resumed earlier this month. Almost all classes at McGill are currently online only due to COVID-19. Both Ni and another student said they were taken aback when they recognized the name of the student under investigation as being present in some of their online classes on Zoom. "I was shocked. I didn't realize that he didn't get any consequences and that he was still in our class," Ni said. She said the student under investigation responded to a question from the professor during the online class, which was attended by about 300 students. She said seeing him made her stressed, and that she was unable to finish the class. "For sure they should've informed us that he was still in school," she said. "Because they didn't tell us anything it was like a slap in the face." "Seeing his name pop up on that Zoom list was a blow," said another student, who was present in a Zoom class with the student under investigation. "I was fearful. I was extremely uncomfortable," she continued. She said for that class, the professor used "breakout rooms" on Zoom to create small group discussions, and she realized that meant some students would be forced to interact with the student who was under investigation. "Luckily I was not in his breakout room, but I couldn't help but picture how uncomfortable that environment would be," she said. McGill says investigation ongoing Cynthia Lee, associate director of media relations for McGill, told CBC in an email that the investigation is ongoing. McGill's sexual violence policy stipulates such investigations must be conducted and completed within 90 days of receiving a formal complaint. "Until such process is complete, nothing can be assumed about its outcome, and disciplinary actions cannot be pre-emptively taken," Lee said. "However, interim measures are put in place to ensure the safety and well-being of those directly affected," she added, without specifying what those measures were. "The entirety of this process is covered by confidentiality regulations imposed on us by law, and as such, details or updates concerning particular cases cannot be provided to anyone outside those immediately involved," Lee said. CBC hasn't spoken to any of the women who filed formal complaints about the alleged misconduct. A friend of the complainants told CBC in December the women had consulted a lawyer and wouldn't be speaking publicly. CBC reached out to the student who's under investigation. He said he was unable to comment for now.
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Could e-bikes be about to get even more eco-friendly? Researchers develop rechargeable graphene batteries | road cc
Swedish researchers Graphene Flagship have developed a rechargeable battery made from graphene that they say could greatly improve the eco-friendly credentials of current e-bikeswith lithium-ion batteries. Bosch developing new tech that they say will bring “a giant leap forward in e-mobility” As graphene is non-toxic, Graphene Flagship say it’s already a better choice than a… [Read More]
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Swedish researchers Graphene Flagship have developed a rechargeable battery made from graphene that they say could greatly improve the eco-friendly credentials of current e-bikeswith lithium-ion batteries.
Bosch developing new tech that they say will bring “a giant leap forward in e-mobility”
As graphene is non-toxic, Graphene Flagship say it’s already a better choice than a metal-ion battery; and the results of their latest study in partnership with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland has shown that their creation has impressive credentials when it comes to the battery’s life cycle too.
The researchers used ‘metal-air’ alternatives for their device, such as sodium-air (Na-O2) batteries, which are equipped with sodium anodes and oxygen-trapping cathodes. The Na-O2 gets produced when the battery is out of stored energy, which then gets recycled back to form metallic sodium and oxygen when the battery gets charged again.
A cathode (where the electrons flow through) was made using a porous graphene-based aerogel, which the Graphene Flagship team fabricated by electrochemically exfoliating graphite foils with the help of molecules derived from DNA building blocks, such as adenosine monophosphate. These ‘biomolecules’ insert into the graphite structure, causing the foils to swell. The foils are then scraped off and processed further, resulting in the formation of graphene flakes, around 1-2 nm in thickness and 400-600 nm in width.
The researchers found that the biomolecules are also absorbed on the surface of graphene, allowing the flakes to be dispersed in water and resulting in conductive ink. This ink has a very low impact on the environment, and using a freeze-drying technique the researchers transformed it into an aerogel that was suitable for the battery’s cathode. These new batteries could be recharged 50 times with an efficiency of 94%, which Graphene Flagship say out-performs all other existing graphene-based cathodes.
Co-author of the study Nagore Ortiz-Vitoriano said: “We believe that the phosphates in these biomolecules are the main reason for this success. These chemical groups allow NaO2 to be recycled more quickly during the charging phase.”
Andrea C. Ferrari, Graphene Flagship’s Science and Technology Officer, comments: “Meeting the sustainable development goals is at the core of the Graphene Flagship science and innovation. Energy applications are amongst the promising impact areas for graphene and related materials. This works shows a sustainable approach for the production of graphene to be used in re-chargeable batteries, with a double advantage for the environment.”
It’s not the only exciting battery technology that could revolutionise the e-bike either; back in October we reported that Bosch are investing a cool 1 billion euros into silicon carbide microchips can conduct electricity better, which they say will lead to better range, smaller batteries and less energy lost through heat.
Do you think even more sustainable production would sway more people to take the plunge and go electric? Let us know in the comments as always!
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Associate Professor Lisa Kaminskas
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Dr Lisa Kaminskas heads the targeted drug delivery lab.
Pires, Douglas E. V., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Ascher, David B. (2018). Prediction and optimization of pharmacokinetic and toxicity properties of the ligand. In Computational Drug Discovery and Design (pp. 271-284) New York, NY United States: Humana Press. doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-7756-7_14
Feeney, Orlagh, Caliph, Suzanne M., Porter, Christopher J.H. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2016). Impact of physicochemical properties on dendrimer pharmacokinetics and biodistribution. Dendrimers in nanomedicine. (pp. 311-351) edited by Delphine Felder-Flesch. New York, NY, United States: Pan Stanford. doi: 10.4032/9789814745505
Dao, Nam V., Ercole, Francesca, Urquhart, Matthew C., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Nowell, Cameron J., Davis, Thomas P., Sloan, Erica K., Whittaker, Michael R. and Quinn, John F. (2021). Trisulfide linked cholesteryl PEG conjugate attenuates intracellular ROS and collagen-1 production in a breast cancer co-culture model. Biomaterials Science. doi: 10.1039/d0bm01544j
Marasini, Nirmal, Fu, Changkui, Fletcher, Nicholas L., Subasic, Christopher, Er, Gerald, Mardon, Karine, Thurecht, Kristofer J., Whittaker, Andrew K. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2020). The impact of polymer size and cleavability on the intravenous pharmacokinetics of PEG-based hyperbranched polymers in rats. Nanomaterials, 10 (12) 2452, 2452-16. doi: 10.3390/nano10122452
Haque, Shadabul, Pouton, Colin W., McIntosh, Michelle P., Ascher, David B, Keizer, David W, Whittaker, Michael R. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2020). The impact of size and charge on the pulmonary pharmacokinetics and immunological response of the lungs to PLGA nanoparticles after intratracheal administration to rats. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, 30 102291, 102291. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2020.102291
Kuilamu, Esther, Subasic, Christopher, Cowin, Gary J., Simpson, Fiona, Minchin, Rodney F. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2020). Cetuximab exhibits sex differences in lymphatic exposure after intravenous administration in rats in the absence of differences in plasma exposure. Pharmaceutical Research, 37 (11) 224, 1-12. doi: 10.1007/s11095-020-02945-2
Kaminskas, Lisa M, Landersdorfer, Cornelia B, Bischof, Robert J, Leong, Nathania, Ibrahim, Jibriil, Davies, Andrew N, Pham, Stephen, Beck, Steven, Montgomery, A. Bruce and Surber, Mark W (2019). Aerosol pirfenidone pharmacokinetics after inhaled delivery in sheep: a viable approach to treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Pharmaceutical Research, 37 (1) 3, 3. doi: 10.1007/s11095-019-2732-2
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Pires, Douglas E. V. and Ascher, David B. (2019). dendPoint: a web resource for dendrimer pharmacokinetics investigation and prediction. Scientific Reports, 9 (1) 15465, 15465. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-51789-3
Haque, Shadabul, Feeney, Orlagh, Meeusen, Els, Boyd, Ben J., McIntosh, Michelle P., Pouton, Colin W., Whittaker, Michael and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2019). Local inflammation alters the lung disposition of a drug loaded pegylated liposome after pulmonary dosing to rats. Journal of Controlled Release, 307, 32-43. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2019.05.043
Wang, Lili, Subasic, Christopher, Minchin, Rodney F. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2019). Drug formulation and nanomedicine approaches to targeting lymphatic cancer metastases. Nanomedicine, 14 (12), 1605-1621. doi: 10.2217/nnm-2018-0478
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Williams, Charlotte C., Leong, Nathania J., Chan, Linda J., Butcher, Neville J., Feeney, Orlagh M., Porter, Christopher J.H., Tyssen, David, Tachedjian, Gilda and Ascher, David B. (2019). A 30 kDa polyethylene glycol-enfuvirtide complex enhances the exposure of enfuvirtide in lymphatic viral reservoirs in rats. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 137, 218-226. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2019.03.008
Marasini, Nirmal and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2019). Subunit-based mucosal vaccine delivery systems for pulmonary delivery - Are they feasible?. Drug development and Industrial Pharmacy, 45 (6), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/03639045.2019.1583758
Yu, Sul Hwa, Patra, Malay, Ferrari, Stefano, Ramirez Garcia, Paulina, Veldhuis, Nicholas A., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Graham, Bim, Quinn, John F., Whittaker, Michael R., Gasser, Gilles and Davis, Thomas P. (2018). Linker chemistry dictates the delivery of a phototoxic organometallic rhenium(I) complex to human cervical cancer cells from core crosslinked star polymer nanoparticles. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 6 (47), 7805-7810. doi: 10.1039/c8tb02464b
Mehta, Dharmini, Leong, Nathania, McLeod, Victoria M., Kelly, Brian D., Pathak, Rashmi, Owen, David J., Porter, Christopher J.H. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2018). Reducing dendrimer generation and PEG chain length increases drug release and promotes anti-cancer activity of PEGylated polylysine dendrimers conjugated with doxorubicin via a cathepsin-cleavable peptide linker. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 15 (10) acs.molpharmaceut.8b00581, 4568-4576. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.8b00581
Leong, Nathania J., Mehta, Dharmini, McLeod, Victoria M., Kelly, Brian D., Pathak, Rashmi, Owen, David J., Porter, Christopher J. H. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2018). Doxorubicin conjugation and drug linker chemistry alter the intravenous and pulmonary pharmacokinetics of a PEGylated Generation 4 polylysine dendrimer in rats. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 107 (9), 2509-2513. doi: 10.1016/j.xphs.2018.05.013
Haque, Shadabul, Whittaker, Michael, McIntosh, Michelle P., Pouton, Colin W, Phipps, Simon and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2018). A comparison of the lung clearance kinetics of Solid lipid nanoparticles and Liposomes by following the 3H-labelled structural lipids after pulmonary delivery in rats. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics , 125, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2018.01.001
Yadav, Preeti, McLeod, Victoria M., Nowell, Cameron J., Selby, Laura I., Johnston, Angus P. R., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Trevaskis, Natalie L. (2018). Distribution of therapeutic proteins into thoracic lymph after intravenous administration is protein size-dependent and primarily occurs within the liver and mesentery. Journal of Controlled Release , 272, 17-28. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2017.12.031
Haque, Shadabul, Md, Shadab, Whittaker, Michael and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2018). The applications of 3D printing in pulmonary drug delivery and treatment of respiratory disorders. Current Pharmaceutical Design, 24 (42), 5072-5080. doi: 10.2174/1381612825666181206123414
Haque, Shadabul, Boyd, Ben J., McIntosh, Michelle P., Pouton, Colin W., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Whittaker, Michael (2018). Suggested procedures for the reproducible synthesis of poly(d,l-lactide-co-glycolide) nanoparticles using the emulsification solvent diffusion platform. Current Nanoscience, 14 (5), 448-453. doi: 10.2174/1573413714666180313130235
Dong, Yao-Da, Tchung, Estefania, Nowell, Cameron, Kaga, Sadik, Leong, Nathania, Mehta, Dharmini, Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Boyd, Ben J. (2017). Microfluidic preparation of drug-loaded PEGylated liposomes, and the impact of liposome size on tumour retention and penetration. Journal of Liposome Research, 29 (1), 1-9. doi: 10.1080/08982104.2017.1391285
Haque, Shadabul, McLeod, Victoria M., Jones, Seth, Fung, Sandy, Whittaker, Michael, McIntosh, Michelle, Pouton, Colin, Owen, David J., Porter, Christopher J. H. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2017). Effect of increased surface hydrophobicity via drug conjugation on the clearance of inhaled PEGylated polylysine dendrimers. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 119, 408-418. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2017.07.005
Kaga, Sadik, Truong, Nghia P., Esser, Lars, Senyschyn, Danielle, Sanyal, Amitav, Sanyal, Rana, Quinn, John F., Davis, Thomas P., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Whittaker, Michael R. (2017). Influence of size and shape on the biodistribution of nanoparticles prepared by polymerization-induced self-assembly. Biomacromolecules, 18 (12), 3963-3970. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00995
Chan, Linda J., Feeney, Orlagh M., Leong, Nathania J., McLeod, Victoria M., Porter, Christopher J.H., Williams, Charlotte C. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2017). An evaluation of optimal PEGylation strategies for maximizing the lymphatic exposure and antiviral activity of interferon after subcutaneous administration. Biomacromolecules, 18 (9), 2866-2875. doi: 10.1021/acs.biomac.7b00794
Marasini, Nirmal, Haque, Shadabul and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2017). Polymer-drug conjugates as inhalable drug delivery systems: A review. Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science, 31, 18-29. doi: 10.1016/j.cocis.2017.06.003
Haque, Shadabul, Whittaker, Michael R., McIntosh, Michelle P., Pouton, Colin W. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2016). Disposition and safety of inhaled biodegradable nanomedicines: opportunities and challenges. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, 12 (6), 1703-1724. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2016.03.002
Kuehl, Christopher, Zhang, Ti, Kaminskas, Lisa M., Porter, Christopher J. H., Davies, Neal M., Forrest, Laird and Berkland, Cory (2016). Hyaluronic Acid Molecular Weight Determines Lung Clearance and Biodistribution after Instillation. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 13 (6), 1904-1914. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.6b00069
Chan, Linda J., Ascher, David B., Yadav, Rajbharan, Bulitta, Jürgen B., Williams, Charlotte C., Porter, Christopher J. H., Landersdorfer, Cornelia B. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2016). Conjugation of 10 kDa Linear PEG onto Trastuzumab Fab′ Is Sufficient to Significantly Enhance Lymphatic Exposure while Preserving in Vitro Biological Activity. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 13 (4), 1229-1241. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5b00749
Ryan, Gemma M., Bischof, Robert J., Enkhbaatar, Perenlei, McLeod, Victoria M., Chan, Linda J., Jones, Seth A., Owen, David J., Porter, Christopher J. H. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2016). A comparison of the pharmacokinetics and pulmonary lymphatic exposure of a generation 4 PEGylated dendrimer following intravenous and aerosol administration to rats and sheep. Pharmaceutical Research, 33 (2), 510-525. doi: 10.1007/s11095-015-1806-z
Sou, Tomás, Forbes, Robert T., Gray, Jason, Prankerd, Richard J., Kaminskas, Lisa M., McIntosh, Michelle P. and Morton, David A.V. (2016). Designing a multi-component spray-dried formulation platform for pulmonary delivery of biopharmaceuticals: the use of polyol, disaccharide, polysaccharide and synthetic polymer to modify solid-state properties for glassy stabilisation. Powder Technology, 287, 248-255. doi: 10.1016/j.powtec.2015.10.008
Khor, Song Yang, Hu, Jinming, McLeod, Victoria M., Quinn, John F., Porter, Christopher J. H., Whittaker, Michael R., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Davis, Thomas P. (2016). The pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of a 64 kDa PolyPEG star polymer after subcutaneous and pulmonary administration to rats. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 105 (1), 293-300. doi: 10.1016/j.xphs.2015.11.038
Landersdorfer, Cornelia B., Caliph, Suzanne M., Shackleford, David M., Ascher, David B. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2015). PEGylated interferon displays differences in plasma clearance and bioavailability between male and female mice and between female immunocompetent C57Bl/6J and athymic nude mice. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 104 (5), 1848-1855. doi: 10.1002/jps.24412
Khor, Song Yang, Hu, Jinming, McLeod, Victoria M., Quinn, John F., Williamson, Mark, Porter, Christopher J. H., Whittaker, Michael R., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Davis, Thomas P. (2015). Molecular weight (hydrodynamic volume) dictates the systemic pharmacokinetics and tumour disposition of PolyPEG star polymers. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 11 (8), 2099-2108. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2015.08.001
Trevaskis, Natalie L., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2015). From sewer to saviour-targeting the lymphatic system to promote drug exposure and activity. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 14 (11), 781-803. doi: 10.1038/nrd4608
Sou, Tomás, Morton, David A.V., Williamson, Mark, Meeusen, Els N., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and McIntosh, Michelle P. (2015). Spray-dried influenza antigen with trehalose and leucine produces an aerosolizable powder vaccine formulation that induces strong systemic and mucosal immunity after pulmonary administration. Journal of Aerosol Medicine and Pulmonary Drug Delivery, 28 (5), 361-371. doi: 10.1089/jamp.2014.1176
Mcleod, Victoria M., Chan, Linda J., Ryan, Gemma M., Porter, Christopher J. H. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2015). Optimal PEGylation can improve the exposure of interferon in the lungs following pulmonary administration. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 104 (4), 1421-1430. doi: 10.1002/jps.24353
Chan, Linda J., Bulitta, Jürgen B., Ascher, David B., Haynes, John Michael, McLeod, Victoria M., Porter, Christopher J. H., Williams, Charlotte C. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2015). PEGylation does not significantly change the initial intravenous or subcutaneous pharmacokinetics or lymphatic exposure of trastuzumab in rats but increases plasma clearance after subcutaneous administration. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 12 (3), 794-809. doi: 10.1021/mp5006189
Kaminskas, Lisa M., McLeod, Victoria M., Ascher, David B., Ryan, Gemma M., Jones, Seth, Haynes, John M., Trevaskis, Natalie L., Chan, Linda J., Sloan, Erica K., Finnin, Benjamin A., Williamson, Mark, Velkov, Tony, Williams, Elizabeth D., Kelly, Brian D., Owen, David J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2015). Methotrexate-conjugated PEGylated dendrimers show differential patterns of deposition and activity in tumor-burdened lymph nodes after intravenous and subcutaneous administration in rats. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 12 (2), 432-443. doi: 10.1021/mp500531e
Caliph, Suzanne M., Shackleford, David M., Ascher, David B. and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2014). Practical lessons in murine thoracic lymph duct cannulations: Observations in female and male mice across four different strains that impact on cannulatability. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 104 (3), 1207-1209. doi: 10.1002/jps.24312
Ryan, Gemma M., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Porter, Christopher J.H. (2014). Nano-chemotherapeutics: maximising lymphatic drug exposure to improve the treatment of lymph-metastatic cancers. Journal of Controlled Release, 193, 241-256. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2014.04.051
Kaminskas, Lisa M., McLeod, Victoria M., Ryan, Gemma M., Kelly, Brian D., Haynes, John M., Williamson, Mark, Thienthong, Neeranat, Owen, David J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2014). Pulmonary administration of a doxorubicin-conjugated dendrimer enhances drug exposure to lung metastases and improves cancer therapy. Journal of Controlled Release, 183 (1), 18-26. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2014.03.012
Dahlberg, Annette M., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Smith, Alanna, Nicolazzo, Joseph A., Porter, Christopher J. H., Bulitta, Jürgen B. and McIntosh, Michelle P. (2014). The lymphatic system plays a major role in the intravenous and subcutaneous pharmacokinetics of trastuzumab in rats. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 11 (2), 496-504. doi: 10.1021/mp400464s
Ryan, Gemma M., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Bulitta, Juergen B., McIntosh, Michelle P., Owen, David J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2013). PEGylated polylysine dendrimers increase lymphatic exposure to doxorubicin when compared to PEGylated liposomal and solution formulations of doxorubicin. Journal of Controlled Release, 172 (1), 128-136. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2013.08.004
Sou, Tomás, McIntosh, Michelle P., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Prankerd, Richard J. and Morton, David A. V. (2013). Designing a multicomponent spray-dried formulation platform for pulmonary delivery of biomacromolecules: the effect of polymers on the formation of an amorphous matrix for glassy state stabilization of biomacromolecules. Drying Technology, 31 (13-14), 1451-1458. doi: 10.1080/07373937.2013.788019
Ryan, Gemma M., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Kelly, Brian D., Owen, David J., McIntosh, Michelle P. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2013). Pulmonary administration of PEGylated polylysine dendrimers: absorption from the lung versus retention within the lung is highly size-dependent. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 10 (8), 2986-2995. doi: 10.1021/mp400091n
Velkov, Tony, Deris, Zakuan Z., Huang, Johnny X., Azad, Mohammad A. K., Butler, Mark, Sivanesan, Sivashangarie, Kiminskas, Lisa M., Dong, Yao-Da, Boyd, Ben, Baker, Mark A., Cooper, Matthew A., Nation, Roger L. and Li, Jian (2013). Surface changes and polymyxin interactions with a resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae. Innate Immunity, 20 (4), 350-363. doi: 10.1177/1753425913493337
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Ascher, David B., McLeod, Victoria M., Herold, Marco J., Le, Caroline P., Sloan, Erica K. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2013). PEGylation of interferon α2 improves lymphatic exposure after subcutaneous and intravenous administration and improves antitumour efficacy against lymphatic breast cancer metastases. Journal of Controlled Release, 168 (2), 200-208. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2013.03.006
Sou, Tomás, Kaminskas, Lisa M., Nguyen, Tri-Hung, Carlberg, Renée, McIntosh, Michelle P. and Morton, David A.V. (2013). The effect of amino acid excipients on morphology and solid-state properties of multi-component spray-dried formulations for pulmonary delivery of biomacromolecules. European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, 83 (2), 234-243. doi: 10.1016/j.ejpb.2012.10.015
Burcham, Philip C., Raso, Albert and Kaminskas, Lisa M. (2012). Chaperone heat shock protein 90 mobilization and hydralazine cytoprotection against acrolein-induced carbonyl stress. Molecular Pharmacology, 82 (5), 876-886. doi: 10.1124/mol.112.078956
Kaminskas, Lisa M., McLeod, Victoria M., Porter, Christopher J. H. and Boyd, Ben J. (2012). Association of chemotherapeutic drugs with dendrimer nanocarriers: an assessment of the merits of covalent conjugation compared to noncovalent encapsulation. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 9 (3), 355-373. doi: 10.1021/mp2005966
Kaminskas, Lisa M., McLeod, Victoria M., Kelly, Brian D., Cullinane, Carleen, Sberna, Gian, Williamson, Mark, Boyd, Ben J., Owen, David J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2012). Doxorubicin-conjugated PEGylated dendrimers show similar tumoricidal activity but lower systemic toxicity when compared to PEGylated liposome and solution formulations in mouse and rat tumor models. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 9 (3), 422-432. doi: 10.1021/mp200522d
Kaminskas, Lisa M., McLeod, Victoria M., Kelly, Brian D., Sberna, Gian, Boyd, Ben J., Williamson, Mark, Owen, David J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2012). A comparison of changes to doxorubicin pharmacokinetics, antitumor activity, and toxicity mediated by PEGylated dendrimer and PEGylated liposome drug delivery systems. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine, 8 (1), 103-111. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2011.05.013
Sou, Tomas, Orlando, Laurence, McIntosh, Michelle P., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Morton, David A. V. (2011). Investigating the interactions of amino acid components on a mannitol-based spray-dried powder formulation for pulmonary delivery: a design of experiment approach. International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 421 (2), 220-229. doi: 10.1016/j.ijpharm.2011.09.018
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Mcleod, Victoria M., Porter, Christopher J. H. and Boyd, Ben J. (2011). Differences in colloidal structure of PEGylated nanomaterials dictate the likelihood of accelerated blood clearance. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 100 (11), 5069-5077. doi: 10.1002/jps.22682
Kaminskas, Lisa M. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2011). Targeting the lymphatics using dendritic polymers (dendrimers). Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, 63 (10-11), 890-900. doi: 10.1016/j.addr.2011.05.016
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Boyd, Ben J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2011). Dendrimer pharmacokinetics: the effect of size, structure and surface characteristics on ADME properties. Nanomedicine, 6 (6), 1063-1084. doi: 10.2217/nnm.11.67
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Kelly, Brian D., McLeod, Victoria M., Sberna, Gian, Owen, David J., Boyd, Ben J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2011). Characterisation and tumour targeting of PEGylated polylysine dendrimers bearing doxorubicin via a pH labile linker. Journal of Controlled Release, 152 (2), 241-248. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2011.02.005
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Kelly, Brian D., McLeod, Victoria M., Sberna, Gian, Boyd, Ben J., Owen, David J. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2011). Capping methotrexate α-carboxyl groups enhances systemic exposure and retains the cytotoxicity of drug conjugated pegylated polylysine dendrimers. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 8 (2), 338-349. doi: 10.1021/mp1001872
Sou, Tomas, Meeusen, Els N., de Veer, Michael, Morton, David A. V., Kaminskas, Lisa M. and McIntosh, Michelle P. (2011). New developments in dry powder pulmonary vaccine delivery. Trends in Biotechnology, 29 (4), 191-198. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2010.12.009
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Kota, Jagannath, McLeod, Victoria M., Kelly, Brian D., Karellas, Peter and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2009). PEGylation of polylysine dendrimers improves absorption and lymphatic targeting following SC administration in rats. Journal of Controlled Release, 140 (2), 108-116. doi: 10.1016/j.jconrel.2009.08.005
Kaminskas, L. M., Wu, Z., Barlow, N., Krippner, G. Y., Boyd, B. J. and Porter, C. J. H. (2009). Partly-PEGylated poly-L-lysine dendrimers have reduced plasma stability and circulation times compared with fully PEGylated dendrimers. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 98 (10), 3871-3875. doi: 10.1002/jps.21692
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Kelly, Brian D., McLeod, Victoria M., Boyd, Ben J., Krippner, Guy Y., Williams, Elizabeth D. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2009). Pharmacokinetics and tumor disposition of PEGylated, methotrexate conjugated poly-L-lysine dendrimers. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 6 (4), 1190-1204. doi: 10.1021/mp900049a
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Boyd, Ben J., Karellas, Peter, Krippner, Guy Y., Lessene, Romina, Kelly, Brian and Porter, Chrisiopher J. H. (2008). The impact of molecular weight and PEG chain length on the systemic pharmacokinetics of pegylated poly L-lysine dendrimers. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 5 (3), 449-463. doi: 10.1021/mp7001208
Burcham, P. C., Kaminskas, L. M., Tan, D. and Pyke, S. M. (2008). Carbonyl-scavenging drugs & protection against carbonyl stress-associated cell injury. Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, 8 (4), 319-330. doi: 10.2174/138955708783955953
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Boyd, Ben J., Karellas, Peter, Henderson, Scott A., Giannis, Michael P., Krippner, Guy Y. and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2007). Impact of surface derivatization of poly-L-lysine dendrimers with anionic arylsulfonate or succinate groups on intravenous pharmacokinetics and disposition. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 4 (6), 949-961. doi: 10.1021/mp070047s
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Pyke, Simon M. and Burcham, Philip C. (2007). Michael addition of acrolein to lysinyl and N-terminal residues of a model peptide: targets for cytoprotective hydrazino drugs. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 21 (7), 1155-1164. doi: 10.1002/rcm.2945
Boyd, Ben J., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Karellas, Peter, Krippner, Guy, Lessene, Romina and Porter, Christopher J. H. (2006). Cationic poly-L-lysine dendrimers: pharmacokinetics, biodistribution, and evidence for metabolism and bioresorption after intravenous administration to rats. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 3 (5), 614-627. doi: 10.1021/mp060032e
Kaminskas, Lisa M., Pyke, Simon M. and Burcham, Philip C. (2005). Differences in lysine adduction by acrolein and methyl vinyl ketone: implications for cytotoxicity in cultured hepatocytes. Chemical Research in Toxicology, 18 (11), 1627-1633. doi: 10.1021/tx0502387
Burcham, Philip C., Kaminskas, Lisa M., Fontaine, Frank R., Petersen, Dennis R. and Pyke, Simon M. (2002). Aldehyde-Sequestering Drugs: Tools for Studying Protein Damage by Lipid Peroxidation Products. Toxicology, 181-182, 229-236. doi: 10.1016/S0300-483X(02)00287-1
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Ever since NASA’s Magellan orbiter was able to peak beneath Venus’ dense cloud layer and map out the surface, scientists have puzzled over the planet’s geological history. One of the greatest mysteries is the role volcanic activity has played in shaping Venus’ surface. In particular, there are what is known as “tesserae,” tectonically deformed regions on the surface that often stand above the surrounding landscape.
These features comprise about 7% of the planet’s surface and are consistently the oldest features in their immediate surroundings (dating to about 750 million years ago). In a new study, an international team of geologists and Earth scientists showed how a significant portion of these tesserae appear to be made up of layered rock, which is similar to features on Earth that are the result of volcanic activity.
The study, titled “Venus Tesserae Feature Layered, Folded, and Eroded Rocks,” recently appeared in Geology, a publication maintained by the Geological Society of America (GSA). The study was led by Paul K. Byrne, an associate professor of planetary science at North Carolina State University, who was joined by researchers from the UK, US, Canada, Turkey, Russia, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-30) opening its doors to release NASA’s Magellan spacecraft on May 4th, 1989. Credit: NASA
For the sake of their study, the team analyzed images of Venus’ surface taken by NASA’s Magellan mission. Between 1990 and 1994, this orbiter used synthetic aperture radar to penetrate Venus’ atmosphere and map 98% of the planet. In the course of its six mapping cycles, Magellan detected numerous interesting features that were indicative of past volcanic activity (i.e. lava plains, domes, and shield volcanoes).
While researchers have studied the tesserae for decades, they did not believe that the layering of it was widespread – which is a good indication that the tesserae are not portions of the continental crust. As Prof. Byrne explained in a recent NC State University News release:
“There are generally two explanations for tesserae – either they are made of volcanic rocks, or they are counterparts of Earth’s continental crust. But the layering we find on some of the tessera isn’t consistent with the continental crust explanation.”
For the most part, continental crust is composed of granite, an igneous rock that is formed when tectonic plates move, and water is subducted from the surface granite. However, as the name implies, granite is coarse-grained in structure and doesn’t form in layers. What this implies is that if Venus has a continental crust, then it’s likely below the layered rocks that are seen on the surface.
This figure shows the volcanic peak Idunn Mons (at 46 degrees south latitude, 214.5 degrees east longitude) in the Imdr Regio area of Venus. Credit: NASA
Such formations can be explained through one other geological process (sediment deposited by flowing water) but Prof. Byrne and his colleagues were able to rule that out with a fair degree of certainty. As he indicated:
“Aside from volcanic activity, the other way to make layered rock is through sedimentary deposits, like sandstone or limestone. There isn’t a single place today on Venus where these kinds of rocks could form. The surface of Venus is as hot as a self-cleaning oven and the pressure is equivalent to being 900 meters (about 985 yards) underwater. So the evidence right now points to some portions of the tesserae being made up of layered volcanic rock, similar to that found on Earth.”
Byrne and his colleagues hope that this research will help to shed light on Venus’ complicated geological history. For example, a future mission to the surface could obtain samples from the tesserae, which would be able to confirm or deny their volcanic origin. If they are in fact sedimentary in nature, it would indicate that they formed when the surface of Venus was much different than it is today.
To date, studies have been conducted that indicate that Venus may have once been habitable, with oceans covering much of its surface. These oceans (and even lifeforms) could have existed for billions of years until roughly 700 million years ago. At this point, a massive resurfacing event is believed to have caused a runaway greenhouse effect that caused its atmosphere to become extremely hot and dense as it is today.
However, other research based on the examination of lava flows (like Ovda Fluctus) has cast doubt that the highlands on Venus are likely to be composed of basaltic lava rock instead of granite. This contradicts previous theories that the Ovda Regio highlands plateau formed in the presence of water, which is the most compelling argument for the planet once having oceans on its surface.
In this respect, these research findings could be a step in the direction of resolving the debate of what caused Venus’ surface features: Oceans? Volcanoes? A little from column A, a little from column B? Said Bryne:
“Venus today is hellish, but we don’t know if it was always like this. Was it once like Earth but suffered catastrophic volcanic eruptions that ruined the planet? Right now we cannot say for certain, but the fact of the layering in the tesserae narrows down the potential origins of this rock.”
Further Reading: NCSU, Geology
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New York : Hachette Audio ; Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by Recorded Books, ℗2010.
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Before he can lead a covert mission on the orders of the President, a former CIA assassin must track down the source of a terrorist attack and navigate a shadowy world of betrayal and political secrets in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled assassin his country ever had-stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House. Inside, the British prime minister is being honored at a state dinner. Then, just as the prime minister's motorcade leaves, a bomb explodes in the park, and in the chaotic aftermath Stone is given an urgent assignment: find those responsible.
British MI-6 agent Mary Chapman becomes his partner in the search for the unknown attackers. But their opponents are elusive, skilled, and increasingly lethal. Worst of all, the park bombing may have been only the opening salvo in their plan. With nowhere else to turn, Stone enlists the help of the only people he knows he can trust: the Camel Club.
David Baldacci was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 5, 1960. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He practiced law in Washington D.C. as a trial and corporate lawyer.
His first novel, Absolute Power, was published in 1996. It won Britain's prestigious W.H. Smith's Thumping Good Read award for fiction in 1997 and was adapted as a movie starring Clint Eastwood. His other works include Total Control, The Winner, The Simple Truth, Saving Faith, True Blue, One Summer and End Game. He writes numerous series including King and Maxwell, Freddy and the French Fries, the Camel Club, Will Robie, Shaw and Katie James, John Puller, Vega Jane, and Amos Decker. He also published a novella entitled Office Hours and has authored five original screenplays.
Baldacci's implausible fifth Camel Club novel (after Divine Justice) disappoints with cartoonish plotting and characterization. The night after the U.S. president persuades former assassin Oliver Stone (aka John Carr) to re-enter government employment to tackle the growing threat of Russian drug gangs, Stone finds himself in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, when gunfire breaks out and a bomb explodes. Apparently, the intended target was the visiting British prime minister, who was scheduled to walk across the park before an ankle injury modified his plans. Taken off his original mission, Stone seeks to identify the forces behind the assassination attempt. Stone's old Camel Club allies involve themselves in his search, which includes the de rigueur mole hunt and the McGuffin of choice these days, a lead on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts. Those who prefer intelligence in their political thrillers will have to look elsewhere. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
The Russian mafia, the Mexican drug cartel, billions of dollars and bombs targeting presidents and prime ministers combine to entrap John Carr (aka Oliver Stone) and the Camel Club into another quick-paced adventure.Stone, disgraced virtuoso of the CIA's lethal Triple Six section, is summoned by the American president, who believes the Russian mafia, conspiring with the Moscow oligarchy, has overthrown the Mexican drug cartel's leadership and intends to do with cocaine what the USSR could not do with military force: destroy the USA. Stone contemplates his covert assignment while walking through Lafayette Park near the White House. Suddenly there's machine gun fire and a bomb explodes. With the British prime minister on hand for a state dinner, authorities first think it's a botched assassination attempt. Stone's mission is changed. Find out who set the bomb. Enter an old acquaintance of Stone's, British spymaster Sir James McElroy, and a cast of characters including MI6 operative Mary Chapman and agents from FBI, ATF, Secret Service and the shadowy NIC. Stone, Chapman and the Club encounter double-agents and triple-agents, villains and victims, as evidence spins in chaotic circles. The book moves through the Washington's halls of power, to the Bronx and to the aptly named Murder Mountain. Stone copes with nanobot technology, fear of biological weapons, a Turkish professor supposedly on the trail of Osama bin Laden and a beautiful lobbyist who is interested in more that peddling influence. Character development is basic, the Washington, D.C., setting is rendered with familiarity and the writing doesn't get in the way of the fast-moving plot.Strap on your Glock. Grab an extra magazine of shells. There's danger and excitement lurking around this Corner.]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Shortly after the events related in Divine Justice (2008), Oliver Stone, former CIA assassin and now the leader of the shadowy group known as the Camel Club, is whisked away to a top-secret meeting with the president of the U.S. Russian drug cartels are operating on American soil, possibly with the approval if not the direct supervision of the Russian government. Stone's mission is to go to the drugs' point of entry, Latin America, and find a way to shut the cartels down. But before he can even begin his mission training, Stone finds himself in the middle of what appears to be a terrorist attack on the life of the British prime minister. Teaming up with a British intelligence agent, Stone attempts to determine if the attack is connected to the Russian drug-smuggling operation. The latest Camel Club novel is, as usual, skillfully constructed and very difficult to put down. Baldacci keeps peeling back layers of Stone's psyche, revealing him to be a man full of unresolved conflicts and a potentially self-destructive amount of guilt over his past actions. Another winner. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Since Baldacci's first novel, Absolute Power, appeared in 1996, he has owned a place on most best-seller lists. His latest Camel Club novel won't break the string. Author tours and all the attendant hoopla will get the ball rolling.--Pitt, David Copyright 2010 Booklist
Library Journal Review
In this fifth installment-following Divine Justice (2008)-in Baldacci's (davidbaldacci.com) popular "Camel Club" series, when a bomb detonates across from the White House, the U.S. President and visiting English prime minister are the presumed targets. Following a series of surprising plot twists, former CIA assassin Oliver Stone and his Camel Club, together with British MI-5 agent Mary Chapman, thwart another assassination attempt on the two leaders and uncover the dangerous organization behind the plot. Actors Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy distinctly and believably voice the motley characters, especially mastering well the U.S. regional and British accents. Sound effects such as explosions and gunshots further add to the enjoyment of this book on audio. Highly recommended for all mystery/thriller fans. [Includes a bonus interview between Ron McLarty and the author; "an action-packed, conspiracy-laden, politically intriguing mystery," read the review of the Grand Central hc, LJ 10/15/10, an LJ and New York Times best seller; the Vision mass market pb will publish in June 2011.-Ed.]-Ilka Gordon, Siegal Coll. of Judaic Studies Lib., Cleveland (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Chocolate: Bar Fight
May 18, 2016 ~ edinbudz ~ Leave a comment
Crystal Kitchen’s Milk Chocolate Bar
Firebar’s Toffee Chocolate Bar
I had some requests for these 2 to be reviewed on their own so I decided to put them head to head with each other. The 2 by word of mouth alone stood to be great products, when I got the chance to try both, I couldn’t hesitate.
Both truly were as good as their word.. The flavour of one chocolate had it’s own qualities that made it great even against non-medicated chocolates. The effects as well were hard to judge as both did so well at actually preserving the medicinal effects. All in all, this was such an evenly matched bar fight. After cleaning their wounds, they probably got each other a beer and called it a night. ‘Til the next fight!
On to today’s fight.
Look: Off the bar stool, the Firebar looks like it came to win. Although it’s very simple, on a what seems like a laser printed piece of paper, there is an elegant wrapper with nutritional values on the back and a beautiful design on the front. The crystal kitchen came in a clear sealed bag with their simple logo(which is nice) and again, nutritional values on the back. The crystal kitchen wrapper just seemed too plain against the Firebar. Maybe a colour version would make it pop a bit more.
Smell: There was a very faint herb smell to both of them that could just barely be noticed as soon as both were opened. The main smell of both was the sweet milk chocolate. The firebar had a bit of a nutty smell to it that was so faint it kind of got lost in the herb I first had smelled. Although there was slight differences in the smell, it’s also because of the slight differences in flavour (pure milk chocolate vs toffee).
Taste: The first bar I tried was the Crystal Kitchen, so from here on I will start with that. This has to be the best edible I have tasted as of yet. When I go for chocolate, I rarely enjoy tainting it with the flavour of anything else. Crystal Kitchens did not taint anything, the flavour of milk chocolate is the first and foremost thing I tasted. The slight herb smell translated in to an almost coffee-like taste that could only be compared to a mocha from Tim’s. This was one bar I had to finish QUICK. Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for the Firebar. This is another one of those edibles that are overpowered by the herb. Not much can be tasted in the ways of chocolate or Toffee, just weed.
Feel: The texture of Crystal Kitchen’s bar was no different than the best milk chocolate. I wouldn’t call it on the same level a “fine” milk chocolate but it is great. Comparable to a Hershey, it was soft and almost velvety as it melted when eating it. The only reason I scored the firebar so much lower than the Crystal Kitchen was because of the standard they set for “milkiness”. The Firebar had that chewy feeling I love Toffee to have but it wasn’t enough for the chocolate to be amazing. The chocolate itself of the firebar just didn’t seem to want to melt as easily and smoothly as Crystal’s so it just felt like a lower quality chocolate. Like ones you’d find at, say, Bulk-Barn.
Effects: It’s been a little while since I had an edible over 100mg and these both were a great increase in dosage. For a bit I’ve been struggling to find an edible with GREAT effects without the burnout or dosage under 200mg. These, both, we’re fantastic. In their own ways they both crept up and lasted for a few hours. The Crystal Kitchen took about 45 minutes to kick in and had very strong uplifting, sativa sided effects. For someone with social anxiety(I’d never normally reccomend a sativa to a person with anxiety) these could be great as I felt like every joke I made was the funniest thing in the world. I couldn’t wait to share them… to my dismay, they were not as funny as I had thought. The firebar had a very relaxing sensation that was obviously going to happen with the stated “80%indica 20%sativa” on the label. The effects started at about the same rate, 45-60 minutes and, lasted about the same as Crystal Kitchen’s (about 3 hours).
Overall stats for the 2:
Crystal Kitchens – 9.2/10
Firebars – 9.2/10
Crystal Kitchen:
Look – 7.5/10
Smell – 9/10
Taste – 10/10
Feel – 9.5/10
Effects – 10/10
Firebars:
Look – 10/10
Taste – 9/10
Feel – 8/10
BubbaXBanner BHO By Crystal Extractions
Sorry for the delay in reviews the last few weeks. It’s been a busy week with an injury to add to it. With the coming crackdowns, it’s probably only going to get slower. Now is the time that we all need to stand up and tell our mayor John Tory that we need to keep access to our medicine open. Email him at mayor_tory@toronto.ca and tell him why this is important to you. It’s important to me because these dispensaries were my first in to the medicinal community. I’m sure it won’t do much but here’s to hoping for a change for the better.
I’ve been self medicating for years with no real help finding a way to actually be legal. These people have been so welcoming and educational to me that I now actually have access to legal medicine. They actually help to get set up with government approved LP’s, even more so than the money hungry doctors writing the prescriptions…
These are PEOPLE providing a SAFE and easy way to access our medicine, stand up for them!
On to the review. This shatter was provided to us by GW Weed Emporium: Scarborough and made by Crystal Extractions. This is a dark, heavy hitting shatter. The look of it doesn’t do the quality justice. It has a heavy hit but not due to the fact that it’s a BHO, it is just a strong, quality shatter.
Look: Upon seeing the package, I was immediately excited about what could be inside. The anticipation killed me but I also didn’t want to ruin such nice packaging. It’s like opening a mint in box toy from the ’70s.. You just don’t do it. Nevertheless, I did it, I opened the package and to my eyes pleasure, I opened a dark amber shatter. Normally I see the darkness and expect nothing but bad quality but this had a yellow translucent tinge to it. It also had the slightest bit of plant matter in it but at $40/gram I kind of expected it to be even worse in quality. It’s not.
Smell: The smell reminded me exactly of my last batch of Bubba. It was mostly a sweet smell with a bit of earthiness to it. There’s also a bit of that sour, diesely smell to the shatter that most Kushes have. I’ve also read(having never tried) that the Bruce Banner strain has a sweet diesely smell to it, so that could be where this diesel smell comes from.
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Feel: I don’t know why this was skipped in the past but I think it should be added in to all of my coming reviews. The texture of the product plays a key role in any review be it an extract, an edible, right down to the flower. It can tell a lot about the product before you even try it.
This shatter has a very nice texture to it, it almost reminded me of a stale airhead candy. Airheads, if you haven’t tried already, are a chewy, hard to pull candy.. When they go stale they’re hard to chew but easy to “pull’n’snap”. Same goes for this shatter, it’s doesn’t quite break like a hard plastic or glass but it can be pulled a bit before snapping. *I do not reccomend eating the shatter like an airhead.
Taste: Like any good quality product, the smell matches the taste to a T. It’s a very sweet taste almost like those Kush Kitchen’s Grape Hard Candies from our last review. There’s also a bit of a sour, diesely after taste that creeps up on the exhale. I think it’s for that reason, the heaviness doesn’t hit you until then. When you inhale it, the taste and feel is very smooth, upon exhalation, you’re left with a very heavy feeling that intensifies with the lingering diesel taste.
Effects: This is about as heavy as an indica gets. I’ve found the first thing I feel right off the bat is a sense of relaxation and stress relief. That feeling only intensifies over time and leaves you in an almost dreamy state of mind. Not long after that wore off, I was left ready to sleep but not necessarily burnt out. It’s just enough to get rid of the insomnia at night but if I smoke it during the day, I can still function. An all around great shatter.
Overall stats for this one: 8.5/10
Smell – 8.5/10
Effects – 9.5/10
Cannabis Candies – Close Combat
May 8, 2016 May 9, 2016 ~ edinbudz ~ Leave a comment
Here we go with another cannabis edible showdown. Today we have Kush Kitchen vs MOTA. These 2 are becoming big, well known names within the community. This is just a teaser of what they have in stores for all the patients out there. My favourites.
Kush Kitchen’s Grape Hard Candies
MOTA’s Dweebs
These candies are probably the best medicinal edibles that we have come across as of yet. There is nearly no cannabis taste to speak of and the effects for such low dose edibles are amazing. Judging these 2 was a hard thing to do as they are both great products to try.
Overall this was a fairly even scored battle as they both shine in their own ways. Kush Kitchen’s just had something about it that made the score just a hair higher than MOTA’S. They may have to face off once again with new products.
Look: Looking at these 2 out of the package, you wouldn’t be able to tell that these are medicated whatsoever. The Dweebs resemble Nerds right down to the size and shape. The colours are exactly the same as Nerds and the only thing that would give it away is the bag it comes with labelled as 50mg. The hard candies have a homemade look and feel to them that reminds me of a broken jolly rancher stick. Unfortunately the hard candies do not have any indication of dose so we have assumed each piece is 10-25mg as they do pack a light punch.
Smell: Other than the fruity, sugary aroma that comes with candy, there is almost no smell to speak of. In most edibles we try there is a strong smell of cannabis and depending on the quality used it’s either more or less potent. These 2 do not have that overwhelming indication of cannabis use. If you stick your nose in the bags, you’ll be able to notice it barely, but that’s about it.
Taste: Here we start to have the separation in scores but really they play off each other very well in the effects category. The MOTA Dweebs have almost a sour taste to them, if you’ve ever had Nerds, you’ll know what I’m talking about. There is practically no difference in the medicated and non medicated versions. The only thing I could say is, when I had a mouthful of Dweebs, I noticed a herby aftertaste.
The Kush Kitchen hard candies has a completely different flavour than the Dweebs but not unpleasant at all. There is a strong grape flavour with a stronger cannabis aftertaste. I’ve noticed the more you let these sit, the more cannabis flavour comes out, so chewing them is the best for the flavour.
Effects: Like I said in the flavour category, the 2 scores play off each other very well.
The Dweebs have a light effect that is comparable to after effects of a good strain. When taking edibles, normally effects are felt well in to the night and sometimes in to the next morning, obviously depending on the dose. These almost feel like they skip that process and leave me with the next morning effects immediately after effects set in. It’s not terribly strong as it is only 50mg but I feel taking these too early in the night leave you couch locked or ready for bed way too early. On insomnia ridden nights where the strongest strains don’t work, this is definitely a friend, however.
The hard candies from Kush Kitchen are a lot stronger in my opinion. Just taking a small piece leave me with a refreshed feeling coupled with a confusion almost, wondering, “where is this coming from?. Oh yeah, that grape candy I had 30 minutes ago… I definitely want another!” Taking more only intensified this feeling until I was in bed questioning whether or not I was tired enough to actually be there. I was. I felt a great nights sleep, after a great night of relaxed, confused, euphoria.
Overall stats for these 2:
Kush Kitchen – 9.1/10
MOTA – 9/10
Kush Kitchen:
Taste – 8.5/10
MOTA:
Look – 9/10
White Kush, as white as it sounds.
White Kush
From Maricare
Hey! After a short break(not by choice) I’m back with another review!
This strain comes from Maricare Dispensary and Delivery. With the changing weather these past few weeks, even with the strongest strains I’ve been having a lot of trouble sleeping… White Kush is the savior.
This is the perfect strain for insomnia and pain relief. Immediately after smoking the first hit, all the back pain and tension that came with tossing and turning for 4 nights straight was alleviated. Almost like taking an unusually strong, targeted pain reliever, back pain melted beyond compare to any pharmaceutical drug. After the second go at this, you’re left either couch locked or ready for bed, something I look forward to this evening.
Out of the jar, this is such a beautiful strain to look at and smell. This is definitely a strain we will be coming back to in the future.
Look: Like I said before, this is a beautiful strain to look at. The buds are extremely tight and are caked in crystals. The colour is a bright to almost lime green and has bright orange hairs running through all of the buds evenly. This is another strain that the leaves do not have to be trimmed entirely as they too are covered in crystals, making them have an almost white hue to them.
Smell: All kushes to me have a very similar smell to them with their own undertones that make them their unique. This one is no different, it has that punch in the face kush smell that every kush is known to have… It also has an underlying sweet, almost fruity smell to it. While yes, I have smelled this before, there was also an earth, almost dirt-like smell to it that makes this one unique. Sweet and dirty? Never have I smelt a better kush combination.
Taste: The taste is definitely not dirty at all, nor earthy. There is an intensely strong sweet taste, almost like a grape soda. It’s taste first huts you in the taste buds but it also follows down as you inhale, it’s a weird thing almost like an after-taste before hand. The after-taste is that classic kush taste that comes with most kush strains.
Effects: Even as we write this, I’m struggling to keep our eyes open at 4:30pm. Focus is becoming harder and harder as I struggle to gain the strength to even move my thumbs. Any pain that I was having before this strain is long forgotten and sleep is imminent. This is a night time only strain and is PERFECT for it.
Smell – 10/10
Purple Candy, a BHO and Bud Comparison
Purple Candy from
http://www.gwweedemporium.com
Purple Candy BHO from http://www.worldwidecannabistore.com
We did our review of the Purple Candy BHO from WWCS already so this post’s scores will be geared towards the bud from GW. The review in general will cover how the 2 compare with each other. The BHO was from the discount shelf while the buds were on the mid-top shelf price range. The 2 were actually close in scores in a lot of categories however the buds took the higher score due to not being a discount strain.
This is not to say a discount extract or strain can’t beat a top shelf one, but these 2 know their prices and have them reflect that in the strength and quality of everything they have.
Look: The look is obviously incomparable as they are 2 completely different products. The look of the bud however is a very dark strain. It’s almost a deep forest green that’s covered in crystals. The crystals make it seem a lot brighter than it actually is. There is also next to no orange hairs, as they are spaced very far apart and, what hairs are there are covered in crystals as well. The only problem we saw, there was a few too many long leaves left on the bud.
Smell: The smell of the 2 were almost identical. For a shatter you’d expect the smell to be a bit more potent than the bud but being a discount shatter they were almost exactly the same. There’s a strong diesel smell followed by a hint of lemon that took us right back to that G of Purple Candy BHO. Identical other than intensity.
Taste: Again, the taste of the 2 were almost identical. The only difference we found that was even with smaller hits, the buds packed more of a punch than the BHO. The taste is like the smell, a bit of diesel followed by a sour taste we can only match to lemon. Oddly enough, the buds packed a much stronger hit than the BHO. The BHO maintained a much cleaner taste in the end.
Effects: This bud was as good for social anxiety as the BHO. Clears thoughts and leaves you just good enough to be productive still. Obviously though, overindulgence will leave you lazy and ready to go to bed or just sit back and watch TV. A sense of calm and euphoria is also felt a little while after smoking. It’s a perfect day time indica if smoked responsibly, overindulge and you’ll find its perfect for bed time.
Purple Candy BHO : 7.75/10
Effects – 8/10
Purple Candy Buds: 8.3/10
Rice Crispy Squares, Square Off
SAB Rice Crispy Square
GW In house Rice Crispy Square
After trying so many versions of the GW in house squares, we knew we had to snag this little guy. The SAB is labelled as 100mg while the GW has no clear indication of dosage. I don’t think this is a problem as with no lab tests on most edibles, there’s no real way to trust what it says.
Overall the GW blew the SAB out of the water. From the look to the effect of each, GW wins each category.
Look: The chocolate drizzle covers the GW square completely, while the SAB has just a light drizzle on one area of the square. The packaging is a bit nicer on the SAB but in product testing, package plays a very small role.
Smell: They both have a similar smell, GW’s is more pungent, at 100mg in such a tiny square you’d expect a stronger smell. You can tell in both quality buds are used but the SAB is just a little lackluster.
Taste: This is where the GW really starts to take the cake. The taste on the GW is so much sweeter. With the smell being more pungent in the GW, you’d expect that to show in the taste as well, that is not the case. The SAB had an overwhelming cannabis taste that had to be immediately chased by a sweet drink.
Effects: Again, GW wins this one by far. Upon using the GW you can almost feel the strength in it as your body processes it. After less than an hour you feel an intense wave of pain relief… everywhere. You’re also left feeling that euphoria that comes with the best edibles. That was with only half of the square. The SAB, after consuming the entire square, we waited 2 hours before smoking anything. No effects were felt until smoking a bowl of GW’s Kandy Land strain. Normally, this strain puts us to bed maybe an hour after smoking it, with the SAB ingested already, smoking it caused an immediate burn-out. The GW we have always smoked along side eating with no burn-out effects..
GW – 9.25/10
SAB – 5.8/10
GW:
Effects 10/10
April 26, 2016 May 1, 2016 ~ edinbudz ~ Leave a comment
Animal Cookies – Hybrid
Olive Alternate Medicine
This hybrid strain was only something that we read about, the legends were just that, legends.. Until now. Olive Alt Meds supplied us with this beautiful strain and we are so happy we got our hands on it. It’s been known to be perfect for pain and insomnia and it is exactly that.
Look: We’re not sure what it is about Cookie strains but we feel they all have a certain similarity. The buds are always tight with short bright orange hairs, the leaves are small and minimal, and they are always covered in crystals. This strain was no different, just a little darker than the cookie strains we’ve tried before.
Smell: The smell is pungent, there’s a sour stench that creeps up the nasal cavity. It’s also a little sweet but the sour just takes over. The sour smell we think has a hint of pine in it as well, that makes it just a little more pungent than the earthiness in one of its parent strains, Girl Scout Cookies. Both creep up your nose steadily but the Animal leaves a stronger impression.
Taste: Like the smell, it’s a bit sour. There is a certain piney, lemony taste that you taste when inhaling the strain. Upon exhalation, you’re left with an earthy taste that reminds you of Girl Scout Cookies. It’s not the most appealing taste but we get past it for its effects.
Effects: As the legend says, this strain has a certain.. ability~ to destroy insomnia and pain symptoms. One hit in and we could instantly feel the insomnia melt away. It was a very surprising feeling considering normally we’d either have to take pharmaceuticals or a much higher dose of cannabis before feeling any insomnia relief. Call it overkill but we went in for a second, it has a ridiculous ability to kill pain as well. With insomnia comes a lot of headaches that are just.. painful. After the second hit, we were left with absolutely no feeling of pain whatsoever. This strain’s legends are all true.
This is an amazing strain. Amazing.
Overall stats for this one : 8.75/10
Organic Hindu Kush
From Maricare Dispensary
https://www.leafly.com/dispensary-info/maricare-mail—delivery
These guys consistently have quality buds at great prices. This week we grabbed a few strains from them, this was an instant favourite. From opening the package and smelling the sweet intense kush smell and seeing the tight, beautifully trimmed buds, we could only hope it was as good as it made itself seem. It was.
Look:Like we said, as soon as we opened the package, the buds stood right out. We could notice the grower took their time with this bud. It’s trimmed beyond perfection and it’s moisture level is just right. The colour is a dark green with hints of purple and even a bit of black. If we had a better camera, the colours would stand out a lot more. It’s also completely covered in crystals, making it sparkle under light.
Smell: The first thing we smelled was that classic kush smell. Being such an old strain, it’s kind of expected, this is one of the buds that made that smell known. The next thing that hits you is the unbelievable amount of sweetness, like a pack of skittles or starburst. There is also a great earthy smell that hits you more in your taste buds as well.
Taste: The earthy smell that is just barely there is extremely strong in the taste. Once you smoke it you taste something you knew was in the bud right when you started grinding it up. There’s nothing overpowering about it, its just a good clean smoke that hits you deep.
Effects: This is a pure indica strain and the effects are just that. If you’re having any stress, or the headaches that come with stress, this will work for you perfectly. It’s not so strong that you’re left tired or couch locked but there is a sense of relief that comes with every hit. It relaxes you without tiring you out and leaves your body numb to any pain that may be there.
Bosstalgia Chemo Honeycomb
http://www.bostalgia.com
This product is like none we have ever tried. Consistency in every batch, new closed loop techniques, these guys know what they are doing.
If we had a bit better of a camera you’d be able to see, this packaging is amazing. The “cookie” comes in a little tin with an extremely detailed label on top. The THC content is at whopping 91.89% with 0.77% CBD and 0.5(?)% CBN.
Look: After getting past the packaging, we opened her up, and to our surprise, a wee baby cookie! In the Instagram posts they seem a lot bigger than they are, and at 1g a piece, we were left wondering HOW ARE THEY SO BIG?! Good cameras and good angles make all the difference when taking close ups of these cookies. There is a light beige colour that you see in every single post they make of the product. It looks EXACTLY how it looks in their pictures, other than that size difference =P.
Smell: Upon opening the tin we were overwhelmingly hit with the smell of the cookie, it was intimidating. After getting our noses used to it, we knew what we were getting in to, something delicious.
Taste: The tin says it all, like those blue candy canes. With that on the tin, we went in specifically looking for that taste and it was found but just faintly upon exhaling. The main flavor we get would be that kiefy crystally taste with a blue candy cane after taste.
Effects: Like running in to a brick wall head first at top speed. Do NOT over medicate with these cookies. Our first dab was just a dusting, like the amount of salt you get in a BK package, we couldn’t take any more hits for a good 5 minutes to recover. After our recovery we went in for one more and were hit with that “sedative” and “heavy” effect. Couch lock sets in quick and you’re left in almost a dreamy state where everything is peachy.
Overall stats for this one: 10/10
The Dank Squad 100mg Cereal Bar
Made by @danksquad6ix
Purchased from GW Weed Emporium, follow @shecultivates
In the morning, this bar is the perfect thing to start your days. There isn’t too much to say about this bar, it’s like a bowl of medicated lucky charms. For nights where insomnia keeps us awake, these guys keep us awake in the morning.
Look: You can see the type of cereal used with a green tinge that makes it look a little ghoulish. Reminds us of something to eat during the Halloween time of year. Scaaaary doOOOooobie snaaaaacks. Looks great though, it’s obviously solvent less.
Smell: The herb smell isn’t too strong in these, at 100mg it’s clear why. There is definitely a distinct herb smell where you can tell quality products were used but there’s also overpowering sweet scent.
Taste: Like we said earlier, like a bowl of medicated lucky charms. The marshmallow that makes it a bar is like the sweet cereal milk and that green tinge makes you taste the herb just a little bit. The herb and sweet go very well together in this bar as when we were finished eating it we were left wanting more just to snack on.
Effects: This bar feels definitely more on the sativa side. We ate this on a day off and had one of the most productive days of the month. We personally would buy it again just for those insomnia ridden nights. With no burnout effects, it’s perfect for anytime of the day. At 100mg we don’t think you can go too overboard either.
Overall stats for this one: 8.75/10
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paidContent:UK: Italian Competition Authority searches Google’s Milan offices in newspaper dispute
According to several news reports the Italian Competition Authority searched Google’s Milan offices this morning as part of an investigation into the company’s abuse of its ‘dominant position on the internet’, says paidContent:UK.
The investigation was sparked by a complaint from the Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers criticising the search giant’s lack of transparency in handling Google News – in particular the ranking process.
Full post at this link…
Google responds on its European Public Policy Blog stating that publishers can request to be removed from Google News at any time and that Google drives vast amounts of traffic to publishers’ websites.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Newspapers, Search and tagged google, Google News, Italian Competition Authority, Italian Federation of Newspaper Publishers, Italy, Milan, search giant, United Kingdom on August 28, 2009 by Laura Oliver.
Google ends Radio Ads scheme – cites same reasons as Print ads closure
After the search giant announced the end of its Print Ads scheme, Journalism.co.uk contacted Google about the future of its audio and TV ad initiatives.
Would they be affected? A resounding no from the Google spokesman.
Well, yesterday Google announced it will be closing its Radio Ads programme – citing similar reasons to the print scheme closure:
“While we’ve devoted substantial resources to developing these products and learned a lot along the way, we haven’t had the impact we hoped for.”
Instead Google will focus on online audio streaming and advertising around this, phasing out the existing audio ads by May 31 and selling Google Radio Automation – the software that automates broadcast radio programming.
Up to 40 staff involved with the project are expected to lose their jobs, said Susan Wojcicki, vice-president of product management, in the blog announcement.
This entry was posted in Advertising, Search and tagged audio streaming, google, Google Inc., Journalism.co.uk, Print Ads, product management, Radio Ads, search giant, spokesman, Susan Wojcicki, vice president of product management on February 13, 2009 by Laura Oliver.
GigaOm: WSJ ‘failed the Web 2.0 test’ with Google story
The WSJ’s reaction to Google’s response to its article about the search giant’s ‘net neutrality’ position was an ‘old-media approach’, writes Matthew Ingram.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Online Journalism and tagged google, Matthew Ingram, search giant, Wall Street Journal, WSJ on December 18, 2008 by Laura Oliver.
Googleblog: archived newspapers going online
Google is making it its mission to make old newspapers available online. The search giant will partner with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives, and hopes to make more newspapers accessible and searchable online. In time
these archives will be blended into the main Google search results.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Newspapers and tagged Archiving, google, newspaper publishers, search giant, search results on September 9, 2008 by Laura Oliver.
Belgian newspapers seeking £39m damages from Google
A group of Belgian newspapers are seeking up to £39m (€49m) in damages from Google for the search giant publishing and storing their content without permission or offering payment.
Last year Google lost a case brought against it by the Copiepresse group – an organisation that represents the French language press in Belgium – forcing it to remove cached versions of newspaper articles and take down content from its Google News service
The organisation’s secretary-general told Bloomberg yesterday it had summoned Google to appear again before a Brussels court so that it could decide on the damages. Copiepresse is seeking between €32.8 and 49.1m.
The damages would be in addition to the €25,000 (£20,000) daily fine imposed on Google by the court for each day it kept Copiepresse material on its site.
Google appealed the original court decision of February 2007, which ruled that it could not claim ‘fair use’ – acceptable under copyright law – for using a lines of text and linking to the original article.
A Google spokesperson told Bloomberg that it was still awaiting the results of its appeal and that it had not received notification from Copiepresse of any new court dates.
This entry was posted in Newspapers, Search and tagged Belgium, Bloomberg, Brussels, Brussels court, copyright law, EUR, Europe, GBP, google, Google News, Google News service, Linking, search giant, search giant publishing, secretary-general, spokesperson on May 28, 2008 by Oliver Luft.
Toronto Star: Google News respects copyright, says content specialist
Google News respects copyright and is not looking to move into content creation, Josh Cohen, content specialist for the search giant’s news channel, has said in a Q&A with the Toronto Star.
“…[I]t’s really about helping people to find the content that’s out there. We just don’t see ourselves as content creators. We’re more of a platform for that content,” he said.
This entry was posted in Editors' pick, Online Journalism and tagged content specialist, Copyright, google, Josh Cohen, search giant, the Toronto Star, Toronto Star on May 12, 2008 by Oliver Luft.
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PSM Defense Announcement
We are pleased to announce that our Environmental Sciences graduate student, Bao Khanh Nguyen, will defend for their Professional Science Master’s (PSM) degree as follows:
Time: Nov 9, 2020 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for the trading, tourism service and residential complexes area in Ray River, Phuoc Thuan Village, Xuyen Moc District, Ba Ria- Vung Tau Province, Vietnam
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Wetland Sciences 2021: Adaptation Drives Innovation // June 1-4, 2021
SWS 2021 Annual Meeting
SWS is now accepting abstract proposals for the 2021 Annual Meeting on June 1-4, 2021. The abstract submission deadline is Friday, January 1, 2021. All wetland professionals are invited to submit their research as an oral or poster presentation. If you are a presenter in an accepted symposium proposal, be sure to submit your individual abstract coinciding with the symposium.
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COVID-19 Update: EPA is providing flexibilities to applicants experiencing challenges related to COVID-19. Please see the Flexibilities Available to Organizations Impacted by COVID-19 clause in Section IV of EPA’s Solicitation Clauses. EPA is announcing a new research funding opportunity: The Interventions and Communication Strategies to Reduce Health Risks of Wildland Fire Smoke Exposures Request for Applications (RFA).URL: https://www.epa.gov/research-grants/interventions-and-communication-strategies-reduce-health-risks-wildland-fire-smokeOpen Date: October 9, 2020
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EPA, as part of its Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program, is seeking applications proposing research that will address behavioral, technical and practical aspects of interventions and communication strategies to reduce exposures and/or health risks of wildland fire smoke.Exposure to high levels of air pollution, such as during wildland fire smoke events, has the potential to cause serious health problems. Populations differ in their vulnerability to high air pollution events, and each person’s health impact is dependent on their personal exposure and any underlying health conditions. To improve individual and public health, this RFA will seek to understand what actions might be effective for reducing adverse health outcomes of ambient and indoor exposures to wildland fire smoke, and how best to communicate these actions to various groups.
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Failure to mitigate impacts of climate change and adapt to related stresses, extreme events (such as floods, droughts, and storms), and natural hazards have been identified as the most likely global risks by World Economic Forum in a recent 2020 report. A collective will is critical to tackling these risks. But how do we mobilize a collective problem-solving process in communities for identifying opportunities to build resilience to climate change and adapt to learned lessons? In this presentation, we will examine whether a collaboration between humans and machines could create new ways for communities to create solutions for this intractable problem. We will also explore what such a collaboration might look like in watershed communities prone to flooding.
Meghna Babbar-Sebens is an associate professor of water resources engineering in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. She is also co-director of the OSU-Benton County Green Stormwater Infrastructure facility. Babbar-Sebens’ research interests lie in the area of water resources and environmental systems analysis. She and her students conduct interdisciplinary research in the fields of hydroinformatics and artificial intelligence to develop innovative and effective monitoring, simulation optimization, and decision support technologies for sustainable planning and management of water-based systems, including watershed systems, stormwater infrastructure, and systems at the nexus of food, energy, and water sectors.
Graduate School Awards Now Open for Review
Effective today, all OSU competitive Graduate School awards are now open for your review. While there are different submission deadlines for various awards, announcing all of the awards at once allows units plenty of time to prepare their nomination materials and processes. You may submit your nominations at any point between the award’s official open date up to the submission deadline.
This summer, the Graduate School made a number of changes that we believe are in the best interest of students and academic units. These changes are listed below.
The Graduate School is pleased to announce the new Promising Scholar Fellowship. This award is intended to support the recruitment of graduate students from historically underrepresented backgrounds who demonstrate scholarly promise at OSU. This award—formerly offered as partial tuition support for former McNair Scholars – has been expanded to include additional scholar programs and a 9-month fully funded fellowship with an accompanying tuition waiver.
The Thesis or Dissertation Completion Award, has been separated into two different awards: the Thesis Completion Award (for master’s students) and the Dissertation Completion Award (for doctoral students). The Graduate School anticipates awarding 8-10 students per award, per award period.
The Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring by a Graduate Student or Postdoc Award, has been separated into two different awards: one specifically for graduate students and one specifically for postdocs. Recipients will have direct and significant involvement with undergraduate student researchers, a demonstrable commitment to the research mentorship of undergraduate students, and a record of effectiveness and impact with respect to undergraduate student research and success.
The Graduate School has increased the request amount for the Professional Development Award. For this award, graduate students may now submit proposals for reimbursement up to $500 for trainings, resources, and activities that contribute to professional skills development.
Formerly offered as the Diversity Advancement Fellowship, the Graduate School has renamed this award as the Prestigious Diversity Fellowship. It remains a lucrative financial award that supports new graduate students with their transition to graduate education and celebrates their future contributions at OSU.
For your reference you can find a complete list of Graduate School competitive awards here: or at gradschool.oregonstate.edu/awards
Additionally, the nomination deadline for the following Graduate School awards is October 5, 2020:
Delson Bridge to the Future Fund
· The Delson Bridge to the Future Fund assists domestic and international graduate students in the final phase of their graduate education to pay research expenses, publication costs, and other incidentals that stand in the way of completing their graduate studies at OSU. Graduate programs that become aware of emergency situations involving students at the end of their programs may submit requests for limited assistance to offset financial difficulties and promote degree completion. For the 2020-2021 award cycle, we plan to offer up to three awards at $1,000 each. Awards will be made on a one-time only basis, typically during a student’s final term in the graduate program, and are intended to help offset the cost of degree completion.
· Nomination period September 1, 2020 – October 5, 2020
Jesse M. Bell Memorial Graduate Student Loan
· The Jesse M. Bell Memorial Graduate Student Loan Program, created by the estate of Jesse Bell, provides loans for meritorious graduate students. These non-need-based loans are available on a one-time basis to domestic and international enrolled graduate students to assist with educational expenses associated with their advanced degree. Loans up to $5,000 are anticipated and will be dependent upon the merits of the case, the loan demand, and the current balance available in the loan fund.
Thank you in advance for all you do to support our graduate students. We look forward to reviewing your nominations and making awards to your students. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the information listed above please email me or Graduate.Scholarships@oregonstate.edu.
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The lawyer who caught UNC giving $2.5m to white nationalists orders the white nationalists to create a $2.5m fund for Black students or face a lawsuit
Cory Doctorow 12:50 pm Sat Dec 7, 2019
T Greg Doucette is the lawyer who put the pieces together on the University of North Carolina's $2.5m handout to the white nationalist group the Sons of Confederate Veterans, then found and published a smoking gun in the form of a "victory letter" written by the SOCV's "commander" Kevin Stone, which Stone and the SOCV used a fraudulent DMCA notice to censor.
Now Doucette, acting through his lawyer Marc Randazza (previously) has sent a demand-letter to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, demanding that they turn the $2.5m into a scholarship fund for African-American students or he will sue them for abusing the DMCA.
Randazza — a First Amendment litigator — has represented various Nazi and white nationalist groups before and Doucette told Indyweek that he expects the fact that Randazza is representing him will is "going to trigger infighting" among the white nationalists of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Doucette's complaint centers on the Digital Millenium Copyright Act notice the SCV filed with Dropbox on December 2 after Doucette posted a letter from SCV leader Kevin Stone to his members boasting after how he suckered UNC into giving him $2.5 million. (Doucette says he received the letter from an SCV member.) The letter, Doucette argues, falls under fair use, as the law allows copyrighted documents to be published—especially in non-commercial ways—to serve the public interest, which is what Doucette did by posting the Dropbox link on his Twitter account.
"Although the DMCA notice confirmed the authenticity of the letter," Doucette's legal team wrote to SCV attorney C. Boyd Sturgis, "it was not without consequence to Mr. Doucette. Dropbox disabled public sharing on his account as a result of your client's fraudulent notice. In short, due to your efforts to try and employ a policy of secrecy and dishonesty, my client has not only been offended, but damaged. … The misleading notice was issued in bad faith, because it failed to consider Mr. Doucette's fair use rights. … Your client clearly made such a material misrepresentation, and my client will not allow it to go unpunished."
The demand letter continues: "Mr. Doucette is prepared to file suit for [damages and attorneys' fees], as well as for a declaration of non-infringement and any other causes of action he may have, which are still being evaluated. Mr. Doucette is considering a lawsuit not out of bitterness or vindictive feelings but because it seems that the NCSCV has tried to wrest from him his dearest rights. This will not stand, man."
T. Greg Doucette Threatens to Sue Sons of Confederate Veterans, Demands Group Donate $2.5M to Black UNC Students [Jeffrey C. Billman/Indyweek]
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Libertarian social media site Parler asks government to force private businesses to do commerce with them
Conservative social media haven Parler has been dropped from most online services, including Amazon Web Services, which hosted the site. According to The Hill, the Libertarian-founded company has appealed to the US District Court in Seattle to stop this blacklisting: The 18-page complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where Amazon is headquartered, accuses Amazon… READ THE REST
Internet Service Provider blocks social media after Trump's Twitter Ban, allegedly at request of customers
Following the mass social media ban on Donald Trump, ISP Your T1 WIFI — which services Northern Idaho and the Spokane, Washington area — has blocked their customers from accessing Facebook and Twitter. According to an email to customers that was shared on Twitter, the company had received complaints from upwards of 2/3 of their… READ THE REST
How Visa and MasterCard strong armed PornHub into making policy changes
Earlier this month, I wrote about PornHub's recent policy changes. A quick summary: the New York Times published an exposé about victims of child trafficking and revenge porn, whose lives had been wrecked by explicit videos of them which were uploaded to PornHub without their consent. While PornHub is legally protected from the ramifications of… READ THE REST
The SteakMaster Gas Grill turns out steakhouse-quality meals at home in just 2 minutes
We realize it's still frigidly cold in many places, but advanced planning for summer 2021 needs to start happening now. And, even with so much still up in the air about what life will even feel like six months from now, it's time to get the ball rolling today. Of course, the centerpiece of any… READ THE REST
These 15 deals on flashlights and headlamps are on sale for up to 66% off
It probably sounds trite, but a quality light source in an emergency really can make the difference between life and death. While you hope to never need it, a powerful, functioning flashlight or headlamp should not only be part of your pack for any outdoor excursion, it should also be stationed in your vehicle for… READ THE REST
Industrious lets you use a fully-furnished modern office — and only pay on the days you need it
It's an option virtually every small business and freelancing professional will eventually consider — do I need to rent office space? Whether it's the result of a growing staff, growing responsibilities, or simply maturing as a company, there's usually a moment for any professional organization when getting a centralized office starts to make a lot… READ THE REST
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North Wales: Portmeirion to Shrewsbury
We woke up in Tremadog to a crisp, rainy morning. The air smelled a little like being by a boat dock, which was strange since we were nowhere close to anything like that. It had that strangely comforting salty, seaside freshness.
We hit the road again with a destination of Shrewsbury, just back over the “border” into England. We stopped for the morning in the little village of Portmeirion. The original plan was to go to Portmeirion for dinner the night before, but I got confused when I couldn’t find a single open place for food other than a booked-out hotel restaurant. After getting lost on country roads that seemed to be swallowed by the trees above them, we found a parking lot and wandered up to an “entrance” to the village complete with a ticket fee.
It soon became apparent that Portmeirion was not a typical town, but a historical attraction (one that closes at 5pm–hence, no dinner). It was built in the mid-1900’s by a Welsh architect to be a “perfect” self-contained village. Nobody lives there permanently–it’s operated as a hotel and series of cottages which are built into the cliffy grounds.
It was one of the most unique places I’d ever been to. The grounds were full of mint-colored buildings covered with intricate finishes and lined with cast-iron benches. The sky was rainy but the town was full of lush green trees and a fiercely aromatic floral scent. The adjoining beach was full of sand bars and sweeping, shallow water. It was almost entirely empty. The entire town looked like it was from the 90’s computer game “Myst”, lost somewhere deep in the forest.
We perused some gift and ceramics shops tucked into the artsy structures of Portmeirion and inhaled some “breakfast baps” (thick slabs of bacon on a roll) before hitting the road. We arrived in Shrewsbury to a flurry of pedestrians and congested city streets. It was a marked changed from the sleepy towns of our last few nights. Our hotel, the “Loopy Shrew” came complete with an espresso martini bar and live music by the front entrance. Can I live here?
After wandering through town and doing some entirely unnecessary souvenir (er, clothing) shopping, we spent the rest of the day and evening taste-testing our final pints of local beer, dancing to 90’s songs at Albert’s Shed, and stumbling to bed regretting that espresso martini nightcap (except not really).
The next day, it was time to go. Return our funky rental car and hop on one more airplane. We take for granted how quick and easy it is to move our bodies from one continent to another, over vast oceans that we barely notice over the din of in-flight movies. It’s easy to forget to appreciate that we’re standing on ground that’s halfway around the world. Traveling is about relishing in the fact that your body is physically far from everything you know. Comfort comes in that presence.
Comfort comes in even simple journeys, like lugging old suitcases across a foot bridge to a car park that’s way too far from our hotel. Appreciating the movement between places and that we’re still here, with our feet on this foreign ground, for a few more moments before another effortless pilgrimage across oceans.
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Boris Melomedov says:
Juicy trip details combined with the perfectly proportion reflection on the nature of traveling. True here and now. Wonderful.
arsenome says:
Loved this story…the “images” will stay with me forever.
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Clive Cussler Biography
Search for Sam Houston’s TWIN SISTERS, a pair of four-pounder cannon used against Santa Ana in the battle of San Jacinto. April 1987.
T he two, iron 6-pounder cannon, funded and cast in Cincinnati, Ohio, by Texas independence sympathizers and used by Houston’s army with great effect on the field of San Jacinto, have curiously meant far more to most Texans than the exploits of their entire navy.
The story of how they were smuggled down the Mississippi though New Orleans as holloware and watched over by Dr. Rice, accompanied by his twin daughters Elizabeth and Eleanor, and their battlefield description by both sides is well documented.
For events surrounding their later fate and burial I have included two newspaper accounts by Mamie Wynne Cox, a reporter for the Houston Chronicle in the early 1920s and a Houston Chronicle Magazine article by Ken Hammond in 1986. These pretty much tell the story of the Twin Sisters and how they were hidden by a group of Confederate war veterans, led by a Dr. Henry Graves, who were returning home after the Civil War.
Wayne Gronquist and I became interested in the missing cannon during our search in Galveston for the Zavala. The research was begun and in April of 1987 we returned to Texas and began looking for the cannon at Harrisburg.
Tony Bell, the Ross family, Gronquist, Bob Esbenson, Dana Larson and several other people gave it their best shot. I am most grateful for their kind help and efforts. We also teamed up with Richard Harper and his group who had been searching for the Twin Sisters for several years.
The big problem is that Dr. Graves did not say what direction he and his buddies took when they stole the cannon and pushed them off into the night.
Most of the many searchers favor the northeast since this approaches the nearest bayou where Graves claims they threw the gun carriages. Harper believes a report from one of the Confederates that stated they buried the cannon a hundred yards north of the Valentine house, which Harper determined once sat on the southwest corner of Elm and Colorado Streets.
This whole northeast section is a disaster. Over the years, Bray’s Bayou had been dredged and the ground a good three blocks inland has been filled in some areas to a depth of ten feet with all sorts of junk and debris, making a solid magnetometer search terribly difficult. So if the cannon lie in this area they are several feet deeper than when Graves buried them.
We took a completely different tack in ’87. One of Cox’s reports stated that a Mr. Milby owned the land where Graves thought the cannon rested. Through the Ross family the grandson of the man who knew Graves was contacted. Interestingly, the Milbys still own the same parcels of land as they did in the 1920s. This acreage was to the southeast. Much of it was still open and was used for horse pastures. But after an extensive search with the Schonstedt gradiometers, we came up dry.
This attempt ended our first expedition to Harrisburg. We intend to return in March of 1988. This time we will be led by Connie Young of Enid, Oklahoma, a psychic who seems to have a pretty good handle on the events. We shall see. Whatever the outcome, I will simply add that expedition’s report to this one.
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Researchers create personal health records to link data, improve outcomes in foster care youth
A team of researchers at Cincinnati Children’s is creating new ways to share and manage health data for foster care youth. From left are Sarah Beal, PhD, Judith Dexheimer, PhD, and Mary Greiner, MD, MS (with Idina, a facility dog).
Researchers at Cincinnati Children’s are aggregating medical data to provide youth in foster care and their caregivers with better access to health records—and the chance to take control of their own well-being.
For foster care youth, successful health outcomes depend on the ability of caseworkers, caregivers, clinicians and in some cases the children themselves to access their information.
Two separate projects are underway: The IDENTITY (Integrated Data Environment to eNhance ouTcomes in cusTody Youth) project seeks to help this vulnerable population in Hamilton County by coordinating data sharing between caseworkers and healthcare providers. The newer MyIDENTITY project is building on that initial effort to offer personal health records directly to foster care youth who have reached age 18 and have not yet emancipated.
The average child remains in foster care for 17 months. During this time, caseworkers manage access to their medical records. With 2,300 children in the custody of Hamilton County child protective services, a lot of data can get lost in the shuffle.
Things can get even more complicated for adolescents in foster care. They experience an average of seven placement changes while in custody. When teens age out of the system or emancipate themselves—20,000 do just that every year in the United States—they are often unable to access their health records.
Cincinnati Children’s researchers Judith Dexheimer, PhD of Emergency Medicine, Mary Greiner, MD, MS of General and Community Pediatrics, Sarah Beal, PhD of Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology, and Eric Hall, PhD of Neonatology and Pulmonary Biology partnered with Kris Flinchum, Crystal Anderson, and Kristin Bullock of Hamilton County Job and Family Services (HCJFS) to begin working on this project in February 2017. A grant from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Academic Research Committee (ARC) fund supported the work.
“For years, an interdisciplinary team of community stakeholders invested in child welfare has discussed the possibility of linking child welfare and other data but did not have the resources to make it happen” says Cincinnati Children’s Sarah Beal. “Organizations involved included HCJFS, ProKids, the public defender’s office, GE, Cincinnati Children’s, and local nonprofit organizations.”
In 2014, Beal met with HCJFS’s Kris Flinchum to discuss linking child welfare and EHR data for research purposes. Kris Flinchum now serves as lead collaborator on the project for HCJFS.
“Shortly after, Mary Greiner and I started discussing whether that could be a first step toward accomplishing the longer-term goal of daily information exchange between HCJFS and Cincinnati Children’s,” says Beal. “Eric Hall was working with me on the data linking project and introduced the team to Judith Dexheimer, who joined us as we prepared our first ARC application in 2015.”
In October 2017, a second award from the National Library of Medicine allowed the team to extend the project to provide foster youth with their own medical information. This branch of the project is called MyIDENTITY.
The team is now pilot testing the IDENTITY system, which will be launched in June with all HCJFS caseworkers and Cincinnati Children’s clinicians and staff. MyIDENTITY is currently under development.
IDENTITY: Access for caseworkers and clinicians
One reason foster children fail to receive appropriate healthcare is the lack of access to health information by their caseworkers and clinicians. Between entering foster care without adequate health records and changing placements without data coordination, information is lost and care is disrupted.
The interdisciplinary project team integrates experts from Hamilton County child protective services with bioinformaticians, data analysts and medical specialists from Cincinnati Children’s.
The IDENTITY project provides children’s services workers and clinicians with the resources they need to support children in foster care. Currently, child welfare data is stored in the state welfare database. Caseworkers enter custody data, social history, and abuse history into the database. However, healthcare data is stored in electronic health records (EHRs) maintained by providers. The two databases are separate, with no users having access to both.
The lack of integration between the state welfare data system and EHR complicates the communication of critical health history details to caregivers. Records in the two systems are difficult to obtain, resulting in repeat services and poor healthcare quality. Even when data are shared, the process can take several days to weeks.
Researchers saw the need to merge these records, allowing users of one system limited access to the other. Dexheimer and team responded by building IDENTITY, a web portal that establishes an information exchange data hub between the state welfare database and Cincinnati Children’s EHR. Caseworkers from HCJFS and healthcare providers from Cincinnati Children’s are now able to share key elements from their respective records.
“It’s an important step towards improving timely communication between clinicians and caseworkers,” says Dexheimer. “An increasing number of children are entering foster care. We want to do more to help improve their transitions, keep their care standard, and help all parties communicate.”
Most patients at Cincinnati Children’s manage and receive information about their health through MyChart, an existing online medical record database. But, because hospital administration couldn’t control MyChart in the way they needed to for legal compliance for this project, the research team built IDENTITY as a separate platform.
The Data & Technology Services team in Cincinnati Children’s Division of Biomedical Informatics worked to accurately link data between the two systems.
Now, HCJFS sends state welfare data of all children in their custody to the stand-alone IDENTITY system each day. Cincinnati Children’s does the same with medical records data, and the two data streams are merged. Authorized personnel from both institutions can access the merged data via a secure web portal.
Accurately linking patient data between the two systems was a key technical challenge in the project. To solve it, the researchers looked to staff in the Data & Technology Services group within the Cincinnati Children’s Division of Biomedical Informatics.
Under guidance from Drs. Dexheimer, Beal, and Greiner, Parth Divekar developed patient linkage algorithms and Jay Gholap implemented them.
The algorithms Divekar developed are broadly classified as deterministic and non-deterministic. Accounting for about 90 percent of the matches and validated with sample data, the deterministic algorithms use registered names/aliases (eliminating punctuation), dates of births and gender.
For the remaining matches, non-deterministic algorithms use methods such as “edit distance” (a way of quantifying how dissimilar two text strings are to one another by counting the minimum number of operations required to transform one string into the other) to reduce “noise” in the data such as differences in spelling, dates of birth and gender while also helping to identify potential duplicates.
Elsa Cavanaugh and Jeremy Nix, also Data & Technology Services team members, developed an interactive online interface to facilitate administrator review and approval of non-deterministic matches.
This system allows clinicians at Cincinnati Children’s to accurately and efficiently identify which children are in HCJFS custody when they come in for care. It improves the processes of receiving medical consent, scheduling, billing, and identifying associated health risks in the clinical setting.
After a child receives care, their clinical information—including allergies, medication lists, and upcoming appointments—are shared back to HCJFS caseworkers.
With the new system, the transition for a child experiencing a change in placement in foster care will be made easier because their caseworker will have ongoing access to their health information.
Researchers can also identify children with the highest healthcare costs, allowing clinicians and caseworkers to develop shared care management strategies and interventions.
MyIDENTITY: Access for foster youth
When youth leave the care of HCJFS, the responsibility of medical treatment falls from their caseworkers to their own shoulders. An uphill battle begins. Missing health information often results in limited knowledge of how to access primary care, poor management of chronic conditions, and increased preventable diseases.
Dexheimer, Greiner, and Beal saw the need for youth to be able to access their own comprehensive health information available from the IDENTITY databases and began the MyIDENTITY project to help alleviate these challenges for foster teens.
Funded by the National Library of Medicine, MyIDENTITY will merge data from the EHR and HCJFS databases to provide a personal health record (PHR), or summary of the foster youth’s medical history, conditions, and health resources. Researchers will use algorithms to identify foster youth from the HCJFS database who are eligible to receive their own PHR, whether they have reached age 18 or have emancipated.
Researchers are still gathering feedback on what data should be included in the system. “We are going straight to some of the highest risk youth and asking them what information they need to be healthy and how they want to get it,” says Greiner. “Then, thanks to the biomedical informatics team, we will actually be able to build it and measure how access to this information results in changes in healthcare.”
The research team plans to gather feedback from foster youth on the PHR to address their specific needs: How will you use it? What elements does it need to contain? How can it be most beneficial to you?
“Researchers have demonstrated that stakeholders—youth, parents, pediatric and adult clinicians and specialists—have differing views as to what information and skills are important to aid youth in the transition process,” says Dexheimer. “To ensure all necessary information is available in a PHR, and thus smooth the transition to adult care, all stakeholder groups should be involved in the design of the medical data.”
In spring 2018, researchers will map out concepts and ideas with foster youth and their communities, who will also help design the PHR in the fall. The Cincinnati Children’s biomedical informatics team will then build the system, test it, and roll it out to foster youth.
Future designs may be expanded to include additional data elements, such as school information, that will help improve the transition of foster youth.
“Healthier foster care youth means chances to finish school, get jobs, build healthy families, and live successful lives,” says Greiner. “This is how healthcare research changes the outcome.”
The researchers working on the IDENTITY and MyIDENTITY projects are open to more collaborations, such as with local schools, to add more data sources. For more information, please contact Judith Dexheimer.
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Southwest Airlines to Fly Nonstop Between Oakland ...
Southwest Airlines to Fly Nonstop Between Oakland and Mexico
Daily Service to San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, from Oakland Intl. Airport to begin Feb. 12, 2017, subject to governmental approvals
Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) today filed an application with the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to offer the first U.S. carrier nonstop service between Oakland International Airport and both San Jose del Cabo/Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, beginning in February 2017, subject to governmental approvals. Once approved, the carrier’s flight schedule and fares will be published on Southwest.com.
"Linking the San Francisco Bay Area to these popular Mexican beach resort areas with time- saving itineraries brings our Customers low-fare and high-value service that is an exciting addition to our growing international portfolio,” said Leah Koontz, Southwest Vice President who announced the proposed flights to gathered guests and media near the carrier’s Oakland Ticket Counter. "We’re adding nonstop service that extends the reach of Oakland’s convenient airport experience to two top-ranking international destinations without a nonstop option.”
"Los Cabos, in particular, is the most requested international destination from the East Bay and North Bay that does not have a nonstop option,” said Bryant L. Francis, C.M., Director of Aviation for The Port of Oakland. "Southwest’s continual investment, especially with new medium-haul and long-haul flights has made Oakland International the fastest growing major airport in California in terms of passengers, and they’re enjoying unprecedented value and reliability.”
The Port is undertaking a major renovation of Terminal One: a new security checkpoint and international check-in and arrivals area is scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2017;; a modernization and expansion of the airport’s passenger federal inspection station (FIS) for U.S. Customs & Border Protection services is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2017.
About Southwest & Oakland International Airport
According to the most recent figures available from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Southwest carries the most passengers to and from the San Francisco Bay Area through its operations at the region’s three major commercial airports. Southwest’s 120 departures a day at Oakland International Airport comprise the carrier’s biggest operation in Northern California, transporting the majority of the airport’s 11 million annual travelers to nearly 30 destinations across the United States, with additional connecting or same-plane service to another two dozen cities.
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US Air Force Historic Aircraft Jet and Aviation Films ebooks THE U.S. AIR FORCE IN VIETNAM 1966 "AIR POWER IN ACTION" 71232 Created in 1966 "Air Power in Action" presents an overview of U.S. Air Force activities in South East Asia showcases the various aircraft deployed in fighting the North Vietnamese. These include air strike, close air support, transport, reconnaissance, artillery spotting, rescue and tactical aircraft. Lt. General Joseph H. Moore is shown planning operations intended to restrict Viet Cong supply. Naval aircraft are also shown in the conflict include A-1H Skyraiders. Air Force pilots are shown in C-123 "Providers" delivering supplies to civilians including chickens and rice. B-52s make heavy bomb strikes against the North while F-4 Phantoms and their recon variants provide timely data on enemy movements. Defoliation / deforestation is also shown, with Agent Orange being sprayed on the jungle in an attempt to reveal enemy strongholds and prevent easy movement of Viet Cong forces. Lieutenant General Joseph H. Moore was known for his role as commander of the USAF 2nd Air Division and Seventh Air Force during part the Vietnam War, and in particular, his leadership role in Operation Rolling Thunder. The film boldly states that "today's wars are being fought in three dimensions, and whoever proves his superiority in the air will prevail in all dimensions." Unfortunately this simply was not the case -- despite the complete air dominance and interdiction demonstrated in this film, the Air Force could not win the war from the skies alone. The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress - 1944 Documentary, Boeing B-17 21100 HD The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress is a 1944 documentary film which ostensibly provides an account of the final mission of the crew of the Memphis Belle, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. In May 1943 it became the first U.S. Army Air Forces heavy bomber to complete 25 missions over Europe and return to the United States. The dramatic 16 mm color film of actual battles was made by cinematographer First Lieutenant Harold J. Tannenbaum. The film was directed by Major William Wyler, narrated by Eugene Kern, and had scenes at its Bassingbourn base photographed by Hollywood cinematographer Captain William H. Clothier. It was made under the auspices of the First Motion Picture Unit, a branch of the United States Army Air Forces. The film actually depicted the next to last mission of the crew on May 15, 1943, and was made as a morale-building inspiration for the Home Front by showing the everyday courage of the men who manned these bombers. China Crisis Flying Tigers / 14th Air Force - WWII P-40 Warhawks 21870 HD Created during WWII, this propaganda film shows the activities of the American Volunteer Force (AVG) Flying Tigers and their P-40 Warhawks. After Pearl Harbor this group was incorporated into the new 14th Air Force, and their C.O., Claire Chennault, was put in command. This is story of the 14th Air Force in action, including P-40 gun camera footage, the epic airlift over "The Hump, and a rare look at air operations in China. The Fourteenth Air Force (14 AF) was established by the special order of President Roosevelt on 10 March 1943. Chennault was appointed the commander and promoted to Major General. The "Flying Tigers" of 14 AF (who adopted the "Flying Tigers" designation from the AVG) conducted highly effective fighter and bomber operations along a wide front that stretched from the bend of the Yellow River and Tsinan in the north to Indochina in the south, from Chengtu and the Salween River in the west to both East and South China Seas and the island of Formosa in the east. They were also instrumental in supplying Chinese forces through the airlift of cargo across "The Hump" in the China-Burma-India theater. By the end of World War II, 14 AF had achieved air superiority over the skies of China and established a ratio of 7.7 enemy planes destroyed for every American plane lost in combat. Overall, military officials estimated that over 4,000 Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. In addition, they estimated that air units in China destroyed 1,100,000 tons of shipping, 1,079 locomotives, 4,836 trucks and 580 bridges. The United States Army Air Corps credits 14 AF with the destruction of 2,315 Japanese aircraft, 356 bridges, 1,225 locomotives and 712 railroad cars. ebooks A Need to Know, Air Force Recon History.pdf Air Force Cold War History.pdf Air Force Flight Test History.pdf Air Force History.pdf Aircraft of the Second World War, The Development of the Warplane 1939-45.pdf Aviation, The Luftwaffe, Fighters Bombers of the German Air-Force.pdf Bill Gunston - An Illustrated Guide to Spy Planes and Electronic Warfare Aircraft, 1983.pdf Bill Rose - Secret Projects.pdf Japanese Secret Projects, Experimental Aircraft 1939-1945.pdf Luftwaffe, Secret Projects, Strategic Bombers 1935-45.pdf Soviet Air Power.pdf Tony Buttler - British Secret Projects, Hypersonics, Ramjets and Missiles.pdf WWII Campaign, Charts, Maps.pdf videos 1943 WWII DRONE AIRCRAFT TDN-1 TORPEDO DRONE USS SABLE, UCAV 27430 (480p).mp4 1950s AVIATION SPECTACULAR SONG OF THE CLOUDS SHELL OIL COMPANY 71892 (480p).mp4 1953 U.S. NAVY WINGOVERS AND CHANDELLES FLIGHT TRAINING FILM 77234 (480p).mp4 84710b HD Misc Aviation Films 18fps (480p).mp4 A-10 CAPABILITIES AND SORTIE SURGE - A 10 Warthog , Thunderbolt , Air Force 23370 (480p).mp4 Aerial Stunt Men Daredevils of the Skies! - Stuntmen Stunt Pilots & Barnstormers 22840 HD (480p).mp4 AIR DEFENSE COMMAND USAF NIKE MISSILE - Project Nike , Nike Ajax , Nike Hercules 20100 (480p).mp4 AIR FORCE MISSIONS FOR THE BOEING VERTOL 107 HELICOPTER CH-46 SEA KNIGHT 27154 (480p).mp4 Air Maniacs - with Vince Barnett and Frank Clarke 22850 HD (480p).mp4 AIRLIFT TO VIETNAM PRESENTED BY AMERICAN AIRLINES 26584 (480p).mp4 AIRPLANES APPROACHING THE SPEED OF SOUND SHELL EDUCATIONAL FILM 74842 (480p).mp4 B-29 FLIGHT PROCEDURE AND COMBAT CREW FUNCTIONING 84410 (480p).mp4 B-58 HUSTLER SUPERSONIC BOMBER EJECTION POD DEVELOPMENT ESCAPE AND SURVIVE 71472 (480p).mp4 B52 GUAM TO NAM MOS - Operation Arc Light 21790 (480p).mp4 BOEING 377 STRATOCRUISER AIRCRAFT -- TOMORROWS AIRPLANE TODAY 70942 (480p).mp4 Bombing of Pearl Harbor - Ford Island, USS Shaw, USS Utah, USS Arizona 21110e HD (480p).mp4 BUILDING THE B-24 BOMBER DURING WWII STORY OF WILLOW RUN 74182 (480p).mp4 CHARLES LINDBERGH NEWSREELS TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT 23534a (480p).mp4 China Crisis Flying Tigers 14th Air Force - WWII P-40 Warhawks 21870 HD (480p).mp4 D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944 NEWSREEL NORMANDY LANDINGS by OFFICIAL FILMS 8472 (480p).mp4 De HAVILLAND HYDROMATIC AIRSCREW PROPELLER AIRCRAFT BRITISH EDUCATIONAL FILM 75764 (480p).mp4 DELTA AIRLINES CONVAIR 880 JET AIRCRAFT 1960s PROMOTIONAL FILM 78564 (480p).mp4 DEVELOPMENT OF JET ASSIST TAKEOFF SYSTEMS FOR B-29 AIRCRAFT 24772 (480p).mp4 EARLY AVIATION FOOTAGE - FLYING MACHINES, BARNSTORMERS, STUNT PILOTS 72722 (480p).mp4 FIFTEENTH AIR FORCE RAIDS PLOIESTI OIL FIELDS AIR SEIGE 3445 (480p).mp4 FIRST B-29 RAID ON JAPAN TARGET TOKYO 1945 3446 (480p).mp4 FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DOUGLAS A-20 HAVOC LIGHT BOMBER 33024 (480p).mp4 GRAF ZEPPELIN DIRIGIBLE 1928 TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT 27742 (480p).mp4 HILARIOUS EARLY EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT U.S. ARMY AIR CORPS 84430 HD (480p).mp4 HOW JET & ROCKET ENGINES WORK REACTION ENGINES PULSE JET 74692 (480p).mp4 HOW TO LOAD BOMBS ABOARD AIRPLANES ARMY AIR FORCE TRAINING FILM 1941 25082 (480p).mp4 HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY INTERCEPTOR AIRPLANE & MISSILE FILM SEEK FIND AND KILL! 23324 (480p).mp4 MESSERSCHMIDT BF-108 TAIFUN AIRPLANE FACTORY BAVARIA GERMANY 74532 (480p).mp4 Mission Accomplished - The Story of the Flying Fortress B-17 40100 HD (480p).mp4 NORTHROP AIRCRAFT YB-49 FLYING WING PROMOTIONAL FILM 8245 (480p).mp4 NORTHROP F-20 TIGERSHARK SALES FILM F-16 RIVAL 77364 (480p).mp4 NORTHROP GRUMMAN AIR SHOW RHINEBECK NEW YORK 74652 (480p).mp4 NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES 1950s ASIA TRAVELOGUE High Road to the Orient 24870 HD (480p).mp4 OFFICIAL FILMS NEWSREEL 1942 Vol. 2 FLYING TIGERS, BATTLE OF MIDWAY 8473 (480p).mp4 OFFICIAL FILMS NEWSREEL 1942 VOL. 3 GUADALCANAL, DIEPPE RAID 8472 (480p).mp4 OPERATION BLUE NOSE STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND B-52s & HOUND DOG CRUISE MISSILE 3441 (480p).mp4 Pioneer Planes, Pilots and Daredevils 22870 HD (480p).mp4 Skyline New York - Trans World Airlines , Travelogue 26610 HD (480p).mp4 SPECTACULAR AIRPLANE DISASTER & CRASH MOVIE YOU GOTTA EXPECT LOSSES 89544 (480p).mp4 SPERRY GYROSCOPE COMPANY 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY FILM 42824 (480p).mp4 THE A4 SKYHAWK 80340 (480p).mp4 The Battle of Midway - Color 1942, John Ford, Henry Fonda, 16mm 21340 HD (480p).mp4 THE GAS TURBINE ENGINE JET ENGINE SHELL OIL COMPANY FILM 74782 (480p).mp4 The Memphis Belle A Story of a Flying Fortress - 1944 Documentary, Boeing B-17 21100 HD (480p).mp4 Then and Now - Progress of Transportation, Steam Trains, Planes, Cars 31040 HD (480p).mp4 THIS IS LAKEHURST - U.S. Navy Blimp and Airships , Naval Training 3388 (480p).mp4 U.S. NAVY THE GREAT FLIGHT OF THE NC-4 FLYING BOAT 25464 (480p).mp4 U.S. NAVY WWII BASIC FLIGHT INSTRUCTION FILM BEFORE YOU FLY 3494 (480p).mp4 U.S. NAVY WWII BASIC FLIGHT INSTRUCTION FILM FLYING SENSE 3493 (480p).mp4 UNITED AIRLINES 1950s HAWAII TRAVELOGUE DC-7 MAINLINER 74852 (480p).mp4 UNITED AIRLINES DC-8 AIRPLANE TRIP BY JET 78924 (480p).mp4 USE OF GLASS & FIBERGLASS IN BOEING AIRPLANE DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION 75182 (480p).mp4 V-1 THE ROBOT BOMB - V 1 Bomb, Buzz Bomb , Doodlebug , Predecessor to Cruise Missile 20570 (480p).mp4 WINNING YOUR WINGS (1942) - James Stewart , John Huston , WWII , Air Force 21810 (480p).mp4 WORLD WAR II AERIAL NAVIGATION - AIRWAYS FLYING FILM 71282 (480p).mp4 WWII NAVY PILOT TRAINING FILM ABOUT OXYGEN FLY HIGH AND LIVE 71072 (480p).mp4 WWII WEEKLY DIGEST JAPANESE FIRE BALLOONS HELICOPTERS IN CHINA ATOMIC BOMB 43694a (480p).mp4 Yanks Smash Truk - Operation Hailstone, Truk, World War II Stock Footage 21320b HD (480p).mp4 tags: jets, air force, planes, history, WWII, aviation, aircraft, cold war, bombers
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Cooper Joins Bipartisan Group to Announce Major Reform Effort
Group Unveils a Comprehensive Package of Nine Bills
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-5) joined over seventy colleagues and the No Labels organization to announce a major reform effort. The legislative package, Make Government Work!, includes nine bills designed to make government more efficient, effective and less wasteful. Cooper said:
“Congress is broken. But it’s not beyond repair. We need real problem solving in government so that America can live up to its potential. This reform package is no cure-all, but it’s a good start.”
All nine bills have been introduced in the House and Senate. Cooper’s “No Budget, No Pay” bill is included in the package. He is a co-sponsor of the other eight bills. A full list can be found here.
No Labels is a group of Republicans, Democrats and Independents dedicated to promoting a new politics of problem solving in America. Cooper, a longtime reform advocate, is a founding member of the organization. In January, No Labels launched a Congressional Problem Solvers group of 24 that has now grown to 81 members.
Click here for more information about No Labels and a complete list of Problem Solvers.
Budget and Economy, Government Reform
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Barbie, Inc.
By Jan Baetens
Everybody knows the situation: a delayed flight, and nothing more to read. Airport literature is then the answer to all our anxieties. In this case, it was entitled Swing Time (2016, Penguin edition in 2017) and its author is Zadie Smith. 453 pages of which I read 91 during the flight. I stopped in the middle of a sentence and did not go on to page 92, despite the multiple incentives that litter the volume. The book has indeed an exceptionally long blurb section, which starts at the front cover, continues on the back cover, appears to cheer up the interior cover pages and quite a lot of the front matter. In short: no less than nine pages of praise of a “superb”, breathtaking”, and “brilliant” book, which only made me yawn.
For skeptical readers, excessive blurb always sounds suspect and my own reading only confirmed this intuition. Imagine a novel where the author has tried to combine the following three constraints:
List and mix everything that may illustrate the modern, cosmopolitan life of a bobo (please don’t forget issues of race, class and gender).
Be cool and try to surprise with crisp dialogues and a “well written” style, but never forget that easy reading is the key of success.
Target an audience as broad as possible (think of all the translations and how people abroad think of London, New York and West Africa) and cater to all possible reader groups.
Zadie Smith applies all these rules in an amazingly efficient way (after all, she also teaches creative writing, and one can guess that her work holds a top place in book discussion groups all over the world). The result is perfect plastic literature. Barbie and Ken may do and experience and say and think everything that the Mattel dolls are not allowed to, but they remain dolls. What Zadie Smith is writing is Barbie literature for post-young adults. Let’s hope the film will be better.
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Loraine Currie
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Loraine, with her daughter-in-law Jasmine, at home at 1020 Williams Avenue, circa 2018
Loraine Currie (nee Hill), born (1946-09-12) 12 September 1946 (age 74), is a Canadian woman from Thunder Bay living in Fort Frances, Ontario. She is Michael Currie's aunt.
2 Marriage and family
3 Autobiography
Loraine Hill was born 12 September 1943 in Fort William to Neil and Myrtle "Myrt" Hill.
She lived at 812 Pruden Street in Fort William until about 1950.
She and her parents then moved out to a more rural location [now called Ridgecrest Road according to her cousin Marilyn in 2020] along the McIntyre River until "high school", so about 1961. Her uncle Harvey Smyth and his family, including her cousin Marilyn, followed. At the time, the harbour expressway had not been built, so access to her road terminated and there was no access to Fort William except by going doing around on Central Avenue. Now the area is fully integrated and a central part of Thunder Bay.
From 1961, presumably until her marriage in 1967, she lived at 16 Rupert Street in Port Arthur. Her parents kept this home until the early 1990s, when they moved to be closer to her in Fort Frances.
Loraine married Doug Currie on 26 July 1967 [1] and built a home with him in Fort Frances. They had two children:
Ian Currie (born 2 February 1968)
Jeff Currie (born 1 August 1970)
She has lived in Fort Frances ever since.
A brief history of Myrt and Neil as per your request
Myrt, lovingly dubbed Mort, come to be in 1911, and Neil a year later. He called her the older woman.
Both grew up in Thunder Bay. Neil's parents not long there from Finland and Mort's via Winnipeg from England. Wigan to be exact. Bellingham cottage on the registry notice that stated her grandfather was a cowkeeper. We've decided that he was likely the one from Downton Abbey. Although that may not resemble fact, it does resemble fancy.
Purely from the one photo I saw of my dad's folks, and a few comments, life in Finland was austerish [sic], harsh on body and being. Dad has 2 sisters, one died as a child. Aunt Saimi I met but a few times. His parents both passed away before I was born.
Dad the navy man was stationed in Halifax and there learned the blacksmith trade, repairing ships until discharge. He became the last smithy at the provincial paper mill. At a previous workplace, he organized and led a strike over poor wages. Increase was achieved. Neil was fired. Employees refused to return unless he was hired back. He was. He stood for a number of social issues, was a communist for a while. As a kid, I remember we weren't to talk about that with anyone. Neither were we to mention the still in the basement. The msterious contraption that seemed to bubble and bew - My cousins and I later making the discovery that dandelion whisky or some other peculiarity was prepping for Sat. night. Dad was rather booky and broody. He'd read poetry to me as a small child. I tried to cipher Shakespeare, Browning, Robert Service. Something stuck though because I find the wolrd of words and meaning attractive. Cousin Gary said dad would recite as he showed him the stars through his telescope. Classical music the soundtrack of his world, the wonders of words, and stargazing, his go to space.
Mom had 3 brothers. A bit of a rascally bunch. She managed to escape punitive measures as she told me she was the apple of her dad's eye (the archaic version of being the fav, if you're not familiar)
Her father was a railway engineer, train no. 5353 and my beloved gram, a regal sort of soul, very women's institute and other such standard bearers of the era. It was a reasonably comfortable upbringing.
She became a bookkeeper. Ahead of her time in numerous ways, she stood up to harassing bosses with charity, calm and humour - a few colourful stories there! She was independent and collaborative. At ease with herself and others. She loved dancing, big band music. Her brother Harvey, whom Yubby all his life, was a crooner, with a Frank Sinatra kind of style. Harvey Smyth and his all girl band. Big clowns them. She was fun and smart with heart, that morphed itself into wisdom's wit.
Myrt and Neil were married in Montreal and were close to mid thirties before their only child [Loraine] was born. Older parents for the time, raising a quietish child. We lived on Pruden Street - 812 [in Fort William] - till I was about 8, and moved to the country. My aunt, Uncle, and 3 cousins bought the house next door and became my substitute siblings. Country bumpkins each and all. The McIntyre river was our hangout. Plus a tree fort we fashioned with imagination and a few sticks. And FYI - full reveal - I was the president of the Mario Lanza Fan Club at age 11, a self appointed position, but still. Roped my cuz Marilyn into being secretary. Stenographers' pad required. We put posters on trees but oddly, of the few neighbours, not a one came forward enthusiastically, or at all. But we pressed on, holding meetings with cousin Ron, then 7, and I, singing a robust version of one of my Mario favs - reprise of last summer when Ron came to visit. It was as stirring and gobsmackering [sic] as the original! And available upon request I might add, as we recorded the command preformance. Other than my dad teaching me to shoot a bow and arrow at the archery club he formed, it was a kind of cloistered wee world. Except for Sat. night, when our parents got all 'gussied' up for the Elks club. When they returned, entourage inclusive, in varying states of overserve (?) - suffice to say, many stories from there to here.
They moved to Rupert St when I was in high school. Until illness, they continued living engaged lives, active in allsorts [sic], including politics.
Mom and dad moved to Fort Frances when dad had a stroke at 80ish, and could no longer live at home. It was a good move, an opportunity to not only help them, but to know them in a new way. Dad lived for several years and although he was aphasic, he and I had many conversations, communicating on a different, depper level. His doctor said she'd never met anyone with such expressive eyes. He remained lucid till the end and met the challenge of illness with dignity and strength of character.
Mom lived till just shy of 96, retaining her remarkable perspective - ever the playful pragmatist, humour literally till the last, with acceptance and appreciation. A friend she made here said Myrt taught me how to laugh again. Noble work, that.
Apologies if I've overshared. I misplaced your questions so just jotted a general overview. As with any life or family, the book of being has many chapters, paragraphs, and passages.
Myrt and Neil did so enjoy your pop bys, thought of you as a dear and delightful wee laddie.
That you were. And I trust that remains intact, along with the all of the all the makes Michael, AKA Mickelmoose, his very own self.
Hugs from here
A letter from Loraine to Michael Currie from February 2019.
Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 26 July 1967. Page 10 (with picture). [2]
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Apple, Google, Samsung and others betting on mobile payments
While it’s not clear yet which of the many mobile payment systems currently available today will be around for the long haul, there’s no doubt that paying for goods and services with your phone will quickly replace traditional credit cards and cash.
Sharon Goldman (CIO (US)) 24 February, 2016 23:56
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While you may not have replaced your wallet with your smartphone just yet, there’s no denying that the universe of mobile payments is growing by leaps and bounds. According to recent research from eMarketer, the total value of proximity mobile payments in the US - that is, point-of-sale transactions that use mobile phones as a payment method - will grow a whopping 210 per cent in 2016 with 37.5 million US mobile payment users and $US27 billion in total transactions.
Not surprisingly, major industry players are betting big on those numbers in order to potentially become the top choice of consumers ready to tap their device instead of swiping their credit card at checkout. Technology leaders including Apple, Google (with its Android Pay) and Samsung are already front-and-center in the mobile payments space, while Amazon has already dipped its toes in and rumors have long been flying about Facebook’s efforts.
Banks such as Chase and Capital One have rolled out mobile wallets, while top retailers such as Walmart have put their own skin in the game — as well as MCX, the consortium of retailers (including Walmart) who have long been developing their own merchant-payment program, CurrentC, that is still only in a beta stage after wide-launch delays last year.
Clearly, consumers have more mobile payments choices than ever in 2016, but some experts maintain that none of these major-player options are a slam-dunk so far. “Apple Pay hasn’t really taken off so far, nor have any of these mobile wallets taken off in a big, meaningful way,” says Rajul Rana, CTO and partner at technology consultancy Liquidhub.
In addition, it’s unclear which of the offerings — among the “open loop” networks such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay or the “closed loop” networks of retailers and banks — will be left standing in the long run. According to Bill Lewis, vice president of consulting at Capgemini, a “Darwinian shakeout” is on the way, with an “invisible negotiation” happening across influencers of mobile payments — customers, retailers, banks, credit card companies, technology providers and even payment processors. “There are leaders, but it’s not entirely clear which one or two will rise to the top,” he says.
[Related: What CIOs need to know about digital payments]
What is clear, however, is what is at stake — the consumer, both through data insights and their long-term loyalty. Retailers such as Walmart, which recently introduced its Walmart Pay option through its mobile app, certainly may want to save the 2 per cent interchange fee they pay to issuing banks by encouraging customers to move towards ACH payments. But what they are really looking for is consumer data insights, says Lewis. “The ‘open’ systems such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay may not always provide retailers with the transaction insights they need to compete in the offline brick-and-mortar space,” he explains.
Large banks such as Chase, which is busy pitching its new Chase Pay product to merchants before rolling it out to its millions of customers by mid-year, are working to keep mobile payments under their own umbrella and boost customer loyalty in the process. We believe in consumer choice,” says Jennifer Roberts, president of Strategic Alliances & Loyalty Solutions for Chase. “We recognize that some customers will absolutely love the Apple experience and our cards will be in Apple Pay, but others will trust our bank to offer a digital wallet.”
Adding value to mobile payments
With all of the mobile payment options flooding the market, experts say the biggest players will have to rise beyond simply offering a digital wallet. “Consumers want more,” says Rana. “What is the value-add if they use your payment mechanism?”
According to Lewis, the three biggest must-haves will be security, ease-of-use and loyalty. Security, he explains, is table-stakes for any mobile payments solution: “That is the price of admission.” As for ease-of-use, the open-loop payment providers, whose offerings can be used anywhere, have the edge.
That leaves loyalty up for grabs. Retailers and banks are beginning to offer loyalty card rewards and coupons with their mobile payment options to sweeten their offerings. Starbucks, for example, has long been a leader in combining its mobile payments and loyalty offering in its My Starbucks Rewards app. Chase Pay will offer merchants the opportunity to connect their loyalty programs directly into the payment experience. And even an open-loop network such as Apple Pay has integrated with Walgreens’ loyalty program.
Retailers also need to understand the preferences of their customers when it comes to what mobile payments options they offer. “CIOs need to be setting up pilots to test some of these alternate payment providers and see how resonates with their current customers,” says Lewis. “It’s not just about picking one and rolling it out everywhere, It’s more about understanding what your customer is asking to do at the POS.”
We’re still at the beginning of the journey
In the next year or so, there will be more attempts to come up with wallets in every category, says Rana — more technology players, banks and retailers will try their hand. “It’s not a short game, it’s a long-term play over the next five years,” he cautions. “It’s very difficult to say who will win — I’m sure there can be multiple winners. There are different scenarios in which various players can have an edge.”
Particularly intriguing, says Lewis, is Samsung Pay’s Magnetic Secure Transmission technology, which allows customers to make a mobile payment at any terminal with a magnetic stripe reader. “I think that’s a very interesting development that starts to solve for both security and ease,” he says.
For now, retailers will have to cater to multiple mobile payment options. “They can’t just accept Apple Pay, they have to offer Apple, Android and a couple of others,” says Rana. “Consumers will dictate some of these choices, and merchants may get some incentives.”
As for the major players, they recognize the need to get in — and stay in. “Customers are trying these mobile payments options,” Chase’s Robert’s adds. “If you’re not out in the space, you’re losing the opportunity to see how customers are behaving and to capture that spend.”
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What rough beast?
I heard the phrase ‘slouching toward Bethlehem’ in my head yesterday (St. Patrick’s Day!) and pulled a copy of “The Second Coming” off the shelf (a volume titled, “Major British Authors”, of all things — Yeats was Anglo-Irish, but still). I read the poem aloud while pacing a loop, surprised by its relevance (it was written in 1921) and impressed by the language’s potency. You can read it below.
But since we just celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, a detour into the Irish love of language is in order. If you don’t think it’s a thing, I challenge you to walk into any sweet shop in Dublin and exchange a few words with the clerk. It’s not just the ‘gift of the gab’ or poetry, of course, but language in all its forms: lyricism, satire, gallows humor and puns, drama, scatological jokes and wicked curses, elegy, eulogy, rants, and prose. This is in my blood.
As for that blood, two generations on? Well, I’ve kissed the Blarney Stone, for what that’s worth. Certainly, my family’s got the art of imprecation covered — all of us curse like sailors. My mother once famously growled, “I wish you kids would stop that god-damned gutter talk!” I might have been eight.
When my children were still quite young (though probably older than eight), I gave them my ‘F word’ speech. We were in the car, of course, all facing forward, strapped in, and aware that whatever it was I had to say, it’d be over in seven minutes.
In the course of my exegesis, I used the word ‘fuck’ at least 15 times, to say, among other things, ‘See boys? You’re not gonna fucking shock ME with the word!’ This tells me that the car ride occurred at a time when I was still limiting my cursing around them.
‘Fuck is a useful word,’ I said like a vocabulary instructor, ‘it has no corollary, really.’ [see what I did there, inserting the word ‘corollary’ ?] ‘Look at how its sound corresponds to its meaning– fuck, fuck, fuck! — how great is that?’ This went on for blocks.
And then, lest you think me derelict, I delivered two cautions, one arising from my love of language, the other from life as a suburbanite. ‘Here’s the thing, boys. If you use the word ‘fuck’ too much, you diminish its power. Don’t do that. You want ‘fuck’ to really mean ‘fuck’ when you say it.’ Did I glance up in the rear view mirror at that moment or save the look for the second warning? ‘Here’s the other thing, and this is important — some people are terribly, terribly offended by the word, I’m not even sure why, really, so watch out. You don’t want people judging you for saying the word ‘fuck’. For now, puh-leeze don’t use it around grown-ups.’
[Now, C uses the word ‘fuck’ almost randomly, nearly as a place holder — so much for preserving its potency].
My father was a clever and witty man who adored word play. He routinely launched riffs of puns that went on and on, and then on some more. We learned to play along, desperately striving to one day outdo him. Rarely happened. Fortunately, any and all attempts were appreciated, no matter how lame (and let’s face it, most puns ARE lame). Since not all of my father’s puns were delivered with corny fanfare, sometimes it was enough just to catch them. Here, I refer to those puns casually stated with a playful stealth. Picture this: family dinner, a sneaky pun inserted into conversation, a pregnant but brief pause, then one or two teenagers rolling eyes and groaning to patriarch’s visible satisfaction.
My father’s weekly efforts with the NY Times crossword puzzle were another source of teenage admiration. How did he do it? Every now and then, I’d snuggle in and try to make a contribution and fail. Just fail. He chewed his cheek and worked methodically — acrosses first, then the downs, scribing his answers with an engineer’s pencil. In some seasons, a football game was on.
My sister and I carry on the puzzle mania. I get the Sunday Times delivered solely for this reason (should be admitted sheepishly, but hey). The first thing I do is make a copy for her and then plop down with pen and coffee and get to work (yes, I do it in pen). Some part of me must still be 15, because even though I now know that half the trick is to simply have lived long enough, it amazes me how frequently I finish (or nearly finish). Unlike my father (after all, I’m no engineer), I work the acrosses and downs simultaneously. But since I’m not crazy, I do go sequentially. For some reason, I don’t consider answers supplied by my husband cheating (he helps with chemistry, sports, and military history) (maybe I’m not that amazing?) For desperate weeks, there’s Rex Parker’s blog — out and out cheating, of course.
As for the Irish love of scatological humor, let’s just say the Mallons had a reputation. Much to our childhood friends’ astonishment, belches and farts were delivered with glee and drama in our house. We ranked belches for volume and texture. Farts came with odor cautions and sometimes a physical gesture, like a lifted leg. I continue to be so foolishly entertained by farts that I’ve made my husband swear he won’t mention it in my eulogy.”She never met a fart she didn’t think was hilarious!”
In the ninth century Irish epic, “The Tain”, by the way, you’d be amazed at the amount of farting going on. And while not exactly on point, there’s also the scene where a vast army is stopped in its tracks by a bunch of women exposing their breasts.
Lastly on this topic of the Irish love of language (is that the topic?): rants. Ranting is a special talent of mine, one I’m kinda known for in my writing circle. While I’m not necessarily proud of this, there can be some art involved. Ranting universally features complaint and wrathful condemnation, but if crafted specifically and originally enough, the words can be elevated into something entertaining or even educational.
The poem by William Butler Yeats follows. It makes obscure references to his work, “A Vision,” but it’s not necessary to know them to feel the piece’s potency.
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
Have a nice weekend, all! Maybe give yourself a day without news? Or at least, a day where you wait til after lunch? My next few posts will be short, I promise!
PS It was politics, not St. Patrick’s Day, that drew Yeats’ poem to mind. But how nice to talk around that utterly unbelievable joke with enormous powers of destruction and not say his name.
(The SoulCollage card is part of a recently surfaced batch made a couple of years ago. It’s one of many addressing blood. There’s your Irish mother and child, there’s the ‘family tree’, there are the pea plants used by Mendel to study heredity, and there, running up the lower center, is an abstract coil representing the twisting shape of genes.)
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The UN offers a way forward for human rights in Eritrea
11 July 2019.
Eritrea, News
DefendDefenders welcomes the adoption of a resolution on Eritrea today at the UN Human Rights Council (“Council”). While making clear that diplomatic progress in the Horn of Africa has not translated into domestic human rights progress in Eritrea, the Council offers a way forward for human rights reforms in the country by streamlining its approach and providing the Eritrean government with an opportunity to engage.
“The Council did the right thing by making clear both that the human rights situation in Eritrea remains dire and that avenues for dialogue and cooperation are open,” said Hassan Shire, Executive Director, DefendDefenders. “Sustained international attention is key to supporting respect for the rights of all Eritreans and concrete change.”
The resolution adopted today, as the Council’s 41st regular session ends, extends the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea and ensures ongoing scrutiny of the country’s situation. It is significantly shorter than previous Council resolutions on Eritrea, which created and extended the Special Rapporteur’s mandate and established a commission of inquiry into Eritrea’s human rights violations, which was operational between 2014-2016. Both mechanisms, as well as the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), found that gross, widespread and systematic violations were committed and continue to be committed in the country.
Today’s resolution was adopted in the framework of the Council’s agenda item 2, which is regarded as less “condemnatory” than item 4, under which previous Eritrea resolutions were adopted.
“In March 2019, Eritrea took an initial step by meeting with the Special Rapporteur in Geneva. The government should now take a second step by inviting the Special Rapporteur for a visit to Eritrea and engaging on the ‘benchmarks for progress’ she identified,” said Nicolas Agostini, Representative to the UN for DefendDefenders. “This would also be a step towards meeting Council membership obligations.”
Ahead of the 41st, ongoing session of the Council, DefendDefenders and partners called on the Council to maintain a special procedure (Special Rapporteur) mandate and a high level of monitoring and public reporting on Eritrea’s rights situation. We urged the Council to make clear that membership does not prevent, but rather triggers an enhanced responsibility to accept, scrutiny. In October 2018, the UN General Assembly elected Eritrea for a three-year term as a Council member (2019-2021).
The Human Rights Council is the UN’s main human rights body. Its 47 members sit on the Council for three-year terms. It meets in three regular sessions a year and can convene special (emergency) sessions or urgent debates to address human rights crises. DefendDefenders has been actively advocating for the Council to continue its scrutiny of Eritrea’s human rights situation. Ahead of the Council’s 41st session, we published a paper[1] and coordinated the drafting of a joint civil society letter[2] calling on the Council to adopt a resolution maintaining Eritrea on its agenda.
Hassan Shire
Executive Director, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project on [email protected] or +256 772 753 753 (English and Somali)
Estella Kabachwezi
Senior Advocacy and Research Officer, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project on [email protected] or +256 782 360 460 (English)
Nicolas Agostini
Representative to the United Nations (Geneva), the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project on [email protected] or +41 79 813 49 91 (English and French)
[1] DefendDefenders, “Background paper: Ensuring meaningful follow-up on Eritrea at HRC41,” 17 May 2019, https://defenddefenders.org/press_release/eritrea-the-un-human-rights-council-should-ensure-continued-scrutiny/ (accessed on 9 July 2019).
[2] DefendDefenders et al., “Eritrea: the UN should ensure continued scrutiny of the human rights situation,” 11 June 2019, https://defenddefenders.org/press_release/eritrea-the-un-should-ensure-continued-scrutiny-of-the-human-rights-situation/ (accessed on 9 July 2019).
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Congressional Expert: North Korea Prepping EMP Catastrophe Aimed At U.S. Homefront
by JohnMcTernan · May 9, 2017
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Revelation 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
It is possible that Kim Jong Un is God’s rod of judgment against America. This is as serious as it gets. The latest news is that North Korea is preparing to explode another nuclear weapon.
May the Holy God of Israel bless and protect you.
Hebrews 11:9-10 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrives for the official opening of the Ryomyong residential area, a collection of more than a dozen apartment buildings, on Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea
Congressional Expert: North Korea Prepping EMP Catastrophe Aimed At U.S. Homefront 05/08/17
“While the international community and news media focus on North Korean missile tests and the country’s nuclear program, one expert warned on Sunday that North Korea may be secretly assembling the capability to take out significant parts of the U.S. homeland via an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.
Dr. Peter Vincent Pry is executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission.
He warned: “They are positioning themselves as sort of a nuclear missile age, cyberage version of the battleship diplomacy in my view. So that they can always have one of them (satellites) very close to being over the United States or over the United States.
“Then if a crisis comes up and if we decide to attack North Korea, Kim Jong Un can threaten our president and say, ‘Well, don’t do that because we are going to burn your whole country down.’ Which is basically what he said. I mean, he has made threats about turning the United States into ashes and he connected the satellite program to this in public statements to deter us from attacking.”
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during Istanbul Youth Festival in Istanbul on May 4, 2017
Erdogan lashes ‘racist’ Israel, calls for Muslims to flood Temple Mount 05/08/17 Like a bolt of lightening from nowhere, once again the Temple Mount is the center of attention. Erdogan wants to recreate the Ottoman Empire, and the surest way to unite the Sunnis is over Jerusalem.
He is calling for a Muslim uprising over Jerusalem and the Temple Mount. I do believe that Jerusalem will be the key to start the all-out war between Israel and the Muslims.
Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday urged Muslims to throng to the Temple Mount in a show of solidarity with Palestinians as he issued a string of challenges to Israel, which he called “racist and discriminatory.”
“We, as Muslims, should be visiting Al-Quds more often,” he said, referring to Jerusalem by its Arabic name.
“Each day that Jerusalem is under occupation is an insult to us,” he added, at the opening ceremony of the International Forum on al-Quds Waqf in Istanbul, Turkey’s Hurriyet news reported.
Erdogan said increased Muslim visits to the Jerusalem holy site “would be the greatest support to our brothers there.”
“Both in terms of our religion and historical responsibility, Al-Quds and the fight of our Palestinian brothers for rights and justice is of great importance to us. We will keep making efforts for Quds to turn into a city of peace,” Erdogan said.
In the blistering speech, which also criticized Israeli legislation and US plans to move their embassy to Jerusalem, Erdogan also called Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians “racist and discriminatory” and said the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip “has no place in humanity.”
Rape Legalization Gains Ground Amid Migrant Influx in Europe 05/08/17 As I’ve said many times before, Europe is being turned over to Islam for judgment, and it appears one of the judgments is terror on the European women.
To the Muslims, unbelieving women have no rights and so they can be raped and sold as sex slaves. This is exactly what ISIS was acting out. This is real Islam. This is just a taste of what is coming upon the Europeans.
They hate the Lord and reject his word. Well, now they have the Koran and allah and all the horrors which accompany allah. The Europeans are getting the full package, the supper deluxe package of allah.
“France, Sweden, Germany and other European nations are on a path to legalize rape committed by migrants because it’s “their culture.”
As shocking as this might seem, a recent number of rapists who avoided severe punishment suggests there’s a precedent already in place to decriminalize rapes by migrants because they don’t “culturally understand” Western rape laws or even the word “no.”
In short, rapes by migrants are downplayed as “cultural misunderstandings” and thus the victims never receive justice, meaning that “de facto” rape legalization is, for the most part, already in place.”
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Islamic supremacists will wreck France’s weak consensus 05/09/17 This is a really good article about the death of France. On the French gravestone, the obituary will be, “Went insane: committed suicide by Muslims.”
“The French presidential elections are over, and a multiculturalist technocrat who believes in nothing, Emmanuel Macron, has won the race. Macron was the perfect candidate of the liberal consensus and global progressivism. The whole system wanted to save itself by electing him. Macron is the French Justin Trudeau. His party is that of happy globalization and the post-national Europe, in the name of “diversity.” It is the post-political conception of the world.
But Islamic supremacists will shatter and wreck his weak utopia. 25,340. This is the number of active military personnel in Sweden. How many Salafists are in France? 15,000 to 20,000, according to Bernard Godard, the former head of the Bureau of Religion for the Ministry of the Interior. According to the politician Antoine Sfeir, there are 20,000 to 30,000 Salafists in France. The Salafists in France are a force roughly the size of the Swedish military. One out of every two young French Muslims is a Salafist of the most radical type, even if he does not belong to a mosque.
A year ago, the French army set up a “domestic front command” devoted to preparing the country in case of massive civil unrest. In such a scenario, the “war” that outgoing President François Hollande spoke about in November 2015 will not be fought in a foreign theater, such as Raqqa, but inside the French Republic. Barbara Lefebvre, who co-edited the book Une France Soumise (A Subjugated France), asserts that “a world is coming to an end: that of a secular, republican and liberal France.”
Hard Left/ Islam
Catholic priests in U.S. being punished for speaking truth about Islam 05/09/17 I found this really interesting, that the Catholic Church in America is running interference for the Muslims. Their priests are not allowed to say the truth or anything negative against Islam. The Catholic leadership has the same mentality as the secular Hard Left.
What is it about Islam that has these people so enamored? It is like God has cast a net over their minds, and they are being pulled into Islam. I see it a direct judgment from the Lord upon a disobedient people who refuse to believe his word, so now they are being merged with Islam.
“Don’t listen to liberals, because the Muslims will cut your heads off.” That’s the comment that warranted the KRQE headline, “Parents accuse Belen priest of making discriminatory comments against Muslims.” Apparently no one had a problem with the “don’t listen to liberals” part. Instead, being well trained in political correctness, it was the moment Fr. Jonas Romea, a priest in Belen, New Mexico, told a group of pre-K to eighth grade Catholic kids that there were Muslims terrorists that caused the problem. Specifically mentioning Muslims cutting “heads off” was when parents became terribly offended on behalf of Islam.
The next thing you know, a reporter at KOAT Action News was asking Fr. Romea if he didn’t think his remarks were “Islamophobia?” Fr. Romea said that he denied that label, and strengthened his point by saying: “Recent reports out of the Middle East show that Catholics around the world are under attack. The news pieces that we get… from there tell us that actually, Christians are being slaughtered.”
KRQE reported that after receiving complaints about Fr. Romea’s remarks (made during a homily to students at Our Lady of Belen Church,) the “Archdiocese of Santa Fe sent out a letter to parents saying the homily didn’t fully embrace the message of Jesus Christ.”
Hard Left
Josh McDowell: Prepare Your Kids to Face Porn’s Dangers by Age 05/09/17 There is a tsunami of sexual sin now flooding across the earth. I believe this is getting the world ready for the coming Day of Lord when Jesus said it would be like the Day of Noah. It appears that sexual sin will be constantly in the minds of people. They will be consumed by it. This is exactly what it was like in Sodom just before the Lord destroyed it. Protect your kids and grandkids!!!
Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
“And parents, particularly homeschooling Christian parents, are delusional if they think they can somehow completely protect their children from porn. The sad reality is that they will see it and they are seeing at alarmingly young ages.
“I always tell [parents], by five years old you’d better have your child prepared,” McDowell said.
He noted that he was at first unsure of the popular phrase “Fight the New Drug”
Pornography. He was wary but upon studying how pornography affects people physiologically, he agreed. Porn’s effect on the brain is like cocaine and heroin together.
“Cocaine is a stimulant, you shoot it up, and it stimulates you,” McDowell said. By contrast, “heroin is an opiate, which means it brings you down.”
Space sounds and mysterious space signals news 05/07/17 This is a fascinating site and it was amazing to listen to the sounds of the planets, including those of earth.
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Psalm 140:1 Deliver me, O Lord, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;
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Love this one – haven’t heard it before…
danw says:
I too believe N.K. could be God’s rod of judgment.We,[America] wouldn’t even make it in the history books,because while we dally around,they could end it for us with the push of a button.We are not ready for what they can do.We are an immoral and debased culture that has begged,[dared] God to judge us…so,why would He not?We are so dependant on computers for commerce,fuel,transportation,food,etc…maybe camel jockeys could survive it…but we ruined it for ourselves.Give a pencil and paper to some one young…you might hear..what are these for?Time for serious prayer.
Why would He not – yet, anyway? Because of our support (through Trump & Congress) for Israel, who may need us soon. And as long as we stand with them, judgment may be delayed… God bless you, Dan. You’re such a faithful reader and follower of the Lord… It’s my fervent prayer.
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As part of last weeks Kingpins Show online, we chatted with three unique and talented young makers: Maisie Broome, Wuzzy Omiyale and Juliet Johnson about building a brand in the middle of a pandemic, the rise of crafting in collaboration with clothing and one of the biggest topics of discussion was how has Instagram been in terms of a selling and marketing and the response was pretty unanimous, Instagram is one of the strongest selling tools out there.
Myfawnwy is the art and design studio of Maisie Broome. Maisie’s work explores the transformational effects of nature, pattern and emotion through the mediums of sculpture, printmaking, experimental textile, clothing and object design. MYFAWNWY is her middle name and translates to ‘my rare one’ in Welsh. Every item is made by hand in her NYC studio. “I started experimenting with marbling over a decade ago and it’s kind of grown into this art, design, clothing business that I have…and the clothing aspect has really been taking off this last year.” She says the online community of artists and creators has been instrumental in growing her brand.
“It cultivates a demand; I’ll make and share something I’m excited about and I’m not totally sure what will happen with it. If there’s a lot of feedback that means I can actually invest in this idea and I’ve already grown a demand for it so when I do launch it there’s already a buzz around it. And I’m working more sustainability; not making extra products, its just one artist behind the brand so I make what I can, the demand is there and it sells out.”
Wuzzy Omiyale is the founder, designer and tailor at By.Wuzzy By.Wuzzy is a eco conscious, slow fashion denim brand, reworking vintage Levis to create original, bespoke garments and accessories. As a recent graduate from the London College of Fashion Wuzzy and explained that
“Not a lot of fashion houses are hiring right now so I used this as an opportunity to just jump starting doing my own thing, which is what I’ve been wanting to do for a while. At the beginning of the pandemic I was selling face masks in collaboration with a charity and I didn’t realize the influx of DM’s I was getting and I realized I might need a website then because I didn’t realize how powerful of a tool instagram is for selling.”
Juliet Johnstone is an artist from Los Angeles who only started painting on clothing this past year in an effort to find new forms of expression. By filling her friends’ closets with more special and sustainable options, her wearable art has elicited an exciting positive response. For Juliet, Instagram as a marketing and selling tool has also been instrumental in growing her brand.
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Snow Makes You Smarter
Thu Oct 21st 2010 by abagond
“Snow Makes You Smarter” is my name for the idea that white people are born with more intelligence than blacks because they come from a long line of people who lived through thousands of unforgiving winters in the cold, cruel north. Unlike blacks, who lived in Africa where you can sit under a tree all day and eat bananas. Or something. The idea goes back to at least Madison Grant in 1916.
Defenders point out all the wonderful inventions of white people and how screwed up Africa is. They point to IQ tests.
IQ and winter temperatures:
I found out that:
IQ = 100 – C
Where IQ is a country’s average IQ and C is the mean January temperate in Celsius at its capital.
I tried it on 35 capital cities where the race of most people has not changed in over 10,000 years. For two-thirds of them I got to within 5 points.
Here, from coldest to hottest (the numbers for each city are: C, 100 – C and IQ):
Beijing -4.6 105 100
Seoul -3.6 104 106
Stockholm -3.5 104 101
Budapest -1.1 101 99
Berlin -0.9 101 102
Oslo -0.4 100 98
Copenhagen -0.4 100 98
Amsterdam 3.1 97 102
London 3.4 97 100
Paris 3.7 96 98
Dublin 4.8 95 93
Istanbul 5.4 95 90
Madrid 5.4 95 99
Jerusalem 8.4 92 94
Baghdad 9.4 91 87
Athens 10.2 90 92
Lisbon 10.5 90 95
Beirut 13.5 87 86
Cairo 13.8 86 83
New Delhi 14.1 86 81
Kampala 22.4 78 73
Khartoum 22.7 77 72
Brazzaville 25.6 74 73
Accra 27.0 73 71
So what is wrong with all this?
Correlation is not cause: The proper way to do this is to see if there is a strong statistical correlation with a large sample. But even that would not prove cause. There might be some third factor at play – like that IQ tests are written by northerners.
IQ tests cannot be trusted:
Black Africa has an average IQ of 70. Contrary to what you see on television, Africa is not some coast-to-coast refugee camp. It cannot be: it supports a billion people.
Civilization started mainly in places with IQs of 90 or less: Peru (90), Mexico (87), Iraq (87), Egypt (83) and India (81). China, at 100, becomes the outlier.
Civilization arose mostly in Places of Very Little Snow, like Egypt, the Middle East, Central America and India.
Eskimos do not rule the world: people live in far crueler places than Oxford, England, like Patagonia, Lapland, Siberia, Darfur and the deserts of Australia. Yet no one who makes this argument expects these people to be particularly bright. Why is that?
Mankind arose in Africa. Time and time again since the 1920s those who believed Snow Makes You Smarter have been proved wrong about different species of early man arising in Europe and Asia. As we now know, none of them arose there – every single successful new species of man arose in Africa instead. For whatever reason, man evolves in Africa and then spreads north, not the other way round.
Like most white racist ideas, “Snow Makes You Smarter” takes the current power imbalance and sees it as the natural order of things – when it is anything but. White people, people from Europe, have been the most advanced part of mankind only twice – now and back in Greek and Roman times. Otherwise they have been middling to backwards.
Egypt, where the average IQ is 83
Wikipedia: IQ and the Wealth of Nations – where I got the IQ numbers from, which in turn come from Richard Lynn. The article notes that the correlation between a country’s average IQ and its average high winter temperature is -0.76 – pretty good! – but skin colour is an even better match at -0.92.
The white inventor argument
posts where this idea appears:
Anti-black racism as a guide to science
Would blacks survive in Finland?
Maria Shriver’s jaw
Pioneer Fund
drapetomania
Are the British human?
I must be a genius because I live in Canada. Oh, I forgot, I would have had to have lived there for tens of thousands of years. But wait, some of my ancestors did. They were indigenous. But according to the HBders, they are, were, still dumb! I guess I’m not to smart after all! Oh shucks!
That reindeer looks like it’s laughing! Does he know something we don’t? I notice he has a big head! With the combination of the cold and a big head he must be a genius! As to the contention that cold makes one smarter, now I have heard everything! What will they come up with next, to prove their ‘superiority’?
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 19:36:08 Aiyo
You are killing me with this post LMAO
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 20:01:14 Chuck
This is my response on the Steve Sailer thread to King and Vagrant X:
You guys say crap like:
*things evolve faster in warmer climates
*cold climates cause organisms to go dormant or kills them outright
*Africa could have very well been a colder climate in ancestoral times
To Vagrant’s ridiculous claim that cold climates “cause organisms to go dormant or kills them outright”. He prefaces this by saying that he is no biologist which puts him on the same level as me in terms of academic credentials. Yet he still comments on the topic.
Vagrant is unable to grasp that he has bolstered my argument. Yes, cold climates are harsh and they can kill you easier than temperate climates *which is the whole point*. “What doesn’t kill you makes you (or your group) stronger.” Ever heard that saying?
To survive, people who are now more closely related to caucasians and mongoloids had to develop strategies to overcome those harsher conditions. If they didn’t, they would perish. They didn’t perish and passed on their tools to their descendents. One of those tools was a bigger brain, higher cognitive ability, and better visio-spatial skill.
Survival of the fittest shaped humans. That’s pretty widely accepted as the general process of human evolution. What is considered “fit” differed depending on environment. In Africa, the species faced nothing new. By staying at “home base”, the humans who were there weren’t forced to compete for intelligence. Since equitorial Africa was plush with plants and berries (which most ancestoral Africans ate), they didn’t struggle for food or have to come up with novel ways to get food.
The people who migrated out of Africa developed in tandem with other forces. Those groups used language and developed tools and processes to survive. Those tools added an extra shot of juice in to the process. Those peoples’ environment came to include those very same tools and languages which thrusted them *even further* forward in evolutionary terms.
Vagrant X may be correct in saying that warm climates foster newer and more species than other climates. But this doesn’t refute the story of evolution or the story of IQ disparities. Africa got the species there; other places forced it to evolve faster than it otherwise would have.
King, your whole argument is unfounded. There is no reason to believe that Africa has ever been colder than the more polar or temporally polar regions. That defies the laws of nature anyway, the Earth has always been round with an equator that is more exposed to the sun than other parts of the globe. Do you deny that? Regardless, it is the being forced to move portion of the equation that propeled the brains and IQs upward. Groupifying, developing language, encountering novel minerals and landscapes (different from Africa) that allowed those groups to build upon whatever they had already built upon were part of this process.
Individuals today are a microcosm of this very same process. Generally speaking, the less intelligent people are the country bumpkins who’ve remained in their little village for their whole lives (this was much more true before TV and the internet, but the point remains.) It was the people who were lucky enough to build upon their rudimentary knowledge that they learned in that village and added to it all of the worldly experiencecs and knowledge they’d pick up at cultural meccas and through other travels. Through that lifetime the person added novel knowledge that they wouldn’t have learned if they remained that bumpkin in the village in which they were born.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 20:13:14 King
LOL! Love that dopey Reindeer!!!
It’s a looser argument. Most people forget that evolution requires millions of years to make significant changes to any species,
When the human migration out of Africa began, the climate in Europe likely looked like this:
Chuck, you double posted. That comment is also in the Steve Sailer thread.
Africa is the only place on earth that has a clear, proven record of greatly increasing human intelligence.
So it is perfectly fine to accept that Africa greatly increased human intelligence – hell it *made* humans human – but it far-reaching and flat out racist to suggest that development in other locales wouldn’t have propelled us even further?
To me, you seem to truncate the process. You pretend as if evolution mysteriously stopped right after the development of the people in Africa. But it didn’t.
Africa provided a baseline linear pathway for human development and evolution. When some of the groups and individuals “went their own way”, they faced novel environments and were forced to develop new methods of survival. Language was one biggie. Farming was another. Hunting big animals was one too. All of these processes built upon each other and led to higher IQ.
Africa fostered humans’ ancestors and the human race, but it didn’t tinker with them as well as Europe and Asia did. It’s not just the cold climates that caused this – although you must remember that Europe during that time was much colder than it is today. We’ve only come out of the last ice age in the past 20,000 years. It was the cohesion of several inexplicable forces that caused what we, today, call higher innate IQ.
Granted, IQ is a Western concept. We are only talking about IQ because “the victors are telling history” and measuring traits that victors monopolize. *But* that very admission implies that whites do have higher innate IQ.
I know. It is also pertinent to Abagond’s post today.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 20:24:57 leigh204
I must be a genius because I live in Canada.
lol! Girl, I think there’s something to that. I mean, I live in the middle of Canada; one of the coldest provinces…it’s not called Winterpeg, Manitoba for nothing. 😛 Where I’m from, the people should be considered supergeniuses due to the extreme temperatures. 😉
Oh, and I really love that pic of that reindeer! It’s so cute and funny at the same time, it makes me smile. :Di
Abagond, I’m not sure what your policy is, but I’ll post my response from ‘Steve Sailer’. If it’s not allowed, you can simply delete.
@ Chuck
“King, your whole argument is unfounded. There is no reason to believe that Africa has ever been colder than the more polar or temporally polar regions.
STRAW MAN: Don’t be ridiculous… NOBODY said that Africa was colder than the more polar regions, the climates just weren’t necessarily different enough to make your “cold brain” argument.
The entire African continent is not now and never has been on the equator… check your map. There is more non-equatorial land mass in Africa then there is in Europe.
Climates have changed dramatically over the eons. That is why you can now find tropical turtle fossils on Greenland and tropical fish fossils in Antarctica. You have no idea what the relative temperatures were during much of the migratory periods.
You don’t even know the exact positioning of the continents when migration began!!
man, you guys are so hilarious. taking the most naive interpreation of these arguments to imply that if you live in canada or greenland you’re a genius.
while there is a hgher correlation between distance from the equator and IQ, the most salient point is that the novelty of the environment forced these new inhabitants to place more value and mating pressure on intelligence. the smartest of the group became valued which was a change from the status quo in Africa. there was less pressure to select for intelligence in africa because the inhabitants were pretty familiar with their terrain and their niche.
besides building shelter for the winter, there was also the chore of hunting novel animals (the hunting of animals was relatively novel anyway as african ancestors weren’t exactly hunters).
this post is just a simplistic interpretation of the HBD argument.
you insist on ignoring the major thrust of my argument. did not new environments put more pressure on groups of people to develop new “skills” i.e. intelligence to deal with them?
africans existed within africa. by its sheer location as an equitorial or a temperate zone, it likely had a relatively consistent climate. our ancestors developed in tandem with that climate and terrain that they were already familiar with. it was the new territory and climate that sped up the process of evolution as it pertains to intelligence and problem-solving.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 20:43:21 Y
“Yes, cold climates are harsh and they can kill you easier than temperate climates *which is the whole point*. “What doesn’t kill you makes you (or your group) stronger.” Ever heard that saying?
Couldn’t the same be said about the tropics? Afterall there is higher instances of viruses and microorganisms that can kill off the weak, plantlife that is poisonous, large game ect.
This cherry-picking of info is getting to be rediculois. One may die quicker in the tundra because of hypothermia but let’s not forget the tropics have a host of dangers. Exposure to poisonous herbs, dangerous animals, viruses and the so on. Yet no one is making the case that the being indigenous to the tropics makes people smarter. Instead we have people creating pet theories built on cherry-picked data to validate their racism.
*ridiculous*
actually you bring up a good point.
the problem is that parasites are problems that aren’t dealt with on a strategic level (at least in the era we are talking about before the advent of medicine). intelligence, which is what we’re discussing, can’t really assuage those problems.
the human body and evolution have other ways of dealing with parasites. humans typically select for more symmetrical faces in partners because that indicates that they are healthier and less prone to getting parasites. supple skin is another thing that is universally selected for much for the same reasons.
I’d like to bring up another point. What we are ultimately arguing about is whether the Western way of life is inherently better than the African way of life. While I wholeheartedly believe that whites have higher IQ, that only goes to show that they operate better in the Western world of their own construction. But the argument that always takes place is that blacks are equally implementable into that Western way of life. So the argument is always on the terms of IQ etc.
Blacks excel at many other things compared to whites. There are tradeoffs to higher IQ in the group aggregate.
Chuck what was the difference in the mean continental temperatures during the human migration from Africa to Europe?
Chuck where exactly were each of the continents, relative to their distance from the equator during each stage of the migration?
Chuck, how are you able to make predictions of the effects of temperature based on relative position to the equator when you don’t know either of these things?
*NOT to mention that excessive cold is not any bigger a factor than is excessive heat, drought, or flood. So even if you could somehow prove that you knew the primeval temperature, it wouldn’t mean anything.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:10:06 Jack
That’s not true. The genus Homo has not existed for more than a couple of million years, but about ten different species of Homo have developed. Homo sapiens has not existed for more than a couple hundred thousand years.
As to evolutionary influences on intelligence, I would propose that the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture had a large effect. See this paper for details: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/52/20753.long. The idea that very long periods of time are needed for substantial changes in allele frequencies is a popular myth that has no basis in science.
To the extent that cold climates have enhanced intelligence, the effect must have been stronger in agriculturalists. According to Lynn, modern hunter-gatherers get the lowest IQ scores of all populations studied. The exception to this pattern are the Eskimos with an average score of 91, which is higher than that of agriculturalists from the warmest climates.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:22:34 Solution5050
It cracks me up to see white people not only declaring themselves the highest IQ holders, but also them declaring that an actual person’s intelligence can be measured by a TEST. LOL
Actual true human intelligence CANNOT be accurately measured. Far too many factors come into play (and get in the way) to come up with a true assessment.
If looking at technological accomplishments declare IQ levels, then on this present day, the east asians clearly BLOW whites away! And what about the usual white argument about grade scores? Not only east asians and south asians (people of India and its surrounding lands) are out-doing whites GPA-wise, but african immigrants are as well.
As for whites currently being on top… we can all agree. But it’s not from their “amazingly high IQs”. Whites have thrashed their way to the top through the barrel of a gun. Don’t believe me?…… just check out earth human history.
And inventions? There are wayyyyyyy too many notable inventions (past and recent) that whites have plagiarised (stolen) from non-white individuals. So I guess robbers and thieves are just simply “naturally more intelligent”. So on THAT pointed example, the typical white mind SHOULD declare blacks and hispanics as the highest “IQ” holders.
(Hypocrisy is a b*tch)
And so… this IQ test. Think about it….. a MAN or a series of people had to come up with this “test”. Now….. whose intelligence are we using to measure “intelligence”?
That question in itself points out the flawed concept of “IQ”.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:27:08 jas0nburns
“The exception to this pattern are the Eskimos with an average score of 91, which is higher than that of agriculturalists from the warmest climates.”
What is this IQ test everyone is taking? Anybody know? How could one devise a test without cultural bias?
Naturally, IQ is not a perfect measure of cognitive ability, but it is the most reliable and powerful variable in social science. If there’s a better metric, I haven’t seen it.
According to most studies, East Asians outscore whites by about 5 IQ points, so I don’t understand what you mean that whites would have the highest IQs.
Whites have thrashed their way to the top through the barrel of a gun. Don’t believe me?…… just check out earth human history.
All peoples that have been dominant at some point in history did it by dominating others militarily.
Name ten inventions that whites have “stolen” from blacks or Hispanics.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:40:47 Hathor
According to Chuck, people from
Africa shouldn’t speak or as I see have any capacity for language. I guess we blacks are communicating with ESP.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:41:18 BlackNarcissus
This reminds me of explanations pale people give as to why they have pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Because of the cold. It caused a “mutation”.
I just look at them and ask, why Inuits don’t have blond hair and blue eyes when they have been in a much colder climate for a longer period of time. I also ask what environmental factors attribute to the turning of ones eyes from a dominant color to blue and ones hair blond? The same traits you see in albinos.
This whole “cold FRONT” (cause Yah knows they’re fronting) is some bullshit in the same pseudo-scientific category as phrenology and drapetomania.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:45:23 Olufemi
The country where I spend most of my time right now has quite a few different micro-climates that go from almost arctic to moderate to mediterranean/ sub-tropical. The people that live in the areas that get extremely cold are considered to be not quite the brightest lights. (Unfortunately true.) And those people live there for countless generations. Some can go as far back as the 13th century. Those areas are mostly rural without much intellectual stimulus.
In this country, the most intelligent by Western biased IQ testing actually live in the urban areas which have a generally moderate climate, also in winter, and can get really hot in summer.
On a related note, I recently made a trip to Cameroon, primarily for professional reasons. I’m lucky enough to have family over there where I could stay. Two cousins of mine are successful professionals in Douala. The weather was muggy to say the least. Not too hot, around 25C, but very damp. It rained every day for a few hours. But in daytime, once the sun came through for just an hour or so I felt like I was suffocating. Being used to the low humidity in Europe, I felt like I couldn’t function properly. Everything felt like in slow motion. I just couldn’t concentrate like I normally would. Anyway I’m sure I would have failed any so-called IQ test (Western style, timed under pressure…) quite miserably. My cousin was not much less knocked down by the weather although one might assume that he is used to it, being 100% African.
This is once again just one example which might not directly prove anything, like the tests themselves. Going by common sense though, it’s safe to assume that your momentary mental and physical shape influenced by your environment can have some drastic influence on the result of any “IQ tests” which are systematically questionable anyway.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:46:23 Dr. Vagrant X
@Hathor:
Really! That’s awesome! Hold on, I’m going to try to contact you right now!
(This is so cool!)
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 21:54:15 peanut
interesting…snow makes you smarter…cute.
Cultural bias is indeed a problem when comparing IQ results from very different cultures. For this reason, I regard Lynn’s global IQ data only as suggestive, not conclusive. Tests administered to different racial groups in the same country are a lot more reliable, and the consensus is that in the US, IQ tests are not biased against any group that speaks English natively (the existence or lack of test bias is an empirical question that can be investigated with statistical methods).
According to most studies, Studies by whom? East Asians outscore whites by about 5 IQ points, so I don’t understand what you mean that whites would have the highest IQs.”
If it’s not perfect, then why do whites use it as the gospel? Easy answer: Because it’s one created test in which whites would tend to score the most in. And once that was realized, white society declared it as the tool for “measuring intelligence”. The IQ test is one good example of the “White man’s FUBU” – “For Us By Us”.
Typical derailment – “If they did it, then us doing it too isnt so bad.” (or) “They were the people of the times!”
Gotcha. Scroll back. I never mentioned “blacks and hispanics”…… YOU did. And you’re asking me to name ten. LOL I noticed that you didn’t ask me to name ONE… or even FIVE… because you’d know that would be too easy. You asked me to name ten because YOU don’t know of ten. And no, I’m not here to take your little “exam”. You (unsurprisingly) not knowing at least ten is YOUR ignorant burden, not mine.
“What doesn’t kill you makes you (or your group) stronger.” Ever heard that saying?
Yes, in the Conan movie.
taking the most naive interpreation of these arguments to imply that if you live in canada or greenland you’re a genius.
We are geniuses! Just ask Yogi Bear!
,em>this post is just a simplistic interpretation of the HBD argument.
That’s because it is simple, simple minded that is!
What trade off? Better athleticism? I must be a mutant as I am athletically challenged! Does shopping count?
While I wholeheartedly believe that whites have higher IQ
Say what? Judging from your posts I wouldn’t have known this!
@Jack: Is this the Richard Lynn you are referring to?
Lynn’s review work on global racial differences in cognitive ability has been cited for misrepresenting the research of other scientists, and has been criticized for unsystematic methodology and distortion.
Many of the data points in Lynn’s book IQ and the Wealth of Nations were not based on residents of the named countries. The datum for Suriname was based on tests given to Surinamese who had emigrated to the Netherlands, and the datum for Ethiopia was based on the IQ scores of a highly selected group that had emigrated to Israel, and, for cultural and historical reasons, was hardly representative of the Ethiopian population. The datum for Mexico was based on a weighted averaging of the results of a study of “Native American and Mestizo children in Southern Mexico” with results of a study of residents of Argentina.[34]
The datum that Lynn and Vanhanen used for the lowest IQ estimate, Equatorial Guinea, was the mean IQ of a group of Spanish children in a home for the developmentally disabled in Spain.[35] Corrections were applied to adjust for differences in IQ cohorts (the “Flynn” effect) on the assumption that the same correction could be applied internationally, without regard to the cultural or economic development level of the country involved. While there appears to be rather little evidence on cohort effect upon IQ across the developing countries, one study in Kenya (Daley, Whaley, Sigman, Espinosa, & Neumann, 2003) shows a substantially larger cohort effect than is reported for developed countries (p.?)[34]
In a critical review of The Bell Curve, psychologist Leon Kamin faulted Lynn for disregarding scientific objectivity, misrepresenting data, and for racism.[36] Kamin argues that the studies of cognitive ability of Africans in Lynn’s meta-analysis cited by Herrnstein and Murray show strong cultural bias. Kamin also reproached Lynn for concocting IQ values from test scores that have no correlation to IQ.[37] Kamin also notes that Lynn excluded a study that found no difference in White and Black performance, and ignored the results of a study which showed Black scores were higher than White scores.[38]
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 22:57:32 DunMoch
When anonymity is provided, note that the “scientific consensus” on race and IQ takes a near U-turn:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_IQ_Controversy,_the_Media_and_Public_Policy_%28book%29
I agree with geneticist Bruce Lahn: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7265/full/461726a.html
“Science is finding evidence of genetic diversity among groups of people as well as among individuals. This discovery should be embraced, not feared, say Bruce T. Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein.
Promoting biological sameness in humans is illogical, even dangerous
To ignore the possibility of group diversity is to do poor science and poor medicine
A robust moral position is one that embraces this diversity as among humanity’s great assets”
Can a mere “social contruct” give aboriginals a brain that is only 80% the size of a European brain?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6926391?ordinalpos=1&itool=PPMCLayout.PPMCAppController.PPMCArticlePage.PPMCPubmedRA&linkpos=2
The blank slaters are debunked and deluded. The egalitarian emperor has no clothes.
FYI,
Be prepared for evidence of H. Erectus admixture in Oceanic populations to surface, just like the recent Neanderthal admixture paper showed that non-Africans were part Neanderthal.
As a white dude who has played a lot of Basketball in his youth, I can assure you – Humans are definitely NOT all the same. In a wide variety of attributes. Liberal creationism is not the answer to racism, people.
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 23:09:00 Oyan
Another take on this can be found in Michael Bradleys’, text, ‘The Iceman Inheritance’. Some ‘reviews’ suggest that this is reverse arayanism, but it is definitely intriguing.
“Michael Bradley delves back into our glacial past during the last Ice Age in order to find the prehistoric sources of the white race’s aggression, racism and sexism. Relying on the researches of Alexander Marshack, Carleton Coon, Konrad Lorenz, S.L. Washburn, Ralph Solecki and others, Bradley offers a persuasive argument that the white race, the Neanderthal-Caucasoids, are more aggressive than others because of ancient sexual maladaptation. And, in tracing the effects of Caucasian aggression, Bradley offers an uncomfortable and all-too-plausible explanation for the pattern of human history. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.”
Liberal Biorealism makes a compelling argument for HBD here:
http://liberalbiorealism.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/the-likelihood-of-genetic-group-differences-in-iq-the-black-white-gap-in-iq/
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 23:10:36 medium
i don’t believe in no IQ test. it all depends in what kind of environment you live in , your educational studies etc. for example there are people that have go to school and learn different fields out a book and don’t have no common sense.
Studies by tons of people, mostly whites and Asians.
Like I said, whites are not the group with the highest average IQ, so your argument fails in this respect. IQ tests were originally invented by Binet and colleagues in France to investigate variation in intelligence among white French schoolchildren. Psychometrics was created mostly by white people, just like modern science in general. IQ tests are used because they are a reliable and valid tool backed up by tons of research. Of course, you can criticize IQ, or GDP, or the Gini Index, or even, say, relativity and the uncertainty principle, but if you want to be taken seriously, you will have to come up with better arguments than “they were invented by white people”.
It was not “derailment”, but a statement of fact. And I wasn’t claiming that military domination by whites or anybody else is not bad, but rather I was implying that your assertion that Europeans rose to dominance “through the barrel of a gun” is an uninsightful, almost tautological (because political domination over other peoples is almost always achieved through military domination) argument.
For example, the Arabs’ rapid rise to dominance over much of the world in the 7th and 8th centuries was one of the more remarkable occurrences in history. Now, you would probably say that they managed to conquer other peoples simply because they were militarily more powerful. As a proximate explanation, that’s of course true, but what really is interesting are the ideological, organizational, technological, psychological, and other factors that enabled the Arabs to overwhelm their opponents. Similarly, what is interesting about the European conquest of much of the world are the factors that made Europeans so superior over their opponents.
Okay, I read your argument as stating that blacks and Hispanics specifically had been these great unsung inventors, but your argument is in fact that there were no such blacks or Hispanics, right? Who were they then? You said that “There are wayyyyyyy too many notable inventions (past and recent) that whites have plagiarised (stolen) from non-white individuals”, so I thought that it would be extremely easy for you to name just ten, but I was clearly mistaken. I interpret your refusal to mention even one as an admission that you cannot think of any.
How do you even decide if some invention was “stolen”? People all around the world use televisions, cars, computers, airplanes, and other “white inventions”, but are they “stolen” inventions? In any case, your characterization of the history of science and technology in Europe and its offshoots as that of “robbers and thieves” is moronic.
“Africa is not some coast-to-coast refugee camp. It cannot be: it supports a billion people. ”
Just what level of “support” are we talking about? Malthusian?
“There is no reason to suppose it has suddenly stopped. ”
Probably not stopped, but lagged. IQ tests provided by africans show the same discrepencies that IQ tests provided by whites show, as cited in Rushton’s paper here: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/Race_Evolution_Behavior.pdf
Also interesting: The more “culture-neutral” that researchers try to make an IQ test, the larger the racial gaps are in performance!
“i don’t believe in no IQ test. ”
Hard to tell if this is a troll or some ebonics-slangin’ low IQ individual with sour grapes.
Herneith, yes, that’s the same Lynn. He has replied to those and many other criticisms in his subsequent books.
bananas are not native to africa, they eat plantain
Murray and Herrnstein describe Lynn as “a leading scholar of racial and ethnic differences.” Here’s a sample of Lynn’s thinking on such differences: “What is called for here is not genocide, the killing off of the population of incompetent cultures. But we do need to think realistically in terms of the ‘phasing out’ of such peoples…. Evolutionary progress means the extinction of the less competent. To think otherwise is mere sentimentality.” (cited in Newsday, 11/9/94)
Elsewhere Lynn makes clear which “incompetent cultures” need “phasing out”: “Who can doubt that the Caucasoids and the Mongoloids are the only two races that have made any significant contributions to civilization?” (cited in New Republic, 10/31/94)
Phillipe Rushton:
Rushton (who’s gotten more than $770,000 from Pioneer) has transformed the Victorian science of cranial measurement into a sexual fetish–measuring not only head and brain size, but also the size of breasts, buttocks and genitals. “It’s a trade-off: More brain or more penis. You can’t have everything,” he told Rolling Stone’s Adam Miller (10/20/94), explaining his philosophy of evolution.
Rushton was reprimanded by his school, the University of Western Ontario, for accosting people in a local shopping mall and asking them how big their penises were and how far they could ejaculate. “A zoologist doesn’t need permission to study squirrels in his backyard,” he groused (Rolling Stone, 10/20/94).
I agree with geneticist Bruce Lahn
Agree with what? You have to pay to read the full article. Hey are you a shill for that website?
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 23:44:32 Dun Moch
“Hey are you a shill for that website?”
“That website” is only one of the premier science journals in the world. They don’t have “shills”. lol
OneSTDV has a great post up on the parallels between conservative and liberal creationism:
http://onestdv.blogspot.com/2009/07/liberals-who-deny-evolution.html
on Sat Nov 13th 2010 at 23:56:41 sam
@dumonk, chuckie:
Get a life, you dumbbells! I come from the real North boys. You guys live in the deep south from my perspective and so did your forefathers, who came from such southern places like England, Scotland and Ireland. Bah! 😀
I laugh at you southern boys since my family roots can be traced way back as long as there are church records from the middle ages and we have always lived in Finland. And since, as you guys have witnessed here, further north and colder the climate equals bigger brains and huge intellect, I declare my self supreme compared to you! 😀
Now, if for any reason you try to make a case against my supreme intellect and supreme humanity in any way, you must admit that your claims are full of reindeershit. You know, we do have reindeers up here. The ones father Christmas uses. And guess what? He lives in Finland too and his real name is Joulupukki. And how I know this? Because I am more intelligent than you southern slouches because I live up here north, just like my father, his father and so on to the beginning of time. 😀
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 00:01:59 Kid W/Golden Arms
That argument cracks me up alot in that it shoots itself in the foot…
Since millions of white people in America live in relative prosperity as opposed to the poorer people in America, the “third world” nations on Africa, Central and South America and the Caribbean, then it follows that their children will be much brighter and smarter than the average white Americans children would be given their harsher living conditions should those conditions persist….now that IQ will be relative to the conditions in which it was developed, ie it would respond to the challenges of its environment and evolve as the populations and generations change…as such this evolution would be discounted if the conditions were fostered and held up by a system that wants only certain (controllable,predictable, based on preconcieved notions coated in science) types of intelligences to exist, discounting all others…
@chuckie and dumbmonk: heres more evidence that living up north makes you much more intelligent and smarter than living in any where below the Artic Circle. And kids, this is for real! This is not something invented in the university toilet 😀
The main guy was found dead later, actually last summer, in Cambodia.
@dun moch: you do know that Albert Einstein struggled in standard school tests? So was he dumb? His weakness at school was mathematics, the bases of IQ tests. He must have been a real dumbass 😀
Granted, if the IQ became higher as a result of tougher living conditions, then it stands to reason that it was not a conscious choice but rather a forced one,circumstantial. These dudes take pride in something proactively that they were not responsible for instead of using all of their supposed greatness to actually do something right here, right now…on top of that they only do it since it runs contrary to the people with “low IQ”, thus defined here in terms of their climatological experience instead of overt racism…
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 00:17:39 Dun Moch
Einstein had an IQ of 160. He did not struggle in school, that’s a myth: http://www.andyborne.com/math/downloads/myth-buster-einstein.pdf
Question for those who believe in the theories behind abagonds post:
If IQ can be made higher due to relatively harsh living conditions and a group of people who live in said conditions are smarter than those who do not, doesnt that mean that the IQ of the initial group of people can slip over generations due to easier living conditions? If these same people then tried to create the means by which intelligence was measured, dont their views require the upmost scrutiny due to their easier living conditions, and assumingly slipping generational IQ?
“doesnt that mean that the IQ of the initial group of people can slip over generations due to easier living conditions?”
Yes, and that’s dysgenics for you.
Some have theorized that a sort of eugenic/dysgenic cycle is behind the rise and fall of civilizations.
@ Dun Moch
The “eugenic/dysgenic” cycle reads like garbage, since the cornerstone of foundation “civilization” is being “civil.” They speak in terms of technological advancements, such advancements do not positively or negatively correlate to social advancement.
I feel the need to chip in on a few things:
1. “Africa is the only place on earth that has a clear, proven record of greatly increasing human intelligence.” Sorry abagond, this is just not true. Landmass does not influence human intellect. Because…
2. Apart from the extremes, ie tropic regions vs. arctic ones, you find comparable conditions on all of the continents, conditions that change over time. The climate is far too unstable to have a acknowledgeable effect on humans.
3. If intellect was in direct correlation to cold weather, then people living on the mountains should be smarter than those living in the valleys. There are people, for example in Peru, or Tibet, that have lived in high altitudes for generations, enough time to evolve differently in comparison to people from the same climate zone but living in the valleys, IF climate had an influence on something as principal as intellect (hair and skin colour can adapt very quick because only few genes are responsible).
4. If it isn’t “cold=intellect” but “hardship=intellect” then esquimos and people living in deserts (for example the tuareg) would be equally smart and together smarter than anybody else on the planet.
5. Epigenetics. Even IF snow=intellect, the way how we live our lives has a direct influence on our genes. By utilizing the machinery, techniques, etc. of other cultures (and no one would proclaim that black people can’t drive cars or use computers) people from the no-snow-regions would by now have caught up, intellect-wise. Epigenetics have an incredibly high turnover. There are people in villages in the Netherlands that were under occupation during WW2 and whose inhabitants starved a lot, and their descendants even today have an increased probability to develop obesity and diabetes, their bodies still remember the starvation of their forefathers.
So, all in all: I think it would be a good idea if only people that actually understand genetics would comment on the possibly inferior genetics of another race. Because, quite honestly, the chance for bullshit being spread is very, very high.
(Yes, I DO have an idea about genetics. It’s not my primary area of interest, but I DO have a fundated education in evolutionary ecology, thanks go to Nico Michiels).
Just my 2 cents. 🙂
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 01:18:32 Solution5050
LOL This is a very interesting thread……. complete with a few stormfront trolls. LOL
Looks like Abagond has struck a nerve.
Who, L Ron Hubbard? This sounds like something up his alley!
“”” since the cornerstone of foundation “civilization” is being “civil.” “””
That’s really just wordplay.
Tell that to the Aztecs/Spartans/Mesopotamians etc
What’s a cornerstone includes is literacy, rule of law, agriculture, and applied math, not necessarily “being civil”. But yes, civilization is thought to have a domesticating effect over a long enough time. The criminal element keeps getting locked up, which takes them out of the breeding pool.
“such advancements do not positively or negatively correlate to social advancement.”
Enjoy your air conditioner much lately?
How about your wheels?
And leave it to Solution5050 to bring the thread to Godwin’s law!
Nice try…. but no.
DOUBLE “NO”. LOL If you only knew.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 02:28:42 Y.
The problems presented by parasites, poison ect have been solved by indigenous populations in the tropics before common era. Im sure you have heard of tribal and herbal medicine usage. There are more that 100 compounds used in mainstream medicines that have similar uses in tribal medicine. Some of the best known pain killers (aspirin, morphine ) are derived from plants that have been used by indigenous populations to cure various aliments for thousands of years.
Many believe tribal medicines are a crock however the study of tribal/herbal medicine has led to many modern day medicinal advances. These tribal populations would have to be mentally novel to use and retain plant knowledge to come up with remedies for such problems.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 02:42:12 Holy
What would you say allowed white people to go from “middling to backwards” to something else?
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 02:54:43 jas0nburns
So ironically according to HBD the best way to create a master race would be to breed strong Jews with smart blacks.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 02:58:51 Hathor
Dr. Vagrant X,
I’m going to connect to the Goddess Hathor-Sekhmet and all things ancient and answer the questions posed to Solution5050.
10 things the Northern people borrowed, perhaps not stolen, from the Southern people.
* Bathing
* Using perfume
* Mathematics
* Not getting their drinking water from the latrine – didn’t figure that out until 1800 years after the Romans
* The Arch
* Gunpowder(maybe southern China)
* Stone cutting
* Metal smelting
* Fire – No exactly borrowed but something they had to know before they left Africa or otherwise they would have not survived in the Cold.
Hathor is so old that she forgot number 10.
*Common Sense
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 04:35:28 Eurasian Sensation
Ok, so let’s assume, for argument’s sake, that cold does make you smarter.
Why do Native Americans test so low in terms of IQ then? They have been in the Americas no longer than 15,000 years. They descend from the same roots as the Koreans and Chinese – people who lived through the Ice Age of East Asia. The ancestors of Native Americans had to endure even tougher, colder conditions migrating from East Asia to North America. Why then, do Eskimos have average IQ of 90? Why do countries like Peru (90) and Mexico (87) test so low, when they are a mix of Spaniards (99) with Native Americans whose ancestors survived the challenging and chilly trek through Beringia?
Civilisations developed independently in Mexico and the Andes that were far more complex than anything northern Europe developed independently, until the last 1000 years when northern Europeans were able to build on the innovations of Mediterranean people. So why are Native Americans not the smartest of us all?
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 10:01:42 zek j evets
This discussion about whether “snow makes you smarter” has been fascinating almost as much as it has been scary.
I’m going to bypass the assumed connection between brain-size and intelligence since that’s been proven to be wrong by scientists for decades now. (FYI intelligence is far more influenced by education level, social class, where you grew up, how you grew up, the socio-political context you grew up in, and of course the very definition of “intelligence” has been questioned for its denotations as being ethnocentric to Western Civilization’s standards and not defining intelligence as it pertains to all cultures.
But like I said, gonna bypass that because I have a much more fun argument to make.)
If cold-climates increase intelligence (as well as various other skills mentioned by Chuck and mothers) then why, as Abagond mentions in his post, do Inuits and native Siberians not have the most advanced and intelligent civilizations by our standards? Why is it that only White “northerners” are intelligent, advanced, and civilized?
And again, as Abagond mentioned (which nobody seems to be talking about, strangely) is that the classical civilizations that most of us learned about in school began in tropical, Mediterranean, and equatorial climates. I’m thinking specifically of the Aztecs, Mayans, Sumerians, Babylonians, Indus Valley, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Shang Dynasty (which is the farthest, or one of the farthest, north). Notably, only two of these are European, and only one is really that far north relatively speaking.
Even going further in history, the most advanced civilizations (from our Western perspective) haven’t really been Western civilizations in far northern climates. The only Western civilizations that were very advanced comparatively/overall were the Greeks and Romans.
If you want to go up to the Renaissance-era Europe, which was when Europe regained much of the knowledge it lost in the aftermath of the Roman Empire’s collapse, the most advanced civilizations were STILL not from anywhere in the northern climates. In fact, the Ottoman empire (and also the Byzantines till the Ottoman’s destroyed them) was the most advanced in mathematics, science, and medicine, as well as the largest preserver of written knowledge at the time. (Again, I’m speaking from the Western historical perspective, since that’s where we are in this debate dealing with White people supposedly being smarter because they’re from cold-climates.) So, again, history proves wrong this supposedly scientific theory.
Let’s go back in time now, way way back. Back to the beginning of hominid evolution. Remember Neanderthals? They were among the first of our evolutionary ancestors to leave Africa and migrate into northern climates. Then, they were followed by Cro-Magnon.
Now, according to Chuck and the other HBDers in this debate, cold-climates enabled “people who are now more closely related to caucasians and mongoloids” to develop tools, “One of those tools was a bigger brain, higher cognitive ability, and better visio-spatial skill. “
Yet, as we see in the archaeological record (feel free to chime in here anytime Mira, since my archaeological skill is not as good as yours since you got your degree!) that Cro-Magnon, who had JUST — evolutionary time-scale speaking — left Africa for northern climates basically out-adapted Neanderthals, winning against them in competition for territory, for game, and in basic warfare.
Again, this has been shown in the archaeological record from various grave sites, and burial grounds where Neanderthal bodies have had wounds in them, as well as remains of Cro-Magnon sites in territories that were previously inhabited by Neanderthals. (I’m thinking specifically of the studies done by Dr. William E Banks, but there are others — from Marcellin Boule to now.)
So despite being adapted to cold climates for a longer period of time, Neanderthals were unable to compete or out-survive Cro-Magnons, who had less time to adapt to the colder climates.
It should also be noted that Neanderthals had similar to larger cranial capacity which strongly indicates that they had brains as big, if not bigger, than ours. And in the case of this discussion, that means they had comparable intelligence too!
So, AGAIN, history proves this theory wrong. And it has been proven wrong so many times by so many scientists working in such disparate fields that one has to wonder if this so much about science as it is about racism.
Because the only time in history have northern civilizations been the most advanced, intelligent, dominant, etc etc, has been in the last 300 or so years when Europe began its age of conquest. Yet now, there is evidence that the dominance of Western Civilizations is eroding as countries like China, India, Iran, Israel, and others considered “Third World” begin to catch up in the aftermath of colonialist/post-colonialist era. (This is especially true when you consider the out-sourcing of labor, as well as our US debt that countries like China own.)
Now, while I’m sure those who disagree will attempt to ad-hominem, create fallacies, and cherry-pick my comments to death with their own cherry-picked data and sources, the reality is that science by and large, over a long period of time has shown this idea connecting cold-climate with intelligence — and particularly Chuck’s assertions about brain-size, cognitive abilities, and visio-spatial skills — to be wrong. And this is backed-up by our own history.
So let me reiterate: THIS THEORY IS DEBUNKED, THIS THEORY IS DEBUNKED. RACISTS AT WORK. USE EXTREME CAUTION! =P
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 10:26:30 Chuck
zek:
i’ll turn to the whole of your argument sometime tomorrow, but let me first point out that you reiterate one important facet of this entire argument: many groups *but* black people have developed independent civilizations to any great degree. many groups *but* blacks have created inventions and processes that have pushed humans towards their current situation.
what is it about the inhabitants of the “mother land” that they weren’t able to develop any meaningful civilization on their own continent?
also, as i’ve said several times, abagond simplifies the hypothesis of HBDers. nobody claims absolutely that the further toward the poles these groups move the higher their IQ. rather, there is a correlation between latitude and IQ. the correlation probably breaks down at some point. just as height is strongly correlated to basketball prowess, at some point height becomes a disadvantage i.e. over 7′ 5″.
at some point much further up north, people who had to dedicate *all* of their resources towards survival weren’t able to focus on other facets of social and political development. when climate became too much of a focus it would be very difficult to develop those brians to apply any of their power to anything but overcoming cold weather. plus, very few people sought to conquer those territories, thus, those ways of life developed in a sort of vacuum.
it was the admixture of migration plus increasingly urban and political lifestyles plus the need for language, ledgering, and writing plus big game hunting and then farming mixed with a relatively temperate environment that existed north of africa that allowed for these things to occur all at once. in short, more temperate zones that reside outside of africa were prime locales for humans to hone their intelligence. migration was the impetus for all of this. africans didn’t migrate.
Now you’re conflating Blacks and Africans. First you say every race except “blacks” have done the things I mentioned, but then you switch them into Africans.
You do realize Africa is a continent that supports over a billion people right? And that even during hominid evolution had an astounding bio-diversity?
Basically… Nubian civilization, Zulu civilization, Egyptian, etc, they are all African, but not all of them would be considered “Black”, since race didn’t exist as a category until about the 13th century, and not a widespread category until the 17th century.
And since your correlation between latitude and IQ isn’t supported historically, it can only mean that it’s a modern phenomenon if it’s true at all. However, basket-ball isn’t a good metaphor since outliers exist in that category, and because you’re talking about proving a scientific theory.
But it is interesting that you backtrack on the climate issue by saying,
So now cold-climates actually inhibit civilization? I’m all for moderation, but you’re only proving my point and disproving your own that IQ correlates positively with IQ in the historical record.
Why is it that out of all the temperate zones, only Africa didn’t develop higher intelligence? Africa has temperate zones — and in fact, pretty much has every climate possible on Earth. Yet, you say they are lacking in IQ but the rest of the world (especially White, Western Civilization) isn’t? This isn’t scientific Chuck, nor is it even logical. You’re making an entire continent into it’s own outlier when there are myriad examples to Africa’s various civilizations, thus proving the intelligence of the various inhabitants, and thus disproving your theory, especially since those climates where those civilizations developed AREN’T cold climates.
I mean, I don’t even need anything EXCEPT the historical record for this discussion.
However, you did bring up a good point at the end. The “the admixture of migration plus increasingly urban and political lifestyles plus the need for language, ledgering, and writing plus big game hunting and then farming mixed with a relatively temperate environment” is the kind of thinking that’ll help you understand the myriad, complex, and often non-biological causes behind the development of human society, including race.
Feel free to comment further on my thoughts, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to answer them any better than I already have. The evidence has been presented to you a bunch of times by various commenters and Abagond. Nobody is trying to convince you, but nobody is going to be convinced by you either.
***Corrections on my comment. It should say, “but then you switch them into Africans when they migrate.”
And, “disproving your own that IQ correlates positively with cold-climates in the historical record.”
Plus, I think my html-tags messed up. Sorry!
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 12:24:13 Mira
Actually, I’ve never heard of “snow makes you smarter” argument… Probably because I live among white people in a place with continental climate. 😀
Also, I don’t buy “average IQ in Africa is 70”. There must be something wrong about it. I believe 70 is almost mental retardation. (I mean, nothing against people with low IQ, they also have a lot to give to the world… But there’s NO WAY average IQ of any group can be within marks of mental retardation). I mean, isn’t this, like the obvious proof something’s wrong with the IQ tests?
Also, Abagond:
Mankind arose in Africa. The north did have Neanderthals and Homo erectus.
I said and I’ll repeat again: Homo erectus appeared in Africa! It was a very important “step” (so to speak) in human evolution, and Homo erectus originated in Africa!
As for Neanderthals, we are not sure. There are people who see them as separate species (Homo Neanderthalenis) that fist appeared in Europe. However, there are experts who see them as a branch of Homo Sapiens (Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis, as the opposite of our species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens)… And first (Archaic) Homo sapiens originate in- guess where?- Africa.
You should also look up the definition of civilization. It doesn’t mean empire.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 13:31:21 Ella
My old psychology lecturer demonstrated that the IQ test can be ‘beat’ if you practise enough. She practised so many times she scored an IQ over 200. IQ tests are supposed to be reliable, but if one can practise them to get a higher and higher IQ, are they really reliable?
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 13:32:45 dav
One of the fallacies that are repeated here and on other blogs is that race didn’t existed until the 17th century.That’s like saying people could fly because Newton hadn’t discovered gravity. It was only beginning with the 17th century that the development of European exploration and reliable world-wide communication network combined with the development of a systematic scientific approach allowed for the level of contact to be elevate enough for a systemic analysis to be conducted. Race had always existed , it was only then that the necessary concepts and conditions were met for it’s definition as a category. Before that contacts were either in the form of invasions or limited trading relations combined with a lack of scientific approach.
Hey people! Take heed. DON’T FEED THE TROLLS!!!
They’re not here to learn…. they’re here to “win”.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 14:50:28 D
@Chuck
First off, in the argument that evolution has favoured whites it seems that the conclusion that whites are more ‘intelligent’ was drawn first and then attempts were made to explain it scientifically. So the key points here are:
1. Whites are more intelligent because the average IQ score of whites is higher.
2. Whites are more intelligent because they had to live in adverse climate, so they had to develop tools to make their lives easier, so they evolved to be more intelligent. Their climate was just ideal for that.
1. Abagond has already said it, IQ tests are not perfect measure of intelligence. There are a lot of factors that influence the outcome of the test, such as the subject’s health, wealth, mood, interest, stress etc. and factors not related to the subject, like the test pattern, test conductor’s neutrality etc.
2. Several people have already pointed the flaw with the argument. Here’s a wiki link that lists many important inventions. In Palolithic era, apart from spear and flute in Germany and boats in Australia the major inventions/advancements were almost all from Africa including cooking (wasn’t there a beauty expert that said Africans didn’t know how to cook?) and mining. From 10000 to 1000 BC, the list is dominated by India(Indus Valley), China, Egypt and the Middle-East(Mesopotamia). Barely any European name is there. Since 1000 BC Greece and Rome starts to appear on the list alongside China and India. From 800 AD to 1200 AD Middle East dominates the list with occasional mention of China and few mentions of Egypt, India and Europe. From 15th century European countries start to appear again and from 17th century they clearly dominate the list. China, Middle East, Egypt and India disappear from the list.
So if the winter temperature of Europe didn’t make a sudden plunge in the 15th century, the ‘snow makes you smarter’ theory fails. Instead, the data seem to correlate better with the main colonising powers of the world at different times. From the seventh century the colonisation of Africa started. From the 12th century Sultani era(also known as Muslim conquest) started in India and in 15th century Mongols invaded China. By the time non-European countries disappear from the list Europe has established its supremacy over the rest of the world.
It is also important to note the nature of the inventions. Indian inventions included toilet, bathroom, drainage, plastic surgery, cataract surgery, early form of chess etc; the kind directly related to the comfort of living because life was easier and secured by the Himalayan belt. Chinese inventions included trebuchet, gunpowder, compass, suspension bridge, rotary fan, paper, printing press, gun; nearly all-encompassing. Egyptian inventions included metal block printing, fountain pen, astrolabic quadrant, hand cannon, explosive gunpowder etc; with an emphasis of the kind of tools used in architecture. Middle Eastern inventions included various lamps, pharmacy(they’re rich in petroleum) etc and various astronomical, optical and medical instruments/chemicals including planetary analog computer, pinhole camera, magnifying lens and inhalation anaesthetic. European inventions included celestial sphere, catapult, anchor, crossbow, rifle etc.(until 17th century), mostly the kind that is used in navigation, voyages and fighting. So it’s not intelligence that won Europeans the wars, it’s the kind of inventions that happened in Europe. Besides with the colonies they also got the advancement that those colonies made which again helped them to conquer another civilization.
If one is to look at the list of scholars of the past few decades he will find plenty of non-white names in it, many of whom are 85-IQ Middle-Easterners and South Asians and 70-IQ blacks, even after all the poverty, lack of opportunity and discrimination. What does that tell you?
oh, here’s the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_historic_inventions
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 15:43:49 Dr. Vagrant X
Hm, I must have missed your connection, ’cause I didn’t get your message through our ESP network (though, somehow, I was able to read your comment despite not even knowing the concept of language because I’m subhuman. Curiouser and curiouser…). Man, I really wish I knew how to speak and write, this ESP stuff is such a pain…
-Sorry for being a little off-topic, lol.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 16:11:07 KM
All the above by D, and the following:
1. Let me ask how people arrived at the ‘IQs’ of races or countries. They might have conducted IQ tests across ‘white’ and ‘non-white’ nations/peoples. Now, many people in the developing nations are totally uneducated and many are also illiterate. How can their intelligence be measured by IQ tests?? In fact, I hope those in support of the ‘snow makes you smart’ theory remember that IQ itself is very stiffly contested as to whether it is an acceptable ‘measure’ of intelligence. For doing well in the IQ tests, a certain level of literacy/education is a must, besides other things, however much the test may claim to be of a nature that does not require any special study of any subject. And if that is a prerequisite for having ‘IQ’ (and supposedly intelligence), then how is intelligence related to race?
There is much debate as to whether there is at all any single way of defining or measuring intelligence.
2. If you look at the present scenario (i.e. from the 19th or 20th century onwards) i.e from the time when the western colonies started disintegrating, the names in the list of inventors once again included ones from middle east, Asia etc. That also supports “D’s” hypothesis correlating colonialism and the apparent* lack of inventors from Non-white or non-European communities. Especially since the latter part of the 20th century, if you look at some of the most groundbreaking technologies like semiconductors and electronics and communications, you will find that there are several non-whites feature in the list of inventors.
Some of the top corporate companies thrived on technology independently or jointly developed by ‘non-whites’ alongwith whites.
3. You will see that I used the word ‘apparent’ lack of non-whites’ names in the list of inventors in the last century or so..that is because there is enough reason to believe that racial discrimination led to many inventors from non-white communities to be completely disregarded and their works denied due recognition. One such example would be the case of Jagadish Chandra Bose from India who hardly got the kind of attention his peers got for works on radio transmission. Others include scientists like S N Bose (quote from a website: “But, international recognition eluded him. It was late in life, 34 years after his significant discovery, that he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society. In fact, on several occasions, he had to take testimonials from famous physicists like Albert Einstein to convince the authorities of the worth of his work.”), Benjamin Banneker, George Washington Carver, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams etc.
http://www.pslweb.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5115
Surely, had there not been the racial discrimination, it is logical to say that more names of non-whites would have appeared in the list of inventors.
So the very basic assumption that whites are more intelligent than non-whites is wrong and hence there isn’t any point in trying to find out the reasons for something that isn’t even true in the first place….
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 17:03:31 Olufemi
The results of the so-called IQ tests the social scientists keep using for making their conclusions are obscure in the first place. Some are even suspected to be obsolete. Then the methodologies to collect the data have been repeatedly debunked by other scientists as inaccurate, incomplete, manipulated or dodged and plain unscientific. Last but not least, all that has ever been disclosed to the public are “results” in the form of coarse, eye-catching numbers. No detailed descriptions as to how the data was collected, how it was analysed, what the calculation methods were etc.
The fallacy a lot of the followers, who are obviously not scientists, run into is to assume that correlation means causation and that something being different gives any grounds to conclusions whether one is superior to the other. Fallacies which are innate to junk science. Ergo, any declarations within the purely scientific realm are pointless. The question would be, even if all of it is true – so what? Where is the scientific value in that for all mankind?
However, a big issue is that these claims are made by people who are not geneticists. The majority of them are not even experts in any field of natural science. Someone mentioned Stephen Hsu who attempts to merely find evidence for an even stronger correlation between intelligence and genetics than currently known. Although the currently known scientific findings suggest that there is a 15-50% chance that genetics alone influence intelligence, it cannot prove any correlation between intelligence and “race”. Especially in light of the fact that the existence of the genetic/biological concept of “race” is at best controversial within the scientific community, at worst invalid. Any claims of undisputed validity of the concept made by political extremists are irrelevant. As long as there is no proof beyond all scientific doubt, the claims are just what they are – disputed theories.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 17:15:54 Boddler
If cold correlates with mental strength, then why do fire mages have higher DPS than ice mages?
I tried, but since I have never taken an IQ test, I didn’t know any better and learned language.
Because the air mages blew them out of the water!
lol. Gotcha.
on Sun Nov 14th 2010 at 21:25:21 Luara Kinney
LMFAO @ The reindeer picture!
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 00:59:07 Ames
It’s a ridiculous argument. One could use the same logic to say that the cold makes humans burrow up and not want to move–that’s why white people aren’t the best dancers!
People in more temperate climates could live and move more comfortably, therefore were used to moving for recreation, art and dance. It’s genetic! SMH
“It’s a ridiculous argument”
Of course it is. Not to mention that there were many times, along the way, when Europe was seasonably much warmer than is assumed by HBDers.
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/vikings_during_mwp.html
However, even if it were bitter cold, the overall premise doesn’t make sense, because intelligence is not the natural and inevitable result of fighting cold weather (or any other change in climate or terrain).
Think about it. What does one really have to do to fight the cold?
<b<1) Live in a big cave, all together and huddle around a fire, instead of building your own villages or small cities.
2) Rely on hunting of large animals (red meat) more than on developing large-scale agriculture, because of the long winters.
3) Rely heavily on skinning animal to provide warm clothing, rather than focusing on the intricate weaving and the dying of finer textiles.
SO What’s the verdict? You spend most of your time in a dank, and smokey cave, eating red meat, and covering yourself with animal skins. Geez, I wonder what were the cholesterol levels were on these geniuses?
Adaptation to an inhospitable environment does NOT necessitate a jump in the aggregate rate of intelligence. Sometimes, the only difference is that you have to work a LOT harder (not necessarily smarter) to survive.
Sometimes you have to spend so much effort trying to stay alive, that you have little time for things like… oh, I don’t know… Algebra, or Astronomy, Geometry, or Philosophy. You tend to shift societal importance to things like, who’s the best hunter, and who can scrape skins the fastest—or who has managed to keep their teeth, and not die of scurvy or gout, from lack of eating enough vegetables.
Judging from one of the article on that site the Vikings got of Dodge when the going got tough, that is it got to cold to sustain a regular food source. I guess you could say they were smart in that they knew when to leave!
covering yourself with animal skins
It’s too bad they didn’t have road kill back then! It would have been much easier for them.
“I guess you could say they were smart in that they knew when to leave!”
Lol! Oh no! If they were really smart, they would have stayed and eaten ice cubes and seal blubber, and waited for the cold weather to make their brains bigger!
Like the reindeer in the picture?
Yes, exactly like that dopey reindeer!!
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 05:51:39 Chuck
you provided the worst argument i’ve ever read on this topic. you should probably stop trying to make the anti-HBD point because you’re actually making us look good.
you say that those groups that migrated out of africa had to work “harder and not necessarily smarter”. can’t you understand that those two are inextricable from each other. they are a differentiation from the default position that existed in african ancestors. africans worked as they worked – at a static level of intelligence and hard work. they did what they had to do. there was no impetus to “improve” in terms of intelligence b/c they had fully adapted to their environment in the absence of any exogenous large scale force of nature.
groups that exited africa had to work both harder *and* more intelligently to survive. those that survived passed on their “survivor genes” to their descendents. the change of environment led to agriculture and writing and urbanity and philosophy and mathematics, astronomy and physics. none of those existed in africa until non-africans introduced them.
in your arguments you try to pooh-pooh the eugenic properties of novel environments. dealing with more adverse climate conditions, new terrain, and different potential food sources provided that impetus towards eugenic development.
It only seems like that to you, Chuck, because you don’t understand the difference between the concepts of “harder” vs. “smarter.”
The two are NOT inextricably linked, and anyone who is not struggling to prove the unprovable can clearly see that.
Doing something differently under new circumstances may not demand any more intelligence than doing it as you had been under the previous circumstances. In fact, sometimes, the new circumstances even mean that you must begin doing things in a way that is less challenging to your intellect than before.
“NEW” does not always translate to “more INTELLECTUALLY challenging,” sometimes it’s just more physically challenging, sometimes it just means that it takes more time to do things it took less time to do before. You are building a false equivalency.
How much intelligence does it take to sleep in a hole? I mean, scrambling into the caves, where your children roll around in the reek with the dogs, covering yourself with ill-fitting animal skins against the cold. This is no great accomplishment. There were no major contributions from the colder climes of the North. Their tribes emerged late, at the edges of the great mediterranean empires as crude savages, dirty nomads with clumsy and inaccurate weapons. They brought no inventions with them to speak of, no innovations of war, no complex languages, no great cultures equal to those of the Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, or Romans.
It’s quite clear that the cold weather did nothing for them.
“survivor genes”
HAHAHAHAhahahaha!!
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 08:26:29 sam
You sure you have not visited Finland? That sounds a lot like this country. Well, we did not have caves, but we had a whole lotta woods, from here to Pacific actually, so we build houses from logs and worked our arses off just to survive.
Like one scientist wrote in his piece of European History, besides some nomadic tribes roamin in the northern wilderness, the only people who seemed to move in on this area above the natural limits of human life were the finns. They were the only people who tried, with varying success, to grow anything so far up north. And with that hard work we survived, had a few biblical hungers etc. but we survived.
One russian scientist even stated that the finns were the original people who lived along side the continental ice cap during the last ice age! Wow! And therefore we must be the most genius nation in the whole World! 😀
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 09:02:05 zek j evets
@King,
While I can appreciate your HBD-bashing, it seems a bad idea to turn around and suddenly make the same mistake by supposing that just because colder-climate nations weren’t the most advanced civilizations during the early centuries of our history that somehow There were no major contributions from the colder climes of the North. Their tribes emerged late, at the edges of the great mediterranean empires as crude savages, dirty nomads with clumsy and inaccurate weapons.
This to me is a generalization that is as much ethnocentric as Chuck’s own theories. Calling any people “savages” is insulting, and hearkens back to scientific racism in the late 19th/early 20th century, especially Louis Henry Morgan’s attempt to categorize various cultures’ stages of civilization. (Probably one of the most offensive thing I’ve had to read in my anthropology courses.)
In defense of Northern cultures, some of the earliest examples of cave art, sculpture, and group hunting techniques were developed there. And some of the earliest examples of burial practices (which strongly indicate the evidence of religion) were also found among these groups.
This issue isn’t all that black/white, except for the IQ to cold-climate theory. That part is definitely pretty simplistic.
However, in the course of disproving Chuck, you’re making the same mistakes he does.
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 11:48:04 Hathor
Why is it the some folk have to take the high road and others don’t?
I just saw yesterday on a travel show, cave paintings in India that were as old as the European ones, although burial and art have more to do with culture than intelligence. I do believe some hominids buried their dead before they were technically homo sapien.
@ zek
No offense meant to Northerners, because clearly, their time DID come. If you look at the world today, the Northern barbarians have done pretty well for themselves. But their success came (like most peoples in history) from building on the knowledge and accomplishments of other civilization that came before them, not because they were particularly impressive when they first emerged on the world stage.
The original state of the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, and Vikings, makes their eventual ascent all the more surprising and impressive. But it was not cold weather and “bigger brains”that brought the North to their turn at the top, but prolonged contact with the Romans and remnants of other civilization.
In fact, when the focus of history turned to Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, we see it fall into the Dark Ages for centuries before it began to emerged as a new and significant power.
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 14:39:53 Kwamla
This formating needs fixing Abagand
Before I can comment!
Oops, I forgot to address my use of the word “savages.”
I did use that word BECAUSE it is offensive.
It is a word that was coined by the northern barbarians later in their history, and applied exclusively to darker-skinned peoples in less developed lands and cultures. This has often lead White people to believe that their never WERE any “White savages.”
This, of course, was not the case. The problem is that White people have almost never heard that term applied to themselves or to their own forefathers.
However, when I use the word, to describe the northern barbarians, at the edges of the Roman Empire, it does not carry the same connotation because it is not meant to say that the northerners were GENETICALLY inferior. They were just living in areas poor in usable resources and isolated from the main engines of human technology and cumulative knowledge.
That is the difference between my position and Chuck’s. I don’t think that the “savages” are some genetically backward class of human being, Chuck does.
I must admit to finding it difficult to comprehend the extent of the arrogance and ignorance that compels certain people like Chuck to keep on making statements like this:
I say this because someone like Chuck actually believes – from his postings – that he is a fairly “knowledgeable” individual. Probably someone with a high IQ!!!
So I would imagine that he would probably be aware of a common philosophical logic proposition first associated with “Karl Popper” in the “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”. It goes like this…
Supposing we make a number of observations about swans and conclude because of our “existing” knowledge of swans that they all must be white …
Popper said about this:
No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
He showed how it only takes one observation of a “Black swan” to show the invalid and error inducting conclusion: “..All swans are white”
But this is precisely what Chuck has set out to do with his insistence that: “philosophy and mathematics, astronomy and physics. none of those existed in africa until non-africans introduced them.
So For Example…”Robert Temple and the Sirius Mystery”
I have always known about this connection. A West African tribe called the Dogon who believed their ancestors originated from the star system of Sirius. And that civilization on this planet was started by these ET’s.
In 1976 an astronomer – Robert Temple published a book about this Sirius connection. The information was …heavily suppressed and Robert Temple was ridiculed and threated by “unofficial” government sources. Since that time a lot of this information has been corroborated from other sources as he confirms in these interviews.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5bqcs_sirius-mystery-pt-1-robert-temple_tech
Now it may be possible to dismiss or ridicule this “ET” connection but it cannot explain how so called “primitive tribes” in Africa had detailed astronomical knowledge WAY BEFORE any white Europeans or Westerners with their enhanced “survivor genes” and “bigger brains” were able to discover this.
They knew about the existence of star systems such as Sirius A , B and C. None of these are observable without the assistance of astronomical telescope. This knowledge also allowed the astronomer Robert Temple to predict the discover of the two stars “B” and “C” before they were known to the present then astronomical community.
Now this type of information is not difficult to find and research on the Internet. Its also the reason why Karl Popper also concluded:
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Popper
Which is precisely what I see happening here with some of the theories espoused in this thread.
To Kwamla’s point, you might also have a look into the mathematics of African fractal design.
Here’s a TED talk on the subject.
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 17:33:54 Hannu
I’d like to point out that the size of the brain is not as important as the convolution of the brain. Women, in general, have smaller brains that men, but nobody in their right mind is going to say that women are less intelligent than men.
But maybe I should just go outside and take a roll in the snow to increase my intelligence (yes, we already have some). I’ll be right back and post something smarter!
YES!. This is an excellent presentation on the origin of common mathematical fractals present in organisational patterns found exclusively in Africa communities.
Thanks for this King I was unaware of this origin of fractal mathematics connection.
These mathematical shapes existed for God knows how many thousands of years rooted in the structures of African villages before Western mathematicians had even heard of them!!!
Indeed when Western science did discover these patterns, as the researcher says, they initially just dismissed them as “useless and insignificant”.
Probably more arrogance and ignorance again…
@hannu: way to go my countryman! Forst to the sauna and then to the snow! we have both: extreme heat and extreme cold! How this figures in these theories??
Tomorrow, sam, we will conquer the world with our superior intellect and giant pe…um…brains, I said brains! Mu-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
“Hunnu the Barbarian” sounds very good! You can make a movie about your conquests.
Sorry Sam, but “Sam the Barbarian” isn’t quite as convincing.
LOL! Sam can be Samwise Gamgi!
LOL! The hobbit barbarian?
Your half-a**ed!
Make sure you get out of the sauna and into the snow first!
This is the gist of these blacks have never invented anything arguments, isn’t it? When they come across anything complex, they dismiss it as they were not ‘invented’ by whites. It puts a dent in their white superior IQ theories should they have to delve any further. They can carry on with their delusions.
“Barbarian” originally meant people who didn’t speak greek, as defined, unsurprisingly, by Greek. Nothing more, nothing less.
So I suppose Cimmerians didn’t speak greek, by Crom!
@hannu: I think it is time to evoke the acient gods of the finns and shout Perkele Jumalauta, (Percunas God Help literal translation), and roll in the snow few more times before we embark to our supreme northern whiteness conquer of the world! And after we have beaten our back shining red with the vasta/vihta in the sauna, drink few more kuupallista of mead, way we go.
This, of course, is possible because we are superior and white. Actually we are very white since today there was no sun at all, only three hours of rainy grey twilight. And during this time of year we maintain our whiteness because of no sun light at all!
And King, sam is only my christian name, not my true finnish name, whihc shall be revealed only to my fellow finns, whose intellect can devulge such names. Ynjevi. 😀
on Mon Nov 15th 2010 at 22:45:49 Hannu Lipponen
LOL! Perrrrrrrkele! Or perkunas!
Hmm, why don’t we invite some hot black women to add some contrast to the extreme whiteness and paleness of these northern latitudes!
ps. Mulla on muuten synttärit tänään, siksi mä postaan tänne lonkeropäissäni näin paljon. Hehe!
Ynjevi!! You’re right…
I’m afraid that my ancestors were far too warm for me to be able to pronounce it, much less, understand it.
You good Finns must be left unto yourselves, with your impossible language—too full of consonants and diacritical markings 🙂
LOL! Well, to tell the truth, I don’t really get that “Ynjevi” either!
By Ukko, the finnish god of thunder, “Ynjevi” shall not be uttered by mortal tongues! (Excluding Stan Lee, the first and foremost expert of nordic deities)!
I have a confession to make folks. I am really from Mars! Here’s my picture:
Here’s a picture of my hubby Tars Tarkas, four arms and all:
It’s a cold as f*ck here! Hence the large brains. By the way, my husband is 10,00 years old and he still dresses the same as when I met him 8,000 years ago. What’s up with that?
Ha! Ever thought why Dejah Thoris has tits, even though she hatches eggs?
Barsoom rules!
(ps. I like the direction this conversation is taking…)
The bosom of Mars nurtures only the coldest of warriors…
…from Earth! White man didn’t save just Earth, he had to save Mars as well with his superior intellect and cold reasoning, brrrr….
ps. Tars Tarkas is the coolest mofo of sci-fi EVER!
“I have a confession to make folks. I am really from Mars!”
Excellent, then perhaps you speak Finnish. Or the even more indiscernible language of HBD. (see Chuck for lessons)
Our green brothers!
(Hmmm… suppose they have these really FINE green sistahs as well…I wonder what they could do with those four arms…)
just kidding, KIDDING!
ps. I design humor postcards for living, hence my lame attempts at humor…
I’ll say! Mines got four!
Tars Tarkas is the coolest mofo of sci-fi EVER
He leaves the toilet seat up which pi**es me off, otherwise he’s not that bad a husband.
Excellent, then perhaps you speak Finnish.
Nope. Martian is across between Italian and Conkinese.
As for the HDBers, they remind me of these folk:
http://www.erblist.com/abg/whitemen.html
Not very nice folk!
LOL-LOL-LOL!
Never bothered to check ANY of the “facts” of those HDBers, because I had my BS-meter calibrated just last week!
Besides, an unknown government source has affirmed me that HDBers are not from Mars but from URanus!
What the hell is Conkinese? Inquisitive minds must know!
on Tue Nov 16th 2010 at 03:20:19 Uncle Milton
To King:
It’s a looser argument. Most people forget that evolution requires millions of years to make significant changes to any species..
Well first, one should probably define evolutionary changes in terms of generations and not years… bacteria for example reproduce at a much faster rate than humans. One can induce marked changes in a strain of bacteria in less than a year.
As an example of Phenotypic change in humans is that pale skinned white people basically didn’t exist until around 5,500 years ago. The adaption was a response to dietary change (forced by population pressures..) going from a diet heavy in fish and meat to more grains. Fish and meat supplied vitamin D (a deficiency of vitamin leads to a marked rise in miscarriages…. and rickets which hinders formation of a pelvis large enough to give birth) so that when the Northern diet changed the lighter skinned people survived and the darker skinned (probably light Southern Italians..) effectively did not pass on their genes.
(Where some people still retain darker skin, such as with the Inuit in the Arctic, the people obtain significant amounts of Vitamin D from eating fish and sea mammal blubber…)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1210056/White-Europeans-evolved-5-500-years-ago-food-habits-changed.html
To Eurasian Sensation and zek j evets:
The HBD argument (basically that’s what the cold weather argument is…note I am not endorsing it) is that a combination of cold weather and a dense population are required for increased intelligence. (Dense enough to move away from hunting and gathering…)
HBD certainly has it’s racist proponents and skirts very closely to what could be called racist science but they generally acknowledge that some of the smartest groups of people in the world are not white. Parsis and Brahmins in India and the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese in Northeast Asia rank higher in average intelligence to HBDers than Gentile whites.
Good point. And a very interesting article, thanks. I’ll keep that theory under advisement.
“HBD certainly has it’s racist proponents and skirts very closely to what could be called racist science but they generally acknowledge that some of the smartest groups of people in the world are not white”
White supremacy is not required for racism to exist.
True….albeit HBDers generally put whites near the top of the heap. Just not the very top.
As an example of Phenotypic change in humans is that pale skinned white people basically didn’t exist until around 5,500 years ago.
I should clarify that this is hypothesized but probably would require more evidence.
Yes, that is how i understood it. Evolution is a pretty big word, that covers a lot of ideas. I’d have to think about wether or not I believe this is “evolution” or not.
I mean, as you get older, your body goes through some dramatic changes. Is that evolution?
If you exercise and lift weights religiously, you will look very different than humans who do not. Is that evolution?
If you don’t get certain vitamins or minerals, or direct sunlight, this will also change your appearance. Is that evolution?
Not saying it is or isn’t, just thinking that physiological change, even across a large group may or may not be seen as an evolutionary change, per se.
There are some weird ideas being bounced around in this thread. I didn’t read every single post so I may be repeating something that was already said, but I just want to add my thoughts on the cold climate hypothesis.
This idea is largely misunderstood. That’s why whenever this concept is brought up, we get someone asking the question, “Why aren’t Inuit the smartest people on earth?” or some other variation of that.
Cold climates do not create intelligence. Cold climate is simply a selective pressure. If you had a group of 1000 people and they moved up north and the harsh weather winnowed away most of the group, leaving only the smartest alive to propagate, they aren’t going to be any smarter than they already were. Sure the average intelligence of the group will be higher, because those on the lower end don’t exist anymore to bring down the mean, but they aren’t going to turn into super geniuses.
The brain is a complex organ and there are numerous genes that affect the brain’s structure. We don’t even know all the genes that are involved in brain function. Some may increase brain size. Some may increase the number of neural connections. Some may affect glucose metabolism. They all work in tandem to allow us the ability to move, think and operate. And unless a mutation or a recombination of genes occurs that changes brain function, then the brain stays the same.
It’s most likely that mutations that changed the human brain came from areas where there were large populations. That’s because the increase in numbers creates more opportunities for new mutations. In early human prehistory, those that lived in cold climates had sparse populations. Warm climates with abundant food were the most likely regions for increases in intelligence.
Mesopotamia, the Nile Valley, the Indus Valley and other similar areas would be statistically the most favorable areas for new mutations. That doesn’t mean that a mutation couldn’t originate from a northern population. It’s just less likely. So when some point out that Egypt and Babylon were advanced civilizations that existed in warm climates, it’s really a silly point. Of course they were. But does that mean they had high average intelligence? That’s really the question that should be asked. What were the pressures that would remove deleterious gene combinations from the gene pool of those populations?
That’s where the cold climate hypothesis comes in. It simply suggests that a group moved into colder areas with individuals that already possessed higher intelligence and the harsh climate killed off those not suited for a lifestyle that required long term planning and higher visual-spatial skills. It just about changing averages.
I am curious. As you are a person of Thai ancestry who is a believer in HBD ideas, how does the average IQ of Thailand (91) sit with you?
Does it not rankle you at all that according to HBD theory, your people are genetically below par in the IQ department?
And does it not strike you as odd that despite their genetic closeness to the Chinese, Thais are about 10 IQ points below the Chinese?
I ask because it kinda strikes me as odd that you believe what you believe.
@ Sagat
All things being equal ANY existential crisis achieves the same result, meaning that cold temps are no more helpful to winnowing populations than extremely warm and arid ones.
Secondly, it is incorrect to assume that those who survive in crisis always have higher I.Q.s. It may turn out to be those with better blood circulation, or those who can haul more wood, or hunt more meat. Because intelligence (as much as we idolize it) is not always the primary factor in survival.
Years ago I used to be bothered by the idea that Thais had a lower IQ than northern Asians. But the facts are the facts and I dealt with it. The IQ numbers come from the Thai government themselves and not some outside group, so it’s not as if I could point the finger at others.
Even though Thais don’t have the highest IQ, I still love Thai people and have never been ashamed of being Thai(though I consider myself American first and foremost). My brother isn’t so bright, but never in my life has his intelligence been a factor in my feelings for him. This is the way I feel about most everybody. I speak about HBD as a matter of fact. Not because I have a beef with others or am looking to tear somebody down. It’s not about what I want to believe, but what I see as being true.
As to your question about the discrepancies in IQ between Thais and Chinese, I don’t find it odd at all. The difference is about the same as between Greeks and Germans. It is what it is.
I was only speaking in regards to the cold climate hypothesis. Of course cold weather is not the only selective pressure on a population and higher intelligence is not the only adaptation to every pressure. The traits that get passed on are those that are beneficial for survival. It may be higher intelligence or any other trait. Maybe a freak mutation could’ve made humans furry and they’d survive the cold that way. Evolution is random.
It’s not biological evolution which is what the topic is about…biological evolution requires reproduction.
Certainly the word evolve has other uses in English.
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Evolution
“The change in genetic composition of a population over successive generations, which may be caused by natural selection, inbreeding, hybridization, or mutation.”
Wikipedia’s definition (since I am lazy..)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
“Evolution (also known as biological, genetic or organic evolution) is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations. This change results from interactions between processes that introduce variation into a population, and other processes that remove it. As a result, variants with particular traits become more, or less, common. A trait is a particular characteristic—anatomical, biochemical or behavioural—that is the result of gene–environment interaction.”
on Tue Nov 16th 2010 at 09:14:40 sam
@hannu: arvasin!! 😀
@herneith: 😀
king: 😀
Seriously, we had to take IQ tests in the army (mandatory national service) and since nobody wanted stay longer than they had to, everybody tried to fix the results as low as possible without getting caught in the act. Higher the score, more surely you ended up in the officers training and three more months service. So…
Well, lets just say that the officer in charge the tests was not amused by the results and we got some extra activities out doors as a result. But he told us that now we had to live with the results for the rest of our lives, so I assume somewhere in some archive there are number of IQ tests that prove that at least one group on finnish conscripts were a amazingly dumb :-D.
I also know a person, who now runs his own hi tech company and is internationally recognized computer security expert, and he never graduated from high school. He was also sent to some tests because his poor performance at school and the IQ tests revealed lower than average intellect. He was also absent from school so much that the authorities were considering to send him to the “special” school for “special” children. 😀
Well, since he was in trouble all the time, they gave him his papers and kicked him out and the principal even told him, that in twenty years he’ll be either dead or in nut house. Thirty years later he is much more richer and successfull than any of his old school mates or the principal. The reason: he was more interested in computers than school as a kid and could not care less about the school or IQ tests. Lesson here is: don’t read too much on these tests :-D.
When ever somebody is trying to construct some kind of value system based on race or qualities based on race, that is racism. You can hide behind some pseudo science such as HBD, but in the end of the day that is what you are: a racist. The only purpose of these things is to construct some kind of racial system, this race is more intelligent than this, and for what? That is the real question.
Tha nazis had their own theories on it, but nobody takes them too seriously today. After all the real aryans are iranians and some north western indians, pakistanis etc., not some six two tall blonde fancy looking male models from Klaufenberg Bavaria. This HBD is same kind of horse manure.
on Tue Nov 16th 2010 at 11:00:36 Chuck
Africa and its warm and arid climate were the default position. As Sagat said, the cold weather hypothesis is wildly misunderstood. The most important impetus was moving out of Africa. Everything else cascaded from that.
Africans had no impetus for their brains to evolve as they had their environment “figured out”. Call this the “Mario Bros. Theory of Human Evolution” if you like. They didn’t, or rather their genes didn’t, need to develop new strategies in order to get by.
“I was only speaking in regards to the cold climate hypothesis. Of course cold weather is not the only selective pressure on a population and higher intelligence is not the only adaptation to every pressure. The traits that get passed on are those that are beneficial for survival. It may be higher intelligence or any other trait.”
Exactly. It is important not to conflate survival to intelligence because in many scenarios dumb people who have other adaptive advantages do survive. THEREFORE, The assumption that the applied selective pressures of cold temperature always result in heightened INTELLIGENCE, is cherry picking the particular survival trait that you desire. It may be as simply as strong dumb people who are hairier.
Africans had no impetus for their brains to evolve as they had their environment “figured out”.
So then, because your forefathers live on a large continent, that means that they have FIGURED OUT the entire environment before you were born?
1) They figured out the massive desserts,
2) They figured out the teeming population of large predators, that were still a challenge thousands of years later.
3) They figured out all the agricultural challenges
4) They figured out jungle survival
5) Mountain Survival
6) Disease control and treatment
7) Typhoons, volcanoes, floods, wildfires
Yes, NONE of these things exerted the slightest pressure that forced Africans to evolve. Since they were born on the African continent, they were naturally immune to all of those challenges, because Africans do not grow more intelligent by solving African problems. -they were already “figured out.”
Only people who moved into a colder climate with far fewer large predators, and with less varied climate regions were challenged to evolve.
Seriously, my concern is not with these HBD ‘theories’, per se. After all opinions are like a**holes, everyone’s got one. My concerns is what these HBD adherents, propose to do with these theories. This sounds like Eugenics to me. For example, how would it effect public policy etc? As history shows, such views can lead to genocide.
I’m more or the mind that false theories should be challenged at their source of false assumption. Without an operational theory upon which to base their biases, it becomes more difficult to take ANY meaningful action.
People like Chuck and Sailer must be kept at the lunatic fringe, where they belong. Of course, they will always have some deluded adherents, but so long as their theories are exposed to the obvious and simple truth, they will not get far with them.
As for the intent of the HBDers, it doesn’t really matter. The fact is that no matter what they intend… their false science will result in further racial prejudice and unfair stereotypes, rationalizations, and categorization.
“I also know a person, who now runs his own hi tech company and is internationally recognized computer security expert, and he never graduated from high school. He was also sent to some tests because his poor performance at school and the IQ tests revealed lower than average intellect. He was also absent from school so much that the authorities were considering to send him to the “special” school for “special” children.”
Great points, Sam! …or whatever your real name is 🙂 Yrvilindikin!??
Yeah, I don’t get that people don’t seem to understand how complex and idea intelligence is.
Dictionary.com defines prejudice as follows:
“The capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.”
But consider that it doesn’t mention:
1) How long it takes you to grasp any given truth – which is often seen as a major part of being smart.
2) The kind of concepts that you are most adept at comprehending, because most people specialize in this regard.
3) The overall variety and scope of diversity of concepts that you comprehend.
4) The effective application of knowledge, once acquired.
5) The ability to communicate concepts to others in a way that they can most easily understand them.
All of these things are also applicable to our valuation of overall intelligence, but ALL of them are certainly not always tested for.
Add to that the fact that tenacity and self-motivation is a very BIG part of applied intelligence. If a person is good at solving Rubik’s Cubes and playing Three-Dimensional Chess, but is a lazy bones, who prefers to live in his mother’s basement, jobless, eating Pop Tarts and Top Ramen, is that really an “intelligent person?” And if so, by who’s standards?
The basic point is that intelligence is notoriously difficult to quantify. It’s an extremely complicated idea, that is near impossible to assess based on any given test.
on Tue Nov 16th 2010 at 17:49:40 Blanc2
Interesting post. I had never heard any of this. IQ measures something. In my experience what it measures doesn’t seem to have much to do with common sense or the kind of “human” skills that are a necessary part of any successful society. For example, I’ve been involved at various times, in a busines context, with a few MENSA members. In know this because they seem to always want to remind you that they are MENSA members. Mostly I’ve found them to be misanthropic at least, and often obessissve to the point of being sociopathic — certainly not the kind of individuals, in general, that one wants to have to rely on in a social or family setting.
what do you think people could possibly do with belief in HBD in this democracy with this much white guilt roaming around?
as for me (and I think Sailer), i just want to eradicate the egalitarian goals and ideals that we the people use to gauge black achievement. the achievement gap is *partly* a function of lower IQ. throwing money after educational achievement for blacks continues to prove ineffective.
“the achievement gap is *partly* a function of lower IQ. throwing money after educational achievement for blacks continues to prove ineffective.”
So, there’s your answer, Hernieth:
Stop wasting so much money on trying to educate Black people, because it’s just throwing money down the drain.
Yeah, it is expected to hear something like that from somebody who is “not a racist”.
So I thought, I just wanted to clarify their operational goals instead of just them pontificating on their beliefs.
what do you think people could possibly do with belief in HBD in this democracy with this much white guilt roaming around
What white guilt? There isn’t much. Those whites, who are introspective, when it comes to racism, are few and far between. I can count on my fingers those that I have come across. What do you propose they do with these inferior IQ people in regards to public policy?
Just as I thought! A racist hiding under the cloak of pseudo-science!
certainly not the kind of individuals, in general, that one wants to have to rely on in a social or family setting.
on Tue Nov 16th 2010 at 19:12:31 theobsidianfiles
Hang on, Herneith.
Is it “racist” to simply disagree with the way taxpayer monies are being spent wrt education? I mean, let’s say for the sake of argument that Black folk are indeed, on average, less intelligent than Whites or Asians – should we then continue to spend large amounts of taxpayer money on inner city schools, knowing that the majority of the kids there are not able to achieve parity with their White and Asian peers?
What are we to say of the fact that, as the late John Ogbu noted, even the children of the solidly Black middle and upper middle classes, tend to score lower on tests than do lower class and poorer Whites and Asians? do we just ignore his findings and accuse anyone who suggests cognitive differences between the races a “racist” a priori?
See, this is where folks on the Left – and from what I’ve been gathering based on your comments here and your blog, I would say you’re definitely on that side of the political aisle – has to come to grips with its own biases. I don’t think it does the HBD debate any good for the Left not to honestly grapple with these questions, and indeed may only serve to ngin up support for the HBD side.
Now, I agree with you, when you want to know what point the HBDers are trying to make; like you, I too want to know and explore the actual public policy changes they would support and want to see passed. I agree with you that Eugenics, which is what the HBDers most definitely support, would fail, as it has always failed. In every nation its been tried, including Singapore, it has failed miserably – and, as I’ve noted before on another thread here at Abagond’s, the HBDers either never gave much thought to, or they have deliberately refused to take up how they intend to increase the number of Smart White People, and in order to do that, you have to convince White Women with Options, to forego attending prestigious unis, have high prestige and high paying careers, not live in places like NYC, and agree to have babies, at say 21 or so, with Jeremey the STEM Guy. Uh, good luck with that, because so long as we live in a free society, there is no way in hell you’re going to be able to make such an option attractive to many young ladies.
“Is it “racist” to simply disagree with the way taxpayer monies are being spent wrt education? I mean, let’s say for the sake of argument that Black folk are indeed, on average, less intelligent than Whites or Asians – should we then continue to spend large amounts of taxpayer money on inner city schools, knowing that…”
You see, Hernieth, this is what I was trying to tell you above. As long as these dullards think that they have some kind of workable “scientific” theory… no matter how many times it has been utterly disproved above, in this very thread… there will always be people who argue about the allocation of resources, based on those spurious arguments.
Black Americans are not even 13% of the U.S. population. Even at that, they are dreadfully underrepresented in the Advanced Academy based on their population size.
How much tax money do you think is really “wasted” on Black people’s education, as a percentage of the total annual education budget? Not very much, comparatively, I assure you.
It’s not really about “wasting money,” the money spent on Black education would be a minor earmark tagged onto the back end of an insignificant farm bill. The money is insignificant when compared to the whole. The real problem is hate.
on Tue Nov 16th 2010 at 19:41:13 Dr. Vagrant X
The real problem is hate.
Cosigned.
on Tue Nov 16th 2010 at 21:05:50 zek j evets
I have to agree with you King. The money being spent on public education in this country is paltry compared to Social Security, Defense, and paying interest on the national debt. (By the way, shout out to my man Dubya for adding some extra billions to it for us!)
So even if Chuck and/or Obsidian want to say that using taxpayer money to fund education for Black people in America is a waste, then what about the wasted money trying to stabilize countries like Iraq and Afghanistan with our military? Wouldn’t that be a waste of money on people who (for the sake of argument) are less intelligent because of their race?
See you can tell how racist these views really are by the lack of consistency in their views when it comes to dealing with reality. Sure, less money to Black kids in school in America, but keep the cash-flow going for bombs blowing up Brown kids in the Middle East. While these aren’t necessarily the views of Chuck or Obsidian, that questions like these aren’t discussed in tandem with their beliefs is very telling to me.
When it comes to public policy, HBD’s scientific racism is going to fail as much as slavery (and attempts to justify it) failed. Pardon the dramatics, but would anyone expect members of any race to accept decisions influenced by racism? (No matter how “scientific” its conclusions are based on.) We’d have another civil war. No doubt.
Also, this issue is not a fight between Left or Right. Indeed, Conservatives condemn HBDers like Steve Sailer as much as the Left does. It’s sad that American politics always comes down to a choice between Right or Left, because people’s political views are so much more complex than that. But when it comes to race, I’d like to see more bi-partisanship and less showmanship by Democrats or Republicans (especially the Republicans these days, oy vey) trying to win talking-points with talking-heads full of empty words.
I agree with King
I understand the need to grant HBD its premise for the sake of argument and get a sense of where they want to go in terms of public policy and the real world applications of HBD. However, Im having a hard time granting that premise because the foundation for it is faulty to begin with.
Its a huge leap to give the benefit of the doubt to a concept as tenacious as HBD.
Also, I have another question for so-called HBDers.
How do you guys reconcile the cold-climate hypothesis with alternative evolutionary hypotheses such as the Multiple Regional Hypotheses(another evolutionary theory I have heard HBDers through around)?
To Zek:
I have to agree with you King. The money being spent on public education in this country is paltry compared to Social Security, Defense, and paying interest on the national debt.
School districts had total expenditures of approximately $562.3 billion in 2006–07, including about $476.8 billion in current expenditures for public elementary and secondary education. Of the remaining expenditures, $62.9 billion was spent on capital outlay, $14.7 billion on interest payments on debt, and $7.8 billion on other programs (programs such as community services and adult education, which are not a part of public elementary and secondary education).
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66
$562 billion per year is not paltry (and is $100 billion less than US defense expenditures at a time when the US is fighting two wars…) Adjusted for inflation, US defense expenditures in (pre wars) 2000 were $100 billion less than the money for public education spent at the primary and secondary levels. (This does not cover college or trade schools…)
How that money is being spent and if it it being spent properly (on people of any race..) is another debate.
Notice that the problem is not wasting money on educating ALL “dumb people” in America, of every race. They don’t want to weed out ALL of the academically challenged people—they want to focus instead on a single race. Black people.
Ask yourself why no other race was mentioned?
This is the pathology of HBD—It’s the same old Klan of Ku Kluxers, this time pulling their hoods over their lab coats. All of this rubbish science about how cold weather is better for evolution than hot/dry weather etc. is just a facade. And who are the true targets of all of this? who are the wastrels? Who are the phantom menace?
That is what HBD really is.
aw, little girl is too cute
No she’s not, she’s a tax burden!!!
Zek,
Well, I’m glad you didn’t lump me in with those who are actually arguing the case I questioned Hereneith about; I wasn’t in agreement with it, just asking her some probing questions.
See, I don’t think its necessarily “racist” to ask whether public monies are being used in a responsible fashion wrt the public education system, particularly in inner city school areas where Black folks are the majority. Nor do I think it necessarily fair to interject the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan into said conversation. I think both issues can stand or fall on their own merits or the lack thereof; emotional appeals one to another aren’t necessary, and plays right into the hands of those who are fervent HBDers.
My position on the matter is simple: so what if Black folks, in aggregate, are less intelligent than Whites? Now what – do we deny them basic civil liberties? Do we circumvent the Constitution under the grounds that Blacks are more prone toward violence and criminal behavior? Let’s say we do away with Affirmative Action once and for all – on what grounds are we to assume that high quality, individual Blacks would indeed be given a fair shake?
And indeed, as I think it was King rightly noted above, what are we to do with the millions of Dumb White People – or, are they simply not as bad a concern as putatively Dumb Black ones? And then there’s the elephant in the middle of the room – how do we increase the number of Smart White People – a measure that would require somehow getting White Women with Options, to not only forego prestigious lifestyles and educations, but to mate at early ages (early 20s at least) with Jeremy the STEM Guy. Please notice how the HBDers never seem to get around to this when they speak of “Eugenics”.
See, this is where I want to engage the HBDers – I’m willing to grant them carte blanche on their theories, even concedet that they have some good points (like the fact that inner cities spend ridiculous amounts of money per pupil in the public schools with precious little to show for it) – but I want to get at them on the public policy level. Because, in engaging them in such a conversation, it reveals that they really do want to use HBD to change or otherwise influence public policy, and in exactly what way. I want to show everyone just how exactly UN-American the HBDers truly are; because at their core, they do not uphold American ideals or beliefs. They indeed, believe in Monarchy, instead of a divine rule of kings, theirs is the “Scientific” rule of the Cognitive Elites.
Those who’ve known me for some time will know well my views on HBD, and more importantly my views on those who are its biggest promulgators. I give them no quarter.
No King, not even close!
See, she’s a tax burden with low IQ who’s unattractive and has no hope of getting a White man so she better stop complaining and man-up like Black men because her hair needs a relaxer like Liberals need to stop whining about social services and more about the terrorists taking over Amurka through that Mosque pretending to be a cultural center that the little girl was going on a field-trip to until protesters thought her scarf was a burqa and told her to go back to Africa/The Middle East because illegal immigrants are taking our jobs for $5.45 an hour picking fruit that the little girl would eat for lunch, except her family ran out of food-stamps in the recession/job-less recovery and we don’t need to spend more money on lazy people in high-crime inner-city neighborhoods when obviously Steve Sailer should be president and give Black people moral guidance from his White marble peak of Whiteness where the little girl could look up at him and say, “Mommy, why is that White man on the roof again?”
And the mom would say, “Because he’s crazy baby. Now eat your vegetables.”
At least, that’s what I get when I read through some of the comments here ; )
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 00:14:53 Sagat
I think some of you try to divert from having an honest discussion about human differences when you throw out accusations of racism. The cry of “racism!” is really a shaming tactic meant to silence debate. It really only works on those that feel ashamed of their beliefs. For me, at least, it amounts to calling someone a big meanie.
I also think the assertions that human biological differences is somehow a pseudo-science are funny. What really is a pseudo-science is blank slatism. The ideas of blank slaters only work if you assume that somehow human beings are immune from basic rules of biology. People like Jared Diamond peddle junk science and because of ideological reasons, some people eat it up. Gun Germs and Steel has some good ideas but the man lays out his politicized motivations for the book in the first chapter. He even states plainly that he believes Papuans are smarter than Europeans. If he said the opposite, most of you would dismiss his writings outright.
I see this claim made a lot. “You all just hate Black people!” Some do. That’s no fault of science. That some would use information about human differences to belittle Blacks doesn’t make the information false. I’ll be honest and say that probably a good portion of those that discuss human differences have at least some racial animosity towards Blacks, but that doesn’t mean everyone does and as I said, that doesn’t make the facts any less true.
There are human differences. Since we’re not all clones, it’s to be expected that populations vary in frequency of traits. It’s statistically impossible that all groups around the world are exactly the same in every way. Even from town to town, averages will vary. Take 100 people and then tell them to split into two random groups and you’ll find the averages for height, weight, intelligence and various other qualities will not be equal between the two groups. There always has and there will always be variation within groups and between groups. This is not a shocking or crazy idea. It’s basic science.
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 00:15:06 King
zek… you’re bringin’ me down, man.
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 00:31:33 theobsidianfiles
Hi Sagat,
Alright then, I’m willing to engage you in an honest discussion and debate about the *public policy* implications of HBD. Shall we begin?
If you don’t mind, please layout what you, and/or those on the HBD side, would like to see changed along public policy lines, as a direct result of HBD?
You have the floor…
“My position on the matter is simple: so what if Black folks, in aggregate, are less intelligent than Whites? Now what – do we deny them basic civil liberties? Do we circumvent the Constitution under the grounds that Blacks are more prone toward violence and criminal behavior?”
Again, that’s a big concession to make when ALL of the evidence is pointing in the exact opposite direction.
Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are based on the ideas that all men were created equal. If you accept that Some humans were born as intellectual inferiors, then why not amend the Constitution? Your “rights” are supposed upon your equal standing with all other men. When you are willing to concede that equality, then prepare yourself to surrender your “rights” as well.
But, as I said… why even consider that when it’s OBVIOUS that HBD is for dummies.
I actually started writing a post about that on my blog. It should be up tomorrow. Please check back then and we’ll have a discussion about it. Your questions about public polices were actually the catalyst for me taking it up, so I want to discuss it with you.
We can talk about it more here too, if you feel this is a more neutral ground. I just cracked open a bottle, so I’ll be off the rest of the night. See ya then.
Well obsidian, discuss if you will, but everywhere that I look HBD is in an almost constant state of being disproved.
http://www.businessinsider.com/gladwell-steven-pinker-got-his-data-from-a-racist-2009-11
But by all means, have at it.
With all due respect, I find your approach to be somewhat counterproductive, although I certainly understand where its coming from. Bugt you have to do a better job of reigning in your emotions here.
Autistic people, for example, clearly are not “equal” to people who aren’t so; but they suffer no reductions in their basic rights as American citizens. We can apply the same reasoning here to the HBD debate/question. Even if it could be proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Blacks on average were less intelligent than Whites or Asians, it still wouldn’t change the fact that Blacks are American citizens, and as such must be accorded the same rights and freedoms as their putatively cognitive betters. The HBDers want to change public policy, much of which would really hinge on changing the fundaments of our society and the ideals on which it is based.
Btw, have you ever read any of Pinker’s work, and/or seen him speak/give interviews? I have, and have found him quite interesting.
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 04:05:29 chic noir
obsidian Autistic people, for example, clearly are not “equal” to people who aren’t so;
Yup, we are superior.
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 10:08:51 sam
@ sagat: I find it extremely funny, as a white northern heterosexual male, that you are saying this:
“I think some of you try to divert from having an honest discussion about human differences when you throw out accusations of racism. The cry of “racism!” is really a shaming tactic meant to silence debate. It really only works on those that feel ashamed of their beliefs.”
I have no idea how high your score in IQ tests was, I never took one after the army ones which we blew, but somehow it does not give too bright impression of you when you complain that nasty derailers are shouting RACISM when you just want to discuss about racial differences. See, sagat, that is racisist. 😀
Yeap. If and when you have an idea that humanbeings are divided into different spieces, races, you are a racist. Because, from the biological point of view, there is only one human spieces in this world. Shockin, isn’t it? But alas, it is true. You and the black guy (with lover IQ than what you have :-D) are more similar than anything else in this planet.
All these different races are not biological. You have practically similar biology in your body as the most scary lookin aborginal you can find. I know, it can really ruin your day to realize this, but hey, I did not create this humanbeing. Blame God! Why he did so lowsy job that he made us one? I have no idea, but it really spoils all this race jibberish for real. From the science point of view that is. 😀
I find it ridicilous that here we have guys, educated I guess, who are trying to find something that would explain their racism for the better. I prefer good ole KKK style racists who just say “I hate everybody” and don’t make any excuses at all. At least they are honest.
Guys who try to find “scientific proof” for their racist beliefs are sorry bunch of whiners who are too scared to say who they are and try to find a pacifier for their nagging thoughts. At least thats what I think, but hey, I am way below the average in the IQ tests so I might be wrong here! 😀
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 10:53:38 Kwamla
@King and theobsidianfiles
I find it amazing you guys don’t seem to pick up on how united you both are in your MAIN view points !!!:
theobsidianfiles
Even if it could be proven, beyond a shadow of a doubt that Blacks on average were less intelligent than Whites or Asians, it still wouldn’t change the fact that Blacks are American citizens, and as such must be accorded the same rights and freedoms as their putatively cognitive betters.
Could it be any more obvious?
As I’ve said before. Both approaches each of you take towards challenging the HBDers are valid. And neither approach needs to invalidate the others. From my perspective they are actually complimentary.
I don’t read any of these HBDers arguing for your main view points.
A common indication as SAM points out that they are arguing from a less than egalitarian point of view.
So far example SAGAT will make a statement like:
Take 100 people and then tell them to split into two random groups and you’ll find the averages for height, weight, intelligence and various other qualities will not be equal between the two groups. There always has and there will always be variation within groups and between groups. This is not a shocking or crazy idea. It’s basic science.
Of course its “…basic science” we all know and agree that “intelligence” can be measured in the same non-problematic way as height and weight.
See and I haven’t even called this a mean argument!!!
If and when you have an idea that humanbeings are divided into different spieces, races, you are a racist. Because, from the biological point of view, there is only one human spieces in this world.
Species and race are not the same thing. If that’s the basis for your argument then you’ve failed. You can call me a racist for acknowledging that race exists. Doesn’t bother me. Practically everyone in the world knows there’s different races. Since this thread is about race, then it must be a racist too, huh?
…as a white northern heterosexual male
What’s this? Did you label yourself by race? Racist. 🙂
Kwamla says:
Yes, I’m not an egalitarian. It’s no secret.
Ok. I should’ve used the word IQ. Since the definition of intelligence seems to be subjective and cannot be agreed upon, of course we can’t measure it in any way that would satisfy the conflicting views of what intelligence actually is. It’s much like the idea of beauty. Intelligence is in the eye of the beholder.
@ Kwamla,
My statement:
“Both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution are based on the ideas that all men were created equal. If you accept that Some humans were born as intellectual inferiors, then why not amend the Constitution?
Was, in actually, in response to obsidian’s statements above along the same vein.
I really don’t object to his getting to the root of the policy goals of HBD, I just wish he could do it without blanket acceptance of their claims. The problem seems to be (and O. can correct me if I’m wrong) that he has read or listened to a lot of HBD stuff himself, and has not the wherewithal to refute it. He doesn’t understand WHY it is wrong, and because of his own inability to challenge their viewpoint, he retreats into Chamberlainesque acceptance and negotiation.
Obsidian himself (as I read him) is a Black HBD believer who now hopes that the U.S. Constitution will still protect his inferiority (or that of his race) from the consequences to his beliefs.
“Species and race are not the same thing. If that’s the basis for your argument then you’ve failed. You can call me a racist for acknowledging that race exists.”
What then is the biological definition of race?
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 17:30:05 Herneith
You can call me a racist for acknowledging that race exists.”
If the shoe fits, wear it. Why didn’t you just come out and say so?
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 17:37:25 Hannu L
I think raci…HBDers like to confuse/blur the sociological concept of race with the biological one. The latter cannot be scientifically proved. I’m a 100% layman but I understand that no (real) biologist or anthropologist approves the concept of “race” as it is understood by HBDers.
King says,
Race is just a subdivision of a species. It’s synonymous with sub-species, though we never really say race when talking about animals.
From a medical dictionary:
a : a category in biological classification that ranks immediately below a species and designates a population of a particular geographical region genetically distinguishable from other such populations of the same species and capable of interbreeding successfully with them where its range overlaps theirs
b: a named subdivision (as a race or variety) of a species
By that definition, humans meet the criteria to be partitioned into different races. We know that human populations cluster into geographical regions genetically. We’ve longed known that humans are morphologically different along a continuum across geographic regions.
Yes, I know that humans are lumped into one subspecies, homo sapien sapiens, but this clearly goes against the very definition of subspecies. There’s long been a debate about this among taxonomists with disagreements about where to draw the lines as some groups, like Somalis for example, don’t fit neatly into the broader categories of race, but according to the definition, this is to be expected. Much of this has to do with giving special exception to humans with regards to biological standards. I call this homo-centrism, because let’s face it: despite our disagreements, in the end we’re all specists.
Thank you Sagat for taking the trouble.
Please site which medical dictionary you are quoting from, where it was published, the edition, and copyright date, if you please.
Let’s treat this as research, so that we can easily verify and identify any presented sources.
Hannu L says:
I think raci…HBDers like to confuse/blur the sociological concept of race with the biological one. The latter cannot be scientifically proved. I’m a 100% layman but I understand that no (real) biologist or anthropologist approves the concept of “race” as it is understood by HBDers.</i
That's not true. There's about a 50/50 split among anthropologists and biologists regarding the concept of race. Most have move towards using the term, population groups, because it's not as loaded of a term. There's no question that groups from around the world have different biological features. It's really just semantics at this point. Maybe in the future, you'll call us populationists as a derogatory term.
Hm. I’m sort of cautious about your 50/50 statement. Often people with your kind of agenda count in non-reliable scientist with a similar agenda.
But, yes of course there are apparent physical differences. I don’t believe that eye- or skin color affect people’s intelligence. Only if you are able to prove that their brain is decidedly different, I think you have a case.
I’m not sure if you’re being facetious, but it’s from Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary, © 2007 Merriam-Webster, Inc. I took that from dictionary.com, which cited that as its source.
Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Inc. 17 Nov. 2010. .
What do you suppose my agenda is? Just wondering.
Of course, I’m not being facetious. Why would you suspect that? Surely this isn’t the first time you’ve been asked for a source?
When you’re using a source, it’s just handy to know where it came from. When you’re not arguing to a specific source then, of course, there’s no need.
Another question, in trying to understand your position on race. Can you name any races, or define a specific race?
To me it makes no difference whether you use the word “IQ” or “intelligence”. (It is noteworthy how you would use them interchangeably though!!!)
“IQ” is no more scientific or biological in occurrence than “Race” is. Both are socially and culturally constructed.
An illusion perpetuated using these terms is that the differences between the diverse varieties of ethnic groups is some how greatly reflected in human genetic make up or DNA.
However, from a scientific point of view the “differences” we observer between people accounts for less than 0.1/% of that DNA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genetic_variation
Its questionable intelligence (or level of IQ) – in my view – to be focusing on that 0.1% rather than an acceptance and supportability of the 99.9% commonality between peoples.
When I speak about Black people or White people, I’m just using shorthand to speak about generally understood ideas of physical differences. Hannu is right in that I do often conflate biological concepts and sociological concepts of race. I’m aware that I do it and I do it out of convenience for the conversation.
Just to be clear. There is no such thing as a Black or White race. When I say Black, I’m generally referring to those of West African descent. There’s a lot of diversity in Africa and I don’t consider Mbuti pygmies or San Bushmen to be the same race as West Africans, because I think they’re distinct peoples. In genetic population clusters, they are more closely related to each other than they are to northeast Asians, but they’re different enough that I think they should be recognized as so. Though my position can be argued as simply a differences in semantics as well.
But that’s the problem right there! I’ve heard of italian/spanish men who have complained that when coming to Finland they were seen/treated like black people! Granted, that was more like a decade ago, but if not even Europeans who (by god’s grace), are überfantastic, white rulers of the earth, cannot decide amongst themselves what is white, what is not!!!! It is an extremely sliding scale.
And I’ve also heard that Finns are considered to be a “mongrel race” by hardcore german “aryans”. LOL! I don’t even care…
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 19:14:15 Chuck
Nah, that’s not it.
It’s just that black people are the largest cohort identified by a commonality: blackness.
Blacks themselves focus on the plight of black education and seek remedies that only apply to blacks. Case in point – one of many – is a recent study which was also reported on by CNN which explored the education gap between blacks and whites. The success or failure of education was analyzed solely based upon the level of the gap. In fact, in school districts where blacks overtook whites in terms of graduation rates, the problem was considered “fixed” and the results celebrated. The community organizers who are active on this front don’t care about education. They care about group politics.
So if they are going to vie for tax money to fix this problem of low black educational achievement, you’re damn right I’m going to view this issue through that dichotomous lens. If black community organizers and black academics are going to say, “look, look, we have a problem with *black* kids’ education that needs to be addressed”, I and other HBDers are going to step in and add some perspective to the issue.
The problem may not be money or racism. The problem could be endogenous.
Its questionable intelligence (or level of IQ)– in my view – to be focusing on that 0.1% rather than an acceptance and supportability of the 99.9% commonality between peoples.
LOL! 😆 “You’re a big dummy because of what you think!” Love that argument. It always comes after,”You’re a racist!” Same bag of tricks. Next you’ll call me an evil nazi.
Men and women are also 99.9 percent alike. So why would anyone examine or be interested in the their differences? Anyone that talks about those differences must be mouth breathing sexists! Tampons are a tool of the oppressor! We are all the same. 🙂
on Wed Nov 17th 2010 at 20:09:23 zek j evets
If black community organizers and black academics are going to say, “look, look, we have a problem with *black* kids’ education that needs to be addressed”, I and other HBDers are going to step in and add some perspective to the issue.
And what perspective would that be? Racism?? C’mon now…
Group politics is nothing new. And to take it as some kind of slight is to ignore the long history and continuing efforts of White group politics in our country, as well as how we are all complicit in it. Just look at the Tea Party.
But that doesn’t shouldn’t stop helping kids who aren’t getting an education to get one, no matter what group they’re from.
(However, I do agree that White men in this country have lots of issues that get ignored by the media, by politics, by our culture due to White men’s history as being the oppressor not the oppressed. And I’d support groups like MRA’s and the False Rape Society, and male abuse shelters, and lobbyists against prison rape, prostate cancer, etc., to address issues that affect men, white, black, or whatever.)
As for the biological/sociological issues about race. Let me say definitively: race as a biological category DOES NOT exist. It does exist sociologically, culturally, politically, psychologically, etc. But biologically it DOES NOT! Sorry, but it just doesn’t. It really doesn’t. No matter how many times HBDers try to say so, it does’t. No matter what arguments you can come up with, science has proven time and again that race in homo-sapiens does not exist biologically.
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/sciences/lifescience/humanraces/biologyrace/biologyrace.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_%28classification_of_human_beings%29
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f00/web2/ramon2.html
http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/race.htm
I mean, I could keep going down the line of just what I find on Google, but that’d be a waste of time. Every major scientific study in the past half-century has shown that race is not a biological, nor a genetic category, not even a sub-sub-species.
So if the HBDers want to keep that single issue on the table, then I’m gonna have to ask a la Forrest Gump…
Are you stupid or something?
Excellent Sagat. You are already smarter than Chuck.
Chuck… oh Chuck… chucalucka… (sigh)
How can people be identified by a commonality called “Blackness?”
What exactly is “Blackness” and how is it defined?
Why don’t you listen to what Sagat was saying above?
“When I say Black, I’m generally referring to those of West African descent. There’s a lot of diversity in Africa and I don’t consider Mbuti pygmies or San Bushmen to be the same race as West Africans, because I think they’re distinct peoples. In genetic population clusters, they are more closely related to each other than they are to northeast Asians…”
BTW Sagat, this part is not necessarily true.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/02/18/genomes-of-desmond-tutu-bushmen-show-africas-huge-genetic-diversity/
Africans may be further apart from each other genetically, than they even are from other non-black ethnicities — there are no guarantees on that front.
I was wondering the same thing myself. What is it that you’re after? Segregation/separation/juxtaposition/justification? For what reasons? I can only assume, but I hope you yourself honestly tell us what you’re after, what kind of satisfaction this kind of approach offers to you?
I believe some people are unable to grasp humankind without labeling them and putting them in boxes. That there must be some kind of biological or divine taxonomic order of things, instead of “chaos”.
Hannu says:
I’ve heard of italian/spanish men who have complained that when coming to Finland they were seen/treated like black people! Granted, that was more like a decade ago, but if not even Europeans who (by god’s grace), are überfantastic, white rulers of the earth, cannot decide amongst themselves what is white, what is not!!!! It is an extremely sliding scale.
The same goes for East Asians as well. Thais are often lumped in with northeast Asians but don’t say that to a Japanese unless you want an earful about Japanese superiority to Thais.
You’re right about the sliding scale thing. All humans are related to one another and there is just varying degrees of separation between groups. That’s really were the arguments come in about labeling, because no one can decide on dividing lines. And there really are no dividing lines, just a continuum of relatedness.
That doesn’t mean that we should ignore differences between groups. They exist, just like the spectrum of colors exist. I understand why many feel uncomfortable talking about our differences, considering history, but I don’t think pretending we are all alike is being honest.
But, but…EXACTLY! If there’s a sliding scale, not just in Europe but everywhere on this planet, who’s gonna draw the line???? And where???
It just keeps on sliding and sliding…it’s just like evolution: there is no INTERMEDIATERY “race” or human “species” to be found in the human genome. It’s still mixing and evolving.
And, umm, I’m all about mixing my SUPERIOR NORDIC genes with…um-who ever comes along. Sigh. 😉 Preferably with black sistah’s with EXTREME blackess! 😉
And, umm, I’m all about mixing my SUPERIOR NORDIC genes with…um-who ever comes along.
Superior? What? I thought you were a Finnish mongrel? 😆
There’s many disagreements about species classifications. Does that mean that species doesn’t exist either? All labels are just constructs. It’s just humans’ way of understanding the world around them.
I had a friend that used to argue with me that colors were just a social construct. He’d tell me that I only saw the color yellow because I was raised to think that way. He’d tried to convince me that yellow might actually be blue and I was just conditioned to believe that it wasn’t. I responded that Japanese have a different culture and they saw yellow too. And then he’d say, “Yellow is not a Japanese word. So they see whatever color their word for it is.” We’d argue about this for hours. These conversations here remind a lot of that. 🙂
This kind of conversation always reminds of a book I read a while ago, namely “The Master Plan. Himmler’s scholars and the Holocaust” by Heather Pringle.
You probably have heard of the “Ahnenerbe”, Himmler’s “brain”child, a special branch of the SS, that was devoted in searching evidence of the existence of the Aryan race, who he thought was the predecessor of ALL high cultures on this planet (Indian Jones featured exactly these guys). So finally, because aryans couldn’t have evolved from any lesser races, he thought that aryans simply must’ve descended from heavens above!!! Leap of faith, indeed!
He also thought that Thor’s hammer, Mjöllnir, was some kind of electro-magnetic weapon (FOR REAL!!). But that’s actually a very good sci-fi premise, hmmm…
Superior? What? I thought you were a Finnish mongrel?
But I am!!! LOL!!
I gather that you understand that I don’t care either way.
@Hannu:
‘May the white ape take us all’!
Thuvia, Maid of Mars!
zek, king, and all who question the biological foundations of race:
peep this.
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2010/08/connect-dots.html
http://infoproc.blogspot.com/search?q=fst
The term “race” conceptualizes the idea of people who are closely genetically related. There is grey area at the margins, but there is a giant middle black or white area where people of those groups have genetic maps more similar to each other than people of those other groups.
If you look at those maps on the links I provided, you’ll see that sub-saharan africans are clustered together in terms of genotopic principal component analysis. “Black race” is a sociological construction to give a name to something that has a biological root.
And this whole idea that Africans are more genetically diverse among each other does not overturn the argument for higher IQ among non-blacks. People of African descent could still be diverse among themselves but still not have experienced the novel environments that forged higher IQ in those groups that migrated out of Africa.
So as I said above: black activists and liberal politians are using “black” success as a litmus test for the success of social programs and the eradication of racism. Those people don’t even try to differentiate between black individuals; they are forcing us to observe group outcomes. Therefore, this becomes a group discussion. And if it is a group discussion, reviewing scientific research of *group* characteristics is not a racist endeavor.
LOL! I sometimes feel that earth is like Barsoom: lacking of oxygen, making thinking harder for some people…
…more oxygen/air factories! And I want to be the yeddak of yeddaks! The City of Helium überalles!
Oh no, not Steve Hsu… the Physicist (sigh)
Steven Hsu is not a geneticist, he is not a biologist, he is not even in the life sciences at all. He does not speak to the majority opinions within the field of genetics.
My Dad majored in physics, it doesn’t mean that he is qualified to hypothesize on genetics.
I wouldn’t ask an astronaut to theorize on marine biology just because I figured he was “smart”… that’s why we have *specialties.*
@king: yeah, I wanna know more on this:
All these finnish metal heads are wearing black! WTF is this? Is this blackness? And what about Black Sabbath? That band is blackness, isn’t it? I mean, they call themselves BLACK Sabbath!!
And hey, AC/DC has an whole album called Back in BLACK!!! Goddammit! Is there no end to this blackness??!! Theres even a movie called Pitch Black!!!!
Holy hooligan! I have black sweaters on! Am I into this blackness thing or what? I have even black socks on!! Darn, it must be the blackness!
Finnish rockshow band Sleepy Sleepers had a tour called Elvis is Black. Was that this friggin blackness?? Damnit!!
How many times do I have to post the same information before you will actually read it?
African people are NOT “closely related” genetically!!!
AFRICAN PEOPLES ARE NOT GENETICALLY THE SAME!!!
This is a genetic map of Africa.
http://scienceblogs.com/geneticfuture/2009/04/massive_study_of_african_genet
You see, it turns out that Africa is the most genetically diverse place in the world and has extreme hyper genetic diversity.
But how genetically different are Africans peoples from one another? Genetics researcher Stephan Schuster conducted a survey that sequenced the genome of five people native to the region of southern Africa, including anti-apartheid activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The other four subjects were Bushmen, one named Gubi who had his entire genome sequenced.
“Gubi is the first person from an African minority population to be fully sequenced, and comparing him to the other three men from the region shows as much genetic separation as you’d expect to find between European and Asian peoples. Says Schuster: “This is despite the fact that they sometimes live within walking distance of one another”
So, basically between Bushmen and Bantu, you can find more genetic variation that you can find between say… Han Chinese and Frenchmen. Blacks are not one massive genetic race, who is somehow genetically advantaged or disadvantaged in the same way. In reality, they are quite a few, genetically different dark-skinned races.
Article here:
That’s interesting about the Bushmen. I always thought Africa was a fascinating place with it’s variety of phenotypes. I’ve never read that claim about there being more distance between two Bushmen than there is between a European and an Asian. I’m not familiar with that blog or its author so I’m hesitant to put much stock in that. I’d like to see another source. The population clusters produced from the Human Genome Project show all sub-Saharan Africans grouping together.
I think what gets lost on some with these genetic studies is that often times SNPs are used to compare relatedness, but most of these SNPs are on the non-coding region of the DNA. I think what really matters is the coding region since that’s what determines our physical features. Africans are bound to have much more genetic diversity because they build up “noise” on the non-coding region of their DNA because they come from much older populations. I’ve read elsewhere that their genetic diversity is overblown because of the focus on non-coding SNPs.
Sagat, the “blog” is the official blog of “Discover Magazine”
…yes, THAT Discover Magazine. It is one of the most respected wide circulation science periodicals in the world.
Website here:
http://discovermagazine.com/
But if you wish to google “African Genetic Diversity”, you will discover that it is a BROADLY accepted fact, by the vast majority of geneticists worldwide.
Again, these are geneticists, not Physicists (Steve Hsu) not Marketing majors (Steve Sailer) Do you really think that the majority of GENETICISTS are misreading Single Nucleotide Polymorphism and reporting it to be true genetic variation, because I think that if anyone would know better it would be the geneticists, not the layman bloggers, don’t you?
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 00:46:26 Sagat
That’s not Discover Magazine’s official blog. It says on the site, that it’s simply a news aggregator blog called 80beats. There are many discovermagazine blogs. I normally read Razib Khan’s Gene Expression blog which is also a discovermagazine blog.
From the link that 80beats took the story from:
Tishkoff cautions against reading too much into the sequence data at this early stage. “You really need to have population-level information,” she says. “If I see a variant in just one person, I don’t know how prominent it’s going to be in the rest of the population.”
So basically that claim that there’s the same amount of distance between two Bushmen than there is between a European and an Asian is inconclusive at this point. But it also states this:
To date, none of the large human genome projects has focused on minority populations.
So that would explain why the cluster maps so far have shown sub-Saharan Africans grouping together.
And I never said that geneticists are misreading SNPs. SNPs on the non-coding region are often included in population cluster comparisons. This is a fact. Looking at SNPs on the non-coding region is useful because they can show relatedness between populations. SNPs are just a change in the genome. Naturally, Africa has the most amounts of SNPs because humans have lived there far longer than anywhere else in the world and have built up more mutations. What I said, is that I consider the coding region to be more important.
Don’t get persnickety with me.
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 00:54:12 King
“That’s not Discover Magazine’s official blog. It says on the site, that it’s simply a news aggregator blog called 80beats”
oops! you’re right, that was my bad!
I’ll get more persnickety later.
Sagat, you wouldn’t by chance, happen to be a AAAS member would you?
https://pubs.aaas.org/membership/new_member_setup.asp
Is that a promise? 🙂
No. Why? Are you recommending it?
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 01:30:48 Herneith
I prefer to tell people to not get to snarky. The fact that you use the word persnickety illustrates your lack of testosterone! But wait, you don’t have much do you according to these theories? I guess that’s the trade off isn’t it.
I used that word because I was joking with him. And if my testosterone level is so low, then why are all up on my nuts?
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 03:47:53 Chuck
The Steve Hsu piece links to a research piece from the journal Science. They are part of AAAS that you asked Sagat about. That journal produced the model for human genotype that you dismiss. I’m curious to hear your point about AAAS then.
The genotype map shows that “black people” are people with black skin who happened to be closely genetically related to other similar people whom we also call “black people”. I’m not really sure why this concept is so hard for you to grasp.
It’s funny how you automatically disregard any diseenting study or dissenting opinion. Steve Hsu being a physicist means that he at least has more credential than you. You aren’t a scientist (or don’t seem to be one). Physicists are supremely intelligent, and it is feasible that their ability to operate through the scientific method would help them formulate plausible theories or adopt plausible positions in other fields of study. And again, Steve Hsu the physicist has his opinion. You are combating it with your opinion as a…what are you? I’m not sure. You place the burden of proof on HBDers although I’m not sure why.
Why not, it beats washing windows.
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 05:12:04 zek j evets
Steve Hsu again?? Haha, oy vey. No matter how many times you disprove something, someone always bring it back up like it’s true.
At this point in the discussion I’ll have to excuse myself because now HBDers have done jumped the shark by making pseudo-scientists into experts and astrophysicists into biologists/geneticists!
This reminds me of Samuel George Morton… and How Stephen Jay Gould whooped his butt in The Mismeasure of Man. Scientific racism is being touted as actual science, when it’s not. Facts are being touted as facts, when they are not. It’s sad to see, but thankfully very few are persuaded by HBD or even know it exists. (I didn’t know until Chuck commented once on my blog.)
I leave the rest of the discussion to ya’ll.
so you’re going to ignore Hsu’s piece and the scientific research underlying the model i linked to?
how about looking at it first just so you know the basis on which the HBD argument is made.
I just clicked through the link to Steve Hsu’s site, which you and Zek condemned Chuck for posting, and found that it was just simply a graphic that he had taken from Razib Kahn’s Gene Expression site. And the funny thing is, this scatter chart that Steve Hsu posted was created by Razib using data from where? The same study that you posted up above.
What Steve Hsu linked to:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/genetic-variation-within-africa-and-the-world/#more-5802
What you posted:
They’re two articles about the exact same genetic study. Talk about irony! 😆
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 06:01:00 Dr. Vagrant X
@Chuck-
I won’t bother re-posting my previous response to you, but if you want you can check the Sailer post. Anyway,-
Steve Hsu being a physicist means that he at least has more credential than you. You aren’t a scientist (or don’t seem to be one). Physicists are supremely intelligent, and it is feasible that their ability to operate through the scientific method would help them formulate plausible theories or adopt plausible positions in other fields of study. And again, Steve Hsu the physicist has his opinion. You are combating it with your opinion as a…what are you? I’m not sure. You place the burden of proof on HBDers although I’m not sure why.
Facepalm x Infinity.
First of all, you’ve committed at least two logical fallacies. 1. Poisoning the Well: King’s and my academic credentials have little to no impact on the evidence presented. If we are presenting facts or theories that have been tested thoroughly with predictable results, the evidence stands despite our positions/standing. 2. HBDers start of from a stand point that is in and of itself a logical fallacy; Burden of Proof or Appeal to Ignorance. While it is the belief among HBDers that snow/adverse weather conditions develop intelligence, there is little to any physical/empirical proof of this Of course you can bring up IQ tests and other systems for measuring intelligence based principally within cultural/societal norms, but you have still yet to prove your thesis/hypothesis. Where is the physical proof, the exact gene, etc. that supports your hypothesis. What HBDers have proposed in theory with far less empirical/physical backing than the Theory of Evolution and the popular understanding of the variance in the human race (or relatively lack thereof). The burden of proof, Chuck, is on the HBDers, not the rest of the scientific community who have substantial and extensive amounts of empirical/physical data to support their position.
Further, Steve Hsu is, as you just admitted, a physicist. Comparing physics to biology as though they draw from anything more than the scientific method is a flawed argument. Yes, Steve Hsu probably took some elementary to intermediate biology classes during undergrad., but that no more makes him an authority on genetics than an Earth Scientist/Geologist. I wouldn’t trust a guy with a Geology degree, even a PhD, to perform a heart transplant, would you? I mean, granted, they both had to take some chemistry and biology courses in undergrad., but somehow I’d prefer the MD over the PhD. So, more on point, why would I give any real consideration to a physicist as it concerns human evolution and genetics? He knows little to anything about that, as he specialized in physics (e.g.-he did not study for a MS or PhD in biology simultaneously, did he?).
Steve Hsu, for all his use of the scientific method, is more than likely a scientific layman when it comes to the specifics of genetics and evolution. Therefore, he’s only in a slightly better position than King to suggest theories for as to why there are “gaps” in “intelligence” levels. However, by your logic, as an anthropologist and someone who has taken a few science courses I learned to use the scientific method as well. Should I start making suggestions to NASA on how to make the next rocket/satellite/etc.?
Dr. Vagrant X:
I linked to Steve Hsu’s site which provided a model that linked to *real* genetic scientists studies which show that race is not a social construct.
I didn’t link directly to the study itself because you must buy a subscription to view it. I figured that model is pretty damning to your case so I linked to it.
But King and Zek refuse to accept that model into the body of evidence because it came from Hsu’s site. At which point I have to bring up that Hsu, being a reputable scientist, may know a little bit more about quality science than you or King or Zek. While Hsu may not be a geneticist, he at least has the scientific background to understand when science is poorly executed. He didn’t find such a problem with the model I linked to.
But the discussion really has nothing to do with Hsu because he didn’t create that model, he merely commented on it because he happens to accept the fall-out from what such a model implies. Which is why he is an HBDer.
So, please, begin by refuting the model I linked to. After seeing that model how can you argue that people don’t naturally fall into genetically distinguishable cohorts?
Wait, so now three of you are attacking Chuck by dismissing Steve Hsu, but clearly none of you even bothered to click the link, because if you did you would’ve seen that it’s nothing more than a graphic and a link to a genetic study.
But, but..a physicist couldn’t possibly possess the power of linkage!
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 07:45:10 sam
@chuck, sagat:
Are you for real guys? There is only one race of humans on this planet, no matter what you say or do or link up or quote. I know it is depressing that those black dudes are your closest cousins biologically, but they really are. 😀
I know it is hard to be racist. I have couple neighbours who are. But they at least admit it openly and do not dance around acting like their racism is based on anything other than hating people who look different enough. Why it is so important to you that you find some kind of “scientific” explanation for your racism?
Why do you want to convince others that there are separate races of humans? And why do you try to convince black guys on this blog that for some reason they are lower than you are? That is really hilarious! 😀
But really guys, why this is so important to you that you go on for days and weeks and months with this same ole old? Looks like you are trying to convince yourselves most of all, because nobody here is convinced on your race theories which, from the biological point of view, are load of mumbo jumbo. 😀
So are you just trying to convince yourself that for some very funny reason you are better just because of your genes? How it is in real life? You guys get the chicks? You beat everybody in athletics? You all wealthy? Successfull?
I mean, you guys must be, since you are genetically superior compared to all black guys here. I bet you guys have more money and success than Will Smith ja P Diddy put together, not to mention that lazy Jay Z guy and his girl Beyoncé. I mean, that is what you guys are saying, right? You are white and genetically you are more intelligent and superior compared to any nig.. sorry, lower races, right?
So put it out sagat and chuck! Show us how much more you are succesfull than those nig.. sorry, lower spieces!
Lets see your credentials, your unbelievable succesfull careers, millions in the bank and mansions on the hill! C’mon guys! I want to see the proof that you are genetically superior to these nig… sorry, lower spieces!
Let us see your superiority in action! Open our eyes with the one undisputed fact that white men like yourselves are superior to those damned nig.. sorry, lower races!
Your lives must proove your theory beyond any theoretical debate! It is really so simple. And you, as an examples of the superior white beings, can show us the light easily by providing us those undisputable facts from your own superior succesfull lives. Right? 😀
Sam: Are you for real guys?
Chuck: Nope. I guess the discussion is over then, huh…oh wait…
sam: There is only one race of humans on this planet, no matter what you say or do or link up or quote. I know it is depressing that those black dudes are your closest cousins biologically, but they really are.
Chuck: No. There is only one species called “humans”. There are various sub-species or something akin to that among humans.
Sam: I know it is hard to be racist. I have couple neighbours who are.
Chuck: So then how would you know?
Sam: But they at least admit it openly and do not dance around acting like their racism is based on anything other than hating people who look different enough. Why it is so important to you that you find some kind of “scientific” explanation for your racism?
Chuck: First, I’m more interested in truth than diversity qua diversity. I’ll address it as an academic argument just for fun. Why not?
And I have absolutely no hatred for black people. The only reason I’m here today is because black man (my step grandfather) adopted my father and his siblings and brought them to America from England (he married my grandmother who had strewn my dad and his sibs into various orphanages and foster homes).
So you mislabel my stance and my intentions. I think that black people – on average – have lower innate IQ than whites. Irish people of Celtic descent have lower IQ than Irish people of East Baltic descent, but I don’t “hate” Celtic people. I just recognize them for what they are and don’t try to sugar coat it for fun or to make everyone happy. In fact, if anything, the only thing I do hate is the pressure to accept these assertions against my true beliefs. If I said this stuff out loud to even a handful of people I’d lose friends or have a brick thrown at my head.
Sam: Why do you want to convince others that there are separate races of humans? And why do you try to convince black guys on this blog that for some reason they are lower than you are? That is really hilarious!
Chuck: Abagond wrote the post, and liberal and progressive activism tacitly supports the argument that IQ is equal and they write legislation with the unreachable goal of parity in educational achievement in mind. Those are two positive statements among many that I think should be met a little bit of truth telling. And I don’t think anyone on this blog is lower than me. Both Menelik Charles and Abagond seem to have high IQ. Possibly even higher than mine.
Sam: But really guys, why this is so important to you that you go on for days and weeks and months with this same ole old? Looks like you are trying to convince yourselves most of all, because nobody here is convinced on your race theories which, from the biological point of view, are load of mumbo jumbo.
Chuck: And it looks like you are crying “uncle”. Say it louder.
Sam:So are you just trying to convince yourself that for some very funny reason you are better just because of your genes? How it is in real life? You guys get the chicks? You beat everybody in athletics? You all wealthy? Successfull?
Chuck: You’re the one who is assuming that higher IQ implies better. Yeah, some WN types and even HBDers believe that high IQ implies moral superiority, but I’ve never implied that. It is an old analogy, but I find it funny that there are so many discussions saying that race realism is racist whenever it addresses the IQ gap. Legislation must be drawn to right the ship, and many community activists are in the business of righting that ship. But there isn’t much talk about making it so that there isn’t any “discrimination” in professional sports. After all, those guys make a lot of money, and it would be really nice for those white guys who could get those jobs via government legislation. But there’s no call for that. Why?
Sam: I mean, you guys must be, since you are genetically superior compared to all black guys here. I bet you guys have more money and success than Will Smith ja P Diddy put together, not to mention that lazy Jay Z guy and his girl Beyoncé. I mean, that is what you guys are saying, right? You are white and genetically you are more intelligent and superior compared to any nig.. sorry, lower races, right?
Chuck: No, Sam. That is what you are saying. Tell me where I said any of that shit. OK then.
Of course you would pick out single examples and make a straw man argument. Standard liberal move.
But if you want to go there, start comparing Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Buffett, the Rockefellers yadda yadda yadda to the top echelon of blacks. How far down the list until you find the wealthiest black person? I believe it is Oprah and then Bob Johnson, CEO of BET. The former made her fortune off the residuals of white guilt. People flocked to her show because she wasn’t militant, but she allowed white people to feel like they were assuaging their past racist ways. Bob Johnson made his money by peddling TV content to black people. He played the race card on his own group and made billions.
So don’t compare me to Jay Z. Jay Z is blacks’ cream of the crop. I’m middle of the road – at best – for whites. Compare me to the middle of the road of blacks and compare credentials.
Sam: Lets see your credentials, your unbelievable succesfull careers, millions in the bank and mansions on the hill! C’mon guys! I want to see the proof that you are genetically superior to these nig… sorry, lower spieces!
Chuck: I don’t toss the word around, and I’ve never called anyone that. I’m not sure why you’re trying to attribute it to me. It seems like you are the one who really wants to say it.
Sam: Let us see your superiority in action! Open our eyes with the one undisputed fact that white men like yourselves are superior to those damned nig.. sorry, lower races!
Your lives must proove your theory beyond any theoretical debate! It is really so simple. And you, as an examples of the superior white beings, can show us the light easily by providing us those undisputable facts from your own superior succesfull lives. Right?
Chuck: I’ve never seen anyone more wrong, actually. You’ve constructed a naïve interpretation of mine and Sagat’s arguments. You’re asking me to look at all of this subjectively, but I’m trying to look at it objectively.
Because if I followed your taunts to their logical conclusion, if I connote high achievement with high IQ, mine and Sagat’s argument would be proven correct. Because, you see, I never said that I am the smartest person alive or smarter than every single black person. I said that white people have higher IQ. And if, as you imply, achievement is directly correlated to IQ, and since white people are obviously more successful than black people, it would follow that whites are, on average, more intelligent than blacks. You’ve proven my whole point by adopting a naïve interpretation of it. Thanks for doing my work for me.
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 12:36:33 theobsidianfiles
Well! I see the gang’s all here. A few thoughts:
King – Obviously you don’t know me very well, because frequent readers of my currently down blog can tell you that I’ve written extensively on the HBD issue and some of its biggest promulgators on the internet. I’ve refuted and questioned them up and down the line, and will do so again as the need and interest arises. As for my own views regarding HBD, I don’t have any problem with the fundamental premise – that human beings evolved differently based on geopgraphic location – my beef with HBDers is THEIR spin on what HBD means, and, the fact that most of them want to use their take on it to change extant public policy – which explains why I tend to focus on that side of the debate. Quite frankly, arguing over whether this scholar or that egghead is qualified or not to discuss science and the like makes my eyes glaze over and I suspect it does for the average reader out there, too. The scientific side of the issue is way too esoteric and frankly, borning, for most people to follow with any degree of interest or caring. It’s much more fun to consider the social implications of what the HBDers are proferring.
For example, Chuck Ross, a guy I know reasonably well, considers himself a HBDer much closer to that which Steve Sailer is, since his is a name that is well known in these parts. Now, he knows well my many writings on the topic of HBD, yet, he’s yet to address my public policy questions regarding them, and again, he’s known me longer than the vast majority of people here do. Nor is his avoidance of my questions unusual – just about every HBDer with whom I’ve “battled” either ignores or dodges my questions in this regard. I’ll lay them out again just in case anyone’s missed it in a seperate post coming up.
Zek – what caught my eye about your comments above was your stated support for Men’s Rights, and how you felt there was some legitimacy in the notion that White Men in particular were having a rough go of things of late historically in America. First, I’d like to ask you to please elaborate a bit on the latter? And secondly, I’m just very curious – what did you think of the Chris Brown/Rihanna affair, and how do you relate that to the actions of Mary J. Blige?
Kwama, thanks for the comments.
In closing, for now, I think it’s far more interesting to consider what the HBDers want to do with the country if they were running it. Again, it seems to me that they have some huge holes in their logic and reasoning here, to say nothing of their running up against the Constitution if their plans are to come into fruition.
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 13:18:53 Obsidian
OK, so let’s consider a few of the things HBDers want to see happen, although many of them are not often stated explicitly:
1. End Affirmative Action: really, what the HBDers mean here by this term, is to end any forms of preferences or quotas that pertain to Blacks, in education and hiring. The more prestigious and elite the better. The HBD argument goes, that since African Americans are on average less intelligent than Whites, it then follows that the majority of Blacks don’t really belong in the nation’s best schools and getting the cushiest of jobs because they aren’t truly qualified for them.
The problem with this argument is that it turns a blind eye to the decades, if not centuries long practice of good ole fashioned nepotism – those very same prestigious, elite schools and firms engage in blatant nepotism all the time, by seeing to it that the children of the wealthy and well-connected get in and do well. A very prominent example of this was George W. Bush, important for our discussion because the vast majority of HBDers online at least, are at the very least moderately if not stridently to the Right politically. Please note that, for example, while Steve Sailer has railed on and on about Affirmative Action over the years, he has never said anything about GWB getting over on essentially the same things that he takes issue wrt Blacks. Simply put, the HBDers are cool with preferences and quotas, so long as those receiving them are White, and by this I mean, non-Jewish White. Again, note the fact that the single biggest beneficiary of AA has been White Women – no big hew and cry from Sailer et al.
2. Speaking of the above, the next question we have to consider is that of Regression to the Mean: those of you out there of a more scientific bent will know what I mean by that term so no need for me to go rehashing it here. The problem is the HBDers never seem to want to admit that just because one has high IQ and even successfully mates with another person who is the same, thier progeny may not necessarily have the same IQ; indeed, the odds are that they won’t. The Ivy League is chockfull of mediocre kids of very smart people, who never go on to light up the sky with their supposed greatness by birth gifts. Actually, its often the reverse, its just that being among the elite brings with it the ability to cover up otherwise embarrassing factoids about yourself or those close to you. The HBDers never address this, nor do they address the fact the country has millions of Dumb White People – what are we to do wtih them? The current discussion stays mired in racial politics, partly for the reasons Chuck laidout, that there is such a thing as Leftist racial interests, but als because its an intense area of focus for the HBDers among themselves and in their own right. Even their “bible” the Bell Curve, which I’ve discussed at length at my blog, is viewed in a racial lens, when it truth a miniscule portion of the book was devoted to the topic and the authors were discussing the social implications of IQ bifurcation along class lines, primarly among WHITES. but neither side of the debate, seems to care about this little known fact about TBC. And the beat goes on.
3. Wrt the public school debate, how can we honestly say, with a straight face, that what John Ogbu discovered in his research, that the kids of prosperous and solidly middle and upper middle class Blacks consistently scored lower on tests than markedly poorer Whites and Asians, is booty? And, how can we simply turn a blind eye to the fact that school districts like Newark NJ and Washington DC are paying small fortunes to “educate” Black kids, with so little to show for it? Is it racist to merely point this out? Must we engage in diversionary debates about the Iraq War to honestly question if the monies being spent on such supposedly educational efforts are worth it? And, what of the potential evidence that what the HBDers are saying is true, that most Blacks simply aren’t as smart as most Whites or Asians – does that mean that they still shouldn’t be taught to read and write? See, I think emotionalism and deepseated partisan/ideological bias gets in the way of cleareyed questioning of the issues here. And there are, real issues, to confront.
4. Speaking of the Bell Curve, one of its “solutions” was to restrict the ability of single moms to breed on the dole. The book came out circa 1994, and in 1996, then President Bill Clinton, with the aid of a GOP led Congress, passed Welfare Reform, which made TBC’s suggestions along these lines a moot, at best, point. However, among the HBDers, this remains a hot topic – hence constant recourse to “eugenics” selective breeding that is state sponsored and/or enforced. The HBDers say that the problem is that the dumb are outbreeding the smart, and that one way to address this is to find ways to curtail the former’s ability to breed.
But aside from the facts I’ve noted above, what the HBDers never address is the fact that the Smart White People are dwindling in numbers, and they haven’t figured out how to deal with this. Some of them make passing allusions to things like “affordable family formation”, but the real deal is the fact that they haven’t figured out how to convince Smart White Women, to forego the elite university experience, the high prestige career experience, the Sex And The City experience, and be cool with popping out no less than three kids, starting around age 21 or so, with Jeremy the STEM Guy. Because even if they could get the dumb “NAMs” (Non-Asian Minority; a euphemism for Black and Brown/Hispanic people) to breed considerably less than they do, it still wouldn’t address what I’m talking about here. Simply put, there are enough Smart White People to go around. But the HBDers, for whatever reason, simply haven’t addressed this. And, put all that together with the documented fact that no state has ever been successful in getting its so-called better sections, however one may define them, into breeding MORE. They’ve been successful in getting them to breed LESS, but not MORE. No society has been able to pull this off. Not. A. Single. One. History isn’t on the HBDers side here. How do they explain this, and what is it about their plan, assuming they have one or two, that’s markedly different?
5. And I’ve addressed this A LOT on my blog – what are the downsides of being born on the right end of the bell curve? The book, the Bell Curve itself, seems only to address the left end of the curve, but they say nothing about the right end, and the reason is that it is assumed and taken almost as gospel that there IS no downside. And that I find to be fascinating in its hubris. Nature says otherwise.
For example, we know that having too high an IQ is correlated with reduced ability to socialize and empathize with others; it also goes hand in hand with reduced fertility/virilty. Hands up out there, all the ladies reading this who would like to spend their lives with John Nash or Sir Issac Newton? Brilliant Men they may have been, but by all accounts, they were really, really difficult to live with. Then, consider James Watson – his kid is schizoid. See my “regression” comments above. And those are just a few of the downsides that we know of – as any social scientist knows well, we tend to spend an inordinate mount of time and money, poking and prodding the poor and presumably dumb, but very little time doing the same to those who are deemed smart and rich.
6. Michael Levin, in his book on HBD, suggests toward the end, a stepping up of racial profiling on the part of the police, since in his view, it is proven that Blacks, particularly Black Men, have a higher propensity towards violence and violent crime than anyone else in society. Of course this brings up questions of violations of civil liberties. How do the HBDers square these seemingly two irreconcilable notions? Whether we like it or not, its one thing for a cabbie in Big City America to pass on picking up Black Men regardless of age or attire or even time of day for fear of even a sizable minority of them being known for sticking up and even murdering cabbies; its another to have such a view as a matter of public policy and enforced by the police. HBDers don’t explicitly state whether they’re in favor of such measures outside of Levin, nor have they expressed their views with how they can justify it under current American law and customs.
These are just a few of the many questions I have for the HBDers, that always seem to get lost in the shuffle, due to hyperbole and emotionalism on both sides of the aisle, along with arid and boring to tears esoteric discussions over arguing whether this or that is science or not, or whether this or that source is authentic enough, and so forth. We never really drill down to the nuts and bolts, rubber hits the road hard questions that need to be asked of the HBDers, and I think they kind of like that, because they never have to actually put their ideas out there on the line to be scrutinized; they can always claim ideological martyr status for being shouted down as being iconoclasts in the public square, by left leaning blank slatists who are little more than intellectual frauds. I say, let’s have the debate on HBD, on what it would actually mean in public policy terms. Let’s see how the HBDers intend to address the problems of our time, and indeed things they see as problems. So long as we continue to quibble over how many angles can dance on the head of a pin, we’ll never get to those very important questions.
Hopefully, this comment(s) by me will get the conversation – a truly meaningful one in my view – moving in the right direction.
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 13:52:07 D
And I was about to write something about your right to your opinion and why people should not try and stifle opinions different to theirs.
You can freely hold your opinions about white people being superior to brown/black people. We all have given our reasons for disagreeing with you, and I particularly liked Olufemi’s post and KM’s link about self-educated black inventors. But no, you want the govt to stop spending in education for blacks. I don’t know whether Abagond will allow this comment to appear, but you’re incredibly racist and bigotted. Have you even noticed the flaws with your argument? Even if for the sake of the argument I assume that blacks are less intelligent than whites, you yourself have admitted that there are black people who fit your definition of ‘intelligent’. So in your dream society, those blacks too will not get equal opportunities while dumb and mediocre white people will enjoy their right to education just because they’re white. That’s fair to you?
And did it happen to cross your mind that by the same logic(?) of yours, the US of A should stop wasting money after educational achievement for whites because Asians prove to be better achievers?
on Thu Nov 18th 2010 at 15:29:49 Kwamla
@Sagat, Chuck etc….
This should be of interest to all HBDers and, of course, others following this debate.
I came across this article in the Washington Post from 2005
Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin
By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology’s most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity’s greatest sources of strife.
The article goes on to say…
…Recent revelations that all people are more than 99.9 percent genetically identical has proved that race has almost no biological validity. Yet geneticists’ claims that race is a phony construct have not rung true to many nonscientists — and understandably so, said Vivian Ota Wang of the National Human Genome Research Institute in Bethesda.
“You may tell people that race isn’t real and doesn’t matter, but they can’t catch a cab,” Ota Wang said. “So unless we take that into account it makes us sound crazy.”
Maybe, perhaps its time as Obsidian suggests:
“… let’s have the debate on HBD, on what it would actually mean in public policy terms. Let’s see how the HBDers intend to address the problems of our time, and indeed things they see as problems…”
I tend to agree.
Why not give up the biological deterministic argument about Race and Intelligence. The scientific evidence is not in your favor. The Political one could be if you can make a strong . And at least it would be a more HONEST approach.
Who cares if you get labeled a “big meanie” from time to time!!!
From the few posts of yours that I’ve read in this thread, I’ve gathered that you’re fairly intelligent, but I also have seen that the issue of human differences is something you have little interest in, which is understandable since, as Obsidian noted, it is an esoteric school of thought. I was going to respond to the article that you posted, but honestly, I think it would just lead to butting heads. If you don’t accept the things that I say, then that’s the way that it is. There’s no reason to argue about it.
I just want you to know that this is a subject that I’ve studied for many years and I spend a lot of time reading and digesting different genetic, forensic and anthropology papers. I also read opposing views to try to get a fuller perspective. I only write what I feel is the truth and my point of views aren’t based on some flimsy understanding of science as many seem to suggest. I realize that I take a minority position; I can accept that.
And where are the calls for spending on white students to come up to par with Asian students? As far as I know, money isn’t demarcated in that way although one constantly hears about efforts to throw good money after black education.
@chuckie: oh man, you really need to get out more often! Celtic irish?? Are you really that dumb?? You do know that there is no race called Celts? If you don’t know that then, boy, you gotta didimau to the history class.
There was cultural sphere which was named celtic much later on. So-called celts did not see themselves as one race nor one people. The whole “race” of “Celts” was invented centuries later. You are truly funny guy, man! 😀
i’ve debated on the internet long enough to know that if someone nit picks one tiny point of a long comment that means they realize they are defeated. there are ethnic differences between groups in ireland. there are celts, eastern baltics, nordic alpines, dinarics, etc. they have differentiating features and abilities.
Hey sam, is their a specific gene for nonsensian?
If so, I must have inherited it from my ancestors going back tens of thousands of years!
I’m bogged down with a work emergency at the moment, but I’ll be back ASAP.
@ chuck: right, I hear ya 😀
@ herneith: I have no idea. I have a low IQ so I don’t understand so complicated issues 😀
on Fri Nov 19th 2010 at 00:10:44 Boddler
There’s a hilarious sort of ironic recursiveness in watching obviously very intelligent people debate the existence of the measurability of intelligence with obviously very much less intelligent people.
on Fri Nov 19th 2010 at 05:36:27 Mabel
Intellectual superiority from the north is a myth. Take a look at modern medicine, it is still unable to create one medication that has no side effect. Take this pill, but be cautious you may go blind, or paralyzed, this is our current state of medicine. Doctors cannot cure any illness, they can only treat symptoms. The vehicles we drive, pollute the earth. The chlorine in our water is a carcinogen. The food we eat is laden with chemicals. My favourite invention from the north, lets get the roadkill, and left over meat from the kill floor, grind it up and feed it to herbivorous animals, then let us slaughter those animals and feed it back to humans…yep our modern day agri-scientists approved this.
We are being led to believe that more technology is a reflection of our growing intelligence. But be careful, using that cellphone too much may cause brain cancer and don’t put the laptop on your lap, it may kill your sperm..then why the heck is it called a laptop? The state of intelligence if there is any left in the north is glaringly dismal. Yet, the very ppl who are deemed less intelligent seem to be the smart ones among us.
on Fri Nov 19th 2010 at 05:42:51 Chuck
Mabel:
yet people from these modern societies live much longer and healthier lives than most others.
western technology developed vaccinations against many diseases that killed millions of people. yes, many modern drugs have bad side effects. but you only look at the negatives. how about penicillin? the vaccine against polio? treatments for malaria and HIV?
on Fri Nov 19th 2010 at 12:10:20 Kwamla
I suppose what surprises me most is, for someone of your supposed intellect, education and scholarship, you would be content to fixate on one aspect of human difference in isolation to everything else?
Its not that I am not interested or have difficulty in acknowledging such differences between peoples. On the contrary I am all for celebrating our unique human diversity in all its vast manifestations. – Something your own Blog site claims to do..!!!
http://celebratediversity.wordpress.com/
So at least I can see your “hearts” in the right place. The problem you experience, in my view, stems from your ingrained beliefs. But, of course, as posts from people like Chuck and others show: you are not alone…!!!
By all means comment on or challenge that Washington Post article (thats why I put it up in the first place!)
Its meant to challenge or initiate questioning of those ingrained beliefs. Just as this very subject and Blog (Abagands) we’re taking part in.
Let me attempt to offer you a analogy of how I see our respective positions:
We live on a planet we call Earth or Terra (dependent on who you listen to). On this many, many human challenges have taken place; wars, famine, glorious achievements, civilizations ancient and new, cultures, explorations etc.. etc…etc add to the list…
But we are also part of a solar system which has formed around our Sun – often referred to as “Sol”
And it doesn’t stop there… We are also part of a Galaxy we call the “Milky Way” and that in turn is part of a wider star system or constellation…and it goes on and on..incorporating vast Universes…
Now I am not telling you anything you don’t already know here. Thats not my point. My point is one of “context and perspective”
Your pre-occupation with what you truly believe are meaningful differences can be contrasted with the challenges we, as humans, have faced and continue to face on this planet.
Not saying they’re not important? Of course they are!!! And time and effort needs to be devoted to dealing and tackling them. But lets also remember and try to keep things in perspective here.
The Solar system, Star Constellation, Universe represents that 99.9% identifiability of “sameness” amongst human beings. This presents a far bigger and greater perspective to take into account.
I am I saying they’re more important? Well in the context of the bigger picture. Of course they are!!! And time and effort needs to be devoted to recognizing, accepting and acknowledging this.
But lets remember this is not an “either” “Or” argument.
The “Big” or the “little” picture. Its an argument for both because they are both equally important and valid perspectives to have. Again it about applying the right context and perspective here.
Problems can and do arise when you focus exclusively and loose sight of one perspective over the other. Those ingrained beliefs I keep referring to can reek havoc when left unchecked.!!!
So Sagat this is presented to you not to convince you of the fallacy of your ways but simply to offer an alternative point of view and understanding of how we see the same world we believe we perceive.
As an added illustration look at the world view in this post contrasted with the world view in the other. Tell me which for you has the bigger world picture?
on Fri Nov 19th 2010 at 12:34:58 Obsidian
See what I mean? When times comes to pose pointed questions about HBD in public policy terms, they either ignore it or clam up.
Works every time. 😉
on Fri Nov 19th 2010 at 17:18:03 Bob
Don’t try to figure it out. It is what it is. White people are smarter than black people. Good day.
the thing that works every time is the lack of brevity of your comments. plus, you and i have been down this road before. we don’t have to bring our show to Abagond. when’s your blog coming back? what’s the hold up?
on Fri Nov 19th 2010 at 18:57:55 Jamila
Y said:
Disease burden does play a part in the IQ of nations. Nations with high disease burdens tend to have lower IQ’s those with fewer infectious diseases. One of the reasons that the Africans were enslaved in the America’s and other places was that the higher disease burden in Africa made them immune–or atleast more adept at dealing with–European diseases than the native Americans. Physically, Africans were “hardier” than the Europeans who conquered them. I once read a quote that the life expectancy for a European who went to Africa was less than a year (this was before colonialism).
You can read more about disease burden and its effect on IQ here. http://isteve.blogspot.com/search?q=disease+burden
on Mon Nov 29th 2010 at 00:12:48 Cato
No more comments? Common – the debate is far from over. No one has succeeded in convincing anyone else of their views. It was reading fun though – well most of it.
Chuck…where do I start? You seem to think that Africa is one tiny location. Well, it’s not. According to the current evolutionary theory, the Out of Africa migration has been surmised to be from East Africa, very close to the horn. So people…well the early homo sapiens migrated to Asia, Europe and guess what? Other parts of Africa. *gasp!* Are you following me so far. You know – West Africa, Southen Africa…and the last time I check savannah and near desert conditions are very different environments from dense tropical jungles. Woah! They must have needed a major change in hunting techniques. So that essentially throws your migration theory out the window because, again just so you u-n-d-e-r-s-t-a-n-d there was migration within Africa in the early days to places with very different environments.
Moving on – Sagat. Unlike Chuck, you didn’t merely regurgitate your theories. Chuck did even after people pointed out incongruencies like…Why did the more recently evolved, newly migrating Homo Sapiens outbreed the European inhabiting nearnderthals if by virtue of the cold climate, the nearnderthals would have been smarter. You still haven’t answered that Chuck.
Okay, back to Sagat: Your query on the differences among the races and the example of a randomly drawn sample…. No one responded satisfactorily to that, as yet, so I will. And yes, I believe that there are differences among humans, but you see, those differences are among an INDIVIDUAL vein. Because one family, one nuclear family can have a son who’s a cop and another who’s a crook. One family, one nuclear family can have a son whose extremely smart and another who’s a high school dropout. So, let’s take a large family sample, then; men only for illustrative purposes – brothers, nephews, uncles, fathers, and split them into two groups, then compare the two:
You might get a mean height that is statistically different (Uncle Zuok in group B might have been really really tall), a mean weight that is statistically different (Father Wot in group A might have been really really heavy), and a mean difference in IQ (Son XYZ might have been autistic). Do the same experiment, but regroup the large family as one and compare them with a randomly selected but similarly sized family from West Africa (Family B who you’ve also performed the same experiment on). By the way, Family A was Finish. And let’s say that you once again get statistically different means. What would be your conclusion? Here is how it might look:
1) Family A has a higher average height than Family B, but Group A from Family B has a higher average height than Group B from Family A etc etc etc.
A discussion you had with someone earlier has already alluded to this….diversity and shifting lines. Let’s use simple skin color. You can say that Africans are the darkest group of humans. YET you can find darker groups in India than in some parts of Africa. You can say Europeans are the lightest groups of humans. Yet thera are people in parts of Asia that are lighter than Spaniards and Italians. THAT is the danger of generalizing. it’s the same with IQ assuming the tests are given properly without bias. As someone pointed out – putting a nation at an IQ of 70 is ludicrous from a rational point of view since that borders mental retardation – such a nation should not have a single university of higher education. Can you name ONE nation that lacks a university? And Nigeria has a mean IQ of 67? Well, I must be a genius then! Oh wait, no…high school results showed that while I’m really smart, I’m no genius. So to hell with those results. My experience tells me otherwise, and I have lived in a LOT of places.
Overall, to discuss your difference hypothesis, you will need to group people not as races but as different ethnicities. And since one country like Nigeria has over 250 ethnic groups…well, good luck with that. And if you’d like to think that those in West Africa, for example, are more homogeneous and can be grouped as one, think again. Even within Nigeria, if you know what to look for you can discern slight differences in physical appearance and correctly guess what ethnic group certain people identify with (who knows how different their IQs might be. After all apparently minor differences in physical appearance might mean huge differences in intelligence. Who knows? You haven’t done the study yet). And that’s just one country. So good luck with that!
@Cato
O_O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah, there it is:
http://www.iqleague.com/
One of many websites that have people take their online IQ test and then ranks results by name and country. And take a look at the random distribution of said countries – no Asian countries in the top 10 though – the language barrier maybe? Wow – how different from the test results in that stupid book who stupid people eat up (Hey have the right to call people stupid! I’m smart, remember!)
So if we assume that the people who take this test are in the middle class – hey they can afford to spend valuable time taking an IQ test online – and are therefore likely to be educated. That the fact that they are taking a random IQ test shows that they’re engaged….interesting results start to emerge….after all, the website isn’t trying to prove a point, is it? It’s just having people take tests and ranking them statistically.
on Mon Sep 5th 2011 at 07:18:07 sexmachine
History and everything else disprove the cold winter opinion
on Wed Jan 15th 2014 at 21:20:34 Mr. Green Mario Brother Guy
Actually, your brain works more efficiently in cold weather than hot weather. However, having ancestors that lived in cold regions would not make you smarter.
Efficiently?
But doesn’t the body’s thermo-regulation override outside temperatures under normal conditions?
Mr Green, I questioned your “efficiency” description, because in the very cold weather in cities, it’s not unusual to hear a news story now and again about the poorest of old people who cannot afford adequate, dying from hypothermia.
When it’s very cold brain function can be affected in negative ways,
Apparently, old people in those situations (or anyone in those conditions) become mentally confused and slur their words. When they fall asleep, they die.
*adequate heating
on Thu Jan 16th 2014 at 00:12:34 Mr. Green Mario Brother Guy
Basically, thermoregulation uses more energy during warm weather than cold weather.
on Sun Jan 26th 2014 at 07:52:55 DWornock
Perhaps it is not the snow but adapting to the 25 different environment changes. Going up a mountain in Africa only takes a few generations and so there is only one environment change. Therefore, very little change in I.Q.
However, going north out of Africa averaging 10 miles per generation means moving 200 miles north and a new and different environment with different plants, terrain, animals, and weather every twenty generations. Twenty generations is sufficient for a small genetic change including perhaps a tiny change in I.Q. After 10,000 years people have adapted to 25 different environment with perhaps up to a half point I.Q. increase on average with each change of environment.
@ DWornock
What’s to say that environmental changes were not occurring in Africa itself at the time? http://nabataea.net/sahara.html
Perhaps the Africans were adapting to adapting to “25 environmental changes” of their own, without even having to climb a mountain.
But again, even modern Africa is not just one huge continent-wide climate
Europe is not more varied climatically.
So sorry, but this is just desperately grasping at straws of supposed superiority.
That is an interesting idea. It generally matches Richard Lynn’s numbers for Africa, Europe and Asia but breaks down elsewhere.
The following numbers are rough, but give you the idea:
Lynn’s IQs for native (pre-Columbian) populations:
105 China, Japan
100 Europe
85-90 Middle East, India, SE Asia, Americas
70 Black Africa
60 Australia, Botswana
Which pretty much fit white racist ideas of the past 30 years. Probably too well..
Your model would predict the following (setting northern Europe at 100 and tropical Africa at 70), big differences from Lynn in bold:
140 Americas
100 Europe, Australia
85-90 Middle East, India, SE Asia
60 Bostwana – assuming it is the Ground Zero of human expansion.
Native Americans had to go through more climate zones than anyone else, way more than whites. Not just because they travelled farthest, but also because the Americas run north to south and so have more changes in climate.
To break it down further:
150 Incas, Tierra del Fuego
140 Aztecs, Mayans, Caribbean, Amazon
130 Apaches, Navajos
120 Sioux, Cherokee, Iroquois
110 Mongols, China, Japan, Tasmanians, Siberians, Laplanders, Inuit, Maori, Polynesia
100 northern Europe, Australia
90 Mediterranean, SE Asia
80 Middle East, North Africa
70 tropical Africa
Interesting post, I don’t agree with it but it’s interesting non the less.
I didn’t wish to imply that distance traveled or number of environment changes vs. IQ change is a constant. Nevertheless, you point about the Americas does in my mind invalidate it. Nevertheless, it may have some effect just as cold weather (snow) may have a greater contribution factor on I.Q. changes, than warm weather.
I do believe that when groups are separated, they continue to evolve and over time have greater differences. I also believe that each group, separated from the others, will evolve to better adapt to their specific environments. Random mutations will account for some change in I.Q., just as they account for other changes such as length of nose and body shape.
Therefore, I.Q. difference may mostly be random. And/or in certain environments, in order to adapt, selection for greater I.Q. may be of greater necessity than other environments. However, those broad generalities don’t identify the specific reasons which I should probably leave to other that are far more intelligent than I.
Thank you Kiwi – you saved me the trouble.
dwornock if you had ANY idea of how slow evolution really works (not adaptation mind you!) then you would realize that there has been nowhere near the requisite time needed for ANY significant evolutionary changes to occur between homo sapiens populations.
@George Ryder: I agree with that.
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Thu Jun 18th 2015 by abagond
Note: This post is based on what has been reported about Roof in the first hours after his arrest on June 18th 2015.
Dylann Storm Roof (1994- ), an American White supremacist, is suspected of having shot and killed six Black women and three Black men, including a state senator, at the Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The police are calling it a hate crime, but not an act of terrorism. They believe he acted alone.
He joined a Wednesday night Bible study at about 8.15pm on June 17th 2015. He asked where the pastor was and sat next to him. An hour later he stood up and started shooting. He reloaded his gun five times. When asked why he was killing people, he said:
“I have to do it. You rape our women and taking over our country. You have to go.”
Three survived: two played dead, one of them a five-year-old girl. The third he let live so that she could tell others what he had done – something that terrorists do.
The church’s security camera had caught him and his car on video. When pictures from the video were made public, his family and friends told the FBI who he was.
After a 14-hour manhunt, he was taken alive near Charlotte, North Carolina, 400 km away.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, did not know about him. Based on his Facebook page, they say he seems to be a “disaffected white supremacist”. In one Facebook picture (shown above) he wears a jacket with patches showing the flags of South Africa and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) from the 1970s, back when they were still under White rule.
The front plate on his car shows flags from the Confederate States of America, which fought to defend Black slavery 150 years ago. He lived in Columbia, South Carolina, which still flies the Confederate battle flag in front of the state capitol building.
In March he was arrested on a felony drug possession charge.
In April his father gave him a .45-calibre handgun for his 21st birthday. He practised his shooting.
His mother said:
“I don’t know what was going through his head. He was a really sweet kid. He was quiet. He only had a few friends.”
She knew he was in Charleston on Tuesday, the day before the shooting, but did not know why. She did not think he was racist or would kill anyone.
His uncle said he was “quiet and soft-spoken.”
John Mullins, who went to high school with him, said Roof was “kind of wild”:
“He used drugs heavily a lot. It was obviously harder than marijuana. He was like a pill popper, from what I understood. Like Xanax, and stuff like that.”
Mullins did not think he was racist:
“I never heard him say anything, but just he had that kind of Southern pride, I guess some would say. Strong conservative beliefs. He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.”
Antonio Metze, a high school friend, noted:
“I never thought he’d do something like this. He had black friends.”
Sources: Mainly The Daily Beast, BBC, The Guardian, Raw Story, AP.
The Last Rhodesian – a post about his website, which gives a fuller picture of him.
The Charleston massacre
Other mass killers:
Wade Michael Page – the Sikh Temple shooter
James Holmes – the Batman shooter
The word “terrorism”
“Some of my best friends are Black”
“It was just a joke”
Black rape statistics
American White supremacy
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:03:50 Glenn (freedom of movement) Robinson @getgln
The title says ‘Root’. Is his last name ‘Roof’?
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:17:21 Dylann Roof | Oppression Monitor Daily
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on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:22:44 Ben Munday
I’m living history all over again. I was around for the first church killing, bombing, massacre and now it’s happening all over again. How many times do I have to witness this madness????
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:22:53 solesearch
He only had a few friends.
He had black friends.
So he only had a few friends but they were mostly black?
Come on media get it together?
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:23:57 sondis
Here we go with white people acting oblivious about racism in America. They never ever think anything other white people do is racist, even if they make racist jokes!
I mean, what does a white person have to do in this day and age for another white person to see a racist for what he or she is? hang a black man?, burn a cross in their front yard? yell the “N” word from a damn roof top? sheesh!
Its just plain denial and all white people damn well know a racist when they see one, they just don’t care, plain and simple.
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:28:45 Death the Kid
White people never take racist jokes seriously until someone calls them something infantile like “mayo”
“Mullins did not think he was racist”
He had “Strong conservative beliefs”
Something ain’t adding up. I’ve never met a non-racist conservative in my life
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:36:05 sharinalr
To white people saying white people is racist.
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:37:55 rmanees
“…He made a lot of racist jokes, but you don’t really take them seriously like that. You don’t really think of it like that.”
News flash: only racists make racist jokes. This friend who didn’t “really think of it like that” is just as big a part of the problem as the shooter.
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 22:44:53 v8driver
he musta got a first time plea bargain deal on the felony drug bust. that precludes or obviates even legal gun possession in the usa except missouri i think but you have to live there.
he’s a rather sad, troubled even, i’d say, looking fellow!
zimbabwe before mugabe? huh, rhodesia was that british?
moddied
on Thu Jun 18th 2015 at 23:31:29 Jacqueline
This should be a federal prosecution.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 00:14:05 v8driver
wait for it … back to balfour, and i guess berlin what was that 1884
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 00:54:32 mstoogood4yall
that mf looks evil. what is it with white guys that look like Lloyd from dumb and dumber going shoot ppl. my as would’ve been suspicious from the get go, in the south white folks rarely go to black churches if they do it’s usually because they are dating or married to a black person they never come alone. it takes a special kind of evil to sit through bible study and then kill ppl.
The people that love telling black folks how to protest and about being peaceful and just praying, look what happened ,we aren’t even safe at church. Got these mfs coming into our community and doin this s** and we supposed to just pray.
It’s always the question of why, stop worrying about why and start worrying about how, how are they allowed to do this and how are we going to prevent another from happening and protect ourselves.
I’d love to see how people try to dismiss this, how can u dismiss people at bible study not being threatening and praying? U can’t, but watch them try. the mental illness card will be played soon…
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 01:03:41 sondis
I being 100% honest. Had i been in that church, when this white supremacist walked in, i would have been watching his ass like a hawk!!
I mean come on, how in hell does this white racist, walk in dressed the way he was at a all black church and raises no suspicion?
I mean the killer had a back pack for crying out loud! what white 21 year old man goes to a all black church with a back pack and nobody bats an eye lash??
He looked way out of place and i would have sat right behind him, within arms reach, so i can jump on his ass, soon as he looked like he was about to pull out a gun.
He looked to be 100 pounds, soaking wet! anyone of the men could have taken him down. Hell, even one of the black women he killed could have taken him down.
That goes to show that only black people are so trusting, so forgiving, so naive to the racist hate white people have for them, they failed to see the hidden danger that was sitting right in front of them for an hour.
I don’t know about all you black folks out there but i for one, will never let down my guard, if i see one or several white people walk in an all black church, that doesn’t live in the community.
I don’t give a rats *ss if he’s 15 years old! I’m looking for back packs and bulges in his pants or shirt!
he had black friends, and I was looking at msn and they said he had black friends and that he posted this stuff on his facebook and most of his facebook friends were black. yeah because if u have no black friends then u might be but there’s no way u can be racist if u have black friends, since u have gotten the black seal of approval and therefore all black folks must agree.
This is the only time that they are reporting on the black victims and not bringing up negative pasts, they are reporting on who they were.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 01:23:00 Origin
“my as would’ve been suspicious from the get go”
I was just going to say that maybe we should start profiling solitary white men.
I just read an article about this crime which spoke about how the media doesn’t call a spade a spade when it comes to white mass murder.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/06/18/call-the-charleston-church-shooting-what-it-is-terrorism/
“Early news reports on the Charleston church shooting followed a similar pattern. Cable news coverage of State Sen. and Rev. Clementa Pinckney, pastor of Emanuel AME who we now know is among the victims, characterized his advocacy work as something that could ruffle feathers. The habit of characterizing black victims as somehow complicit in their own murders continues.”
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 01:54:53 Mary Burrell
I am surprised there was no talk about his mental health because when the killers are white the msm always say the killer had mental health issues. Looking at his cold dead soulless eyes he looks like the demon that he is.
And with that stupid dumb and dumber hair do he was easy to find.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 02:11:12 King
@King: Yes he is a terrorist but he is also a soulless monster and i believe their are more of these beast all over the United States and abroad.
what evil lurks in the hearts of men?
They even gave him a bullet proof vest.
The Shadow knows…
Mary Burrell
I caught that and thought…Its nice to see that they are concerned about his safety! I never see a bullet proof vest on a black man, that was arrested for killing black or white people…
@sondis: You are right about that
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 03:55:43 ken williams
GET RID OF ALL THOSE RACIST REPUBLICAN BIGOTS THAT’S IN OFFICE
FREAKIN NOW . TAKE DOWN THAT DEMONIC REBEL FLAG .
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:12:05 Mochasister
I think many churches are going to have to implement some type of security measures in light of this tragedy. We as Christians are supposed to welcome any and everyone into the Lord’s house. Even strange out of place white boys in a predominantly Black church. Unfortunately, evil has a way of coming as well. I have been at a couple of churches where some people with obvious mental issues interrupted the services that were going on. One lady even walked up to our Pastor as he was beginning his sermon. She only hugged him but she could just as easily have shot or stabbed him.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:16:16 TeddyBearSniffer
I notice you have the word “disaffected” in front of the white supremacist. I think this kid was very much still involved in their movement. So what gives?
Wow, this mass murderer gets a bullet proof vest. Why am I not surprised. After all those bikers were allowed to sit and text on their phones after their shoot out in Waco, TX. It’s amazing the levels of privilege given to whites even after committing horrific crimes.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:25:13 sharinalr
You know this situation brought out a supreme change of events among my black Facebook friends. One black chick who is always preach respectability politics called the act racist a terrorist and told white commenter that they have to be blind or dumb not to see this was a black/white thing. Another supposedly pro-black chick had the nerve. ….mean nerve to say that this dude respectfully surrendered that is why he was treated that way and had he been black he would have acted a fool and would have needed to be beaten. I thought…..in the sand her head goes.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:25:40 jefe
So do Americans still want to fear Islamic terrorists in incarceration or overseas more than domestic terrorists right in their own communities?
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 04:53:14 abagond
@ Glenn @ Lord of Mirkwood
Yikes! Thanks.
Mochasister
I think many churches are going to have to implement some type of security measures in light of this tragedy. We as Christians are supposed to welcome any and everyone into the Lord’s house. Even strange out of place white boys in a predominantly Black church.”
I didn’t anything about not welcoming any white people in a black church, You’re making an argument that i wasn’t making.
I said, that if i were there, i would have watched hiss ass like a hawk!
I didn’t say i would not welcome him in the church.
God also gave his people common sense to watch out for Satan’s disciples, not to just go about our lives, blissfully oblivious!
@ TeddyBearSniffer
That was in quotes because that is how the SPLC put it. As far as I and they know (so far), he was not formally part of any group.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 05:36:33 leigh204
mf looks evil. what is it with white guys that look like Lloyd from dumb and dumber going shoot ppl.
The hairdo and look just screams, “Something ain’t right.” Seriously, one look at him and you can already tell there’s something “off” with this scumbag.
And, ugh, his family is rallying around him and trying to paint him as some poor guy who was victimized by society. Typical explanation for this racist bullsh!t.
Wow, I hope this is a tasteless joke, but it appears some fools think that this Dylann Roof fella is, well, not even white. A reference to Rachel Dolezal, I’m sure.
Great link!
Excellent examples of Whitespeak that that article pointed out:
“a possible terrorist” – violence by Muslim people is systemic.
“we don’t know his mental condition”, “one hateful person”, “lone wolf” – violence by White people is NOT systemic.
The post on Whitespeak:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/whitespeak/
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 06:41:59 Uncle Milton
To leigh204:
but it appears some fools think that this Dylann Roof fella is, well, not even white.
I must have missed his corn row photos, he looks quite white to me, if I had to guess his ancestral country I’d say Northern Britain.
I think that you mistook my comment towards you as argumentative when it wasn’t. At least that was not my intention. I was merely trying to explain that as Christians we are to welcome everyone into His house. Everyone. Maybe they did find it odd that this young white person chose to be with them on a Wednesday night. Or maybe not. At any rate I was not arguing with you about whether or not you would have welcomed him in your church. I am not to be arguing with people I don’t know over the internet. My apologies if I came off like I was.
Correction : I am not one to be arguing with someone I don’t know over the internet.
Mochasister:
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 09:33:03 mike4ty4
In case anyone didn’t think there was enough evidence to show that “I have black friends” does not absolve one of racism, here’s the smoking gun.
Whoa! I was just talking about this very thing with a white associate of my over the phone last night!!!
I explained everything in this article, word for word!
She mentioned not reading up on it yet and only hearing about it through co-workers. When making a comment, she said, “hmm he must have some mental illness”
I then educated her on how that is typical of the white media to give white men that commit mass murders, a pass!
I went on to say, this is how white lawyers can use the insanity plea to get off white killers but black killers can never use such a plea.
I also mentioned how deliberate and calculated this mass murder was, so he wasn’t mentally ill, if he had the mental capacity to plain this murder in the way he did.
He planned to escape, so he knew what he did was wrong, that’s why he fled!
She understood what i was saying and conceded that it made sense and that she meant no harm as she didn’t know all the facts.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 11:36:34 Buddhuu
Justice for Roof? Shame about that vest. I don’t believe in executions by the state (any state), and I dislike violence in general. That said, if Roof’s life were to be cut short at the hands of an aggrieved individual I would consider that to be a small measure of justice.
If he is killed by the state it will be for their PR purposes. Any “justice” under those circumstances will be coincidental. Presuming his guilt, the community he harmed are the only people who would deal with him for honest motives. Convict him then shove him out the door of the Charleston court house and give the cops a day off.
It’s always maddening when a white person commits a heinous crime and his upbringing is questioned. His actions already show what kind of person he is.He’s pure evil and I hope he burns in hell.
Well played in your explanation.
As a side note white people are now trying to play damage control in claiming racism is not here today, we hAve rights, etc.
Those tweets told me two things.
1. Whites do not accept mixed people as their own.
2. White people are full of shit.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 14:52:28 lifelearner
WP are so vested in the system of white supremacy to a blinded point of their ultimate demise. It is only a matter of time.
I hope this dude gets life without parole. May he spend every waking moment in a jail with a cellmate named JaQuan aka “Killah” that will be his main squeeze.
Death row inmates don’t share cells
I don’t want him to get the death penalty. I want him to live the rest of his life out in a jail cell rotting like the scum that fester on their toilet seats.
How about both? First he gets life… then at the end he gets executed?
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 15:37:53 blakksage
I really pity my home folks sometimes. Within the Emanuel African Methodist Church, there is a picture of a white Jesus on the wall. In reality, that is in fact the image of the beast in the name of Cesare Borgia, a son bore by Pope Alexander VI through his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei. White Jesus was painted by Leonardo da Vinci after being commissioned by Pope Alexander. Had my folks been aware of this, they would’ve either been watching him like a hawk as Sondis suggested or they would’ve shoved him back out of the church or even called the police.
On the other hand, you get silly ass white folks foolishly say things like: It doesn’t matter what Yahawa (God) or (Yahawashi’s (Jesus) skin color was.” Darn it, well if it doesn’t matter, why is the image always white? It does freaking matter because people will then know whether to relax up or to keep their guards up when an angel of death come amongst them. My people were too comfortable with allowing this psychopath into their space and certainly was deceived.
CHRISTIANITY IS A MURDEROUS RELIGION. Go and ask the older Native Americans. Go and ask older black Americans who hasn’t been put under the spell of Cesare Borgia. Go and ask the older population who remember the Taino Indians of the Arawak people.
Revelation 1:14 says: 14 His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire.
Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which DECEIVETH THE WHOLE WORLD: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
The image on the wall has long stringy hair, the image of the beast, this is just the opposite of what the Bible reveals and Dylan Roof is essentially one of the angels of death. Jesus was all about spreading the gospel, His words had nothing to do with promoting Christianity. His purpose was all about keeping God’s commandments. And to put an incorrect image of Him on the wall of a house of worship is blasphemy to the utmost.
I HOPE AND PRAY THAT MY PEOPLE WAKE UP AND BEGIN TO PRAY TO THE TRUE GOD, THE MOST HIGH, YAHAWA and know that us blacks in Amerika are of the tribe of Judah, the Israelites the Bible speaks of.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 15:39:53 Ben Munday
If he gets life in prison, he will be welcomed with open arms by the local skinhead, Nazi population. He will have found a home. Most people don’t see it this way. They just say toss him in jail and let him rot. A fine example of: be careful what you ask for. The death penalty is the way to go with this monster.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 16:36:43 Claude Jordan
No vest on Lee Boyd Malvo! Says so much about how our society’s laws and how they perceive who’s worth protecting while innocent until proven guilty.
This kid puts as all to shame.
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/charleston-church-massacre-victims-grieving-son-121924488567.html
things are going back to the way they were before, people got too comfortable and complacent.
Then: black folks not allowed in pools, arrested or having acid poured on them as a result.
Now: McKinney,Tx black kids attacked for being at a pool and harassed by a cop.
Then: Birmingham church bombing
Now: the Charleston massacre
Then: lynching
Now: they cover it up and call it suicide
Things are going backwards, history repeats itself…
And the interesting thing about all this that white people will continue to act naive about is……he likely got all his hate and anger from “I’m not racist but..” white people that are all over the internet making racist and stereotypical remarks and not stormfront or some other racist site.
on Fri Jun 19th 2015 at 21:54:15 Gen
Big surprise, entitlement and inadequacy rear their heads. Because being white should be enough to stop you from being a loser.
Exactly. White people really expected us to turn a blind eye and the moment that stop happening we became a major problem.
I honestly don’t believe anything the family says. I think they will happily spin a lie or make up a story if it will help this dude in some way.
Are you saying they might try to use some kind of emotional distress angle?
I do. They are pulling out all the stops. Even other white people, seems to be trying to look for an angle. Anything to say it was not racism and he was alone.
Somehow i get the impression this nut has an account on stormfront
I think they don’t want to deal with the fact that those same people they love whether it be on tv, in sports, music, or their friends and relatives who make racist jokes and say racist things could act on it. In their world saying racist things has no correlation to doing racist things, it is why they can dismiss and say don’t be offended when white celebs put on blackface or tweet something. To them the kkk is racist but the everyday white person surely cannot be, since they are not acting on it, or at least not being caught acting on their racist views.
Racism starts out as thoughts, perfect example is Columbus, he thought the natives were too trusting and naïve and would make good slaves.
Then it turns into plotting, he starting plotting ways to exploit them and enslave them. Next is the gathering of resources to carry out the plan. Columbus asked for more men and more supplies. The next step is to carry it out, he had the natives look for gold and worked them to death.
The final step is to have a system in place to maintain “order” by showing how powerful they are and making the victims feel powerless. He did this by cutting off hands, killing, chasing them down with dogs, when they did not come up with enough gold.
I see what your saying.Though I feel the family threw that out there to deflect from a bigger issue here. Which is that more than likely the family openly spoke of or believed that too. It is easier for them to paint him as the racist…I mean troubled kid, so as to act as if they are “good” white people who loves everyone.
I’ve been reading the articles and the comments (as much as I can stomach) and of course that angle was already in play so I wouldn’t be surprised if the family tries to draw that card. Though I’m inclined to believe the cousin’s account since he(Dylann) had enough of an entitlement issue to believe random strangers’ mere existence was taking something from him and thus they needed to die.
Exactly! I touched on this earlier up thread. Some (many, too many it seems) white people perform all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid any scrutiny of their way of life because heavens forbid that they’ve developed some pretty warped tendencies after several hundred years of shameless embellishing, scapegoating, silencing, raping, murdering and thieving.
From this very article:
“He made a lot of racist jokes..”
Is it normal to say racist things but not be racist? How does that work? Lol.
I don’t doubt it. I’m sure they cooed softly into his angry little ears.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 00:47:44 sharinalr
This might sound odd, but I actually have to agree with them in a sense. The reason being is because white society is using them as the racist boogie men. Making it seem as if the only way Roof could have acquire such behavior is from them and their kind. They are racist pos, but Roof got his attitude and behavior from average American whites.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 01:09:25 Mary Burrell
All i could hear some white co-worker remark today at lunch in our breakroom as this tragedy blathered on Fox News today was “how young he was” How he had ruined his life and shaking their heads. I was not surprised at this behavior because this is the mindset of the majority white populace. I didn’t get outraged at this, however i thought it was kind of interesting. I have come to expect this.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 01:53:02 TheHipHopRecords (@TheHipHopRecord)
This is what the Judge said to Dylan Roof in the first live link up
“We have victims, 9 of them, but we also have victims on the other side…victims on this young man’s side of the family.”
What ? Are you serious ? The judghe showing sympathy for him ?
THIS IS A TEST CASE IN WHITE SUPREMACY
But I’m not suprised or shocked
In every situation, whites think they are the ones getting mistreated. “Those mean blacks, calling us racists when we do racist things. How dare they !!”
They value victim status because they’re a cult, and that’s how cults work. A cult can never be the oppressor, it always has to be oppressed. That’s what keeps the members insular, they have to stay in the cult because they’re being attacked by forces from outside. Every bunch of bad guys has to think they’re the good guys. The Ku Klux Klan thinks they’re the heroes. The Nazis thought they were the good guys.
It’s twisted, but it’s how many whites think. They can’t admit the truth because then they’d have to give up the victim status they’ve reserved for themselves. And they desperately need that if they’re going to preserve the f.u.cked-up lie that is their view of the world.
Despite the world of outrageous privilege whites generally live in, they think they’re getting the short end of everything. It’s mind-boggling that they could think that, but, it’s really how they see the world.
Dylan Roof ?
He’ll plead insanity, meaning he won’t get the death penalty. Even if he goes to the slammer. He’ll be hero aryan nation groups.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 01:55:18 leigh204
@ Mary Burrell:
If I read/hear one more thing about this horrible massacre as “how could such a thing have happened?”, I am going to scream.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 06:11:13 King of Trouble
Well we all know that since it is 2015, we have a black president racism is dead! Soon we are going to find out that it wasn’t racism but some kind of mental condition that had been left untreated.
Never mind the his friends casual saying that Roof was just a good old conservative southern guy. Who crack a few of those jokes that we never take serious. Which means people around him were probably cracking those jokes.
@ Kiwi, I love how the article puts it as “Black guy takes his girl” was she ever his girl or just someone he lusted after.
I just feel sorry for those church members, his mind all set, his heart closed they received him with open arms. It is a shame to see what really lurks in the the heart of this country.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 06:11:38 Origin
@Pumpkin
I know. It’s frustrating to think about it. It goes back to what Gen said:
…white people perform all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid any scrutiny of their way of life because heavens forbid that they’ve developed some pretty warped tendencies after several hundred years of shameless embellishing, scapegoating, silencing, raping, murdering and thieving.
They do what they want to fill their bellies then then they create a legal, historical, mythological, and religious framework that justifies it all. By the time whites are finished, the people who had they victimized deserved it, by their account. The villification of the victim on an individual level in cases such as Trayvon Martin/John Crawford/Tamir Rice is a smaller-scale reflection of their character assassination of whole cultures after whites raped, pillaged, and enslaved. It’s the culturally endorsed pattern of thought. I expect it all the time and I’m never disappointed.
One of the more creative victim blaming statements I read was that Pastor Pinckney contributed to his own death by voting against allowing concealed carry in churches.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/19/guns-church-charleston_n_7621988.html
Cotton [NRA board member] wrote [on a forum] that the victims “might be alive if he had expressly allowed members to carry handguns.”
A conservative radio host named Bryan Fisher also tweeted:
Misguided bans on guns in houses of worship turned this black church in SC into a shooting gallery. Nobody could shoot back.
Time to allow concealed carry in churches. #BlackLivesMatter
How do you even respond to that? There was a time when I would have been shocked but now I have accepted their amorality as chronic.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 07:01:50 tulio
Is there any proof that he had black friends? Have any of them stepped forward?
They have officially pulled the drug defense.
^ Wow, that’s BS! Last time I heard, drugs don’t make you plan to murder innocent people months before. It’s a weak and pathetic excuse.
I fully agree. I find it hilarious though. They are pulling out everything. Will he have been raped by a black man next?
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 13:04:08 v8driver
Like The Hip-Hop Records said it was just effing unbelievable to me that judge called the killer’s family “victims” really? I feel his family harbors these same beliefs. I don’t just buy this lone wolf narrative either. This stuff is not created in a vacuum. In a state that still allows the racist confederate flag to fly in front of the state capitol that’s pretty telling about the white majority population of that state in South Carolina. Not just S.C. but all over America. Many white want to bury their heads in the sand and just pretend this is an isolated incident and that it’s about mental illness. That mental illness card has been pretty convenient to pull out in regards to white people who perpetuate heinous crimes in this country. This is a “terrorist act as well as a hate crime. I was watching a clip of the candidates running for the office of POTUS and they had remarks about the Charleston tragedy. Each one never mentioned the word “racism” They all called it a case of the shooter being mentally ill. And one used religious freedom being violated. Mental illness and attacks on religious freedom are deflection tactics. None of them wanted to call this thing what it really is a hate crime. America especially a large majority of white Americans are never going to be honest about how racism is huge in this country and how it is destroying lives of black people.
^perpetrate crimes^^^
So guns, mental illness and attacks on religious freedom are going to be deflection tactics the msm will use to spin their narratives about this tragedy in Charleston. The friends and roommate knew about this psycho and it’s possible they too harbor the same mentality and ideologies as him. It’s amazing how in these incidents they always find a black so called friend. The he had black friends narrative. Zimmerman had a black friend, The woman in the Mckinney swimming pool incident who instigated the incident by hurling racial insults at the black teens had a black roommate who said she didn’t have a racist bone in her body. America needs to have a “Come to Jesus meeting.” White American are to cowardly to have this dialogue.
I find it funny they went from not really knowing what he said to he was talking about shooting up a school.
Exactly and we’ll said. I read an article asking white people to stop having these fake conversations about race. Most of the whites wanted to pull white woman’s tears. Then you had the blacks that wanted to coddle them. Then you had the blacks who did not have a problem laying down the truth.
I look at it like this….can you expect a liar to tell you the truth?
@sharinalr: Exactly. I don’t know what else needs to happen before white America can sit with black America and have an honest dialogue about race in this country. It’s so crazy too me how white Americans don’t want to address the elephant and his stinky sh**t in the room.
So he (Roof) was really angry about a black young man and a girl that Dylan Roof liked and the young girl chose the young black man instead of him. That is what he was angry about.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 16:35:36 bygodsloveandgrace
It’s been a while since I’ve been on Abagond’s blog. Primarily because I’ve spent the past year getting settled on the West Coast.
I’ve always appreciated many of your insightful perspectives on the diverse topics Abagond writes about. I’m so glad there’s a forum like this to express ourselves. So I hope to contribute to the conversation when possible.
A lot of you have covered how I’ve felt about Dylann Roof’s senseless, evil and IMHO terroristic act. My heart breaks for the victims and their families. As I watched some of the family members forgive him in court yesterday and pray for his soul… What strength and spirit that must have taken. I personally couldn’t have done it.
As Mary and others have highlighted, the MSM is already digging out the excuse playbook: mental illness, troubled young man, the act of a lone wolf, attack on religious freedoms; oh and my personal favorite (it’s Obama’s fault). Somehow Obama is to blame for declining race relations in the minds of some. In my Chris Rock voice, “I’m tired…tired..tired..tired.” I’m tired of the spin. We see it time and time again after these mass shootings by mostly White gunmen.
My question to everyone is, what can we/I do differently to call the media out on their BS? Sometimes I feel really hopeless because you can see the spin so clearly and very few challenge these reporters to shed balanced perspectives. Something needs to change. Where does one start?
So Dylan Roof’s young black friend said “The Dylan that i know doesn’t do things like this. He was not in his right mind”. Then the young black man goes on to say that Roof was going to shoot up a community college in Charleston but he couldn’t get in the school and went to the church instead.” What in the five fiery rings of hell is that about? If he knew about something like that he should have reported him. That might have saved those nine victims lives.
@bygodsloveandgrace: So good to read you. I always enjoyed your post.
Hi Mary! Glad to be back. I’ve enjoyed your posts as well.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 17:10:38 abagond
A website registered in Dylann Root’s name has a page with what are apparently his views on Blacks, Jews, Hispanics and East Asians:
http://lastrhodesian.com/data/documents/rtf88.txt
In the intro it says
“The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words “black on White crime” into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.”
The friend is a flat out liar and I have no doubt they were in on it or knew a lot more than he claims. They found a manifesto of his showing he racism. I will post the link soon.
Abagond beat me to it.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 17:36:17 jefe
In the webpage Abagond gave us the link for, at least he admitted whites pretending to be colour-blind is a farce. He said
The pathetic part is that these White people dont even admit to themselves why they are moving. They tell themselves it is for better schools or simply to live in a nicer neighborhood. But it is honestly just a way to escape n-gg-s and other minorities.
Here’s another link to Dylann’s manifesto and incredibly telling photos.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/20/1394948/-Racist-manifesto-and-selfie-collection-confirms-what-we-knew-Dylann-Roof-a-racist-terrorist#
Also, I found the below commentary interesting. Let’s see if politicians can have an honest conversation on race going into the 2016 elections.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2015/06/republicans_are_running_for_president_and_running_from_race.html
@bygodsloveandgrace: Hilary Clinton is saying all the right things especially in regards to the tragedy in Charleston. I guess that’s to secure votes from the black community. Jeb Bush has kind of side stepped the race conversation. Rand Paul said that it was an attack on religious freedom. I have to give Hillary some respect for at least acknowledging the tragedy.
@jefe: Yes he told the truth about whites being disingenuous about racial color blindness. Yes, whites do move away from the neighborhoods to get away from blacks. We have always known this.
So those with his ideology are called white nationalist. Dully noted.
Some white supremacist group will welcome him in prison and take him under their wing. This reminds me of that movie American X.
The Dylann Roof timeline illustrated with selfies:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/20/dylann-roof-visited-slave-plantations-confederate-landmarks-before-massacre.html
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 19:48:42 King
“I have to give Hillary some respect for at least acknowledging the tragedy.”
Sorry. I don’t trust her. I remember well what she and Bill were like the first time Obama ran. Nothing has changed. She is just wiser in how to win an election.
@King: I understand not trusting Hillary Clinton in comparison to her an the other politicians at least she did say race was problematic in this country. I don’t trust any politician. I just observed that the other candidates were deflecting and she at least did mention race was a huge problem in this country. i don’t think we can trust any of them.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 20:18:12 Slickline311
First timer on this blog and I’m finding it very educational and thought provoking. Also a little off-base and laughable at times, but the variety of opinions is what makes it an interesting read.
The one problem I have with the trend of comments being posted is that mostly all posts refer to this ‘Son of Satan’ as white people and this is an example of how evil white people are. Why is this not looked at for what its is. An evil human being committing an equally evil act against his fellow brothers and sisters. Plain and simple, it’s not all that complicated or steeped in mystery. Which is why it is beyond me why atrocities of America’s past are being used to try and drum up a debate on a subject that doesn’t even apply to this tragedy. The kind of talk going right now all over the internet and in our communities is one that’s being directed and manipulated by the small group of elites that control every ounce of our left and right mainstream media. The powers that be don’t want either you and I , or your family, your friends, your neighbors & coworkers to have the intellectual and unifying discussion that can produce real results for the change this country so desperately needs. Instead of what color this demon decided to show himself as or what privileges he may or may not be given. Why not look at why, and not the conservative white supremacist racist stormfront fan club excuse. A look at the real reason why, the deep rooted problems to the constant failing of our society. Our society as a whole, which each and every one of us has some skin in the game and should be deeply concerned with how the people in this country have become so void of what I believe is a natural and instinctual behavior to be good to your fellow man/woman. We’ve let our kids/next generation down by not holding onto and instilling in our youth, the basic morals of right and wrong. Instead we have let ourselves become victims of indoctrination and corporate controlled programming to give excuses for ones actions and to always blame the other person instead of reflecting inward to indenify and correct or at least work on bettering one’s spirit by turning our faults to triumphs overcame. Using those life lessons to pass down and guide the innocence of our children to stay innocent. In hopes they can become moral and spiritual leaders for their own families and communities while continuing the cycle. When after all most of our societal problems begin at home, whether you or I and anyone close to us are willing to admit.
This was a severely disturbed individual that in no way represents any financial class, or race of people. Any political affiliation or religious beliefs a group or sect of people might have. This was evil perpetrated by evil. We should ask ourselves why this young man did not have the moral aptitude to understand the pain and anguish he was about to inflict or human emotions that our Father/Higher Power put in us to be able to connect with his other children he’s blessed the world with.
In society today, it has become cool and in some areas of the country normal, to not believe in God or the higher power you’ve chosen to follow and guide you through life. We have let the rulers decide what is right and what is wrong. How we should educate and discipline our kids. We let them tell us our children are sick or not smart enough and won’t be productive members of their society unless you make ’em take some sort of drug. We have let them dictate how we should feel or what we should believe through the opinions of a few who truly believe they know what is best for you when they few have lived on a hilltop and view the everyday life of everyday Americans from afar. For generations this has been happening and a great majority of the population have finally began waking up from the effect and impact it has made on this country. As you can see from this latest tragedy of what seems to be an endless string of chaos feeding the coming implosion of our country and society, it has not worked for our betterment. However the rulers have maintained control through multiple generations and have only grown even more wealthy and dangerously more powerful.
I’ll end my long winded comment with this, the sooner we realize this is not a black-white-young-old-racist-non-racist issue. We as humans and children of something greater have to start taking responsibility of the society we’ve created and understand what the real problems are. Then and only then will we be able to correct the path we are on currently. That means stop the blaming, nothing ever got fixed by blaming and pointing fingers. Creating more chaos from chaos only leads to more chaos.We need smart intelligent and compassionate conversation with a whole lot of common sense thrown in. Don’t be afraid to speak the truth eventhough you may be crucified for it.
Before change comes truth.
Charleston Shooting Families Proved Grace Wins Out Over Hate http://thebea.st/1Gq6ZE7 via @thedailybeast
@ Slickline311
Let me save you some trouble about the term “White people.”as used here.
1) Rarely does it mean “ALL” White people.
2) Usually is shorthand for the White System/ White Power Structure
3) “Whiteness” is not real in the sense that it is an arbitrary designation
4) There always have been and are now regular White commenters here
So you must take all of those things under advisement as you read. Most of us are not saying that everybody with light skin and straight hair acts like this or does that.
As I mentioned “first timer” on the site.
Glad to know that now but it is misleading to passers-by and may turn some away from discussions that must include everyone to be successful.
@Slickline311
Now that king has gotten the basics out of the way I will attempt to politely address the other stuff. Some of it anyway.
You stated:
An evil human being committing an equally evil act against his fellow brothers and sisters. Plain and simple, it’s not all that complicated or steeped in mystery. Which is why it is beyond me why atrocities of America’s past are being used to try and drum up a debate on a subject that doesn’t even apply to this tragedy. The kind of talk going right now all over the internet and in our communities is one that’s being directed and manipulated by the small group of elites that control every ounce of our left and right mainstream media.
This line of thinking among people is part of the problem. Yes he was an evil individual who committed a racist act of terrorism, but need we ignore where he got this from? Heck no. What he said was things I have seen on this blog and many others from whites who say “I’m not racist” “I have black friends” “All lives matter” etc.This is the point where white people need to stop blaming it on his drugs, broken heart, psychotic mind, or the powers that be and own up to the fact that his racist attitude came from the average everyday white people. Until white people are ready to own up and stop pacifying people of color with loads of bs that mean nothing at the end of the day, then the divide will continue on and it won’t be because the elites are doing it. It will be because average whites refuse to take responsibility and call out racism instead of continued blind eyes.
I am afraid the only option we have for dealing with media is creating our own news outlets and media. The media will lie, you can ask for a correction, and it will continue to push that lie regardless. They are about money and money only. If the story does not sell then they are not interested.
@Sharnair
You are speaking to my point, for the most part. We all have to start taking responsibility for our own and our neighbors. Start holding people accountable. This kid had parents, where were they? Should we believe they too have the same hateful racist views as he? If so then they are just as culpable, if they don’t(since the dad ID’d him, I wouldn’t think they do)and stood idely by while he spiraled out of control, I say they are equally culpable from that point of view. His friend who said in his statement that he began talking of wanting to start a civil/race war. Why not hold him accountable for not speaking up. He also said that it was unlike him to speak that way. The point is, it’s not just white people that need to stand up for what is right and take responsibility. Every American who loves this country should take on that same responsibility.
Having a group of people admit they are inherently racist and that the racism they spread consumes and possess humans with unstable physcological mentalities. Driving them to commit heinous acts. May make some people feel better but will do absolutely nothing to resolve an issue that affects every American one way or another.
For the record I’m a mutt, with a black&white father and a white&Hispanic mother. I have the fortunate ability to look objectively from outside the box, and what I see runs a lot deeper than black & white.
on Sat Jun 20th 2015 at 22:16:34 V-4
So what do we know about this guy?
Possibly mentally deficient, got to 9th grade, took it twice and then dropped out.
Some kind of mental problem.
Supposedly taking a drug that can cause violent out-bursts.
Was mooning on a chick that went out with a black guy instead of him.
Killed mostly women.
An incredibly racist guy.
His two potential targets?
1. A college, where intelligent people could do things with their lives.
2. Black church
Went with the black church.
Things to consider; these guys often look similar don’t they?
Skinny dudes, bowl cuts and that far away/crazy look in the eye.
As for Lee Boyd not getting armor:
Ultimately the biggest problem with all these guys as for why they decide to go on a killing spree…..is they can’t get laid and their ego can’t handle it. Well; there’s all the other stuff too but that seems to be the number 1 qualifier here.
This is a long one guys. I was about to respond again to Pumpkin’s point about white projection but had to leave so this is two posts in one. Mary’s posts about the media’s deflection from Dylann Roof’s expressed motives, dishonesty about white racism and Roof – of all people – calling them out, also gave me ideas. IMO, it’s all related.
Guys, this BS is not about us but about white needs. It’s not that they’re afraid to tell the truth because they’re embarassed to admit their racism to us. No, no, hell no!!! They’re still racist and many express their views out of earshot of anyone who won’t challenge them. It’s not about fear of being ostracized either because the media is covering for someone who was openly racist and didn’t care.
However, there is a cultural narcicissm associated with whiteness that entitles whites to feel good about themselves or that their “shit don’t stink”. Part of the function of the media is to act as a funny mirror which hides their true reflection so they can live comfortably in that illusion on land they stole, and among people they enslaved, terrorized, or virtually exterminated. Any honest self-examination of their white ways would result in uncomfortable cognitive dissonance. That is why it doesn’t happen! White cognitive dissonance is a mouthful compared to “white guilt” but is more accurate. Guilt improperly implies contrition or remorse which is not the norm.
I grabbed this from Wikipedia:
In psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.
Leon Festinger’s theory of cognitive dissonance focuses on how humans strive for internal consistency. An individual who experiences inconsistency (dissonance) tends to become psychologically uncomfortable, and is motivated to try to reduce this dissonance—as well as actively avoid situations and information likely to increase it
IMO, whites experience cognitive dissonance on a cultural scale. This is why they also “project” as Pumpkin pointed out. They want to believe that they, as a group, are “good” even in the face of their fondness for theft and genocide. In order to arrive at the desired conclusion, despite all the contrary evidence, they must decide that everyone else is “bad”. This makes them deserving of the treatment whites meted out. They gain internal consistency of thought while they lose touch with reality; and humanity.
This also explains why white people have a big problem with being called racists but seem fine with a racist system. They recognize racism as “bad” so being called racist conflicts with their desired self-image. “I can’t be racist because I am not a bad person.” Therefore they find it uncomfortable when people bring up racism because of cognitive dissonance. It’s not shame since there is no associated feeling of regret. Rather, it’s a nagging awareness that their group self-image is inacurate and they don’t want to be reminded. This is why they get ANGRY and accuse YOU of “playing the race card” so you’ll shut up. It’s like the man who snatches the old lady’s bag then angrily argues that she’s a liar and he’s an entrepreneur after she yells “thief”.
The centuries of racism have had obvious effects on black people but whites have not escaped unscathed. If they had any humanity to begin with, they had to sacrifice it in order to create and sustain a monstrously exploitive system which is incompatible with empathy.
Isn’t that almost literally selling your soul to the devil? That is the price they paid. It’s ironic, though entirely just, that the ones who presided over a dehumanizing system were dehumanized as a consequence.
We never lost our empathy and we were born into a system designed to assuage white cognitive dissonance. In this hostile environment, we have been conditioned to avoid making whites uncomfortable because that could have negative consequences. Wasn’t Reuben Stacey lynched for startling a white woman by asking for water? It’s not surprising that the media can find a “black friend” to help downplay Roof’s racism.
It also explains why black people need healing spaces away from whites. We have entirely different recuperative needs. There can be no equivalence between the oppressor and the oppressed. We need our experiences validated while their pathologies drive them to deny us that very thing. Trying to get water from a stone only leads to endless frustration. Many white people who claim to be against racism still want to feel coddled, like a hero, made comfortable and placed on a pedestal. Their presence triggers the black conditioning to take care of whites’ feelings instead of “keeping it real”. If you make them upset you might become “worse than Hitler” over expressing rage at an unprovoked church massacre.
Finally, there may be unexpected empirical evidence for the theory: Rachel Dolezal. I didn’t plan on mentioning her here but, in retrospect, she is walking, talking, cognitive dissonance. However, she chose to resolve her internal inconsistencies by portraying herself as black (people are complex so I’m not discounting other reasons). This allowed her to examine the facts about white racism while distancing herself personally from it. Furthermore, she found communities that dealt with racism issues just not from the perspective she needed. So she performed mental gymnastics to justify lying about her experiences and background. It probably felt nice to be admired as a heroic light-skinned black woman working hard for social justice. That is the narcissistic element because that persona was false. Dolezal may seem delusional but virtually all whites are, just in a different way. We are more accustomed to its other expressions.
“many express their views out of earshot of anyone who WOULD challenge them”
“lastrhodesian.com” down
http://web.archive.org/web/20150620184505/http://LastRhodesian.com
click on the text link to see the article abagond is referring to, i’m not sharing it
You know all this guys friends, black even, are saying they didn’t think he was racist.
It’s like, he had a manifesto, he made jokes, he wore the badge, I mean he was blatantly, “openly” racist.
But because he was basically polite and not an ass-hole to black people he couldn’t be racist?
Its like, dude just because the guy has basic manners….it’s still possible he can be racist.
As for the people who say he might be mixed-race.
Possibly but he would have to be an octoroon or something. He might not even be aware of it.
he’s a true neo-na*i, the text file name is rtf (rich text format?) and “88” etc, *sigh*
well there’s a true lack of white guilt starin ya right in the face, with a gun
Was watching ABC news and his childhood friend from grade school to middle school Caleb Brown who is bi-racial. “He wasn’t like this always he just recently came in this mind.”
After viewing the ABC news footage and seeing Roof’s childhood friend Caleb Brown who is bi-racial it occurred to me maybe because Brown who is bi-racial probably doesn’t understand white supremacy and is naive just like the poster Slickline 311.
If you look at the victims, was he targetting women more?
Yes I saw Hillary’s speech today. She’s saying all the right things. Whether that translates into new policies for gun control and domestic terrorism remains to be seen.
On the GOP side, I can’t take Rand Paul, Rick Perry and others seriously. They have and always will be out of touch on race.
@sharilnar.. fair point. Unfortunately we do have some media outlets speaking to our issues but they’re not as heard as the MSM. You’re right it’s all about the $$. So we’d need to find an organized work to write to network’s corporate sponsors. Let our spending power do the talking.
v-4 made a very good point here:https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/dylann-root/#comment-287271
This kid had parents, where were they? Should we believe they too have the same hateful racist views as he? If so then they are just as culpable, if they don’t(since the dad ID’d him, I wouldn’t think they do)and stood idely by while he spiraled out of control, I say they are equally culpable from that point of view.”—Apparently you did not read his manifesto, but even so that does not mean his parents are magically not racist. That just means they are either A) shocked he acted on it or B) trying to cover their tracks of where he got his racist views from.
“His friend who said in his statement that he began talking of wanting to start a civil/race war. Why not hold him accountable for not speaking up”—I sure do believe he should be as I believe I said that before on this thread.
“The point is, it’s not just white people that need to stand up for what is right and take responsibility.”—Why should black people take responsibility for white peoples inability to call out racism? That is a problem that plagues whites. Why is it every time the call for whites to own up leads to whites saying “we all should” after contradictions such as “everyone should deal with their own group”?
“Having a group of people admit they are inherently racist and that the racism they spread consumes and possess humans with unstable physcological mentalities. Driving them to commit heinous acts. May make some people feel better but will do absolutely nothing to resolve an issue that affects every American one way or another.”—Admitting is one thing we are calling for action and this is not some people this is for every non-white person. White racism and supremacy is the issue. One you don’t seem vested in fixing.
“For the record I’m a mutt, with a black&white father and a white&Hispanic mother. I have the fortunate ability to look objectively from outside the box, and what I see runs a lot deeper than black & white.”—I don’t care if you were Jesus. What you look like does not mean snot to me who can not prove or disprove such assertions.
@TheHipHopRecords , @ Mary
The judge’s comments were totally inappropriate IMO.
I’ve also seen some of the chatter on the conservative news blogs and some people really do feel for Dylann’s family. His sister cancelled her wedding this weekend. The conservative blogs are saying she turned Dylann in to the FBI. She’s getting tons of support from people writing her saying how sorry they feel for her situation. Not ONE comment about the 9 people who lost their lives.. smh
By the way, there is no equivalence between black anger and white racism. For the same reason, you cannot understand the violence of slave revolts without the context of the evil plantation system.
White people love to reframe the argument in terms of “hate” so they can claim that black people hate too. The onus then falls on black people not to hate whites. If only you didn’t hate white people they wouldn’t be racist. Say that out loud and digest how ludicrous it is.
Projection again.
@bygodsloveandgrace: That is what’s messed up about that nothing about the victims. This too me is “whiteness” And by that i mean all they can see is this situation through their white lens. The judge and the white people who have this type of narrow mindset are the problem. This is infuriates me and then they want to know why we are angry.
How the hell can you ignore the dead victims? WTF?
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 00:09:22 Mary Burrell
@bygodsloveandgrace: They are true sons and daughters of the confederate south.
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 00:17:37 Origin
I remember a lot people were saying Adam Lanza’s mother deserved what she got and they didn’t consider her a victim. After all, she left her guns unsecured and her son later used them to slaughter (mostly white) young children. Many people were angry and thought that bore some of the blame because she should have known the risks.
I wonder how many people feel sorry for Roof’s family despite the reports than his father bought him a gun for his birthday.
Oy typos everywhere
“…thought that *she* bore some fo the blame…”
“…despite reports *that* his father…”
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 00:48:19 sharinalr
@ bygodsloveandgrace and Mary
Very well said and I agree I have seen much of the same. Those that I have seen mention the victims always slide in some “they did it too” remark. One example is one white lady made the comment to pray for the victims, but then went on to say blacks are not innocent and they had slaves. When responses came in she would say “we should focus on the victims.” She wanted to appear moral and loving when I reality she was nothing short of a racist pos.
@Origin: I am sure it sucks to where in their position today. I am sure there are a great many that sympathize with Roof’s family. I haven’t heard his family express sorrow for their evil son’s heinous actions.
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 01:28:28 bygodsloveandgrace
Unfortunately some of those folks show us how inhumane they are. They don’t value Black life. Therefore, it’s not even a thought to mention of think about the actual victims.
The children of the confederate South have passed down the traditions for each generation. It’s so ingrained that I don’t think some people can be reached. The cycle never ends.
@sharinalr.. I’ve seen similar comments too. Instead of just owning that this guy was a racist killer, you’ll have someone brining up Black people owning slaves or black on black crime or any of 100s of deflection points. The further they can shift and deflect, the easier it is to deny the truth. Quite frankly, I don’t always have the energy to deal with people who think like that; especially online.
NBC is reporting that the same judge that expressed sympathy for Roof’s family was reprimanded for using the “n-word” in court back in 2003.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/judge-who-presided-over-dylann-roof-bond-hearing-was-reprimanded-n379066
Gosnell was reprimanded by the state Supreme Court in 2005 for telling a black defendant in 2003, “There are four kinds of people in this world: black people, white people, rednecks, and n******.”
I think Mary Burrell knew what this guy was about right away. It’s strange for a judge to express sympathy for the familly of a mass murderer at his arraignment.
on Sun Jun 21st 2015 at 03:49:30 v8driver
@pumpkin octoroon? not a word i think i ever used… this cat is a white supremacist. maybe v4 you meant, i didn’t read eveyrthing here
At first, I had the impression that Roof just burst in and started shooting. When I learned that he sat in that study for 1 hour it took it to another level for me. Unless I’m mistaken, this was a pretty intimate gathering rather than a huge church service. I could never murder a dozen or so people that I hung with for an hour after they welcomed me. That’s long enough to learn everyone’s names.
I just saw a report on NBC that he told police he almost didn’t go through with it because “everyone was so nice to him”.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/charleston-church-shooting/dylann-roof-almost-didnt-go-through-charleston-church-shooting-n378341
That, right there, is the story of the last several centuries of history in a nutshell.
Columbus said this about people the Spanish later exterminated:
“..they are so unsuspicious and so generous with what they possess that no one who has not seen it would believe it, never refusing anything that is asked for and they also offer themselves and show so much love that they would give their very hearts.”
“In the first isle I discovered I took by force some of the natives.”
The events surrounding the Charleston massacre say a lot about black people and even more about how white racism. Roof went there on a mission and he followed through and slaughtered almost all of those people despite the fact the they welcomed him kindly. Regardless of white spin, their racism is not a reaction to what’s wrong with us. It’s generated 100% from their cultural imperatives and it’s 100% their pathology.
Anyway, I have to take a break from this. I just need to clear my head and enter a place of peace right now. Take care everyone. Be safe. Hug the people you love.
on Mon Jun 22nd 2015 at 00:10:24 Origin
Yeah, it’s stressful. I was up late the night I found out about it too.
Charleston’s church massacre is direct and sickening. We have been experiencing white terrorism consistently even as it manifests in different forms over the centuries. Even attacking a black chuch not a new tactic in the white terror campaign. Heck, they leveled the prosperous black part of the city of Tulsa in the 1920s. They dropped bombs from airplanes! It’s also sickening that black people die from the indirect effects of the white system of racism every day. I don’t think most of us are awake to where this fits into the larger pattern so that’s frustrating.
I’m like you. I feel like we have to take advantage of our freedom to stop supporting this system. Even if our divestment starts out with tiny steps, it can grow into something.
on Mon Jun 22nd 2015 at 01:13:15 Mz.Nikita
@Pumpkin, agreed 1,000,000%
on Mon Jun 22nd 2015 at 07:18:26 Dylaan Roof: As a South African I am not suprised | African in the 21st century
[…] Dylann Roof. […]
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 09:19:04 mike4ty4
I wonder why the media doesn’t launch into campaigns to try to dig up any sort of negative thing they can find from their past like they do with Black people so often.
This guy is a THUG, plain and simple. Anyone who called Eric Garner or whoever a thug should go take a look at this REAL THUG.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thug
thug, n.
a cruel or vicious ruffian, robber, or murderer.
Think that sums it up. This attack was most definitely vicious and most definitely murder. And there is NO excuse for it.
Racist-in-arms “defends” this thug as follows:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/white-separatist-dylann-roof-sympathizer-calls-victim/story?id=31962334
Dylan Roof is a victim in regards to he was a white man born to a society that actively hates him and hates his people, hates his culture and his identity,
LOLZORZ! Like the most privileged and powerful group on the whole planet is hated by the whole “society” so much that it’s reduced to a terribly downtrodden state. I could name another group that is not only TRULY hated by the whole society, one whose “people, culture, and identity” are TRULY despised but which THIS racist AND this THUG are complicit in the HATRED of.
“Dylann Roof” is a THUG of Thugs and should be HANGED. #HangEmHigh ! Hanging is a very fitting punishment here, considering that’s what his ideological and maybe even biological (who knows what’s in his family tree?) predecessors did to thousands who were far less deserving of it.
@ bygodsloveandgrace
When Michael Brown was killed, she was silent:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/ferguson-know-them-by-their-tweets/
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 13:13:38 jefe
^ That was before she announced she was running for President.
^ Exactly.
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 18:25:49 Michael Cooper
With all that’s been going on in the mainstream media with the nation’s latest massacre and the pulling down of the Confederate flag in South Carolina many of these right-winged politicians are talking with CAREFUL words. I guess they don’t want to shake any waters – translated as upset their fan base.
on Wed Jun 24th 2015 at 19:25:59 resw77
“I feel his family harbors these same beliefs.”
Yeah, it’s the same old story. The victim’s family pretends they knew nothing about it and can’t understand where their boy went wrong. He’s only been a legal adult for a few years, and no one believes he became racist overnight.
I just got around to watching some of a video called “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” by Dr Joy De Gruy Leary. I was excited to hear her touch on cognitive dissonance as a reason for white dehumanization of others. I may have been following the right trail there.
John Newton…Amazing Grace. Well let’s figure out what happened before he got Amazing Grace.
He said, “Slaves are lesser creatures without Christian souls and this are not destined for the next world”.
Now what becomes important about this kind, and you’ll see it both in American history as well, there is this kind of dehumanization of African people. Because you gotta ask yourself this question, how do people who deem themselves superior, who see themselves as the civilizers, who recognize themselves as the what we call the “Manifest Destiny”, the “White Man’s Burden” of civilizing the rest of the races, how do you reconcile being the superior being and engaging in barbaric behavior?
What that produces is something called cognitive dissonance. […] Cognitive dissonance is reallly thinking discord. It’s when you begin to feel conflict between what you believe or understand or hold to be true and you are then faced with behaviors, either in yourself or others, that conflict with your fundamental belief. It produces cognitive dissonance. Human beings don’t function well with cognitive dissonance. You must remove the cognitive dissonance in order to function. So in order for people to perpetuate slavery and to perpetuate that whole system that lasted for centuries you had to remove all dissonance associated with it. “Can’t be anything wrong with me. Certainly isn’t us. We’re the civilizers. We’re the superior so it must be them. Oh yes, well you see they don’t even have souls. No I can go to sleep because I’m not really dealing with a human being.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRQ-Ci6LwVw&t=22m11s)
on Sat Aug 6th 2016 at 00:22:57 Herneith
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/08/04/report-dylann-roof-assaulted-in-jail.html?via=newsletter&source=CSPMedition
on Tue Dec 20th 2016 at 23:33:12 Michelle
I don’t remember people talking about who his main influences were but the CCC was a big one. Also pay attention to the link between the CCC and Steve Bannon. http://wonkette.com/609447/white-power-charleston-church-murderer-convicted-wonder-where-he-got-self-radicalized
on Wed Dec 21st 2016 at 09:13:29 munubantu
This guy, Dylann Roof, is sick.
Recently, during court procedures he laughed when invited to think about what he did. He seems to show no remorse at all. It seems to me that he will be punished with the death penalty.
See,
http://abcnews.go.com/US/accused-charleston-church-shooter-dylann-roofs-video-confession/story?id=44070131
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 01:46:12 sharinalr
I don’t think he deserves the death penalty. Torture yes.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 02:15:54 Mary Burrell
One part of me thought put him with the black inmates eating and sleeping and breathing with black inmates. That would drive him to kill himself. Sticking a needle in his arm and letting him just go to sleep is too humane. He needs to suffer as he has no remorse for what he did. He is a rabid mongrel and needs to be treated like the animal he is. I suppose it’s a waste of the tax payer’s money to keep this waste of skin alive breathing oxygen. Maybe the rabid mongrel needs to be put down.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 02:54:53 Fan ...
“What are people’s thoughts?”
MIRKWOOD – is that YOU hiding out under a new name??
I could be incorrect but if I am I don’t imagine it’s by much… Fifty to five hundred years ago the multiple killing of 9 African descended people by a white person wouldn’t have been much of a crime (aside from the loss of monetary value …) or if it were it would have been covered up. Perhaps Amerikan society moved forward one or two inches in that span of time??
How many more inches and hundreds of years will it take to remove the rest of the color based mistreatment (white supremacy/racism) from the world?
Roof, in my opinion, deserves to live the next 100 years in a prison where all the inmates, staff – everyone – is Black. (Though I have not heard of such a segregated place in present day Amerika!) Let him exist as the sole white person in an ocean of Blackness. Death by execution for Roof would be too cheap and too easy a price to pay for what he did.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 02:58:53 abagond
I do not believe in the death penalty.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 03:02:03 Herneith
He should be gut shot! No, the bullet is too good for him! Perhaps they can segregate him in one of those prisons where he is on 23 hours lockdown. I agree with Fan and Mary.
on Wed Jan 11th 2017 at 03:44:08 Afrofem
“One part of me thought put him with the black inmates eating and sleeping and breathing with black inmates. That would drive him to kill himself. Sticking a needle in his arm and letting him just go to sleep is too humane.”
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Thu Jul 16th 2015 by abagond
Sandra Bland (1987-2015), an unarmed, suburban, middle-class Black American woman, died in police custody on July 13th 2015 – three days after a traffic stop.
The police say she hanged herself. Her family and friends do not believe that for a second.
On July 9th, she left suburban Chicago, where she grew up, to drive to Prairie View A&M University in Texas, where she went to university and where she was to start work doing student outreach.
On July 10th, after she arrived in Prairie View, Texas, the police stopped her for failing to signal while changing lanes.
The police said she became “combative”. They arrested her for “assault on a public servant.”
An eyewitness, her friend Malcom Jackson, said the police were forceful from the start:
“After he pulled her out of the car, [he] forced her and tossed her to the ground, knee to the neck, and arrested her.”
Citizen video shows her pinned the ground being arrested by two police officers. You can hear her say:
“You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that? I can’t even hear.”
You can also hear her saying “motherfucker”.
On July 13th, three days later, before her family could bail her out, she was found dead. Jailers, who are supposed to check on their prisoners at least once an hour, gave her breakfast at 7.00am, talked to her at 8.00am, and found her dead at 9.00am. The police said it was “self-inflicted asphyxiation.”
That very same jail also had a “hanging” in 2012.
Within those three days the police could have easily looked her up on Facebook and seen her video series #SandySpeaks, where she speaks about racism and – police violence.
On her Facebook page it said:
“Now legalize being Black in America.”
Her family wants to get an independent autopsy done.
Prairie View A&M is a part of the Texas A&M system. It was founded during Reconstruction and produces more Black architects than any place in the nation. It is where Mr T. and Terry Ellis of En Vogue went. It is over 90% Black in a town that is over 90% Black.
But it is in Waller county, which is 71% White, a place of small towns out in cotton country, north-west of Houston. And the power structure is racist:
In 2007, Glenn Smith, now the county’s police chief but then the police chief of Hempstead, the county seat, was suspended without pay for two weeks and put on probation for six months for his “humiliation and mistreatment of young African American males.” That did not stop him and he was fired.
In 2014, Elton Mathis, the county’s district attorney, was accused of texting, “My hounds ain’t even started yet dumb ass,” to Rev. Walter Pendleton. Pendleton had asked for information on prosecution rates by ethnicity in the county, saying that Mathis practised “selective prosecution”. Mathis: “You are too stupid to know what that word means.” Mathis stands by his words.
The police are investigating themselves. Mathis would be the one to prosecute them – or selectively not.
#WhatHappenedToSandraBland.
Update (July 24th): The dashcam video was made public. In it, Brian Encinia, the arresting officer, abuses his power, threatening her with a taser (“I will light you up!”) to arrest her and, once she was already in handcuffs, apparently threw her to the ground (off screen).
There is also a jailhouse video of the hallway in front of her cell when they discover that she is dead.
The county is making bits of the autopsy public (why not the whole thing?). They are pushing hard, too hard, the idea it was a suicide. The family is getting their own autopsy done.
Some say that in the mugshot (pictured above) she was either dead or lying on the floor. She was arrested on Friday, called her family on Saturday, but not on Sunday as expected. She was found dead the following morning.
The Justice Department is “monitoring” the investigation.
Update (July 28th): The district attorney has appointed two lawyers to act as “outside” observers. They have the power to investigate and bring findings before the grand jury.
The medical examiner says that Sandra Bland had high levels of marijuana in her blood at the time of death – so high that she had to have taken it while in jail!
Her booking video has been released.
Update (December 22nd): The grand jury will charge no one for Sandra Bland’s death. They heard more than eight hours of evidence. Bland’s mother: “I simply can’t have faith in a system that’s not inclusive of my family.” Source: NBCBLK.
For yet more updates, go to the Sandra Bland update post.
Sources: Mainly The Root (2015), Houston Chronicle (2014), Houston Chronicle (2007), US Census (2015), Wikipedia (2015).
YouTube: the citizen video
YouTube: Excerpts from #SandySpeaks
#SandySpeaks
other Sandra Bland posts
Sandra Bland dashcam video
Race and Waller County, Texas
Sandra Bland update
respectability politics
perfect victim
The Black middle-class in America
“It’s not race, it’s class!”
Sam Dubose – also in July 2015.
Oriana Farrell – an unarmed Black woman (with her children) shot at by police after a traffic stop. No one was killed.
Police brutality in Baltimore – Tyrone West also wound up dead after a traffic stop.
The biker gang shoot-out at Waco, Texas
The extremely incomplete list of unarmed Blacks killed by police
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 16:36:35 sondis
Wow! That was fast, Abagond. ^_^ You must have had it in the works, already? I put in a request for her story, just minutes before this post popped up!
Let me post the petition again on this post….
https://www.change.org/p/the-united-states-department-of-justice-attorney-general-loretta-lynch-take-over-the-investigation-into-the-death-of-sandra-bland-from-the-waller-county-texas-police-department?recruiter=13596734&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_sponsor-reason_msg&fb_ref=Default
Again, please sign the petition for Loretta Lynch to get involved, via DOJ.
We know there will not be a “REAL” investigation by the Texas police dept.
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 16:42:45 Death the Kid
I still remember freshman year when Waller police came to talk to us. They made sure to send the Black cops. Black, white, brown or this imaginary purple person white people always bring up, a cop is a cop.
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 16:47:01 abagond
It was already in the works.
I figured as much….. I am not surprised as you’re usually on top of the current events, when it comes to injustice across the country. @ : o l ) >
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 17:11:12 Mary Burrell
@Sondis I have been forwarding the link as well to my friends.
She was a strong advocate against police brutality, and if you view the YouTube she is very vocal which might have angered the arresting officer. I Believe they killed her.
Mary Burrell:
Thanks for forwarding the links…
Yeah, they killed her. I hope they don’t get away with killing her but when it comes to white people killing black people, i am very skeptical that justice will be served.
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 17:30:43 v8driver
RIP this makes no sense
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 17:54:51 Kushite Prince
This is so sad. I have no words. I’m really praying for my people right now. It’s getting worse every day. 😦
Signed. This is sickening and fucking infuriating. If we think things are bad now, wait until these parasites get control of the internet and people can’t share information freely. What kind of disgusting, warped bubble do you have to live in to think anyone would believe she did that to herself and to treat her the way she did from the get go? Just diseased people.
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 18:05:13 A
RIP Sista
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 18:11:34 sharinalr
This should be a message to the black middle class sheep who keep believing their status will save them. Obviously not.
@Sharinalr
The sheep is in for a wake up call. But to be honest they should’ve woken up by now. These killings have been going on for a while. What will it take for them to see the light?
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 18:40:42 Jim
She suffered from depression and PTSD.
“I’m suffering from something that some of you all may be dealing with right now. It’s a little bit of depression, as well as PTSD,” – Sandra Bland
One of those sun down towns that black people get killed in. Klan cou
KKK country that kind of town.
This is crazy. When I first heard this I was speed reading because I was on my way out thinking angrily “ain’t that a bitch”
But now that its settled in a bit i’m really, REALLY messed up over this. When is this sh!t gonna end?
That can also be code for the depression of the constant killing of black people.
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 19:44:11 rmanees
God rest Ms. Bland and my prayers go out to her family. These needless deaths are frightening enough on their own, but what’s really scary is knowing if it were not for these events being videotaped we’d have never heard about them at all. They would have been covered up the way these hate filled deaths of blacks at the hands of police have been covered up for decades. I have decided that I will video tape ANYTHING I see of a police encounter with a black person that looks in the least way inappropriate.
You’d think that by now these criminal, racist cops would realize that these days just about everyone over the age of 15 has a video tape camera on their person at all times: their cell phone. You’d think they’d realize that what they used to do in private, and what was kept private by their peers, is now subject to be captured on video and broadcast over the entire planet. I wish they were smart enough to realize that. Many of these needless deaths would not have happened. Unfortunately, they’re not smart enough to figure that out. That’s how blind and stupid this type of hatred is. Racism by definition is stupid—and so are they.
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 19:44:17 pbailey
She was suffering from depression back in March, Jim – four months ago. And that depression stemmed mainly from her unemployment, a problem that had been remedied once Prairie View hired her. She did not kill herself.
On top of that how did she get a hold of a plastic trash bag to hang herself?
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 19:54:06 ks
Classic police hustle – “failing to signal a lane change”. They must have been behind on their ticket quota.
The following sequence of events was even more ridiculous and shameful. RIP.
on Fri Jul 17th 2015 at 20:00:23 Uriel
R.I.P. Sandra Bland, you will be missed..
*missed.
@KS
What’s up? I agree. It is either failure to signal or did not fully stop at a stop sign.
Hey there! Indeed. But denial is an amazing thing. I know quite a few black folks who have all the right credentials and make a whole lot of money ($500+K and greater) and no matter how many times they got DWBed or passed up by cabs or followed around stores where they could buy anything, they still felt so long as they weren’t like those “other kind” of black folks nothing “really bad” would happen to them.
I most certainly hear you there. Some of the black people I know I have to check and see if they are pulling a Rachel Dolezal. I have to wonder what it will take for them to realize what is going on.
Anybody in police lockup is the legal responsibility of the supervising officers, period. There’s no way they aren’t behind this one way or another. By negligence at the very least but obviously by the method we all know in which she was taken out but every anchor on Fox News is lining up to deny.
@sharinalr,
Ha! Yep, look at old boy Cosby. The poster child for the lot of them. He’s probably still bewildered that they’re after him rather than those pants sagging hippity hopity pound cake stealing people. He’s probably doubly confused that nobody is even looking at his boy the OG King Mack Daddy Big Pimpin’ extraordinare himself – Hugh Hefner – who has been living an even bigger la vida loca than Cosby, and making money off of it, for 60 years! Funny how a lot of this supposedly happened at Playboy clubs and the mansion but ain’t nobody even glancing at Hugh.
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 00:48:31 Mary Burrell
Then they insult our intelligence by telling us she killed herself when we all know she was murdered.
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 00:52:32 Mz.Nikita
“What kind of disgusting, warped bubble do you have to live in to think anyone would believe she did that to herself and to treat her the way she did from the get go? Just diseased people.” @Gen, what type of Bubble indeed!? You nailed it right on the proverbial head!
..I too have signed and posted the petition for friends and family to see and sign as well, Rest In Power, Ms. Sandra Bland.. 😦
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 02:51:31 Origin
They murdered her.
I’m getting as cold as Pluto towards whites.
I literally don’t care anymore when tragedy strikes them and they die.
I overheard on the news yesterday that earth is losing the magnetic field’s protection and melanoma rates are increasing.
I lit up inside. Any way to speed it up?
Future generations may yet be free of them, even if most of us sleep.
I’m so over the lot.
All the historical atrocities unatoned for.
Ancestral connections severed.
Kidnapping.
Humanity denied.
Sexploitation.
Impoverishment.
No reparations.
Lynchings.
Burnings.
Church massacres.
Unfair sentencing.
Police KKKillings.
Unremitting hate.
Genocide?
We’d join the others who’ve lived alongside them on this very land.
Do we walk obliviously on the path those vanished people trod?
Do we welcome the final destination?
I honestly don’t know how some black people F with them. Y’all gotta explain that s*** to me. I sort of understand being able to look past it with someone you’re otherwise acquainted with but I’ll never understand actually seeking them out as a preference. Whose ideal lover is a wraith?
That pallid translucent skin is like walking death.
Their actions turn allegory into actuality.
It has often meant death to us, in fact.
It reddens like a stop sign when their emotions get aroused.
Nature’s STAY AWAY! Aposematism!
Yet we embrace.
Does love conquer death?
If you love death,
You die.
You just know they were enraged and scarlet-colored as they suffocated that sistah to death.
She was outspoken against police brutality and those kkkillers caused another fatality.
The power of her spirit making her strong;
She told them, she told them they were doing her wrong.
“Cower, in my hell! Don’t utter the truth!”
“I’ll shut you up yet N”, roared the brute.
The same entitled rage that fueled James Holmes
Took Sandra Bland’s life through no fault of her own.
Then the arrogant demon straight-up lied
And claimed she committed suicide.
Just like all the times the cops pulled the trigger
“Nobody will care that we killed a N”
“They’re not all bad”
“I have friends among them”
Hard to imagine German Jews
Had no friends among the Christians.
Once the apparatus is in place,
Death is impersonal and remote.
The tipper of the first domino has rotted in the ground
And his beneficiaries just declined to shift the others
All hands are clean.
All eyes averted.
“We never owned slaves”
“I had friends among them”
This is just a raw expression.
I’m just typing it as it comes.
No filter. I’m sick of this.
America fought for independence over less.
I feel like a tipping point has to come.
Black people are capable of collective violence too.
Reluctant, but capable.
America despises the undeserved gift.
Spurns it with provocation.
How long before this country is as outwardly disturbed as it deserves to be?
I never knew her yet she feels so familiar.
I can tell she was beautiful inside and out.
Rest in Power.
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 04:06:07 bygodsloveandgrace
I’msaddened by Sandra’s death and the media spin that’s already in play. Including from what should be considered some of OUR media outlets…She killed herself? Really? She was depressed? Really? Bringing up her other supposed “incidents” from her college days? She was being combative? hmmmmm… I’m tired of the victim blaming MO.. We need to hold media accountable….
http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/07/sandra_bland_may_have_suffered_from_depression_ptsd.html?wpisrc=topstories
So these are the questions I’m hoping RESPONSIBLE journalists will ask.
How does a routine traffic stop, which should have resulted in no more than a ticket, end up slamming a woman’s face to the ground and landing her in jail? (The video doesn’t lie)
The night before her death she called her sister and said that she thinks her shoulder might be broken.. So HOW could she have enough energy to hang herself?
Why would a woman who drove over 1,000 miles to start a new job THEN decide to end her life?
http://www.wmur.com/national/sandra-blands-family-seeks-answers-in-her-death/34223206
The Texas Sherriff was fired from a previous job over racism.. WHY was he HIRED in Waller at all? And we continue to see this same pattern again and again…
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/16/1402770/-Texas-Sheriff-involved-in-the-death-of-Sandra-Bland-fired-from-previous-post-for-racism#
The police will deflect and drag this out just long enough to come up with a good lie.
They’re going to do the same thing they did to Sgt. James Brown.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2015/05/how_did_a_26_year_old_iraq_war_veteran_die_serving_a_2_day_prison_sentence.html
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 05:23:35 v8driver
it’s not easy to hang yourself in jail, there would be plastic bags on the block for commisary/food garbage etc., but everything is ‘nerfed’ so you can’t have a hook to hang stuff on? maybe off the bunk, with a twisted plastic bag? but why would she do that.
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 05:44:22 SOULar Lioness™
Now watch how many (racist and/or brainwashed) fools come along and hype up that tiny video clip the news are steady broadcasting where Sandra says she had depression, etc. as if that alone is enough to write this situation off as a definite suicide.
Watch how many people will cling to this clip as a reason to be in the utmost denial about anything else surrounding Sandra, what she was doing, what she was about and what she was setting out and moving forward to do…
I’m waiting.
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 06:02:17 sharinalr
They will play that tiny clip, but they refuse to play the full clip. I watched it and it was actually a very uplifting message to people suffering from depression.
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 06:06:22 abagond
This week in Black Twitter:
#GrowingUpBlack
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 10:55:05 leigh204
This case makes no sense whatsoever. Here’s this smart, college-educated woman who takes what looks like a good job, moves across the country, just to kill herself in a matter of days? Over a traffic violation? Possibly depression? I call bs. To say what happened to Ms. Bland is very upsetting is a gross understatement. I hope she gets the justice she deserves. RIP Sandra.
Same jail, different prisoner. Exactly how many times have prisoners committed suicide by hanging in that jail?
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Inmate-found-hanging-at-Waller-County-jail-4012244.php
Footage of Sandra Bland’s arrest
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYim6pDZV0Y)
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 13:46:09 biff
This is a sad story.
Just one question for abagond: While doing research for this story, did you come across the references to Ms. Bland recently saying she was depressed and had PTSD?
Maybe you can make a case that she still wouldn’t have killed herself in this situation, and that’s fine. However, I see a lot of stories like this that seem to leave out key information that would help present a more balanced picture of the situation….
Why not present all the evidence and let your readers consider everything?
Deliberately withholding information is not exactly lying, but it’s close…
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 13:58:20 lifelearner
RIP SANDRA BLAND…..may you get JUSTICE!
Here is the link of Sandra’s full video in which she says she suffers from depression and ptsd.(https://youtu.be/IOF3hwNcEM0)
This will allow for commenters to fully see what she said on the matter in full context.
Secondly having depression does not equal suicide and more often than not suicide victims give hints they are going to commit it. There are several myths to suicide I wish to post later.
You could say that Sandra Bland posted her #IfIDieInPoliceCustody even before the hastag existed.
Not to take away from the personal loss of Sandra but her death, just like the death of the Charleson nine, is a symptom of a much larger problem. It’s not police brutality. That itself is a symptom. It’s not the Confederate Cloth. That is a mere symbol.
It’s almost like we’ve been playing a game of whack-a-mole. The underlying mechanism will continue to generate all the ills. If whites can, they will because they have a group definition of non-whites as subhuman and have acquired the power to control or destroy them. Look at history. Whether a century ago or a few years ago; whether it’s 1920s Tulsa or New Orleans after 2005’s Katrina, the evidence is there. It doesnt lie.
Disarming hypocritical displays aside, people who aren’t white are like pests to whites. The force of that conviction has set the overall tone of white interactions with others. Why are *they* on this land we just found? Why are they in my country? Why are they in my neighbourhood? Why are they using my community’s pool? Why are they attending my child’s school?
What do you do with pests occupying your Lebensraum;
What do you do with pests interfering with your Manifest Destiny?
Confine them: Apartheid, Reservations, Ghettos.
Limit reproduction: Secret sterilization, (symbolic) lynching castrations
Sicken them: Smallpox laced “gifts” of blankets, AIDS (?)
Eradicate them!
How often has that happened?
North America? South America? The Caribbean? Namibia? Australia? Tasmania? Germany?
Their group behavior is “logical” if you start from the same axioms as whites.
However, the viewpoint that the evidence reveals means that we are deaing with a monstrous cultural entity. That is scary. It’s also entirely out of harmony with our outlook. We simply can’t relate. It doesn’t make sense to us so we can’t believe it. They literally made us into disposable material things yet we can’t comprehend. We have to separate their pattern of behavior into aberrant acts. The full picture is too overwhelming.
I sympathize with black people in this regard. I really do. Yet at the same time, it’s clear to me that if we don’t unify and protect ourselves nobody will. The full realization of what we’re up against makes that obvious. That’s the only reason I talk to people about this stuff. In some ways we’re self-destructing as a group while “out there” we still face racism. We thought we could completely trade our separateness for access like some white ethnic groups did. We aint white though. Half a century later we have less of our own specific s*** and still face embedded, if illegal, racism. In some ways we’re more free (eg. to spend at white establishments) but we overestimated the significance and surrendered our defensive group consciousness.
I think we’re finding it again in a 21st century way and I hope we build it stronger than ever.
@King.
Was it MalcomX who said they took off the sheets and put on police uniforms? The sheriff has a history. These could be lynchings.
..Saw those tweets last night. Abagond and really could not help but be saddened by the former-yet, gladdened a bit by the latter as I was reading (and relating to, as I’m mixed myself) with the #GrowingUpBlack memes as many of them summed up my childhood experiences to a tee! lolol
I looked at some of #GrowingUpBlack yesterday. I have to admit, the lightheartedness was a nice diversion. There’s just so much to be angry about sometimes I’m glad my people can still make me laugh.
@ Origin, who said they even took off the sheets???
The same arresting officer, noted from his last job in Hempstead –
“The predominantly black Hempstead City Council voted to suspend Smith for two weeks without pay after viewing videotapes and hearing allegations of racism from local residents against him and the other four officers.
After a lengthy council meeting that lasted until 2 a.m. today, council also placed Smith on probation for six months and ordered him to take anger management classes but declined to take action on the other four officers.
Herschel Smith, president of the Waller County Leadership Council, called the disciplinary action given to Smith, “a slap on the hands.”
“He got off way too lightly considering his humiliation and mistreatment of young African American males,” Herschel Smith said.”
How does a guy like this keep getting rehired???
(Don’t answer that question)
I was about to say “crazy” and I had to catch myself.
It’s not crazy, it’s consistent.
The one that beat up Floyd Dent and planted drugs on him was tried previously for planting evidence. The one that murdered Tamir Rice was fired from a previous job for being “emotionally immature” and having “dismal” gun skills. The one that gunned down Walter Scott in cold blood had two previous formal complaints against him.
@Origin: That was excellent i enjoyed reading that.
I will be watching on Sunday morning on MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry Sandra Bland’s sister will be on.
On my commute home on the train all everyone could talk about was Sandra Bland. This is just too scary when another black person is killed and it’s becoming too frequent. This could be any of us in black bodies here in America. Going about our everyday activities and something like a simple traffic violation and you end up dead at the hands of some racist cop.
I wouldn’t be surprised if all the Hempstead police department were KKK members.
@ biff
I watched maybe a dozen of her videos but did not come across the PTSD one.
Looking back through my sources, they did not bring up “PTSD” or “depression” either.
From what I saw of her videos, she did not strike me as someone who would kill herself after just a few days in jail. She believed God was with her but also that God would test her. She knew how dangerously racist the police can be. Was she always in a great mood? No. But who is?
And, by the way, in the US the suicide rate among Black women is rock bottom, 9% of the rate for White men. How many White men hang themselves after just three days in jail?
Black suicide:
Click to access Blacks%20Sheet%20August%2028%202013%20Final.pdf
Of course, no one on the news is going to call this an act of terrorism – even though that is the effect. Given the history of Waller county and the history of US policing of Black bodies, I would say it was the INTENDED effect.
“How many White men hang themselves after just three days in jail?”
Well supposedly this one did… in the very same jail, and under similar circumstances…. curious no?
The patterns are starting come together.
^ oops
on Sat Jul 18th 2015 at 18:05:20 taotesan
I am trying to understand white psychopathy and I am failing dismally.
It is incomprehensible to me that white male serial and mass murderers in the USA are treated better than innocent un armed Black women .
The USA wants to install itself as the world’s champion of human rights, yet it is waging a war ( amongst a long list of other domestic and international human rights abuses) against its’ own unarmed, defenceless Black citizenry.
What i am observing is what is considered an act of terrorism in regards to black people in this country? The Charleston church killings by racist Dylan Root and now the death of Sandra Bland in jail at the hands of racist police in comparison to the Chattanoga shootings.
They also treated captured Nazi German soldiers better than Black American soldiers.
It just goes to show how thoroughly dehumanized Blacks are in their minds.
Mighty suspicious.
Not to take away from sandra bland, but this is another getting no coverage.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/15/jonathan-sanders-mississppi-chokehold
I was just about to post about this. I just read an article which said that the Army was studying black women to try to understand why their suicide rates are so low. They want to apply what they learn to veterans.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/thenextamerica/culture/black-women-key-to-easing-military-suicides–20120612
Black women have the lowest rates of suicide in the country, and although it’s not completely understood why, Veterans Affairs officials hope to re-create elements of black female culture that may help stop military veterans from killing themselves.
Women – particularly black women – provide each other social support and encouragement categorized by the opportunity to speak honestly with their peers, said Jan Kemp, mental health director for suicide prevention at the VA.
I don’t even want to give the suggestion that Sandra Bland committed suicide the time of day.
It’s quite amazing that black people have the lowest suicide rates despite being targeted for destruction by age-old systems. It really says something positive about us; about our strength and resilience. Even when I think about the things Africans did before slavery, I’m extremely proud to be the descendants of people who survived a multi-generational holocaust. Our ancestors were not broken; they lived to make us possible. We won’t be broken by less.
Also, the whole Sandra Bland situation stared with “Driving While Black”. I mean, when you’re stopped on a quiet street for not signalling you know it’s just a pretext for further investigation. The police attention we get due to our supposed criminality and drug use is total rubbish. It’s another excuse to rubberstamp our harrassment. Despite being depicted as “druggies” and being disproportionately arrested and imprisoned, African Americans are actually the less likely to be using drugs than whites.
http://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/
Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate ten times higher than that of whites. But new research shows that young African Americans are actually less likely to use drugs and less likely to develop substance use disorders, compared to whites, Native Americans, Hispanics and people of mixed race.
“Our goal is to alert people to the burden of drug problems and also to how some of our concern about who has these problems may not be true,” says Dr. Dan Blazer, senior author of the study and a professor of psychiatry at Duke University. “There’s a perception among many individuals that African Americans as a group — regardless of socioeconomic status — tend to abuse or use drugs at higher rate and this [does not support] that.”
Now they’re saying that people with blue eyes are more likely to be alcoholics.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/blue-eyed-individuals-are-more-likely-be-alcoholics-coincidence-or-evidence-alcoholic-340780
A new study suggests that individuals with light eyes are at a higher risk for alcohol dependency than those with darker eyes, adding further evidence to the idea that alcoholism has a genetic component.
I wonder if they’ll find a racism gene or a totally mother****ing psychopathically EVIL gene linked to pale skin. Does it have a “genetic component”?
This is why I’m always preaching that black people don’t have a major problem except being held captive, globally, by a bunch of degenerates who’re forcing us to deal with the s*** they keep flinging our way. If we’re managing under this situation imagine if we didn’t have to deal with it? What would be be like? Once we wake up, en masse, to what our REAL problem is, may whomever they serve help them.
I know they are thinking that. That is why we can’t get any peace in this system of white supremacy racism.
Kindra Chapman is another who supposedly committed suicide. Hanging with bed sheet in her case.
Your comments are on point.
on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 00:14:00 Mary Burrell
@sharinalr: Yeah, i saw that about the other young woman Kendra Chapman there is some very sinister happening in these jails in regards to black people.
There was another young black woman murdered in prison a couple of months ago and she wrote how she had been threatened by a guard. And she ended up dead.
on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 01:19:59 sharinalr
It is just so depressing, but I am glad light is being shined on the black sistahs who are also being killed at the hands of pigs.
The light is also being shined on how they treat Latinas too. Check this out.
http://www.rt.com/usa/310063-arizona-cop-arrests-naked-woman/
on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 01:38:24 Mz.Nikita
“Black women are the Key to Helping Prevent Suicide in White Veteran Men”, what a headline that is! If this wasn’t a certified article, I would be inclined to believe that it was a posting from the “Onion”. lbvs It kinds of put into validity the theory that white folks truly do need, and even want Black folks around them in order to better their life situations-whether they want to Openly admit this or not! The so-called “superior king” of the Earth needs us lowly Black/Mixed Black women for assistance in the areas of strength, durability, etc. Wow, just wow don’t that just beat alL?
Sidenote: Anyone else notice how butthurt the white folks were about the success of the #GrowingUpBlack twitter page? So unoriginal and mad because the “darkies” weren’t giving zero fuqs about them on a page about Black nostalgic childhood(s)! lolol
Are cops escalating? Are they getting more brave in their actions? Since they know they will get off.
@Mz.Nikita
I noticed that and I could not believe how whites immediately wanted to make it negative.
Indeed, Sharinalr and in addition to that what they wanted more than anything was to be let into “the sandbox” to play this fun game with the Black kids-and got mad because #1) They were/are lousy at creating Original “games/trends” themselves, and most of all they Cannot stand to not be the center of everything as they believe it is their right to butt into everyone’s business!
How can we tell? They have been doing this ALL ALONG!
They have always done it!
..This reminds me of a time when I lived in the awful, awful state of AZ. a few years ago-me and some fam were in the pool (the only non-whites who lived there) and this bratty azz lil’ gurl was with her parents, and she started Screaming and screaming in an effort to get our attention and damn near blew a gasket because her ruse did not work. We instead laughed amongst ourselves because we Knew what she was trying to do, and instead her parents just told her to be quiet as they look flabbergasted and perplexed as to why their daughter was suddenly behaving this way. But, my fam and I understood that she was interested in having us POC give her blonde-self attention (that most likely others in her circle do, just because she is supposed to be the epitome of what people “should” worship), and when we enjoyed ourselves and Ignored her it drove that gurl absolutely nuts-much like the adult versions of folks just like her! Tee Hee..
So what about the medical examiner isn’t it possible he/she could participating in a cover up as well? That whole municipality is corrupt. They could be lying about Sandra Bland committing suicide but i would think it would be illegal to do that.
on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 06:48:57 Gen
@ Mz.Nikita
Oh? I thought our honesty..I mean “attitude” was “abrasive” and our durability and strength made us non-women and generally terrible people to be around. Who would have thought machismo and passive aggressive BS wasn’t healthy! 😛
In the US, men have much higher suicide rates than women, even among Whites. By race, White and Native Americans have much higher suicide rates than Black, Asian or Latino Americans. So the difference between White men and Black women is huge – a factor of ten or so.
Because of television and racist stereotypes, we think of gun violence as being mainly between young Black men, but the biggest users and victims are older White men – killing themselves. That stuff does not make the news or make for a good Hollywood film – or support ideas of White male superiority.
I do not trust the medical examiner one bit. If the family gets an independent autopsy, I will believe that.
@Gen, Cyber-High-5! LmaOoo
(In my Martha Stewart voice): “Black women,it’s a Good Thing!
on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 15:07:59 mstoogood4yall
It is frightening to know that u could be one minor traffic stop away from death. A few years ago my family and I went out to dinner and when we were driving home my brother got pulled over, me and my other brother were in the car and my parents were in theirs.
The cop was very rude as soon as my brother pulled over he was having an attitude and saying no don’t pull over here go over there. Then once my brother moved the car the cop started saying I pulled u over for changing lanes without a signal, he had his hand on his holster most of the time. Then he started asking about his car and asking what’s wrong with ur car? what’s that light back there? my brother told him nothing was wrong with his car and that i was watching tv on the dvd player. Once it was all over not even 30 seconds later he was pulling someone else over and they also had a dvd player headrest thing.
Once my brother totaled his car and got another one he wasn’t being pulled over for dumb stuff as much. They do profile down here if u have rims or anything that looks “urban” they will stop u but meanwhile white folks can have some monster truck looking f 150s and nobody bats an eye.
Watching Melissa Harris-Perry and Sandra Bland’s sister and the attorney for the family. The question was asked even if a motorist is so called “mouthing off” that is not against the law. The next question asked was why did she have to get out of her car. All he should have done was issue her a warning and let her go on her way. But given the racist culture of that town the cop was angry that this black woman was cursing him. That’s what angered him. If Sandra Bland had been white she would not have been arrested. Probably wouldn’t have been made to get out of her car and arrested. The attorney for Sandra Bland’s family said this is police misconduct on the part of the arresting officer. The family of Sandra Bland need answers why their loved one is dead. We all want to know What happened to Sandra Bland?
I don’t believe the suicide bs , it makes me sad and angry. People want to use and abuse black bodies yet can’t understand why we feel the way we do. They wanna stereotype black women as being bitter and angry yet I don’t see black women shooting sht up.
They want to study black women to see why our suicide rates are low to help them? Well let me help u with that, maybe it is the same thing that the media blames for all the ills of the black community, black culture. Or maybe it is our family and faith that keeps us going. Perhaps we have adapted better because of the way we are raised and the way we have had to learn to survive being black and female.
Study all u want unless u can recreate black women experiences u will fail and I highly doubt they will want to hear black women talk about our experiences let alone experience them. More proof that they do not care about black women but how black women can be of service to them. You rarely report or care about black women being killed and do not care to fix it yet u want to use black women to fix ur problem? U want to use black women for medical advancement but yet u are against the advancement of black people? U will use black women like Henrietta Lacks, or that evil guy that used black women for gynecology experiments, but u cannot hear us without calling us angry and bitter. I say f that if we are too angry and bitter to be listened to then we are too angry and bitter to help u. Got us being the mules and the experiments. Then u wanna call us manly, no get some feminine white woman to study they are the standard of beauty after all and isn’t beauty all that matters when u judge women, so why stop now.
All these movies of white saviors and u wanna come to us yet will not portray us as anything more than criminal. if u can portray whites as saviors saving us poor darkies why not save urselves surely if we are too dumb to save ourselves we cannot be of any help to u.
I am a strong advocate of camera phones good somebody captured the little bit of what went down with Sandra Bland and the arresting officer. They know they are being watched. I wonder if there hadn’t somebody watching the arresting officer would have brutalized Bland more than he did. It was bad enough he slammed her head and she let him know he was being rough. Camera phones are a necessity for black citizens in regards to having contact with law enforcement.
Mary, I think this abusive cop behavior crosses over racial lines. Cops in general will basically twist, exaggerate and break the law in order to get revenge on citizens who do not give them the respect they feel they deserve. Their basic idea is, “I can make your life hell… I can throw you in jail and all I have to say is that you’ve resisted arrest… so you better bow down before me!”
Sure, cops are slower to take this tack with White people when they appear to have more power. It is seldom done in rich and powerful communities, where the residents have the ability to bring a world of hurt on the officers for their misconduct. But everybody else is fair game! tHe job of policing attracts some good people, but it also attracts a lot of immature men who are on power trips.
@King: I remember when my cousin was in law enforcement in a very affluent part of the city he was mention how the rich white people would hurl racial epithets at him and there was nothing he could do about it. Given the racial history of that town it is known for it’s segregation in Hempstead. I get what you are saying. But during the segment on Melissa Harris-Perry the attorney and a panelist were giving the history of that town. The cemetery is even segregated. I agree with your post it makes a lot of sense to me and helps me to understand what police culture is about
It was also mentioned on the MHP Sandra Bland segment about how black women committing suicide is so low it’s nil. I believe that was the same thing Abagond and some of the posters on this forum mentioned as well.
@mstoogood4yall: Well said young queen.
Oh yeah, I definitely agree that there IS a racial component, because the same immature jerk on a power trip can also be a racist, especially in a racist environment! BUT it would be a mistake to think that this is **unique** to Black people who mouth off because it isn’t. Cops will attack anyone who seems to challenge their authority if they think they can get away with the abuse. But sure, you are more likely to get taken down faster if you are Black.
I remember years ago seeing a drunk White girl mouthing off to the police in a parking lot. I remember thinking… wow she’s lucky that she’s White with a mouth like that! A few seconds later, the cops had had enough and one of them slammed her head, face first, into the hood of her boyfriend’s car, breaking her nose! And this was in a White upper middle-class neighborhood! So, I’m aware of the racial imbalance, but I also think that it’s a question of the Cops thinking they are a special class who are above the law with EVERYBODY.
on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 16:53:06 bygodsloveandgrace
@ Mary,
I unfortunately missed the MHP segment with Sandra’s family. I did however see a clip where her attorney mentioned what he saw from the police dash cam.
Sounds like the officer was bothered with the way Sandra was speaking and forced her out of the car… That is a policy violation right there. He could have just given her the warning and gone on his way. Also, how did she have time to “assault” anyone as they claim? I can’t wait for the independent investigation findings to come out. These officers need to be held accountable for her death….
@bygodsloveandgrace: We are on the same page Sis.
Here we go with the background checks. They found she had quite a few traffic violations and are using it as the new excuse. I guess they must now realize the suicide thing is not working.
Oh come on! What does ‘traffic violations’ have to do with hanging yourself in jail? Nobody is challenging that she was pulled over… it’s what happened AFTER she was puled over that is the problem!
I agree. It does cross racial lines. There are a few factors that I believe play into what makes one higher targets.
on Sun Jul 19th 2015 at 19:18:33 Origin
The Texas Department of Public Safety is already saying procedure was violated in the stop of Sandra Bland.
http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/DPS-Violations-of-Department-Procedure-in-Stop-of-Sandra-Bland-316342631.html
I don’t need them to say anything though. It’s obvious that the whole affair reeks of police brutality. How does an unarmed woman even assault an armed pig from inside her car? Am I to believe that Sandra Bland, having interviewed successfully for a new job, was stopped by police and came charging out of her car like a rodeo bull? Some racist idiots would probably believe that but she wasn’t shot dead on the spot so we know it didn’t happen that way. He yanked her out the the vehicle and slammed her to the ground just like they did to Floyd Dent. I can basically guarantee that the dashcam video is indefensible which is why they’re coming out and saying that “procedure was violated” during the stop.
“The job of policing attracts some good people, but it also attracts a lot of immature men who are on power trips.”
It likely attracts more of the bad ones and any good people have to fit in with the culture or leave the force. I found an article from 1986 which said that only 1 in 5 hopefuls made it on the Chigaco Police force. Sixteen percent failed screening for illegal drugs, 15% failed a written psych test, 25% failed oral psych interviews, 10% of those left failed physical exams, and 10% failed due to problems uncovered during background checks.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1986-11-12/news/8603250224_1_police-recruits-police-officers-police-academy
It’s interesting that the majority were deemed psychologically unfit. Nowadays, I think it’s relatively easy to find out what to say during psych evalutations to have a better chance of passing. The one that murdered Tamir Rice failed written cognitive exams at several departments but he did pass his psych evaluation where he was hired. Despite that the deputy chief later recommended he be fired because he was “not mature enough in his accepting of responsibility or his understanding the severity of his loss of control”
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/29191-evaluating-police-psychology-who-passes-the-test#
I watched a video a while ago that mentioned a book by a police veteran named Norm Stamper called Breaking Rank. In it he mentioned that he heard other officers call murders of prostitutes and black people “misdemeanor murders” and they used an invented radio code for them: NHI or No Human Involved. In one department he heard incidents involving black people being referred to as 11-13s; that is the code for an injured animal. Their actions don’t occur in a vacuum but is nurtured by a culture in which black people are dehumanized.
Quite frankly, I think the police job attracts way more crappy people who want a sense of power, like that crazed vigilante Zimmerman, than people who want to do something positive. Furthermore the police are going to be racist because it is an institution needed to maintain “order” in a society that is fueled by inequality. They’re modern slave patrols.
Then that racist POS Sheriff Glenn Smith who was fired in 2008 racism, brutality allegations. He was on the news saying “It’s the same thing all over again family members just don’t want to accept the truth about their love ones.” I wanted to throw my bedroom slipper at the television screen.
Ugh. Maybe we need like a few thousand Christopher Dorners (R.I.P) then police might think twice about murdering black people and playing us for fools.
I feel as if something is eventually going to bring matters to a head in this country. There is too much unresolved injustice festering at its very core.
The symbolism of Obama might have simultaneously re-energized the white supremacists and pacified black people and other POC. In other words, we’re more likely, as a group, to expect official redress with a black president. It’s not happening, but his presence is soothing, like honey. After he’s gone how little anything has changed might become more obvious and things might get more volatile…especially if Trump wins (lol…err)
@Origin: I do feel that this whole thing could erupt and become volatile. I hope we can find solutions before it become that extreme.
@ Origin thanks for sharing that story. I don’t even like the way this article ended; discussing her depression without providing the full context!
Additionally, the PD should have released the police dash cam videos by now. Instead we’re, as others have also pointed out, seeing the police deflect by targeting Sandra’s other apparent violations. Hoping it buys them enough time to come up with a good lie. They were quick to come out with her committing suicide.. I want to see the full autopsy report!
@Mary: I have a feeling we’ve reached that point. Tensions are high and getting worse. There’s a sinister puppet master at putting this in play. I fear for the end game.
I know. I don’t love violence either.
Yet, at the same time, violence towards us got us into this situation and violence (physical, economic, etc.) keeps us in it.
Violence formed America, it expanded into the West with violence, it kept its integrity with violence and it rules the world with violence.
I don’t think there will be a peaceful ending.
on Mon Jul 20th 2015 at 13:56:35 The Pragmatist
Abagond, I’m sure you didn’t mean this, but it’s a shame you felt you had to include her socioeconomic status in her introduction. Hey being middle class and suburban does not make her more deserving.
Again, I’m sure you know that, but I think that should be mentioned.
This was a lazy cover up. The last they could of did was make up a better lie. Who kills themselves over a traffic violation???
@ The Pragmatist
I put in her socioeconomic status on purpose not because I thought she was more deserving of the right to life or due process, hardly, but to disconfirm the ideas of respectability politics.
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2014/08/16/respectability-politics/
on Mon Jul 20th 2015 at 17:19:44 Origin
Sometimes I start with a few words but end up having a lot to say. You know when one thing just leads to another. Anyway, I don’t want to derail this thread but I have to comment on that banner image. Wow! I don’t even think it’s unrelated since Sandra Bland was a victim of a modern conduct of the same nature. I’m guessing that’s why abagond put it up.
It’s so revealing to see the white people there, alone, without the strange fruit hanging. That’s a very smart take on it. I’ve seen that picture before, and I’ve noticed the whites in it, but my eyes were always drawn to the strange fruit. They give me tunnel vision. The form and color of the fruit seem strangely familiar.
I always experience a spontaneous moment of silence when I see those pictures. They never once made me smile. But there *they* are, present in the moment, smiling, pointing, and mugging for the camera. It’s cropped off in the banner image but the smiling white man to the left is holding the hand of the woman to the right of him. What a romantic moment! You’d think angels had descended and they were lucky enough to see it. You’d think a popular singer of the day surprised starstruck fans. Would you really have guessed that there were two black men hanging by their necks from a tree?
It was the normal reaction. Way too normal. It was a ritual of sorts. The lynched black men, women or children. The crowd. The posing. The pictures. THAT picture. The post cards. Those postcards. They were VERY popular postcards; a burden to the postal system. They survive to document the grisly reality. Lynching was a spectator sport. Body parts were removed from the victim to be kept as souvenirs. Black history is also REAL white history. That’s why it’s kept quiet.
Here’s a quote from a paper by Harvey Young titled “The Black Body as Souvenir in American Lynching”. You can look it up if you want but I don’t want to trigger moderation with another link.
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On 2 April 1899, approximately two thousand white men, women, and children participated, as both witnesses and active agents, in the murder of Sam Hose in Newman, Georgia. Sam Hose was burned alive. In the final moments of his life, the assembled crowd descended upon his body and collected various parts of it as souvenirs. The Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican recounted the scene of Hose’s dismemberment in the following manner:
[Newspaper]
Before the torch was applied to the pyre, the NEGRO WAS DEPRIVED OF his EARS, FINGERS and GENITAL PARTS of his body. HE PLEADED pitifully FOR HIS LIFE while the mutilation was going on, but stood the ordeal of fire with surprising fortitude. Before the body was cool, it was cut to pieces, the bones were crushed into small bits, and even the tree upon which the wretch met his fate was torn up and disposed of as “souvenirs.” The negro’s HEART was cut into several pieces, as was also his LIVER. Those unable to obtain ghastly relics direct PAID their more fortunate possessors extravagant sums for them. Small pieces of BONES went for 25 cents, and a bit of LIVER CRISPLY COOKED sold for 10 cents.
[End Newspaper]
Seven months later in December 1899, the New York World, in an article entitled “Roasted Alive,” reported on the similar fate of Richard Coleman in Maysville, Kentucky, before a crowd of “thousands of men and hundreds of women and children.” The article noted that “Long after most of the mob went away little CHILDREN FROM SIX TO TEN years of age carried dried grass and kindling wood and kept the fire burning all during the afternoon.” It also revealed that “Relic-hunters visited the scene and CARRIED AWAY PIECES OF FLESH and the NEGRO’S TEETH. Others got PIECES OF FINGERS and TOES and proudly exhibit the ghastly souvenirs to-night.”
In a 27 February1901 Chicago Record article on the hanging and burning of George Ward before a crowd of four thousand people in Terre Haute, Indiana, the newspaper gave the following account of the scene of Ward’s murder:
When the crowd near the fire tired of renewing it after two hours, it was seen that the victim’s FEET WERE NOT BURNED. Someone called an offer of a DOLLAR FOR ONE OF THE TOES and a boy quickly took out his knife and CUT OFF A TOE. The OFFER WAS FOLLOWED BY OTHERS, and the horrible traffic was continued, YOUTHS HOLDING UP TOES AND ASKING FOR BIDS.
Sam Hose, Richard Coleman, and George Ward are three of the more than three thousand black men, women, and children who were lynched across the United States between 1880 and 1930
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This wasn’t a few centuries ago during “slavery” folks. Can you imagine what happened then? Do we know even a fraction of the atrocities that took place? How can the perpetrators of CENTURIES of inhumane behavior emerge unsullied? The picture on the banner wasn’t even from the 1800s. That was the 1930s. The strange fruit were Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith. They were 18 and 19. The photographer was Lawrence Beitler. He sold thousands of copies of the photo in days. The younger people in the picture became the parents of the early so-called “baby boomer” generation. The mass of white people hadn’t changed by 1964. It’s just that laws were passed – after beatings, assassinations, hosings and dog bites – that shouldn’t have been necessary if all people really had rights.
So what is it about police killings and the wider society’s reaction to them that strike so close to home? Under the legal climate of 2015 police are the ones most likely to get away with killing black people. They’re the ones carrying on that long traditon and many whites (and the media) get behind them by villifying the victims and justifying the killings. Heck, you don’t even have to be a policeman. If you have a shot at killing a black person with impunity white people will help you by donating. They did that for George Zimmerman. It doesn’t matter if the victim was just 17 or 12 years old. It didn’t matter when the banner picture was taken and it doesn’t matter now.
There is no doubt that the United States is still racist but we currently depend on the state to limit the very worst of white behavior. Yet a monster lies just under the surface and in extraordinary circumstances it comes out. Hurricane Katrina, in this millenium, was a touchstone. Black people in New Orleans were LITERALLY trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea. They were fleeing the encroaching waters and running into whites who were shooting at them.
I’m not entirely comfortable because we’re depending on a racist system to protect us from the worst of itself. The state claimed a monopoly on black oppression (police brutality, mass incarceration, etc.) so that whites stay relatively happy but we feel safer from mob violence. Yet it doing so for it’s own self-interest so that it can continue to function without disruption. Is that the final solution? We keep seeing evidence that this is a rather tenuous equilibrium.
(Full picture so people know what I was talking about after the banner changes)
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lynching-thomas-shipp-abram-smith-indiana-1930/
This is the cultural/historical context in which black people say #BlackLivesMatter and racists want to talk about #AllLivesMatter.
F off with your sanctimonious BS.
“I don’t even think it’s unrelated since Sandra Bland was a victim of a modern conduct of the same nature. I’m guessing that’s why abagond put it up.”
@abagond.
It really made me think and reflect.
on Mon Jul 20th 2015 at 19:10:05 lifelearner
The even creepier thing to imagine is that the people in that masthead are more likely than not still alive, never having to befall any consequences for being part of such a heinous event. Sickening. Those white folks look like zombies, emptiness in their eyes, their souls vacant, demonic.
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 01:05:46 sharinalr
Apparently the video has been released, but not to the public.
Fox as usually is posting a half truth with the idea that footage shows no one checking in on her.
Another outlet stated that the cameras are motion censored. If no movement is detected in 15 seconds the thing stops recording. Furthermore you can only see Sandra’s cell in the corner of the video.
Another outlet states the police claim to have never checked on her and only kept contact via an intercom. So then how did they get her breakfast etc?
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 02:45:42 bygodsloveandgrace
This is typical. The police intentionally put out so many conflicting statements to distract. We’ve unfortunately seen this time and again and the media doesn’t call them out on their BS. I hope social media is vigilant here. Sandra deserves the truth to come out. She should not die in vain.
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 02:49:40 Mary Burrell
And her killers need to be punished
I feel the time will come when the cops will find a way to keep citizens from using their camera phones.
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 02:57:23 Mz.Nikita
“More proof that they do not care about black women but how black women can be of service to them. You rarely report or care about black women being killed and do not care to fix it yet u want to use black women to fix ur problem? U want to use black women for medical advancement but yet u are against the advancement of black people? U will use black women like Henrietta Lacks, or that evil guy that used black women for gynecology experiments, but u cannot hear us without calling us angry and bitter. I say f that if we are too angry and bitter to be listened to then we are too angry and bitter to help u. Got us being the mules and the experiments. Then u wanna call us manly, no get some feminine white woman to study they are the standard of beauty after all and isn’t beauty all that matters when u judge women, so why stop now.
All these movies of white saviors and u wanna come to us yet will not portray us as anything more than criminal. if u can portray whites as saviors saving us poor darkies why not save urselves surely if we are too dumb to save ourselves we cannot be of any help to u.” @ms.toogood, My sentiments, exactly!!!
The worse part about all this is they had so much time to clean up evidence. That is the part that ticks me off.
Someone asked a good question on another forum. Where is the picture inside her cell so we can see where she supposedly hung herself? Can a trash bag hold her dead weight?
Indeed. You know they’re sanitizing the evidence as we speak. The cameras are only convenient when they want them to be. Makes me sick just thinking about it.
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 06:16:27 v8driver
pretty sure it’s technically feasible to use a plastic bag (or a few small ones) to hang yourself, but it’s really not a common method of suicide? I did some googling, also it’s just going to take time for them to release information, espaecially after those two got out of the pen in upstate NY recently
on Tue Jul 21st 2015 at 06:28:22 Origin
Have you ever heard about the case of Tiawanda Moore? An officer touched her inappropriately and she reported it. When she met with police internal affairs they started trying to talk her out of pursuing the complaint so she activated an app on her Blackberry to record what was going on. When they found out they seized her phone, arrested her for felony eavesdropping, and she spent two weeks in the county jail. A jury acquitted her of the charges. Afterward she sued the City and the Chicago Police for violating her first and fourth amendment rights. The link below talks about the case in the context of her lawsuit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/05/01/woman-jailed-two-weeks-for-recording-chicago-p-d-s-internal-affairs-officers-can-sue-for-a-fourth-amendment-violation/
So yes, they’ll dig up any law to protect their own dirtiness.
@mstoogood4you
““More proof that they do not care about black women but how black women can be of service to them.”
Yup, EVERYTHING exists for whites to make use of, even other people’s land, bodies, cultures, etc.
I read that Sandra Bland’s death is now being investigated as a murder.
http://www.texastribune.org/2015/07/20/sandra-blands-death-now-murder-investigation/
I still don’t trust that county with *any* investigation.
Also, I heard that the dashcam shows that she already received a warning for not signalling but was forced out of her car when she didn’t want to put out a cigarette. Really. I knew that the dashcam footage would show that the cop was just being a brute.
So she’s locked up for no sane reason at all then decides to kill herself while actively trying to make bail. They must think everyone is as dumb as the arresting officer.
@Origin: Thanks for sharing i didn’t know about that.
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 04:47:40 bygodsloveandgrace
This pretty much sums up my current thoughts.
http://verysmartbrothas.com/they-killed-her-they-fucking-killed-sandra-bland/
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 05:06:45 abagond
The dashcam video:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8GR3OO9mU)
You might want to read this first:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/what-to-do-if-you-are-stopped-by-the-police/
The dashcam video, as damning as it is, seems to have been edited, most notably at the part where the officer talks about the arrest:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-sandra-bland-footage-20150721-htmlstory.html
This thing is going to get really, really bad. I hope I am wrong about that, but it is a feeling I have had about this case for days and it does not go away.
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 10:10:12 Joe
Afro Americans are going through the same thing as the Dalits of India!
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 14:40:12 sharinalr
With how poorly edited that video was that tells me how stupid the police think the public is. But in all honesty the public has shown them as much. Other cases where white people have blamed the victim with little evidence or even contradictory evidence tells them as much.
Elton Mathis, the district attorney, calls Sandra Bland “it” and tries to blame her for how the police acted:
“It was not a model traffic stop … and it was not a model person that was stopped on a traffic stop. I think the public can make its own determinations as to the behaviors that are seen in the video.”
http://fusion.net/story/170375/sandra-bland-prosecutor-accused-of-racism/
The Texas Department of Safety says the video was not edited, that there “were technical problems caused during the uploading process.” They will put out a new (less clumsily edited?) video later today.
Elton Mathis’ attitude and that of the arresting officer tells us all we need to know. Calling Sandra an “it”? Really? He can’t even see her as human.
Having watched the video, there was NO justification for him forcing her out of the car. He wants to arrest her for not putting out a cigarette? He never fully answered Sandra’s question on why she was being arrested. You can hear her talking about him hurting her wrists and dragging her around and then telling her she resisted. This is BS…. Contrast to how he treated the other college student he pulled over.. Like night and day.
Sandra Bland’s mother at the memorial service:
“Some of the stuff in the news is true, some of the stuff in the news is not, but the real issue here is something occurred that is going to change the world.”
FYI: The officer had a right to order her out of the car, despite what the Fourth Amendment says:
Maryland v Wilson (1997):
“The Court held that after lawfully stopping a speeding vehicle, an officer may order its passengers to step out. While burdening their personal liberty somewhat, officers must be permitted such authority over passengers if the overriding government’s interest in officer safety is to be protected.”
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1990-1999/1996/1996_95_1268
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 19:59:57 munubantu
Something crazy is happening in America.
Sandra Bland’s case is yet fresh in our minds but… new cases are already cropping:
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/21/us/cincinnati-police-shooting/index.html
With this behaviour the American police is downgrading its rate to junk status, like a vulgar Third World police, specially the ones who defend dictatorships.
Very sad!
The new dashcam video is up:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaW09Ymr2BA)
@ munubantu
This stuff has ALWAYS been going on. It goes all the way back to the slave patrols. The only difference now is camera phones and Black Twitter.
Why take her off cam at this point? I think all parties involved in that beating should be charged in some way. Sounds like the assault did not start until the female cop showed up.
Still no time code on the video. It is also SHORTER than yesterday’s edited/glitchy version
Nice catch! I did not see the first so…..
It could be me, but it sounds like the story he is telling in the video to another officer is different from what is shown happening in the video.
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 20:45:35 Mz.Nikita
@bygodsloveandgrace, Agreed, he made her wait forever in that car on what I know was most likely a mega-arm Southern day, and had the flippin’ gall to act like he didn’t understand her irritation. This blonde bitc# pulled that ish with me at the Canadian border patrol a couple weeks ago, and I nicely/firmly checked her azz by lettin’ her know that anyone in their right mind has the capability to get flustered and irritated when they are being held up for an unusually long (read unreasonable) amount of time when being I.D.’d..SMH
Brian Encinia, the arresting officer, has deleted himself from social media…
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 21:32:15 King
As I have said before, cops cross the line ALL THE TIME. Not every single one, but many of them will simply deny you your rights if they don’t think they are on camera.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZa0N79HU2Q)
They are lawless.
Let’s just say they are lawless even when being watched. I think they no longer care about video.
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 22:09:43 ks
I think you’re right. Notice the sly deflection going on though? Since they can’t demonize her as they would normally do in these type of situations they are deflecting by having people focus on, and argue about the traffic stop which was ridiculous at best, rather than what went on at the jailhouse where she died.
And now it starts…I just saw a “Breaking News” banner on Rev. Al’s MSNBC show where the AP is reporting the Bland supposedly told one of her jailers about a previous suicide attempt. Uh huh…sure…right…
@ Ks
The dumb thing about that headline is why not fact check before running it. She would have been in a psyche ward and under supervision if that were true. They are simply being messy. It is amazing.
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 22:40:15 Gen
These are my thoughts as well. I think I mentioned it in this thread where once they get the internet under control, regular citizens will lose the ability to post raw details on the establishment’s enforcers and we’ll lose the ability to counter the highly filtered crap that major news networks pass off as journalism/reporting. There are so many who will continue to think that this is isolated rot until its too late. This includes these Negropeans out here ducking their heads under the sand.
Remember that old kid game called “telephone”? AP is reporting it from “sources” and everybody else is passing it along.
Why not fact check? Whoever leaked it, isn’t interested in the truth. They just want to muddy the waters against Bland.
Here’s another question to add to your good one, if she supposedly told one of her jailers that (yeah right), shouldn’t she have been considered a “suicide risk” which would mean her jailers were under special obligation to protect her from herself?
But thet don’t care about us taking the claim apart, they just want to get it out there” halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on”.
on Wed Jul 22nd 2015 at 22:57:19 Origin
“Elton Mathis, the district attorney, calls Sandra Bland “it” and tries to blame her for how the police acted”
I just hope black people don’t let this behavior get us down too much but use it inform what we must do. IMO, a future for us lies in, first, mental separation then physical and economic control of our own resources to be able to provide for coming generations. We didn’t ask to be around whites. They came and built an empire off our backs. Any attempt to live alongside them “peacefully” has failed and will continue to fail because there is only one condition under which whites will tolerate living with anybody: if they spread out like a carpet for their feet.
I think that’s the reason for the palpable uneasiness in 2015. We are not safe anywhere! Whether they are church arsonists, church shooters, economic hitmen, bloodthirsty police, or the just-us system, whites are making our status abundantly clear. If some black people were ignoring the elephant in the room it’s surely making its presence known. With that, the gradual realization that something will need to be done is forming. We took a wrong turn. We should have listened to Marcus Mosiah Garvey or Malcolm X more than Martin Luther King. Now there are few systems in place to affirm us, to cater to us, to PROTECT us. We are just afloat, as individuals, in a deep sea of white racism. We were unjustifiably optimistic that it would have become a puddle by now so we dove in but we were wrong.
Yet we instinctively understand, even if we seldom verbalize it, that whites are our historical enemies and any attempts to improve our situation will not go unopposed. Yet we sense that it is approaching an hour when we can no longer sit back and *hope* for change. We perceive that the boundaries of white behavior towards us are defined only by the extent of our toleration of abuse without retalilation rather than by any humanity on their part. So they will continue to peel away our rights until we stop them. We sense that they’re impossible to rehabilitate and that we’ll have to reach for the sword to defend ourselves. Yet part of us would prefer if that wasn’t necessary.
I’m trying to define, with woefully inadequate sentences, an ominous feeling that exists in nothing as definite as words. Am I speaking for any of you? I don’t know, but I sense it. I feel it gradually permeating the atmosphere of the times. Sistah Souljah spoke eloquently in the clip below in the 90s (?) but it’s still applicable today because, as the comedian Paul Mooney said, “Nothing has changed in America but the weather.”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCst2HaGwnk&t=2m16s)
“There are so many who will continue to think that this is isolated rot until its too late. This includes these Negropeans out here ducking their heads under the sand.”
sharinalr,
I just realized we were saying the same thing, with regards to any special supervision Bland should have been placed under if the story is true, just from different angles.
on Thu Jul 23rd 2015 at 03:15:03 Origin
The cops are ridiculous. They serve power not the people. Whites get abused too but the intersection of brutality and racism means that they’re far more likely to escalate and kill black people. We’re not less powerful people; we’re not people at all; we’re “its”.
A society built on inequality will always be on the brink.
on Thu Jul 23rd 2015 at 03:45:40 King
Totally agree with your statement Origin.
My concern with Blacks however is for us to realize that even Black Cops can still be steeped in the corrupt police culture. Sometimes we see a Black officer approaching in our rear view and we kind of sigh in relief.
But that is dangerous because sometimes they are the WORST ones!
I’m not anti-police, but I am anti-corrupt /abusive / egomaniac police.
But if police culture is corrupt so that all cops get steeped in it then THE POLICE are corrupt. I am also anti-corrupt/abuse/egomanic police…therefore I am anti-police.
Well Origin… you make a compelling argument 🙂
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WMSNXCzoZM)
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on Thu Jul 23rd 2015 at 10:08:11 Joe
US racist woman humiliates parking attendant for overdue fee – warning, explicit language! (VIDEO)
Published time: 23 Jul, 2015 08:25
Edited time: 23 Jul, 2015 08:28
http://www.rt.com/usa/310542-woman-racist-rant-garage/
on Thu Jul 23rd 2015 at 16:46:50 sharinalr
Just read more on the lying jailer. What sense does it make for a person to tell you they attempted suicide prior, but then you as the jail put in the report she never attempted suicide.
Now they are going to have to find out if she actually had a miscarriage and the medical reports show an attempted suicide and her being under medical surveillance for it. They are creating more things to focus on and more things they will have to research to get their lie straight. smh
I almost forgot the marijuana in the system in now in full affect.
on Thu Jul 23rd 2015 at 20:23:59 bygodsloveandgrace
@ MzNikita.. Yes. I think the officer was clearly trying to instigate and escalate the situation. He should have just handed Sandra her ticket and been on his way…. Time to now shift focus to what happened to her in that jail cell. They’re already starting to reveal partial information to suggest what led to her “suicide.” I do not like the storytelling the DA is doing now.
They are having Sandra Bland’s funeral today prayers for her family and loved ones.
Sandra Bland was a true activist and she was down for her people she wanted to help black people fight and it shows how she was “NOT SCARED” she had a defiant spirit. Sadly, many brave soldiers fighting for change loose their lives before the desired results of freedom and change come. May she rest in peace and power. #SayHerName. She was a true black queen.
on Wed Jul 29th 2015 at 00:05:24 abagond
Her booking video has been released:
http://abc13.com/news/new-video–released-in-sandra-bland-case/888802/
on Wed Jul 29th 2015 at 17:54:45 bygodsloveandgrace
A Hackers group known as Anonymous is sharing documents that highlight several inconsistencies with how the Waller PD handled Sandra… Should be interesting.. I still don’t have any faith that justice will be served here.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/07/28/anonymous-waller-county-police-sandra-bland-murder-video/
From Mic.com:
5 black women have died in jail this month:
Sandra Bland’s alleged suicide by hanging in a Waller County, Texas, jail cell on July 13 sparked suspicion of foul play from her family members and advocates Bland was 28 years old.
Kindra Chapman died under similar circumstances. The 18-year-old’s death by asphyxiation in a Homewood, Alabama, jail cell was ruled a suicide Monday by a Jefferson County coroner — a conclusion with which Chapman’s family agrees, despite some outside suspicion.
Joyce Curnell, 50, was found dead in a North Charleston, South Carolina, jail cell on July 22. She was arrested for an outstanding bench warrant for shoplifting, and was seen at a local hospital the day before her death.
Ralkina Jones died Sunday by yet undetermined means at a Cleveland Heights, Ohio, jail. Police said she’d looked “lethargic” in her cell beforehand and was being shuttled back and forth from a local hospital the night she died. Jones was 37.
Raynetta Turner, a 43-year-old mother of eight, was found dead in a jail cell Monday in Mount Vernon, New York. Turner, who had been arrested for shoplifting at a food and restaurant supplier, also had multiple medical problems and was taken to a local hospital shortly after her arrest.
(http://micdotcom.tumblr.com/post/125350307758/5-black-women-have-died-in-jail-this-month)
on Wed Jul 29th 2015 at 19:57:19 sharinalr
That cop throwing something in the trash can stood out like a sore thumb to me. What did he put in that trash can?
on Thu Jul 30th 2015 at 01:08:06 bygodsloveandgrace
@sharinalr.. I wish I knew. I remain puzzled about this whole case.
I really hope we get some actual answers but the more time goes by the less I think anyone will be held accountable. There’s too much smoke and mirrors at play.
on Thu Jul 30th 2015 at 01:59:01 sharinalr
bygodsloveandgrace
I have come to realize we may never know the truth. They will pull this smoke and mirrors until Sandra Bland disappears from headlines.
@sharinalr.. Agree and that’s what saddens me.
on Thu Jul 30th 2015 at 14:13:33 Mz.Nikita
Yes, me too.. 😦
Thought I would share a bit of what disgusting things are on Google plus.
“Don’t worry, this will pass just like all the other past media sensations for the past 3 years.
B*** did the crime, but did not want to do the time. Once that weed wore off, her courage level dipped to an all time low, and her enabling family members where not there to rescue her. In her mind all she had left was catch a ride on the Midnight Express, take a seat, open her reading book, and rode it out to it’s last stop.
This all lip chick wrote a check her ass could not cash out. 95% of Black women are like that. They talk shit when they know the government can back up their check writing, but when their White daddy ain’t there for them, they buckle to the pressure.”
Had to edit the b-word. Not sure if a white guy or a black guy, but he started put claiming to be neutral and after a few exchanged with me ended with this.
on Fri Jul 31st 2015 at 19:03:53 Uriel
Rest In Justice, Sandra Bland.
on Sat Aug 8th 2015 at 20:58:13 Black Power
Is this stuff as bad up north? I am trying to get the hell away from the south… thinking Reno…
on Sat Aug 8th 2015 at 23:32:24 bygodsloveandgrace
@ Kiwi..
I’m black and lived in the New England area for 7 years without incident. That’s not to say that others have had a different experience. However, I find your second sentence insulting. You make it sound as if Asians should automatically have it better than Blacks in terms of treatment.
It may not be what you meant but that’s how it comes across.
on Sun Aug 9th 2015 at 01:51:54 sharinalr
@ Kiwi and others
Racism in the south is alive and well. A few things I have observed lately.
1. Whites are riding high with confederate flags wanting attention and riding through perceived black neighborhoods screaming about n****s.
2. Poor whites seem to give me the evil eye. Especially when they see me conversate with a middle class white person.
3. Whites have been extra nice lately. Especially to those hood chicks who they usually have nothing but disregard for.
Lately though it seems
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on Tue Dec 22nd 2015 at 04:37:13 abagond
Update: The grand jury will bring no charges against anyone for Sandra Bland’s death. They heard more than eight hours of evidence. Bland’s mother: “I simply can’t have faith in a system that’s not inclusive of my family.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/grand-jury-issues-no-indictments-jail-death-sandra-bland-n484241
on Thu Jan 7th 2016 at 02:35:53 King
Update “On Wednesday, a grand jury issued an indictment against Trooper Brian Encinia, who was widely criticized after a video of his traffic stop and subsequent arrest of Bland was made public.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2016/01/sandra-bland-trooper-indicted-for-perjury/422976/
on Thu Jan 7th 2016 at 03:01:08 Mary Burrell
@King: Dang Nabit Man: You beat me to it but i think it’s a small victory.
on Thu Jan 7th 2016 at 03:12:14 abagond
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What to Know in Washington: Trump Takes Western Campaign Swing
September 16, 2019 9:00 AM By Zachary Sherwood
President Donald Trump heads to New Mexico for a campaign rally today, even though some Republicans concede he is unlikely to win the state in the 2020 election.
New Mexico has voted Republican only once in the last seven presidential elections — in 2004 — and the victor receives a mere five electoral college votes. That’s prompted questions about whether Trump’s visit, which must be paid for at least partly by his campaign, will take resources from swing states like Florida and Pennsylvania that the president will likely need to win a second term.
“I think New Mexico is going to be a stretch for him under the best of circumstances,” said Colin Reed, a Republican strategist who called New Mexico a blue state that has “gotten bluer.”
“There are other states that I think will be more competitive come the general election,” he added.
Making matters more difficult for Trump, roughly half of the people who live in New Mexico are Hispanic, a population that tends to vote Democratic. His crackdown on immigration — and on immigrants already living in the U.S. — may make him an even harder sell.
The president plans to speak in the Albuquerque suburb of Rio Rancho today, before continuing on to California for two days of campaign fundraising. When Trump campaigned in Albuquerque in 2016, an event was marred by violence between his supporters and opponents.
The visit could force Democrats to dedicate resources to a state they believe they have in their column, Reed said. Trump could even gain ground for the GOP if he attacks Democrats over the Green New Deal, he said. New Mexico, which has had a surge of oil and gas production, is debating new restrictions on methane emissions proposed by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) as part of her efforts to confront climate change. Read more from Jordan Fabian and Justin Sink.
Photographer: Elizabeth Frantz/Bloomberg
Trump at a rally last month in New Hampshire.
Happening on the Hill
Democrats Subpoena DNI Over Whistleblower: The acting director of national intelligence is refusing to turn over a whistle-blower complaint in response to a subpoena because he is “answering to a higher authority,” House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said. While Schiff declined to discuss the subject of the complaint in an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation” yesterday, he said “it’s fair to assume” it involves Trump “or people around him or both.” The House panel issued the subpoena to acting Director Joseph Maguire “to compel the production of a whistle-blower complaint that the Intelligence Community” inspector general “determined to be credible and a matter of ‘urgent concern,”’ the committee said in a statement on Friday night. Read more from Mark Niquette.
Lawmakers’ Tech Probe Seeks Customer Intel: A House panel investigating big tech companies for potential antitrust violations is seeking information from customers of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook about the state of competition in digital markets and the adequacy of existing enforcement, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg. It’s the latest development in the bipartisan congressional investigation being conducted by House antitrust subcommittee chairman David Cicilline (D-R.I.). Read more from Spencer Soper.
Surprise Billing Negotiations: Two Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Republicans plan to meet this week to iron out differences on surprise billing legislation. Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a committee member and gastroenterologist, will discuss protections for individuals who have health insurance but then get stuck with large, unexpected medical bills, Cassidy told Bloomberg Law. The difference between the two Republican senators’ approach to resolving billing disputes for non-network services is at the heart of the battle over the bipartisan legislation. Read more from Stephen Joyce and Sara Hansard.
Grijalva Eyes Changes to Puerto Rico Promesa Law: House Natural Resources Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said he’ll propose substantial changes to a federal law that’s being used to guide restructuring of Puerto Rico’s debt. Speaking in San Juan yesterday at the end of a visit to the island, Grijalva said that at a committee hearing in October, he’ll present a draft proposal regarding the 2016 law, known as Promesa, which created a financial oversight board that exercises considerable control over the commonwealth’s finances. Read more from Michael Deibert.
Omar Confident Trump Will Be Impeached: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said it’s a matter of when, not if, Trump will be impeached and she’s not worried about Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and others not moving ahead right now. “It is OK for some people to have hesitations, for other people to catch up to where some of us have been for a very long time,” she said yesterday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” billed as her first one-on-one network interview. Read more from Mark Niquette.
Warren Stumps on Electability: Fresh off a debate performance that may have bolstered her standing in the 2020 Democratic race, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) returned to Massachusetts focused on strengthening her electability against Trump. Speaking at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention on Saturday, Warren said the Trump administration is “one of the darkest chapters in our nation’s modern history” and called on Democrats to unite toward a common goal: beat Trump in 2020. Warren has largely avoided directly attacking Trump or her Democratic competitors on the campaign trail. Read more from Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou.
Related:Warren’s Harvard Ties Are Asset in Democratic ‘Brainiac’ Primary
New Warren Plan Would Build a Wall Between Lobbyists and Policy: Warren rolled out a sweeping anti-corruption plan today that would toughen rules for wealthy and influential figures seeking to influence policy, hours before she intends to pitch it to voters in Wall Street’s back yard. The plan seeks to build a proverbial wall between lobbyists and policy making, the latest plank in the Massachusetts senator’s platform of radical change to the U.S. political and economic system.
Warren’s proposal would ban all lobbying for foreign entities and prohibit lobbyists from donating to — or fundraising for — political candidates. It would also enhance required disclosures and tax entities that spend $500,000 or more per year on lobbying. If enacted, the plan would expand the definition of a lobbyist to include “everyone who is paid to influence lawmakers.” It’d restrict their ability to work in government, prohibit elected officials and senior appointees from ever becoming lobbyists, and bar large companies and banks from hiring top ex-government officials for at least four years. Read more from Sahil Kapur.
Biden on Domestic Terrorism: Joe Biden yesterday drew a direct line between the violence of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and recent mass shootings in a speech on race and domestic terrorism in Birmingham, Ala., seeking to unify the congregation – and the country – in a fight against hatred and injustice. “The domestic terrorism of white supremacy has been the antagonist of our highest ideals from before our founding,” Biden said at the 56th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, where four black girls we re killed and more than a dozen others were injured after Klansmen bombed the church in 1963. Read more from Tyler Pager.
Separately, Biden praised pharmaceutical companies on Saturday, offering a line that drew pushback from Democratic opponents who have demonized the industry’s focus on profits. “By the way, great drug companies out there — except a couple of opioid outfits,” the former vice president told donors at the Dallas home of David Genecov, a craniofacial surgeon. Biden’s comment came during a discussion of medical research and the cancer “moonshot” initiative he launched during the Obama administration following the death of his son, Beau Biden, in 2015. That effort included his push for companies to collaborate more on research. Read more from Jennifer Epstein.
Trump Challenger Calls for Referendum on the President: One of Trump’s Republican challengers, Joe Walsh, said he’s running against the “bigotry and cruelty” of the president, not necessarily his policies. “We’ve got a king and a dictator in the White House,” Walsh said on MSNBC’s “Up with David Gura” yesterday. “It’s a referendum on Trump,” a man he said “lies virtually every time he opens his mouth.” The former Illinois representative said he believes in strong national borders but welcomes those who want to enter the U.S. legally. “Donald Trump ha s turned that into some bigoted, cruel, dark thing that the Republican Party right now is saddled with,” Walsh said. Read more from Hailey Waller.
More Defense & Foreign Affairs
Trump Says U.S. ‘Locked and Loaded’ on Iran: Trump said the U.S. is “locked and loaded depending on verification” that Iran staged the attack on major Saudi Arabian oil facilities, an assertion already made by his secretary of state and backed by administration officials. “There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification,” Trump said on Twitter yesterday without mentioning Iran or specifying what the response would entail. He said he’s awaiting word from Saudi Arabia about who it believe d caused the attack and “under what terms we would proceed!”
Several administration officials said yesterday that they had substantial evidence that Iran was behind the attack, not the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who claimed responsibility. On Saturday, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said unequivocally in a tweet that Iran was to blame. Two administration officials who asked not to be identified discussing internal deliberations told reporters that cruise missiles may have been used in the attacks on a Saudi oil field and the world’s biggest crude-processing facility in Abqaiq. The range from Yemen was also far beyond the distance of anything the Houthis have ever done, the officials said. Read more from Jordan Fabian, Nick Wadhams, David Wainer and Glen Carey.
Related: Trump Authorizes SPR Oil Release After Saudi Supply Disruption
Yemen’s Houthis Say Saudi Oil Facilities Continue to Be Targets
Trump Meets NSA Contender: Trump interviewed a presidential envoy for hostage affairs, Robert C. O’Brien, on Friday as part of his search for a new national security adviser, two people familiar with the meeting said. Trump has said he has about 15 candidates to replace John Bolton, which include O’Brien and Brian Hook, Pompeo’s senior policy adviser, Nick Wadhams and Josh Wingrove report. Pompeo backs both, as well as Ricky Waddell, a former national security official, according to one person familiar with his thinking.
Kim Jong Un Invited Trump to Visit Pyongyang: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un invited Trump to visit Pyongyang, Joongang Ilbo reported, citing multiple people familiar with the matter. The offer to hold another summit was made in a letter delivered on the third week of August, the report said. It came shortly after a separate letter from Kim that Trump made public in the first week of August. Read more from Jihye Lee.
U.S., Israeli Pact Weighed: A defense pact with the U.S. would act as a strong deterrent to Israel’s enemies, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu’s comments yesterday came a day after Trump said in a tweet that he had discussed with the prime minister the possibility of moving forward with a mutual defense treaty, Alisa Odenheimer reports. The two leaders will continue that discussion at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu said.
Bin Laden’s Son Hamza Killed: The White House has confirmed that Hamza bin Laden, son of late al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, is dead. He was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, Trump said in a statement on Saturday without providing further details. The elder Bin Laden used a family inheritance to build the global terrorist network that killed almost 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001. His son, believed to be between 28 and 30, was responsible for planning and dealing with various terrorist groups, Trump said. Read more from Hailey Waller.
What Else to Know
Trump Defends Kavanaugh After New Allegation: Trump defended Brett Kavanaugh yesterday after the New York Times reported fresh revelations about the Supreme Court justice’s alleged behavior as a student at Yale University in the 1980s. “Such lies about him,” Trump said of the newspaper’s report in two early-morning Twitter messages. “Brett Kavanaugh should start suing people for libel, or the Justice Department should come to his rescue.”
The Times wrote Saturday about lewd behavior attributed to Kavanaugh while at Yale, including more details of an alleged incident that had come to light during his 2018 confirmation process and a second alleged incident of sexual assault at a party. The report describes allegations from a fellow Yale student that Kavanaugh had pulled down his pants at a drunken party and “thrust” his penis at her, causing her to “swat it away.”
The new allegations reopened a debate about whether Kavanaugh was properly vetted in 2018 after being nominated by Trump to a lifetime position on the top U.S. court. Read more from Ros Krasny and Mark Niquette.
Supreme Court Eyes Major Job-Bias Case: Gerald Bostock says he’s convinced his participation in a gay softball league was why he was fired from his job running the child-advocate program at the juvenile court in Clayton County, Ga. The Atlanta-area county’s decision sent “a homophobic message that we do not approve of your sexual orientation,” Bostock said. But Bostock might never get to test his allegations in court. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to use his case to consider whether federal law gives gay people any protection against employment discrimination. The court will hear arguments on Oct. 8, the second day of its new nine-month term.
The case will tackle a central irony in the fight over gay rights. Even though the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide in 2015, gay people can still be fired from their jobs in much of the country. Lower courts are split on whether federal law permits anti-gay discrimination, and fewer than half of the states bar it through their own civil rights statutes. Read more from Greg Stohr.
Gorsuch Says Justices Aren’t Liberal, Conservative: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said he doesn’t view the court’s justices as liberal or conservative, characterizing his “originalist” approach toward the Constitution as an apolitical way to keep personal preferences from influencing rulings. Gorsuch, the first of Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees, said during an interview Friday in his Washington chambers that originalism is supported by people of “all kinds of different political persuasions.” Greg Stohr and Kimberly Robinson have more.
Trump Closer to Flipping Appeals Court: Trump plans to nominate two Florida Supreme Court justices to the federal appeals court for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. It’s a move that could “flip” yet another appeals court to a majority of judges confirmed by Republican presidents. That’s already happened in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the Virgin Islands. Republicans this week also got a step closer to flipping the Second Circuit, which covers New York, Connecticut , and Vermont, following a contentious hearing on one of the president’s nominees there. Read more from Jessie Kokrda Kamens and Jordan S. Rubin.
Trump to Meet With Indian, Australian Leaders: Trump will travel to Texas and Ohio on Sept. 22 to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, according to a statement from the White House. The White House said they’ll emphasize strong ties, reaffirm strategic partnerships and discuss ways to deepen energy and trade relationships, Melissa Cheok reports.
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InSight Lander | The positions of the planets in May 2018 will be more favorable than this year, reducing the energy boost needed to propel InSight toward Mars.
NASA Postpones Its Lander to 2018
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By Stephen Clark of Spaceflightnow.com:
The InSight Mars lander has won a reprieve from NASA’s top managers after persistent problems with one of the probe’s science instruments caused the mission to miss a narrow launch window planned for this month.
The space agency announced Wednesday the InSight mission’s launch has been rescheduled for May 5, 2018, the next time Earth and Mars are properly positioned to permit a direct route to the red planet.
The two-year delay is expected to increase the cost of the mission, but the agency said the amount of cost growth is still being assessed.
NASA may owe a penalty payment to United Launch Alliance, the InSight’s mission’s launch provider, after missing the contracted launch window that opened March 4.
Officials in December 2015 decided to suspend preparations for launching InSight this year after engineers repeatedly had trouble sealing an airtight vacuum enclosure containing sensors to detect and study seismic tremors on Mars.
InSight’s mission focuses on investigating the interior of Mars by measuring quakes and the flow of heat from the red planet’s warm interior reaching the surface.
The seismometer instrument aboard InSight is managed by CNES, the French space agency, under an agreement with NASA and the InSight science team.
“The science goals of InSight are compelling, and the NASA and CNES plans to overcome the technical challenges are sound,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s science mission directorate in Washington. “The quest to understand the interior of Mars has been a longstanding goal of planetary scientists for decades. We’re excited to be back on the path for a launch, now in 2018.”
Bruce Banerdt, InSight’s principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, said the mission’s flight plan will likely remain unchanged for the 2018 launch opportunity.
InSight will blast off aboard ULA’s Atlas 5 launcher from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, making it the first Mars mission to depart Earth from the West Coast. Previous U.S. probes to the red planet have all launched from Cape Canaveral.
The positions of the planets in May 2018 will be more favorable than this year, reducing the energy boost needed to propel InSight toward Mars. The 2018 launch opportunity is the best to reach Mars since 2003.
“Although we haven’t gotten final confirmation from our launch services people, we know of no reason right now that would cause this to change,” Banerdt wrote in an email to Spaceflight Now. “2018 is actually a lower energy Mars opportunity, which will likely give us more launch margin (which was already ample in 2016).”
Landing is targeted in Elysium Planitia, a broad equatorial plain on Mars. The mission needs a relatively flat, boulder-free landing zone to safely touch down and conduct its experiments.
JPL will assume responsibility for fixing the component that gave French engineers headaches last year, NASA said in a statement.
Engineers at JPL “will redesign, build and conduct qualifications of the new vacuum enclosure for the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS), the component that failed in December,” the NASA press release said. “CNES will lead instrument level integration and test activities, allowing the InSight project to take advantage of each organization’s proven strengths.”
Banerdt told a meeting of Mars scientists last week that the delay is expected to cost around $150 million, and the costs are likely to be shared by NASA and CNES.
InSight managers pitched NASA leaders March 1 on a plan to fix the seismometer issue in time for the May 2018 launch opportunity, and the agency officials agreed with the proposal.
The Mars lander is part of NASA’s Discovery program, a line of cost-capped missions selected through competitions held every few years. InSight won a competition in 2012, besting proposals to send a floating scientific station to a hydrocarbon ocean on Saturn’s moon Titan and land on a comet’s nucleus.
InSight’s cost limit before the delay was $675 million, including the launch. As of December, NASA had spent approximately $525 million on the project.
The InSight spacecraft was already at its launch base in California when NASA decided to postpone the mission in December.
A spokesperson with Lockheed Martin, InSight’s prime contractor, said the spacecraft returned to the company’s satellite manufacturing plant near Denver on February 6 to be put into storage awaiting the next launch window.
The InSight lander, its Atlas 5 rocket, and the mission’s other main instrument — a German-built underground heat probe — were all ready for liftoff this year, only to be grounded by the seismometer problem.
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License renewed? Air Force says it needs A-10 a bit longer, thanks
Übermittelt vor 5 Jahren
Last week, the joint commander in charge of operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria reported that Syrian Arab Coalition fighters had beaten back the group, taking the town of Al-Hawl and 250 square kilometers of territory around it in an offensive supported from the air by US Air Force A-10s and AC-130s flying from a Turkish air base. Now, the Air Force is apparently reconsidering the timeline it has set for retiring the A-10, as the demand for the venerable assault plane's… (arstechnica.com) Mehr...
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patrick baker vor 5 Jahren 19
a cold bucket splash of realism has come upon the generals of the air force, and I join the chorus of "i told you so". It seems we will be contending with folks in the deserts for a while longer, and this is the perfect weapon in those sands and climates. The education component of the air farce academy would have been in need of examination if the A10 retirement had come to pass, for the reasoning for that would have come from men in blue without good reasoning and analysis, as well as a lack of historical references.
Robert Lewis vor 5 Jahren 3
Parrick, I like it. You say Air Farce too. I have, ever since I was a member.
canuck44 vor 5 Jahren 16
We could have save a whole lot of money dumping the policy making suits and sending the Air Force a subscription to Flight Aware.
nortonsnavy vor 5 Jahren 11
Wow... who would have guessed the A-10 would be an tremendously effective ground support aircraft! *sarcasm*
It defies my common sense to think the F-35 will fill the A-10's role effectively.
Torsten Hoff vor 5 Jahren 10
The only thing the F-35 will be good at is drawing fire...
Ed Merriam vor 5 Jahren 8
don't be silly! it also feathers the contractors' beds ...
James Driskell vor 5 Jahren 5
No kidding? the air force has been trying to get ride of the A-10 since the late 1980s. Apparently the brass never learns, because the A-10 is always called for when ever the balloon goes up. NOTHING does the close support job better.
ken young vor 5 Jahren 1
Oh they( brass) know exactly what they are doing. The 35 is the next "thing" on which to spend money. There's all those jobs for the workers on the assembly floor and all those high paying positions at Lockeheed Martin for the military brass that approve this stuff. Everybody wins. Except the US taxpayer.
joel wiley vor 5 Jahren 5
This could adversely affect some generals' plans to retire int Lockheed jobs.
And the problem is.....?
skyhawkrg vor 5 Jahren 4
Don't have any figures in front of me, but I wonder how many A-10's could be restored for the cost of a single F-35? And they want to RIF A-10 personel to save mony to train F-35 ground crews? Outrageous!!!
Dave Mathes vor 5 Jahren 1
...Copy that...!
James Mason vor 5 Jahren 4
Once a president is elected who knows about military issues, I would hope to see more knowledgeable leaders in the military. For the last 6 years the "commander in chief" has just had yes generals running the military his way.
matt jensen vor 5 Jahren 1
Exactly how he planned it. Thus he could not be held responsible.
...as long as there are boots on the ground in any theatre in the world, the A-10 and the Apache are 'THE' go-to close support platforms....IS IT REALLY THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?....
Thank G*D someone in the Pentagon has brains. The A10 is/was/has been the best close support fighter they've had since the Sandys!
Pileits vor 5 Jahren 4
General's don't fly planes. How would they be able to make any sort of sensible judgement, they can't!
bentwing60 vor 5 Jahren 8
These days judgement doesn't get you to the ivory tower, kneepads do!
Generals are politicians
Peter Crew vor 5 Jahren 4
Its about time the Air Force used good sense,,,,keep the A-10 operational!
sparkie624 vor 5 Jahren 3
I figured they would come around on this one... A good solid plane that protects the pilot.
Joseph Ciliberti vor 5 Jahren 3
The A-10 will live as long as the B-82. Mark these words.
Robert Black vor 5 Jahren 1
You meant B-52, I presume.
Bruce McDanel vor 5 Jahren 1
What's a B-82? Never heard of it.
It is B-52, adjusted for inflation.
The Brass hats have wasted more $$ in the last few years than it took to fight WW-II. The A-10 was properly designed for its role, the F-35 is not. The idiots that thought one plane could fill the roles for all the services are proved wrong once again, they never learn. If they want a new fighter, they should build improved F-22's, or better reprise the YF-23. A new ground-attack plane, build more A-10's. In such a role, stealth buys you nothing and costs a fortune.
William Applegate vor 5 Jahren 2
I was initial cadre into the A-10 from the F-4. The F-4 was a multi-role fighter as the F35 aspires to be. Neither the F-4 or the R-35 have the appropriate speed envelop to be successful in the CAS role. The F-16 could not do it either. The Russians built the Frog Foot, SU35 now the SU39 (copy of the A-9 which failed to make the cut). The Russian military doesn't like the Frog Foot any better than the Air Force likes the A-10 and for the same reasons...........not high tech enough! But, the Russians have realized that no other aircraft in the inventory can do the job as well thus they have continued to upgrade the aircraft and build more. The A-10 is not appreciated by the Air Force brass but, to troops putting their lives on the line, it is an answer to their prayers. Their is no aircraft on the drawing boards to replace the A-10. The Army would love to have sole responsibility for this role. The Air Force would gladly give it to them but, they don't want to lose the money this role represents and there you have it. Money is needed for flash and not for effectiveness. You might talk to your congressman but, they are more interested in how to get more money for pet projects and reelections as we all know.
F-35 not R-35
Scott Campbell vor 5 Jahren 2
You can fly a B-52 for 60 plus years but not an A-10 ????
Joseph Crecente vor 5 Jahren 2
They need to take the cost of one F-35 and rebuild the assembly line for the A-10.
MrTommy vor 5 Jahren 2
Plus, from most things I've read, the A-10 pilots LOVE the aircraft. And the guys on the ground certainly LOVE to see them coming to their aid. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind.
The armor plating might be part of it. As Winston Churchill supposedly said "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
Dale Brown vor 5 Jahren 2
The A-10 has proven over and over that it is the best close support aircraft the Air Force has! If we are going to be fighting ISIS and other small groups in the desert it the best plane to do it with. Someone in Washington needs to put on their thinking cap!!
patrick baker vor 5 Jahren 2
I think we are looking at warfare in somebody's desert for the next 30 years. If the air force planners ever come to that realization then another a-10 run of 300 new aircraft is called for. I do not know if the existing airframes can be re-manufactured to create a zero-time condition cheaper than simply constructing a new generation of what we all know is the premier shit-kicker ground support aircraft ever built, at least one flying as an American aircraft. The Russians have build formidable ground support aircraft, but warthog is fearless, flawless, and we don't have enough of them,.
Captaindl vor 5 Jahren 2
Amen to all the backers of the A-10. I have been raising hell with my Congressman for at least a year to keep this bird in the air. They finally honed it down to do what it was designed to do after many modifications. I was livid when I heard they were retiring this plane. It ain't pretty but it's a butt kicker from the word go. Thanks to the genius for saving the a/c that answers the call when called upon. I guess someone finally realized that the F-22 and F-35 are not designed for close in support.
I think the real problem is that in the air force, close support takes second place to looking good!
Yeah, especially when looking good includes redesigning the Air Farce logo, new uniform designs whenever the brass needs to be seen making important decisions, and stripping and repainting from-the-factory gloss black C-130 radomes so they match the flat gray fuselage color.
With all the negative stories about the F-35 regarding the cost, glitches and other issues, it leads me to envision one of those back room meetings with executives from Lockheed/martin and military brass . They are sitting around a conference table not to listen to the LM guys explain how the F-35 is THE aircraft, but how to jerk Congress' chain in just the right fashion in order to get them to release the funding.
And how could maintaining A-10's be more costly than buying aircraft that cost over $200 million per unit? Mystery
djames225 vor 5 Jahren 2
They look ugly, they sound ugly, they smell ugly...and if you an enemy on the ground, there is nothing more ugly....keep them flying as long as possible cause there isn"t much that can beat down ugly.
Dave Candler vor 5 Jahren 2
As one involved in AVIATION SINCE 1971 AND building the 700+ A-10s at FAIRCHILD, I believe it has been a very valuable resource for the U.S. Military and with its simple design, should be affordable to operate and maintain. Recommend rather than spending $$$$ to replace this workhorse, the AF invest in a new round of manufacturing more A-10s. They are relatively inexpensive and durable + save many of our fighters, especially in the middle east battlegrounds. Do not replace something that is inexpensive, proven to do the job, well designed and has previous production.America needs to start thinking smartly about how we spend our money, especially when nearing 20 trillion national debt. Please listen and think seriously before acting. Thanks
Doug Zalud vor 5 Jahren 1
If only they hadn't had the tooling for these broken up years ago.
Penny wise. Pound foolish.
Probably cheaper to retool than to buy one F-35....
Dan Chiasson vor 5 Jahren 1
There are, I am sure, many politico / military career builders that are looking for a place to hide their weasel pelts. The A10, is un-sexy but oh so practical and was designed with durability and flexibility in mind (reminds me of the B-52). BUT the boys that want new toys and are stroked by the lobbyists have been exposed. Gotcha you wee dinks.
skylab72 vor 5 Jahren 1
Mmmm, new spars, new engines, referb hydraulics & update flight controls, update avionics, a few gussits and an acre of sheet metal, I'd guess you could referb all the A-10s they have for the price of a couple 35s. Who would complain about a missing 35 or two?
David Atkin vor 5 Jahren 1
When I used to see those Warthogs screaming through the skies out of Bentwaters,they were awesome,can't understand why it has taken so long to realise that this thing would scare those ISIS fanatics to death!!
Bob Harrington vor 5 Jahren 1
Put the Hawg back in mass production now - and donate a few dozen to France. With enough depleted uranium slugs, hopefully Crapistan will sink back to the depths of Hell where it belongs.
Dennis Harper vor 5 Jahren 1
I had a chance to examine an A-10 up hands-on at an airshow. Standing directly in front
of the gun was incredible, especially when I noticed the front wheel gear is off to the side like an after thought.
Tom Lull vor 5 Jahren 1
Air Force was never that enthusiastic about down-in-the-dirt close air support. Staying above 3000 AGL kills people on both sides. Better solution might be to give them, and the mission, to the Army or Marines.
AF has never been enthused over air to mud. They should never have taken all the fixed wings away from the Army.
Somewhat related, have any of you seen Col. Ralph Peters express his opinion of the Air Force brass, specifically the Fighter jocks club?
CaptainFreedom vor 5 Jahren 0
We see stories an A-10 story like this posted every few months....what? Choppers can't replace the A-10?....what? the F-35 is a white elephant?.....shhh....very quietly.....extend the life of the Warthog.
Thomas Cain vor 5 Jahren 0
The A10 is second to none, is the CAS role, provided we continue to maintain air superiority in it's Theatre of Operation. If we ever lose that, they wouldn't last a week. It would be like shooting ducks in a barrel! While we do have control of the skies, we should continue to use the A-10 to it's full effect.
Peter F. Hartmann Esq. vor 5 Jahren -80
What is the problem here - the situation is so obvious. Be fair, guys - if YOU were a defense contractor (or looking for a nice hi-paying job with one when you retire), wouldn't YOU want our govt. to buy the most expensive, most inefficient product that would provide for juicy expensive re-fits down thru its service life ? And be fair to those who hate our country and our culture. Of course you'd want us "de-fanged". That damn A-10 is the only weapon we now have that can protect our troops. If you don't want our troops protected, of course you want the A-10 off the active-duty roster.
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Gary Thorne's Sanity Is Collateral Damage In Gleyber Torres's Demolition Of Orioles Pitching
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Remember way back in May, when Yankees infielder Gleyber Torres recorded his fourth multi-homer game against the Orioles of just this season? Remember how Torres became just the fourth player in MLB history to record four multi-homer games against one team in one season? Remember how O’s broadcaster Gary Thorne was driven to the uttermost depths of despair that day?
My friends, the onslaught continues. The Yankees and Orioles played a day-night doubleheader Monday in New York, which of course meant that Torres was salivating like a hungry lion creeping up on an exhausted and helpless baby antelope, alone on the Serengeti. Orioles pitchers, helpless under even the best of circumstances, were just completely doomed.
Torres socked a three-run jack in the day game, which the Yankees won 8–5. Since basically any reasonably healthy toddler can do that nowadays, Torres needed a more spectacular showing in the night game to fully reassert his dominance. He got it, knocking in six runs and registering his fifth multi-homer game of the season just against the Orioles, in an 11–8 Yankees victory:
Torres has now hit 13 home runs against the Orioles this season, putting him in a five-way tie with some heavy hitters—Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx, legendary sluggers Joe Adcock and Roger Maris*, and 1952 NL MVP and home run champion Hank Sauer—for the second-most ever hit against a single opponent in MLB history. Lou Gehrig, with 14 against the Cleveland in 1936, is within striking distance. The Yankees wrap up their season series with the Orioles tomorrow and Wednesday; at the rate Torres is going, he should have no trouble whatsoever catching and surpassing the all-time mark. Hell, he might get to 20.
If Torres gets the record, Thorne may not survive. Monday’s fireworks once again drove him to the brink of insanity, especially when Yankees counterpart Paul O’Neill bum-rushed the O’s broadcast booth to gloat over Torres’s dominance:
A full half of Torres’s 26 dingers on the season have come against the Orioles. This is violence! Assault and battery! O’Neill is lucky Thorne didn’t bite his hand off.
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Cyn Santana Addresses The Leaked Audio Of Her And Joe Budden
You are probably aware of the fact that there’s been a leaked audio of Cyn Santana and Joe Budden that reveals an altercation between the two of them. She highlighted that someone she thought she could trust has eventually leaked the audio and she’s now reassuring people that she remains focused on the well-being of her family.
Check out the posts that The Shade Room shared on social media and hear what she has to say.
#PressPlay: #CynSantana speaks out after audio leaked of her and #JoeBudden having a discussion about a past alleged altercation. She says that someone she thought she could trust leaked the audio, and she reassures she is focused on her family’s well-being. (SWIPE)
A post shared by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on Sep 8, 2020 at 8:03pm PDT
Someone said: ‘Joe behind the camera with a white tank top with a cig,’ and one other follower posted this: ‘Maybe she should’ve read the notes, she was all over the place.’
One other follower said: ‘Just get to the point Cyn taking 3 vids to say the same thing,’ and someone else said: ‘I’m confused. Why do you keep bringing up your son? Did Joe punch you in the stomach or not. Damn.’
Another follower said: ‘She basically saying that stop playing with mental health cause by releasing these audios you don’t know where a person state of mind is and stop speaking on her son’s father cause he is in a good state and doesn’t want anyone to disturb that!’
One other follower said: ‘Clears throat 🗣 if she said MENTAL HEALTH one more time!’
Back in March, it’s been revealed that after Cyn Santana had her first child with Joe Budden in 2017, Lexington, the reality star reportedly endured postpartum depression, BET recently reported.
Santana recently explained that even though she considers her 2-year-old child the love of her life, she wasn’t prepared for the emotional toll pregnancy would have on her.
During last year’s season of Love and Hip-Hop: New York, Santana revealed to her man of the time, Joe, that she had been dealing with depression.
What do you think about her situation and what happened?
Read More: Cyn Santana Addresses The Leaked Audio Of Her And Joe Budden
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Party Awards recognise publicly those who have given the party outstanding service and commitment in the past year. They are presented at Conference and each winner receives a trophy to keep.
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We present three awards at Spring Conference, and five at Autumn Conference. You can nominate someone by clicking here. The upcoming awards are:
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Double Teamed is a 2002 Disney Channel Original Movie based on the life stories of professional basketball players Heather and Heidi Burge. The film aired on the Disney Channel on January 18, 2002 and was released on VHS, which is now out of print.
The Burge sisters were, according to their father, forced to leave their former school and attend a different school in order that they would have better chances at college scholarships. Heidi tended to think that she was second best. In an attempt to get out of Heather's shadow, she joined in a school play.
Heather was involved mainly in volleyball rather than in basketball, until a coach noticed her because of her height. She seized this opportunity to play basketball because it would help her train for the coming volleyball season. Heather met Nicky, the star of the Palos Verdes High School Sea Kings. Heidi did not know she could play basketball until her father told her that he told the same coach that both of the twins would play for the school.
Heather did not like that her father wanted Heidi to play. Heidi, of course, initially opposed her father's decision because she wanted to be independent of Heather. However, she later accepted it and decided to play. She also thought that Heather told her father to do it.
When the twins first started playing for the Sea Kings, they left a bad impression on the team by lying and implying to their teammates that they were rich. Heather and Nicky formed a rivalry and Nicky even tried to run the Burge twins out of school by telling the school about the Burges' living situation.
They both eventually befriended Nicky, as they saw that her father was too preoccupied with business to attend her basketball games and decided to make peace. At their first tournament in New York, they won second, and Heather won MVP. However, in another one of their games, Heidi was the star, as she was selected to take the game winning free throws. This made Heather, the usual star, jealous, so she played basketball, with Galen, a male player also living in their apartment complex Sandy Shores.
While playing Heather falls and twists her ankle preventing her from playing their next game, which they nearly lost. Right then, Heather decided to start playing again for the sake of the team, despite being injured. Her effort was rewarded, and they went on to win a championship.
After the game, their coach approaches the twins and their parents, Mary and Larry Burge, and tells Mr. and Mrs. Burge they should consider putting the girls in summer basketball camps, saying they have a great, very bright future and they are going to play college ball - "maybe more", he says. "There's talk of a women's pro-league".
A clip of the future is then shown, and both Burge twins are playing on professional WNBA teams. Heidi played for the Los Angeles Sparks and Heather played for the Sacramento Monarchs. As usual Heather talks to Heidi and says; "Once second best always second best". And then comes tip off and they both jump for the ball. In reality, the sisters' time in the WNBA did not overlap and they never faced each other in a WNBA game.
Poppi Monroe as Heather Burge
Annie McElwain as Heidi Burge
Teal Redmann as Nicky Williams
Nick Searcy as Larry Burge
Tanya Goott as Madison Stricklin
Joey Miyashima as Wendall Yoshida
Mackenzie Phillips as Mary Burge
Chris Olivero as Galen Alderman
Tammi Reiss as Volleyball coach (Reiss was the Burge twins' teammate at University of Virginia)
A reviewer for the Sun-Sentinel gave a mixed review for Double Teamed, saying it was "paint-by-the-numbers" but that the "happy, Disney-style ending is a slam-dunk."
Double Teamed on IMDb
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A Peek Inside the Pirates of the Caribbean Suite at Disneyland Hotel
by Heather Hust Rivera, Vice President, Consumer Products
A Pirate’s life for me! The Pirates of the Caribbean Suite at the Disneyland Hotel recreates the exciting world of Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean films and attractions with unique furnishings and decor. Lodging fit for a pirate king – or a loyal fan of Pirates of the Caribbean – is found on 11th floor of the hotel’s Dreams Tower.
The specially redesigned suite is intended to fully immerse guests, providing family lodging that combines modern conveniences with décor, furnishings and ambience that evoke the fun, whimsy and adventure of the films and attraction.
The Pirates experience begins as you ring the doorbell, which plays, “Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me,” and enter the living room. There you will find Old World rugs covering dark-stained hardwood floors, with wooden beams overhead. The Spanish colonial-style furnishings could be part of a pirate’s plunder, yet the room also provides landlubbers’ comforts including a wet bar, 42-inch plasma TV and surround sound stereo system.
Down the hall, the Master Bedroom (or Captain’s Quarters) features a vintage canopied four-poster bed with cast iron lighting fixtures and (in addition to a 37-inch LCD TV), decorative artwork inspired by elements of the Pirates of the Caribbean films and attractions. The Master bath compliments the pirate furnishing with some more modern amenities such as a Jacuzzi tub and steam shower.
Younger guests will find their own pirate stronghold in the second bedroom, which features a more playfully rustic theme with nautical-inspired furniture.
Among the treasures to be discovered in the suite, including some in locked display cases, are a replica of Captain Jack Sparrow’s revolver, rare pirate figurines (discontinued) from the popular Walt Disney Classics Collection, a lithograph signed by Disney Legend “X” Atencio (Lyricist for the song for “Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate’s Life For Me”) and a replica of the mysterious Davy Jones’ “Dead Man’s Chest.”
The suite also boasts spectacular views of the Never Land Pool area below, Santa Catalina Island, the nearby San Bernardino Mountains and fireworks over Disneyland park.
This is the third post in our series on suites at the Disneyland Hotel. You can also read more about the Big Thunder Suite and Mickey Mouse Penthouse.
To inquire about prices and availability, please call (714) 956-6425.
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I had the privilege of viewing the room with X Atencio. It was a very nice room and Disney was very nice to up grade his room to the pirates suit!
carlene on October 22, 2010 at 11:02 am
To stay even one night here would be a dream come true! Love it
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Small Town NZ Life – Martinborough A Town Under Seige
Teamster / June 29, 2009
Martinborough is a town in South Wairarapa, population 1300.
Growing frustration amongst the good residents of the town caused them to take it upon themselves to do something about a crime spree of burglaries.
In April they set up a night patrol after a tidal wave of 45 burglaries struck the town over 11 days.
However, local youths clashed with the vigilantes, which led to a shot being fired and police ordered the group off the streets. Since then break-ins have soared again and local residents are living in fear. This is a fairly typical story of one family’s experiences of living in the town:
By Nathan Crombie of the Wairarapa Times
“Martinborough resident Winifred Bull, 63, said she fell victim to burglars along with four nearby neighbours in a single evening only 11 days after a self-appointed night patrol in the town disbanded in the wake of a brawl involving two members and a group of teenagers last month.
Mrs Bull said her husband David was in Wellington overnight a week ago Tuesday and she was home alone with her two dogs, Poppy and Ruby.
She said the couple shifted to Martinborough about 12 years ago to a “somewhat isolated” house on the edge of town and the animals were bought as guard dogs, the first after home invaders killed Reporoa woman *Beverly Bouma in 1998.
“The dogs heard something outside just before 11pm and started barking again after midnight when I was in bed reading.”
Mrs Bull decided to ignore her dogs’ reactions and found the next morning that burglars had taken the couples’ gate off its hinges, smashed her car window and stolen her wallet from the vehicle.
“I don’t feel safe. I knew about the huge number of burglaries earlier this year and thought the night patrol had solved the problem.
“But we were given a false sense of security. The burglars never went away,” she said.”
Firearms taken in latest break-in
A few days ago 66 year old Martinborough farm worker Dave Harris’ home was burgled and a shotgun and high-powered rifle along with ammunition were taken as he and his family were asleep in the house.
When he reported the break-in to the sole police officer in the town he was told that there were three other burglaries in the town the same night. Police seem to be woefully ill-equipped to deal with the crime spree.
It’s hardly any wonder the town felt it was under under siege but now the stakes have been raised and high powered weapons and ammunition have been taken. Fears are that the situation is set to get a lot worse and some people have said they’re thinking of sleeping with a gun next to their bed.
Many are calling for the night patrol to be re-established, older people are saying its presence made them feel safer. Who is there to protect them now?
* Beverly Bouma was killed in an uprovoked and premeditated home invasion by four men in November 1998. See link The Reporoa Killing
see also 400 hundred burglaries in 8 weeksin Hawke’s Bay
June 29, 2009 in Crime, Wairarapa. Tags: Beverly Bouma, Burglary Rates, Crime, Gun Politics In New Zealand, Martinborough, Wairarapa
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Eberhard Arnold
Founder of the Bruderhof
The Soul of Work
A reading from Eberhard Arnold on work that leads to community: “Love is work, work of muscle and mind, heart and soul.”
By Eberhard Arnold
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The only work a person can do with his or her whole soul comes from love. And there is no love that does not get to work. Love is work, work of muscle and mind, heart and soul. This kingdom of love, therefore, this kingdom of the church and of the coming rule of God, must be a kingdom of work. Work – truly unselfish work – animated by the spirit of brotherhood will be the mark of the future, the character of the humankind to be. Where all our senses are consecrated and all our tools dedicated; where everything physical becomes holy and all activity in manual work a joy; where there is zest, the bubbling vigor of enthusiasm in work, there is the kingdom of the future!
Humans have been appointed to rule this earth, to move the earth with their tools and shape matter for this work. But brutal degradation clings like a blight, a curse, to the tools, the factories, the machines, and the industry of today. People are forced to perform soulless labor for which they have no heart or quickening of spirit, and in which no community results.
We cannot yet tell in detail how this communal love of work with its voluntary nature and joy in creativity will become practical reality. We do not know to what extent mechanized industry will be struck when the works of the devil are destroyed. The evolution of work has arrived at a deadlock: division of labor and victimization of people. Love must also become inventive in the technical area, so that soul, oversight, and unity are brought into every piece of work once more.
To put effort into one’s work, exerting one’s powers, is a good thing even if it makes one sweat. But breathing chemicals, swallowing coal dust, getting lead poisoning, and becoming mentally stultified is an infernal murder, one which we must abolish if we are to become truly human. When the new kingdom comes, that will all be overcome and done away with.
This is not some fantastic, unattainable future; on the contrary, it is the quiet reality of a church already emerging today. God is – everywhere and always. We cannot make the kingdom of God – that is impossible – but we can live in God’s kingdom all the time. Christ comes to us. And as certainly as this is true for individuals, personally, it will be fulfilled as a fact in world history.
Source: “Community and the Future of Work,” unpublished manuscript, 1921, trans. Emmy Barth Maendel (Bruderhof Historical Archive, EA 20/21a).
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Job Description: Illustrator
Illustrators combine art, design and creative skills to develop ideas and produce original visual images for a wide range of products.
Image: Jean Jullien: Billboard for London Graphic Centre for It’s Nice That
Job Description, Salary & Benefits
Most illustrators specialise in a particular style. There are various different stages in their work, including:
discussing client needs and identifying a target audience for the work
agreeing the brief and contract with the client
developing visual ideas that suit the brief
seeking client approval for ideas with rough visuals - this stage may involve going back to the drawing board several times to rework sketches
using drawing, sketching, painting and photographic skills to produce illustrations.
Illustrators in employment usually work from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. The working hours of freelance illustrators vary depending on deadlines and quantity of work. Most illustrators work at home or in a studio. They usually work at a drawing board and computer workstation.
Salaries for employed illustrators working full time may range from around £14,000 to £40,000 a year. Self-employed illustrators are paid for each project or illustration.
An illustrator needs:
excellent drawing and IT skills
to be able to work to a brief, solve problems creatively and adapt their style
creativity and imagination
to enjoy creative work.
Illustrators work throughout the UK. Most are self-employed and work freelance. They often have other paid jobs while they try to build up their business. It is a competitive area of work. A few illustrators are employed by design and advertising agencies, and publishers.
There are no set entry requirements to become an illustrator. It is important to have a high level of illustration ability, an extensive portfolio of quality work and self-promotional skills to obtain work. Most illustrators have an HND, Foundation degree or degree in an art and design subject such as illustration, graphic design or fine art.
Illustrators can take a number of specialist courses to develop their skills in areas such as technical, book and sequential illustration, and animation. The Association of Illustrators offer practical support to illustrators and a range of classes for freelancers.
Most freelance illustrators remain self-employed. Success depends upon building a strong reputation and securing a steady flow of work. Some illustrators broaden their business by developing skills in related areas such as graphic design, animation and cartoons. There may be opportunities for illustrators in employment to become art directors, design managers or heads of departments.
What is the work like?
Illustrators combine art, design and creative skills to develop ideas and produce original visual images for a wide range of products. These include:
books and book jackets
educational, training and reference materials
instruction manuals, leaflets and sales brochures
greetings cards, giftware and packaging
advertising materials, posters and catalogues
television and film animations and storyboards
computer games, websites and mobile phone visuals.
discussing client needs and identifying the target audience for the work
agreeing the brief and contract, including payment and deadlines, with the client
using drawing, sketching, painting and photographic skills to produce illustrations
increasingly, using computer packages to scan in their own visual images, and then refine and develop the ideas on screen
continuing to work with the client, seeking approval at all stages of development and making any changes as required, right up to completion of the job.
There are specialist areas of illustration, including fashion, medical, scientific and technical illustration. For more information, see Medical Illustrator and Technical Illustrator.
Self-employed illustrators need to be proactive in finding work. This includes promoting themselves to employers and keeping their portfolio up to date. Some illustrators use agents to do this work. They also need to keep their own records and accounts.
A new entrant working full time may earn between £14,000 and £19,000 a year.
Hours & Environment
Illustrators in employment usually work from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. The working hours of freelance illustrators vary depending on deadlines and quantity of work.
Most illustrators work at home or in a studio. They usually work at a drawing board and computer workstation.
Salary & Other Benefits
These figures are only a guide, as actual rates of pay may vary, depending on the employer and where people live.
An experienced illustrator may earn from £20,000 to £30,000 a year.
Well established illustrators may earn up to £40,000 a year. A few may earn more than this.
Full-time work can be hard to obtain. Most illustrators are self-employed and are paid an agreed fee for each project or illustration. The Association of Illustrators (AOI) has information regarding fees on its website, www.theaoi.com.
Skills & Personal Qualities
Illustrators need:
to be able to work to a brief, solve problems creatively and adapt their style if needed
an eye for detail and design
self-promotional skills
self-motivation and the ability to work to deadlines
to be good at communicating and negotiating with clients and colleagues
a good understanding of medicine, science or technology (to be a medical, scientific or technical illustrator).
It is important for an illustrator to:
enjoy creative work
have a wide interest in the visual arts.
Illustrators work throughout the UK. Most illustrators are self-employed and work freelance. They often have other paid jobs while they try to build up their business. It is a competitive area of work.
A few illustrators are employed, although graphic design or animation skills may be needed in addition to illustration skills. There may be illustration jobs with:
design or advertising agencies
multimedia and web publishers.
Some illustrators employ agents to promote their services. Lists of agents are available to members of the AOI and the Society of Artists Agents.
Entry for young people
There are no set entry requirements to become an illustrator. It is important to have a high level of illustration ability, an extensive portfolio of quality work and self-promotional skills to obtain work.
Most illustrators develop their skills and portfolio through an HND, Foundation degree or degree in an art and design subject. The exact subject is not always important, but most illustrators study illustration, graphic design, fine art or combined visual arts. Qualifications include:
BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art and Design) - many students in England, Northern Ireland and Wales take this one-year foundation course in art and design before starting an HND, Foundation degree or degree course. Entry requirements vary between colleges, but are usually at least five GCSEs/S grades (A-C/1-3), and often an A level/H grade or equivalent. Courses normally last one year full time or two years part time.
Foundation degrees and HNDs - applicants usually need a minimum of one A level/two H grades including an art and design subject, a relevant BTEC national award, Scottish Group Award (SGA) or BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art and Design). Courses usually last two years full time.
Degree courses - entrants usually need at least two A levels/three H grades including an art and design subject, plus five GCSEs/S grades (A-C/1-3), or equivalent qualifications. Many colleges and universities also require the BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art and Design). Most full-time courses last three years. In Scotland, degree courses usually last four years with the first year equating to a foundation course.
Postgraduate degrees and diplomas - applicants usually need a first degree in an appropriate subject. Most courses last one year full time.
A portfolio of art and design work is usually expected by colleges and universities. Occasionally, an applicant with an outstanding portfolio of work may be accepted without the usual minimum entry qualifications.
Entry for adults
Mature students are welcomed on art and design courses and entry requirements may be relaxed, providing candidates can show a genuine interest and a strong portfolio of work. They may prepare for application to a degree by taking an Access course.
Illustrators can take a number of specialist courses to develop their skills in areas such as technical, book and sequential illustration, and animation.
The AOI offers practical support to illustrators, and a range of master classes covering subjects such as business start-up, essentials of self-promotion, portfolios and agents, as well as current computer software and the use of technology.
Most freelance illustrators remain self-employed. Success depends upon building a strong reputation and securing a steady flow of work. Some illustrators broaden their business by developing skills in related areas of work such as graphic design, animation and cartoons. They may choose to specialise and train in a particular area of work, such as medical or technical illustration.
Established illustrators may also run workshops in schools, libraries or museums. A few may become agents for other illustrators. Some may train to teach illustration.
There may be opportunities for illustrators in employment to become art directors, design managers or heads of departments.
The Association of Illustrators (AOI), 2nd Floor, Back Building, 150 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AT. 020 7613 4328.
Creative & Cultural Skills, 4th Floor, Lafone House, The Leathermarket, Weston Street, London SE1 3HN. 020 7015 1800.
Society of Artists Agents.
Your Creative Future (a guide to education and career opportunities in the creative industries).
Getting Into Art & Design Courses - Trotman
Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer - Allworth Press
Survive - The Illustrator's Guide to a Professional Career - AOI
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+3 Interview: The Gin Chronicles: A Scottish Adventure
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“Edinburgh can be the best of places and the worst of places, and getting the right venue for YOUR show is crucial. “
WHO: Robert Blackwood & Nick Cowell – Producers, Writers, Co-Directors, Performers
WHAT: “It’s England 1947. John Jobling and Doris Golightly (1940s amateur detectives) are called to investigate the threat of a London gin shortage, but as the case opens up all roads seem to lead north… to the bracing boulevards of Edinburgh. A train journey beckons, toast and marmalade is replaced by porridge and haggis (though not together), and the looming menace of a juniper crisis.”
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We came up last year for the first time as a company. We were put in touch with this venue, Artspace@StMarks, by a really good friend of ITR, a fabulous Scottish actor called Steve Hay. He said something along the lines of “Guys, you should really get in touch with Michael Mulligan and see if you can work something out, as your show would really tie in with what he’s looking for.”
Edinburgh can be the best of places and the worst of places, and getting the right venue for YOUR show is crucial. Ross Smith, who looks after the venue, was absolutely lovely to us, and the vibe he and Michael set really made an impact on our decision to return this year. We just didn’t want to go anywhere else.
Tell us about your show.
The show is a Vintage, Radio-style comedy show set in 1947. It’s about two amateur detectives and how their salubrious love of gin leads them on on an adventure up to Scotland. When we’re in a confident mood, we say it’s like Noel Coward meets P.G.Wodehouse meets The Goon Show meets Blackadder.
We’ve done some previews in and around London, and are really excited to have a longer run up in Edinburgh this year. We’ve also got 2 wonderful sponsors, which means that every adult who buys a ticket to the show gets a complimentary Gin & Tonic (Darnley’s View Gin & Fentimans Herbal Tonic Water) which was the constant questions last year: “Do you get Gin if you come and see the show?” Well, this year, you do!
Rob writes the scripts and then Nick comes in and tells Rob to stop over-writing, Rob knows that Nick is right, and then the piece takes full shape in rehearsals with The Misfits of London (a repertory company of actors who know the shows, and our style, and who are involved depending on availability). We are both actors, and perform in the shows as well, so The Misfits are very patient with the number of hats we wear on a daily basis. Thankfully our company director, Anthony Shrubsall, comes in to help steer what we’re creating, and is a cool head in a creative maelstrom.
After Edinburgh, we’ve got a couple of weeks at The Bridewell Theatre in October, and our goal is to take it around the world as a way to spread British humour, Gin, Tonic and happiness.
What should your audience see at the festivals after they’ve seen your show?
The Royal Scottish Pipers Society – We know how hard it is to get tickets to the Tattoo, so, er, basically, these guys are in the same venue as us & are awesome.
Laughing Stock – Effortlessly-talented writer-performers in a sketch comedy show that is thoughtful, ball-bouncingly funny and full of humanity.
Blind Mirth – Rob has insisted on this one, as he was in the troupe when it was founded, and he went to see them last year and was blown away by how bold and fresh they are (and much funnier than him in general, in fact). Talented young improvisers who are going on to Second City stateside, and writing and performing comedy professionally for shows over here.
Shakespeare in the Garden: Twelfth Night – Shakespeare is a God, and this production is full of people we know and respect. A great way to see a show, have a picnic and be out in the early-evening light (inside if it’s raining).
C.S.I. Crime Scene Improvisation – Steve Bond is a friend of The Misfits of London, and a truly funny band of improvisers have put together a really funny, cool impro show.
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Missing girls in 19th-century Spain
December 11, 2018 ~ ehs1926
by Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
This article is published by the Economic History Review, and it is available here
Gender discrimination, in the form of sex-selective abortion, female infanticide and the mortal neglect of young girls, constitutes a pervasive feature of many contemporary developing countries, especially in South and East Asia and Africa. Son preference stemmed from economic and cultural factors that have long influenced the perceived relative value of women in these regions and resulted in millions of “missing girls”. But, were there “missing girls” in historical Europe? The conventional narrative argues that there is little evidence for this kind of gender discrimination. According to this view, the European household formation system, together with prevailing ethical and religious values, limited female infanticide and the mortal neglect of young girls.
However, several studies suggest that parents treated their sons and daughters differently in 19th-century Britain and continental Europe (see, for instance, here, here or here). These authors stress that an unequal allocation of food, care and/or workload negatively affected girls’ nutritional status and morbidity, which translated in worsened heights and mortality rates. In order to provide more systematic historical evidence of this type of behaviour, our research (with Domingo Gallego-Martínez) relies on sex ratios at birth and at older ages. In the absence of gender discrimination, the number of boys per hundred girls in different age groups is remarkably regular, so comparing the observed figure to the expected (gender-neutral) sex ratio permits assessing the cumulative impact of gender bias in peri-natal, infant and child mortality and, consequently, the importance of potential discriminatory practices. However, although non-discriminatory sex ratios at birth revolve around 105-106 boys per hundred girls in most developed countries today, historical sex ratios cannot be compared directly to modern ones.
We have shown here that non-discriminatory infant and child sex ratios were much lower in the past. The biological survival advantage of girls was more visible in the high-mortality environments that characterised pre-industrial Europe due to poor living conditions, lack of hygiene and the absence of public health systems. Subsequently, boys suffered relatively higher mortality rates both in utero and during infancy and childhood. Historical infant and child sex ratios were therefore relatively low, even in the presence of gender-discriminatory practices. This is illustrated in Figure 1 below which plots the relationship between child sex ratios and infant mortality rates using information from seventeen European countries between 1750 and 2001. In particular, in societies where infant mortality rates were around 250 deaths (per 1,000 live births), a gender-neutral child sex ratio should have been slightly below parity (around 99.5 boys per hundred girls).
Figure 1. Infant mortality rates and child sex ratios in Europe, 1750-2001
Compared to this benchmark, infant and child sex ratios in 19th-century Spain were abnormally high (see black dots in Figure 1 above; the number refers to the year of the observation), thus suggesting that some sort of gender discrimination was unduly increasing female mortality rates at those ages. This pattern, which is not the result of under-enumeration of girls in the censuses, mostly disappeared at the turn of the 20th century. Notwithstanding that average sex ratios remained relatively high in nineteenth- century Spain, some regions exhibited even more extreme figures. In 1860, 54 districts (out of 471) had infant sex ratios above 115, figures that are extremely unlikely to have occurred by chance. Relying on an extremely rich dataset at the district level, our research analyses regional variation in order to examine what lies behind the unbalanced sex ratios. Our results show that the presence of wage labour opportunities for women and the prevalence of extended families in which different generations of women cohabited had beneficial effects on girls’ survival. Likewise, infant and child sex ratios were lower in dense, more urbanized areas.
This evidence thus suggests that discriminatory practices with lethal consequences for girls constituted a veiled feature of pre-industrial Spain. Excess female mortality was then not necessarily the result of ill-treatment of young girls but could have been just based on an unequal allocation of resources within the household, a circumstance that probably cumulated as infants grew older. In contexts where infant and child mortality is high, a slight discrimination in the way that young girls were fed or treated when ill, as well as in the amount of work which they were entrusted with, was likely to have resulted in more girls dying from the combined effect of undernutrition and illness. Although female infanticide or other extreme versions of mistreatment of young girls may not have been a systematic feature of historical Europe, this line of research would point to more passive, but pervasive, forms of gender discrimination that also resulted in a significant fraction of missing girls.
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Booster platform becomes unmannedSeawater injected into the Ekofisk reservoir
Posted on 21. June 2019 5. November 2019 by Kristin Øye Gjerde
Jacking provides the solution
person by the Norwegian Petroleum Museum
Ever since the permanent platforms were installed on Ekofisk, gas has been injected in the formation from the 2/4 C platform to help slow the decline in reservoir pressure.
— Photo: Husmo Foto/Norwegian Petroleum Museum
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That was primarily done to improve recovery. After it became clear that the seabed over the field was subsiding, however, the amount of gas returned was increased in a bid to counteract this.
But it was not enough. At least 30 different methods for overcoming the problem were discussed, involving engineers from all over Europe.
Jacking up the platforms to restore the air gap between their topsides and the sea surface was an early proposal. This was quickly rejected as unrealistic given the size of the structures and the number of tubulars and pipelines involved.
Once all the other options had been assessed, however, jacking remained as the only viable candidate and the final decision to undertake this process was taken in 1986.
Eight steel platforms, two flare stacks and the bridge supports were involved. Like so much else on Ekofisk, the project involved breaching barriers, finding new solutions and applying them.
Over an 18-month period, about 120 jacks were manufactured while hydraulic actuators and other control systems were readied. Everything was ready by the summer of 1987.
Jekking er løsningen
Hydraulic power units. Photo: Husmo Foto/Norwegian Petroleum Museum
A year earlier, the southern flare stack and the two supports for the connecting bridge had been elevated by more than seven metres using the DB 102 crane barge.
Preparations for the jacking programme began on the platforms as early as January 1987. The first step was to construct scaffolding at every location where work would take place.
A total of 2 500 metres of guide rails with manual cranes were installed, and a number of pipelines and tanks had to be moved to accommodate these.
In addition, 214 hydraulic power units were put in position to supply the jacks. The latter were finally installed and activated so that they took over the weight normally borne by the platform legs.
The first milestone came on 31 May, when the initial cut was made. A metre of leg on the riser platform was removed to provide space for bolted flanges – an ingenious solution which was central to the project.
Once these flanges had been installed, everything was ready for the actual jacking. This began with the hotel, and the jacks were activated at 03.48 on 16 June 1987.
Within just 12 hours, the 10 500-tonne topsides had been raised by 6.4 metres. The extension sections were inserted, and everything lowered into the new position.
The riser platform followed on 15 August, when it was raised six metres in the space of less than a day. And the four platforms south of the tank – P, C, FTP and Q – were lifted on 17 August.
Jacking this quartet and associated pipeline supports simultaneously minimised the number of pipes and cables which had to be cut. Only those running into the tank had to be dealt with.
In the meantime, the northern flare stack and 2/4 G had been raised with the aid of a crane vessel. Since it was the newest platform, 2/4 S was taller than the others and needed no action.
Ekofisk 2/4 H (the hotel) being jacked up. Photo: Husmo Foto/Norwegian Petroleum Museum
The jacking operation as such had been completed by 18 August 1987. It had taken 14 hours and 24 minutes in all, and involved 2 500 work-days of 12 hours each.
This was followed by removal of the jacking equipment and the work needed to bring the installations back on stream. Ekofisk was in production again on 4 September 1987.
The actual tank could not be jacked up, and it was therefore provided in the summer of 1989 with an additional external breakwater.
Jacking up the Ekofisk structures proved a success, but the seabed subsidence continued – although at a slower pace than before.
Jacking up Ekofisk 2/4 H – step by step
Phase one: preparations
Scaffolding workers repair scaffolding and guide rails on the chassis of a platform at the Ekofisk Center in connection with the jack-up. Photo: Husmo Foto/Norwegian Petroleum Museum
The first step was to install scaffolding, guide rails, support beams, hydraulic power units and the jacks. Four of the latter were installed on the hotel platform’s legs, and two per leg on the other structures. Each platform leg was then cut and fitted with bolted flanges after the topsides weight had been transferred to the jacks. A one-metre section was cut from each leg, with the flanges then inserted and welded into place.
Finally, the gas and oil pipelines to Emden and Teesside respectively were cut.
Phase two: jacking up
A last check of the equipment was conducted before all the jacks were raised to the upper jacking beam and set to a zero reference point.
The topsides were lifted up and clear of the guide blocks. This called for accurate control, and was done in short stages which were carefully checked for each leg by people below.
Once the topsides were clear of the blocks, they were jacked up 6.4 metres with stops along the way to deactivate the flat jacks. These had been activated initially to allow the topsides to move a little in the first phase.
A low-friction teflon coating made this possible without the jacks losing position. Once the flat jacks were withdrawn, the steel-to-steel interface between jack and leg created a rigid connection.
The extension pieces were put in place and the lower set of bolts fastened before the topsides were lowered onto the sections.
While the jacks continue to carry the weight, the upper bolt sets were tightened. Finally, the weight was transferred to the extended platform.
“Can do” attitude
Lars A Takla was manager for partner collaboration and long-term planning, investment budgets and such subjects when news of the seabed subsidence was received in December 1984:
We sent out a ship to measure the water depth, and found that this had increased by three metres. That was obviously a huge shock. A discussion had been under way from the start on whether the reservoir chalk, which as very porous, could collapse. But everyone expected three kilometres of overlying rock to hold. However, this proved so unconsolidated that it subsided.
We began to wonder whether this was the end. A few more metres and we’d have reached the critical wave height in the design criteria for the platforms. Everyone had suffered a rude awakening, and we launched masses of studies to determine what had happened and how it could be countered. The pressure changes which occurred in the reservoir meant production had to be adjusted. But a ‘can do’ attitude prevails in Phillips.
The first reaction was astonishment: ‘Gosh, what can we do about this. It’s an impossible problem’. Then people switched to: ‘We’re going to overcome this’.
At least 30 different methods were discussed. A load of engineering companies throughout Europe were involved, and we received masses of letters with good ideas about how to deal with this. The jacking-up proposal came up fairly early on, but was rejected as a ‘Donald Duck’ solution. It would be impossible with these huge platforms and the masses of piping and cables tying them together.
http://ekofisk.industriminne.no/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/11/11.-oppjekking.mp4
After going through all the options, however, only jacking-up the steel structures remained. So the platforms were jacked up in 1987 and a breakwater installed around the tank in 1989.
The subsidence meant we had very little time, and had to find a solution quickly. It was a massive job. We produced about 120 jacks, plus the hydraulic actuators and other control systems. The amount of jacking had to be exactly equal to avoid any tilting. Extending cables while the jacks were in action, so that production could continue without interruption, was a huge job.
We had a special team working on all the connections between the platforms. A lot of things were done with the power off, of course. So all these preparations to avoid shutting down were extensive.
Hundreds of welders were at work to attach the jack supports. I came out as offshore manager in the autumn of 1985 and sat in the midst of this work, which lasted until 1987. I was there when the first platform, the hotel, was jacked up. That was almost a trial operation. This structure could not be raised at the same time as the others because a bridge about 100 metres long ran to the tank.
When we started, we had a control room where the jacking director sat. I normally had an office and an emergency response room in the hotel, but we established a temporary centre on the tank.
High winds and waves created about a day and half of delays. We had our own weather forecasters working permanently on Ekofisk at that time, who received reports from every European weather station to avoid starting anything when bad weather was expected.
The hotel is roughly as big as a 10-storey house, and I remember the jacking director saying: ‘I assume you’ve calculated the platform’s centre of gravity properly now, so it doesn’t blow over.’ We could reassure him, because much of the heavy equipment was low down. In any event, it went very well.
Being involved in this was great fun, and I believe it’s one of the biggest-ever engineering achievements here in Norway. I remember we had 3 200 people on the field, and you can then triple that to count everyone involved.
Jacks and spacers were manufactured all over Europe. Everything had to be shipped out, and the timetable was tight. Supply ships came from every port in Europe, representing a huge logistical challenge. But it was fun to be part of this, after all.
At that time, we’d bought a flat in Spain. So I went down there after the jacking operation for a 14-day break. During that fortnight, they jacked the rest of the platforms, so that we were more or less finished when I returned.[REMOVE]Fotnote: Lars A Takla interviewed by Kristin Øye Gjerde, 19 December 2002.
The jack-up went on for days and nights. Photo: Husmo Foto/Norwegian Petroleum Museum
A guide to Ekofisk jacking (info-sheet ca 1987). This is how we elevate Ekofisk (brochure ca 1987). Suppliers to the jack-up project (brochure ca 1987)
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These pinouts make no attempt to be electrically or electronically compatible with the legacy PCMCIA standard. 16 GPIO pins, 24-pin RGB/TTL, USB2, I2C, 10/100/1000 Ethernet and SATA-II interfaces are included in the Version 1.0 specification. ''Note: USB2, SATA-II and Ethernet MUST support auto-negotiation, and MUST support the lower capabilities (USB 1, USB 1.1, SATA-I, 10/100 Ethernet). Higher speeds and capabilities are optional''.
Four 5.0v power inputs must be provided: all pins are rated at 0.5 amps, so the maximum power dissipation is limited to 10 watts. ''Design consideration: please note that to ensure that thermal dissipation in an enclosed fanless situation is not exceeded, a maximum of 3.5 watts should be respected. Most systems will '''not''' have active cooling.''
Four 5.0v power inputs must be provided: all pins are rated at 0.5 amps, so the maximum power dissipation is limited to 10 watts. ''Design consideration: please note that to ensure that thermal dissipation in an enclosed fanless situation is not exceeded, a maximum of 3.5 watts should be respected, or the card must contain its own fan. Most systems will '''not''' have active cooling.''
All High-speed signals (USB2, Ethernet, SATA-II) are balanced lines that are still separated using GND or Power pins. All other pins are low frequency, with the exception of the LCD Pixel Clock and Pixel Data pins, which could go as high as 125mhz for 1920x1080 @ 60fps (not recommended). The sixteen GPIO pins are available, for general-purpose bi-directional use of digital data only.
1 EOMA-68 Specification
1.1 Background to Interface Selection
1.1.1 Requirements for USB
1.1.2 Requirements for Ethernet
1.1.3 Requirements for SATA
2 Pinouts (Version 1.0)
2.1 Table of EOMA-68 pinouts
3 Start-up procedure
4 Future Versions
5 Deliberate Mechanical Non-interoperability
6 Physical Dimensions
6.1 Type II
6.2 Type III
7 Thermal Considerations
8 Header Connectors
9 Example Motherboards
10 Contact and Discussion
EOMA-68 Specification
This page describes the specification of EOMA-68. The number of pins on the interface is 68; the physical form-factor is the legacy PCMCIA.
Re-purposing of the PCMCIA interface and form-factor has been chosen to create portable Embedded Computing Modules (Computer on Module). Mass-volume "Lowest Common Denominator" interfaces have been chosen, all of which have existed for over a decade, but are low-power enough to be standard across virtually all mass-produced powerful Embedded CPUs.
The interfaces are:
24-pin RGB/TTL (for LCD Panels)
USB (USB 1.0, USB 1.1 and optionally USB 2.0 480mb/s)
10/100 Ethernet (optionally 1000 ethernet)
SATA-II (optionally SATA-III)
16 pins of General-purpose I/O (GPIO).
These interfaces are NOT OPTIONAL for CPU Cards. All CPU Cards MUST provide all interfaces. I/O Boards on the other hand are free to implement whichever interfaces are required for the device. For example: whilst all CPU Cards must have an SATA interface, devices such as tablets or laptops into which CPU Cards are plugged are not required to have an SATA hard drive.
Background to Interface Selection
The interfaces have been specifically chosen because they are either essential or they are multi-purpose buses, and surprisingly they are perfectly adequate despite being Lowest Common Denominator across a wide range of CPUs for at least a decade.
SATA - The only interface which is not particularly common on mass-produced powerful Embedded CPUs is SATA-II: this can be constructed from a USB-to-SATA converter IC such as the Genesys Logic GL831A or the JMicron JM20337.
I2C and USB - The reason for choosing I2C and USB2 is because they are both only two wires, are global buses that can address multiple devices, and they have been long-established proven Industry Standards in their fields.
Ethernet - 10/100/1000 Ethernet was chosen because it is prevalent on the majority of computing devices. In the case where chosen CPUs do not have Ethernet, a USB-to-Ethernet converter IC such as the SMSC LAN9500 can be deployed.
RGB/TTL - 24-pin RGB/TTL was chosen over LVDS or MIPI so as to keep the cost down, and also to keep the signal speed down. Whilst LVDS seems initially to be a good candidate, Single-Channel LVDS is unsuitable for driving 1920x1080p60 LCD Panels: most 1920x1080 LCD panels require between 2 and 3 LVDS drivers. MIPI also requires multiple parallel channels to achieve higher data rates. Any low-cost CPU chosen which did not have LVDS or MIPI would be forced to add a converter chip, potentially on both sides of the interface (CPU card as well as motherboard). So it makes sense to choose the proven, lower-speed, reliable 24-pin interface, thus making the EOMA-68 Standard suitable for use even with ultra-low-cost 320x240 RGB/TTL LCD Panels, right the way up to HDTV screen sizes.
Requirements for USB
All CPU Cards are required to support the full backwards-compatible Auto-negotiation USB device capabilities and speeds of all former versions of the USB Interface, up to the maximum speed and capabilities chosen to be provided. Specifically:
Providing USB Host 1.0 is acceptable.
Providing USB Host 1.1 is acceptable if USB Host 1.0 is also provided
Providing USB Host 2.0 is acceptable provided that USB 1.1 and USB 1.0 is also provided
Providing USB Host 2.0 at only 480mb/sec and supporting no other speeds is not acceptable.
Requirements for Ethernet
All CPU Cards are required to support the full auto-negotiation capabilities of Ethernet, up to the maximum speed chosen to be provided. Specifically:
Providing 10mbit/sec Ethernet is acceptable
Providing 100mbit/sec Ethernet and down-negotiation to 10mbit/sec Ethernet is acceptable
Providing 100mbit/sec Ethernet only is not acceptable
Providing 1000mbit/sec Ethernet is acceptable as long as down-level negotiation to both 100mbit/sec and 10mbit/sec is also provided
Providing 1000mbit/sec Ethernet only is not acceptable.
Requirements for SATA
All CPU Cards are required to support the full backwards-compatible auto-negotiation capabilities of SATA, up to the maximum speed and capabilities chosen to be provided. Specificially:
Provision of SATA-II is acceptable, but provision of SATA-II with only support for 3gbit/sec SATA-II is not acceptable.
Provision of SATA-III is acceptable, provided that backwards-compatibility with all prior versions of SATA are also provided
Pinouts (Version 1.0)
These pinouts make no attempt to be electrically or electronically compatible with the legacy PCMCIA standard. 16 GPIO pins, 24-pin RGB/TTL, USB2, I2C, 10/100/1000 Ethernet and SATA-II interfaces are included in the Version 1.0 specification. Note: USB2, SATA-II and Ethernet MUST support auto-negotiation, and MUST support the lower capabilities (USB 1, USB 1.1, SATA-I, 10/100 Ethernet). Higher speeds and capabilities are optional.
Four 5.0v power inputs must be provided: all pins are rated at 0.5 amps, so the maximum power dissipation is limited to 10 watts. Design consideration: please note that to ensure that thermal dissipation in an enclosed fanless situation is not exceeded, a maximum of 3.5 watts should be respected, or the card must contain its own fan. Most systems will not have active cooling.
The output from the 24-pin LCD RGB/TTL pins must be electrically compatible with a Texas Instruments SN75LVDS83B, which has electrical characteristics of 3.3V TTL but requires 5V TTL tolerance. Typical TTL High-level Voltage is 2.0 volts; Threshold is 1.4v; Low-level TTL voltage is 0.8v.
Also, because the GPIO pins can be reconfigured individually bi-directional for any digital purposes, they *must* be made to be 5V TTL tolerant and tri-state isolated, and Motherboards also must be 5.0v TTL tolerant as well as tri-state isolated. Levels when any GPIO pin is used either as an input or as an output should again operate at nominal 3.3v TTL levels, thus expect "High" Voltage of 2.0 volts, threshold of 1.4v and "Low" voltage of 0.8v.
The option to use Gigabit Ethernet is also available, if a given system has it. If, however, a particular system does not have Gigabit Ethernet, the pins must not be used for other purposes, and must be left unconnected. This is to ensure that automatic negotiation of 100/1000 Ethernet occurs correctly.
Table of EOMA-68 pinouts
* 1 LCD Pixel Data bit 0 (Red0) * 35 LCD Pixel Data bit 1 (Red1)
* 5 LCD Pixel Data bit 8 (Green0) * 39 LCD Pixel Data bit 9 (Green1)
* 6 LCD Pixel Data bit 10 (Green2) * 40 LCD Pixel Data bit 11 (Green3)
* 9 LCD Pixel Data bit 16 (Blue0) * 43 LCD Pixel Data bit 17 (Blue1)
* 10 LCD Pixel Data bit 18 (Blue2) * 44 LCD Pixel Data bit 19 (Blue3)
* 13 LCD Pixel Clock * 47 LCD Vertical Synchronization
* 14 LCD Horizontal Synchronization * 48 LCD Pixel data enable (TFT) output
* 15 I2C Clock (SCL) * 49 I2C Data (SDA)
* 16 GPIO (0) * 50 GPIO (1)
* 21 GPIO (10) * 55 GPIO (11)
* 24 PWR (5.0V) * 58 PWR (5.0V)
* 25 ---- not used ---- / 1000 Eth BI_DD+ * 59 ---- not used ---- / 1000 Eth BI_DD-
* 26 10/100 Ethernet (RX+) / 1000 Eth BI_DB+ * 60 10/100 Ethernet (RX-) / 1000 Eth BI_DB-
* 27 10/100 Ethernet (TX+) / 1000 Eth BI_DA+ * 61 10/100 Ethernet (TX-) / 1000 Eth BI_DA-
* 28 ---- not used ---- / 1000 Eth BI_DC+ * 62 ---- not used ---- / 1000 Eth BI_DC-
* 30 USB2 (Data+) * 64 USB2 (Data-)
* 31 GROUND * 65 GROUND
* 32 SATA-II Transmit (A+) * 66 SATA-II Transmit (A-)
* 34 SATA-II Receive (B+) * 68 SATA-II Receive (B-)
Start-up procedure
It is required that all pins be disabled (floating tri-state) with the exception of the I2C Bus, the 5.0v Power and the Ground Pins. I2C Bus Master is then enabled, to search for an I2C EEPROM. This EEPROM contains Linux Kernel "Device Tree" data, which specifies the devices available on the motherboard, as well as the actual pin-outs. The exact format of the EEPROM data is yet to be decided.
One important aspect of reading the I2C EEPROM is that the CPU card can then correctly access and initialise on-board devices. It also defines the purpose and use of the GPIO pins (if any are required). Also, the format of the LCD data is specified. For example, the pinout diagram on this page assumes 24-pin RGB TTL, but some motherboards may have LCD panels which only have an 18-pin RGB/TTL interface. The data in the I2C EEPROM therefore provides clear specifications on all the motherboard's peripherals.
Discussion of the startup procedure is here on arm-netbooks
Future Versions
All LCD and GPIO pins must be tri-state floating in order that future versions of this standard can provide faster (or merely alternative) interfaces. At the time of writing (2011), the interfaces in the 1.0 Specification are "Lowest Common Denominator" yet are still present across the majority of 2011's powerful embedded SoCs (OMAP4440, Enyxos4210, Tegra 3, iMX53 etc.) However, in the future, the "Lowest Common Denominator" could well comprise MIPI instead of RGB/TTL, 2 lane PCI-express (or its successor), and USB-3 instead of USB-2 (perhaps even a faster version of ULPI).
As of 2011 however, the total number of Embedded CPUs supporting all these newer interfaces and still keeping to a 1.5 watt budget is precisely zero. Support for these high-speed interfaces will therefore be re-evaluated in 2 to 3 years time, and a future version of this standard created when a large proportion of available embedded CPUs have these or other high-speed interfaces that are available at the time.
Deliberate Mechanical Non-interoperability
The re-use of the PCMCIA standard pinouts with no electrical or electronic compatibility requires mechanical means to ensure that newer cards cannot be inserted into legacy sockets. The proposed solution is therefore to deploy a fascia plate on the EOMA-68 card that is both larger in width than the standard 55mm as well as recessed by some 8mm, along the length of one of the 85mm edges. The exact dimensions are yet to be determined, as specific PCMCIA housings need to be examined to ensure that one side can take the recessed "edge stop". The following part, PCMCIA Ejector Assembly from Tyco Electronics, is ideally suited: slimline and nothing at the left side.
There are two sets of acceptable dimensions: as with the legacy PCMCIA interface, these must be backwards-compatible.
The physical dimensions are a maximum of "Type II" (i.e. 5.5mm maximum height). The 3.5mm "Type I" is. The end of the PCMCIA card must however have a fascia plate that extends the PCMCIA card by an extra 7mm (85+7mm) and is of dimensions 5.5mm x 57mm, with a deliberate 2mm overlap to the *LEFT* of the PCMCIA card, if viewing it inserted into a PCMCIA slot. To clarify: whilst the PCMCIA card itself must be of the standard dimensions (3.5mm or 5.5mm x 55mm x 85mm) the end portion must be 5.5mm x 57mm x 7mm.
The reason for the standardisation is because the PCMCIA CPU cards will fit into a wide range of devices: the fascia plate must therefore fit flush with all devices into which the CPU cards will be inserted. The reason for the overlap of 2mm is to prevent the PCMCIA CPU card from being inserted into standard legacy devices.
Type III Cards have a maximum height of 8mm: this is typically reserved for x86-based CPUs which require up to 10 watts to operate. Motherboards that take the Type III cards must also accept the Type II lower-power cards.
Thermal Considerations
In order to reduce the cost of Motherboards and system design, Type II Cards should not exceed an average of 3.5 watts power consumption for prolonged periods of time, despite there being provision for up to 10 watts on the EOMA-68 connector.
CPU Cards and Motherboards that support the Type III 8mm-high cards must be designed with a Thermal Dissipation capability that takes the 10 watt TDP into consideration, as well as taking into consideration the power consumption and heat generation of the devices used on the Motherboard as well. Whilst fan-based solutions are acceptable, the use of thermally-conductive copolymer plastics (some of which have thermal dissipation capabilities exceeding that of Aluminium) are recommended.
Header Connectors
Within the physical dimensions, there is absolutely no restriction on the number of connectors, interfaces, headers, expansion headers or antenna protruding from the end of the device. For example: a PCMCIA CPU card may typically have, for best useability, a Micro-HDMI, a USB-OTG, a 5-pin Audio Jack and a Micro-SD Card Slot. These four interfaces fit neatly within the 57mm x 5.5mm fascia plate size limit.
Also, on the actual EOMA-68 CPU Card PCB itself, there is no restriction on the number of expansion headers (populated or unpopulated) - the only consideration being that the EOMA-68 CPU card clearly cannot have expansion headers except for Engineers and Embedded Device Designers, and also have a metal shield installed around the EOMA-68 CPU card at the same time. However, there is no reason why the expansion headers should be unpopulated, supplied without a metal shield to Embedded Engineers, yet the exact same device shipped in mass-volume with a metal shield installed, for the average user.
The only issue to note is that there is a maximum power budget of about 5 watts (two 5.0V 0.5A pins) but also that there is a practical maximum power dissipation of EOMA-68 cards of about 4 watts. There is no provision in the standard for air-cooling (fans) in the cases: most devices will be a passive-cooled layout.
If however the EOMA-68 card is designed to operate "stand-alone", for example by being provided with a Power Connector on its user-facing edge or by making use of USB-OTG, then of course the designers are free to disregard these constraints. If however the CPU card is also expected to operate inside a conformant device, then it must adjust accordingly and stick within the 4 watt heat dissipation budget.
Example Motherboards
Here is a list of example designs which conform the EOMA-68 Standard:
Mini Engineering Board - suitable for Free Software Developers, ODM Development, SoC "Board Support Packages", Experimentation, Prototyping, Electrical Engineers, Training and R&D purposes.
Monster Engineering Board - suitable for ODM Development "Demonstration" Purposes: designed to be "cut down to size", requiring the minimum amount of CAD/CAM Development effort and maximising return on investment.
The Obligatory Tablet - a simple tablet motherboard which could potentially be developed as a very low cost single-sided 2-layer PCB. Components are chosen to reduce development cost and risk, as well as reduce manufacturing cost.
Laptop - a laptop motherboard which could potentially be developed as a very low cost single-sided 2-layer PCB, through the use of modular and optional components for WIFI and 3G.
LCD (TV) - an LCD Monitor (or Picture Frame) which can be upgraded into a TV or an All-in-One Computer or an Internet TV or Personal Video Recorder or Media Centre. very versatile yet simple to do.
Passthrough or "Blank" Card - a special type of card which simply passes through the connectors, with little or no signal conversion.
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Opposite of smartwatch
What do you call a watch that isn't a smart watch? A dumb watch? Just "a watch"? Something else?
I checked Wiktionary and it didn't have any antonyms.
antonyms retronyms
Andrew Grimm
Andrew GrimmAndrew Grimm
Possible duplicate of Word for the opposite of digital art – jera Jan 19 '16 at 10:41
@jera It is not a duplicate. – user140086 Jan 19 '16 at 10:45
I should think that 'watch' still has the default sense 'a non-smart watch' in ordinary conversation; it's smartness that needs marking. And jera is morally correct. – Edwin Ashworth Jan 19 '16 at 11:56
@jera I wasn't doing a copycat of that question - someone else was talking about watches and it made me wonder about this topic. – Andrew Grimm Jan 19 '16 at 21:50
This is like asking what's the opposite of a pancake? Your accepted answer lends itself to have asked what kind of word is smartwatch? It's a duplicate in the sense that just like art, it's just a watch. Actually, it is just a secondary external display; see Fred's answer. – Mazura Jan 20 '16 at 22:31
You are looking for the retronym ("a new name for something that differentiates the original from a more recent form or version").
The adoption of a retronym requires two things:
the new version being sufficiently popular
In the case of the smart-watch, neither has happened yet.
MalvolioMalvolio
If you require the time, you should get a watch. – user1717828 Jan 19 '16 at 17:41
@BleepBloopOverflow -- maybe, but (1) certainly has not. Smartwatches have been a huge misfire, an ugly, expensive solution looking for a problem. – Malvolio Jan 19 '16 at 21:52
@spacetyper "There isn't really a word yet" is a valid answer, especially since it's clearly laid out and explained rather than a terse dismissal. – SuperBiasedMan Jan 21 '16 at 11:39
Especially if it is the correct answer. :-) – jpaugh Jan 21 '16 at 16:09
I suggest POW (Plain Old Watch), along the same lines as POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) . – Spehro Pefhany Jan 22 '16 at 18:02
"Conventional watch" seems neutral and descriptive to me. I found several articles that refer to non-smart watches this way, usually in contrast to the Apple watch, as well as some use in forums:
Conventional watch sales slide after Apple Watch launch, NPD says (http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/08/07/conventional-watch-sales-slide-after-apple-watch-launch-npd-says)
"Its smartwatch looks like a conventional watch but a small dial at the six o’clock position provides the wearer of the Mondaine Helvetica No 1 Smart via an analogue representation the data that monitors activity and sleep." (http://www.standard.co.uk/stayingin/tech-gaming/how-fine-watch-brands-are-embracing-the-smartwatch-revolution-a3112071.html)
[Should I choose a] smartwatch or conventional watch? (https://forums.oneplus.net/threads/smartwatch-or-conventional-watch.283809/)
As Malvolio noted, there doesn't seem to be an accepted term in common use yet. I personally like "conventional watch" because it avoids the negative connotations of "dumbwatch" or "legacy watch", doesn't conflate types of watches with the history of types of phones (see "brick watch", "feature watch"), and avoids confusion with existing watch types (such as "analog watch" or "digital watch"). Compare with conventional art, conventional warfare, etc.
Milo PMilo P
But do you consider a 'conventional' watch analog or digital? (or, to the woe of some, both)? – Robotnik Jan 20 '16 at 15:15
@Robotnik Both, I'm thinking of it as including both analog and digital since neither type is a smartwatch. Digital watches are only a few decades old, but they're common enough (where I live) that the phrase "smart watches vs. conventional watches" would probably get the same idea across as "smart watches vs. watches that don't interact with your phone". – Milo P Jan 20 '16 at 16:41
Off topic maybe: I came across this while looking for something else and I get annoyed by the article. It feels like "smart watches" have always been or should be considered as the de facto standard of what a "watch" is and if you don't add "conventional" before the word "watch" people will assume you are talking about a smart watch.Time will tell, I guess. I get the same feeling when Tesla is brought up and the acronym ICE used. As if when talking about "an engine" in the context of cars, it'll be anything else? A Tesla has an electric "motor" so it's not like there will be confusion. /rant – reaper_unique Dec 29 '17 at 10:30
The opposite of smartphone is sometimes called dumbphone, so by analogy you could call a non-smartwatch a dumbwatch if you want to accent the difference.
gronostajgronostaj
And, going back a few years, terminals like the vt100 were called "smart terminals" because they were capable of such amazing feats as moving the cursor up, down, left, and right, allowing games like packman to be played on them. Less capable terminals (more suitable for zork) were then retronamed "dumb terminals". – Theodore Norvell Jan 19 '16 at 12:52
No, obviously you'd call it a "flip-watch". – Hot Licks Jan 19 '16 at 13:26
@TheodoreNorvell The "smart" feature of a VT100 was the ability to scroll arbitrary regions, and insert and delete lines and characters (and automatically scroll the rest of the line/screen). Cursor positioning was a feature of "dumb" terminals (VT52, LSi ADM3a, etc) - By the time anyone even thought to implement a pacman game, CRT terminals with cursor positioning were well-established. – Random832 Jan 19 '16 at 16:46
The mobile, non-smart phones are often known as "feature phones", perhaps to highlight that the functionality beyond simple phone calls is provided by features hard-coded into the firmware rather than apps installable on a smart phone. No such name has yet surfaced for non-smart watches. – Monty Harder Jan 19 '16 at 18:30
@TheodoreNorvell And these days a VT100 might be called a dumb terminal. – user253751 Jan 23 '16 at 7:12
You could consider using a non-smart watch, but it has not been broadly used yet.
Actual usage:
Swatch introduces Bellamy, the non-smart watch for payments on the Chinese market.
[Apex Tribune article]
...This Zulu inspired smart watch strap is designed to perfectly fit smart watches like Apple Watch and Pebble Smartwatch as well as a non smart watch...
[Advertisement for a smart watch strap]
Other candidates:
An analogue watch:
A watch that displays time by means of a dial and hands, in contradistinction to a digital watch.
A digital watch:
A watch, usually electronic, that displays time in the form of numbers, rather than by a dial and hands.
[Wiktionary]
I think a smart watch is a type of a digital watch under its definition. But, traditionally a digital watch meant a watch with numbers displayed before a smart watch appeared.
Future question on ELU: "hypernym of digital and analogue watches". – Andrew Grimm Jan 19 '16 at 11:14
Perhaps include the term "mechanical watch". Although these days most analog watches will use quartz. – LukStorms Jan 19 '16 at 14:39
@LukStorms I think analogue watches include both mechanical and quartz watches. – user140086 Jan 19 '16 at 14:41
Indeed. It was just a suggestion for completeness sake. – LukStorms Jan 19 '16 at 16:12
"Bellamy" (!that's the name of a watch??) certainly isn't a conventional watch (it lets you make contactless payments, so it's jammed full of processing, communications & software). So when Swatch describe it as a non-smart watch they are being disingenuous / arty / markety. – AAT Jan 20 '16 at 9:52
Analog watch is used to refer to traditional, non digital watches. For specific reference to a "smart watch" I think you may simply use "digital non smart watch".
(sometimes spelled analogue watch) is an example of a retronym. It was coined to distinguish analog watches, which had simply been called "watches", from newer digital watches;
The name refers to the design of the display, regardless of the timekeeping technology used within the watch.
I think that "digital non-smart watch" might be overkill; "digital watch" would be good enough. It displays digits. If it did a bit more, then it might be a "calculator watch". It would be a bit surprising to classify an Apple Watch as a "digital watch". – 200_success Jan 19 '16 at 20:34
@200_success digital watches are not called "digital" because they display digits—almost all watches display digits of some sort. they're called "digital" becaue they are digital (as opposed to analog/mechanical). a smartwatch is absolutely a digital watch. – user428517 Jan 19 '16 at 20:54
@sgroves That's a fair observation. For example, most people seem to describe the Timex Illusion watch as a digital watch with an analog display. The rest of my comment is still valid, though, I think. – 200_success Jan 19 '16 at 21:02
@sgroves: Absolutely not. From their inception (and I remember the first ones) digitial watches (and clocks) were "digital" precisely because they displayed the numbers as digits (using red LEDs at first) as digits, rather than by moving hands. There were certainly "quartz" watches which had entirely electronic timekeeping which controlled the movement of the hands. Likewise, it should be perfectly possible for a smart watch to be programmed to show an analog display, like just about every other computer clock display. – jamesqf Jan 20 '16 at 5:46
@sgroves: But "digital" refers to the format in which the time is displayed, not the underlying technology that creates the display. Thus for instance in the man page for xclock, we find "The xclock program displays the time in analog or digital form." even though the computer running the program is obviously digital. – jamesqf Jan 21 '16 at 6:12
I like the description wristwatch. I've never heard anyone refer to a smart watch as a wristwatch, so the two meanings won't overlap. Wristwatch is also slightly antiquated, and I think an older word suits an older technology.
I oppose calling it a "conventional" or "standard" watch. The reason is that, if smart watches one day come to dominate, the word will be inappropriate. We currently have that problem with manual transmissions (driving with paddle or stick shift). In North America, a manual transmission is often called a "standard" transmission, and yet something like 95-99% of cars have an automatic transmission. So a stick shift isn't standard at all.
AshleyZAshleyZ
Standard transmission because marketing: at one time automatic meant something special that cost more; you could get the plain boring base-price standard version or the $pecial version. Not "it's the established standard" but standard vs enhanced feature set. – Tom Hundt Jan 22 '16 at 2:09
@TomHundt - Then shouldn't the "dumb" watch be referred to as a "stick watch"? – Hot Licks Jan 22 '16 at 22:08
@AshleyZ, Exactly the same problem when people name their stuff, "the Modern..." or "the New Modern.." – Pacerier Aug 2 '16 at 3:58
Following smart phones - from which smart watches were inspired - it would be appropriate to call it a feature watch or a basic watch In the mobile phone industry, non-smart phones are sold as feature phones or basic phones.
Verizon Wireless - 'Basic Phones'
AT&T Wireless - 'Basic Feature Phones'
Phone Arena - 'Feature Phones'
Cell phones and watches have had similar transitions:
- Originally designed to communicate directly to another phone, via call or text
- Evolved into a miniature computing device, with the ability to provide an array of graphic and audio information to the user from a variety of networks and wireless sources
- Originally designed to keep time of day and other self-computing chronological or timing functions
In addition to the links provided - from the four years I spent selling wireless phones - I can personally attest that both device manufacturers and service providers regularly use the terms feature phone and basic phone to refer to non-smart phones.
Trevor DTrevor D
I think "feature phone" refers specifically to phones that would have been considered advanced before smartphones existed - i.e. with web browser, J2ME apps, etc. – Random832 Jan 19 '16 at 16:43
Yeah, @Random832 is totally correct on this - a feature phone is a step above the basic cell phone, in that it has capabilities beyond those directly related to phone service or SMS/MMS. Nothing like that has really existed in the watch space - almost all traditional watch features are directly related to telling time, with the exception of calculator watches :) – recognizer Jan 19 '16 at 17:12
Both valid points--I agree that feature phone was created to identify "tweener" phones that could do more than basic phones but less than smartphones. I suppose I used the terms together because in my practical experience in the industry, "feature phone" and "basic phone" were used interchangeably to identify non-smart phones, regardless of whether the phone was geared towards multi-media or an ultra-basic flip phone. – Trevor D Jan 19 '16 at 17:44
@TrevorD Well, do they even make "ultra-basic" ones anymore, i.e. no web, no ability to play audio files, etc? Even if they're not "geared towards multi-media", even the cheapest phones these days seem to have these features. – Random832 Jan 19 '16 at 17:56
@Random832 Technically yes--Jitterbug, or other MVNO low-cost options. My point was that while "basic" phones usually do have some means to connect to the web, they are not typically marketed as such. "Feature" phones usually have QWERTY keyboards and larger, landscape-oriented screens, while "basic" phones typically have smaller portrait-style screens and a standard 1-9 keypad. They may both be able to connect to the web, but one is better suited for it and therefore differentiated as a feature phone vs. a basic phone. – Trevor D Jan 19 '16 at 18:15
The term"smart watch" is just a marketing label.
When the so called smart phone associated with a so called smart watch either stops working or the link between the two fails, what does the so called smart watch do?
The so called smart watch is just a secondary, external, display for a so called smart phone; it's just a dumb display unit that shows pretty pictures which gives the false impression that it's smart.
As for a non smart watches, they've always been called watches. They are machines. The first generation watches used springs to power the watches and geared mechanisms to ensure time was kept as accurately as possible. The second generation of watches used quartz systems to improve the accuracy of time keeping and they used electrical sources of energy such as batteries or solar cells.
When the second generation watches emerged they were still called watches, albeit, sometimes, quartz or battery powered watches because like the previous generation of spring powered watches they were machines that performed the same functions. They are chronometers.
A similar thing is happening with cars. The first generation of cars were powered by fossil fuelled internal combustion engines. A second generation of electrically powered cars are now being developed. Should self driving cars become fully developed will they be known as smart cars and if so do we then call internal combustion powered or electrically powered cars dumb cars, or conventional cars, or just cars?
A non smart watch, a small mechanical chronometer that can be worn on person's wrist or pinned to their top (as nurses once did), is simply a watch.
Op's question? : What's the opposite of a "secondary, external, display for a so called smart phone"? Plus one. – Mazura Jan 20 '16 at 19:44
In a lot of countries, passing off a quartz watch as a chronometer will get you in legal trouble. Not related to that, IIRC 'car' is contracted from 'horseless carriage' and we still call the things pulled by animals 'carriages', so if the wrist-display becomes enough of a thing in itself it might evolve a different name. – Pete Kirkham Jan 22 '16 at 12:51
@PeteKirkham I'm not a watchmaker, so I'm a rookie in that subject and I have to ask: Why? How do a quartz watch and a chronometer distinguish for you? Do you define a chronometer to be 100% mechanical, i. e. no batteries? – syntaxerror Jan 24 '16 at 14:34
@syntaxerror it's certification by institutions such as COSC in Switzerland against ISO standards which determine whether a watch can be sold as a chronometer watch in many countries. Otherwise it's just a watch which happens to be accurate. As far as I know, there is no ISO standard to test quartz watches, so no quartz watch can be a chronometer. – Pete Kirkham Jan 25 '16 at 12:24
@PeteKirkmam Most interesting insights, thanks. As I said: I'm a rookie in that subject. But I guess asking in public here was also useful for the others too, who likewise might have wondered what the difference is. – syntaxerror Jan 25 '16 at 17:23
I would call it a regular/normal watch.
A smartwatch is a rarer, more recent version of a watch. Both analog and digital watches are fairly commonplace.
When drawing a distinction between the rare and the common, people tend to refer to the rare version by its designated term, while referring to the common one as regular, or normal (eg, sports cars => normal cars; famous people => regular people; smartwatch => regular watch).
HugherHugher
Or ordinary watch which means the same in some way. (Would be a little overkill to create an extra answer for that). It would even be a better English antonym to "famous people": "ordinary people" (people like you and me). "Regular" sounds somewhat odd with "people" - but maybe that's just me. :) – syntaxerror Jan 24 '16 at 14:17
There are not so many occurences in the case of watches, but "plain vanilla" describes the simplest version of an object, basic or ordinary. However, one finds instances of "plain vanilla phones". So, i'll go for a plain vanilla watch.
"(plain) vanilla" must have originated from techie nerdspeak, I guess. :) Because a "vanilla installation" of an operating system means that it's installed without any bells or whistles - not even games. And a plain vanilla cellphone means as if it just came from the factory, i. e. a former Symbian Nokia one that only came with its butt-ugly web browser, but no Opera Mini installed on it. Had the latter been available on that phone, it'd have lost its "vanilla" badge because of it's 3rd-party software. – syntaxerror Jan 24 '16 at 14:25
From the perspective of data structures; 'smartwatch' is a subcategory while 'watch' is the general category.
A non-smart watch would be anything that falls outside of that category. Which can be many things: -digital -analog -electronic -spring (either manual or automatically wound) -stopwatch Some of these are exclusionary of eachother, some are overlapping like a venn-diagram.
So if you want to mention a specific type, there are plenty of words for that. But there's no word for an 'all-except-one' category.
What's the word for a car that isn't a sportscar?
Eventually there will be a specific category for non-smart watch, but there are currently several contenders and we need some time to see which grows most popular: -dumb watch -plain watch -traditional watch -basic watch
PixelSnaderPixelSnader
Legacy Watch..when used as an adjective, legacy denotes software or hardware that has been superseded but is difficult to replace because of its wide use.
But so-called smart watches are hardly in wide use, are they? – jamesqf Jan 19 '16 at 18:18
This is a pretty good term, but for the wrong reasons. Can you do a bit of research on what watchmakers call their traditional watches? – ab2 Jan 19 '16 at 18:55
Clockwork watches have hardly been superseded. 'Legacy' may become a more valid term in a decade or so. – Chenmunka Jan 19 '16 at 19:04
But watches have been easy to replace - with mobile phones. – Andrew Grimm Jan 19 '16 at 20:37
At the risk of coining a phrase, I would say simple watch.
Where simple is the opposite of smart/wise.
“Smartwatch” just means a computerized watch. The “smart” refers to a built-in computer. Same as with a smartphone or smart TV — that just says there is a computer inside.
Other kinds of watches are not opposites to a smartwatch, they are just other kinds of watches. There are mechanical watches, electronic watches, diving watches. None of these are necessarily obsoleted by smartwatches.
I would’t refer to any of them as “dumb” because that implies they lack functionality and/or sophistication, which is not the case. In fact, in spite of the computer, many smartwatches are much “dumber” than other kinds of watches.
Simon WhiteSimon White
Dumbphones also have a computer inside. – Andrew Grimm Jan 22 '16 at 8:51
@AndrewGrimm not a computer in this sense. Smartness indicates a general-purpose computer. – loa_in_ Jan 24 '16 at 22:29
Has anyone thought of analog watch? I would think it wouldn't be immediately understood, but I think it should be the correct retronym, although whether it's adopted is in question.
Mike Socha IIIMike Socha III
But many non-smart watches are digital - that is, they display the time as digits, rather than hands pointing to numbers on a dial. – jamesqf Jan 21 '16 at 6:13
Has anyone thought of analog watch? Yes, quite a few actually: Rathony; Josh61; Hugher; and PixelSnader; – Mari-Lou A Jan 23 '16 at 12:29
normal watch, which can only show the time and maybe, the date.
polarG7polarG7
I was going to jokingly suggest "dumbwatch" as a comment, but let's be more serious and take a synonym which reduces "watch" to what it really is before it becomes an abomination of a smartphone with feature creep...
chronometer (which measures time, similarly to a tachometer/speedometer measuring speed)
(portably/wearable) timepiece
(small) clock
But for now I agree with Malvolio's answer, no one will mistake the meaning of "watch" for a smartwatch these days.
Tobias KienzlerTobias Kienzler
So, why would you say that "chronometer" or "clock" are better answers than, say, wristwatch, or conventional / analogue / plain /plain vanilla / normal / regular / simple / basic / legacy / digital/ feature watch, or even "dumb watch" (which has already been suggested)? – Mari-Lou A Jan 22 '16 at 12:37
Please someone suggest "grandfather clock" or "hourglass" while we're at it. – Mari-Lou A Jan 22 '16 at 12:38
@Mari-LouA My main suggestion was a synonym which obviously means a small device on your arm which allows telling the time. Wristwatch might indeed be better, but that still doesn't clarify the time-reading aspect. Concerning your second comment, we both know that's too big a clock, don't we? Though, I think some TV show had a really nice hourglass-expanding-from-wrist thingie... – Tobias Kienzler Jan 22 '16 at 12:49
@Mari-LouA Because these names are not as ambiguous as "watch" might one day become (as mentioned, I agree with Malvolio that this is not the case today). Chronometer measures time like a tachometer/speedometer measures speed etc., while a timepiece is obviously a piece for time. – Tobias Kienzler Jan 22 '16 at 13:05
So in the future, perhaps people will refer to their traditional, classic old-fashioned watches as chronometers? Hmm... – Mari-Lou A Jan 22 '16 at 13:22
In the tradition of transferring names from professions to objects that obsolete them (computer, calculator), how about timekeeper?
ExtrariusExtrarius
Do you mean a smart watch doesn't have time-keeping function? – user140086 Jan 19 '16 at 14:39
Most dumb cell phones have a calculator function and are computers, but most people understand "calculator" to mean a device (or, perhaps, software) whose primary function is calculating directly for the user (vs the general calculation/computation a phone does to act as a phone, etc). Similary, any time-keeping function is only one of many on a smart watch, and (one might argue) not the primary one. – Extrarius Jan 19 '16 at 14:50
I don't recall a specific example at the moment, but some mechanical watch makers have used "timekeeper" as an element of their branding in the past. So it's not unheard of to identify a fine watch with this term, but it's not in common usage either. – recognizer Jan 19 '16 at 17:14
I like this. It adds some specificity, designating the main/only function of that object. – PixelSnader Jan 20 '16 at 14:12
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Oval Partners Makes Strategic Investment in Marimon Business Systems
FlexPrint LLC expands aggressive growth strategy with the acquisition of one of Texas largest Office Technology Dealer
PHOENIX, ARIZONA (July 11, 2017) –Oval Partners, a San Francisco based multi-family office private equity firm, today announced a new partnership with Marimon Business Systems, a top-tier office technology dealer in Texas with offices in Houston, Dallas, and Fort Worth.
Since 1978, Marimon has gone to great lengths to provide customers with state-of-the-art technology and first-class service. As an elite Canon and Lexmark dealer, Marimon delivers state-of-the-art technology and provides comprehensive business solutions to businesses throughout the state of Texas.
“Marimon’s next phase of growth has just been amplified by joining Oval Partners and Flex Technology Group,” said Anthony Marimon, CEO of Marimon Business Systems. “With the Flex Technology Group, we have additional resources to execute our strategy and further accelerate our growth. They have built an excellent partner model that will allow our company to create exciting opportunities for our employees, greatly expand our market share, and further enhance the services we provide to our customers.”
“Over the last 40 years, Marimon has established itself as an industry innovator focused on amazing customer service. Their client-first philosophy aligns perfectly with the Flex Technology Group’s culture,” said Frank Gaspari, CEO of Flex Technology Group. “This partnership provides us the opportunity to continue our growth trajectory with an outstanding company and expand into the great state of Texas.”
Anthony Marimon, who will be an equity holder in FlexPrint, LLC, as well as the entire Marimon Business Systems executive team will remain in their current leadership roles to preserve Marimon’s successful 40-year history of serving their customers.
This investment marks another important milestone for Flex Technology Group, one which will ignite a series of future acquisitions of superior office technology dealers across the country this year. The acquisition of Marimon dramatically shapes the trajectory of the Flex Technology Group’s growth, and will provide additional experience, enthusiasm, and support to the Flex Technology Group family of companies.
About Oval Partners
Oval Partners is a multi-family office investment firm designed to provide liquidity, growth, capital, and acquisition funding to founders of growing businesses across North America. Oval’s capital base is permanent-it is committed, unencumbered, and unconstrained in terms of holding period. Oval offers the capabilities and capital of a private equity fund, but the mentality, partner orientation, and investment timeframe of a private holding company. Oval’s principals have completed more than 75 transactions involving platform investments, acquisitions, exits, and re-financings. Oval focuses on making investments in the Tech Enabled Services, Information Services, Internet, Software/SAAS and Industrial Technology markets. FlexPrint embodies the essence of Oval’s targeted “buy and build” strategy in attractive service-oriented niche end markets. For additional information, please contact Dan Ruhl at dan@ovalpartners.com or visit www.OvalPartners.com.
About FlexPrint LLC
FlexPrint and its family of companies, referred as the Flex Technology Group, provide customized office technology solutions for national and leading edge regional companies. We focus on print, document management, document production and managed IT solutions, representing industry leading suppliers such as Canon, Ricoh, Konica Minolta, HP, Lexmark and various software solutions. We proudly service almost 20,000 customers nationally. For additional information, please visit www.flexprintinc.com.
About Marimon Business Systems
Since 1978, Marimon has provided comprehensive business solutions using award-winning technology and services designed to increase overall efficiency and boost productivity, all while saving you money. The foundation of our success has been built on anticipating client needs and delivering unique business solutions that allow you to operate leaner and be more responsive than ever before. That is why everything we do is designed to maximize your investment, minimize downtime, and optimize your document workflow. Our range of products and services are simply unmatched. We have partnered with the best in the industry, Canon and Lexmark, to bring you state-of-the-art technology and best-in-class products to deliver a customized solution to fit your specific business needs. Our only goal is to help you work smarter, faster, and more efficiently so you can stay ahead of the competition. We are essential for business. For additional info please go to www.marimoninc.com .
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Verizon is just going to straight up give you concert tickets for your personal data
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It’s an open secret that there are a ton of companies jockeying behind the scenes to collect as much of your personal data as possible so it can then sell ads that target you.
But most of those companies aren’t quite as honest about it as Verizon.
The telecom giant has a new plan to get your data, and it’s admirably straightforward — Let Verizon track you on the web, in apps, and even where you are in the real world, and Verizon will give you everything from concert tickets to phone upgrades in return.
SEE ALSO: Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster scam is why she’s capitalism’s favorite pop star
The program is called Verizon Up, and it will replace its old program, Smart Rewards.
It’s about as explicit a deal for your personal data as you can find. While most companies implicitly gather your info — use our services for free and in the background we’ll be watching what you do and then selling ads off of it — Verizon’s new program might be the most transparent ploy for data yet.
People have to be Verizon customers to participate. Members received one credit for every $300 spent, which can be redeemed for various offerings. Verizon’s website currently lists Lady Gaga tickets, Star Wars movie tickets, and smartphones. Verizon Up also teases other offerings like Uber and Amazon rewards.
The catch is that just being a Verizon customer isn’t enough. Verizon customers must also be signed up for Verizon Selects, which enables the company to track customers and then sell ads based on that data.
This data is very valuable to Verizon, particularly as it works toward its goal of becoming an alternative for advertisers looking beyond the online dominance of Google and Facebook. Verizon is hoping this user data, combined with its growing digital properties like its new media unit Oath (which includes both AOL and Yahoo), will make for a potent offering.
With Up, Verizon now gives customers an easy way to opt into Select.
On the bright side, Verizon is at least giving its customers something in return for their data. On the down side, it’s just another logical step toward a world where people feel they might as well get what they can for their personal information since it’s out there already.
At least we can get some Gaga tickets out of the deal.
WATCH: Great, now you can get dumped via Spotify playlist
Read more: http://mashable.com/2017/09/05/verizon-up-concert-tickets-personal-data/
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Drivers beware — trying to stay focused on the road is next to impossible in Lafayette Square – the neighborhood’s eye-popping splendor easily relinquishes one’s control over the steering wheel. St. Louis’ oldest historic district, and also a designated National Historic District, is located three blocks south of downtown, and 1.4 miles from the Gateway Arch.
Bordered by Chouteau Avenue on the north, Interstate 44 on the south, Truman Parkway on the east, and South Jefferson Avenue on west, this reclaimed urban community lives at the intersection of historically ornate and abundantly hip. Park your car for free and start enjoying the amenities, all located within a few blocks.
But first, get your color swatches out — the hues of the meticulously restored 150-year-old two- and three-story Victorian mansions are stunning. Bright yellow doorstrimmed in aqua blue and brown on one, salmon and turquoise on another; lime green and purple facades with ornate moldings painted light blue on yet another. They are so beautiful that Better Homes and Gardens recognized the neighborhood as one of the nation’s 12 prettiest painted places in 2012. These stately homes, commonly referred to as the “painted ladies,” surround the lush 30-acre Lafayette Park, itself an oasis of beauty. And it’s claim to fame? Dedicated in 1851, Lafayette Park is the oldest urban park west of the Mississippi.
Like a picture out of a Victorian novel, the park’s flowers, natural grasses, towering trees, waterfalls, fountains and iconic iron bridges provide a peaceful backdrop and respite. The original iron and stone fence erected in 1869 still encircles the park’s perimeter. Its history and beauty define its charm. Along the self-guided historical walking tour, visitors will pass the athletic field, which served as a military parade ground in 1858; a bronze statue of George Washington created in 1869 by French Sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon; a circular horse watering trough-turned planter; and a music pavilion with the original base from 1896, among numerous other notable landmarks. In days of yore, Victorians rowed around the park’s main lake in swan boats. Today, the swan house and fountain are reproductions of the Victorian originals.
The park is also the home for the Saint Louis Perfectos and the Lafayette Square Cyclones, a baseball club that plays by the rules and customs of the 1860s. Visit the first weekend in June and celebrate the Shepard Barclay Festival, the club’s premier event of the season. For more on vintage baseball in the park, please click here.
In addition to the private residences surrounding the park, the neighborhood’s French Second Empire and Federalist architectural structures house two craft breweries; specialty shops; Park Avenue Coffee, which features original small-batch blends; quirky and one-of-a-kind restaurants; yoga and art studios; wine, chocolate and rooftop bars; a bistro; and a creamery.
Meet a sommelier and taste a few of the more than 700 wines available at 33 Wine Shop & Bar;
A few doors down is Square One Brewery, located in Christopher Schumacher’s original tavern built in 1883. The building was later acquired by Anheuser-Busch and operated as a “tied house,” serving products exclusively made by the brewery, an old English tradition. Today, the brew house brews and distills a variety of award winning pilsners, stouts, ales, whiskeys and rums. Make sure to sit on the patio next to the 15-foot stone wall and brick fountain;
If you prefer sweeter alcoholic choices, visit Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Creamery, a modern micro-creamery that serves small-batch ice cream flavors, with alcohol-infused options.
Four Muddy Paws healthy pet market sells freshly cooked treats and allows you to self-serve wash your own dog or cat;
Peruse laser engraved family trees platters, pillowcase dresses for toddlers, leather wallets made from baseball gloves and other rare finds at Looking Glass Gifts and Jewelry;
Eat and drink at SqWires restaurant, located in the former Western Wire Factory, a picture-perfect renovation of an old Victorian building. From the handcrafted steel fireplace and leather banquette seating to the industrial ceiling fans and exposed brick and beams, the restaurant is a mecca for foodies into oysters, Bloody Mary’s, weekend brunches, and smoked brisket. Local blues and jazz musicians play regularly;
The block long plaza in front of SqWires, complete with gardens, park benches and a splashing fountain, is a gathering place for local events.
Annual neighborhood festivities include an antique fair (June); Cocktails on the Plaza (July); Movies in Lafayette Park (summer); Taste of Lafayette (August); Tour De Lafayette/Gateway Cup Bike Race (Friday before Labor Day); Tricks & Treats on Park (Saturday before Halloween); the Holiday Tree Lighting (second Saturday in December); and the Holiday Market (second Sunday in December), which features roasted chestnuts, spirits and crafts.
But back to those colorfully “painted ladies.” Twice each year, the residents open their homes to the public for the ever-popular Spring and Garden Tour (first weekend in June) and the Lafayette Square Holiday Parlor Tour (second Sunday in December).
Visitors even have the option to stay in one of these gloriously painted homes. Three bed and breakfasts inns – Park Avenue Mansion, Napoleon’s Retreat, and Lehmann House – welcome guests year round. They feature 12-foot carved front doors, garden courtyards, champagne breakfasts, canopy beds, and French terry cloth robes, among other amenities. Pamper yourself, Victorian style.
Whatever you choose — color your world in Lafayette Square.
From downtown St. Louis, take Market Street west to Jefferson Avenue south and turn east on Park.
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All activities of individual departments have come from our own long-standing tradition and experience in research, development, and testing of individual products, and in our own production activities since 1921.
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Is Fair Remote A Failure Or Not?
Raul Popadineți
20 Aug, 2020 • 5 min read
Photo by Ian Schneider on Unsplash
Launching a new product is tough. Some never go through the whole startup hodgepodge because life is more comfortable that way. Dealing with failure is not for everyone.
From the outside, people might view our start as a failure. The service has been live for more than three months, and so far, we’ve had zero paying customers.
The reasoning behind all this is simple. When you launch a startup without the hassle of getting VC funds, but to have a calmer attitude and grow organically, you’ve got two ways to become profitable. You either build an audience, launch your product after you reach a decent number of subscribers, or go the other way around. Product first, audience later.
We went with the second approach. Why? Three reasons.
We wanted to build something that would resolve our problem first.
It started as a side-project initially to sharpen our knowledge around the tech stack.
We are still collaborating with a handful of clients, so outsourcing is our primary income.
The constant income gave us the freedom to move at our own pace. We did not overthink the need for profit in the beginning. If the service had brought money through the door, that would have been even better, but not a deal-breaker.
So we started crafting the product in a way that would make us want to use it.
First, we started building the brand. Second, we created a Basecamp and put together everything that we wanted to ship in the MVP version. Third, we set a hard deadline to force ourselves actually to do it.
We had an attempt to launch two products a few years ago. We never felt confident to buy the one-way ticket to “StartupLand”, so we ended up abandoning them.
It turns out we were wrong all along.
We will probably never consider ourselves ready as there’s always room for improvement, but that’s the beauty of the journey. We had to launch Fair Remote to see this. The learning process never ends unless you want to. It’s just like life. Suppose you want to learn more about yourself. In that case, you have to continually contemplate your day-to-day actions, analyze them objectively, see what can be done better, and do it. Without the final step, the action will remain at the ideal level. That’s good enough for our brain to trick it into believing we made progress and changed. After a while, it ends up in the drawer, long forgotten. Even improving the parts you consider yourself good at can prove you haven’t reached your maximum potential. There’s no perfect human, just like there’s no perfect software. It’s perfectible though.
With this idea on our minds, when we thought we were in a decent place with what we had, we set a deadline, opened up a Twitter account, and announced it.
The word was out, and we wanted to keep our promise. And we did.
On the 1st of June, we officially launched Fair Remote on ProductHunt. We had quite a run as we remained in the top 10 launches for that day. A decent amount of traffic came in, but no new job posts were published.
One day had passed, then two, then three. Before you know it, two weeks have passed, and the traffic decreased abruptly as we expected, but didn’t wish for.
We stepped back a bit and asked ourselves what we were doing wrong, but the signs were in front of our eyes. We’re not bringing a significant shift in the area. It’s still “just another remote job board”, but with a different focus. There are already plenty of other fishes in the tank that swim around the remote job topic right now. Some of them are quite big, backed by investors, and let’s not forget, they have the traffic that’s attractive enough to loom in remote companies. With the whole COVID-19 crisis, a lot of other players will join the party.
With only a handful of visits each day, on Fair Remote, the lack of trust is understandable. That’s why we offer a full refund if nobody applies for the job. People should never pay for something they don’t get.
So the question all this comes down to is, how long should we wait before we know this is a failure or not?
We can probably wait forever. The infrastructure that powers our app is cheap, and we can keep it alive for as long as we want because we still have other clients from where we get our income.
If we were only to do this, we would need to find another path and take our engines at full throttle to get remote companies on our platform. They have to meet our requirements to be eligible. That’s not so easy. We look for a remote-first culture plus transparency around the salary and interview process.
We derailed a bit, but let’s get back to our primary focus.
So how do you build an audience? Just as Jason Fried said in a previous Q&A on Twitter, you create a story around your idea. If people resonate with that, you build a service/product that resolves the problem, launch it, and people will come through the door.
Of course, there are many variables in this equation, but just for the sake of simplicity, let’s keep it at:
Write the story
Build the audience
Launch a product
If you come the other way around, things don’t change much except for the cost of manufacturing or keeping the service live.
For now, the best thing we can do is to open up to everybody about our journey and the lessons we learn. Some steps will be similar to what other startups encountered, while others will not because each product is different. It has a unique recipe out of which it was born. The Internet is full of “How to become profitable”, but applying them to your company never gets the same outcome, especially when you want to grow organically.
Patience, perseverance, and trust are the virtues we have on our minds and hearts. Without them, we would’ve thrown Fair Remote to the trash a week after the launch. But it’s just like a baby. When you figure out that you’re going to be her/his parent for the rest of his life, you can barely let go once you start. And as time goes by, you invest more time in the relationship. The bond strengthens. You put in your best you and hope it will flourish one day better than you expected.
We don’t consider this a failure. As long as we make our voice heard, and others implement what we campaign for, we will be more than happy. In the end, we’re doing this for the remote community. We have to learn to fraternize and put profit on the side until we fix this.
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Global deaths cross 200,000, US beaches reopen
The coverage on this live blog has ended — but for up-to-the-minute coverage on the coronavirus, visit the live blog from CNBC’s Asia-Pacific team.
The global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic crossed 200,000 on Saturday as countries and a handful of U.S. states ease lockdown restrictions. New York, the epicenter of the outbreak in the U.S., reported hospitalization and death rates that continue to improve, while doctors and experts around the globe weigh in on testing, treatment and vaccination.
Global cases: More than 2.8 million
Global deaths: At least 201,502
U.S. cases: More than 925,500
U.S. deaths: At least 53,070
The data above was compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
5:40 pm: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will return to work Monday after coronavirus recovery
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street on his way to Buckingham Palace after the general election in London, Britain, December 13, 2019.
Thomas Mukoya | Reuters
5:24 pm: Potbelly says it will return $10 million small business loan, following others after outrage
Potbelly said it will return its $10 million loan from the Payroll Protection Program intended for small businesses, making it the latest notable name to return the funds.
Potbelly, which received the maximum loan amount, has a market cap of $71.2 million.
The sandwich shop chain follows other large, public companies like Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and Shake Shack to give back the government funds meant to help businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic. —Hannah Miller
4:56 pm: Ex-Apple employees are tackling the mask shortage
Last year at this time, Sabrina Paseman was at Apple working on the design of the Mac Pro. Now, she’s holed up in a San Francisco apartment with another ex-Apple employee trying to address the global mask shortage.
Paseman and Megan Duong are founders of a nonprofit they’re calling Fix The Mask, an effort to create a simple solution to a massive and growing problem. The lack of protective gear amid the Covid-19 pandemic is first and foremost a crisis in the health-care industry, but as states and countries start loosening social-distancing restrictions, the need for masks becomes more acute for people on buses, in stores and in the workplace. —Ari Levy
4:41 pm: Algeria allows businesses to reopen
Algeria has taken further steps to ease restrictions over the novel coronavirus by allowing several businesses to reopen “to reduce the economic and social impact of the health crisis” caused by the pandemic, the prime minister’s office said.
It said shops to be reopened including those for materials for building and public works, appliances, fabrics, jewelry, clothing and shoes, cosmetics and perfumes, home and office furniture, pastries and hairdressers in addition to urban transport by taxi.
The government on Thursday decided to ease confinement measures by shortening the curfew for some provinces but called on citizens to be “vigilant”. That measure came hours before the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on Friday.
The government has reported a total of 3,256 confirmed infections with the virus, with 419 deaths and 1,479 recoveries. —Reuters
4:18 pm: Treasury pays airlines an additional $9.5 billion in coronavirus aid
The Treasury Department says it’s disbursed another $9.5 billion to airlines as part under the CARES Act so carriers can continue paying their workers through Sept. 30. Air travel demand, and revenue, have all but dried up amid the coronavirus pandemic and shelter-in-place orders.
So far, the department has paid out $12.4 billion to 93 airlines out of a total $25 billion allotted in payroll grants and loans, while the bulk of the payments were for the largest U.S. carriers. Passenger airlines can also apply for portions of another $25 billion in government loans to help weather the coronavirus fallout.
Airlines expected the $25 billion to be paid out solely as grants, but the Treasury Department said it will require that 30% of the amount be paid back and that carriers provide the U.S. government with stock warrants for 10% of the loan value.
Cargo airlines and airline contractors, such as caterers, seeking part of a separate $8 billion in payroll grants, won’t have to provide the U.S. government with those stock warrants or similar financial instruments if they seek $50 million and $37.5 million or less, respectively. —Leslie Josephs
3:47 pm: Oil producers eye shutting down after crude sell-off
Oil producers in the U.S. are making painful decisions about how to shut down operations after the pandemic decimated the need for fuel.
The price of U.S. benchmark crude plummeted more than 70% since the start of the year, selling for $17 a barrel Friday, well below what producers need to remain viable.
Parsley Energy, a mid-sized fracking company based in Austin, Texas, lost half its market value since the year began and told regulators it has been shutting down enough wells to take about 400 barrels of oil per day off the market.
In recent weeks, Exxon slashed its capital spending plan by 30%, or $10 billion, and Chevron gutted its capital expenses by 20%, or $4 billion. Both companies are planning to halt drilling for new oil in different parts of the world and will likely shrink further since conditions have deteriorated since their announcements. —Associated Press
3:19 pm: French PM to present plan to unwind lockdown on Tuesday
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will present the government’s plan to unwind the country’s lockdown to parliament on Tuesday, his office said.
The prime minister’s statement next week will be followed by a debate and a vote.
The lockdown ordered by President Emmanuel Macron has been in place since March 17 to slow the spread of the coronavirus and is due to be lifted on May 11. —Reuters
3:12 pm: New stimulus check deadline approaches for veterans and SSI beneficiaries with kids
People who receive benefits through either the Department of Veterans Affairs or Supplemental Security Income who have children have a new deadline if they want to get all of the stimulus money that is due them.
The government said on Friday that those beneficiaries who have children and who do not typically file tax returns need to update their information by May 5 in order for their eligible dependents to be counted in their stimulus payments.
That goes particularly if you have not filed tax returns for the 2018 or 2019 tax years and you have children under age 17. The government has set up a website for non-filers where they can enter their information. —Lorie Konish
2:45 pm: Spain to allow outdoor exercise if coronavirus cases continue to fall
A man on his balcony is seen applauding to pay tribute to health-care workers struggling to fight the coronavirus pandemic on on April 18, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. Spain is beginning to ease strict lockdown measures to ease its economy, people in some services including manufacturing, construction are being allowed to return to work but must adhere to strict safety guidelines.
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Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in an address to the nation that people will be allowed out to exercise from May 2 if the number of new coronavirus cases continues to fall.
Sanchez said people would be allowed outside for sport or to go for a walk with a person with whom they live if the evolution of the pandemic “remains favorable.”
Spaniards have been living under one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns since March 14. They are allowed out for food, medicine and essential work but not to exercise. —Reuters
2:32 pm: Google, Facebook, Twitter team up to support addiction recovery during pandemic
Google, Facebook and Twitter have partnered with the nonprofit Center for Safe Internet Pharmacies (CSIP) to launch Tech Together (TechTogether.co), an online platform to offer support to individuals with substance use disorders. The site is a collection of resources to help those experiencing substance use disorder or battling addiction and the associated stigma.
Many of these people have lost their 12-step meetings and other in-person resources during coronavirus social distancing practices. Tim Ryan, star of the 2017 A&E documentary “Dope Man” and recovery advocate for the treatment resource Rehab.com, said that the resulting isolation from shelter-in-place orders has created conditions that are ripe for substance abuse.
“Covid-19 has cultivated an environment that lacks accountability and visibility, which allows people to engage in drug and alcohol abuse while in isolation,” Ryan said. —Daniel Bukszpan
2:06 pm: Global death toll surpasses 200,000
The total number of deaths related to Covid-19 has hit 200,698, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The global death toll hit 100,000 on April 10 and 150,00 on April 17.
The United States has the highest death toll from the coronavirus with 52,782 reported fatalities, according to JHU. That’s roughly double the 26,384 deaths reported by Italy, the country with the second-highest number of fatalities.
The data also showed that Spain and France have been hard-hit, with each country reporting more than 22,000 deaths. —Hannah Miller
1:31 pm: More than 5,000 New York pharmacies to give coronavirus tests in bid to screen 40,000 people daily
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that the state is expanding diagnostic coronavirus testing to first responders, health care workers and essential employees and aims to provide tests to 40,000 people each day.
Cuomo will also sign an executive order to allow independent pharmacists to conduct diagnostic testing. This will unlock a network of over 5,000 pharmacies as testing locations, he said.
The governor said he plans to expand testing to 40,000 people per day with the help of the federal government as well as expand the criteria for someone to receive a diagnostic test. The state is currently averaging about 6,000 new virus cases every day. —Emma Newburger
1:20 pm: Doctor who pioneered HIV treatment discusses potential Covid-19 drugs
Dr. David Ho has more experience than most with viruses.
As director of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City in the early 1990s, Ho’s lab pioneered treatment approaches to HIV and he was TIME’s Man of the Year for that work in 1996. He still leads the center.
Now, his focus is Covid-19 or more specifically SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
He and a team of about 15 people are working on two different approaches to stopping the virus: isolating antibodies from people who’ve recovered from Covid-19, and developing new drugs called protease inhibitors that interfere with the virus’s ability to replicate.
Here are Ho’s thoughts on some of the most prominent drugs and approaches under consideration for Covid-19 right now. —Meg Tirrell
1:15 pm: The latest on US hot spots
1:02 pm: Beaches eyed as US takes steps toward reopening
Cailin Healy, and an unidentified friend, both of Calabasas, take a selfie together as beach-goers enjoy warm summer-like weather amid state and city social distancing regulations mandated by Gov. Newsom in Huntinton Beach, CA, on April 22, 2020.
Allen J. Schaben | Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Many Americans are expected to flock to beaches this weekend as one Florida county relaxed restrictions and California braced for a heat wave, even as new cases of the novel coronavirus hit a record high the day before.
Volusia County, home to the famed Daytona Beach, opened lots at its coastal parks to handicapped visitors, one step in a phased reopening that has so far limited its beaches to those wanting to walk, surf, bike or swim.
The step is warranted by the county’s successful efforts to suppress cases of the virus, George Recktenwald, the county manager, said at a briefing on Friday, although he likened the situation to tapping the brakes on a car going downhill.
“We are starting to let up that brake a little bit but you don’t want to do it too fast because you don’t want to speed out of control,” he said. “If you are on the beach you should be physically active. No sitting, sunbathing or hanging out with a cooler.” —Reuters
11:55 pm: NY death rate continues to slow after ’21 days of hell’
Deaths from the coronavirus in New York ticked up slightly, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, with the state recording 437 new deaths in the past 24 hours. The death toll is up from 422 in the previous period reported on Friday.
The virus has killed at least 16,599 people in the state, the governor said, although that number doesn’t include what could be thousands of probable deaths in New York City.
“We are back to where we were 21 days ago … 21 days of hell,” the governor said at a press conference. About 1,100 new patients were hospitalized yesterday in New York. —Emma Newburger
11:38 am: UK government under fire over virus advice as deaths pass 20,000
A sign for St Thomas’ Hospital is seen in front of the Houses of Parliament on April 07, 2020 in London, England.
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Britain’s government on Saturday defended the independence of the scientists advising it on the coronavirus after it emerged that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial chief aide had attended meetings of the group.
Criticism of Johnson’s Conservative government mounted as the U.K. became the fifth country in the world to report 20,000 virus-related deaths and counting.
The government said Saturday that 20,319 people with COVID-19 have died in British hospitals, an increase of 813 from the death toll reported the day before. The figure does not include deaths in nursing homes, which are likely to number in the thousands.
Scientists say the U.K. has reached the peak of the pandemic but is not yet out of danger. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is declining, and the number of daily deaths peaked on April 8. —Associated Press
11:05 am: India and Pakistan ease coronavirus restrictions for some small businesses
India allowed shops in residential areas to reopen Saturday, more than a month after the country went into lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, federal and state officials said.
The federal home ministry said late on Friday that retailers could resume operations with the staff numbers reduced by half as long as employees wore masks and gloves and appropriate social distancing was maintained.
The sale of liquor and other non-essential items continues to be banned and no shops in large market places or multi-brand and single-brand malls will be allowed to reopen until May 3. —Reuters
10:30 am: Coronavirus spreads in NY nursing home forced to take Covid-19 patients
The coronavirus patients began arriving the last week of March, transferred to the Gurwin Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center under a New York state mandate requiring nursing homes to accept those recovering from Covid-19, even if they still might be contagious.
At the time, the Long Island nursing home had only one known resident who had contracted the virus, according to the facility’s president and CEO, Stuart Almer.
A month later, NBC News reports, Gurwin is battling an outbreak that’s killed 24 residents — only three of whom were hospital transfers — and one staff member, who worked in housekeeping, Almer said. And the nursing home is still mandated to take in recovering hospital patients known to have the virus, potentially increasing its spread in the facility. Read the full report on Gurwin here. —NBC News
9:20 am: How automakers plan to reopen their US plants
Walking into an auto parts plant in suburban Detroit, General Motors employees are instructed to stand at least six feet apart and go through a health screening that includes a temperature check. They also sanitize their hands and put on a face mask and safety glasses.
It’s a far different process than how the former transmission facility, which GM decommissioned last year, used to operate with hundreds of employees freely entering and exiting the facility all at once.
As automakers wrestle with how to open their production facilities safely, timing is contentious.
UAW President Rory Gamble on Thursday said that the union believes restarting production in early-May is “too soon and too risky” for its members. Read the full story of how automakers plan to open their U.S. plants here. —Michael Wayland
8:55 am: Zillow CEO will allow his employees to work from home all year
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Rich Barton, CEO and cofounder of online real estate service Zillow, told his employees on Friday that they can work from home through 2020.
“My personal opinions about WFH have been turned upside down over the past 2 months. I expect this will have a lasting influence on the future of work … and home,” the internet entrepreneur said in a verified tweet early Saturday morning.
Many nonessential workers around the country have been doing their jobs remotely for weeks, often while homeschooling and caring for their children, and about a quarter of them say they want to continue working from home at least part-time after the pandemic ends. —Elisabeth Butler Cordova
8:30 am: Poland to reopen outdoor sports fields as it eases restrictions
Poland plans to reopen outdoor sports areas on May 4 and will allow top league football matches to be played at the end of next month, as part of an easing of restrictions put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Poland started relaxing some of the curbs earlier in April, saying they were costly for the economy. It has reopened forests and parks and eased rules on the number of customers in shops.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told a news conference on Saturday that the next stage of easing sport restrictions would include reopening indoor sports halls, followed by swimming pools and fitness clubs. —Reuters
6:30 am: ‘No evidence’ that recovered patients cannot be reinfected
“There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.”
That’s the warning from the Word Health Organization in a new scientific brief. It comes in direct response to some governments suggesting that the detection of antibodies to the virus could serve as the basis for an “immunity passport” or “risk-free certificate.”
“Most of these studies show that people who have recovered from infection have antibodies to the virus. However, some of these people have very low levels of neutralizing antibodies in their blood, suggesting that cellular immunity may also be critical for recovery,” the statement read. Read the full brief here. — Matt Clinch
6:02 am: Iran death toll rises by 76
Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur said Saturday that Iran’s death toll had risen by 76, to reach a total of 5,650, according to Reuters.
The total number of people confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus in the country is 89,328, he added. — Matt Clinch
3:51 am: German virus cases rise by 2,055
A man wearing a face cover cycles in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on April 10, 2020, amid a new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
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Co-Driver: John Kennard (NZ)
Website: haydenpaddon.com
Hyundai factory driver Hayden Paddon is back in the APRC for the first time since claiming the Pacific Cup title in 2009.
After spending the past five seasons as part of Hyundai’s WRC team, Paddon has made his intentions clear; to win the Pacific Cup and then look at winning grand final in China.
Back in his Kiwi-developed Hyundai i20 AP4 rally car, Paddon will re-partner with the very experienced John Kennard.
Andrew Hawkeswood
Co-Driver: Jeff Cress (NZ)
Team: Force Motorsport
Kiwi motorsport veteran Andrew Hawkeswood will be one to watch in this years Pacific Cup. The 2017 NZRC champion will pilot one of the Mazda 2 AP4 rally cars that are built by his Force Motorsport team.
Although he limited 2018 season in New Zealand, the three events he contested in returned a victory and two second place results.
Co-Driver: Malcolm Read (NZ)
Team: Cusco Motorsport
Website: mikeyoung.co.nz
Mike Young will be back with Cusco in a Toyota Vitz. Although 2018 was a difficult one, with reliability problems plaguing the AP4 Vitz, he has already taken a podium this year in the Japanese rally championship. If Cusco can overcome the Toyota’s reliability problems, the AP4 will be fast and Young and co-driver Read are one of the most experienced teams in the APRC.
Yuya Sumiyama
Co-Driver: Takahiro Yasui (JP)
Long-time Cusco factory driver Yuya Sumiyama took the 2018 APRC championship title in a Skoda Fabia R5.
Sumiyama is one of the most experienced drivers in the series, having won the Asia Cup in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2018. He and team-mate Young will battle it out in the Asia Cup.
Fabio Frisiero
Co-Driver: Simone Scattolin (ITA)
Experienced Italian driver Fabio Friserio makes his APRC debut in 2018, with a full championship campaign planned.
While Fabio last rallied at Rally Australia in 2017, it will be his first time in New Zealand since 2007, and he has never competed in Malaysia, Japan, China or India. However he does have the massively experienced Race Torque team preparing his Peugeot AP4, with whom who worked with at the 2017 Rally Australia.
Fuyuhiko Takahashi
Co-Driver: Mitsuo Nakamura (JP)
Team: Ahresty Rally Team
Fuyuhiko Takahashi returns to the APRC for 2018, having competed with the Ahresty Rally team in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Known for his ability to bank solid results, Takahashi returns in his Subaru WRX STI competing in the overall Drivers championship as well as the Teams title.
PG Abhilash
Co-Driver: Srikanth Gowda (IN)
With more than 60 events under his belt and 40 podiums, former Indian national champion PG Abhilash is a man who knows how to get a result.
In 2017 Abhilash and co-driver Srikanth Gowda added the APRC2 championship title to their trophy cabinet. This year they return for the APRC Asia Cup rounds, in addition to competing in the UAE and Malaysian national championships.
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Saudi Arabia's vague economic shift leaves huge oil IPO on track
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Saudi Arabia is still planning to sell part of its giant oil company on the stock market next year despite changes to the kingdom’s economic revival plan.
In a statement Saturday, the Saudi government said the initial public offering of shares in Saudi Aramco — which is likely to be the world’s biggest — was on track.
“The IPO process is well underway and Saudi Aramco remains focused on ensuring that all IPO-related requirements are completed on time and to the very highest standards,” the Saudi information ministry said.
Aramco CEO Amin Nasser said earlier this year that the IPO was scheduled for 2018.
The partial sale of Aramco is part of Vision 2030, an ambitious plan to overhaul the Saudi economy and reduce its dependence on oil.
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But as first reported by the Financial Times on Thursday, Saudi Arabia is redrafting parts of the economic makeover just over one year after it was first unveiled.
Saudi Arabia was forced to rethink its economic strategy after oil prices dropped to $ 26 a barrel, blasting a huge hole in the country’s budget.
Now it is revising the National Transformation Plan (NTP), a pillar of the broader strategy that sets specific targets for government bodies to meet by 2020.
The Saudi government gave few details about the changes and did not state whether new targets would be introduced. It said the revisions would “improve efficiency and effectiveness of delivery across institutions.”
“It is tough to judge the impact of the redrafting without knowing the changes to be made,” Jean-Michel Saliba, an economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a research note on Sunday.
Investors will watch for signs that the kingdom is pushing back targets to restore government finances.
“The NTP does include some fiscal reforms,” Saliba wrote.“In the event, a delay to fiscal reforms would be in line with our view that the government wants to achieve an uneasy balance between austerity and activity, and try to support growth.”
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Some progress has been made to stabilize the economy since the overhaul was announced last year. The government has cut some subsidies, announced new taxes and borrowed billions to balance its books.
But it’s also backpedaled on at least one measure. It reinstated benefits for government officials six months after slashing them. And much more work is needed to open the kingdom to foreign investors, develop other areas of the economy, and wean Saudis off lavish state support.
Oil prices have not recovered to levels the kingdom hoped and the economy is stagnating. The International Monetary Fund expects GDP growth at just 0.1% this year.
“It is important to adjust and adapt to unexpected situations, and to use new circumstances in ways that reinforce and strengthen underlying strategic objectives,” the Saudi information ministry said in the statement.
Saudi officials have said they expect the IPO to value Aramco at around $ 2 trillion. If the market agrees, selling just 5% would raise $ 100 billion — four times as much as Alibaba(BABA, Tech30)‘s IPO in 2014, the largest to date.
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Why Tesla Belongs within the Dow Jones Industrials
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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) conjures up each loyal followers and religious haters, however the stock’s success is indeniable. Since its IPO 10 years in the past, it has delivered superb returns to its early shareholders. It is also constructed up a formidable firm with a rising buyer base, an increasing addressable market, and lofty aspirations.
Now that Tesla has achieved profitability, it is now only a matter of time earlier than it will get an invite to hitch the S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX:^SPX). Nevertheless, whereas admission to that membership is predicated largely on goal standards, the identical is not true for the Dow Jones Industrial Common (DJINDICES:^DJI). As loopy because it may appear, there’s an more and more compelling case for Tesla to hitch that elite band of 30 firms. Dow. Listed here are among the finest the reason why.
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1. An industrial common wants a automotive firm
As its identify suggests, the Dow was initially centered on industrial firms, and for over a century, the auto trade had illustration within the common. That began with the admission of the American Automotive and Foundry Firm in 1901, and at varied instances, firms like Studebaker, Nash Motors, and Chrysler had been members of the Dow.
The longest-tenured automotive firm within the Dow was Basic Motors (NYSE:GM), which had uninterrupted membership from 1925 to 2009. Nevertheless, its chapter following the monetary disaster led to its removing. Since then, the Dow has gone greater than a decade with out illustration from the auto trade.
Many buyers be aware that Tesla’s potential goes properly past its automobile manufacturing. For now, although, Tesla is squarely centered on automobiles and vehicles. That makes it an industrial stock, and getting it into the Dow would make the common extra industrial as soon as once more.
2. Tesla’s market capitalization would put it within the high 10 amongst Dow stocks
There is not any market cap requirement for admission to the Dow, because the managers of the index typically search firms which can be consultant of the broader financial system reasonably than merely selecting the largest companies obtainable. Nevertheless, Tesla’s market cap has flirted with $300 billion just lately, and that establishes the automaker as a frontrunner in its area.
If Tesla had been within the Dow, it will rank among the many 10 firms with the most important market caps. It is also almost 9 instances extra useful than the Dow stock with the bottom market cap, and it will have a virtually $100 billion margin of security simply to maintain it out of the underside half. Even those that argue {that a} correction for Tesla stock is lengthy overdue must admit that the corporate’s measurement at present warrants giving it consideration for the economic index.
3. The one actual barrier is definitely fixable
Nearly the one cause why Tesla should not be within the Dow proper now could be that the common makes use of a price-weighted methodology in calculating its stage. As a result of its share price has climbed properly into four-digit territory, Tesla would have a a lot bigger weighting within the Dow than another stock.
Nevertheless, there’s precedent for firms with excessive share costs taking steps that ultimately eased their path into the Dow. Within the mid-2010s, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) stock climbed into the high-triple digits, which might’ve saved the iPhone large out of the Dow. So Apple did a 7-for-1 stock break up that introduced its share price right down to a way more manageable stage.
The same 7-for-1 break up would put Tesla’s stock within the $200 to $250 vary primarily based on latest costs. That may give it a considerable weighting within the common, however not an awesome one. If Tesla did a 10-for-1 stock break up as an alternative, it will discover itself squarely in the midst of the index’s pack by way of share price.
Do not maintain your breath
Objectively, there are compelling the reason why Tesla deserves a spot within the Dow Jones Industrial Common. Virtually, although, the transfer appears unlikely. The Dow represents old-school Wall Street in a method that CEO Elon Musk would seemingly reject out of hand.
It is potential that ultimately, Tesla may nonetheless get an invite. Nevertheless it’s more likely that Dow buyers must go with out an auto stock within the index for some time longer.
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Perfect World is guild-targeted, similar to WoW (200 gamers most). Guilds are capable of battle in huge eighty- v. eighty-participant territory wars, which reward the profitable guild with territory possession (battles sometimes attain several hours in size). Joining either the Illumanti, Templar, or Dragon, you may develop your character via missions, experience, and items. With a unique capacity, wheel players can change their character immediately, preventing you from feeling locked into a class. With an enormous choice of items, spells, and talents out there without restriction, its a way more free flowing recreation than most MMORPGs. RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online position-playing recreation (MMORPG) that has been round since early 2001. RuneScape boasts an enormous consumer base (over a hundred and fifty million sturdy) with 11 million lively accounts monthly. If you want something distinctive, faction-based, and stuffed with quests then The Secret World is nicely price your money.
My WoW days are lengthy behind me now. But during my MMORPG craze part, I played tonnes of games within the genre, and I know how arduous it’s to find a solid experience (there may be lots of junk games within the MMO genre; I don’t think anyone can argue that). I hope you discover this checklist of my favourites helpful in slicing down the size of time it takes to discover a new game to play. This makes it nice for a recreation that it is advisable kill some time but do not necessarily wish to decide to long run (though within the case of Sherwood Dungeon I would). It’s proven helpful a lot of instances the place I had to preserve one in every of my youngsters busy but only had a laptop and didn’t want to spend 5 minutes signing them up for a sport (like they would have the persistence for that). If you’re a fan of PvP, you may find a nice home in Lord of the Rings Online with plenty of emphasis on PvP combat, so there isn’t a shortage of finish-recreation potential between the PvP and PvE gameplay.
Overall, RuneScape provides great gameplay freedom and kit customisation options. If you’re looking for a game like World of Warcraft to play inside your browser, then RuneScape is a good alternative. I kinda like Nexon’s free-to-play game, Dragon Nest. It’s more motion combat, like Tera, where it’s important to target, move, dodge, and so forth. instead of simply planting your toes, tab targeting and firing away. They also have an identical game called Vindictus. On a barely unrelated be aware, for those who like racers like Mario Cart, Nexon has a free Facebook game referred to as KartRider Dash that is fairly fun. With all of the customisation choices and multiple classes out there, Guild Wars 2 promises a whole bunch of hours of gameplay. I even went out of my MMORPG retirement to play this game and undoubtedly was not disillusioned with the quality.
Most of the games right here supply a free World of Warcraft experience since I actually have all the time believed that subscription-based MMOs hardly ever provide gameplay high quality above that of the free alternatives (not less than not enough for the value). With the variety of races and classes accessible along with professions and crafting, there are many choices obtainable for gamers creating great replay value. Forsaken World also packs some unique features together with a soul-based PvP system and map-extensive abilities. EverQuest was one of the first MMOs to gain a big following. Just like World of Warcraft, this can be a recreation that has gotten higher with time, with a dozen expansions including so much to the unique expertise. If you’ve got tried EverQuest in the past, then it’s positively worth returning to see all the new additions to the content material. Play with your friends, engage in PvP fight, and advance through the game world to reach the maximum degree. Order now off Amazon for a competitive worth. Don’t wish to look ahead to delivery? Get an internet recreation code for Guild Wars 2.
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Yeah, Alabama Crimson Tide finished their 2018 season by getting rolled on thanks to the Clemson Tigers. That doesn’t change the fact that the Tide has won five of the last 10 national championships under Nick Saban and are only getting better.
However, many people in college football claim the Crimson Tide’s historic run is actually bad for business. It’s interesting that they would say that because if you look at the recent dynasties over the years, they haven’t ruined their sport at all.
No one says the Golden State Warriors ruined NBA basketball because of their recent success. In fact, the sport is more popular than ever and ratings are up.
No one said that the New England Patriots have ruined the NFL with their run. The NFL, despite their problems, is the most popular sport in the country, and it hasn’t slowed them down one bit.
Women’s basketball hasn’t died because of the historic dynasties of the UConn Huskies and Tennessee Volunteers. In fact, college basketball is historically carried by dominating teams going on long runs of excellence.
So, what’s the difference this time with Alabama? It’s not just Alabama’s dominance of the sport, it’s the SEC’s dominance as well. Florida, Auburn, LSU, and as far back as Tennessee 20 years ago, all have won national championships during that time.
Alabama is ruining college football!!!!!! Why even watch the season when you know they’re gonna win? Those 5 star recruits are snakes for going to a team that’s already good
— B Rich (@b__rich3) November 4, 2018
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The outdated BCS system was demolished because of the rematch of Alabama and LSU in 2012. Some thought that with the playoff format that it would slow down Alabama and the SEC, but it’s actually done the opposite.
Alabama has made the College Football Playoff every year since it was started, including an all-SEC final when Georgia and Alabama played for the national championship in 2018, and it seems like a matter of time before the Bulldogs win their first championship under Kirby Smart.
So what’s the solution? Some suggest teams just need to step up their game and stop complaining.
In regards to people saying that Alabama has "ruined college football", beat us. If you think were "ruining college football" win your conference games against your weaker opponents, get into the playoff, and beat us. We beat who were supposed to beat, you want it? Come take it
— Spilly (@bigmike_1845) November 5, 2018
Programs like Clemson haven’t complained — they just got better. They went out and recruited quarterback in Trevor Lawrence, got better players on defense, and went undefeated during the 2018 college football season.
The only thing Alabama is really ruining is the chatter that their dynasty is ending soon because at this rate, it’s just getting started.
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About the author: Stacey Mickles, Auburn University for The League,
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Gossip: Britney Spears is Rumored to be Performing at Don Hill's Tonight
According to some well-placed sources, Brit Brit will be performing at Don Hill's tonight. (Weirdly, there was a joke about this in The Daily, but we hear that it's actually true.) The venue was recently acquired by Paul Sevigny, which means all the cool people now hang out there regularly. Again. (Courtney Love is rumored to be around there this weekend, too.) By the time Brit hits the stage we'll probably be asleep, but to all you early-twenty-something-hot-scenesters, it might be worth dropping by.
Lauren Sherman
According to some well-placed sources, Brit Brit will be performing at Don Hill's tonight. (Weirdly, there was a joke about this in The Daily, but we hear that it's actually true.) The venue was recently acquired by Paul Sevigny, which means all the cool people now hang out there regularly. Again. (Courtney Love is rumored to be around there this weekend, too.)
By the time Brit hits the stage we'll probably be asleep, but to all you early-twenty-something-hot-scenesters, it might be worth dropping by.
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Last Night's Parties: Alex Wang's Carnival, Courtney Love and Hole at Don Hill's, United Bamboo, and Steak at Peels
By 9pm last night Leah and I were getting a little loopy: Mostly because we both love to eat and we hadn't had time to, save for a bag of Pop Chips, since the early morning. So we headed over to Peels--the new restaurant from the Freemans guys--with Britt, who stared at us in awe as we devoured this steak. (In our defense: We shared it! And the bone just made it look bigger!) Then it was off to Alex Wang's carnival over by the IAC building. Pretty much every person who works in fashion/has something to do with fashion was there--from Alessandra Ambrosio to MIA, who was supposed to perform but maybe never did? No one seems to have stuck around for it. Fortunately, the parking lot was so massive that it wasn't crazy crowded--we had an amazing, amazing time. Belvedere vodka sponsored the carnival, which included a carousel--yes, we rode it--bumper cars--line was too long--and a crazy amount of games. Leah won at basketball, Britt won at knocking down the clown heads, I won at nothing--well, maybe ski ball, but there were no prizes for that. All in all, it was the best fashion party I've been to in a long time--maybe ever. While we were at Alex, Dhani was at United Bamboo. She told me this morning that it, too was a grand time. "It was fun--The Wooly drew lots of well-dressed people despite its out of the way location," she told me. "I didn't recognize anyone but everyone looked cool." Fair enough. After Wang we headed down to Don Hill's to see Courtney Love perform.
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So Tavi styled that Blackbook shoot, and now she's styling the Alice & Olivia show on Tuesday. The wunderkind's got a lot going on. That might be partially due to the fact that she recently acquired an agent. Her parents--who you know, have jobs--just didn't have the time to handle all the requests coming in. I'm sure they're also sick of attending fashion shows, so it's nice that Tavi has someone to step in as a sort of protector. We don't know much about this mystery woman, but a tipster sent us some picks of who we think by be her agent styling Tavi for a street shoot with Scott Schuman:
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Home » Sport » Top 10 most valuable footballers on planet with Man Utd star Rashford top and England dominating list with four players
Top 10 most valuable footballers on planet with Man Utd star Rashford top and England dominating list with four players
MANCHESTER UNITED star Marcus Rashford is the most-valuable player in the world.
CIES Football Observatory recently revealed who they believe to be the top-valued players in the world.
Their algorithm uses such factors as performance, age and contract length, as well as they club and country represented.
And based on all of those factors and more, Man Utd ace Rashford, 23, is the world's most-valuable player – worth a staggering £150million.
The list is dominated by young stars, with Cristiano Ronaldo failing to breakinto the top 100.
The Juventus ace, now 35, is way down in 131st place, with 33-year-old rival Lionel Messi sitting in 97th.
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The entire list makes for great reading for England, with FOUR Three Lions stars in the top ten alone.
Rashford sits top, valued at £150m, with Trent Alexander-Arnold, 22, third (£137m), Jadon Sancho, 20, sixth (£134m) and Raheem Sterling, 26, ninth (£124m).
Borussia Dortmund wonderkid Erling Haaland, 20, is second, rated at £138m.
Man Utd star Bruno Fernandes, 26 – who has turned around the club's fortunes since he arrived in January 2020 – is fourth, valued at £135m.
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Kylian Mbappe – arguably the most sought-after star in world football – is only fifth.
The Paris Saint-Germain and France ace, 22, is wanted by the likes of Real Madrid and Liverpool.
But Mbappe is valued at £135m, £15m less than Rashford, in part due to having just 18 months left on his contract.
Atletico Madrid star Joao Felix, 21, comes in seventh (£128m) just ahead of 20-year-old Bayern Munich whiz Alphonso Davies (£126m).
Chelsea new boy Kai Havertz, 21, rounds-off the top ten, valued at £123m.
The German ace has struggled since his £72m move to Stamford Bridge in the summer.
But boss Frank Lampard blamed him testing positive for coronavirus in November for his slow transition.
Just SIX more players on the entire planet are valued at over £100m.
Timo Werner (£122m) sits just below team-mate Havertz, with Liverpool star Mohamed Salah (£121m) one place further back.
Manchester City defender Ruben Dias (£115m) is next, with Salah's Reds team-mate Sadio Mane (£112m) below him.
Arsenal's 19-year-old wonderkid Bukayo Saka (£105m) and Inter Milan winger Achraf Hakimi (£103m) are the final players to be valued at over £100m.
Chelsea and England ace Mason Mount, 21, just misses the cut at £99m.
Tottenham striker Harry Kane, 27, sits two spots further valued at £97m.
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18F builds cloud platform, FirstNet tweaks RFP and more
By FCW Staff
18F hacks a path to the cloud for agencies
The U.S. Digital Service and the General Services Administration's 18F have built a new Cloud.gov platform-as-a-service option to give agencies a stable, secure infrastructure that already complies with federal rules for building and deploying cloud applications.
Noah Kunin, director of delivery architecture and infrastructure services at 18F, told the audience at the Code for America Summit on Oct. 1 that he recognized the need for such a platform when he had to read through 4,006 pages of regulatory volumes.
The platform, which Kunin said will launch soon, is built as a true production cloud that will give agencies a ready-to-use infrastructure to build on.
Agencies will not have to wait for approvals or juggle requests when creating applications. They can gain authority to operate faster and easier, use the provided documents to generate system security plans and "develop, run and manage web applications without the complexity and cost of building and maintaining infrastructure," according to the site.
FirstNet board moves toward final RFP
The FirstNet board of directors tweaked its final request for proposals for an interoperable national public safety network for first responders to incorporate the national and regional partnerships that would ultimately build and operate the network.
Based on feedback from the public safety community and the private sector, the FirstNet board made changes to the draft RFP that was released in April; the changes were announced after meetings held Oct. 1 and 2.
The board also approved a resolution authorizing FirstNet management to release final interpretations of 64 statutory provisions that will have an impact on the final RFP and contribute to operations and network policies.
The approval provides, for example, a final definition for the term "rural" and confirms that any states or territories that deploy their own radio access networks must reinvest all resulting revenues into the nationwide network.
Board members also clarified that FirstNet would make the final selection among the bidders that respond to the final RFP, which is due out in December.
ITAPS requests meeting over DOD cyber contracting rule
The Information Technology Alliance for the Public Sector has called for the Defense Department to hold a public meeting to clarify an interim cyber breach reporting rule that ITAPS said has caused "a great deal of confusion" among contractors.
The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement rule on network breaches and cloud services issued Aug. 26 tightens restrictions on how contractors sell cloud services to the Pentagon, said Erica McCann, director of federal procurement at ITAPS.
"The sudden nature of this interim rule has left IT solutions providers scrambling to understand how this regulation fits into a whole host of other activities governing how a company protects its networks and data while providing cloud computing services to the government," McCann wrote in a blog post.
ITAPS wants DOD to hold a public meeting on the rule before the comment period closes on Oct. 26.
GAO opens Center for Audit Excellence
The Government Accountability Office launched its Center for Audit Excellence on Oct. 1. The center will offer training and services to auditors at the state and local levels and to international customers. Services include tailored training and technical assistance as well as needs assessments and mentorships for mid-level managers. The fees collected from those products will support the center's operations.
The center is primarily staffed by former senior-level GAO auditors and managers and overseen by the managing director of GAO's Strategic Planning and External Liaison Office, which leads collaboration efforts with worldwide accountability organizations, including the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions.
"The center will allow us to leverage GAO's broad institutional knowledge to help audit shops hone their skills," Comptroller General Gene Dodaro said in a statement.
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Ethereal Nature
The interface of the metaphysical, the physical, and the cultural
Creating My Own Reality ~ My Writing Sadhana
The Village of the Smoky Hills ~ a short story
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February 27, 2015 by Cnawan Fahey
The Beginning of the End of an Era
May his memory Live Long and Prosper
As a boy growing up on a farm, I remember being transfixed, watching the original series of Star Trek on a black and white TV. Despite the lack of color and the ever-present static haze of rural television reception, the show had a profound effect upon me. It introduced me to so much that was outside the narrow bounds of my world, transported me (if you will) to a broader universe, and inspired me to think in much grander vistas. As its rise to a cultural phenomenon attests, Star Trek has done the same thing for millions and millions of others.
Perhaps more than any other TV show, Star Trek opened our collective psyche to consider possible futures and possible worlds and possible thoughts and possible philosophies that we never would have imagined. I wonder if our ability to readily embrace the innovations of the technological revolution isn’t in part a result of the influence of Star Trek. Having watched the crew of the Enterprise employ miraculous devices, this opened the door, and the desire, for us to do the same.
While it’s likely that the character of Captain Kirk had the greater influence upon me personally, Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock certainly had a profound impact as well. I would attribute some of my interest in science, and in logic, of course, to his influence. Mr. Spock also gave me one of my all-time favorite words to use: Evidently. Just love how that sums up so much so concisely – all the available data points to the most logical conclusion that one can draw – i.e, Evidently.
That attribute that he is most famously known for, the use of the intellect to control the emotions, while seemingly one-dimensional or “de-humanizing”, was actually neither. As Eckhart Tolle teaches us now, and the Buddha taught long ago, we are not our emotions, we have emotions. We are a consciousness that can step back from our emotions and regard them dispassionately. And we can choose to identify with the emotions or with that deeper consciousness.
I have also found it noteworthy that Spock’s approach to logic and emotions evolved over time, a transformation that required decades and several movies to take place. In Star Trek VI he utters a very memorable ( very memorable to me, at least!) paraphrase of a biblical passage, to a younger Vulcan protégé. The original passage goes: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” which the movie turned into: “Logic is the beginning of wisdom, Valeris, not the end.” Signalling an embrace of his humanity and his emotions.
Growing up in a Scandinavian farm community, I had no exposure to other races, cultures, philosophies, or religions. The character of Mr. Spock introduced me to all of these. It was mind expanding. Leonard Nimoy, through his compelling portrayal of Mr. Spock, opened many doors for greater understanding. With his passing, the era that Star Trek ushered in is beginning to close. One wonders what trajectory the next era will take.
May the gifts he has given us Live Long and Prosper.
I shall miss him greatly.
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Cnawan Fahey
Cnawan Fahey has walked down countless roads in this lifetime, but has found his greatest fulfillment in serving both as a Wilderness Guide and as a Spiritual Guide. His personal credo is "Explore the Great Mystery", a credo which he has lived out in his many excursions through a multiplicity of Eco-Systems and Belief-Systems. Like many other spiritual seekers, Cnawan has found the veils between the spiritual and physical planes to be the most transparent in the natural world. There, Spirit reveals itself in all of it glory. In his work as a lay minister at an interfaith church, Cnawan has facilitated earth rituals designed to immerse the psyche into the metaphors of the season and to align the soul with the cycles of the Earth. Cnawan has also led a variety of Eco-Spirituality immersion trips, outings, and workshops, and has taught wilderness survival skills as a form of ritual to connect with the Earth.
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EUI | History of Science
The Notebook of the EUI History of Science and Knowledge Working Group
Our activities for 2017-2018
Current researchers
Déborah Dubald | Researcher
Simon Dumas Primbault | Researcher
Catherine Gibson | Researcher
Annelie Grosse | Researcher
Louis Le Douarin | Researcher
Mikkel Munthe Jensen | Researcher
Nick Mithen | Researcher
Ekaterina Rybkina | Researcher
Camille Sallé | Researcher
Bohdan Shumylovych | Researcher
Mikko Toivanen | Researcher
Martin Vailly | Researcher
Stéphane Van Damme | Professor
José Beltran | Researcher
Dorit Brixius | Researcher
William Carruthers | Max Weber Fellow
Lavinia Maddaluno | PhD Student, Cambridge
Katalin Stráner | Max Weber Fellow 2016-2017
** BSHS Postgraduate Conference **
Video. ‘Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey’. Lecture by Philippe Descola.
22/05/2018 Postslledouarin
We are happy to share the video of our last event, part of the ‘Thinking science at large’ cycle. will be a great opportunity to learn from this world-famous thinker.
‘Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey’ by Prof. Philippe Descola.
Philippe Descola is professor at the Collège de France, chair of Anthropology of Nature.
‘Thinking science at large’. Lecture by Philippe Descola, professor at the Collège de France. 04/05/2018
On friday 4th of may, at 11.00, Prof. Philippe Descola, professor at the Collège de France, chair of Anthropology of Nature, will give a lecture entitled ‘Structuralism and Ontology: An Anthropological Journey’.
This encounter, part of our cycle of conferences ‘Thinking science at large’, will be a great opportunity to learn from this world-famous thinker. The morning lecture will be followed in the afternoon by a time of exchange with the researchers.
The and it would be possible for the researchers to exchange with him during the afternoon. We are waiting for you.
‘Thinking sciences at large’: a new cycle of talks for 2018
11/01/2018 Events, Postslledouarin
Resuming the cycle of talks opened last year at the EUI by Pr. Stéphane Van Damme and the History of Science Working Group, we are pleased to present the program for this semesters’ “Thinking Science at Large – Towards a Connected History of Science”.
More details can be found on the EUI website.
This new cycle will open with Guillaume Lachenal (Paris-Diderot University) who will present on the 6th of February.
“Early Modern Collecting in Scandinavia” (22/11/17) – HoS’s first session for the new academic year !
For its first meeting of the new 2017-2018 academic year, the History of Science working group is proud to welcome Valdemar Grambye (visiting student, University of Southern Denmark). The session is organised in collaboration with the Intellectual History working group of the EUI, and will take place on November 22nd, 17.00, Sala degli Stemmi.
Valdemar will present his research project concerning the collections of private antiquarians between 1650 and 1750. By pointing to the networks to which these antiquarians belonged, he will claim that it is misleading to consider these antiquarians as amateurs working without systematic procedures. He will also say a few words on how his research relates to the history of science and the history of scholarship.
Come and join us !
#BSHSPG2017: conference report is available!
01/10/2017 PostsBSHS, BSHSPG2017, conference, newsCatherine Gibson
The Postgraduate Conference of the British Society for the History of Science was held at EUI in collaboration with the Centre Alexandre-Koyré (Paris) from 5-7 April 2017. The full report of the conference is available here.
#BSHSPG2017: programme is out!
15/03/2017 EventsBSHSPG2017Déborah Dubald
Just a few weeks to go before the big day!
#BSHSPG2017 poster and programme are now officially out, and you can register here
(please note that speakers are not expected to register) and have a closer look at the programme from here.
EUI Times Feature
15/03/2017 Postsnews, pressCatherine Gibson
Catherine Gibson and Martin Vailly spoke to EUI journalist Ellen Halliday about the History of Science working group.
Check out the full interview at EUI Life!
#BSHSPG2017: Getting there
08/02/2017 Events, PostsBSHS, BSHSPG2017, conferenceDéborah Dubald
Getting to Florence
Florence main station is called ‘Firenze Santa Maria Novella (SMN)’. For more information on trains, please see: http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en). From the station, the hotel is in walking distance or you might also take a bus. For further details, please go to Getting around in Florence (below).
We suggest that you do not only look into flight connections to Florence airport but also into flights to/from Pisa airport, which has a direct coach connection to Florence centre (the journey takes about 60 minutes). It is also worth checking connections to Milan, Bologna or even Rome. From these cities (though not directly from their airports – you will have to take a bus going to the train station from where you continue your journey), the Italian train service operates direct connections to Florence main station called ‘Firenze Santa Maria Novella (SMN)’. For more information on trains, please see: http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en).
From Florence airport to Florence Station (SMN)
The company Vola in Bus operates a bus service to Florence main station, Stazione Santa Maria Novella: http://www.aeroporto.firenze.it/it/i-passeggeri/trasporti/bus.html. The bus leaves every 30 minutes, the first bus in the morning is at 5.30; 6.00; 6.30 and so on.
From Pisa airport to Florence Station (SMN)
From Pisa airport, the company Autostradale (http://www.autostradale.it/en) operates a shuttle bus service. The journey from Pisa airport to Florence centre takes about 60-70 minutes. If you book online in advance and you show your printed ticket to the bus driver, you benefit from a discount. Roundtrips are €13.50 . You can also buy tickets on the bus/ticket office next to the bus.
The departure times are (please also check the website indicated above): The Autostradale bus leaves Pisa airport on 5 April at: 8.45; 9.30; 10.15; 11.00; 11.45; 12.15; 13.00; 13.45; 14.40; 15.30; 16.30…
The company Terravision no longer operates a bus service even though the website is still on. We strongly advise against booking your tickets with them.
From Pisa airport, there is no direct train connection to Florence. You can however, take a shuttle bus taking you to Pisa main station, from where you can take a direct train to Florence SMN. Trains leave every 20 to 30 minutes and take about 45 to 70 minutes (depending of type of train). Tickets to Florence SMN (shutte + train) are sold directly at Pisa airport (€10.70), or you can take the shuttle (€1.20) and buy a train ticket to Florence SMN directly at Pisa Station (€8.40). NB the vendors at the airport charge a €1 fee for the train ticket.
Getting around in Florence
You prefer taking the bus
Bus tickets are €1.20 if you buy them at a kiosk/tabacchi shop or café or €2.00 if you purchase them directly on the bus. Please always carry a little change with you: the bus drivers do not have change. You can also purchase a 4-trip ticket (€4.70), for instance, which you might need anyway because we will take the bus to travel between the conference venue and the city centre. Please remember to validate your bus ticket on the bus (there are machines/little validation boxes) as controls are frequent.
The central railway station Santa Maria Novella (SMN), where also all buses arrive, is a 20 minutes walk away from your hotel and we recommend that you actually walk. Buses can be a hassle, sometimes chaotic, and it’s really easy to walk to the hotel.
You can get on the bus number 17 to ‘Verga’ from ‘Stazione Valfonda’ (the stop is right on the left when you leave the station, right after the McDonald’s restaurant) and get off at ‘Venezia’, just in front of Hotel La Pace.
You can get on the bus number 11 to ‘Salviatino’ from ‘Largo Alinari’ bus stop across the road and get of at Venezia.
You can also get on bus number 14 to ‘Il Girone’, or 23 to ‘Nave a Rovezzano’ from ‘Stazione Valfonda’ and get off at ‘Piazza San Marco’. The hotel is a just a short walk from the piazza.
Ultimately, you can get on number 6, from bus stop ‘Largo Alinari’ and get off at ‘Piazza San Marco’.
Please also check the Florence public transport website with the buses’ departure times (though not always reliable…): http://www.ataf.net/en/timetables-and-routes/timetables-and-routes/route-list.aspx?idC=180&LN=en-US. In general, it is better to be at the bus stop a little prior to the actual departure time (so you might catch the previous bus that runs late 🙂 ). Rather plan a little extra time in Florence so that you don’t have to stress out. You can also get real time schedule by uploading the ATAF app.
See map below for bus stop locations.
Should you prefer to walk
Please consult the following link, which will indicate your way on google maps from SMN station to your hotel: Walk to hotel. (Please klick on the walking sign on google maps!)
Under the headline Venue, we indicate how you reach our venue Villa Salviati from your hotel. Villa Salviati campus is north of the city centre and a 15 minutes bus ride away.
The BSHS will subsidise accommodation by 50 %. We have already pre-booked spacious twin rooms – which you will share with a colleague – for 2 nights (5-7 April) in the Hotel ‘La Pace’ (http://en.hoteldelapace.it/index.html). For the two nights, the total costs for each of you will be €56. We are currently looking into payment possibilities and will provide more information asap. If you prefer a single room – and unless you have done so already – please get in touch with us immediately. If you wish to share your twin room with a friend who is also a confirmed conference delegate, you will be asked to indicate it in the attached form.
The room rates are per night and per person:
Twin (shared): €28 with BSHS subsidy
Single: €66 with BSHS subsidy
The conference will take place at the EUI’s campus of Villa Salviati (http://www.eui.eu/About/Map.aspx), which can be reached by bus number 25 to ‘Pratolino / Pian di San Bartolo’: http://www.eui.eu/About/How-to-reach-us.aspx. Bus number 25 (stop ‘Venezia’) is just outside Hotel La Pace. The bus runs every 15 minutes and takes about 15 minutes to reach the appropriate bus stop (‘Il Cionfo 01’). Villa Salviati is quite big and we will make sure that there will be signs.
Please also see the Florence public transport website with the buses’ departure times (though not always reliable…): http://www.ataf.net/en/timetables-and-routes/timetables-and-routes/route-list.aspx?idC=180&LN=en-US. So in general, it’s better to be at the bus stop a little prior to the actual departure time (so you might catch the previous bus that runs late 🙂 ).You can also get real time schedule by uploading the ATAF app.
‘Thinking sciences at large’: EUIHoS upcoming events
31/01/2017 Events, PostsCatherine Gibson
Prof. Stéphane Van Damme and the History of Science Working Group are happy to invite to a cycle of talks on ‘Thinking Sciences at Large: Towards a Connected History of Science’.
[08/02/2017 edit] Update: new talk added. Mario Biagioli & Vincent Lépinay, 16 June 2017.
Call for participation: Seeing and Describing the Earth: Geographical Knowledge in Context
Seeing and Describing the Earth: Geographical Knowledge in Context
Workshop organised by the History of Science Working Group
Date: Wednesday 22nd February 2017, 15:00-18:00
Geographical knowledge is hard to define and delimit. As a concept itself, it has evolved over different historical periods and in relationship to different contexts and issues experienced by various actors. J. B. Harley stressed the importance of taking into consideration the layers of mediation standing between the map-reader and the territory. This deconstructivist approach towards maps has become a general tendency among historians of geographical knowledge.
Yet this perspective has to be extended to other approaches in order to situate the history of cartography within a broader framework, namely the history of the relationships between human beings and the world they inhabit. Jean-Marc Besse book’s Voir la Terre (2000) addresses the same question: does the human existence need both a spatial and a temporal framework? How can these two parameters interact? This is the central issue this workshop wants to address, by reflecting on the links between history and geography, and trying to break through artificial disciplinary borders in order to give a more complex understanding of both history and geography.
This workshop intends to explore the following themes:
1)Understanding, Constructing and Disseminating Knowledge about the Natural World
How can we conceptualize geographical knowledge and understandings of the world in the light of recent anthropological studies challengeing Euro-centric views of the world? New decentered views among researchers encourage us to reconsider different ways of understanding the Earth, mainly through the study of other systems but also history of intellectual practices, stressing the constructed and situated aspect of geographical knowledge. Sensory engagements with the natural world, as well as physical and human interaction with it, will help us to understand the construction of geographical knowledge.
2)Structuring Space
What role do institutions (learned societies, academies, universities, private associations, publishers etc.) play in inscribing the geographical world with meanings and in establishing norms of seeing, ordering and classifying the geographical world? How can we understand the relationship between exercising interpretative power and territorial claims of geographical spaces? The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers working on different periods and areas of the globe to discuss the production and circulation of geographical knowledge in different contexts.
3)Materiality of Geographical Knowledge
In the literature in recent years, there has been a shift from focusing on geographical discourses, to a return to thinking about the materiality of our interactions with the natural world. Different medium and genres for constructing and representing geographical knowledge – such as museum displays, books, maps, globes, artwork, travelogues etc. – arise out of different historical actors’ sensual and emotional engagement with their surroundings. How does the use of a particular medium to communicate knowledge affect and shape cognitive understandings of the geographical world?
We invite short 10 minute presentations engaging with how geographical knowledge is collected, constructed, represented and communicated, as well as theoretical or methodological reflections on the relationship between history and geography. We would like to emphasise that this workshop is intended as a space to air ideas and get feedback on your work-in-progress.
Please send the title of your presentation and a short abstract to Catherine Gibson catherine.gibson@eui.eu and Martin Vailly martin.vailly@eui.eu by Friday 3rd February.
EUI History of Science: Spring/Summer Calendar
Thinking Sciences at large: Towards a Connected History of Sciences
Convenor: Stéphane Van Damme
In collaboration with the Working Group in History of Science
– 6 February: Dagmar Schäfer (Max Planck Institute, Berlin): ‘Ming China disintegrated. The chances and pitfalls of the global view’
-9 February: Antonella Romano (EHESS, Paris): ‘Putting the globe in print: a 16th century European perspective, its processes, actors and challenges’
-14-15 February: Bruno Latour (SciencesPo, Paris), ‘Political organization in the New Climatic Regime’.
– 16 February: Workshop with Bruno Latour (SciencesPo, Paris), 11h-13h, Sala di Levieri, Villa Salviati
– 22 February: Seeing and Describing the Earth: Geographical Knowledge in Context. Workshop organised by the History of Science Working Group
– 23 February: Paolo Galuzzi (Director of the Museo Galileo)
-13 March: Bert de Munck (University of Antwerp): ‘Useful knowledge and the urban imaginary: a contested history’
– Last week of March, date tbc.: Aina Palarea Marimon (EUI, HEC 1) ‘Transmission of the Technical Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages’
-30 May: Hélène Miallet (York University, Canada): ‘The thinking person disease: Rethinking the subject in the digital age’
-22 June: Jessica Riskin (Stanford University): ‘Restless Clock’
-26 June: Forum on Hans Sloane with James Delbourgo (Rutgers University) and Simon Schaffer (Cambridge University)
LISTS: ТRANSLATING ETHNOGRAPHIC DATA TABLES INTO MAPS
20/01/2017 PostsCatherine Gibson
Lists are often treated as a ‘matter-of-fact, unrhetorical, and innocent’ source by historians (Delbourgo & Müller-Wille 2012, 711). At the same time, they can be daunting to work with because of the sheer volume of information they contain: inventories and census data often run to many hundreds or even thousands of pages. Taking as our inspiration the 2012 special issue on “Listmania” in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, in the November meeting of the EUI History of Science Working Group, we explored some of the ways in which we might begin to tackle lists as a historical source.
EUI History of Science Working Group. Photo courtesy of Déborah Dubald @_dbrh_
Bringing Ethnographic Lists and Maps Together
At the outset of my research on ethnographic cartography in the Russian Empire, I was reluctant to focus too heavily on statistical data. Not only has this topic already been extensively researched, but I was also more interested in the spatial definition of ethnographic areas rather than the quantitative numeration the Empire’s inhabitants. However, as my research developed, I became increasingly aware that list-making was closely intertwined with map-making in fascinating ways.
Firstly, the data used to make ethnographic maps was taken from lists and tables compiled as a result of fieldwork expeditions, local censuses, and provincial statistical data books (памятная книжка). The job of the cartographers, who I was focusing on in my research, was to translate this statistical demographic data into a graphical and cartographical medium.
Secondly, on a deeper level, lists and maps have in common that they communicate information based on a two-dimensional spatial logic. In lists and tables, words, or numbers are placed on the page in vertical columns and horizontal rows. On maps, coordinate points are plotted along the x- and y- axes. So, in addition to studying the maps themselves, I became increasingly interested in thinking about the similarities between list-making and map-making as ways of communicating ideas about ethnographic classification.
Statistical Tables
Not all cartographers went on fieldwork expeditions themselves and most relied instead on statistical data gathered from other sources, such as the provincial statistical commissions. This data was presented and circulated in the form of tables, which generally followed a similar format: ethnographic groups were listed horizontally across the page as column headings and provinces, districts, or parishes (depending on the scale of the statistical study) were listed vertically down the page as row headings. The number of inhabitants pertaining to each ethnographic group was listed for each locality. In this way, an overview of the ethnographic composition of the population of all “European Russia” could be synthesised onto a single sheet of paper.
Petr Keppen, Ob” etnograficheskoi karte evropeiskoi rossii. (St Petersburg: Izdannoi imperatorskim” russkim” geograficheskim” obschestvom”, 1852). Reproduced with permission from the National Library of Finland, Helsinki.
Ethnographic Taxonomies
Ethnographers worked with the same statistical data tables, however they were more interested in schematising the information to say something about the relationships between the ethnographic groups lists in row or column headings. Curly brackets (or braces) were often used to indicate that groups were part of a single ethnographic “family”. This technique also allowed ethnographers to create hierarchies by portraying branches and nesting sub-groups.
Legends: Another Kind of List?
Map legends often closely resembled taxonomic lists in the way that they arranged information about the ethnographic groups depicted in vertical columns. Some maps, such as Aleksandr Rittikh’s Ethnographic Map of European Russia (1875), even incorporated curly brackets into the legend to sort the ethnographic groups into “families”. Compiling a map legend, however, also took the taxonomisation process a step further by assigning a corresponding colour to each ethnographic group. Ethnographic groups perceived as being close kins to one another, were rendered in similar shades of a single colour. Differences between the various ethnographic families were emphasised using contrasting colours.
Aleksandr Rittikh, Etnograficheskaia karta evropeiskoi rossii. (St Petersburg, 1875). Reproduced with permission from the National Library of Finland, Helsinki.
Lost (and Gained) in Translation
As in every translation process, some aspects of the statistical and ethnographic lists were “lost” in the transformation of the data into a cartographical medium. For example, ethnographic maps in the mid-nineteenth century mostly did not convey any information about the relative numbers of inhabitants belonging to each ethnographic group or population density. Moreover, itinerant or nomadic populations who had no sizeable or fixed area of permanent habitation often simply disappeared. Instead, these choropleth maps converted the information contained in each row of the data table into a flat, enclosed, and homogeneous block of colour.
At the same time, cartography was not simply a method for graphically visualising the information contained in a statistical list, but also played a significant role in shaping the ideas about population categorisation. As Georg von Mayr (1841-1925), a statistician and professor of statistics at the University of Munich, observed: ‘The map differs significantly from the diagram, in that it contains not merely a sensual illustration of the table provided as evidence, but also something new that the table cannot represent’ (Mayr 1874: 15). By using graphical techniques such as shading, lines and chromatics, maps could make powerful statements about the distribution and borders between ethnographic groups, as well as the nature of their relationship to one another.
Thank you to Déborah Dubald for the opportunity to collaborate in putting together this session of the EUI History of Science Working Group and to think about my research from a new perspective.
Catherine Gibson
Researcher, European University Institute
For more information about Catherine’s current research on ethnographic maps, see http://historicalbalticmaps.com/
REFERENCED WORKS
Delbourgo, James and Staffan Müller-Wille. “Introduction.” Isis 103:4 (2012), 710-715
Mayr, G. von. Gutachten über die Anwendung der graphischen und geographischen Methode in der Statistik. Munich: gedruckt bei J. Gotteswinter, 1874.
‘Chasing Unicorns and Amassing Rhinos to Think About the History of Knowledge’
01/12/2016 Eventsmaterial culture, medicine, unicornsDéborah Dubald
Unicorn (Monoceros). Conrad Gesner, Historiae Animalium; liber primus, qui est de quadrupedibus viviparis, Zurich, 1551. retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Historiae_animalium_1551_De_Monocerote.jpg
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with Bruno A Martinho (HEC3) & Camille Sallé (HEC1)
Monday 5/12/2016, 17:00-19:00
Location: Sala dei Levrieri, Villa Salviati, European University Institute, Florence
How do historians of knowledge and science deal with materials? And what do materials do to the history of knowledge? Reversely, how are notions of science and knowledge approached by historians of material culture? This session will be centred on a case study presented by Bruno A. Martinho, and will aim at opening the discussion on these questions and some methodological issues encountered when approaching material culture. Especially, we will examine the extent to which those questions related to material culture and materiality can bring together and blur the lines between various fields of history. We will consider the possibility of thinking outside categories produced by material culturel/history of science approaches, as well as more powerful questionnaires obtained from crossed methodologies.
Lists!
10/11/2016 EventsDéborah Dubald
List of toponyms from the fieldwork notebook of Ia. Kuznetsov, 1896. Archives of the Russian Geographical Society, St Petersburg. F11, ap.1, no.4.
The EUIHoS is pleased to invite you to its next meeting:
Whether they group plants, stuffed animals, or potential tax payers, lists are often a deceptively simple source for historians and can be daunting to manipulate. For this session, Catherine Gibson and Déborah Dubald will share their experience and issues encountered with ethnographic lists and museums’ inventories of natural objects in the nineteenth-century. Leaning on some case studies and one very short reading, this month’s session will try to explore the cognitive and social effects of list-making in the sciences. Looking at the wide range of practices of list-making and the conditions of its materialisation, we will try to think of ways to use lists efficiently to build a bigger story.
Time & venue: 14 November 2016 at 17:00 – Sala dei Levrieri, Villa Salviati, Via Bolognese 156, 50139 Florence, Italy
The session will be followed by a dinner at Antica Badia. Please register with Catherine Gibson if you would like to join us!
Delbourgo James & Müller-Wille Staffan, “Listmania” (Introduction), Isis, 2012, vol. 103, no 4, pp. 710‑715. Available from the EUI Library.
To attend the event or for further information please contact Catherine Gibson.
BYOC with Historians
The History of Science Working Group is very pleased to invite you to a
BYOC* with Historians
Prof. Pascal Brioist (University of Tours)
Friday, 11 November at 11:00am
in Sala del Torrino, Villa Salviati
Pascal Brioist is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Tours and a researcher at the Centre d’Etude Supérieur de la Renaissance. An EUI alumni (he graduated in 1992), his research is concerned with the history of science and technology, especially in the field of military and war studies.
We are happy to welcome Prof. Brioist to give a talk about a new history of Technology in Renaissance Italy, which will be followed by an informal discussion.
All are welcome !
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Science in Florence
Le History of Science working group de l'Institut universitaire européen à Florence est un groupe créé et géré les doctorants du département d'histoire et civilisation qui partagent un intérêt commun pour l'histoire des sciences. Les travaux de recherches de nos membres portent sur des sujets très variés, allant de l'histoire naturelle aux inventions d'amateurs, du XVIIe siècle à l’entre-deux-guerre russe. Ce carnet en ligne est le lieu de convergence de nos réflexions, ainsi qu'un espace d'échange sur nos idées et nos activités.
The History of Science working group is a student-led group of Doctoral researchers of the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute Florence, who share a similar interest in the History of Science. Our members engage with a wide range of topics from natural history over imperial science to amateur inventions or mediascapes, from seventeenth-century France to interwar Russia. This online notebook is a place where the variety of our research interests converge, and a place in which we wish to share our activities and contributions.
Die History of Science Working Group ist eine von Doktoranden initiierte und geleitete Forschungsgruppe am Department of History and Civilization am Europäischen Hochschulinstitut Florenz. Die Mitglieder der Gruppe teilen ihr Interesse an den zahlreichen Feldern der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, die sich von Naturgeschichte, Umweltgeschichte, Wissenschaft und Kolonialgeschichte bis hin zu Amateurerfindungen erstrecken und zeitlich und geographisch vom frühneuzeitlichen Europa und dessen Kolonien bis hin zur UdSSR der Zwischenkriegszeit variieren. In unserem digitalen und online zugänglichen ‘Notizbuch’ stellen wir sowohl die Vielfalt unserer Forschungsfelder und Interessen als auch aktuelle Veranstaltungen und Aktivitäten dar.
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THREE DRINKS AND AN EXPLANATION • by Jay Lee Ellis
March 31, 2017 Every Day Fiction 17 Comments
Russell Briggs drove long haul, only one time he ever told me about it though. Drove a big rig three years, until he come down a pass in West Virginia thank god no other cars on the road and out of a blinding rain bam — slammed into a herd a horses. Some lost herd god knows why they’s out there on the road. He lost ’at rig right into a patrol car hideout, in that median cover you know where they like to hide. The rig and the car both slid clear across to the other side of the road where the pass opened down below. That patrol car went on over, wrapped a tree in the passenger side before it could get over the last drop. The truck settled in a little holler above, just tilted on the edge, only two retreads gone to gators, the road that slick to slide.
Russell got out unhurt, what he could tell at the time at least, and he watched the patrolman crawl out his driver’s side window, over a dead horse what you could barely tell was still a horse at all — too pluggy, I’d said, not to get caught up between them two vehicles and end up blockin’ that cop’s door, a kinda cushion, poor horse. Russell’s telling me this like he’s telling me he’s got to go pay a banker, you know how he is, just that’s that. Billy Wayne at the Lindale Tavern about that time come and asked if we was wantin’ another drink, and Russell just looked at me and said no sir, bring me a water. I didn’t like to interrupt the story after that.
When that truck jackknifed into that little herd, the trailer wiped most a those horses away, swept em off the edge like sawdust before a broom. Russell said the trooper scrambled on up that drop and wouldn’t stop talking or touching him, grabbing his hand or slapping him on the back, like congratulating him like as they’d just won something. He was a nervous little feller, Russell said, but wouldn’t you be nervous? And grateful to be alive? So there they stood, soaking away, looking down the hollow at steam — rising like it does after a thunderstorm in that part of the country — from clumps of gray and brown and black horses, ever where. Listening to one horse screaming, down somewheres they couldn’t see. Bout that time the sun come through a break in the clouds, the rain coming on down but light then, gently, he said, and everywhere in the weeds and grass, the pavement back behind, and even up in the trees was all daubed red, like as by a touch up brush, in the blood of them horses.
The tow truck found where they’s at and pulled the rig back up on the road — and you know they slapped a couple of spares on and it ran just fine. So Russell got in and drove on. Drove that rig outta them storms and all through the next day, until he pulled it over on a state highway in Alabama. Long straight road, nothing else in front or behind, in the first dry weather he’d seen in a week. And he just walked away. Walked away. He went back to the farm back down near Lindale. Kept a few head of cattle. But he would not own a horse, and only once told me why, after his third drink that night and he would not have another.
Jay Lee Ellis grew up between Dallas and East Texas, playing drums professionally from age eleven in stock shows, shopping malls, and VFW halls. After Berklee College of Music (BA), he earned degrees in writing and literature at UT Dallas (MA) and NYU (PhD), publishing three scholarly books, including NO PLACE FOR HOME on Cormac McCarthy’s novels. His work has also appeared in CHELSEA, SULPHUR RIVER, and FLASH FICTION MAGAZINE. He currently seeks representation for a novel. Still occasionally playing jazz, he has performed at New York’s Knitting Factory, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre, not far from home in Boulder, Colorado.
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Football Relativity 2011 Season Preview
Aaron Rodgers has plenty to celebrate. Image via Wikipedia
Each week during the season, we compare all 32 NFL teams using the Football Relativity tool, which puts the best teams at the 10 level and the worst teams at the 1 level. So before the season begins, we want to break down the upcoming season by discussing all 32 teams and their chances.
10 – Green Bay Packers – The Pack is back, and the defending champions get more toys to play with as key players like TE JerMichael Finley and RB Ryan Grant return from injured reserve. That should help the Pack, who barely snuck in the playoffs only to reel off an impressive run to a championship, have an easier berth into the postseason this year. QB Aaron Rodgers is ascending to the elite level, and there’s probably no better signal caller in the league right now. He has a deep group of wideouts led by Greg Jennings, who has become a true No. 1 wideout. And the offensive line, which was battered last year, has added first-rounders Derek Sherrod and Bryan Bulaga in the past two years, which should add to consistency by the end of the season. On defense, the Packers have an attacking style that stars Clay Matthews and relies on a beefy, talented line with B.J. Raji and company. And in Tramon Williams, veteran Charles Woodson, and the ascending Sam Shields, the Packers have one of the league’s best CB groups. No team in the NFL is more talented across the board, and it’s been years since a defending champion came back with as good a chance to repeat.
9 – Philadelphia Eagles – The splashy “Dream Team” added a ton of name players, but the team’s fate will rise and fall on the health of Michael Vick. If Vick can stay healthy, the Eagles will put up points with the best of them. RB LeSean McCoy and WR DeSean Jackson lead a class of playmakers that’s beyond compare. However, the offensive line is in major flux with four new starters, and that could become an issue. On defense, the Eagles add a ton of big-name players, led by CB Nnamdi Asomugha, but there’s no guarantee that things will gel quickly. The Eagles have so much talent that by the end of the year they’ll be a power, but the early-season adjustments could cost them home-field advantage and ultimately leadership of the NFC.
9 (con’t) – New England Patriots – The Pats have developed a recent history of excelling in the regular season and then falling apart in the postseason. But that troubling trend doesn’t change the fact that they’re a regular season power. Tom Brady had one of his best seasons in 2010, and while he no longer has Randy Moss, throwing to Wes Welker, Aaron Hernandez, Rob Gronkowski, and others will still work well. The running game was pretty good last year as well, and adding rookies like Stevan Ridley should only help. And the Pats have done a good job of adding young offensive linemen to keep that unit from getting old all at once. On defense, the Pats added a bunch of veteran defensive linemen that will help them be more versatile and should help them create more pressure. Vince Wilfork still is the heart of that unit. And younger players like ILB Jerod Mayo and CB Devin McCourty have added to the defense as well. New England is still trying to get its safety situation situated, but that doesn’t feel like a fatal flaw. Who knows if the Patriots can fix their postseason problems in 2011. But rest assured that they’ll be in the playoffs once again.
9 (con’t) – Pittsburgh Steelers – The Steelers have a ton of strengths and the same weakness that has lingered for years (although they’ve overcome it). The big strength is on defense, where Pittsburgh’s 3-4 remains one of the best attacking defenses in the league. That’s led by OLBs James Harrison and Lamarr Woodley, but it features other standouts like NT Casey Hampton, ILB Lawrence Timmons, and CB Ike Taylor. Pittsburgh does a great job of integrating younger players and knowing when to let veterans go, and that allows the defense to maintain a high level. On offense, the Steelers continue to move toward a major passing offense with QB Ben Roethlisberger and a receiving corps that features vet Hines Ward and young speedsters Mike Wallace, Antonio Brown, and Emmanuel Sanders. The big issue is the offensive line, which has an elite young center in Maurkice Pouncey but a lack of premium talent elsewhere. That hasn’t stopped the Steelers before, but we keep waiting for the shoe to drop. Still, the Steelers are ready to make a run yet again.
8 – Tampa Bay Buccaneers – No team in the NFL depends on youngsters more than the Bucs do, but Tampa Bay is blessed to have a ton of talented and productive youngsters who can lead the team to prominence. Foremost among them is QB Josh Freeman, who has the game and the mindset to be a superstar. His crew – RB LaGarrette Blount and WRs Mike Williams and Arrelious Benn – will grow with him. Those baby Bucs got the offense going last year; this offseason, the team added youth on defense with rookies at defensive end in Adrian Clayborn and DaQuan Bowers and at middle linebacker in Mason Foster who will start or play key roles. CB Aqib Talib gets in trouble off the field, but on the field he’s an elite corner, and DT Gerald McCoy returns to the field after an injury halted his rookie season. The Bucs will only make the playoffs if their youngsters continue to develop, but we see that happening. Freeman and company are headed to the playoffs in 2011.
8 (con’t) – Atlanta Falcons – The Falcons are going for broke in 2011 after an offseason designed to add pieces that put them over the top. Rookie wide receiver Julio Jones is supposed to add breakaway ability that will keep opponents from keying on Roddy White. If that happens, QB Matt Ryan will have his best group of targets ever. The offensive line kept two key free agents in Tyson Clabo and Justin Blalock, which should allow the running game of Michael Turner and company to continue to thrive. The defense added pass rusher Ray Edwards to pair with John Abraham. The Falcons also have terrific players entering their primes in MLB Curtis Lofton and CB Brent Grimes. Atlanta is loaded; the problem is that the NFC South is loaded as well. So winning the division is no sure thing, but a third playoff berth in four years should be.
8 (con’t) – Baltimore Ravens – A month ago, we were ready to write off the Ravens and predict them to miss the playoffs. But the Ravens have added some key veterans in WR Lee Evans, C Andre Gurode, and OT Bryant McKinnie who will help shore up trouble spots on offense. Those additions should allow QB Joe Flacco, RB Ray Rice, and WR Anquan Boldin to do their jobs without too much undue pressure. It’s time for Flacco to step up and lead a prolific offense, not just a decent one. On defense, the Ravens have premium players in DE Haloti Ngata, OLB Terrell Suggs, ILB Ray Lewis, and S Ed Reed, but they need better play from the players around them. The pass rush flagged last year, and cornerback is a question mark unless guys like Cary Williams and rookie Jimmy Smith step up. The Ravens have the talent to make a postseason run if they can get into the playoffs, and that’s exactly what we expect them to do.
8 (con’t) – San Diego Chargers – The Chargers were No. 1 in the league in offense and in defense last season, but the special teams were so horrific that it cost them games and ultimately a playoff berth. Even is San Diego fixes those units only a little bit, they’re going to be in the mix. The Bolts have an electric offense led by QB Philip Rivers, and this time around WR Vincent Jackson and OLT Marcus McNeill will be around from Week One. If Antonio Gates stays healthy, the offense will be at full capacity. RB Ryan Mathews was a disappointment as a rookie, but Mike Tolbert was a nice surprise, and that duo will get the job done. On defense, the Chargers don’t have the superstars they once did, and losing ILB Kevin Burnett hurts, but there’s enough talent around to more than get the job done. The Chargers need to avoid a slow start and a special-teams implosion, but if they do they should cruise in the AFC West and threaten for the conference title.
7 – New Orleans Saints – The Saints defended their Super Bowl title with a wild-card berth and a disappointing playoff loss in Seattle last year. The offense, led by Drew Brees, was prolific, but it turned the ball over far too often. The running game will look different this year with Reggie Bush gone and rookie Mark Ingram in place, but the Saints still have a versatile group of backs and receivers that will give Brees options. On defense, the Saints rebuilt their defensive line, and they have a nice crew of young defensive backs led by free safety Malcolm Jenkins. But the linebacker crew is far from impressive, and the Saints have to prove they can stop opponents and not just create turnovers. New Orleans will be dangerous and could beat anyone in the league, but we are getting a sniff of inconsistency that will have the Saints falling to 9-7 and third place in the NFC South.
7 (con’t) – New York Jets – The Jets are a hard team to figure, because they barely sneak into the playoffs and then make a run once they get there. The high-profile postseason wins can mask some issues with the roster. On defense, the Jets didn’t create as much pressure last year, and additions like first-round pick Muhammad Wilkerson aren’t enough to fix that. The defense has really good players like ILB David Harris and CBs Darrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie, but it will have to win by shutting down opponents instead of by creating a bunch of turnovers. Will Rex Ryan really want to play that style? On offense, QB Mark Sanchez shows up in big moments but isn’t consistent enough, and losing WRs Braylon Edwards, Jerricho Cotchery, and Brad Smith (replaced by Plaxico Burress and Derrick Mason) doesn’t help. Keeping Santonio Holmes was vital, because he can be a No. 1 wideout for Gang Green. The offensive line lost another veteran in the retired Damien Woody as well. It will be a hard slog for the Jets to get to the postseason, but based on their track record, we expect them to sneak in under the wire.
7 (con’t) – Kansas City Chiefs – The Chiefs are building something good in Kansas City, but last year’s division title doesn’t mean that they’re on the road toward the elite just yet. With offensive coordinator Charlie Weis gone, K.C. needs QB Matt Cassel to continue his ascent. He had a fine season last year, as did WR Dwayne Bowe. The Chiefs add WR Steve Breaston but lost emerging TE Tony Moeaki for the season. The running game will be strong with Jamaal Charles, Thomas Jones, and addition LeRon McClain, and the offensive line gets help from Jared Gaither. On defense, the Chiefs have a top-flight pass rusher in Tamba Hali, and rookie Justin Houston could emerge on the opposite side. And CBs Brandon Carr and Brandon Flowers do a good job, while S Eric Berry had a strong rookie year. The Chiefs are building something, but they’re not as talented as the Chargers and will slip down the standings a bit this year.
6 – Chicago Bears – The Bears improbably claimed the NFC North title last year, although their rivals to the north beat them in the NFC title game. Still, it was a promising performance for a team that has talent as well as holes. QB Jay Cutler drew criticism for going on in the conference championship game with a knee injury, but he took a beating all year and still produced. His receiving corps isn’t great, but he has a top back in Matt Forte. The problem is the offensive line, which was awful in the first half of the season but a little better in the second half. On defense, the Bears got a great performance from Julius Peppers in his first year with the team, and his presence unleashed Israel Idonije on the other side. LBs Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs are veterans who still produce, as is CB Charles Tillman. The Bears’ window is closing on defense, because so many key players have been around a while, but it should be enough to keep the Bears in playoff contention in 2011. They won’t beat the Packers this year, but a 9-7 wild card is still on the table.
6 (con’t) – St. Louis Rams – Under head coach Steve Spagnuolo, the Rams have done a good job of rebuilding from the lowest of lows earlier this decade. The centerpiece of that rebuilding process is QB Sam Bradford, who had a solid rookie season and showed the potential to be great. Bradford now gets to work with offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who should be able to maximize Bradford’s talents. The Rams have depth but not stars at wide receiver, but youngsters like WRs Danny Amendola and Brandon Gibson, and rookie TE Lance Kendricks are emerging. As they do, proven RB Steven Jackson continues to pile up yards behind an offensive line that has gotten a lot better with additions like 2010 rookie OLT Rodger Saffold and 2011 signee OG Harvey Dahl. On defense, the Rams finally got a breakout season from DE Chris Long, and MLB James Laurinaitis has proven to be a productive force. The secondary lags a little behind, but if the Rams can create enough pressure it should be enough. The Rams aren’t great, but they’re better and deeper than any other team in the NFC West and should claim the division this year after falling just short in 2010.
6 (con’t) – Washington Redskins – The Redskins have done some good things this offseason, but all the momentum has been covered up by the quarterback conundrum between Rex Grossman and John Beck. Grossman is getting the call to start the season. He’ll have a running game based around Tim Hightower, who fits the offensive system head coach Mike Shanahan wants to play. The offensive line is not the typical Shanahan unit, however. On defense, the Redskins have added several key pieces and should be even better than last year’s surprisingly solid group. Even with the quarterback play, the Redskins are a sleeper playoff team.
6 (con’t) – Dallas Cowboys – Last year was a disaster for the Cowboys, who stumbled to such a terrible start that Wade Phillips got the boot. The team rebounded a bit under Jason Garrett, and now Garrett must prove that he can get the job done from day one. He’ll have Tony Romo this time around, as the quarterback returns from injury. With Romo, TE Jason Witten, and WRs Dez Bryant and Miles Austin, the Cowboys are strong at the skill positions, but changes on of the offensive line could be a problem. On defense, the Cowboys bring in coordinator Rob Ryan and his aggressive ways. That should allow OLBs DeMarcus Ware and Anthony Spencer to excel; the question is whether the secondary is strong enough to keep opponents at bay. The Cowboys won’t be a disaster, but there are enough questions that they’ll big in a dogfight to get past 8-8.
6 (con’t) – Miami Dolphins – The Dolphins are flying (swimming?) under the radar as the season begins, but they are an interesting team. On offense, Reggie Bush adds a dynamic element to the offense, and Brandon Marshall seems to be getting off-field help that could help him produce on the field. None of that will matter, though, unless QB Chad Henne improves on his 2010 performance. Henne’s preseason performance was encouraging, but he’s at the prove-it point of his career. The offensive line has a standout in OLT Jake Long, but things over the rest of the line have been turned over. Relying on Henne and Bush is risky, but both have talent. On defense, the Dolphins are getting better and better. OLB Cameron Wake and NT Paul Soliai emerged as keystones last year, and free-agent signee ILB Kevin Burnett adds a new element beside Karlos Dansby. And as young CBs Vontae Davis and Sean Smith mature, the defense will be scary. The division is tough, but the Dolphins have a shot – if the Bush and Henne gambles pay off.
6 (con’t) – Jacksonville Jaguars – We covered the Jaguars in this season preview – and then the Jaguars cut QB David Garrard. Still, in an AFC South division that could be won at 9-7, we believe the Jaguars can edge out the Texans and Colts to win the division.
6 (con’t) – Houston Texans – The Texans have to believe their time is now. The Colts are in injury limbo, and the Texans made aggressive moves to upgrade the defense by adding CB Johnathan Joseph, S Danieal Manning, DE J.J. Watt, and OLB Brooks Reed. New coordinator Wade Phillips has had good results in the past, but his system doesn’t match his best player, Mario Williams. If Phillips can put Williams to best use, the defense will work, but we’ll have to see it to believe it. On offense, the Texans will still be prolific thanks to QB Matt Schaub, WR Andre Johnson, and RB Arian Foster. But if the season comes down to shootout after shootout, we see the Texans falling short too often. The conventional wisdom has the Texans making the playoffs finally, but we don’t see it.
5 – Detroit Lions – The Lions are on the way up. Now the question is whether the next move forward is a step or a leap. We lean toward the step side, picturing the Lions as an 8-8 team but not a playoff squad. There’s plenty to like in Detroit: DT Ndamukong Suh wreaking havoc, QB Matthew Stafford throwing deep to WR Calvin Johnson, and the electric play of RB Jahvid Best. But the injury issues that Stafford and Best have had in the past – and that rookie DT Nick Fairley has now – have to bride enthusiasm a bit. So does the state of the secondary, which still needs upgrades at cornerback. The Lions have gone from awful to competitive under head coach Jim Schwartz, but it’s not time yet for them to break through.
5 (con’t) – New York Giants – No team has been hit harder by injuries this preseason than the Giants, who lost starters CB Terrell Thomas and LB Jonathan Goff, along with four key defensive backups, all for the season. That leaves a defense that has big-time pass rushers in Justin Tuck and Jason Pierre-Paul with big deficits behind the strong front line. On offense, QB Eli Manning must overcome his turnover problems from 2010. He did make a ton of big plays, many to emerging star Hakeem Nicks, but losing Steve Smith and Kevin Boss in free agency hurts. And the offensive line, such a constant during most of the Tom Coughlin era, is getting a complete overhaul. This feels like a step back year for the Giants. They could easily fall into fourth in the always tough NFC East.
5 (con’t) – Indianapolis Colts – This is the year that the Colts’ playoff streak finally ends – and not just because of QB Peyton Manning’s injury problems. Manning had covered over a variety of faults for the Colts – a sorry offensive line, average running backs, and injury-plagued wide receivers. So while Reggie Wayne, Dallas Clark, Pierre Garcon, and Austin Collie have talent, it’s hard to see the Colts taking full advantage, at least until Manning gets back to 100 percent. And on defense, while pass-rushing DEs Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis can create havoc, they aren’t shut down players. It’s hard to see the Colts’ D holding up when the offense isn’t staking it to a lead. A fall is coming – the question is whether it will be a slip out of the playoffs or a massive collapse for the Colts. The horseshoe ain’t going to be lucky this year.
5 (con’t) – Oakland Raiders – The Raiders went through a lot of change this offseason, installing Hue Jackson as head coach and and losing high-profile CB Nnamdi Asomugha. But Oakland is still talented. The defense has impact players in OLB Kamerion Wimbley, DT Richard Seymour, and CB Stanford Routt, and that will keep them in games. And the running game led by Darren McFadden and Michael Bush was shockingly strong last year. QB Jason Campbell lost one of his best targets in TE Zach Miller, and while Kevin Boss is a solid starter, he’s a downgrade. So is the loss of OG Robert Gallery on an offensive line that is big and strong but inexperienced. Oakland will need young receivers like Jacoby Ford to continue to emerge for Campbell, and it’s fair to expect some inconsistency there. The Raiders won’t fall apart, but they lost a bit too much to match last year’s 8-win total or AFC West sweep.
4 – Arizona Cardinals – The Cardinals were doomed in 2010 by horrific QB play, so paying a high price to add Kevin Kolb should make a big difference. Kolb is good enough to get the ball to Larry Fitzgerald, who remains one of the best wideouts in the league. Arizona will need someone, maybe TE addition Todd Heap or breakout WR candidate Andre Roberts, to emerge as enough of a threat to take some coverage away from Fitzgerald. The running game is a question mark because of trades and injuries, so Beanie Wells and Chester Taylor need to step up. That won’t be easy behind a mediocre offensive line. On defense, the Cards need FS Adrian Wilson to return to prominence as rookie CB Patrick Peterson and second-year ILB Daryl Washington emerge as forces. The Cards will be better, thanks mostly to the upgrade Kolb provides, but that won’t be enough for a playoff run.
4 (con’t) – Cleveland Browns – The Browns are in the midst of a rebuilding project, but the progress thus far has been pretty good. QB Colt McCoy may never be a Pro Bowler, but he should emerge as a solid starter in the West Coast style of offense GM Mike Holmgren and head coach Pat Shurmur will use. His group of receivers is young, but rookie WR Greg Little and TE Evan Moore could be major factors. The Browns are in good shape up front thanks to OT Joe Thomas and C Alex Mack, and RB Peyton Hillis provides a physical running game. On defense, the Browns are quite young, but they had a great find in CB Joe Haden last year, and they hope fellow youngsters like DE Jabaal Sherad and SS T.J. Ward also develop into stars. The Browns probably need one more draft and free agency cycle to truly move into contender-dom, but they should make a run toward respectability this season.
3 – Minnesota Vikings – The Vikings are just over a year away from playing into overtime in the NFC championship game, but the decline has been steep. Now the Vikes have a beaten up offensive line, an aging defensive line, and a placeholder at quarterback. Donovan McNabb is a star when it comes to Q-rating, but his play on the field is no longer at that level. He’s just taking snaps until rookie Christian Ponder is ready. Neither quarterback will have great targets aside from Percy Harvin. At least Adrian Peterson remains one of the league’s elite running backs. But Peterson will struggle to keep this crew in games, not to mention ahead. On defense, DE Jared Allen’s play fell off last year, and DT Kevin Williams will miss the first two games of the year. Now the Vikings need to recenter their defense around LBs Chad Greenway and E.J. Henderson. Leslie Frazier is a good coach, but there’s a reason this team fell apart on Brad Childress last year. The window has closed.
3 (con’t) – Buffalo Bills – We covered the Bills in depth in this post.
3 (con’t) – Denver Broncos – The Broncos, under new head coach John Fox, should be more competitive than last year. QB Kyle Orton has proven to be effective if not always dynamic. He developed a terrific rapport with Brandon Lloyd last year, but can Lloyd repeat his breakout season without Josh McDaniels? He needs to, because the rest of the receiving corps is thin. At running back, Fox can use both Knowshon Moreno and Willis McGahee. The offensive line has a premium left tackle in Ryan Clady but not much else. On defense, Elvis Dumervil returns, and rookie Von Miller comes to time, but neither player is a hand-in-glove fit for Fox’s 4-3. Defensive tackle is a trouble spot. In the secondary, vets S Brian Dawkins and CB Champ Bailey need to continue a solid level of play. The Broncos need a rebuild after the disastrous McDaniels draft results, and this year will show just how far they have to go.
2 – Carolina Panthers – We previewed the Panthers in depth in this post.
2 (con’t) – Seattle Seahawks – We previewed the Seahawks in depth in this post.
2 (con’t) – Cincinnati Bengals – It’s good news, bad news for the Bengals. They have some good young receivers in A.J. Green, Jordan Shipley, Jermaine Gresham, and Jerome Simpson. But the offensive line is no great shakes, especially with Bobbie Williams suspended for the first four games of the season, and it could cause trouble. Rookie QB Andy Dalton was good in college, but we don’t know if he has the skills to succeed at the NFL level – especially once defenses throw the kitchen sink at him. On defense, the Bengals lost CB Johnathan Joseph, but they still have Leon Hall, who’s an elite player at that position. But the pass rush doesn’t generate enough pressure, and the linebacker play has been up and down. If the defense can come together, the Bengals could approach 8-8, but we see 4-12 as a more likely outcome.
1 – San Francisco 49ers – The 49ers, under new head coach Jim Harbaugh, have a few stars but lack talent in too many key areas. It starts at quarterback, where Alex Smith gets another chance despite a lack of results. Smith has a very good running back in Frank Gore and talented targets in WRs Braylon Edwards and Michael Crabtree and TE Vernon Davis, but the whole is less than the sum of the parts. And the offensive line, despite some high draft picks, struggled throughout the preseason. On defense, ILB Patrick Willis remains a superstar, but the talent around him is worse than last year, unless rookie OLB Aldon Smith is more ready to play than most expect. Harbaugh has a steep challenge in front of him, because the 49ers are among the league’s worst teams. They may steal some wins in the weak NFC West, but this franchise is at the bottom.
1 (con’t) – Tennessee Titans – The Titans are in major flux, and we don’t see many signs of hope, but at least they kept RB Chris Johnson in town. He’s joined by veteran QB Matt Hasselbeck, who will play until rookie Jake Locker is ready. The offensive line is still OK, and that should allow the running game to keep producing. And in WR Kenny Britt and TE Jared Cook, the Titans have talented receivers. But on defense, the Titans have lost a ton of key players, and aside from CB Cortland Finnegan and S Michael Griffin won’t be starting anyone you’d recognize. It’s hard to see the Titans shutting down many teams, even in the declining AFC South.
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February 4, 2011 · 1:58 pm
Pick ’em – Super Bowl 45
Ben Roethlisberger vs. Clay Matthews in 2009
It’s finally time for us to make our Super Bowl pick. We’ve already previewed who we think the playmakers will be and played out the storylines. So let’s engage in some preja vu and tell you not only who will win but how the game will be won.
*Neither team will be able to run the ball all that well with their running backs. We see Rashard Mendenhall fighting for 55 yards or so on like 17 carries, and we suspect Aaron Rodgers may outrush any Packers back – James Starks, Brandon Jackson, John Kuhn, and company. The running game is not going to be what decides the game.
*A huge question is whether either offensive line can effectively block their opponents. The Packers’ line isn’t great, and rookie right tackle Bryan Bulaga has given up his fair share of sacks this season. So we believe James Harrison and Lamarr Woodley will get a few hits in on Rodgers. But we have the same doubts that the Steelers can block Clay Matthews coming off the corner as well as B.J. Raji and Cullen Jenkins inside. The Maurkice Pouncey injury really hurts the Steelers here, because the Pack’s playmaking interior players will be troublesome throughout the game. Still, though, since both teams can create pressure, the big plays out of the pass rushes should basically even out.
*So where do we find a big advantage? It’s in coverage. The Packers have three terrific cornerbacks in Charles Woodson, Tramon Williams, and Sam Shields, and Shields’ emergence will be a key in keeping Mike Wallace from breaking free deep in the secondary. We believe the Packers can keep Ben Roethlisberger and company from throwing the ball all over the place. But we don’t have the same confidence about the Steelers. Troy Polamalu is a great player, but he’s better freelancing than in coverage, and the Packers can force Polamalu into coverage by using a four-wide receiver set. Ike Taylor can be trouble blitzing off the corner, but he’s not an elite cover corner either. The same is true from Bryant McFadden. We just see Greg Jennings, Donald Driver, James Jones, and Jordy Nelson breaking free more than once. If the Packers can keep the Steelers blocked for the most part, or if Rodgers can keep the chains moving with his legs when pressured, then Green Bay will eventually beat the Steelers through the air. And that’s where the game will be won.
So our pick is Green Bay 28, Pittsburgh 24
Conference championships: 2-0 both straight up and against the spread
Playoffs: 5-5 both straight up and against the spread
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Oogly es Sin
The Lamentable Ballad of Anthony Payne, Cornish Giant
By Alan M. Kent
Alan M. Kent’s play explores the life of the seventeenth-century ‘Cornish Giant’, Anthony Payne, in a series of hilarious and touching reminiscences.
Oogly es Sin quantity
Alan M. Kent’s one-man play explores the life of the seventeenth-century ‘Cornish Giant’, Anthony Payne, in a series of hilarious and touching reminiscences involving the Civil War, death, a donkey and a Cornish wrestling match. Payne, at twenty-one, stood seven feet two inches, ‘a man built too tall for this world’. Rough in speech and by his own admission ‘oogly es sin’, he is none the less gentle and philosophical with a natural wit and a striking turn of phrase. Drawing on records of Payne’s career, this remarkable play recreates one of Cornwall’s most endearing and larger-than-life characters.
‘I mean, how does it feel to be huge in a world set on being small?’
Alan M. Kent was born in St Austell, Cornwall, in 1967. He is a prize-winning poet, novelist and dramatist and author and editor of a number of works on Cornish and Anglo-Cornish literature, including Looking at the Mermaid, a Reader in Cornish Literature 900–1900, two anthologies of Anglo-Cornish poetry, Voices from West Barbary and The Dreamt Sea, and an acclaimed translation of the Cornish Mystery play cycle, The Ordinalia. Two of his other plays are published by Francis Boutle Publishers: Surfing Tommies and The Tin Violin.
‘In a giant of a performance, Dean Nolan gives us all the highs and lows of this Cornish Falstaff, while at the same time reminding us how little we learn from history. It is a performance not to be missed.’
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Tim Saunders has gathered together more than a hundred poems from a variety of sources – magazines, books and manuscripts – to give us the first ever survey of poetry in the Cornish language from 1850 until 1980.
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Amtrak Employees Claimed to Work 40 Hours Per Day
Audit finds indicators of ‘potential’ abuse of overtime
Elizabeth Harrington - June 22, 2015 2:23 PM
Timesheets for employees of Amtrak are riddled with abuse, according to a recent audit report, with cases of workers claiming over 40 hours of work in a single day.
The audit released by Amtrak’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) Thursday found examples of abuse in the overtime system, which totaled nearly $200 million in overtime pay last year.
"[Calendar Year] CY 2014 timesheet data revealed trends and patterns that indicate potential fraud, waste, and abuse in the reporting of overtime and regular time," the audit said. "Some of these trends and patterns may be justified because of the complexity of union agreement rules, the nature of jobs, and the functions employees perform."
"However, our prior investigative work has shown instances in which employees have fraudulently reported hours not worked," the OIG said. "We believe that these trends and patterns merit further analysis and, if appropriate, action by management."
One such trend was employees claiming the impossible feat of working 48 hours in a single day.
"Employees reported 1,357 days in which they worked more than 24 regular and overtime hours," the OIG said. "Ten employees reported working at least 40 hours in a day."
Of those 10 employees, a serving attendant in the Café Car, who earns an average of $23 an hour, recorded 47.95 hours in one day, 31.01 of which were recoded as overtime.
Numerous employees also claimed to work 20-hour days. There were 1,891 timesheets that recorded a range of 22 to 24 hours in a single day, and 7,145 that listed between 20 and 22 hours in one day.
Another troubling finding that likely indicates abuse of Amtrak’s payroll system was the high number of employees claiming overtime. Some employees reported over 74 hours of overtime on top of a normal 40-hour week. Amtrak’s overtime is paid at either 1.5 or 2 times the hourly rate.
One employee, a locomotive technician, claimed to have worked 130 hours in a single week, with 90 hours of overtime on top of 40 hours of regular time. There are 168 hours in a week.
Another train attendant claimed 110.56 hours of overtime in a single week, and no regular hours.
"Some employees repeatedly reported working overtime but no regular hours, including five employees who reported at least five weeks with overtime but no regular hours," the OIG said.
In addition, there were 2,381 timesheets that reported at least 40 overtime hours in addition to 40 regular hours. Eighty-one percent of total hours worked by Amtrak employees in 2014 included at least some overtime hours.
Another area of concern was the number of employees who claimed to work for more than a month straight without a day off. There were 280 occurrences of employees who said they worked at least 31 consecutive days in a row.
A coach cleaner, who is responsible for cleaning the trains and draining and flushing the waste tanks, claimed to work 108 consecutive days.
The union agreements governing Amtrak and its employees are numerous and complicated, a matter alluded to by the OIG. The complexity arises from train employees belonging to different types of unions. Overall, there are 14 unions with 23 different collective bargaining agreements, each with their own rules for calculating employee time and pay.
There are separate unions for "locomotive engineers, onboard service crew members, maintenance of way crews, coach cleaners, and police department employees," the audit said.
Amtrak’s payroll system itself is complicated. "The company uses six timekeeping systems to process timesheets and calculate wage payments," according to the OIG, as well as 179 "unique timekeeping absence and attendance codes."
Amtrak paid roughly 19,300 employees $1.2 billion in 2014, including $199 million in overtime pay. Labor costs account for 29 percent of Amtrak’s annual expenses.
Amtrak did not respond to a request for comment before this story went to press.
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Nearly $267,000 of Minnesota Taxpayer Money Given to ‘Tonight Show’
Watchdog Exposes $15.3 Billion in Congressional Waste
Feds Pay Millions for Lobster Tail, Booze, Toys in End of Year Spending Binge
Feds Spending $1,489,703 Studying Sleep Habits at Mexico Border
Feds Spend $228,636 to Find Out Why Obese Lesbians Binge Eat
Feds Spend $453,592 Giving Financial Support to Transgender Women
Feds Spend $246,070 Getting Kids to Stop ‘Emotional Eating’ by Meditating
Taxpayers Funded Shrinks Who Deem Masculinity Harmful to Health
Elizabeth Harrington is a senior writer for the Washington Free Beacon. Elizabeth graduated from Temple University. Prior to joining the Free Beacon, she worked as a staff writer for CNSNews.com. Her email address is elizabeth@freebeacon.com. Her Twitter handle is @LizWFB.
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What would you like to see done (if anything) about Mizhena
GrimLefourbe Member Posts: 637
Abuse cases will be covered in the next game!
Beamdog isn't a news website, it's not supposed to cover what happens in the world right? It's not their job. They write games, and here they wrote a game with a character being who she wants to be. It doesn't mean they deny bad practices in real life.
Nya Member Posts: 5
removing the uneeded and unwanted character completely, and also perhaps a mod to remove Amber Scott's infantile worldview from the dialogue , also to respect the character of Safana. you will never be able to undo the mess you created Beamdog.
andres Member Posts: 15
Would be cool to add in some kind of comment about the belt of masculinity/femininity in the dialogue, or even a quest to obtain it. Would be some nice fan service. Absolutely nothing needs to be done though, this should be a non-issue.
FinneousPJ said:
The way this character is presented is stupid, wrong and makes her seem mental.
Which is par for the course compared to the original game. Half the people you encountered seemed outright insane. Some of your companions literally are.
FinneousPJ Member Posts: 6,456
@andres Indeed and do you think that was the intention of the writer?
epicrakshasasII Member Posts: 4
She should start out male and if your charisma is high enough, (and you can choose the smart dialogue options), there should be a quest to get the belt of gender change or a potion of gender change.
Kivan_D Member Posts: 12
"I am not at all interested in this discussion."
I voted for this one. I already read many comments in many topics and i really can't see what all the fuss is about. I can understand why many people are mad with the writer's interview, the Minsc's joke, Beamdog and the way they handled the situation etc but the expansion is a descent addition to the BG Saga imo (i didn't finish SOD yet but i'm enjoying it so far) and that's that! It's a game after all for God's sake!
The key to change the world to the better is to change ourselves, to make actions our thoughts, words and writings...And that's the difficult part of change..so the words, thoughts and writings stay words, thoughts and writings and nothing really changes.......
The bottom line: I believe that people became extremely sensitive on some social subjects, especially the last 15 years and eg. see racism and enemies everywhere but moderation is the best thing (always and forever)
GenderNihilismGirdle Member Posts: 1,353
Make her a joinable NPC! As a trans person who experiences transmisogyny, I agree with a thread I've read and plan to comment on here on the forums to an extent that it seems unrealistic for someone whose relationship with you is essentially "magical service industry" to just blurt it out like that, but I really REALLY appreciate the attempt at inclusion, and think her character is great but needs fleshing out. I think the way to flesh that out is either the quest option (which still feels a bit forced to me, to be honest, unless you can get someone to really nail the writing) but having her become a joinable NPC/companion would actually make the eventual reveal seem that much more realistic. People trust CHARNAME, and they divulge all kinds of deep secrets, traumatic or not! And I'm not even saying her individual trans journey needs to be traumatic, she could have a very positive outlook on it but it's still something where the emphasis is on her identification as a woman rather than on her identification as someone who is trans.
Conversation options where she expresses joy at how you've only ever seen her as a woman after you've known her for a while would be a great intro, or even the name thing if it's something that comes up! Maybe you meet someone while she's joined up with you who deadnames her and gets the cold shoulder? Or maybe they are someone from her childhood who wouldn't know her current name and a discussion happens? Or, if you decide not to make her joinable (and I really think you should!) and give her a quest maybe there could be quest reveal dialogue where she's arguing with someone who knew her from her past and is stubbornly misgendering her with pronouns or name and your quest is somehow tied to this event you witness? I mean the possibilities are endless but I don't think it should just be left as is, while I don't agree with every point my fellow trans poster made in the other thread, I definitely do agree that it feels forced to have her just suddenly out herself as trans when even within the explanation in her dialogue she mentions having experienced transmisogyny/transphobia from her parents as a child. That really hurts, and she'd know it does well enough even just from that one alienating instance of denial of her sense of herself not to go spouting off to customers just because they're "good customers" if even the parents who raised you couldn't handle it.
But if there's a reason for a strong bond to have developed between the two of you, I don't see anything wrong with tweaking the writing so there's a reason for the reveal to occur, and making her a joinable NPC would be more than enough reason for a strong bond to develop! This is my first post, and I felt it needed to be made here so that my vote wasn't just numbers on a poll but instead my voice as a trans person speaking out about this. It means so much to trans gamers to see themselves represented in games, especially for me who has played and loved Black Isle games since the 90s (I'll admit, I like Planescape: Torment, Lionheart and the Fallout series more than the BG series, but I like the BG series more than anything else Black Isle ever put out by far and it still holds a special place in my heart since I first played BG in 1998 and excitedly bought/had my dad buy ToSC, II and SoA one after another so don't mistake my listmaking for aversion to BG...Black Isle just made some KILLER games is all).
To conclude this since it's kinda overlong, I just want to say that an example of really great trans inclusion could've been (and I'm not suggesting you do this at this point, since her character is well defined on her own as is, it's just an example of how to do this thing gracefully) if Schael Corwin had nothing changed about her character except that it was the birth mother who had split, leaving her to be a single trans mom of the child her wife had become pregnant with pre-transition. If nothing else had changed except the character of the missing parent (and possibly the reasons for leaving if you wanted to explore transphobia a bit in the dialogue) and a name conversation similar to Mizhena (but better written/tailored to Schael) then you'd have a fantastic trans character who was written to emphasize that she's a woman, is seen as a woman, and trans people want that! To be seen as a woman rather than a trans woman, to be seen as a man rather than a trans man. It's good for the player to know a character is trans in order to normalize their existence, but it should be more about a reveal after a long time of knowing a character as a woman or as a man than a sudden "oh yeah by the way I'm trans!" early on in the friendship (or even romance if you made a trans character romanceable...like I'd say that's a reveal for after the romance is in full swing).
I'm rolling my eyes over people who think ogres and goblins and fireballs are believable but not depictions of men and women who want to take advantage of pre-existing in-setting magic that can help them become who they feel they are, so I don't really care about the critiques of "but you're inserting modern things!" especially given the incredible pre-colonial diversity of gender expression all over the world throughout world history well predating the era of European history D&D is meant to be an analog to (to say nothing of the countless European examples who were usually violently repressed, which as Ed Greenwood has pointed out in the past with regard to gay and bi people in the Realms, some Earth prejudices never asserted themselves with such violent force in the Realms, and why should they when it's a place for gay and bi gamers to engage their imagination and see themselves represented). I just don't care about those critiques, they come from a place of stubborn ignorance and usually a healthy dose of right-wing politics and I just can't be bothered with it. But I do agree that while doing things ham-fistedly is sort of a Baldur's Gate tradition (Jaheria's old and worn out nagging wife trope schtick, Safana's even older and more worn out self-objectifying misogynist appeal to horny heterosexual men as if that was the only audience for fantasy RPGs, etc, etc) I do definitely think the ham-fistedness needs to change! Which is why I'm a bit confused as to Amber Scott's stated intention to scale back on that stuff leading to ham-fistedness in another direction! Let's cut back on the ham in our diet all around!
Sorry this went on forever, but it's just my take on this whole thing as someone who loves the inclusion but wants to see the inclusion be on the level of the great writing and storytelling that went into Schael Corwin and the rest of The Siege of Dragonspear! I'm going to hold off on writing a review until I've fully completed the game, but I'm going to be one of those voices crying out a non-biased score in a wilderness of petulant gamergatey 0s and 1s. I can tell already it's going to be a good score, because this feels like a fantastic addition to a series I've loved since I was young!
Rawgrim Member Posts: 621
Flesh the character out more. Maybe even make her a joinable NPC. You can never have too many clerics. As she stands now she looks more like a political add than a character. I can easily see a great character in the making here, though.
Aaezil Member Posts: 176
IMO saying that a trans npc isn't legit unless it has a huge interaction and is a joinable npc etc etc is worse than having a minor trans npc that has no big hubub. Shes just another npc and i like that
TStael Member Posts: 861
I honestly do not get the furore, except as a healthy reminder that we seem to need more trans-characters in games since it is a big deal.
Why? Because perceived ill writing of trans character is apparently more mortal a sin than writing some other character ill. I think that has mostly to do that there are so very few other trans-CHARs to relate to. (I can only think of Krem of DA:I myself)
I have perso hetero-normative female immersion, but it has absolutely never, ever stopped me from wishing all other gamers could have the same, because i love it. I've only once dropped a game for game-world ethics, and this was because I thought one character was grossly homophobic. So I would not describe my gaming joy to be very fragile even if I cannot exactly get my preferred immersion.
My inclusiveness of immersion principle would espouse trans- and GG-style-gamers both, of course - at equal footing. I hate people finding excuses to classify "us" and "them" - I try and think "us gamers."
It's bit hard with the GG crowd that tries to limit gaming joy for others on such petty grounds, but I am trying... The ethics of heroic adventuring, or what! :-p
Dreis Member Posts: 34
It really is all about context, and not feeling forced. I have several friends who are Vegan one of which goes out of her way to tell all and sundry that she is Vegan to the point that my other Vegan friends are afraid to mention it. Having characters that are diverse is great in a game but it should never be used to push social agenda, which in the context of the game it has been. It has also been shoehorned in and feels unnecessarily forced. I'm surprised it wasn't flagged earlier in the creative process as a controversial point.
Perhaps an early catch in the process would have toned it down a little but i fear now the situation has exploded and any change would exasperate the situation further.
Durenas Member Posts: 505
It is beyond absurd the attention this one NPC is getting. Get over it, move on.
Nihilus Member Posts: 192
I say give her a quest.
WARNING: I haven't started playing SoD yet.
You encounter Mizhena. She initially has a male sprite. You get a chance to ask her about her name. She tells you about how she is actually a woman trapped in a man's body. You get sympathetic, confused and mocking/cruel dialog options.
You get a quest on Mizhena in your journal. Then at some point, you find Girdle of Femininity/Masculinity (or some other item that has the same function). Now you have three options:
The Good Path: Give her the gender transforming item while expecting nothing in return and let her live happily ever after.
The Neutral Path: Give her the gender transforming item while expecting gold, items and/or some favor in return.
The Evil Path: Trick her into thinking you will give her the gender transforming item and make her give gold, items to you and/or do some favor for you.
Diogenes42 Member Posts: 597
Nihilus said:
Some good thoughts friend. However I think its good to consider that perhaps Mizhena might not want the belt at all. She serves the Lord of Battles after all so maybe the struggle she went through is important to the person she is now and she doesn't want to negate that.
Dee Member Posts: 10,447
This may or may not interest some of you: https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/51161/beamdog-statement-on-siege-of-dragonspear
Mizhena is mentioned. Give it a read.
Mizhena added as a companion in BG2 might be a lot of fun. Her interactions with Edwin after his own transformation would be a goldmine.
Diogenes42 said:
From what I understand, what makes Mizhena jarring for some people is that she seems to have solved all her problems when Charname meets her. So her backstory seems irrelevant and preachy. Imagine a self-made Randian NPC merchant who is talking about how he made his fortune thanks to free trade.
Now I understand that, in real world, there is the idea that oppressed and marginalized people should/would-if-they-could solve their problems instead of waiting for some savior. And I mostly agree with this idea. But in fantasy roleplaying games I believe the player should have the agency.
If Charname had the agency here and had an opportunity to be a gracious hero or a cold mercenary or a manipulating villain when dealing with Mizhena, I feel the controversy surrounding her would have been at least halved.
Rawgrim said:
I'd love to see Mizhena defending Edwina and deflecting the jibes of other companions, actually! It would be a great fork of the Edwina quest if having Mizhena in the party had Edwin come around to the idea of being Edwina until she loved the idea!
doggy Member Posts: 313
With all the other types of people/races/sexualities in the fantasy world of BG I think a transgender is just fine. I would like a quest to have the possibility to help her change gender. If that's really what she wants.
And actually English not being my first language I thought she was in to numerology. That really freaked me out as in what where you thinking beamdog. I relaxed the moment I figured out she was just a transgender.
prem0nition Member Posts: 65
GenderNihilismGirdle said:
Unlikely to happen due to the contract for the BG series means that Beamdog can't make changes to the original content, so Edwina will always want to change back to Edwin, but I agree with with your sentiment. An absolute goldmine of material there.
Silverstar Member Posts: 2,204
prem0nition said:
I'm beginning to wonder about that actually. It makes a lot of sense for sure, and they haven't, until now, done changes to existing content and they've always maintained that statement. However... SoD makes changes to existing characters (Imoen, Viconia, Minsc), expands upon them (Jaheira, Safana) and adds content to them (basically all the companions as well as other prominent NPCs). Maybe the restrictions have been loosened a bit on what they can and cannot do? Maybe the restrictions weren't as harsh as we've been lead to believe in the first place? Or maybe they don't count within the context of a greater new work, which an expansion is.
Personally I'm hoping, seeing as they can at least add more stuff to old content, that we might see some of the unused companions re-appear in BGII. *cough* Branwen *cough*. I like the idea of his whole Edwina/Mizhena interaction thing too. I don't think it's too likely, but certainly seems more possible than it used to.
Halfwise Member Posts: 78
Quest would be nice. NPC *might* be awesome, but that's a whole lot of turf... I worry they might wind up with a new line that causes people to overreact.
1) She shouldn't reveal her nature right away unless you dig for it, or have high CHA or whatnot. Unless, there is a storyline reason why she tells a bunch of strangers.
2) Response should cover a wide gambit, including if you find her odd, or you wish to call out the fact that magic exists that can do just what she wants. Some might even want a cruel option, which would be fair, but then likely cause a backlash from the other end of the spectrum.
3) An explanation or some background as to why she *hasn't* taken a magical option to become female. (Does she not trust magic? Can she not afford it? Is it forbidden by her order? She is content in who she is...etc.)
4) Finally, if she could be convinced to use it, a quest to get the item necessary. She doesn't even need to use it right away. It could be a "JIC" while she considers if that's the path she truly wants.
laeknir Member Posts: 58
I voted for "improve the writing, plus quest" because right now it's not positive for anyone (including real trans people).
In the Realms, LGTBQ certainly exist and there's also much less in the way of sexual puritanism and judgement for differences, though this depends on the region / culture.
That said, blurting out one's sexual identity to a stranger is rather like agenda flag-waving, and this needs to be adjusted.
Also, I hear that you can kill the trans character, despite them being an ally. Not good, IMO.
laeknir said:
That part's definitely a bug.
Mikey205 Member Posts: 302
Integrate her more. Give her a quest with a variety of outcomes. Let players be a jerk if they want to be since after all we can roleplay evil characters.
Roseweave Member Posts: 101
Morbidly curious if 4chan has done rule 43 of her yet.
Ayiekie Member Posts: 975
She doesn't tell anyone about it right away. You need to first ask about her name, then you have to ask why she thought her birth name wasn't suitable. Then you get a short explanation (three lines!). That's it. She doesn't seem ashamed of it, and there's no reason to assume it's especially stigmatised in the FR, so why would it be a big secret?
Her explaining exactly why she doesn't use magical items to change physical gender would strike me as more "Explaining personal things to the PC whom she is merely acquainted with" than the actual reveal is.
I cannot stress enough how absurd I find the complaints of "infodumping" or "blurting out to a stranger", having actually seen the dialogue in question. She responds briefly to specific inquiries. Absolutely nobody would be saying any of this about an NPC who revealed something else personal to a PC that wasn't related to "social justice". Evidence? At least half of the other quest-giving PCs in all three games.
13% just outright want her removed completely. Urgh.
Roseweave said:
Urgh is right. Urgh is an understatement.
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I remember three dreams.
All I remember is that it had to do with a submarine that had bad people in it who did not speak a language that I speak but I and a few people successfully entered it, I also remember thinking it would be nice to only live underwater and that we had food for at least months.
I was going after a man. I found someone who knew where he was in a garage and beat him while screaming at him where he was. There were witnesses who were Brad Pitt and at least a few of his kids but I did not care because I had to find him because a child who he had kidnapped. The man finally talked and I broke both his legs with a bat before going behind the garage to see if there was a working car there. It was a junk yard so only old cars but I saw one sport car that was old but when I opened the driver door I saw that it was dirty but that it could actually still work. So after realising it was still working I was going to go there driving it like it but Brad Pitt and one of his older boys started to clean it for me, I took a wipe and started to get the dust out the seats. The boy found the stereo system and made it work. That's all I recall.
We were in a plane that had people who had to take turn flying it to get their driver's license. Tom Cruise was in it and he realised that Katie Holmes was one of the people waiting for their turn. People were excited to have him there and he started to talk about how flying was very easy to learn that he even helped a eight years old girl get her license at her first try, that was a jab at his ex wife because she had tried and failed so it was at least her second try. Suddendly the plane was going down so he took the control of it, he had a lot of trouble and he had enough control to not crash it (at 1 point we all ended up underwater in a huge pool). I remember us all having landing then I was alone in an hospital and I went on the top where I was calculating how long the roof was and how fast I could run and depending how fast I was going to run at the end of that roof I could fly (i just remembered me flying at 1 point in that dream before that part), people came and thought I wanted to jump and I immediately told them that I was new at the hospital and starting the next morning (it was night) but that I wanted to come and visit to be more comfortable with the surroundings at work. They all believed me and we started talking then I asked what was the length of the roof then after the answer I asked how fast could someone run that length and they or some started to debate that. I remember running it all then jumping and flying. That's all I remember.
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king_dezeeuw06
Apparently all the L1 clubs are voting on a 2.5m wage cap today.
Not heard this mentioned at all considering it directly effects us and with admin effectively running the club they will have the final decision on our vote - if we are even allowed one
I'm all in favour of capping wages in principle but capping L1 at such a low budget without doing anything with the championship and the Prem in tandem just means they are just widening the gap and making it harder for teams to build a side to compete after promotion.
I think the proposal has a good intention but hasn't been thought through well enough. I see this as making a gulf between divisions and making the Championship into Premier League 2 - it makes no allowances for revenue streams or player sales and if you have an ambitious owner willing to spend you cant and the average wage will have to be so low that you have no chance of getting players to drop down a level as their average salary will be something like a tenth of what it was. I think it should be rejected and tweaked to included other factors - the money is killing lower league football but this is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and going to kill the lower leagues in a different way in my opinion.
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Coddenchips
A cap of sorts makes sense, but this is a very low figure. I'm not sure how it works though. I think it was Barry Fry that said it doesn't include under 21's. So does that mean you can have, for example, 5 players above 21 and pay them almost £10k a week each as long as the rest are under 21? Is it just players wages or does it include coaching staff? It all seems very jumbled up to me, but if the EFL are involved that's no surprise.
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Danny_de_Zeeuw16
king_dezeeuw06 said:
Yeah your dead right here it seems to me to be an attempt to water down the lower leagues. It will ensure that big clubs remain in the higher divisions and effectively traps clubs like ours who are bigger than the smallest clubs and not as big as the championship ones. I can see the sunderlands of this world being able to attract the best low league talent and to utilise their academy to get out of this league and then adapt well to going up financially as they have huge income. But teams our size will have to be incredibly mindful of spending if you go up and as you know if you dont spend on a league 1 side it will rarely survive in the championship. I also think it makes it far harder for teams like us to compete against the rest of the lower clubs as were not anymore of a draw than they are cause we cant spend and what your effectively left with is a load of insignifcant clubs struggling in leagues 1 and 2 and the interest of fans will slowly bleed away.
For any club relegated from the championship it will be panic stations trying to balance the books again and it will be a mass exodus reguarly, clubs will lose assets and only give players short term deals as they cant ensure survival, players will do well on occasions and leave for nothing. If clubs do risk it and spend big from league 1 promoted clubs and throw loads of money at it, it doesnt neccesarily guarentee sucess and you will see some drop back down with inflated wages and an unbeleivable mess to fix leading to EFL penalties or worse administrations and liquidations.
Made in Wigan
It isn’t necessarily a bad idea in principle, but I suspect it’s an ill thought out proposal if they are trying to rush it through and impose it now. There is already ffp and it will create an even bigger gulf between the Championship and L1 and L2. As we saw with the curtailment there is already unofficial different treatment between the leagues and effectively will make it extremely difficult for a club to get promoted and then establish itself at a higher level. I’m not entirely sure what the Pfa make of this either. Im guessing most contracts will be a year maybe two at most as no player will want to restrict their earning potential. As a consequence few clubs will then have saleable assets and most will move upwards on frees. As with most financial matters there will be ways around it anyway and it would only work effectively if the Championship had a cap also.
Anything that involves the efl will invariably fail with these incompetent pricks in charge so hopefully clubs will see sense and vote no.
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won1facup
Championship into Premier League 2
If this ends up being how it is, there will be parachute payments for relegated teams from Prem 2, the bottom of the pyramid will start to crumble & do they not relise what will happen at the top if the bottom isnt there?
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FrancosLoveChild
Absolutely no thanks to this, either wage cap all championship league 1 and 2 or none at all, if the wage cap applies it will offer more competition, but the gulf between championship and league 1 would be even worse than it already is
pauadrian
I don't know why people wanted wage caps, I knew this would happen. And even IF they wage capped the championship they will never wage cap the PL. Awful decision, every single day I get more and more sick of this sport. First Mexican League, Wigan's administration and now this?
Apparently the £2.5 million playing budget cap includes the following; tax, National Insurance, medical costs, agents’ fees, appearance, salaries and win bonuses.
It seems to me to me like they're trying to encourage Leagues 1 and 2 to go part time, but without actually saying so.
Coddenchips said:
There will be a lot of disappointed out of contract players. Take Jacobs for example, if he can’t get a championship club then his wage going forward will probably be the lowest it’s been since the very early part of his career when he now should be at his peak and earning the most.
ZAKKY
Well it seems finally footballers will have to come down and live in the real world at last. Still better playing football for a living at £500 a week than stacking shelves at Asda
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NorthernSoul
ZAKKY said:
It's just going to affect the lower league players who earned a decent amount but most nothing too huge, in what is a short career. Meanwhile the Premier League and Championship will still earn a ridiculous amounts and create an even bigger gap.
There needs to be a cap at all levels for this to work. Sign for a League One club for 1k a week and start each week, or sign for a Championship club for 8k a week and not even make the match day squad. There is no incentive for footballers to play, just rot in the reserves of the team you can get the highest wage from.
Players won't want to sign long term deals in League One and Two meaning Championship and Premier League clubs can get promising players for knock down fees.
This is all to benefit the teams at the top.
A complete shambles of a proposal from the EFL, I'm a big fan of the salary cap but the organisation of this is utterly woeful and totally incompetent. The EFL is supposed to be an organisation of 72 teams, considering the speed at which teams jump up and down divisions, having separate votes for each division only and not including 33% of teams in it, is ridiculous.
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moonay
Jimmy Hill has a lot to answer for !
Seriously. It isn't the fault of the players. It's the TV money. Far too much goes to the Premier League, when in reality, they're screwed without the support and filtering of the lower leagues.
Leagues 1 and 2 need to be properly funded by that TV money, in order to make sure the clubs are able to carry on providing the essential service of being the middle of the football pyramid.
The bottom layers of the pyramid - amateur and even semi pro - will carry on as before, run by those who love the game. The top layers - Prem and upper Championship - will also carry on, fed by the manna from Heaven Sky.
The middle however needs a bit of care and attention, otherwise, it's in danger of falling in on itself - particularly in the current climate - and maybe bringing the whole thing crashing down.
For a relegated Prem player to be transferred for 4 times the likely sale value of WAFC is morally reprehensible. It can't continue.
Jimmy Hill fought to life the salary cap for footballers. It was a good move at the time. However, football is now taking the piss.
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moonay said:
It’s a good observation that about the middle ground being in need of care and attention. I just don’t think a cap at the levels proposed, particularly without the Championship being involved, will do that and will just create further problems and inequality.
Made in Wigan said:
Of course a cap won't do anything. It's attacking the problem from the wrong angle. It's (understandably) aiming to make clubs operate within their means, but at the same time, it fails to acknowledge that the gap between the standards will grow into a chasm. ..................... when a little additional income diverted away from the top clubs would make the whole set up stronger.
The last Sky TV deal was about 4.5bn. Let's say if just 5 % of that went to L1 & 2, then each club would get £4.75m .......each. A drop in the ocean for the Prem teams, but more than a lifeline for the L1 & 2 clubs. Obviously, there'd need to be restrictions on how it was spent .............but maybe that's where the EFL should be focusing their regulations. After all, they don't seem able to vet people joining "the club", so instead, lets make sure they follow rules when they're part of it.
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springy-park
If clubs are not allowed to let fans into their grounds to watch their matches,
next season due to covid-19, how can they survive?
As fans will not buy season tickets.
springy-park said:
I suppose there's a chance that they could offer a tv deal, like happened for the last few games ............. but I'm not sure if that works with all L1 & 2 games. Possibly a single camera at each game? ......... £100 gets you to see home and away games?
The EFL will clearly need to do something, as otherwise, they'll have no L1 & L2 to watch over !
It appears the majority of the clubs in the division are in favour of this as they want to kneecap the likes of Sunderland with bigger budgets. But i feel it's very short sighted as this will kneecap everyone moving forward in the long term.
Surely a sensible solution would be a base wage cap (higher than 2.5m) that can be suplemented by a % of revenue and transfer money comig in?
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Here's where a link to the Worriers could help.
They've had years of experience navigating around salary caps - Employing spouses and partners in club admin jobs on large salaries, rent free accommodation, funded cars etc etc etc - all alledgedly of course but sure they could add some real value here 😉🤣
Likes: moonay
Unfortunately the timing of our relegation from the prem on the eve of the mega bucks TV deal looks likely to be repeated relatively speaking by the unfortunate timing of our relegation to league 1 with this further drawbridge likely to be pulled up.
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This Wildfire in California Is Getting Awfully Close to a Rocket Launchpad
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Canyon Fire and the ULA launch facility (Image: Santa Barbara County Fire Department / @EliasonMike)
A 10,000-acre wildfire that began just off a Californian Air Force base continues to spread. And it’s heading closer and closer to the base’s rocket launchpads.
Firefighters have been battling a blaze near Vandenberg Air Force Base—which includes launch facilities that send up rockets for NASA, SpaceX, and United Launch Alliance—since Saturday. The fire has already halted one rocket launch.
An Atlas V carrying a high-resolution imaging satellite, the WorldView-4, was originally set to launch last week. The launch was scrubbed on Sunday as the fire spread, although United Launch Alliance still hoped that they might be able to launch in the next couple days once the blaze had been put down. At the time, the fire was only 500 acres.
As of today, it’s spread to 10,000 acres, and pushed closer to the South base, where the launch facilities are. Parts of the base have also lost power as the fire takes down lines in the areas. United Launch Alliance told Gizmodo that they were pushing the launch off until at least Monday, but that they had no current plans to attempt to move the rocket offsite.
“The launch vehicle and spacecraft are secure in the Mobile Service Tower,” an ULA spokesperson said. “There is currently no plan to relocate the launch vehicle or satellite.”
As a precaution, though, the base has evacuated non-emergency personnel from the launch facilities. Firefighters will keep trying to halt the blaze—which Vandenberg says is now 18 percent contained—from spreading any closer.
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The space industry has my sympathy. Every launch comes with some new disaster they have to deal with.
What is it today? Wildfire? Hurricane? Flooding? Frost spell? has a Facebook probe on it?
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The auto supplier trade organization on Tuesday said it is aware of more than 100 supplier companies “enacting some form of temporary layoffs” of up to 12,000 U.S. salaried and hourly employees.
About 48,000 UAW members have been on strike and picketing outside GM’s U.S. facilities since Sept. 16.
The impacted supplier workers add to the more than 10,000 non-UAW employees with GM to be impacted from the strike in North America and thousands more in the Canadian and Mexican supply chain. Source CNBC
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Apotex denied claim for innovator's profits following PM(NOC) litigation
The ongoing quest by generic pharmaceutical companies for the disgorgement of innovator profits following litigation under the PM(NOC) Regulations (the "Regulations") has hit a potentially fatal roadblock.
In unanimous reasons dated May 5, 2015 the Ontario Court of Appeal (OCA) held that an unjust enrichment claim made by a generic seeking an innovator's profits did not satisfy the Supreme Court of Canada's test for unjust enrichment because there was no deprivation of the generic company that corresponded to an enrichment of the innovator.1 The OCA's reasons apply even in situations where unjust enrichment claim is made outside the Regulations.
This was an appeal by Apotex from a Divisional Court decision to grant Lilly's motion to strike Apotex's claim for unjust enrichment. As a motion to strike, the facts as set out in Apotex's Statement of Claim are assumed to be true. The relevant facts asserted in Apotex's statement of claim were that Apotex was kept off the market by virtue of Lilly commencing a prohibition proceeding under the Regulations (a "prohibition proceeding"), that Apotex suffered a loss and that Lilly made sales during this period, and that Lilly supposedly made misrepresentations in obtaining and in listing the patent at issue on the Patent Register.
Statutory and Jurisprudential Background
Section 8 of the Regulations states that an innovator is liable to a generic for any "loss suffered" if a prohibition proceeding is withdrawn, discontinued, or dismissed by the Court. Notwithstanding this language, generics have argued that they should be entitled to more than their losses suffered after the culmination of prohibition proceedings. All previous decisions on point denied generics the ability to receive any profits made by the innovator that exceeded the generic's statutorily prescribed "loss suffered".
In particular, the Federal Court of Appeal (FCA) denied a claim by Apotex for unjust enrichment, citing a lack of jurisdiction. The FCA's reasoning was that it lacked jurisdiction because Parliament's intention in limiting s. 8 to the "loss suffered" was clearly to exclude claims to the innovator's profits.2 Nöel JA (as he then was) held in obiter that a cause of action made outside the Regulations may provide the FCA with jurisdiction to hear such a claim.
The OCA had also considered arguments for disgorgement made by Apotex in this context. Apotex attempted to argue that the Supreme Court's tripartite test for unjust enrichment was met in these circumstances. The tripartite test requires:
An enrichment of the defendant;
A corresponding deprivation of the plaintiff; and
The absence of any juristic reason for the enrichment.3
In line with Supreme Court jurisprudence,4 The OCA denied Apotex's claim on the basis that the Regulations provided a juristic reason for any enrichment that occurred.5
The Court of Appeal's Decision - Apotex Suffered No Corresponding Deprivation
Apotex attempted to distinguish the present situation from the prior FCA and OCA decisions by arguing that its claim for unjust enrichment was outside the Regulations, and therefore that the Regulations could not be cited as a juristic reason for denying its claim. Apotex argued that the claim was outside the Regulations because it was based on Lilly's (alleged) misrepresentations rather than a withdrawal, discontinuance, or dismissal of a prohibition proceeding.
The OCA found that Apotex's claim did not meet part two of the tripartite unjust enrichment test. In particular, Apotex was not deprived of anything;6 it had the ability to claim its loss. Further, the corresponding deprivation requirement of the unjust enrichment test required a "causal connection" between the Lilly's enrichment and Apotex's loss. This did not exist as Apotex could not show that any excess profits made by Lilly should have accrued to Apotex.7
Apotex argued that the lack of a deprivation was not fatal as disgorgement can be granted remedially to recover the "profits of wrongdoing". One classic case cited was Blake, where the House of Lords ordered disgorgement of the profits of book sales made by a former Soviet double agent even though the British government was not economically "deprived".8
The "profits of wrongdoing" line of cases was distinguished by the OCA. Unlike in those cases, it was found that Apotex was not the sole party with a right to "enforce" or "deter" the underlying wrong. Indeed, Apotex was found to be an inappropriate party to do so, as Lilly owed Apotex no equitable duty and Lilly was not exploiting Apotex to its advantage.9
Whether Apotex's claim would have been rejected in any event because the Regulations constitute a juristic reason was not considered in this appeal.
Gowlings' Patrick Smith and Todd Burke were counsel for Lilly before the OCA. A copy of the OCA's full decision can be found here.
1 Apotex Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Company, 2015 ONCA 305 [Reasons]
2 Apotex Inc. v. Eli Lilly Canada Inc., 2011 FCA 358 at ¶16-23
3 See, for example, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada v. Canada, 2012 SCC 71 at ¶149
4 Garland v. Consumers' Gas Co., 20014 SCC 25 at ¶44-46, 49
5 Apotex Inc. v. Abbott Laboratories Ltd., 2013 ONCA 555, upholding 2013 ONSC 356
6 Reasons at ¶40-42
8 Attorney General v. Blake, [2000] UKHL 45
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Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 3 deals with the aftermath of the Purple Wedding including Tyrion’s imprisonment and upcoming trial, as well as Daenerys plight against the slavers to the East. Here are the most epic, funniest and chilling Game of Thrones Season 4 Episode 3 quotes.
1. “Because he was a drunk and a fool, and I don’t trust drunk fools” – Lord Baelish
Sansa gets rescued from the trauma of King’s Landing by the drunken fool Ser Dontos, only to be thrown back into traumatic situations when she watches Baelish’s men kill the man. She asks Baelish why he killed the man he’d made a deal with, to which Littlefinger replies with this quote, showing the ruthless lengths he’ll reach to protect his interests.
2. “Money buys a man’s silence for a time. A bolt in the heart buys it forever” – Lord Baelish
In the world of Game of Thrones where treason and treachery is abound in every corner, this train of thought that Baelish carries seems to be the norm with people.
3. “You may not have enjoyed watching him die, but you enjoyed it more than you would have enjoyed being married to him, I can promise you that” – Lady Olenna
Margaery is contemplating her situation in the fallout following the purple wedding, and tells her grandmother how horrible it was watching Joffrey clawing at his throat as he died. The wise Lady Olenna tells her that it may not have been pleasant, but it was a much more favorable alternative to being married to the beast.
4. “If I’m standing on it, it’s my land” – The Hound
The Hound and Arya get approached by the farmer who owns the land they’re on. Clegane asks accusedly what he wants, which surprises the farmer a touch, as he tells The Hound he’s in his land. Clegane responds with a difficult answer saying that it’s his land because he’s standing on it. Never one for social interaction, really.
5. “If I do not press my claim, my claim will be forgotten. I will not become a page in someone else’s history book” – Stannis Baratheon
Stannis informs Ser Davos of Joffrey’s death happening just a few episodes after he threw a leach filled with Gendry’s blood into the fire and muttered his name. Davos explains to Stannis that he’s been trying to rally troops to their cause, but their army lacks size. Unhappy with how he can’t move forward, Stannis says this quote which shows the dogged determination many Game of Thrones characters have to make history.
6. “Well, if you’re a famous smuggler you’re not doing it right” – Davos Seaworth
Shireen asks Ser Davos what the difference between pirates and smugglers is, so he explains.
7. “When it comes to war I fight for Dorne, when it comes to love I don’t choose sides” – Oberyn Martell
One of Baelish’s boys asked Oberyn if he likes boys and girls the same. The Dornish prince replies that both sexes delight him, and then ends his speech with this quote showing him to be a very free spirit.
8. “I would like to think, if I were arranging a royal assassination, I’d plan it in such a way that I wouldn’t be standing there gawking like a fool when the king died” – Tyrion Lannister
Pod comes to visit Tyrion in his cell and double checks with the lord that he didn’t murder joffrey. Tyrion reassures him that he didn’t, before revealing this relevant point as he was left quite the obvious culprit after Joffrey’s death. Too obvious, Tyrion says.
9. “Pod, there has never lived a more loyal squire” – Tyrion Lannister
Tyrion bids his farewell to Podrick as he leaves the cell that Tyrion is imprisoned in, and closes with this heartfelt quote that shows how Tyrion values his squires so much more than other lords.
You can view an extensive list of the greatest GoT quotes from Season 3 while you’re here, as well as catching up on the two episodes that built up to this one.
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Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, speaking via video at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing in July.Credit…Pool photo by Graeme Jennings
For more than two decades, internet companies have been shielded from liability for much of what their users post by a once-obscure rule called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Now that shield — and how internet companies moderate content on their sites — is being questioned by lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle.
On Wednesday, the chief executives of Google, Facebook and Twitter will testify before a Senate committee about their moderation practices.
The hearing, held by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, will be a repeat performance before Congress for Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter. But with the Nov. 3 election less than a week away, the executives face additional pressure to manage misinformation without exerting unfair influence on the voting process.
Although the companies are responsible for protecting intellectual property and rooting out violations of federal criminal law, Section 230 shields them from defamation lawsuits and other legal claims that could be costly to fight.
The law, considered one of the bedrock regulations that allowed the commercial internet to flourish, was intended to give tech companies broad discretion over moderation, allowing them to set rules for what users could and could not post on their sites. It was meant as a practical solution that would allow people to express themselves freely online, while keeping companies off the hook for every comment their users made.
Republicans argue the companies — Twitter, in particular — are being heavy-handed in their content moderation and are unfairly silencing conservative voices. Democrats, however, argue the companies aren’t doing enough to keep misinformation and outright lies off their platforms.
In May, President Trump also issued an executive order intended to strip the companies of the legal safe harbor provided by Section 230, though it was not clear what authority the administration would have to make that change.
The hearing begins at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, and the chief executives are expected to take questions remotely from 26 senators. The hearing is expected to last several hours.
Mr. Dorsey is likely to face the toughest questioning because Twitter has been particularly aggressive in its efforts to fact-check and take down posts that misinform users about the pandemic and the presidential election.
Last week, Twitter blocked a link to a New York Post article about Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s son, Hunter Biden, saying that it violated company policies against sharing personal information and content stolen by hackers. After an outcry from conservative leaders, Twitter walked back the decision and allowed the link to be shared.
Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Zuckerberg are scheduled to testify again on Nov. 17 in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that will focus on Twitter and Facebook’s decisions to limit the spread of the New York Post article. Facebook took steps to reduce the spread of the story and said it was eligible for fact-checking, but was not as aggressive as Twitter.
Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, a Republican, has been vocal about a perceived liberal bias inside the tech companies.Credit…Pool photo by Jonathan Newton
If there is one thing Republicans and Democrats can agree on, it’s that the internet giants have become too powerful and need to be restrained. Many lawmakers also agree that the companies should be stripped of a law that shields websites from liability for content created by their users.
But members of the Senate commerce committee will almost certainly make wildly different arguments to drive home their points on Wednesday.
Republicans regularly accuse Facebook, Google and Twitter of censoring conservative viewpoints by labeling, taking down and minimizing the reach of posts by Republican politicians and right-leaning media personalities. They have the support of President Trump, who issued an executive order this summer aimed at stripping the technology companies of their safe harbor under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
Three Republican senators — Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee — will almost certainly accuse the Silicon Valley giants of censorship. The senators have been among the most vocal about a perceived liberal bias inside the tech companies. Some of the hardest questions and finger pointing could be directed at Jack Dorsey, the chief executive of Twitter, for recent decisions to take down and label posts from Mr. Trump.
Don’t expect Democrats to touch the subject of censorship. They will instead focus on a range of issues that point to the problem of power held by the internet giants. Senator Maria Cantwell of Washington, the ranking Democrat on the commerce committee, will call for the companies to help local news outlets, whose business models have been hollowed out by the rise of the internet. Expect Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut to accuse Google and Facebook of monopolistic behavior and to argue for the need for stronger antitrust enforcement. Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Mr. Blumenthal will probably harp on privacy practices.
Another thing to watch for from the Democrats: possible signals of what the party will push forward if Joseph R. Biden Jr. wins the presidential election and the Senate flips to Democratic control.
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Tottenham vs. Manchester City: Time, Channel, Odds & Prediction
By TPG
Updated May 1, 2015 at 3:00pm
Sergio Aguero has a lot on his shoulders with Manchester City dealing with a couple key injuries. (Getty)
After back-to-back home wins, Manchester City have climbed out of the fourth spot in the Premier League standings. However, if they don’t get points out of this match, that may only be temporary. City enter their match with Spurs with four straight defeats away from home. City may have won the last meeting 4-1, but that was ages ago last October.
Tottenham haven’t been playing much better and find themselves battling Liverpool and Southampton for a spot in next season’s Europa League. Spurs have just five points from their last four matches and the last time they played at White Hart Lane, were defeated by Aston Villa.
City may be in a bit of trouble with both Vincent Kompany and Yaya Toure set to miss this match. Both clubs have something to play for, but neither has been in much form as of late. Who will break through on Sunday?
Here’s what you need to know about the match:
Tottenham vs. Manchester City
English Premier League Gameweek 35
Sunday, May 3rd
White Hart Lane, London
11:00 a.m. ET, 5:00 p.m. local
NBCSN(US) / Sky Sports 1 (UK): (International viewers, click here for your local provider)
Tottenham 11/4, Manchester City 21/20, Draw 11/4 (bet365)
Tottenham +.5 (-119), Manchester City -.5 (+104), Draw +274 (5dimes)
Harry Kane and Christian Eriksen must play well for Spurs to get the final UEFA spot. (Getty)
Scouting Tottenham
Record: 17-7-10, 6th (58 points)
Coach: Mauricio Pochettino, 1st season
Goals Per Game: 1.62
Clean Sheets: 11
Leading Goal Scorer: Harry Kane, 20
Assist Leader: Erik Lamela 6, Nacer Chadli 5
Card Leader: Ryan Mason, 7 yellow cards
Scouting Manchester City
Record: 20-7-7, 2nd (67 points)
Coach: Manuel Pellegrini, 2nd season
Leading Goal Scorer: Sergio Aguero, 21
Assist Leader: Jesus Navas, 8
Card Leader: Vincent Kompany, 7 yellow cards
Neither team has shown much as of late. Even with City coming off two straight wins, they were both at the Etihad against lesser competition. Without the strength of Kompany and Toure in the middle, Spurs get the edge at home. Draw is a solid pick, but I’m giving the edge to the home side: Tottenham 2-1.
Published May 1, 2015 at 3:00pm
English Premier League, Soccer
Manchester City and Tottenham are both fighting for position in the Premier League, but for different reasons. Info on Sunday's match at White Hart Lane inside.
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