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Share this Story: American couple pay heavy price in Canada upon failure to self-quarantine
American couple pay heavy price in Canada upon failure to self-quarantine
The Ontario Police hopes that this will serve as a reminder for everyone to take the required measures and the act seriously
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A traveler walks past signage asking international travellers to self-isolate for 14 days in Vancouver International Airport (YVR) Canada Photo by Jennifer Gauthier/Bloomberg
Anyone crossing the border to enter Canada is required to self-quarantine for 14 days, but an American couple learned the hard way what happens when you violate the Quarantine Act.
The residents of the city Excelsior, Minn. arrived in Canada on June 24 through Fort Frances, Ont., and were directed to self-isolate for 14-days once they reached their destination, Thunder Bay, as per Canadian law. However, they failed to follow orders and have now been fined $1000 per person.
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According to the OPP, Canada Border Service Agency workers directed David Sippell, 66, and Anne Sippell, 65, to travel straight to Thunder Bay and remain there until they have completed the 14-day period of self-isolation, Sudbury.com reported.
They were seen making several stops at Fort Frances and have been charged upon failure to follow orders of border control or lack of complying with any conditions to enter Canada as per the Quarantine Act.
In order to ensure public health and safety, the Quarantine Act, which was first introduced in 2005, was invoked earlier this year on March 25. The act states that any international travellers entering Canada are required, by law, to be in quarantine for 14 days. The act exempted truck drivers and health care workers to move between the U.S. and Canada border to ensure that medical assistance and supply are not hampered.
Public Health Minister of Canada, Patty Hajdu announced, “Effective at midnight tonight (March 25), travellers returning to Canada with the exception of essential workers, will be subjected to mandatory 14-day isolation under the Quarantine Act. This new measure will provide clarity for those re-entering the country about the essential need to self-isolate,” Forbes reported.
Canada’s total number of COVID-19 is at 105,536 with 8,687 deaths in total.
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Share this Story: GUNTER: British experiment shows lower speed limits do not improve road safety
GUNTER: British experiment shows lower speed limits do not improve road safety
A community plan to slow traffic in the city core through both lowered speeds and physical changes to roads is headed to city hall Wednesday. Postmedia, file
Over the past decade, hundreds of local governments in the United Kingdom have reduced residential speed limits from 50 km/h to 30 km/h. This was done to improve road safety, cut air pollution and carbon emissions, and encourage more walking and cycling. You know, the same imagined benefits advocates of lower speed limits are promising in Edmonton.
A group calling itself Liveable Edmonton says 40 km/h isn’t slow enough. That won’t get Edmonton to Vision Zero (the city’s fanciful goal of zero injury and fatality accidents).
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Julie Kusiek, a spokesperson for Liveable Edmonton, told reporters after a recent city council committee meeting, “the evidence worldwide shows 30 km/h saves lives.”
Well, frankly, by that logic, wouldn’t the safest speed be 0 km/h? Shouldn’t you be pushing council to force all drivers to remove the wheels and put their cars up on blocks in their front yards?
However, if the worldwide evidence is incontrovertible about the magic of 30 km/h speed limits, then surely the experience in Britain would confirm all these glorious predictions, right? After all, tens of millions of people there now live (and drive) with 30 km/h residential speeds. It is perhaps the world’s largest, living laboratory for the low-limit theory.
Unfortunately for the advocates of lower speeds, the British experiment has hardly changed a thing.
In the most comprehensive study of its kind anywhere, the national Department for Transport concluded last November that “the spread of (30 km/h) zones across the country has failed to make the roads any safer.”
People aren’t driving slower. There are not enough police to enforce the new limits. And the use of bicycles and walking to commute has not increased.
Another study, independent of the government study, has also calculated that, at best, slower-moving vehicles emit just as much carbon, because while slower speeds produce less carbon, they also result in longer commutes that more than make up for any reductions.
Lower residential speed limits are just another social-engineering idea that makes “progressives” feel good about themselves and their caring attitudes, but which in reality achieve almost nothing.
In Britain, half of drivers admit to routinely driving above the 30 km/h limit. And in areas where the limit was 50 km/h before the switch, over 90 per cent say they still drive the old speed.
Average residential driving speeds have fallen by no more than 1 km/h, despite the 20 km/h reduction in the official limit. And as a result, the new lower speed laws have led to no fewer accidents, no fewer serious injuries or deaths.
Also, since the new speed laws have done nothing to improve the English weather, they have also done nothing to encourage more cycle commuting, either.
“Traffic calming” measures, such as the barriers being pushed by Edmonton’s lower-speed advocates, have some impact on lowering limits. But most governments cannot afford all the barriers that would be needed to truly slow traffic. Besides, barriers also slow emergency vehicles and ordinary drivers tend to drive faster between barriers to make up time lost by slowing down for the barriers, which is far more dangerous than barrier-free roads with existing speed limits.
The British study found a “widespread view among the public” that the limits forced motorists to drive unnaturally slowly. (For fans of scientific proof, there is also plenty of evidence that unnaturally low limits are dangerous. The safest speeds are those that recognize the natural speed for which a road was built.)
Not covered in the British study, but equally vital to know, would be the effects of a grindingly slow residential speed limit on transit schedules. And what it would mean to commerce in the city if delivery trucks are forced to drive one-third slower?
But the majority on council seem so obsessed with the myth of speed reduction, I suspect none of this will persuade them.
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The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - FULL Audio Book - The Problems of Philosophy is one of Bertrand Russell's attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy. Now, in Understanding Power, Peter Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. By: This is one of those arguments that one needs to have a philosophical bent in order to consider at all, and yet, there’s something to it.Russell claims that philosophy is a tool to separate our assumptions from our knowledge. Noam Chomsky, Now synthetic a priori knowledge involves coming to a conclusion from a premise that doesn’t include the conclusion. The Problems of Philosophy [Audiobook + Text] - YouTube Bertrand RUSSELL (1872 - 1970) This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. King Charles I of England is "Charles One". But at the core of it, we never experience the thing itself. What is the nature and destiny of the soul? Noam Chomsky, librivoxbooks Finally, "A Free Man's Worship", perhaps the most famous single essay written by Russell, considers whether humans operate from free will. Martin Wilson, The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers, By: Living in the turbulent years after World War I and having been deeply influenced by realists and behaviorists of the early 20th century, Russell attempts to reconcile the paradoxical materialistic view of contemporary psychologists on mind with the anti-materialistic tendency that physicists adopt over matter. Cancel anytime. (Summary from Wikipedia)- SUBSCRIBE to Greatest Audio Books:http://www.youtube.com/GreatestAudioBooks- READ along by clicking (CC) for Transcript Captions!- LISTEN to this entire book for free!Chapter Listing and Length:01 -- Appearance and Reality -- 00:17:50Read by: Leon Mire02 -- The Existence of Matter -- 00:19:54Read by: Accent03 -- The Nature of Matter -- 00:20:00Read by: Accent04 -- Idealism -- 00:16:12Read by: Rich Meyers05 -- Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description -- 00:28:15Read by: Kehinde06 -- On Induction -- 00:16:42Read by: Jim Eastman07 -- On Our Knowledge of General Principles -- 00:16:56Read by: Professor Chronotis08 -- How A Priori Knowledge Is Possible -- 00:16:07Read by: ML Cohen09 -- The World of Universals -- 00:21:04Read by: Chris Masterson10 -- On Our Knowledge of Universals -- 00:19:46Read by: Chris Masterson11 -- On Intuitive Knowledge -- 00:20:53Read by: Robert Scott12 -- Truth and Falsehood -- 00:17:41Read by: Professor Chronotis13 -- Knowledge, Error, and Probable Opinion -- 00:21:48Read by: Chris Masterson14 -- The Limits of Philosophical Knowledge -- 00:21:00Read by: Jacob Miller15 -- The Value of Philosophy -- 00:16:28Read by: Leon MireTotal running time: 4:50:36 This is a Librivox recording. It’s there, and it seems foolish to think otherwise. Written I think in 1912, but still a valuable read. Le livre audio est à vous pour toujours. The Problems of Philosophy reviews the ideas of notable philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Locke, Kant, and Hegel, while keeping to language anyone can grasp. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Another thing that really impresses me about his work is that he takes some of the most intimidating philosophers and not only describes their conclusions artfully and gracefully, but points out the holes in their conclusions so simply that they seem impossible to miss.Take Descartes, for example. How do we know this?” He delves right into the core of this issue by examining the most fundamental aspect of human experience. Please try again. Over the past thirty years, broadly diverse audiences have gathered to attend his sold-out lectures. A Nobel … David Hume, Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself - questions about man’s place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. "The Problems with Philosophy" revolves around the central question that Russell asks in his opening line of Chapter 1 - Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria helps listeners to understand the nature of a post-pandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold. He explores the nature of truth and the difference between probability and certainty. Audioobook.com propose les livres audio les plus chauds, les plus drôles, les plus renversants et les plus excitants de la journée pour le téléchargement et la diffusion en continu. But not only does Russell explain this with crystal clarity, he shows how Kant stopped short, and how he could have taken his understanding further.These are only a few of the points of genius Russell comes to early in the work. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous “monarchs of the mind” as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. We reflexively assume that there is an “I” that receives these things, but at the core of it, what we think of as “I” is continuously changing. Written by a man who changed the history of philosophy himself, this is an account that has never been rivaled since its first publication over 60 years ago. The premise (tall man or red car) contains the conclusion (man or car). Fareed Zakaria, By: Andrew L. Seidel, This 1912 book remains among the most widely-used and well-written introductions to philosophy in English. Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2018. This is a thought-provoking survey of perception, life and everything we normally presume from daily life. One of the founding fathers of modern philosophy. The narration of this book was done completely monotone and few to no pauses between sentences. In a way, this reflects the beauty of philosophy itself. With The Problems of Philosophy, he brings a complicated subject into easy reach. In this book, Russel indicates that to really get into philosophy, it's best to read some specific works (like from Decartes, Spinoza) to get into philosophy. By: Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Then leads us to the (also obvious) notion that all perceptible qualities of any object are not those of its constituent parts. There are other versions of this otherwise fascinating book out there...do yourself a favor and pick one of them. In the form of 10 straightforward “lessons”, covering topics from globalization and threat-preparedness to inequality and technological advancement, Zakaria creates a structure for listeners to begin thinking beyond COVID-19. The Problems with Philosophy revolves around the central question that Russell asks in his opening line of Chapter 1 - Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? Find all the books, read about the author, and more.
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The Burkes Are Racing the Clock to Help Save the Lives of Their Three Daughters With Sanfilippo Syndrome
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WCVB NewsCenter 5 recently published a news item featuring Nancy and Paul Burke and their three daughters. The Burke family has been living in the shadows of the deadly Sanfilippo…
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Sanfilippo Syndrome Treatment Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation
Seelos Therapeutics has recently received the Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for their Sanfilippo syndrome treatment, trehalose. This designation is an incentive for companies to make therapies for conditions with an…
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Company Raises $14 Million Towards Sanfilippo Syndrome and Other Rare Disease Research
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According to a story from Sanfilippo News, the healthcare tech company RDMD has recently announced that it has raised $14 million in Series A financing that will be dedicated towards…
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Free Genetic Testing for Lysosomal Storage Diseases Provided by Invitae, Axovant
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According to Batten Disease News, Invitae and Axovant Gene Therapies partnered up to offer free genetic testing in North America. This will focus on children who are thought to…
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RDMD Gets $14 Million in Financing, Partners with UCB to Research Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
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According to BioSpace, healthcare technology company RDMD has raised $14 million in Series A financing, and developed a partnership with UCB. In addition to growing their platform to discuss…
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Navigating COVID-19: Information for Sanfilippo Syndrome Patients
Post author:Trudy Horsting
By now, everyone has heard of COVID-19. Information is constantly being updated surrounding the nature, symptoms, spread, and potential treatments for the illness. Despite this constant influx of information, there…
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Interim Gene Therapy Trial Data for Two Different Forms of Sanfilippo Syndrome Holds Promise
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According to a story from gurufocus.com, the biopharmaceutical company Abeona Therapeutics, Inc., recently announced the presentation of positive interim findings from two different phase 1/2 clinical trials. These trials were…
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Family is Determined to Make Lasting Memories with Daughter Diagnosed with Sanfilippo Syndrome
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A family is grieving for their daughter and taking it one day at a time in the face of a terminal diagnosis. Kelly and Andrew Mills became pregnant with…
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Will Therapies for Neurological Disorders Bring Forth a New Era for Biotech?
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According to a story from BioBuzz, the innovation of a platform for the delivery of gene therapies could help trigger a golden age of development for this new class of…
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Seelos Therapeutics Proposes New Treatment for Sanfilippo Syndrome
Seelos Therapeutics has won a meeting with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to advance its therapy, trehalose, for the treatment of neuro-degenerative diseases, specifically Sanfilippo syndrome. At this meeting, which…
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Can a Brain Implant Treat Dementia Caused by Sanfilippo Syndrome? A Boy’s Story Offers Hope
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According to a story from metro.co.uk, Harley Bond was three years old when he was first diagnosed with Sanfilippo syndrome type B, a rare progressive genetic disorder. Now five years…
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IND Accepted for an Experimental Sanfilippo Syndrome Treatment
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According to a story from forextv.com, the biopharmaceutical company Seelos Therapeutics, Inc. has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted their Investigational New Drug (IND)…
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Tickets are on Sale Now for Rare Disease Film Festival in Boston
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Are we ready for our close-up? The second annual Selections from DISORDER: The Rare Disease Film Festival at Biotech Week Boston will be held at the Takeda Auditorium in Cambridge,…
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Sanfilippo Syndrome Type B (MPS IIIB) Clinical Trial Continues to Progress
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Abeona Therapeutics, Inc. recently issued an announcement in regards to the company's Phase 1/2 clinical trial, which is testing the company's…
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Experimental Treatment for Sanfilippo Syndrome Type B Gets Fast Track Designation
According to a story from finanznachrichten.de, the biopharmaceutical company Abeona Therapeutics, Inc. recently announced that its experimental medical product ABO-101 has earned Fast Track designation from the US Food and…
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Bioscience Companies in Ohio Take Aim at Rare Diseases
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According to a story from BioPortfolio, Rare Disease Day, which took place on February 28th, 2019, serves as a time of reflection on the progress that has been made in…
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New Collaborative Effort Will Test a Potential Treatment for Sanfilippo Syndrome
According to a story from Market Screener the biotechnology company Bioblast Pharma has announced a new partnership with Team Sanfilippo a nonprofit foundation which is committed to medical research related…
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First Patient Dosed in Sanfilippo Syndrome Clinical Trial
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Lysogene and the drug developer Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc., have recently announced that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase…
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Gene Therapy Progress for Batten Disease and Sanfilippo Syndrome
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REGENXBIO is a biotechnology company that has been developing a technology platform for gene therapy called NAV. AAV9 is one of the vectors being tested with NAV technology as a…
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Licensing Agreement Struck for an Experimental Sanfilippo Syndrome Drug
According to a story from publicnow.com, the drug development company Sarepta Therapeutics recently announced that is has completed negotiations for a licensing agreement with Lysogene, a biopharmaceutical company. This agreement…
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After Reviewing Publications About MPS III, Researchers Say More Studies Need to be Carried Out
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Researchers have carried out a literature review to investigate MPS III. After reviewing forty-six papers, they concluded that more research needs to be carried out. You can find the original study…
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When Your Child is Diagnosed With Sanfilippo Syndrome
According to a story from Newsweek, when 25 year old Rebecca Griffiths first knew that her son Reggie, now aged two, was diagnosed with Sanfilippo syndrome, she had to face…
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An Algorithm That Uses Facial Features to Diagnose Sanfilippo Syndrome Type-B Has Been Developed
Collaboration between the FDNA, the Cure Sanfilippo Foundation, and the Jonah’s Just Begun Foundation has led to technology that successfully recognises the facial phenotype (observable characteristics) of patients with mucopolysaccharidosis…
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A Gene Therapy Being Developed for Sanfilippo Syndrome Has Been Granted RMAT status in the US.
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A gene therapy being developed as a treatment for Sanfilippo syndrome has just been awarded Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) status in the US, reports GlobalGenes. Sanfilippo syndrome is a…
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Micromax Video 3 Smartphone Listed On Official Website
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The Indian smartphone manufacturer Micromax, after the launch of Vdeo 1 and Vdeo 2, is all set to launch its new Vdeo 3 smartphone.
Speaking about the specification of Micromax Vdeo 3, the phone sports a 5-inch FWVGA display and a pixel ratio of 480 x 854. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass as well. Fueling the phone is a 1.3GHz quad-core Spreadtrum processor along with 1GB of RAM. The phone has 8GB of internal memory that can be extended further up to 32GB via MicroSD card.
The Micromax Vdeo 3 runs on Android 6.0. The company will soon roll out the update for the new Android 7.0 Nougat. In the camera section, the phone is integrated with 5MP of rear camera along with LED flash. The phone has a 2MP of front camera.
Speaking of the connectivity, the Micromax Vdeo 3 has dual-SIM function, 4G, Bluetooth, LTE, Wi-Fi, 3G, and GPS. The phone is powered by a 2,000mAh battery.
Well, the price of the phone is expected to be low. The Micromax Vdeo 3 will fall in the low-budget section. Even though the phone lacks some of the features, with such a low price, it is offering Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The expected budget of the new Micromax Vdeo 3 will be in the range of 5K.
Owing to the low price tag, the Micromax Vdeo 3 is ideal for the users in rural areas. The phone also serves as a great option to become the first mobile of a kid. Don’t you think so?
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Junior doctors, even the government concedes, are the backbone of the NHS. They comprise a significant proportion of the workforce of the NHS and already provide medical cover for patients 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. They are a diverse group. At one end of the scale are the newly qualified doctors in their mid 20s straight out of 5 years at medical school. At the other end are the registrars, soon to be consultants, who are approaching middle age with 15 years of specialist training, research experience and numerous postgraduate qualifications. By and large they are not a particularly militant bunch. The last time junior doctors were involved in industrial action was in 1975. At that time hospital doctors were paid a basic salary for a 40 hour week but frequently worked an additional 60 hours a week unpaid. Even under the new contract introduced in 1976 the “overtime “rate for working nights and weekends was a fraction of the basic rate of pay. Junior doctors were said to be the cheapest form of labour in the hospital. And the long hours remained the same – as a junior doctor in the late 80s and early 90s I recall vividly recall the 80 –100 hour weeks, with weekend shifts lasting from Friday morning to Monday evening. It has been an uphill battle to achieve changes in pay for unsocial hours and to modify the culture of long working hours. The changes to be enforced by the government include a reduction in the number of hours paid at a premium unsocial hours rate and loss of the banding system that provides an effective penalty for employers against fatiguing and unsafe working patterns. It is no surprise to me that there is so much opposition to the changes that are now being imposed in such a high handed and uncompromising manner. If the government wants a truly 7-day NHS, it should hire more doctors, not squeeze more out of the existing ones. Given that NHS doctor vacancy rates have increased by 60% in the last 2 years the government should be seeking to encourage talented and motivated young people to enter and remain in the medical profession, rather than alienating an entire generation of junior doctors.
In 2015, Jeremy Hunt said that there were probably about 1,000 “avoidable” deaths in the NHS every month. So there are about 12,000 deaths every year and this figure does not begin to include serious injuries to patients that fall short of being fatal!
There is a clear public interest in maintaining high standards of care in the NHS and accountability for mistakes. There are currently various ways to deal with untoward incidents that are far from perfect. However, even this flawed system looks to be under threat from current proposals by the government to introduce fixed fees for all claims worth up to £250,000.
Ways of investigating injuries and deaths in the NHS include:
Criminal prosecution of clinicians perceived to have failed in their duties to the patient.
My view, for what it’s worth, is that this approach inhibits openness and produces a culture of covering up mistakes. It is generally unhelpful and I think it should be avoided in the absence ofevidence suggesting malicious intent
Adopt the approach used in the airline industry. This means that openness and discussion are mandated and the aim is to put measures in place to minimise the chances of the mistake happening again
In my view this is the most constructive approach and would be the best system to strive for within the NHS.
Full investigation via the current civil court system. This is a critically important safeguard underpinning the interests of patients. It allows investigation into incidents to be undertaken by independent judges. Investigations in the civil courts are rigorous and can shine a light into cases where healthcare is of dubious quality to find out what went wrong and enable lessons to be learnt. Indeed there is a track record of such investigations uncovering abuse and incompetence where it has occurred.
However this is about to change.
The use of the civil courts to investigate incidents within the NHS will be effectively prevented in the majority of cases by the government’s plan to introduce a “fixed costs” regime for clinical negligence cases worth up to £250,000 from October 2016. Under this, further costs are barred once an arbitrary fixed limit is reached.
The proposed limit of £250,000 will cover most injuries and deaths involving children, the elderly and disabled. Only the wealthy and those with maximum severity injury such as total paralysis and brain damage would be likely to fall outside this limit.
Only this week, Chris Ham, chief executive of the King’s Fund think tank, is quoted as saying that recent NHS Guidance “brings to an abrupt end the post Mid Staffs era when leaders of the NHS organisations saw failure to ensure safe levels of staffing as more serious than failure to balance budgets. Financial control is king”.
So it is more important than ever that the civil courts should continue to exercise a central role in safeguarding the interests of the vulnerable in our society and this must not be taken away by the proposed government reforms.
Accountability for mistakes and the government proposals for fixed costs for civil claims.
I read about the collapse of the criminal case against a NHS Trust involving the tragic death of teacher Frances Cappuccini last week with great sadness for her partner and family.
However there is another aspect to consider, namely whether criminal prosecution is the best way to hold doctors and hospitals to account. Is it in the public interest to have doctors and the medical profession living in fear of criminal prosecution? Will this encourage open consideration of mistakes and an opportunity to learn from them? I think not.
Jeremy Hunt said in 2015 that there were probably about 1,000 “avoidable” deaths in the NHS every month. That is about 12,000 deaths every year and does not even begin to include serious injuries to patients that fall short of being fatal!
There is a clear public interest in maintaining high standards of care in the NHS and accountability for mistakes but does criminal prosecution inhibit or encourage openness about mistakes? The airline industry has a much more constructive approach to mistakes when they happen – open discussion is mandated and the opportunity is taken to learn from what happened with a view to preventing similar incidents in the future.
It seems to me that criminal prosecution in medical cases is usually inappropriate except in really exceptional cases. Instead, the NHS should adopt a similar system to the airline industry and also encourage accountability and regulation of standards by the availability of proper investigation of claims through the civil court system.
Unfortunately, proper investigation via the current civil court system into the deaths and injuries of children, elderly and disabled people will be effectively prevented by the government’s plan to introduce a “fixed costs” regime for clinical negligence cases worth up to £250,000 from October 2016. Under this, further costs are barred once a fixed limit is reached.
So the future seems to be that mistakes will continue to happen and accountability to injured patents and bereaved families will be seriously damaged.
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Review: Stabilo Sensor, Porous Point, 0.3mm
by Andrew March 29, 2019 March 29, 2019
Stabilo is an old company that has been working with porous point writing tech as far back as the 1970s (when the Stabilo Boss highlighter sales began to boom). So, with decades of design and manufacturing experience under its belt, Stabilo should have the resources to create a great porous point pen. And, as a fan of porous points, I was eager to try the popular Stabilo Sensor.
The main feature of this pen is its “sensor” tip, which retracts in slightly when pressed on paper. It sounds like an intrusive feature, but it’s hardly noticeable unless you write with a very heavy hand. The product’s webpage mentions that this feature is meant to improve smoothness and comfort, but I suspect that it has more to do with extending the pen’s life.
With porous point pens, the tip is usually the first part to break down. The Sensor adds a little ‘give’ whenever too much pressure is placed on it. As far as I can tell, this feature works as intended, but it comes with a couple drawbacks. First, it’s two to three times more expensive than a cheaper option like the Monami Plus Pen 3000. It also seems to me that the Sensor doesn’t put down a line that’s quite as clean as something like The Sharpie Pen.
For me, this pen isn’t a favorite, but it’s definitely a good choice. It writes well, and it has a dark ink with minimal smear and bleed-through. It has a nice barrel design as well – both aesthetically and functionally. It has a thicker body and longer clip than most other porous points (which, for whatever reason, tend to be thin with small clips). But for anyone with a heavy hand who likes the look and feel of a porous point, the Sensor is definitely worth a try.
Here’s a review from The Unroyal Warrant written a few years ago. It shows off an older barrel design for the Sensor. It’s also mentioned that the ink in this pen, unlike the similar Sakura Pigma Micron, isn’t archival. Definitely worth noting!
Here is a timeline for the Stabilo company. I just though this was interesting. It started as a pencil company in the late 1800s.
Here’s a review from Office Supply Geek if you’re interested in the version with blue ink. And here’s another one over at The Pen Addict that shows off even more colors.
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Review: Staedtler Triplus Fineliner, Porous Point, 0.3mm
by Andrew November 27, 2015 December 1, 2015
The Staedtler Triplus Fineliner is a porous point pen, similar to the Sharpie Pen or the Monami Plus Pen 3000, but the most interesting thing about the Triuplus Fineliner is its shape. Instead of a standard round barrel, the body is more of a rounded-off triangle. According to Staedtler’s website, this shape is meant for “relaxed and easy writing,” which I’m not so sure about, but it definitely prevents the pen from rolling off my desk.
As with most porous-point pens, the Triplus Fineliner produces those consistent and clean lines that make all handwriting look a little neater. Compared to the Sharpie Pen, one of my top five pens, the ink appears a tiny bit darker and smears a tiny bit less, but those differences are trivial. The big difference comes down to the barrel: which one is more comfortable?
I still prefer the slightly wider barrel of the Sharpie Pen, which I personally find a lot more comfortable to grip. However, I can see how the Triplus Fineliner might be a better fit for others. So if you’re a fan of the Sharpie Pen, it might be worth testing out the Triplus Fineliner to see if it’s right for you.
Steven Combs has a great comparison of Sharpie Pens and Staedtler Triplus Fineliners. He shows that the Triplus Fineliners bleed very slightly, but not enough to be problematic. He also doesn’t like the thin barrel of the Triplus Fineliners.
Review at Pen Addict. Apparently, you can leave then pen uncapped for days without it drying out.
Review at Journaling Arts. She didn’t like the barrel either, particularly the soft-angled edges.
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Review: Pentel Energel Deluxe RTX, Gel Ink, 0.3mm
by Andrew November 11, 2015 November 11, 2015
I’ve always liked Pentel Energel pens. In fact, red-ink Energels are my go-to red pen at work for their sturdy clip, minimal smear, and comfortable grip. However, this is the first time I’ve used the extra-fine 0.3mm Deluxe RTX version, and I’m happy to say that my high regards for the Energel have not been let down.
For most people, the Pilot G-2 0.38mm is the gateway to extra-fine-tipped pens, and, while it’s a decent pen, a lot of people are turned off by its scratchiness (or the feeling like the tip of the pen is literally going to tear through the paper). The Energel Deluxe RTX, with its smoother writing experience, does a much better job of avoiding this problem. And it’s a good pen overall, really: it doesn’t bleed, doesn’t skip, and draws consistent lines.
This Energel even beats out my previous favorite extra-fine-point pen, the 0.28mm uni-ball Signo RT1. While I love the stealth design of the Signo RT1, the Energel Deluxe RTX edges it out in terms of smoothness and richness of ink, and it has a much more durable design overall. So, if you’re looking for a good extra-fine tipped pen, the 0.3mm Energel Deluxe RTX is definitely the way to go.
That One Pen has a good comparison review of a bunch of different Energel pens and refills. Side note: the Energel refill is compatible with the Signo RT1 pen barrel. So if you’re a fan of the RT1 barrel design, like I am, you can get the best of both worlds by swapping the refill.
Review at Mightier Than the Sword blog. He shows off 3-other colors, and he also says its a good pen for left-handers.
Pen Reviews Today has a video review if you want to see the Energel Deluxe RTX in action
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Review: uni-ball Signo 307, Gel Ink, 0.7mm
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OnceDelivered.net
Helping Christians "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints" (Jude 3).
Why hell is forever
The doctrine of hell is disturbing. The very idea of suffering and separation beyond the grave elicits a wide range of responses, from anguish to anger.
The possibility of departed loved ones languishing in outer darkness only adds to the grief of those laying flowers on their graves.
Some atheists cite hell as a reason to deny the existence of a loving God.
What’s more, Anglican cleric John Stott, who wrote the influential book Basic Christianity, found the idea of eternal suffering in hell so repugnant that he rejected it in favor of annihilationism.
According to a 2014 survey by LifeWay Research, fewer Mainline Protestants believe in hell than do Americans in general (55 percent vs. 61 percent, respectively).
And for many evangelicals, hell remains an inconvenient truth.
Forever, really?
Ok, some Christians say. But maybe hell is not forever. How could the sins of a single lifetime warrant everlasting punishment? Is that really fair?
Maybe, they’ll argue, the wicked are annihilated at death. As for the really vile sinner — a mass murderer, rapist, or child molester — perhaps his punishment is to suffer for a while in hell before passing into non-existence.
Or, maybe our loving and long-suffering God ultimately welcomes everyone into heaven after an appropriate time served in hell.
But there are good reasons to believe hell is forever.
For starters, the testimony of Jesus. Of the 12 uses of the word Gehenna in the New Testament, 11 come from the lips of the Messiah.
He tells us that hell was created for the Devil and his angels (Matt. 25:41). Since angels do not die, fallen angels must experience a never-ending torment in the lake of fire. Indeed, this is what John notes of Satan in Rev. 20:10.
As for humans, the beast and the false prophet of Revelation appear to be the first such creatures cast into hell (Rev. 19.20). Satan joins them later – perhaps after 1,000 years – and they are still very much alive.
Further, Jesus depicts the wicked as going into “eternal punishment” and the righteous into “eternal life” (Matt. 25:46). The same Greek word (aionion) is used to describe the never-ending existence of the wicked as for the follower of Jesus.
Proportion and punishment
There are additional considerations, as noted by Gregory Koukl in The Story of Reality.
First, the ones who are guilty are not in the best position to assess the gravity of their own crimes. “Virtually every person in prison considers himself unfairly penalized,” notes Koukl. “It should not be surprising when we feel the same way with our own crimes against God.”
Second, the proper punishment for an offense is never proportionate to the amount of time it took to commit it. A petty thief may have skimmed dollar bills from the cash register at his place of employment for 20 years, while a murderer can end another’s life in the blink of an eye. Yet which crime is more likely to receive a sentence of life in prison, or even the death penalty?
In a similar way, the punishment for our sins should not be based on whether we rebelled against God for 60 minutes or 60 years.
Finally, the severity of a wrong is not determined solely by the act itself, but also by the one against whom the wrong was committed. If you crush a cockroach under your heel, you’ll clean your shoe and move on with your life. If you microwave a cat, you could go to jail or pay a stiff fine. If you murder a child, you’re likely never to see the outside of a jail cell again.
Wasn’t each creature alive and innocent? Why the difference in punishment?
Because human life is intrinsically more valuable than the life of a cockroach, or a cat.
So, think about it: How could you possibly repay the sin debt owed to an eternally existing and perfectly holy God? It would take an eternity.
However, if someone who is both eternal and perfect could take your place and endure your punishment, your debt to God would be paid and His justice would be served. Isn’t that what Jesus accomplished through His sinless life, death, burial, and resurrection?
That’s why the apostle Paul could write, “He made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21).
Hell is forever. But because of Jesus, no one has to go there.
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Global Features In Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Charged-particle multiplicity and pseudorapidity distributions measured with the PHOBOS detector in Au+Au, Cu+Cu, d+Au, and p+p collisions at ultrarelativistic energies
Physical Review C February 2011. 2011PhRvC..83b4913A.
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The Moral Inversions of the Obama Doctrine
By Ed Driscoll Jun 23, 2011 7:58 AM ET
As Victor Davis Hanson writes, “In Obama’s progressive calculus, disdain for the United States is a mark of authenticity:”
In the Obama way of thinking, adversaries can claim an indigenous authenticity by the degree to which they share the progressive suspicion of the United States. What an Ahmadinejad or Assad shouts about America is simply a crude and bombastic version of what is too often taught in university ethnic-studies or political-science classes. That is why the unhinged Dr. Zawahiri or Osama bin Laden loved to quote back at us everyone from a like-minded Noam Chomsky to a befuddled Jimmy Carter.
We did not “meddle” in Iran, because we were convinced that America was still culpable — a half-century later — for the Mossadegh mess. To support spontaneous democratic demonstrations of brave reformers might carry the smell of neoconservative democratic advocacy. And the protesters, nearly one million strong in the streets of Teheran, in turn were deemed less genuine by the very fact that they found something akin to our own system preferable to their home-grown theocratic nightmare.
The Arab League’s resolutions on Libya are honored while the U.S. Congress is not even consulted. The unelected members of the former are true representatives of the region, and their wisdom is thus legitimate; the elected representatives of the latter would only be guided by their Western prejudices and thus are suspect. Given the history of Yanquis in Latin America, we must consider extenuating circumstances that “locate” the oppression of a Castro, Chavez, or Ortega — while wondering why in the world a Chile, Colombia, or Honduras has at times emulated the United States. Questions of whether a Chilean is freer and more prosperous and has more legal protections than a Cuban or a Venezuelan are simply not part of the diplomatic equation.
Of course, there are ancillary motives for this bizarre foreign policy in addition to progressive suspicion of U.S. institutions and past behavior. The therapeutic notion of being liked is surely a driving force, inasmuch as the tragic notion of being respected or honored is seen as a 19th-century ossified concept with no relevance in a multilateral, multicultural global landscape. Unease with Europe and its Western heritage is an outgrowth of academic hectoring about its imperial and colonial past: A Nigerian is poorer than a Frenchman not because of an absence of transparent lawful government and property rights — both possible with sound indigenous leadership — but because of past and ongoing oppression by white interlopers.
Where does this new reset diplomacy lead?
Only to irony.
Because we cannot reassure our allies that we will meet our obligations, we will be less, not more liked for our deference and indecision. Leading from behind in Libya will not impress either our enemies or our friends in the Middle East. And if such lethargy was intended to embarrass Europe for its past nitpicking and present impotence, that message of Schadenfreude was sufficiently delivered on about day one of the Libyan bombing. Tilting toward Palestine at the expense of Israel will only remind radical Islamists that we are more afraid of their extremism than we are proud of our own tolerance.
In other words, what is forgotten in all these new ways of thinking about the world — which ultimately derive from half-century-old dogma about power, oppression, and the role of race, class, and gender in constructing norms — is that human nature is unchanging and trumps culture, race, and politics.
Ahh, but if Barack and Michelle believe even half of the rhetoric programmed into their teleprompters during the campaign, they believe that it’s infinitely malleable.
Related: VDH on America’s brave new policy of “Muscular Isolationism.”
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JUSTROM progress in improving Roma women’s lives
30 JUNE 2020 BULGARIA, GREECE, ITALY, ROMANIA
The programme, defined to evolve around 3 interconnected pillars, has been very active in promoting and taking steps to empower Roma women. So far, 59 different events took place until June 2020, from Awareness Raising Gatherings, to Info Days and Mentoring Sessions with Roma women. A total...
Webinar on the Increase of Hate Crimes and Domestic Violence against Roma minority during COVID-19
17 June 2020 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
On 17 June 2020, Veliko Tarnovo District Administration hosted a meeting organised jointly by JUSTROM3 Bulgaria and Amalipe Center in connection with the increasing cases of domestic violence and hate crimes during the state of emergency. Representatives of the District Courts in Veliko Tarnovo...
Webinar on Non-discrimination and Responsible Journalism with the Ecological University of Bucharest
10 June 2020 Online, Bucharest, Romania
On 10 June 2020, JUSTROM3 Romania and the Ecological University of Bucharest, delivered a second webinar as a follow-up to the first online course and debate that took place on 7 May 2020, on the topic of 'Non-discrimination and Responsible Journalism'. Based on the positive feedback received...
Collaboration between academia and JUSTROM was enhanced during COVID-19 pandemic
April-May 2020 Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania
The aim of the collaboration between JUSTROM and universities is to develop training opportunities and to enhance access to training on topics such as anti-discrimination, gender equality, Roma issues and ECHR standards and case laws. Online courses are one of the flexible solutions while the...
7 May 2020 Online, Bucharest, Romania
On 7 May 2020, JUSTROM3 Romania consultants, in collaboration with the Ecological University of Bucharest, delivered a webinar, an online course and debate, on the “Representation of the Roma community in the media/online during the state of emergency in Romania”. The webinar targeted students...
Online mentoring session with Roma Women in Bulgaria
24 April 2020 Plovdiv and Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
On 24 April 2020, an online meeting was held with women meant to become Roma Women Community Leaders and to contribute to the empowerment of additional Roma Women in their communities. The meeting was organised by JUSTROM3 consultants in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria: Mr Valeri Angelov, Ms Eleonora...
24 April 2020 BULGARIA, GREECE, ITALY, ROMANIA
The Coronavirus crisis has led all consultants to focus on health issues, taking into account the particular issues Roma communities are facing during this critical period, the additional disadvantages and discrimination they face and urging the local and national authorities to provide public...
Public awareness regarding Roma issues during COVID-19 pandemic on radio programme and newspaper in Greece
12-18 April 2020 Athens, Greece
On Sunday 12 April 2020, the national coordinator of JUSTROM Greece, Mr Christos Iliadis, together with the legal consultant, Ms Alexandra Karagianni, participated in a radio programme run by the Hellenic League of Human Rights, the oldest and most prestigious human rights organisation in Greece,...
Online university lectures delivered by JUSTROM Italy consultants
15 April 2020 Rome, Italy
JUSTROM consultants are active in promoting the International and European standards on different matters concerning respect for human rights, non-discrimination and Roma issues. Online lectures at universities are one type of solution that came out of the current pandemic and that proved to be...
International Roma Day 8 April 2020
8 April 2020 Strasbourg, France
Dear Roma from all over the world, Today we celebrate International Roma day and despite the crisis the world is facing, we need to be stronger, more united and more resilient than ever. Roma have their International Day to celebrate their history and culture but also to remind the world of the...
COVID-19 Outbreak - JUSTROM3 continues to assist Roma women
5 April, 2020 Bucharest, Romania
During this critical period, JUSTROM3 programme is pursuing its activities and the 40 consultants engaged in the framework of the programme continue their work with full commitment, re-shaping some activities in line with the overall purpose of JUSTROM3 and with a focus on access to health:...
Induction Course
10-14 February 2020 Strasbourg, France
The first major event of the EU/CoE Joint Programme JUSTROM3, an Induction Course for JUSTROM3 consultants, took place on 10-14 February 2020 at the European Youth Centre in Strasbourg, France. All consultants contracted for the programme met and exchanged ideas on the implementation of the...
Awareness raising gathering in Strazhitsa Municipality
5 February 2020 Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
On 5 February 2020, an Awareness Raising Gathering with a focus on the overview of JUSTROM3 programme was held in the social care building and the Mayor of the Municipality Rumen Pavlov participated in the meeting. Ms Teodora Krumova, Mr Ventsislav Foti and the JUSTROM3 Bulgaria facilitators...
Call for tenders for the provision of Consultancy Services on Access to Justice for Roma Women in Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and Romania
9 October 2019 Strasbourg, France
Within the framework of the Joint EU/CoE programme JUSTROM3 “Roma Women’s Access to Justice”, the Council of Europe has launched a Call for Tenders for the provision of consultancy services on Access to Justice for Roma Women in the four countries of implementation, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy and...
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The Plaid Press
November 24Elementary Schools begin distance learning November 30th
November 11The Tartan Plaid Press 2020 edition!!
November 5Tartan High School to remain in Distance Learning throughout December
Live slow, die old
A contribution from ace reporter and 2020 Tartan graduate, Ozzy Schowalter.
Ozzy Schowalter
Recently, I’ve stumbled across a genre of music that can only be described as an oxymoron: straight edge punk. Straight edge is a subculture within the punk and hardcore community that is strongly against any form of drug use. It may be hard to believe that the most rebellious genre of music is home to an extremely strong willed group of non drug users, but it is a very real and prevalent community, and it’s because of the live fast die young attitude of most punks that the movement was born.
Basically, punk culture was becoming more about being self destructive than liking the bands and that got old quick. In 1984, Minor Threat released the track “Straight Edge,” which gave a name to the already budding movement and introduced more people to the idea. People started drawing or even tattooing X’s on their hands, like the ones minors get at shows, to represent their sobriety, and the movement was officially born.
In 1986, Youth of Today released the album “Break Down the Walls,” which expanded the straight edge philosophy. While other hardcore bands spent their time complaining about how society, school, and their parents are to blame for all their problems, Youth of Today focused more on what we can do to better ourselves with songs like “Make a Change,” “Time to Forgive,” and “Positive Outlook.”
But if you thought it couldn’t get more ridiculous than shirtless dudes screaming about positive mental attitudes and being drug free then boy are you wrong. Bands like Earth Crisis took straight edge and youth crew values and added veganism to it. Yes, there are albums out there that have people screaming about being a sober, peaceful, optimistic, vegan.
The straight edge community is a valiant one. True till death is their slogan and while true till death can be true till 21, it’s more rare than you’d think for the edge to go dull. Unfortunately, every group has the people that take it too far, and straight edge is no exception, there can be some extremely judgemental or even violent people in the scene, but that doesn’t reflect the true values of straight edge and most of the community completely disregard them.
All in all, being straight edge can make you feel out of step with the world, so even if it is a little comical, having a community of punks that were a little too into D.A.R.E as a kid is a true blessing. If self help books are a little too boring for you I’d highly recommend checking out straight edge, nothing gets you more into positive living than Ray Cappo yelling in your ear about it.
2 Responses to “Live slow, die old”
Ryann Dear on December 4th, 2020 2:20 pm
As someone who has been straight edge for almost twenty years, it’s great to see this powerful subculture getting some light in the Plaid Press. Thanks for writing, Ozzy!
Damaris Zamora on December 9th, 2020 10:32 am
Wow, this honestly seems like a great genre, I have never been into “straight edge punk” or any type of punk for that matter, but this seems like an interesting concept of a subgenre. Now I’m going to probably go on a rabbit hole of punk music.
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Grocery Delivery in Patchogue and Medford
July 3, 2019 By Wendy Ambrozewicz
Curious about grocery delivery? You’re not alone. According to Business Insider¹, the U.S. online grocery industry has grown from $12 billion in 2016 to $26 billion in 2018. Read on for tips, tricks, and a breakdown of local grocery delivery services.
“Turn the Page” Exhibition now on view in Claire Davidson Siegel Gallery
July 1, 2019 By Jay Schuck
The Library is proud to present Turn the Page, a solo exhibit featuring the artwork of Children’s Librarian Elaine Perez. The exhibit is on view in the Claire Davidson Siegel Gallery and features black-and-white photos of library programs and community events. Each picture celebrates the Patchogue-Medford community and speaks to the inclusive nature of the diverse programs and events that brings our neighborhood together.
Images from Patchogue’s 125th Anniversary on View through September
September 20, 2018 By Jay Schuck
If you missed the festivities of last Saturday’s celebration of the 125th Anniversary of the Patchogue Village’s incorporation, we have a treat for you! Now through the end of September, we will exhibit selections from Patchogue Historian Hans Henke’s 100 linear feet historical display downstairs in the Clare Davidson Siegel Gallery.
Patchogue’s Main Street, with images from 1900s – 1980s
The exhibit, compiled by Henke and Village Trustee Sue Brinkman, consists of copies of historical photographs and archival documents that span Patchogue’s illustrious history. You will be able to track the ever-changing face of Main Street through Henke’s photos, each captioned with its decade and geographical location. It is fun to see how the village has changed over the years and how certain locations have remained untouched by time. Other panels on view allow you to reflect on other interesting facets of the Patchogue Village including the Lace Mill, various Parades, Historic Hotels, and more.
Pictures of Patchogue’s many parades from over the years
Also on view, in the display case is a selection of objects and artifacts presented by the Patchogue Historical Society. An abundance of archival documents and historic objects fill the case, acting as a nice compliment to the pictures on the wall.
Images of the Lace Mill, now the site of the new Blue Point Brewery complex
Interested in taking some history home? We have several of Henke’s book available for loan. Click here to see the availability of Patchogue: The Early Years and for Patchogue in the Twentieth Century.
The historical images of the Patchogue Village, compiled by Hans Henke and Sue Brinkman, as well as the Patchogue Historical Society exhibition will be on view in the Clare Davidson Siegel Gallery now through September 30.
Images of Patchogue Now on Display In Claire Davidson Siegel Gallery
August 8, 2018 By Jay Schuck
Now on view in the Claire Davidson Siegel Gallery is Patchogue: A Ten Year Retrospective, a solo exhibit featuring the artwork of Krystle DiNicola. The selection of photos on display portray the Village over the course of the last 10 years, capturing its revitalization.
One of Krystle DiNicola’s works that is currently on view.
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Republican PR Firm Ends Controversial Contract With EPA
Definers says it will no longer pursue other federal contracts.
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The Republican PR firm that was awarded a $120,000 EPA contract for media monitoring has pulled out of the deal, days after Mother Jones first revealed the controversial arrangement. The no-bid contract drew widespread scrutiny in recent days, in part because the for-profit firm, called Definers, is overtly partisan and is connected to a network of GOP political groups, including America Rising and America Rising Squared, that have performed opposition-style research on environmentalists. Definers itself specializes in opposition research and what it calls “war room”-style media monitoring.
“Definers offered EPA a better and more efficient news clipping service that would give EPA’s employees real-time news at a lower cost than what previous administrations paid for more antiquated clipping services,” Definers president Joe Pounder said in a statement on Tuesday. “But it’s become clear this will become a distraction. As a result, Definers and the EPA have decided to forgo the contract. We look forward to continuing to provide our cutting-edge Console war room products to our corporate clients but will no longer work with federal government clients.”
Four other government agencies had expressed interest in having @definersdc bid for media monitoring services. We have decided to forgo that.
— Joe Pounder (@PounderFile) December 19, 2017
Mother Jones first reported on Definers’ EPA contract on Friday. Later that day, the New York Times reported that an employee at the firm had filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records from EPA staffers who had been critical of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. The controversy continued to grow over the weekend. On Tuesday, two Democratic senators, Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) and Kamala Harris (Calif.), called for the contract to be canceled. The senators quickly got their wish.
Senators Want EPA to “Immediately” Cancel Contract With Republican Research Firm
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The EPA Hired a Major Republican Opposition Research Firm to Track Press Activity
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How to Watch Hulu in Norway - Hulu Norge
Looking to watch Hulu in Norway? Hulu Norge is not a thing just as Hulu is not a thing outside of the US as it is. Japan is the only other nation that has its own Hulu platform. And even though Disney now owns it and some news sites tried to create drama, Hulu Norge is not going to happen any time soon.
...Which is where this guide comes in.
What’s Needed to Watch Hulu in Norway - Hulu Norge
For Hulu Norge to work in Norway, Hulu needs to think that you are in the US, and you need to have an account that requires you to go past Hulu’s card geo-block.
Why does Hulu not just make it easy for you to watch Hulu Norge?
As it can’t.
Hulu doesn’t have the rights to show most of its content, meaning that because it can’t show it outside of the US, that it needs to make efforts to prevent others from watching.
Making Hulu Think You Are in the US
How do you make Hulu think you are in the US?
By being there...virtually.
For that, you will need a VPN.
VPN services allow you to virtually change your location in the space of 2-clicks.
However, when it comes to streaming services, it’s not quite as simple.
As streaming services are aware of VPN services and do make efforts against them, which results in most VPN services not working with Hulu.
And that’s where PrivateVPN comes in as a service with a focus on entertainment, meaning it comes with fewer servers, but instead servers that are able to unblock platforms like Hulu.
Of course, PrivateVPN comes with a 7-day trial with no need for a card. Just put in your email and password of choice, download the app, and connect to a US Hulu server.
...When you’ve done that, you will now need to get an account.
How to Create a Hulu Account in Norway
By far, the easiest way to create a Hulu account in Norway is actually by doing it on your phone.
That’s because if you go to Hulu’s website, you will have to deal with the payment card geo-block.
...Meanwhile, on your phone, you are dealing with both Apples/Googles payment system that doesn’t have such measures in place.
Creating a Hulu Norge Account on Apple Devices
Sign out of your iCloud account, followed by creating a new one based in the US.
Download Hulu
While connected to a US PrivateVPN server, sign up for a Hulu subscription in the Hulu app.
When it comes to Apple devices, it’s important to create a new account, as if you were to change the region of your current account, you will lose everything.
Done all that? Feel free to sign back into your previous account.
Creating a Hulu Norge Account on Android Devices
Connect to a Hulu server with a VPN.
Open up your Google Play Store.
Press on the 3 bars on the top-left of your mobile screen.
Click on Account.
Now you will see an option to change the region of your Play Store. Change it.
Update your payment info.
Go back to Account and update your location.
Download Hulu.
Sign up for an account directly from the app.
Can You Watch Hulu in Norway on a TV?
Most smart TV’s and platforms like Apple TV, Chromecast, and Roku don’t support VPN services, making it hard to watch Hulu in Norway on a TV.
However, there are two sensible options in this case.
Connect your laptop to a TV via an HDMI cable.
Get an Amazon Fire TV Stick as it supports VPN services.
If you only ordered a Fire TV Stick, select for your region to be in the US.
Already have one? Here’s what to do:
Click on Accounts & Lists and then on Manage Your Account and Content.
Change your region to be in the US.
Go to your Amazon Fire TV device. Select Settings and My Account.
Deregister and sign back into your account.
That’s How to Get and Watch Hulu in Norway
With this guide, you can watch Hulu Norge, but also much more because the steps are identical for many of the top services out there, which you will find out when trying out our 7-day trial with no need for a card.
Disclaimer: While PrivateVPN has been supporting Hulu for years, due to the nature of services like Hulu having to take measures against VPN services, it’s not able to guarantee non-stop 100% of the time support. No VPN service can guarantee that.
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Trends in Northwest Giving 2019
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Self-organized control of bipedal locomotion by neural oscillators in unpredictable environment
Biol Cybern. 1991;65(3):147-59. doi: 10.1007/BF00198086.
G Taga 1 , Y Yamaguchi, H Shimizu
1 Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.
DOI: 10.1007/BF00198086
A new principle of sensorimotor control of legged locomotion in an unpredictable environment is proposed on the basis of neurophysiological knowledge and a theory of nonlinear dynamics. Stable and flexible locomotion is realized as a global limit cycle generated by a global entrainment between the rhythmic activities of a nervous system composed of coupled neural oscillators and the rhythmic movements of a musculo-skeletal system including interaction with its environment. Coordinated movements are generated not by slaving to an explicit representation of the precise trajectories of the movement of each part but by dynamic interactions among the nervous system, the musculo-skeletal system and the environment. The performance of a bipedal model based on the above principle was investigated by computer simulation. Walking movements stable to mechanical perturbations and to environmental changes were obtained. Moreover, the model generated not only the walking movement but also the running movement by changing a single parameter nonspecific to the movement. The transitions between the gait patterns occurred with hysteresis.
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Research Article| May 01, 2009
The geothermobarometric potential of tourmaline, based on experimental and natural data
Vincent J. van Hinsberg;
Vincent J. van Hinsberg
CETSEI, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queen’s Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, U.K.
Present address: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, Canada. E-mail: V.J.vanHinsberg@gmx.net
John C. Schumacher
American Mineralogist (2009) 94 (5-6): 761–770.
https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2009.3022
Vincent J. van Hinsberg, John C. Schumacher; The geothermobarometric potential of tourmaline, based on experimental and natural data. American Mineralogist ; 94 (5-6): 761–770. doi: https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2009.3022
The geothermobarometric potential of tourmaline has been assessed by investigating element exchange among tourmaline and coexisting minerals in metamorphosed pelites and graywackes, and in experimental exchange between tourmaline and biotite. In the natural samples, a temperature dependence of tourmaline Mg-Fe exchange with biotite, staurolite, garnet, chlorite, and muscovite, and Ca-Na exchange with plagioclase is observed. Equilibrium calculations for the complete mineral assemblage show that tourmaline is in compositional equilibrium with all coexisting phases, which would allow for an internally consistent set of thermometers among all these phases to be defined. However, a prohibitively large spread is present in the KD vs. T relations. This is not caused by analytical effects, compositional zoning, or disequilibrium among the minerals. The experimental results show that it is the result of inter-site partitioning of elements over the Y and Z octahedral sites of tourmaline. Variations in the element distribution over these sites, their relative participation in the exchange and differences in the temperature dependence of exchange with each site, strongly affects the KD vs. T relation observed, with the slope actually changing sign depending on the elements residing at each site. Non-ideal interactions among the elements at each site will also affect this, and furthermore link every exchange to the bulk tourmaline composition, and hence the element mobility in the rock. The promising potential of tourmaline geothermobarometry can therefore not be fulfilled until effects of inter-site partitioning and non-ideal interactions are known.
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Home - Choosing a Plant - Keep to Yourself with the Best Plants for Privacy
Keep to Yourself with the Best Plants for Privacy
Our recommendations for the best plants for privacy are Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae and Ilex Nellie R Stevens Evergreen Holly Shrub. Both our choices are fast-growing plants that provide year-round color. They form dense walls, making them an excellent choice for privacy. If you want a plant to keep your home private, you might want to consider our picks below.
1 Our Top Picks for the Best Plants for Privacy
2 Landscape Design for Privacy
2.0.1 Options for Privacy
2.0.2 A Living Wall
2.0.3 Hedging It In
3 What You Need to Know about Privacy Plants
3.0.1 Know Your Height
3.0.2 Density
3.0.3 Winter Color
3.0.4 The Time Factor
4 Our Recommendations: Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae and Ilex Nellie R Stevens Evergreen Holly Shrub
Our Top Picks for the Best Plants for Privacy
Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae
Ilex Nellie R Stevens Evergreen Holly Shrub
Black Dragon Cryptomeria Tree
Hicks Yew
Landscape Design for Privacy
If privacy is a must-have feature for your yard, it’s something you need to plan for before the shovel hits the soil. As it may imply, these elements are larger parts of the overall design. While you can switch out a flower or two, it’s not the same with a privacy screen. So, as you’re deciding on the mood and color scheme, also think about how you want to create privacy.
Options for Privacy
There are several ways you can create that relaxing atmosphere of a private space. You can opt for fences or other boundary markers. But these types of structures have a cold almost unwelcoming feel about them. Plants, on the other hand, can soften the mood and the tone of a garden element with the primary purpose of creating privacy.
A Living Wall
Even if you choose a fence, you can train some plants to grow with it to create a living wall of greenery. A trellis can work the same way. Climbing plants can quickly fill in the gaps to give you the screen you desire. The good thing about going this route is that it opens up your options. You can choose the classy appearance of an ivy-covered wall.
You could also use it as an opportunity to add color to your landscape design. Think of beautiful flowering climbing plants like wisteria and clematis. Your privacy screen can take on a whole new dimension as a focal point in your garden. Even if you have existing fences, you can add a trellis to increase its height, and thus, your sense of privacy.
Hedging It In
You have other options by skipping the middleman all together with a living privacy screen. Shrubs, hedges, and trees like arborvitae provide an attractive way to enclose a space. You can think of these plants as a kind of living wallpaper. You’ll find a variety of plants with different heights to fit your privacy needs.
And while creating boundaries sounds cold, it doesn’t have to be. Like a living wall, these plants can act as a centerpiece for your garden or backyard. Plants have a wonderful way of conveying a mood. Designing for privacy doesn’t have to be the proverbial line in the sand. Rather, it can function as a natural element in your landscape as if it was meant to be there all along.
What You Need to Know about Privacy Plants
The same principles for choosing other garden plants apply for those that you use for privacy. The only difference is their purpose. That means picking plants appropriate for your hardiness zone and the conditions. These include the familiar elements of sunlight, soil conditions, and any local factors that may affect a plant’s health.
This video from This Old House walks you through the process of planting for a privacy screen.
You may find that you have more of a vested interest in the success of your plants simply because you have defined a purpose for them. After all, if you’re going to go to all this trouble, you want a return on your investment in time and money. Your insurance begins with choosing the right plants for your space. It is much easier for a plant to thrive if its needs are met.
Know Your Height
Since privacy is your concern, you need to know what that means regarding a plant’s stature. Think about what is the source of your need for privacy landscaping. Are adjacent yards too close to your space? In that case, a privacy screen of about six foot should do the job. Also, consider the views from above. If the neighbor’s house towers over your yard, you might choose taller plants.
Bear in mind that you can work with a plant’s placement to meet your needs for height. For example, if you live in a ranch style home, you may find that plants that reach to the eaves are sufficient to create a garden room. Likewise, you may only need to add a couple of feet of trellis to an existing fence to get the proper height.
You should also think about the overall shape of your plants. If they form a sparse wall, they may not give you the degree of privacy you want. Also, consider the spacing of the plants. If there are large gaps between plants, it may present another issue. When researching these factors, look at the mature height and spread of the plants. This might be the determining factor between privacy trees and a privacy hedge.
Winter Color
A major drawback of climbing plants is that they will die back during the winter months. If you live in a warmer area, this may not be an issue at all. But if you live in a temperate climate, you might want to opt for a plant with year-round color such as an evergreen hedge. The advantage is that you have a plant that will continue to function as a privacy screen.
The Time Factor
The chances are that if you’ve identified a need for privacy; you want it done yesterday. Unfortunately, that isn’t typically the case with plants. While arborvitae is fast-growing, that still means about three feet of growth a year. So, those small trees are going to need a few years before they can deliver on their promise of privacy.
If you want it sooner rather than later, you might consider going the trellis root with a fast-growing climbing plant. It doesn’t have to be a permanent thing. You can use it as a way to bridge the gap before a more permanent solution fills in the space. The important thing is that you can create privacy screens on your timetable.
Our Recommendations: Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae and Ilex Nellie R Stevens Evergreen Holly Shrub
The Thuja Green Giant Arborvitae is a commanding tree that will provide privacy up to heights of 40 feet. It grows at the relatively fast rate of three feet per year. Its dense shape means that you won’t have to spend a lot of time pruning it, always a plus. It also makes an excellent wind screen.
The Ilex Nellie R Stevens Evergreen Holly Shrub has a lot to offer in addition to being an effective privacy screen. The dark green foliage is stunning, especially with its red berries. We liked the fact that it provides a good food source for birds that may overwinter in your area. Like the arborvitae, it is fast-growing for a quick solution.
When you choose plants for privacy, you need to consider more than the usual aspects of plant care. For optimal use, your plant should fill its space quickly, while offering an attractive addition to your landscaping. Many plants like our picks provide excellent choices for both privacy and windscreens. They’re a sound investment for creating a relaxing space in your garden.
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This page has pictures of some of my favorite organs....
(seated at the grand console of the Schnitger at St. Jacobi in Hamburg)
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Organs in Bremen and vicinity
Wilhelm Sauer organ (1893) in the Bremer Dom/ St. Petri Cathedral
Gottfried Silbermann organ (1732) in the West Crypt of the same church
Jürgen Ahrend and Gerhard Brunzema organ (1962) in St. Martini Church, Bremen
van der Putten organ (2002) in the Walle Church, Walle-Bremen
Erasmus Bielfeldt organ (1734) in the St. Wilhaldi church, Osterholz-Schambeck
Arp Schnitger organ (1693-94) in the Findorffkirche, Grasberg
Organs elsewhere in Germany
Arp Schnitger organ(1680) at St. Peter und Paul church in Cappel
Arp Schnitger organ (1693) at St. Jacobi Church, Hamburg
Arp Schnitger organ (1710/1782) in St. Georg Church, Weener
Arp Schnitger organ (1688) at St. Pankratius church in Hamburg-Neuenfelde
Arp Schnitger organ (1688) at St. Ludgeri church in Norden
Arp Schnitger organ (1687) at St. Martini et Nicolai/ St. Martin church in Steinkirchen
Gottfried Silbermann organ (1710-14) in St. Marien Church/ Freiberger Dom, in Freiberg, Germany
Sherer organ (1722-24) in St. Stephan, Tangermünde
Klapmeyer organ (1730) in St. Nicolai, Altenbruch
Anonymous organ (1659) in the Reformed Church in Uttum
Gottfried Silbermann organ (1755) in the Hofkirche in Dresden, Germany
Fürtwangler und Hammer organ (1916) in the Dom/Cathedral in Verden
Organs in other countries
The transept organ at the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam
Tolouse, France - Saint-Pierre des Chartreux - Delauney (1683), Micot (1784), Grenzing (1983)
Tolouse, France - the Ahrend organ from 1981, in the Musee des Augustins
The Cavaille-Coll organ (1862) at St. Suplice in Paris, France
Organs in the USA
Wahl organ (2011) at Augustana Lutheran Church in Chicago, IL
Martin Pasi organ (2007) in Winnetka, IL
Taylor and Boody organ (1980) at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, VA
Taylor and Boody (2005) at Goshen College, Indiana
Dobson Pipe Organ Builders (1989), First Congregational Church, Battle Creek, MI
Paul Fritts and Company (2004), University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Richards, Fowkes, and Co (1995ish), First Lutheran Church, Boston, MA
Juget-Sinclair (2005), St. Andrews Episcopal, Wellsley, MA
Max Schuelke organ (1909) in St. Stanislaus Shrine Church in Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
Martin Pasi organ (2004) at St. Paul and the Redeemer Church in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood (USA)
Casavant Freres organ (1980) in the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois (USA)
An excerpt from one of my diploma recitals, playing Invocation from Reger's Second Sonata.
Also from the same recital, a Canzone by Salvatore.
Although the organ isn't old, it was built into a facade (the part of the organ you can see, the case) from the 16th century! My teacher calls it "one of the best organs in Germany for playing the music of Bach and the Baroque".
here I'm playing the Bach Prelude and Fugue in G-minor, BWV 535
This organ is also new, but built after models of historic organs, so one could say it "sounds old". In a good way.
Here is a close-up of the keyboards, with the sub-semi tones (those extra, raised "black" keys - which in this case are white). They enable one to be able play either G# or A-flat, D# or E-flat, which on an organ tuned in mean-tone temperament, are different notes. Pretty tricky to get used to at first!
Would you like to stay in an apartment beside this church, and practice all day and night on this amazing instrument? My friend Beth can tell you how!
from another of my diploma recitals, playing Buxtehude's Praeludium in D minor
from a recital I played in Feb of 2009, Scheidemann's Verbum caro factum est
This is the church where the organ builder, Arp himself, is buried,
Here we see the relieved recitalist, after the concert, with her husband and in-laws
a recording I made of Durufle's Scherzo
Ahrend/Brunzema build the organ in 1964-65 inside the original organ case from 1658.
This wonderful instrument for playing the French classic repertoire was begun by Delauney in 1683, further work done by Micot in 1784, and restored by Grenzing in 1893
This fabulous German Baroque instrument is in a museum in Toulouse.
An iconic instrument in the organ world, because of the famous organist/ composers who have presided here.
- There are many other fabulous organs in Paris and Toulouse which I saw and played, but I am mostly not very good at taking pictures of organs in large, dark churches, it seems...
- There are not only fabulous organs in Europe, and I hope you don't get the impression that the only good ones were all built before 1750. I have recently updated my "Organs in the USA" section, to include most of my favorite builders, and representative instruments. Stay tuned for more!
My pals at Augustana (cantor Dan Schwandt), and Wahl Organbuilders (Ron Wahl, and the too-modest-to-be-photographed Christoph Wahl), asked me to play the dedication concert on this lovely little instrument, which reminds me of other modest but beautiful and elegantly-designed instruments in Germany.
The Winnetka Congergational Church - an amazing room for organ music, a cleverly designed organ with lots of colorful stops, and a great sound!
One of their earliest instruments, still full of energy, vitality, and life after all these years! (kind of like me...)
Small, but packing quite a punch as well. (I'm not exactly sure if that's like me or not.)
Another beautiful example of American organ building - as Prof. Vogel likes to say, it's not only beautiful to look at!
I had a very enjoyable time, at the Regional AGO Convention, summer of 2013, playing this sweet little Dobson, in the chapel of this church.
An incredible room houses an incredible instrument, which is thankfully only 90 minutes from Holland, MI! Craig Cramer and his students are to be envied... The place to go in the Midwest, if you want to play Buxtehude!
I was very excited when I finally was able to hear and play an example of fine organ building from these builders, who live and mostly build organs unfortunately, much too far from where I live! Just like being back in Germany, playing on this one...
Someone I trust told me I needed to check this out when in Boston, and I was glad (thanks Christa!). Watch out for these guys - they're Canadian, so they're probably pleasant and unassuming (I have Canadian relatives), but don't let that fool you - they definitey know about organ building.
From a concert I played in July of 2009 for the Organ Historical Society National Convention, Karg-Elert's Choral Prelude on "Aus tiefer Not"
This is from a concert I played in Sept of 2008, as part of the AGO International Year of the Organ. I am playing Bach's newly discovered Chorale Fantasy on "Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns haelt"
This is where I worked as church musician for five years from 1999 to 2004.
-a recording I made of Tournemire's Improvisation on Victamae paschali
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INDONESIA: THE ACT OF GLOSSING
As an Indonesian born in the 1950s, I found watching the three hour director’s cut of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary “The Act of Killing” (executive producer Werner Herzog) deeply disturbing. Though it revealed nothing factually new per se about the horrors of the 1965 politcal purges, it is the in-your-face quality of delusion of the characters that shocks the most.
For Indonesians 1965 is not merely another year in history. It is a number that is as important as 1945, the year that on the 17th of August founding fathers Sukarno and Hatta declared Indonesia independent. By contrast, the 30th of September 1965 is a date of infamy, a night filled with sordid acts of treachery, the trigger that launched a months-long blood bath that took the lives of hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of Indonesians across the archipelago. What happened is yet to be systematically quantified, and in truth is yet to be properly accounted for.
During the subsequent 32 years of General Soeharto’s iron fisted New Order, the “truth” we were force fed was that the burgeoning Indonesian Communist Party, PKI – at the time the third largest in the world – had masterminded and initiated a coup with the ghastly murder of six top generals on September 30th. A lurid, bloody propaganda-esque film “Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI” (“The Betrayal Movement of the 30th September/PKI”) upholding this version of the events was made by leading cinematographer Arifin C Noer in 1984 on request by Soeharto’s regime. Every year up until 1997 all TV stations were obliged to air the whole film on the 30th of September.
Three decades later, In “The Act of Killing” – which has become a cinematic rebuttal of Arifin’s film – it soon becomes clear to any viewer that the main characters in this multi-tiered, behind the scenes documentary are deranged.
The blatantly murderous bragadicio of the main characters, street thug-turned-local-hero Anwar Congo, his bizarrely theatrical twisted sidekick Herman Koto, and his more sophisticated but no less pshycopathic colleague, Adi, dominate the screen. There is a sickening naiveté to their obsession with the butchery they helped perpetrate during the so-called coup of 1965, and a mind boggling disregard for morality thoroughly mixed with twisted self justification. But there are plenty more equally, if not more, powerfully jaw dropping moments that segue in and out of this cinematic reality saga.
A local newspaper editor in Medan, North Sumatra, where all the action takes place, brags that though he didn’t actually do any killing himself, that just by “blinking my eyelids” he had people killed. He later states it was his job as a journalist to turn people against communists. A neighbor of Congo’s, somehow roped in to act in the film, tells how his Chinese stepfather was taken away and killed – and then he is made to act a victim pleading for mercy. Suddenly, as he breaks down on screen the viewer realizes his acting is not acting. Various high ranking government officials praise the Pemuda Pancasila group (essentially is a paramilitary group of thugs locally know as ‘préman’) with which Anwar Congo is associated, as being an essential extra judicial arm for the Indonesian Government.
Surreal scene after surreal scene fills the screen of this troubling reality show. Distortion is the norm for these characters, but they are not alone. What this brings home to my peers and me once again is that Indonesians have been glossing the responsibility for 1965 for nearly 50 years. Medan was not the only killing field in Indonesia, far from it. Nor was Pemuda Pancasila the only group of thugs involved
Many reasons are given, and many groups were involved. As the reprisal killings in Indonesia began, the CIA took to feeding the Indonesian military lists of ‘suspects’. The military in turn enlisted thugs and youths from various mass organizations to join a brutal killing spree. In Java members of Islamic youth organizations like Ansor were not shy of wetting their hands with the blood of ‘communist infidels’. In Bali – currently marketed as ‘paradise’ – one witness told of “roads running like red rivers with the blood of victims” spillled by thugs who seldom required any evidence of wrongdoing from the finger pointers.
The night I watched this film, thousands of Balinese living in Sumbawa, an island east of Bali, were taking refuge from bloody rioting following the death of a Muslim girl who had died in a motorcycle accident with her Hindu boyfriend. A completely unsubstantiated rumour that her boyfriend had raped and then murdered her lit up the town like wildfire. A couple of months earlier a murderous rampage against Balinese migrants and their families broke out in Lampung on the southern tip of Sumatra, triggered by a trivial misunderstanding between a local and a second generation Balinese migrant after a minor traffic accident. More systematically, and more chillingly, the Ahmaddiyah sect has been the perennial target of ‘orthodox’ Mulsim violence for years now. The list goes on.
Soeharto’s years were marked with brutal repression. But every year since the downfall of Soeharto has brought with it a new set of tragic communal violence. So much so that some Indonesians have taken to nostalgia for the “good old days” of the New Order. There have been more and more calls for stricter law enforcement. Ex-vice president Jusuf Kalla arrived in Sumbawa this month and echoed these calls, urging local law enforcers to act firmly. But it is important to note this is the same man who on Oppenheimer’s camera emphasizes the need for thugs like Pemuda Pancasila as they are “able to do what the government cannot do”.
We Indonesians look on in horror and dismay at all these ongoing instances of mass madness, and we point to the substantive causes such as jealousy and ethnic rivalry. But what we don’t care to address publicly is the major contributing factor: we have tacitly come to accept human rights abuses as the implicit political price for unity and the rule of the mob as an ugly but ordinary part of life.
This is the legacy of 1965 and the New Order. Expedience and tyranny of the majority rules. Somehow in our collective subconscious we feel that we can get away with it: if we can’t get our way constitutionally then “just cut ‘em down”. General Soeharto, remained in office unchallenged for 32 years. Many still see him as a hero despite the unfettered corruption and human rights abuses that reigned during his rule. Finally forced from office, he remained unrepentant til his death.
(Ironically, given that thugs did most of his army’s dirty work in 1965, in an official biography Soeharto openly admitted to and justified the ordering of extra judicial killings of troublesome thugs in the 80s.)
Last year an otherwise reasonable cabinet minister who coordinates ‘politcal security’, Djoko Suyanto, vehemently denied the Indonesian National Rights Commission declaration that 1965 was in fact a large scale human rights violation. Indonesian human rights advocate, lawyer Todung Mulia Lubis, pointed out to me that the minister in question has old ties to Islamic organizations whose paramilitary youth wings were heavily involved in the killings in East Java: “And now those youth have become influential elders”.
Though it will be impossible to bring all those who wrongfully slaughtered their fellow citizens in 1965 to trial, Indonesians need to acknowledge the wrong that was done in order to be able to move out of this vicious cycle of human rights abuse. If we admit the wrong and are henceforth accountable it would most certainly change our perspective. At the very least if the truth was aired we could start to forgive.
6 Responses to “INDONESIA: THE ACT OF GLOSSING”
Chris Green February 19, 2013
Thanks, Rio.
I am minded of Martin Niemöller’s oft-revised quote:
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me–
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
…that could easily be revised for today’s Indonesia:
Then they came for the Ahmadiyah, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a Ahmadiyah;
Then they came for the Shiites, and I did not speak out–
because I was not a Shiite;
We hear that the majority do not support these actions.
But who is speaking out?
Rio February 19, 2013
Chris, that quote is appropriate, and appropriately revised!
edo March 4, 2013
Saddly, there were many had spoken out and then got killed or just missing. We are facing mafia problem here… MAFIA, we just don’t have any Indonesian expression for it, they become goverment, military and police, or paramilitary, or preman.
Diana Darling June 10, 2013
Hi Rio. I just read this again in the course of Adrian’s FB post about The Act of Killing. Good for you for speaking out. I know it’s not easy, even now. But I have confidence in the Indonesian people to keep working at building a fair and compassionate society out of the long, dark centuries behind them. I think foreigners often forget what life was like for ordinary people in Indonesia less than a hundred years ago. In my view, Indonesians are profoundly civilized people. The problem is how to manage power.
Hann June 10, 2013
Speak out and let the world know….
Cynthia Webb January 27, 2014
You’ve made a very good point Rio, that the modern-day outbursts of vigilantism and outright murder, prejudice against minority groups etc, are the end result of 1965/66. In people’s minds, is deeply embedded the idea that it must be OK because the government did it back then.. therefore they can resort to such primitive behavior even now!
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Katrina Ford
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Richard Macleod
Romanie Hannah
Ruby Rennison
Steph Gillick
Tim Sanders
Luke Tobiasiewicz
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Zack Dorner
About R.G.S.
For much of the season R.G.S have resembled more of a dating agency than an ultimate team, but finally they’re starting to hit it off on the pitch as well as off. The team was seen by some – perhaps unfairly – as the laughing stock of the UK teams going to Worlds due to dropping as low as 9th in the mixed division. But the facts fail to tell the full story.
Only a handful of the players going to Lecco this summer played for the R.G.S that qualified for World’s by winning mixed tour last year, which explains why the team struggled to gel in the opening months of the season. The wind and rain of Nottingham and Cheltenham at Mixed Tours 2 and 3 did not help a team trying to gel as a team and develop a new offence, but, as Jonny Clark one of the two captains said, it certainly created the all-important team spirit and graft that often takes time for a new team.
“Those early tournaments were particularly frustrating, but we learned to fight as a team and rely on the weapons we have to grind out games,” he told The ShowGame.
They are running offensive looks out of vertical, horizontal (listen out for their ‘hozzers for blozzers’ call) and split stacks as well as deploying multiple zones and man defensive plays. With a new squad and players based as far away as Canada and Dubai, all of these challenges contributed to the time that it took this team to come together.
However the mixed season was only the beginning of their preparations and they have since gone on to impress in foreign tournaments. If their run of recent form is anything to go by then they should be on course to get some wins at Worlds.
At Windmill Windup in Amsterdam, their only defeats came against the French national team, eventual winners Bear Cavalry and Heidees, the German mixed team, who they later beat in their final game of the tournament to secure an impressive fifth place finish, a position which certainly made those early critics of R.G.S look a bit silly. They also beat a host of other European mixed teams going to WUCC, including the Dutch team UFO and Bon Disc’Manche from France.
Last month they travelled to Golden Keg in Dublin, where they beat Grandmaster Flash from Poland and narrowly lost to the winners, Cambridge.
Coaching and Playing Style
R.G.S – or the Royal Goaltimate Society to give their full name – were the only mixed team going to Worlds that held open trials, due to the exodus of Clapham and Iceni players who chose to play in the open and women’s division instead.
With the help of coaching from Jaimie Cross, an experienced veteran of managing new teams, Jonny and fellow captain Chrissie Birtwistle ran try-outs over the winter that triallists said had a professional feel to them, held under the roof of the state-of-the-art Soccerdome centre in Greenwich.
Along with a handful of existing players from the previous year, they managed to secure some very talented players who were unattached to other WUCC squads, including Amie Channon and Ruby Rennison from SYC and Iain ‘Con’ McConachie, an ex-Clapham and Fusion player who has returned to Frisbee after a few years in the wilderness.
Their star players so far this season have been Richard ‘Macca’ Macleod and Kate Ford. “Underestimate Macca at your peril,” was a warning shot one R.G.S aimed at their WUCC opponents.
According to R.G.S players Tim Sanders and Kate Rae, the season changed when the team started going to the pub together after trainings and summer league, and the team’s best performance of the season came after their biggest night out as a team. It was the same night as four of the girls reportedly got lucky after wearing identical Get Horizontal t-shirts (from where the ‘hozzers for blozzers’ play was born), so it is unlikely that either a socialising or a drinking ban will be imposed on the players in Lecco.
It’s a squad finally bearing the fruits of an intense, sometimes frustrating but hard-working build-up to WUCC. “We’re just going to take it a point and game at a time,” Jonny says, preferring not to set a firm target of where they hope to finish.
“We’ve got a really great pool lined up with Fire of Anatolia, UKU! And Polar Bears so our first aim will be pushing for the top half of the draw. More than anything we’re looking forward to getting our whole squad together and seeing what we can bring to the first round of games.”
The last piece of the jigsaw will be Colin and Sam Green joining the team from Canada. Each have made cameo appearances throughout the season and Jonny hopes the excitement they bring to the team will give them the vital boost to push R.G.S up into the top echelons of the competition.
Their record on the international stage is far better than the domestic scene. As their performances at Windmill and Golden Keg showed, the hotter climates of Lecco and the absence of home media scrutiny will benefit their style of play and mental state and they are increasingly looking like a team that could impress and punch above the weight of a team seeded 27th at WUCC.
Photo courtesy of Ruby Rennison.
That’s two down, two to go! But first some more discussion…
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Rox Continue to Get Big in NL Rearview Mirrors
By rockymountainhigh
Is it time to put on the Purple Virtual Reality glasses and watch the Rockies baseball? In the second inning, it looked like Chatty was going to be the next Tyler Matzek and restart the “Annual Slide Into Oblivion.” After giving up the first HR of the season pitching away from Coors to the Rocky Killer (James Loney), he gave up a single with two outs and walked the eight-hole hitter and the opposing pitcher to load up the bases. He promptly started off with a 3-0 count to Curtis Granderson. Then the baseball gods sent an angel to give Chatty the greatest gift in a time of greatest need. Granderson popped up on a 3-1 count to end the inning.
Chatty with multiple bounces in his step went into the beast mode giving up only two more base runners after that near-fatal second inning. One runner was erased on a double play grounder. With a 3-1 lead going into the eighth inning, Walt Weiss decided to hand the ball to Jake “always trying to go backwards instead of almost all the way back” McGee to face the two left-handed batters including one pinch hitter cold off the bench. Not surprisingly, both of them got on with base hits. Only difference from the previous night was that he was pulled after two batters instead of three in favor of Gopherg. One-two-three pitches AND one-two-three outs. Gopherg did an awesome job for the second night in a row playing the role of following the horse (McGee) in a parade and cleaning up his horseshit spotless. He no doubt will be promoted to higher leverage late game pitcher when Zero, Wild Thing, and Boone Logan are unavailable.
CarGo drove the final nail into the Mets’ coffin with a three-run 450-foot blast into the second deck after NoDo was IBB to so that Bastard(o) can play the LOOGY (actually loony) role.
The victory came after the Rockies rallied to beat closer Jeurys Familia who blew his second consecutive save after 52 straight saves. The rubber game in Baltimore was impressive as well since they won the series against the team who owns the best home record in baseball.
With a 6-1 victory over the Mets, Colorado has awaken a lot of fans from their annual summer hibernation. They improved to 51-52 overall after winning eight of the last nine games. They are five games out of the WC chase with Pittsburgh, NYM, Miami, St. Louis, and Los Angeles (soon to be replaced by San Francisco). They are 11-4 since the ASB. Further breakdowns: 8-8 interleague against the powerful AL East teams with four more against Texas (crapped against TB at home); 25-24 at home (should do much better than that) and 26-28 on road (really good); 14-16 vs LHP (we are historically bad vs LHP); 22-25 vs NL West (most losses against SD, clean that up); 14-6 against NL East with 0 games vs. Nats yet); 7-13 vs. NL Central (crapped against Reds/Phillies); 8-13 in one-run games (crappy bullpen when using the wrong pieces). It is the latest in the season since 2010 that the Rockies has been as good as one game under .500. We should read Dr. C’s Musings now. He just added three features the last few days. One of them talked about learning how to win consistently; see all the games in parenthesis that should have been for the taking. Dr. C nailed that on the head.
Weiss after the game was quoted, “We want to be playing after the regular season is over — that’s how we’re thinking this year.” Give him credit for sticking with the team through thick and thin and the team still wanting to play for him. His bullpen management skill is madly driving us crazy. The rotation, which now consists of Jon Gray, Tyler Anderson, JDLR, Chatty, and Chettis, have helped make even a Little League manager manage the bullpen the proper way. Just stay away from McGee in high-leverage situations. Jordan Lyles and Chris Rusin have settled into their long relief roles. Lyles gave us a hint that he might be able to be a one-inning guy later in the game as in the seventh.
Colorado’s recent surge can be credited with the farm supplying the needed pieces. Give Zach Wilson, the Rockies’ director of player development, a big round of applause. Quoted from the DP today, “Wilson thinks an adjustment in the development program four years ago could be a factor too. A development supervisor was added to the staffs of five of the Rockies’ six minor-league clubs…..The improved lines of communication have resulted in what appears to be a more aggressive approach to development.” He’s been talking about Matt Carisiti’s development. It’s time we keep an eye on him.
The rookies have contributed mightily this year and this is just the first wave. Tony Wolters (not Rockies developed but still scouts spotted him), Trevor Story, and Jon Gray (DL to start the year) started the year and plugged in the holes that were thought to be the black holes his year. Then came Anderson who went through three levels (AA-AAA-MLB) this year in a short time but it was said by several insiders that he “pitched 200 innings last year” even though he hardly pitched. He’s been watching every pitch and making notes. A few times after Anderson was pulled from the game this year, he was seen writing notes in his book while observing the game as well as about himself. Anderson is fifth best in baseball for highest percentage of soft-hit balls. That means hitters are having difficulty squaring up despite his average FB velocity. Gray is having a coming out party as the ace that can go head to head against the Kershaws and the MadBums. David Dahl is a recent addition to the club at the expense of the energetic Brandon Barnes. He currently has a five-game hit streak going after five games including a HR to dead center field.
There are a few more knocking on the door ready to come up. Jeff Hoffman is the best known guy ready to come but he is not needed once the five man rotation got settled down and gave the Rockies quality start after quality start. There’s Jordan Patterson but he’s passed by Dahl and blocked by Gerardo Parra. Miguel Castro and Matt Carisiti are possibilities for the back end of the bullpen if needed. But Gopherg is holding up so far.
Tonight the Rockies take on the ageless Bartolo Colon working on three-days rest. JDLR will oppose Colon in the Rockies’ attempt to get back to .500 ball. The game will be played at 5:10 MT if it starts on time after Mike Piazza’s number retirement ceremony.
RMH – nice write up. To me, there are three potential impact call-ups. Carasiti – I love that guy and agree with you. Tom Murphy. And my 3rd is actually German Marquez. I will say this…..Ag’s thought of bringing Freeland up in a Relief role is also intriguing. It’s funny to me that the Pirates (52-49) traded away their Closer……while the Rox may be buyers. Just shows how desparate the Rox are for some success. And…..didn’t the Nats learn anything… Read more »
Quick reading of the tea leaves:
LuCroy’s most likely destination is Cleveland.
Jay Bruce’s most likely destination is NYM
This means the Rangers, Dodgers, and to some extent the Nats (they didn’t give up that much to get Melancon) remain in play as big buyers (in theory).
I’m watching this game (hoping Story’s injury is minor) and I’m noticing JDLR doesn’t have that goofy pause at the top of his leg kick. Those windup “hitches” are deceptive, but make it really hard to “fix” a pitcher when they get out of whack, Someone has done a nice job of simplifying JDLR’s delivery.
The windup hesitation is the only thing I worry about with Tyler Anderson. Right now it’s working – really well!
I don’t know how much game u watch on TV, but JDLR got rid of the hesitation when he was in the bullpen. Since then he’s been on cruise control except for the TB game.
Reply to rockymountainhigh
Gotcha! I watch maybe 50%. Honestly……tend to boycott JDLR because his games are so slow.
We’re average! That’s what Charlie just said. And it’s the last day of July tomorrow!! This isn’t snark even though it sounds like it. This is a fantastic development. Meaningful games in August! (Maybe not September yet, but it’s progress) And it isn’t a fluke. I checked some stats: – As Spilly mentioned, we’ve got a positive run differential. Run differential and pythagorean record tends to be more reliable than straight won/loss record – NL rankings coming into this game:… Read more »
Booooooo…. (been out of touch this weekend), I see the Yankees get Clint Frazier. We was my favorite Prospect likely to get moved this deadline cycle. He’ll be a star.
EdtheUmp
All righty, boys and girls. As my father said while getting ready to head for the hog barn, “it’s nut cuttin’ time. August presents us with the following facts: 28 games…17 home, 11 on the road. 22 games currently against teams with better records than the Rox. What will September 1 bring to Rox Nation? I suspect that ALL readers on this site never, in our wildest dreams, thought we could enter August only 1 game under .500. Especially after… Read more »
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Ed – I agree, it will be interesting. Sort of cool to be starting a big, meaningful, home series against the Dodgers with our Ace (and not far from a true Ace!) on the mound. We haven’t been able to say that since the Ubaldo glory days.
I read an article today that mentioned the Rockies might be last minute buyers at the deadline. I then started thinking, what position should they upgrade? The only thing that came to mind is Head Coach. Maybe a deadline deal for Joe Girardi? Ha Ha! Bullpen– I think this position is strong with the emergence of Oberg and the return of Ottavino. Also, when Motte returns this will be a very formidable group. Just needs to be used correctly by… Read more »
NOCOgary
Wow.pythagorean and harbinger all in the same thread! This is a better baseball team but quite a hole to overcome.I’ve enjoyed watching games a lot more this year[TV}. Would be fun to at least have a chance to be relevant in Sept.
When was the last time the Rockies were this close to .500 on August 1? I guess I could google it but I’m guessing it was 2010> Is that right? Missed yesterday’s game as I was visiting a non-baseball fan. He’s my kid brother who I see a few times a year so I gave it up for him.
roxnsox
Reply to Bill
I’m not allowed to watch when the grown daughters visit. LOL
Some random trade deadline thoughts (remember, they’re worth what you paid for them): 1. The freakin Yankees made out like bandits. Clint Frazier will be a star. Gleyber Torres could be a star. Those 2 pieces alone are great. But there some other parts as well. 2. I’m really surprised the Giants gave up Phil Bickford in a trade. That’s the guy I wanted with our 2nd pick in the 1st round in the 2015 Amatuer Draft. The Giants snagged… Read more »
Freakin Yankees. Rockies management: a general comment for you. Even the YANKEES are not afraid to be aggressive and “admit” the plan (rebuild, retool). I trust Bridich pretty much, for what that’s worth (what you paid for it), so there must not have been any decent return for anybody. He is clearly willing to trade ANYBODY after Tulo. But in general, the old Blake Street refrain is echoing for me when I see the above. (“We’re close to contending soon!”… Read more »
Reply to roxnsox
I think there must have been essentially zero offers for Hundley. That’s the only logical explanation for that one.
It’s interesting – no one claimed Brandon Barnes and he’s reported to ABQ. I’d like to have $1 for every time I’ve heard or read someone say “trade Brandon Barnes.” Now we know for fact what some of us suspected all along – he (essentially) has no value. I think Hundley falls into the same category.
I think he will be passed through the waivers in August. Guys with one months salary remaining are likely be plucked. Hundley to Cleveland will happen.
Rockies do nothing which is par for the course. But Story goes on DL and they call up Ynoa. Adames and Ynoa. Are they our SS’s for 15 (or more days). If so we should have been sellers. Or went out a got a shortstop which I admit is not easier. Don’t think they can contend this way. Perhaps they move Arenado to Short and Decalso to 3B. Baltimore did that with Machado when JJ Hardy got hurt. They lose… Read more »
Story out for the season.
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/08/rockies-place-trevor-story-on-dl-with-torn-thumb-ligament.html
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Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 6 Is Essential in the Induction of Contact Hypersensitivity
Hiroo Yokozeki,
Hiroo Yokozeki
aDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan
Mehran Ghoreishi,
Mehran Ghoreishi
Shinsuke Takagawa,
Shinsuke Takagawa
Kaoru Takayama,
Kaoru Takayama
Takahiro Satoh,
Takahiro Satoh
Ichiro Katayama,
Ichiro Katayama
bDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki 852-8102, Japan
Kiyoshi Takeda,
cDepartment of Host Defense, Research Institute for Microbial Disease, Osaka University, Shuita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
Shizuo Akira,
Kiyoshi Nishioka
Received: September 07 1999
Revision Requested: November 30 1999
Accepted: December 10 1999
© 2000 The Rockefeller University Press
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J Exp Med (2000) 191 (6): 995–1004.
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.191.6.995
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Hiroo Yokozeki, Mehran Ghoreishi, Shinsuke Takagawa, Kaoru Takayama, Takahiro Satoh, Ichiro Katayama, Kiyoshi Takeda, Shizuo Akira, Kiyoshi Nishioka; Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 6 Is Essential in the Induction of Contact Hypersensitivity. J Exp Med 20 March 2000; 191 (6): 995–1004. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.191.6.995
Contact hypersensitivity (CHS) is thought to be mainly associated with the activation of T helper type 1 (Th1) cells. However, there is also evidence that Th2 cells or Th2 cytokines play a role in the development of CHS. To analyze the functional contribution of Th2 cytokines interleukin (IL)-4 and IL-13, signal transducer and activator of transcription 6 (STAT6)-deficient (STAT6−/−) and wild-type (wt) control C57BL/6 mice were contact sensitized with 5% 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene (TNCB), 0.5% 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene, or 5% 4-ethoxyl methylene-2-phenyl-2-oxazolin-5-one, and any skin reactions were examined. Ear swelling was significantly reduced with a delayed peak response in STAT6−/− mice compared with wt mice.
A histological analysis revealed that the infiltration of both eosinophils and neutrophils in the skin challenged after 24 h in STAT6−/− mice decreased substantially compared with that in wt mice. The expression of Th2 cytokines (IL-4, IL-5) in TNCB-challenged skin tissues and the supernatants from T cells stimulated by 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonate–modified spleen cells, as well as the immunoglobulin (Ig)E and IgG1 response after challenge, were also profoundly reduced in STAT6−/− mice, whereas the expression of interferon γ was the same in STAT6−/− and wt mice after challenge. Furthermore, adoptive transfer experiments revealed that STAT6−/− mice induced CHS after injection of lymph node cells obtained from sensitized wt mice. Our data suggest that the STAT6 signal plays a critical role in the induction phase of CHS.
Contact hypersensitivity (CHS) is thought to be associated with the activation of T cells of Th1 type. However, the role of Th2 cells in CHS is still not clear. Gocinsli and Tigelaar 1 demonstrated that both CD4+ and CD8+ T cells play a role in inducing CHS, and also that an additional subset of CD4+ T cells plays a downregulatory role. It has also been demonstrated that in IL-4/IL-10–secreting CD4+ T cells, Th2 negatively regulates CHS response 2. Steinbrink et al. 3 implicated a downregulatory role of CD8+ T cells producing IL-4, IL-5, and IL-10.
A negative regulatory effect of IL-4 on the CHS responses to 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene (TNCB) was reported by Gautam et al. 4 and Asada et al. 5. These authors observed that IL-4 inhibited the efferent phase of CHS, but not the afferent phase 4,5. Furthermore, we also recently demonstrated that IL-4 blocked CHS by the inhibition of Langerhans cell (LC) migration induced by TNF-α 6.
Contrary to these reports, IL-4 has been demonstrated by several groups to be an essential cytokine during the elicitation phase of CHS 7,8,9. Recently, it has been reported that the CHS response was diminished in IL-4–deficient mice at a late phase of the elicitation reaction 10. In contrast to these recent findings, Berg et al. 11 reported that there is no alteration in the CHS response induced by 4-ethoxyl methylene-2-phenyl-2-oxazolin-5-one (Oxa) in IL-4–deficient mice. Therefore, it remains to be clarified whether or not CHS is diminished in IL-4–deficient mice. Recently, Traidl et al. 12 reported that the complete loss of endogeneous IL-4 expression in Balb/c mice is associated with an impaired manifestation of CHS to dinitrochlorobenzene but not to Oxa 12. We also recently established signal transducer and activator of transcription factor 6 (STAT6)-deficient (STAT6−/−) mice 13 and demonstrated that STAT6 plays a central role in IL-4– and IL-13– mediated biological responses 13,14. In an attempt to clarify the role of Th2 cytokines, especially IL-4 and IL-13 in the CHS response, we examined the CHS response in the STAT6−/− mice in which the IL-4 and IL-13 signaling pathways have been completely abolished.
Animals.
C57BL/6 mice with a targeted disruption of the gene encoding STAT6 (Stat6−/−) were generated in the Department of Biochemistry at the Hyogo College of Medicine as previously reported 13, and age- and sex-matched wild-type (wt) littermate controls (C57BL/6 mice) were purchased from the Sankyo Co. All animals were housed under specific pathogen-free conditions and had free access to a commercial diet and water. They were used at 8–15 wk of age. Each experimental group consisted of at least five mice.
Reagents.
The following reagents were obtained from commercial sources: TNCB and Hepes from the Nakarai Chemical Co.; 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB), Oxa from the Sigma Chemical Co.; and trypsin, 1:250 from Difco. The following mAbs were used: FITC-conjugated anti–TCR-α/β mAb (hamster; PharMingen); PE–conjugated anti–TCR-γ/δ mAb (hamster; PharMingen); FITC-conjugated anti–TCR-γ/δ mAb (hamster; PharMingen); FITC-conjugated anti-Thy1.2 (IgG2; Caltag); PE-conjugated anti-Ly2 (hamster; PharMingen); PE-conjugated anti–mouse CD4 (L3T4) mAb (PharMingen); FITC-conjugated anti–mouse I-Ab (mouse; Cedarlane); PE-conjugated anti–mouse CD80 mAb (hamster; PharMingen); PE-conjugated anti–mouse CD86 mAb (hamster; PharMingen); PE-conjugated anti–mouse CD11b (rat, Mac-1a; Leinco Technologies); PE-conjugated anti–mouse F4/80 mAb (Cedarlane); PE-conjugated anti–mouse CD32/16 mAb (rat, clone 93; Southern Biotechnology Associates); PE-conjugated anti–mouse Vγ3 TCR mAb (hamster; PharMingen); anti–mouse IL-4Ra (S-20) mAb (rabbit; Santa Cruz Biotechnology); and PE-conjugated anti–rabbit IgG(H+L) mAb (Cedarlane).
Immunization for Induction of CHS to TNCB, DNFB, and Oxa.
The mice were contact sensitized by two daily consecutive topical applications of 50 μl of 0.5% solution of DNFB, 5% TNCB, or 3% Oxa in acetone in olive oil (4:1) on shaved abdominal skin. The control mice were treated in the same fashion with vehicle alone.
Challenge and Quantitation.
3 d after the last abdominal application, the mice were challenged by applying 20 μl of hapten solution (1% TNCB, 0.2% DNFB, 0.5% Oxa in olive oil) on both sides of one ear, and vehicle on both sides of the other ear. The thickness of the ear was then measured with an engineer's micrometer (Peacock; Ozaki Engineering) at 12, 24, 48, 72, and 96 h after challenge.
Induction of Irritant Response and Delayed Hypersensitivity Induced by Sheep RBCs.
The irritant response was induced by applying 10 μl of 1 or 100% croton oil (vol/vol) to the dorsal and ventral aspects of the right ear of Wt and STAT6−/− mice. The reaction was then evaluated by measuring the increase in ear thickness over time. wt and STAT 6−/− mice were sensitized with a subcutaneous injection of 100 μl of 20% sheep RBCs in the back. 6 d after sensitization, the mice were challenged by the injection of 20 μl of 20% sheep RBCs in the foot pad. The increases in foot pad thickness of wt or STAT 6−/− mice were measured with an engineer's micrometer at 24 and 48 h after the challenge.
Preparation of Enriched LCs.
The procedure for isolating basal epidermal cells (ECs) from the epidermis was described previously 15. In brief, separated pinnae were cut into 3- or 4-mm2 pieces, then transferred dermal side down into a Petri dish. After a 1-h incubation at 37°C in PBS containing 0.5% trypsin (Difco), epidermal sheets were peeled from the dermis using forceps and placed in “complete medium” (RPMI 1640 containing 10% heat-inactivated FCS, 2 mM l-glutamine, 50 mg/ml gentamycin, and 100 U/ml penicillin) supplemented with 0.0025% DNase I (Sigma Chemical Co.) After 20–30 min at room temperature, the sheets were vigorously stirred, and the resulting cell suspension was pelleted and resuspended in ice-cold, hypoosmolar PBS using simultaneous light-speed vortexing. This procedure was terminated by adding an excessive amount of washing medium when the viability of the cell suspension had dropped to a level of 10–20%. After two washes, 5 ml of the EC suspension (5 × 106/ml) was layered on top of 5 ml of Lympholyte-M solution (density 1.0875; Cedarlane) and centrifuged at 1,500 g for 20 min at room temperature. Thereafter, the cells were collected from the interface and rinsed twice in complete medium, then cultured for 24 h, counted, tested for viability, and subjected to FITC-conjugated anti–I-Ab immunolabeling (see below). The enrichment of LCs was usually 23–46%.
Immunofluorescence Analysis of Cell Suspension.
EC suspensions enriched for LCs as described above were cultured for 24 h in complete medium with 100 ng/ml GM-CSF (Genzyme) in 24-well plate wells (no. 258201; Corning) at 37°C under 5% CO2 air. The ECs were then rinsed in ice-cold PBS containing 0.1% NaN3 with 1% FCS, and incubated for 30 min with 2.5 μg/ml of the FITC-conjugated anti–I-Ab mAb or the appropriate FITC-labeled IgG1 control. After a short exposure to normal mouse serum, ECs were incubated with either PE-conjugated anti-CD11b mAb, PE-conjugated anti-F4/80 mAb, PE-conjugated anti-CD32 mAb, PE-conjugated anti-CD80 mAb, or PE-labeled anti-CD86 mAb or the appropriate isotype control (PE–mouse IgG1, 5 mg/ml; Becton Dickinson). Flow cytometry was performed with a FACS® analyzer (Cyto ACE-150; Jasco Ltd.), using 10,000 cells per sample. Any dead cells were gated out with ethidium bromide.
To compare the surface markers of T cells in STAT6−/− and wt mice, at 5 d after sensitization with TNCB, the STAT6−/− or wt mice were killed by cervical dislocation, and their peripheral lymph nodes were removed. A cell suspension was then prepared by gentle teasing, and was thereafter washed three times with PBS. These cells were passed through a nylon fiber column (Wako Pure Chemicals), and were used as T cells. The T cells were rinsed in ice-cold PBS containing 0.1% NaN3 with 1% FCS, and then incubated for 30 min with 2.5 mg/ml of the FITC-conjugated anti-CD4 mAb, FITC-conjugated anti–mouse TCR-α/β mAb, FITC-conjugated anti-Thy1 mAb, or the appropriate FITC-labeled IgG1 control. After a short exposure to normal mouse serum, the cells were incubated with either PE-conjugated mAbs or the appropriate isotype control (PE–mouse IgG1, 5 mg/ml; BD).
Flow cytometry was performed with a fluorescent microscope (Nikon) or FACS® analyzer using 10,000 cells per sample. Dead cells were gated out with ethidium bromide.
Phenotypic Analysis and Enumeration of LCs and Thy1 Dendritic ECs.
Ear skin from the mice was placed in 0.5 M ammonium thiocyanate (0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 6.8) at 37°C for 20 min. The epidermis was separated from the dermis, fixed with acetone for 5 min, and then washed extensively with PBS. Epidermal sheets were incubated overnight at 4°C with FITC-conjugated anti-Iab mAb, FITC-conjugated anti–TCR-γ/δ mAb, or FITC isotype control IgG. After washing three times with PBS, the sheets were mounted in 1% glycerine in PBS. Positively stained cells in >90 randomly chosen fields of epidermis were counted at a magnification of 400 using a rectangular grid. More than 500 I-A+ dendritic cells or γ/δ+ dendritic cells from each STAT6−/− or wt mouse were counted.
Primary Allogeneic Mixed EC–Lymphocyte Reaction.
T cells were prepared using a nylon wool column. More than 97% of nonadherent cells were CD3+ T cells based on immunofluorescence tests with directly labeled mAb to CD3. Stimulator cells consisted of cultured LCs enriched as described above from Stat6−/− or wt mice.
1–103 × 105 LC-enriched ECs per well were seeded as stimulator cells. Responders and stimulators were cocultured in 96-well round-bottomed plates at 37°C in 200 μl of complete medium. All cultures were pulsed overnight with 0.2 μCi [3H]TdR, and incorporated radioactivity was assessed by liquid scintillation counting 16.
Quantification of Cytokine Levels in the Supernatant from Cultured T Cells and in Skin Tissue Extracts.
The lymph node cells and spleen cells were prepared as described above. Single cell suspensions from lymph nodes were purified for T cells by nylon wool column. The spleen cells were suspended in 1.0 ml of 10 mM 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonate (TNBS), incubated at 37°C for 10 min, washed three times, and used as stimulator cells. 105 T cells were cultured in 96-well round-bottomed plates in 200 μl of complete medium in the presence or absence of 105 mitomycin C–treated TNBS-modified spleen cells or nonmodified spleen cells for 3 d. The supernatants were harvested and store at −80°C. These supernatants were used for ELISA.
Samples of ear tissue extracts for ELISA were prepared as described by Ferguson et al. 17. In brief, at 24 h after the application of TNCB, the ears were excised and immediately homogenized with a 10-fold vol of 0.1% Tween 20 in PBS. The samples were quickly frozen in liquid nitrogen, thawed in a 37°C water bath, sonicated for 15 s, and centrifuged for 5 min at 13,000 g, and supernatants were used for ELISA. The supernatants were stored at −80°C. The ELISA assays for IL-4, IL-5, and IFN-γ were conducted using ELISA kits (Endogen) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Measurement of Serum Concentrations of IgE, IgG1, and IgG2.
Blood was drawn from the sinus cavernous, and serum was obtained by centrifugation at 1,500 g for 10 min. The serum IgE level was determined using a commercial ELISA kit (Yamasa). Concentrations of IgG1 and IgG2 were determined using commercial ELISA kits (Bethyl Laboratories) according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Adoptive Transfer Experiments.
Cell suspensions obtained from lymph nodes from TNCB-sensitized wt mice were injected into the ears of naive STAT6−/− mice or wt mice (five mice per group; 2 × 105 per 20 μl PBS [12]). The mice were immediately challenged by applying 10 μl 1% TNCB in olive oil or olive oil alone on both sides of the ear. In these experiments, negative controls were groups of mice injected with PBS subcutaneously into the ear and challenged with 1% TNCB, or groups of mice injected with lymph node cells subcutaneously into the ear and challenged with olive oil. Ear thickness was measured as described above after 24 h.
Histological Examination.
The ear skin specimens were excised and fixed in 10% formalin, then processed and stained with hematoxylin and eosin, May-Grünwald-Giemsa, or toluidine blue. The number of mononuclear cells, mast cells, and granulocytes such as neutrophils and eosinophils infiltrating into the dermis was evaluated by staining the tissue specimen stained with Giemsa solution. The section was examined at a magnification of 400. At least 10 fields were examined for each lobe. The number of cells was counted and expressed as the number of cells per square millimeter.
Statistical Analysis.
The experimental data are expressed as the mean ± SD and shown in the figures as mean + SD for clarity. The statistical analysis was performed using the Student's t test.
Diminished CHS Response to DNFB, TNCB, and Oxa in STAT6−/− Mice.
To evaluate the capacity of STAT6−/− mice to develop a CHS reaction, we examined the CHS response to DNFB, TNCB, and Oxa in STAT6−/− and wt mice. As shown in Fig. 1, the CHS response to DNFB decreased drastically, and the early phase of CHS to TNCB or Oxa was significantly diminished in STAT6−/− mice compared with wt mice (Fig. 1a,Fig. b,Fig. c). The peak response of ear swelling was detected 24 h after the challenge in wt mice, whereas the peak response was observed at 48 h after challenge in STAT6−/− mice.
Normal Irritation Response and Delayed-Type Hypersensitivity Response Induced by Sheep RBCs of STAT6−/− Mice.
To determine whether or not STAT6 signaling is also essential for the induction of an irritant response, the irritant response was examined in STAT6−/− and wt mice after a challenge with the irritant croton oil. After exposure to 1 or 100% croton oil, maximal swelling was detected at 24 h in both wt and STAT6−/− mice (Fig. 2 A and B). As with the irritant treatment, no difference was observed between the STAT6−/− and wt mice.
The data presented in Fig. 3 show the delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) response induced by sheep RBCs in STAT6−/− and wt mice. After the challenge with a subcutaneous injection of sheep RBCs, maximal swelling was detected at 24 h in both wt and STAT6−/− mice. There was no significant difference between STAT6−/− and wt mice.
Histopathology of TNCB-induced CHS Induced in STAT6−/− Mice.
Since the CHS to TNCB in STAT6−/− mice decreased at 24 h after challenge, we performed a histological analysis in STAT6−/− mice and wt mice sensitized by TNCB. As shown in Fig. 4, a histological examination revealed that severe edema was detected in the challenged skin of the wt mice (Fig. 4 A), but not in the STAT6−/− mice (Fig. 4 B). A very severe inflammatory response with a strong infiltration of eosinophils, neutrophils, and mononuclear cells was observed in wt mice (Fig. 4 C). In contrast, only a mild inflammatory response with a diminished infiltration of mononuclear cells and neutrophils was observed in the challenged skin in STAT6−/− mice (Fig. 4 D). The number of infiltrated mononuclear cells, eosinophils, and neutrophils in the skin was calculated in both the STAT6−/− and wt mice. TNCB-challenged wt mice had a significantly greater number of eosinophils and neutrophils than the TNCB-challenged STAT6−/− mice (P < 0.01; Fig. 5).
No Elevation of Serum IgE and IgG1 in STAT6−/− Mice Challenged with TNCB.
As IgE is thought to be important in the pathogenesis of CHS 18,19, STAT6−/− and wt mice sensitized with TNCB were challenged with TNCB or olive oil. At 24 h after the TNCB-sensitized mice were challenged, the mice were bled, and the serum concentrations of IgE, IgG1, and IgG2a were measured by ELISA. The TNCB-challenged wt mice produced significantly higher amounts of serum IgE than the olive oil–challenged littermates. In contrast, neither the olive oil– nor the TNCB-challenged STAT6−/− mice produced detectable levels of serum IgE (Fig. 6). The wt mice displayed the expected increase in IgG1 concentration after TNCB challenge, whereas the serum IgG1 levels were not augmented after the TNCB challenge (Fig. 7 A). The serum concentration of IgG2a equally but not significantly increased after the TNCB challenge in both the wt and STAT6−/− mice, indicating that both mice were sensitized with TNCB (Fig. 7 B).
Lymph Nodes and Local Production of Cytokines in STAT6−/− Mice.
Neither IL-4 nor IL-5 was detected in the supernatants from T cells stimulated with TNP-conjugated spleen cells in STAT6−/− mice. However, the level of IFN-γ in the supernatants from T cells of STAT6−/− mice was comparable to that in the wt mice (Fig. 8 A).
In the supernatant from skin tissue obtained from TNCB-challenged wt mice, the levels of both IL-4 and IL-5 were significantly higher than those in the supernatant from olive oil–challenged wt mice (Fig. 8 B). In contrast, these Th2 cytokine levels in the supernatant from TNCB-challenged STAT6−/− mice did not increase (Fig. 8 B). The level of IFN-γ in the STAT6−/− mice was comparable to that in the wt mice (Fig. 8 B).
Cytofluorometric Enumeration of LCs and Thy1 Dendritic ECs in Epidermal Sheets, and Characterization of Surface Marker of LCs in Cell Suspension.
The CHS response is dependent on the capacity of LCs of the skin to present the allergen and to activate T cells. To determine whether the morphology and distribution of LCs in STAT6−/− mice were normal, epidermal sheets were prepared from the ears of STAT6−/− and wt mice. The LCs were stained with anti-Iab mAb. The epidermal sheets obtained from STAT6−/− mice revealed an equal number of LCs compared with the LCs of wt mice (Fig. 9 A). No difference in the morphology of LCs was detected in the epidermal sheet between STAT6−/− and wt mice (data not shown). Furthermore, we examined the differences in the surface marker on LCs between wt and STAT6−/− mice by a FACS® analysis. The expression of CD40, CD80, CD86, intercellular adhesion molecule 1, CD32, CD11b, and F4/80 on LCs in STAT6−/− mice was comparable with that in the wt mice (data not shown).
Assessment of the T Cell–stimulatory Capacity of Epidermal Cells in STAT6−/− Mice.
To investigate whether the LCs contained within the EC population were capable of supporting T cell stimulation, the ability of LCs to induce proliferation of allogeneic T cells was determined. The enriched LCs were prepared as described in Materials and Methods. The population of LCs in ECs in STAT6−/− was not substantially different from that in the wt mice in each experiment. Cultured enriched LCs in STAT6−/− mice provided efficient stimulators of T cell proliferation when alloreactive Balb/c mouse spleen cells were used as the responder T cells (Fig. 9 B). These results indicated that the T cell–stimulatory capacity of enriched LCs in the skin of STAT6−/− mice was comparable to that in the control mice (Fig. 9 B).
Lymph Node Cells from Wt Mice Induced CHS in STAT6−/− Mice.
To clarify whether the defect of CHS in STAT6−/− is at the afferent or efferent phase, adoptive transfer experiments were conducted. Lymph node cells from the wt mice sensitized with 5% TNCB were injected subcutaneously into the ears of STAT6−/− mice or wt mice, followed by a challenge with TNCB applied epicutaneously. Ear swelling was measured 12 and 24 h after challenge. As expressed in Fig. 10, not only wt but also STAT6−/− mice exhibited CHS after the injection of lymph node cells from the sensitized wt mice (Fig. 10). These data thus indicated that STAT6 is an important signal during the induction of CHS.
Although considerable progress has been made in elucidating the mechanism of CHS, the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating CHS are still obscure. CHS is thought to be dependent on Th1 cells 2,3,20, although IL-4 has also been demonstrated to be involved in the response of CHS 7,8,9. It has also been reported that Th2 cells in mouse skin can induce a cellular inflammatory response with faster kinetics 21. In this paper, we questioned whether Th2 cells or Th2-type cytokines were also involved in the pathogenesis of the CHS response. It is well known that Th2 cells or Th2-type cytokines inhibit the activity of the Th1 cells in CHS in vitro. The IL-10 produced by Th2 cells indirectly inhibited the synthesis of Th1-type cytokines by abrogating the secretion of IL-12 by macrophages or by the secretion of Th1 cytokines 22,23. IL-4 directly inhibits Th1 cytokine, IL-12, and also inhibited the effector phase of CHS 24. In contrast to these reports, Asherson et al. 9 demonstrated that IL-4 plays a key role in CHS. They speculated that the IL-4 secreted from mast cells or B220+ cells binds to γ/δ1 T cells, and thus induces them to produce IL-4 or different cytokines that increased the expression of adhesion molecules on endothelial cells, which play a critical role in the induction of CHS 9. It has recently been reported that the CHS to DNFB decreased in IL-4–deficient mice 10, in contrast with another group's results in which Oxa was used as a contact allergen 11, and IL-4–deficient mice on a C57BL/6 did not show a reduced ear swelling response 48 h after challenge 11. A very recent report demonstrated that CHS to dinitrochlorobenzene but not to Oxa is inhibited in IL-4–deficient mice 12. It therefore remains unclear whether CHS is upregulated or downregulated in IL-4–deficient mice. We recently established STAT6-deficient mice and concluded that STAT6 plays a central role in exerting IL-4– and IL-13–mediated biological responses 13,14. Therefore, we used a STAT6-deficient mice model to study the role of Th2 cytokines, especially IL-4 and IL-13, in CHS.
Compared with the wt control mice, the ear swelling response in STAT6−/− mice significantly decreased at 24 h after the challenge. However, the reduction in ear swelling was not significant at 48 h after the challenge in the TNCB-induced CHS. The peak response of ear swelling was observed at 48 but not 24 h after challenge in STAT6−/− mice sensitized with Oxa, TNCB, or DNFB as the contact allergen. These data may be consistent with the recent demonstration that IL-4 plays a major role in the initiation phase of CHS and inhibits the late phase of CHS 8,9. However, our results do not correlate with those of CHS in IL-4−/− mice, as the Oxa-induced CHS did not diminish in the IL-4−/− mice 11,12. It is well known that the Th2 response was completely diminished in STAT6−/− mice, but a residual Th2 response has been clearly observed in IL-4−/− mice 13,14. This may explain the marked differences of CHS in response to a hapten challenge between the IL-4−/− mice and STAT6−/− mice.
Furthermore, neither the irritant response nor the DTH response induced by sheep RBCs decreased in STAT6−/− mice. These results indicated that STAT6 signaling may not play a critical role in the induction of either the irritant response or the DTH response induced by sheep RBCs. In contrast to IL-4 or IL-13, IL-10 is a suppressant of the cutaneous inflammatory response, including both the CHS and the irritant response 11.
A histological analysis revealed a tremendous reduction in the infiltration of both eosinophils and neutrophils in TNCB-challenged skin of STAT6−/− mice. In addition, the antigen-induced edematous changes in the dermis were also completely dependent on STAT6 signaling. In mice, the polymorphonuclear cell response has been demonstrated to be more vigorous than in guinea pigs, and eosinophils also infiltrated the TNCB-induced CHS in a peak response at 24 h after challenge 25,26. To date, the exact roles of these polymorphonuclear cells are still unclear. However, our data indicate that polymorphonuclear cells, including eosinophils and neutrophils dependent on STAT6 signaling, may play a major role in the induction of CHS.
Not only Th1 but also Th2 cells have been reported to induce hapten-specific CHS 21, and STAT6 proteins have been shown to be essential in Th2 differentiation in vitro 13,14. STAT6 signaling is essential for hapten-induced increase in Th2 cytokine production in vivo. The hapten-challenged wt mice demonstrated significant elevations in the Th2 cytokines (i.e., IL-4 and IL-5). In marked contrast, STAT6−/− mice were unable to produce IL-4 or IL-5 in response to the skin challenge. Interestingly, not only in challenged skin but also in lymph nodes, no detectable Th2 cytokines in supernatants of T cells stimulated in a hapten-specific manner were observed in STAT6−/− mice. These data indicated that the Th2 cells defected in STAT6−/− mice. A lack of Th2 cytokine production after hapten challenge in STAT6−/− mice reflects the balance of the Th1- and Th2-dependent antibody isotype production in the serum of STAT6−/− mice. TNCB-challenged wt mice developed an IgG1 and IgE antibody profile with a low IgG2a level. In contrast, STAT6−/− mice have predominant IgG2 antibody production and no detectable IgE, which is consistent with previous data in a mouse model of atopic asthma 27,28,29. TNCB-challenged wt mice produced a small amount of IgE. Ptak and colleagues 18,19 demonstrated that a low dose but not a high dose of IgE mediated DTH initiation via release of small amounts of 5-hydroxytryptamine by mast cells. IgE has also been reported to induce late-phase cutaneous reactions in humans 30,31. These results indicate that a small amount of IgE induced by STAT6 signaling in wt mice may play a critical role in the induction of CHS.
Since IL-4 modulates the differentiation of LCs from monocytes 32,33, we examined the population, morphology, surface marker, and function of LCs in STAT6−/− compared with wt mice. The density of LCs in the epidermis of STAT6−/− mice did not decrease. After the short-term culture of LCs, the development of LCs was not impaired. The expression of costimulatory molecules on LCs was not downregulated in STAT6−/− mice (data not shown). In line with these data, the allostimulatory activity of enriched LCs was also comparable in STAT6−/− and wt mice. The fact that LCs differentiated normally in the absence of a passageway through Th2-derived cytokines correlates with results by Weigmann et al. 10 and Georgopoulos et al. 34. As far as the LCs are concerned, the morphology, function, and surface marker of LCs in STAT6−/− were comparable with those in the wt mice.
Interestingly, adoptive transfer experiments revealed that the CHS response could be elicited when lymph node cells from sensitized wt mice were injected into the ears of STAT6−/− mice. These data indicate that STAT6 is an important signal during the induction phase, as also suggested previously by recent reports 8,12.
The transfer of DTH by cells from immune mice has been shown to require collaboration between α/β- and γ/δ-bearing T cells 35, and IL-4 plays a critical role through γ/δ T cells 9. However, in contrast to IL-4−/− mice 10, density and morphology of γ/δ1 Thy1 dendritic ECs (DECs) in the epidermis of the STAT6−/− mice were comparable with those in wt mice. Further studies are presently being conducted to elucidate the exact role of γ/δ T cells in CHS.
In summary, STAT6 is essential in the induction of CHS. STAT6 mediates CHS via its pivotal role in Th2 differentiation, resulting in the subsequent stimulation of IgE synthesis and the infiltration of eosinophils or neutrophils into the skin.
We thank Ms. Motoko Sekiya for her excellent technical assistance.
This work was partially supported by the Cosmetology Research Foundation, and by grants 08670952 and 10670781 from the Ministry of Education, Japan.
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Abbreviations used in this paper: CHS, contact hypersensitivity; DEC, dendritic EC; DNFB, 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene; DTH, delayed-type hypersensitivity; EC, epidermal cell; LC, Langerhans cell; STAT, signal transducer and activator of transcription; TNBS, 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonate; TNCB, 2,4,6-trinitrochlorobenzene; wt, wild-type.
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STAT6−/− mice exhibit a reduced CHS elicitation. STAT6−/− mice (□, ▪) and wt (WT) mice (▵, ▴) were contact sensitized for 2 d with (A) 5% TNCB, (B) 5% Oxa, or (C) 0.5% DNFB 2 d after the last immunization, and thereafter both mice were challenged. The maximal ear swelling was detected at 24 h for the wt mice and at 72 h for the STAT6−/− mice. The data presented are the mean values + SD of five mice per group and are representative of five independent experiments. *P < 0.01, significant compared with the results obtained with wt mice.
The STAT6−/− mice did not exhibit a reduced irritant response. The increases in the ear thickness of wt (WT) or STAT6−/− mice on a C57BL/6 background were measured 24 and 48 h after the application of (A) 1% croton oil or (B) 100% croton oil. The data presented are the mean values + SD of five mice per group and are representative of three independent experiments.
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The STAT6−/− mice did not exhibit a reduced DTH induced by sheep RBCs (SRBC). Wt (WT) and STAT6−/− mice were sensitized with the subcutaneous injection of 0.1 ml of 20% sheep RBCs. The increases in foot pad thickness of the wt or STAT6−/− mice on a C57BL/6 background were measured 24 and 48 h after challenge by 20% sheep RBCs. Data presented are the mean values + SD of five mice per group and are representative of three independent experiments.
Effect of STAT6 deficiency on the cellular distribution of challenged skin. Challenged skin was obtained from wt (WT) and STAT6−/− mice after challenge with the application of 1% TNCB or olive oil. Bars represent the number of eosinophils, neutrophils, monocytes/macrophages, and mast cells that infiltrated the challenged skin. The results shown are from a single experiment representative of three separate experiments. *P < 0.01 vs. TNCB-challenged wt mice. **P < 0.05 vs. TNCB-challenged wt mice.
Histopathological findings of the CHS induced by TNCB painting in wt or STAT6−/− mice. Wt mice or STAT6−/− mice were immunized for two consecutive days by topical painting with 5% TNCB. 3 d after the last abdominal application, the mice were challenged by applying 1% TNCB solution. Histological features of the 24-h CHS ear skin reaction challenged by TNCB in wt mice (A and C) or in STAT6−/− mice (B and D) stained with Giemsa solution. An extremely large degree of edema was detected in the TNCB-challenged skin in the wt mice (A) but not in the STAT6−/− mice (B). A strong infiltration of mononuclear cells (Mo), neutrophils (Neu), and eosinophils (Eo) was observed in the dermis of wt mice (C); however, a diminished infiltration of neutrophils and mononuclear cells was observed in the dermis of STAT6−/− mice (D).
The serum IgG1 (A) and IgG2a (B) levels in olive oil– and TNCB-challenged sensitized wt (WT) and STAT6−/− mice. The mice were treated as described in Materials and Methods. Serum was analyzed by ELISA. The data represent the mean + SD for groups of four mice and are representative of three independent experiments. The Ig level was measured by ELISA at 24 h after the challenge. *P < 0.01 compared with other groups.
Serum IgE levels of sensitized wt and STAT6−/− mice challenged with olive oil and TNCB. Mice were treated as described in Materials and Methods. The serum was analyzed by ELISA. The data represent the mean + SD for groups of four mice and are representative of three independent experiments. Ig levels were measured by ELISA at 24 h after the challenge. *P < 0.01 compared with other groups.
(A) The cytokine levels in the supernatants from T cells activated with TNBS-modified spleen cells or nonmodified spleen cells in sensitized STAT6−/− mice and wt (WT) mice. The lymph node cells were prepared as described above. Single cell suspensions from lymph nodes were purified for T cells by a nylon wool column. T cells were cultured in the presence or absence of mitomycin C–treated TNBS-modified spleen cells (TNP-SC) or nonmodified spleen cells (SC) for 3 d. The supernatants were used for ELISA. No detectable IL-4 or IL-5 in supernatants from deficient mice was observed. The data represent the mean concentrated values obtained from the supernatants from three wells and are representative of three independent experiments. The bars depict mean cpm + SD for triplicate experiments. *P < 0.01 compared with the cytokine levels in the supernatants from T cells stimulated with nonmodified spleen cells. (B) The cytokine levels in the skin tissue supernatants in olive oil– and TNCB-challenged sensitized STAT6−/− mice and wt (WT) mice. The data represent the mean + SD for groups of four mice and are representative of three independent experiments. The cytokine levels were measured by comparing them with all other groups. *P < 0.01 compared with other groups.
The population and function of LCs or Thy1+ DEC T cells between wt and STAT6−/− mice. (A) Thy1+ DEC T cells and I-A+ LCs show similar levels in the epidermal sheets prepared from STAT6−/− compared with wt (WT) mice. After epidermal sheets were prepared, fixed, and washed with PBS, they were incubated overnight at 4°C with FITC-conjugated anti–I-A mAb or FITC-conjugated anti–TCR-γ/δ mAb. The results shown are from a single experiment and are representative of three separate experiments. (B) The allostimulatory capacity of the enriched LCs prepared from the STAT6−/− mice is similar to that from the wt (WT) mice. ECs were prepared with trypsin from wt or STAT6−/− mice. The cultured LCs were harvested, separated with a gradient, washed, and then used as stimulator cells for T cell proliferation. 105 CD3+ T cells were seeded in the presence of 1–103 × 105 of enriched LCs in 96-well round-bottomed culture plates. The proliferation of T cells was revealed by [3H]TdR incorporation after 6 d of culturing. The results are representative of five experiments. Bars depict mean cpm + SD for triplicate experiments.
Lymph node cells from sensitized wt mice could induce CHS in STAT6−/− mice. Adoptive transfer experiments were performed. Lymph node cells from the sensitized wt mice were injected subcutaneously into the ears of STAT6−/− and wt mice. The mice were challenged immediately after injection of lymph node cells with 1% TNCB or olive oil. Ear swelling was measured after 24 h. As a negative control, mice were challenged immediately after injection of PBS with 1% TNCB (PBS). As a positive control, the mice were contact sensitized by two daily consecutive topical applications of 50 μl of 5% TNCB on shaved abdominal skin. After 5 d, these mice were challenged with 1% TNCB (TNCB painting). The data represent the mean swelling values obtained after 24 h with five mice per group and are representative of three independent experiments. *P < 0.01 compared with other negative control groups; **P < 0.05 compared with other negative control groups.
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A Private War – Film Review
By Kelechi Ehenulo 25 January 2019 2 June 2019
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I’ve always been an admirer of Rosamund Pike. Let’s just say she has come a long way since Die Another Day! But as we are in the awards season period, it becomes difficult not to think about her contributions. Her career-defining role will always be Amy Dunne in Gone Girl – a Gillian Flynn and David Fincher masterclass on the dark and psychological expectations of women and the idealism of perfection. Hostiles and Entebbe are her other notable works, but in Matthew Heineman’s A Private War, it’s right up there as one of her best.
Playing The Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin is one of those roles that’s tailor-made for Pike. As demonstrated in Gone Girl, her transforming commitment unlocks another layer of versatility that can be talked about in the same degree as we would talk about Christian Bale or Leonardo DiCaprio ‘going the distance’ in their roles for example. She’s barely recognisable as the haggard, psychologically tortured, chain-smoking, alcoholic, abrasive yet steely determined journalist. Her mannerisms and voice are spot-on accurate, and A Private War is just another visual statement of that trait.
Judging this solely on the film itself without incorporating the 2018 documentary Under the Wire (which is now on my watchlist), Heineman’s depiction also feels timely. Not just because of Hollywood’s slow awakening from its formulaic slumber to highlight more complex, diverse and nuanced female characters for the big screen (and Hollywood still has a long way to go in that respect), but also the journalistic landscape of war reporting, especially in this era where ‘fake news’ and political tribalism dominates the headlines. Therefore, A Private War becomes more than just a biopic, but more of a self-referential question to an ongoing and complex battlefield fought on two fronts – documenting the unreported and personal horrors of war and Marie’s committed compulsion to report it despite the psychological trauma and her eventual death.
It handles Colvin’s story as a dichotomy, celebrating the honesty, courageousness and dedication of her work in Sri Lanka, Libya and Syria but also the subsequent recklessness that it involved. As a film representation of ‘old school’ journalism, it shares notable company with Spielberg’s The Post, McCarthy’s Spotlight or Pakula’s All the President’s Men. Bearing in mind that A Private War is more of a character study than a hardline, investigative piece, the difference and probably most refreshing aspect about it is that the perspective is female.
The perils are up there on the screen, with the aggressive hostility and the indiscriminate nature war brings to the table. Colvin does come across as incredibly silly, downright scary to watch someone propel themselves in the face of danger knowing what that outcome would be. But there was never a moment where you question the utmost bravery she encompasses.
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That effectively serves Pike’s performance well which is honest and unapologetic without portraying Marie Colvin as a saint-like figure. It’s the complete performance by Pike, taking on Marie’s public abrasiveness towards her colleagues in pursuit of the issues that mattered most as summed up by her relenting nature to document the human experience of war. But A Private War aimed to present two sides of the raw equation.
There’s a brilliant passage where she acknowledges the dynamic predicaments of her life, all dictated by fear. It’s the desire of having kids, but after suffering two failed miscarriages fears it may never happen. It’s the fear of growing old but laced with a fear of dying young. It’s the fear of wanting what everyone else has in life but acknowledging that they’re meant for another purpose and can’t escape the hateful compulsion to face the frontline. It’s a sad reflection watching someone grasp their mortality, essentially making Marie Colvin’s tragic story empathetically compelling and it’s that re-enforced message that never leaves your mindset in determining the point of the film – there’s always a human cost to war.
There are times where the depiction is a little simplistic, especially arguing the case of Colvin’s life away from the frontline. The film often finds its supporting characters telling Marie she has a problem, comparing it to addiction as she ignores the consequent symptoms of PTSD. Her excessive lifestyle is her way running away from the excuses, almost denying its existence. However, Pike’s performance draws paralleled similarities with Amy Adams in Sharp Objects and even Nicole Kidman in Destroyer, characters who wear the pain on the sleeves, not because of some higher morality, gender expectation or for our benefit for entertainment, but illustrating how inseparable their relevant circumstances have become. At least it’s messy and ugly without judgement, even in dramatised form. Paying respects to her motivational drives and shining a light on stories that often go unreported, A Private War brings a different set of anxieties that distinguishes it from most war films and frankly, there are enough talking points to be gained from Pike’s performance than most biopics accomplish in most years.
Despite some rough editing and stylistic choices, credit must be given to Matthew Heineman for utilising the skills he achieved from his Oscar-nominated documentary Cartel Land. Never failing to bring a sense of eerie foreboding to the entire film with its guerrilla-style documentary feel and diary entry voiceovers, you’re always touching distance from the chaos that surrounds Marie and her photojournalist Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan). Paramount to the psychological dangers, it doesn’t shy away from the ‘bring your work home with you’ reality with its brilliant recreations of Marie’s home looking like a battlefield as a vessel for the trauma to resurface.
What stops A Private War from elevating as a five-star masterpiece is how it tackles its supporting characters. Underdeveloped, they’re not given sufficient material or depth to make them particularly interesting or worth value.
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Stanley Tucci as Tony Shaw is more or less a cameo, a one-night stand/new lover for Marie to take the mind off the psychological pressures. His cameo appearance is still better than Andy Garcia’s ‘blink, and you will miss him’ appearance in Passengers, but for someone who carries your attention with every role he does, Tucci is worth more than what was presented. Tom Hollander as news editor Sean Ryan comfortably languishes in duplicitous mode, someone who cares more about the story, the reputation of the paper and the number of awards it receives instead of the welfare of their top reporter.
Even Paul gets left behind in the conversation. Some of the most humane moments from A Private War is Marie’s friendship with Paul, and while it can be easily explained away by Heineman’s devoted focal point, it somewhat represents a missed opportunity to see more of its development. The profound moments they share are bleak conversations tinged with dark humour. For example, it’s Marie justifying wearing a fancy bra because if she died, she wanted to look good when they dragged her body out of the trenches or acknowledging their regret at not booking a trip to Aleppo (as if the situation was going to be better there!) as they camp out in Homs, Syria under the terrible barrage of militarised shelling.
There’s always a danger with biopics because of its brief narratives and missed opportunities and thoughts linger whether it could have delved deeper into the humanitarian crisis that Marie reported on. Make no mistake there are heartbreaking moments which forces us to acknowledge government immorality and lack of humanity. But as authentically real it challenges itself to be, capturing the visceral terror and the emotion to carry it through when it mattered is strangely absent in some places. What Heineman presents are snapshots that scratch the surface, and perhaps the best way to explore that comprehensive context would be to view Under the Wire.
However, what A Private War ultimately represents is an understanding of Marie Colvin’s life. It doesn’t pretend to be perfect, but it does enough to mirror and relay its message. Pike’s tour-de-force performance is enough to give it that credibility as a first step basis for further insight (or in my case, go and watch the documentary).
As Marie, Rosamund Pike empathetically gives it her all, humanising her complex yet flawed frailties. Placing its audience in situations we wouldn’t dream thinking about, it celebrates the rebellious bravery to what she accomplished. Just like the real-life Colvin, she put a human face to war. “I saw it so you don’t have to,” she says, and somewhere out there, someone forgot to announce Pike’s Oscar nomination.
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Blue Origin successfully launches and lands key crew capsule test in first mission of 2021
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Blue Origin launched its first mission of 2021, flying its New Shepard rocket in West Texas to a medium height of just over 350,000 feet. This is the first flight for this particular booster, and for the capsule it carried, which was equipped with a range of new passenger safety, control and comfort systems that Blue Origin was testing during flight for the first time. Also on board was a life-sized test dummy called "Mannequin Skywalker" that recorded information during the flight and landing that the Blue Origin will now review.
Based on the video stream and commentary from the company, this looks like a very successful test, including a takeoff, booster separation, controlled landing burn and touchdown -- and a parachute-aided landing back on terra firma for the crew capsule. The mission didn't carry any real passengers, although there were 50,000 postcards on board from school kids globally that have now officially been to space (past the Karman line) which will be returned to those students via Blue Origin's nonprofit "Club for the Future."
This is essentially what the mission will look like once Blue Origin actually begins to fly paying private astronauts to suborbital space as well; while we don't have a timeline for when that'll happen, today's launch included key tests of a crew alert system that will provide anyone onboard with crucial mission information, as well as a new soft lining on the wall for protection during the weightless portion of the flight, as well as for sound and vibration dampening for the comfort of those on board. This capsule was also equipped with a carbon dioxide scrubber, which will be used to provide safe atmosphere for those within the capsule during the course of the flight.
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Copy Jonathan Simkhai's Thanksgiving Crowdpleaser: Buffalo Chicken Dip
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New York-based fashion designer Jonathan Simkhai has designed dresses for First Lady Michelle Obama, Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett, and model-of-the-moment Gigi Hadid, but he also knows how to kick Thanksgiving off right with a crowd-pleasing appetizer: Buffalo Chicken Dip. “For the past few years, it’s been my signature Thanksgiving dish,” he says. “It is definitely the tastiest appetizer on the coffee table, and eating it with celery will make you feel only slightly less guilty!”
½ cup crumbled blue cheese
½ cup blue-cheese salad dressing
½ cup Frank’s Red Hot sauce
2 cups shredded cooked chicken breast
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine cream cheese, salad dressing, and hot sauce in a large bowl. Fold in blue cheese and chicken. Pour into an oven-proof serving dish and bake in oven for 15-20 minutes – until the dish starts to bubble. Serve with crudités and sliced baguette.
Jim Carrey Celebrates the End of Trump’s Presidency by Throwing Paper Towels at TV
It wasn’t in the form of his usual drawings, but Jim Carrey made sure he paid tribute to Trump’s four-year presidency in a unique way. The actor posted a tweet on Tuesday that included a video of Trump making a speech on CNBC. The short video plays in slow motion, with no words and only unruly bagpipe music in the background. It includes Carrey throwing a paper towel roll at the television and manages to slyly mock the outgoing leader in just 25 seconds. “How do you spell relief?” asks a caption that plays over the video, before following up with the answer: “I spell it…GOODBYE!” pic.twitter.com/22fbeUUyeo — Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) January 19, 2021 Carrey’s feelings toward Trump aren’t exactly a secret. But given how hard he throws that paper towel roll, we’re pretty sure he’s more than a little excited that as of tomorrow, Trump’s presidency will be over. Over the past four years, the actor-turned-artist has used his platform to spotlight his dislike of the 45th president by posting cartoons and drawings that depict Trump and his administration in not-so-flattering ways — from the mismanaged handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, to FOX News and their biased reporting, to mocking the pro-Trump rioters who recently stormed the Capitol. Also Read: Jim Carrey Needles Sen Kelly Loeffler Over COVID 'Blood Money' in New Cartoon While Carrey will probably continue making cartoons in the era of the new administration, let’s hope that (for as brilliant as the past four years of his work were), they’re a little more peaceful. And while we’re sure he never wants to draw anything relating to Trump again at this point, maybe we can look forward to a return of his famous drawings depending on what happens after Trump leaves the White House. Today is the last full day that Trump is in office. Tomorrow, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be sworn in as president and vice president of the United States. Read original story Jim Carrey Celebrates the End of Trump’s Presidency by Throwing Paper Towels at TV At TheWrap
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Chelsea extend flying start
Sunday, August 22, 2010 14:07
WIGAN, Aug 22, 2010 (AFP) - Doubles from Nicolas Anelka and Salomon Kalou helped Chelsea continue their flying start to their Premier League title defence with a 6-0 thrashing of Wigan at the DW Stadium on Saturday.
Florent Malouda and Yossi Benayoun were also on target as Carlo Ancelotti's men followed up their opening day defeat of West Brom by the same scoreline.
Anelka, who was banned this week from representing France for 18 internationals in the wake of his behaviour at the World Cup, showed no signs of sulking as he struck twice in four second half minutes to kill-off the home side's stubborn resistance and help Chelsea continue their remarkable run of form.
Anelka (R) celebrates with Chelsea's Didier Drogba after scoring his side's third goal during the English Premier League football match between Wigan Athletic and Chelsea on August 21, 2010. AFP
Florent Malouda broke the stalemate in the 34th minute before Anelka added his brace, with substitute Kalou adding two and Benayoun one more to take Chelsea's tally of goals to 29 in their last four league matches.
They have also failed to concede one in almost 500 minutes of play.
Wigan manager Roberto Martinez had responded to his side's opening day humbling by Blackpool by recalling Charles N'Zogbia to his starting line-up.
The French international had been overlooked last weekend in the wake of a training ground dispute between him and Martinez amid suggestions he wanted to leave the club.
There was also a league debut for Dutch defender Ronnie Stam, while Chelsea recalled Branislav Ivanovic at the expense of Paulo Ferreira.
Home supporters would have turned up for this game fearing the worst considering what happened seven days ago and the fact Chelsea put eight past them on the final afternoon of last season.
Yet it seemed the harsh words Martinez had spoken on the training field had sunk in as Wigan made the brighter start and, more importantly, appeared resolute and organised at the back.
Mauro Boselli just failed to connect with a dangerous cross from Hugo Rodallega inside six minutes before Petr Cech was forced to parry a blistering drive from Maynor Figueroa.
Chelsea, meanwhile, struggled to put Chris Kirkland under any pressure in the Wigan goal with just a hopeful strike from Michael Essien all they had to show for the opening 30 minutes, in which time they had been second best by some distance.
Yet despite finding themselves under pressure Ancelotti's side somehow managed to engineer the game's opening goal against the run of play in the 34th minute. It was their first meaningful attack but worth the wait as Didier Drogba and Ashley Cole combined superbly down the left flank to find Frank Lampard in a strong shooting position.
Lampard seemed destined to score only to see his effort superbly kept out, but the loose ball fell kindly to Malouda, who duly dispatched it into an open goal.
Wigan needed to score the next goal to make this a contest but it went to Anelka, who charged onto John Obi Mikel's raking pass before guiding a diagonal drive past Kirkland and into the bottom corner in the 48th minute.
He then made it 3-0 just four minutes later, finishing from close range following good work from Malouda and Drogba.
Drogba, who picked up the man of the match award, also provided the final passes for both of Kalou's goals -- a tap-in and a glancing header -- before Benayoun swept a low shot past Kirkland in the 90th minute.
To increase the misery for Wigan, who have now conceded ten goals in successive home defeats, they saw Figueroa stretchered off in the dying minutes with what looked like a serious knee injury.
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Home News Obasanjo is behind the problem of this country – Oba Akiolu
Obasanjo is behind the problem of this country – Oba Akiolu
Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the most troublesome person in Nigeria.
Akiolu who has over time had spats with the former president, said this when he met with participants of the senior executive course (41) of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) who paid him a courtesy visit at his palace in Lagos yesterday Wednesday, May 15th.
The monarch while reflecting on the outcome of the 2019 general election, berated Obasanjo for fighting vehemently against the re-election of President Buhari whom he described as God’s choice for Nigeria.
“I had said that Buhari would win even before the election, unfortunately, the number one person creating problems in this country is former president Obasanjo. He arrogated to himself the powers of the Almighty Allah by saying it was the support he gave to Buhari that made him win the first term.
“Obasanjo said Buhari would not win the second term, but did Buhari not win? Did I not say Obasanjo will be disappointed by the time the results were announced. The president’s victory clearly shows power belongs to God only and no man can decide who leads the country.”
Urging Nigerians to support the president, Akiolu said the problems of insecurity, unemployment and other challenges of the country would be better tackled if citizens joined hands with government to address them.
He also advised Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to drop his case against Buhari’s victory at the presidential poll.
He said Atiku’s case will amount to nothing at the end of the day, adding that he strongly believed Buhari had the mandate of Nigerians and would finish his term in office.
”If anyone of you here is close to Atiku, tell him he can never succeed in what he is doing now,” he said.
”Buhari will complete his term in office, but Buhari too has to listen, to the people, pray to God and be honest in what he is doing.”
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Road to Final Four narrows; 5 hopefuls, 4 spots.
Basseterre,St. Kitts- After an action packed weekend, the football fraternity are now more certain of the top teams vying for the coveted Final Four spots. The Final Four Competition has always been the local competition that fans, players and coaches alike look forward to at the beginning of the season.
After Saturday’s defeat over Cayon, Rams Village Superstars remain contenders for one of four spots. A warning was sent to the other four teams vying for spot when Village found the back of the net a whopping seven(7) times. Not only did Village manage to outscore Cayon, they also managed to play a card-less match which means all players are eligible to play their next match.
Delphic Newtown United was definitely hoping to steal three points from Conaree on Saturday but only managed to get one, leaving Conaree with the other. Both teams are still however hoping to advance to the playoffs.
Sunday’s first matchup saw Mantab and St. Thomas Trinity Strikers engaging in fierce competition but just like the last matchup on Saturday, neither managed to outscore the other, hence only one point was afforded to each.
The last game of the weekend saw Final Four hopefuls S L Horsford St. Pauls coming up against Harris Paint St. Peters. St. Pauls, who needed the win to stay in the race convinced the fans they deserved to have a spot. Four goals to one was the final score and St. Pauls hold steady in fourth position.
With only six matches remaining in the season, each team must take each opportunity to gain maximum points in order to advance, the remaining matches are as follows:
The “Fantastic Five” whcih will eventually boil down to a “Final Four” are: Hobson Enterprise Garden Hotspurs, Conaree FC, Rams Village Superstars, S L Horsford St. Pauls and Delphic Newtown United respectively. The point standing as at 14th July, 2013 is as follows:
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Landrieu, Snowe Praise President’s Plan to Boost Business Exporting
Published: Mar 21, 2010 by Grace Ignacio In Small Business Press Releases 0
Washington (PRESS RELEASE – March 21, 2010) — U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Chair Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and Ranking Member Olympia J. Snowe, R-Maine, today praised President Obama’s Executive Order to support the National Export Initiative, which aims to double American exports over the next five years and support two million American jobs.
In a speech at the Export-Import Bank’s Annual Conference today, President Obama gave details on the Initiative, which: includes the Small Business Administration (SBA) as part of an Export Promotion Cabinet to report directly to the President and begin meeting next month; increases access to financing, especially for small businesses through the Export-Import Bank; and increases advocacy and coordination among federal agencies to ensure firms are protected and have the resources they need.
“With only one percent of small businesses currently exporting, I would like to thank President Obama for addressing the urgent need to boost our businesses’ exporting potential,” Sen. Landrieu said. “Businesses that export their goods can tap a global customer base, at a time when sales at home are low. The National Export Initiative is exactly what we need to help increase sales for small businesses, put Americans back to work and keep our country competitive. I look forward to working with the Administration to ensure that the SBA becomes a more muscular agency in respect to trade and that small businesses have the resources they need to use exporting as a way to grow and expand.”
“I applaud the President’s announcement as a critical step in achieving his stated goal of doubling U.S. exports within five years,” said Ranking Member Snowe. “Ensuring that American entrepreneurs are able to successfully compete in the global marketplace and create and retain jobs here at home must be a vital priority as we endeavor to improve the current climate in which less than one percent of small businesses export. Combined with swift passage of legislation I introduced with Chair Landrieu in December to bolster Federal assistance to small businesses seeking to expand into foreign markets, the President’s National Export Initiative can have an immediate impact in hastening a durable economic recovery and putting more Americans back to work.”
Senators Snowe and Landrieu introduced, and the Small Business Committee unanimously passed, S. 2862, The Small Business Export Enhancement and International Trade Act, in December. Unlike other federal agencies involved with trade, the SBA has a unique relationship with the small business community – reaching, through its counseling centers, more than 600,000 small businesses each year. Many of these businesses may have never considered exporting as a way to expand. This bill would: enhance the role of the SBA in trade to improve awareness of the potential of exporting in the small business community; ensure better coordination among federal agencies and resources; and improve access to loans and counseling programs for small exporters.
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Home SMARTPHONE Hefty Price Tag of Apple’s AirPods Max Draws Less than Enthusiastic Response from China Internet Users
Hefty Price Tag of Apple’s AirPods Max Draws Less than Enthusiastic Response from China Internet Users
Apple on Tuesday unveiled its first set of over-ear headphones, the AirPods Max, in an attempt to boost holiday sales.
Priced at US$549 and 4399 yuan in China, the premium wireless headphones are more expensive than the company’s entry-level iPhone, iPad and Watch models.
A departure from its earbuds design of the same line, the AirPods Max sport large cushions attached to a stainless steel frame and a mesh headband.
Reaction from Chinese social media has been mixed but mostly less than enthusiastic, with many net users complaining about the hefty price tag of the headphones.
By comparison, Bang & Olufsen’s H8i wireless headphones retail for 2,158 yuan ($330) with 12.12 festival discounts on its official store on e-commerce platform Taobao, and its H9 headphones are priced at 2,098 yuan ($321) after discounts.
Other high-end headphones such as Bose’s Noise Cancelling 700 sell for 2,489 yuan ($381) with holiday discounts while Sony’s latest flagship headphones, the WH-1000XM4, are priced at 2,499 yuan ($383) on Taobao.
A check on Apple’s China site showed orders are expected to ship in 12-14 weeks, meaning customers in China will not receive the product until March 2021. (Source: Apple)
Apple had planned to launch the product in the fall, but had to tweak its design after some testers deemed the headband too tight, Bloomberg reported.
Unlike AirPods earbuds which only come in white, the new headphones are available in five colors, including space gray, silver, sky blue, green, and pink, and offer a 20-hour battery life, charging over Apple’s Lightning connector.
Apple said the AirPods Max was available to order starting Tuesday, with availability beginning Dec 15. However, a check on Apple’s China site showed orders are expected to ship in 12-14 weeks, meaning customers in China will not receive the product until March 2021.
The AirPods Max contains nine microphones and an H1 chip — Apple’s custom-designed audio processor — in each ear cup. The microphones can provide noise cancellation, adjust audio levels in real time, help reduce wind noise during phone calls and features “Spatial Audio”, which uses head tracking to create a surround sound experience. A separate “noise control” button will allow users to switch between noise-canceling and transparency modes.
The AirPods Max contains nine microphones and an H1 chip — Apple’s custom-designed audio processor — in each ear cup. (Source: Apple)
A feature of the Apple Watch — the Digital Crown — is also implemented on the headphones, offering volume control and the ability to play or pause audio, skip tracks, answer or end phone calls, and activate Siri.
Net users in China were quick to offer their thoughts on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like microblogging platform, with the trending topic “AirPods Max” attracting more than 86 million views soon after the product was launched.
Most commenters complained about the headphones’ premium price tag, questioning the value of the product.
“Selling 4,399 yuan in China? Isn’t the price a bit ridiculous?” one user said.
“At this price, sorry. I’d rather go with Sony, Bose or HiFiMAN,” another said.
“I’ll admit that the AirPods Max is pretty awesome. The comfort of the mesh design with its H1 chip is probably worth this much money. Basically, it has incorporated the audio quality of its HomePod smart speaker and the convenience of its AirPods earbuds. However, spending 4,399 yuan on a pair of headphones is totally unimaginable,” one reviewer commented.
SEE ALSO: Apple To Launch New Affordable iPhone As Sales Plunge In China
“I might get them if there’s a better price at third-party retailers. For AirPods Max, I am only willing to pay 2,999 yuan — and not a dollar more,” one commenter said.
Apple’s last quarter results showed a rise in sales in its accessories unit, even as revenue from its flagship iPhones dropped 20.7%, the steepest quarterly drop in two years, according to Reuters. Accessories sales were up 16% at US$53.8 billion (351 billion yuan), while iPhone sales were down 3% at US$137.8 billion (899 billion yuan) for the fiscal year of 2020.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln conducts operations in the Persian Gulf
US encouraged to up the military ante against Iran
By Pam Benson
The chairman of the House intelligence committee tells CNN the U.S. military needs to do more to "scare" Iran away from pursuing nuclear weapons.
Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Michigan, made the comment in response to a question about a new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center that says the United States must put more teeth into its threat to use military power to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions.
In an interview with CNN, Rogers said more needs to be done: "I'm not saying we ought to bomb Iran, but you almost have to scare them, you have to frighten them to get to the right place."
The report from the Washington think tank recommended the United States should undertake visible, credible military preparations to go along with more intense sanctions and diplomatic efforts. The military activities could include naval deployments, military exercises and pre-positioning supplies in the region.
The report also said the United States should give credibility to the Israeli military threat against Iran by selling Israel two to three KC-135 aerial refueling tankers and 200 GRU-31 bunker-buster munitions.
In order to stop Iran's nuclear clock, the report said, the United States "needs to make clear that Iran faces a choice: it can either abandon its nuclear program through a negotiated arrangement or have its program destroyed militarily, by the United States."
Former Sen. Chuck Robb, who co-chaired the task force that wrote the report, said the group is advocating neither war nor a military strike at the moment, but believes the U.S. will only be effective if it takes credible steps to let Iran know it is serious.
"(To) the extent we are more credible, the chances for using force goes down," Robb said.
However, Pentagon spokesman Capt. John Kirby said the U.S. is satisfied with its current military posture. He said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta "has made it clear that he is comfortable with the military capabilities we have and operate in the region."
However, Kirby said, "the U.S. military must and will be ready to provide the president options should those options be desirable."
Robb stressed any sale of arms to Israel is not meant to encourage the Israelis to strike.
"What we're doing is giving them more credibility, which clearly will be factored into any decision that Iran may make with respect to whether they can get away with, or survive without much damage, a strike that might be engaged in by Israeli forces," Robb said.
But a U.S. government official who supports giving Israel the tools it needs to defend itself, cautioned, "The one catch in this is, you have to be careful that it doesn't look like the United States is prepping Israel to do this by itself. An Israel attack by itself causes a huge problem," the official said, potentially inflaming the Middle East and forcing U.S. allies in the region to oppose an attack.
Iran dominated a Senate intelligence committee hearing Tuesday on worldwide threats. Lawmakers voiced worries that any effort to stop Iran's nuclear program could be too little, too late, and some said something needed to be done urgently to prevent Iran from crossing the threshold to possessing nuclear weapons.
Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-California, warned that "2012 will be a critical year for convincing or preventing Iran's development of a nuclear weapon."
Sen. Dan Coats, R-Indiana, said the time to act is now. But, he said, after a decade of unsuccessful efforts to stop Iran's nuclear program, he fears Iran will get a nuclear weapon, much as North Korea did.
Post by: CNN's Pam Benson
Filed under: Congress • Iran • Military • Nuclear • weapons
James: Arnold seems to be arguing that Iran slouhd either develop nukes or at least appear to have developed them, for purposes of “deterrence”. In fact, this would virtually guarantee an attack on Iran. Why play into the hands of the Iranophobes?This seems to be a more difficult concept to express that I've thought.Do you think Japan has either nuclear weapons or appears to have developed nuclear weapons?Japan is absolutely transparent. It does not have nuclear weapons today. If things go as we all expect, Japan will not have nuclear weapons tomorrow. If the United States, China or anyone else tries to impose a blockade of Japan, preventing food or materials from entering the island, or even worse, attacks Tokyo, Japan has the capacity to retaliate and can pull out of the treaty and will have the option to retaliate with a nuclear weapon.Nobody expects that to happen. In fact, because Japan has that option, we are even more sure there will never be a blockade or attack on Tokyo. I am very confident in predicting that Japan will not have a weapon during this century and nobody will think Iran has a weapon during this century.But Japan does have a break-out capability that Mark Fitzpatrick believes is critical to deny to Iran. A lot of countries have that capability. Iran is a special case because it is in the same region as Israel, a small country founded by dispossessing a large majority-Muslim population in a region dominated by Muslims.This is really not about bluffing, or pretending to have something it does not have. This is about openly having the ability to move from not having a weapon to having one in an emergency.Egypt is not like Japan. Israel, if it wants, can safely threaten to destroy Cairo knowing that an Egyptian response would be impossible. That impacts a lot of Egyptian strategic calculations. If Egypt had a Japan option, then Egypt would be able to respond to an Israeli threat the same way Japan can respond to Chinese threat woah, not so fast, if a crisis was to reach the point that you'd consider bombing us, we may by that time have left the NPT and be able to respond. Israel losing its ability to make unanswerable threats is the fuel of this dispute, why Iran is to be treated differently than Japan or Brazil.But the expectation is that, like Japan, nobody will ever think Iran has actually built a weapon because the capability will deter crises from developing to that point.I have to write more about nuclear capability, I'm not sure at exactly what step this becomes difficult to follow.
The universal critical clock for iran is 30 seconds to midnight...either they come clean or Israel will strike
and neutralize their nuclear making bunkers....and it will not be clean or pretty.... 2012 the year of reckoning
for iran....!!
Agree time to act is NOW not later when iran does possess nuclear missiles to eradicate Israel their
arch ennemy....iran has stated it wants israel destroyed, off the map, does not believe in the holocaust etc
kills diplomats or tries todo so....IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME ....very soon , the next month or 2
where you will see nato + israel + Un agreeing countries go into iran and neutralize iran's nuclear progress...
get ready . it is coming very soon...
The Knesset in Israel is legitimately very scared of Nuclear missiles raining jdown on Israel.
Israel will not wait for iran to launch the first nuke via proxy hezbollah or Hamas..
It is curtain for iran....the POINT OF NO RETURN FOR iran...10 years of failed negociations gone..
Iran has only itself to blame for not being honest with the IAEA and the world....
Israel will launch an attack imminent in March or April 2012!
Should have been done instead of attacking IRAQ!!!
ronniq
Since you seem to know it all, can you also tell us who killed Kennedy
Iran's time is NOW very limited...if they do not reform and be tranparent on their nuclear progress..
THERE WILL BE an undoing of iran with Israel=USA+Canada and other nato countries
stopping iran and their nefarious nuclear bomb ambitions... Very little time for iran to smarten up!!!
The prime minister of Israel is now in Canada meeting with S. Harper the Canadian Prime minister
on the agenda is what else but iran..... nato is getting ready to intervene with iran before
nuclear bombs fall on Israel......ABOUT TIME!!
With all the militant bluster from the western democracies and Israel, it seems that Iran is the only country wanting peace. If Israel was to attack Iran, the illusion of Israeli invulnerabilty would be gone forever. Israel is no match for Iran, and most of the western militaries are no match for the Islamic superpower. With the modern missles Iran has cities throughout Israel would be reduced to rubble..
With all the militant bluster from the western democracies and Israel, it seems that Iran is the only country wanting peace. If I
AuggieDoggy
Omabo doesn't have the cajones to stop the progression. He simply wants to "share the wealth", no matter the consequences. Elitist Liberal
The Liberal Media Annotined One will claim "peace in our time" ala Chamberlain.
Lee in NJ
Iran, among other dangerous nations, heavily relies on Western pacifism and/or ignorance and indifference. Much like the kind that numerous commenters have displayed in their posts above. Negotiations are seldom productive and are oft abused as a stall tactic, to buy time for further development and achievement of Iran's end goal-a nuclear arsenal. Iran still has an underlying belief that the United States is still and will always be a toothless paper tiger, and will never dare launch an assault against their illegal programs & operations.
If Iran was truly a nation in pursuit of a peaceful energy alternative, they would simply purchase enriched material already manufactured and offered to them--and end the conflict easily and at once. But the Iranian ambassador, among many others, instead chooses to evade that obvious peaceful option and solution, instead insisting on meaningless dialog to avoid any gainful conclusion to this matter.
Though it still has the potential for great promise, Iran is no longer the great nation of Persia, as it sees itself today-no more than modern Italy is still ancient Rome. They are a dangerous, rogue nation, rife with militant religious fanaticism. And until the day comes, when the concept of separation of church & state arises and lives in Iran, and all Iranians are actually free to live, teach, or worship God as each individual believes or chooses to, without fear of severe reprisals from the state--no good will come from the nation of Iran. The government of Iran is leading their people down the path of absolute ruin. If something is not done, and done soon, the world as we know it will be an entirely different place. Iran's extreme forms of government would ultimately sacrifice everything and everyone to achieve this nuclear weapon ambition, and they would likely use them, even at their own peril. Basically the concept of "the suicide bomber" on a national level or scale. Mark my words, they have been the world's #1 threat for many years.
-While many of you were playing games as children, the author has been studying Iran, Islam and the middle east since he was 9 years old
you have been studying iran since the age of 9? what a joke
you say iran should buy fuel on the open market. this is also a joke. iran invested 5 BILLION (inflation adjusted) in the european enrichment plant built in the south of france. they were contractually guaranteed 10% of the plant's output. do you know how much uranium they got out of that deal? ZERO. not a single gram.
iran told the international community they would not enrich to 20% if they were supplied fuel they need for their research reactor used to produce nuclear medicines. the west said ok. give us all of uranium and 2 years later we will supply you the fuel. THIS is the stalling you spoke of. The west has over 10 TONS of enriched urniaum that is backlogged for downblending in the swords to plowshares program that takes highly enriched uranium and turns it into reactor fuel. if the west wanted to give iran incentive not to enrich they would land a plane in tehran with the fuel needed on it and swap in real time like iran asked for.
your post shows NO understanding of the facts on the ground.
No "Bob"-evidently YOU are the joke, and I am not going to be diplomatic about it. I said Iran, Islam and the Middle East, please learn to read. And yes since age 9. Sorry (not really) if that bothers you, that some have grown up sincerely concerned and ALARMED by the constant actions of states like Iran. And certainly of many other ideologically similar nations that follow the same ultimate path. I've had a lifelong interest in the Middle East, and TOO BAD if you don't like or believe it. At nine years of age, it started with learning of Islamic & Christian history and the Battle of Tours. From that point on, I devoured every single shred of related Middle Eastern/European history and every BIT of modern news I could on the subject. And yes I was considered a gifted student. And yes, still as a CHILD, I watched our people illegally held throughout the revolution in Iran and, as I lay in a hospital bed watching President Ronald Reagan being sworn in while a plane load of hostages was FINALLY being flown back from Iran the terrorist state. It was then I realized there would be no peace ever with Iran while it's fundamentalist regime is in power. This awakened and kept alive a lifelong desire to put together and follow the actions of those dedicated to Western destruction and the "wiping off the map" of Israel and other such countless promises to my own homeland. I don't believe the threats are empty, period. I never did. If you think that is not the case here with Iran, you are deluding yourself and attempting to decieve others. It's people with attitudes like yours that are very very dangerous.
Not to mention the ENDLESS carousel of other terrorist group/state actions with US Marines killed in Beirut, the innocent lives destroyed over Lockerbie, the Achillie Lauro murder, Embassy bombings in Africa, dragging wounded & dead US Soldiers through the streets, innocent persons being dumped onto runways from planes, beheadings and so many other "proud moments" in modern Arab history. On and on and on. It would take an ENTIRE BOOK to list it all. I am sick of it, and sick of still seeing the same behaviour being exhibited and threatened until this VERY day. And sick of attitudes like yours. For my generation, or those with similar upbringing at least, t've witnessed nothing but an ENDLESS string & supply of radical jihadist terrorism and terrorist acts to examine--for the record. You know Bob, despite your evidenty limited experiences, there are some people, even children, that actually do grow up with a real, dedicated concern, understanding and education in middle eastern history & studies. Especially poor children who have nothing BUT books and papers to read and a desire to truly understand the world. And yes I also was provided a Christian education as well. I CLOSELY followed the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and knew lack of US follow-up was a grave mistake we would regret. And I'll say this while I'm at it, since February 1993, I was one of the few people in New Jersey if not the world that persistently told & warned others that radical Islamic fanatics would use commercial airplanes to crash into landmark buildings in Washington DC AND New York City. I was ridiculed by people like yourself "Bob" for that then, just like you're trying to ridicule me in your misinformation post above now. Currently and specifically, Iran is at the heart of much of this anti-West fundamentalist warmongering mindset, and as long as Iran continues towards it's end goals of being a nuclear (weapon) power, it will continue to be a benefactor and inspiration to all the other radical regimes that also aspire to hasten "death to America" and to Israel. When criminals see "one person getting away with it", it only serves to encourage others to follow suit.
You, and the rest that want to, can (and will I'm sure) go on talking and talking in circles and shifting the blame always back to the United States, Britain, France or Israel and use all the usual BS argumental & stalling tactics. I don't buy them, and I never did. And your insults and misleading presentation of only partial specifics, blaming Western countries for this crisis, only discredit YOU. You are a SHAME, and it's your attitide of misinterpretation of current facts & events that constantly gets people killed. I know, some love the attitude of capitulation like that which was displayed to Adolph Hitler. Same deal, different century. Allow Iran to stall & stall, right? All the while becoming stronger and gaining the offensive weapons needed to execute a long term strategy (which is no secret).
If Iran would STOP being an outlaw state with a constant desire to have it's hands covered in blood, it would be much easier for them to obtain the "desperately needed" reactor fuel that they supposedly require, so much so that they are willing to risk a serious war over. If they would stop violating internation law & policies so flagrantly, perhaps they would actually get somewhere with this supposed peacful endeavor. It's no wonder fuel has been denied so far. One can't "have it both ways" my friend (figure of speech, you are not), to be and act as an outlaw terror state and at the same time blame the West for failing to facilitate their so-called needs & desires for weapons-grade nuclear material. All the while, preaching annihilation philosophy.
You're so full of "it" you make me sick. Go pawn off your fakery on an ignorant audience that actually might believe a word you say. End of line.
February 16, 2012 at 4:27 am |
LEE IN NJ...Agree with you completely....iran had enough time 10 years to come clean...they are trying
to deceiving everyone by hiding the development of nuclear missiles to attack Israel...
NOW iran has to meets its obligations....honesty,,, which they have none.
NOW iran will face the wrath of the civilized world....there is no choice....
either we stop iran or Israel is gone with nuclear strike from iran..
We have reached a point of no return... a crossroad....iran will be stopped regardless of the consequences.
as they should be ....THEY WILL NOT DESTROY ISRAEL NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
If we think things are bad in the ME now, just wait until Iran goes nuclear. We trained these engineers in the 80's, right here in the US with foreign student exchanges. You have US universities that sponsored them then, and now we are enjoying the fruits of the elitist educated Left efforts to "share the wealth". Where do you think they learned this technology in the first place? I saw them in Denver at the University of Colorado, there was a wealth of these engineer students. Iran has wanted the nuclear option for decades. Now, it is easily within their grasp, thanks to our ignorance and lack of profiling, for fear we'd be labelled "racists". We get what we deserve.
You've summed it up perfectly. We're in trouble with Omabo leading the way. Not only is he the worst President in US history, he may well have ushered in our our financial and political demise.
Mister Jones
Worst president in history? Really? Wow. You are all caught up on the rest? Do you even know how many Presidents this country has had? Is he worse than the Presidents you can't even name? Or that history has completely forgotten? Why is he so horrible? Oh yeah, I forgot. He isn't white. You're right. Worst ever ...
OK, I just went over it with some people at work. At best, each of us can name maybe HALF of the Presidents of this country. And most of those are just names, I have NO idea if Filmore or Polk were any good at their jobs. I know Garfield got killed, but I don't know why. And that is mainly because I went to Garfield High School. Bottom line, I think that President Obama is a LOT better of a Commander-In-Chief than Martin Van Buren ever was ...
Lee.
Your dissertation was greatly well put... you are a scholar....
I agree wholeheartedly with you...
Iran had their chances....enough of their theats to eradicate or destroy Israel.
I as a CANADIAN applaud your stance and will follow your nation anywhere you go...As CANADIIANS OR AMERICANS
you have our support...you are not alone....I have addressed the Knesset in Israel and I can tell you
that Iran's days are numbered...the nuclear progresswill be halted very soon...
NEVER AGAIN!
To Norm and Lee
Get a life, you losers
If you combine the statements, "we should scare Iran by building up military assets in the arena," and that, "we should not actually attack Iran," in the same sentence, well you have pretty much made the whole exercise unnecessary.
It would be counterproductive for Iran to actually build and test a bomb because the Saudis and Turks would soon do so themselves. They will then live in a FAR more dangerous neighborhood than they do today, with only Israel having them. The more countries that have them, the greater the chance of a nuclear war, or terrorist getting one during a revolution or economic collapse. One detonated by terrorists in any nuclear state could easily set off a global nuclear war. That is when you want to be living in French Polynesia. Don't forget your iodine tablets.
panzerduck
Israel wants this war, and they want to suck America in with them and everyone can burn in hell together. Ramp up our threats against Iran " so they know we mean business " REALLY ?? Oh like thats gonna work. I can't belive the guy who said that is a leader of anthing, let alone a leader in America.
Fredrico
Did the people this article is talking about forget about a little something called the Strait of Hormuz? If Israel is retarded enough to strike Iran, and their leaders probably are, how long do you think we're going to be providing support by shipping more weapons to them before Iran starts attacking our ships? It'll escalate to an all out war, and we'll be dragged into it. WWIII is looming on the horizon folks, it won't just be Iran, Russia and China have interests here too, and they're not the same interests the U.S. and Israel have.
The USA must rid itself of this parasite called Israel before it entangles us in a nuclear war.
Why kill innocent Iranian civilians. Use an EMP device... Fry all electronics such as those being used to refine radioactive materials. No computers, no communications, no electricity, no transportation... Oh, and make it an anonymous strike. For all we know they did it to themselves by mistake while building nuke testing sites.
robertsgt40
"I'm not saying we ought to bomb Iran, but you almost have to scare them, you have to frighten them to get to the right place."–Yeah, great move. It worked so well in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and other sovereign nations(including those yet to targeted for regime change) that had the nerve to sit on assets we covet.
EMP devices would be a useless option--consider the fact that most military, scientific and sensitive industrial equipment is shielded against such radio emissions & devices. It would likely only harm the private sector.
Ragged, show me rock-solid evidence of a "Palestinian Holocaust". You can't. Palestinians get caught in a crossfire of religious fanatics as much as Israeli's do. It's what happens when you allow terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah to control your government.
As for giving you proof of Iran wanting Israel gone, all you have to do is listen to Ahmedinejad to get that proof. He's spoken time and time again how he thinks that the Holocaust is a fiction, and that Israel should not exist.
Israel is meaningless to me, I realy don't care if it exists at all. If its a trigger point for WW3 , maybe Iran has a point.
I would be more critical of this article and the Intelligence committee, but it almost seems like brute force is the only thing that any of the people in the middle east respond to
Alex Povolotski
The more you scare Iran, the faster you'll get REAL nuclear threat on your hands to deal with.
"The report also said the United States should give credibility to the Israeli military threat against Iran by selling Israel two to three KC-135 aerial refueling tankers and 200 GRU-31 bunker-buster munitions."
Ah yes, the "special" relationship.
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/investor-relations/
http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/as-the-crow-flies/
With all the propaganda against Iran, Iran has acted much more rational than countries like US, Britain and Israel that have initiated many unnecessary wars. Iran kept itself out of the quagmires of Afghanistan and Iraq waiting for the outcome and has not itself initiated any war for 200 to 300 years. The amount of hateful speech in the US Congress and Senate against Iran or in the Kenesset is tenfold of that in Iranian parliament the other way around. The regime in Iran is not very democratic but the same can be said about US regime any many of its allies, now controlled by money PACS and lobbyists that through money leverages choose de facto the politicians.
James – you do not honestly believe Iran was not (and is not) involved in the Iraqi conflict as well as other Middle Eastern affairs. Have you heard of the Quds force within Iran? They are heavily involved in Iraq, Syria, etc. The US captured some of these individuals in Iraqi which led to the Quds ambushing our soldiers and kidnapping a number of them (the ones that were not killed). Do not hold Iran up as some kind of peace loving administration because you could not be further from the truth.
I believe he was saying that they didn't start any wars just got drag into them.
February 2, 2012 at 9:17 am |
Iran has not been a direct party to war, neither in Iraq nor in Afghanistan. In fact Iran persuaded its allies to work with Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq and that is why these are Iran's allies that have formed governments in these two countries. But yes all the countries in the region are jockeying for influence including Iran and have operatives here and there. However that is different from military intervention at the scale of conducting a war. Actually in Afghanistan this is Pakistan's operatives that are working to the detriment of the US forces backing Taliban that was once built by the help of Saudi money. In Iraq Iran has supported Maleki government that is US's ally. The fact remains that US has a military budget 100 times that of Iran, with only 4 times of Iran's population, with bases in 135 countries including many of Iran's neighbors. If Iran is ever to consider a military nuclear program, and it hasn't, it will be as a result of a self-preservation instinct and the pressure that is put on it. Iran is definitely not a democratic country. However it is a much more open society than many US allies throughout history including many in the region today. US's strategy is to preserve the status quo by organizing a counter-revolutionary wave in the region in order to preserve the rule of many of its allies. But those regimes will not be able to resist the storm of change because of demography coupled with an increasingly modern population. Attacking Iran will mean making enemy of the currently pro-Western Iranian people for the next 100 years and plunging the region into a long period of instability that can cause the growth of much extremism. US has been the elephant in the China shop since the coup it led in 1953 against the democratically elected government of Mossadeq in Iran to its support for Saddam in the 80s. Next time you look at the misinformation budget of the spy agencies think about what does misinformation mean. It is about misinforming you !
February 2, 2012 at 11:28 am |
James: Making enemies with Pro-western allies by attacking Iran? Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow Israel into its airspace to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities when it comes to that. If that isn't telling about Iran's standing in the middle east, i don't know what is. Syria is under fire and other than Iraq (who is bleeding right now), there really aren't many pro-Iranian governments in a position to do anything about it.
jedi61
Pacs and lobbyist as opposed to mullahs and ayatollahs that send weapons to Hezbollah and the insurgents in Iraq.. It was the Iranians cooked up the IED's that killed many an American serviceman.
Lee / Lee in NJ
Mincing words. Let's actually talk about Iran here for a second and stop diverting the topic back to the United States or Israel or blaming other nations in the West. Are we talking about the Iran I know? A nation that takes hostages at it's revolutionary inception, now with a long history of state sponsored terrorism, that acts as a portal and allows militant terrorist groups to train and operate with impunity, counterfeits US currency to undermine Western economies, fanatically recites & teaches its children and prays the perpetual montra "death to America" as national & religious policy, one that allows the mistreatment of it's women on a large scale akin to slavery, where free speech other than official state policy easily earns torture or a death sentence, a nation that is one of the worlds largest networks and sources of the opium-heroin trade who's actions are heavily influenced by a MASSIVE drug addition epidemic, a nation in constant violation of international law, a dangerous fanatical regime seeking holocaustic nuclear weaponry, and much much more?
How anyone could say with a straight face that Iran is not an agressive, dangerous nation on the brink of initiating an international disaster, is beyond all reason and intelligence.
I know an Iranian man nearby, a business owner who is a peaceful, caring, respectful, intelligent and God fearing man and is the example of the Iranian person who could rightfully claim to be a true successor to proud Persia.
The Iranian threat is credible, verifyable, and imminent. The unfortunate thing is that an act of terrorism may play out on American soil, and it will be reported by the media at the end of their getting their last rock off, reporting on who is winning the electoral polls.
Why isn't the media doing "drill down" interviews with the important folk in government and the national security establishment to get a comprehensive message out to the public about the threat, and what the broad spectrum of decision makers have to say about the whole issue.
It seems that internal politics has priority over national security in the U.S.
ragged_soul
Kevin, there would be no 'threat' from Iran without the influence of AIPAC (Assholes from Israel Pushing America into Conflict).
The "Zionist conspiracy" card again, that one never gets old right?
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ferd
"Iranian threat is credible." sure it is. lol. so is iraq's wmd threat, right?
mbjrp36
This guy must have no comprehension of military strategy. You never put an opponet's back up against the wall if you aren't ready for one bloody fight.
If India exist with nuclear Pakistan and Japan exist with nuclear North-Korea,while can't Israel exist with nuclear Iran? The west aimed to harm the Islamic Republic.
because nobody is so extreme and full of hatred as Iran is. they made it clear that they want Israel gone and clearly they are a threat
You are Jewish, Aaron, yes? That is the only way you could possibly justify your comments. What you should have written is that 'nobody is so extreme and full of hatred as Israel is' ...
Iran (and many others) have criticised Israel regarding their holocaust against Palestininans; clearly they want Israel to change their behaviour, but I dare you to show me any proof that they have claimed to want Israel 'gone'. You cannot.
Sgt. Fury & His Howling Faggots
Sorry – the most hate filled nation is the good ol' USA. We love war. We love to pick on the weak and the helpless.
ragged soul: Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is a member of the Hojjatieh socitey which believes it can bring the 12th Imam faster by creating the preconditions of his arrival (1/3 of the Global population dead, another 1/3 dying) and that's why nobody wants Iran to have a nuclear missile, because it isn't held accountable to any world power. If China just wiped Taiwan off the map with a Nuke, there would be hell to pay, but since Iran is an Arab country flanked by Arabs, nothing bad will happen in the immediate term to them if they launch one off against Israel. Syria would have nuclear power right now if it weren't for Israel flattening their Korean-built facility, imagine how things would be if Al-Assad had nukes to use against his own people? I have confidence that Israel wont just pop one off for fun, but i can't even get close to a guarantee for Iran on that one, they are a nuclear liability
"because nobody is so extreme and full of hatred as Iran is. they made it clear that they want Israel gone and clearly they are a threat"
sure iran's full of hatred that's why they never attacked any country for over 200 years. lo. israel's full of love that it has been ocupying and stealing land from Palestine for over 60 years, has invaded Lebanon twice, has attacked the uss liberty, has been involved in 9/11, has been murdering innocent babies and children all in a span of 60+ years. israel's truly a peaceful nation. yeah right
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This picture received from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on December 12, 2012 shows the rocket Unha-3, carrying the satellite Kwangmyongsong-3, being monitored on a large screen at a satellite control center in North Korea.
U.S. official: North Korea likely deceived U.S., allies before launching rocket
North Korea likely engaged in a deliberate campaign of deception before a December 12 long-range missile launch, catching the United States and its Asian allies "off guard," according to a U.S. official with direct knowledge of analysis of the incident conducted by U.S. military and intelligence agencies.
The official told CNN that American and Japanese military ships and missile defenses were fully operational and protecting land, sea and airspace on December 12, but that the launch was a surprise when it actually happened.
"We had our dukes up, operationally, but we were caught off guard," the official said.
"The clues point to a concerted effort to deceive us," the official said. The analysis was ordered in the wake of the launch to determine what exactly happened and how much the U.S. intelligence knew at the time.
The official said one conclusion was that while missile defenses can fully protect against a North Korean attack, the North Koreans have shown they can counter U.S. measures to gather intelligence about what they are up to.
"Look, they know when our satellites are passing overhead," the official said. It's believed the North Koreans essentially manipulated the launch so U.S. intelligence satellites simply would not be overhead and able to see what was happening.
The most likely scenario, the official said, was that North Korea wasn't telling the truth when it announced several days before the launch that there were technical problems with the missile.
According to the official, the intelligence analysis found that:
- The United States observed the North Koreans beginning to take apart the three-stage rocket and move parts of it away from the launch pad, then observed what were believed to be so-called replacement parts being moved in.
- In retrospect, those parts appear to have been from a second, older-generation long-range missile that were in storage. Those parts most likely were never used in the December 12 launch.
During this time, when the United States did not have total visibility of the launch site, it's believed the North Koreans either quickly reassembled the original rocket and fired it.
- It's also possible the U.S. miscalculated and the North Koreans never took it apart at all.
Earlier this week, South Korean defense officials warned that the latest North Korean missile had the capability to travel more than 6,000 miles, meaning this type of rocket could strike the United States. However, experts do not believe Pyongyang has a nuclear warhead small enough to fly on the kind of missile.
North Korean officials claimed that the rocket launch succeeded in putting a satellite in orbit.
CNN's Paula Hancocks and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.
Filed under: Kim Jong-un • Missile launch • North Korea
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kill em all
why are we going to wait till they bomb us bomb em now so we dont get bombed later!!!!!!!
Pappy_Randy
Solution is two words, messy but effective - carpet bombing.
I always figured we were shooting down their rockets with the airforces "star wars" program... maybe I was right! 😀
wjmccartan
I still say we have to bring back Maxwell Smart and agent 99 to deal with these evil forces of Chaos.
triglia
Have to believe we are sending out mis-info of our own. We saw that lauch better then they did. NK is going to be a growing regional problem over time especially with ties to Iran.
I offer to go in as Agent 007. Totally agree with you!
Unless the U.S. government is pretending to be caught off guard. We probably listened to the North Korean telephone and radio traffic, read the encrypted North Korean dispatches, and watched the entire launch in real time with whatever technology is two steps beyond UAVs, plus the North Korean's own live feeds. I'd bet we had a better view and real-time telemetry than anyone in North Korea. But as long as we pretend we were caught off guard, the North Koreans won't update their security.
Heck why stop the fantasizing there? We should have taken over the in-flight missile guidance and flown it into the path of one our interceptors for a spectacular display of exploding fragments we could capture on video. Oh yeah, that's right, we can't show them our hand just yet...
Portland tony
That would be an act of war! But, aside from the electronic monitoring of launch telemetry, the recovery of the launch vehicle 1st and 2nd stages and the inspection of these rockets down to the hand made welds, what other capabilities did the West lack?
Nelly, PhD.
No, you are wrong. You were caught off-guard. The "Koreans" are stronger, and more powerful than USA. The Koreans use South Korean businesses (hyundai, kia, samsung, satellites, ssangyong, ...) for spying. No illusion, the US needs to do more than dreaming about power.
JakeF
Right there people, is how to provide misdirection and misdirection to another country.
If anyone actually believes we didn't have a satellite overhead or didn't know what Best Korea was up to, I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
You should have never moth balled all those SR-71's!? If NASA can keep three of them operational why can't the Air force do the same (3). or are some agencies still not on the same page?
mlg4035
SR-71 – LOVE that bird!!
gmenfan54
You mean Wile E. Coyote lied to us?
Yakobi
To all the anti-American haters using their 1st Amendment right–paid for by lots of American blood, BTW–to bash this country, I say this: emigrate to North Korea if you think this country is so terrible.
No Korea
I think you mean to say American haters. I am an anti-American hater; I hate people that are anti-American. Or did you intend to say that just to see who would respond to such horrible use of the English language? If so, Bravo sir, I have fallen for your trap.
For what we pay in taxes for defense, I'd think they could afford a satellite over N Korea at all times.
They could... however, a geostationary satellite would be at such a high orbit that its pictures would not produce anything useful.
Eddie Haskell
IIn order to do that, it would have to be in Geostationary orbit, and those orbit so high/far away (22,236 mi) it would be useless as a spy satellite. A drone or even a U2 might have better luck, but could be vulnerable to anti-air, and might be seen as breaking the truce...
pft...I figured this out and I'm not even involved...we cant be that dumb , can we?
It's time to tear down this wall, 50 years is long enough, lets leave these people alone.
Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son
We are leaving them alone.. that’s kind of the point isn’t it?
Counter idiots
You are right we should leave these people alone and let them starve since we are the only reason that they are eating anything right now. Just in case you people didn't know they have created a cult population up there that believes that them eating tree bark and grass they are way better off then the rest of the world.
"the wall" doesn't exist because we're pointing guns at them. It exists because they have tens of thousands of artillery pieces pointed at Seoul, South Korea.
julnor
And how is that our concern? South Korea has one of the largest economies in the world. They should be able to protect themselves from a sub-3rd world country. We've been there 60 years. Time to take our troops and go.
FIip
As if the U.S. does not care about China.
Oh yeah genius, let's leave them alone so they starve. WE are the ones feeding them derpmeister.
Holier than thou
Seems like the US wants monopoly over deception as well. Why can't others do it, too? We call it psy-ops.
If US has ICBM's or nukes, why can't NK, Iran, or anyone else? If WE do it, it's deterrence. Others? Evil.
It's actually called counter-intelligence
cept I don't think our President has called for anyone to be wiped off the face of the earth...yet.
usmcdog1971
Hmmm, Iran wants wipe Israel off the map, let alone that the Holocaos never happened. That was said by the elected leader of Iran, and supported by the ruling religion, North Korea says some outlandish things that makes me say think that they shouldn't be allowed to touch weapons.
Iran wants wipe off Israel off the map and they deny the Holocaust happened.
Iran wants to wipe off Israel off the map and they deny the Holocaust happened.
That is because we use the missles as a deterrent against other countries with missles. Iran has said that if they do get nuclear weapons that they will give them to Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations that will use them. Do you not think with NK shelling SK islands and sinking their ships that they won't actually try to use a nuclear weapon against them? If you do then you really are as ignorant as the message you posted.
Grae48
How dare those fools deceive the shining beacon of light that provides justice to the world known as america. This made me very upset knowing how honest american politicians are, and how genuinely concerned they are with the well being of other peoples and nations. How dare they lie to america? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE !!! In response lets invade another country in another part of the world and SET THEM FREE of their oil and natural resources errr i mean terrorists yea!!
/yawn
Yes, of course... that's what we're after... the vast oil supply of North Korea.
Pathogen4
The NK's will make sure and warn us when they launch their ICBM attack beforehand so we're ready to shoot it down. Then again maybe WE are pretending to be clueless and knew every move all along to lull them into a false sense of security.
ProperVillain
Has there ever been a time North Korea was honest with us? It's run by a family of delusional simpletons with a serious messiah complex. What do you expect? Rational honesty?
Right-winger: Obama's fault. Clinton's fault.
Oh yes, absolutely. In addition to running the country or our embassies, the President and S.O.S. also have to man every U.S. satellite 24×7 and analyze every cam-shot. So if this was missed, it must've been *their* fault. (smh)
Maybe they could take lessons from GWB who was clearly not at fault when a bunch of Saudis completed enough flying lessons to take-off, but never did pass that "landing" test.
Liberal Mess
So what you are saying is that the President should not be up to date with what is going on around the world. You do realize he has a TON of czars to keep him informed on this. SO YES HE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IT. and Yes he did FAIL.
The Right Way
You do realize if Clinton had taken action when he was told that Osama was a viable threat the towers would not have come down. But he was too busy making it so banks could get insurance on their loans. Hmmm, what is a major reason our economy is being crippled?
And of course YOU realize that Clinton specifically told GWB to keep an eye on this "Osama Bin Laden" guy over here, and that went completely ignored? Remember, Bush 41 was ARMING bin Laden for war against Hussein in his administration – he didn't view him as a serious threat to US interests until much later on. I'd say Clinton did his duty as much as he could have in those days, abd GWB dropped a much bigger ball.
In other words.. both righties and lefties are political sheep.
Sean in Tokyo
'It's also possible the U.S. miscalculated and the North Koreans never took it apart at all.'
Seriously? So the big bad USA is upset it was duped. Bravo to NK!!!!!
K from AZ
Stay in Tokyo Sean.
WoW, you mean the geniuses Comrades Obama & Clinton were deceived? Who'da thunk!
nuntukamen
North Korea lied to us? This is a deliberate deception? The official believing them needs another job; when haven't they been lying?
Let me know when Obama and Clinton spend trillions of dollars and over 4,000 American lives on faulty intelligence...then we'll talk.
Ya' think?!
idoubt
shhhhhh.
Oversight Amendments to FISA Crumble in US Senate: Obama, Democrats Push to Make Bush Spying Laws Permanent
Even modest attempts to reign in domestic spying law fail as Senators defend sweeping powers for NSA
– Jon Queally, staff writer, common dreams, 12/28/12
Rasheed
The whole idea of FISA is flawed. Everyone knows the US government is spying on ALL Muslims, no exceptions. Whether FISA is there or not, they've been doing it and will continue to do so. Why it's ineffective, Muslims know what I wrote in the second sentence. They know they're being watched, and the US will watch them no matter how many times they say (even after) they've abrogated FISA and want to be friends to win Muslim "hearts and minds". The way George H.W. (did he kick the bucket yet?); George W., Rumsfeld, Schwartzkopf (he did, I heard); Rice; Cheney, etc., giggled when Iraqis/Muslims died shows their real intent. You cannot win the heart and mind of a person whose kids you've just killed!
NoToMuslims
All Muslims should be watched.
Evil fuggers they are.
Bigot!
irock
bigotry against muslims? Now what right would we have to do that.
JimboJones
Muslims are the cess that the human race will drown in. The sooner we are rid of every single oppressive, racist, woman-abusing raghead, the better.
why doesn't North Korea bow down to the US like Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya, and half the world has? they must be crazy!
The US doesn't care if NK bows or not. Everyone knows that NK is NO threat to the US. The government wants you to believe it is, and is pretending to be concerned about it. The US/West/Israel want to give you the FALSE impression that they're not anti-Muslim bigots by going after a non-Muslim country as well. Even Muslim countries are NO threat to the US, only slight threats to Israel. So the entire foreign policy of the US is shaped by Israel for its own purposes using hard-working American tax dollars. The US has become a servant of Israel, like it or not; believe it or not.
Muslim countries can pose a threat to the US, some can disrupt global energy markets and hence global economy. As long as that is true, they can pose a threat.
Sounds like you're a 'mooslim'!
K from AZ,
Sounds like you're a JOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Be Serious
Musim countries are not a threat to America? Arent there 2 buildings that used to be standing in New York that would beg to differ? Jus sayin'
YoYoYO
Then put one feets in fronts ob da udda and shuffles on back to Afreeka brotha ..
We dont need you here – we have plenty of blacks who can mooch off the whites.
The other side..
Afghanistan hasn't bowed down, and never will.. As history cleary shows. Also, Iraq has demonstrated its independence as well.
As is typical of someone of your mentality, you and a bunch of others around here can't even comprehend a story written for the average American 5th grader. The analysis wasn't that they hid anything from our satellites, but that they manipulated the launch site at exactly the right times to be seen best by our satellites. A deception like that must be seen and not hidden. Get it? ? ?
That's true, but you can't pull off that kind of deception as easily if we have persistent surveillance.
Our adversaries like nothing better than jerking our chain to get us to invest billions into more and better technology they can eventually defeat too. Why bother nuking us when they can turn us into a bankrupt disintegrated wasteland.
This is a classic dog bites man story.
Breaking news will be when the headline reads "NK Tells the Truth".
Dubguy
Sounds like we need a few more satellites!
North Korea Deceives US! Elsewhere, scientists have now confirmed that milk contains calcium.
Oh my gosh. The bad guys can think and anticipate what we are doing and react accordingly. They are certainly part of an axis of evil. I only hope Obama knows that and reacts accordingly.
Fdaniel gray
Would you just post the one I have already written?
We need to do something about this! Les Write a really long angry letter, that'll teach them a lesson
Whoa! North Korea is misleading us?!?!? Lying? Who'd a thunk it?
I'm sure glad we have such brilliant officials analyzing the situation.
volsocal
Or maybe it was more like, "Hey, shouldn't that be plugged in? Cool, evrything works now. Put the spare parts back in storage and let's shoot this thing!"
Michael Brian Welch
Apparently, throwing billions of dollars into our defense/intelligence budget is not working. Time for a new paradigm.
Yea, and we got OBL by pure luck, and all those drone strikes, pure luck.
SFRich
With so many grammar errors in this article, CNN's editors must be asleep.
yeah, but it's good to know the internet grammar police are ever vigilant
dfischer1231
Check your grammar CNN. This article is riddled with typos.
Amobius
We had our guard up, but we were caught off guard??
You mean the North Koreans LIED? Oh my!! How could this happen???
Let's review. The last time they deceived the US was when Bill Clinton was in charge. Is it mere coincidence that Hillary Rodham (or is it Hillary Rodham Clinton, or Hillary Clinton?) is the Secretary of State when this occurs, again?
Yes.....or rather statistics – out of the last 20 years, only 8 of those would not have included either condition you have stated....
James Jameson
Haven't you guys crashed and burned through enough failed conspiracy theories? Why attempt to embarrass right-wing ideology once more?
Let's review. USA and North Korea are adversaries. Adversaries deceive each other ALL THE TIME.
That N. Korea is involved in deception, is no big surprise nor is it even newsworthy. Happens all the time. Even our "good buddy" Israel has spied on and deceived us before.
Take your stupid conservative political rant somewhere else. Its not applicable nor needed here.
gango
The so-called experts in the U.S. who do analysis have always been a day late and a dollar short. Second graders could do a better job. No doubt these "experts" will be "shocked" when Iran detonates their first nuclear device. For the rest of us, it isn't even news.
tuffyturf
So if you put this story in the DOD B.S. Translator, here is what it says:
North Korea, we hope you believe this story that our old antiquated satellites do not have complete coverage of your activities.. But do not pay attention to those new bright and shiny satellites we have up there, they are there just to track the movement of lost animals in the U.S.. So golly gee, you caught us offguard.. please believe that.. .because it wasn't like if that missile strayed 1 iota from its intended trajectory that we would have shot it down.. because we don't have that ability anyway.. Hugs and Kisses,
Steve D
Easily the best and probably most accurate analysis here.
Glorifundel
Sun Tzu – "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
That is basic military strategy dating back as far as 221 BC.
YouMissedThointDexter
So, you take the 5th grade story as literal?
/Check please.
well said!!!!!!!!
ChiTownArt
Wow, a military tactic of deception and misdirection? Never heard of such a thing. Those North Koreans are innovators!
Mummy 23
Oh brother! Let's impose another sanction....maybe they won't do it again....ya think?
ecarlson
Fortunately, the North Koreans only lie about things like launching peaceful satellites into space. If they ever get an actual missile with a nuclear warhead, I'm sure they'll tell us exactly when and at what target they will launch it. Based on our experience so far with missile defense, if they do this we have about a 50 percent chance of stopping it. That's what makes our missile defense system so great.
Willie12345
Our intelligence folks are too busy chasing women to become involved in this kind of stuff.
davetharave
And who is surprised by this ?
OnTheRoad
Can't happen! Our leaders are way way too (it's a joke son) smart to be deceived!!!!
Do you really think the Armed Forces change with every administration?
You are extremely dumb if this is the case.
Talk about dumb! How did you get that I thought that the armed forces changed with every administration????? I'll explain what I said in easier terms for you: Our leaders or so 'Stupid' that they can be deceived easily!!!! Never mentioned our armed forces!!!!
What?? A sworn enemy of most of the free world did not tell the truth about its impending missile launch? For shame! Whatever is this world coming to?
As far as any real threat (or maybe even imaginary ones), NK is about as important to the security of the United States as a bump on a pickle. NK's only real use is to be used by the fear-mongers in jacking more money for our military-industrial complex and to help the Pentagon justify our continued presence on the Korean Peninsula.
As others have mentioned, cut off ALL aid to this rogue nation and if its inhabitants all die of starvation and disease then its leaders will have no powder left in the horn nor pellets left in the pouch.
The only alternative is to launch a preemptive invasion of North Korea, crush the military, kill all the political leaders and then occupy the place for the next 20 years. Does not that scenario sound a bit familiar?
Pro Death
So you're telling me world leaders and politicians lie?
Tom Bose
It's nice to see that the technology that the Chinese stole from us and passed on the the north koreans works so well. It's also nice to see that they are so well off that we don't need to send them food aid anymore.
FedUpwithLA
You got it . . .
engine version mismatch
Might be true if it was not russian technology...
Exactly! And you have nobody more to thank than UCLA.. Did you know that UCLA has barred any Californian's from entering the school, because they have to do so at a discount in state tuition, so they just barred them in favor of Asian's who they charge a kings ransom to attend. Then these Asian's major in Engineering or biological sciences, get educated and go back to their country and use what they learned against the United States. UCLA just officially changed its name:
University China Lots Asians
he is not smart enough to qualify as an "IDIOT"
That's funny....and retarded at the same time
Banana Juice
I agree with Steve, America should not be concern with north korea. This north korea is of no consequence to us. Why do we provide assistance (food and medication) to these people when they wish us nothing good but destruction? These assistance is only redirected to the military, I know this and the UN and various assisting government is also aware of this fact. Stop all assistance to north korea. Has anyone noticed that the ruling party are all fat?
erichanaway
What assistance do we give to the North?
USN1987
are you being serious? or are you that stupid?
Zimzalabim
IAre you kidding me? Anyone who expects the North Koreans to play fair are naive. Since when does any enemy of the US play fair? Get real!
Merkman
If the intel was wrong about the missile? Are we willing to bet our lives on the same intel that is certain the warhead will not fit on the missile?
Lee Oates
When did the US ever play fair or tell the truth.
Good post Steve. And deception is normal for Korea taking into account that US and "allies" suggested to shoot down the rocket.
Let us know when they can launch 100 missiles capable of reaching the US. I think it amusing that we're concerned about their ability to launch just one.
done-with-Obamas-lies
Its that "one" you need to worry about, the all iconic "shot heard around the world". It just takes one to set a stage of unprecedented violence and carnage, leading to mass extinction of lives in a rapid movement known as nuclear holocaust
As an American I am never and would never be concerned about North Korea. Some countries do this and do that but if Korea goes over the line where it thinks or it tries to attack America we will take care of Business, if Korea scares you folks then you are "Weak" thanks for reading
QuestioningSteve
@Steve – why do you capitalize and place 'weak' in quotes? Also, business should not be capitalized. Also, 'thanks for reading' is a separate sentence.
It's hard to take to your opinion seriously when it appears to have been written by an 8 year old.
well, let's hope your spelling is as good as this post was all the time. It's a free country.......all comments should be heard (but never criticized for spelling)......criticize him now--but in a few years he will be the new standard for American thinking and guidance for the government.
like Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, you play to many phony video games!
Agreed sir Steve!
You should be afraid of them, The north koreans have little to loose if there own were killed.
Captain Renault: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here."
Emile: "Your winnings, sir."
Captain Renault: "Thank you very much."
If the kill us we will kill them
Deceived? Satellites not in position? You mean we don't have Geostationary orbit satellites looking down at them all the time? Who's in charge?
just so you know, geostationary satellites are 22,000 miles over the equator, so not not practical for spying.
noseitall
Very comforting to know that US "intelligence" takes what they see and hear from North Korea at face value.
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Herewith, gentle reader, we introduce a series of articles which will discuss blog entries posted at the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. That’s the outfit we think of as the War Room for creationism’s counter-revolution against the Enlightenment — particularly the Scottish Enlightenment, which (quoting from the linked article) “… asserted the fundamental importance of human reason combined with a rejection of any authority which could not be justified by reason.”
As you can imagine, the Enlightenment’s preference for reason over authority has been a problem for creationism. It is therefore a problem for the Discovery Institute (the “DI” or “Discoveroids”).
The Scottish Enlightenment achieved advances in numerous fields, including, e.g., philosophy (David Hume, one of the greatest philosophers, an empiricist, skeptic, and advocate of separation of powers and decentralized government), economics (Adam Smith, intellectual founding father of the free enterprise system), and geology (James Hutton, father of modern geology, and discoverer of “deep time” which contradicts the brief Genesis chronology of creation). Almost a century later, that continuing outburst of rationality resulted in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
Additionally, due to trans-Atlantic travel and correspondence (Benjamin Franklin knew David Hume, for example) the Scottish Enlightenment inspired the American Revolution, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. It created an intellectual climate of reason and progress that powers our civilization to this day.
Reason, liberty, science, free enterprise — splendid results for an intellectual movement. Not even Athens at the height of its glory enjoyed such a philosophical foundation. We experience more freedom, health, and prosperity than any age ever dreamed of, and we have more knowledge of the universe than was ever believed possible. But not everyone is delighted with those magnificent accomplishments. Would-be tyrants, theocrats, Grand Inquisitors, Marxists, fascists, and other assorted despots are nostalgic for the pre-Enlightenment days when men lived in ignorance and unthinkingly obeyed authority. They hope for a restoration of those sordid centuries, imagining that in such a nightmare world they would be our masters.
When we say that the Discovery Institute is engaged in a counter-revolution against the Enlightenment, we are not exaggerating. They’ve been scrubbing their website of all blatant statements to that effect, but they’ve been sloppy. Some of the older (and more honest) declarations of purpose can still be found. For example, buried in this article at their website we find a copy of an early, pre-scrubbing statement.
It’ll get scrubbed soon, so enjoy it while it lasts:
What is the Center for Science and Culture?
The Center for Science and Culture is a Discovery Institute program that supports the research and writing of scholars and scientists who are challenging the worldview of scientific materialism. Many of these scientists are also challenging neo-Darwinism and/or are developing the scientific theory of intelligent design. [Emphasis supplied]
The current version appears here, carefully scrubbed, as the Discoveroids struggle to maintain the fiction that they’re a secular think tank engaged in scientific research: Top Questions:
2. What is the Center for Science and Culture?
The Center for Science and Culture is a Discovery Institute program that encourages schools to improve science education by teaching students more fully about the theory of evolution, as well as supporting the work of scholars who challenge various aspects of neo-Darwinian theory and scholars who are working on the scientific theory known as intelligent design. [Emphasis supplied]
The “worldview of scientific materialism” they’re challenging is one of the greatest accomplishments of the Enlightenment. The Discoveroids are literally challenging the scientific method itself. Their explicit goal is to introduce a supernatural worldview into science — which means nothing less than the death of science.
For a more detailed treatment in the Discoveroids’ own words, see the Wedge strategy, which describes their intent to completely transform our society to “… defeat scientific materialism and its destructive moral, cultural, and political legacies …,” and to “… replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God … .”
Let us be clear — we have no quarrel with religion. But we’re not giving up reason, liberty, science, and free enterprise, not even a tiny bit. They are the hard-won gifts of the Enlightenment, without which our world would be a wretched place. Even in the best of pre-Enlightenment times, it was dangerous to think. Socrates was sentenced to death in classical Athens. During the height of the Renaissance, Galileo was forced to confess heresy, his book was banned, and he lived out his life under house arrest. We won’t be dragged backward. That means we’ll defend the theory of evolution — first, because it’s good science, and also because that’s where the Discoveroids have chosen to make their move.
How do they hope to repeal the Enlightenment? Simple — by re-writing history. Every fanatic, mystic, dogmatist, witch doctor, dictator, and autocrat who ever waved a magic wand, cast a spell, mumbled a chant, or cracked a whip credits his ideas (not the Enlightenment) for our recent progress. They never wonder why those same ideas of theirs — which have been dominant for millennia — failed to produce such results in the past; and they’d certainly never consider that their ideas were in any way responsible for the misery of earlier centuries — or might still be causing problems in our own time. Well then, upon what do they blame society’s persistent defects? Those are because of all that new-fangled Enlightenment stuff — reason, liberty, science, and free enterprise. And Darwin — everything is blamed on Darwin.
What’s their solution? If we give up evolution and return to creationism, and then give up the rest of that “scientific materialism” stuff, and then give up a few more things they plan to get around to, everything will be wonderful, just as it always has been. Simple, right?
Because the Discovery Institute serves as the principal public relations engine for promoting a dandified version of creationism (which they claim is a scientific theory they call Intelligent Design), we feel it’s important to present a rational counterpoint to some of their more outrageous claims. Please bear in mind that we don’t know the people who present the Discovery Institute’s rabidly anti-evolution arguments, and we express no opinions about them as individuals. Our concern is not with the Discoveroids personally, but with their ideas — which will cause a catastrophic retrogression to pre-Enlightenment conditions, correctly named the Dark Ages.
With all their public relations efforts, how’s it going for the Discoveroids? Up to now they’ve impressed a few rural school boards, those who still think William Jennings Bryan had the better argument in the Scopes trial. It remains to be seen if they’ll realize their dark dream of overturning the Enlightenment.
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Happy Thanksgiving 2020 from the Curmudgeon
Posted on 26-November-2020 | 25 Comments
Mars is red,
Uranus is blue,
From the Curmudgeon to you
As we do every year, your Curmudgeon extends holiday greetings to all, including our many non-US readers who don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.
This was our original Thanksgiving thread from 2008, which is still worth reading: Of Plymouth Plantation: “Every Man for His Own Particular”.
As you surely know, Plymouth Colony occupies a special place in American history. Its original settlers arrived on the Mayflower, and the descendants of that legendary voyage still take pride in their heritage. Also, it was the Plymouth colony that observed the first Thanksgiving.
But it’s not generally known that the original settlers began by practicing bible communism, a peculiar kind of economic and social arrangement that they thought would bring the blessings of heaven upon them. It didn’t. Instead, it resulted in misery.
From that experience they learned a big lesson which is well described in William Bradford’s History of Plymouth Plantation. That’s what our Thanksgiving post from 2008 is all about. As Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) said: “Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.”
Thanksgiving is traditionally a slow time for our kind of news news, but we conducted our usual news sweep anyway — and found nothing of interest. It’ll probably be like that all day, so we’re declaring this post to be an Intellectual Free Fire Zone.
We’re open for the discussion of pretty much anything — feel free to express yourselves about science, economics, politics, philosophy, etc. Banter, babble, bicker, bluster, blubber, blather, blab, blurt, burble, boast — say what you will. But avoid flame-wars and beware of the profanity filters.
But wait — before we throw open the comments, we must give you our famous guarantee of quality:
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Okay, the comments are open. Have at it!
25 responses to “Happy Thanksgiving 2020 from the Curmudgeon”
Dave Luckett | 26-November-2020 at 11:28 am |
Oh, I just can’t wait to see FrankB’s reaction to this!
Megalonyx | 26-November-2020 at 12:16 pm |
@ Our Curmudgeon: I trust that your Miss Scarlett will be the beneficiary of some portion of Thanksgiving turkey!
Happy Thanksgiving from the UK (a nation of ingrates that does not celebrate the day)
And for the IFFZ:
The One Word That Bars Trump From Pardoning Himself
TomS | 26-November-2020 at 1:57 pm |
@Megalonyx
And there is the question as to whether the presumed grantor-grantee could conceive of any offense, any lapse from perfection. What is there that would be in need of pardon?
Michael Fugate | 26-November-2020 at 2:00 pm |
Silly platitudes from US presidents on Thanksgiving
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-25/giving-thanks-expressing-hope-presidential-wishes-at-thanksgiving
Lots of thanking gods for how awful things are – makes no sense.
FrankB | 26-November-2020 at 2:09 pm |
@DaveL: “I just can’t wait …..”
You’ll have to; I hope you won’t burst from curiosity. Unless you’re smart enough to think of looking up my comment from a year ago. From two years ago might be asked too much from you.
retiredsciguy | 26-November-2020 at 3:27 pm |
Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate the day, and have a wonderful and safe day to all.
That said, this would be a good time for all of us to pledge to ourselves not to repeat “things we’ve heard” or “something we read on the internet” unless we know it to be true or know it to be from a well-vetted source.
Much damage is being done in the United States by the promotion of the idea that our election was rigged. Trump was promoting this idea long before the election took place — does he possess some special power of seeing the future? Of course not. He was only setting up the face-saving way to explain his forthcoming loss, not caring a whit about the damage it is now doing here.
Seriously — think of how vast the conspiracy would have to be for Biden to falsely win the popular vote by over six million. Even if some “Deep State” conspiracists within the NSA or wherever were able to rig the computers in enough states to throw the election to Biden, it would require the cooperation of so many people that it could never be kept under wraps. Someone would talk. So far, crickets. No evidence of enough fraud or even honest mistakes to make any difference in the outcome.
And yet, 77% of Trump’s supporters believe the election was rigged. Why?
Because The Donald said so, and the supporters keep re-enforcing the notion by spreading the bull manure on Facebook, Twitter, email, whatever.
And to what end? To instigate a civil war? Is that what we want?
And just think, with his power, if only he had ordered a mask mandate in March…
DavidK | 26-November-2020 at 6:33 pm |
Trump has a plan of action to battle the virus – herd immunity. He’s purposely exposing people to the virus in his open air super spreader events and all his get-togethers. He purposely requires White House personnel to not use masks. His latest expert, Dr Atlas, is helping Trump 100% by promoting this idea, like Rasputin and the Tsar. It’s also the easiest way Trump can show his leadership since he’s not required to do anything at all, just play golf, watch Fox and tweet while exposing people to get sick and survive or die. Sacrifices he’s willing to accept. Losers and suckers are his followers, drinking from the Trump kool-aid he freely provides.
Dave Luckett | 26-November-2020 at 8:30 pm |
Thanks, FrankB, you didn’t disappoint. Frustrated mailice, curdled bile, topped off with a causeless insult – what else would I expect?
About the so-called monolith in Utah. It has been visited by several people, and it has been determined to have been placed there in 2015. But no one has been named.
We should hear from the ID people how it has been shown to be a product of intelligent design.
Yet aren’t the rocks also intelligently designed? What difference does ID make?
chris schilling | 26-November-2020 at 9:44 pm |
It’s nice the way a national holiday can bring everyone together in peace and harmony. COVID-19 gives thanks, too, and promises to spread the love and infection.
FrankB and DaveL are treading the boards again, diligently acting out their roles as George and Martha in Albee’s classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? And they’re still as fresh as ever!
All’s right with the world.
Dave Luckett | 27-November-2020 at 1:11 am |
All very true, chris schilling. Mind you, an awkward family Christmas makes George and Martha’s interactions seem picayune. Don’t ask me how I know.
But you’re right. I should not be baiting FrankB, simply because it’s so easy as to be no challenge. Nor should we be refighting the battles of the 1930’s. It’s pointless. The decision was in long ago.
I suppose it’s possible that outraging him here keeps him out of worse mischief; and it amuses me, but that’s not reason enough for indulging in ridicule of irrelevant curiosities like socialism, any flavour. The Red Revolution came and went, leaving old lefties high and dry, and, like Earth, mostly harmless. There are far worse threats now, from other forms of totalitarianism.
So I’ll take the hint and stop.
FrankB | 27-November-2020 at 2:18 am |
@ChrisS: thanks for the compliment – it’s an excellent movie with excellent actors.
@DaveL: So you don’t even know yourself what you expected from me in your first comment, given our dear SC’s blogpost about Thanksgiving, let alone why I should in a different way from last few years.
“Nor should we be refighting the battles of the 1930’s.”
Ah, you realize this more than 40 years after me. That’s still worth a compliment. Is there hope you’ll stop writing nonsense about red revolutions and me getting worked up about them?
Yup, let me give you an update. Fortunately the Soviet-Union is gone. Since many decades Germany is a European pillar of freedom and democracy, together with France. It’s alt-right – aka neonazi light – that undermines it. As I reported a few days ago in the last FFZ the dangerous Dutch version has blown itself up this week. You have lost an anti-EU ally. Perhaps that should be reason for me to celebrate a form of Thanksgiving. At the other hand your authoritarian anti-EU allies in Poland and Hungary are pretty successfull. Also I expect Brexiteers to continue 19th Century politics (resulting in a restart of the Troubles), so perhaps I should postpone the celebration a bit.
Megalonyx | 27-November-2020 at 3:31 am |
DavidK notes (with my emphasis):
Trump can show his leadership since he’s not required to do anything at all, just play golf, watch Fox and tweet while exposing people to get sick and survive or die.
Following the election, and Tucker Carlson’s failure to whole-heartedly embrace Sidney Powell’s whack-a-doodle fantasies, Trump and his loyal minions have savagely turned against Fox, vociferously denouncing it as yet another tool of the ‘Fake News Lame-stream Media’ funded by George Soros and dedicated to establishing World Communism.
Murdoch, after all, has always been a weathervane; in the UK, his rags merrily switched from Tory to Labour during the Blair years, and switched back again thereafter.
In the US, the Trumpistas have instead now embraced embrace the world of Alternative Facts as reported by Newsmax or OANN (One America News Network)–which is, appropriately enough, an anagram of ONAN, but that is by the by.
I believe Breitbart is still in favour, and many continue to worship at the shrine of Bannon’s organ.
Eeeek! “Fundeded”????
Dare I yet again call upon the Great Hand of Correction?
The alternative would be dunning George Soros to toss me some cash for a typing and spelling class.
[Voice from above:] A mere mortal would tire of your endless blunders, but that is no problem here.
chris schilling | 27-November-2020 at 4:12 am |
@FrankB
Yes, but as to which one of you gets to be Burton, and which one Taylor — you’ll have to fight that out with each other.🤕
Random | 27-November-2020 at 4:16 am |
@retiredsciguy —
I pledge myself not to repeat things I’ve heard or something I’ve read on the internet without providing the appropriate link.
MEMRI-TV: “Egyptian researcher Ahmad Abdou Maher said in a November 16, 2020 interview on Al-Hadath Al-Youm TV (Egypt) that young people are becoming atheists because they see unscientific facts in religious texts, such as claims that the sun hides under God’s throne when it sets or that a woman’s pregnancy can last as long as four years. He also said that the proportion of the religious texts that such statements comprise is irrelevant, much the same way the proportional weight of coronavirus in a person’s body is irrelevant. For more about Ahmad Abdou Maher, see MEMRI TV clips No. 5999, 5669, 5409, and 5234.”
An Islamic Reformation?
One can only hope.
https://www.memri.org/tv/egyptian-researcher-maher-young-people-atheists-religious-texts-unscientific-statements
Random asks: “An Islamic Reformation?”
And I agree, one can only hope. But there have been several of those.
Islam has been kinda sorta like Protestantism since the first generation after the Prophet, ie, without a generally recognised college or religious authority, but even more loosely organised, with what might be described as associations of generally like-minded believers rather than formal denominations. The major split was Sunni/Shia, of course – and it was over politics, power and authority, not doctrine so much. (This is pretty much the norm for religious schisms.) Still, there is at least as much variation in interpretation in Islam as between the Protestant churches in Christendom.
I think that the Wahabbism which has been heavily promoted by the Saudis has shifted the whole body of Islam towards radicalism and militancy. That does not mean that all or most Muslims are radical or militant. But it does mean that militants are more numerous, more prominent and more supported than a generation or two ago.
Now, it might be that what happened in Christianity is happening or will happen in Islam. Perhaps there is, or will be, a general movement away from the faith, as Random’s source believes. But there will be a counter-current.
Sure, across Europe and America, in what used to be possible to describe as “Christendom”, there has been a steady decline in Christian observance and practice, Church attendance and orthodox belief. But at the very same time, there has been a rise in militancy from the fundamentalists and the evangelical wing. It has often been pointed out here and elsewhere that Biblical “young-Earth” creationism was a shy, retiring beast until Morris and Whitcomb did their dirty work in the early 60’s. Now it is out and loud.
If there is a similar contraction in Islam, I think it is reasonable to predict a similar development. And remember that another effect of the Protestand/Catholic Reformation:was religious warfare for centuries.
Even if this bloke is right, we’re not out of the woods yet.
@ChrisS: “but as to which one of you gets to be Burton, and which one Taylor”
I’d be flattered to be compared with either of them.
Matt | 27-November-2020 at 11:15 am |
Flynn Stone meet the Flynn Stone
They’ve been pardoned for their felonies
Good-bye, law and order
They’re forgiven by their fav crony
People are saying that if enough pickups with Trump flags gather to protest in one place it summons angels from Africa.
Random | 27-November-2020 at 11:27 am |
I deplore the assassination of scientists.
Derek Freyberg | 27-November-2020 at 6:45 pm |
Thanks for a wonderful second comment, Matt.
I can’t say that I have seen this one on the internet, apart from here, but it sounds all too plausible, especially if it also involves Paula White speaking in tongues.
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We already brought you part one of this list of facts about Dale Earnhardt Jr. We learned that not only did he have a successful father in the same business as him, but also a grandfather. Here is part two of our informative list of facts about him.
Number Eight: His Crew Chief Changed His Perspective
He said that previous to working with Steve Letarte, he did not realize his entire potential. Letarte made him realize that trivial things were not so trivial after all.
Number Seven: He Resented Going to His Car Early
His management asked him to be at his car early in the mornings for practice. At first, he would grumble about this. Once he began doing it, he understood why it was necessary.
Number Six: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Found Being Popular Weird
Since he was never popular in high school, he finds it kind of strange and overwhelming now. He assumed that in high school, being the son of a racing legend would count in his favor, but it didn’t.
Number Five: The Prank on His Mother
When he lived on a lake, he had a boat that he kept at his mom’s house. He named it “SHESAHOOKER” because he knew that his mom would get embarrassed when her friends would ask why she called her boat that.
Number Four: Country Music Awards
NASCAR isn’t something one would connect with music, typically. However, Dale Earnhardt Jr. presented an award at one of their ceremonies.
Number Three: Giving Back to His Home State
Dale also does some business in the entertainment scene. He’s opened a bar/nightclub in Charlotte, North Carolina called Whisky River. We’re guessing he’s a whiskey fan.
Number Two: More Than 200 ‘Wishes’
In 2010, a select group of athletes was named by Make-A-Wish for facilitating more than 200 “wishes” for kids fighting deadly diseases. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was one of these.
Number One: He Made More Than Any Other Driver in History
At one point, Dale became the most successful NASCAR driver ever. He currently has a net worth of $300 million. We hope you enjoyed part two of our list of facts about him.
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Germanium is a precious metal which is mainly used as a semiconductor in electronics and infrared optic industries, and as a polymerisation catalyst for the production of polyethylene terephthalate. Due to its high supply risk and its high economic importance, germanium is considered as one of Europe’s critical metals. The few minerals in which germanium exists as a main component (argyrodite, briartite, germanite, renierite and stottite) are extremely rare and do not form rich ore deposits. Therefore, germanium is mainly produced as a by-product of the zinc processing industry. On a global scale, only as little as 3% of all germanium obtained in zinc concentrates is recovered. To increase the resource efficiency, the recovery of germanium from secondary sources, such as goethite, should be further investigated.
Goethite is a by-product of the zinc processing industry and consists mainly of iron and zinc. Goethite also contains germanium, albeit only being present in very low concentration (ppm level). Therefore, much attention is paid to the separation of germanium from highly-concentrated contaminants, such as iron.
The technology used in this manuscript is the so-called supported ionic liquid phases (SILPs) technology. The SILPs technology, in which a thin ionic liquid layer is either covalently anchored or impregnated onto a (porous) solid support, is a technology which combines the advantages of both solvent extraction and adsorption chromatography. In this paper, it was studied on a multi-element solution resembling real leachate of a goethite residue. The high selectivity for germanium was obtained by selectively adsorbing germanium-citrate complexes to the Aliquat 336 layer of the SILP and stripping with a sulphuric acid solution. Germanium could be fully recovered and the SILP was reusable in multiple cycles without the need to regenerate it.
A proposed flowsheet for the selective recovery of germanium from an iron-rich matrix solution (goethite) using the Aliquat 336 SILP in batch-mode is shown below.
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Van Roosendael, S., Roosen, J., Banerjee, D., Binnemans, K. (2019). Selective recovery of germanium from iron-rich solutions using a supported ionic liquid phase (SILP). Separation and Purification Technology, 221, 83-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2019.03.068
Biography Stijn Van Roosendael
Stijn Van Roosendael joined the group of prof. Binnemans in 2014 for his master thesis, investigating the recovery of scandium from bauxite residue leachates by adsorption on functionalized chitosan-silica hybrid materials. After obtaining his master’s degree, he began a PhD in collaboration with VITO, but was forced to stop his doctoral study one year later. Instead, prof. Binnemans offered him a position as a research associate to work on the European Horizon 2020 METGrow+ project, which was very closely related to his interests in recycling and the circular economy.
This work was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme: Metal Recovery from Low-Grade Ores and Wastes Plus (METGrow+) [grant number 690088]. Project website: metgrowplus.eu.
Germanium is a precious metal which is mainly used as a semiconductor in electronics and infrared optic industries, and as a polymerisation catalyst for the production of polyethylene terephthalate. Due to its high supply risk and its high economic importance, germanium is considered as one of Europe’s critical metals.The work is published in Separation and Purification Technology. (SVR/PTJ, Leuven, 23/05/2019)
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Veteran Sodomite Activist David Mixner Admits to Murdering Eight People out of “Mercy”
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On Monday, longtime sodomite activist David Mixner, 68, admitted to murdering seven friends and a partner out of mercy due to the effects of HIV/AIDS on them. Now there are calls for a criminal investigation.
Following a biographical stage show that Mixner, a former adviser to Bill Clinton, performed before politicians and homosexual activists, which was sponsored by the Point Foundation, he admitted his crimes saying, “Please don’t get me sent to jail.”
In an interview at The Daily Beast, Mixner told Tim Teeman, “Today’s generation must know about the struggles that came before that got us here. Without a knowledge of history, there is a lack of substance, dignity, and nobility that rightly belong to the victories we have won. I lost 300 friends, 29 out of 30 close friends. I delivered 90 eulogies in two years.”
“I am not worried, and what I did was right,” he told TDB. “In the end I wanted people to know about these decisions I had to take in my 30s that no one should have to take in their 30s.”
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Testimonies in the program for the event, and the guests there, showed Mixner’s sphere of influence and friends in almost 50 years of activism and campaigning: Clinton, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, former British prime minister Gordon Brown, Alan Cumming, equality heroine Edie Windsor, Jane Clementi (mother of Tyler Clementi), and the actress and advocate Judith Light. The audience was chock-full of the influential and influencers.
The evening, which was a ritzy benefit for the Point Foundation, which funds young LGBT scholars through college, was hosted by, among others, Light, who said she considered Mixner, who had first been active as an anti-Vietnam War activist, a brother. His story was not the history of the LGBT rights movement, Light said; it was his story alone—she said she hoped “thousands” of others would contribute theirs. On stage, the smartly suited Mixner was both very funny and very serious, and he cried after confessing the mercy killings. A singer who sang a beautiful song afterward placed a kind, supportive hand on Mixner’s shoulder as he wept. Mixner wasn’t expecting it, and his body briefly jolted in surprise.
Mixner also told him of the sodomite relationship he had with Peter Scott for twelve years before he helped to murder him in 1989. While Mixner says that both he and Scott were “sexually liberated,” he also explained what a “horrendous death” it was to die of AIDS.
“It was slow, painful, you’d waste away, starve, be covered in lesions,” he said. “Some of those with it knew they did not want to live beyond a certain point. Out of a desire for dignity and honor, they asked their friends to help them die.”
I confess it is incredibly strange to hear a sodomite talk about “dignity and honor” when he’s been engaging in sodomy, something that lends itself to neither dignity nor honor. In fact, the Bible declares that those who engage in such things are given over to “uncleanness,” both physical and moral (Rom. 1:24) and they are filled with vile affections. As a result, they dishonor their own bodies by engaging in what is unnatural, and the Scriptures declare, “receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due (Rom. 1:27).”
Mixner’s crimes of sodomy led to his crimes of murder. Now his confession has led anti-euthanasia activist Alex Schadenberg to call for an investigation of Mixner’s claims.
Schadenberg told Dustin Siggins at LifeSiteNews, “When he talks about doing this, the questions are: What did he actually do? Why did he do it?”
“There should be an investigation,” Schadenberg said. “This is someone who has broken the law, and has committed an act of murder in every state in the U.S.”
“Kevorkian went to jail for this same crime, for killing one person,” he concluded. “If he’s telling the truth, David Mixner is a mass murderer.”
One would think that this should have immediately resulted in an investigation without Schadenberg calling for it. However, many will recall that former Clinton associate Larry Nichols admitted last October on live radio to killing for Bill and Hillary for money. Yet, no one has led any investigation into his admitted crimes.
I stand with Alex Schadenberg and call for an open investigation into Mixner’s confession. The fact that politicians and other people were present at his confession only illustrates just how corrupt our society has become, in that none of them are calling for the same thing, but seem to be more sympathetic to the crimes committed.
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Now Alex acts like a kid and is not exactly responsible which is why Maggie doesn't like him. Wayne's an actor with money problems. Will ‘RHOC’ Emily Simpson’s Husband Pass The Bar. Before the quartet of Spring Fever movies premiere, Hallmark will air Adventures In Love And Babysitting on the first day of spring, Saturday March 21, at 9 p.m. Eastern. One Royal Holiday . Check out photos from the movie! Is her handsome boss interested in her true self or just as a ticket to a network job in New York?
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Jingle All the Way . ), on March 28. Here, they learn how to compromise, while teaching the kids life lessons. Will ‘BiP’ Stars Dean Unglert & Caelynn Adopt Another Rescue Dog? Now Alex acts like a kid and is not exactly responsible which is why Maggie doesn't like him. They are so desperate, they trick their best college friends Maggie (Sursok) and Alex (Van Winkle), to babysit for a couple of days so they can get way on a romantic weekend. According to Hallmark, the story is about a happily married couple, Ethan (Stephen “tWitch” Boss) and Elena (Tiffany Hines) with two kids, but no personal life. The guy was OK. Will this truce seep into their real lives? Use of these names, logos, and brands does not imply endorsement unless specified. She'll take any job. Ready for some springy romances? ‘The Grand Tour Presents: Madagascar’ Episode Release Date Removed, Again Amazon Prime Continues To Frustrate Fans, ‘NCIS’ Alum Done With Acting, Now Wants New Tattoo, Piercings, Time Travel With Ryan Paevey In Hallmark’s ‘A Timeless Christmas’, Amy Roloff Shares Photo Of Jackson Loving Cousin Ember, ‘BiP’ Alum Jade Roper Reveals An Important Milestone At 37 Weeks Pregnant, Chadd Shuts Down Savannah Chrisley Dating Rumors Once & For All, Some Feel ‘Bachelor’ Matt James Dodged A Bullet Not Dating Clare Crawley, Why Is Max From ‘Max & Ruby’ Mute Trends, And It’s Freaking People Out, ‘Sister Wives’ Star Meri Brown Gets Candid About Her Emotional State. Alex. Title: Hallmark’s Spring Fever Coming Soon! All articles, images, product names, logos, and brands are property of their respective owners. Whether it be the Bering Sea or a pawn shop in Vegas, she enjoys writing about the characters and fascinating stories. Maggie and Alex are the best friends of Elena and Ethan who are married, since college. [email protected] Forced to baby-sit with her college nemesis, a young woman starts to see the man in a new light. Libby flies to LA to start a job that... Storyline. This Hallmark is remarkable in that there are no festivals or small businesses to save big bad greedy corporations.
Only in that movie the parents were tragically killed and the couple were the designated substitute parents. The female lead was unlikable and snotty when she wasn't being bland. When Elena and Ethan go on vacation they asked Alex to look after their children but they are worried so they ask Maggie to make sure things remain OK. March 5, 2020 by Georgia Makitalo 0 Comments.
After inheriting her family's moving company, a young woman (Ambyr Childers) starts to clash with the manager (Keegan Allen) who thought he was going to take over. Required fields are marked *. View production, box office, & company info. Powered by WordPress using DisruptPress Theme. The Best TV Shows About Being in Your 30s. Adventures in Love & Babysitting ( 2015) Photos. Adventures in Love & Babysitting (TV Movie 2015) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Photo Gallery. A purse snatcher brings them together. However, he's still looking for parts as actor. Add the first question.
More from the Movie. Cast. TVE PROMO . (TV Movie 2015). ‘MAFS’: Divorcees Henry And Olivia Spotted Together On Halloween. This includes Just My Type, starring Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill) and Brett Dalton (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Adventures In Love & Babysitting Cast. Holly & Ivy . Copyright © 2020 by Tv Shows Ace. I think I'd like the actress in something else, I just didn't like the character she played. According to Hallmark, the story is about a happily married couple, Ethan (Stephen “tWitch” Boss) and Elena (Tiffany Hines) with two kids, but no … You will want to mark your calendar or set your DVR as there is only one encore showing, on Tuesday, April 21 at 2 p.m., all times Eastern. A best-selling romance novelist moves to Portland to cure his writer's block and unknowingly falls in love with his biggest critic. Be sure to always check listings in case of a schedule change or additional times. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan ... See full summary ». Forced to baby-sit with her college nemesis, a young woman starts to see the man in a new light. A struggling writer is forced to fake a relationship to save her career, while overlooking the love of a longtime friend. This lighthearted movie stars Tammin Sursok ( Pretty Little Liars) and Travis Van Winkle ( Accepted ). Plus, see what some of your favorite '90s stars look like now.
Starring Emilie Ullerup (Chesapeake Shores) and Christopher Russell (UnREAL), it will air on April 18. Tammin Sursok. Before the quartet of Spring Fever movies premiere, Hallmark will air Adventures In Love And Babysitting on the first day of spring, Saturday March 21, at 9 p.m. Eastern. Adventures In Love and Babysitting premieres on Saturday, March 21 at 1 p.m. Eastern time on the Hallmark Channel. As TV Shows Ace has previewed, there are four new Spring Fever romances. After she reconnects with an old flame at a corporate retreat, an ambitious executive realizes that taking a step back may help her make a leap forward. Use the HTML below. Maggie. There is a Vampire Diaries mini-reunion on April 11 as Kat Graham, Kendrick Sampson and Sheryl Lee Ralph all star on Fashionably Yours. Adventures in Love & Babysitting Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Can these two take care of two kids for just a couple of days? Looking for something to watch? All rights reserved. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. A shy writer has to go out on a date with a different man every month in order to write an article for her company's 'Man for Every Month' blog.
This FAQ is empty. When their true identities are revealed, they have to find the courage and take a leap of faith. An academic in meteorology must decide between her new job as a popular weather girl and her pursuit of her PhD and fellowship. Before Hallmark’s Spring Fever series of romances commence, fans get to see Adventures In Love and Babysitting. This lighthearted movie stars Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars) and Travis Van Winkle (Accepted). On the 12th Date of Christmas . Any Hallmark fan would love it.This one suffers from 2 bland protagonists, and a bland family. Was this review helpful to you? Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.
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Like the Katharine Hegel/ Josh Duhamel romantic comedy Life as we Know It, the woman is uptight and responsible and the guy is an overgrown frat boy. When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Libby flies to LA to start a job that vanished. Starring Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars) and Travis Van Winkle (Accepted), this is the story of two antagonists who are set up by their best friends, while babysitting their kids.
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SEATTLE, WA - Popular KEXP Morning Show host John Richards will branch out into the nightlife business. In March, she’ll host another day full of music and stories during “Music Heals: Beyond Cancer — an emotionally charged anchor point to look forward to, she says. Programming changes go into effect beginning at 12 AM (Pacific) on July 27th. By subscribing, you agree to receive occasional membership emails from Crosscut/Cascade Public Media. John Richards is one of the most recognized radio voices in Seattle, and the host of the John in the Morning show on KEXP 90.3 FM.During his lengthy career on the air, Richards has helped uncover and promote bands like Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes, Of … “Even though it was really scary … there was just no way that I couldn't share [the cancer diagnosis] with people — be gone for a period of time and just leave them wondering what was going on,” Waters says.
KEXP Running Powered Podcast. Richards announced the name of the bar and projected open date Monday morning in a tweet.
She’d been recovering from a surgery to remove a cancerous growth from her tongue as well as 36 lymph nodes in her neck.
There are weekly programs dedicated to other musical genres, including rockabilly, blues, world music, hip hop, electronica, punk, and alternative country.
WA relying on hotels, state offices to house foster kids more than ever, Recent protests revive push for WA to speed up police reform, As Tulalip elders die from COVID-19, tribes lose more than family, Puyallup Tribe eyes lawsuit over river pollution and declining fish. Off the air John DJ's and hosts events, works on music supervision for movies, television and businesses and has a number of projects in the works. I do that for her on FaceTime.”. “DJs are for the most part fake on the air. She’s seen it change its name to KEXP (after a partnership was formed with Paul Allen’s Experience Music Project, now MoPOP), move to an expansive facility at Seattle Center and grow its broadcast radius from 15 miles to the whole world, thanks to the internet. “I think she should get more credit.
She’s also thankful that she has “a thousand sick-days.” And health care. But she’ll go on long walks, she says, and might even be back at KEXP — even if only to listen, or join Richards in the studio to share updates. Spotify. Through the stay at home orders, we’re dedicated to bringing you new live performances.
In some ways, it was the death of Richards's mother that ultimately led to Waters’ sharing the news of her cancer with millions of listeners last week. 13 Tuning In. Stay connected with everything KUOW by signing up for our free, weekly Best of KUOW newsletter. Waters should be back on the air full-time in late January or early February. He's hired and developed a lot of the on air talent on KEXP as well as helped created a number of specialty shows. “She is a treasure,” fellow KEXP and “The Morning Show” DJ John Richards says about Waters.
PS the NYPD just made us turn the volume down.” • See 1,611 photos and videos on their profile. Her gentle voice has filled Seattle’s airwaves ever since. Friday, Oct 16th, 2020.
Nathan Chan talks about his pandemic pick-me-ups, Yo-Yo Ma and TikTok. From the front yard of DJ John Richards, host of KEXP's John In The Morning, aka The Morning Show, Lawn In The Morning is a unique out-studio session/series designed to encourage social distance while still bringing you one-of-a-kind live performances from the finest artists in the Pacific Northwest.
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The Working of Herbs, Part 4: The Herb Monograph
In my previous posts I have raised issues about looking at medicinal herbs in terms of contemporary and modern understandings (see the Working of Herbs, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). My interest stems from my background as historical researcher and also as a trained clinical practitioner of herbal medicine in the UK. I have spent over a decade teaching students on one of the few professional practitioner degree courses in the UK at Middlesex University.
So, how do we get accurate information which is based on modern knowledge for each of the herbal ingredients in a recipe? What referenced sources are readily available, and how do we recognise when information about herbs is reliable? Here I suggest that a way forward is to look for sources that can provide a good herb monograph.
What is a herb monograph?
Essentially, a modern herb monograph is a compilation or report about a specific herb providing detailed information which is organised in a logical structure, including botanical and pharmaceutical information.[1] Monographs can vary in length, from a single page summary to a multi-page text, and may include the following details:
botanical and common name(s)
identifying characteristics of the plant
traditional uses
herbal actions
clinical indications
preparations and products
prescribing information with dosages
Published herb monographs have served an important role in ensuring the quality of herbal supplies by including detailed descriptions of their physical characteristics, particularly of dried herbs in trade.[2] More recently, some excellent updated herb monographs have been compiled by professional clinical practitioners and include safety information such as contraindications and potential side effects, alongside extensive listings of research papers.[3] Such monographs provide a basic foundation for herbal practitioners in training (often students are asked to compile their own). If herb monographs are comprehensive and effectively referenced, with the inclusion of key plant constituents and herbal actions, they should also be helpful to historical researchers. Finding a good range of reliable herb monographs can be a challenge …. but there are some sources online.
Where can you find herbal monographs online?
Figure 1. American Botanic Council monographs
(a) The American Botanic Council has published an extensive set of herbal monographs which are available online to subscribers, particularly useful for herbal clinical practitioners.
(b) European Medicines Agency. These (not very aptly named) ‘community herbal monographs’ are published online, forming the basis of herbal medicine and traditional product regulation in the European Community. A limited range of herbs is covered: for example ash, bittersweet, horehound, lime flower, liquorice, oregano, primula, thyme. Each monograph includes common names in all languages within the European Community and this may be of interest for some researchers.
Figure 2. World Health Organization Monographs
(c) World Health Organisation. A range of monographs were published in four volumes between 1999-2005 and some give extensive detail online, including herbs such as cinnamon, lemon balm, mallow, rosemary. Volume 1 can be found online and links to the other volumes are provided. An index is provided for each volume with listings of plant constituents.
(d) Several online subscription-based sources of monographs are regularly updated with the latest clinical research findings. These can provide considerable detail on individual herbs, for example the Natural Standard database where both summaries and extensive versions of natural product monographs can be obtained. Some other collections of information appear to draw on these monographs, for example, the Plant Profiler‘ pages.
Figure 3. Natural Standard on ‘Foods, Herbs and Supplements’
What makes a good herb monograph?
There is no agreed standard for herb monographs and length of monograph is not a guide to quality of information! Some good sources are ‘potted’ versions [4] but others may give very limited information and lack references. Be wary of the summary such as Herbs at a Glance which provides a condensed version of details drawn from other sources, and lacks clear referencing. Or WebMD (for example on Hyssop) which rarely indicates herb constituents and provides very limited references. On the other hand, some lengthy monographs can be so repetitive and technical to the point that it is hard to understand them. Overall, a ‘good’ monograph source should ideally be comprehensible and be well-referenced, but there are several key things to look out for – these are herb constituents and actions.
Need to know herbal constituents and actions
With the rise of evidence-based medicine, many plant monographs are being revised to exclude traditional uses of plants unless some published research has been carried out. This can narrow down details considerably. For historical researchers the modern designations given to health complaints are not necessarily appropriate, indeed sometimes there is no way to identify a specific condition in the past. However, if it is possible to identify herb constituents and associated actions then we can make sense of the many ways in which a herb might be used. Herbal actions are closely connected with plant constituents – for example, an astringent action or drying effect is found in herbs which are rich in tannins. – this may be appropriate in numerous internal and external complaints, for example, from injuries with blood loss to weeping sores. Monograph sources which provide details of plant constituents and herbal actions are definitely worth seeking out and the references below [3 and 4] are useful examples.
The herbal monograph provides an organised set of information about an individual plant, ideally giving details of traditional uses, constituents, actions, and research findings with references. A reliable herbal monograph saves a lot of time and effort searching for evidence. In my next post I consider further detail about plants in a particular recipe in terms of their active constituents and medicinal actions.
[1] A useful web site in the US which outlines finding and using herbal monographs is run by Bastyr University.
[2] Such information is still useful for bulk herb supplies in the pharmaceutical trade, for example William C. Evans, Trease and Evans’ Pharmacognosy, 16th ed (Elsevier, 2009). Also see British Herbal Medicine Association Scientific Committee, British Herbal Pharmacopoeia (Bournemouth: BHMA, 1983). Some highly detailed US monographs are individually published, such as Roy Upton, ed. American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and Therapeutic Compendium: Willow Bark, Salix Spp. Analytical, Quality Control and Therapeutic Monograph. (Santa Cruz: America Herbal Pharmacopoeia, December 1999).
[3] An authoritative text compiled by herbal practitioners is that of Kerry Bone and Simon Mills, The Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy: Modern Herbal Medicine (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2000). This text is currently being re-issued in expanded form (and would be a good Christmas present for a herbal practitioner!).
[4] For example, the useful brief herb descriptions in Potter’s New Cyclopedia (covering many native and exotic herbal remedies) which have been considerably revised, to the extent that it may be preferable to locate an older edition such as R. C. Wren, Elizabeth M. Williamson, and Fred J. Evans. Potter’s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, rev. ed. (Saffron Walden: C. W. Daniel, 1988).
The Working of Herbs, Part 3: Herb Qualities and Indications
In my previous posts on the Working of Herbs (Part 1 and Part 2) I flagged up some problems in finding out how medicinal herbs might really work, or finding reliable sources on herbal ‘efficacy’. I set out to try to establish a protocol, or way of thinking about this issue by picking a specific medicinal recipe. My choice was a seventeenth-century recipe for ‘after throws’ (likely for pains after childbirth). The recipe contains hyssop, wild mint, groundsel, pennyroyal and balm. In this post I aim to get an overview of how these herbs might have been viewed at the time that the recipe was being copied, in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
Sources for past information on herbal qualities and indications
Last time I mentioned a useful but dated source in Maud Grieve’s A Modern Herbal.[1] However, we can also look directly at past material written on medicinal plants, found in herbals, pharmacopoeia or medical advice books, as starting points in providing contemporary indications for medicinal use. There are quite a few 17th/18th century printed sources. My choice of sources is largely pragmatic, based on comprehensiveness and ease of access – especially sources that have indexes which are easy to use, or can be found in a text format which is readily searchable. Here I give selected details from two sources published before and after the likely compilation and recording of this later seventeenth-century recipe. Nicholas Culpeper’s translation of the Pharmacopoeia Londonesis of the Royal College of Physicians reflects views of medical therapeutics from the early 17th century while John Quincy’ Pharmacopoeia Officinalis was first published 1718. I started to use John Quincy’s book frequently as I am lucky to own
Figure 1. John Quincy. Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Complete English Dispensatory, in Four Parts. 8th ed. London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1730 (title page).
a hard copy of the 8th edition (much-thumbed) – it has both a Latin and common name index for the many items in the materia medica. Descriptions of these herbs often give both their qualities and indications for a range of conditions.[2]
According to Culpeper’s A Physicall Directory (1649, pages consulted are in brackets):
Hyssop – Help coughs, shortnesse of breath, wheezing, distillations upon the Lungues, it is of a cleansing quality, kill wormes in the body, amends the whol color of the body, helps the dropsie and spleen, sore throats and noise in the ears (41)
Wild Mint – [Of garden mints ] hot and dry in the third degree, [Of water mint and horse mint] ease pains of the belly, head-ach and vomiting, gravel in the kidnies, and stone. (45)
Groundsel – Groundsel, cold and moist according to Tragus, helps the Chollick, and pains or gripins in the belly, helps such as cannot make water, cleanseth the reins, purgeth Choller and sharp humors (32)
Pennyroyal – Penyroyal, hot and dry in the third degree, provokes urine, breaks the stone in the reins, … strengthens womens backs, provokes the terms, easeth their labour in child-bed, brings away the after-birth, staies vomiting, strengthens the brain, (yea the very smell of it) breaks wind and helps the vertigo (49-50)
Balm – Bawm, is hot and dry; inwardly, it is an excellent remedy for a cold and moist stomach, cheers the heart, refresheth the mind, takes away grief, sorrow, and care, instead of which it produceth joy and mirth (45)
According to Quincy’s Pharmacopoeia Officinalis (1730, pages consulted are in brackets):
Hyssop – (Balsamic section), a warm and detergent herb, ‘good for anything’ especially coughs and lung disorders (143)
Wild Mint – [mentha] (Diaphoretic section) warm and aperient – reckoned by some to promote menses and urine (176)
Groundsel – [Carduncellus] (Emetic section) a good and safe vomit (187)
Pennyroyal [Pulegium] – (Nervous simples section) warm and chief virtue is ‘absterging all Impurities from the Womb’ (89)
Balm [Melissa] (Diaphoretics section) of fine cordial flavour but weak and soon fades (177)
Figure 2. Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)
Further sources could be consulted but, overall, these two sources identify four of the herbs in the recipe for after throws (hyssop, wild mint, pennyroyal (Figure 2) and balm (Figure 3)) as having qualities of heating and drying. One herb (groundsel) is regarded as cold and moist, a purging remedy and good for ‘pains or gripins in the belly’ while another (wild mint) can also ‘ease pains in the belly’. Pennyroyal is specifically indicated for bringing away the afterbirth and ‘absterging all Impurities from the Womb’. Hyssop is regarded as ‘cleansing’ and ‘good for anything’. Other specific indications for these herbs include lung complaints (hyssop) and grief (balm). A check of some other texts with seventeenth-century childbirth-related recipes reveals that hyssop was also an ingredient in other remedies with titles such as ‘For a woman traveling with child’ and ‘An approved medicine to bring away a dead child’.[3]
Figure 3. Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis)
But was this recipe used?
It does appear that some of the herbs in this recipe were considered by contemporary sources to have relevance in various complaints related to childbirth. And I have found that this particular recipe for ‘after throws’ was repeated at least five times in the recipe collections of one household (more on this in a later post!) so it is possible that it was actually used, or at least was thought to have some ‘efficacy’. However, we cannot assume that the past view of these herbs matches the likely effects based on today’s understanding. In my next post I will look at how these herbs are understood in the present day, and consider how herbal monographs may be useful in this endeavour to find out what the herbs can do.
[1] Maud Grieve, A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses (First 1931 ed. London: Penguin, 1980).
[2] ‘Qualities’ can be thought of as the properties of herbs and ‘indications’ are suggested uses. Sources used are: Nicholas Culpeper, A Physicall Directory, or, a Translation of the London Dispensatory Made by the Colledge of Physicians in London (London: Peter Cole, 1649); John Quincy, Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, a Complete English Dispensatory, in Four Parts. 8th ed. (London: J. Osborn and T. Longman, 1730). These texts are on Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and can be accessed through the Wellcome Library website (membership is free).
[3] For example, see A Choice Manuall of Rare and Select Secrets in Physick and Chirurgery (London: R. Norton, 1653, pp. 48, 91); W. J., Dr Lowers and Several Other Eminent Physicians Receipts Containing the Best and Safest Method for Curing Most Dieases in Humane Bodies (London: John Nutt, 1700, p.37).
The Working of Herbs, Part 2: Take One Herbal Recipe
In the first post of this series, I flagged up some problems in finding out how herbs might work in a medicinal recipe. The question of medicinal herbs and their historical efficacy is a rather difficult area.[1] Through study of one recipe, I hope to provide pointers to useful sources, to indicate their relevance and to suggest caution where appropriate. Any recipe would work, but the one I have chosen is of particular interest because it has cropped up several times in my study of the late seventeenth-century recipe collections of a Devon household.
A water for After throwes
The receit of the water for affter Throwes.
Take two hanfull of Isope [hyssop] two of peneroyall and two hanfull of Groundsell one handfull of wild mints two hanfulls of balme: These hearbs Cleane pickt and Sume fare water put upun all these hearbs togeather wash them Claine [‘and lay them in’ crossed out] then lay them in a pott or Earthen vessell: Shred these hearbs and put them in a quart of Spring water and let them lye in the water for a day and a night: then still the hearbes and water togather in a rose still then let the Glass bottle stand in the Sume Sinnce two Months Close Stopped from andy Ayre it Makes the water mush better. [2]
We will have to assume for this discussion that these plants are correctly identified as hyssop, pennyroyal, groundsel, wild mint and balm–although plant identification is another uncertain factor in considering recipes! Ideally we need to know:
the seventeenth-century indications for these plants.
the key constituents.
the likely physiological actions of these constituents.
the potential combinations of herbs in a preparation.
the dosage and its likely effects in the body.
Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)
My first step is to explore Internet sources using hyssop as an example.The Internet brings a wealth of information, but finding out about a particular medicinal herb can be frustrating. This problem is worse if you seek a ‘historical’ source. Many sites readily repeat information about ‘traditional’ uses without reference to sources. For example, numerous sites claim that hyssop has been used for millennia and dates back to the Bible. If you search for ‘herbal medicine hyssop’ in Google, you are likely to draw up Wikipedia, Mrs Grieve’s herbal, commercial websites offering herbal medicines and medical databases.
Relatively few of these sites give accurate historical background. However, a reasonable starting point is Maud Grieve’s A Modern Herbal, which still provides more detail than most sources on medicinal constituents, actions, uses and preparations.[3] First published in 1931, the book is good value as a secondhand hard copy purchase and provides succinct information on many plants. Grieve draws on a variety of classical to early modern sources for constituents, medicinal actions and uses. But… A Modern Herbal needs considerable updating.
A more recent publication from Tobyn et al. follows selected herbs in texts from Dioscorides onwards, including hyssop, and provides details of therapeutic use with constituents and clinical research evidence.[4] Although limited to 27 plants, this text has a useful overview of relevant authors from classical to modern times.
Internet searching can be confusing if you are looking for reliable sources on historical use of plants and their consituents and medicinal actions. In my next two posts, I will outline some qualities and indications of the herbs in this recipe and the benefits of locating a good quality herb monograph.
[1] For example: John K. Crellin, ‘Revisiting Eve’s Herbs: Reflections on Therapeutic Outcomes’, In Herbs and Healers from the Ancient Mediterranean through the Medieval West: Essays in Honour of John M Riddle, edited by Anne Van Arsdall and Timothy Graham (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2012, pp.307-27).
[2] ‘The Right Honorable The Lady Receipt Booke Anno Dom 1690’, p.82, Ugbrooke House, Chudleigh, Devon. My thanks to Lord and Lady Clifford for permission to access their private archive.
[3] Maud Grieve, A Modern Herbal: The Medicinal, Culinary, Cosmetic and Economic Properties, Cultivation and Folklore of Herbs, Grasses, Fungi, Shrubs and Trees with All Their Modern Scientific Uses. First 1931 ed. (London: Penguin, 1980).
[4] Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, and Margaret Whitelegg, The Western Herbal Tradition: 2000 Years of Medicinal Plant Knowledge (Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone/ Elsevier, 2010).
The Working of Herbs, Part 1: Did Herbal Recipe Ingredients Really Work?
As a clinical herbal practitioner with a research background in the history of medicine, I am sometimes asked the question: ‘Did the herbs work?’. In this post, the first of a series (The Working of Herbs), I consider how we might examine whether medicinal plants in recipes might have worked.
The question may seem simple, but it is a tough one to answer. It provokes even more questions, including:
What are the herb constituents (phytochemistry and pharmacognosy)?
What research has been done on the effects of medicinal plants (herbal pharmacology)?
Should we be thinking about efficacy (historiography and medical history)?
Do we know the parts of herbs, the preparation and dosage of the recipe (pharmacy)?
[Pharmacy: Illustration of pharmaceutical chest] Carl Linnaeus, Materia medica, Liber I. De plantis (Holmiae – Laurentii Salvii, 1749, title page & frontis). Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
It is unsurprisng that historians often avoid raising the question in the first place. But I believe that we need to clarify the potential effects of medicinal recipes, and I have been thinking about how to establish a rational protocol for answering this question in relation to a medicinal recipe. I hope that other readers will chip in with their thoughts and useful advice!
Figure 2. [Plants of medicinal value to particular human body parts], Michael Bernhard Valentini, Medicina nov-antiqua (Francofurti ad Moenum: Joan, Maximiliani à Sande, 1713, fol. 286). Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.
A discussion of how herbal ingredients of recipes might have worked raises at least three problems of historiographical concern.
First, we need to be aware of ‘presentism’. Current knowledge about plant constituents and medicinal effects can easily influence our view of what people knew/did in the past. Second, implicit assumptions that the use of medicinal herbs was connected to therapeutic efficacy should be questioned since there might have been other reasons for their use. (Figure 2 shows the links between plants and body parts, some of which were probably based on shape). Third, some authors suffer from what I call ‘plantaholicism’–overly sympathetic and exclusively plant-focused view of the past. This may provide a narrow viewpoint, particularly when we consider that many other items were used in the materia medica including animal and mineral ingredients.
I fully understand that I may be guilty at times of demonstrating all of the above problems, and part of my rationale for drafting these posts is to help to clarify how to manage these issues.
This post flags up some problems in trying to assess efficacy. Although my examples in this series will be drawn from early modern sources, I hope that some points made will be relevant to other periods.[1] In further posts in this series I aim to provide some pointers for historians and others looking at recipes who wish to seek out reliable sources and information about herbal constituents and their actions.
Coming up in future posts…
how to locate reliable information about herbs
why the herbal monograph can be a useful tool
how to consider the effects of combining herbs in a recipe
[1] See for example, classical pharmacology in Laurence M. V. Totelin, Hippocratic Recipes: Oral and Written Transmission of Pharmacological Knowledge in Fifth- and Fourth-Century Greece (Boston: Brill, 2009).
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By Daniel Trambaiolo
As all of us continue to watch the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, and wait with cautious optimism for a time when we can heal and recover, I’d like to take a moment to revisit another medical breakthrough that required patience of its own. In this post from our archives, Daniel Trambaiolo recounts an exchange between a Korean and Japanese doctor as they “discussed” best practices for preserving and transporting the Korean wonder drug ginseng to Japan. I hope you enjoy our return to this tale of recipes, distribution logistics, and healing, no super-chilled storage freezers required. -Joshua Schlachet
Ginseng, one of the best known drugs of the East Asian herbal tradition, can be purchased today almost anywhere in the world, but in the early modern period its availability was much more limited. The roots of Panax ginseng could be harvested only from its natural ecological range, in a region stretching across Manchuria, Siberia, and the Korean peninsula. In countries like Japan, where doctors relied on Chinese styles of herbal therapy but did not have direct access to herbal drugs that grew only on the continent, the roots had to be imported at high cost.
The cost of Korean ginseng became a source of concern in Japan during the final years of the seventeenth century, as the need to pay for the drug contributed to a steady outflow of Japanese silver that was used to pay for foreign products. During the early eighteenth century, the Japanese shogunal government encouraged doctors and herbalists to develop a domestic substitute, either by finding a native plant with similar medicinal properties or by discovering a way to cultivate Korean ginseng plants on Japanese soil.
Panax ginseng did not grow natively in Japan, but the related species Panax japonicus appeared similar and promised to have similar medicinal properties. However, the roots of the native Japanese species had a distinctive segmented appearance that led to Japanese doctors calling it “bamboo-segment ginseng”; their flavour was also more bitter and less sweet than the imported Korean product–a concern for many doctors, who believed that flavor was closely related to therapeutic efficacy. Some drug sellers claimed to possess secret methods that could transform the native herb into an equivalent of the imported drug, but how could these claims be evaluated?
Korean doctors were one obvious source of authoritative information on ginseng, but it was difficult to discuss the matter with them because the shogunal government had enacted strict policies limiting the movement of foreigners into Japan. Among the rare exceptions were the Koreans who travelled to Japan on diplomatic missions. Starting in 1682, these missions included a “medical expert” (K. yangǔi, J. ryōi 良醫) whose functions were to provide medical care for the members of the embassy and to allow Japanese doctors the benefit of Korean medical knowledge.
An early modern Korean embassy to Japan.
Neither the Japanese nor the Koreans could speak each others’ languages, so they communicated by writing down questions and answers in classical Chinese, a form of conversation known as “brush talks” (K. p’ildam, J. hitsudan 筆談). The records of these conversations were often preserved in manuscripts or books printed for wider dissemination, and they can offer us insights into the styles of cross-cultural communication that these embassies facilitated–as well as into the ways Korean and Japanese doctors tried to derive benefits from each other without giving away too much in return.
The following exchange on ginseng took place between the Japanese doctor Kawamura Harutsune and the Korean doctor Cho Hwalam during the Korean embassy of 1748. (The translation is based on the published version of their conversations, which was distributed by the prominent Edo bookseller Suwaraya Mohei.)
Kawamura: In our country there is a type of ginseng whose stem, leaves, flowers and berries are just as described in the Materia Medica; its roots are similar in shape to what Zhang [Zhicong] calls “bamboo-segment ginseng.” It is very bitter in flavor and unsuitable for use, so people customarily boil it with licorice root or process it with honey water. But although the bitter flavor departs and a sweet flavor emerges, it is not the original flavor.
However, my father found a processing method that is quite acceptable; it does not rely on the flavors of other drugs, but the bitter flavor departs and a sweet flavor emerges. When my father consumed [imported] ginseng, he would always see blood in his phlegm. When he consumed the ginseng that he had processed himself, he would also see blood in his phlegm. Looking at it this way, is its efficacy similar to the ginseng from your country?
Cho: While I was in Osaka, I already heard people talk about your country’s ginseng. Although when you see the stem and leaves it looks similar, after tasting its flavor and inspecting its form it is clearly not genuine. You can perform all sorts of marvelous transformations to alter its bitter flavor, but how could you use it? There is no method for processing ginseng: you should use it just as it is naturally. Don’t be confused about this!
Kawamura: Your explanation is sufficient to dispel doubts. However, among several pounds of ginseng from your country, some roots have a burnt yellow color and seem to have undergone processing. Moreover, during [the embassy of] 1711 the Korean doctor Ki Tumun transmitted a processing method to a disciple of my grandfather. However, the paper has been eaten by insects and is now difficult to read. I will briefly write it down here, but I beg you to enlighten me further.
[Thereupon, he told me the method for processing ginseng. It is marvelous, and I have submitted it to the authorities. I do not record it here, but I have recorded it elsewhere and keep it in my home.]
Unfortunately, there are no surviving records of what Cho transmitted to Kawamura, so it is impossible to know whether it was a genuine recipe used by Koreans for processing ginseng or merely one he invented on the spot to deflect Kawamura’s questioning. Kawamura may have decided to omit the recipe from the published version of the brush talks in order to profit by selling ginseng processed according to a “secret Korean recipe.” However, his opportunities for doing so would probably have been quite limited. A few years before the meeting between Cho and Kawamura took place, a different group of Japanese herbalists succeeded in cultivating Korean ginseng from seedlings smuggled into Japan from Korea. As this new source of cultivated ginseng became commercially viable, the demand for “processed” ginseng dwindled rapidly and the recipes for such processing were gradually forgotten.
Was there a recipe for Korean ginseng?
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Russia has some of the most amazing scenery in the world. There are rolling hills, rugged mountains, vast rivers and lakes, forests, plains, and more. It is one of the greatest eco-tourism spots on the planet, with several nature reserves. Due to its size, and the distance between cities, there is a seemingly-endless spread of landscape to be discovered. The food is divine, and many of the recipes that Americans now hold as “traditional”, such as beef stroganoff, actually originated in Russia.
Russia is a huge multinational country consisting of dozens of federal republics, autonomous regions and counties. More than two hundreds peoples, both populous and small, inhabit this country. They are all called Russians, although they may not all be ethnic Russians.
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Taking the historical first railroad from Manchester to Liverpool, opened 1830 I arrived shortly to this beautiful city.
The train station impressed me:
And just across is St George’s Hall. It is a building in Neoclassical style which contains concert halls and law courts.
St George’s Hall
I didn’t enter but continue my way towards Worls Museum, Walker Art Gallery and Central Library.
In front of the Library at its entrance is this floor written with famous fairytailes. Ufortunately I haven’t find the one about Red Riding Hood but there was this Lonely Hearts Club… 🙂
Liverpool Town Hall stands as an outstanding and complete example of late Georgian decoration (18th century).
Liverpool Town Hall
Walking down the street I ended up at docks with beautiful buildings and museums. The River Mersey is just there before it faces the Atlantic ocean.
Remember the song Gerry and Pacemakers: Ferry cross the Mersey, from 1958? 🙂 Or You’ll Never Walk Alone?
And Beatles? As this is their hometown… and everything else in this city is just about them. 🙂
At the Albert dock I visited Museum of Liverpool which explains the industrial revolution of the city, the explosion of the pop culture in the 20th century and football.
Poor quartiers of Liverpool during Industrial Revolution
Taking about the pop culture, the city’s first was her: Lita Roza. I was so glad. (the feminist in me hails). 🙂
And then this bird everywhere I went…
I took some photos of the docks by walking down the river. The chimneys whitness factory history and bricks are everywhere around you look.
In Liverpool you can find the biggest Cathedral in United Kingdom. The cathedral is the 5th biggest in the world, built on St James’s Mount in 20th century.
I finshed my day by visiting pubs area, more specifically The Caverns Club where Beatles first performed as a local band. The pub is nice museum with live shows and many tribute to songs are on. You can see photos of Beatles on the walls, their disco boards, photo of princ Charles andCamila visiting the pub or buy Beatles t-shirt as you are walking around with your beer.
I was impressed by the age of people in the club, twisting like they are in their best ages. 🙂 The spirit there is really amazing!
You can see the video of the atmosphere on my Facebook Blog page or Instagram as I was attending the Tribute to Beatles show.
And yes the entire pub district is about them:
By RED RIDING HOOD Posted on November 30, 2017
abbey 30
They call you love in Manchester. The taxi driver, the lady at the cashmashine, your friend that recently moved to Manchester, the guy who wants randomly pay your drink at the bar etc…
The vibe is so good.
I arrived a bit before midnight to the airport at needed to take the taxi to my hotel.
I was happily surprised that Little Black Cab is waiting for me in front of the building. 🙂
And there is so many room in this car.
My hotel was a bit far away from the city – in Stockport. So I was taking a Doubledecker and explored a bit the suburbeans of Manchester. It is part of Greater Manchester and where the River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey.
When I arrived to the city, my first stop was the Picadilly Gardens – there she was, the Queen Victoria sitting in her glory of imperialism. So I got my first hint – the city was developed under her reign.
I was caught with Saturday vibe, music in the street and youngsters scrolling down the center having their coffee-to-go. I shopped around, had my fast brunch and continue to discover.
The second stop was Town Hall – a Victorian, neo-gothic municipal building from 19th century.
I continued my way to more victorian epoche – The John Ryland’s Library. Now, if you thought Manchester is culturally empty – you are wrong! This a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate was opened to public in 1900 by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands.
Enriqueta Augustina Rylands
This victorian lady, meaning in seek for education got the special collections believed to be among the largest in the United Kingdom from medieval illuminated manuscripts and examples of early European printing, including a Gutenberg Bible, the second largest collection of printing by William Caxton, and the most extensive collection of the editions of the Aldine Press of Venice – a Venetian humanist, scholar, and educators press foundation (probably the first in Europe) that printed Bible and literature wworks in local veneto language rather than in Latin due to mass education of people.
Letter written by Martin Luther to Germany
First edition of Ulysses by James Joyce
In the times of Reformation, King Henry VIII executed both Protestants and Catholics who challenged his reformation (Anglican Church). This included prominent figures like his Chancellor Thomas More who wrote Utopia, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation.
This public executions were suppose to serve as warning to others but they attracted the crowd from many cities across England.
Example of print machine in The Library
With discovery of printing press the Lutheran’s message helped to spread across Europe and further to new continents.
Clearly it was a war in print as Luther printed many pamphlets and documents.
Below the examples of Martin Luther’s thesis agaist the Indulgence – (in the Roman Catholic Church) a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory for money, widespread during the later Middle Ages.
Following this path, in 19th century Manchester became the world’s first great industrial city. It gained international reputation during the 19th century industrial revolution for making cotton and other textiles.
Many radical and innovative ideas about politics, economics and science have emerged from this complex urabn community. Hence I visited People’s History Museum where the story is told in following way:
Manchester was the world’s first great industrial city. It gained an international reputation during the 19th century for making cotton and other textiles. As the production was spreading, the need for more people working on machines was needed but these were working in very poor conditions, 16 hours per day and child labour was a very known fact.
In 1819 during the peaceful demonstrations requiring the right to vote, 18 people were killed in the Peterloo Massacre.
The Industrial revolution was a period of great change which brought to Great Reform Act and Thories and Wigs and Liberals. The museum describes the roots of todays British political parties and establishment.
The museum is former storage warehouse so I was making photos of rests of old machines, the dam door etc as it is placed at the river Irwell at Salford – former commercial area with many boats taking goods and warehouses.
Canals and later railways provided efficient methods of transporting goods. The invention of steem machine resulted with first railway between Manchester and Liverpool.
Over the past 200 years Manchester have developed into a vibrant community. Individuals such as John Dalton achieved world – wide recognition for their contributions to science and technology. Hence first atom was split in Mnachester, first computer comes from Manchester University etc.
Several important political campaign started in Manchester including the sufragette movement.
Frydryk Chopin (polish/ french composer) enjoyed his time in Manchester too. He visited the city a ear before his death in age of 39. He performed despite his great illness insisting to allow people of England to enjoy his music.
In tribute to Frydryk Chopin
Continuing through Deansgate – a main road through the city centre I went to Manchester Cathedral and Medieval Quarter. My heart wanted to melt as I adore meadieval times and cozy wooden bars.
The Cathedral was currently under renovation, especially the tower.
But this absolutely amazed me 🙂
I needed to buy myself a book 😀 😀
Talking about churches, I ended up in some Hidden Gem and entered the St Ann Church. The Holy Stations are completely 21st century – never seen so far and it is great mystery to discover the content even though is well known.
The last tourist site I visited was the National Football Museum. I entered there for free. Don’t understand how but I was with some children’s group and we all entered and started to admire gained trophies of England.
I finished my day in a pub drinking some local beer from Stockport of a funky name: Dizzie Blonde. That night the Manchester United and Newcastle were playing football and the rivalry was quite big. The crowd in pub was merry and cheerful. 🙂
The next day I visited Liverpool.
But if anyone ever asks me to choose: Manchester is love!
At the beginning a bit borring but then you get into the secrets of the Vatican and catholic church.
As the most spectacular murder in Los Angeles happens, the detectives are on their way to end up in Turin, Italy where the shroud of Jesus Chirst lays…. in all its secrets…
Shroud of Turin is a length of linen cloth bearing the image of a man who is alleged to be Jesus of Nazareth. In the book is an inspiration of a mass murderer from Los Angeles.
A federal agent – expert in religious iconography – exposes a demented killer from LA and an intricate conspiracy that dates back to the death of Christ.
The book is packed with fascinating information about the most controversial religious icon in the world, The Turin Shroud Secret.
For generations, the Bradford family is the synonym for the best world wide bourbon. The spirit that comes from Kentucky, USA and made of corn.
The sustained wealth of the Brandford family has afforded them prestige and privilege—as well as a hard-won division of class on their sprawling estate, Easterly.
As family tensions—professional and intimately private—ignite, Easterly and all its inhabitants are thrown into the grips of an irrevocable transformation, and only the cunning will survive.
By RED RIDING HOOD Posted on November 6, 2017
Just a bit lower of Washington, a minutes away by train is mythical city of Alexandria. Not the Egyptian Alexandria, but the USA version. Controversial as it is, maybe was named after this great egyptian city to restore the glory and power of new civilisations that came to USA after European religious expells in 16th and 17th century.
An independent city, located along the western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 11 km south of downtown Washington, D.C.
When coming there, already from the train was possible to see The George Washington Masonic National Memorial. This building is called Masonic building (free masonry) and a memorial. It is dedicated to the memory of George Washington, the first President of the United States and a Mason.
George Washington Masonic National Memorial
As I mentioned, the building is constructed on the memory of fashioned ancient Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt.
Alexandria is largely populated by professionals working in the federal civil service so it is nice to take a walk through the hilled streets and enjoy the early 18th century architecture of the family houses.
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Parkside Extendicare in Regina dealing with major COVID-19 outbreak
Wayne Mantyka CTV News Regina Video Journalist
@WayneMantykaCTV Contact
Published Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:30PM CST
Extendicare Parkside is seen in this image. (Google Maps)
REGINA -- Parkside Extendicare says 50 residents have tested positive for the virus with 46 of the cases remaining active.
In a written statement on Tuesday, the company says it is doing all it can to contain the spread. No mention is made of hospitalizations or deaths.
The province has said it is able to offer assistance.
“If they need backfill of staff, then we will be able to do that but I don’t have the specific details on that exact one,” said Health Minister Paul Merriman.
Extendicare said it has been pressing for regular asymptomatic testing of long-term care staff.
It said transmission by asymptomatic individuals is a major source of spread in long-term care.
“We can’t fight the virus if we don’t know where it is or who might be carrying it,” Extendicare said.
Weekly mandatory testing of long-term care staff is now provincial policy in Ontario.
Extendicare said “Saskatchewan has not yet embraced this proven strategy for preventing outbreaks.
“There is no time to waste,” it said. “We must act now.”
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Pope Francis looks pretty confident, don't ya think?
World Cup final: It's Pope versus Pope
By Daniel Burke, CNN Belief Blog Editor
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(CNN)– Will the World Cup final become a "Holy War"?
At the very least, Sunday's match could put millions of Catholics - not to mention Vatican employees - in a bit of a bind.
Will they root for Argentina, the homeland of Pope Francis, who is known to be an ardent soccer aficionado? Or will they back Germany, the native country of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, also a football fan?
And what about the Big Referee Upstairs? Whose prayers will he heed when the game is on the line?
Germany reached the final match on Tuesday by blowing out Brazil, the host country. Argentina beat the Netherlands on Wednesday afternoon.
Of course, both Popes (not to mention God) have more important things on their minds. But the pontiffs have also said that sports can be more than fun and games.
"The sport of football can be a vehicle of education for the values of honesty, solidarity and fraternity, especially for the younger generation," Benedict told Italy's Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper back in 2008.
His successor, Francis has echoed those remarks, and even promised not to pray for Argentina.
But a Catholic who met Pope Francis this week to discuss more serious matters said that the pontiff seemed to be secretly pulling for his home team.
"He absolutely wants for Argentina to win," Peter Saunders, a victim of sexual abuse from England who met Francis on Monday, told the Boston Globe. "He didn’t say it out loud, but you could see it in his eyes, he’s a closet fan."
And earlier this month, before Argentina played Switzerland, Francis jokingly told his Swiss Guards, "It's going to be war!"
It will be interesting to see what the Vatican says about the Argentina-Germany matchup. The men are known to be close, with Francis saying he and Benedict "are brothers."
Maybe the "brothers" will put a little wager on the high-stakes soccer match, or maybe this just means that God has a really good sense of humor.
On Thursday, Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi dashed hopes for a World Cup papal watch party, but left often the possibility that something could be afoot.
"We'll see in the coming days," Lombardi told reporters.
The scene in the Vatican on Sunday: Soccer, not theology, divides the two Popes! pic.twitter.com/hzLsMwvJCc
— The Irish Catholic (@IrishCathNews) July 10, 2014
Unconfirmed reports in Italian media: large quantities of Maté & Fanta delivered to Vatican for private event Sunday pic.twitter.com/wPyob19TIk
— Thomas Rosica (@FatherRosica) July 10, 2014
Well it's official... This is SOOO happening in #Rome on Sunday! #B16 #PopeFrancis #WorldCup2014 #PopeVsPope pic.twitter.com/BrFRq0zGVJ
May the best Prayer win! #Fifa World Cup 2014 #Germany #Argentina #ARGvsALE #PopeVsPope #univisiondeportes#pray#goal pic.twitter.com/gzuVHhzVDg
It's going to be a tense #WorldCup final in Vatican City. #PopeVsPope #PopeCup pic.twitter.com/eK7Egc5HAM
— Benedict Skipper (@benedictskipper) July 10, 2014
— Machiz (@aztecamachiz) July 10, 2014
Finirà chiaramente 3 a 2. #ArgentinaGermania #mundialao #manosDeDio #PapaFrancisco #WorldCup2014 #VamosArgentina pic.twitter.com/T5LR4LDtYQ
— Fabio M. Ragona (@FabioMRagona) July 9, 2014
— The Jesuit Post (@TheJesuitPost) July 9, 2014
If World Cup final is Germany and Argentina, then it's Pope against Pope. Awaiting Benedict-Francis shootout.
— Mo Rocca (@MoRocca) July 9, 2014
Dreaming of a final World cup match between Germany and Argentina watched by Pope Francis + Pope Benedict Emeritus together #CatholicChurch — Dominican Sisters (@DomSrStJoseph) July 8, 2014
Not much of a World Cup fan but I want to see a Holy War (Pope Benedict XVI vs Pope Francis)
— Miguel Lizada (@mlizada) July 9, 2014
Sunday's World Cup Final: Pope Benedict vs. Pope Francis! via @lifejusticemin pic.twitter.com/E8kuHWSu1A
— Millennial (@MillennialJourn) July 9, 2014
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awanderingscot,
Your Gould qoute is addressed in the Quote Mine Project as quote #3.12
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part3.html
awanderingscot
If you are too lazy to articulate it or don't have the mental capacity then don't expect me to go chasing links.
I'm just pointing out that your quotes are so old and discredited there they dealt with in a Quote Mine project, I.e. Quote mining is taking quotes out of context to portray them as saying pretty much the opposite of their intent, which is basically a lie of omission, if you are worried about such things.
I should say that your interpretation of them is discredited, not the quote.
The occurrence of genetic monstrosities by mutation … is well substantiated, but they are such evident freaks that these monsters can be designated only as 'hopeless'. They are so utterly unbalanced that they would not have the slightest chance of escaping elimination through stabilizing selection … the more drastically a mutation affects the phenotype, the more likely it is to reduce fitness. To believe that such a drastic mutation would produce a viable new type, capable of occupying a new adaptive zone, is equivalent to believing in miracles … The finding of a suitable mate for the 'hopeless monster' and the establishment of reproductive isolation from the normal members of the parental population seem to me insurmountable difficulties. – Ernst Mayr
– was Ernst in error when he stated that producing a viable new type was akin to a miracle and if not, then why not?
– is the establishment of reproductive isolation in this new type really an insurmountable difficulty and if not why then?
realbuckyball
Wikipedia :
Ernst Walter Mayr (/ˈmaɪər/; July 5, 1904 – February 3, 2005)[1][2] was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, and historian of science.[3] His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept.
Although Charles Darwin and others posited that multiple species could evolve from a single common ancestor, the mechanism by which this occurred was not understood, creating the species problem. Ernst Mayr approached the problem with a new definition for species. In his book Systematics and the Origin of Species (1942) he wrote that a species is not just a group of morphologically similar individuals, but a group that can breed only among themselves, excluding all others. When populations within a species become isolated by geography, feeding strategy, mate selection, or other means, they may start to differ from other populations through genetic drift and natural selection, and over time may evolve into new species. The most significant and rapid genetic reorganization occurs in extremely small populations that have been isolated (as on islands).
His theory of peripatric speciation (a more precise form of allopatric speciation which he advanced), based on his work on birds, is still considered a leading mode of speciation, and was the theoretical underpinning for the theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. Mayr is sometimes credited with inventing modern philosophy of biology, particularly the part related to evolutionary biology, which he distinguished from physics due to its introduction of (natural) history into science.
'The most significant and rapid genetic reorganization occurs in extremely small populations that have been isolated (as on islands).'
– Mayr DID NOT believe this at all. this is just more revisionist propaganda from evolution cultists.
and this follow-up quote from Ernst has special implication for punctuated equilibrium
“I published that theory [of speciation evolution] in a 1954 paper…and I clearly related it to paleontology. Darwin argued that the fossil record is very incomplete because some species fossilize better than others... I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record... Gould was my course assistant at Harvard where I presented this theory again and again for three years. So he knew it thoroughly. So did Eldredge. In fact, in his 1971 paper Eldredge credited me with it. But that was lost over time.”
― Ernst Mayr
– Why did Mayr put a silver bullet into the theory of punctuated equilibrium again and again for three years and what do Gould and Eldredge know that Mayr didn't know? As far as i can tell, Mayr never retracted this assertion.
Well you're not embarrassed by lying and misrepresenting scientists on here all day – you may as well fabricate a reason for this one....
Don't you think it's time to stop quote-mining and start trying to be at least a little honest ?
"- was Ernst in error when he stated that producing a viable new type was akin to a miracle and if not, then why not?"
I am unfamiliar with the context of this "quote", but it appears to be talking about "monsterous" types. There are many non-viable mutations, but what does that have to do with the viable mutations?
"- is the establishment of reproductive isolation in this new type really an insurmountable difficulty and if not why then?"
In "monsterous" types? it may be.
no, you are obfuscating and distorting the record again. we are talking viable new types, not non-viable types.
cite your source
You're quote mining again, I think. The first line goes like this, does it not?
"The occurrence of genetic monstrosities by mutation, for instance the homeotic mutant in Drosophila, is well substantiated, but they are such evident freaks that these monsters can be designated only as 'hopeless.'
Homeotic mutants are non-viable, if for no other reason then their drastic mutations do cause reproductive isolation. This is not an example of evolution by natural selection at all, but mutational non-viability, not to mention lab generated mutations.
"In normal flies, structures like legs, wings, and antennae develop on particular segments, and this process requires the action of homeotic genes. Enter Ed Lewis, who discovered homeotic mutants – mutant flies in which structures characteristic of one part of the embryo are found at some other location. "
What silver bullet? He seems to be wanting to take credit for PE.
hint: only drastic mutations produce viable new types.
"I noted that you are never going to find evidence of a small local population that changed very rapidly in the fossil record."
– you are not going to make a case for evolution ever when there is NO EVIDENCE. get it? you belong to an ever dwindling cult of arrogant pseudo-scientific dreamers.
http://www.scq.ubc.ca/evolutionary-dead-ends/
As Gould tried to correct creationists misrepresenting his quotes, like you, not finding small changes in local groups does not equate to "no evidence", but is just acknowledging the va.garies of the fossilization process. There are however many transitional forms between higher orders.
"you belong to an ever dwindling cult of arrogant pseudo-scientific dreamers."
wow, that is rich coming from you of all people.
good luck with that.
wandering,
There is so much evidence for evolution that it's hard to know how you missed it.
One example would be DNA mapping; the % that human DNA matches apes, then monkeys, etc. gets smaller. What other explanation is there for this gradual divergence other than the various species diverging from a common ancestor? This is also supported in the fossil record.
Try this: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
"- Mayr DID NOT believe this at all. this is just more revisionist propaganda from evolution cultists."
Then what did he believe, Scot? What does AIG tell you to say?
Stop lying. You're continuously breaking a very important Commandment because you do not understand what you're trying to dismiss. Shame on you, and grow the hell up.
That's exactly right. At some point, the "monster" is weeded out as no one will mate with it. Nothing about this refutes anything.
alonsoquixote
awanderingscot, in reply to a posting by realbuckyball providing information on Ernst Mayr's views, you responded with "'The most significant and rapid genetic reorganization occurs in extremely small populations that have been isolated (as on islands).' – Mayr DID NOT believe this at all. this is just more revisionist propaganda from evolution cultists."
On the contrary, if one examines Mayr's writings, one can see that the Wikipedia summation of Mayr's view posted by realbuckyball correctly summarizes Mayr's view. E.g., from page 367 of Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist, a collection of twenty-eight articles and essays by Ernst Mayr published in 1988 by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press:
Already Darwin, when comparing South American with Galapagos species, knew that speciation is far more active among small island populations than among large continental species. That there is a roughly inverse relation between population size and rate of speciation had long been intuitively appreciated by many students of mammals, birds, fishes, and certain groups of insects, as is evident from the taxonomic literature. Ever since the publication in 1942 of my Systematics and the Origin of Species, I puzzled over this difference of rates, but it was not until 1954 that I proposed an entirely new theory of allopatric speciation4 How drastically different from traditional geographic speciation this new theory was is missed by all those who, like Michael White, lump the two models and still speak of "the allopatric model of speciation." Actually, the two allopatric models are worlds apart. To make this even clearer than it has been in the past, and in order to preclude the continuous confounding of my new model of speciation with traditional geographic speciation of large populations, I propose that my 1954 model be designated as peripatric speciation.
Here, the gene pool of a small either founder or relict population is rapidly, and more or less drastically, reorganized, resulting in the quick acquisition of isolating mechanisms and usually also in drastic morphological modifications and ecological shifts. It involves populations that pass through a bottleneck in population size.
I illustrated this process by the distribution pattern of the Tanysiptera galathea species group of birds which shows hardly any geographic variation on the mainland of New Guinea over a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers and with a distribution over several climatic zones and across several geographical barriers, whereas all populations on islands off New Guinea (for example, Koffiao, Biak, Numfor) are so strikingly different that they were considered to be separate species. Each of these islands, none of which could have been in recent continental connection with New Guinea, was almost certainly colonized by a founding pair of birds, giving rise to a highly distinct population.
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by most geneticists, but in small founder populations....Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. My conclusion was that a drastic reorganization of the gene pool is far more easily accomplished in a small founder population than in any other kind of population.
In regards to the quote you attributed to Ernst Mayr to which realbuckyball responded, I don't have access to the material from which it may have been extracted, but from other writings of Ernst Mayr it is apparent he is referring to the "hopeful monsters" of Richard Goldschmidt (1878 – 1958), a German-born American geneticist, with whom he disagreed regarding saltation, i.e., a sudden change from one generation to the next. Goldschmidt believed that large evolutionary changes were caused by sudden macromutations (large mutations) and advanced a model of evolution through macromutations that is popularly known as the "Hopeful Monster" hypothesis. It appears Mayr is sarcastically referring to Goldschmidt's "hopeful monster" as a "hopeless monster" in the quote you posted. E.g., Mayr wrote in the article Goldschmidt and the Evolutionary Synthesis: A Response, which was published in the Journal of the History of Biology in 1997:
The reason why I launched such a vigorous attack on Goldschmidt in my Systematics and the Origin of Species was not that I tried to convert Goldschmidt, but rather because I thought his presentation of geographic speciation was unscientific, if not disreputable.3 In at least one long session I had demonstrated to Goldschmidt at the American Museum the overwhelming evidence for geographic speciation, and I was shocked that he completely
neglected to present it and to try to rebut this evidence in his Material Basis, except for a very short reference to my publications. It struck me as rather ironic that Goldschmidt was so obsessed with his chromosomal speciation theory that he ignored even his own Lymantria evidence for geographic speciation. Lymantria [dispar] had colonized the Ja_panese Islands twice: one colonization had reached Hokkaido Island from the Amur region in the north, and a second colonization in the south had reached Honshu from Korea. ...
Did those of us who made efforts to refute Goldschmidt’s claims feel that our own theories were threatened by him? Not in any way. However, at that time there was still a large consti_tuency of anti-Darwinians who would, of course, eagerly take up Goldschmidt’s claim as support for their anti-Darwinian viewpoint. It was necessary to refute Goldschmidt as quickly and completely as possible.
When Mayr speaks of "miracles" and an "insurmountable difficulty", he is criticizing Goldschmidt's "Hopeful Monster" hypothesis not evolutionary theory. I.e., he is criticizing Goldschmidt's position that "the change from species to species is not a change involving more and more additional atomistic changes, but a complete change of the primary pattern or reaction system into a new one, which afterwards may again produce intraspecific variation by micromutation." I'd judge the quote you posted as typical of what one finds on creationist sites, i.e., it is misleading and relies upon readers having little familiarity with science and the actual writings and findings of scientists.
Your Dawkins quote is addressed at the Quote Mine Project, quote #40:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/part1-3.html
If you are too lazy to articulate it or don't have the mental capacity then don't expect me to go chasing links
You are the one copying quotes from what I suspect is a creationist web site listing these supposedly damaging quotes from scientists.
At least do your own quote mining.
Please provide the instance of a quote i posted in which by itself it can be construed to fit in any other construct.
"Please provide the instance of a quote i posted in which by itself it can be construed to fit in any other construct."
Do you not understand the concept of quote mining? It means mining a quote out of context. Your quotes are misrepresenting the original intent because they are by themselves.
I'm sorry, "MidwestKen", but you are asking "awanderingscot" to understand too much information.
I've seen Doris provide at least two examples today. I can only find one a bit further down
"How convenient that you left out Gould's very next sentence:
'But I also believe that we are now on the verge of a solution, thanks to a better understanding of evolution in both normal and catastrophic times.'"
Which totally changes the understanding of your partial quote.
Scotty, just with a quick glance it looks like every single quote you posted would fall into that group.
Your Wooddruff quote is addressed at the Quote Mine Project, quote #30:
Nothing really needs articulating for you, Snotty, since it's quite obvious that people have answered you many times over on issues that have been addressed for years. So do you have anything other than outdated resolved claims to make or is your intent just to waste everyone's time?
Dyslexic doG
Stephen Jay Gould campaigned against creationism and proposed that science and religion should be considered two distinct fields (or "magisteria") whose authorities do not overlap. It is disingenuous to see people in this forum mis-using fractions of his words to lie about his overall purpose. Dishonesty is a sin, I think.
Depends. You see as far as Christians are concerned, "the ends justify the means". Deception was awell recognized and approved tool used and promoted by the Chruch Fathers. If it's "useful to the cause", then it's ok. Even St. Paul agreed with and approved the idea that lying to good purpose was ok. "But if through my lie God’s truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner?" Romans 3:7
In fact there are entire chapters on the subject and how to use deception to good purpose in the writings of the Church Fathers. St. Jerome even accused St. Paul of deliberatly doing what Scotty does.
http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/Thread-Deception-in-the-early-church
Dalahäst
I don't think that is what Romans 3:7 states. It is clear that Paul is not talking about himself, but quoting a foolish person's idea of trying to take advantage of God's grace.
Some translations begin with.... "Someone might argue..." But in other translations it is implied.
Science Works
Hey dala
Beyond foolish – the witch ?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/14/pat-robertson-tells-mother-your-sons-stomach-pains-are-caused-by-a-witch-ancestor/
You probably have more in common with Pat Robertson, than I.
If you really exist?
http://www.science20.com/writer_on_the_edge/blog/scientists_discover_that_atheists_might_not_exist_and_thats_not_a_joke-139982
Hey dala for the kids – not some ideology .
Please check it out thanks.
Climate Science Students Bill of Rights
ALL KIDS DESERVE THE BEST CLIMATE SCIENCE EDUCATION AVAILABLE.
http://ncse.com/taking-action/climate-bill-rights
I went to one of the best science schools in the nation. Right on.
Well science does have a hard time trumping the emotional side of people it looks like.
http://www.i-f-lscience.com/brain/political-religious-ident-ity-more-influential-scientific-literacy
I won't argue what is implied in the verse, but it is clear (if you spend any time here at all ) that many have no problem "lying for the cause".
All kinds of people are guilty of that.
All scripture I've read describes the consequences of lying as not good. No matter what ends you are trying to meet. A Christian who twists scripture to justify his dishonesty must have some issues.
That's not what he said. And he said nothing about it being a "bad argument", made by a "foolish person". That's your rationalization of the verse.
5 But if our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unrighteous to inflict wrath on us? (I speak in a human way.) 6 By no means! For then how could God judge the world? 7 But if through my lie God's truth abounds to his glory, why am I still being condemned as a sinner? 8 And why not do evil that good may come?—as some people slanderously charge us with saying. THEIR CONDEMNATION IS JUST."
And anyway, in the link are many others. In an age of "pious fraud", deceit was acceptable, (as the other examples prove).
I don't know, RBC. What about this translation:
Romans 3 New International Version (NIV)
But if our unrighteousness brings out God’s righteousness more clearly, what shall we say? That God is unjust in bringing his wrath on us? (I am using a human argument.) 6 Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world? 7 Someone might argue, “If my falsehood enhances God’s truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?” 8 Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—“Let us do evil that good may result”? Their condemnation is just!
Looks like Paul is quoting a hypothetical argument that someone might use in order to justify lying: having quoted this argument he then refutes it. No?
"I will only mention the Apostle Paul. He, then, if anyone, ought to be cal'um'niated; we should speak thus to him: ‘The proofs which you have used against the Jews and against other heretics bear a different meaning in their own contexts to that which they bear in your Epistles'." St. Jerome, Epistle to Pammachus
"We see passages taken captive by your pen and pressed into service to win you a victory, which in volumes from which they are taken have no controversial bearing at all ... the line so often adopted by strong men in controversy – of justifying the means by the result." St. Jerome, Epistle to Pammachus (xlviii, 13; N&PNF. vi, 72-73)
Bishop Eusebius, the official propagandist for Constantine, ent'itles the 32nd Chapter of his 12th Book of Evangelical Preparation: "How it may be Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as a Medicine and for the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived."
Eusebius is famously the author of many great falsehoods, yet at the same time he warns us:
"We shall introduce into this history in general only those events which may be useful first to ourselves and afterwards to posterity." Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 8, chapter 2
Clement of Alexandria was one of the earliest of the Church Fathers to draw a distinction between "mere human truth" and the higher truth of faith: "Not all true things are the truth, nor should that truth which merely seems true according to human opinions be preferred to the true truth, that according to the faith."
Clement (M. Smith, Clement of Alexandria, p446)
St. John Chrysostom, 5th century theologian and Bishop of Constantinople: "Do you see the advantage of deceit? For great is the value of deceit, provided it be not introduced with a mischievous intention. In fact action of this kind ought not to be called deceit, but rather a kind of good management, cleverness and skill, capable of finding out ways where resources fail, and making up for the defects of the mind ... And often it is necessary to deceive, and to do the greatest benefits by means of this device, whereas he who has gone by a straight course has done great mischief to the person whom he has not deceived." Chrysostom, Treatise On The Priesthood, Book 1.
"Golden Mouth" John is notable for his extensive commentaries on the Bible which emphasized a literal understanding of the stories. The style popular at Alexandria until then was to acknowledge an allegorical meaning of the text:
"Thus eminent ‘believers’ added falsehood to the beliefs of later generations. ‘For the best of reasons’ they ‘clarified’ obscure points, conjured up characters to speak dialogue that could have been said, invented scenarios that could have happened and borrowed extensively from a wider culture. And this all before they became the custodians of power and had real reasons for lies, inventions and counterfeits. As we shall see, god's immutable laws became as flexible as putty." (St.?) John Chrysostom
The 5th and 6th centuries were the 'golden age' of Christian forgery. In a moment of shocking candour, the Manichean bishop and opponent of Augustine Faustus said: "Many things have been inserted by our ancestors in the speeches of our Lord which, though put forth under his name, agree not with his faith; especially since – as already it has been often proved – these things were written not by Christ, nor by his apostles, but a long while after their assumption, by I know not what sort of half Jews, not even agreeing with themselves, who made up their tale out of reports and opinions merely, and yet, fathering the whole upon the names of the apostles of the Lord or on those who were supposed to follow the apostles, they maliciously pretended that they had written their lies and conceits according to them."
In the huge battle for adherents, the propagandists sought to outdo each other at every turn. For example, by the 5th century, four very different endings existed to Mark's gospel. Codex Bobiensis ends Mark at verse 16:8, without any post-crucifixion appearances. It lacks both the 'short conclusion' of Jesus sending followers to 'east and west' as well as the 'long conclusion', the fabulous post-death apparitions, where Jesus promises his disciples that they will be immune to snake bites and poison.
Once the Church had gained acceptance by much of Europe and the Middle East, it's forgery engine went nuts.
"The Church forgery mill did not limit itself to mere writings but for centuries cranked out thousands of phony "relics" of its "Lord," "Apostles" and "Saints" […] There were at least 26 'authentic' burial shrouds scattered throughout the abbeys of Europe, of which the Shroud of Turin is just one […] At one point, a number of churches claimed the one foreskin of Jesus, and there were enough splinters of the "True Cross" that Calvin said the amount of wood would make "a full load for a good ship." Acharya S, The Christ Conspiracy.
Bucky,
What lead you to study religion?
The debil. The debil made me do it.
Duh. I wanted the truth. And discovered the preachers were not in possession of it.
Evolutionist's creed: Faith is the substance of fossils hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.
tallulah131
Scotty, the only person you are fooling is yourself. The only person you are making look bad is yourself. Your pride won't let you admit that you are wrong, so all you have left is lies and dishonest quote mining. We see you for who you are, scotty, and who you are is very ugly indeed.
Tallulah, what did Dawkins mean by "an advanced state of evolution"? Did he mean as the fossil record indicates that we went from bacteria to complex bony structured organisms? How is this possible and how do YOU explain the gap?
"and we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. it is as though they were just planted there without any evolutionary history." – Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, concerning the earliest fossil record of complex organisms.
Now there you go again living in the past, Snotty. I'm assuming when you say "hoped for" you mean transitional fossils that we already know about for which there are many:
Prominent examples:
Australopithecus afarensis
Pakicetids, Ambulocetus
Amphistium
Runcaria
Lol – even with Dawkins, Snotty can't seem to get his head beyond anything that's decades old. I can only guess that he has no cable, no library card and has some phobia of any web page that doesn't have a theological connotation associated with it.
Yet again you have deflected the question Doris. What did Dawkins mean? And by the way, none of those you mention are intermediate species, what did they evolve into and what is the predecessor?
You continue to duck and run from the question Doris. That can only mean one or two things. You are dishonest in your approbation of evolution or you yourself see it as a fatal flaw. Which is it?
what did Dawkins mean by "an advanced state of evolution"? Did he mean as the fossil record indicates that we went from bacteria to complex bony structured organisms? How is this possible and how do YOU explain the gap?
Nonsense, Snotty – no ducking.
Dawkins: "I once introduced a chapter on the so-called Cambrian Explosion with the words: 'It is as though the fossils were planted there without any evolutionary history.' Again, this was a rhetorical overture, intended to whet the reader's appeti.te for the explanation. Inevitably, my remark was gleefully quoted out of context. Creationists adore 'gaps' in the fossil record."
Dawkins is here discussing the fact that Gould and Eldredge would agree with him that the "sudden appearance" of animals in the Cambrian Explosion is really the result of the imperfections of the fossil record.
The part in the ellipsis is an explanation for this, as follows:
"Evolutionists of all stripes believe, however, that this really does represent a very large gap in the fossil record, a gap that is simply due to the fact that, for some reason, very few fossils have lasted from periods before about 600 million years ago. One good reason might be that many of these animals had only soft parts to their bodies: no shells or bones to fossilize. If you are a creationist you may think that this is special pleading. My point here is that, when we are talking about gaps of this magnitude, there is no difference whatever in the interpretations of 'punctuationists' and 'gradualists'."
Really? Then what did Steven J Gould mean when he stated the following. Try to be honest in your answer.
"I regard the failure to find a clear 'vector of progress' in life's history as the most puzzling fact of the fossil record. ..we have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it."
Stephen J Gould, evolutionary biologist.
No one cares what LONG DEAD scientists said. Evolution IN NO WAY rests on dead scientists. There are mountains of evidence from TODAY, which you would know if you were not so totally ignorant of present day science.
But please keep it up. You make yourself look like an idiot, and do non-believers job for us.
How convenient that Snotty left out Gould's very next sentence:
"But I also believe that we are now on the verge of a solution, thanks to a better understanding of evolution in both normal and catastrophic times."
has no bearing on what he stated. just answer the question or continue to obfuscate.
Of course the follow-up sentence has bearing. Because it indicates that they were looking for one thing as evidence but found something unexpected as evidence instead. It think even a bright high-schooler can see this. So what's your problem, Snotty?
"we have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it."
– why is it necessary for a scientist to "impose a pattern"?
– and why do evolutionists continue trying to impose this pattern, albeit with minor variations as time progresses?
awanderingscot.
Evolutionists –
-– have fossils with some features of humans and some features of apes and some of BOTH
Creationists, for PROOF of the Garden of Eden or Adam or Eve –
-– have NOTHING. Nada. Zilch. Zip. Zero. Nil. NOT a thing.
You are misrepresenting and lying, the same as if I would be by posting just
Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man
...without any context. Stop lying. If you don't believe evolution, don't!
Why do you not get that lying about it weakens your position, Scot?!?
You're looking increasingly more foolish with every quote you misrepresent.
unable to deflect any longer Doris? isn't this yet another admission that there is ZERO evidence for evolution?
Lol – you really don't seem to have the foggiest idea how scientists work, do you Snotty?
Have you ever heard of the expression "test a hyposthesis"? In case you haven't, scientists do this all the time. Often in many ways – in ways that they think might best give evidence for their suspi.cions, but also in ways to test where they don't expect evidence – because they are used to being surprised when they think they are confident. Some of our greatest discoveries have taken place when scientists were looking for something completely different.
Now, Snotty – ready slowly what you wrote again: "we have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it."
Sounds generally like unexpected results of a suspi.cion. The problem is, Snotty – you give up too easily. It's a good thing for us that Gould was not like that. And it's a good thing that the scientists who study evolution since Gould have not give up either. Evidence of evolution is still all around and the theory is as strong as ever. That you only want to focus on some scientific expectations turned out differently and that you only want to pretend that the theory has failed only shows your agenda: to keep your head in the sand and be comfy with your book of spells.
Here's the words of Steven Gould, a source so TRUSTED and RELIABLE for you that you have quoted him many times:
"Evolution is a FACT"
So speaking of deflecting, Snotty, you never answered my question I asked when you said evolutionists are a cult of theories (where you capitalized the word theory as if in disdain):
If you let go of a ball and it falls to the ground, are you blaming it on the devil or are you praising some god somewhere for it?
Doris, why didn't he just say "hypotheses" then? And how would he "test" this hypotheses? Please, no more obfuscation.
I would think in that area of science you look to see what you find and analyze matches up to your suspi.cions. Are you really having trouble with notions this simple?
"no one cares"
– typical response from a dishonest cultist who doesn't have an answer.
More pigeon chess – you ignore every answer you're given.
More dishonesty from Jebus' Great Liar. I didn't say "no one cares". I said "no one cares about LONG DEAD scientists". YOur usual dishonest desperate attempt to mke your position look reasonable.It's not. It's complete crap.
And Snotty, EVEN IF, by some monumental change of evidence, Evolution were to be seen to need adjusting, IN NO WAY would that lead to "oh god done it". Creationism is the LEAST probable answer, thus goes to the BACK of the line. There would be COUNTLESS other explanations, none of which would involve your deities.
That is addressed in the Quote Mine Project as quote #3.12
awanderingscot is the HYPOCRITE who constantly calls others liars while LYING himself.
It's a shame that there can't be an INTEGRITY test before allowing comments.
Hey scot how is the tail hanging ?
The wanderingscot preaches Christianity. If I were Christian, I would consider him an embarrassment and would wish he went away. He directly lies and even worse, the lies are libelous, smearing the character of people doing honest work.
Evidence from his posts:
Referring to Darwin – "by his own admission he was totally wrong"
Archaeopteryx – a forgery, feather imprinted in wet cement on slab and counterslab
Australopithecus afarensis – "Lucy", another thoroughly discredited hoax, a modern version Piltdown man.
This is reprehensible behavior that should be shunned by all honest people.
To the factual part of his assertions:
Archaeopteryx has a number of fossils found by different people. Was there a conspiracy as well? More important, there are dozens of dinosaur fossils species found now that had feathers (Psittacosaurus, Anchiornis, Confuciusornis, Sinornis, Ichthyornis, and many more). Not only that, there is a clear progression of feather development in those fossils. The oldest and most primitive feathers have integumentary structures that are seen in the dorsal spines of reptiles and fish. The feathers of later dinosaur species evolve step by step into feathers that are structured very similar to flying birds today.
Tiktaalik – no feet, no legs. not like the dumb evolution symbol of a fish with legs and feet
The actual story of this fossil also is best looked at as one step in a sequence. It had bones in it's fins that are in between normal fin bones nad feet/hand bones. It also had ears that were structured to work above and below the surface of the water. Most important, it had a neck. Right after that a new species evolved, Acanthostega. It had legs/feet but kept it's gills and tail fin for swimming. After that another species evolved, Ichthyostega. It had bones with strong shoulders which allows it support itself outside the buoyancy of water.
The sad part is, not only are there transitional species, there is a progression of fossil species that trace the evolution between fish to amphibians, amphibians to reptiles, reptiles to flying reptiles, reptiles to aquatic reptiles (reptilian version of whales/dolphins), reptiles to birds, reptiles to land mammals, and land mammals to whales/dolphins.
wanderingscot's accusations of forgery, and hoaxes is just like any other conspiracy theorist. They have beliefs in imaginary things so powerful, that it is easy to imagine these conspiracies. It does harm when it impugns the reputation of honest people.
colin31714
Yes, he is a closed system, every bit as nutty as the Area 51 or 9-11 conspiracy theorists. That, coupled with his regular invective, makes me think he might be a little mental.
I also fear that he has gone beyond the healthy psychosis of benign belief in Christianity and is into an unhealthy place.
"Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists – whether through design or stupidity, I do not know – as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."
– Stephen J. Gould
– he's "infuriated" that people would dare question his "proposal" which lacks ANY scientific test and out the other corner of his mouth states that "transitional form are "generally lacking" at the species level. well then, what are we talking about if not speciation? is he going to prove now adaptation in the fossil record? evolution cultists are delusional. hey boston, with your lovely imagination you should get a job as an artist rendering ancient fish earbones and the like you just 'know' had to exist.
Hey scot it is between your ears – what is it ?
http://mediarelations.cornell.edu/2014/07/09/study-cracks-how-the-brain-processes-emotions/
That is one of the most egregious misuses of a quote I've seen yet.
To misuse a qoute about having ones quotes misused.
You sir, have reached new depths!
Hey scot, you never answered my question I asked when you said evolutionists are a cult of theories (where you capitalized the word theory as if in disdain):
If you let go of a ball and it falls to the ground, are you blaming it on the devil or are you praising some god?
Scot, people like you keep lying about what he said! Of course he was infuriated! Who wouldn't be??
Why do you feel the need to LIE about these people??
"It also had ears that were structured to work above and below the surface of the water."
– this is yet another example of intellectual dishonesty that evolution cultists practice only in this case an outright lie unless you will now tell me those ears were made of bone? how would you know how those ears functioned so many "millions of years ago"?
Actually, part of the ear is made of bone material. Scales are also not made of bone, and there are fossils of scales. Not just bones fossilize.
What about all the other parts of the post? You accuse honest people of terrible things with no evidence. In fact, all the evidence is on their side. You should be ashamed.
Now please stop your incessant requests for transitional fossils.
"But fossil species remain unchanged throughout most of their history and the record fails to contain a single example of a significant transition." – D.S. Woodroff, evolutionary biologist
As a religious person, you clearly are comfortable with authority. As a person of the scientific method, I'm not. The scientific method works.
Awanderingscot, read this and tell me why you aren't the exact type of Christian that is the subject of the article.
And please stop taking the quotes out of context, as you do not like it when someone does that with the Bible. You're being unregenerately dishonest.
so we're all supposed to somehow believe a tiny threadlike earbone survived millions of years? you're an evolution cultist with ZERO common sense.
There are many fish fossils with the stapes bone. The trail of it traces an imitable path to the stapes bone in human ears.
You falsely accuse scientists of fabrication, when it is you that desperately lie, then try to cover that lie only to expose yourself further.
I'm done with you, I feel dirty having a conversation with you.
LOL – oh you're just being silly, dufus. You must be a poe troll, snotty. lol.
as a bit of perspective ... you're willing to believe the word of bronze age desert dwellers with no scientific knowledge over 21st century scientists with masses and masses of observed and verified data.
You seem to think that if there is even a little doubt on the scientific findings, your source of a 2,000+ year old book suddenly trumps it as the explanation.
It really is asinine.
"Every paleontologist knows that most species don't change. That's bothersome .. brings terrible distress. The may get a little bigger or bumpier but they remain the same species and that's not due to imperfection and gaps but stasis. And yet this remarkable stasis has generally been ignored as no data. If they don't change, it's not evolution so you don't talk about it." -Stephen J Gould, evolutionary biologist
– If they don't change, it's not evolution so you don't talk about it." LOL
That is the equilibrium part of punctuated equilibrium. You ignore the 'punctuated' part (dishonest, or just incompetent?) Also, while much of evolutionary history is punctuated equilibrium, there are other times/places where there was more gradual/extended change. It depends on the stability of the environment, just like evolution would expect.
oh i get it alright, it's FAST EVOLUTION now. LOL .. funny people actually believe this crap. you're gullible for sure.
First you use Gould to base your argument, then you ridicule his theory. You are a sad piece of work. I'm done with you.
The only people I know who believe in "fast evolution" would be young earth creationists who claim not to even believe in evolution and at the same time claim Noah took two cats on the ark and then in 4,000 years we got all of the different kinds of cats that we see today, from your house cat to lions and tigers.
Gould, who you like to quote, has stated that evolution is FACT and that people falsely using his words to try to dispute it are doing so by DESIGN or STUPIDITY.
So are your quotes by DESIGN or just plain STUPIDITY?
More copy-pasta from Creationist sites. We all know Snotty has not read the original works, from which he dishonestly lifts things from context, and is not capable of finding that stuff himself. And yet he calls ME out for copy pasting.
My question is, Snotty : "Were you always this intellectually dishonest, or did religion make you this way ?" I realixe one of the big jobs of religionists in 2014 is to keep cogniotive dissonances at bay, whatever the cost. But really, it must get awfully tiresome to haver to try to refute almost all of modern science.
ANd how exactly are you qualified to comment on any of this ? When and at what lever, and where did you take you alsdt Biology/Genetics class, and what was your grade ?
– shows feather structure and form found in modern birds, interesting considering this is supposedly a transitional species
(this is a load of crap but i'm glad your gullible mind can accept it.)
– does not have the bone structure in the breast to support flight of such a heavy "bird"
(any grade school biology student is going to look at this and know immediately this is not going to work)
– this thing never would have made it off the ground. birds and reptiles have completely different cardio-respiratory systems. physics would never allow this creature flight
(but hey, if your 'scientific' mind can't go out of bounds to reason this falsehood, then by all means continue on with your cultist fantasy)
Pretty much why it evolved, Scot. You asked for a transitional fossil, and there it is!
bostontola, he doesn't speak for Christians. He speaks for only himself, and in a way that solidifies the sobriquet "hateful Christian."
What point is gained by lying and misrepresenting? Awanderingscot? Care to answer that?
LaBella,
Thank you for standing tall for Christians.
Why, when asked for evidence of their God, do Dalahast and others think they can offer nonsense as a response?
If, for example, the electric company said I did not pay my bill and I disputed it, I would be asked to provide evidence that I paid it – a cancelled check, a receipt, a bank statement etc. Think how stupid it would be if, when asked for evidence that I paid my bill, I replied;
“Well, if you haven’t found evidence that I paid my bill, maybe you’re not searching in the right place.”
“Open your heart to the possibility that I paid my bill.”
“I know I paid my bill. This might not work for you, but it works for me.”
“What is evidence, anyway? Have you searched for all possible evidence that I paid my bill and discounted it.”
“Prove I didn’t pay my electricity bill.”
This is exactly the nauseating garbage they respond with when asked the simple question of evidence for their god, Jesus etc.
new-man
the same manner in which you have to actually READ what's written on the receipt/cancelled check etc. to verify, it's the same manner in which you have to read a believers proof/doc.ument/paid for check/will & testament (you get the point) -IT'S THE WRITTEN & LIVING WORD THAT IS A BELIEVER's PROOF.
So the question is, can you read?
No, that is the assertion. Just like the Qur'an and other books contain assertions. Look, if a believer ever once offered convincing evidence to me, I would convert to belief of that particular god of which the evidence was compelling. But I never get anything.
For years now, whenever I ask the question, it is the same evasive non-answers like those above.
that's actually your conclusion regarding their evidence or proof.
A huge mistake many unbelievers make is in thinking it's a believers job to convert them. Not true. A believer doesn't even use their faith to believe in God, when a person decides to believe the word of God over the lies of the enemy, it's the faith of God that propels them.
There is natural faith, and there is the supernatural faith of God which is a gift to us.
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because everything that is not of faith is sin.
Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. So how does one obtain faith.. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Why... the word of God is a seed – this is a fundamental parable Jesus gave and said if a person does not understand this parable, they will not understand any other parables. A seed -the word- must first be sown, then puts down strong roots, grows, then it begins to produce abundantly.
unfortunately, the reason you're not seeing the fullness of the Spirit of Christ in many believers around you, is because they have not taken hold of the word of God and done what He's said.
I will recommend you visit Curry Blake's Church – it's somewhere in the Plano area. It's called Dominion Life Ministries. If you go there and you do not see the manifestation of the Spirit of God then you have a point... until you do, you're just speaking for speaking sakes.
In other words, in order to believe, I first have to believe. "Yes mister power company, I paid my bill. All you have to do is have faith and open your heart and you will see I paid my bill. There is a meeting hall in Plano Texas, where all of us who paid our power bills (but can't demonstrate it) gather. If you would only join us, you would see.
I've seen mentioned in the past that if God would appear in the sky and declare Himself God or some other similar type thing, then there would be no unbelievers. This is resoundingly FALSE.
God led the Israelites out of Egypt through mighty miracles. He Himself appeared as a pillar of cloud by day-to protect them from the desert heat and a pillar of fire by night-to provide light and to protect them from the desert cold; provided food for them, their sandals never wore out etc. yet these very same people went ahead and made a golden calf to worship and said it brought them out of Egypt.
So tell me again how some great evidence/proof will be enough to convince a person.
Once again, that Biblical story is the assertion. Evidence is material from outside the Bible that supports the account. There is none that I am aware of.
actually no.
in order to believe, you have to first decide God is true and everyone else a liar.
You have decided God is a liar and all else is true.
No, I have decided that your god does not exist. I have seen no evidence for his existence and all you have done is further prove my point. The only evidence you offer is the assertion itself.
G to the T
New-man – I think you may be confusing monality with monotheism. It wasn't that the jews didn't believe "Yahweh" existed, they didn't necessarily believe he was worthy of exclusive worship (monality) – thus the golden calf.
Now if any of them were atheists, and maintained that non-theistic belief in the face of these repeated and obvious miracles, I would say you have a case, but that's isn't what was described.
and as you said... "yes mr. power company I paid my bill, the receipt or doc-ument is right here. Likewise, I am of God, I am the righteousness of God in Christ, I have the mind of Christ, there is power in the name of Jesus, as Christ is so am I in this world. Here is the receipt or ti.tle deed or doc-ument right here."
Colin, dare to believe Jesus.
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also...
"He who believes. What a word! God's Word changes us, and we enter into fellowship and communion. We enter into assurance and Godlikeness, for we see the truth and believe. Faith is an effective power; God opens the understanding and reveals Himself. "Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace."
Grace is God's blessing coming down to you. You open the door to God as an act of faith, and God does all you want."
cr.S.W.
fkahodor
i don't think truth is determined by simply deciding to believe something is true. it's either true or it's not, regardless of any individual's decision on the matter. and how can you know so much about a being that is supposedly beyond human comprehension? i assume the answer boils down to 'the bible says...,' but why take such stock in such an outmoded and self-contradicting book?
It is common for Christians to claim God is "outside the Universe" or "beyond understanding" when backed into a corner. They then turn around and claim they know what he wants, e.g., "God wants us to live good lives." Inherent contradictions do not phase them in the slightest.
fka,
you have spoken correctly in saying that truth IS and it is not determined by whether one chooses to believe. Jesus is Truth "regardless of any individual's decision on the matter."
I know so much because I have the life of Christ in me and I dwell in the secret place of the Most High.
As Mr. Reinhard would say, I don't see you complaining because the sun is old and the only persons who say the Bible is contradictory are those who do not read nor understand the Bible.
Lucifer's Evil Twin
If any of the Israelites were atheists... I doubt they would have followed some fool around the desert for 40 years...
I didn't say the Jews disbelieved in the existence of Yahweh.
I said after ALL that they had seen Yahweh done on their behalf, they gave the credit elsewhere.
reiterating the point I made to colin..
I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken if you're waiting around for someone to show you proof or evidence of God and to convince you that God is who He said He is... the great I AM.
The children of Israel were lead out of slavery by the miracles of God. God protected them from been slaughtered by the brutal inhabitants all around them. He protected them from the heat of the desert at day by appearing as a pillar of cloud, and from the cold at night by appearing as You notice that all those supernatural miracles did absolutely nothing to help Israel as a whole to follow God. They were in constant rebellion nonstop throughout their history against God despite all of the supernatural "intervention". Humans have always given the lousy excuse that if we could just see some "supernatural" sign, then we would "believe". However, the Bible proves that if your belief isn't grounded on the principles, morals, and teachings of God's form of government, then all of the supernatural "wonders" are going to be completely worthless to you."
cr. awanderingscot ? or some other commenter sorry I don't have the name, thought I did.
it's very easy to know the will of God. Jesus came to do God's will. He did nothing of His own but all that He saw the Father doing.
When we do as Jesus did then we are doing God's will... and Jesus Himself told us what to do in the great commission – heal the sick, cleanse the leper raise the dead, freely you have received, freely give.
what's so difficult to understand there?
"However, the Bible proves that if your belief isn't grounded on the principles, morals, and teachings of God's form of government, then all of the supernatural "wonders" are going to be completely worthless to you."
Yes. No supernatural wonders if you oppose DISCRIMINATIONS, beating children and slaves without punishment, etc.
God has NEVER created a slave. He created the universe in 6 days and rested on the 7th not because He was tired and needed some slaves to finish the job, but because He was finished!
Similarly, God has NEVER beaten a child or anyone for that matter! so your point is totally lost on me.
new-man,
God killed people, but no one said he created slaves or beat children.
He just supported doing those horrible things.
igaftr
"Similarly, God has NEVER beaten a child or anyone for that matter"
Really. That means one of two things. Your god exists entirely in your mind, that being the only way you would possibly know everything god has ever done. or, this "god" of yours does exist, and you are trying to claim to know all that your god has ever done, thoughout the entire history of humans.
Your bible says otherwise though, unless there were no children when he allegedly flooded the earth, or destroyed cities, or told people to fling the children onto the rocks, or to kill your unruly children.
How can you read the bible and not see how cruel your god is to children...and everyone else for that matter?
God may have never beaten a child, but for an omnipotent being, she sure has permitted one hell of a lot. She also permits starvation, and thirst for millions of innocent babies each year, as well as countless deaths from storms, tornadoes and tsunamies. Yes indeed. You have a very loving god. Yes indeed.
realbuckyball,
God DOES NOT permit any of these things. it's mankind that does!
God has given us the power to overcome EVERYTHING that we face, the fact that we don't use the power and authority given to us is not His fault.
Man is prideful and arrogant and keeps blaming God while taking offense at His Word instead of using it to reign in life!
"new-man": "God DOES NOT permit any of these things. it's mankind that does!"
Your assertion is, in fact, correct, "new-man". Since "God" is a product of man's imagination, it is only mankind that can "permit any of these things".
"fka,
you have spoken correctly in saying that truth IS and it is not determined by whether one chooses to believe. Jesus is Truth "regardless of any individual's decision on the matter.""
well i'm certainly glad we can share half-a-point there. but how has jesus been established as "Truth" exactly? or is that merely a belief, not considered true per se, on the part of many an individual?
"I know so much because I have the life of Christ in me and I dwell in the secret place of the Most High."
i feel that our respective definitions of "life" differ. perhaps a deeper discussion is possible with an agreement of terms.
"As Mr. Reinhard would say, I don't see you complaining because the sun is old and the only persons who say the Bible is contradictory are those who do not read nor understand the Bible."
i don't complain about the age of the sun because proponents of the sun do not make incredible claims about the sun being an authority on truth. and don't forget about Mr. Logic and his opinion on the factuality of the bible!
What a joke. Tornadoes and tsunamies ? Really ? Stop rationalizing for your god.
And childhood cancer ?
You really are deluded.
e created the universe in 6 days and rested on the 7th not because He was tired and needed some slaves to finish the job, but because He was finished!
Seriously. You actually buy that crap. That there were 'days' before the sun existed. Hahaha.
The electric company is actually an authority. If I don't meet their demands for evidence of payment, they have the power to deny me service.
You are not an authority on anything. If I don't meet your demands for evidence of God, you will just offer me complete nonsense and passive aggressive insults. Often that includes circular reasoning and extremely biased anti-theist opinions.
God is the Authority. He gives evidence on His terms. Not yours. That is why I suggest seeking humility if you honestly want to find God in your life. Pride and self-righteousness were and are my stumbling blocks.
Mr. Electric Company, it is pride that stops you from seeing I paid my bill. Seek humility and you will see I paid my bill.
Approaching God is not exactly like approaching the electric company. That is nonsense. If that is your approach, it might explain your results.
lol. You outdo yourself in pathos. I don't believe that a dead Jew from 2,000 year ago is still alive in a place called heaven, that he reads my mind (or "hears my prayers" as you put it) and is somehow responsible for ensuring I will live happily ever after I die. That is not a "result." That is sanity. try it soemday – you might even find you have less need for your therapist, you weak, pathetic simpleton.
Right, but just because you point at other people and scream that they are pathetic, doesn't mean you are not pathetic yourself.
It is clear cut evidence of something within you that is troubled. Especially when you rephrase and retell the other person's beliefs to fit your own cherished preconceived notions.
Dalahast, you said "Especially when you rephrase and retell the other person’s beliefs to fit your own cherished preconceived notions"
That is your classic dodge and lie. I have stated exactly what you believe based on dozens of your own posts. You just don't like the way I express it (i.e. I call it what it is.)
dala, It's an attempt to show you the cognitive dissonance between what you accept because of your faith and what you expect in your other dealings.
'Mr. Electric Company, it is pride that stops you from seeing I paid my bill. Seek humility and you will see I paid my bill" That is the best line so far in this thread.
That's the kind of nauseating garbage that passes for logic in their mind.
Could there be a cognitive dissonance between what you accept because of your faith and what you expect in your other dealings?
I've got a non-scientist anti-theist (Colin) preaching an unproven philosophical system bordering between scienstism/naturalism who is in love with the fact he is in love with a science he doesn't really understand.
And now he demonstrates hypocrisy (remember a couple days ago you criticized me for making personal insults).
Colin, you are not a logical as you imagine. You are simply rationalizing your behavior to justify abandoning all the Humanist principles Humanists embrace.
"An unproven philosophical system". So, not believing in gods, angels, heaven etc. is an "unproven philosophical system" hey? Is not believing in Leprechauns an "unproven philosophical system"?
Scientism, which is exactly what you believe based on dozens of your own posts (by your line of reasoning you can't deny that, because I said so), is an unproven philosophical system.
You should prove that you can do this:
"Humanists try to embrace the moral principle known as the ‘Golden Rule’, otherwise known as the ethic of reciprocity, which means we believe that people should aim to treat each other as they would like to be treated themselves – with tolerance, consideration and compassion."
Let us see the evidence.
No cognitive dissonance. If someone tried to sell me ocean-front property in Arizona or the idea that leprechauns existed, there would be evidence or lack of that would be evident for all to examine. Despite you saying thousands of times that you have evidence of a god you have yet to provide any. What, for example, is the difference between your religion and mormonism? The "evidence" is in a book with no external corroboration and persists because some believers accepted that book. Same as your religion yet you don't believe – what is the differentiating objective evidence?
Just because you wouldn't buy ocean front property in Arizona or don't believe in Leprechauns, doesn't mean you don't have cognitive dissonance. Sorry. I'm not convinced. Do you have any other evidence to prove you are not suffering from that condition?
@dala
Why do you think your god won't show himself? Why the infantile game of hide and seek? Why is he willing to let people go to hell for not believing when he could so easily show himself and we would all believe. He showed himself a lot back in primitive times, why not now?
You seem to have lost track again – you made your daily claim of a god and the evidence you have for said god and as usual you cannot produce any evidence. All these tangents are of your own making as you dodge and swerve.
Dalahast is indeed the artful dodger......
What is the evidence for your religion over mormonism?
Who says God won't show himself? Who says remaining hidden is infantile? Who says he sends people to hell? Who says we don't have access to God now, more so than primitive people had?
It is possible you suffer from cognitive dissonance.
What Jesus says is my evidence over any religion, including Mormonism.
More hypocrisy from Colin.
dala,
You know if existed and were as strong as you suggest you'd present it. Or better still your god could present it. Transparent dodges are not convincing.
I don't give that evidence. God does.
If I didn't have it shown to me I'd probably be hostile and demanding as you are. That kind of mindset was part of my problem.
I know you think I'm a dodger, liar, delusional and a weak, pathetic simpleton. And you say I have no evidence. Can you see I'm not that worried over your opinion? The only people that use derogatory names like that toward me and tell me I have absolutely NO evidence are... well, hostile anti-theists. And that is a group that is trying to sell me something I don't need.
Clearly god does not provide evidence – not your god not any god. Why post on here multiple times daily that you have evidence and then dance around for hours avoiding requests for the evidence you claim. You seem to forget that you initiate these posts and expect them to go unchallenged.
I do have evidence. It is not the type of evidence you request. God isn't a product of our world we can simply study using science. God is better than that.
There are men and women who have demonstrated a greater understanding of evidence than you have. They are backed by credentials I'm not entirely sure you are even capable of obtaining. They aren't delusional idiots or the type of people that would buy ocean front property in Arizona. So you arguments, while important to you, really aren't that compelling. I used to believe what you say about God. I don't anymore. A better way has been proven to me.
What do you hope to get from the evidence of God? What are you looking for? There are a few stories in the Bible that describe God asking the seeker "What do you want?". How would you answer that?
If someone were posting here daily that leprechauns exist and that they have proof or that the holy spirit told them that mormonism were the one true faith, you would be skeptical and require evidence before you believed them. Then when they provide no evidence but said "you’re not searching in the right place” or “open your heart to the possibility" etc. etc. would you find that convincing and realize the error of your ways or would you still require evidence.
Why do you think others should accept your claims without evidence.
Salero21
Well, the German team won! I guess that maybe a sign that my next car ought to be a Volkswagen or a Porsche, even a Mercedes if I could afford it.
I see you practice abominations, Sally. Best beware. *Someone* might call YOU "unregenerate".
Deuteronomy 18:10 : "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft"
Why did you lie about Darwin?
You claim "no and by his own admission he was totally wrong"
Where did he admit that?
He posed two questions in your quote...that is what scientists do...we hypothesise, theoriize, and then spend most of our time trying to prove ourselves wrong...that process starts with asking questions.
By all means show where Darwin "admitted" he was wrong...or prove you are lying once again.
If Darwin had stood on the tallest tower and yelled at the top of his lungs that he was wrong about evolution it would have absolutely no bearing on whether evolution is fact. 150 years of scientific research, testing, and validation have established evolution as a scientific fact. Argument from authority is fallacious. Claiming Darwin retracted his evolutionary theory is just a common lie.
Exactly, but scot has taken to misrepresenting what scientists say. In each case he presents, he takes questions as if they were statements, or claims they are refuting evolution, when that is not what they are saying at all.
what do you expect out of him? He is clearly dishonest and quite immature.
the quotes are actual quotes by those pseudo-scientists and you lie in saying they are not.
Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man.
scot.
First, they are scientists. The psuedo scientists are the creationists.
Second, while the quotes are correct, the context is missing, so misrepresesnt the point they are making, so it is you being dishonest by not posting the complete context. They are not refuting evolution at all, rather questioning certain aspects of the theory.
It is you who is being dishonest by misrepresenting the full position of the scientists.
Also, questions do not mean that they are refuting, as questioning is part of the scientific process.
Meanwhile in other news....there continues to be absolutely no evidence anywhere of any "gods".
where are the transitional fossils then? stumped?
asked and answered (many, many times).
every single fossil that has ever been found is a "transitional" fossil.
once again, where are the TRANSITIONAL fossils???
no Joey they are not. you need to brush up on fossils.
Go dig in the ground until you find a fossil. Once you have found one you will have found a transitional fossil. Or you could go to any museum in the world and see them there, this option might be easier than digging for them yourself.
Snotty,
99 % of all extant organisms do not die in the very specific conditions which are required for the formation of fossils, (ie the precise amouts of water, silicate/sand etc etc). The question is not "Where are all the transitional fossils, (and there are many which you are either lying about, or simply demented ...how OLD are you anyway ... like 95 ?? ) but why are there so many fossils ?
Amphistium – a flatfish, we have flatfishes today, ever heard of a halibut?
Runcaria – nothing proven here, a plant that is now extinct, it happens
We have PHYSICAL fossils with bones that are half-man and half-ape that YOU cannot account for.
On the other hand, there is ZERO PROOF that the Garden of Eden or Adam and Eve EVER EXISTED.
Oooops. Try again.
So...they never existed?
fakebuck,
"99 % of all extant organisms do not die in the very specific conditions which are required for the formation of fossils"
and "(ie the precise amounts of water, silicate/sand etc etc). "
– this is such a load of crap, it's as if you are suggesting they consciously pick and choose where to die. pure rubbish.
– really Observer? most evolutionists chafe at the suggestion that man descended from ape and now you're going to tell me there's a half man, half ape out there? why am i not surprised you are a delusional evolutionist cultist who can't keep he/r lies straight. LOL.
Speaking of LIES, where is there ANY PROOF AT ALL of the Garden of Eden or Adam or Eve? Fossils?
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooops.
Good grief, Snotty - is all you're good for is lying generalizations? Try to refute what anyone here is telling you with some real peer-reviewed science. If you dare......
"... this is such a load of crap, it's as if you are suggesting they consciously pick and choose where to die. pure rubbish."
Not at all – most animals cannot and do not choose. Then it is a question of chance as to how long the body will take to decompose – the majority of animals that are not buried in a coffin do not last more than a few decades. Do you have any science to support these claims?
Of course he does, it is called Genesis. Duh!
"Not at all – most animals cannot and do not choose. Then it is a question of chance as to how long the body will take to decompose – the majority of animals that are not buried in a coffin do not last more than a few decades. Do you have any science to support these claims?"
– support what claims? the claim that most rational people would make, namely that at least SOME of the 'transitional species' would make it into the fossil record?
The claims that all animals leave a fossil, that animals choose to die where a fossil would be formed.
As to the transitional fossils – that has been answered many times with specific examples, and all of your responses are lacking in honesty.
-- provide the source for this lie, please.
As for fossils "deciding" where to fossilize, your ignorant comment proves you are totally unable to an'alyze the evidence at hand. They drop where they die. That's it. Most places are not conducive for fossilization. If you don't get that, there is little hope for you. Have you ever taken an IQ test ?
– no lie. no transitional fossils, none have ever been found, none will ever be found. Darwin admitted the same in so many words. you continue to perpetuate the lie even though you know it's a lie, that makes you a liar sir.
"none will ever be found."
false once again scot.
All fossils are transitional as evolution is ongoing.
Since when are "transitional fossils" the only evidence that is necessary?
You have once again shown you do not know what you are talking about, and more name calling...really?
I have to say that scot has crossed the line from dogmatically supporting a false position to actively writing lies. This person should be ashamed.
where is the transitional species found in the fossil record? stumped?
Asked and answered (many times).
Prominent examples for you, Snotty:
(I'm now wondering if Snotty is a poe. Can anyone be truly this dense?)
Yes. Scotty keeps asking the same questions, then ignoring the answers. Either he's a troll or he just doesn't care that his lies are obvious and foolish.
I'm thinkin' *dementia*.
I wonder where lying for your belief comes from in some people. I can't imagine that it comes to them naturally. Maybe fear plays a role. I'm sure relying on misinformation plays a role too. It's easy to see by looking at some of the sources Scotty uses why this is a problem. And for some, profit is a factor. Yep – some of the members of the LOJ (Lying for Jesus) Club are in it for profit.
Creationists Say the Darndest Things
Case in point.
One only need search for "young earth geology" on youtube to get a plethora of videos from a Dr Snelling who was referenced a few times by Ham in the Ham-Nye debate that was held not too long ago. But what story is this Dr Snelling telling? Another geologist, Dr Alex Ritchie has some interesting insight.
Will the Real Dr Snelling Please Stand Up?
Dr Alex Ritchie, The Skeptic, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp 12-15
Dr Alex Ritchie received his BSc. (Hons) in Geology and a Ph.D at the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a palaeontologist at the Australian Museum from 1968 to 1995 where he is currently a Research Fellow.
For several years, Australian creationists, representing the Creation Science Foundation Ltd, [now Answers in Genesis] have been publishing articles and addressing school and public groups on the topic of the age of the Earth. The theme of these articles and talks is that there is scientific evidence that the geological features of Australia are explicable within the context of an Earth which is only some 6-10,000 years old and that most such features can be attributed to a world-wide flood which occurred more recently still. The author of these claims made them with the authority of a BSc (Hons) in Geology and a PhD. However, in a recently published paper, this same author makes some very different claims about the age of geological features of the Australian landscape.
These remarkably contradictory, and unexplained, claims by one of the very few Australian creation 'scientists' who has genuine scientific qualifications, calls into question whether anything said by this group on the subject can be taken seriously.
Dr Alex Ritchie, palaeontologist at the Australian Museum, takes up the story.
There appear to be two geologists living, working and publishing in Australia under the name of Dr Andrew A Snelling. Both have impressive (and identical) scientific qualifications – a BSc (Hons), in Geology (University of NSW) and a PhD, for research in uranium mineralisation (University of Sydney).
Curiously, both Drs Snelling use the same address (PO Box 302, Sunnybank, Qld, 4109), which they share with an organisation called the Creation Science Foundation (CSF), the coordinating centre for fundamentalist creationism in Australia.
But the really strange thing about this is that the views of these two Drs Snelling, on matters such as the age of the earth and its geological strata, are diametrically opposed. This article, the result of my extensive searches through the literature, highlights this remarkable coincidence and poses some serious questions of credibility for the Creation Science Foundation and for either or both of the Drs Andrew A Snelling.
For convenience I refer to them below as follows:
(a) Dr A A Snelling 1 – creationist geologist, a director of CSF and regular contributor to, and sometime editor of, the CSF's quarterly magazine, Ex Nihilo (now CREATION ex nihilo).
(b) Dr A A Snelling 2 – consulting geologist who works on uranium mineralisation and publishes in refereed scientific journals.
Snelling 1 seldom, if ever, cites articles written by Snelling 2 and Snelling 2 never cites articles written by Snelling 1.
Snelling 1
For the past ten years Dr Andrew Snelling BSc, PhD, the CSF's geological spokesman, has been the only prominent Australian creationist with geological qualifications. His credentials are not in question here, only his influence on science education in Australia.
Snelling 1 writes articles for creationist journals and lectures throughout the country in schools, public meetings and churches. Although his geological credentials are usually highlighted in creationist publications it would be more accurate to describe Snelling 1 as a Protestant evangelist, not as a geologist. Some CSF literature openly refers to him as a 'missionary'.
Why should Snelling 1's activities concern the scientific and educational communities? To appreciate this, one needs to analyse his published articles to see how geological data and discoveries are misused and reinterpreted from a Biblical perspective.
CSF members subscribe to a lengthy, very specific Statement of Faith. Apart from purely religious clauses, not relevant here, several clauses carry serious implications for those in scientific and educational circles, especially for those in the Earth (and other historical) sciences. As the extracts below reveal, to a dedicated creationist, scientific evidence is always subservient to Biblical authority.
"(A) PRIORITIES
1. The scientific aspects of creation are important but are secondary in importance to the proclamation of the gospel of Jesus Christ as Sovereign, Creator and Redeemer.
(B) BASICS
3. The account of origins presented in Genesis is a simple but factual presentation of actual events and therefore provides a reliable framework for scientific research into the question of the origin and history of life.
5. The great flood of Genesis was an actual historical event, worldwide in its extent and effect.
(D) GENERAL
The following attitudes are held by members of the Board to be either consistent with Scripture or implied by Scripture
(i) The scripture teaches a recent origin for man and for the whole creation.
(ii) The days in Genesis do not correspond to Geological ages, but are six
(6) consecutive twenty-four (24) hour days of creation.
(iii) The Noachian flood was a significant geological event and much (but not all) fossiliferous sediment originated at that time.
(iv) The chronology of secular world history must conform to that of Biblical world history."
These statements reveal 'creation science' to be an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms, based on religious dogma (and a simple minded dogma at that). Despite its name, 'creation science' has little to do with real science and, in fact, represents the antithesis of science.
Everything in his creationist writings and activities indicates that Snelling 1 subscribes fully to CSF's Statement of Faith. Where this clashes with scientific evidence, the latter is always secondary to the former and his message, although often cloaked in scientific jargon, is simple and unequivocal; indeed one of his favourite lecture topics is "Why, as a Geologist, I Believe in Noah's Flood".
From the Gospel according to Snelling 1, the Earth is geologically young, created ex nihilo ("from nothing") by a supernatural being, during a short, well defined construction period of only six days. This miraculous creation event, usually dated some 6000 years ago (around 4004 BC), is not the end of the story. The Earth we live on today is not the same as the original created model, which was almost totally destroyed and remodelled some 1,600 years later (around 2345 BC) by an irate Creator who conjured up an unique, world-wide Flood to do the job.
This Flood, lasting just over one year, tore down all previous land surfaces, rearranged the continents and thrust up all existing mountain chains. It also destroyed all pre-existing life forms, plant and animal – except for a chosen few saved on Noah's Ark. Thus all of the remarkably complex geology of the present day Earth's crust formed during the one year of Noah's Flood and all the innumerable fossil remains of former animals and plants were all buried and preserved by the same Flood.
Snelling 1 (1983a) presented his views on Flood chronology in an article, Creationist Geology: The Precambrian. After reviewing mainstream views on geology and evolution, he remarked:
"On the other hand, creationists interpret the majority of the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks of the Earth's crust as testimony to Noah's flood....Creationists do this because they regard the Genesis record as implying that there was no rain before Noah's flood, therefore no major erosion, and hence no significant sedimentation or fossilisation."
"However the flood was global, erosional and its purpose was destruction. Therefore the first major fossilisation commenced at this time, and the majority of the fossils are regarded as having been formed rapidly during this event. Creationists therefore regard sedimentary strata as needing to be classified into those formed during the time of creation week, pre-flood, flood (early, middle and late), post-flood and recent" (p. 42)
Snelling 1 then quoted one J C Dillow, a creationist writing on the Earth's supposed pre-Flood "vapour canopy":
"It should be obvious that if the Earth is only 6000 years old, then all the geological designations are meaningless within that framework, and it is deceptive to continue to use them. If, as many creationist geologists believe, the majority of the geological column represents flood sediments and post-flood geophysical activity, then the mammoth, dinosaur and all humans existed simultaneously .... Some limited attempts have been made by creationist geologists to reclassify the entire geological column within this framework, but the task is immense." (Dillow 1981, "The Waters Above". Moody Press, 405-6)
Snelling 1 criticised Dillow and other creationists for restricting Flood strata to Phanerozoic rocks (Cambrian and younger) and claimed that most Precambrian rocks are also Flood deposits:
"It is my contention that those who do this have failed to study carefully the evidence for the flood deposition of many Precambrian strata and have therefore unwittingly fallen into the trap of lumping together the Precambrian strata to the creation week. The usual reason for doing this is that the evolutionists regard Precambrian as so different, so devoid of life in comparison with other rocks, that creationists have simply borrowed their description." (1983, 42).
Snelling 1 thus pushes the earliest limits of Flood strata far back into the Early Precambrian (early Archaean) times , before even the first appearance of fossils resembling blue-green algae:
"What I am contending here is that fossils, whether they be microscopic or macroscopic, plant or animal and the fossil counterpart of organic matter, along with its metamorphosed equivalent graphite, are the primary evidence which should distinguish flood rocks from pre-flood rocks, regardless of the evolutionary 'age'." (1983, 45).
Lest there remain any doubt, Snelling 1 (1983, 42) stated:
"For creationists to be consistent the implications are clear; Precambrian sediments containing fossils and organic remains were laid down during Noah's flood. Creationist geologists need to completely abandon the evolutionist's geological column and associated terminology. It is necessary to start again, using the presence of fossils or organic matter as a classification criterion in the task of rebuilding our understanding of geological history within the Biblical framework."
It is difficult to believe that the writer of the foregoing article has a BSc (Hons) and PhD in geology! However an examination of other articles by the same author in Ex Nihilo reveals that, to Snelling 1, everything geological (Ayers Rock, Mt Isa ore deposits, Bass Strait oil and gas, Queensland coal deposits, Great Barrier Reef, etc.,) can be explained as the result of Noah's year-long Flood.
DOOLAN, ROBERT & ANDREW A SNELLING, 1987. Limestone caves ...a result of Noah's Flood? Limestone caves... a result of Noah's Flood? (4), 10-13.
READ, PETER & ANDREW A SNELLING, 1985. How Old is Australia's Great Barrier Reef? Creation Ex Nihilo. 8(1), 6-9.
SNELLING, ANDREW A 1982. The Recent Origin of Bass Strait Oil and Gas. Ex Nihilo 5 (2) 43-46.
SNELLING, ANDREW A 1983. Creationist Geology: The Precambrian. Ex Nihilo 6 (1), 42-46.
SNELLING, ANDREW A 1983. What about Continental Drift? Have the continents really moved apart? Ex Nihilo 6 (2), 14-16.
SNELLING, ANDREW A 1984. The recent, rapid formation of the Mt Isa orebodies during Noah's Flood. Ex Nihilo 6 (3) 40-46 (cf. also abstract 17-18).
SNELLING, ANDREW A 1984. The Origin of Ayers Rock. Creation Ex Nihilo 7 (1).
SNELLING, ANDREW A 1986. Coal Beds and Noah's Flood. Creation Ex Nihilo 8 (3), 20-21.
SNELLING, ANDREW A 1989. Is the Sun Shrinking? Creation Ex Nihilo (pt. 1) 11 (1), 14-19. (pt. 2) 11 (2), 30-34. – The Debate Continues. (pt. 3) 11 (3), 40-43 – The Unresolved Question.
SNELLING, ANDREW A & John Mackay 1984. Coal, Volcanism and Noah's Flood. Ex Nihilo Tech. J. 1, 11-29.
If we now turn to the scientific articles published by the other Dr A A Snelling, consulting geologist (also from PO Box 302, Sunnybank QLD, 4109), we find a remarkable contrast, both in approach and content. None of them mention the Creation or Creation Week, Flood geology or the need to revamp the classic geological timescale.
The latest paper by Snelling 2 (1990, 807 -812) is a detailed technical account of the "Koongarra Uranium Deposits" in the Northern Territory. It appears in an authoritative two volume work on "Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea" (ed. F E Hughes), published by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne. The references list eight earlier papers by Snelling 2 in refereed journals (or symposium volumes) on aspects of uranium mineralisation; three as sole author and five as junior co-author.
In discussing the regional geology (p. 807) and age (p. 811) of the Koongarra uranium deposits, Snelling 2 describes their geological history in fairly technical terms, however, to avoid the charge we lay against the creationists, of taking quotations out of context, I will quote Snelling 2 verbatim from the paper (p. 807):
"The Archaean basement consists of domes of granitoids and granitic gneisses (the Nanambu Complex), the nearest outcrop being 5 km to the north. Some of the lowermost overlying Proterozoic metasediments were accreted to these domes during amphibolite grade regional metamorphism (5 to 8 kb and 550° to 630° C) at 1870 to 1800 Myr. Multiple isoclinal recumbent folding accompanied metamorphism."
For the benefit of lay readers, this statement is summarised and simplified here:
"The oldest rocks in the Koongarra area, domes of granitoids and granitic gneiss, are of Archaean age (ie to geologists this means they are older than 2500 million years). The Archaean rocks are mantled by Lower Proterozoic (younger than 2500 million years) metasediments: all were later buried deeply, heavily folded and, between 1870 and 1800 million years ago, were subjected to regional metamorphism at considerable temperatures and pressures."
There is no question here of "abandoning the geological column and its associated terminology", and the term Myr refers unequivocally to millions of years.
One further quotation (p.807), "A 150 Myr period of weathering and erosion followed metamorphism.", is self explanatory.
There are several further references to ages of millions and thousands of millions of years, and to commonly accepted geological terminology, throughout the paper but, to spare the lay reader, I will only summarise them here:
1. During Early Proterozoic times (from 1688-1600 million years ago) the area was covered by thick, flat-lying sandstones.
2. At some later date (but after the reverse faulting) the Koongarra uranium mineral deposit forms, perhaps in several stages, first between 1650-1550 million years ago, and later around 870 and 420 million years.
3. The last stage, the weathering of the primary ore to produce the secondary dispersion fan above the No 1 orebody seems to have begun only in the last 1-3 million years.
Nowhere in this, or in any other article by Snelling 2 is there any reference to the creation week, to Noah's Flood or to a young age for the Earth. Nor is there any disclaimer, or the slightest hint, that this Dr Snelling has any reservations about using the standard geological column or time scale, accepted world-wide. The references above to hundreds and thousands of million of years are not interpolated by me. They appear in Dr Snelling 2's paper.
The problem is obvious – the two Drs A A Snelling BSc (Hons), PhD (with the same address as the Creation Science Foundation) publish articles in separate journals and never cite each other's papers. Their views on earth history are diametrically opposed and quite incompatible.
One Dr Snelling is a young-earth creationist missionary who follows the CSF's Statement of Faith to the letter. The other Dr Snelling writes scientific articles on rocks at least hundreds or thousand of millions of years old and openly contradicting the Statement of Faith. The CSF clearly has a credibility problem. Are they aware they have an apostate in their midst and have they informed their members?
Of course there may well be a simple explanation, eg that the two Drs Snelling are one and the same. Perhaps the Board of the CSF has given Andrew Snelling a special dispensation to break his Statement of Faith. Why would they do this? Well, every creation 'scientist' needs to gain scientific credibility by publishing papers in refereed scientific journals and books and the sort of nonsense Dr Snelling publishes in Creation Ex Nihilo is unlikely to be accepted in any credible scientific journal.
I think that both Dr Snelling and the CSF owe us all an explanation. WILL THE REAL DR ANDREW SNELLING PLEASE STAND UP?
Several years ago, in the Sydney Morning Herald, as one geologist to another, I publicly challenged Dr Snelling (the young-earth creationist version) to a public debate, before our geological peers, on a subject close to his heart – Noah's Flood – The Geological Case For and Against.
I've repeated the challenge several times since then and it still stands.
For reasons best known only to himself, Dr Snelling has declined to defend the creationist cause.
In the light of the above I suggest the reason is obvious. In his heart, and as a trained geologist, he knows that the young-earth model is a load of old codswallop and is totally indefensible.
Yes it seems even some of our trained scientists will sell bad information (what creationists want to hear) for the almighty dollar.
All the Pseudo-scientists with their Pseudo-science are around here today. Do they really expect anyone here, through this Media, to believe they're actual scientist postings here. Is all Copy & Paste from people who in order to continue with their NONSENSE must ignore the First Step of Scientific process. Which the Actual Factual Observation of something HAPPENING. That has not happened. All we hear from evolutionists and these Pseudo-scientists all over the Internet is mere INTERPRETATIONS of History.
Atheism/evolutionism and idolatry are all connected and closely associated with one another. Therefore they're all Absolute, Complete and Total NONSENSE. And of course atheist/evolutionists/idolaters are Extreme Hypocrites and Compulsive, Pathological LIARS. I've known that first hand since, like forever.
Pigeon chess.
I suspected you were kind of crazy, but you another dolt who thinks evolution is a false theory? Really?
Where is the transitional species in the fossil record Doris?
In case you didn't notice, Blablero, the point of my large post is to show that some of the scientists referenced by the ID community are selling two different stories for profit – one that would reflect what they have learned through their education that initially earned respect for them in the scientific community, and one story to creationists to give them what they want to hear. To bring it down to simple terms you might understand, much of the "expertise" that someone like Ken Ham relies on is simply the kind that can be bought.
PeterVN
One of the great comments here that I'll quote is "Religion is for the ignorant, the gullible, the cowardly, and the stupid, and for those who would profit from them." Our evolution-denying and fact-denying nutcase wanderingsnot is in both the stupid and ignorant categories, with a full shot each of major reality denial and quote context treachery thrown in for bad measure.
Have you heard this story?:
It was a beautiful day when a rabbi and a soap maker decided to go out for a stroll. They both were enjoying the warm weather when the soap maker abruptly turned to the rabbi and asked, "What good is religion? Religion teaches all these highfalutin morals and all these lofty values and ethics, and yet look at this world!" Without giving the rabbi a chance to respond, the soap maker continued his rant, "The world is corrupt. It's filled with pain and evil and wickedness. So I ask you, Rabbi, what good is religion?"
Before the rabbi answered, he saw a young boy walking by. As the boy ran off to join his friends, the rabbi said, "Just look at that young child. He's absolutely filthy! And you're a soap maker, so I ask you, what good is soap? There's all this soap in the world, and that young boy is still dirty!"
The soap maker protested, "How can you say that about soap? You're a learned man, Rabbi, so surely you understand that soap is good only if it's used."
"Aha," said the rabbi, with a slight grin. "And so it is with religion. We can teach it, and people can say they've learned it, but until they've used it and truly understand the meaning of its lessons, the power of its teachings, and the weightiness of its laws, then – and only then – can religion make a positive difference in the world."
There is evidence that soap exists and can be demonstrated to remove dirt whereas there is no evidence that a god exists and can answer prayers or otherwise influence life on earth.
No evidence you can see. You can decide that for other people. Only yourself.
Same old dodge. If you had evidence you'd present it.
Seek humility. Pride, ego and self-righteousness may be the stumbling block to the evidence you seek. Keep asking.
Oh the arrogance. You made the claim, you should provide the evidence. If you can't do that you should avoid the pop-psychology to shift the focus and have the last word. The last word would to support what you post daily with evidence.
where are the transitional fossils ??? where is the evidence???
You said there is no evidence.
Do you mean there is no evidence for you? Or no evidence for anybody? Have you examined all the evidence? Is it possible you don't know everything there is to know about evidence?
Everyone who believes in God has no evidence to support that belief? They are all, what – crazy, delusional, stupid, brainwashed or mentally retarded? With no evidence? It is that simple? Because you think so?
"where are the transitional fossils ??? where is the evidence???"
Your question itself shows your ignorance of what evolutionary theory tells us (here's hint they are ALL transitional fossils). As a wise man once said "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
"all of them are transitional"
– LOL, when you don't have an answer, just say "all of them are" .. LOL
again, where are the TRANSITIONAL SPECIES in the fossil record ? don't have an answer? that's all right i don't expect you would. you belong to a delusional evolutionist cult.
Scott – I'm not sure what else to tell you. You've built a strawman of what you think evolution says and then knocking it down. You are in no way casting any doubt on the theory, only exposing your own ignorance on what scientists are saying about it.
But let's turn this around, if these aren't tranistional forms, then you believe all these creatures existed simultaneously?
Their bows will strike down the young men;
they will have no mercy on infants,
nor will they look with compassion on children.
You dodge and swerve the lack of evidence almost daily and not just with me – I see you doing the same with other posters. You're making the claim, you need to provide the evidence. The bible is not literally true and at least you accept that but in some ways that makes your position even less tenable. Without the bible's creation myth what evidence is there?
Nothing that is said about a god can be objectively verified.
There's no more evidence for a god than there is for leprechauns, unicorns, alien abduction, etc.
And then when challenged to support your claims, others are not "humble" enough to accept your word and assertions.
Generally speaking, those who routinely accuse me of "dodging" and "swerving" come from an anti-theist viewpoint. And some do not seem to be completely mentally stable or healthy.
"And some do not seem to be completely mentally stable or healthy."
Says the guy who not only misrepresents other's arguments, but his own as well, and claims to "know" god exists, but cannot grasp why he cannot be certain.
Hilarious. As far as dodging and swerving...I always hear "Tea for Two" when I read your posts...good tap dancing music.
Religion can make a positive difference in the world?? Give us a break !!!
Save your plat-itudes and money and follow one simple rule: "Do No Harm" !!! Added details previously presented.
There isn't anything that doesn't have a bad side to it. Even what you religiously copy and paste on this blog as if it were the final answer is way too simplistic to be sufficient for me.
"Do no harm," you say. Can you demonstrate it? Not always. Easier said then done, in your case. I've seen evidence of you causing harm to others. It seems hypocritical for you to say just "do no harm", and then turn around and do harm.
I have done harm to readers of this blog? How by pointing out the truths about religion? And some added details to the "Do No Harm" rule of life as noted in my 21st century scrapbook of essential history of religion and theology (btw, Mark Twain was a big user of scrapbooks (cut and paste in his day. He even patented and sold a special blank scrapbook for those in his day with 20% of income coming from said sales::
Recognizing the flaws, follies and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity, the "bowers", kneelers" and "pew peasants" are converging these religions into some simple rules of life. No koran, bible, clerics, nuns, monks, imams, evangelicals, ayatollahs, rabbis, professors of religion or priests needed or desired.
Ditto for houses of "worthless worship" aka mosques, churches, basilicas, cathedrals, temples and synagogues.
So let us start with the major flaw of Christianity:
Saving Christians from the Infamous Resurrection Flaw (or Infamous Con noted previously)
From that famous passage: In 1 Corinthians 15: 14, Paul reasoned, "If Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless and so is your faith."
Even now Catholic/Christian professors (e.g.Notre Dame, Catholic U, Georgetown) of theology are questioning the bodily resurrection of the simple, preacher man aka Jesus.
To wit;
From a major Catholic university's theology professor’s grad school white-board notes:
"Heaven is a Spirit state or spiritual reality of union with God in love, without earthly – earth bound distractions.
Jesus and Mary's bodies are therefore not in Heaven.
Most believe that it to mean that the personal spiritual self that survives death is in continuity with the self we were while living on earth as an embodied person.
Again, the physical Resurrection (meaning a resuscitated corpse returning to life), Ascension (of Jesus' crucified corpse), and Assumption (Mary's corpse) into heaven did not take place.
The Ascension symbolizes the end of Jesus' earthly ministry and the beginning of the Church.
Only Luke records it. (Luke mentions it in his gospel and Acts, i.e. a single attestation and therefore historically untenable). The Ascension ties Jesus' mission to Pentecost and missionary activity of Jesus' followers.
The Assumption has multiple layers of symbolism, some are related to Mary's special role as "Christ bearer" (theotokos). It does not seem fitting that Mary, the body of Jesus' Virgin-Mother (another biblically based symbol found in Luke 1) would be derived by worms upon her death. Mary's assumption also shows God's positive regard, not only for Christ's male body, but also for female bodies." "
"In three controversial Wednesday Audiences, Pope John Paul II pointed out that the essential characteristic of heaven, hell or purgatory is that they are states of being of a spirit (angel/demon) or human soul, rather than places, as commonly perceived and represented in human language. This language of place is, according to the Pope, inadequate to describe the realities involved, since it is tied to the temporal order in which this world and we exist. In this he is applying the philosophical categories used by the Church in her theology and saying what St. Thomas Aquinas said long before him."
http://eternal-word.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2HEAVN.HTM
The Vatican quickly embellished this story with a lot CYAP.
With respect to rising from the dead, we also have this account:
An added note: As per R.B. Stewart in his introduction to the recent book, The Resurrection of Jesus, Crossan and Wright in Dialogue,
"Reimarus (1774-1778) posits that Jesus became sidetracked by embracing a political position, sought to force God's hand and that he died alone deserted by his disciples. What began as a call for repentance ended up as a misguided attempt to usher in the earthly political kingdom of God. After Jesus' failure and death, his disciples stole his body and declared his resurrection in order to maintain their financial security and ensure themselves some standing."
p.168. by Ted Peters:
Even so, asking historical questions is our responsibility. Did Jesus really rise from the tomb? Is it necessary to have been raised from the tomb and to appear to his disciples in order to explain the rise of early church and the transcription of the bible? Crossan answers no, Wright answers, yes. "
So where are the bones"? As per Professor Crossan's analyses in his many books, the body of Jesus would have ended up in the mass graves of the crucified, eaten by wild dogs, covered with lime in a shallow grave, or under a pile of stones.
It's a cute parable, and it makes a valid point, religion can be used for good. But the analogy with soap is weak.
Religion is more like Government, it is a group of widely varying complex social systems. In government there is Democracy, Communism, etc., there are obviously many different religions. When used, they can do good and harm.
Dogmatic religions are like fascism, they teach not only that their way is right, but that other systems are wrong and must be opposed. This often leads to grave harm.
No kidding.
Dogmatic religions are like fascism. I strive to avoid that.
Even atheists, who completely reject religion, can become victim to that mindset. I would nominate "Reality" as a candidate for that role. I can't see the difference between him and his dogmatic atheism and the dogmatic fundamentalist religions of others who express their disgust with me.
I don't want what either one of those 2 groups are trying to sell me.
I agree that there are dogmatic atheists. I think that is accounted for by the fact that about half of atheists are of below average intelligence (just like most groups). I would say that most atheists that I know are not as vehement that no God is possible, as they are certain that millennia old religious stories are not true.
I think a lot of dogmatic atheists were once dogmatic religious people. I see "dogmaticism" as more of a human problem some times, then something that is the product of religion. While some religions (and even some forms of atheism) promote "dogmaticism" – a lot of religions take a firm stand against such a mindset.
I agree that dogmatism is human. I find mast religions and most of their sects are quite dogmatic. Some, like Unitarian Universalism seem more open. Even some sects of the modern Hinduism are quite open seeing Jesus as an avatar.
I had a nice conversation with a pastor this morning on how he deals with working in interfaith (Buddhists, Humanists, Jews, Hindus, Muslims) and even very secular (neighborhood groups, politicians, civil servants) communities. He was a good example of how to avoid making war or throwing stones over differences, but instead finding common ground. It works better that way. I need to follow his lead. It is hard to find people that can demonstrate that well.
It is hard. After all, we're all human.
In some ways it might actually prove to be easier. It makes things easier, I imagine, in the long run.
Like, what I bring into my life when I "wage war" and "throw stones" at others is harder to deal with, then when I "offer peace" or "turn my other cheek". I guess the fine line is not becoming a door mat to others, because that is not good.
Interesting sleight of hand. Replace "religion" with "morality" and it would be a worthwhile analogy. Religion and morality are two very different things. One can be totally irreligious and moral and/or totally amoral and deeply religious. Belief in the supernatural is not required for morality.
Jesus still existing, gods, ghosts, spirits, life after death, heaven, hell, prayers being answered, devils, saints and all the other childish elements of religion neither cause, nor are they caused by morality. They are caused by a lack of education in the sciences.
replace morality and religion:
"What good is morality? Morality teaches all these highfalutin religions and all these lofty values and ethics, and yet look at this world!" Without giving the rabbi a chance to respond, the soap maker continued his rant, "The world is corrupt. It's filled with pain and evil and wickedness. So I ask you, Rabbi, what good is morality?"
You can replace "religion" with "Humanism" and it says the same thing. Most people would define Humanism as a non-theist religion, so that makes sense.
Humanism rejects the supernatural.
Not all Humanists are quite as dogmatic as you are about that matter. But, generally, yes most do.
"Most people would define Humanism as a non-theist religion, so that makes sense."
So now you are changing the meaning of the word religion ( each definition I look at requires a supernatural component) and speaking for most people. I have yet to find any definition of humanism that calls it a religion.
Wait, let me add that to the dala dictionary so we might understand you better.
Indeed. Debates with Dalahast quickly devolve into meaningless shell games with definitions.
Our government, and even Humanists themselves, have described Humanism as a religion. I'm not just making this up.
new entry for the dala dictionary:
Most people=Our government, and even Humanists themselves.
it is often compared to religion, but only by people who do not understand the difference between a religion and a philisophical or educational system.
"A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence."
– Wikipedia
A philosophical educational system sounds a lot like a religion.
Why do some Humanists describe it as a religion? The original Humanist Manifesto's described it as a religion. Later some anti-theist Humanists started to back peddle and dance their way around that fact. When it comes to the benefits of a religion, most Humanists will accept those (like religious tax breaks). When the downsides of Humanism (which are a lot like the downsides of religion) are pointed out, some turn a blind eye and employ what seems to be some kind of cognitive dissonance to the similarities.
It is a common thing for people to mis name things. By every definition I have found, religion requires a supernatural component.
By every definition I have found, humanism does not include any supernatural elements.
I cannot stop those who use words wrong, but I can correct it when I see it.
It is a very common mistake, but an important one , especially when people falsely claim that atheism is a religion.
Who gives a sh.it about definitions, what some or most humanists believe or whether it gets tax breaks or not. The bottom line is that Humanists reject supernatural beings like gods, a post mortem Jesus, saints, angels and other silly nonsense.
I have never said atheism is a religion. It is not.
Some people treat atheism like a religion. It seems ridiculous, but it happens. I've observed some atheists get just a nutty as the fundamentalist minded religious people they claim to be better than.
Humanism, which is not atheism, is a lot like a religion. Not all religions believe in the supernatural. The dangers and poisons that await people who are misguided in religion can effect those in Humanism in the same ways. I think most people who take their Humanism seriously demonstrate humility, kindness and understanding. Unfortunately there are examples of Humanists who are not that way. Some Humanists fail to demonstrate the Humanist principles that most people would embrace.
thanks for your wonderful assessment, i may be going out on a limb but you also are a deluded evolutionist cultist as well? and thus your angst when someone points out the inconsistencies and fallacies of your object of worship?
Make ready to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers; Lest they rise and posses the earth, and fill the breadth of the world with tyrants.
Well well. As IF we didn't know:
ot many people took notice last year when Hobby Lobby President Steve Green told a crowd at the exclusive Union League Club in New York of his plan to require students learn an intensive bible curriculum.
Green said at the awards ceremony for the National Bible Association’s John M. Templeton Biblical Values Award:
We’re working on 4 year public school bible curriculum. The first year will be a summary of all three of those sections. It’s history, it’s impact and it’s story. Then the next 3 years is going in depth in each of those — a year for the history, a year for the impact and a year for the story — in some order… The nation is in danger because of its ignorance of what God has taught… If we don’t know it, our future is going to be very scary… We were looking — uh we — we were talking — discussed a college curriculum but it’s no — we really want to get — be into the high school level because we want to reach as many as possible. Someday, I would argue, it should be mandated. Here’s a book that’s impacted our world, unlike any other, and you’re not gonna teach it? There’s — there’s something wrong with that.
“I am humbled to join the ranks of other leaders who are committed to the Bible to guide their spiritual and religious beliefs as well as their business,” Green stated in a press release at the time.
Oh my. We really need a new term for this type. Maybe Business Bible Bumblers (BBB).
saggyroy
Studying the bible IS the fastest way to become an atheist. It worked for me.
It appears he wishes to create a new generation of people who are not educated enough to hold a job that pays more than minimum wage. Perhaps he wishes to secure a hiring pool for his stores.
I guess he doesn't realize that this sort of thing doesn't fly in publicly funded schools, except of course in the poorest parts of the bible belt where there really isn't any oversight. Selfish jerk, attempting to destroy the education that could help people escape poverty.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered. [Stephen Jay Gould, Evolution as Fact and Theory Science and Creationism, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 118.] "
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPS
"Every paleontologist knows that most species don't change. That's bothersome .. brings terrible distress. The may get a little bigger or bumpier but they remain the same species and that's not due to imperfection and gaps but stasis.
And yet this remarkable stasis has generally been ignored as no data. If they don't change, it's not evolution so you don't talk about it." -Stephen J Gould, evolutionary biologist
– "don't talk about it" Ooooooops !
"I regard the failure to find a clear 'vector of progress' in life's history as the most puzzling fact of the fossil record. ..we have sought to impose a pattern that we hoped to find on a world that does not really display it." Stephen J.Gould, evolutionary biologist.
– "world does not really display it" ... Oooooops
"Evolution is a theory. It is also a fact."
-– Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionary biologist
" humans evolved from ape- like ancestors"
16 Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes;
their houses will be looted and their wives violated.
Have you ever actually read any of Gould's stuff or do you just pull quotes from "answersingenisis.org"? Because you are whoefully misreprsenting what he says. I'm assuming it's ignorance because otherwise you are bearing false witness against him...
Quote-miners only gather fool's gold.
"Evolution is a FACT".
- Steven J. Gould
OOOOOOPS. lol.
awanderingscot: "you belong to a cult of evolution."
It's a pretty big cult, huh Snotty?
Let's take a closer look using a post a while back from Colin:
[ "To put the sheer idiocy of Topher's, Awanderingscots' etc. creationist claims in context, here are some very basic pieces of evidence that make the biblical creation story utter garbage.
Of first and most obvious importance is the fossil record. The fossil record is much, much more than just dinosaurs. Indeed, dinosaurs only get the press because of their size, but they make up less than 1% of the entire fossil record. Life had been evolving on Earth for over 3 thousand million years before dinosaurs evolved and has gone on evolving for 65 million years after the Chicxulub meteor likely wiped them out.
Layered in the fossil record are the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa – 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.
Indeed, the fossil record shows a consistent and worldwide evolution of life on Earth dating back to about 3,500,000,000 years ago. There are literally millions of fossils that have been recovered, of thousands of different species and they are all located where they would be in the geological record if life evolved slowly over billions of years. None of them can be explained by a 6,000 year old Earth and Noah’s flood. Were they all on the ark? What happened to them when it docked?
Not only did a Tyrannosaurus Rex eat a lot of food, but that food was meat- which means its food would itself have to have been fed, like the food of every other carnivore on the ark for the entire 360 odd days Noah supposedly spent on the ark. T-Rex was not even the largest carnivorous dinosaur we know of. Spinosaurus, Argentinosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus were all larger and ate more even meat. Even they were not large enough to bring down the largest sauropods we know of, many species of which weighed in at close to 100 tons and were about 100 feet long. This is in addition to the elephants, hippopotamus, giraffes, and other large extant animals (not to mention the millions of insects, bacteria, mites, worms etc. that would have to be boarded). A bit of “back of the envelope” math quickly shows that “Noah’s Ark” would actually have to have been an armada of ships larger than the D-Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people – and this is without including the World’s 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the ark.
Coming on top of that, of course, there are the various races of human beings. There were no Sub-Saharan Africans, Chinese, Australian Aboriginals, blonde haired Scandinavians, Pygmies or Eskimos on the Ark. Where did they come from?
Oh, second, there are those little things we call oil, natural gas and other fossil fuels. Their mere existence is another independent and fatal blow to the creationists. Speak to any geologist who works for Exxon Mobil, Shell or any of the thousands of mining, oil or natural gas related companies that make a living finding fossil fuels. They will tell you these fossil fuels take millions of years to develop from the remains of large, often Carboniferous Period forests, in the case of coal, or tiny marine creatures in the case of oil. For the fossils to develop into oil or coal takes tens or hundreds of millions of years of “slow baking” under optimum geological conditions. That’s why they are called “fossil fuels.” Have a close look at coal, you can often see the fossilized leaves in it. The geologists know exactly what rocks to look for fossil fuels in, because they know how to date the rocks to tens or hundreds of millions of years ago. Creationists have no credible explanation for this.
Laughingly, most of astronomy and cosmology would be wrong if the creationists were right. In short, as Einstein showed, light travels at a set speed. Space is so large that light from distant stars takes many years to reach the Earth. In some cases, this is millions or billions of years. The fact that we can see light from such far away stars means it began its journey billions of years ago. The Universe must be billions of years old. We can currently see galaxies whose light left home 13, 700,000,000 years ago. Indeed, on a clear night, one can see the collective, misty light of many stars more than 6,000 light years away with the naked eye, shining down like tiny accusatory witnesses against the nonsense of creationism.
In fourth, we have not just carbon dating, but also all other methods used by scientists to date wood, rocks, fossils, and other artifacts. These comprehensively disprove the Bible’s claims. They include uranium-lead dating, potassium-argon dating as well as other non-radioactive methods such as pollen dating, dendrochronology and ice core dating. In order for any particular rock, fossil or other artifact to be aged, generally two or more samples are dated independently by two or more laboratories in order to ensure an accurate result. If results were random, as creationists claim, the two independent results would rarely agree. They generally do. They regularly reveal ages much older than Genesis. Indeed, the Earth is about 750,000 times older than the Bible claims, the Universe about three times the age of the Earth.
Next, fifth, the relatively new field of DNA mapping not only convicts criminals, it shows in undeniable, full detail how we differ from other life forms on the planet. For example, about 98.4% of human DNA is identical to that of chimpanzees, about 97% of human DNA is identical to that of gorillas, and slightly less again of human DNA is identical to the DNA of monkeys. This gradual divergence in DNA can only be rationally explained by the two species diverging from a common ancestor, and coincides perfectly with the fossil record. Indeed, scientists can use the percentage of DNA that two animal share (such as humans and bears, or domestic dogs and wolves) to get an idea of how long ago the last common ancestor of both species lived. It perfectly corroborates the fossil record and is completely independently developed.
Sixth, the entire field of historical linguistics would have to be rewritten to accommodate the Bible. This discipline studies how languages develop and diverge over time. For example, Spanish and Italian are very similar and have a recent common “ancestor” language, Latin, as most people know. However, Russian is quite different and therefore either did not share a common root, or branched off much earlier in time. No respected linguist anywhere in the World traces languages back to the Tower of Babel, the creationists’ simplistic and patently absurd explanation for different languages. Indeed, American Indians, Australian Aboriginals, “true” Indians, Chinese, Mongols, Ja.panese, Sub-Saharan Africans and the Celts and other tribes of ancient Europe were speaking thousands of different languages thousands of years before the date creationist say the Tower of Babel occurred – and even well before the date they claim for the Garden of Eden.
Seventh, lactose intolerance is also a clear vestige of human evolution. Most mammals only consume milk as infants. After infancy, they no longer produce the enzyme “lactase” that digests the lactose in milk and so become lactose intolerant. Humans are an exception and can drink milk as adults – but not all humans – some humans remain lactose intolerant. So which humans are no longer lactose intolerant? The answer is those who evolved over the past few thousand years raising cows. They evolved slightly to keep producing lactase as adults so as to allow the consumption of milk as adults. This includes most Europeans and some Africans, notably the Tutsi of Rwanda. On the other hand, most Chinese, native Americans and Aboriginal Australians, whose ancestors did not raise cattle, remain lactose intolerant.
I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics. Even large parts of medical research would be rendered unusable but for the fact that monkeys and mice share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs.
In short, and not surprisingly, the World’s most gifted evolutionary biologists, astronomers, cosmologists, geologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, historians, modern medical researchers and linguists (and about 2,000 years of accu.mulated knowledge) are right and a handful of Iron Age Middle Eastern goat herders copying then extant mythology were wrong. Creationists aren’t just trying to swim upstream against the weight of scientific evidence; they are trying to ascend a waterfall.
All this is probably why evolution is taught in every major university and college biology program in the World. Not 99% of them, but EVERY one. Universities with extensive evolutionary biology departments include Oxford University, Cambridge University and the Imperial College in England, the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Germany, the École Normale Supérieure and École Polythecnique in France and Leiden University in the Netherlands and the Swiss Federal Insti.tute of Technology in Switzerland. This is just a sample. ALL university and colleges in Europe teach evolution as a fundamental component of biology.
The number of universities and colleges in Europe with a creation science department: ZERO. The number of tenured or even paid professors who teach creation science at any of these universities or colleges: ZERO
In the United States, the following Universities have extensive evolutionary biology departments staffed by thousands of the most gifted biologists in the World; Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Colombia, Duke, the Massachusetts Insti.tute of Technology, Brown, Stanford, Berkley, and the University of Chicago. These are just some of the more prestigious examples. Again, ALL university and colleges in the USA with tertiary level biology classes teach evolution as a fundamental component of biology.
The number of universities and colleges in the United States with a creation science department: ZERO The number of tenured or even paid professors who teach creation science at any of these universities or colleges: ZERO
In Australia and Asia, the following universities and colleges have extensive evolutionary biology departments manned by more of the most gifted biological scientists in the World; Monash University in Melbourne, The University of New South Wales, Kyoto University in Ja.pan, Peking University in China, Seoul University in Korea, the University of Singapore, National Taiwan University, The Australian National University, The University of Melbourne, and the University of Sydney.
The number of universities and colleges in Australia and Asia with a creation science department: ZERO The number of tenured or even paid professors who teach creation science at any of these universities or colleges: ZERO
The most prestigious scientific publications in the Western World generally accessible to the public include: The Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, Science, New Scientist, Cosmos and Live Science.
Every month, one or more of them publishes a peer reviewed article highlighting the latest developments in evolution. The amount of any creationist science articles published in ANY of these prestigious publications; ZERO.
I could repeat the above exercise for the following disciplines, all of which would have to be turned on their heads to accommodate creation science – paleontology, archeology, geology, botany, marine biology, astronomy, medicine, cosmology and historical linguistics.
Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, have issued statements rejecting intelligent design and a peti.tion supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.
Number of creation science Nobel Prize winners: ZERO
The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society with more than 130,000 members and over 262 affiliated societies and academies of science including over 10 million individuals, has made several statements and issued several press releases in support of evolution.
Number made in support of creation science: ZERO
According to The International Federation of Biologists, there are more than 3 million biological scientists globally who rely on the 5 laws of Darwinian evolution for their jobs every single day.
There appears to be three possible explanations for all this:
(i) there is a worldwide conspiracy of universities, colleges and academic publications, including all their hundreds of thousands of professors, editors, reviewers, and support staff, to deny creation science;
(ii) the creationists like Topher have a startling new piece of evidence that was right before our eyes that will turn accepted biological science and about 10 other sciences on their heads if ONLY people would listen to them, no doubt earning them a Nobel Prize and a place in history beside the likes of Darwin, Newton and Einstein; or
(iii) they are a complete blowhards who have never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because their mommy and daddy taught them some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.
I know which alternative my money is on." ]
There is no point in arguing with scotty. He has chosen to believe a lie. He has chosen to support that lie with lies of his own. He behaves like a spoiled child and pretends he is virtuous.
He fools only himself.
"It is now clear that the pride with which it was assumed that the
inheritance of the ho-m.ologous structures from a common ancestor explained
ho-m.ology was misplaced; for such inheritance cannot be ascribed to
ident-ity of genes. The attempt to find ho-m.ologous genes has been given
up as hopeless." Sir Gavin Deb.eer, embryologist
– no similarity within genes, ho-m.ologous genes HOPELESS. no evolution, not
proven by DNA. get it?
So your response to Doris was a quote from ONE PERSON that probably none of us ever heard of?
You just got CREAMED.
A flat out lie, Snotty. Lying for Jebus again ? There are countless examples :
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/1_0_0/eyes_10
"Sheep are human, basically. 98 percent of our genes the the same." – Sue Galloway, evolutionary biologist
– lol, evolutionists are a delusional cult.
Snotty – she said genes, not jeans...
Hey scotty? Your "expert" died over 40 years ago. Not exactly up on all the latest research, is he?
Debeer wrote that in 1971. 40+ years ago. You know how far DNA was at that time, Snotty ?
Just exposing lies. Apparently Jebus is SO pathetic he needs to get people to lie on the internet. No scientist in 2014 agrees with what he wrote in 1971.
Oh, And let me save you the trouble : "Doris, you are UNREGENERATE", (er somethin like that).
First off, all of your references and quotes are very old. Try looking at the information we have from THIS century for once.
Second, you post things from evolutionists as if the tiny bite you post is the context. All they are saying is that, while evolution is clearly ongoing, it may not be in the way others had thought, like Darwin. They refer to very specific parts of the theory of evolution, they are not denouncing evolution at all.
Get some updated information, and stop misrepresenting the work of scientists.
Evolution is ongoing, and there is nothing to back up the creation hypothesis. ( and there never will be)
– evolution is not fact, it is a cult of God-deniers disguised as science
"god deniers" LOL
I cannot deny that which cannot be shown to exist.
You believe in something that cannot be shown to exist outside of the imnaination. You can only claim someone denies your god AFTER you show this "god" to exist.
It is not denying to not believe in things there is no evidence of.
We are not god deniers
“We should... not be surprised that Haeckel's drawings entered nineteenth-century textbooks. But we do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks!” – Stephen J. Gould, evolutionary biologist concerning Ernst Haeckel's fraudulent embryo drawings.
– evolution is a fraud and a cult.
Snotty – It seems most of the text books from the segment of books that contain the drawings that Gould complained about that are modern are before 2000. Do you have any stats on text books still with these drawings or is it your intention to keep plopping outdated info here like some pigeon with diarrhea?
Gould believed in Evolution, Snotty.
"Gould's most significant contribution to evolutionary biology was the theory of punctuated equilibrium, which he developed with Niles Eldredge in 1972.[2] The theory proposes that most evolution is marked by long periods of evolutionary stability, which is punctuated by rare instances of branching evolution. The theory was contrasted against phyletic gradualism, the popular idea that evolutionary change is marked by a pattern of smooth and continuous change in the fossil record."
"the theory of punctuated equilibrium"
– duh, i know this THEORY as well. evolutionists are a cult of theories.
So Snotty – you seem to have a fear of theories. So when you let go of a ball and it drops to the ground, are you cursing the devil or are you praising some other god?
What Gould actually said.
"Haeckel had exaggerated the similarities by idealizations and omissions. He also, in some cases–in a procedure that can only be called fraudulent–simply copied the same figure over and over again. At certain stages in early development, vertebrate embryos do look more alike, at least in gross anatomical features easily observed with the human eye, than do the adult tortoises, chickens, cows, and humans that will develop from them. But these early embryos also differ far more substantially, one from the other, than Haeckel's figures show. Moreover, Haeckel's drawings never fooled expert embryologists, who recognized his fudgings right from the start.
At this point, a relatively straightforward factual story, blessed with a simple moral story as well, becomes considerably more complex, given the foils and practices of the oddest primate of all. Haeckel's drawings, despite their noted inaccuracies, entered into the most impenetrable and permanent of all quasi-scientific literatures: standard student textbooks of biology. . . .We should therefore not be surprised that Haeckel's drawings entered nineteenth-century textbooks. But we do, I think, have the right to be both astonished and ashamed by the century of mindless recycling that has led to the persistence of these drawings in a large number, if not a majority, of modern textbooks!"
redzoa
One might think with all of this terrific "support" for creationism, creationists might have won at least one of their many legal challenges to remove evolution or at least earn equal treatment. Of course, no one expects the worldwide conspiracy of mainstream "evolutionist" god-hating scientists to be swayed, but the creationists couldn't even convince federal district courts in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Georgia (let alone the SCOTUS). At every opportunity to make their case, creationism has been invariably found a non-scientific, purely religious position based in arguments of incredulity and a false, contrived dualism.
"..innumerable transitional forms must have existed but why do we not
find them embedded in the countless numbers in the crust of the earth?
..why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such
intermediate links?" – Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
– because THERE ARE NO TRANSITIONAL FORMS Charles. a cult is founded.
Sure there are, Snotty. You've been shown examples of these many times before. Still have your head in the sand I see.....
"Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the
fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million
fossil species but the situation hasn't changed much. Ironically, we have
even fewer examples fo evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time."
– David M Raup, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History.
"Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists - whether through design or stupidity, I do not know - as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms. Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups."
Really, this quote mining is just sad . . .
"By this i mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution fo the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as the result of more detailed information."
– David M Raup, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History
@Redzoa
– no what's sad is the inconsistencies and fallacies of evolution that cultists like yourself keep parroting.
From what I can see, you're the only one parroting outdated information, Snotty. As I said before, you sound like someone complaining that medicine is untrustworthy because bleeding people didn't cure people of all kinds of ailments as it was once thought.
redzoa's quote from the man you frequently use as a reference to support your position said – –
"Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists – whether through design or stupidity, I do not know – as admitting that the fossil record includes no transitional forms."
So is it through DESIGN or STUPIDITY?
– evolution is not fact, it is a cult of God-deniers disguised as science.
By fallacies and inconsistencies, I suspect you mean things like the progressive fossil record; tiktaalik & archeopteryx bearing traits which bridge the alleged specially created "kinds"; phylogenetic analyses of extant and extinct forms which corroborate the fossil record; molecular vestiges like your defunct gene for egg-yolk protein in your placental mammalian genome; anatomical vestiges like your recurrent laryngeal nerve; observations of speciation; observations of novel genetic "information" produced by purely natural mutation and selection; no observations of fossils in the wrong place (no humans alongside dinosaurs, no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian; no observations of true chimeras; no observations of creation ex nihilo; a completely one-sided record whenever creationists attempt to remove evolution or include creationism in public schools; etc, etc.
You mean those fallacies and inconsistencies that I keep referring to? Right . . .
Further engaging you is little more than Pigeon chess . . .
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pigeon_chess
[if it wasn't precisely clear, you're the pigeon . . .]
"But fossil species remain unchanged throughout most of their history and the record fails to contain a single example of a significant transition"
See previous Gould quote. We do not expect to see significant transitions between species. Speciation is the smallest degree of divergence within the taxonomic hierarchy and we now understand that it is frequently discernible only through genetic analyses demonstrating the absence of gene flow. You clearly don't understand the relevant subject matter and you quote mine out of a pathetic combination of ignorance and desperation . . .
It is pointless to argue with scotty because scotty is not interested in the truth. Scotty heard a story that he likes and so he chooses to believe that story even though it is not supported by evidence. Scotty would say up is down and down is up if someone told him he would be rewarded for believing that.
By fallacies and inconsistencies, I suspect you mean things like the progressive fossil record; tiktaalik & archeopteryx bearing traits which bridge the alleged specially created "kinds";
– "punctuated equalibrium", no progressive fossil record according to new theory. a certain crow with teeth that "predates" archeopteryx which supposedly was a transitional species from reptile to bird. this crow supposedly lived millions of years prior to archeopteryx. another debunked evolutionary finding. Oooops
phylogenetic analyses of extant and extinct forms which corroborate the fossil record; molecular vestiges like your defunct gene for egg-yolk protein in your placental mammalian genome; anatomical vestiges like your recurrent laryngeal nerve;
– phylogenetic analysis has shown that supposedly same genes come from different segments of the chromosome and the on-off characteristics are entirely different. Ooooops
observations of speciation; observations of novel genetic "information" produced by purely natural mutation and selection; no observations of fossils in the wrong place (no humans alongside dinosaurs, no rabbits in the pre-Cambrian;
– true. they've never found human or rabbit, nor have there ever been observations of speciation in the fossil record, this because IT DID NOT HAPPEN and evolutionist cultists are delusional.
no observations of true chimeras; no observations of creation ex nihilo; a completely one-sided record whenever creationists attempt to remove evolution or include creationism in public schools; etc, etc.
– the fossil record confirms creation and wish they may, evolutionist cultists are delusional.
– "punctuated equilibrium" is "fast evolution" so fast as to be totally implausible. even gradual evolutionists are not lining up behind this absurd theory. bottom line, evolution is a cult for foolish delusional God-deniers. evolution is dying on the vine.
"...evolution is dying on the vine."
It is religion that is dying on the vine as you say because people are realizing that religions are based on lies, they make no sense, and they are completely useless. It is you who follows a cult scot...a baseless cult that believes in supernatural magic things that cannot be shown to be anything more than imaginary.
We are not god deniers, you are believers in myth...there are no gods to deny that anyone can show.
Pigeon Chess cont'd . . .
“- "punctuated equalibrium", no progressive fossil record according to new theory. a certain crow with teeth that "predates" archeopteryx which supposedly was a transitional species from reptile to bird. this crow supposedly lived millions of years prior to archeopteryx. another debunked evolutionary finding. Oooops”
Oooops indeed. The progressive order is NOT contested, e.g. first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds. In fact, this is why creationists offered the various flawed hypotheses (e.g. “hydrodynamic sorting,” etc) to explain this uncontested observation. PE explains observations of speciation, again the smallest degree of divergence between forms. As Gould noted in the quote above, this level of taxonomy is not the level we expect to look to for observations of transitional forms, primarily because the divergences are relatively small and the new populations are expected to be so small as to be beneath the probability threshold for capture in the fossil record. Feel free to cite the study referencing your “crow,” but the issue remains; archaeopteryx bears traits which bridge reptiles and birds, i.e. it directly crosses the alleged specially-created “kinds” barrier.
"- phylogenetic analysis has shown that supposedly same genes come from different segments of the chromosome and the on-off characteristics are entirely different. Ooooops"
It’s difficult to understand this word salad, but it’s clear you have zero understanding of the relevant science. Phylogenetic analysis allows the comparison of genomic structure from the presence/absence of gene complexes down to the individual mutations (i.e. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms, “SNPs”). These comparisons show that the degree of divergence map to the lineages observable in the fossil record. Phylogenetic analysis includes both coding and non-coding regions, i.e. the regulatory sequences you referenced without any understanding. I note you didn’t even attempt to take a stab at explaining why placental humans possess a defunct gene for egg-yolk protein, a molecular vestige in your very own genome.
“- true. they've never found human or rabbit, nor have there ever been observations of speciation in the fossil record, this because IT DID NOT HAPPEN and evolutionist cultists are delusional.”
In one breath you erroneously rely on PE to disclaim a progressive order in the fossil record; in the next you ignore the primary role of PE in evolutionary theory. Again, your ignorance is betrayed because PE is based upon the observation of speciation in the fossil record.
“- the fossil record confirms creation and wish they may, evolutionist cultists are delusional.”
The fossil record confirms a progressive order and again, this is why creationists must propose absurd hypotheses to account for this order in a single mythical flood.
– "punctuated equilibrium" is "fast evolution" so fast as to be totally implausible. even gradual evolutionists are not lining up behind this absurd theory. bottom line, evolution is a cult for foolish delusional God-deniers. evolution is dying on the vine."
Yeah, creationists have been predicting the downfall of evolution for more than century now; how's that worked out? PE’s “fast evolution” spans the course of tens of thousands of years. It is fast in the geological context, but it is not fast with respect to speciation. Gradualism is also represented in the fossil record, recognized by Gould himself (e.g. the Foraminifera). Here's an example of how gradualism works within the nodes of PE:
“The relationship between punctuationism and gradualism can be better appreciated by considering an example. Suppose the average length of a limb in a particular species grows 50 centimeters (20 inches) over 70,000 years—a large amount in a geologically short period of time. If the average generation is seven years, then our given time span corresponds to 10,000 generations. It is therefore reasonable to conclude that if the limb size in our hypothetical population evolved in the most conservative manner, it need only increase at a rate of 0.005 cm per generation (= 50cm/10,000 gen), despite its abrupt appearance in the geological record.”
The truly ironic and laughable aspect of your argument is that you forget how quickly the alleged founding “kinds” pairs evolved to yield present day observable biodiversity, i.e. in the incredibly short span of ~4000 yrs. Evolution is apparently impossible, until creationists require “hyper-evolution” to make their mythology "workable." It’s also worth noting that creationists require this “hyper-evolution” arise from founding pairs which would have invariably experienced rapid losses of genetic diversity due to genetic drift and allele fixation. Of course, given how you’ve already demonstrated a profound ignorance of the relevant subject matter, I don’t expect you understand what I’m writing about here.
It’s truly amazing, the synergism of ignorance and self-righteous arrogance that produces such demonstrably flawed creationist arguments.
Your quote does not go against evolution at all. Gould was addressing some drawings that he did not like.
you post things from him as if he is refuting evolution, so basically you are trying to get evolutionists to lie for you by misrepresenting what they said.
Do you need to be so dishonest scot? You don't have any valid counter argument, so you need to basically lie? and then you have the ignorance to claim it bolsters your postion?
Stop being so ignorant scot. Read up oin information from THIS century, and stop misrepresenting people who disagree with you...they aren't sayoing what you think they are, and ultimately will destroy your ridiculous argument.
Evolution is a fact scot, and no amount of your ignorant blathering will change that.
Darwin's Theory of Evolution, as presented in his book "Origin of Species" has been widely accepted as fact, although it is based on Darwin's fallible speculations. His critics write, "If the theory of natural selection of Darwin is correct, why can't we see the intermediate forms of species, the connecting links?" Darwin did not have the answer nor the archeological evidence to back it up. Although there is ample evidence for many species, fossil records provide almost no evidence for the intermediate connecting links.
Later, scientists revised Darwin's theory with their "Punctuated Equilibrium" evolutionary theory, supposedly making evolution invisible in the fossil record. Yet this theory is not verifiable in any way and is highly speculative.
Scot – pure pigeon chess.
The fossil record contains fossils of only complete and fully-formed species. There are no fossils of partially-evolved species to indicate that a gradual process of evolution ever occurred. Even among evolutionists there are diametrically different interpretations and reconstructions of the fossils used to support human evolution from a supposed ape-like ancestry.
Even if evolution takes millions and millions of years, we should still be able to see some stages of its process. But, we simply don't observe any partially-evolved fish, frogs, lizards, birds, dogs, cats among us. Every species of plant and animal is complete and fully-formed.
Another problem is how could partially-evolved plant and animal species survive over millions of years when their basic organs and tissues were still in the process of evolving? How, for example, were animals breathing, eating, and reproducing if there respiratory, digestive, and reproductive organs were still evolving?
In fact, precisely because of this problem more and more modern evolutionists are adopting a new theory known as Punctuated Equilibrium which says that plant and animal species evolved suddenly from one kind to another and that is why we don't see evidence of partially-evolved species in the fossil record. Of course, we have to accept their word on blind faith because there is no way to prove or disprove what they are saying. These evolutionists claim that something like massive bombardment of radiation resulted in mega mutations in species which produced "instantaneous" changes from one life form to another. The nature and issue of mutations will be discussed later and the reader will see why such an argument is not viable.
The fact that animal and plant species are found fully formed and complete in the fossil record is powerful evidence (although not proof) for creation because it is evidence that they came into existence as fully formed and complete which is possible only by creation.
Evolutionists claim that the genetic and biological similarities between species is evidence of common ancestry. However, that is only one interpretation of the evidence. Another possibility is that the comparative similarities are due to a common Designer who designed similar functions for similar purposes in all the various forms of life. Neither position can be scientifically proved.
Although Darwin was partially correct by showing that natural selection occurs in nature, the problem is that natural selection itself is not a creative force. Natural selection can only work with those biological variations that are possible. The evidence from genetics supports only the possibility for horizontal evolution (i.e. varieties of dogs, cats, horses, cows, etc.) but not vertical evolution (i.e. from fish to human). Unless Nature has the ability to perform genetic engineering vertical evolution will not be possible.
The early grooves in the human embryo that appear to look like gills are really the early stages in the formation of the face, throat, and neck regions. The so-called "tailbone" is the early formation of the coccyx and spinal column which, because of the rate of growth being faster than the rest of the body during this stage, appears to look like a tail. The coccyx has already been proven to be useful in providing support for the pelvic muscles.
Modern science has shown that there are genetic limits to evolution or biological change in nature. Again, all biological variations, whether they are beneficial to survival or not, are possible only within the genetic potential and limits of a biological kind such as the varieties among dogs, cats, horses, cows, etc.
Variations across biological kinds such as humans evolving from ape-like creatures and apes, in turn, evolving from dog-like creatures and so on, as Darwinian evolutionary theory teaches, are not possible unless Nature has the capability of performing genetic engineering.
Biological variations are determined by the DNA or genetic code of species. The DNA molecule is actually a molecular string of various nucleic acids which are arranged in a sequence just like the letters in a sentence. It is this sequence in DNA that tells cells in the body how to construct various tissues and organs.
The common belief among evolutionists is that random mutations in the genetic code over time will produce entirely new sequences for new traits and characteristics which natural selection can then act upon resulting in entirely new species. Evolutionists consider mutations to be a form of natural genetic engineering.
However, the very nature of mutations precludes such a possibility. Mutations are accidental changes in the sequential structure of the genetic code caused by various random environmental forces such as radiation and toxic chemicals.
Almost all true mutations are harmful, which is what one would normally expect from accidents. Even if a good mutation occurred for every good one there will be thousands of harmful ones with the net result over time being disastrous for the species.
Most biological variations, however, are the result of new combinations of previously existing genes – not because of mutations.
Furthermore, mutations simply produce new varieties of already existing traits. For example, mutations in the gene for human hair may change the gene so that another type of human hair develops, but the mutations won't change the gene so that feathers or wings develop.
Sometimes mutations may trigger the duplication of already existing traits (i.e. an extra finger, toe, or even an entire head, even in another area of the body!). But mutations have no ability to produce entirely new traits or characteristics.
copy and paste w/o attribution from the poster who regularly complains about others copying and pasting – how amusing.
"But mutations have no ability to produce entirely new traits or characteristics."
Completely false. one small change, then another, then another...over time does create new species. We can see it, trace it back through DNA.
Your denial is ridiculous. Most of the info you post is so outdated it is laughable, and you misrepresent the entire current evolution theory. Yes, Darwin was wrong in some ways, disputed with alternate theories in others, but overall correct, as was the theories he based his theories on.
"Almost all true mutations are harmful, which is what one would normally expect from accidents. Even if a good mutation occurred for every good one there will be thousands of harmful ones with the net result over time being disastrous for the species"
That entire paragraph is completely wrong scot.
Most genetic mutations are detrimental..that is true, so the individual with the mutation will normally not mate, as often the mutation is either fatal or shorten the life span, or be found to be repulsive to potential mates. But positive mutation, while more rare, would benefit the individual, making it easier for it to survive, and be more attractive to a mate, so a positive mutation would, in general, be passed along, where negative ones aren't.
Whoever wrote that came to an invalid conclusion, so I would think twice before stealing more of his work.
Won't Babu be angry with you for stealing his work and not crediting him?
"Most genetic mutations are detrimental..that is true"
– there is no denying this, mutations are detrimental; in addition you can multiply the detrimental mutations a hundredfold over time and no possible positive mutation leading to speciation can occur. your just a deluded god-denying unregenerate.
– IGAFTR stated that Darwin was "wrong in some ways". no and by his own admission he was totally wrong. you're a delusional cultist.
All of the name calling...did you learn that from Jesus?
As far as mutations...MOST are detrimental, but some are not. Try reading what was said.
I do not deny god, since I do not believe there are any...that is not the same as denying, so you like to lie....isn't there something in your book about bearing false witness?
Each time you lie, each name you call others, each time you steal other peoples work, you prove what kind of person you really are.
“The fossil record contains fossils of only complete and fully-formed species. There are no fossils of partially-evolved species to indicate that a gradual process of evolution ever occurred.”
Evolution has never predicted true chimeras, i.e. no “crocoducks.” If we saw a true chimera, this would be evidence for special creation, not evolution. That we don’t see true chimeras is negative evidence in support of evolution.
Of course they’re fully formed. But what we do see are forms with traits that bridge the alleged specially created kinds, e.g. tiktaalik, archaeopteryx. We also see plenty of forms (ourselves included) which bear molecular and anatomical vestiges of a shared ancestry, e.g. the recurrent laryngeal nerve, male ni-pples, and that pesky defunct gene for egg-yolk protein in very own placental mammal genome.
"Another problem is how could partially-evolved plant and animal species survive over millions of years when their basic organs and tissues were still in the process of evolving? How, for example, were animals breathing, eating, and reproducing if there respiratory, digestive, and reproductive organs were still evolving?"
Short answer is neutral or functional intermediates, exaptation, etc.
“In fact, precisely because of this problem more and more modern evolutionists are adopting a new theory known as Punctuated Equilibrium which says that plant and animal species evolved suddenly from one kind to another and that is why we don't see evidence of partially-evolved species in the fossil record. . .”
As noted in the other thread above, you clearly have zero grasp of PE, what it relates to and why it is perfectly concordant with evolutionary theory.
You have no understanding of what speciation is or how it works, this line of “reasoning” is akin to the classic creationist paradox “if humans evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?” If Americans came from Europe, why are there still Europeans?
We can look to phylogenetic analyses and then compare them to the fossil record to gauge which “interpretation” is supported by physical evidence and known natural mechanism, and which “interpretation” is based solely on a magical, untestable catchall “god did it that way” mechanism. Furthermore, we can look to convergent evolution and phylogenetic analyses to show that forms that bear incredible resemblances and ecology are nonetheless the product of discrete genetic lineages, e.g. New World v. Old World Vultures.
"Although Darwin was partially correct by showing that natural selection occurs in nature, the problem is that natural selection itself is not a creative force. Natural selection can only work with those biological variations that are possible. . .”
Mutation produces variation and there is no known limit to the ability of a population to acquire and acc-umulate variation. From this variation, selection filters for functionality and together, these two components are demonstrably capable of “creating” novel functionality, e.g. RNA aptamers, Lenski’s E. coli, etc.
“The early grooves in the human embryo that appear to look like gills . . .”
Thanks for the 5th grade biology lesson. It should be embarrassing that creationists are still pointing to Haeckel for their arguments; nonetheless, embryonic development is the product of the very same genes which corroborate, via phylogenetic analyses, the relationships displayed in the fossil record.
“Modern science has shown that there are genetic limits to evolution or biological change in nature. . .”
Please cite the study that has demonstrated any such limit with respect to the ability of a form to acc-umulate changes . . .
Nature does perform genetic engineering. It yields variation via mutation, and selects from among this variation for those forms best suited for a given environment at a given time.
“Biological variations are determined by the DNA or genetic code of species. . .”
Thanks again for the 5th grade biology lesson.
It’s not a belief, it’s been demonstrated, e.g. Lenski’s E. coli.
Mutations produce variation and they arise as the result of a broad array of mechanisms e.g. duplication, insertion/deletion, etc.
False. Most mutations are neutral. Some are harmful and some are advantageous. Children possess, on average, ~60 mutations which are not present in their parents (i.e. you are a functioning mutant, well, mostly functioning at least). Furthermore, declarations of harmful/helpful are post-hoc determinations and they are dependent on a particular environment at a particular time. Antibiotic resistance mutations frequently cause the mutants to grow more slowly than the wildtype under normal conditions (“harmful”); however, in the presence of the antibiotic, the mutant survives whereas the wildtype simply dies (“helpful”).
“Most biological variations, however, are the result of new combinations of previously existing genes – not because of mutations . . .”
Again, a clear betrayal of any familiarity with the subject matter. Absent some mutation, how do you think these new combinations arise? Mutations, either in the regulatory regions, in protein-coding regions, or both, allow this exaptation. That is, they might duplicate a gene and reinsert somewhere else in the genome (a mutation). They might change the structure of a functional or transcription regulatory protein allowing novel binding to new targets (a mutation). They might alter the binding sequence of a regulatory region (i.e. promotors, enhancers, insulators, etc) thereby allowing novel binding of transcriptional machinery (you guessed, a mutation). Lenski’s E. coli provided a real time observation for these events. An initial mutation increased the overall mutation rate. A gene was duplicated and resinserted in the genome in the proximity of a different regulatory region (i.e. an aerobically-activated promotor). Further mutations refined and enhanced the efficiency of this brand new biochemical pathway allowing the E. coli to metabolize citrate in the presence of oxygen. This novel gain in functionality and “genetic information” was the product of a series of mutations. Additionally, because the absence of aerobic citrate metabolism is a phenotypic marker used to distinguish E. coli from other microbes, the acquisition of this trait (relative to the incredible diversity of microbes) was akin to a change in bacterial “kind.” Although we call Lenski’s model organisms “E. coli,” if they’d been recovered from the wild, they would not have been classified as such.
Your understanding of biology is as poor as your understanding of all the other science you erroneously expound upon.
Anthony Crispino
I was afraid this might happen. My wife's groin doctor said if Germany won, the old Pope would have to take his old job back. But he didn't say how soon. ???
What, do tell, is a "groin doctor" ? An OBGYN ?
monica7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU9MbXueRFg
Perhaps you could put something of value up to gain hits instead of creating garbage and then stealing advertising.
Get some talent.
otoh2
Heheh, at least her video failed to post this time. Notice in the URL, after the = there's DU...Mb!
lordssword
And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' Matthew 19:4
God "made them male and female". Adam was created before Eve, and was created male. He was created with a view to intimate union with Eve, who was created later on from his body, but as a female.
Relevance to the story ?
"God "made them male and female". "
According to a man made book, you mean. Still no evidence of this "god" of yours, and I agree with midwest.
What does this have to do with the article?
Actually that's a lie.
1. The Bible is completely false. Evolution is not questioned in any major academic center in the entire world.
2. AFTER you god created Adam, they *discovered* he was lonely, (dumb god didn't get that until it happened), and THEN made Eve, but ONLY after *searching* for the mate. The Bible says the god paraded all the birds of the air and beasts of the field before him "but none PROVED to be a suitable mate for the man". (Cough cough ... I wonder what THAT means). You need to study your Babble a bit more. Anyway, until SCIENCE discovered it in the 19th Century, humans had no notion of se'xual orientation. SO of course the text says that. But what about all the hermaphrodites Jebus had made over the millennia ? Oops. Such mistakes your dumb god makes.
Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs.. – Richard Lewontin, prominent evolutionary biologist.
you belong to a cult of evolution.
Posting the opinion of ONE biologist who may happen to agree with your nonsense does not help your childish cause. NOT ONE major academic center in the world denies Evolution.
Yeah Evolution is one of my cults. Just like Gravity and Spherical Earth are others of mine.
(pssst Pro tip : DNA proves Evolution)
Just for some background on this – here is more if not all of that quote:
"We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, . . . in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated commitment to materialism. . . . we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
( Lewontin, Richard, Review of The Demon-Haunted World, by Carl Sagan. In New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997 )
This was at this page: http://www.icr.org/article/455/
(Insti.tute for Creation Research)
In the article by Henry Morris – "Evolution Is Religion–Not Science", Morris follows up the quote with:
"Since evolution is not a laboratory science, there is no way to test its validity, so all sorts of justso stories are contrived to adorn the textbooks. "
"..the Cambrian Explosion occurred in a geological moment, and we have reason to think that all major anatomical designs may have made their evolutionary appearance at that time." – Steven J. Gould, evolutionary biologist
– a leader in the cult of evolution
"since the so-called Cambrian Explosion..NO NEW PHYLA of animals have entered the fossil record" – Steven J.Gould
– Oooooops !
"I want to argue that the “sudden” appearance of species in the fossil record and our failure to note subsequent evolutionary change within them is the proper prediction of evolutionary theory as we understand it. […] Evolutionary “sequences” are not rungs on a ladder, but our retrospective reconstruction of a circuitous path running like a labyrinth, branch to branch, from the base of the bush to a lineage now surviving at its top."
- Steven Gould, "Bushes and Ladders in Human Evolution", p. 61
"If we were to expect to find ancestors to or intermediates between higher
taxa, it would be the rocks of the late Precabrian to Ordovician times,
when the bulk of the world's higher animal taxa evolved.
Yet traditional alliances are unknown or unconfirmed for any of the phyla or
classes appearing then." – James W.Valentine, evolutionary biologist
– no branching or connecting. get it?
"The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the
tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable,
not the evidence of the fossils" – Stephen J Gould, evolutionary biologist.
– you belong to a cult of evolution.
It's good to see you with such unquestioning support for some scientists. I expect you'll be as confident in other experts in scientific fields.
Does Steven Gould also believe in the science fiction of the Noah's ark story?
It looks like Snotty might simply reading this page: http://www.ntskeptics.org/issues/patton/dp-fosil.htm
ti.tled: "THE FOSSIL RECORD
Does Not Support Evolution But Is Positive Evidence For Creation!"
(Web pages and graphics are Copyright ©1996-1998 Northside Church of Christ)
Creationists and their disingenuous quote mines . . .
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/quotes/mine/contents.html
Scotty would rather believe a lie and spread that lie himself than actually accept that he isn't the special creation of some supreme being. Sad, really.
Quote miners are dishonest in their debate, whether Christian or atheist.
Unregenerate, indeed.
""since the so-called Cambrian Explosion..NO NEW PHYLA of animals have entered the fossil record" – Steven J.Gould
– Oooooops !"
Oops? By all means scot, explain to everyone why you think that is an oops.
2. AFTER your god created Adam, they *discovered* he was lonely, (dumb god didn't get that until it happened), and THEN made Eve, but ONLY after *searching* for the mate. The Bible says the god paraded all the birds of the air and beasts of the field before him "but none PROVED to be a suitable mate for the man". (Cough cough ... I wonder what THAT means). You need to study your Babble a bit more. Anyway, until SCIENCE discovered it, in the 19th Century, humans had no notion of se'xual orientation. SO of course the text says that. But what about all the her.map.hro.dites Jebus had made over the millennia ? Oops. Such mistakes your dumb god makes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SffkZRcPQtw
http://youtu.be/SffkZRcPQtw
Piltdown man (Eoanthropus dawsoni), also called Dawson’s dawn man, proposed species of extinct hominin (member of the human lineage) whose fossil remains, discovered in England in 1910–12, were later proved to be fraudulent. Piltdown man, whose fossils were sufficiently convincing to generate a scholarly controversy lasting more than 40 years, was one of the most successful hoaxes in the history of science.
– you belong to a cult of evolution
Science is filled with hoaxes and unexpected results over history. But it doesn't help to dwell on what we have learned that is wrong when there has been plenty to learn from that has been right since. That's what's good about the process – that it allows for learning, review, weeding out and the growth and improvement of the process. Any more, you sound like someone complaining that medicine is untrustworthy because bleeding people didn't cure people of all kinds of ailments as it was once thought.
There are hoaxes in every aspect of life; religion included. Are we to discard religion because hoaxes have been commited, awanderingscot?
Hardly.
"the sweep of anatomical diversity reached a maximum right after the initial diversification lof the multicellular animals.
The later history of life proceeded by elimination, not expansion." Stephen Gould, evolutionary biologist.
– ELIMINATION NOT EXPANSION, get it?
Oh, by all means do expand on "elimination not expansion", Snotty. Tell us what you think that means...
And unlike religion which perpetuates it's hoaxes and lies, science is self -correcting. Evolution in NO WAY today rests on Piltdown man.
"It is as though they [fossils] were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists. ...Both schools of thought (Punctuationists and Gradualists) despise so-called scientific creationists equally, and both agree that the major gaps are real, that they are true imperfections in the fossil record. The only alternative explanation of the sudden appearance of so many complex animal types in the Cambrian era is divine creation and (we) both reject this alternative." (Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1996, pp. 229-230)
While it can be gleaned from this quote, it needs to be pointed out specifically that this is a discussion of Dawkins' disagreements with Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge over Punctuated Equilibrium and Dawkins is here discussing the fact that Gould and Eldredge would agree with him that the "sudden appearance" of animals in the Cambrian Explosion is really the result of the imperfections of the fossil record.
~The Quote Mine Project
..trilobites may have been superior to current living animals; they had, in principle, perfect vision and they possessed the most sophisticated eye lenses ever.. – Science News
– trilobites were found in the Cambrian fossil record. you belong to a cult of evolution and are delusional.
"you belong to a cult of evolution and are delusional.'
Great comment from someone supporting a book that claims the sun and moon SUDDENLY stopped in their orbit.
lordssword,
The Bible doesn't say Eve was created to be a mother and a wife for Adam.
She was created to be his HELPER.
there are some confident answers on these threads. where does that come from? how can one know they are correct in their beliefs if they cannot be verified? and what exactly, then, is faith? why have it?
oh, and i'm not convinced either pope has more significant things to do than cheer for their respective country's national team. should be an interesting match
JAJAJA... oops... pardon me please... I meant to say again... HAHAHA and more HAHAHA. Extremely hypocritical and Compulsive lying atheists are sending me Spam mail from CNN or WordPress.
In your dreams.
kudlak
In his delusions you mean, of which, he appears to have many.
So then... Do you admit finally that atheist are indeed extreme hypocrites and Compulsive, pathological Liars?
So then... You do you admit finally that atheist are indeed extreme hypocrites and Compulsive, pathological Liars?
Salero21,
I normally just ignore your comments, but I'm curious what the "JAJAJAJA" thing is all about. Is it supposed to be humorous? I guess I don't get it.
Six o'clock, TV hour, don't get caught in foreign tower
Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform, book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate, automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a motive, step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crush, uh-oh
This means no fear, cavalier, renegade and steering clear
A tournament, a tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives, and I decline
jhg45
not bad, batter than the rest of this drivel so far. but bad subject matter so don't get too big headed.
Thank you for your useless opinion...
A little REM. Nice.
thesamyaza
happy birthday Nikola Tesla.
Is THAT was those little things are sticking up from the white beanies ? Radio antennae ?
yes,.. but never the less Nikola Tesla birthday. is more important news then this pile of trash.
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“Hi, I just wanted to thank Tony! I have been feeling completely dis-engaged from life, the Earth and everything lately, and had no idea how to get back! This morning I started reading ‘Shaman’s Wisdom’ and I now know how to start my journey! Many, many Thank you’s!”
– Lis (UK)
“I came home to a depth that made me so very satisfied and energetic. All the wonderful practice, meditational, mental and emotional, followed by the energy transmission… all seems like a dream, and in a way it is. It was amazing to be able to have the time and focus on these Satsangs. I especially liked the days after these unique experiences, it felt like being alive to a new dimension to life. That’s how life has to be. I hope this energy and healing will increase and multiply and make the world a better place to live in.”
– S. K. (Portugal)
“The deepest gratitude of my heart to Beloved Tony for this evening’s satsang/meditation/energy transmission, so full of love, so powerful, focused in the most gentle, subtle way, and his answer to the question, wow! Everything was speaking directly to my heart and soul. Thank you to the whole wonderful Team for being here, for your beautiful presence of love!”
– Vivian B. (USA)
“I loved the satsangs very very very much. I’m already in the next series and can’t wait to be in a retreat very soon. Tony’s teachings are very inspiring, sweet, centered and wise. Thank you so much for the beautiful work you’re all doing, making this world more enlightened, peaceful and resonating love. Warm regards from Brazil <3."
– Andressa V. da N. (Brazil)
"Any one person out there who feels lost or in need, please take a few moments to listen and or watch Tony Samara, you will soon come to realise it's one of the best decisions you ever made."
– Denise B. (UK)
"Tony Samara embodies love and is without ego.
His energy transgresses his body and can be felt, resonating very strongly, all over.
If you are in his presence, you immediately feel a tingling and warm feeling in the tummy.
If you are unrested and tired, you may fall into a deep and tranquil sleep and awake very much refreshed.
If you are working on a specific issue, you may have wonderful dreams that help clarify where you are and the time spent with Tony on Dreams is both magical and very revealing.
When I first met Tony, in 2001, just being in the same room as he was and not knowing why, I would tremble and sometimes become overwhelmed with emotion, as if a part of me recognized a part of him that had travelled a very long way. After 10 years, I still tremble!
Tony’s work with me has had a monumental effect on my life and I can never be the same as I was before formally meeting him.
His mission – the evolution of human consciousness – is far from esoteric jargon and big words.
It is very pragmatic and practical, as the awareness gained, allows the “magic” to come into focus and what was a vague idea of what life may be, somehow becomes clearer making one thing absolutely certain – we are co-creators, responsible.
The consciousness gained by listening to Tony, not only through his words, but mostly through the energy at work through him and towards us, comes with responsibility and being response-able (able to respond) and this brings great joy and a true sense of freedom. One comes in tune with a power that has no arrogance and wishes only to flow with what is.
Meditating near Tony is a true outer body experience. Although the work continues when we come home, nothing is quite as it was when he is near.
I have been graced with the gift of having Tony as my Teacher and am honoured and forever grateful. My wish is that everyone be gifted with the same."
– Soraya M. (Portugal)
"I would recommend this teacher for their grace, content and masterful delivery."
– Ms. Y.R. B. (USA)
"Tony Samara empowers us to transcend any challenge in life through cleansing and meditation* Then deep healing evolves when a divine love transcends our limited ego into an expansion beyond ourselves, it's an amazing journey with enlightened masters, I believe to be the greatest blessing on earth that helps the bigger picture of all life on earth.
Becoming free (on going daily practise..) was only something I understood was possible when I started the journey 7 years ago with friends on a 40 day fast with Tony. I would start now and you'll never look back ; )"
– Hayla G. O. (UK)
"Your satsangs are so amazing. Expansive, loving… Thank you feels so small… Thank you so much.
The last one on Sunday was… Wow. Transcendental."
"Every time I listen you words my heart jump of happiness and gratitude. Cada ves que escucho tus palabras mi corazon salta de alegria y gratitud. Gracias Tony muchas gracias."
– Viejita M. (Spain)
"I experience listening to Tony as a beautifull present! Always in tune with love, helping everyone who truly wants help, or wants to listen with her/ his heart."
– Suzette v. H. (The Netherlands)
"Tony rules :)"
Mitja B. (Slovenia)
"Today's session was one of those with very powerful energy, but how powerful it really was, we will see over time. Sometimes words sound hollow in comparison with feelings that exist in our heart, but sometimes they need to be said. Tony thank You for sharing this day with us and patiently working for and with as all."
– Renata O. (Slovenia)
"Tony is really trying to show us the way to our hearts and he is doing it in a very unique and down to earth way!"
– Aleksandra B. (Slovenia)
"The Guru for the present day!"
– Habiba L. (UK)
"I recommend Tony Samara, oh yes! His beautiful and timely wisdom in words and in transmission of energy beyond the words have been such a saving grace for me these days of amazing life challenges. There is such compassion, patience, joy, and love in his heart to share the gifts of his beautiful teachings of freedom and truth!"
"Beyond words. A great support to not lose faith in life and remember our mission in this beautiful world,Where it is so easy to lose ourselves. Tony´s guidance is priceless. Thank you."
– Adélia A. (Portugal)
"Tony is the best teacher I know, and in some ways the only one I know, even if I appreciate vasant swaha, and sometimes mooji, or gurumaa. Truth is that since osho I have never felt what I feel in Tony's frequency. Highly recommended to experience at least once."
– Pedro L. P. (Portugal)
"Tony is straightforward but talks from the heart, very beautiful and inspiring."
– Patricia W. (The Netherlands)
"Tony Samara led us step by step to challenge and change our refernce point from limited to anlimited, and it is getting closer and closer to our potential. Than you Tony!
– Barica P. (Croatia)
"Please don't loose the daily teachings of TONY SAMARA!! He can surprising you! Believe me!"
– Radha M. M. (Portugal)
"Tony cuts through the unessential and helps you live in the essence of truth, from that deep space of your heart, which is Love… Tony guides you to that expanding light, to the clear euphoric love that is at the center of your being – to that which is the basic essence of your heart, your true being… the cosmos. Woo! Yes! I recommend Tony!"
– Brent K. (USA)
"Tony is a shiny reminder and an example of what a true spiritual teacher or master is in the flesh. A true being of light and love who teaches in practical day to day examples."
– Oscar P. (Portugal)
"Tony Samara's classes keep me hooked to continue with this amazing spiritual path that I'm so happy to be on… revelations one after the other – of life, of myself… I can strongly recommend anybody to follow a class and see for yourself. Thank you Tony."
– Philippe W. (Switzerland)
"Love yourself and love Tony and enjoy the time of being together in meditation."
– Lidija O. (Croatia)
"Do you want to discover who you really are? Do you want to put your spirituality into practice? Please connect with the amazing daily classes with Tony Samara!"
"Thank you for offering satsangs online. It is so important to have a regular meetings; personally it motivates me more for deeper work than when being on my own or attending groups every few months."
– Franja G. (UK)
"The class was great. I highly recommend attending future courses to everyone who is willing to get deeper insight in it's own life, and understandig of life in general."
– Sabina M. (Croatia)
"Thank you dear Tony for sharing your unconditional Love with us so that we may recognize that same Love within ourselves!"
– Carole B. (New Zealand)
"I highly recommend Tony Samara and his courses! I was really really happy Tony decided to do this second course. I can sense his teachings and the beautiful, calming, vitalizing, healing energy transmission settling deeper and deeper into me slowly but surely with the passage of time, I feel my heart opening more and more, without me trying to figure out how to make it happen.
Lots of family and health and world and other issues, instead of arousing so much fear and anger and judgment, are now, as Tony says, gifts and opportunities to me seeing how the meditation and the mantra work. I find myself much more aware than before, I find myself observing my own negative thoughts and feelings more quickly, I find myself not being as caught up in the drama as I used to be. I can sense more calm and peacefulness inside me even as I, like so many of us, am going through a lot of personal and health changes and the world we live in is changing amazingly fast it is dizzying! Thank you so very much Tony for the profoundly spiritual and practical teachings and energy tranmission you share with us all. Your gift is needed in this day and age we are experiencing."
"if i had any doubts remaining after the first time i heard this teacher, it is now clear that this teaching is very different. it's not so much about the wisdom he shares, though he seems to know a lot, but his meditation guidance is absolutely unique. i was able to meditate even when i felt that would otherwise be impossible with the way i was feeling. cant recommend Tony Samara enough."
"this teacher inspired me beyond the wisdom he was sharing. i never felt the course was biased or ever condemning of perspectives differing from the one presented. this alone made me realise in practice that it is possible to go about my spiritual path without having to resort to anything but the focus on what really is important for me. more than the words that ultimately i guess we can all learn and repeat, the rhythms and flow of his speech alone conveyed deep peace without even using the word. i want to listen to more."
"A spiritual teacher who works very gently but deeply with people."
– Mario V. (The Netherlands)
"Anyone who sincerely accepts the reality will find support in Tony's work."
"I recommend Tony to anyone seeking to overcome the challenges of life in a real way so that the inner light can shine through. He is a mirror of the potential that is possible to achieve as a conscious human being and by putting his teachings into practice I have become a more complete human being. Thank you Tony!"
"It's beyond words… just listen and enjoy!"
"Tony is very clear and explains everything in a very coherent way. His wisdom and knowledge are of great help in dealing with everyday chaotic life and many stressful situations."
"The most amazing gift I have ever received. Truly Beyond Words as Tony Samara once put it him self. This magic can not be grasped. I am left in immense gratitude, where my heart has been opened towards the infinite and sings along in the harmonic bliss of existence. How can I put it? …Thank you…"
– Satprem C. (Sweden)
"For me Tony is the shining example of what a spiritual master is in a practical way. A noble reminder of our true potential. Guiding the student to see more and more its light and learn how to be self sufficient in the path to self realization. If you are looking to understand your life better and apply the tools to self transformation then Tony Samara is the answer!! Thank you Tony."
"Yes, I totally recommend Tony Samara! It feels really effortless, like healing, peaceful music, how everything flows, when he speaks. His teachings are more than the words, they are truly transmitted energetically, I can attest to that personally. The meditations he teaches are precious, beautiful, easy to do, effective, and wow they have made a difference in my life, as these three books by Tony have as well–Deeper than Words, From the Heart, Shaman's Wisdom."
"You want to break free from all those self imposed restrictions? Need some help? Turn to Tony!"
– Jutta H. (Germany)
"I received this class as an energy transmission, feeling this space and getting clear answers, without even physically asking the questions…, thereby getting lots of help how to enlighten my/ our world, enjoy it more and more…. It is a great and fun experience… I wouldn't want to miss it! Love it!!!"
"As seeker of healing and joy, I posit that Tony Samara's meditations/energy transmissions have brought me more healing and joy than years of other kinds of treatments – allopathic or not. His presence in my life has been… life changing to a point that any book (and I was a bookworm!) or film (and I was a cinephile!) just doesn't interest me anymore: consciousness, love and trust are so much more enriching and fun. Thank you!"
"I strongly recommend Tony Samara teachings!"
"Anyone who wants to free them selves… listen!"
"Yes definitely a Master Meditation as reminding us that the most essential aspect is to be deeply in the present moment. Of course the extra beauty of this Meditation with Tony is that he works with us energetically so that we have extra support in realising the words! What a Blessing!"
Testimonials about Tony Samara’s Meditations
"Very helpful and informative. I really like this one!"
– Erin, Los Angeles (USA)
"Very soothing, and as well very informative steps to get you really to focus on meditation."
– Andrew, San Antonio (USA)
"This is magical. Moving. Transformative. I will do this many, many times."
– Nancy, Gunnison, CO (USA)
"Amazing! I felt deeply connected to a positive vision!"
– Ryan, Toronto (Canada)
"Amazing and beautiful. Thank you! I will be doing this often."
– Michele, Fairfax, California (USA)
"Brilliant it really helped me feel and visualise things through my third eye, two words… Powerful & Insightful"
– Anthony, Cape Town (South Africa)
"I will be doing this one again. I felt my brain tingle and my eyes begin to water, some past fears and anxieties arose but passed. Thank you!"
– Dana, North Little Rock, AR (USA)
"This meditation is really effective–this is the second time I have done it and I got much more from the meditation the second time. I will be returning again! Thank you."
– David, Berlin (Germany)
"My Boyfriend and I did this together and loved it. We both wanted it to go on longer then the 15min. Came out of it feeling very alive and refreshed. We will definitely do this many more times. Thank you so much. b"
– Terrisa, Yakima, WA (USA)
"Thankful to find a third eye meditation. It was very soothing and helpful."
– Victoria, Brooklyn, NY (USA)
"This little meditation is a gem. I'll do it again."
– Liz, Washington Township, NJ (USA)
"I really enjoy this meditation. I can feel my forehead tingling."
– Jose, Iowa (USA)
"Thank you so much !!! I just did this meditation at work on a very hard and stressful day. What a relief !!! I'm in top shape to finish my day. Namasté ?"
– Judy, Saint-Jérôme, Quebec (Canada)
"The best!! Especially great background sounds…thank you so much!"
– Leah, Massachusetts (USA)
"Mr. Samara's meditation earned 5☆☆☆☆☆ from me. His voice (love the accent), tone and cadence are soothing to the ear. I also enjoyed the background sounds of the ocean & birds."
– Deborah, Naples, Florida (USA)
"Full experience! Love your words, voice and synchronized ocean and other sounds. Exceptional!"
– Kate, Anchorage, Alaska (USA)
"I loved the background sounds. The man's voice was very relaxing gently guiding. I will journey again. Thank you Namaste."
– Victoria, Stevens, Pennsylvania (USA)
"This is a really good starter for any new meditators who are beginning to work with chakras."
– Disa, Long Beach, California (USA)
"I am a beginning meditator… This was a really great meditation for me. Thank you."
– Cathy, Southport, NC (USA)
"This was a really well guided meditation focusing on third eye awareness, opening and expansion, seeing and receiving Divine energies and resources into you're being."
– Tina, Westerville, OH (USA)
"I was surprised by this peaceful yet energising meditation which I will definitely do often. Thank you for sharing."
– Deborah, Alsópáhok (Hungary)
"Fantastic! A nice alternative and complimentary approach to the chanting techniques of opening the sixth chakra."
"Thank you so very much. Please continue to add more of your meditations. The Third Eye meditation was very helpful for me at the end of this day. Thank you!"
– Sheila, Portland (USA)
"I experienced an Increasing in my Love as the meditation guided me to a feeling of Beauty and Wholeness. A lovely 15 minutes xxx"
– Ruby, Chesterfield (England)
"Love this. Perfect amount of music/sound. Great tone of voice. Just what I needed today. Will definitely do this again."
– Elissa, El Dorado Hills, CA (USA)
"This meditation came to me exactly when I was ready for it."
– Nicholas, Hessle, East Yorkshire (England)
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Nice Ride’s Five-year Goal should be Connections to Transit
Annie Van Cleve • December 11, 2015
Note: This post is part of the streets.mn/Nice Ride crowdsource conversation, a series of crowdsourced looks at how to expand or improve Nice Ride planning. Check out the rest here.
The wedge of city I wrote about in my last post – between the river and Hiawatha from the falls north to Seward – is rich in more ways than one. Bicycling infrastructure includes the trail along the river, Hiawatha LRT trail, Midtown Greenway and low-traffic neighborhood streets. It is possible for residents to make many neighborhood trips – to reach the grocery store, elementary school, restaurants and cafes, pharmacies, etc. – on foot or on bike, and they should be encouraged to do so, even if they don’t use Nice Ride. Nice Ride use should be encouraged for trips that will end outside of the neighborhood.
There are plenty of public transportation options in this wedge with the Blue Line and several bus lines, including the 21 on Lake Street, which has the second highest ridership in the cities. Nice Ride should become the go-to first-mile/last-mile solution. If stations lined the river corridor as they do the Hiawatha LRT line and were placed at strategic locations – such as neighborhood commercial areas – on the streets cutting east-west through Hiawatha, Howe, Longfellow, Cooper and Seward, more people could more easily access the light rail.
Nice Ride has a unique advantage because the system allows for one-way trips. This means people don’t need to load their bikes on trains and buses, if there is no room or they simply don’t want to deal with the hassle. Instead, Nice Ride offers peace of mind for people who do not want to leave their bikes parked outdoors all day. Although many transit stops include secure bike parking, Nice Ride makes renting a secure place unnecessary. Similarly, the system can help commuters who lack access to secure parking at work, bike the final mile of their journey, especially if their destination is downtown or near the University of Minnesota.
Within a couple of miles of the southeast neighborhoods are downtown and the University of Minnesota. Nice Ride has a strong presence in these major employment centers. Stations in neighborhoods are a natural complement to the stations downtown and at the university, they make the bike and transit combination viable on both ends of the trip.
Of course it’s not only about making alternatives available, it’s also about changing habits. Anyone who uses a bicycle regularly knows the pleasure of riding a bike is real and powerful and the benefits that accrue in mental and physical health can be motivating, but people have to find this out for themselves. This is why the marketing and outreach efforts that give people the experience of trying Nice Ride are so key.
Promoting Nice Ride to people who use transit or bike commute part of the time is a good place start. These people are more easily identified through developing strategic partnerships with employers in the downtown and with the University. For example, working with Move Minneapolis, the transportation management organization, to identify employers who understand the real financial savings that could result from a healthier workforce and reducing subsidized parking and driving expenses. If Move Minneapolis can reach employers and employers can reach employees, maybe there is potential to collect the data needed to help Nice Ride better place stations that can be used for commuting purposes and perhaps open the door to new or expanded station sponsorships.
Targeting employees who stand to gain the most from increased bicycle use is another approach. Low-wage workers in the downtown areas, such as people employed at restaurants and hotels, likely do not get subsidized parking or pay a higher percentage of their total paycheck to cover these expenses. Maybe their transportation needs are met by transit, but maybe not, working with employers who have large numbers of these workers on staff might be a start to understanding how low-wage workers feel about bicycle use and barriers they may be facing. Perhaps, an employer-sponsored program targeting low-wage workers in the healthcare industry would be the most strategic place to start. The Hennepin County Medical Center is a downtown employer with incentive to get involved in the promoting workplace wellness.
Five year plan
Nice Ride growth 2010 – 2014.
Nice Ride has a good start on developing a network that connects people with transit, with the concentration of stations where employment density is highest, but we have to have neighborhood stations too for integrated mobility to compete with car usage. Looking at where transit usage is highest, bicycle infrastructure exists and where destination stations can overlap with the utilitarian network is one approach to building out the Nice Ride system in neighborhoods. Making Nice Ride integral to transit makes the system strong in the long-term. Plans for the coming decades will expand transit in the Twin Cities. Transit runs year-round and so should Nice Ride. Winter cycling is happening but Nice Ride could support more significant growth than perhaps any transit agency or operator in the Twin Cities.
In the next five years, my proposal is that Nice Ride develop a priority year-round network, which includes stations connecting people with transit – right now that means figuring out a viable model for neighborhoods – and stations that are proximate to the bicycling network, including Minneapolis’s new protected bikeways plan also due to be built out in the next five years. By all means, take away the destination stations during the winter, but let’s find a way to keep the part of the system with the greatest utilitarian function open year-round. The stations that make alternative transportation competitive with car use need to be available so the habits Nice Ride works to encourage all season stick in the long-term.
Minneapolis is a rectangle sliced and diced into wedges by highways and the river. The existing highways could be a threat to reducing car dependence, but I think their existence offers opportunity. We can make bicycling and walking priority modes within these wedges because it is easy to route car traffic around the places where we live. It is not so hard to use bicycles for neighborhood trips. For longer trips, bikes are still an option when transit is available. The planned expansion of transit can work better with Nice Ride as a support. To truly change transportation habits, however, we need a year-round bike-share system in the Twin Cities.
1 thought on “Nice Ride’s Five-year Goal should be Connections to Transit”
Melissa December 11, 2015 at 10:39 am
There has been a Nice Ride station at the 38th St. LRT stop for three years.
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BVI Bouncing Back
Post hurricane, the British Virgin Islands are back and better than ever.
by Susie Ellison
Ever since Christopher Columbus dropped anchor here during his second voyage in 1493, the British Virgin Islands have been a mecca for sailors, from buccaneers and privateers to modern day pleasure seekers. Hurricane Irma dealt a crushing blow to the islands in August 2017, flattening homes, tossing expensive boats onto the rocks and obliterating most of the tourism infrastructure. Two weeks later, hurricane Maria showed up to finish the job. But a resilient local population and a loyal international community of visitors lent strength to government efforts to rebuild and within a year, BVI was back, better than ever.
I flew into Tortola, the main entry point for BVI, on a tiny twin prop, seated so close to the cockpit that I could have tapped the crisply uniformed pilot on the shoulder. Columbus was so taken with the beauty of the archipelago that he name it after St Ursula’s 11,000 virgins. My first glimpse of the islands, twinkling below as we descended from a sky darkening into night, was similarly awe inspiring.
Soon after clearing customs I was shaking hands with Markee Saracin, the youthful skipper of Barlow, a 52-foot luxury catamaran that would be my home, along with three other journalists, for the rest of the week. The best way to see BVI is by boat and if you don’t have your own, chartering is a popular, and surprisingly affordable, alternative. I had my own cabin with a queen-sized bed and en suite bathroom – no bunking-in required.
Breakfast on board
Morning brought blue skies, breakfast on deck (tropical fruit, scrambled eggs, ham, cheese, toast, bagels) whipped up by chef and first mate Ina Urfalino, and a 13-knot headwind that meant no sailing for us. Instead, we headed for The Baths at Virgin Gorda — the most popular tourist spot in BVI — under motor, with dolphins cresting in our wake and puffy clouds scudding aloft.
The Baths
The Baths are indeed spectacular — huge, smooth boulders form grottoes and pools linked by corridor along the sand. To preserve the integrity of the formation, only dinghies and swimmers are allowed on the beach. We anchored and dove off Barlow’s stern, swimming in to the limpid pools that were filled with little fish and spangles of sunlight. Swimming back against the current was tough going but Ina was on hand with a restorative fruit smoothie, laced with a mid-morning tot of rum!
Hurricane damaged church
We motored to Spanish Town, from where Derrick Gumbs took us on a bumpy ride in his taxi to the Top of the Baths restaurant, a vantage point offering a panoramic view of the other Virgin Islands rising sharply out of the sea. On the way we saw heartbreaking evidence of Irma’s destructive path – houses gutted, boats and cars wedged weirdly in trees, piles of debris poking out of low scrub and cactus, smashed washing machines and fridges scattered about, visited by flitting yellow butterflies. Gumbs and his wife were at home during the tempest, watching in terror as their roof blew away.
From the Top of the Baths (after a lunch of mahi mahi and excellent onion rings), we drove on, Gumbs’ ramshackle taxi making a vertiginous climb to Gorda Peak, highest point on the island. Looking beyond dollhouse-sized Spanish Town below, I spotted cranes in the distance — Richard Branson, rebuilding his house on Necker Island.
From Virgin Gorda we motored on Barlow to Anegada, sipping cocktails as the sun went down and blue water changed to gold. A dinghy ride took us to Neptune’s Treasure, a waterside restaurant run by four generations of the Soares family, originally from the Azores. Pam Soares is the talent in the kitchen, turning out local specialties with a deft hand and a delicate touch. Her curried shrimp was elegantly restrained – plump, tender shrimp in a clear broth sweetened with lots of melted onion and with just a hint of curry powder. On the side, warm Portuguese bread rolls.
Neptune’s Treasure
Anegada is the only coral atoll in BVI, rising just 28 feet above sea level at its highest point. Its low elevation spared the island from much of the category five hurricanes’ damage. The landscape is covered in mangrove, scrubby vegetation and wildflowers. Horses, donkeys, cows, goats and chickens wander untethered, sharing the only road with local residents and traffic. The horseshoe reef that surrounds Anegada is the fifth largest in the world and home to a variety of sea creatures, including lobsters, whelks and conch. The island is also home to some distinctive wildlife — the endangered Anegada Rock Iguana and Roseate Flamingoes. The latter, once hunted close to extinction for their gorgeous feathers, have been reintroduced and are thriving in salt ponds at one end of the island.
Anegada Reef Hotel is where the human action is. The tiki bar at this popular watering hole serves a legendary pina colada, along with ear-splitting reggae music. Against a backdrop of sapphire sea, dazzling white sand and powder blue sky hung with fluffy clouds, we tucked into lobster rolls and sandwiches with sides of slaw and local veg.
Amerinidian conch mounds
Kelvin “Kelly Belly” Faulkner took us in his skiff to view the Amerindian conch mounds off Anegada’s shore. Heaps of conch shells discarded in the same place for over a thousand years poke out of the water. Local fishermen are still adding to pile. From Kelvin we learned that conch will avoid a dead brother, so keeping the empty shells in one place helps to corral the live conch, making them easier to harvest.
Spiny lobster is the signature dish of the BVI and the ones that grow around Anegada are enormous. Many lobster fishermen lost their traps in the hurricanes but lobster stocks have rebounded with extra vigour since the storms also blew away many of their natural predators. Lobster features on restaurant menus throughout the islands. blackened over charcoal and served with drawn butter and lemon, eaten waterside with toes in the sand at the Lobster Trap restaurant on Anegada, it was superb.
Caribbean lobster
Another day (I’d given up naming them) glistening and bright. A leisurely cruise to Jost Van Dyke island, listening to the lilting rhythms of Kenny Chesney’s BVI tribute album Songs for the Saints and sipping Ina’s rum smoothies. I could get used to this…
Seen from the water, Jost van Dyke is an imposing sight; green cliffs rising abruptly out of the ocean, tapering to a jagged peak. With only a few hundred residents, JVD has a laid back charm and a reputation for nightlife and lively beach bars. Sailors and celebrities flock to Foxy’s, a legendary hangout belonging to musician — and Chesney collaborator — Philiciano “Foxy” Callwood, MBE.
Jost van Dyke was hit hard by the hurricanes – buildings ripped apart, trees torn from their roots, essential roads destroyed. Foxy’s was badly damaged but reopened quickly, a freezer that survived providing food storage for other restaurants as they scrambled to rebuild. Some vegetation returned rapidly. Pumpkin vines, rid of competing plants, came winding down from the highlands in profusion. Papaya trees sprang up all over like weeds and the mangroves, flushed clean by massive rainfalls, rebounded with new energy.
Wildflowers on Jost Van Dyke
Like the native flora, many locals who suffered devastating losses of property and livelihood see the aftermath of the storms as an opportunity to start anew. Irma was a game changer for Vinny Terranova, whose Corsairs restaurant on JVD was obliterated in the howling onslaught. The rebuild was in progress and the kitchen barely finished when we visited.
Terranova, who hails from South Dakota, thought of giving up after seeing his restaurant destroyed but couldn’t shake his commitment to the people of the islands who had worked with him. He decided to rebuild, working 24/7 for months alongside his team. “Corsairs was just a funky beachside bar,” he says, the weariness of his efforts etched on his face, “but we were known as one of the best restaurants in BVI.” And good it was — conch fritters and buffalo wings were standouts; whole snapper, skin slashed and deep fried, was good to the last bone. Wood-fired pizzas, from the spanking new brick oven, charred and chewy.
The Soggy Dollar Bar on JVD is a must-visit for rum-loving pilgrims in search of BVI’s signature drink, the Painkiller. An easy-drinking mix of fruit juice and rum, the tropical libation goes down fast and creeps up slow. Judging by the number of people stumbling around happily or dancing in the sand at the Soggy Dollar Bar, plastic cups in hand, the Painkiller was doing its job.
From JVD we sailed at sunrise for Tortola and the capital of BVI, Road Town.
Omar Hurst’s café was the hottest brunch spot in Road Town until Irma blew his doors blew out and carried off his expensive coffee roasting equipment and espresso machines. But when Hurst reopened five weeks later, he had a new waterfront location — the hurricanes had knocked down the buildings that obscured his cafe’s view. Even without espresso, Omar’s serves up a killer breakfast, with fabulously flaky croissants and eggs to order. Hurst plans to launch BVI’s first own-brand coffee when his new equipment arrives, and will open a second restaurant in a building he snapped up in a hurricane sale.
Matthew Callwood
Twenty-five–year-old Matthew Callwood is the fifth generation of his family to make rum on Tortola. British sugar plantations in the 17th century exported large quantities of molasses and rum to England. When slavery was abolished in 1834, the plantation way of life came to an end but Callwood Distillery continued to operate and today proudly produces hand-crafted rums using centuries-old methods. Irma knocked out one of Callwood’s antique copper pot stills (and blew the roof off the 400-year-old building) but the other is lovingly brought into action once a year to turn pure cane juice into powerful elixirs. Quantities are too small for export but if you visit you can taste all four of Callwood’s rums and touch the distillery’s ancient stone walls for nothing more than a dollar.
Scrub Island Resort, a sprawling property with its own marina, is where I said goodbye to Barlow, Markee and Ina. Post-hurricane restoration work was still underway – the resort had re-opened just a month before. The repairs were an opportunity to renovate and upgrade the hotel but for General Manager Scott McArdle the most rewarding legacy of Irma’s unwanted visit was the bond that formed among his staff, who were able to keep their jobs, albeit re-purposed as laborers and clean-up crews. When they returned to their roles as chefs, housekeepers and groundsmen, it was with a feeling of ownership in the resort and a new pride in their work.
Irma and Maria dealt a two-fisted smackdown to BVI, not every hurricane story ended badly. Omar Hurst has a million-dollar view, Vinny Terranova’s new digs match the standard of his kitchen and Dream Yacht Charter has a new state-of-the-art berth at Scrub Island Resort. Everywhere there’s a sense of relief and recovery and an optimistic confidence in BVI’s future. The international yachting fraternity has wasted no time in coming back to this unique and beautiful island chain and the lobsters and pumpkins continue to grow fat.
Susie Ellison’s primary motivation is to eat the world. She travels light but always has salt and pepper, hot sauce and a bottle opener in her suitcase.
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Dee Jay Silver, (Feat. Austin Webb), ‘Just Got Paid’ [Listen]
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Don't dismiss Dee Jay Silver just because his pen name starts with "Dee Jay." "Just Got Paid" is his first official single, and the veteran proves he has a finger on the pulse of the country community.
The technician is in front, not ahead, of the format. "Just Got Paid" is a progressive country lyric that recalls late '90s and early '00s rock bands more than it does anyone from the electronica world. The loops are subtle. The themes are familiar. The song is as catchy as Zika.
Austin Webb does the singing. He also co-wrote the song with Silver. Guitar and drums dominate this summer afternoon delight, remarkable for its humble production and airy arrangement. You'd expect something thicker than a Texas ribeye from the Texan, but he doesn't take himself that seriously.
Perception will likely prevent the song from becoming a hit at country radio, but one has to wonder how it'd be perceived if the album art said John Perdue (Silver's real name) on it instead of Dee Jay Silver.
Did You Know?: Austin Webb has charted several singles on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, including "Slip on By."
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Dee Jay Silver's "Just Got Paid" Lyrics:
"Redneck, grease stain on my blue collar / Friday and I'm down to my last dollar / Still got eight hours but I'm ready for the weekend / Lunch break, half way and I'm slow movin' / Missed call, voicemail baby what you doin' / Call me back 'cause your man's got a plan for the weekend."
"Well I just got paid and I'm on my way to the back of the bank line / Got the stub in the dash, a pocket full of cash, picking up my sunshine / Well she hops in, sugar in her grin, sweeter as she can be / Then we're on our way and it's all okay because I just got paid / Whoa whoa whoa / I just got paid."
"Back roads turn to concrete, city limits / Spend a half day's pay in a couple minutes / We like to take it to town throw it down on the weekend, weekend / Run around on the boulevard, bar hoppin' / Throw it in the back no more window shopping / Anything you want, girl you got it on the weekend."
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For water-scarce countries it can sometimes be attractive to import virtual water (through import of water-intensive products), thus relieving the pressure on the domestic water resources. … Countries can both import and export virtual water through their international trade relations.
“The shortage of [water for agricultural irrigation] each year is about 30 billion cubic meters. China imported about 148.6 billion cubic meters of water in 2013, which was equivalent to 38% of China’s agricultural water.” … Water is THE critical resource in agriculture. Without it, you’re not producing.
About 70 percent of the freshwater used in the United States in 2015 came from surface-water sources. The other 30 percent came from groundwater. Surface water is an important natural resource used for many purposes, especially irrigation and public supply (supplying people with drinking water and for everyday uses).
Canada already exports massive quantities of water. Water is embedded in various agricultural and industrial products we sell to the world. It’s used by power plants, factories, farms and homes in shared waters along the U.S. border, including the Great Lakes. Most of this water is returned to the lakes, but not all.
A new UN map highlights bottled water’s patterns of international trade. With France being the major exporter of bottled water, trade routes in Europe (between France, Germany, and Belgium) often involve intracontinental trade. The United States also imports a large quantity of water from France and Fiji.
Our drinking water comes from lakes, rivers and groundwater. For most Americans, the water then flows from intake points to a treatment plant, a storage tank, and then to our houses through various pipe systems. A typical water treatment process. Coagulation and flocculation – Chemicals are added to the water.
European corporations dominate this global water services market, with the largest being the French companies Suez (and its U.S. subsidiary United Water), and Vivendi Universal (Veolia, and its U.S. subsidiary USFilter). These two corporations control over 70 percent of the existing world water market.
In 2019, Canada exported 60.4 TWh of electricity to the U.S and imported 13.4 TWh.
ChinaCanadian bottled water exports to China have grown significantly over the last five years, although the supply gap is also growing.
Canada has 7% of the world’s renewable fresh water. … After all, we’re often told that Canada has some 20% of the world’s total freshwater resources. However, less than half of this water — about 7% of the global supply — is “renewable”. Most of it is fossil water retained in lakes, underground aquifers, and glaciers.
In theory, the provinces have owned the water since 1930, when the federal government delegated ownership with the Natural Resources Transfer Act. According to that act, the provinces have the right to sell their water to whomever they want, including companies like Nestlé.
Thermoelectric power and irrigation remained the two largest uses of water in 2015, and total withdrawals decreased for thermoelectric power but increased for irrigation. Withdrawals for thermoelectric power were 133 Bgal/d in 2015 and represented the lowest levels since before 1970.
Switzerland1) Switzerland Switzerland is repeatedly recognized as a country with the best quality tap water in the world. The country has strict water treatment standards and superior natural resources with an average rainfall per year of 60.5 inches. In fact, 80% of the drinking water comes from natural springs and groundwater.
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10.22.2018 Obituaries
Joseph Munafo
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Joseph Munafo, longtime resident of Peconic, recently retired to Virginia, passed away Oct. 1 at his home in Wake, Va. He was 66.
Joe was born to Charles and Dorothy Munafo in Woodhaven, N.Y. He was raised in Commack and relocated to the North Fork when his dad opened the barbershop on Love Lane, Mattituck.
He was a successful farrier and avid fisherman and enjoyed building houses. He defied cancer for 12 years and had a passion for living each day with a mission. He lived an accomplished life, never letting cancer limit his dreams.
He is survived by his wife, Jodi; brother, Richard Munafo; nieces Nicole, Jillian and Natalie; and nephew, Dean Munafo.
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The new FOMO
Why it’s Totally OK Not to Be Productive Right Now
Pandemic or otherwise, you have worth outside of your output.
For a long time, productivity was a crutch I relied on to get through difficult times.
Whether it was moving past a major career upset or navigating a tricky familial issue, throwing myself into work or side projects always felt easier than letting myself feel whatever painful emotion I was experiencing.
Not letting myself rest eventually caught up with me in my late twenties, leading me to seek treatment for my anxiety disorder. Three years later, I’m better at giving myself space to just be and exercise stronger boundaries, but I admit I’m still an overachiever. After all, when every minute of your day can be monetarily measured by your output, it can be hard to ever stop working—especially as a freelancer who mainly works from home.
Regardless of your occupation, the lines between work and home life can easily blur these days. And for those who are not used to remote working or staying home the majority of the time, this is especially true given the current circumstances surrounding COVID-19.
With all this time at home, it’s easy to wonder: Am I doing enough? Should I be doing more? With so many voices encouraging people to leverage this time to be productive or start new side hustles, how could one not feel guilty for not doing “enough”? When the world feels like it’s falling apart and there’s not much you can do about it, it’s tempting to stay busy so as not to feel the full weight of things. But I’m here to say, both to myself and whoever needs to hear it: It’s okay to not be productive right now.
Being home all the time can make it hard to set boundaries around work and can lead to hyper-focusing on productivity. “It’s common to feel that since we are home we should be using this time wisely and to be productive,” says Elizabeth Beecroft, LMSW. “With less of an agenda, it becomes easier for pressure to arise as we think we should constantly be doing something like we might be used to.” And, with people also spending more time online, it’s easy for social media culture to amplify feelings of guilt around productivity.
In some ways, FOMO (fear of missing out) has become FONBP (fear of not being productive). Fitness studios are offering schedules stacked with virtual classes while brands and influencers launch around-the-clock digital programming through IGTV and Instagram Live. “The fact that you’re seeing that programming creates a tendency to compare yourself to others. ‘Am I doing enough? Am I using this time wisely?’” says career coach Meghan Duffy.
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"The fact that you’re seeing that programming creates a tendency to compare yourself to others. ‘Am I doing enough? Am I using this time wisely?"
With our real lives at a standstill (for good reason: we need to flatten the curve), our digital lives are on fire. Internet usage is up, as the pandemic gives a whole new meaning to aimless scrolling. Whether we realize it or not, we’re constantly being fed messages that tell us inactivity is unacceptable. Because the worst someone could do is spend all this time at home doing nothing, right?
“I've seen posts such as ‘tips for how to be productive at home during COVID-19’ and influencers almost preaching at people to use this time to be productive,” Beecroft offers. This message is something Chandra Johnson, a digital producer, and many others grapple with daily. “There’s a lot of pressure right now to make the most of this time. It’s exhausting trying to keep up.”
But why has inactivity become our enemy? Maybe it’s because when we do things that are deemed productive it gives us less time to think about the reality of the moment and all of the big unknowns. “If you stuff your plate with work, there’s no space for those feelings to surface,” says Duffy. If we fill our time with at-home activities like puzzles, stress-baking, and Marie Kondo-ing our apartments, maybe we’ll forget, even if just for a few moments, the weight of our global circumstance.
On doing nothing
While productivity can be necessary and even helpful in some instances, it’s also healthy to take time to practice self-care, rest, and just do nothing. “This is a time of uncertainty and that can bring on feelings of anxiety as well as symptoms of depression,” Beecroft tells Supermaker. “The practice of social distancing takes a toll on our mental health, especially for those who look to their family, friends, [and] loved ones for support and social connection.” This is why it’s so important to give yourself space to feel your feelings, rather than ignoring them or shaming yourself for not getting shit done.
""If we fill our time with at-home activities like puzzles, stress-baking, and Marie Kondo-ing our apartments, maybe we’ll forget, even if just for a few moments, the weight of our global circumstance."
“Every waking moment of your life does not need to be optimized to make you a better, more profitable you,” Duffy explains. “Pandemic or otherwise, you have worth outside of your output.” To be sure, our work obsession is nothing new, but perhaps this crisis is giving us a beat to question what we once thought to be normal. With so much is in flux right now, making space for your brain to rest and process may uncover some clarity about how you want to emerge in the future. “Unstructured time may not look ‘productive’ from the outside because it doesn’t generate a tangible output,” adds Duffy. “But it can help surface latent insights into how you’re feeling and what you need more of to get through this time.”
Productivity isn’t a requirement
As Beecroft says, we don't have to be productive to take care of ourselves. Often, not being productive is taking care of ourselves. “Sometimes doing nothing, lounging on the couch and relaxing are great forms of self-care,” she continues, noting that taking a break from everything is often exactly what your body needs, particularly when dealing with anxiety.
“Structure and routine is important during a pandemic, however so is compassion,” says Jennifer Musselman, a psychotherapist and executive coach. “Showing yourself and your loved ones empathy and [taking] the time to adjust to this new normal is critical.” And this includes not setting high standards immediately for jumping into production mode.
Many of Musselman’s clients still subscribe to unhealthy beliefs about what they "should" be doing, many of which existed pre-pandemic. But with previous forms of stability—from office work to child care—now gone, striving to meet these old standards is almost impossible.” With this, she says we must level-set with new standards and learn to be more forgiving, both of ourselves and others. "I'm doing the best I can," could be a better mantra right now than “I’m doing everything I can.”
Employers can help
At this moment, we are all in uncharted territory—and this also includes companies. “Leadership doesn't know how to effectively measure employee performance from a distance,” says Musselman. “I have clients complaining that half their day is spent doing their work, and the other half is documenting and reporting how much work they've completed.” With many companies losing money by the minute due to the economic impacts of COVID-19, the pressure for workers to prove their worth is intensifying and will likely grow the longer this situation continues.
As companies lay off staff or face the threat of collapse, many are fearing for their livelihoods. A friend recently told me: “If I can’t perform like I did before, I’m worried about losing my job. How would I survive?” Unfortunately, her fear is not unique. It’s more important than ever for companies to find ways to support their workers even if business has been disrupted.
"I'm doing the best I can," could be a better mantra right now than “I’m doing everything I can.”
“Companies should be trying their best to support the mental health needs of their employees, whether that be through providing resources to them, allowing safe spaces in meetings for people to check in with one another on their feelings, or simply letting their employees know that they are there to offer support,” says Beecroft. “Sometimes just [knowing] our companies are there for us through these difficult times is enough.”
While not all companies will be able to stay afloat, or have the tools to support their employees' emotional wellbeing, it’s also on us to regulate our mental health and find a better balance between productivity and rest. “Getting rooted in one-day-at-a time and setting realistic expectations of what you can achieve in one day is key,” Musselman says.
Staying grounded amidst instability
It’s natural to feel a lot of things right now. Or even to feel nothing at all. The bottom line is: whatever you feel is 100 percent okay. This is not a normal situation and it’s of utmost importance to practice compassion and give yourself permission to not be productive.
If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed, Beecroft recommends journaling and practicing breathing exercises. Further, it’s not a bad time to find a therapist if you aren’t seeing one already, especially with so many digital apps out there. Moving your body and eating nutritious foods (because nutrition impacts mental health) can also help, but remember to be flexible rather than rigid with yourself. Finding time in your day to relax or do something you enjoy may help to calm your nerves. Plus, these practices can ultimately lead to better focus in the moments when you do need to get something done. Ultimately, as a therapist once told me, the best thing to do is to meet yourself wherever you’re at.
Learning how to strike a balance between productivity and rest is something I’ll likely be figuring out for the rest of my life. And while this situation is scary, I’m practicing gratitude for each new day and every new lesson learned along the way.
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Opportunity: ArtRoots Fund
October 19, 2018 Creative Carbon Scotland, Open Calls
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A community fund for artistic and aesthetic improvements to the National Cycle Network in Scotland.
The ArtRoots fund is a community fund for artistic and aesthetic improvements to the National Cycle Network in Scotland.
The fund enables and empowers communities to make improvements to the National Cycle Network (NCN) for the benefit of place quality, enjoyment and active travel.
2018 is the Year of Young People and this year the ArtRoots fund will target schemes that encourage opportunities for young artists. The fund supports local enterprise and culture, whilst also showcasing talent, intergenerational co-operation, expression, and creating a platform for youngsters to be heard through their arts. It also encourages young people to participate in shaping their local environment and increase their levels of physical activity.
Who can apply for a grant?
This fund is for constituted community groups based in Scotland. We will also consider applications from non-constituted groups.
How much can be applied for?
Grants of up to £5,000 are available.
How do you apply?
Completed expression of interest forms should be submitted by Monday 5 November 2018 at 17:00. The closing date for full applications for the current funding round will be Monday 19 November 2018.
Find out more on the ArtRoots fund web page.
Main Image: An ArtRoots awarded project in the Highlands saw the creation of this fantastic artwork which is both beautiful, intriguing and practical. This artwork made of wood was commissioned to mark the 300th anniversary of the bridge in Carrbridge, the oldest stone bridge in the Highlands
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Creative Carbon Scotland is a partnership of arts organisations working to put culture at the heart of a sustainable Scotland. We believe cultural and creative organisations have a significant influencing power to help shape a sustainable Scotland for the 21st century.
In 2011 we worked with partners Festivals Edinburgh, the Federation of Scottish Threatre and Scottish Contemporary Art Network to support over thirty arts organisations to operate more sustainably.
We are now building on these achievements and working with over 70 cultural organisations across Scotland in various key areas including carbon management, behavioural change and advocacy for sustainable practice in the arts.
Our work with cultural organisations is the first step towards a wider change. Cultural organisations can influence public behaviour and attitudes about climate change through:
Changing their own behaviour;
Communicating with their audiences;
Engaging the public’s emotions, values and ideas.
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Help your family and friends make it through the winter in the Northern Hemisphere by giving a gift of a subscription to one of these entertainment or fitness services.
Digital subscriptions are the perfect gifts. A digital subscription can help a friend or family member stay fit or find new shows to watch as the colder weather keeps people indoors. There are options to give a gift for only a month or an entire year. All you need is a credit card and the recipient’s email at your fingertips.
Check out these subscriptions that will give your family or friends the chance to try out new games on the Xbox or Playstation or enjoy a new audio book every month.
If you want to watch “The Mandalorian,” you need Disney+. The service includes original content as well as all the Star Wars movies and Marvel movies as well as “The Simpsons” and all of the Pixar movies. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” is on the service along with content from National Geographic. Subscribers can stream on four devices at once and download content to watch later. You can buy just Disney+ for $6.99/month or bundle Hulu and ESPN+ with it for $12.99/month.
$6 at Disney+
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If you have a horror fan on your gift list, this is the perfect present. This subscription service includes horror, thriller, and suspense movies as well as TV shows, podcasts, and live streaming events. There is a collection of Vincent Price movies, all of the “Halloween” franchise, and lots of movies you’ve never seen before. Subscriptions are monthly and you can cancel at any time.
$4 at Shudder
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This subscription gives you access to more than 800 PS4, PS3, and PS2 games in the PlayStation 4 and PC. Subscribers can download the games to the console or stream them. Subscribers need a PlayStation Network account, and a DualShock 3 or 4 controller. Membership options include $10/month, $25 for three months, or $60 for a year.
$10 at PlayStation
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This includes unlimited access to more than 100 games on console, PC, or both. There are several tiers: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for $14.99, which includes the gaming social network Xbox Live Gold and the Xbox Game Pass. Those two services can be purchased separately for $9.99 a month each. The Xbox Game Pass for PC is available on Windows 10 after downloading the Xbox beta app from Microsoft Store.
$15 at Microsoft
This new offering combines a library of workouts and a connection to the Apple Watch. Data from your watch will show up on the screen as you go through the workout. When you close a ring, it animates to celebrate your accomplishments. This subscription is $9.99 per month or $79.99/year. Current Apple Watch owners get one month free and the subscription can be shared with five other family members. If an Apple Watch is on your gift list, you’ll get Fitness+ free for three months.
$9 at Apple
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If you’d like to take out your some of your frustrations and get a workout in at the same time, check out EverybodyFights. George “Monk” Foreman III started this gym as an in-person gym but it now offers online classes. There are live classes daily as well as over 500 hours of fitness content from trainers, boxers, and coaches. A related app lets you track your workouts and compete with friends.
You can customize your training camp and equipment is optional. EverybodyFights offers a 30-day free trial. and monthly memberships after that.
$29 at EverybodyFights
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This fitness service has a little bit of everything from yoga to fitness to meditation. It’s a good choice for yogis who want to branch out to other fitness disciplines or for a person who is a regular at the gym who wants to improve flexibility. The workouts are categorized by difficulty and intensity. There is also a skills section that has step-by-step instructions about how to do inversions, backbends, and arm balances. There is a 14-day trial and a monthly as well as a yearlong membership for $199.
$20 at Alo Moves
A gift subscription offers access to thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and originals. A subscriber gets 1 credit for any title in the app to keep forever. The Audible App works on phones, tablets, and Amazon’s smart speakers. You have a range of options for this gift, ranging from $15 for one month, $45 for three months, $90 for six months, and $150 for a year. You also can select the delivery date for the gift.
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10 tips to help you break your routine and be more creative
March 1, 2012 by Prabhjit ·
Routine. A quick check in an online dictionary describes it as “a prescribed, detailed course of action to be followed regularly; a standard procedure” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com).
We may be in this state without even knowing it. Getting up the same time each day, fixing the same breakfast, going to work the same way, getting caught up in the daily grind, doing our best to meet deadlines with no room to do anything different.
If not checked, routine breeds monotony. It is like falling into a rut and finding no motivation to get out of it. Stay too long in it, and you will lose the impulse, knack or desire to go that one extra step that moves you ahead of the game. The reason is because routine gives you a sense of comfort and predictability.
And when trying to think up new ideas or do something new, staying in routine is like a self-imposed mental and emotional prison that stops you from even taking the first step.
But you’re holding yourself back if you get too caught up in routine. Not breaking free and embracing some change can sometimes leave you far behind.
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Oscar Thoughts Pre-TIFF ~”August:Osage County” Out in Front
For those of you who MUST know what’s going on Oscarwise Pre-TIFF, it’s pretty clear to me. TIFF is absolutely essential to next year’s Oscar Winner. It is THEEE premiere Oscar launch pad, no question.
Last year, I remember being told there were TWO films I absolutely could not get into if I missed their Press & Industry or P&I screenings, which I
did. Those are the screenings, I, as an accredited journalist, are SUPPOSED to legitmately attend, and didn’t. I missed them both. They were “Argo” and “The Master” and of course, “Argo” won the Oscar.
That’s a pretty good indicator to me. And in recent years past, “The Artist” started there. And the year before that “The King’s Speech” which ended up winning the Audience Award there. That’s a pretty damn good average…and it continues to hold, I’m thinking.
All the major Oscar contenders are heading there “August:Osage County” main among them. And yes, it’s the Weinstein Co.AGAIN. It’s being shown there and only there before Thanksgiving screenings begin around its’ release date.
This is the classic pattern that both Weinstein winners TKS and TA followed exactly. To a “T” Why fix something that isn’t broken, thinks Harvey Weinstein, I’m so sure.
Sasha Stone posits at the always excellent www.awardsdaily.com that Telluride figures into this, too, but never having been there, I can’t say as surely as she can, who goes there every year now.
But she’s right in that even “The King’s Speech” started there. Not Toronto. It only preceeded it by a few days, but still.
I’ll never forget future Oscar winning director Tom Hooper telling me the excitement he, Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush all felt sitting together in the dark at Telluride and they’re sensing the audience’s excitement. By Toronto, it was totally clear to me that it had already won the race. And it did.
New York has had the dubious distinction of recent years in invariably opening the film that comes in SECOND.
“The Life of Pi”, “The Social Network”, “Lincoln”, “Hugo” and with Tom Hanks’ new vehcile “Capt. Phillips,” it looks like that my happen again. In fact, I think you can count on it.
The Industry Poo-Bahs have all decided that Toronto and TIFF are IT as far as Oscar is concerned and I bet every Oscar strategist out there will agree. Of course, Toronto is very risky. It can also sink a film’s chances, too. It’s a risk you run, and it’s a brutal, competitive, bloody race, this Oscar dash to the finish line.
Which this year isn’t until MARCH btw. So it’s a long race this year too.
Having seen “August:Osage County” on the Broadway stage THREE times, I would place my bet on this pony, as Tom O’Neil, my idol, at www.goldderby.com would say.
I can tell you with surety though, that Harvey Weinstein will schedule an 8:45am press & industry screening at Toronto and that I will line up an hour early to get in. For “The King’s Speech” I remember getting up at 5:30AM to get to the inconveniently located theater on time. AND I was FIRST ON LINE! And the first one in It was thrilling. And I’m betting I do it all over again for “August:Osage County.”
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Oscar to Spread the Wealth! Final Predictions in All Categories!
I think Oscar is going to spread his love all over many movies on Sunday night at the Dolby pavillion, and there’s going to be at least one major upset. Read below.
This is NOT who I WANT to win, but who I think will win. Never did ALLLLL the categories before, but FINALLY this year, I think I can.
Best Picture ~ Argo ~ Slam Dunk. It even just won Best Foreign Film at the Cesars, France’s Oscars. Does any one else even have a chance? Would be the ultimate shock if that happened.
Best Actor – Daniel Day Lewis. Does anyone else have a chance? No. Wish it was Hugh Jackman, but…
Best Actress- Jennifer Lewis ~ She’s Hollywood’s future. Young, beautiful, shapely, funny. She’s got it all. A last-minute surge of Emmanuelle Riva for “Amour” is not gonna be enough. I think not enough people saw it. Believe it or not. But they ALLLL saw “Silver Linings Playbook.”
Best Supporting Actress ~Anne Hathaway. “Les Miz” Slam dunk. See Daniel Day-Lewis.
Best Supporting Actor ~ Robert De Niro “Silver Linings Playbook” He’s got the Weinstein Co. behind him full force. If for some unforseeable upset in Best Actress, meaning Riva OR Qu’venzhane Wallis(my pick. I would vote for her. I WOULD!) getting R. De Niro his third Oscar is where “Silver Linings Playbook” will prevail. It just went of $100 million just this past week.
But if ALAN ARKIN wins here for “Argo” you KNOW that “Argo” is going to win everything it’s nominated for, which it might. It’s not just gonna win Best Picture.
<p>Best Director ~ Ang Li “Life of Pi” Beautiful film, best use ever of 3D, and degree of difficulty make this a second Best Director win for the much loved director of “Brokeback Mountain”. That terrible night when “Brokeback” lost to “Crash” may make Ang Li winning again, a KIND of Karmic pay-back. Same thing happened to the late Heath Ledger, but he was gone, tragically, when he won for “The Dark Knight.” I just feel Heath steering Ang’s boat to shore here.
Best Original Screenplay ~ Michael Hanke “Amour” I think this is the big win for “Amour” like it was for Pedro Almodovar for “Talk to Her” a few years back.
Best Adapted Screenplay -Chris Terrio for “Argo”.Again. It’s going to be an “Argo” kind of night.
Best Cinematography – Claudio Mirando for his beautiful work in “Life of Pi”
Best Visual Effects- Again, “Life of Pi”
Best Costumes -Jacqueline Duran “Anna Karenina” Wish it was going to win more. Another beautiful, beautiful film that wasn’t appreciated as much as it should’ve been.
Best Production Design ~ “Les Miserables” ANOTHER Beautiful film that didn’t get its’ due. I’ve seen it FOUR times! It’s nominated for Best Picture, so I think it will win this category, which used to be called Best Art Direction. They like them big and dressy and period in this category.
Best Film Editing ~ William Goldenberger for “Argo”. He also edited much of “Zero Dark Thirty” which I don’t think it going to get anything, unfortunately. Too much controversy.
Best Song ~ “Skyfalll” and Adele will blow the roof off the play. Especially if this loses to “Suddenly” from “Les Miz.
Best Score – Alexandre Desplat “Argo” AGAIN.
Best Sound Editing ~ “Argo” AGAIN.
Best Sound Mixing-“Les Miserables” No contest. The live singing was brilliantly mixed!That’s Sound Editing at its best. And how it was blended, later with a 60 piece orchestra! Incredible!
Best Animated Short – “Paperman” Disney’s first black-and-white cartoon since when? “Steamboat Willy”?
Best Live Action Short – “Buzkahshi Boys” The actual Afghan locations and child actors are breathtaking and heartbreaking. Revelatory. And director Sam French is a director/Rock-Star in the making. Alternately, it could be the only film in English, “Curfew” set in New York City. Which is the light-er funny one here. Sometimes that wins this. But who has heard the Afghan language actually as spoken dialogue in a film?
Best Documentary – SHOULD be “Invisible War” but probably will be the very popular “Searching for Sugar Man.”
Best Doc Short “Open Heart”
Best Animated Feature ~ “Wreck It Raplph”
And the biggest surprise upset? Could be if “Amour” does NOT win Best Foreign Film, yes! It could happen! And it goes instead to the feel-good high-seas adventure, Norway’s “Kon-Tiki>” How can that happen when “Amour” seems so locked and so acclaimed and awarded? It’s,as they say, a difficult sit. For “Amour” details in stark, sterile clarity the step-by-step deterioration of a Parisian married woman, Emmanuelle Riva’s acclaimed Ann, after a series of strokes. It’s NOT for the faint-of-heart, which the small, the VERY small and elderly group of Academy voters, who vote on Best Foreign Film, are noted to be.
Anyone who’s a member can vote, but they have to sign in at the screenings of ALL FIVE FOREIGN FILMS, to make sure they’ve seen them all. This also applies to Doc Shorts.
It used to be applicable to Animated and Live Action Shorts and Feature Docs, too, but for the first time this year, they’ve opened up the voting to all 6,000 Academy members and deluged them with screeners. So now, a new rule must be applied. The most popular film like “Searching for Sugar Man” is the likely win over the VERY serious “Invisible War.” Unfortunately.
That’s at least four or is it five for “Argo”? Four for “Les Miserables”,Three for “Life of Pi”,Two for “Silver Linings Playbook”,One for “Amour” and One for “Lincoln”
Check back on Monday and see how right, or WRONG, I was! Have fun watching the Oscars!With “Les Miserables”, “Argo”, “Lincoln”, “Silver Linings Playbook”, “Django Unchained And “Life of Pi” alllll having past the $100 million mark at the box-office, this may be the most-watched Oscars in a very, very long time.
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Oscar Predictions 2012!
My final Oscar Predictions! Shot at the great Health Food Store Green Sympathy, where they named a smoothie after me “The Stephen Holt Special”! I’m assisted here by Bway producer Jayne Ackley Lynch and Kyle Shim, son of the owner of Green Symphony, Jae Shim.
And after winning the WGA (Writer’s Guild of America) Award last night, “Argo” is pretty much locked down for Best Picture and also probably Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editor, which I didn’t discuss here…but if it really is winning in all seven categories that it is nominated for, it could sweep Alan Arkin in in Best Supporting Actor.
Talk about having Oscar Momentum!
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Qu’venzhane’s Best Actress Oscar Upset?
The one thing NOBODY is taking in to consideration in the now very competitive Best Actress Oscar race is the fact that NOBODY in that category has yet to compete against its’ youngest ever nominee, the now 9-year-old dynamo that is Qu’venzhane Wallis.
As my Oscar Idol Tom O’Neil keeps saying over at http://www.goldderby.com and I quote “Oscar likes Little Girls.” And historically, he’s right. Patti Duke? Tatum O’Neal?Anna Pacquin? Anyone? But they all won in Supporting. If Qu’venzhane was in Supporting, she just might win. But the Academy wisely nominated her in lead Actress which is where her astonishing performance belongs. A six-year-old carrying this entire movie? It was astounding! I’ve never seen a better performance by a child actor, or actress. She was unforgettable.
But she’s not gone up against the other ladies ANYwhere. So there’s no telling what havoc she might wreck. Jennifer Lawrence is the presumed front-runner for “Silver Linings Playbook.” But just this Sunday she showed surprising weakness at the BAFTAS in London when she lost to 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva for “Amour.” But Qu’venzhane was not nominated for a BAFTA.
In fact, the Academy Award is the first serious Best Actress race she has competed in, against these women.
Well, yes, she did win Best Young Actor(or Actress) from the Broadcast Film Critics. I think she got Best Breakthrough Actress from the National Board of Review. And she won something similar from the Hollywood Film Awards.
And she’s charmed EVERYONE with her acceptance speeches. She irresistible. And Oscar likes to SURPRISE. And this would be a surprise!
It’s so boring that we all know “Argo” is going to win Best Picture(but deserving), and especially boring that Daniel Day-Lewis for “Lincoln” and Anne Hathaway for “Les Miserables” (who deserves it) are going to continue their march to the podium.
Jennifer Lawrence is also very young, 22, but Qu’venzhane is 9, and she did “Beasts of the Southern Wild” when she was six.
Exhibit A for Qu’venzhane ~ Everybody now pronounces her name correctly.
And Exhibit B – They also have learned to SPELL it correctly.
Tom O’Neil and Pete Hammond of http://www.deadline.com joked about her name in many early podcasts, but they are not laughing now. Calling her Miss Unpronounceable. They are NOT saying that anymore. In fact, BOTH have learned to say her name correcly, and say it with respect.
Exhibit C – The Academy liked “Beasts of the Southern Wild” enough to nominate it for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenply.
Benh Zeitlin has just turned 30 and he ALSO ranks as one of the youngest directors to ever be nominated, too, btw.
Some people feel a child that young’s performance is not an acting performance, it’s a manipulation of the child by the director. Hence Zeitlin’s wonderful, surprising nom.
Best Director is really the most up-in-the-air category of any of the Oscars this year. Since Ben Affleck was snubbed famously for “Argo.” We know he’s not winning? But who is? Zeitlin?
And I have this really strong suspicion that, well, a certainty, really, as an Oscarologist of LONNNNNNNG standing…that “Beasts” is going to win something big. It could be Zeitlin. It could be Qu’venzhane Wallis.
Jennifer Lawrence has her youth, her beauty, TWO multi-million dollar franchises “The Hunger Games” and “X-Men” behind her AND she’s got Harvey Weinstein and his super-effective TWC publicity machine behind her. They got surprisingly THREE BAFTAS in places that weren’t expected. Christopher Waltz for Supporting Actor for “Django Unchained” and Quentin Tarantino for Original Screenplay. QT could repeat that feat at the Oscars, since he also was snubbed for Best Director along with Affleck, Tom Hooper and Kathryn Bigelow.
AND he also got David O.Russell Best Adapted Screenplay for “Silver Linings Playbook” at the BAFTAS which nobody expected either.
Of those three wins, I think Tarantino is most likely to score at the Oscars. Mainly because Harvey is pushing Robert De Niro like CRA-ZEE here in the States for the sympathetic Italian father in “Silver Linings.” It’s been DECADES since De Niro won his last Oscar for “Raging Bull.” So I think he’ll score this VERY competitive race for Best Supporting Actor.
And “Silver Linings Playbook” is being advertised to death on TV and all the players, all four of the leads are nominated in all four acting categories and have been omnipresent on your and my TVs.
Qu’venzhane, well, she’s been around, but she’s also in school, and her responsible family wants to keep her there as long as 4th grade is in session.Or is it third?
Also, Jennifer Lawrence SHOULD have won in London. Harvey was working his magic, as I said, but the Weinsteining only went so far. It didn’t stop “Argo” Awards march and Jennifer Lawrence lost to Emmanuelle Riva.
Emmanuelle Riva is beyond brilliant and totally memorable in “Amour,” but I keep hearing that Academy members can’t watcn it on their DVDs. It’s about Octogenarians coping with death, basically, and it’s just too much, too depressing for many.
But they’ve all watched “Beasts of the Southern Wild” and Oscar likes to do something that not everybody else has done in terms of a winner, and Qu’venzhane would certainly be that. She’d make history, too, as the youngest ever Best Actress Oscar winner and also as only the second African-American winner in that category EVER.
As Tom O’Neil is constantly saying “It’s which one is not like the other ones. It’s the Apple in a bag of Oranges.” And Qu’venzhane fits THAT description to a “T”
Last week she was one of the covers of Entertainment Weekly’s Oscar issue and she’s also on Vanity Fair’s Oscar cover banging away on a set of drums!
The Academy is constantly being accused of racism, especially after Viola Davis’s loss to Meryl Streep last year. That was Harvey at work, yet again. I think there’s a verb now. I’ll call it Weinsteining if anybody else hasn’t already.
And Oscar likes little girls.
And they like “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”
And y’know something else? Everyone is underestimating her. But any time any one says her name on TV now, or anywhere, they SMILE.
If I was voting this year, she’s the one I’d vote for.
Emmanuelle Riva is frail and didn’t make it to the BAFTAS and is even now using a walker and may not be able to make that lonnnnng flight to LA. So there’s the fear of a no-show.
Qu’venzhane Wallis will make the MOST adorable speech ever.
You can see me interviewing her this past June when she was 8 on my You Tube Channel http://www.youtube.com/StephenHoltShow and I ask her about the Oscars and you can see her charming response. She didn’t know what an Oscar was, BTW.
Last time I saw Qu’venzhane was at the Gotham Awards. It was outside at night, as I was leaving and she was SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS! To a bunch of screaming fans! Her mother Qu’lendrea was there and I noted to her that Qu’venzhane had gotten quite tall, since I had seen her last in June. She shooting up fast. And I said to her Mom, “Is she all right?” And she said, “Yes,” and I said “How is she taking all this?” And she said “She’s fine.”
Then she tapped Qu’venzhane firmly on the shoulder and pointed to me. Qu’venzhane remembered me! And smiled and curtsied to me.
I would vote for HER.
Maybe the all-too-serious actor’s branch of AMPAS wouldn’t. But the REST of the 4,500 membership, the infamous all male “steak-eaters” as Anne Thompson calls them just might.I call them the “SWORM”, the straight white old rich men, who are the majority of the Academy. Yeah, I can see THEM voting for Qu’venzhane.
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British Oscars, the BAFTAS ~ What will they mean? If anything…
So tomorrow over in Blighty, the BAFTAs will be announced. The last major precursor award before the Oscars themselves, which are held on Feb.24.
Being socked in and basically locked in by the Blizzard of 2013, gives one time to really ruminate on the BAFTAS. It’s broadcast live in London, but here it can only be seen online. Check out http://www.awardsdaily.com to see if it’s live streaming there, or if not, they will tell you what, where and when to find it.
So, who’s going to win at the BAFTAS? And will they mean anything at all to Oscar?
Like, for instance, Robert De Niro isn’t nominated for Best Supporting Actor for “Silver Linings Playbook.” I think De Niro has the momentum at the Oscars, but since he’s not nominated, then who? Some say German actor Christophe Waltz for “Django Unchained,” why? Because he’s a European,Then there’s the other nominees from the states Tommy Lee Jones for “Lincoln”, Phillip Seymour Hoffman for “The Master” and Alan Arkin for “Argo.”
They’ve nominated Ben Affleck for BOTH Best Actor AND Best Directorand also “Argo” for Best Picture! So they really like “Argo,” and I suspect it will prevail in both picture and Director, but if Ben Affleck wins Best Actor! LOOK OUT!
He’s up of course against Daniel Day-Lewis for “Lincoln”, who may be the only BAFTA winner for “Lincoln” since Steven Spielberg isn’t even nominated here! But on the other hand, OTOH, as they say in Internet-speak, if DDL doesn’t win here and either Affleck or Hugh Jackman does, this could be the last nail in the boring, talky “Lincoln”s coffin. Hey! It could happen!
Likewise a win for Alan Arkin for “Argo” could signal a sweep is going on and that’s what’s going to happen the rest of the night.
But since the Weinstein monkeys are working like cra-zee over there, they’ve still got two entrants in Supporting Actor, PSH for “The Master” and Waltz for “Django Unchained”, so either could win. As in American, Supp. Actor at the BAFTAs is really too close to call. Although that’s what I’m supposed to do. So I’ll call it for Waltz, simply because it’s another Harvey Weinstein situation there.
And Anne Hathaway has best supporting actress sewn up there, for “Les Miserables” mais oui, as she has it here.
But Best Actress is really the one to watch. If 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva wins for the French language film “Amour” over Jennifer Lawrence for “SLP” and Jessica Chastain for “Zero Dark Thirty,” that win and Riva’s acceptance speech could really impact the Best Actress race here. But then again, if she doesn’t show up. But still wins anyway, it probably will not have the same impact, as if the still comely octogenarian French icon wins, is there to accept, and moves every one to tears, as she probably will, with a lovely French-accented acceptance speech.
Remember that BAFTA is really where Marion Cotillard, also acting in French in a French-speaking film “La Vie En Rose”, won, and moved the whole world with HER acceptance speech, setting herself up very nicely for her Oscar win a few weeks later.
This is prime Oscar voting time, the balloting being opened only YESTERDAY, Friday. And who watches the BAFTAS? Well, the Academy members who are still undecided about who to vote for in tumultuous races, like this year’s Best Actress assuredly is.
So I guess you could reduce this all to say “How many awards will ‘Argo’ win?” and who wins Best Actress? Riva, Lawrence or even Chastain? We shall very soon see.
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SAG Awards ~ A Summation
SO I watched “Downton Abbey” Episode 4 and I’m soooo glad I did! OMG! OMG! Can’t reveal anything now, but it is just…well, WOW! Powerful…I’ll write about it later…OMG…
MEANWHILE back on TBS a very sick Jennifer Lawrence was winning Best Actress for “Silver Linings Playbook” which I missed. But “Downton” ended five minutes early, and so I turned from PBS back to TBS and saw a very suave and satisfied Daniel Day-Lewis ascending the stage amidst applause. He had just clearly won for “Lincoln.” He gave a nice speech. Guess he’s going to win his third Oscar after all…but THEN…
Jude Law came out, also not looking well, and he announced that the winner of the Best Ensemble Award was “ARGO!”!!!!!!! Soooo happy to hear that! After what I just went through on Episode 4 of “Downton” I needed a lift! And it was very moved when “Argo” won and Ben Affleck was soooooo happy! And I was happy for him. SAG has a heart. And they bought the “poor Ben” story as Oscar Goddess Sasha Stone called it in a great piece at http://www.awardsdaily.com
It was really one of the best pieces she’s written on this season.And she says that the winning Oscar story is now “poor Ben” and wow! Is she right-on about that!
But Poor Ben was Happy Ben onstage at the SAGS tonight. He was practically dancing! This means that “Argo,” which he was famously snubbed for Best Director for two weeks ago, is now most likely going to win the Oscar for Best Picture. It won the PGA last night, and now this BIG WIN from the Actor’s Guild! Outtasight! I was sooo happy for him!
And of course, check out the other Happy Man Jeff Wells, who I thought I saw fly over the moon, with this news which he writes VERY well about over at wwww.hollywood-elsewhere.com.
“Lincoln” was supposed to win this tonight, and yes, it did get two awards. Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Tommy Lee Jones, who didn’t even show up.
I think four of these winners will repeat on Oscar night. “Argo” for Best Picture, Anne Hathaway for Best Supporting Actress for “Les Miz”and Daniel Day-Lewis for Best Actor for “Lincoln.” Qu’venzhane Wallis is in the mix at the Oscars as she wasn’t tonight at the SAGS and neither was Emmanuelle Riva, BTW, for “Amour.” But Jennifer Lawrence has Harvey Weinstein behind her, and like Meryl Streep’s out-of-left-field win last year for “The Iron Lady,” he’ll do the same thing for Jennifer and she’s winning everything anyway. It’s a cake walk for him this year with Jennifer.
I think it’s safe to say that with Phillip Seymour Hoffman winning the BFCA award(Which he wasn’t there to pick up), Christophe Waltz winning the Golden Globe( which he WAS there to make a strange speech, with Tommie Lee Jones GLOWERING) then with Jones winning tonight at the SAGS and him NOT being there to accept, I think it’s safe to say that Supporting Actor is still a toss-up.
But everything else now seems locked down and sealed up “Argo”, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway.Done!
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SAG Awards ~ Best Supp. Actor & Actress!
Best Male Actor in A Supporting Role! Bang! They’re getting right to it!Nicole Kidman in a black dress with a very weird top. Tommy Lee Jones! And he isn’t even there! I guess he had it after the Golden Globes when he lost to Christophe Waltz then scowled through the rest of the show so frighteningly he ended up being lampooned on Saturday Night Live.At last Lincoln won SOMEthing. And he’s not even there to pick it up! Means he thought he wasn’t going to.
Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper announce the clip from “Silver Linings Playbook.” Jennifer doesn’t look well and seems very as I said subdued, a bit shaky.And PALE in the close-up.
Best Actress in a Supporting Role ~ ANNE HATHAWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice speech. Humble. “I want to thank my mother for voting for me. Or she better’ve!”
Started with a bad joke “At Least I get dental” or something like that about dental.
Lovely cocktail dress with what looked like a hundred pinafores under it.Black, again, the color of the night. Sparkly. They didn’t get her on the E! Channel Pre-show, so I don’t know who the designer was but I’m sure we’ll be hearing about it for WEEKS!
She thanked her father “for marrying an actress and for bringing up an actress. It was a very dramatic household.” She was channeling Audrey Hepburn a bit, I thought. Or trying to. She seemed to get more applause and also cheers as Justin Timberlake in a very sharp suit read out the five nominees names out.
Two of the big awards within the first fifteen minutes! This has never happened before. Now they switch to the boring TV awards.
I’m torn between staying with this and not missing Ep.4 of “Downton Abbey”! I’ll stick with this I guess until nine.
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SAG Awards and PGA this weekend! Predictions!
It’s a big weekend in the Awards Calendar as Oscar draws ever nearer… The PGA (The Producers Guild of America) announces who they picked as Best Picture of 2012 on Sat. And as if that weren’t enough excitement on Sunday, we have the always exciting, always misleading SAG Awards. The Screen Actors Guild.
Some of the members of these guilds are in the Academy. A lot of them. But more importantly the producers have a list of ten. The Oscar only nominated nine. And while the producers picked “Skyfall”, the Academy didn’t and dropped “Moonrise Kingdom” but picked up “Amour.” But even MORE importantly they use a preferential ballot, which is what the Oscars do with Best Picture. But ONLY Best Picture.
Every other Oscar category is by a simple majority. IOW, whoever gets the most votes wins.
The Prefentials Ballot is Sooooo complicated I will defer to Oscar Goddess Sasha Stone at the superior and ever-essential http://www.awardsdaily.com to let her and the great Steve Pond of http://www.thewrap.com explain THAT particular kettles of thorns.
I’m mixing metaphors, but I don’t mince words.
So IOW the Producer’s Guild with its large voting body is more of an approximate cross-section of the Academy’s. So whoever they choose as their winner on Sat. may very well tell the tale of who or what is going to win Best Picture.
And I think, like the Hollywood Foreign Press and the Broadcast Film Critics that they are going to go with “Argo.” Ben Affleck who was notoriously snubbed by the Academy for Best Director, as was Katheryn Bigelow, is riding high right now on a wave of monumental sympathy for this snub. And the PGA may very well correct this.
The SAGs, being a mass of many thousands of actors, is a little harder to predict correctly. They follow their own star. I would like to think that my personal favorite “Les Miserables” may pull a surprise upset here and win their Best Ensemble award. Best Ensemble is the SAGs way of saying Best Picture. And “Les Mis” certainly had a great ensemble, in my book.
I would love to see Hugh Jackman win for “Les Miserables” and best Daniel Day-Lewis for his boring performance in the bore-to-end-all-bores “Lincoln.” “Lincoln” has the most nominations across all these awards bodies and consistently lost. To “Argo”!
All the controversy that is still swirling around “Zero Dark Thirty” is going to make it very hard to win ANYTHING I think. Coupled with the fact that I don’t think Sony sent out that screener to the voting membership of SAG. Sony is also losing its’ headquarter building in Manhattan. 550 Madison. The beautiful Phillip Johnson-designed stunner that once-upon-a-time was the AT&T building. They’ve got bigger problems, obviously, then sorting out ZDT’s Awards’ chances.
Which I think is going to leave Jessica Chastain out in the cold.
Losing to most likely Jennifer Lawrence in”Silver Linings Playbook”, if Harvey Weinstein has his way. Or to Naomi Watts, if he doesn’t.
I think HW WILL prevail in the Best Supporting Actor category with Robert DeNiro, who has never won a SAG award, believe it or not.(His best work pre-dates SAGs Awards) And that would be also for “Silver Linings Playbook.” Are we seeing a pattern form here?
And lastly Anne Hathaway for Best Supporting Actress for “Les Miserabales” is as locked as Christopher Plummer was last year for HIS first ever Oscar win at age 82 for “Beginners.”
Best Ensemble ~ I HOPE it’s “Les Mis” but it just might be “Argo” like the BFCA and the Golden Globes, or it could be “Silver Linings Playbook.” THAT one’s a real toss-up.
More predictive is the PGA on Sat.
Will I live-blog the SAGs on Sunday? Probably. Do check in.
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Year’s Ten Best Pt.2 #5-1 ~The Stephen Holt Show at Tavola!
And here’s the top five of my year’s Ten Best of 2012, the best of the best! With “Picnic”s Matthew Goodrich at Tavola, the hot new Italian restaurant. 488 9th Ave.
This has been one of the best year’s for movies in many, many years, soooo many grrreat films! If you’ve been following this blog, you probably know what I’ve picked before I announce it!
Who Will Harvey Pick? He’s Got THREE Best Supp. Actors
It’s raining/sleeting/snowing in NYC, but to continue with my train of thought since the last post… Who will Harvey Weinstein pick of his threesome of Best Supporting Actors to push, push, push to Oscar gold?
I guess it was noticed that Phillip Seymour Hoffman was MIA to pick up, or even show up, for the Awards shows this past week. I think he’s rather furious that he’s been relegated to Supporting Actor, for what clearly was a co-lead in the flop “The Master.” So he’s not being super-co-operative. Or PSH is seeing the handwriting on the wall and it’s not spelling HIS name.
I think it’s spelling Robert Deniro’s. Yes, for the audience-friendly “Silver Linings Playbook,” which is only now going wide.The box-office for “SLP” has not being overwhelming to say the least. It’s a difficult, quirky comedy. Or dramedy. And it’s a small, domestic-arguement kind of film. It doesn’t have the range or scope of the epics of this year, “Les Miserables”, or “Argo” or “Zero Dark Thirty” or “Lincoln.”
The “Lincoln” camp is quaking in their boots. Getting “Hilary Clinton’s husband,”to quote the super sharp Amy Poehler, the evening’s resoundingly successful co-host (along with Tina Fey), to introduce the “Lincoln” clip was the act of a desperate group of people. In this case, Disney. They NEVER have run a successful Oscar campaign. Look at how they botched “The Help” last year.
Their sledge-hammer approach cost Viola Davis her Oscar bid last year. They got Best Supporting Actress for “The Help”s Octavia Spenser, but Best Supp. ANYthing is always considered by the Academy as a consolation prize. It’s just not as important as Best ACTOR and Best ACTRESS and now, this year, Best Director.
Liked Anne Hathaway’s seeming slam-dunk lock for “Les Miserables” That category is effectively closed. Give it up, Sally Field.
But back to Harvey. HE KNOWS how to run an Oscar campaign, and he’s relentless in its’ pursuit. Only this year’s ponies, as my idol Tom O’Neil would say over at http://www.goldderby.com, are not the thoroughbreds he was pushing in the past two historic years when he had “The Artist” and “The King’s Speech.” “SLP” is just NOT as good a film as the two recent Oscar winners, who were both Weinstein Co. productions.
Personally, I think he’s going to go after “Silver Linings Playbook” anyway for the win. Or as many wins as he can get for it. Main among them, Jennifer Lawrence for Best Actress. She already just won Best Actress Comedy at the Globes, but that was ALLLL “SLP” won, no matter how hard Harvey & Co. were campaigning for it. Next up, the SAG Awards, for which Robert Deniro IS nominated, in Supp.
And that means the twice-Oscared, but never SAGed DeNiro could be looking at HIS third Oscar and HE’S campaigning! Something he NEVER does.IOW, he’s co-operating with Harvey’s Oscar vision for “SLP”.
HW COULD prevail for DeNiro, who, let’s face it is a bona fide Oscar legend, and we’ll just see who out of the current Weinstein Co. stable DOES win Best Supporting Actor.
The co-operative Christophe Waltz won his second Golden Globe in two years, thanks to Harvey, for “Django Unchained.” And who gives the Best Performance out of Hoffman, DeNiro and Waltz. I’d say it was Waltz. And that may happen at the Oscars, too. He may duplicate his win as will, I think Quentin Tarantino in Best Original Screenplay.
Harvey Weinstein KNOWS how to run an Oscar campaign. Disney does not. And Neither does Fox, who has “Life of Pi” and also neither does Universal, who has “Les Miserables” which SHOULD be the winner IMHO. But alllll these majors, the studios, just aren’t USED to winning Oscars anymore. It’s like they were all born yesterday and only Harvey and the Weinstein Co. know what they are doing….And that’s just the way it is this year, ladies and gente-persons, dear readers, dear cineastes.
Except for the fly in the ointment, “Argo”.
You can’t have TWO Davids v. one Goliath. Like “SLP” AND “Argo” v. Goliath “Lincoln.” So which of “Argo” and “SLP” is the “Little Film That Could”? The Oscar question of the morning.
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‘GUILTY’: South Australia’s Statewide Blackout Caused by Deliberate Wind Farm Shutdown
October 9, 2016 by stopthesethings 18 Comments
For STT, laying out the facts that disclose the greatest environmental and economic fraud of all time has been a labour of love.
When we kicked off on Boxing Day 2012, STT was a lone voice in a vast wilderness: almost every man or woman claiming the mantle ‘journalist’ had ‘drunk the Kool-Aid’ – and if not an actual card-carrying member of the wind cult, almost every one of them championed the cause of wind power or they were simply dying to engage in what became a ‘look-at-me’ routine of public virtue signalling and moral posturing in print and over the airwaves.
Journalists piled in on a wanton love-fest: not only could these things do no wrong, anyone who had the temerity to say so was hounded and vilified by their peers for their troubles – over the last week or two the ABC’s Chris Uhlmann has copped a pasting for doing nothing more than pointing out the obvious fact that wind power is intermittent and unreliable (see this foaming-at-the-mouth diatribe from Ruin-Economy).
If journalism is simply an extension of politics – and given that the media’s practice of ‘churnalism’ involves little more than rehashing ministerial press releases, it probably is – then politicians divided into much the same camps: one or two lone wolves who understood what a so-called wind powered future would look like; and the majority who were not only wedded to the delusion that the world was about to run on breezes, but staked their political existence on it, by signing their nations or states up to policies that amount to economic suicide pacts.
Well, as they say, a week is a long time in politics; and, ergo, it’s been a veritable aeon among the media wolf-pack.
In the week following the aftermath of South Australia’s statewide blackout, the ranks of the few journalists who get it, has gone from a handful to a legion.
When STT pumped out its analysis of what has become known as SA’s ‘Black Wednesday’ before breakfast the following day, the media pack were groping around in the dark (literally in South Australia) for answers as to the cause.
Not to say ‘we told you so’, but ‘we told you so’ – the analysis pitched up on this page – Another Statewide Blackout: South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster Continues – was not only short, sharp and to the point, it was absolutely correct.
It took the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) the better part of a week to work out what STT had rumbled in a matter of minutes (thanks to its many operatives from the electrical generation crowd and former electrical engineers).
The AEMO – which suffers obvious influence and pressure from wind power outfits like AGL and Infigen – seemed almost reluctant to point out what drove South Australians back to the 18th century.
But, eventually, the facts got out: the AEMO determined that the sudden ‘unexplained’ loss of 315MW of wind power actually triggered the shut down of the interconnectors with Victoria’s coal-fired plant; most of the transmission towers taken out by the storm fell after the blackout began (wind cultists and politicians wedded to wind power still blame the collapse of transmission towers for the blackout); and as wind power is non-synchronous, it was unable to restart the transmission system after the blackout – the full AEMO report is available here: aemo-sa-preliminary-report-at-900am-3-october.
STT has always maintained that it will be facts the kill the wind industry.
Now that Australia’s mainstream media has turned on the wind industry, the game is all but over.
No commercial financial institution is going to lend so much as a penny for the construction of any new wind farms.
The wind industry has been moaning about dreaded “uncertainty” for the best part of four years now (the result of which has been that commercial power retailers have not entered a power purchase agreement with any wind power outfits since about December 2012 – we don’t count the couple of PPAs signed with the ACT government).
Well, if anything, ‘uncertainty’ for hopeful wind power outfits has been displaced with one ‘absolute certainty’ as a result of SA’s date with the Dark Ages: the Federal Government’s Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target will never be met; instead, retail power customers will be hit with the $65 per MWh penalty charge under the LRET (a Federal tax on power consumers worth $1.5 billion each year until 2030 – see our post here); and, once that fact gets out, whichever government is in power will be forced to slash the LRET’s annual 33,000GWh target, once again, to save its political skin.
In the meantime, STT is happy to sit back and watch politicians, both State and Federal, squirm as mainstream journalists begin, at long last, to do what their calling is supposed to do: spell out the truth, just like this.
Energy operator: loss of wind power triggered SA outage
A dramatic loss of wind power helped trigger South Australia’s statewide blackout when the interconnector with Victoria subsequently became overloaded, the first report into the power crisis has revealed.
The Australian Energy Market Operator found storms caused multiple transmission faults, including the loss of three major 275-kilovolt lines north of Adelaide in the space of 12 seconds.
Generation was initially maintained but “following an extensive number of faults in a short period (seconds), 315MW of wind generation disconnected”.
“The uncontrolled reduction in generation resulted in increased flow on the main Victorian interconnector to make up the deficit,” AEMO said.
This resulted in the interconnector overloading and an automatic-protection mechanism tripping the line to protect it from damage, causing the rest of the state to go black.
The report also found key electricity transmission towers blew over after the blackout began last Wednesday afternoon.
The AEMO yesterday confirmed 10 wind farms in South Australia had been ordered to limit generation on an ongoing basis, as it was concerned a failure, or trip, of multiple generators could recur following another disruption to the unstable grid.
Malcolm Turnbull yesterday said Labor Premier Jay Weatherill, who has championed an aggressive green energy policy that forces South Australia to be powered by a more than 40 per cent intermittent renewables mix, had made power unaffordable in the state and he “has to answer for that”.
South Australia’s last coal-fired baseload power station, at Port Augusta, was forced to close in May because of the rise of green power in South Australia, leaving the network at risk of voltage collapse and widespread blackouts, according to transmission company ElectraNet.
Mr Weatherill, who continued yesterday to maintain last week’s statewide blackout was wholly related to severe storms and not linked at all to renewable energy, claimed the Prime Minister was “fearful that he would be blamed for a national electricity market that caused a blackout”.
Mr Weatherill announced a hastily arranged renewable energy summit for today at state parliament.
South Australia’s Climate Change Minister, Ian Hunter, said the summit would “provide accurate and factual information about the role of renewable energy in Australia” ahead of tomorrow’s COAG Energy Council meeting in Melbourne. Opposition energy spokesman Dan van Holst Pellekaan said the summit was “all about spin and feel-good meetings for Premier Weatherill”.
Independent South Australian senator Nick Xenophon yesterday accused Mr Weatherill of being “more ideological than practical”.
But AEMO chief operating officer Mike Cleary said “at this stage we cannot apportion blame”.
“As to whether generation could have or should have managed through those types of faults at this stage is still subject to investigation,’’ he said.
Greg Evans, from the Minerals Council, said South Australia desperately required a “sensible” energy mix to avoid such blackouts.
Conservative farm settings blamed for SA energy shutdown
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Energy insiders believe the settings on software control systems for up to six key South Australian wind farms were “too conservative”, causing them to shut down unnecessarily in last week’s storm when they should have continued to operate and generate power.
These wind farms suddenly disconnected 315 megawatts of wind generation in an “uncontrolled reduction” at 4.18pm last Wednesday, leading to a statewide blackout, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s initial report yesterday.
Another report by AEMO will be released after its exhaustive investigations are completed. But industry insiders say they expected AEMO to find that the six wind farms stopped operating because their control systems were inappropriately set to execute a protective shutdown after a relatively few number of faults, such as lightning strikes, in a couple of minutes.
As the number of faults surpassed the “too conservative” settings, the wind farms failed, triggering an increased demand on the Victorian interconnector, which overloaded and resulted in an “automatic-protection” shutdown, or statewide “Black System”, in a second. An industry expert said yesterday that, in the days since the storm, the control systems of the wind farms which failed had been reset at more realistic levels to ensure they did not fail unnecessarily in future.
“Whether the energy generation is from wind or gas or coal, there are performance standards that have to be met, and in this case they were not met because the settings were too conservative,’’ the senior source said.
“These turbines should have ridden through the faults and met the standard, and they didn’t. They have not performed the way they were meant to in the storm. This will open up questions of liability.”
He said that if the control systems had been set more realistically before the storm — for example, to ride through as many as 50 separate faults in two minutes — there would not have been the sudden loss of 315MW from the six wind farms at a time when there was about 1895MW of demand.
The preliminary report yesterday confirmed that four wind farms — North Brown Hill, Bluff Range, Hallett and Hallett Hill, operated by AGL — went off at 4.18pm, resulting in the first reduction of output (123MW).
Six seconds later, the Hornsdale wind farm went out with a reduction in output of 86MW at the same time as the Snowtown 2 wind farm failed with a 106MW reduction. One second later, supply to all of South Australia was lost.
“Additional analysis is required to determine the reasons for the reduction in generation and observed voltage levels before any conclusions can be drawn,’’ the report says. The market operator also flagged that for its upcoming more detailed report it will conduct modelling and ask market participants for more data and information.
The severe weather from an intense low-pressure system last week inflicted widespread thunderstorms, destructive winds, damaging hail and severe cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in South Australia.
AGL Energy chief Andy Vesey hinted at a control systems scenario on Tuesday when he told a Melbourne energy conference “the situation that needs to be examined is whether the protection system could have been different, which would have then limited the outage and you would then never have had this cascading effect”.
An AGL spokesman told The Australian yesterday: “AGL continues to review the AEMO interim report. We believe the issue is more likely to be about grid protection settings than any particular type of generation.”
AGL Chief, Andrew Vesey is clearly gilding the lily with his line about the problem being one of ‘system’ control and the AGL spinner’s line about the problem having nothing to do with ‘any particular type of generation’ is precisely what’s expected from a crowd that built the bulk of SA’s wind power capacity and is still keen to wallow in the LRET subsidy trough.
Again, though, the facts tend to undo the spin.
It is now a given that the forced shut down of 315MW of wind power output caused the complete collapse of SA’s grid, and it is unarguable that wind turbines were shut down as wind speeds increased on Wednesday, 28 September.
Take Snowtown 1, for example; which we have isolated in the graph above – care of Aneroid Energy.
While AGL went to great lengths to point the finger elsewhere and the AEMO played Sherlock Holmes, looking for clues as to why 315MW of wind power output went missing, the answer, as STT followers are well aware, is that wind turbines automatically shut down when wind speeds exceed 25m/s (90km/h, 55mp/h or 48 knots), which it most certainly did on Wednesday, 28 September 2016.
At 9:00 am, Snowtown 1 is merrily producing close to 100% of its installed capacity of 99 MW. On 28 September one thing that South Australia wasn’t short of was wind, which reached gale force across the State, without relent: the hills at Snowtown were being buffeted by wind clocking over 100km/h throughout the day.
Notwithstanding an abundance of wonderful ‘free’ wind energy it was a complete ‘down tools’ at Snowtown 1 at 10:30am – with no return to work until 3:00pm; and then only for a 40MW spurt lasting a few minutes. That minor spurt occurred about 35 minutes before the entire grid went down. At 6:30pm there was another burst of activity, until just before 9:00pm; but, apparently the wind got the better of them, and Snowtown 1 was out for the rest of the day.
Wind turbines do not supply themselves with power to operate their internal control systems, that comes from the grid; and when the grid collapsed there was no power to control turbines, such that they could not be restarted even if the operators wanted to.
Even when the grid was back up and running in most parts the following day, the bulk of SA’s wind power capacity lay idle as winds continued to buffet the State:
On 28 September, long before the total collapse of the grid, SA’s wind farm operators were shutting down their whirling wonders – and mostly kept them shut down the following day – to prevent them from self-destruction, of the kind seen in this video:
Over the next few posts, STT is going to rest on its laurels while we run a series of pieces from the mainstream press that have done as much damage to the wind industry as a thumping breeze can do to a turbine with a failed yaw control.
It’s been years in the making, but STT predicts that the wind industry will never recover from the way the mainstream media has turned on it – in the space of a week – and all because it failed to do what meaningful power generation sources are required to do: deliver.
The GetUp! ad says 77% are in favour of wind power.
Can I have a show of hands, now? Anyone? No?
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We are a group of citizens concerned about the rapid spread of industrial wind power generation installations across Australia.
Son of a Goat says:
Damm it …….just when you think victory in sight, the CEC releases the big guns;
Pretty Boy with the women of renewables singing the new CEC anthem
“Simply Renewable.”
Jackie Rovensky says:
A web of misinformation has developed into one almighty webbed trampoline mat with everyone involved in the deceit and misinformation bouncing back and for up and down and around in circles trying to extricate themselves from it.
All they are doing is making it more dense and soon it will become so dense they can no longer continue to try and extricate themselves and they will then have to weather the blame and seek help to unravel the disaster they have created by ignoring the years of warnings of the disaster to come, instead following a line of greed, stupidity and thoughtless ideology.
We can only hope they will learn from their mistakes – and I say ‘can only hope’ because there is no certainty they will ever learn.
estherfonc says:
I started a petition “SA PREMIER JAY WEATHERILL : Demand the RESIGNATION of the Energy Minister for HIGH POWER PRICES CAUSING SA’s JOBS CRISIS and 15,000 household POWER DISCONNECTIONS, frequent POWER BLACKOUTS and the JULY 2016 POWER CRISIS” and wanted to see if you could help by adding your name.
Our goal is to reach 100 signatures and we need more support.
You can read more and sign the petition here:
https://www.change.org/p/sa-premier-jay-weatherill-demand-the-resignation-of-the-energy-minister-for-high-power-prices-causing-sa-s-jobs-crisis-and-also-15-000-household-power-disconnections-frequent-power-blackouts-and-the-july-2016-power-crisis?recruiter=135406845&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share_email_responsive
Please share this petition with anyone you think may be interested in signing it.
Thankyou for your time.
Simon Jarrett says:
Please, Please can anybody HELP!!
Further to our plea our group is trying to STOP TRUSTPOWER NZ from littering the Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges with up to 114 165m tall wind turbines. The court won’t accept lay witnesses. The fact that we have lived here for many years and know the area,the animals and birds, the destruction of fire and the fickleness of the weather doesn’t count.
We can’t rely on recent storm events to quash any further turbine developments.
We need expert witnesses in the following fields :-
1. Rural Land Valuation- of course house prices will fall
2. Electrical,mechanical and/or Civil Engineering- 165m towers in strong winds??
3. Firefighting and Fire risk Assessment-bombers wont come
4. Acoustics- my main fear
5. Health- problems already appearing with the stress
6. Landscape Architecture- stating the bleeding obvious
7. Planning- council matters
8. Ecology, Natural Resource Management – habitat destruction of listed flora and fauna
9. Anthropology- destruction of many years of Aboriginal habitation
10. Heritage and History- currently Mt Lofty Ranges is applying for a World Heritage Agrarian Landscape bid
11. Geohydrology, Geology and Geomorphology- blasting willy nilly in the rock would create problems affecting both underground and surface water quality and supply
12. Meteorology- wind turbines only 40% efficient
13. Industrial Design- can they withstand big storms?
14. Sociology- The human costs
15. Economics-Costs vesus Benefit
Any Help on these matters would be greatly appreciated. The contact is at stopkeynetonwindfarm@hotmail.com If we can STOP this we can STOP more.
Yours sincerely Sally Vance EMLRLG
Errata The email address for EMLRLG should read keynetonwindfarm@hotmail.com
Analitik says:
Deliberate is stretching things. The lack of stability of the wind turbines themselves, on top of their zero contribution to overall grid stability, is what brought the whole state down.
Deliberate implies that the wind turbines were capable of performing better than they did. Maybe if they had (additional cost) synthetic inertia circuitry like those mandated in Quebec, Canada, then things may have gone better but we will never know.
stopthesethings says:
Dig a little deeper, Analitik. The wind farms that were shut down before the worst of the front hit had a common feature: all or at least most of them were Suzlon s88s – as to their ‘performance’ see our post here:
https://stopthesethings.com/2016/05/30/panic-erupts-infigen-set-to-offload-worn-out-australian-wind-farms-to-even-greater-fools/
The s88s at Hallett/Jamestown and at Snowtown 1 (which was shut down at 10.30am as the first front hit) are notoriously unreliable and, our insiders tell us, literally falling apart. The major repairs are no longer done by Suzlon (aka Senvion) but by Vestas, who look after the V90s at Waterloo. Their mechanics have told our operatives that the s88 is a death trap and the worst built turbine they have worked on.
In many cases, the operators are leaving them idle for long periods after failures of gearboxes/bearings/generators as the cost is in the hundreds of thousands and they are long out of warranty (apparently they wait until there are several out of action so that the cost of the crawler crane can be spread over the repair of several units at once).
So, we’ll stick with ‘deliberate’, at least in respect of the Suzlon s88s involved. Of course, the ‘automatic’ shut down of turbines is ‘deliberate’ in the sense that the onboard systems feather the blades, apply the brakes and ensure the nacelle faces into the wind as soon as wind speeds approach 25m/s. The spin around that has already started: Chris Uhlmann on Insiders yesterday was parroting a line about the shut down being due to a ‘software problem’. Hmmm…
Nimbynet says:
Fun fact: The ABC’s Chris Uhlmann is married to Labor MP, Gai Brodtmann – the federal Member for Canberra. Only last year she referred to wind farms as a “no brainier” and described turbines as, “beautiful, majestic and quiet.”
Awkward….
Michael of Sevilla says:
You may be aware that the NSW Government intends to ‘invest’ $10 billion (that’s right, billion) to build more wind farms.
Every NSW resident needs to contact his/her state politician and object strenuously. Also, could STT run an article on the NSW nonsense?
Keep up the good work and thanks for your persistence.
Lyndsey says:
Well done STT. Your tenacity has paid off. Don’t stop kicking until the wind industry finally stops trying to get up. Cheers to you all!
Even then still keep kicking, just in case there is a breath of wind still left in them.
1957chev says:
Wind Turbines are Novelty Energy….and the “Novelty”, has Worn Off! We LOVE you, STT!
The Mighty Quinn says:
Well done STT.
It has been a long hard road but it seems that we might win in the end.
To borrow your line We Will Prevail.
To watch Vapid Jay duck and weave is truly delicious and where is his Brainless sidekick Turbo Tommy he seems to be hiding. Some of the better journalist have got the story very straight. Judith Sloan and Chris Kenny are outstanding and Chris’s exchange tonight with Michaela Cash was spot on, pointing out that the Federal government’s 23% LRET was more than enough to destroy SA’s once affordable reliable Base Load generation and that the 33,000 GWh target by 2020 will never happen.
Keep up the good work STT for the sake of the whole country. We Must Prevail and send the Wind Weasels packing.
Vic wright says:
Beware, journalists are almost as fickle as politicians. Neither dabble in reality for long.
STT has been telling Governments about what’s happening in power markets and plenty has been written to make these people aware of what a joke wind power is. It shouldn’t take much for them to work that out.
We take our hat off to you STT. We the masses that opposed Senvion and their busted arse Ceres project to put 199 turbines on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula amongst our prime agricultural cropping country are forever indebted to you.
This project has been in our midst for over eight years and the damage done to the community by the proponents has been devastating.
While one can never say never the chances are now thankfully remote of it ever going ahead. In the early years our only guide in understanding how wind farms work was STT.
Last weekend I saw the movie “Snowden”, I’m not sure whether STT would be happy to be likened to Ed Snowden but there are similarities. Snowden if the film is a true portrayal was a highly intelligent man that collected meta data for the secret services in the US however became whistle blower when he realised the rights of ordinary citizens was being compromised by their own govt.
I’m sure STT has put in many hundreds of hours in this battle, with no monetary reward and no premiership medal at the end of it. We know the strain it puts on individuals and families, so we can only imagine what you have been through.
However as you remain in anonymity remember my friend you will always walk tall amongst the greats that fought for truth and justice.
Have a drink on Marty.
Sommer says:
We desperately need whistleblowers from within the wind industry to come forward en masse. We also need a Wikileaks release on this wind turbine issue as well as more releases of the manipulating climate change alarmism scheming directly related to industrial wind turbines as mitigation.
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Pinwheel is the API platform for income verification that every fintech and neobank needs
Danny Crichton 7 months
A lot of founders start building one idea and in the process, find another one that is more alluring. Perhaps the most well-known example is Tiny Speck, a game publisher of a relatively uninteresting MMORPG where the founders grew sufficiently frustrated with their internal team communications tools that they migrated from game building to designing a chatting app known as Slack.
That’s the story of Pinwheel and its founders Kurt Lin, Anish Basu, and Curtis Lee. Lee, who formerly founded Luxe, a valet service that sold to Volvo in 2017, had hired Lin as the company’s GM. After two years of “innovating” within the confines of a massive automobile manufacturer, the two were ready to spin out and head back to the open world of startups. Meanwhile, Lee and Basu had worked together previously at social gaming company Zynga on Mafia Wars, and connected the whole group together for a new project.
The big question was what to build. They started by developing a software platform for companies to easily offer their employees pre-tax benefits like expensing transit passes and funding health savings accounts. They hit a programming wall though: there was no easy way to connect their product to the myriad of payroll providers out there.
“We had built an internal platform with integrations into payroll systems … and what we realized as we were building was that there was kind of no solution out there that both aggregated and unlocked access in payroll systems largely because they’re very old and kind of closed systems,” Lin said. As they talked with other fintech founders about how to solve the roadblock, they realized that the lack of an API that they could use for their product was actually a potential product in and of itself.
And so came the idea for Pinwheel, an API layer for payroll data that handles everything from income and employee verification to easily switching and managing direct deposit. The company officially came out of stealth today and announced that it has raised a $7 million seed round from Josh Kopelman at First Round Capital and Greg Bettinelli at Upfront Ventures, who will both join the company’s board.
Like any API platform, there are a range of users and data that they want to connect to. For consumers, the main draw is automated direct deposit control, which will allow consumers to control where their paychecks go. For instance, if they want to split a direct deposit into multiple accounts, or regularly move part of their paycheck into a savings app like Digit or Acorns, Pinwheel can help them do that easily.
But the real interesting use cases start coming with other fintech business users of the platform. Take mortgages for instance. The process to apply for a mortgage is arduous, requiring numerous documents to prove income and employment status. Some of that is now digital — you can use tools like Notarize to digitally sign documents — but few options exist to directly pull payroll data into a unified, machine-readable format for all use cases. “Even in 2020 right now, most people still have to submit a paper pay stub or tax document every time they need to substantiate [their] data,” Lin said. Pinwheel wants to be the layer to power all of this data flow.
Kopelman of First Round says that it is precisely financial applications like mortgages and lending that attracted him to the company. “You take what would happen in four weeks and [Pinwheel] turns it into four minutes,” he said.
He first learned about the company during a board meeting of one of his portfolio companies and was intrigued. As he dug in, he liked that the founders “were extremely focused on the users” and he liked the focus on payroll. “It’s the source of truth and the source of funding,” he said. He noted that First Round has invested in a variety of future of work companies like Uber and TaskRabbit, and saw firsthand the need for better options for accessing payroll data easily and securely.
According to Pinwheel, 82% of Americans get paid via direct deposit — which means that the vast majority of income data is sitting in payroll systems.
Pinwheel is not a replacement for incumbent payroll providers like ADP or upstart companies like Gusto. Instead, it layers on top of them, much in the way that, say, Plaid is a layer on top of existing banks to provide other fintech companies secure access to a user’s banking data.
With Luxe, Lin and Lee formerly built an on-demand valet service, and I was curious what they learned from that experience and how that affected their approach to Pinwheel. Lee said that the big difference was understanding what works and what doesn’t when it comes to building valuable companies. “Certain businesses are just conducive to better outcomes versus others,” he said. He noted that compared to an on-demand business like Luxe, Pinwheel’s API play was not as capital intensive, had limited marginal costs, and it’s a pure technology play, making it easier to create value for the startup.
One other change: the team moved from San Francisco where Luxe was headquartered to New York City, where Pinwheel is based.
In the company’s current roster, Lin serves as CEO, Basu as CTO, and Lee is executive chairman. Lee is also a venture partner at NYC-based Primary Venture Partners.
In addition to First Round and Upfront, Wonder Ventures participated as did angels such as Adam Nash, the former CEO of personal finance manager Wealthfront and Mike Vaughan, former COO of payment app Venmo.
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Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed (Phil LeBeau/CNBC)
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Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed — – The move will allow Joby to use Uber’s app to offer air taxi rides when the company’s aircraft eventually enters service, which could be as soon as 2023.
Douyin, ByteDance's Chinese version of TikTok, has launched e-wallet "Douyin Pay" to compete with China's dominant e-payment services WeChat Pay and Alipay (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
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China to take data privacy protection to a ‘new stage’ next year
by Lavender Au Dec 24, 2019 Mar 17, 2020
(Image credit: Bigstock/TeroVesalainen)
Legislators promised on Friday that China will start drafting its own laws for data privacy and personal information next year.
Why it matters: It signals government resolve to do away with the fragmented landscape of data privacy laws and regulations that exist now, and provide legal certainty.
Details: Official National People’s Congress spokesperson Yue Zhongming did not give details on what the laws might contain.
The Personal Information Protection Law and Data Security Law featured in the first-category (high-priority) of legislative projects in March, said Yue.
Yue said that ministry task forces have cracked down on infringement of personal information this year, and that drafting these laws would take China’s personal information protection to a new stage.
Chinese care more about data privacy than you think, but they still need better protection
Context: Some areas like genetics and online mapping do have clear regulations but China is lacking actionable laws that apply cross-industry.
“The Cybersecurity Law mentions certain principles in terms of data security and protection of personal information but those high-level principles are simply not good enough when you apply them to reality,” says Samuel Yang, a data privacy and cybersecurity lawyer and partner at AnJie law firm.
Policymakers revised China’s most detailed set of standards for protecting personal information (GB/T-35273/2017) for the third time this year, but these are not legally binding.
Yang says that his clients want “more clarity on cross-border data transfer.” That includes what kind of data can be transferred, to what extent they should store data within China, what kind of approval they need and how assessment mechanisms will work.
“Digital economy in China is developing fast. We have seen many new, non-controversial and controversial technologies like facial recognition. This reality desperately needs a new law,” says Yang.
Laws go through several rounds of drafting as government calls for input from local governments, academics, and industry. Finalized versions can take years to emerge.
Tagged: big data, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, government, News
Lavender Au
Lavender covers regulation and its effects on people. She previously worked in a policy advisory analyzing China’s internal governance for foreign governments and multinationals. A History graduate from... More by Lavender Au
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Our Tiny Troops families love our soccer program, and have a lot to say about how it has helped their child/ren to become better in a variety of aspects. Take a moment and read what these parents had to say!
"Our daughter had a significant speech delay. Because of that her temperament was extremely volatile. We tried some other things, but the classes were too advanced, too big, or just not patient enough. Since signing her up her speech has taken off, she's much better at sharing and listening to instructions, and loves to help clean up. When she sees another kid struggling she tries to hold their hand and help, when she wouldn't do that before. We love Coach Karen! She is so good with all the kids!"
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"We have a very wild toddler who doesn’t do well in team settings. The coaches we’ve had with Tiny Troops have worked so well with him and have so much patience with all of the kids! We tried bigger soccer teams that didn’t work out because they don’t have the patience to work with him and make sure he’s following directions. At such a young age, he’s already learned basic soccer skills and he’s so proud of himself when he accomplishes them on his own. I can’t wait until March so we can sign him back up!"
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"My daughter began Tiny Troops Soccer when she was 3 and just absolutely loved it! I didn't play sports in school, but soccer seemed to come naturally to her. Her coaches were so patient with the kids and provided clear directions/instructions for them. As an only child, it was a great avenue for her to learn how to play well with others and learn sportsmanship. She's 5 now and can't wait until the Spring to play again."
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"Our son is autistic, non verbal, and he couldn’t jump or kick on his own when we started soccer. Although most Saturdays are a struggle to get him to cooperate, once he gets going on the field, he loves it. He’s now able to kick the ball and we’re almost able to jump. I can’t wait till it starts back up again."
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"My son is autistic, about to be 3, and also non verbal. It takes him a while to warm up to others and when we started Tiny Troops the coach was just WONDERFUL here at Schofield Barracks! She knew sign language herself and was so patient with him and made him feel so comfortable along with the other kiddos. It has really helped my son with his social skills. He gets excited when he goes on Saturday mornings!"
"Tiny Troops has been amazing. My daughter was shy, especially when asked to do a specific task in front of people. Now she can't stop talking about soccer and her coach and her new friends. The confidence she is developing is amazing!
"Our toddler was so scared of other kiddos until we joined soccer. Coach Beth really helped her interact with the other toddlers, and made it fun instead of scary."
"I have two daughters who are developmentally behind with communication. I feel like this program has helped them better socially and with understanding commands."
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"It has helped my daughter with communicating and simple transitions. She used to have anxiety with them, but soccer and other sources have helped a lot. She missed it in December. She was asking for soccer."
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Whatever Happened to the Doctor Who Script Books?
Posted By: Philip Bates
It’s not fair to say Doctor Who made me want to write; that passion has been burning inside me for a couple of decades, often summed up best as a need to tell stories. It would be fair to say, however, that Doctor Who relit an interest in screenwriting. It was an idea that I’d had for some time: as a kid, I used to write scripts featuring other people’s characters, without even realising that was an actual job people got paid to do. When Rose debuted on TV in 2005, I felt the urge to do it again.
Not long after – October 2005, in fact – one of my prized possessions was released: the script book for Doctor Who Series 1, a hardcover tome I would pore over time and time again. It was a thing of beauty, perhaps akin to the feeling some got when picking up a Target novel. This was a way to relive The End of the World, The Long Game, and Bad Wolf/ The Parting of the Ways.
It was also a way of absorbing the language of television. It was important, not only in understanding how to script dialogue but also in writing directions.
It was a beautiful book, with introductions by each serial’s writer, a gorgeous cover fronted by Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor and Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler, and occasional images sprinkled in the margins. Naturally, I still own it, and sometimes gleg through, in an effort of immerse myself in Series 1 again and bring back some truly happy memories.
Of course, this wasn’t the first Doctor Who script book: that came in 1988, from Titan Books. The shooting script for An Unearthly Child (or 100,000 BC if you prefer) was presented as Doctor Who: The Scripts – The Tribe of Gum. It was a paperback with contextual details and a nice, if simple, cover focusing on William Hartnell as the First Doctor.
You might think this would open up an exciting new venture for Who merchandise, but if wasn’t until over 18 months later that a second volume, The Tomb of the Cybermen, was released. 1989 also saw editions of The Talons of Weng-Chiang and The Daleks. Obviously, this was a tough time for fandom, as the show was cancelled following Survival; nonetheless, The Daemons followed in 1992, alongside The Masters of Luxor – an experimental oddity in the range, as this was Anthony Coburn’s unmade serial that was rejected in 1963 in favour of The Daleks. The script was rediscovered when they were putting together The Tribe of Gum, so at least this Scripts series meant the revelation of a missing adventure for the Doctor.
(This is without mentioning the Shada script, released as part of a VHS set in 1992.)
The Power of the Daleks came out in 1993, then the sole Seventh Doctor instalment in the series, Ghost Light. Judging by this schedule, it seemed that two such books were pencilled in every year; indeed, the trend continued in 1994 with Galaxy 4 and The Crusade, two stories still incomplete in the BBC Archives. However, anyone waiting for subsequent releases in 1995 and beyond would be disappointed. The range ended, probably as Doctor Who books found a new direction in the 1990s.
Doctor Who: The TV Movie was at least granted a script book in 1996. Another collection wouldn’t be seen until 2001, when BBC Books issued The Scripts: Tom Baker, 1974/75, a hardcover compilation of stories throughout the Fourth Doctor’s first year, namely Robot, The Ark in Space, The Sontaran Experiment, Genesis of the Daleks, and Revenge of the Cybermen.
This came annotated, with an introduction from Terrance Dicks, and was billed as the “most comprehensive guide to Doctor Who ever published.” Which is stretching it a bit. Still, it was a lovely book, ideal because Season 12 is so beloved.
Aside from four volumes of Big Finish audio scripts (plus another for Dalek Empire), that was it for officially-licensed script books until 2005.
You might expect annual instalments from then on – but alas, the 2005 Shooting Scripts was it. An oasis in a horrible desert.
Okay, so you can find a few scripts online: Smith and Jones, The Magician’s Apprentice/ The Witch’s Familiar, Face the Raven, and Heaven Sent/ Hell Bent are available through the library on the BBC Writers’ Room. Various Russell T. Davies-penned stories from Series 4 and the 2009 specials were uploaded to a site publicising Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale and its The Final Chapter sequel. Though that’s since been taken offline, cached copies do still exist.
Nonetheless, no further books have been forthcoming, which not only seems a missed merchandising opportunity (one of many, to be fair), but also extremely sad. I can’t help but feel seeing scripts in the shelves of bookstores nationwide would inspire people. Doctor Who is a hugely identifiable brand, its serials mostly out on DVD and Blu-ray, so amateur screenwriters could compare the scripts to how the stories were eventually realised. It would make kids appreciate it as an art, and make writers better known. Some would already recognise names like Steven Moffat, Russell T. Davies, and Mark Gatiss, but the pool of talent working behind the scenes deserves some more recognition.
(It might also shut up – for a bit – those who instinctively blame a showrunner for all faults, clearing up some ignorance. Knowing the amount of people who write a series might also mean those put off by a particular showrunner return to the show, to see what other scribes can do with the format.)
Doctor Who: The Shooting Scripts was certainly well-received, so I can only gather it didn’t sell as well as BBC Books initially hoped. Except that doesn’t ring true either, does it? There are lots of seemingly-unsuccessful ventures the BBC persist with, and this book went down well.
Could the answer lie in problems securing the rights for stories from each writer? We know showrunners have to rewrite to a great extent, so arguments we’re not privy to about credits and ongoing rights could account for this omission – and potentially for the lack of Target-like novelisations too. This seems the most likely thing right now, although specifics elude us, and it is pure speculation.
Still, it would be a great shame if further generations couldn’t be educated and inspired because one day, they spotted a gorgeous hardcover book filled with scripts that envisioned the whole of time and space.
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Front Range Community College's Student Voice
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Club for Student Musicians is in Perfect Tune
The Front Page September 22, 2017 Campus News, Features
Written by Jeramey Reamer
An acoustic crescendo echoed down the hallways as the Guitar and Performance Club began strumming. This group of musicians play their instruments and sing while networking with other enthusiasts.
Front Range students Chris Gonzales, Madison Drake and Nick Chiovitti took center stage as the leaders of the organization. After a brief meet and greet, Gonzales opened the floor to students who were interested in performing in an open-mic style setting.
Following a brief jam session including songs from The Beatles, Foo Fighters and Nirvana, chords were chiming and the guitar solos were shredding with enthusiasm. Yet, the club incorporates so much more than just rock n’ roll.
Members of FRCC’s Performance club, left to right: Greg Lelle, Brian Satary
Photo taken by Jeramey Reamer
“All are welcome,” said Drake, one of the club’s student coordinators, “We have classical players, blues, rock and metal, while I play bluegrass.”
This unique environment allows all musicians of various skill levels and interests to share their talents in a supportive environment.
“We love playing with everyone,” said Drake, “Chris, Nick and myself will be able to pair one on one with students to go through the songs they want to learn.”
The Guitar and Performance Club is now in its second semester and is under the guidance of Dr. Kevin Garry, the director of music at the FRCC Westminster campus. Garry’s dedication to the club and its students is apparent.
“I am always available, and will always be at the first part of the meetings for assistance,” said Garry.
With this unwavering level of commitment from both FRCC faculty and the student leaders, it is no surprise that there was such a successful turnout for the first meeting.
When asked about the direction that the group is headed, Garry showcased his passion to the development of well-rounded musicians.
“Let’s look at different styles,” said Garry. “I would like to see this group growing in it’s diversity. Let’s try to broaden our exposure to different types of music.”
It is from this foundation of exploring new musical genres that artistic growth truly flourishes.
The Guitar and Performance Club is ideal for students who are looking to learn the rudiments of playing music. Not solely for beginners, the two-hour sessions are perfect for the more experienced players who want to grow creatively through live performance. By affording its members the opportunity to step into the spotlight, each musician can develop critical skills such as stage presence and improvisation in front of a supportive audience of like-minded individuals.
If any student would like to join the group or become more involved in the campus arts scene, all are welcome to join on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from noon to 2 p.m. in the campus recital room, C-1661.
Until next session of the Guitar and Performance Club, keep on strumming!
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Rockstar Book Tours: Review of Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke
January 2, 2018 January 13, 2018 ~ Harker @ The Hermit Librarian
I am very excited to share my review today of Nice Try, Jane Sinner because it has a lot of what I like to read. Jane, our main character, is not a perfect person and she owns that. There’s depth to this and her reasoning; finding those reasons out was entertaining and a bit shocking. Thanks to Rock Star Book Tours for including me in the blog tour for this new release and a copy of the book!
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Published: 9 January 2018
Publisher: Clarion Books
Category: Young Adult/Contemporary
The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she’s going nowhere fast. Jane’s well-meaning parents push her to attend a high school completion program at the nearby Elbow River Community College, and she agrees, on one condition: she gets to move out.
Jane tackles her housing problem by signing up for House of Orange, a student-run reality show that is basically Big Brother, but for Elbow River Students. Living away from home, the chance to win a car (used, but whatever), and a campus full of people who don’t know what she did in high school… what more could she want? Okay, maybe a family that understands why she’d rather turn to Freud than Jesus to make sense of her life, but she’ll settle for fifteen minutes in the proverbial spotlight.
As House of Orange grows from a low-budget web series to a local TV show with fans and shoddy T-shirts, Jane finally has the chance to let her cynical, competitive nature thrive. She’ll use her growing fan base, and whatever Intro to Psychology can teach her, to prove to the world—or at least viewers of substandard TV—that she has what it takes to win.
Caution: suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, germaphobia/OCD
Jane’s cynical nature was entirely relatable from the onset. There are clues, as the book progresses, as to what she was like Before, Before here meaning “some big event as yet undisclosed that changed Jane’s life FOREVER”. Those tidbits hinted at something or someone that she was and now despises. You keep seeing her reflect on her past, things she’s said or done that were cringe worthy at best, utterly horrible at worst. I thought these moments were evident of her growth to this person she is now while wondering what kind of event could have happened in her life to give her this jolt. Once her story was revealed, my understanding of her increased and, while she still had some rough moments, the relatable feeling intensified. Her memories about the epiphany she had in church, the questioning, it just meant so much.
There were times throughout the book where Jane’s attitude was grating, such as when she moves into the House of Orange and mocks her neighbor for having an “unnatural” name, depicted when Jane spells it three different ways in her head (Chanel/Shawntel/Chaunt’Elle).
Despite the times when she was kind of intense and difficult to understand, there was a lot of insight from Jane regarding her past (being the church kid who follows the beliefs of her parents, resulting in telling her friend Bonnie that she’ll go to Hell for her sexuality) and how she’s found a different way of looking at things, growing past the close mindedness that she experienced growing up. It was hard, no doubt, and it’s evident when she interacts with her parents and people from the church, but there’s also the evidence that she cares for her family even as she wants to move away from their environment. Her younger sister, Carol, plays a big part in showing us how much Jane cared/still cares, through when they interact at Jane’s parent’s house and when Carol visits Jane’s college accommodations.
There were a lot of different kinds of scenes in Jane Sinner. There were funny moments, tricksy moments, emotionally full moments; scenes when I was laughing so hard I teared up and ones where my stomach felt like it dropped to the floor. Readers will find a bit of everything in this book and while some of it may be hard to read (see caution warning above), it all leads to a fairly astute observation from Jane at the end of her story.
And yes, I can be a motherfucking idiot sometimes, but today I was something else.
“I also used to love running around half-naked with crayons up my nose because I thought they looked like fangs. I take comfort in knowing people can change.”
“The family keeps acting as though going to community college is a big deal, as though I’m taking a step forward, not backward. As though this makes me an adult. If I’m an adult, what happened to my childhood?”
“TOM: You don’t know a good thing when you see it, do you?
JS: I do, actually. I’m staring at a bag of Twizzlers right now.”
About Lianne
Lianne lives in Vancouver, BC. A mere three years of working in the film industry has left her far more jaded, bitter, and misanthropic than she could have dreamed possible. Having worked on one too many made-for-TV movies featuring the mild romantic antics of generically attractive white people, she’s taken it upon herself to push back with some pretty substandard stories of her own.
Besides books, her three great passions in life are cats, craft beer, and camping. When she’s not working, Lianne likes to take off, eh in her ‘83 camper van. She maintains a steady hate/ love relationship with hiking, but is always up for exploring British Columbia- whatever it takes to find a nice spot to set up her hammock. Her hammock is her favorite place in the world.
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3 winners will receive a finished copy of NICE TRY JANE SINNER, US Only.
I received a copy of this book as part of Rockstar Book Tours in exchange for an honest review.
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3 thoughts on “Rockstar Book Tours: Review of Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke”
This is one of the most unique and exciting books i’ve ever heard about. Love the cover and can’t wait to read it!
Jane is a trip and I loved her, even when she was annoying. That’s a tricky situation there. I hope you enjoy it just as much as I did.
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Obama officials walked Trump aides through global pandemic exercise in 2017: report
By Zack Budryk - 03/17/20 04:00 PM EDT
The Obama administration walked incoming Trump administration officials through a hypothetical scenario in which a pandemic worse than the 1918 Spanish flu shut down cities like Seoul and London in early 2017, Politico reported.
During the briefing, Trump administration officials were told such a pandemic would likely lead to circumstances such as shortages of ventilators and that a coordinated national response would be “paramount,” according to documents obtained by the publication.
Of the Trump administration officials present during the meeting, about 66 percent no longer serve in the White House, according to Politico.
“The advantage we had under Obama was that during the first four years we had the same White House staff, the same Cabinet,” former Deputy Labor Secretary Chris Lu, who was present for the meeting, told the publication. “Just having the continuity makes all the difference in the world.”
"Thirty Trump officials attended the exercise (Cabinet and senior White House staff)," Lu added in a tweet on Monday. "But the vast majority of these officials are no longer in government
"When you're dealing with a crisis like #COVID19, stable and experienced leadership matters."
Thirty Trump officials attended the exercise (Cabinet and senior White House staff) https://t.co/QScWKsX6Hj
But the vast majority of these officials are no longer in government
When you're dealing with a crisis like #COVID19, stable and experienced leadership matters.
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) March 16, 2020
"Bottom line: when Trump says "we were all surprised" by #COVID19, he shouldn't have been," Lu continued.
"The Obama team warned Trump's staff about a possible pandemic. Whether it was lack of preparation or staff turnover, the necessary work wasn’t done to get in front of this."
Bottom line: when Trump says "we were all surprised" by #COVID19, he shouldn't have been.
The Obama team warned Trump's staff about a possible pandemic. Whether it was lack of preparation or staff turnover, the necessary work wasn’t done to get in front of this.
“We included a pandemic scenario because I believed then, and I have warned since, that emerging infectious disease was likely to pose one of the gravest risks for the new administration,” Lisa Monaco, Obama’s national security adviser, wrote in an essay for Foreign Affairs.
Sean Spicer Sean Michael SpicerGOP lawmakers are showing up more frequently on Newsmax Making America dull again RealClearPolitics editor corrects Giuliani on Pennsylvania claim: 'This is false' MORE, who served as the administration’s first press secretary and was also present at the meeting, said the exercise was of limited use because the details of real pandemics are rarely as straightforward as such exercises.
“There’s no briefing that can prepare you for a worldwide pandemic,” he told Politico.
Last Friday, former White House national security adviser Susan Rice mentioned the meeting in an op-ed criticizing President Trump Donald TrumpGiuliani used provisional ballot to vote in 2020 election, same method he disparaged in fighting to overturn results Trump gets lowest job approval rating in final days as president Fox News' DC managing editor Bill Sammon to retire MORE for saying “you can never really think” an outbreak akin to the coronavirus “is going to happen.”’
“Rather than heed the warnings, embrace the planning and preserve the structures and budgets that had been bequeathed to him, the president ignored the risk of a pandemic,” Rice wrote.
Updated at 4:14 p.m.
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November 2, 2020 .Reading time 26 minutes.
By Avigail Oren The recent work of historical anthropologist Katherine Hayes has focused on decolonizing the narratives interpreted at public heritage sites, including St. Paul’s Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote. The United States military constructed Fort Snelling in 1819-20 to protect the area’s fur trade, a role it served until Minnesota gained statehood in 1858 […]
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“Where the Waters Reflect the Clouds”: Examining Minnesota’s Indigenous History
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Ontario teen, whose wish of meeting LeBron James came true last Christmas, dies of cancer
Kayla Goodfield Multi-Platform Writer, CTV News Toronto
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Corey Groves and LeBron James are seen at the Staples Center. (Instagram / @coreylakerfan)
TORONTO -- An Ontario teenager, whose wish of shaking hands with LeBron James came true last Christmas Day, has died following a battle with cancer.
At the age of 17, Corey Groves of Brampton was diagnosed with highly aggressive stage four sarcoma cancer in the summer of 2019. He was told he had a year to live.
Following his diagnosis, Groves was granted a wish from the Children’s Wish Foundation. Being a superfan of the Los Angeles Lakers, the teenager immediately knew his one wish would be to meet his hero, LeBron James – not for an autograph or a jersey, but simply for a handshake.
Grove’s wish came true on Dec. 25, 2019 in Los Angeles with the help of the Lakers organization and Toronto Raptors’ superfan Nav Bhatia.
Speaking about his interaction with the NBA superstar a couple days later, Groves recounted that “as soon as I went into the arena my eyes locked on him, and he just looked directly in my direction.”
Groves said he tried to stay calm and act as if James was an average, normal person.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” he said. “I wanted it to be flawless.”
On Monday, on his Instagram page, a family member confirmed Groves had lost his battle with cancer at the end of last month.
“Corey was a stand up boy, a scholar and a gentleman,” his aunt Sherry wrote. “He saw the good in everyone and the beauty in everything.”
“He will be sadly missed by so many.”
The online post went on to thank everyone who helped make Groves’ wish come true and encouraged people to share photographs, videos or interactions with the teenager to keep his memory alive.
“He tackled life head on and refused to stop until his last breath, on Halloween 2020. His only wish was to shake the hand of his hero. Corey is and will always be our hero.”
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Friday, November 13 – Raleigh
The Travelin’ McCourys
Ron McCoury-mandolin, Rob McCoury-banjo, Jason Carter-fiddle, and Alan Bartram-bass
Fletcher Theater, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E South St, Raleigh, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $23-$21 PineCone members, $25-$23 public. 919-664-8302; www.pinecone.org
Brothers Ronnie and Rob McCoury, the sons of bluegrass legend Del McCoury, continue their father’s work-a lifelong dedication to the power of bluegrass music to bring joy into people’s lives. With fiddler Jason Carter and bassist Alan Bartram, the Travelin’ McCourys extend the roots of bluegrass music into the new century.
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Quality of the Will…11
Constitutive Good Continued
According to Taylor, sources of the good tend to vary from (a) those solely external to the self, to (b) those both internal and external, to (c) those totally internal. As he notes, at one time, the good was wholly external to the self as it was perceived in Plato’s moral ontology; the good was endemic to the structure of reality. The Stoics also saw things this way. Taylor notes the big transition in moral sources in the last four centuries:
Moving from an epoch in which people could find it plausible to see the order of the cosmos as a moral source, to one in which a very common view presents us a universe which is very neutral, and finds the moral sources in human capacities. (1994, p. 215)
He takes Plato as his representative of the first. “The cosmos, ordered by the good, set standards of goodness for human beings, and is properly the object of moral awe and admiration, inspiring us to act rightly” (Taylor, 1994). This is, however, an important distinction: Taylor himself is a moral realist, but not a neo-Platonist: the view that the good is part of the metaphysical structure of the world. Platonic moral realism has been discredited because it leans too heavily on the idea of an ontic logos, a meaningful order. Nor is Taylor, on the other hand, a radical subjectivist. His view of realism lies somewhere between the Romantic subjectivist Rilke, and the Platonic objectivist. He wants to champion both the subjective and objective dimensions of the moral self, and maintain that there are sources outside as well as inside the self.
He (1989, pp. 127-143) notes that Augustine first articulated the whole idea of a reflexivity of self. In this case, the constitutive good is both internal and external, and the relationship is one of both reaching inside and reaching out— from within to gain access to what lies beyond the self in God. In Foucault’s case, as with many other late moderns, the constitutive good is reduced to one that is internal to the self. The source of the good and the self is taken as inside the self and its capacities—revealed through artistic self-expression and self-shaping in a radically reflexive relationship with one’s self. Taylor’s grave concern about the constitution of the moral self is the loss of outside-the-self moral sources (1994, p. 216). It puts a heavy burden on the individual self to provide inspiration and decide the value of everything. He considers that the exclusion of outside sources is quite costly. Moral motivation and empowerment weakens significantly and it produces a weakening of moral culture.
Why is the constitutive good important? For Taylor, it is vital that one articulate, or make explicit, the constitutive good, in order to understand from where this inspiration or moral empowerment comes. It works critically both ways. It can dramatically inspire the self on one hand. It can reveal the less honourable sources of a particular moral ontology on the other, and expose false or less authentic motivations.
Taylor challenges the dedicated silence of many modern moral philosophy about such external sources of the good. This prevents these outlooks from fully understanding themselves; they are cut off from their own moral history. Taylor counts it a vital task to put moral sources back on the philosophical agenda/map in current scholarship. It has practical consequences for moral agents. Taylor fears that if philosophers do not begin to take into account these moral sources, we moderns are in danger of losing contact with them altogether–losing touch with our heritage. We are also in danger of losing the life goods which they both ground and empower.
Our Contemporary Dilemma: Lacking moral sources outside the self, there is strong potential of a slide toward celebration of one’s own creative powers and the reduction of sources of the good to one’s individual creative imagination–a moral implosion. From Taylor’s perspective, this is a problem, a deficit of a significant dimension in moral self-constitution. Sources of the self are severely limited in the quest for self-sufficiency and freedom. Taylor (1989) gives an example of the resulting problems.
People agree surprisingly well, across great differences of theological and metaphysical belief, about the demands of justice and benevolence, and their importance … The issue is what sources can support our far-reaching moral commitments to benevolence and justice. (p. 515)
This speaks to his famous dilemma of modernity—strong hypergood without strong sources—a dilemma that often leads to discouragement and even cynicism. Taylor is not suggesting that one give up on these high ideals for justice, benevolence and the care of the Other. But he does recognize the cost in the general truth that,
The highest spiritual ideals and aspirations also threaten to lay the most crushing burdens on humankind. The great spiritual visions [and ideologies] of human history have also been poisoned chalices, the causes of untold misery and even savagery. (1989, p. 516)
This is especially true of certain Marxist and Fascist political ideologies that contributed to grand theatres of violence in the twentieth century. Morality as benevolence and responsibility for the Other can, in fact, breed self-condemnation for those who feel its import and yet fall short of its ideals. This can disturb the harmony within. Taylor (1989, p. 516) understands some other negative results of an ethic of benevolence without proper moral sources: (a) those threatened by a sense of unworthiness can punt to projection of evil outward on the Other as happens in narcissistic racism and bigotry, or (b) some who feel powerless try to recover meaning through political extremisms and violence (anti-humanism).
So he would agree that high ideals can lead to destructive ends, and might well do so without a robust constitutive good (strong sources of the moral self). He disagrees, however, that this failure is the only possible outcome. Not all humanisms are destructive; he believes that it is possible to move towards justice and a better social order, to have just relations and just institutions. He sees the potential of the good for positive results in the individual and the realm of the polis (especially as sources of such good is realized from outside the self). The pursuit of justice and benevolence, for instance, often does require self-sacrifice, but this self-sacrifice can benefit both the giver and the recipient, and contribute to mutual benefits, enhance personal freedom, and inspire yet others to pursue such ends. Late in his tome Sources of the Self and further developed in A Secular Age, he suggests that this may be possible through an imaginative transcendent turn to agape love. More on this later…
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(1989) Sources of the Self.
(1994). Charles Taylor Replies. In J. Tully (Ed.) Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The philosophy of Charles Taylor in question (pp. 213-57). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Kentucky backs players' right to kneel after local cops burn gear in protest
John Calipari supported his players' protest of the Capitol raid. (Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
University of Kentucky brass backed athletes’ right to protest on Monday after a local sheriff burned Wildcats gear to express his displeasure with the men’s basketball program.
Laurel County Sheriff John Root lit Kentucky T-shirts on fire alongside County Jailer Jamie Mosley on Sunday in a since-deleted Facebook post that followed up a demand that head coach John Calipari be fired. Laurel County sits near the Tennessee border and has a population of roughly 60,000 people.
Why is sheriff mad?
Root was upset that Wildcats players and coaches, including Calipari, took a knee during the national anthem prior to Saturday’s win over Florida.
The Kentucky protest was in response to the mob of supporters of President Donald Trump who invaded the U.S. Capitol last week in order to subvert the verification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over Trump in the November election.
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— Kentucky Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) January 9, 2021
UK brass respond
Kentucky president Eli Capilouto and athletic director Mitch Barnhart released a joint statement to ESPN Monday supporting the school’s athletes in light of the criticism.
“A value we all hold dear in our country is the right of free speech and self-expression,” the statement reads. “That right for young students such as these is important, too, as they learn, grow, and find out who they are and what they believe.
“We won't always agree on every issue. However, we hope to agree about the right of self-expression, which is so fundamental to who we are as an institution of higher learning. We live in a polarized and deeply divided country. Our hope — and that of our players and our coaches — is to find ways to bridge divides and unify.
Calipari addressed the decision to kneel earlier Monday on his radio show.
"It was all the images that they saw, and they wanted to have their voice heard, and I said, well, ‘Tell me what it's about,” he said, per ESPN. “They talked to me about it. Then they said, ‘We'd like you to kneel with us,’ which I did.
“I held my heart but I did kneel with them because I support the guys. But it wasn't about military. Six of these players come from military families.”
Root started his campaign Saturday night while calling for Calipari’s job in a Facebook post.
“I honestly can’t believe a team from Kentucky ( the Hillbilly State ) took a knee to our National Anthem with the American flag displayed!” Root wrote. ... “The UK apparel and memorabilia is gone tomorrow and until we get a real man to lead the cats and a real team you will not see me back in no UK junk and if you do just come right up and hit me square in the mouth!!!!”
Court: Defund UK
The Knox County Fiscal Court also staged a protest of the basketball team, signing a unanimous resolution demanding that taxpayer funds allocated to the university be used elsewhere.
“The University of Kentucky receives millions and millions of dollars every year of hardworking Kentucky taxpayers’ money,” Judge Executive Mike Mitchell told the Times-Tribune. “I think they need to be held accountable for their actions if they can’t manage it no better than that.”
Knox County has a population of around 30,000 people and also sits near the Tennessee border.
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Funding welcomed to connect Scotland’s most vulnerable
ScotlandIS welcomes news today (Thursday 7th May) of the Scottish Government’s plan to invest £5 million for internet connections, training and support, and a laptop or tablet, to vulnerable people who are not already online during the response to coronavirus (COVID-19).
Jane Morrison-Ross, chief executive of ScotlandIS, said:
“ScotlandIS is delighted at news of the Scottish Government’s funding of the Connecting Scotland programme. The initiative, with support from several key industry players, will help the most vulnerable people in Scotland get online to access much needed support, information, and training at this challenging time.
“It is through collaboration, innovation, and intent that we can advance the digitisation of Scotland and ensure no-one is left behind when it comes to online connectivity, and ScotlandIS is proud to play its role in delivering on this ambition. We also wish to convey our gratitude to our members and the wider Scottish technology sector, in particular some of our smaller members who have offered much time, expertise and guidance. I would also like to thank Gartner for the fantastic project support which has enabled the collaboration between all partners.
The Connecting Scotland project is being delivered by the Scottish Government, in partnership with local authorities, Healthcare Improvement Scotland, The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and the digital and IT sectors led by ScotlandIS. It is also supported by Microsoft, Leidos, the Data Lab, and Accenture.
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Castle Rock: Episodes 1-3
Andrew WelshTV ReviewsCastle Rock, Children of the Corn, Cujo, Devil, Habeas Corpus, Horror TV, J.J. Abrams, Local Color, Needful Things, Nightmares, Severance, Shawshank Prison, Stephen King, Terry O'Quinn1 Comment
This past week streaming platform Hulu debuted its original series, Castle Rock. Of course, Stephen King fans should recognize that title as its a fictional town that has appeared in several of the author’s work. Castle Rock has promised a television series that will work various parts of King’s past work into something of its own multiverse. That premise alone is enough to suck in fans of Stephen King’s work. The fact that the show is a collaboration between King and J.J. Abrams is a bonus.
Three episodes of Castle Rock were made available on July 25. For this first review of the new series, I’ll take a look at all three episodes and, as a warning, there will be some spoilers. Future posts will examine individual episodes on their own and in a little more detail.
Episode 1- Severance
Severance shoulders the burden of being a pilot episode quite well. Like any debut to a television series, Severance needs to ‘set the table’ so to speak, introducing most of the characters and moving parts of the show, while also enticing viewers to keep watching. Personally, I was curious to see how the series would build its Stephen King ‘shared universe’. Would Castle Rock be a strong standalone addition to King’s work? Or would it struggle to balance its lip-service to past King creative properties with its own narrative?
Things open with two bizarre events, past and present. First, we’re introduced to a younger Sheriff Alan Pangborn in a bleak winter landscape as he discovers the missing Henry Deaver standing in the middle of a frozen lake. Next we flash forward to the present day with Terry O’Quinn’s Dale Lacy, the Shawshank prison warden, kissing his wife goodbye before driving off a bluff with a noose around his neck and the other end tied to a tree.
Following Lacy’s inexplicable suicide, Severance focuses most of its attention on the now adult Henry Deaver, played by Andre Holland. Deaver now works as a criminal defence attorney in Texas, primarily representing death row inmates. Upon his return to Castle Rock, we learn that his father died searching for him. His mother Ruth Deaver, played by Sissy Spacek, suffers from dementia. She’s also been shacking up with the now retired Alan Pangborn, played by the weathered Scott Glenn. There’s some obvious tension between Henry and Pangborn; it’s clear that Henry avoids coming back to Castle Rock.
The remainder of the inaugural episode revolves around the mysterious discovery of Bill Skarsgard’s inmate. Found locked in a cage below a sealed off area of Shawshank, ‘The Kid’ barely speaks and has no identity. Shawshank has no record of his existence. His only words when asked his name – Henry Matthew Deaver. In the final moments of Severance, a flashback shows Warden Dale Lacy in the basement with ‘The Kid’, instructing him to ask for Henry Matthew Deaver.
We get a few other introductions in Severance. Henry Deaver’s former childhood neighbour, Molly Strands, shows up to buy Percocet off a high school drug dealer and look generally freaked out when she sees Henry back in Castle Rock. Ann Cusack turns up as Shawshank’s new warden, Porter, And Noel Fisher is introduced as seemingly good-natured guard, Dennis Zalewski.
Severance is a strong introduction to the world of Castle Rock soothing any doubts that the show would simply be a highlight reel of Stephen King bits. Instead J.J. Abrams looks to have infused Castle Rock with his penchant for mystery and King’s gift for suspenseful narratives and idiosyncratic characters. Andre Holland’s Henry Deaver looks to be a complex character, and Skarsgard’s ‘The Kid’ provides the show with an intriguing mystery. It also looks like Abrams has learned from Lost, and understands that you can’t leave too much dangling for too long. The episode’s final reveal certainly ensures you’ll want to tune in for the next episode.
Episode 2 – Habeas Corpus
The term habeas corpus refers to the legal right to be brought before a judge and not detained against your will. Consistent with this principle, Habeas Corpus focuses on ‘The Kid’ and Deaver’s efforts to find this mystery client while the new Warden Porter, played by Ann Cusack, tries to conceal his existence.
Skarsgard delivers a suitably creepy performance even with almost no dialogue. We’re given only a little more insight into his character. When ‘The Kid’ is placed into general population and put in a cell with a large, neo-Nazi inmate, he quietly warns his cellmate that he ‘shouldn’t touch him’. By the next morning, the cellmate is found dead with autopsy showing he rapidly developed cancer. Later Pangborn shares a story with new Warden Porter about pulling over the former Warden Lacy years ago. It seems the former warden had found a new purpose – he talks about catching the source of Castle Rock’s evils, the devil himself, and imprisoning him.
Another major thread developed in Habeas Corpus revolves around the town of Castle Rock itself. The actual setting for the show looks like a small, weathered town – a mix of out-of-date homes and boarded up businesses. It’s a suitable backdrop as Habeas Corpus goes to considerable lengths to stress that something is wrong with Castle Rock. In one scene, Deaver pokes through the deceased Warden Lacy’s personal office, finding a folder of articles detailing the town’s history. Stephen King fans will immediately see references to Cujo and Needful Things.
Deaver’s tense history in Castle Rock is expanded a little. After meeting local Jackie Torrance, played by the amazing Jane Levy, we learn that Deaver has become a part of local urban legends. The townspeople believe that Deaver lured his adoptive father out to Castle Lake and pushed him down a bluff. When Jackie asks if he killed his father, Deaver only says that his father died at home. Jackie doesn’t have much else to do in the episode, but it would be strange to give her the last name, ‘Torrance’, and not have some further connection.
The entire episode is narrated by Terry O’Quinn’s deceased Dale Lacy in a letter that is addressed to Alan Pangborn. Lacy’s letters talks about Castle Rock has ‘defenders’. We’re left to assume that Pangborn not only knows that ‘The Kid’ was imprisoned in the bowels of Shawshank, but that he may be one of the town’s protectors. Lacy’s letter conclude with a similar warning that Pangborn passed on to Warden Porter – do not let ‘him’ out.
As part of a smaller developing subplot, we get a little more acquainted with Molly Strand. Her sister talks about her having social anxiety, but Molly insists that she suffers from a ‘psychic affliction.’ It also seems that she had quite the childhood crush on her neighbour, Henry Deaver. Molly has a plaid red hoodie packed away; we’re left to assume it once belonged to Henry.
Habeas Corpus ends on a bit of a cliffhanger with the kind-hearted Guard Zalewski watching the prison security cameras. Lights flicker, cameras cut in and out, and ‘The Kid’ seems to magically walk out of his cell. The last thing we see are dead bodies and blood across the security footage. Why did Lacy imprison ‘The Kid’? Is ‘The Kid’ a man or a supernatural entity that has now been unwittingly released? How much does Alan Pangborn know? Did Henry Deaver kill his own father? Where was he for the 11 days he went missing as a child?
Episode 3 – Local Color
Local Color is a Molly Strand-centric episode, giving the underrated Melanie Lynskey a chance to shine. It’s the most engrossing episode so far in the series, with also some of the most disturbing imagery. The episode also opens with a shocking revelation which again suggest that Abrams seriously intends to push the narrative forward.
As it turns out, Henry Deaver wasn’t lying when he told Jackie Torrance that his adoptive father died at home. In a 1991 flashback, young Molly walks over to the Deaver house in the cold of night, in barefeet and pyjamas. We witness Molly putting on Henry’s plaid hoodie (the same one she has packed away as an adult) before sneaking into the injured Deaver’s bedroom and unplugging his breathing tube.
In present day, Molly carries some emotional baggage over her role in Deaver Senior’s death. Her nightmares deliver some of the scariest moments in Castle Rock with an early one reminiscent of the church nightmare in Silver Bullet. We also learn that Molly’s ‘psychic affliction’ is a deep emphatic connection – she’s an empath. She explains to Henry that some people are ‘louder’ than others and that Henry was that ‘Bee Gees song stuck in her head’ when they were children. Molly’s predilection for Percocet also is intended to dampen the effects of her abilities. Her trip to a trailer park to pick up more drugs sees Molly dragged into a bizarre children’s mock trial complete with kids wear creepy paper mache-masks. For King fans, the scene may draw some comparisons to Children of the Corn.
The 1991 flashbacks don’t tell us why Molly would kill Henry’s father, but a few hints are dropped. One 1991 flashback suggests that Henry’s adoptive father may not have been the stand-up guy everyone believed. Henry seems angry with his father, and ‘Dad’ seems a little authoritative. Did Molly sense that Henry’s father was doing something to her crush? Was pulling the plug on Reverend Deaver an act intended to protect Henry?
Thanks to Molly’s strange outburst on Local Colour, a local cable network show, Deaver finally gets his face-to face meeting in Shawshank with ‘The Kid.’ While Deaver tries to discuss legal strategy, ‘The Kid’ ends their conversation with a cryptic question – ‘Do you hear it now?’
The episode ends with its best executed scare to date. As Molly returns home, she hears noises upstairs and briefly sees a man with a bandaged face lurking in the shadows. It’s among some of the best horror imagery in the show. Overall, Local Color continues to excel in its mix of horror and mystery. With the focus on Molly Strand, Castle Rock is nicely fleshing out its strong ensemble cast. Most importantly, the story feels like it has some momentum.
Posted by Andrew Welsh
I am a Criminology professor in Canada but I've always had a passion for horror films. Over the years I've slowly begun incorporating my interest in the horror genre into my research. After years of saying I wanted to write more about horror I have finally decided to create my own blog where I can share some of my passion and insights into the films I love.
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How the Broncos’ 3-year search for a naming rights partner finally ended
By Daniel Kaplan and Nicki Jhabvala Sep 4, 2019 13
The Broncos might not know their future owner, but they now have clarity with one major unsettled piece of business.
The team on Wednesday announced a 21-year agreement with Denver-based Empower Retirement as a naming rights partner for their stadium, now called Empower Field at Mile High.
The deal will run through 2039 and is pending the approval of the Metropolitan Football Stadium District, but the final OK is considered a formality. Once signed, the contract will end the Broncos’ laborious and costly search for a naming rights partner that spanned more than three years and included discussions with multiple companies.
“It came together fairly quickly,” Broncos president and CEO Joe Ellis told The Athletic. “I would say in the last two to three months. Empower has been a partner of ours since 2015, our Super Bowl season. Empower Retirement also manages our retirement accounts here at the Broncos, so we have a great relationship with...
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Keaton and the war
September 9, 2009 By urbanora in Comedy, Festivals, Performers, War Tags: Silent films 1 Comment
The 17th Annual Buster Keaton Celebration takes place 25-26 September, at Iola, Kansas. Each festival takes an aspect of Keaton’s life or career and explores its contexts, through talks, screenings and special presentations. This year the theme is the First World War, and this is the programme:
Buster Keaton and Company
WWI, Dark Comedy, and Film
The 17th Annual Buster Keaton Celebration
Sept 25-26, 2009, Iola, KS
All activities are held at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center in Iola, Kansas. Free. (donations are very much appreciated– especially this year)
Program subject to change.
Friday, Sept 25, 2009
9:30 am Registration
9:50 am Welcome and Remarks by Susan Raines, Executive Director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center
Emcee Frank Scheide, Prof of Communication, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
10:00 am — The National WWI Museum, a video segment from the series Sunflower Journeys, produced by KTWU Ch 11, Topeka
10:10 am — Dave Murray
World War I: Causes and Effects
11:00 am — Break
11:10 am — Doran Cart, Curator WWI Museum, Kansas City, MO
Lights, Camera, and Real Action: The U.S. Army Signal Corps Motion Picture and Still Photographers’ Work, 1917-1919
12:00 am — Lunch Break
1:30 pm — John Tibbetts, Ph.D., Professor of Film, University of Kansas
The Worm’s Eye View: A Presentation Concerning the 1919 Film, Yankee Doodle in Berlin
2:20 pm — Lisa K. Stein, Ph.D., Ohio University-Zanesville
Tommy’s New Tune: Warner Brothers’ The Better ‘Ole (1926) and Redefining American Patriotism
3:10 pm — Break
3:25 pm — Screening of The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975), produced by David Shepard
War Story (2001)
Introduced by David Shepard
5:30 pm — Dinner Break
7:30 pm — Evening program
It Happened to You
Shoulder Arms (1918) starring Charlie Chaplin
The Bond (1918) starring Charlie Chaplin
All Night Long (1924) starring Harry Langdon
The Bellboy (1918) starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
Back Stage (1919) starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton
with live musical accompaniment by Marvin Faulwell
Saturday, Sept 26, 2009
8:30 am — Registration
9:00 am — Welcome and Remarks by Susan Raines, Executive director, Bowlus Fine Arts Center
Emcee Bill Shaffer, KTWU Ch 11, Topeka
9:20 am — Jim Barkley, Educational Coordinator, WW I Museum, Kansas City, MO
Educational Opportunities at the National WWI Museum
9:40 am — Screening of My Career at the Rear, a documentary by Matha Jett on Buster Keaton’s WWI career
10:00 am — David Macleod, Keaton historian and founder of Blinking Buzzards Society (UK)
Buster and War
11:00 am — Robert Arkus, Film Historian and Archivist
The Liberty Loan Drive, Newsreels and Slapstick
Comics Go to War: Screening of seldom seen footage
plus rare Keaton on video
12:00 — Lunch Break
1:00 pm — Welcome and Introductions
1:10 pm — Leslie Midkiff Debauche, Ph,D., University of Wisconsin — Stevens Point
Buster Keaton Fights the Great War
2:00 pm — Frank Scheide, Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Charles and Penny Chilton’s Oh What a Lovely War
3:00 pm — Screening of Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919), Mack Sennett, with live musical accompaniment by Marvin Faulwell
4:10 pm — Screening of Doughboys (1933) — Buster Keaton Sound Feature
7:30 pm — An Evening of Screenings
General Nuisance (1941), Buster Keaton Columbia sound short.
plus short clips and tributes.
Special Presentation, The Last American Surviving WWI Veteran, a 2008 interview with Mr. Frank Buckles by Martha Jett, Documentary Filmmaker and Keaton Biographer.
The Better ‘Ole (1926), starring Syd Chaplin, with live musical accompaniment by Marvin Fauwell
And for those who want to learn more about what Keaton called ‘My Career in the Rear’, Martha R. Jett has written about his personal war experience in ‘Buster Keaton in World War I‘ for http://www.worldwar1.com.
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Review/discussion about: Clockwork Planet
Automatically broken
Clockwork Planet features and stars a couple of automata, robots who are more human than machine (on the outside at least).
Last year, a video game titled Nier:Automata stayed true to its name and did the same. I quickly fell in love with the somewhat niche project: 2B, the phenomenal OST, the amazing (true) ending. Not only was it my favorite game from 2017 but also it earned a spot within my all-time-best list. Alongside the likes of Banjo-Kazooie, Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest, Dark Souls, The Last of Us, and many others.
In comparison, Clockwork Planet will in no way be earning a similar treatment.
1000 years after the Earth’s demise, it finds new life within Clockwork Planet. From the tall buildings to the layered ground, the world fills itself with almost nothing else but gears upon gears. Within this world lives Naoto, an aspiring clocksmith. One day, a coffin falls from the sky. A coffin that contains RyuZU, the “One Who Follows.” He fixes her broken mechanical innards, she swears an oath of loyalty to him, and the two, alongside Marie and Halter, move as one unit to save this planet from whatever evil may roam.
Rather than telling one complete tale, this season roughly splits itself up into three distinct arcs: the Kyoto Grid Arc, the AnchoR Arc, and the Yatsukahagi Arc. A relatively common approach. Perhaps not as common, though, is the brokenness of this entire product.
The Kyoto Grid Arc already starts to unscrew the bolts keeping the show together. While these first four episodes serve mostly as the introduction – bringing the group together, establishing the setting, etc. – a lot of the content fails to deliver. The military-political subplot does not tie back enough to Marie and her standing since the audience hasn’t learned much about her at this point. The opposing robots do not make for interesting enemies and thus hurt the power of the action sequences. The anime doesn’t do the best job at differentiating this sci-fi world from any other run-of-the-mill city.
Early signs of narrative trouble creep in during the first arc
In episode three, RyuZU’s head-nodding confession to Naoto makes for a fun little scene, demonstrating that the anime has something worthwhile to share. When the AnchoR Arc begins a couple of episodes later, however, concerning smoke and whirring noises expel from this product as it breaks down further.
Breakage comes from different sources this time around. For example, in its attempts to provide a better backing to the upcoming plot, it tries to explain where the superweapon came from. It’s given as an unsightly exposition dump, though. The show also includes this crazy area called the “Deep Underground.” As Halter describes it, basically outer space if it existed, well, underground. A person cannot survive down there, and it seems like a neat place for the anime to explore if not a relevant plot point altogether.
But no on both fronts. Naoto just so happens to find a safe spot down there for convenience sake, and it is never revisited, leaving it as a tangential piece of the narrative. Oh, he and RyuZU also just-so-happen to meet some random old guy who turns out to be the final villain of the season. Because why not?
To the show’s half-credit, it does contain small throughputs that do tie back to earlier moments in the season, providing some semblance of writing coherency. Remember that subplot from the first arc? Marie puts those evil people within the government sphere on blast to out their corruption. A sly move for sure, but a move that unexpectedly acts as the catalyst to escalate known tensions. (Info lost within that exposition dump.)
Marie also mentions very briefly an old friend of hers named Houko in this arc who later appears in the last arc. Something similar goes for the message that they tailed. They find the obliterated body of the cyborg who sent it, and he later tells them it was his doing shortly before reincarnating as a female.
But these throughputs are too loose in their construction, for they are information and connections that do not matter in the grand scheme of things. Marie’s accidental actions do not lead to any thematic discussion on the political struggles and their adverse effect on the people. Houko does not play a significant role in the events that follow her arrival. It doesn’t matter who sent that radio message because it doesn’t affect the plot whatsoever.
The final gear-creating plot point makes almost zero sense
However, once again, Clockwork Planet gets at something when RyuZU brings Marie along for her duel with AnchoR as an expenditure of sorts (unbeknownst to the young girl, of course). Fun, believable writing that, for a brief moment, may fix this show.
The Yatsukahagi Arc will have none of that, strolling in to demolish what’s left. The conflict at this point centers on the massive superweapon and how the group will save the country. In doing so, too many strange story beats occur. RyuZU and AnchoR don’t go all-out despite their bend-the-laws-of-physics abilities out of a misplaced fear of them overexerting themselves (which AnchoR does anyway). The whole giant space Tall Wand debacle comes and goes without much worry. The magical, poorly explained gear-making event to mend the Pillar of Heaven boggles the mind in its asinine nature.
Three arcs. Three chances. Three misses. In short, this narrative is like using a feather to jam a nail into a dense piece of wood – it just doesn’t work.
Clockwork Planet tries to make things work instead with its visuals.
RyuZU, Marie, and Naoto do so with their designs. Their somewhat dated looks hearken back to a now older style, acting not as an issue but rather as a source of intrigue. Furthermore, their details in general give them some clout. RyuZU especially. A nun-and-maid combo outfit. Her “impeccable and perfect body” (as Naoto puts it in episode five). Extra accessories and patterns that adorn her clothes. Each part highlight her devoutness, beauty, and intricacy (respectively), arguing for said clout.
Also of note are some of the different shots within the anime. It mostly refrains from any grand detail in its background artistry, but Clockwork Planet can have flashes of neatness. Whether it’s a top-down view of the gear-filled country or a psychedelic interpretation of Naoto’s incredible hearing ability, the audience is treated sparingly to a couple of cool shots.
Reused frames and not enough flair keep the visual experience lame
Unfortunately, that intrigue and those flashes cannot hide the anime’s otherwise underwhelming presentation. It can look far too rough at times when designs do not maintain correct looks either through squashing or from improper details. Outright mishaps are rare (e.g., the white of Halter’s eyeball is colored incorrectly at one point in episode two), but the overreliance on speedy backgrounds, the barely serviceable cinematography, and the boring maneuvers for its action sequences continually hamper its visual integrity.
Worse still, the actual animation is far too stilted for much of the show’s run. The anime gets around the poor movement with gun battles, swift blade attacks, and the occasional comedic display (e.g., Marie opening and closing her hands in episode five to mimic choking someone). But mouths during conversations, their walk cycles, turning, and the general actions they take do not amount to much. Not that the animation is choppy or unacceptable; it simply doesn’t aim to appeal.
Worst of all, the opening track rips over half of its visuals from the events of the anime itself. An every-single-episode indication that the anime refused to try harder than it otherwise could have. Combined with all the other problems, the art and animation simply don’t have enough going for them in such a visual-driven medium.
After the story breaks apart and the visuals barely work as a Band-Aid, Clockwork Planet’s cast arrives to try and rectify the situation with tools of their own. They tinker and toil, but their efforts are in vain.
It starts with RyuZU. Arguably the best part of the entire anime, RyuZU instantly improves the show with her progenitor status (being a creation of Y, the creator of their world) and, of course, her deadpan insults (which strike with truth and hilarity). Her ultra-time-slowing move gives her a cool edge over the enemy, too.
While she makes fun of Marie and the others, part of her character focuses on not hating humanity so much. Or at least, coming to the conclusion that they have more brains than those of a common flea. She takes that minute step thanks to one person: Naoto. He proves to her with his aural capabilities that people nowadays are not just a bunch of buffoons. That they are indeed capable of some extraordinary things.
Naoto’s relationship with RyuZU noticeably benefits her
However, Naoto doesn’t just give her a reason to stop the hate. He also gives her a sincere relationship. While the pairing of a teenage boy and a thousand-year-old killer robot is admittedly an odd pairing, Naoto’s joy and persistence at having a thoughtful connection with RyuZU beyond the master-servant roles they take up puts her out of her comfort zone. Thus, he elicits emotions from her that she otherwise would have never experienced.
Despite RyuZU’s part in Clockwork Planet, the anime literally and figuratively puts her out of commission come the second half of the season. An electromagnetic pulse wave overheats her system, and she oddly receives less focus even when she revives, leaving her presence diminished and her impact forgettable.
The trade-off is spending more time on AnchoR. Arriving at about that halfway point, she counts as RyuZU’s younger “sister” and looks at Naoto and Marie as her “father” and “mother” respectively. Having always been told what to do and only just recently gaining her freedom, she almost always asks for permission first before doing something. That is, until she “disobeys” Naoto of her own free will and chooses to wipe out the superweapon come the end of the season.
Like RyuZU, though, AnchoR’s most important involvement comes from a relationship she holds with another character: Marie. Despite AnchoR’s kindhearted intentions, Marie doesn’t like AnchoR and actively distances herself from the little girl as much as possible. So, from their interactions, AnchoR eases Marie’s at-times rough personality, and Marie humanizes the “One Who Annihilates” by giving her the love and the support she has never known.
Marie isn’t an automata, but she is a known genius of the Meisterguild and of the Breguet family. At least, before she destroys her guild crest and fakes her own death. She describes herself as someone who never views anything as impossible, and she stores insane amounts of knowledge in her head while simultaneously fixing mechanical issues with utmost precision.
Marie and Naoto mirror each other more than the originally realize
In comparison, Naoto, the main protagonist of Clockwork Planet, isn’t a genius but instead a miracle. His hearing compensates for the fact that he does not have strong tinkering skills, giving him an advantage and an out in many a situation. He also has a keen affinity for the small (perverted) pleasures in life, and he isn’t afraid to be honest with people.
Both Marie and Naoto have their own moments throughout the season. Most of episode six challenges Marie’s personal mantra, and Naoto regularly lends his talent such as when he pinpoints the few gears among trillions that need a repair or determines where the next attack will manifest.
Once again, though, it’s the relationship between the two that takes precedence. Marie often cannot fathom why this “idiot” makes so much sense all the time, and Naoto encourages her despite the troubles they face. Most importantly, they mirror each other about the other. She’s mad at herself for relying on Naoto the miracle; he’s mad at himself for the envy he feels towards Marie the genius. They don’t hate each other. Rather, they both simply wish that they could do and be more than what they currently are.
A cool idea, but it’s only sprinkled throughout the season rather than honed in on as a major talking point between the characters. Plus, their esoteric, paradoxical exchange in episode eleven, where they seemingly teach the other (to some extent) their signature traits, isn’t the most sound writing on the (clockwork) planet.
As for the other cast members involved, they either do not contribute much or lack basic characterization and writing to make them worthwhile. Take Halter. He’s no doubt a cool, chill dude to have around, balancing out the craziness of the others. Yet he unfortunately doesn’t receive a lot of attention outside of a weird aside where Marie pretends to call him “papa.”
Villains and side characters alike fail to contribute
Vermouth, the man-turned-woman cyborg, adds in some comedic relief when nearly every line of her dialogue takes the form of a sexual innuendo. However, her late inclusion, her lacking relationships, and her failure to hold a meaningful role within the crew simply makes her into an unnecessary distraction.
Gannai, the main villain of the Yatsukahagi Arc, is little more than a crotchety old man who has beef with Y on a philosophical basis. He barely has a handful of lines during his brief stint let alone a tangible foundation to his very character.
From RyuZU to AnchoR, Naoto to Marie, and everyone in-between, the characters unfortunately cannot fix what is already broken. Some of their relationships had a chance, but, they do not instill enough torque to get the gears going.
Clockwork Planet finds no respite from its broken state when it comes to a lot of the music played throughout the season.
The titular opening track, “Clockwork Planet,” stalls the show from the get-go. The faint noise of a hand-turned device and some techno sounds can be heard in the background for a couple of fitting inclusions. However, the flat vocals, the tired beat, the odd loftiness, and the lacking instrumentation turn the OP into more of a chore to listen to all the way through rather than a welcome addition to the anime.
The ending track, “Anti Clockwise,” redeems where its brethren reduced. More relevant noises appear in the form of ticking time, but the ED trades in the techno and the tired for the dynamic and the diverse. Frantic piano keys give way to varied vocals, guitar segments, a bit of autotune, and changing tempos that power up the entire piece. While not a playlist-worthy track, it at least keeps the music from having nothing to show for itself.
An acceptable ED cannot eliminate the rest of the music’s woes
Because, sandwiched between the detestable and the acceptable, the original soundtrack slowly fades away from the minds of the audience. Hand drums, acoustic guitar, and synthesizer accompany mystery vibes, sad moments, and fast-paced action sequences (respectively), yet their impact is low and their supportive nature only exists insofar as they give the listener something to distract them from the rest of the anime. One of the tracks does have a cool saxophone lead-in. But, when it proceeds to play alien spaceships and daintier instruments afterwards, roughness messes up that smoothness.
On top of the fact that there are no noteworthy voice-acting performances, the music and sound work within Clockwork Planet is one of the weakest pieces to this malfunctioning project.
Only two people in the anime save it from being an absolute bore: RyuZU and Konrad.
RyuZU for the obvious reasons. She’s a beauty, but it’s her words against Naoto and the others that got a chuckle out of me every time. Here are a few of my favorites from the show.
“Is there some kind of problem? Does my perfection and overwhelming capabilities damage your mitochondrion-level pride?” “Master Naoto, your face is already dull at best.” “I suspect the brains of the army’s officers have been seriously damaged. I mean, they fell for a plan you came up with, Miss Marie.” “Even the Gods are envious of the treasure that is my lap. It is the definition of unrivaled luxury.” “Please, use every bit of your insufficient brain. Excuse me.”
I also liked the romance bits between her and Naoto. Her pouts and jokes, the almost-kissed-twice scene, her engagement moment. Without RyuZU, the anime would have been nigh intolerable for sure.
RyuZU alone cannot save this broken clock
Now Konrad, he knows what’s up. He goes from a leading scientist to a strip-club proprietor. Taking in and building up sexy robot women who throw themselves at the casual beanie-and-t-shirt wearing gentleman every chance they get. All while doing his part to help save the world during his downtime. A man truly worthy of respect.
As for everyone and everything else, I cannot say I was a big fan. I wish Halter did more throughout the season. Naoto, Marie, and AnchoR have their quirks, but I don’t find them pronounced enough. The shootouts and the occasional super abilities didn’t keep my attention. The drama didn’t do anything for me. No interesting themes pop up that I could either investigate or admire. Choosing to have AnchoR register with Naoto instead of Marie seems like a huge misstep on a character and narrative level in my eyes.
This anime isn’t the worst that I’ve ever seen, but it puts itself pretty far down there.
Clockwork Planet needs more repairs than a destroyed timepiece. The story is a mess. The visuals lack value. The characters come up short. The music is bland. The entertainment available amounts to maybe a couple of elements. Altogether, an automatic fall to very nier the bottom of the list.
Story: Terrible, a weak foundation, loose plot points, and questionable writing choices keep the narrative from highlighting the extremely sparse moments that have some grain of worth
Art & Animation: Bad, while the individual designs and a few shots have some intrigue to them, the stilted animation, the low input of its cinematography, and the rough artistry in general lead to an underwhelming visual presentation
Characters: Bad, RyuZU, AnchoR, Naoto, and Marie have potential in their relationships and individual traits, but their efficacy ranges all over the place, and the side cast in general do not contribute much, if anything at all
Music & Sound: Bad, the OP and the OST crash hard, and the VA performances are par for the course, but at least the ED provides a track worth listening to
Enjoyment: Bad, RyuZU and Konrad do what they can to keep the boredom at bay
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Corrupt code. Vintage Tone/Shutterstock
Biased algorithms: here’s a more radical approach to creating fairness
January 21, 2019 6.53am EST
Tom Douglas, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Tom Douglas receives funding from the Wellcome Trust (grant number 100705/Z/12/Z) and the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education.
Our lives are increasingly affected by algorithms. People may be denied loans, jobs, insurance policies, or even parole on the basis of risk scores that they produce.
Yet algorithms are notoriously prone to biases. For example, algorithms used to assess the risk of criminal recidivism often have higher error rates in minority ethic groups. As ProPublica found, the COMPAS algorithm – widely used to predict re-offending in the US criminal justice system – had a higher false positive rate in black than in white people; black people were more likely to be wrongly predicted to re-offend.
Findings such as these have led some to claim that algorithms are unfair or discriminatory. In response, AI researchers have sought to produce algorithms that avoid, or at least minimise, unfairness, for example, by equalising false positive rates across racial groups. Recently, an MIT group reported that they had developed a new technique for taking bias out of algorithms without compromising accuracy. But is fixing algorithms the best way to combat unfairness?
Read more: Amazon's sexist hiring algorithm could still be better than a human
It depends on what kind of fairness we’re after. Moral and political philosophers often contrast two types of fairness: procedural and substantive. A policy, procedure, or course of action, is procedurally fair when it is fair independently of the outcomes it causes. A football referee’s decision may be fair, regardless of how it affects the game’s outcome, simply because the decision was made on the basis of an impartial application of the rules. Or a parent’s treatment of his two children may be fair because it manifests no partiality or favouritism, even if it has the result that one child’s life goes much better than the other’s.
Making a call. Muzsy/Shutterstock
By contrast, something that is substantively fair produces fair outcomes. Suppose a football referee awards a soft penalty to a team that is 1-0 down because she thinks the other team’s lead was the result of pure luck. As a result, the game finishes in a 1-1 draw. This decision seems procedurally unfair – the referee applies the rules less stringently to one team than the other. But if a draw reflects the relative performance of the two teams, it may be substantively fair.
Alternatively, imagine that a mother and father favour different children. Each parent treats the disfavoured child unfairly, in a procedural sense. But if the end result is that the two children receive equal love, then their actions may be substantively fair.
Playing favourites. Rido/Shutterstock
What’s fair?
AI researchers concerned about fairness have, for the most part, been focused on developing algorithms that are procedurally fair – fair by virtue of the features of the algorithms themselves, not the effects of their deployment. But what if it’s substantive fairness that really matters?
There is usually a tension between procedural fairness and accuracy – attempts to achieve the most commonly advocated forms of procedural fairness increase the algorithm’s overall error rate. Take the COMPAS algorithm for example. If we equalised the false positive rates between black and white people by ignoring the predictors of recidivism that tended to be disproportionately possessed by black people, the likely result would be a loss in overall accuracy, with more people wrongly predicted to re-offend, or not re-offend.
Read more: AI profiling: the social and moral hazards of 'predictive' policing
We could avoid these difficulties if we focused on substantive rather than procedural fairness and simply designed algorithms to maximise accuracy, while simultaneously blocking or compensating for any substantively unfair effects that these algorithms might have. For example, instead of trying to ensure that crime prediction errors affect different racial groups equally – a goal that may in any case be unattainable – we could instead ensure that these algorithms are not used in ways that disadvantage those at high risk. We could offer people deemed “high risk” rehabilitative treatments rather than, say, subjecting them to further incarceration.
Alternatively, we could take steps to offset an algorithm’s tendency to assign higher risk to some groups than others – offering risk-lowering rehabilitation programmes preferentially to black people, for instance.
Aiming for substantive fairness outside of the algorithm’s design would leave algorithm designers free to focus on maximising accuracy, with fairness left to state regulators, with expert and democratic input. This approach has been successful in other areas. In medicine, for instance, doctors focus on promoting the well-being of their patients while health funders and policymakers promote the fair allocation of healthcare resources across patients.
Doctors focus on individual well-being, others focus on overall health. Stuart Jenner/Shutterstock
In substance or procedure
Of course, most of us would be reluctant to give up on procedural fairness entirely. If a referee penalises every minor infringement by one team, while letting another get away with major fouls, we’d think something had gone wrong – even if the right team wins. If a judge ignores everything a defendant says and listens attentively to the plaintiff, we’d think this was unfair, even if the defendant is a jet-setting billionaire who would, even if found guilty, be far better off than a more deserving plaintiff.
We do care about procedural fairness. Yet substantive fairness often matters more – at least, many of us have intuitions that seem to be consistent with this. Some of us think that presidents and monarchs should have the discretion to offer pardons to convicted offenders, even though this applies legal rules inconsistently – letting some, but not others, off the hook. Why think this is justified? Perhaps because pardons help to ensure substantive fairness where procedurally fair processes result in unfairly harsh consequences.
Many of us also think that affirmative action is justified, even when it looks, on the face of it, to be procedurally unfair, since it gives some groups greater consideration than others. Perhaps we tolerate this unfairness because, through mitigating the effects of past oppression, affirmative action tends to promote substantive fairness.
If substantive fairness generally matters more than procedural fairness, countering biased algorithms through changes to algorithmic design may not be the best path to fairness after all.
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Why Visit Tbilisi, the Vibrant Georgian Capital
The Bridge of Peace spans the Kura River, and has become an emblem of downtown Tbilisi | Andrea Ricordi, Italy / Getty Images
Krystin Elise Arneson
Tbilisi impresses, intrigues and enraptures with its complex history, vibrant nightlife and renowned food and wine. Tbilisi expert Nino Shervashidze gives the lowdown on why the Georgian capital should be your next destination.
Housed within a former publishing house, Stamba Hotel is one of the coolest places to stay in Tbilisi, and is a popular meeting and co-working spot. Nino Shervashidze is brand communications coordinator for the Adjara Group, the firm behind the Georgian capital’s hippest accommodation and a driving force in Tbilisi’s rising fame as a vibrantly bohemian destination.
Tbilisi’s old town is packed with cosy authentic cafés | gadost / Getty Images
A storied past
“Tbilisi is still undiscovered by most international travellers and even many local people,” reflects Shervashidze, who has lived in the Georgian capital nearly all her life. “This is a city where history and the present meet.”
Hotel Stamba is undoubtedly one of the coolest places to stay in the Georgian capital | Vicu9 / Getty Images
Tbilisi’s past is long and contentious, thanks to its ideal location along east-west trade routes. Legend dates it back to the fifth century, and its periods of independence have been interrupted by stretches of occupation by the Byzantine, Persian, Mongol and Russian empires. After a fleeting three years of post-Russian Revolution independence, the Soviet Union took over, before Georgia became independent again after the collapse of the USSR.
Tbilisi’s history is reflected in its diverse architecture | Al Amy / Alamy Stock Photo
Walking through the city, its history is readable in the architecture; turning corners, you glimpse intricately carved wooden Persian balconies, while some streets are lined with austere Soviet constructions. A guided tour of the Old Town is an excellent way to fully appreciate the urban tapestry and get a Tbilisi crash course, but allowing yourself to get lost in the streets is the best way to take in the full fabric of the city.
Georgian hospitality and creativity
Georgia’s recent tourism boom is due, in part, to Georgian hospitality. “Georgia generally has been known for hospitality, but once tourists arrive here, they experience a whole new level,” Shervashidze says. “I hear quite often, ‘Wow, this is something that we didn’t expect to be like this’, and that always feels good. Also, people don’t expect to build relationships with local people so easily. After arriving in Tbilisi, you feel like you are part of the society”.
Georgia is becoming known internationally both for its hospitality and cuisine | Radiokukka / Getty Images
Shervashidze has lived in Tbilisi for most of her life but headed abroad in 2010 to work on her Master’s in PR and communications at the University of the Arts London. Rather than stay in the British capital – an experience Shervashidze says was “full of discoveries” – she decided to come back to Tbilisi: “The city’s arts and culture scene is developing at a fast pace, and there are many opportunities to be innovative, daring and creative. I believe that I am part of the generation that drives things forward when it comes to reimagining the contemporary face of Tbilisi.”
While Georgia’s past is fascinating, what might be even more exciting is how Georgians are using it to construct an identity for the future. “Georgians have always had a strong sense of identity because of our unique history, language, culture and religion,” Shervashidze says, and being a part of building the country and developing its modern identity is something she – as well as many other young Georgians – is passionate about. “Without the past there is no present spirit. There is little Georgia can do about its past,” she explains, “but there is a big opportunity for Georgia to introduce itself to the rest of the world as a stable and interesting country with traditions and uniqueness which connect it to its past.”
The Jumah Mosque in Tbilisi Old Town is a prime example of the city’s vibrant architecture | Emad Aljumah / Getty Images
Shervashidze has already noticed a big shift when it comes to Georgia’s image abroad. “There was a time when it was difficult to find Georgia on the world map. Local people like me, who were travelling abroad, used to be the only ambassadors of the country,” she remembers, “Today, I notice that more international visitors are starting to discover and tell stories about their experiences of Georgia”. For those heading to Georgia for the first time, Shervashidze believes that spending time in the capital is a must, even if your adventure is taking you onward to other parts of the country.
Discovering Tbilisi’s Vera neighbourhood
The first thing to note is that Tbilisi is a city of neighbourhoods, so bring comfy shoes for wandering. Of course, the picturesque Old Town, with its churches, hilltop, gorge and bathhouses, is well worth exploring; Tbilisi’s character really shines, though, when you venture into a few different areas. “For sure Tbilisi is a city of neighbourhoods,” says Shervashidze. “It has always been this way. This aspect of the city can be felt by anyone who visits it”.
Tbilisi is a city of distinct neighbourhoods, best discovered by simply strolling | Christina Vartanova / Getty Images
Shervashidze’s workplace is the industrial-chic Stamba Hotel, set in the Vera neighbourhood. Built in a former Soviet publishing house and crowned by a glass-bottomed rooftop pool, it shows visitors Tbilisi’s hip, modern side, while providing spaces for local residents to hang out too. Unlike some attempts, which can feel forced, it’s actually happening. On an August day in the courtyard that connects the hotel to its older (but much-loved) companion, Rooms Hotel Tbilisi, a diverse crowd sits in the sun with coffee (roasted in-house) and iced drinks, taking in the day while meeting with friends, collaborating on projects, doing business and working on laptops. There are studios in the hotel, which is also, as of September 2019, home to the Tbilisi Photography and Multimedia Museum. If you’re peckish, the hotel cafe is excellent, while the Pink Bar in the lobby, complete with crystal chandelier, is a fantastic place to go for sophisticated cocktails before dinner or clubbing.
The Stamba Hotel resides in a former Soviet publishing house | EyesWideOpen / Getty Images
Nearby to the hotel, Keto & Kote is one of Shervashidze’s favourite spots for a typically hearty Georgian meal. “It’s another place for authentic food in an amazing old Georgian house with wooden architecture,” she says. The definition of a hidden gem, it has an extensive wine list (best enjoyed in the restaurant’s beautiful garden) and a stunning dining room with carved wooden rafters.
After a late dinner, Drama Bar is Shervashidze’s pick for a Vera night out. Located in a residential building – and with bouncers that run hot and cold with guests they don’t know (but are very friendly if they let you in) – the bar is one of the coolest spots in town for drinking and dancing to some of Tbilisi’s best electronic DJs.
After a late night out, while away some time the next day at the wonderful They Said Books, another one of Shervashidze’s favourite neighbourhood spots. Designed by the Tbilisi-born Lado Lomitashvili, the hip store aims to push Tbilisi forward by becoming a tastemaker for the city. The cafe-bookstore has an open-plan layout, all the better for local creatives to meet up and hang out while sipping coffee.
Beyond Vera
There’s more to Tbilisi than just this side of the Kura river, however; cross over to its eastern bank, and you’ll find more neighbourhoods that each stake their claim to a place in the urban fabric with distinct architecture and personalities.
Marjanishvili is home to some of Tbilisi’s best preserved Art Nouveau architecture | Vicu9 / Getty Images
Over in gentrifying Marjanishvili – the city’s old German neighbourhood that now counts Georgian, Arab and Turkish communities among its residents – street art and rare Art Nouveau lattices and embellishments decorate buildings. The Soviets weren’t keen on the style’s flourishes and destroyed much of what existed in the city. A wander around Marjanishvili – also known as Chugureti – is best launched with a walk up the newly renovated Agmashenebeli Avenue, a pedestrianised, cafe-lined stretch that looks charming and is generally frequented by tourists. A trip to the city’s largest bazaar, near Dynamo stadium, isn’t something to miss either – it sells anything and everything.
Then, Shervashidze suggests, head to Fabrika, a hostel in a former Soviet sewing factory that’s far more than just a backpacker’s crashpad. It’s one of Tbilisi’s most important recent developments, thanks to a massive courtyard bordered by concept stores featuring local artists and designers, and a multitude of places to have a Georgian beer.
Fabrika is home to bars, cafés and concept stores | tbilisi fabrika / Getty Images
It’s easy to while away an afternoon at Fabrika, thanks to the sheer amount of spots to check out – there’s a record store, plant shop, ramen restaurant, a men’s barber shop complete with cocktail bar, and Black Dog Shop, a studio store where you can find copies of vintage posters as well as fantastic art by emerging Georgian artists. With so much to see, caffeine is necessary. Shervashidze’s favourite spot among the options is Milk, a cosy coffee shop boasting a state-of-the-art La Marzocco machine.
A five-minute walk from Fabrika is another one of Shervashidzne’s haunts: Shavi Lomi, a restaurant from a craft brewery of the same name. It’s overseen by local celebrity chef Meriko Gubeladze, who gives traditional Georgian foods creative, surprising twists – she’s often given credit for kicking off Tbilisi’s foodie revolution.
No trip to Georgia would be complete without trying khachapuri – a staple of traditional cuisine | Alexander Spatari / Getty Images
Of course, these aren’t Tbilisi’s only two must-see neighbourhoods. “Before, when people asked me about how long they should stay in Tbilisi to get the full experience of the city, I used to tell them that two-three days would be enough,” says Shervashidze. “Now, there are so many things happening – festivals, clubs, internationally acclaimed cultural events and social and cultural hubs – that I advise my foreign friends to spend at least two weeks in Tbilisi so that they can experience it to the full.”
And, she adds, there’s a whole other world outside the capital: there’s Kakheti, the region where 70 percent of the country’s wine is produced; along with plenty of skiing in the Caucasus mountains in the winter, and some gorgeous nature for exploring on foot in warmer seasons. No matter how many times you visit, Georgia, it seems, will call you back again.
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SKETCH: THE GAME OF GARDEN BRIDGES
By thePipeLine
Ser Boris Johnson dreams of appearing before the London Assembly to be whipped in penance for the sin of prejudged procurement, and doing favours for friends.
[thePipeLine: Boris Johnson portrait adapted courtesy of : los_bandito_anthony – Flickr: ]
Ser Boris Johnson, Mayor and High Yeceros* of London Landing as in the dying days of his pomp and power.
*Yeceros: An honorific title bestowed on Ser Boris awarded on account of the legend that in every generation one child is born who is descended from an ancient and drunken assignation between a Yeti, which accounts for the wild mane of blond hair and a Rhinoceros, which accounts for the creature’s thick skin rendering it impervious to arguments or shame. Also named for the characteristic inability of the Mayor to say no to family friends and property developers with wads of cash.
Deserted by allies over his dithering about which side to back in the great referendum on whether to declare independence from the Iron Throne and with his Chief Necromancer, Meister Lynton Krosby, Flinger of Dead Cats, switching allegiance to the rich young pretender, Ser Zac, not even Lebedev, the Court Jester, could lighten the Mayoral mood with a tribute so glowing it read like a satire. Instead, the mayor waited, grim-faced, for the latest embarrassing revelation from the pen of Wylliam Hurst, the Master Whisperer in the Journal of the Architects, who seemed to be able to read the Mayor’s very plans; as could anyone after a freedom of Information Act request, a fact which the Mayor cursed himself for having forgotten.
Meanwhile, in the Great Chamber which housed the Assembly of London Landing, the Assembly Members [AM’s] gathered and in a tradition which dated back to the far time of Ser Ken, the First Mayor who was called “Father of Newts”, they prepared put the Mayor to “the Time of Questions”.
The Mayor entered and took his place sitting upon the Assembly’s great leather throne, with his back to the river and the ancient royal prison of the Tower, which loomed through the north wall of crystal glass against the leaden sky.
The ancient skyline of the Tower was not yet completely crowded out by the new vertical mansions which were being built all across London Landing by the Mayors new friends. They were known as “the Few” or “They Who Can Pay”, but behind closed doors and in the illegal broadsides which were handed out in the streets and Inns they were called “The Sullied” on account of the widespread belief that many had moved to London Landing because of the belief that the pickings were rich, the Mayors regulations light and the reach of the Law from their homelands across the seven seas too short. In such company the great Tower represented a place the very presence of which reminded Mayors there was a price for failure [and for being found out].
Indeed, like the slaves of ancient times who whispered in the ear of a victorious generals, the great Tower seemed to say;
“Remember you are mortal.”
But for this Mayor, the slave added a terrible vision of mayoral mortality;
“For Winter is come early and the Judge comes too, in review of your e-mail which made promises far too soon to British Land over Norton Folgate.”
Adding to the tension of the meeting was the fact that the Assembly had gathered against the background of the Mayors favourite master of illusion, Meister Thomas Heatherwick, facing still more criticism over his fantastical Garden Bridge. The construction which seemingly had so beguiled and befuddled the Mayors senses.
Even as the Assembly gathered rumours were running that Ser Amyas Morse known as “Iron Banker”, Meister of the National Audit Office, had described the funding of Meister Heatherwick’s pet project by the High Vi Sparrow, Chancellor Osborne of House Tory as “unorthodox”. A word which chilled the blood of the Mayor’s bond men, who feared being called to account before the great inquisition of the Westminster Ironborn of the Green Benches.
Ser Tom Copley, the Chief Wilding of House Corbyn of the North [London], began the Time of Questions with an account of the Mayor’s dragon flight to Los Angeles which was paid for by the citizens, even though it did not appear in the Mayors chronicle of days, as published on the gates of the Assembly.
“Did anyone from Heatherwick Studio or associated with Heatherwick Studio accompany you on this trip?” he asked.
” I would be very happy to get back to you as soon as I have the go ahead. I do not quite under stand why…” the mayor responded innocently trying to blame the court scribes for the failure to produce the master muster roll from the visit. However, Ser Tom wanted to fix the blame firmly on the Mayor
“I am sure you would remember, Mayor. One person in particular I am sure you would remember if they were sitting next to you–…?”
“I would, indeed.” said the Mayor, smiling inwardly and outwardly at the thought of a particular person.
“…on the plane to San Francisco.” teased Ser Tom, his hand tightening on the lever of the metaphorical drop onto which Ser Boris was about to step.
Realizing his danger Ser Boris stepped sideways, feigning the politician’s equivalent of a senior moment ”Yes. I am not sure that they were sitting next to me. I honestly cannot remember.”
“You honestly cannot remember?” Ser Tom said in a tone which suggested that he thought that honesty and the mayor met but rarely.
“OK. We look forward…” said Ser Tom letting Ser Boris have a moment of thinking he had escaped.
Thinking himself free, Ser Boris launched into a catalogue of self-justification.
“I genuinely do not think it is a wholly contemptible objective,by the way,to try to seek funding for this city from corporations that have huge sums of money.
We have raised, in my time as Mayor, hundreds of millions in sponsorship.That is the right thing to do.” he said with emphasis. “It saves the taxpayer money. Projects like the Garden Bridge would not go ahead if we did not get private sponsorship. They have raised £85 million already.We have been involved with a great dealing of funding.”
“When you were talking to whichever potential private sponsors you were talking to, did you specifically raise the Garden Bridge?” interjected Ser Tom
“When? Which one?” said Ser Boris obfuscating to give himself time to think.
“When you were…”
“I can promise you that I have raised it with loads of people.”
“It is interesting because that time was just before the tender for what was apparently then just going to be a pedestrian footbridge was put out. Of course, there was no mention in this tender of it being a…”
“Why do you hate this project so much?” asked Ser Boris interrupting with the melting expression of a Golden Retriever puppy being chastised for leaving a deposit on the carpet.
“Hang on.” said Ser Tom “There was no mention in this tender of it being a GardenBridge. If you remember, three companies were asked to put in designs. Two of them were under the impression that this was only a pedestrian footbridge. Only one of those companies, Heatherwick Studio, knew that you wanted a GardenBridge. Yet you were over in San Francisco trying to drum up support for a Garden Bridge. This was completely uncompetitive,was it not, Mr Mayor?”
“Look, I really do not know why you are so hysterically opposed to this bridge.” said Ser Boris trying to force Ser Tom onto the defensive “The only conclusion I can draw is that you think it is something…”
“My views on the bridge are irrelevant.” interjected Ser Tom firmly. “This is about the process. This is about you and…”
“Transparency, yes!” interjected the Lady Arnold, sitting in the High Chair of the Moderator.
“TfL following the correct procedures.” continued Ser Tom “It seems quite clear in this case...”
“Hang on. Would you mind…” said Ser Boris desperately trying to slow Ser Tom’s charge, but Ser Tom would not be halted.
“…that one company, Heatherwick Studio,was given an advantage over the other two companies in the bidding process because the other two companies…”
“No, absolutely not.” chuntered Ser Boris shaking his great shaggy head.
“…were not aware that you wanted a GardenBridge.”
“No. You are talking twaddle…” the Mayor subsided, resorting the same childish argot which he always adopted when he was caught with his pants on fire.
However, wounded and angry as he was, this was just the opening encounter in the latest episode of this Game of Garden Bridges.
“Mr Mayor, are you aware that the Garden Bridge Trust has stated that it is £30million short of the £115million it needs to raise from the public?”
The silk toned speaker was no enemy or sell sword, but one of Ser Boris’s own bondsmen. Ser Andrew Boff, called “Razor Tongue”, the AM of Londonwide for House Tory.
“The best information I have is that it is in a high state of readiness to go ahead with the project and it has raised £85million.” said Ser Boris, happy to turn the issue into a contest of contradictory numbers. “Clearly, it may be possible to de-scope the project in order to cut its coat to suit its cloth, so to speak. £85 million is a huge amount of money. It has £60million from the state. It is a fantastic project for this city.”
Ser Boris turned to take in the Assembly with a tone of utter reasonableness.
“As I said before, London is currently a massively popular city.Everybody wants to come here.However,a city cannot stand still. Around the world, cities are offering new attractions and developing their offer to tourists and to the restof the planet.We have to do the same. The Garden Bridge will be a fantastic new venture for London. It will be massively popular. It is the right thing to do.”
“There was an article that I saw in the Evening Standard saying that the thing was such a good idea that it should be entirely funded by the taxpayer. I do not agree with that.” The Mayor continued trying to sound serious and financially prudent. “It is right to go ahead, but only provided a very significant proportion comes from the private sector. That is what is happening.”
Ser Andrew was certainly not convinced, particularly by the reference to the Evening Standard which everyone knew to be one of the Mayor and Meister Heatherwick’s familiars.
“I am motivated by your optimism about containing the costs of the Garden Bridge because,from its inception, the estimates have only ever been added to.” Ser Andrew observed.
“Yes. That is in the nature of these things.” said Ser Boris patronisingly.
“Originally,I believe it was £60 million and now it is £175million.” continued Ser Andrew coolly.
“That is the top end I think of the of the estimates,” shot back Ser Boris thinking he had the drop on the would be assassin. “and there is quite a lot of contingency built in.”
Ser Andrew smiled as he drew a verbal stiletto and carefully inserted it into the most tender part of the Mayors argument.
“It is the figure which is published by the Garden Bridge Trust on their website,” With the blade sunk deep, Ser Andrew fixed the Mayors eyes, and twisted it “and similarly they say on their website also say that they are £30 million short.”
In a desperate attempt to deflect the blows the Ser Boris reeled back and reached to unsheath his great sword, fashioned from the most slippery of steels, forged in the fabled lost furnaces of Tata. Upon the blade was inscribed the sword’s name in letters of fire. The sword was called “Distraction”.
“I can only think that the negativity surrounding this comes from a certain amount of professional jealousy from the architectural world, who don’t happen to, you know, are not sure about the architectural qualifications of Thomas Heatherwick and I think there is a certain amount of that going on in some of the coverage. And the rest of it, I think, is politically driven twaddle!” Ser Boris harrumphed.
Lady Jenny Jones, Mother Of Greens, spoke aloud to the room saying “We don’t want it?”
“I don’t understand why you don’t want it? I thought the Greens liked Gardens.” sneered Ser Boris.
But in spite of the attempts of the increasingly desperate Ser Boris to defend himself and the credibility of his Garden Bridge Project the verbal assassination continued as Ser Andrew drew another stiletto which he pushed up to the hilt into the Mayoral logic .
“So the potential is there for us to have a half finished bridge?”
“…perhaps we could build a Garden Pier way out to Lambeth and stop short. I don’t think that’s likely to happen.” quipped Ser Boris attempting to counter with his own jest.
Ser Andrew warded off the joke and struck the Mayor another stinging procedural blow.
“How would a Garden Pier meet the objectives of TfL to assist in getting people across the river?” he said coldly twisting the blade once again.
“I am absolutely confident that the funding gap can be, as it were, bridged.” countered Ser Boris, but the Mayors parrys were becoming weaker and more obvious.
“It’s not just the funding gap, it’s the gap between the shore and the bridge that I’m interested in.” Ser Andrew struck again in a style which would have had the legendary exponent of the Game from long ago and a fantasy kingdom far away, Tyrion Lanister, grinning from ear to ear.
“As you’ll appreciate the gap at the moment is very wide indeed, there being no bridge at all…” concluded the Ser Boris, with many of those present no doubt adding the mental note that given this performance it would probably be a very good thing for London Landing if it stayed that way.
That night, as the Mayor drifted off to a troubled sleep, he was disturbed by the manifestation of Lady Lumley the shape shifter, who appeared at the foot of his mighty, reinforced, iron bed. She came to him not in her habitual guise as Treasure of the Nation, nor even as Associate Lobbyist for the Meister Heatherwick, but in the guise of his ancient babysitter of childhood days and she seemed to be saying now, as she had done then;
“Boris, Boris, just do as you are told…”
In happier times the Lady Lumley appeared before Ser Boris and beguiled his senses with dreams of Garden Bridges and Legacy
[thePipleLine: see picture credits]
It is not known if, following the latest Time of Question at London Landing, Ser Boris has also been disturbed by visions of assassination by crossbow bolt, fletched with purest FOI Requests, while seated on the City Hall garderobe. But he knew that after the on the strength of the performance of Ser Andrew, he would be well advised to keep the door to the Mayoral throne room locked, at least until he could finally escape up river into permanent exile at Westminster Landing on 5 May. That said, he feared that even then in Lady Theresa May and the High Vi Sparrow, George Osborne, he faced opponents who were both skilled and ruthless in the dark arts of “The Game” and House Tory were past masters at the art of political assassination. As anyone engaged in the Game of Politics knows, you must keep your enemies close, and those who claim to be your friends closer still.
However, even more deadly is the truism, dating back to at least the Ides of March 44BC, that when your supposed friends start to knife you in the front there is no way of spinning the fact that you are in deep trouble. In those circumstances the alternative of a naked walk of shame from City Hall to Westminster to exculpate the sins of favoritism and rigged process might seem almost attractive, like a quiet stroll in the park, a real park that is.
Ser Boris Johnson, Mayor and High Yeceros of London Landing is in the dying days of his pomp and power.
And Spring is coming.
Boris Johnson portrait adapted courtesy of : los_bandito_anthony
– Flickr: _D700854
Joanna Lumley portrait: Public Domain via Wikipaedia
The Garden Bridge: Arup Image [Fair Use for the purpose of reporting and review]
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The Southern Bookseller Review brings you half a dozen great books to add to your already teetering bedside stack. Recommended by Southern indie booksellers, in the belief that there is a book for every reader.
Re-envisioning Jane Eyre, and the writer’s dread of the second book.
Some stories take hold of us and refuse to let us go. Not satisfied with having read them, we rewrite them in a hundred variations and permutations, each in its own way a tribute to the original that has lodged itself within our hearts. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is such a book. Romance, mystery, Gothic ghost story, feminist morality tale, Jane Eyre is a story we never tire of re-telling.
The latest incarnation of Jane comes to us in Rachel Hawkins’ new novel, The Wife Upstairs. “A modern Jane Eyre set in Alabama? Sign me up!” says Amanda Gawthorpe of Page 158 Books in Wake Forest, North Carolina. “This was a fun read. A gripping, smart, and engaging retelling with enough nods to the original to make you feel smart.”
Jane Eyre fans have a chance to meet Rachel Hawkins online in the next edition of the Reader Meet Writer Author Series.
Also in this edition of SBR, read how Amiee Molloy overcame the dreaded “second book syndrome” that haunts every debut author.
In this issue: Bookseller Buzz:
Spotlight on Goodnight Beautiful by Amiee Molloy
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Tell Us What You Think: Mission and Vision for the National Peak Body
Posted on: May 12, 2016 by: unitedse
Written by Clive Perryman and Katherine Winchester
For those of us who participate in our respective associations, developing a mission and vision statement may seem like a lot of time is wasted arguing over words for little reward. However, get the statements right and they provide direction and a source of inspiration for the organisation.
The Task Force is seeking input from industry on the draft statements below. Once clear on the mission and vision, refining an appropriate body structure and funding mechanisms becomes more feasible. Structure and funding is developed in a way to ensure that the mission and vision can be met. All elements are then tied together with the broader communications strategy.
Promote, protect and develop the interests of the Australian seafood industry.
<INSERT PEAK BODY NAME> will ensure a respected and prosperous Australian wild catch, aquaculture and post-harvest seafood industry now and for future generations.
Why do we need a mission and vision?
Provides direction to what the National Peak Body’s purpose and role is;
It is the ‘selling’ statement to its potential members;
Tells us what the National Peak Body will aim for and what it will and won’t do;
Improves understanding and brings people together who share and support the statements.
Throughout the consultations to date, people have stated something along the lines of ‘I need to have a clear direction about what you are going to do with my money before you start asking me to sign up/invest’. Getting the two statements right is an important first step in painting this picture.
How do we develop a mission and vision?
In drafting mission and vision statements, we looked at feedback from the United Seafood Industry’s project consultation, the United Seafood Industry Forum, and ten years of National Seafood Industry Leadership Program vision and mission statements. Further background to the thinking that guided us can be viewed here. In order to have the first crack at getting the words right we needed to understand:
What the seafood industry wants and needs from a peak body;
What makes this Peak Body different to those that currently exist.
A National Peak Body could:
Create a first point of contact at Federal level
Strengthen and co-ordinate the sense of belonging and pride to seafood industry
Unite the seafood industry nationally
create more effective communication for industry by overseeing and setting national level communication strategies
Create an environment that supports Australian seafood industry businesses to flourish
Deal with national issues affecting more than one state/sector
Specific objectives would be created for it, which might look something like:
Engage both the Federal government and the Australian community on marine planning including Marine Protected Areas
Pursue continuation of the Federal diesel fuel rebate
Provide a focal point for broad Australian seafood promotion and communications
Provide input to international negotiations, such as the Free Trade Agreements
A National Peak Body cannot:
Solve every issue on behalf of industry
Duplicate the good work currently existing at the fishery/State level or dictate and influence their structure and governance arrangements
Negotiate for management changes in a particular fishery/sector
Link to all the State/Territory/Commonwealth fisheries
Negotiate access arrangements between recreational and commercial fishing groups in a particular region
How are the mission and vision statements to be used?
These statements guide decisions of an organisation regarding strategic direction and priorities. They are also important to people outside of the organisation, including potential members, as they communicate important information about the organisation’s values and purpose.
We trust that you can appreciate the importance of getting these statements right, which is why we are inviting suggestions to improve them. Please take the time to tell us what you think. Are we close? Have we got it right? Have we got it wrong?
Send us your thoughts by emailing taskforce@unitedseafoodindustries.com.au by 26 May 2016.
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