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Why Energy Is A Big And Rapidly Growing Problem For Data Centers
Radoslav Danilak Forbes Councils Member
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Radoslav Danilak
"Rado" Danilak has over 25 years of industry experience and over 100 patents designing state-of-the-art processing systems.
U.S. data centers use more than 90 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, requiring roughly 34 giant (500-megawatt) coal-powered plants. Global data centers used roughly 416 terawatts (4.16 x 1014 watts) (or about 3% of the total electricity) last year, nearly 40% more than the entire United Kingdom. And this consumption will double every four years.
This is a big problem, and it's getting bigger.
I remember using a 3.8GHz Pentium 4 computer released in 2004. Today, my top-of-the-line laptop has a 3.8GHz iCore i7. In accordance with Moore's Law, transistors continue to become faster every 24 months, so my computer should be eight times faster in 12 years. So what the heck is going on?
Well, this shocking performance plateau and the data center power problem are deeply interrelated. Both have their origin in device physics and processor microarchitectures. In the good old days, more than a decade ago, semiconductor process shrinks gave us both higher performance and power reduction at the same time. Now, process shrinks no longer give us more speed, nor can they offset rapidly increasing power consumption by data centers.
U.S. government data centers are feeling the pinch. In 2016, the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) told federal agencies to reduce the costs of physical data centers by 25% or more by the end of fiscal year 2018. This is not a mandate for conservation and efficiency; instead, it’s a major move to the cloud -- shifting the resource burden of 11,700 federal data centers elsewhere. It’s like trying to save the planet by turning off your lights, then going to your neighbor’s apartment and turning on theirs so you can read. (OK, so maybe their lights are slightly more efficient than yours, but still, it’s just a drop in the bucket.)
Streaming video has already changed the game, but the explosion of artificial intelligence and internet-connected devices will change the entire landscape. AI is the future, and AI is hungry for processing power. IoT is projected to exceed 20 billion devices by 2020 (some analysts believe we will reach that number this year alone). Given there are currently 10 billion internet-connected devices, doubling that to 20 billion will require massive increases to our data center infrastructure, which will massively increase our electricity consumption.
How on earth can we possibly build all the power plants required to supply electricity to twice as many data centers in the next four years? The simple answer is that we can’t. We must find another way.
Enterprises have decommissioned older power-hungry hardware and embraced more efficient technologies like server virtualization. Flash storage has displaced some hard disk drives in both hyperscale and enterprise markets; when flash becomes cheaper than traditional spinning disk storage, we will see even more energy efficiency from storage hardware. We have more efficient cooling systems and greener, smarter construction practices that have led to more efficient buildings. But in the next five years, we can’t look for major efficiency improvements in these areas.
Over the past 10 years, data center power usage effectiveness (PUE) -- the ratio of total power required to run an entire facility versus the direct power involved in compute and storage -- has decreased. Google now maintains an impressive PUE of 1.12 across all of its data centers, including all sources of overhead, which is very close to the theoretically perfect PUE of 1.0.
However, now that PUEs have improved, the low-hanging fruit is gone. Future efficiency gains will be minor and incremental -- or so it would seem.
Despite where we are with data center power consumption today and the power delivery challenges associated with doubling data center capacity in the next five years, I am hopeful. Despite the fact that over 80% of the world’s energy still comes from fossil fuels, rising energy costs are a foregone conclusion, and our underinvestment in renewables will likely not change anytime soon.
What I am optimistic about is the opportunity for major compute efficiency improvements. Disruptive innovation on the compute side will inevitably come to market soon, giving us faster compute engines and architectures that deliver more computational density per watt. We are currently stuck with architectures developed some 40 years ago that are not going to satisfy humanity’s insatiable thirst for a lot more processing, much faster processing and much more energy-efficient processing.
I believe compute efficiency innovation is on the verge of happening. In the face of such a strong market pull, it is inevitable. Frankly, the only thing left to improve is the compute side of the equation. We have already improved everything around compute architecture, and further improvements outside compute are now contributing only small and incremental improvements to overall data center efficiency and performance.
Why am I optimistic? Forty years ago, when today’s ubiquitous processors were designed, transistors were infinitely slow compared to wires. Forty years later, with transistor and wire trace widths shrunk down to an astounding 7nm (human DNA is 2.5nm wide), transistors are much faster than the wires that connect them. This represents a complete reversal of the delay characteristics of the two fundamental components (transistors and wires) of every chip ever built. Yet we still build and use processors designed when things were completely reversed from how they are today. How can that possibly lead to an optimal design at 7nm transistor sizes? It can’t, and that’s the reason I’m optimistic that we are on verge of major breakthroughs in compute architecture.
It’s either a breakthrough in our compute engines, or we need to get deadly serious about doubling the number of power plants on the planet.
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SICILY Other than one or two of the more successful bandits such as A1 Capone, who, for some years, fruitfully plied his art in America, no person unfortunate enough to have been inborn Sicily ever accumulated sufficient wealth to escape and for this reason, the Island remained inhabited. The arrival of British and American Troops brought hope, for even they had heard that London’s streets were paved with gold and that New Yorkers papered their walls with dollar bills. Seizing the opportunity with both hands, most of them soon had sufficient money to buy their own liners and it was expected that the last man to leave would dig a hole in the centre of the Island to let theMed. inflow and sink it. The fact that Sicily is still on the map can only be accounted for by one of the following reasons The:—(a) last man was in too much of a hurry to getaway. (b) The inhabitants left—saw the mess in the world outside—decided their Island wasn’t such a bad place after all, and returned.
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10 maps showing how Americans speak differently
By: Steve Schuster
If you grew up in Wisconsin, chances are you know what a bubbler is, and might even remember using a TYME machine — formerly a term for an ATM.
Try using those words in other parts of the country and people will likely give you a strange look.
While most of the country says drinking fountain, Wisconsinites all know that a bubbler is where you go to grab a drink of water on a hot July day.
While in Milwaukee most would say they want to order a soda for lunch, just 75 miles across Lake Michigan, folks in Michigan would use the term, "pop."
Those roundabouts we've seen pop up across Wisconsin, have long been in other Mid-Atlantic states. But there, some drivers call them traffic circles.
In the wake of the release of the hit Netflix series, "Making a Murderer," Wisconsin's accent has gained global attention. According to a study , our accents are very unique. Saturday Night Live even made a skit about it.
Of course like any state, accents vary. Someone who grew up in Northern Virginia will likely have a more D.C. accent than someone who grew up in Roanoke. Just as in Manitowoc, people say there o's and e's differently than someone who grew up in Milwaukee.
Speaking of how you pronounce your e's, how would you pronounce Mary/merry/marry? If you grew up in Wisconsin, chances are you'd say all three words the same way. Those in the Northeast would have a very different opinion. Click here to view ten maps that highlight the nuances in how we say everyday words.
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Browse: Home / 2010 / May / Daughter of Destiny
Daughter of Destiny
An Interview With Elyse Levesque
@ChadColvin Chad Colvin |
Interviews | May 25, 2010
http://stream.gateworld.net/interviews/media/levesque01.mp3
It’s a crazy time for some of the stars of Stargate Universe. Many of them are just beginning to meet fans of the new series face to face and realize the immensity and dedication there is to the entire Stargate franchise. One for whom this is especially true is the actress playing SGU‘s Chloe Armstrong, Elyse Levesque.
GateWorld caught up with Elyse at Creation Entertainment’s annual Vancouver Stargate convention last month, and we were blown away by both her enthusiasm and her energy for the series. In our discussion Elyse talks about her introduction to the industry, how she and Chloe are both similar and different, the Eli-Matt-Chloe triangle, and much much more.
GateWorld’s interview with Elyse Levesque runs a little over 12 minutes, and is available in audio. It’s also transcribed below!
GateWorld: It’s great to finally meet you, Elyse!
Elyse Levesque: Thank you! Likewise!
GW: At GateWorld, we’ve actually been looking forward to talking to you for quite awhile.
EL: Oh, thank you so much!
GW: How did you get your start in acting? You’ve racked up a pretty impressive amount of credits up here in Vancouver in the last few years.
EL: Yeah, I’ve been out here about four years now. Four years in May. May 1st. Yikes! Where does the time go?
I got my start when I was 11, in a children’s television series called The Incredible Story Studio. And our dear friend, David Blue, took it upon himself to tweet about it — and managed to get his dirty little paws on the first ever episode I ever did, called “Hugo and the Haunted Cheese.”
GW: Ooh.
EL: … which is about a piece of Limburger cheese that is haunted. And I play Candace Wilkes, the snobby teacher’s pet. And that was how I got my foot in the door! It was that part. “The role of a lifetime.”
Elyse poses with her castmates at the SGU launch party in San Diego.
GW: So this is not something that’s readily available?
EL: It’s not! He couldn’t find it himself, actually. It was [GateWorld Forum member] Slam who found it for him. She got it for him on Amazon, and found one of two copies. Or she bought the only two copies on Amazon. Something like that.
So I worked on that children’s series for a couple of years and then, just one thing kind of led into another. After I graduated high school, there really wasn’t anything. I was supposed to go onto this other series, which I had done for two years which was my first sci-fi series, called 2030 C.E. And it got cancelled. So I wasn’t planning on going to school. I put off college and university to work on the show, and that fell through.
So I’m thinking, “Oh, my god! What am I going to do?” And an opportunity to go off modeling kind of presented itself.
I have the travel bug, like nobody’s business. So I took the opportunity that presented itself and took off for a few years. Just bounced all over the place like a little gypsy. And then I came back to Canada when I was 20 … 20, 21. (We’ll go with 20.) And I moved to Vancouver and I’ve been out here ever since. I’ve been pretty lucky.
GW: Tell us a little bit about the auditioning process for SGU. Did you initially read for Chloe?
EL: I did, actually! Yeah! I had to put something on tape here in Vancouver, at their casting offices here in town. And it was kind of one of those magical experiences where it just kind of felt right. I got the script the night before, and the lines just came naturally. It was just easy. I could relate to it, emotionally.
Elyse's audition called for her to bring the waterworks, which she would need for ''Air, Part 2.''
I went in and I read. I felt really good about it. But you’re kind of like, “Pfft, whatever. I don’t care.” And then a week later, my agent sends me a little e-mail saying, “Just want to let you know they’re really interested. Yadda-yadda. You might have to screen test.” And then a couple weeks after that … “Guess what? You’re going to L.A.!”
And I had never screen tested before. I had heard horror stories before from some of my friends who were actors. They were like, “You go into the room and there’s these faceless execs and no one says anything to you, and everyone hates themselves so they hate you, too. So just be prepared! It’s going to be terrible!” [Laughs]
GW: It’s a firing squad! [Laughs]
EL: Right! Exactly! So I walked into the room and it was like 30-some faces that were just beaming at me. They were so happy! Like Brad Wright and Rob Cooper. They were just so excited that everyone was coming in to read for their show.
And I remember the casting director. He was so funny! He told me the night before … he was really generous. He got together with everyone who was testing and gave us some pointers, and ran the scene with us, et cetera. And he was like, “They really want to see you cry. So you’re going to have to squeeze out some tears. Bring out the waterworks.” I’m like “OK.” So then when you have to cry, you can’t cry.
GW: Exactly!
Posted in Interviews | Tagged Elyse Levesque, Featured, Universe
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syfygyrl
Oh, how exciting! I’ve been waiting for you guys to interview Elyse forever; I’ve been really curious about her character & this interview is both informative & fun.
Stormin
I remain very skeptical about this character. For now all she really has done is warm the bed of Lieutenant Scott. Having this rich girl take a leadership role will really take a wide stroke of the writer’s pen. But from what we have seen with this show’s writing, anything silly is possible. Not a bad actress, just a weak role.
Eli Rush
Sadly, her character is the only one i don’t care for in SGU.I’ve finally grown on these characters, but as for Chloe, i wish they’d axe her from the show.
Egle01
Ooh, now I want to know what’s going to happen to Chloe in S2. :D
It’s great to see how even the actors are impressed and surprised by the writing. Now the time has (finally) come for old fans of Stargate to help make the new members of the Stargate family (the actors) feel welcome. And also, to cut the writers a little slack.
I’m looking forward to the Season 1 finale and to Season 2.
Gaeth
@Stormin. That isn’t all she’s done. Unless you’ve skipped several episodes, you know that already.
Seriously fun interview :D Thanks!
Gaeth, like what? Read the symbols in the tunnels? Big whop! Her character is weak. Contrast the number of times she does something useful to the number of times they show here in bed with Lt. Scott. Her character is dull and uninteresting, but not to Lt. Scott, obviously.
I kinda wish she’d break it off with Scott and get with Eli, it’s annoying that the hot girl goes for the typical hero guy. At least Scott isn’t really a *bad* guy, but so far it seems that their relationship is purely sexual.
zenofstars
I don’t like Scott/Chloe like everybody else – just because it feels like “they are the lookers, its obvious!”. But I don’t like it ten times more to bring Eli/Chloe together. It’s just not believable, and its even an insult that Eli is that shallow. Yes, they will try to “brain up” Chloe in S2 obviously ;) But I would rather see Eli hook up with one of the other “normal people” crowd. Even if the woman is years older it would have a better feel to it. “Waste the nerd”-plots are really worn out, it’s not even Scifi anymore… Read more »
Synergi
Stormin I think you’ve summed up how I feel about almost all the characters. I do like Rush, and Eli is ok.
I don’t know, I’d like to see a Stargate show about, I don’t know, the Stargate maybe?
EryasDax
I was trying to listen to this on iTunes. However, this interview is not listed. The last one available is David Blue’s “Just a Geek” from last October. Did anyone else have this problem?
Stormin, Zenofstars and others, I’m glad I’m not the only fan that got disappointed that the cute girl Chloe went right to the arms of the hunk instead of the likable nerd. Eli is one of the few people in SGU who’s really a nice, relatable guy. Besides, I never liked Matthew Scott. He’s empty, shallow and unlikeable. At first he bangs James, then goes for Chloe. The Lt. Buxom Brunette makes fun of Eli just for him being himself (and I think Eli has got more character than all the military personnel together), and Chloe.. we all know. I… Read more »
slamaina
Holy c**p, I just got my 5 seconds of fame and didn’t even know it until now. Elyse Levesque actually mention me in this interview. *bows & blushes* Mom will be so proud.
I am Slam :)
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Browse: Home / 2011 / October / Fan Commentary: SG-1’s ‘Point of View’
Fan Commentary: SG-1’s ‘Point of View’
Cue up your DVD and join Darren and David for one of our favorite episodes from SG-1 Season Three!
Features | October 29, 2011
http://stream.gateworld.net/podcast/media/Fan-Commentary_SG1-306.mp3
“Ours is the only reality of consequence …”
Stargate Command is shocked to discover that two of their own — Samantha Carter and the late Major Charles Kawalsky — have arrived from a parallel reality through the Quantum Mirror. With Dr. Carter mourning the death of her husband and suffering from entropic cascade failure, the team has no choice but to go through the mirror and help them retake their world from a Goa’uld invasion force.
Our latest fan commentary is for “Point of View,” one of our favorite episodes of Stargate SG-1‘s amazing third season! We’re a little shocked that it didn’t end up making the Top 5 episodes nominated for the Season Three Awards, but such is life. Play the audio file when you sit down to watch the episode, and you can watch along with GateWorld’s Darren and David!
We’re at the end of Season Three in the Stargate Rewatch! Let us know how your Rewatch is going so far, and if you’ve listened to any of our episode commentaries yet.
Visit the Fan Commentary page for more episodes! We’ll record our next commentary on the episode fans vote as the Best Episode of Season Three.
Our commentary is meant to be enjoyed while you watch “Point of View” in real-time. Load up the commentary on your computer or MP3 player, then start the episode on your DVD player or computer. (Remember to keep the volume on the episode turned down a bit.) As soon as you see the MGM lion at the episode’s start, press play on the commentary!
Watch for more commentaries on favorite episodes from the history of Stargate in the weeks ahead. We’re currently recording about two per month in keeping with the Stargate Rewatch schedule.
What’s Next? Stay tuned to find out which episode fans voted the Best Episode of SG-1 Season Three!
Posted in Features | Tagged Commentary, Rewatch, SG-1
The RSS feed button takes you to a page which does not have “Point Of View” available. It’s the “missing link” in our GateWorld evolution.
It’s there — you may be looking at a cached version of the feed and need to refresh.
thegreatone48071
Good podcast, keep more coming, if you post them I will listen. Also I would love you to get special guest, like Amanda Tapping, and others if they will do it.
I meant good Commentary.
Guys, Thanks for doing these fun commentaries! A few corrections, however. You said in “Point of View” that the alternate Jack and Sam in “There But for the Grace of GOD” were married. Wrong! they were just engaged. And in the commentary for “Torment of Tantalus” you said that Sam figured out how to power the gate. Again, wrong! It was Jack who figured out how to power the gate when he said, “Couldn’t we just do that ‘Ben Franklin thing??” I hate to be such a stickler, but it’s especially important to point out what a truly creative genius… Read more »
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May 15, 2019 / News / Politics
Joe Borelli’s Consistent Record of Transphobia
Can an anti-LGBTQ pol ever be considered the people’s public advocate?
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Staten Island Councilmember Joe Borelli said Republicans are “sick” of hearing their party is too straight, yet he doesn’t miss opportunities to cast anti-LGBTQ votes.
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The New York City public advocate is supposed to be the elected official who stands up for the people.
But the candidate vying for that gig on the Republican side, City Councilmember Joe Borelli of Staten Island, has done quite the opposite: He has voted against numerous LGBTQ-related bills dating back to his time as a state assemblymember — and he has a particular propensity to vote against measures related to transgender and gender non-conforming people.
Whether the Staten Island Republican — currently the Council’s minority whip (in the tiny three-member GOP caucus) — has a realistic chance of unseating current Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who ascended to the post after staving off competition in a crowded special election in February, is a story for another day. But Borelli is seeking to become an advocate for people despite having voted against their rights time and again.
One of the earliest and most glaring stains on his LGBTQ voting record came in 2013 when he was an assemblymember from the 62nd District. He voted against the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), which was signed into law this year and added gender identity and expression as a protected class in the state’s human rights and hate crimes laws. At the time of that vote, similar transgender protections had already existed in city law for more than a decade.
Borelli has carried his transphobia with him to the City Council, too — and it’s become an annual thing for him to vote against the rights of trans and gender nonconforming people. Most recently, Borelli voted last year against Int. 0954, a bill that gives people the opportunity to change the sex designation on their birth certificates to conform to their gender identity.
The list goes on: In 2017, he voted against a bill that would require the mayor’s office to review whether official forms administered by city agencies should be updated to include questions about gender pronouns. He also voted against a resolution calling on the state Department of Education to create a task force dedicated to exploring the cultural relevance of “standards in core content that challenges racism, ableism, and sexism, and is LGB and TGNC-affirming.”
In 2016, he voted against a bill to require any single-occupancy bathrooms in public settings to be available to people of any gender.
Borelli did not respond to requests for comment on this story and did not answer questions about why he has repeatedly voted against transgender rights.
His opponent, incumbent Democrat Williams, has his own spotty history on queer issues: He once was against same-sex marriage, though he now fully supports marriage equality, and he abstained from a 2014 measure allowing folks to change the gender designation on their birth certificate. But he has since come around to embrace LGBTQ rights and has most notably been a vocal advocate for transgender women of color.
Borelli has not been an advocate on those issues. Instead, he has used his platform as an elected official to go on radio shows to, among other things, dismiss concerns of the LGBTQ community. He went on Kevin McCullough’s show on AM970 Radio to discuss the Chick-fil-A owners’ family foundation donations to homophobes, terming boycott calls against the fast food chain “faux outrage of the left” and adding that people should “eat whatever delicious sandwich you want.”
While he was voting against LGBTQ bills, Borelli penned a piece for The Hill last year in which he drilled the message that out gay Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell’s confirmation fight “changed the perception on what was once considered conservative doctrine” and that “gay conservatives have become more visible and vocal within the Republican movement over the last 20 years.”
But his examples of LGBTQ conservatives curiously focused on celebrities such as Caitlyn Jenner and PayPal founder Peter Thiel — perhaps because of the lack of queer Republican public officials. Regardless, he went on to say that the GOP is “sick of the unrelenting inaccurate attacks from the left that their party is too white, too male, too straight.”
Is the Republican Party too straight? Not one of the 10 LGBTQ members of Congress is a Republican. Is the Republican Party too white? Ninety percent of nonwhite members of Congress are Democrats, while just 10 percent are Republicans. Is the Republican Party too male? There are 108 women in Congress on the Democratic side compared to 23 women on the Republican side.
Such remarks aren’t necessarily surprising: Borelli has for years aligned himself with the homophobic and transphobic leader of his party, President Donald Trump. Borelli served as co-chair of Trump’s 2016 election campaign in New York and continues to stand by the president, who just signaled his opposition to the Equality Act — a comprehensive nondiscrimination bill that would amend the 1964 Civil Rights Act and related federal laws to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity — and has also banned transgender people from serving in the military.
Trump has also moved forward with multiple rules to give healthcare providers the ability to discriminate against LGBTQ people, rolled back protections for transgender students, violated both immigration law and the 2015 marriage equality ruling by denying citizenship to foreign-born kids of gay parents who are American, given adoption agencies the ability to discriminate against same-sex parents, and nixed LGBTQ protections from trade deals. The list goes on and on.
The party’s anti-LGBTQ positions are by no means limited to Trump and his administration, either, despite Borelli’s insistence that “there seems to be a larger presence of openly gay Republicans than ever before” and that “no one in the party really seems to mind.” Just this month, Republicans railed against queer rights during hearings on the Equality Act and every single GOP member present for the House Judiciary Committee vote on May 1 opposed the bill.
Out gay Councilmember Ritchie Torres recently told Gay City News that homophobic Bronx Councilmember Ruben Diaz, Sr., a Democrat, is running for Congress in the wrong party — that he belongs in the Republican Party.
New Yorkers might consider a similar question about Borelli come November: Is he running in the wrong race?
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Hey kids, gather around, ‘screen time’ is now an official word in the dictionary
by Kurt Schlosser on April 26, 2019 at 10:52 am April 26, 2019 at 10:53 am
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Here’s a chance for you to use a bit of your allotted screen time to learn about how screen time is in the news this week.
Merriam-Webster added more than 640 words to its dictionary during the month of April, reporting that the English language never sleeps and that the work of revising a dictionary is constant.
Among those words was screen time, which anyone who has stared at a device or put their kid in front of one has most likely used as a word. Merriam-Webster’s official second definition of the noun is “time spent watching television, playing a video game, or using an electronic device with a screen (such as a smartphone or tablet).”
The definition has clearly evolved since its first known usage in 1921, according to Merriam-Webster, when it was used to define “the amount of time someone or something appears on screen in a movie or television show.”
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization released a new set of guidelines this week aimed at kids and devices, and said that infants under 1 year old should not be exposed to electronic screens at all, and children between 2 and 4 should not have more than one hour of “sedentary screen time” each day, as reported by The New York Times.
The intention is for kids to develop healthier habits around exercise and sleep.
A good place to get away from screens might be with an actual printed dictionary.
Writer and editor Kurt Schlosser covers the Geek Life beat for GeekWire. A longtime journalist, photographer and designer, he has worked previously for NBC News, msnbc.com and the Seattle P-I. Follow Kurt on Twitter or reach him at kurt@geekwire.com.
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Object overview
Spade 284.1967
Spade 1969.678
Lossets
Losset 67.1947
Losset 1938.9734
Losset 1887.1
Methers
Mether 34.1953
Mether W62 W179
Mether Wk 184
Scoop 1.1945
Scoop 217.1940
Scoop 1981.274
Shoe 228.1955
Shoe 1904.3
Trough 51.1935
Trough 473.1932
Trough Wk 285
Gaelic Recovery
Richmond Road
Bradford, England, BD7 1DL
67.1947 © Armagh County Museum by gaelicrecovery on Sketchfab
Length 73 cm, Width 53 cm, Depth 6cm
Bellaghy, 1:5000, Historic 6" Map 1842. © Ordnance Survey Ireland, 2017
Infra-red image highlighting scorch mark on underside of 67.1947 © Armagh County Museum
This losset from the collection of the Armagh County Museum, was found at 'a depth of 12 turf' in the bog, near Bellaghy, County Derry. The Irish name for Bellaghy, Bhaile Eachaidh, has most recently been translated as 'Eochaidh's townland'. 'Eochaidh' may refer to Eochaid Mugmedón, who according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, was an ancient High King of Ireland, best known as the father of Niall of the Nine Hostages and ancestor of the Uí Néill and Connachta dynasties.
References in the Literature
The losset is described in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1978) as follows:
"Tray; oval; wooden; with handle at each end; cut from solid; length 73; width 51.4; depth 5.7; split longitudinally and repaired through pairs of holes; near one end is an oval knot hole surrounded by a ring of perforations for a patch now missing. Found at a depth of 'twelve turf' in Bellaghy Bog. When the tray was first discovered the oval hole therein was covered with leather which appeared to be in good condition but soon rotted away".
The extent of the repairs on this object- both in binding the two large pieces back together, and in patching the hole, suggests that the object was either highly valued, or that the effort involved in making a replacement was considerable.
The infra-red image of the area around the hole in this object highlights the extent of the scorch mark visible in the model above. The scorch mark indicates that the object was used in the vicinity of an open fire, and we can perhaps imagine the owners dismay at discovering the damage. The infra-red image also highlights the large 'flecks' throughout the wooden surface, otherwise known as 'rays'. Large rays which are visible to the naked eye are a a feature of oak wood. Species analysis carried out in the past (Scannell, 1980) confirms that the vessel is made from oak.
GET IN TOUCH ABOUT THIS OBJECT
Scannell, M. (1980) Report on wooden trays, methers and other objects from Armagh Museum. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dublin, Ireland.
Weatherup, D. R. M. (1978) Armagh County Museum Archaeological Acquisitions 1935-1959. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 108 23-50.
1938.9734 © National Museum of Ireland by gaelicrecovery on Sketchfab
1887.1 © National Museum of Ireland by gaelicrecovery on Sketchfab
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Middle-lane hoggers under fire for causing motorway congestion
More than three out of five motorists believe congestion on motorways has increased in the past year.
Michael Broomhead
Published: 11:23 Thursday 02 November 2017
More than three out of five motorists believe congestion on motorways has increased in the past year, according to new research.
An RAC poll of 1,727 drivers found that 61 per cent think motorway traffic has got worse over the past 12 months.
The reasons given for increased congestion include major roadworks (47 per cent) and middle-lane hogging (45 per cent).
Amanda Stretton, motoring editor at Confused.com, said: "It's unsurprising that many drivers are blaming middle-lane hogging as one of the main causes of extended motorway journey times.
"Our research showed that one in three drivers (32 per cent) admit to being a middle-lane hogger - so there's a fair few offenders out there.
"Worryingly, almost two in five (37 per cent) UK drivers are unaware that middle-lane hogging is a punishable offence and drivers can lose three points off their licence.
"This was made clear when I went out on the road to see how the offence is policed.
"It was astounding to see just how many hoggers there really are, clogging up the motorway when the left-hand lane was entirely clear.
"Middle lanes aren't for coasting in and drivers who do this can cause congestion and make other perform dangerous manoeuvres to get around them.
"Not only could you find yourself with a £100 fine or points, you could also put your own life and others at risk."
Motorists' perceptions of congestion are backed up by Department for Transport (DFT) statistics showing that 323.7 billion miles were driven on Britain's roads in 2016, up 2.2 per cent on the previous year.
A DFT spokesman said: "This Government is investing a record £23billion in our roads to improve journeys for motorists - the biggest investment in a generation.
"We are also giving councils record amounts of capital funding - more than £7.1bn up to 2021."
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Editor's LetterJune 2, 2014
The 100-Day War
Jerry Tarde
Dylan Coulter
BOYS OF SUMMER: Keegan Bradley, Joe Felder and Billy Mitchell (below) give inspiration for improvement this year.
I was lucky enough as a young man to get a junior membership (for 900 bucks a year) at Winged Foot Golf Club
, where the legacy of Tommy Armour was still palpable in the upstairs locker room 10 years after his last gin game. My friend Herb Graffis ghost-wrote Armour's best-seller, How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time, and I was mesmerized by Herb's description of the writing process. "I holed up in a hotel room on a hot summer night and stripped to my boxer shorts," Herb said. "All I remember is two cases of cold beer beside the bed. When I woke up, the beer was gone and the book was done." (On the other hand, see our research on how drinking affects the golf process.)
Winged Foot was and is a golfer's club. There are no tennis courts. I've been a member now 35 years and have never seen the swimming pool. Everybody on the premises breathes the game. Summertime is all about taking lessons, practicing and playing more. It has the world's best practice green and the world's worst practice range (rubber mats); neither stops the ball-beaters. I had my best summer ever when I hit a shag bag of 50 balls three times every night—half and three-quarter wedges only.
Keegan Bradley in our cover story this month advises even shorter strokes to improve your full swing. He thinks the key to a winning summer is in working on your chipping, period. What he and his pro Chuck Cook call the "square pinch".
Felder and Mitchell
Creative Director Ken DeLago came up with the summer theme for this issue, drawn from his early days at Innis Arden Golf Club
in Old Greenwich, Conn., where the pro was the legendary William A. (Billy) Mitchell. You could win "Billy Bucks" with his picture on currency redeemable for merchandise in the shop, and every year he would promote "The 100-Day War." It started on Memorial Day weekend and ended on Labor Day and added up to about 100 days of summer golf.
Billy would help you win the 100-Day War with lessons, encouragement and a sunup-to-sundown smile that made everybody feel welcome at the club. Mitchell's assistant, Joe Felder, moved on to become the head pro at The Griff, a neighboring public course, for the past 25 years and has taken on the 100-Day War campaign, which he posts every May on his Facebook page. DeLago now takes lessons from Felder, the 2013 Metropolitan (New York) PGA Professional of the Year. What are they working on this summer? "Finishing the swing and staying in balance," says Joe, good advice for any season.
Butch Harmon tells stories of what summers were like at Winged Foot when his father, Claude, was the club pro and Armour was the éminence grise—can you imagine having to choose between those two for lessons? "Every year, Mr. Armour would order 100 sets of regular-shafted Silver Scot irons, which went into a storage room at Winged Foot. He'd play with the members, and when they'd struggle he'd tell them, 'Mr. So-and-so, I'm going to call the MacGregor factory and order up a set of clubs that fits your swing perfectly.' The member would be delighted. When the round was over, Mr. Armour would walk into the shop and tell my dad, 'Claude, in two weeks, take out the stiffs from Mr. So-and-so's bag and stick in a set of the regular shafts.' My dad would do it, and in those days everything was bust-out retail. They'd sell all 100 sets and never had an unhappy customer."
Our equipment editors believe in a bit more science these days, but the prescription might end up the same. Play more golf and enjoy the summer.
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#6/15 Saint Joseph’s Tops Anna Maria, 4-0
Saint Joseph's (Me.) (13-0-0, 9-0-0) 1 3 4
Anna Maria (2-10-1, 0-7-1) 0 0 0
1st - 20:11 - Noah Robinson (Saint Joseph's (Me.))
2nd - 52:19 - Mitchell Duncan (Saint Joseph's (Me.))
2nd - 67:08 - Noah Robinson (Saint Joseph's (Me.))
2nd - 73:08 - Dalton Gaumer (Saint Joseph's (Me.))
G: Noah Robinson - 2
A: Brett Mattos - 2
Sh: 5 Players (#3, #8, #16, #19, #32) - 4
Sv: David Walbridge - 1
Sh: 2 Players (#4, #7) - 1
Sv: Jeffre Donahue - 19
PAXTON, Mass. - #6/15 Saint Joseph's College (12-0-0, 8-0-0 GNAC) defeated Anna Maria College (2-9-1, 0-6-1 GNAC), 4-0, in a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) men's soccer game on Saturday night.
Junior Noah Robinson (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) scored a pair of goals and senior Brett Mattos (Mahopac, N.Y.) was credited with two assists in a victory that extended the Monks' undefeated streak to 33 games, the longest current undefeated stretch in NCAA DIII Men's Soccer.
Saint Joseph's claimed a 1-0 lead in the 21st minute when Robinson scored off a Mattos feed and doubled the cushion when junior Mitchell Duncan (Sanford, Maine) netted his fourth tally of the season, also off a Mattos pass, at the 52:19 mark.
The Monks' final two goals, scored exactly six minutes apart, came on penalty kick attempts, as Robinson struck at the 67:08 mark and senior Dalton Gaumer (Corona, Calif.) hit pay dirt in the 74th minute to account for the 4-0 final.
SJC sophomore David Walbridge (Hampden, Mass.) earned the shutout in his first career start after making one save while Anna Maria goalie Jeffre Donahue kept the score respectable by making 19 saves in the loss.
Saint Joseph's held sizeable advantages in shots (45-2), shots on goal (23-1), and corner kicks (11-2) in the victory. The Monks set a new team record in shots, breaking the former mark (43) set in a 4-0 win over Rivier University on October 8th, 2011.
Saint Joseph's is now 8-0 all-time versus Anna Maria College and has outscored the AMCATS by a 24-1 margin in the eight meetings collectively.
The Monks return to action Wednesday when they travel to Northfield, Vermont for a clash with GNAC-rival Norwich University. Kick-off between the two undefeated teams is set for 7:00 PM.
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Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple, Replaced by Tim Cook
Adam Mills
In a fairly shocking turn of events, Apple’s Board of Directors has announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Apple and that company COO Tim Cook will take his place as the company’s CEO. This will take effect immediately. However, Jobs will stay on with the company as Chairman of the Board.
The move was announced via press release and quotes Apple board member Ari Levinson as saying that:
Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company. Steve has made countless contributions to Apple’s success, and he has attracted and inspired Apple’s immensely creative employees and world class executive team. In his new role as Chairman of the Board, Steve will continue to serve Apple with his unique insights, creativity and inspiration.
Levinson also added:
The Board has complete confidence that Tim is the right person to be our next CEO. Tim’s 13 years of service to Apple have been marked by outstanding performance, and he has demonstrated remarkable talent and sound judgment in everything he does.
Via Flickr – Acaben
Jobs submitted his resignation early today and recommended Tim Cook be his replacement. Jobs’ resignation comes just weeks before Apple is expected to launch the next iPhone with the end of September or early October being the most probable launch windows.
We still don’t know exactly why Jobs has resigned but Apple’s CEO has been battling health issues for quite some time now.
Here is Jobs’ resignation letter:
CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community:
I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.
I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.
As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.
I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.
I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.
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British Rule in Tanzania East Africa After World War 1
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After mandate to administer the former German colony ,the British changed Tanzania to what it is today. Therefore, this page will show you all what happened after the collapse of Germany rule in Tanzania.
The mandate to administer the former German colony was conferred on the United Kingdom under the terms of the Supreme Council of the League of Nations.
With the concurrence of the Supreme Council, the United Kingdom transferred the provinces of Ruanda-Urundi, in the northwest, to Belgium.
These provinces contained three-sevenths of the population and more than half the cattle of the colony.
The boundaries of the East Indies Station were enlarged in 1919 to include Zanzibar and what was the littoral of German East Africa. Dar-es-Salaam remained the seat of Government of the colony and the first Administrator was Sir Horace Archer Byatt CMG.
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He embarked it on its course as an African country, improved its health and agriculture and made slavery illegal. He also did much for its economy. In Dar-es-Salaam you can see the house he rebuilt – now lived in by the President.
The native troops went back quietly to their villages and the few Germans that remained were reported as settling down under the new administration.
1920s: border resolution
In 1920, by the Tanganyika Order in Council, 1920, the Office of Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Territory was constituted.
The colony was renamed Tanganyika Territory in 1920. In 1921 the Belgians transferred the Kigoma district, which they had administered since the occupation, to British administration.
The United Kingdom and Belgium signed an agreement regarding the border between Tanganyika and Ruanda-Urundi in 1924.
The administration of the Territory continued to be carried out under the terms of the mandate until its transfer to the Trusteeship System under the Charter of the United Nations by the Trusteeship Agreement of December 13, 1946.
1926: Africanisation policy
British policy was to rule indirectly through African leaders. In 1926, a Legislative Council was established, which was to advise the governor.
The British administration took measures to revive African institutions by encouraging limited local rule, and authorized the formation in 1922 of political clubs such as the Tanganyika Territory African Civil Service Association.
In 1926 some African members were unofficially admitted into the Legislative Council and in 1929 the Association became the Tanganyika African Association which would constitute the core of the nascent nationalist movement.
In 1945 the first Africans were effectively appointed to the Governor's Legislative Council.
Late 1920s: railway development
In 1928 the railway line Tabora-Mwanga was opened to traffic, the line from Moshi to Arusha in 1929. In 1919 the population was estimated at 3,500,000.
In 1931 a census established the population of Tanganyika at 5,022,640 natives, in addition to 32,398 Asians and 8,228 Europeans.
Health and education initiatives
Under British rule, efforts were undertaken to fight the Tsetse fly (a carrier of sleeping sickness), and to fight malaria and bilharziasis; more hospitals were built.
In 1926, the Colonial administration provided subsidies to schools run by missionaries, and at the same time established its authority to exercise supervision and to establish guidelines.
Yet in 1935, the education budget for the entire country of Tanganyika amounted to only (US) $290,000, although it is unclear how much this represented at the time in terms of purchasing power parity. In 1933, Sir Horace Hector Hearne was appointed as Puisne Judge, Tanganyika Territory, and acted as Chief Justice of Tanganyika in 1935 and 1936. He held the post until 1936/1937 when he went on to be a similar job in Ceylon.
1943: 100,000-acre (405 km2) Tanganyika wheat scheme
The British Government decided to develop wheat growing to help feed a war-ravaged and severely rationed Britain and eventually Europe at the hoped-for Allied victory at the end of the Second World War.
An American farmer in Tanganyika, Freddie Smith, was in charge, and David Gordon Hines was the accountant responsible for the finances.
The scheme had 50,000 acres (202 km2) on the Ardai plains just outside Arusha; 25,000 acres (101 km2) on Mount Kilimanjaro; and 25,000 acres (101 km2) towards Ngorongoro to the west.
All the machinery was lend/lease from the USA, including 30 tractors, 30 ploughs, and 30 harrows.
There were western agricultural and engineering managers. Most of the workers were Italian prisoners of war from Somalia and Ethiopia: excellent, skilled engineers and mechanics.
The Ardai plains were too arid to be successful, but there were good crops in the Kilimanjaro and Ngorongoro areas.
1940s and 1950s: farming co-operatives
British colonial policy in the 1940s and 1950s encouraged the development of farming co-operatives to partially convert subsistence farmers to cash husbandry.
Before co-operatives, the farmers sold their produce to Indian traders at poor prices. The responsible colonial officer David Gordon Hines from 1947 to 1959 achieved the vast expansion of the co-operatives.
Co-operative offices throughout the country showed the members how to elect committees, keep their books, and market produce.
Co-operatives formed "unions" for their areas and developed cotton gineries, coffee factories, and tobacco dryers. A major success for Tanzania was the Moshi coffee auctions that attracted international buyers after the annual Nairobi auctions.
No Mau Mau violence
In the early 1950s the Mau Mau movement of violent resistance to British rule was active in neighbouring Kenya.
The Tanganyika government expected the violence to spread to Tanganyika, especially in the north where the Wa-Chagga live — but violence did not spread there from Kenya.
1940s - 1950s transition to self government
After World War II, Tanganyika became a UN territory under British control. Subsequent years witnessed Tanganyika moving gradually toward self-government and independence.
In 1954, Julius Nyerere, the future leader of Tanzania, who was then a school teacher and one of only two Tanganyikans educated abroad at the university level, organized a political party—the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU).
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Ohio RFI Leverages Assets to Achieve Broadband Access Goals
The request for information is an early element of InnovateOhio strategy, currently under development. The initiative is being led by Lt. Gov. Jon Husted with the goal of providing Internet access to underserved Ohioans.
by Patrick Groves / June 20, 2019
Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted’s office announced an RFI today to explore the options for increasing broadband access for residents.
The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and InnovateOhio, headed by Husted, will consider opening fiber-optic and telecommunications rights-of-way controlled by the state to broadband providers in exchange for investment in improving access to underserved Ohioans.
The state plans to leverage seven assets to achieve wired or wireless access for all residents, according to the RFI. These include the ODOT Intelligent Transportation System, the U.S. 33 Smart Corridor and ODOT right of way, among others.
Husted said in a prepared statement that service providers are not proactively expanding coverage in the state and a new tactic is to entice them.
“You can’t be a part of the modern economy and education system without access to high-speed Internet,” he said. “… so we are pushing it into action and asking the private sector to work with us to help the people in these areas. By leveraging public assets, we can get people access to the technology infrastructure they need to succeed.”
In a press release, Gov. Mike DeWine said his administration is serious in its endeavor to widen broadband access to every corner of his state. He said poor connectivity can have a detrimental effect on business, education and emergency services.
“We want ideas from businesses, both large and small, community leaders, and anyone with an idea for how we can start making real progress on this issue,” DeWine said.
ODOT Director Jack Marchbanks joined the chorus of determination surrounding the RFI in the press release. Marchbanks said the rights-of-way are important elements ensuring the safe, efficient transit of people and goods throughout the state.
“We strongly support Governor DeWine and Lieutenant Governor Husted’s goals to leverage this valuable real estate for the benefit of all Ohioans by identifying how we can use them to increase broadband access in the state,” he said.
The solicitation will be open for 21 days and is an early step in an InnovateOhio-led expansion strategy under development.
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ALBUM CREDITS AND WHY THEY’RE IMPORTANT
new kanye west album out now , “YE”, https://tidal.com/album/89768255
Today a new Kanye album has released and it sparked something in me about album credits. Being that I heard the album during a livestream it made me wonder about who produced what, who’s featured, what are the name of these samples??!
Gone are the days of flipping through that CD book admiring the fresh photo shoot, reading the thank you note, and of course the album credits(which sometime featured lyrics).
Album credits are essential to an album because you can see everyone who contributed to the sound that are pleasing to your ears.
For example, Kanye West’s All of The Lights from his 2010 album “MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY”. It was like a thousand people on that song and without the credits it would hard to identify everyone who was apart of that song.
1. everyone’s voice wasn’t distinguishable
2. Every person behind each instrument/lyric cannot be identified.
My album. FIRST OF HIS NAME, out now , go to the music tab to listen. Also on all streaming platforms.
Album credits add to the excitement of the album. Even with my own album, if you check the iTunes info you can see the names of people I went to school with and samples I’ve used that may not be identifiable. It makes people wanna listen even more when they can identify with something so close to them like seeing they’re on name or hearing themselves.
With the digital takeover, the CD collector has been at a disadvantage with fully capturing the moment of purchasing a new album.
But thanks to Platforms like TIDAL that include the credits, users can get a sense of the old times once more.
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Possil – Man arrested after police 'in riot gear' storm flat
Officers swooped on Barloch Street after man barricaded himself within the property
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A man has been arrested after police swooped on a flat in the Possil area of Glasgow in dramatic scenes yesterday.
Images on social media showed officers in riot gear and carrying shields at the scene in Barloch Street for several hours yesterday evening.
A spokeswoman for Police Scotland told Glasgow Live a man barricaded himself in the property.
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A 51-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident and will appear in court tomorrow.
A Police Scotland spokeswoman said: "Police were called to a property on Barloch Street, Glasgow after a man barricaded himself within.
"Emergency services attended and a 51-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident. He is due to appear in Glasgow Sheriff Court tomorrow.
"A report will be sent to the Procurator Fiscal."
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The MTVR Armor System (MAS) was designed for the 7-ton MTVR. The kit provided complete 360-degree protection, as well as overhead and underbody protection for the crew compartment utilizing Mil-A-46100 High Hard Steel and Metal Composite. Options for the kit included a personnel carrier configuration. The MAS came in two versions. These were a standard configuration and a Reducible MAS that was designed to meet the height restrictions when deployment aboard naval ships and when installed allowed the vehicle to be reducible to 98 inches. The armor kit weighted 10,500 pounds for both the cargo and personnel configurations.
On 7 September 2004 the Oshkosh Truck Corp. of Oshkosh, Wisconsin was awarded an estimated $204,000,000 firm-fixed-price delivery order by Marine Corps Systems Command under previously awarded contract for production, delivery and installation of 920 of ECP-58 MTVR Armor Kits to be installed on the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) Standard Cargo vehicles. Work for the armor hardware would be performed by Plasan Sasa in Israel (75 percent) and the raw material hardware would come from various steel manufacturers throughout the United States (25 percent). Work was expected to be completed in December 2005. This contract was not competitively procured. Oshkosh Truck Corp. was the sole manufacturer of the MTVR family of vehicles.
The crew cab and/or cargo body perimeter armor were designed for the MTVR. The perimeter armor was required to withstand multiple (up to 3 rounds within one square foot) 7.62x39 M80 ball rounds fired from a one-meter standoff (threshold) with a 7.62 x 39 Armor Piercing (AP) rounds fired from a one hundred-meter offset (objective). The perimeter armor was required to withstand all fragmentation smaller than 1 inch from an Improvised Explosive Devise (IED) detonated at 4 meters with a 1/4 pound of C4 (objective). The mine protection kit would protect the crew and/or cargo space occupants from blast, fragments, and injurious acceleration effects of blast mines up to the equivalent of 12 pounds of composition B (threshold), 16 pounds of composition B (objective). The bottom fragmentation protection was required to be equivalent to 0.5 inches of aluminum armor (threshold), rolled homogeneous armor (objective), in order to protect the crew from grenades, bomblets, and mortar rounds used as mines. Overhead protection for the crew compartment had to stop 90 percent of artillery fragments (US 155mm high energy (HE) round, M107 (Composition B)) fired from any elevation or azimuth and detonated 60 meters from the vehicle, with a 90 percent confidence level.
In a large warehouse outside of Kuwait City civilian contractors from more than 25 countries around the world work in 2, 12-hour shifts, 7 days a week. They were working around the clock in temperatures reaching 120 degrees to ensure US Marines were protected from improvised explosive devices and small-arms fire during convoy operations by installing new panels, dubbed up-armor, to the gunner's turret, undercarriage and sides of their vehicles. Beginning on 16 July 2004, more than 60 MTVR 7-ton trucks and HMMWVs from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit had been fitted with the new armor plates. The up-armor project began in February 2004 when Marine commanders wanted 100 percent side protection on their vehicles. Headquarters, Marine Corps sent a request to Logistics Command to come up with a design for the new armor. Within 28 days of the request, the new up-armor had been prototyped, tested, approved and installed on vehicles headed to Iraq from the I Marine Expeditionary Force.
Armor Holdings, Inc. a leading manufacturer and distributor of security products and vehicle armor systems, announced on 5 October 2004 that it had received a contract award from Oshkosh Truck Company for approximately $115 million to support the US Marine Corps Medium Tactical Truck Vehicle Replacement program (MTVR). The Oshkosh Truck Company had contracted with Armor Holdings' Aerospace and Defense Group to provide armor component systems integration, program management, and systems engineering support.
Armor Holdings estimated that 2004 revenue resulting from the MTVR program would be minimal and as a result did not anticipate adjusting 2004 guidance as a result of this award. Armor Holdings noted that the contract was representative of a developing trend within its business toward armoring an ever-broadening range of vehicle platforms. Armor Holdings produced armoring solutions for a total of 7 different vehicle platforms, including light, medium, and heavy tactical trucks.
Armor Holdings in turn subcontracted to its Israeli based partner, Plasan Sasa, for production of 796 MTVR armor kits to be delivered to the USMC, primarily in 2005. On 12 October 2004 Plasan Sasa, leading developers and manufacturers of combat proven ballistic protection products, announced that it has won a new US Department of Defense contract worth over $100 million as a subcontractor for Armor Holdings Inc. The contract called for Plasan to mount its advanced Armor Protection Kit (APK) on 920 Oshkosh Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR), to be fully deployed by the US Marines by 2005. The contract placed Plasan among the small number of companies worldwide that worked with the US Navy in the field of add-on armor for lightweight military vehicles and trucks.
Plasan's solution for both the armor protection itself and the design of the rear troop carrier complied with the highest technological demands stipulated by the US Navy at the time. Engineered from composite materials, Plasan's battle-proven armor solution was tailored to meet the multiple challenges of various contemporary combat scenarios, from traditional battlefields and urban warfare to low intensity conflicts (LIC). The armor was chosen for the high level of all-round protection it provided to both vehicle and crew against Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), mines and other threats. In addition, Plasan's highly cost-effective APK allowed easy and swift assembly and disassembly by crews in the field, according to changing mission specifications. Its fully modular nature allowed it to be easily transferred from one vehicle to another.
Plasan's Armor Protection Kit (APK) was chosen over those from competing contractors after extensive rigorous tests by the USMC, in order to ensure the troops had the most effective protection. The new contract followed on from Plasan's earlier successful cooperation with Armor Holdings Inc. to develop add-on armor for the M915 series of trucks. The project proved Plasan's ability to create the most advanced tailor-made solutions specially designed against customer's specific requirements.
Plasan Sasa was a preferred supplier to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and an approved supplier to Ministries of Defense around the world. The focus of its core business was the development, manufacture and assembly of Add-On Armor Protection Kits (APK's) for lightweight military tactical track and wheeled vehicles (APCs/Trucks), fixed and rotary wing aircraft, naval platforms and commercial vehicles, as well as personnel protection armor.
Around 10 November 2004, the Maintenance Center received direction from Marine Corps Systems Command, through Logistics Command, to receive, prepare and ship protective armor kits to II Marine Expeditionary Unit, at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, prior to its scheduled deployment. Upon receiving the raw material from the vendor, Maintenance Center personnel from just about every cost work center joined forces to tackle the job.
Armor plates, pre-cut 3/8-inch metal, were to be blasted, painted and bent to fit the specific vehicles they were tasked to prepare the kits for. Kits had to be produced for the Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR), both doors and underbody, and for the 5-ton trucks, doors and underbody. The only thing they had to do other than prepare the kits was manufacture the brackets and hardware that were needed to mount the plates. Those had to be done in-house in just a few days.
The 5-ton truck kits were delivered to Camp Lejeune by 3 December 2004 and the MTVR kits were there by 6 December 2004. More requirements were expected to come in at a later date. There was the possibility of Maintenance Center Barstow being tasked with designing and producing kits for the P-19 Fire truck, as well as producing kits for some of the ambulances, which were being tested at the time in the Nevada desert.
Maintenance Center Albany concentrated more on producing Marine Armor Kits for the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV), which contained under armor, new style doors, roof armor, rear armor and ballistic windshields. This was the main reason MCB was given the task of producing the MTVR and 5-ton truck kits. MCB contribution helped take some of the pressure off Albany and allow them to fully concentrate on the hummer kits.
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Packers will save significant money on new coach Matt LaFleur's contract
Packers coach Matt LaFleur will average between $5 million-$5.5 million per year on a four-year contract that includes a fifth-year club option.
Packers will save significant money on new coach Matt LaFleur's contract Packers coach Matt LaFleur will average between $5 million-$5.5 million per year on a four-year contract that includes a fifth-year club option. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: https://www.packersnews.com/story/sports/nfl/packers/2019/01/10/packers-will-save-significant-money-on-new-coach-matt-lafleurs-contract/2538009002/
Tom Silverstein, Packers News Published 1:02 p.m. CT Jan. 10, 2019 | Updated 2:49 p.m. CT Jan. 10, 2019
Packers introduce Matt LaFleur as new head coach
New Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur is introduced during a press conference in the Lambeau Field media auditorium Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
New Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur laughs as team president Mark Murphy, right, utters an expletive as LaFleur is introduced during a press conference in the Lambeau Field media auditorium Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy talks about the head coach interview experience as new head coach Matt LaFleur is introduced during a press conference in the Lambeau Field media auditorium Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
New Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur's father Denny looks on during media questioning as LaFleur is introduced during a press conference in the Lambeau Field media auditorium Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
The family of new Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur looks on during media questioning as LaFleur is introduced during a press conference in the Lambeau Field media auditorium Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
New Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, right, laughs with general manager Brian Gutekunst as LaFleur is introduced during a press conference in the Lambeau Field media auditorium Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
New Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur, center, is introduced during a press conference in the Lambeau Field media auditorium with general manager Brian Gutekunst, left, and team president Mark Murphy Wednesday, January 9, 2019 in Green Bay, Wis. Jim Matthews/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin/@jmatthe79
GREEN BAY – New Green Bay Packers coach Matt LaFleur won’t make as much as his predecessor Mike McCarthy, but that's not unexpected for someone new to the position.
McCarthy made more than $8 million in the second-to-last year of his existing contract and was due to make in that neighborhood again in 2019.
LaFleur, according to two league sources, will average between $5 million and $5.5 million per year on a four-year contract that includes a fifth-year club option. It is a solid deal for someone who had been an offensive coordinator for just two years and called plays for just one.
The Packers certainly held a lot of leverage in negotiations given LaFleur didn’t have any other teams pursuing him for a head-coach position. More than likely they could have gotten a bargain deal on a first-time head coach.
According to one source who negotiates coaching contracts, LaFleur would rank about 25th in the NFL in average salary if he were at $5 million a year. The high end of the coaching scale is $10 million per year.
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As with many coaching contracts, if LaFleur has success, the Packers will try to extend the deal and give him a raise. McCarthy signed a lucrative extension after winning the Super Bowl in 2010 that raised his average much closer to the top range.
LaFleur is in the range of the coaches most recently hired. The group that has been tabbed for coaching positions this year consists mostly of first-time head coaches and their salaries will reflect that.
The Packers will be paying both LaFleur's and McCarthy’s salaries this year, which means they’ll be coughing up about $14 million in head-coaching salary.
LaFleur, meanwhile, is working to solidify his coaching staff, and two of the people that have been discussed since he was introduced Wednesday are San Francisco 49ers running game coordinator Mike McDaniel and 49ers passing game coordinator Mike LaFleur.
The latter is Matt LaFleur’s brother.
All three of the men worked together in Atlanta, when 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan was the offensive coordinator. Shanahan took McDaniel and Mike LaFleur with him to San Francisco, while Matt LaFleur went to the Los Angeles Rams.
Matt LaFleur is going to have a hard time prying either of the two away from Shanahan. Since the job does not involve play-calling and isn’t a huge promotion, Shanahan is likely to deny LaFleur’s request to hire either one.
However, nothing is official yet and Matt LaFleur will have to have a contingency plan if Shanahan denies his request.
The only time a team must allow one of its coaches under contract to interview is if the position being offered is head coach.
As for the rest of the offensive staff, offensive line coach James Campen will probably draw a lot of interest if LaFleur goes in another direction. A source said the Minnesota Vikings have vetted Campen as a possible addition as offensive line coach.
But Campen is under contract and LaFleur would have to let him go.
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Solar-Powered Lumberjacks Celebrate Football Season with Sun Club
Many people have a bucket list – a list of things they want to do or accomplish in their lifetime. I never expected that it would be possible to fire a cannon at a college football game. Had I known, I would have put it on my list and crossed it off this weekend when I had the unique opportunity to fire a 1952 military-grade cannon, nicknamed Ole Cotton, at a Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) Lumberjacks football game. This distinct honor was given to me in recognition of the dedication of the solar donation to the university by the Green Mountain Energy Sun Club®.
Earlier in the day, we officially flipped the switch on SFA’s first solar array, a 12.75-kW installation on the roof of the new Conservation Education Center at the SFA Gardens on campus – that’s enough solar to produce as much as 80 percent of the new building’s electricity needs for the next 25-30 years!
The Center was established to promote, develop and integrate year-round environmental education programs for students and visitors. Because of this focus on sustainability and education, it was a perfect fit for a solar donation from the Sun Club. Thanks to the web-based solar monitor, the faculty and students can also view real-time energy production from each panel and compare when the array is most efficient throughout the year.
The day at the Gardens was called Solar Saturday. Following the dedication ceremony, fifth-grade students from a local school performed a fun play about solar energy for about 50 people in attendance. Then all kids were encouraged to stop at six different stations to learn about solar energy. Those completing at least three stations earned a Solar Champion button.
The 51 panels that make up the array were paid for by a $30,000 donation to the university. The solar panels will serve as a valuable education tool for the university and the thousands of visitors who come to the SFA Gardens each year for their big plant sale fundraiser or to hike or bike on the miles of paths throughout the piney woods acreage maintained by the institution.
To learn more about the Sun Club and how YOU can help us donate more solar to great non-profits like SFA, please visit www.gmsunclub.com.
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Swamp Rabbit Cafe and Grocery to expand
The Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery has been awarded a $100,000 USDA grant.
Swamp Rabbit Cafe and Grocery to expand The Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery has been awarded a $100,000 USDA grant. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: http://grnol.co/1LyBIpD
David Dykes, ddykes@greenvillenews.com Published 6:14 p.m. ET Oct. 16, 2015 | Updated 12:05 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2015
Cyclists bike the Swamp Rabbit Trail next to the Swamp Rabbit Cafe and Grocery.(Photo: Staff/File)Buy Photo
The Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture that its owners say will help the local grocer more than double in size and increase its ability to act as a regional food hub.
The Swamp Rabbit's owners will contribute a matching amount of $63,368 to the grant from the USDA's Local Food Promotion Program, bringing the total to $163,368, and increasing the capacity to buy, store, process, promote and sell local foods in the Upstate.
In addition, several new jobs will be created.
“We’ve always planned on increasing our capacity to buy more foods from our farmers, but for a small business like ours, raising the capital to do that could take years," said Mary Walsh, the grocer's co-owner. "This grant will allow us to make these improvements now.”
The grocer plans to expand from its current 2,600 square feet to 6,100 square feet. The new space will create a more efficient delivery area for farmers, expand the current kitchen area and equipment and add additional walk-in cooler and freezer space, owners say.
USDA officials say the federal funding will expand the cafe and grocery store operations by investing in storage and processing equipment.
The additions and expansions will allow the business to increase its capacity to purchase local goods by 50 percent, adding at least another 20 new local suppliers, according to the owners.
The Swamp Rabbit Café and Grocery sources products from small family farms as locally as possible, including but not limited to local produce, meats, and dairy products. It works with nearly 150 local farmers and producers to supply the Greenville area and has been the first wholesale account for many budding new farms and local food distributors.
Since its opening in 2011 on Cedar Lane Road, the SRCG has helped revitalize the immediate area along the Swamp Rabbit Trail. In efforts to encourage healthy eating, the grocery accepts and encourages the use of the EBT/SNAP program benefits. The federal grant will help expand marketing to reach lower-income customers, increase awareness that EBT/SNAP benefits are accepted and offer choices for a healthier lifestyle, the cafe and grocery owners say.
The expansion and grant will help create additional kitchen facilities, allowing the business to produce more products from local ingredients, such as its house-made pesto and ready-to-eat items, owners say.
The additional space also will serve as a resource to farmers to create products to sell in the SRCG or on their own, owners say. They also say the kitchen will be conducive to in-house cooking classes to teach home cooks how to use local and seasonal ingredients to create their own meals from scratch.
The USDA's grant program, begun in 2014, has funded 351 projects totaling $24.6 million to support supply-chain activities including processing, aggregating, storing or distributing local and regional food.
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First known as the Meduncook Plantation, Friendship was settled in the mid- 18th century and incorporated as the Town of Friendship in 1807. Many of its earliest residents were descendants of the original pilgrims who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Given its location on the rocky coast of Maine, Friendship has an abiding connection to the sea.
For over 200 years, Friendship fishermen have plied the cold waters beyond its rocky shores to Muscongus Bay and the Gulf of Maine. Its quarrymen provided granite throughout the eastern United States. Today, Friendship has one of the most active lobster fleets on the coast of Maine. Supporting industries such as boatbuilding and trap making are still active in the town. Its picturesque harbor is filled with working lobster boats, and its shores are lined with lobstermen’s co-ops. Driving along the streets in the off-season, you’ll see lobster boats neatly tucked into the yards of the fishermen, along with piles of lobster traps, buoys and pot warp.
It was here that the Friendship sloop, designed for navigating the coastal waters and hauling lobster traps, became famous. Wilbur Morse was the most prolific builder of Friendship sloops, some of which still sail today. The boat pictured below was designed and built by Winfield Lash of the Lash Brothers Boatyard.
Wilbur Morse, Boatbuilder
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Analysis Peretz’s Return to the Israeli Labor Party Is a Slap in the Face for Ehud Barak
The former PM, who just made his own comeback, was banking on one of the younger candidates to win so their parties could merge – making him the undisputed leader
There is something sad and melancholy when a party elects a leader who led it 14 years ago and is almost 70 years old. Amir Peretz s victory was no surprise; his two rivals, Itzik Shmuli and Stav Shaffir, were...
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Turkey: Prime Minister Erdogan's AKP Party Wins Local Elections
By David Sim
March 31, 2014 11:15 BST
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed a decisive win for his party in local elections.
Erdogan's Justice and Development Party (AKP) secured nearly 47% of the vote, while the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) polled 28%.
Following his victory, Erdogan has warned that his rivals will "pay the price" for trying to bring about his downfall.
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The results were a big boost for the prime minister following a tumultuous corruption scandal.
Last week Turkey suspended access to Twitter, which has been a conduit for links to recordings suggesting corruption by Erdogan's government. Then access to YouTube was blocked following the leak of an audio recording of a top security meeting at which officials allegedly discussed a military intervention in neighbouring Syria.
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Nigeria rakes in over USD $25bn dollars in export value, spends close to $10bn on imports within eight years in West- Africa
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NIGERIA is considered the largest economy in Africa with a Gross Domestic Product change rate of 1.9 per cent in 2018 and projected to hit 2.1 percent by the International Monetary Fund in 2019, thereby making her a huge potential beneficiary of African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement.
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In West-African, from 2010 to 2017, Nigeria raked in over $25 billion from her export activities with other West –African nations. Cote D’Ivorie comes top amongst nations to which Nigeria sell, contributing a total sum of almost $14billion dollars, followed closely by Senegal at over $4billion dollars, Ghana at $2.8billion, Togo $1.4bn and Liberia, $870million.
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Also, in eight years, Nigeria had spent almost $10billion dollars on importations within the region. Cote D’Ivoire tops the list of five countries from which Nigeria imports in West Africa, with export values amounting to $4.47billion, followed by Niger, $2.12billion; Ghana, $1.21 billion; Mauritania $383million; and Togo, $338million.
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Why Do Full Moons Bring SO Many Feels?
By Leona Moon
In Astrology, Full moon
If we start to track our major life milestones—breakups, new jobs, marriages, having children—a pattern emerges. Full moons in particular are often when some of our most emotional and dramatic events unfold. (They’re essentially the astrological version of the Real Housewives cast.) Shifts, changes, and transformations in our lives correlate directly with the lunar cycle and what’s happening up above us in the sky.
But why do full moons have such an intense hold over us? Let’s take a deeper look at what makes full moons so powerful.
Why Full Moons Make Us So Emotional
Plain and simple: The moon rules our emotions, and when it’s full, it’s at maximum capacity. Our feeling sector is on overdrive and our triggers and sensitivities are heightened.
If you think about it, it does make sense. As astrologer Lisa Stardust told Bustle, our bodies do consist of 50 to 70 percent water… and the moon does have magnetic pull over tides. Should it not stand to reason that it should cause energetic shifts within us as well?
In astrology, the full moon portion of the lunar cycle is when the sky is illuminated the most. It’s a cosmic spotlight—highlighting areas we’ve been unable to see, or have overlooked. So, it would make sense that some drama would accompany this lunar event. Our previous ways of thinking and feeling are now challenged and unknown truths are now exposed. It’s up to us (and how the other planets are aspecting the full moon in the sky) how we receive and react to that new information.
The light of the full moon can also illuminate our “shadow” side. Shadow work is incredibly tough, painful, and energetically draining. We aren’t able to hide from our shadow self under the full moon’s light. The behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and patterns we wish we could keep shoved away deep down are bound to surface. We’re triggered easily and more sensitive in general.
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The Cons of Full Moon Emotions
When the moon is full, it is on the exact opposite side of the earth from the sun. The sun, which represents our outer self and personality, and the moon, which rules over our emotional state, are in stark contrast. These two opposing energies can encourage drama, encouraging different perspectives, which in turn can cause confusion, or aggression and hostility to surface.
Feeling more than just a little emotional isn’t the only affect a full moon could have; it can have physical affects as well. Because this phase tends to create energy, many people are unable to sleep during a full moon cycle. This could be highlighted even more if the full moon is also taking place in an energetic zodiac sign, like June 17’s Sagittarius full moon for example.
The Pros of Full Moon Emotions
One of the many endless splendors of the full moon is that it marks a period of competition and the end of a cycle. It’s the perfect time to release behaviors and patterns that no longer serve your highest good. It’s a time for forgiveness and letting go. And endings also bring fresh starts. You’re able to simply transform yourself and your attitude under these moonbeams.
Another quality of our favorite monthly astrological affair? Creating energy. People describe feeling frantic, energized, and inspired.
Overall, full moons serve a bevy of underlying fundamental needs for all people: The ability to confront, release, reflect, feel, move on, and start fresh.
Lead photo courtesy of @brandi.van.nevel
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Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told
By: Ilan Sheady
In: Movies
Spider Baby Blu-ray Review
Written by Ilan Sheady
Blu-ray released by Arrow Video
Written and directed by Jack Hill
1968, Region B/2, 81 minutes, Rated 18 (UK)
Blu-ray released on 24th June 2012
Lon Chaney Jr. as Bruno
Carol Ohmart as Emily Howe
Quinn K. Redeker as Peter Howe
Beverly Washburn as Elizabeth Merrye
Jill Banner as Virginia Merrye
Sid Haig as Ralph Merrye
Arrow Video is a phenomenon. Try as I might, I can't think of any company that has managed to make its products as much a cause for celebration. Being THE distributor of cult movies AND accompanying their digitally restored gems with richly generous special features makes every single film in their library a treasure to own. So it is no surprise that the first waves of releases attracted a huge following, and, like a drug, once you've had your first, you start thinking about your next fix.
I have to confess that initially I only intended to own the classic Argentos (Tenebrae, Inferno) and the Fulcis (The Beyond, City of the Dead), but slowly got hooked into the Romeros (Dawn/Day of the Dead), the Bavas (Mario AND Lamberto) and the Henenlotters (Frankenhooker) and ever since, collectors have started posting and comparing their extensive hoard on Arrow's Facebook page. It wasn't long before it became a free-fall into a full-on addiction.
Now the newest wave of cult titles are hitting the shelves, breathtakingly restored, beautifully commissioned covers and a feast of features ready to inject straight into the display cabinet (placed chronologically, alphabetised by title or separated by director; whichever is your preference).
Spider Baby, a horror comedy directed by exploitation maestro Jack Hill (Foxy Brown, Switchblade Sisters) was first released in 1968 (though it was actually made 4 years earlier). Starring the original Wolf Man Lon Chaney Jr as Bruno, a chauffeur burdened with the task of caring for his deceased employer's three children, Ralph (Sid Haig - The Devil's Rejects), Elizabeth (Beverly Washburn)and Virginia (Jill Banner) who all suffer from a genetic disease that causes them to mentally regress into a more feral state the older they get. For Bruno the situation has been fairly manageable until, out of the blue, the kid's legal guardians turn up, just as Virginia's murderous instincts take form.
As the lawyers and beneficiaries make themselves comfortable it becomes obvious that they have no idea the situation they are in or the fate that awaits them.
On paper this black and white classic reads like an EC comic. In practice however, due to its age, it feels a little more like Addams Family Values with a higher mortality rate. Regardless, it still has some fantastically creepy moments. The buildup to the lawyer's death is shot hauntingly with incredible control over the lighting (credit to cinematographer Alfred Taylor), while Virginia's murderous entrance is definitely a memorable one, but above all Sid Haig shows that, even without the iconic and much quoted Rob Zombie scripts, he can make any scene feel like a ticking time bomb.
Sid's use of body language and facial expressions makes Ralph an intimidating force; his eyes burning into you with equal parts childlike curiosity and predatory instinct. But let's not forget that this is a comedy and the victims of the film are no wallflowers either. Fantastically written for great effect we have the impossibly charming and naive Uncle Peter (Quinn Redeker) delightfully innocent horror fanatic Ann (Mary Mitchel - Dementia 13), secret garter loving prude Aunt Emily (Carol Ohmart - House on Haunted Hill) and diminutive solicitor Schloker (Karl Schanzer - Blood Bath) whose final words spoken are probably the greatest ever put to celluloid.
The glue that keeps the whole film together is the great Lon Chaney who unconditionally loves the children for who they are, but is expected to leave everything behind giving this 'maddest story ever told' its emotional conclusion. But to say he's the star of the movie is unfair to the fantastic ensemble cast. Everybody from the beautifully nutty Virginia to the postman she catches in her 'web' (Mantan Moreland - King of the Zombies) each character makes Spider Baby a delight to watch and may have iconised many staple horror elements like the 'dinner table scene' way before the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It also has more than a passing resemblance to Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses.
Video and Audio:
Though the film was purposefully made in black and white it definitely enhances the movie rather than limits it. Because during filming the light and shade was manipulated to full effect, the restoration makes every shot look glorious presented in its 1.67:1 aspect ratio. Most impressive is the clarity in the darker, indoor and outdoor shots. At no point do you feel lost in areas of pitch blackness.
The sound quality is as good as can be achieved in 2.0 mono. The voices, music, sound effects and ambiance negotiate perfectly with each other with no loss of clarity.
First things first: This is an Arrow title so has an extremely high standard to meet. Arrow releases are in a whole different league from other distributors mainly due to the care and attention that goes into the overall package and this particular title, rather than being 'no exception', raises the bar. It has a commentary with Director Jack Hill and Sid 'Captain Spaulding' Haig with some genuinely insightful reminisces. There is a nostalgic documentary on the making of Spider Baby, interviewing surviving cast, crew and critics followed by a short featurette on the film music career of Ronald Stein, a revisiting of the house and a cast and crew panel interviewing Director Jack Hill, Quinn Redeker and Beverley Washburn at the Linwood Dunn theatre where they reveal their project to restore 400 films from the Academy of Motion Picture archives. There are some little unique tidbits like a photo gallery, trailer, extended scenes and an alternative opening sequence with the original title Cannibal Orgy. The most generous bonus however is the inclusion of Jack Hills’ first short movie, made while still a student and also starring Sid Haig. Together it makes another exceptional title in the collection and places Spider Baby as one of the most jam-packed releases so far, making it a real challenge for any future titles to beat.
In addition, as with all arrow titles, there will also be a collectors booklet and a reversible cover though you'll have to see it for yourself as frustratingly these weren't available for review so I'm going to have to buy a copy for myself.
Author: Ilan Sheady
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Dec 2 2016 4:59PM
Dayton, legislative leaders close to wrapping December special session deal
House Photography file photo
Just in time for Christmas, the Legislature could be providing gifts to many Minnesotans.
Gov. Mark Dayton and caucus leaders met for more than an hour Friday afternoon in hopes of reaching agreement on health care premium cost relief and reviving the bonding and tax bills that failed to be signed into law earlier this year.
While nothing has been finalized, a sense of optimism was present.
“We don’t have a deal … but we outlined the parameters of the three pieces,” Dayton said.
“I’ve been in the room when the deal happens and I feel like I can see it,” said House Speaker Kurt Daudt (R-Crown). “The devil sometimes is in the details.”
Dayton said groups in each area would begin working out details on Monday with their work to be completed by Wednesday. “Then we will know where we stand, what we agree on and what we still don’t agree on. … We’ll see what happens and go from there.”
The plan is for legislators to get the final language Dec. 16, with a special session likely taking place Dec. 20, “give or take one day,” according to Daudt.
He said a special session could take place in a temporary chamber, such as occurred in 2015 when both chambers gathered in State Office Building hearing rooms.
House Speaker Kurt Daudt, center, Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, left, and Gov. Mark Dayton, right, address the media following a meeting on a potential special session in July. House Photography file photo
“Minnesotans certainly deserve relief on the health care premiums and there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to do that,” said Rep. Melissa Hortman (DFL-Brooklyn Park), House Minority Leader-designate. “The real test of whether we have a meeting of the minds on all three components to have a special session will be when the documents are written.”
In terms of a health care rebate, Dayton is urging consideration of a premium rebate program he proposed in late October with a price tag capped at $313 million. He also stressed inclusion of access and continuity of care provisions.
Anything else, he believes, can wait until the Legislature reconvenes for its 2017 session on Jan. 3. Additionally, there is uncertainty at how federal changes could affect health care costs and access.
Dayton said health care relief funds could come from the $334 million that was added earlier in the day to the state’s budget reserve. “We’re talking about an emergency situation … for a lot of people of Minnesota.”
The meeting took place just hours after the state’s latest budget forecast shows a projected $1.4 billion surplus.
“The door could have been slammed today had the forecast gone south,” said Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk (DFL-Cook). “I believe we have adequate resources to be able to accomplish the three really large pieces that are outstanding.”
Daudt indicated the tax bill would be similar to the one passed in May sans the one-word error that would have cost the state more than $100 million.
“The tax bill really has some real tax relief in it for the same people who are impacted by the increases in the premiums, farmers and small-business owners, so they really do fit together,” he said.
The bonding bill would likely omit the $300 million cash that was included in the final product.
“What we did to make room in the bonding bill was move some transportation projects into trunk-highway bonding and then we put some of the governor’s projects in to cash,” Daudt said. “It’s one of those things that needs to be negotiated if we remove the cash from the bill how do we fit those projects in or how do we prioritize what to fit into a bonding bill.”
Bakk doesn’t anticipate passage of a $1 billion bonding bill in 2017, a traditional budget-setting year for the Legislature, nor does he see support for a $2 billion package in 2018.
“What this means to me is all these projects are going to wait until 2018 before they get considered. Construction and inflation are going to require all them to be more expensive. … If the bonding bill waits until ’18, we get a billion dollars behind,” he said.
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Out-of-favour Meyler tight-lipped on exclusion from Reading plans
David Meyler. Photo: Getty Images
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January 11 2019 2:30 AM
David Meyler has indicated that now is not the right time to speak about his exclusion from the first team squad at struggling Reading.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/international-soccer/outoffavour-meyler-tightlipped-on-exclusion-from-reading-plans-37701356.html
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The Ireland international has been told he can leave the club he joined in the summer.
His switch from Hull has turned into a nightmare with Meyler's last appearance coming on September 1. There were injury issues at that stage of the year, but the Corkman is now completely out of favour and is on a list of players told they have no future with the club by new boss Jose Gomes.
The Portuguese replaced Paul Clement who paid the penalty for poor results. Reading currently sit second from bottom in the table.
Gomes has told a number of first team squad members they can go if a club comes forward with the right offer.
Local media in Reading have reported that the unwanted contingent - which includes Meyler - have been ordered to train and eat away from the rest of the group.
Meyler addressed his position on Twitter yesterday by saying: "For those asking me about what's going on with Reading. There's enough negative (stuff) around the place at the moment without me adding to it.
"All focus needs to be on supporting the team to help them turn this situation around."
Earlier this week, his Irish colleague Paul McShane angrily denied that he was in exile and surplus to requirements. He has struggled with fitness issues.
James McCarthy is another Irish player in need of a change in fortunes.
However, Bournemouth have played down suggestions that they will bring the Glaswegian in on loan from Everton.
McCarthy needs games after his recovery from the leg break and was an unused sub in the FA Cup last weekend. West Ham, West Brom and Fulham have also been mentioned as possible destinations.
Injury-plagued Anthony Pilkington has joined Paul Cook's Wigan Athletic on an 18-month deal after leaving Cardiff City.
Meanwhile, Dundalk skipper Stephen O'Donnell says quitting football to take up a new role on the club's backroom staff was a tough call. He has been appointed Senior Opposition Analyst & Scout after a brilliant career hindered by injuries.
"It's something that I haven't taken lightly," said the 32-year-old. "It's time to see the other side of things."
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Teen Girl Fakes Triplet Pregnancy For 10 Months
The girl is accused of buying fake ultrasounds and a fake belly from a prank website.
A 16-year-old girl in Wyandotte, Michigan, could be in triple trouble after she allegedly faked a pregnancy for 10 months.
The friends and family of the unnamed girl were shocked when she announced she was pregnant with three babies, but none more shocked than her boyfriend, Jordan Wyrabkiewicz.
"I was excited, don't get me wrong, but I was scared," he told Fox2Detroit. "I started looking for jobs the best I could. I was ready to donate all my time."
The teen girl had a bulging belly and ultrasound photos of the kids, who she named Ivan, Alice and Isabella, according to CBS Detroit.
To help the young parents get off on the right foot, relatives threw a baby shower for the girl, who also accepted thousands of dollars in gifts and donations from a local church, a nearby nonprofit and a Facebook group called Moms of Triplets.
Jordan and his mom, Krissy Wyrabkiewicz, became suspicious after nine months when no babies arrived, especially since multiple births tend to be premature. They were also unable to confirm the name of the girl's doctor, according to Newser.
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Things got really confusing when a member of the Moms of Triplets group contacted the Wyrabkiewicz family with some disturbing news.
The teen's ultrasound photos were identical to those sold at a prank website called FakeABaby.com that also sells fake bellies and DNA tests.
The girl was confronted, but insisted she was pregnant, according to Fox2 Detroit. Then, the day before she was supposed to have a C-section, she said she miscarried. She then refused to go to the doctor, according to Jordan's aunt, Jessica Adams.
"So, I told the hotline she has three babies that she's supposed to be full term with, and she won't go to the hospital and they don't have heartbeats," she told the station. "So, they sent detectives over there and she finally cracked and told the detectives that she lost them at six weeks."
A man claiming to be the girl's brother told the station that all gifts and money will be returned. Police are investigating but no charges have been filed.
Meanwhile, The Daily Dot is reporting that Jordan's family is calling for FakeABaby.com to be taken down because it allowed the girl to get away with her ruse.
FakeABaby.com didn't return calls for comment from The Huffington Post.
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The Women's Bathroom Sign You Can't Unsee (And Won't Want To)
The generic symbol for a woman, seen on countless bathroom signs all over the world, just got a whole new meaning.
While her male counterpart appears to be unclothed or wearing a tight unitard, the figure symbolizing the women's restroom is usually wearing a dress. Recently, a tech company called Axosoft reimagined the ladies room symbol.
The outfit choice for this much-needed reinterpretation? That's a superhero cape.
CANNOT UNSEE. pic.twitter.com/5MKLfnppRP
— Jamie Kruger, @megacontampa recoup (@thekroog) April 29, 2015
Jamie Kruger posted the above image to Twitter on April 29 at the Girls in Tech conference in Arizona. Axosoft was the main sponsor of the conference, outfitted with bathroom signs featuring two generic female symbols side by side. But this version throws the familiar shape on its head with one one wearing a cape -- decidedly not a dress.
"It was never a dress," Axosoft writes in their new campaign to empower women in technology.
"This lady, well, we've been looking at her the wrong way," Tania Katan, the Curator of Code for Axosoft, said in a recent video. "We're launching a campaign that shows you what's really on the other side. It was never a dress."
.@taniakatan now @axosoft to get community more involved in tech. Story soon. #gitcatalyst pic.twitter.com/eu7QrBQqsn
— Hayley Ringle (@PhxBizHayley) April 27, 2015
Katan with Axosoft's new female symbol at the Girls In Tech conference last week.
The campaign hopes to create important dialogue around women in tech, science and other fields where women are underrepresented. "In science, technology, arts, mathematics, politics, houses of worship, on the streets, and in our homes, insightful women are often uninvited, overlooked, or just plain dismissed," the campaign's website reads. "When we see women differently... we see the world differently!"
We'll take a cape over a dress -- or just wear a cape over a dress -- any day.
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LOCAL FOOTBALL: Biggest-ever win for Huntingdon United boss after scoring spree in county cup
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Updated: Monday, November 27, 2017 (14:45)
Carl Foreman spearheaded the Huntingdon United scoring spree.
Boss Lee Milton celebrated the biggest win of his managerial career as Huntingdon United stormed into the Hunts Intermediate Cup semi-finals.
United dished out a 17-0 drubbing to Ramsey Town in a quarter-final clash last Saturday. They led their higher-level visitors 6-0 at the break and then ran riot in the second half.
Carl Foreman led the way with five goals, while Dom Everett and Darren Blackwell both hit hat-tricks. Tommy Evans and Lloyd Howard hit two goals apiece for United with Aaron Petty and Scott Rogers completing the scoring.
"It was a competitive game for the opening 10 minutes," said Milton. "But we scored twice in quick succession and that seemed to kill Ramsey.
"They knocked us out of the Hunts Junior Cup last season so it was nice to get a bit of revenge."
Huntingdon United will face one of Milton's former clubs - Somersham Town - in the semi-finals. They progressed thanks to a solitary Christian Wiggins-Browne strike in a 1-0 victory at Bluntisham Rangers.
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ICC Cricket World Cup 2019: Australia Opt to Bat Against New Zealand at Lord’s
Australia skipper Aaron Finch said at the toss that he hoped the pitch would slow down later in the day, which was the reason he chose to bat first.
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Australia won the toss and chose to bat first in their World Cup group stage clash against New Zealand at the Lord’s on Saturday. While the defending champions have gone into the match with no changes from their previous game, New Zealand have brought in Ish Sodhi and Henry Nicholls in place of Matt Henry and Colin Munro, respectively. Australia skipper Aaron Finch said at the toss that he hoped the pitch would slow down later in the day, which was the reason he chose to bat first.
“It’s a used wicket and hopefully it will get slower later. A totally different wicket from what we played the other day. It’s a bit dry and might spin. No changes, unfortunate for the guys who are sitting out, but we’ve been really flexible with the team,” said Finch. New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said that he too would have chosen to bat had he won the toss.
“We would’ve batted. It’s important that we take some early wickets. Sodhi comes in for Henry, also Henry Nicholls comes in at the top of the order for Colin Munro. Today is a new day, a fresh start and it’s about putting up strong performances. They (Australia) bring in great crowd, it should be fun,” he said.
New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Kane Williamson (c), Ross Taylor, Tom Latham (wk), James Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult
Australia: Aaron Finch (c), David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Jason Behrendorff
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Public procurement for green innovation
Public procurement has played a key role in the development of high-technology sectors and industries. In the United States, demand from the military – in conjunction with military R&D programmes – contributed to the development and diffusion of technologies such as the Internet and the Global Positioning System (GPS). As public procurement accounts for 15% of GDP in OECD countries, many governments today aim to include innovation in general public procurement, for example through awareness-raising measures and training of procurement agency personnel, and to stimulate innovation through more direct measures such as specific functional or performance standards in public tenders.
Many OECD countries have introduced programmes to encourage green innovation by providing and enlarging core public demand. Public procurement can create a market for green technologies that face cost disadvantages and can facilitate feedback between experimental users and technology providers. It can also promote diffusion of such technologies and services by overcoming information asymmetries and a potential consumer bias against green products and technologies.
The general procurement framework can have an indirect demand-pull impact if (environmental) regulations and industry standards help make public procurement more innovation-friendly and if green innovation becomes a by-product of general procurement. It can also encourage technological innovation more directly by specifying green innovative goods and services. In 2003, the European Commission called on member states to adopt national action plans for green public procurement. Although they are not legally binding, 21 member states have adopted such plans. The measures and criteria vary.
Studies on semiconductors and other electronic innovations suggest that public procurement contracts can serve the same function as a prize and induce innovative efforts by business (Mowery et al., 2010). Some OECD governments, for example, have guaranteed public procurement for award-winning technologies in energy-efficiency competitions.
Reverse auction is yet another procurement tool that can be used to support the commercialisation of green technology. This would require procurement of green technology outputs (e.g. second generation biofuels) up to a given cost, at prices determined through competitive bidding. The US Department of Energy issued in mid-2010 a notice for a first reverse auction, with a budget of USD 4.6 million. It aims to stimulate the production of cellulosic bio-fuels, with a target of 1 billion gallons for 2013.
Mowery, D.C., R. Nelson and B. Martin (2010), “Technology policy and global warming: Why new policy models are needed (or why putting new wine in old bottles won’t work)”, Research Policy, Vol. 39, No. 8, pp. 1011-1023.
OECD (2011), Fostering Innovation for Green Growth, OECD Green Growth Studies, OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264119925-en.
OECD (2012), “Transitioning to green innovation and technology”, in OECD Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2012, OECD Publishing. http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/sti_outlook-2012-5-en.
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Lady Gaga Not Getting Marriage Proposals From Bradley Cooper & Jeremy Renner
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Amanda Lynne
Lady Gaga’s love life has been a hot topic for many tabloids over the past few months. Her rumored romances with her A Star Is Born co-star and director, Bradley Cooper, as well as actor Jeremy Renner, have had fans talking about what’s really going on with the singer.
According to Gossip Cop, a story about Lady Gaga’s relationships with Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner is false. In Touch Weekly claims to have insiders that say both actors have been begging to marry Gaga, and that she’s torn between the two.
The insider says that Gaga’s gotten to know Jeremy well and that she really likes spending time with him, adding that he’s the safer choice because he’s not currently in a relationship and likely wouldn’t break her heart.
Meanwhile, Cooper is currently in a serious relationship with model Irina Shayk, whom he shares a child with. The tabloid’s source claims that Bradley believed that Gaga would always be there waiting for him, and now considers Jeremy serious competition.
However, GC reveals that those sources are not correct and that neither Cooper nor Renner have proposed marriage to Gaga.
The singer’s rep has already dispelled any rumors that she is even dating Renner, and Gaga herself told fans that there was no torrid affair between her and Cooper during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
#LookWhatIFound #AStarIsBorn
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As previously reported by The Inquisitr, Lady Gaga has allegedly been staying quiet about her friendship with Jeremy Renner.
“She’s playing coy about their friendship,” an insider told Life & Style, adding that Gaga and Renner “are super cute together,” and that “the chemistry between them is real,” and that she and the actor “have more than just music in common.”
Meanwhile, sources tell Us Weekly that Gaga has just gotten out of a relationship with Christian Carino. The couple ended their engagement during awards season, just before the singer won an Oscar when “Shallow” was named Best Original Song in a film.
“Chris didn’t treat Gaga very well toward the end of their [two-year] relationship,” one source told the magazine.
“Gaga was the one who broke things off. He was jealous. He was trying to find her all the time and texted her a lot. Her friends didn’t like him either,” a second source stated.
Since her split with Christian Carino, Lady Gaga has not been seen getting romantic with Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, or anyone else, despite the array of rumors fans have been reading about the singer.
Kylie Jenner’s Bikini Pic Takes Unexpected Turn: ‘Mob Wives’ Big Ang Comparisons Are Brutal July 15, 2019
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Introducing: Big Troubles
Big Troubles is Alex Craig and Ian Drennan, two Jersey boys with preferences for synth pop from the 1980s, shoegaze from the ’90s, and deep-fried hot dogs from Ruttâ??s Hut in Clifton, New Jersey. Despite having formed the band less than a year ago, Big Troublesâ??whose debut full-length LP, Worry, comes out this summerâ??has already created a significant buzz in the blogosphere and garnered an enthusiastic, albeit troubled following. Alex and Ian attribute their rapid rise to a current fascination with the Garden State, but their loud, fuzzy and infectious music might also have something to do with it. Before their show at Shea Stadium in Bushwick, part of last weekendâ??s Northside Festival, we talked about the bandâ??s influences, and the allure of the â??jerz.
HOW DID YOU GET YOUR START? DRENNAN: We started this in July, beginning of August, last year. We went to high school together, and then Alex went to college in New York, and Iâ??m still in college in Boston, so we kind of lost touch for a while. Last summer, we just decided to record. HOW WAS THE FIRST SHOW? DRENNAN: The first show was in late August, in New York, at the Market Hotel. It was the Underwater Peoples showcase, their first showcaseâ??actually, their only showcase. CRAIG: It was cool. We played with a lot of bands we really liked; the first show was good. It was with Real Estate, Ducktails, Beach Fossilsâ?¦ THE NEW JERSEY SOUND: DRENNAN: For whatever reason, thereâ??s been a lot of interest focused on Bergen County, where weâ??re from. I think because we attribute a lot of this fast progression of our project to being from New Jersey, we sort of try to counter that by maybe not playing into whatâ??s understood to be the â??New Jersey sound.â? CRAIG: A lot of the bands from our town people associate a sort of laid back, breezy, easy kind of thing. And we love all of our hometown friendsâ?? bands, but itâ??s just funny that people sort of lump us in with that, because we donâ??t really sound like that at all. BIGGEST MUSICAL INFLUENCES: DRENNAN: A lot of early to mid-90s sort of noise garage rock. CRAIG: We sort of got into that music together at the same time when we were in high school and stuff, so it was almost sort a of a bonding thing for us that we got into a lot of shoegaze bands when we were like 15 or 16 together. DRENNAN: We also listen to a lot of funky â??80s synth pop. CRAIG Because we really love pop music more than anything. NON-MUSICAL INFLUENCES: CRAIG: Iâ??d say Larry David is the biggest non-musical influence on Big Troubles. DRENNAN: I guess you could say Guy Debord for me. FAVORITE RECORDING FUEL: DRENNAN: When Alex and I first started recording together, when were kind of unsure of whether we wanted to combine our separate projects, I think we would end most of the recording sessions by going to Ruttâ??s Hut, kind of like a period on the day. They serve deep-fried hotdogs called Rippers, because they rip when you deep-fry them. CRAIG: And they have the most amazing homemade relish, which falls into the ripped crack in the dog. DRENNAN: Actually, Ruttâ??s Hut might be our biggest non-musical influence.
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Report: M11 - RCB vs RR
Match Report: M11 - RCB vs RR
Sanju Samson entertained a packed house at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru with an innings of high pedigree and set the foundation for Rajasthan Royals’ second win of the season.Put in to bat, RR posted 217-4 – the highest total so far in VIVO IPL 2018 – riding on Samson’s unbeaten 92. In the second half of the match, Royal Challengers Bangalore were restricted to 198-6. End result: the Rajasthan Royals prevailed by 19 runs.
RCB, needing to post the highest run-chase in the history of the IPL, put up a fight.They were off to a quick start – making 64 in the first six overs. But the dismissals of Quinton de Kock (26 from 19), Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers (20) in the space of 31 runs all but put the lid on the chase. Kohli would be RCB’s top-scorer; he made 57, getting to his half-century in 26 balls – his quickest in T20 cricket.
Later in the innings, Mandeep Singh (who would remain unbeaten on 47) and Washington Sundar (who made 35 from 19 balls) stitched together a 56-run partnership to give the home fans some hope; but the task in front of them was close to impossible.
A mention has to be made of three brilliant catches the Rajasthan Royals fielders took in the field. Ben Stokes timed his jump to perfection to grab a flat hit by Brendon McCullum, D’Arcy Short took a good catch to dismiss Kohli, and Jos Buttler dived to his left to pull off a catch to dismiss Pawan Negi.
Standout batting performances
In his two outings prior to this match, Sanju Samson had struck the ball beautifully, but failed to convert his starts to a big score. On Sunday afternoon, the 23-year old was in his elements once again, but this time carried on and imposed himself on the RCB bowlers. He made 92 from 45 balls, and his innings was decorated with 10 sixes and two fours.
The way Samson batted, it didn’t appear as if he were batting in a match, but instead having a centre-wicket net session. The standout feature of Samson’s innings was how he went about scoring runs; he didn’t have to bludgeon the ball, but instead relied on timing. His consistency in middling the ball was astonishing; it was as if he stopped the ball just before it made contact with the bat and chose to put the middle of his bat against the ball. He scored predominantly down the ground – hitting each of his ten sixes off the middle of the bat.
Samson walked in to bat after Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed in the sixth over; he took his time to get going, but accelerated in the final five overs. He was 34 from 25 after 15 overs, and thereafter added 48 from the next 20 deliveries he faced; in this period, he hit Umesh Yadav for three sixes, hit Kulwant Khejroliya for two sixes and hit Chris Woakes for two fours and as many sixes.
Notable Support Act - Batting
The RR innings had several support acts. Ajinkya Rahane gave his team impetus early on; he batted aggressively against the quicks, used his feet against the spinners initially, and even pulled out the sweep shot on a couple of occasions. The RR captain made 36 from 20 balls before he holed out to the fielder at mid-on.
Ben Stokes made 27 from 21 balls and stitched together a 49-run partnership with Samson. Jos Buttler’s 23 (from 14 balls) contained two boundaries and a six; the RR wicket-keeper sensibly played second-fiddle in a 73-run partnership with Samson.
The leg-spinners on the two sides – YuzvendraChahal & Shreyas Gopal – finished with identical returns of 4-0-22-2.
The performance of Chahal – the most successful bowler in IPL matches at the Chinnaswamy Stadium – was the most impressive on the night; when the rest of his teammates went at the rate of 11.81 runs per over, he finished with an economy rate of 5.50! He bowled smartly and bravely, and used the flighted delivery – deliberately thrown wide of the stumps – to dismiss D’Arcy Short and Ben Stokes.
Shreyas Gopal, who had the benefit of a having a mountain of runs to defend,was Rajasthan Royals’ best bowler; he dismissed the two best batsmen in the opposition – Kohli and de Villiers.
With his two wickets in this match, Yuzvendra Chahal became Royal Challengers Bangalore’s highest wicket-taker in the IPL; he now has one wicket more than R Vinay Kumar’s tally of 72 wickets.
Brief Scores: Rajasthan Royals 217-4 (Sanju Samson 92*, Ben Stokes , Yuzvendra Chahal 2-22) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 198-6 (Virat Kohli 57, Mandeep Singh 47*, Shreyas Gopal 2-22) by 19 runs.
Man of the Match: Sanju Samson, for his match-winning innings of 92.
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MainAll NewsInside IsraelTeenager to be returned to his parents
Teenager to be returned to his parents
Investigation shows no abuse, authorities agree to return teen to his parents - as long as they clean their house.
The family's Hadera home
Israel's welfare authorities are expected to return a teen to his parents, who were suspected of abuse and negligence.
The teen was taken from his parents last week after neighbors reported a stench, which led police to search the family's Hadera apartment, where they found the boy and his parents.
The 14-year-old was taken to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, and his parents were taken for investigation.
However, the parents were freed after the investigation showed that the boy was developing normally and had not been abused.
The boy will be returned to his parents in the coming days - on condition that they agree to clean and tidy their apartment and its surroundings.
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September 13, 2013 at 12:21 pm (2 Comments)
Wednesday I presented a talk at the Austin Personal Cloud meetup about Building a Personal Cloud computer. Murphy was in full effect, so both of the cameras we had to record the session died, and I forgot to start my audio recorder. I’ve decided to write out the notes that I should have had, so here’s the presentation if it had been read.
In this presentation we’re talking about building a personal cloud computer. This is one approach to the personal cloud, there are certainly others, but this is the one that has been ringing true to me lately.
A lot of what people have been talking about when they speak about the personal cloud is really personal pervasive storage. These are things like Dropbox or Evernote. It’s the concept of having your files everywhere, and being able to give permission to things that want to access them. Think Google Drive, as well.
These concepts are certainly valid, but I’m more interested in software, and I think computing really comes down to running programs. For me, the personal cloud has storage, but it’s power is in the fact that it executes programs for me, just like my personal computer at home.
That computer in the slide is a Commodore +4, the first computer I ever laid fingers on.
Back then, idea of running programs for yourself still appealed to the dreamers. They made movies like TRON, and we anthropomorphized the software we were writing. These were our programs doing work for us, and if we were just smart enough and spent enough time at it, we could change our lives and change the world.
This idea isn’t new, in fact AI pioneers were talking about it back in the 50s. John McCarthy was thinking about it back then, as Alan Kay relates when he talks about his 3rd age of computing:
They had in view a system that, when given a goal, could carry out the details of the appropriate computer operations and could ask for and receive advice, offered in human terms, when it was stuck. An agent would be a ‘soft robot’ living and doing its business within the computer world.
That’s been the dream for a long time…
But that never really happened. The personal computer revolution revolutionized business, and it changed how we communicated with each other, but before the Internet things didn’t interconnect to the point where software could be a useful helper, and then we all went crazy making money with .com 1.0 and Web 2.0, and it was all about being easy and carving out a market niche. Then something else hit…
Mobile exploded. If you’ll notice, mobile applications never really had an early adopter phase. There was no early computing era for mobile. You could say that PDAs were it, but without connectivity that isn’t the same as the world we have now. Most developers couldn’t get their app onto a mobile device until the iOS app store hit, but that platform was already locked down. There was no experimentation phase with no boundaries. We still haven’t had the ability to have an always-connected device in our pocket that can run whatever we want. The Ubuntu phones may be that, but we’re 6 iterations into the post-iPhone era.
And who doesn’t love mobile? Who doesn’t love their phone? They’re great, they’re easy to use, they solve our problems. What’s wrong with them? Why do we need something else? Well, let’s compare them to what we’ve got…
With the PC we had a unique device in so far as we owned the hardware, we owned our data, and EULA issues aside, we owned the software. You could pack up your PC, take it with you to the top of a mountain in Nepal, and write your great novel or game or program, with no worries about someone deactivating it or the machine being EOLed. Unfortunately the PC is stuck at your house, unscalable, badly networked, loaded with an OS that was designed for compatibility with programs written 25 years ago. It isn’t an Internet era machine.
With the web we got Software as a Service (SaaS), and with this I’m thinking about the Picasa’s and Flickr’s and Bloggers of the world. No software to maintain, no hardware to maintain, access to some of your data (but not all of it, such as not having access to traffic metrics with Flickr unless you paid, and only export rights if you were paid up). But in this new world you can’t guarantee your continuity of experience. Flickr releases a redesign and the experience you’ve depended on goes away. The way you’ve organized and curated your content no longer makes sense. Or maybe as in the case of sites like Gowalla, the whole thing just disappears one day.
Mobile has it’s own issues. You often don’t own the hardware, you’re leasing it or it’s locked up and difficult to control. You can’t take your phone to another provider, you can’t install whatever software you want on it. Sometimes it’s difficult to get data out. How do you store the savegame files from your favorite iPhone game without a whole-device snapshot? How do you get files out of a note taking app if it doesn’t have Dropbox integration? In the end, you don’t even really own a lot of that software. Many apps only work with specific back-end services, and once your phone gets older, support starts to disappear. Upgrade or throw it in the junk pile.
Cloud offers us new options. We don’t have to own the hardware, we can just access it through standards compliant means. That’s what OpenStack is all about. OpenStack’s a platform, but OpenStack is also an API promise. If you can do it with X provider, you can also do it with Y provider. No vendor lock-in is even one of the bullet points on our homepage at HP Cloud.
Implicit in cloud is that you own your own data. You may pay to have it mutated, but you own the input and the output. A lot of the software we use in cloud systems is either free, or stuff that you own (usually by building it or tweaking it yourself). It’s a lot more like the old PC model than Mobile or SaaS.
All of these systems solve specific types of problems, and for the Personal Cloud to really take off, I think it needs to solve a problem better than the alternatives. It has to be the logical choice for some problem set. (At the meetup we spent a lot of time discussing exactly what that problem could be, and if the millennials would even have the same problems those of us over 30 do. I’m not sure anyone has a definitive answer for that yet.)
This is what I think the Personal Cloud is waiting for. This explosion of data from all our connected devices, from the metrics of everything we do, read, and say, and what everyone around us says and does. I think the Personal Cloud has a unique place, being Internet-native, as the ideal place to solve those problems. We’re generating more data from our activities than ever before, and the new wave of Quantified Self and Internet of Things devices is just going to amplify that. How many data points a day does my FitBit generate? Stephen Wolfram’s been collecting personal analytics for decades, but how many of us have the skill to create our own suite of tools to analyze it, like he does?
The other play the Personal Cloud can make is as a defense against the productization of you. Bruce Sterling was talking about The Stacks years ago, but maybe there’s an actual defensive strategy against just being a metric in some billion dollar corporations database. I worked on retail systems for a while, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if based on the order of items scanned out of your cart at Target (plus some anonymized data mining from store cameras) they could re-construct your likely path through the store. Track you over time based on your hashed credit card information, and they know a whole lot about you. You don’t know a whole lot about them, though. Maybe the Personal Cloud’s place is to alert you to when you’re being played.
In the end I think the Personal Cloud is about you. It’s about privacy, it’s about personal empowerment. It’s uniquely just about you and your needs, just like the Personal Computer was personal, but can’t keep up, so the Personal Cloud Computer will take that mantel.
The new dream, I think, is that the Personal Cloud Computer runs those programs for you, and acts like your own TRON. It’s your guardian, your watchdog, your companion in a world gone data mad. Just like airbags in your car protect you against the volume of other automobiles and your own lack of perfect focus, so your Personal Cloud protects you against malicious or inconsiderate manipulation and your own data privacy unawareness.
To do this I think the Personal Cloud Computer has to live a central role in your digital life. I think it needs to be a place that other things connect to, a central switching station for everything else.
And I think this is the promise it can fulfill. The PC was a computer that was personal. We could write diary entries, work on our novel for years, collect our photos. In the early days of the Internet, we could even be anonymous. We could play and pretend, we could take on different personas and try them out, like the freedom you have when you move to a new place or a new school or job. We had the freedom to disappear, to be forgotten. This is a freedom that kids today may not have. Everything can connect for these kids (note the links to my LinkedIn profile, Flickr Photos, Twitter account, etc in the sidebar), though they don’t. They seem to be working around this, routing around the failure, but Google and others are working against that. Facebook buys Instagram because that’s where the kids are. Eventually everything connects and is discoverable, though it may be years after the fact.
So how do I think this looks, when the code hits the circuits? I think the Personal Cloud Computer (or ‘a’ personal cloud computer) will look like this:
A Migratory – Think OpenStack APIs, and an orchestration tool optimized for provider price/security/privacy/whuffie.
Standards Compliant – Your PCC can talk to mine, and Facebook knows how to talk to both.
Remotely Accessible – Responsive HTML5 on your Phone, Tablet and Desktop. Voice and Cards for Glass.
API Nexus – Everything connects through it, so it can track what’s going on.
with Authentication – You authenticate with it, Twitter authenticates with it, you don’t have a password at Twitter.
Application Hosting – It all comes down to running Apps, just like the PC. No provider can build everything, apps have to be easy to port and easy to build.
Permission Delegation – These two apps want to talk to each other, so let them. They want to share files, so expose a cloud storage container/bucket for them to use.
Managed Updates – It has to be up to date all the time, look to Mobile for this.
Notifications – It has to be able to get ahold of you, since things are happening all the time online.
and Dynamic Scaling Capabilities – Think spinning up a hadoop cluster to process your lifelog camera data for face and word detection every night, then spinning it down when it’s done.
So how do we actually make this happen? What bits and bobs already exist that look like they’d be good foundational pieces, or good applications to sit on top?
No presentation these days would be complete without a mention of docker, and this one is no different. If you haven’t heard of docker, it’s the hot new orchestration platform that makes bundling up apps and deploying lightweight linux container images super-easy. It’s almost a PaaS in a box, and has blown up like few projects before it in the last 6 months. Docker lets you bundle up an application and run it on a laptop, a home server, in a cloud, or on a managed Platform as a Service. One image, multiple environments, multiple capacities. Looking at that Ubuntu Edge, that looks like a perfect way to sandbox applications iOS style, but still give them what they need to be functional.
Hubot is a chat bot, a descendant of the IRC bots that flourished in the 90’s. Hubot was built by Github, and was originally designed to make orchestration and system management easier. Since they connect and collaborate in text based chat rooms, Hubot sits in their waiting for someone to give it a command. Once it hears a command, it goes off and does it, whether it be to restart a server, post an image or say a joke. You can imagine that you could have a Personal Cloud Computer bot that you’d say ‘I’m on my way home, and it’s pot roast night’ to, and it would switch on the Air Conditioner, turn on the TV and queue up your favorite show, and fire up the crock pot.
The great thing about Hubot, and the thing about these Personal Cloud Bots, is that like WordPress Plugins, they’re developed largely by the community. Github being who they are, Hubot embraces the open development model, and users have developed hundreds of scripts that add functionality to Hubot. I expect we’ll see the same thing with the Personal Cloud Computer.
I’ve talked about Weavrs pretty extensively here on the blog before, so I won’t go into serious depth, but I think that the Personal Cloud Computer is the perfect place for something like Weavrs to live. Weavrs are social bots that have big-data derived personalities, you can create as many of them as you like, and watch them do their thing. That’s a nice playground to play with personalities, to experiment and see what bubbles to the top from the chaos of the internet.
If you listen to game developers talk, you’ll start to hear about that initial dream that got them into game development, the dream of a system that tells stories, or tells stories collaboratively with you. The Kickstarted game Sir, You Are Being Hunted has been playing with this, specifically with their procedurally generated British Countryside Generator. I think there’s a lot of room for that closely personal kind of entertainment experience, and the Personal Cloud Computer could be a great place to do it.
Aaron Cope is someone you should be following if you aren’t. He used to be at Flickr, and is now at the Cooper-Hewett Design Museum in New York. His Time Pixels talk is fantastic. Two of the things that Aaron has worked on of interest are Parallel Flickr, (a networkable backup engine for Flickr, that lets you backup your photos and your contacts photos, but is API compatible with Flickr) and privatesquare (a foursquare checkin proxy that lets you keep your checkins private if you want, or make them public). That feels like a really great Personal Cloud app to me, because it plays to that API Nexus feature.
The Numenta guys are doing some really interesting stuff, and have open sourced their brain simulation system that does pattern learning and prediction. They want people to use it and build apps on top of it, and we’re a long way away from real use, but that could lead to some cool personal data insights that you run yourself. HP spent a bunch of money on Autonomy because extracting insights from the stream of data has a lot of value. Numenta could be a similar piece for the Personal Cloud.
That’s the Adafruit Pi Printer, Berg has their Little Printer, and they’re building a cloud platform for these kind of things. These devices bring the internet to the real world in interesting ways, and there’s a lot of room for personal innovation. People want massively personalized products, and the Personal Cloud Computer can be a good data conduit for that.
Beyond printers, we have internet connected thermostats, doorknobs, and some of those service companies will inevitably go away before people stop using their products. What happens to your wifi thermostat or wifi lightbulbs when the company behind it goes way? Personal Cloud lets you support that going forward, it lets you maintain your own service continuity.
Having an always-on personal app platform lets us utilize interesting APIs provided by other companies to process our data in ways we can’t with open source or our own apps. Mashape has a marketplace that lets you pick and switch between api providers, and lets you extend your Personal Cloud in interesting ways, like getting a sentiment analysis for your Twitter followers.
In addition to stuff we can touch over the network, there’s a growing market of providers that let you trigger meatspace actions through an API. Taskrabbit has an API, oDesk does, Shapeways does, and we haven’t even begun to scratch the possibilities that opens up.
One thing to watch is how the Enterprise market is adapting to utility computing and the cloud. The problems they have (marketplaces, managed permissions, security for apps that run premises, big data) are problems that all of us will have in a few years. We can make the technology work with enterprise and startups, but for end users, we have to make it simple. We have to iPhone it.
So where do we start? I think we have to start with a just good enough, minimum viable product that solves a real problem people have. Early adopters adopt a technology that empowers them or excites them in some way, and whatever Personal Cloud platforms appear, they have to scratch an itch. This is super-critical. I think the VRM stuff from Doc Searls is really interesting, but it doesn’t scratch an itch that I have today in a way I can comprehend. If you’ve been talking about something for years, what will likely happen is not that it’ll eventually grow up, it’s that something radical will come out of left field that uses some of those ideas, but doesn’t honor all of them. That’s my opinion, at least. I think the Personal Cloud community that’s been going for years with the Internet Identity Workshop probably won’t be where the big new thing comes from, but a lot of their ideas will be in it. That’s just my gut feeling.
The last caveat is that Apple and Microsoft and Google are perfectly positioned to make this happen with vendor lockin easily. They all already do cloud. They all have app stores. They have accounts for you, and they want to keep you in their system. Imagine an Apple App Store that goes beyond your iPhone, iPad and even Apple TV, but lets you run apps in iCloud? That’s an easy jump for them, and a huge upending of the Personal Cloud world. Google can do the exact same thing, and they’re even more likely to.
So thanks for your time, and for listening (reading). If you have comments, please share them. It’s an exciting time.
This entry was posted in Tech Futurism and tagged agents, HP, open source, personal cloud, quantified self, software bots, weavrs on September 13, 2013 by Jeff Kramer.
SXSW Interactive Talk March 12th
March 5, 2013 at 11:09 am (No Comments)
Next Tuesday, March 12th at 12:30 pm in Capitol ABC of the Sheraton Austin I’ll be speaking at SXSW Interactive. The title of the talk is AI Netizens: The Future of Agents Online, which is a great techno-cryptic title for what will essentially be: Where bots came from, what comes next for Siri and Google Now, and how we build an open source alternative.
I’ve added a page for the talk here, where I’ll be posting a video and the presentation slides after I give it.
This entry was posted in Events and tagged agents, software bots, sxsw on March 5, 2013 by Jeff Kramer.
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Employer: Richmond upon Thames & Wandsworth Borough Council
Reference: randw/TP/4131/877
Published: Thu 20/06/2019, 14:19 PM
Closing on: Sun 14/07/2019, 23:59 PM
Working Pattern: Full Time
Hours: 36.0 hours per week.
Salary: £25,327- £36,486
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and committed Planners to join our fast-moving efficient and high-profile Strategic Development Team based in Wandsworth.
The work would focus on handling a range of planning application casework for major and minor development and applications discharging planning conditions for major sites located within the Nine Elms Opportunity Area as well as large Council regeneration schemes. There will be an opportunity to be involved in large scale developments and learn about complex development proposals. The job requires liaison and negotiation with primary stakeholders, consultees and residents to ensure that high quality, sustainable development is delivered in Wandsworth which aims to promote and strengthen existing local communities.
Development in the Nine Elms Opportunity Area is shaping the environment for people attracted to the area by the construction of a new tube station for the northern line extension, the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station and the creation of a new Linear Park as well as new residential, commercial and community space. These developments and their setting have been important in placemaking terms and will continue to identify the area on the south-side of the River Thames as an exciting place to live, work and visit.
Other strategic work involves the regeneration of existing Council housing estates to improve and build new homes and community facilities for residents.
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Who were the 'Border Reivers?'
Since choosing the title 'The Regency Reivers' for my first series of historical novels, I have frequently been asked: 'Who were the Reivers?'
‘Reive’ is an early English word meaning "to rob",
Border Reivers were raiders along the Anglo–Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. During this time, England and Scotland were frequently at war and the area was lawless, godless and often decimated by opposing armies.
A tough area breeds tough people. The families who lived there – on both sides of the border – grouped together in clans for protection and survival. Loyalty to a feeble or distant monarch or reliance on the effectiveness of the law, were not good survival strategies for the people of the borders. Instead, they sought security through their own strength and cunning and set out in large mobs to raid other families. ‘Reiving’ - raiding for cattle and sheep (and whatever else which could be transported) was the only way to survive and it became an established way of life, a profession, which was regarded with no discredit amongst the Borderers. The Reivers moved only at night, taking advantage of their intimate knowledge of the remote and rugged terrain, to spirit away their ill-gotten plunder.
Border Reivers
As George MacDonald Fraser says in The Steel Bonnets, ‘they lived by despoiling each other’… ‘It was a time when the great border tribes, both English and Scottish, feuded continuously amongst themselves, when robbery and blackmail, were everyday professions, when raiding, arson, kidnapping, murder and extortion were an important part of the social system.’
Their heyday was perhaps in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the Stuart Kings in Scotland and the Tudor Dynasty in England.
The attitudes of the English and Scottish governments towards the border clans alternated between indulgence and encouragement. Secure in their rule in the majority of the two countries, the authorities in England and Scotland were happy to let the Reivers battle it out for supremacy in the narrow hill country between the two nations. These fierce families served as the first line of defence against invasion and it suited authorities to have gangs of outlaws harassing the enemy on the border. However, the royalty of both countries would only travel through the region with a large and heavily armed escort. Even they were afraid of the Reivers.
As soldiers, the Border Reivers were considered among the finest light cavalry in all of Europe; they were outstanding horsemen. Living on the frontier between two warring nations sharpened their soldiering skills. Many worked as mercenaries abroad.
Of course, the notion of Scottish Clans is now legendary around the world – mostly thanks to Sir Walter Scott and his ballads. What is not so well known, perhaps, is that on the English side of the border there were also large, unruly English clans like the Charltons, the Armstrongs, the Milburns, the Robsons, the Fenwicks and the Dodds.
Tribal loyalty was paramount but also complex. Intermarriage across the border and feuds with other clans of the same nationality complicated matters. The make- up of the family groups was fluid, allegiances shifted and sometimes raiding parties were made up of Scottish and English from the same family. One harassed Border official wrote: "They are people that will be Scottish when they will and English at their pleasure."
The only thing which was guaranteed was that those who were raided would quickly seek revenge.
The Charltons were one of the biggest reiving families on the English side of the border, particularly in the North Tyne Valley, now the area of Keilder water. ‘Charlton’ means ‘free peasant’ - or peasant of the free town. There’s a hint in the name, perhaps, that even the rigid feudalism of the Plantagenets had failed to subdue this this clan.
An anonymous document in Hexham Museum tells us that in the 14th century there were ‘six hundred Charlton men without hoss in the North Tyne Valley.’ The document does not mention how many Charlton men there were who did own a ‘hoss’ (horse) or how many women or children there were, but the number must have been considerable. It is amazing to think of the large population which must have survived in this very remote region seven hundred years ago, scraping out a living on those windswept fells.
Hesleyside Hall, Bellingham
Legend has it, that when it was time to go reiving, the Charltons would all meet at Hesleyside near Bellingham (now the site of an 18th century mansion – still owned by a Charlton family.) They would drink, feast and enjoy a good party until the larder was empty. Then the lady of the house would bring out a silver spur in a silver salver as a signal to the men that it was time to go reiving.
There is a famous painting of this scene by Sir William Bell Scott in Wallington Hall.
The Silver Spur by William Bell Scott
In Hexham Museum there is also an account of the life of Topping Charlton, a notorious law-breaking reiver, who had been captured and imprisoned in the first purpose-built prison in England - Hexham gaol.
Topping was imprisoned at Hexham - until the rest of the Charlton boys decided to come and break him out. Once the gaolers heard the Charltons were on their way, they fled and left the gaol unguarded. Topping’s adventures with English prisons did not end there. A few years later he was captured again and imprisoned further away in the more secure stronghold of Berwick castle. According to the legend, Berwick castle was devastated by the plague. Everyone died – except Topping Charlton – who apparently walked over the dead bodies of his gaolers and out of the open gate.
This story really struck home with us. Nearly one hundred years ago my husband’s grandfather, William Charlton, walked out alive after surviving four years in the trenches of WW1. ‘The luck of the Charltons’ has been a saying we’ve often used in our family over the last three generations, following William's miraculous escape from death in Flanders. Topping’s story suggests that this phenomenal good fortune was present amongst the Charlton’s many centuries ago.
Sadly, the luck of the Charltons – and the other border clans – did run in short supply after James VI of Scotland became James I of England and the two countries were united with Wales to become Britain. James I ordered the border region to be cleaned up and it was – brutally. In an exercise similar to ‘ethnic cleansing,’ the authorities clamped down on lawless behaviour. Families were burnt out and separated, many ring leaders were transported to either the Americas or to Ireland. After three hundred years, peace finally settled over the region. It’s bloody history only remaining in the architecture of its scattered castles, Pele towers, fortified farmhouses, in the many border legends and lively, haunting beat of its folk songs.
Keilder Water - the North Tyne valley today
When I came to choose a title for my series of novels, ‘Regency Reivers’ was an easy choice to make. The robbery at Kirkley Hall is the dominant event in ‘Catching the Eagle;’ the theme of crime and lawlessness is obvious. A family of Charltons are the main characters and family loyalty amongst the Charlton brothers is another major theme. This issue of clan loyalty is set to run throughout the remaining two books of the series.
James charlton
Excellent reading my dad did some research and believes our long lost family were border revivers
William Charlton
Now I really know where my name come from. My father used to tell me stories of the reviers and I always believed these things to be true. Thank you for the info.
Karen Charlton link
Thanks, James.
It's always great to hear from another Charlton. :) Tell you Dad 'good luck' with his research from me - you never know where the family history research will take you...but the journey is always fun. :)
Sarah Fuqua (nee Charlton)
I've been researching my family history and can go back to William Charlton & Barbara Dodd in the late 1700s - I will try and find your books up as I am completely captivated by the early history if the border reivers and the later farming/mining history of my family.
Malcolm Charlton link
William Charlton and Barbera Dodd are where my family tree went back to. My grandfather and great grandfathers were also William Charlton.
I hope that you two find a connection. It's fabulous the way that genealogy brings people together.
Erin Cornwell
Hi karen my name is Erin Marie Cornwell (Charlton ). My grandfather Kyle winifred Charlton has done extensive research on our family and gone back pretty far( I'm trying to get a copy of the family genealogy). D ok es his name ring any bells to you?
I hope that you two can find a connection. It is fabulous the way that genealogy brings people together.
Sarah: 'Catching the Eagle' can be found on amazon both in the USA and the UK. 'The Missing Heiress' will not be published in the States until this September, but it is available from The Book Depository (free worldwide delivery.) I hope that you enjoy them.
Jacquiline Charleton
I believe that we might be the same family as well. My Charlton's are from Elsdon, Northumberland - I have traced them back to the 1700s - Isabella (nee Snowden) and Richard Charlton ... of which my great great grandfather is George Charleton of Kawhia, NZ by way of Northumberland via NSW, Australia
Hi Jacquiline,
I'm sorry I've taken a while replying. Once upon a time we did think we were related to Isabella (nee Snowden) and Richard Charlton but sadly, we aren't. However I do know a lady called Karen benoy who is one of their descendants. If you send me a message via the contact page on this website I'll pass your email address onto her. Good luck with your research.
Stephen Schollum
I am also descended from George Charleton from Kawhia, NZ, having come from Elsdon
Years ago I was in contact with Karen Benoy, and would be happy to catch up with other descendants
Contact me at s.schollum@clear.net.nz
Stephen Schollum link
earlier Hi Jacquiline
I posted a reply, but I dont appear to have received a reply
Please contact me regarding George Charleton's family (at Kawhia)
Carol (descended from Charlton's)
That is fascinating Karen. I have been traipsing around the Hexham and Tyne valley areas in search of my ancestors. I wonder if I am related to you. Is your family tree public? Mine is on ancestry. My family also ended up farming then mining.
I am going to buy your book.
A simplified version of our family tree is up on this website and can be found here:
http://www.karencharlton.com/genealogy.html
I do hope it helps and that you enjoy the novel.
Timone Charlton
I've always been interested in the historical side of things- I've known for a while roughly the sort of people I'm descended from, but my 6th-form work has prevented me from finding out much else- reading this has inspired me attempt to do more research into my family tree...
Good luck with your research, Timone. I hope that you have as much fun researching as we did. Best wishes, Karen Charlton
Montana Thrasher
I have the Charlton side of my family traced back to the late 1600's. At this particular time, they resided in Ulster/Northern Ireland. I do know that my 5th great grandfather John Charlton Sr. emigrated to America in 1745. Based on what I've read, I think it's safe to assume that the Charlton's in my family are descendants of the Border Revier Charlton family. I know many border families were forced off thier land, and some that some of them ended up in Ireland.
Corla Roth (nee) Charlton
I am related to the same John Charlton. My father was Samuel Edmond Charlton, grandfather Jesse Melvin Charlton. Don't know if these names will help you. My younger brother Sam,Jr. has done a lot of research. My father was born in KY. & moved to Louisiana @ age5. Sam lives in Thomaston,Maine. II believe the Charlton border rievers were sent to Ireland as peacekeepers(read police)because they were the most unruly & the King wanted to get rid of them.Interesting family!
Phil Charlton
Question to Corla. What evidence do you have that the border Riever Charlton's were sent to Ireland. My understanding is the border Riever Charlton's were catholic. My Charlton family go back to William Charlton b c1764 married Mary Wallace in Northern Ireland and they were staunch Presbyterian. three Charlton brothers migrated to Victoria Australia in the mid 1850's.
Jane Ann Charlton
Question for Phil Charlton: I am also related to the Presbyterian Charltons of Northern Ireland. My great great grandfather was William Charlton (b. 1821) who married Sarah Ann Irvine; they eventually settled in Iowa. My great grandfather, the eldest son of William and Sarah, was James Charlton (b. 1850), who left Northern Ireland in 1870 and settled in Apple River, Illinois. Are you related to any of these people? Thanks very much!
Hello Karen my mother was Marie Milburn,her mother was Mary Milburn who was I believe first cousin to Chrissie Milburn(mother of Jackie and Bobby Charlton),through her father John Milburn an Iron Miner,I am led to believe the Milburns intermarried with Charltons through out history ,but sadly although my dear Mum knew all her Milburn history, I dont think she ever knew their Border Reiver history ,thank you for this page .
It was very interesting to read " Anna" , there were however a few mistakes. I f Anna would like to contact me then I will enlighten her!!
Dear me! Montana & Anna: I am so sorry for not responding sooner. Sadly, due to my husband's serious illness I have rather neglected my blog of late. Please forgive me. I sincerely wish you both the best with your genealogy research and i am glad that you appreciate this website. Karen Charlton
Robert DAVIDSON
my great grand mother is frances davidson nee charlton married walter davidson 1860 bellingham came to new zealand about 1870 with brother william need more info
steve charlton
Wow, Fascinating reading, I must look into my family tree
Phillip Charlton
My family has lived in Nova Scotia Canada for five generations. My Great Great Grandfather William was born in Ireland and came to NS in 1820. Tracing my family to Ireland and back to England is one of my goals. I found your page while randomly googling. So glad I did.
Glenn Charlton
Thank you. I only wish my father could have been exposed to this before he died. It would have been a great source of pleasure for him. This inspires me to dig for my roots. I come from southwestern Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny region of Appalachia. Most Appalachian people are descended from Ulster Scots. I know that many English people ended up in Ulster as well. The mines of Northumberland to the mines of Appalachia! I'm sure that I have both sides of the Anglo - Scottish border in my blood.
Geraldine Charlton
I am begining my own family reseach and would like to know of the Charltons that possibly emigrated to America, and if so, where?
Eileen Kovalchick
My maternal grandmother was one member of a Charlton family who emigrated in 1925 to Jefferson Co., Pennsylvania, where I was born and raised. I'm now living in Tucson, Arizona.
my farther and relatives come from Wallsend Newcastle. Dad told me the tales of the reivers when I was young. Want to start a family tree so I can pass down the family history to my son and grandchildren. If we ever have a war with Scotland again I wonder if my clan would be turncoats.
Sharon McNamara
My mother was the youngest of a family of Charltons in Mayfield, Newcastle. I wonder if there is a connection to your Wallsend lot. Ironically I was born in Wallsend. Small world.
Bill Bill link
Interesting read,my family too are descended from the Boarder clans,our family was asked to leave and immigrated to USA and Australia.I dont know a great deal more than that.
William John Bell
Julia Charlton link
Dear Karen
I am from Northumberland, can trace family about a 100 years to the Morpeth area, do you have a familiy tree of any kind of the Charltons you have been studying please?
Many thanks for your help
My own family tree can be found here, Julia.
http://www.weebly.com/editor/main.php
I have been tracing my familytree for many years, your information is very interesting. I have a Stothart Charlton who lived in Leicester in the early 1800, but no birth can be found, apart from in prudhamstone Northumberland 1767 do you have any later reading that may explain why in late 1700 the charltons may of moved?? my father died young and so did his dad, so no information has ever been passed down.
philip Charlton
Response to Jane Ann Charlton 17/06/2016. Only recently picked up your blog. I have done significant work in trying to understand my branch of the Presbyterian Charlton's of Northern Ireland. My information appears to confirm that there is a link between our families. Your William ( b 1821 ) would appear to be the brother of Francis Charlton ( and others) who is my Great Great Grandfather . I have info that confirms he had a son James (b1850). James had a number of siblings who stayed in Northern Ireland and I am in contact with some of their descendants. I also have info that your William immigrated to America on 17 April 1870 the same year as James. There are also other members of the family that immigrated to America / Canada. All these Charlton's seemed to come from the general area of Coagh/ Tamlaght in Co Tyrone Northern Ireland. There is lots to discuss.
Karen please send my email to Jane Ann Charlton. I would love to make contact.
Kelly Nixon Turner
I noticed you placed the Armstrong's as English. My family was a sept clan of the Armstrong's, and most distinctly Scottish. After the peace in 1603, they were dispersed to England and elsewhere. Your book sounds incredibly interesting, and I look forward to reading it.
Hi Kelly, I hope you enjoy my book. Yes, the Armstrong family straddled both sides of the border. Intermarriages were common during the relatively peaceful times between the Scottish Border Rievers and the English. Family was everything in those days and loyalty to a distant king a secondary concern. As the historians of the time noted, "They are people that will be Scottish when they will and English at their pleasure."
Armstrong Catherine
Hi Karen, thank you for your website and blog. We are related to William Charlton born 5 nov 1823 and died 21st June 1915. Do you by any chance have any information about this Charlton. His children were Elizabeth, John, Joseph, Ralph and Annie. Thanking you in advance.
Erica Cusick
Hi! I've just found your site (and ordered your books from Amazon) I wanted to let you know that I'm descended from the Henry Charlton who was brother to your Jaime Charlton. Henry is my 4 x great grandfather, and your research is being invaluable to me to get a sense of who they were. I found your site by googling North Carter Moor Farm :) I'm looking forward to reading more of your stuff on here and receiving my books!
Hi Cousin Erica, Glad to have been some help in your research. I hope you enjoy the books. x
Just found your site , and will be ordering your book. I can remember my grandfather - also a William Charlton telling me the story of the silver spur . Will be popping back to your site again and will also send a link to father.
Heather Worsley
My father was a Scott, born at Wandylaw, near egging ham, a soldier in the 1st WW looking after the horses in the artillery regiment. My mother was a Richardson born in Newcastle and related to the charltons. So I feel embedded in Northumberland history and possibly linked to the Rievers. I hope to go to the nexr Rievers festival. I look forward to reading your novels.
Rob Charlton
Hi Karen, my grandfather was also a William Charlton born in Byers Green in 1920. He moved to Northamptonshire in 1936 then survived 5 years of fighting in WW2 before returning to work in the local iron & steel industry before he died in 1980. I’ve been trying to trace some more of his history. I know his mothers name was Elizabeth & she married a John Joe Binks from Spennymoor after his dad died when he was young. Apart from that I’ve drawn a blank. Just makes me wonder that with the Northumberland connection through him if my distant relatives could’ve been Reivers at some point?
Judith Johnstone
My forth great grand parents were William Charlton and Jane Dodd who lived at Cariteth near Bellingham would be grateful for any info
Beth Secor
I loved reading this. My great grandmother's name was Myrtle Magdalena Charlton. We knew she had come from the British Isles, but according to family lore, her mother died before she and her father left for the states, and her father died on the way over. She was orphaned around the age of 16 or 17, so we knew little of her history.
I'm a novelist not a professional genealogist but I couldn't help noticing what an unusual name your great grandmother had, Beth. Males a change from Mary and Ann. A genealogist may be able to track down her birth registration with a distinctive name like that.
Mike Charlton
I will seek out your novels!
My great-grandfather emigrated from Tynedale to South Africa in the late 19th century, but my father returned to England in the 1970s. I now live in Leeds, but have been researching the Charlton line, and have got back to the late 1700s/early 1800s. The family lived in the Fourstones area, and were coal miners. I'd love to get back as far as possible, although I fear that the reivers may not have kept very many birth/marriage/death records, so the line will have to stop somewhere around there, and disappear into antiquity/legend. But my ancestors were definitely Charlton reivers, as my surname and the geographical emanation of my forebears testifies.
Time to add your novels to my Christmas list!
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No gas in Okanagan town as lone station closed for renovations
Falkland’s Petro Canada will remain closed for renovations until March 1
Parker Crook
As Falkland’s lone gas station is closed for renovations, some Falkland residents are upset with the perceived lack of communication.
Val Woida, owner of the Highland Motel that lies across from Falkland’s Petro Canada on Highway 97, said the hotel has seen several visitors who are low on gas.
“I get three to five people a day coming to the hotel saying, ‘I’ve run out of gas,’ and they’re distraught,” Woida said. “There’s no sign outside of town or a warning.”
Woida said the notice of the closure for renovations was circulated via social media and is posted on the side of the gas station, but said it isn’t likely that everyone saw the message.
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According to Rene Talbot, Columbia Shuswap Regional District director of electoral area D, the Petro Canada was originally intended to reopen Saturday, Feb. 23. However, that date has since been pushed back to March 1.
Nicole Fisher, Suncor Energy spokesperson, confirmed the extension.
“The site is currently closed due to renovations,” Fisher said. “The timeline on these renovations has been extended due to adverse weather conditions. However, we are working to re-open as quickly as possible.”
Woida said that the workers are doing a good job and that the renovations appear to be moving along, but said further notice and attention to the closure is needed.
“I really feel for them (drivers who run out of fuel),” Woida said. “Looking at that gas gauge and thinking you’ve run out of gas isn’t fun.”
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In an effort to further help those in need of fuel, Woida said some Falkland residents have filled up jerry cans with petrol. And, when people come to the hotel looking for gasoline, she directs them to these sources.
“You fill up with two litres or five litres and then just pray that you make it, which isn’t fun either,” Woida said. “They (Petro Canada) are working hard and trying to get it done. It will be a nice fixture for Falkland, but more communication would have been nice.”
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Veterinary Care of Ithaca sets up clinic at Cornell after fire
Veterinary Care of Ithaca staff are temporarily working out of the Cornell University campus.
Veterinary Care of Ithaca sets up clinic at Cornell after fire Veterinary Care of Ithaca staff are temporarily working out of the Cornell University campus. Check out this story on ithacajournal.com: https://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2018/10/17/veterinary-care-ithaca-sets-up-clinic-cornell-after-fire/1658468002/
Matt Steecker, Ithaca Journal Published 3:27 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2018 | Updated 3:40 p.m. ET Oct. 17, 2018
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Amazing circumstances can come out of unfortunate situations.
Two months ago, wires caught on fire in an attic at Veterinary Care of Ithaca. All of Veterinary Care's staff, clients and patients were able to leave the building safely, but the fire closed the building for repairs and renovations.
Three weeks after the fire, Dr. Jennifer Biasillo, the owner of the clinic and a veterinarian who graduated from Cornell in 2012, was able to temporarily move her practice to the Cornell University campus.
At the Cornell Small Animal Community Practice, the Veterinary Care staff is continuing its practice of treating cats and dogs, and on less common occasions also is treating rabbits.
"It's pretty amazing," said Biasillo, of Dryden. "The fire happened on a Wednesday. By Friday, I came here. It took three weeks to fix the specifics. We were lucky."
Dr. Jennifer Biasillo comforts Ami, a goldendoodle who was being treated for an upset stomach. (Photo: Matt Steecker / Ithaca Journal)
To help make the arrangement possible, the college worked with various parts of Cornell’s administration, including risk management, real estate, taxation, environmental health and safety, and university counsel.
The Veterinary Care of Ithaca staff now treats about 40 to 50 patients per day at their temporary location. Veterinary Care of Ithaca has five veterinarians, 12 staff members and more than 5,000 active patients.
Biasillo's practice is currently using two out of the five exam rooms at the Small Animal Community Practice.
"We can do everything here. We can offer a full range of services," Biasillo said. "We are treating the same number of patients. We are still working at full capacity, but it took us a few weeks to get to this point."
Biasillo said she anticipates moving back to her renovated clinic in December. Construction at Veterinary Care of Ithaca started last week.
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"The fire was in the treatment area behind our reception desk," Biasillo said. "Both had to be gutted. I have worked with a vet architect in Colorado to have them redone. When we go home, we will have a new space, which I am looking forward to."
Bare, a papillon, had a dental procedure. (Photo: Matt Steecker / Ithaca Journal)
The contract between Cornell and Veterinary Care of Ithaca includes an agreement that students can shadow Veterinary Care of Ithaca's appointments, Biasillo said.
"The benefit to Cornell is that it gives us the ability to have students interact with (Biasillo), and see a different practice style and structure," said Dr. Meg Thompson, associate dean for hospital operations and director of the Cornell University Hospital for Animals. "They have been great partners."
Biasillo's use of the Small Animal Community Practice at Cornell demonstrates the strong town-and-gown relationship the university shares with its surrounding area.
"The veterinary school has a unique town-and-gown relationship with the local community and businesses," Thompson said. "The veterinary school has both a diagnostic lab and a teaching hospital that helps both clients and local veterinarians. It is constantly supporting local businesses and the community."
The College of Veterinary Medicine's outreach services include the Southside Community Clinic, Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program, a pet loss support hotline, a pet visitation program, an annual charity bike ride to support the Patient Assistance Fund at the Hospital for Animals, as well as other programs.
Assisting the Veterinary Care staff is a traditional form of town-and-gown support, as opposed to the outreach services the college provides daily, Thompson said.
At the Small Animal Community Practice, students are currently shadowing Biasillo's staff once or twice a week.
Dr. Elizabeth Barns, a veterinarian for Veterinary Care of Ithaca, removed a teeth during a dental procedure on Bare, a papillon dog. Technicians Katy Janower (center) and Jamie Small assisted Banrs during the procedure. (Photo: Matt Steecker / Ithaca Journal)
"It was incredibly generous of Cornell to open its doors for us," said Dr. Elizabeth Barns, a veterinarian for Veterinary Care of Ithaca. "We continue to offer our level of surgery and care at the same level of excellence as we did at our home on Court Street. The animals are doing okay here, and everyone is doing well."
Barns said interacting with students has made the Veterinary Care staff reminisce about their time in college.
Jamie Small, a licensed veterinary technician, works as the Veterinary Care of Ithaca staff finishes a dental procedure on Bare, a papillon dog. (Photo: Matt Steecker / Ithaca Journal)
"It's neat having students who can come over and ask questions," Barns said.
Biasillo said both her staff and the students are enjoying the atmosphere of practicing in the Small Animal Community Practice, and the students are getting a "feel for practice" as to what an appointment would be like in a functioning animal hospital.
Bare, a papillon dog, had a dental procedure. (Photo: Matt Steecker / Ithaca Journal)
Biasillo began her career as a licensed veterinary technician, certified in canine rehabilitation. She ran a rehabilitation facility, working on pets with a variety of disorders.
She enrolled in the College of Veterinary Medicine just shy of her 30th birthday and worked as a licensed technician throughout school. She then bought the business in 2015.
"What happened was a tragedy, but what came out of it was amazing," Biasillo said. "I had clients who would reach out and say, 'if you need help, we will help you.'"
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Ciela Herce is a curator at the Mexico City Portal. The Cornell Portal allows students to interact with people from around the world by entering an immersive building which connects a network of global "portals" through the innovative use of hardware, software, and design technologies. The portal is designed by Shared_Studios. Kate Collins / Staff photo
Guests are encouraged to write about their experiences upon leaving the portal. The Cornell Portal allows students to interact with people from around the world by entering an immersive building which connects a network of global "portals" through the innovative use of hardware, software, and design technologies. Kate Collins / Staff photo
Gilly Leshed, a professor in the Department of Information Science at Cornell University, interacts with a person in Mexico City while using the Cornell Portal. The Cornell Portal allows students to interact with people from around the world by entering an immersive building which connects a network of global "portals" through the innovative use of hardware, software, and design technologies. Kate Collins / Staff photo
Sophie Wu of Shared_Studios is the curator of the Cornell Portal. The Cornell Portal allows students to interact with people from around the world by entering an immersive building which connects a network of global "portals" through the innovative use of hardware, software, and design technologies. Kate Collins / Staff photo
The Cornell Portal allows students to interact with people from around the world by entering an immersive building which connects a network of global "portals" through the innovative use of hardware, software, and design technologies. Kate Collins / Staff photo
Ciela Herce (left on screen) is a curator for Shared Studios in Mexico City. She talks with a curator (lower left) and a student on the Cornell campus, as well as with a man in Mexico City. Matt Steecker / Ithaca Journal
A Shared Studios Portal is located outside the Olin Library on Cornell's campus. A Brazilian student writes comments inside a book upon leaving the portal. Sophie Wu, the curator wearing the red dress, stands next to the portal's entrance. Matt Steecker / Ithaca Journal
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High hopes: Yokohama's Skywalk set to reopen this year
YOKOHAMA--The Skywalk footpath beneath the Yokohama Bay Bridge will open as early as March for the first time in nine years in anticipation of increased visitors eager to watch cruise ships.
The city government intends to promote the observation deck as a sightseeing spot where visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of Yokohama Port and passenger vessels up close.
City officials and other parties will host tours when the luxury cruise ship Queen Elizabeth makes a port call and on other occasions.
The Skywalk is a city-managed pathway that opened in 1989 running under the Yokohama Bay Bridge, which is part of the Bayshore Route of the Shutoko Expressway. It consists of the 320-meter Sky Promenade walkway, with the Sky Lounge observation facility at the far end offering a 360-degree view of Yokohama Port.
The Skywalk had been open throughout the years, charging a 600-yen ($5.50) admission fee for adults. But it was closed in 2010 owing to a slowdown in the number of visitors.
City officials have been making efforts to attract cruise ships to Yokohama Port. A new cruise ship terminal will be completed at Daikoku Pier in April and another at Shinko Pier in autumn. Coupled with the existing passenger terminals at Osanbashi and Yamashita piers and other facilities, Yokohama Port will be able to accommodate seven large cruise ships at a time, the most in the world, in 2021.
Under these circumstances, the officials took note of the Skywalk from which passenger vessels can be seen passing under the Yokohama Bay Bridge. The officials said they intend to reutilize the Skywalk to organize tours and other events on a reservation basis mainly on days when the Queen Elizabeth calls at the port.
With the city government having spent 95 million yen to accelerate the improvement work on the elevator, restrooms and other facilities, the officials are set to reopen the Skywalk in March at the earliest.
According to the passenger ship business promotion section at the city government, a Japanese cruise ship on a round-the-world trip can bring economic benefits worth about 250 million yen to the area each time it makes a port call. They also want the locals to enjoy the scenery from the Skywalk and become widely familiar with cruise ships.
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Takis Barberis was born in Athens in 1963. His relationship with music began at the age of 10. He attended the National Conservatory of Greece, studying classic guitar with Dimitris Fampas, higher theory with Yiannis Avgerinos and on graduation also received the Harmony certificate. Simultaneously he played electric guitar in many rock groups. His interest in jazz began in 1979 and it would determine his future course.
In 1982 he presented his first compositions with the band "Jazz Fusion Quintet" when his cooperation with David Lynch and Takis Farazis began, continuing later in the group "Iskra" (1985), with G. Fakanas, N. Touliatos and L. Pliatsikas. 'Iskra' was one of the most successful and progressive groups of that era, releasing their first album "A New Day" (Polygram) in 1986 that also includes two of his compositions.
In the period 1987 - 1989 he formed the group "Model 63" with P. Hatzigiankos and K. Kalogirou in a more experimental approach of rock music with Greek lyrics, they released the album "Model 63" (Lyra 1988).
In 1990 his first personal album was released entitled "Something From July" (Lyra), with his compositions from the 80's including many Jazz, Rock and Latin influences, with the participation of T. Farazis, G. Kontrafouris, T. Paterelis and K. Kalogirou.
"Are You Happy" (Lyra, 1992) was his second album, with the classic sound of a Jazz Quintet (G. Kontrafouris, T. Paterelis, G. Vassalos, K. Kalogirou). This second album was Barberis's first venture into combining Jazz rhythms and harmony with Eastern and Greek elements.
In his third and most mesmerising album "Episodes" (Lyra 1995) explores these themes even deeper with the participation of internationally known Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu and the traditional Greek musician Petroloukas Halkias on clarinet, and eight highly talented Greek musicians (P. Benetatos, G. Kontrafouris, T. Paterelis, Y. Kiourtsoglou, G. Vassalos, K. Kalogirou, T. Farazis & P. Kourtis). The critics characterise “Episodes” as one of the most successful combinations of jazz and traditional elements (Greek and Indian music).
Barberis continuous and evolves the influences that we meet in “Episodes” with his fourth album "Naiva" (Lyra, 1998), a play on naivety in title and music with the return of Petroloukas Halkias and the Indian musicians Reshma Srivastava and Shankar Lal.
'Porto Kayio' (LIBRA MUSIC, 2004), a ‘’soundtrack’’ for journeys through splendid vocals, sounds and rhythms. Together with his bassman George Giorgiadis, drummer Michalis Kapilidis, pianist Manos Saridakis and fellow passengers Debashish and Subhasis Bhattacharya from India, Takis Barberis creates each piece as a musical homeland: from Greece to India, Middle East, Africa and once again back to his own land.
‘In Parallel’(Lyra, 2011)is his latest release with the legend of greek clarinet Petroloukas Chalkias.A live recording on 4/11/96 with Costas Kalogyrou on tabla.
''Jargon''(2013). A jazz amalgam which embodies various elements from Indian, Funk, Rock, African, Balkan and Greek music. Melodic compositions for Guitars, Trumpet, El. Sitar, Tabla, Piano, Synth, Bass and Drums full of spirited improvisations with Yiorgos Georgiadis, Michalis Kapilidis, Manos Saridakis, Andreas Polyzogopoulos, Satnam Sing Ramgotra, Yannis Kirimkiridis.
Barberis has collaborated with Trilok Gurtu, Glenn Corneille, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Dionysis Savvopoulos and almost all Greek musicians of Jazz scene, and has taken part in many live performances in Greece and abroad.
Since 1981 Barberis teaches modern guitar and improvisation at various Conservatories (National Conservatory of Patras, Pindareio, Raimondi Conservatory, R.S.I.) and the last years at the Filipos Nakas Conservatory teaching jazz guitar and improvisation.
TAKIS BARBERIS DISCOGRAPHY :
"Something From July" "(Lyra 1990)
"Αre You Happy?"(Lyra 1992)
"Episodes"(Lyra 1995)
"Naiva"(Lyra 1998)
"Porto Kayio"(Libra 2004)
“In Parallel” w.Petroloukas Chalkias(Lyra 2010)
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I have been on a journey of unlearning for several years now.
This trek has taken me inward, on a search for the ancient language that connects me to the wind, the ocean, a tortoise and birds, the stars, humanity. This strange interior pilgrimage included the shedding of layers of learned fear, replaced by the embrace of inter-being, the extraordinary interconnectedness of all things in this universe of marvels and oddities, astonishments and magnificence.
I weave this ethos through my jewelry and object art using a magpie approach, composing antique imagery, text and figural toys, which pepper small theatre-like frameworks. My layered narratives in glass and metal extend a helping hand, an invitation to see the world with curious eyes, the eyes of a child.
You are often invited to turn a tiny crank handle which activates movement in the work, to become a magician for a moment, an alchemist in reverie, a shaman dreaming the world.
It is a very sacred game we are playing here on earth. Each of my pieces can function as a touchstone, a cairn, a talisman, for soul retrieval, for awakening, for the journey back to remembering. I think of each as a miniature navigational atlas to the world behind this world, the unseen, the unheard, the unknown.
One of my enameled automatons is featured in the recently published Jewelry and Metals Survey by the Society of North American Goldsmiths.
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Two of my automata will be included in Alchemy 5: Transformation in Contemporary Enamel, the 17th Biennial International Juried Enamel Exhibition sponsored by The Enamelist Society. The Exhibition highlights the best in contemporary enamels produced in the last two years, showcasing the work of enamelists that demonstrate aesthetic and technical expertise. The exhibition will be hosted at the University of Oregon in Eugene, from July 31 – August 7, 2019 and then will travel to other venues including the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA.
Several of my pieces are included in the gallery section of the upcoming enameling reference book, The Art of Fine Enameling by Karen Cohen.
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Why do more and more people die from cancer although the pharmaceutical industry makes billions with cancer pharmaceutics? How can the mortality rate be the lowest where there is the lowest number of doctors? And why do we still agree to a health system that bleeds us financially but cannot cure our diseases? The businesslike view of the author shows conditions and developments that put together the picture of a terrible grotesqueness.
Reasons for Worsening Medical Care
There are many reasons why our medical care is going increasingly bad and not better despite a not ignorable progress in research and knowledge. On the one hand, physicians have poor working conditions. In everyday life, they are forced to cope with a tangled mass of bureaucracy instead of being able to peacefully take care of their patients. The pharmaceutical industry, expert associations of Physicians and health insurance companies have grown powerful. They decide what may be done and what not. They set guidelines: not only doctrines and standards, but also treatment norms. If a physician does not keep to the guidelines and paradigms, he will be defamed or even punished. It is added up by claims or threats of claims.
This not only threatens the free profession of a doctor, but also the freedom of therapy. What may be prescribed is no longer decided by the physicians. Thus, well-tried drugs which have been in use for years, especially natural drugs have disappeared with the health reform. Public and private health insurance companies are becoming more and more restrictive, especially regarding natural medicine. They argue that its use is unproven and phase IV studies are missing.
The patient already has to pay a lot out of the own pocket if he wants a milder but nevertheless effective treatment. Who can afford this is lucky and can live, who cannot is unlucky and will die earlier. We have arrived in the long-feared two-class medicine.
Medicine in Crisis
Science is not independent any more as well. The pharmaceutical industry steers it at the universities. There is no plurality of opinion any more. Opinions are being dictated in guidelines and in consensus, similar to the situation of the church in the middle ages, when everything was dogmatized and deviators were accused of heresy and beheaded or burned.
But if in those days there had not been critical heads and people who risked their lives, we would still today have to believe that the earth is a disk and the sun circles around it. Exactly for this reason the medicine is in a deep crisis. How deep the crisis is in fact, can be seen in cancer medicine.
Cancer on the Rise
At the moment, cancer is the No. 2 of the most frequent causes of death. Every year, 10 million people in the western hemisphere die from cancer. 1.4 million in the USA, approx. 300.000 in Germany. The tendency is rising, by the way more with men than with women. Meanwhile even the Americans realize that they have lost the battle against cancer. Despite intense efforts and millions of Dollars as support for science, the risk of acquiring cancer has increased by 13 percent between 1975 and 1989. In the same period of time the cancer death rates increased by 7 per cent, while the 5-year survival rate did almost not change. It rose by only 2 per cent.
Breast cancer may serve as a brilliant example. In the meantime, it has become the leading cause of death for women between age 35 and 54. Back in 1972 a woman’s probability to acquire breast cancer was still 1:14. Today it is 1:8. During the past two decades more American women have died from breast cancer than American soldiers in both World Wars, the Korean, the Vietnam and the Iraq War together. In Germany, the risk for breast cancer has increased by 250 per cent since 1950.
Prostate cancer, too, is diagnosed 40 percent more often than 10 years ago. So, what are we spending all this money for if it does not result in a decrease of cancer rates and in augmented healing rates?
The Health Mafia
There is a series of books pointing to the grievance of our health system. Some of them were already published years ago, i.e.: ‘The Health Mafia’ by Marita Vollborn and Vlad Georgescu. But the set of problems were already known much earlier.
Already in 1983 Peter Sichrovsky wrote his book ’Bittere Pillen’ (“Bitter Pills”), followed by ‘Krankheit auf Rezept : Die Praktiken der Praxisärzte’ (“Disease on Prescription- the Practice of Panel Doctors”) in 1984. ‘Heilung verboten, Töten erlaubt: Die organisierte Kriminalität im Geseundheitswesen‘ (“Healing forbidden, killing allowed- organized crime in health system”) by Kurt G. Blüchel, delivered a pitiless portrait of the German medical business. ‘Battalions of scalpel virtuosos and chemo artists,’ Blüchel writes, ‘operate millions of sick only for profit and career.’
I, as the medical director of an oncological hospital can only approve much of what is written here. Nothing has changed so far. Still the newspapers report of unnecessary operations and exorbitantly expensive drugs.
Toxic Cure without Use
Chemotherapy as one of the standard therapies for cancer, has acquired a bad reputation. Already in 1997 Dr. Ralph W. Moss released his book ‘Fragwürdige Chemotherapie: Entscheidungshilfen für die Krebstherapie‘ (“Questionable Chemotherapy – decision guidance for cancer treatment”). He explains how the chemotherapy has developed in a field of singular interests and with which kinds of tumor it can really show good results.
Just in 2004, a the German renowned magazine ‘Spiegel’ picks up the theme and names the chemotherapy a ‘toxic cure without use’. But still patients are being advised to undergo – sometimes repeatedly – chemotherapies, although, as in the case of breast cancer, they are of no use in the majority of the cases.
Thus, despite ostensibly improved chemotherapies, the breast cancer death rate hasn’t changed since 1920!
Missed Therapy Aim
With breast cancer, if the patient had not received chemotherapy, the survival rate after 10 years is 40 per cent. Has she undergone chemotherapy, the survival rate is 47 per cent. That means: seven out of 100 women benefit from an adjuvant standard therapy. For the other 93 women it is not indicated and causes unnecessary costs. But: all 100 patients suffer from considerable side effects. Should one really expose 100 women to a toxic cure in order to help seven? Ninety-three would not have had a recurrence anyway.
Although today we can test which women might benefit and which not, those tests are not popular. Why? Because it could reduce the turnover of pharmaceutical companies.
Prostate cancer is a similar case. In a study from 2002, 700 prostate cancer patients were randomized into two groups. The first group had not been treated but only monitored (‘Wait and Watch‘). In contrast, the second group had been radically prostatectomized – with all the side effects relating thereto, such as impotence, incontinence and so forth. The result: after seven years, there was no difference in survival in both groups. Sixty-two men died from prostate cancer in the placebo group. Fifty-three of the operated men died, but more often from other diseases.
The question now is: Should we operate 340 men for nothing in order to prevent 7 from dying, not from prostate cancer but from something else? I believe everyone knows the answer.
Modern Medicine, Medieval World View
In the title of his book, Lothar Hirneisen, CEO of the association ‘Menschen gegen Krebs e.V.’ (“People against Cancer”) puts it like this: ‘Chemotherapy heals cancer and the earth is a disk.’ Thus, he puts today’s medicine on a level with the medieval view of the world. Equally, in those days it was believed what was allowed to be believed. Heretics were burned. In today’s medicine, too, there is a common doctrine. Who does not follow, is called a dubious quack and will be outlawed. Thus a democratic dispute with the abundance of therapies, therapy concepts and opinions has become impossible.
Medicine as a Threat for Health
Where there are many doctors, there are many deaths. In places with a lower density of physicians the death rate is the lowest. This has been statistically proven. In several countries with physician strikes a reduction in mortality could be noted during the strike phase that increased again after the physicians resumed their labor. It is also known that medications can make sick and dependent.
In 2003 there was a huge scandal about common hormone compensation therapies. What was supposed to help women with menopause grievances in fact caused cancer. Over a period of 10 years presumably 127.000 women acquired cancer because they received synthetic hormone medications. Consider that the menopause is a natural phase in a woman’s life and not a disease that ought to be treated.
Already three years earlier the US media had reported extensively that hormone therapies rarely are of use but implicate great dangers (WHI study: Women’s Health Initiative). There is a reason that the Germans did not react quickly: Medical Science is often sponsored by the pharmaceutical ndustry. Not surprisingly, their results accord the interests of the sponsors.
But also diagnostic methods can make sick. Here, Germans are the best: They have the highest dosage of x-rays worldwide. In 2005, with the health threats by conventional medicine in mind, author Vernon Coleman published his guidebook ‘How to Stop Your Doctor Killing You’. ‘The probability of dying from the side effects of the medication your doctor prescribes you, is five times higher than losing your life in a traffic accident’, he writes.
The Global Cancer Crisis
Cancer is the most expensive disease of all. It charges the health insurance companies 25 billion EUR per year. 5 per cent of all sick people have cancer, but they produce 12 per cent of the costs. There is no end coming as both patients and physicians, due to guidelines, are often forced to the expensive track with chemotherapy. Then, side effects must be treated with – again – expensive drugs, such as antiemetics, GCSF and so on. This is even done with conceivably unfavorable prognosis.
Despite all hopes and claims today’s cancer therapy shows no better long-term results than therapies from 30 years ago. Why is that? For me, the answer is not difficult: because the conventional cancer medicine managed to take out the principal of healing from medicine and substituted it by a symptomatic treatment.
In fact, the visible, tangible tumor does not constitute the disease itself, but is a symptom and product of a deeper lying disease. Therefore, the removal of the tumor is not a causal, but a symptomatic therapy. The milieu in which cancer could emerge, is rarely or not at all considered. The cancer disease is being treated according to the book: cut, irradiate, toxificate. Of course, besides operation, chemotherapy, radiation, hormone therapy with synthetic products and pain therapy there is also a little bit of psychology. But the singular individual, his physical and psycho-social situation is rarely listened and responded to. Man as an entity in his singularity is not answered to.
Cancer Treatment: Fixed standards with Serious Consequences
Coming back to our example with breast cancer, almost all of today’s women all over the world are treated the same when they develop a mamma carcinoma. There is a fixed standard: operate, radiate, and treat with chemo. A computer could suggest this therapy if it were fed with the according tumor formula and a trained nurse could exercise it.
The applied cytostatics may suppress the growth of the tumor, but at the same time they affect the healthy tissue. The patient’s immune system which showed significant weaknesses even before the affection with cancer is being weakened consistently by this, on top of other organs such as bone marrow, liver, kidneys and the nervous system.
The organism has to cope with an enormous load of toxins. It cannot always manage.
Complementary Cancer Therapy
Contrary to that, complementary cancer therapy has different aims: strengthening the patient’s health, his metabolism, hormone and immune system in a way that we can control the underlying disease better. To achieve this, his hormones are regulated by bioidentical hormones, his immune system is supported, the patient is detoxified and his organ functions are improved. Simultaneously, the life style and psychological attitude are considered and, if necessary, corrected, or help is being offered accordingly.
The focus of complementary cancer medicine is the progression of the single patient, his or her individual problems and characteristics. It is a holistic oriented individual therapy. Several approaches are included dependent on the patient’s situation: homeopathy, sports therapy, Galvano therapy, hyperthermia, orthomolecular medicine, naturopathic treatment, dietetic treatment, immuno therapy, bioidentical hormones, psychology and traditional Chinese medicine.
All these therapies work with nature and not against. They have little side effects but support the patient in gradually regaining his active life and acquiring a fighting spirit towards the cancer. Some of the therapies do not have a direct but an indirect effect. At a first glance, each for itself may look worthless and ineffective. But like pieces of a mosaic, thoroughly and individually applied, together they make a masterpiece. In complementary medicine, medicine becomes art again, and not, as in conventional medicine, a standardized technique that treats symptoms, but not the whole human being.
Encouraging the Patients to be an Active Part of the Therapy
We encourage our patients to concentrate on themselves and to lead an active life (sports, clubs, etc.). We give them the tools they can use. They are actively integrated in their own healing process. Body, mind and soul are required.
We know that the brain, the hormones and the immune system, although different systems, work together closely. They constantly exchange information using the same tracks. This does not only explain occasional psychical disorders along with physical diseases and vice versa, but also why visualization techniques prove to be so effective. Only the re-establishment of a homeostasis on these three levels allows an enduring recovery and overcoming of the disease.
The Solution: A New Medicine
What we need to solve all the problems mentioned above is a new medicine that puts the physician in a better position again. Only if his freedom and independence are guaranteed, he can make the best decision for each of his patient.
At the same time we should grant self-determination to the patients. We have to restore their health and not take it away from them!
If we don’t manage to take a turn, we should not be surprised if today’s medicine continues to decline. Then we are going to lose the good reputation that the German medicine once had worldwide.
We need a strong governing body that represents an ‘integrative medicine’ and acts in all important committees. This governing body must intensively and equally boost the rights of both patients and physicians.
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The construction of St. Francis' Sawhill Park was partially funded and completed in 1934 by the Civil Works Administration of the New Deal era. Local artist Howard T. Sawhill designed the site and oversaw its construction. Key park features include a bandshell, amphitheater, fountain, walkways, benches, and a concrete American flag all situated on an entire city block. The horseshoe shaped concrete amphitheater with four rows of seats faces an Art Deco-style concrete block bandshell. Originally known as the St. Francis City Park, it was renamed in honor of Sawhill in 1966.
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625 Jacques-Parizeau St,
Pierre-Luc Landry
Office Rental Advisor
parcimmobilier@lacapitale.com
Award-winning building located in the heart of Quebec City
La Capitale Insurance and Financial Services' head office, a Class A building with an avant-garde architectural style, has been expanded to provide sufficient office space for all its employees in the Quebec City area. The building's strategic location, in the heart of Parliament Hill with many nearby services and attractions, gives it a definite advantage in the real estate market.
Go on a virtual tour of our head office
Watch the head office construction in fast forward
Building Fact Sheet (PDF - 1 page)
Canadian Property Management magazine publishes an article on La Capitale's head office (PDF - 2 pages)
BOMA Quebec's corporate Building of the Year
Proud winners at the provincial level on May 10, and on the federal level on September 28, 2017, for our management excellence, the quality of our operations, our resource conservation and our environmental awareness.
BOMA BEST Platinum
On March 29, 2017, the building was certified at the highest certification level of the five available in recognition of its value of environmental management and energy practices.
One of Quebec City's very first "green" buildings!
On July 28, 2014, the head office became the third La Capitale building to achieve LEED® certification for the quality of its construction and sustainable design.
Strategic location that makes the building highly visible
Located in the “Upper Town” district on Quebec City's Parliament Hill, near Grande Allée street, the plains of Abraham and government buildings such as the Complexe G (Marie-Guyart) and the Quebec Parliament.
A number of hotels within a 300-metre radius
Multiple food services
Carpooling: covoiturage.ca
Close to public transportation
Class: A
Total square footage: 330,000 sq ft
Number of floors: 15, five of which are for indoor parking
Floor space: 35,000 sq ft
258 indoor parking spaces
Secure room for bicycles and bike racks outside
Many services available indoors or nearby
Full accessibility for persons with reduced mobility
In-house fitness centre
Free access to showers and locker rooms
Indoor lounge available to all tenants
Numerous conference, training and reception rooms
6 express elevators
Storage spaces
Security guard on site 7 days a week with surveillance cameras
On-site technical team
Various recycling and composting programs
Other distinctions
Architectural awards - Quebec City
People's Choice Award and Award for New Construction – Commercial and Industrial Buildings category at the Quebec City architectural awards ceremony in 2013.
Urban Development Institute of Quebec
La Capitale Financial Group received the 2013 Best Real Estate Project award for its head office expansion.
For more information on our available space
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Diversion in place on major road out of Blackburn for at least a week
The works will be completed under a temporary one-way traffic management arrangement
Jonathan GrieveLocal democracy reporter
Whalley New Road heading out of Blackburn
Work has begun to resurface part of a major road out of Blackburn.
The northbound side of Whalley New Road heading towards Brownhill is closed while the top two layers of the road are resurfaced.
A diversion is in place for traffic heading towards Brownhill while the road heading towards Blackburn town centre remains open to traffic.
Residents had been asked to find alternative parking spaces while the work is done.
Work started on Monday and Blackburn with Darwen Council’s roads team advised the public it is likely to last until March 6.
Letters were sent out to affected residents about access while the work is done.
"Absolutely ridiculous" - Readers react after youths trash Rawtenstall McDonald's
The scheme will comprise of minor kerbing works and replacement of the top two levels of road surface.
A spokesman said: “Due to the complexity of the works, and the closeness of the traffic signals, the works will be completed under a temporary one-way traffic management arrangement, running from Brownhill junction towards Pearl Street.”
The alternative route for the affected traffic heading north is to turn onto Emerald Street, Emerald Avenue, and Brownhill Drive.
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Drake – God’s Plan Music Video
Feb 16, 2018 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
Canadian rapper, Drake God’s Plan music video has debuted and he spent around $996,631.90 while making the video and used most of the budget donating to the community of Miami.
Kendrick Lamar, SZA – All The Stars Music Video
Feb 6, 2018 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
Marvel’s Black Panther is the hottest topic of this year and to add more to the hype…Kendrick Lamar, SZA All The Stars music video has premiered.
Eminem – Walk On Water Music Video ft. Beyoncé
Dec 24, 2017 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
American rapper, Eminem Walk On Water music video featuring American singer, Beyoncé.
Gucci Mane – Curve Music Video ft. The Weeknd
Nov 10, 2017 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
American rapper, Gucci Mane Curve music video off his eleventh studio album, Mr. Davis finally debuts.
Majid Jordan – Body Talk Music Video
Oct 30, 2017 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
Canadian R&B duo, Majid Jordan Body Talk music video has premiered.
Lil Uzi Vert – XO Tour Llif3 Music Video
Sep 4, 2017 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
American rapper, Lil Uzi Vert premiered the official music video for one of the biggest songs of the year, XO Tour Llif3.
Taylor Swift – Look What You Made Me Do Music Video
Aug 27, 2017 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
Following the release of her much awaited single, American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift premiered Look What You Made Me Do music video.
Bruno Mars – Versace On The Floor Music Video Starring Zendaya
American singer-songwriter, Bruno Mars premiered the music video for his third single, Versace On The Floor off his third studio album, 24K Magic.
Kendrick Lamar Loyalty Music Video ft. Rihanna
Jul 28, 2017 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
American rapper, Kendrick Lamar premiered the music video for his third single, Loyalty off his fourth studio album, DAMN..
Kesha – Woman Music Video ft. The Dap-Kings Horns
American singer, Kesha premiered the music video for her next single, Woman off her third studio album, Rainbow.
Majid Jordan – One I Want Music Video ft. PARTYNEXTDOOR
OVO Sound‘s major signee, Canadian R&B duo Majid Jordan premiered the music video for their latest single, One I Want.
Kesha – Praying Music Video
Jul 6, 2017 | Entertainment, Latest News, Music, Music Videos
After over four years, American recording artist Kesha returns with the first solo single, Praying from her third studio album, Rainbow.
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Times Community News Glendale News-Press News
Weeding out fire danger
Bill Kisliuk
It’s been a good winter for weeds in Southern California, with heavy storms softening the ground for growth that will create fire danger and other hazards later in the year.
This month, Burbank and Glendale unveiled their annual lists of properties considered to be public nuisances due to the fire threat posed by unchecked brush.
Property owners will be given a chance at hearings in the coming weeks to either prove they’ve taken care of the problem or face the prospect that city and county crews will clean up the properties this spring — and charge them for it.
In Glendale, 647 private parcels — all but five on unimproved lots — made it onto the public nuisance list. Most are on roads at the edge of the wilderness, including several properties on Verdugo Woods Highway near Crescenta Valley Park, Bayberry Drive near the Glendale (2) Freeway and Greenwich Road near the Chevy Chase Country Club.
On Tuesday night, the Glendale City Council will hold a hearing in which property owners can get their parcels off the list by proving they’ve taken care of the hazard, or by promising to do so before cleanup crews come in.
In Burbank, where city limits generally don’t brush up against large open spaces, a city report lists only 15 properties for abatement, including five near the intersection of Alameda and Olive avenues. The Burbank City Council has set March 8 for its hearing on the nuisances.
The Los Angeles County agricultural commissioner of weights and measures handles unimproved lots, while city fire crews clean up occupied sites.
Ken Pellman, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Agriculture/Weights and Measures, said handling the issue in Glendale and nearby communities is important for fire prevention.
“Your area has been hit hard by fires in recent years,” Pellman said.
The weed abatement program has other benefits, he added.
“Overgrown properties end up being places where there is a lot of illegal dumping,” he said. “It is a pest control issue, as well.”
Glendale is not required to offer owners further notice of the nuisance unless it anticipates the cleanup costs will exceed $750, according to a staff report.
Officials are encouraging landowners whose properties are on the list, which was published Feb. 1, to contact the Fire Department to resolve concerns or let the county agriculture department know they will handle cleanup themselves.
Copyright © 2019, Glendale News-Press
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Adderall in Law Schools: A Dirty Little Secret
In the cutthroat environment of law schools, where a handful of exams can determine their fate, students are misusing Adderall in hopes of gaining a competitive edge, especially when they think other students are taking it, too.
By Leigh Jones | November 03, 2016 at 11:59 AM
It’s a law student’s steroid.
Mike Scarcella | July 15, 2019
"We refuse to share the silence of most of the Republican caucus in Congress, whose timidity in the face of this abhorrent behavior reflects the debased politics of the day," the group Checks and Balances said in a statement.
IP Lawyer's Moon Shot Will Commemorate Apollo 11 Mission
A new stamp marks the moon landing's 50th anniversary with a backyard astronomy photo by former Bradley Arant partner Greg Revera.
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Intellectual Property, Technology & Innovation Law Concentration
"Intellectual property law" encompasses patents, copyrights, and trademarks as its core subjects, along with specialized bodies of law for designs, plants, and geographical indications, among other things. "Innovation law” is meant to deal broadly with IP issues and with related business law, employment law, technology law, trade law, and free speech law questions–among many others–for individuals, firms, and governments in the arts, entertainment, privacy and security, software and computer networks, life sciences, and technology development and commercialization. These related fields are among the most exciting and challenging areas of contemporary law practice. Pitt Law today is building on its distinguished tradition of scholarship and teaching in these disciplines.
The Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Area of Concentration is designed to allow students to obtain a focused introduction to these bodies of law and practice while simultaneously getting a broad grounding in modern law practice generally. No scientific or technical background is required to pursue the Area of Concentration or to practice law in any of the related fields, though students who wish to practice law as a patent prosecutor do need to have an engineering degree or other, similar technical qualification.
Students may pursue this concentration by taking foundational courses in intellectual property law, 5-6 credits of electives, and 4-6 skills-based credits.
It is expected that students who complete the Intellectual Property and Innovation Law Concentration will learn substantive and procedural law in various areas of intellectual property law and related law concerning law and technology, and law and business, and will acquire the ability to apply their subject-matter expertise in experiential settings such as externships, practicums, advocacy programs, and classroom simulations.
Many of the courses included in the design of the Area of Concentration are taught by and/or are aligned in their content and teaching goals with faculty associated with Pitt Law’s Innovation Practice Institute (IPI). The IPI itself is not a curricular program and does not offer any courses for credit, certification, or degrees. Instead, the course-related and academic goals of the IPI, which are to prepare new law graduates to work with innovation industries and to be innovative lawyers, are expressed in the classroom through this Area of Concentration. In addition, the IPI offers a broad range of extracurricular programming for law students and facilitates student placement in local technology-related and entrepreneurship-related internships and externships.
SIPLA
The Intellectual Property & Innovation Law Area of Concentration requires a minimum of 14 credits. The requirements for the program are divided into three categories—foundational, elective, and skills. Students must take 2 of the listed foundational courses (for a total of 5-6 credits), 5-6 credits from among the listed elective courses, and 4-6 credits from among the listed skills courses.
Foundational Courses (2 courses totaling 5-6 credits required)
Intellectual Property Law (3 credits)
Copyright Law (3 credits)
Patent Law (2 credits)
Trademark Law (3 credits)
Elective Courses (5-6 credits required)
Artificial Intelligence and the Law Seminar (3 credits)
Biotechnology Law (2 credits)
Business Planning, Entrepreneurship & Technology (2 credits)
Cybercrime (3 credits)
Cybersecurity and Privacy Regulation (3 credits)
Cyberspace and the Law (3 credits)
Food & Drug Law (1 credit)
Foundations of Intellectual Property Seminar (3 credits)
Information Privacy: Law and Practice (2 credits)
International Intellectual Property Law (3 credits)
Law and Economics (3 credits)
Law and Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
Telecommunications Law (2 credits)
Trade Secrets Law (2 credits)
Skills Component (4-6 credits required)
Commercializing New Technologies (3 credits)
Intellectual Property Licensing (2 credits)
Law, Entertainment and Social Enterprise Practicum (2 credits)
Patent Law Practice (2 credits)
Patent Litigation (2 credits)
Trademark Law Practice (2 credits)
Giles Sutherland Rich Moot Court Competition (1 credit)
Cardozo/BMI Moot Court Competition (1 credit)
Externships with government agencies or other organizations that focus on intellectual property and/or technology law, practice, and/or policy (4 credits)
Semester in DC externship with a focus on intellectual property and/or technology law, practice, and/or policy (13 credits)
The IP and Innovation Concentration offers several different pathways, or tracks. Each of these is voluntary rather than mandatory. Each student enrolled in the Concentration may choose one of these paths, none of them, or a blend of courses, depending on their goals and interests. The pathways are offered here to guide students who ask: what courses should I take, if I am interested in “X”?
No matter which track a student pursues, a student who completes the Concentration’s requirements will be recognized with the Intellectual Property and Innovation Law concentration at graduation.
Intellectual property track includes:
Technology track includes:
Arts, culture, and entertainment track includes:
Business of innovation track includes:
Social innovation track includes:
Design & Policy for Humanitarian Impact (offered through Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College)
Prof. Kevin Ashley
Professor Ashley teaches Intellectual Property, Cyberspace and Law, and the Artificial Intelligence and Law Seminar
Prof. Michael Madison
Professor Madison teaches Copyright Law, Trademark Law, and the Foundations of Intellectual Property Seminar
Prof. David Thaw
Professor Thaw teaches Cybersecurity and Privacy Regulation
Prof. Rodney Akers, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Office of General Counsel
Prof. Akers teaches Telecommunications Law
Prof. Lynn Alstadt, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Pittsburgh, PA
Professor Alstadt teaches Patent Law Practice
Prof. C. Allen Black, Jr., Pepper Hamilton, Pittsburgh, PA
Professor Black teaches Biotechnology Law
Prof. Daniel H. Brean, the Webb Law Firm, Pittsburgh PA
Professor Brean teaches Patent Law
Prof. Stephanie Dangel teaches Law, Entertainment & Social Enterprise
Prof. John McIlvaine, the Webb Law Firm, Pittsburgh, PA
Professor McIlvaine teaches Patent Litigation
Prof. Linda Pingitore, PPG Industries
Professor Pingitore teaches Trade Secrets Law
Prof. J. Matthew Pritchard, the Webb Law Firm, Pittsburgh PA
Professor Pritchard teaches Trademark Law Practice
Prof. Peter Watt-Morse, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Pittsburgh, PA
Professor Watt-Morse teaches Intellectual Property Licensing
Moot Court Advisors
Pitt's IP moot court teams are advised by Professor Alstadt and by Richard Rinaldo, Esq. of Williams Coulson and David Oberdick, Esq. of Meyer, Unkovic & Scott.
Courses in Intellectual Property Law
Foundations of Intellectual Property Law Seminar
Intellectual Property Licensing
International Intellectual Property Law
Patent Law Practice
Trademark Law Practice
Courses in Technology Law
Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Business Planning, Entrepreneurship, and Technology
Cyberspace and Law
Cybersecurity and Privacy Regulation
Other Innovation Law Courses
Commercializing New Technologies
Food and Drug Law
Law, Entertainment and Social Enterprise Practicum
Law and Entrepreneurship
For descriptions of the above courses, please see the Registrar's page.
Pitt Law competes annually in two interscholastic intellectual property-related moot court competitions: the Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition, sponsored by the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition, which takes place at Cardozo Law School in New York City.
Teams for both competitions are selected in the Fall in internal tryouts and are advised throughout the academic year by full-time Pitt Law faculty and experienced practitioners from the Pittsburgh intellectual property bar. Completion of the full competition entitles each team member to academic credit.
The Pitt Law Student Intellectual Property Law Association (SIPLA) welcomes students interested in the dynamic field of intellectual property law, including copyright, patent, and trademark law. SIPLA hosts speakers and discussions, mentors students, and connects students with practicing attorneys, academics, and faculty in the intellectual property field.
Click here to view the SIPLA website.
Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship
“The Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship and the Semester in D.C. Program provided a wonderful platform for me to gain practical experience in the field of intellectual property law. In my externship with the Department of Justice, I worked alongside attorneys on a variety of intellectual property issues and observed cases in various stages of litigation.”
- Alan Leung, Pitt Law 2012
The Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship provides a $2,500 stipend for Semester in D.C. Program students who are working in intellectual property and technology law externships. The Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship is funded by a gift from Professor Pamela Samuelson of the University of California-Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and her husband, Dr. Robert J. Glushko, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Professor Samuelson is a former member of the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
The 2011 Samuelson/Glushko Fellow, Alan Leung ’12, worked in the IP Section of the Department of Justice Civil Division, Commercial Litigation Branch. Alan’s seminar paper for the Semester in D.C. Program was selected as the second place winner of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s 2012 Intellectual Property Law Section Annual Writing Competition and will be published. Alan is now a patent agent at a Washington-area IP law firm, Oblon Spivak McClelland Maier and Neustadt, L.L.P.
As Alan’s experience suggests, a semester-long externship is an excellent entrée into the Washington legal market, but its value is not limited to the Washington area. Gaining experience in a federal agency or on the Hill, or working for some of the well-known non-profits engaged in lobbying and policy-making in Washington provides you with an impressive credential that will be valued anywhere in the country. Your Semester in D.C. Program seminar paper can serve as an opportunity for publication, which provides an impressive writing sample for any employer.
Applying for the Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship is easy. When you obtain an intellectual property or technology law externship that meets the SDC Program requirements, you qualify. Simply contact Prof. Elena Baylis with confirmation of your externship and its focus on IP or tech law
For more information about the Samuelson/Glushko Fellowship, or to learn more about the Semester in D.C. Program, contact Prof. Baylis at pittindc@pitt.edu or visit the website at Semester in D.C.
Health Law Certificate Program
Intellectual Property, Technology & Innovation Law
International and Comparative Law
J.G. Civil Litigation Certificate Program
Environmental and Energy Law Certificate
Public Policy Concentration
Tax Law Concentration
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Camden Law Centre solicitor recognised for immigration work
Sarah Scott, a solicitor at Camden Community Law Centre, has been highly commended by the Law Centres Network for her work in Immigration, Public Law and Human Rights.Sarah, nominated by her collea...
Sheffield Law Centre Caseworker is highly commended
Douglas Johnson, a specialist in discrimination law at Sheffield Law Centre, has been highly commended by the Law Centres Network for the test cases he has taken recently to challenge discriminatio...
LCN stands by the Human Rights Act
Today, on global Human Rights Day, the Law Centres Network joined over 100 other UK civil society groups in an open letter in the Daily Telegraph. The letter calls on political leaders of all part...
Sheffield Law Centre determined to continue despite legal aid cuts
All Law Centres have been badly hit by April's cuts to civil legal aid, and Sheffield Law Centre is no exception. Nevertheless, SLC is determined to fight through the tough times and is maki...
November 22nd 2013
Bedroom Tax victory for carer mum and disabled son in Islington
An Islington mother and her severely disabled adult son were helped by Islington Law Centre to win their appeal against the Bedroom Tax. Margaret and Steven Rose live in a flat in Holloway w...
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May 28, 2013 |Conservatism, Judicial Restraint, Majority Rule, the New Deal
Greg Weiner on Judicial Restraint and Originalism
by Mike Rappaport|Leave a Comment
Protesters demonstrate against Donald Trump in Washington DC in anticipation of the certification of the Electoral College vote. Rena Schild (shutterstock.com)
I enjoyed Greg Weiner’s post on the Judicial Dilemma of Originalism, which has received some attention. Greg does a strong job of describing the conservative case for judicial restraint (as the competitor to conservative originalism). My problem, however, is that I don’t really understand the conservative case for judicial restraint.
Greg writes:
It arises from man’s status as a political animal. It elevates to the status of constitutional principle the conservative’s dispositional distaste for whining, which is not to stigmatize all objections to losing positions as whining. Some objections are legitimate. It is, rather, to say that not all losses before legislatures are to be retried before courts, that part of the price of living in a political community is that one must accommodate oneself to the needs, preferences and tastes of others. One wins some battles but also loses others and one is not entitled simply to stomp off the playground—still less to shutter the playground for others—in the latter case.
Here is the problem. Majority rule – especially majority rule at the national level – is not really a conservative principle, unless it is significantly cabined by other principles. But judicial restraint toward Congress by federal courts will allow Congress largely to do as it pleases.
I understand why conservatives reacting to the Warren and Burger Courts would have favored judicial restraint. At a time before originalism had become popular, judicial restraint was a powerful way of criticizing an activist court based on a theory that made sense in a democracy. But the fact that judicial restraint made sense at a particular time for conservatives does not mean it is a principled or long term approach when it comes to constitutional interpretation.
April 30, 2013 |Civil Society, Conservatism, Individualism, Mike Lee, Modern Liberalism, Progressivism, Yuval Levin
Dependency, Properly Understood
by Richard M. Reinsch II|1 Comment
Yuval Levin provided commentary last week on Utah Senator Mike Lee’s recent speech “What Conservatives are For,” where Lee provocatively argued that the problem with much of the Republican Party’s rhetoric is its insistence that Obamacare, among other welfare state policies, strikes at our individualism and independence. Of course, the most dramatic example of this was Romney’s famous takers’ speech and the crude materialistic anthropology it relied upon. Lee’s speech matters, I think, for the reason that he is viewed as part of a rising group of national political figures like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, among others, who seem willing to rethink standard rhetoric of liberty, limited government, free markets, rule of law and actually pour it into new wine-skins.
November 14, 2012 |2012 Election, Citizenship, Conservatism, Immigration, Limited Government, Statesmanship
Beware the Categorical Trap
by Gordon Lloyd|2 Comments
Conservatives are disappointed and are searching for reasons for the disappointing electoral outcome. In whom or what are they disappointed? A tempting approach is to adopt the inevitableness of changing demographics framework of the left. The left regularly focus on the story of the marginalized—women, minorities, the young and the poor—gaining ascendancy or being victimized. And certainly these four groups were active in this election and were important in delivering the presidency to Obama and perhaps the Senate to the Democrats. It would appear that it is the old white guys who held power previously that are now the victims! But that is delicious revenge for the left. Because it is all about power; you old white guys have had your turn. Now it is our turn.
But there is nothing destiny deciding or inevitable about the impact of these four categories.
November 8, 2012 |American Founding, Barack Obama, City on a Hill, Conservatism, Mitt Romney, Populism, Ronald Reagan
A New American Myth
by Ted McAllister|3 Comments
In politics, our myths are more important than our history. The stories that tell us who we are as a nation are the most powerful political tools in times of economic, military or cultural stress. Good or useful myths marshal populist anxieties, giving to people who are fearful of dispossession or political dislocation a story that simultaneously affirms their central role in this nation and explains the causes of their present turmoil. In 2008 the nation needed a useable myth that could tap into American populism and turn this potent political force into a conserving power. Obama’s myth has not created a sustainable narrative of America, but it might have weakened the very capacity of the nation to believe in and live as part of a better story of ourselves.
May 14, 2012 |Conservatism, Equality, Liberalism, Libertarianism, Obamacare, Property Rights
Freedom and the Political Good: Some Preliminary Considerations
by James Kalb|5 Comments
Recent disputes over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act go to the most basic of political issues, the proper goal of government.
The nature of the political good may seem a question for the seminar room, but the answer is what distinguishes libertarians, liberals, and conservatives. More specifically, it’s what accounts for the disputes over Obamacare.
According to libertarians, the basic political good is freedom, understood as a setting in which people make their choices and pay for them. What’s available for choice is what people can provide for themselves, together with whatever other people decide to make available. Such a view leads libertarians to oppose government-prescribed health care of any kind.
Liberals agree that the basic political good is freedom, but see it as a setting in which people make choices and receive social support for them. They note that a lack of options can limit freedom, and propose that goods everyone wants, or that facilitate choice in general, be made freely available. Thus, for example, they believe that government should provide for universal health care, since everyone wants to be healthy, and good health facilitates active autonomy. They also believe that personal choice should prevail over collective moral preferences, so Catholic employers should be required to make free birth control pills available to employees who want them.
Conservatives in contrast view the political good as maintenance of an overall way of life that has been found good through experience and reason. That way of life will generally include freedom, but it won’t put it first because freedom by itself doesn’t tell us what it’s for, and if we don’t know what it’s for we can’t resolve conflicts among claimed freedoms. So to make sense, freedom has to be part of a larger system of goods that gives it direction, setting, and meaning.
May 2, 2012 |Conservatism, Nonoriginalism, Originalism
Originalism and Generational Change
Recently, a number of legal thinkers who might be described as conservative nonoriginalists have criticized originalism -- Charles Fried, Harvie Wilkinson, and perhaps Justice Sam Alito. They appear to have differing philosophical viewpoints -- a certain kind of deontology, pragmatism, and Burkianism -- but all seem to reject originalism as the primary basis for constitutional law. What is going on? Originalism has grown mightily in recent years -- greatly expanding among libertarians and even increasing among liberals. But one has the impression that the great majority of conservatives are originalists. Does this trinity suggest otherwise? I don't think so, but part of…
February 17, 2012 |Conservatism, Libertarianism
Breitbart on Libertarians and Conservatives
by Mike Rappaport|53 Comments
Over at Reason, they have a review of Andrew Breitbart's speech to CPAC: Breitbart, who admits to having libertarian leanings, thinks libertarians should not be discouraged by the media's portrayal of the conservative movement. "[Libertarians] don't want to be in the same room as conservatives because it will hurt their street cred. Conservatives, especially right now, have a hell of a lot more in common with libertarianism than Barack Obama and what the progressive left stand for," he said. Alas, I think there is quite a bit to say for what Breitbart is claiming. Certainly, libertarians -- even those who are hostile…
February 6, 2012 |Conservatism, Libertarianism, Statism
Statism I
In analyzing what is wrong with current thinking about our political order, one of the basic concepts that I employ is statism. Yet few people, including libertarians and conservatives, talk very much about the concept, and fewer still mention it by name. In my next couple of posts, I want to explore this concept and then show how it operates to bias thinking about political matters. Let me start by defining statism. Statism is similar to other negative “isms” like racism and sexism. Just as racism is the excessive and harmful focus upon race, statism is the excessive and harmful embrace…
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Home>News>The Polish branch of the LLENTAB Group closes to 2,000 reference buildings
The Polish branch of the LLENTAB Group closes to 2,000 reference buildings
The Polish branch is the largest foreign branch of the Swedish LLENTAB Group – the operation based in Gdansk was established in May 1992. Since then, it has built over 1,900 buildings. The Polish economy has grown the fastest over the past six years, driven mainly by high domestic consumption and revived investment. The milestone 2,000 LLENTAB buildings will be surpassed very soon.
With its population of 38 million, Poland today is the eighth largest country in Europe, and its economy has been tremendously successful in recent years – Poland’s gross domestic product last year increased by 4.6 %. Unemployment fell to 6.3 % in April 2018, the lowest level since 1990. Poland, like the whole of Central Europe, is experiencing economic growth but suffering a shortage of workers.
What are the specifics of the steel building market in Poland? What is the structure of LLENTAB’s Polish branch and who are its typical clients?
“The organizational structure is similar to other countries where LLENTAB operates, and our company has its own sales, design and assembly departments. Headquarter is in Gdańsk, and other offices are located in Bialystok, Kielce, Krakow, Lublin, Lodz, Olsztyn, Poznan, Rzeszow, Stargrad, Torun, Warsaw, Wroclaw and Zielona Góra. Poland has a strong position in the production of furniture and printing, and many warehouses and operating facilities are built for companies from these two industries. Our typical clients are the owners of companies that need to build a hall; most often for them, we build storage and manufacturing buildings. The greatest opportunity for the growth of our company in Poland is the good and proven LLENTAB brand, a reputation it has been gained over the years. We have a lot to build on, especially the number of projects we have completed. Our aim is to satisfy our clients’ needs, and our good business services, reliability and specialisation have always been our strength”.
Piotr Śniadek, Sales Director, LLENTAB Poland
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Linda Nemec Foster is Interviewed on WBLV-FM (Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp’s Public Radio Station)
May 6, 2019 /in News /by Administrator
Linda Nemec Foster was interviewed on WBLV-FM by radio host, Foley Schuler, on March 5, 2019.
To listen to the full interview on WBLV’s website, click here.
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The Lake Michigan Mermaid is a finalist in a National Book Competition Sponsored by ForeWord Reviews.
March 26, 2019 /in News /by Administrator
The Lake Michigan Mermaid is a finalist in this national book competition for independent, university, and small presses sponsored by ForeWord Reviews for the following prize: “2019’s ForeWord Book of the Year Award in Poetry”.
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The Lake Michigan Mermaid is a Finalist in a National Conest for Superior Cover Artwork by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.
The Lake Michigan Mermaid is a finalist in this prestigious national contest given for superior cover artwork by the Eric Hoffer Book Awards for the following prize: “2019’s The da Vinci Eye Award”.
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The Lake Michigan Mermaid is Selected by the Library of Michigan as a Michigan Notable Book for 2019
January 9, 2019 /in Feature, News /by Administrator
This annual award honors 20 acclaimed books from over 300 titles submitted. The Lake Michigan Mermaid is among those celebrated.
To view the full list, click here to visit the Detroit Free Press website.
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Michigan Public Radio Recommends The Lake Michigan Mermaid as One of the Top Michigan Notable Books for 2019
January 9, 2019 /in News /by Administrator
The Lake Michigan Mermaid was honored as a “2019 Michigan Notable Book” by the Library of Michigan.
To view the full list of Michigan’s Notable Books (including Michigan Radio’s interview with Linda Nemec Foster & Anne-Marie Oomen), please click here to visit the Michigan Radio website.
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Michigan Public Radio 2018 Book Gift Guide Recommends The Lake Michigan Mermaid
December 28, 2018 /in News /by Administrator
Linda Nemec Foster and Anne-Marie Oomen’s latest poetry book, The Lake Michigan Mermaid, has been recommended by Michigan Public Radio in their 2018 Book Gift Guide!
Click here to view the full Michigan Public Radio 2018 Book Gift Guide.
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Linda Nemec Foster is interviewed on WYCE’s Electric Poetry
September 11, 2018 /in News /by Administrator
Linda Nemec Foster was recently interviewed on a episode of WYCE’s Electric Poetry hosted by Kelsey May Fraser, which aired on 9/11/18.
To listen to the full interview, click on the play button below or click here to visit WYCE’s website.
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WHY I WRITE – by Linda Nemec Foster
September 10, 2018 /in News, Uncategorized /by Administrator
Linda Nemec Foster’s essay is featured on the website, Write Across Chicago, which is sponsored by the Illinois Writing Project based at Northeastern Illinois University. A member of the Society of Midland Authors, Linda is the only non-Illinois resident featured on the website.
To read the full article, please click here!
By Linda Nemec Foster
I write because I want to connect with others. I’m primarily a poet and I love poetry for the powerful way it uses language and the blankness around line breaks and stanzas to reflect metaphor, imagery, tone, rhythm, and pacing. Poetry is the only kind of writing where what you don’t say (think of all that white space on the page that surrounds a poem) is as important as what you do say (the language that encompasses each line). And when a poem is read out loud–connecting it to that ancient oral tradition that was the precursor to all written literature–the process is complete.
I also write flash fiction and prose poems that balance the tone between narrative and lyric voices. I like to work with this dichotomy: it’s an ambitious exercise but when the piece can achieve that balance between a narrative arc and strong lyricism, it’s nothing short of magic.
When I’m starting a new poem, I’ll write the first drafts in longhand on a yellow legal pad or a standard notebook. On average, this process of early drafting can result in five to ten rough drafts; that is, every poem I create begins in drafts of at least five to ten versions. After I determine that the piece has achieved a decent structure of form and content, I take the most recent draft and type it on the computer. The revision process continues as I see how the structure evolves as a typed piece. This is particularly essential for poetry as line breaks, stanzas, and section breaks are readily formatted on the computer screen. Currently, a lot of poets and writers prefer to compose directly on the computer but I’m “old school.” I love to feel the paper, to hold the pen, to cross out words and add lines. It’s a tactile and visceral experience for me and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I know the computer is essential for final revisions but that initial creative spark–the first drafts–are always handwritten.
My work of being a poet, a writer, and now (after eleven published poetry collections) an author has enriched my life in ways that are inestimable. True, there is no money in poetry. But the intangible rewards are gratifying and humbling. The most amazing situation I experienced as a writer was when I received an email from a person I never met. This woman had purchased one of my poetry books–a collection of haiku and visual art–that was a quiet meditation on nature and our place in the natural world. Every day she would read excerpts from the book to her friend who was in the advanced stages of terminal cancer. The poetry gave both of them a sense of peace and serenity as one life ended and one life carried on. No award or recognition could match the significance of those words from that stranger.
Linda Nemec Foster is a poet, writer, literary presenter, and founder of the Contemporary Writers Series at Aquinas College. She is the author of eleven collections of poetry including The Lake Michigan Mermaid (with Anne-Marie Oomen), Talking Diamonds, Amber Necklace from Gdańsk, Listen to the Landscape, and Living in the Fire Nest.
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Linda Nemec Foster featured on the Poetry Foundation’s Website
September 6, 2018 /in News /by Administrator
Below is an excerpt from the Poetry Foundation’s Website:
Linda Nemec Foster is the author of 11 collections of poetry, including The Lake Michigan Mermaid (Wayne State University Press, 2018), coauthored with Anne-Marie Oomen; Talking Diamonds (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2009); and Amber Necklace from Gdańsk (Louisiana State University Press, 2001). Her work has been published in anthologies, magazines, and journals, including the Georgia Review, Nimrod, Quarterly West, Witness, New American Writing, North American Review, and Verse Daily. Her poems have been translated into European languages, have inspired original musical compositions, and have been produced for the stage.
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Book Review of The Lake Michigan Mermaid in NewPages
September 5, 2018 /in News, Uncategorized /by Administrator
Linda’s new book, The Lake Michigan Mermaid, is reviewed in NewPages which is a major online source for book reviews, publishing, and the literary world.
To read the full review, please click here!
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Scientists Observe Live Cell Migration
Medgadget Editors News
Migration of epithelial cells is one of the most important developments in cancerogenesis. Johns Hopkins investigators are reporting in the latest issue Developmental Cell an ability to observe epithelial cells transfer across living tissues in vitro:
“The stars of our live show are a cluster of fruit fly cells that literally crawl across the length of an egg chamber while it is maturing,” says Denise Montell, Ph.D., professor of Biological Chemistry and director of the Center for Cell Dynamics. “What these border cells are doing resembles what cancer cells do when they migrate from the main growth to other tissues.”
The historic problem, Montell says, is that it’s been impossible to watch this process inside the ovarian tissue -no microscope can do that – and worse, the cells stop moving if they’re outside the ovaries. In a years-long effort, Montell and her team figured out just what to feed these cells to keep them alive and doing their thing without their ovarian homes.
“We were stuck having to watch this through a series of still pictures and losing a lot of the story, “Montell says. “Now with real-time movies, we’re deciphering the nuances behind organized cell movement that should offer opportunities for hopefully regulating the process.”
Among the nuances identified is that just like migrating geese or a pack of bicyclists, individual border cells in the cluster each take turns as the “leader” during their journey across the egg chamber. Another discovery is that a protein called Kuzbanian is necessary to help border cells detach from the egg wall and begin their journey. “We used to think that Kuzbanian allowed border cells to squeeze themselves between other cells as they moved,” Montell says, “but only now do we understand the real reason cells couldn’t move. We can see them valiantly trying to detach from the wall but unable to pull away.”
Montell and her team tediously worked out a recipe for a liquid culture medium that gave the fly eggs the ability to grow outside ovaries. The list of ingredients included acidity , and a little bit of insulin.
Because many border cell proteins in flies have counterparts in humans, Montell’s studies should translate to a better understanding of clinically useful cell migrations, such as when immune cells move en masse to an open wound or cancer cells detach from a tumor to metastasize.
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Top 10 iPhone Apps
by Mark Walsh on Jul 31, 12:11 PM
The most popular iPhones apps at any given time are posted on the App Store home page, for both free and paid varieties. But those aren't the only iPhone app Top 1o lists. The new book, Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders, from O'Reilly Media, recommends 200 of the 65,000 apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Author Josh Clark has whittled those selections down to his own Top 10:
IDC: Mobile Phone Market Continues Slide
Don't expect the mobile phone market to make a comeback this year. Handset shipments in the second quarter fell 10.8% from a year ago, according to the latest figures from IDC, and the technology research firm forecasts the worldwide market will decline 13% in 2009. The second quarter drop wasn't quite as bad as the 17.2% fall-off in the previous quarter.
Can You Hear Me Now, Judge?
by Mark Walsh on Jul 29, 2:21 PM
Is Verizon Wireless "America's Most Reliable 3G Network" as it claims in recent ads? The nation's largest (no one disputes that) wireless operator has gone to court seeking a ruling to back up its boast.
Google Voice(less) In App Store
It looks like Apple has slammed the App Store door on Google again. Apple has blocked Google Voice, the search giant's Skype-like service that provides a universal phone number, free SMS texting and domestic calls and cheap international calling, from its App storefront.
RadioShack Finally Kicking Mobile Into Gear (All It Took Was Lance)
Is RadioShack getting a mobile-centric makeover? The electronics chain boosted its profile last week when it said it will sponsor a new pro cycling team led by seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. On the same day, RadioShack also announced a deal with T-Mobile USA to sell the wireless carrier's devices and service across at more than 4,000 locations nationwide.
Verizon Makes Another Peace Offering
Verizon Wireless this week again offered a proposal aimed at averting regulatory changes-with a similar response from rival carriers and other groups. Verizon said it would be willing to compromise on roaming service agreements with smaller wireless operators. Verizon said in a letter to Rep. Harry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, that it would support new legislation to provide rivals with roaming services in regions where it's not currently obliged to, provided the requirement only lasts two years.
Phones Are Either Swiss Army Knives Or Cameras
The top-line figures on mobile usage might give the impression that the majority of Americans are using their cell phones habitually like Swiss Army knives for messaging and media consumption. But a closer look at individual non-voice activities indicates higher-end categories aren't growing so fast and remain limited to a small share of users.
The Teflon Phone
Is the iPhone made of Teflon? Its maker, Apple, continues to prove recession-proof, posting a 15% profit gain for its fiscal third quarter as iPhone sales tripled to $1.69 billion. Apple's iPhone-driven financial performance is all the more impressive given the ad slump that has humbled even Internet giants like Google
Smartphones: How Low Can They Go?
Is $99 the new $200 when it comes to hot smartphones? With Verizon Wireless slashing the price on the BlackBerry Storm from $200 to $99 to better compete with the iPhone 3G, it begs the question. But where will it end? Will $50 be the new $99? Does the iPhone want to be free?
Report: Mobile Web Is Miserable
A new study released Monday by researchers at Nielsen Norman Group found the mobile Web to be on par with the traditional Internet circa 1994. "It was that bad," stated usability expert Jakob Nielsen, principal of Nielsen Norman and a co-author of the report.
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Australia’s Joeys Secure Spot In 2019 FIM Team Speedway U21 World Championship Final
July 1, 2019 Filed Under: News, Speedway
You are here: Home / Speedway / Australia’s Joeys Secure Spot In 2019 FIM Team Speedway U21 World Championship Final
In Vetlanda, Sweden, the Joeys came together to represent the nation “down under” in the FIM Team Speedway U21 World Championships Semi Final, vying for a spot in the 2019 Final, in Manchester, United Kingdom (UK). Held on Saturday 29th June, Team Australia, consisting of Captain Jaimon Lidsey and team members Jordan Stewart, Kye Thomson, Zac Cooke and Matthew “Happy” Gilmore, fought tooth and nail to successfully secure their place in the FIM Team Speedway U21 World Championship Final.
Clocking up a total of 40 points overall, our Joeys finished just behind the evening’s victor, Denmark, on 50 points. Team Captain, Lidsey, shone all evening to score the greatest sum of points for Team Australia, with 17 points. Happy Gilmore and Stewart followed on the success from Lidsey with 10 and nine points for the night, respectively.
Rounding out the Joeys success for the evening was Cooke and Thomson, who both finished Saturday night’s festivities with two points each.
Taking to social media after their fantastic result in Sweden, Lidsey gushed that it was “a great result for Team Australia, in our semi-final and scoring enough points to secure a spot in the final in Manchester on the 12th of July. [We’re] absolutely pumped!”
Australia’s Joeys now head to Manchester, UK for the Final on Friday 12th July. Lidsey is set to be right at home come July, with the Final kicking off at his SGB Premiership home track in Manchester. Team Australia will now go head to head with 11-time FIM Team Speedway U21 World Champions, Poland, as well as Denmark and Great Britain, who finished second and third in the 2018 edition of the World Championship.
For the full results from Vetlanda, please click here.
Motorcycling Australia (MA) congratulates Team Australia on their superb efforts in Sweden. The dynamic amongst the relatively new team remains impressively strong and positive, as they tackle the substantial task that is competing on the world stage. We will keep you updated on the Joeys progress in the Final via ma.org.au, Facebook and Instagram.
For more Speedway news and updates, be sure to follow Australian Speedway Championships onFacebook.
Images courtesy of Ian Charles.
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Confidence high as Blues eye revenge
Macclesfield will be refreshed and raring to go when they host Coventry in their first outing in almost three weeks.
The Blues have remained in fifth place as part of the leading group that have broken away from the League One pack in recent months.
And coach Geoff Wappett says that his men will be all-out to keep up their title bid by taking maximum points this weekend.
"We played them down there and lost but we came away knowing we should have won with a bonus," said Wappett.
"But we’re confident we can go out on Saturday and do a job on them.
"Their fly-half and kicker has been out injured and they’ve not had the best of times lately."
The weather and a free weekend at the start of the month means the Blues have had to keep sharp on the training ground and Jersey, who did manage to play their home game with Stourbridge, stay in top spot.
"We wanted to have a go at Rosslyn Park last week but the game couldn’t go ahead, which was a shame," added Wappett, who couldn’t afford his players the luxury of a break from a gruelling training session on Valentine’s Day.
"We’ll play them next week though, we have a few games to go against teams in the top five with us, so we do have the opportunity to change that chain of command at the top of the table."
Two players recovering from injury, Tom Eaton and Martin Kent, will have a run-out in the second XV this Saturday.
BollingtonWork to begin on £150,000 Macclesfield football pitchesHundreds of junior players from Bolllington United Football Club will soon be playing on state-of-the-art pitches
Arighi BianchiJohn Askey hailed Silkmen's 'greatest ever' as he takes up new challengeThe Macclesfield Town boss has quit the job after 34 years to become Shrewsbury Town manager
Macclesfield Town FCMacclesfield manager John Askey leaves for Shrewsbury TownAskey leaves the Silkmen weeks after guiding them back to the Football League
Macclesfield Town FCMacclesfield fans get chance to have 'selfie' with National League trophyThe trophy will be on display at the Leek United Building Society on Chestergate
NewsFormer Macclesfield Town footballer dies aged 44Kieron Durkan spent three years with the Silkmen, playing almost a century of games for the club
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Tigers Gaining Momentum
Published: Wednesday, January 22,2014
The Macon County Tigers are gaining momentum as they make a push toward the postseason.
This week Macon traveled to Smithville to take on DeKalb County then hosted Cannon County.
On Tuesday the 14th Macon County would travel to DeKalb County. The Tigerettes came out, seemingly ready to play, and posted a 19-14 lead after one. But the inability to get the ball in the bucket, shooting 1 for 10 in the second period, left the Tigerettes trailing 24-35 at the break. Macon would battle back to only trail 45-48 after three. DeKalb would make their free throws down the stretch, hitting 14 of 18 in the final period, to hang on for the district win. Final score Macon 65 DeKalb 68.
Scoring was: Jade Ellis 6, Reese Shrum 7, Briley Driver 26, Leah Anderson 12, Paige Clark 9, Marisa Owens 3, and Kinsley Green 2. Macy Kemp, and Jenna Russell played but did not score.
The Tigers were ready to score some points. Five different players scored in the first quarter and Macon led 19-11. Keeping their feet on the gas, Macon scored 26 more to take a 45-26 lead at halftime. This game was over early in the third but the Tigers kept attacking and posted their highest point total of the season, winning by a final score of 82-58.
Scoring was: Evan Perrigo 15, Trace McPherson 21, Peyton Clark 9, Mayson Shurm 2, Dillon McCormick 4, Michael Ashburn 5, Kendrick Carter 2, Alex Hill 3, Clay Carnahan 11, and Tyler Carlisle 10. Matt Austin, Matt Hudson, Travis Eller, Nick Hill, and Jed Coley all played but did not score.
On Friday the 17th, Macon would host Cannon County, who happens to hold 1st place in District 8AA in both the boys and girls divisions. Cannon County came out hot and quickly had the Tigerettes down 10-20 after the first quarter. The Tigerettes battled back to cut the deficit to one with 1:18 to go. They had the ball, down three, with 42 seconds left in the half. However, two quick misses, and two Cannon buckets left the Tigerettes trailing 23-30 at the half. About the only thing you can say about the third period is Abby Sissom, as she scored 13 of her game high 29 points in that quarter en-route to a 35-53 lead for Cannon County. Cannon would score 26 more points in the final period and left no doubt about who sits atop this conference. The final score was Macon 47 Cannon 79.
Scoring was: Shrum 3, Driver 18, Anderson 14, Clark 3, Owens 2, Luci Allen 2, and Sarah Carter 5. Kemp, Ellis, Russell, and Green all played but did not score.
The Tigers played almost the best game I have seen them play this season. They came out focused at both ends, scoring 19 points from five players and holding Cannon to only 8 points. The Tigers played good, solid, tough defense and were able to continue to score and led 30-17 at the half. To be honest, I thought this would be an easy win. However, Macon got a little carried away at the end of the third period, committing sloppy turnovers and trying convert fast-breaks without numbers. However the Tigers led 41-33 after the 3rd. The fourth quarter was more of the same, as Macon seemed out of control and not playing very smart basketball. Two big three pointers by Tyler Carlisle and the conversion of 10 of 13 free throws as a team, was just enough to hang on for a big 8AA win. Final score Macon 57 Cannon Co 52.
Scoring was: Perrigo 18, McPherson 2, Clark 4, Shrum 2, McCormick 12, Ashburn 4, Alex Hill 2, and Carlisle 13. Carnahan played but did not score.
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Wales captain signs new long-term deal
London - Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones will continue to play his club rugby on home soil after announcing a contract extension until 2021 with the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and the Ospreys on Tuesday.
The 33-year-old is the leading appearance holder for the Ospreys with 238 matches and has 125 caps for his country.
"After serious consideration and taking stock of all options, it is the right decision for my career at this point in time, along with my personal ambitions on and off the field, my welfare and needs of my family," Wyn Jones said in an online announcement.
Wyn Jones is preparing to head to Switzerland as Wales ramp up their training programme for the World Cup and having his future sorted ahead of the showpiece in Japan is a huge boost for the WRU.
"Alun Wyn is hugely respected across the game and I'm delighted he has committed his future here in Wales and that he will be continuing to play for his hometown region," said Martyn Phillips, Group Chief Executive of the WRU.
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Conditional Clearance of Trinity Mirror Acquisition
AUTHOR(S): Helen Kelly, Kate McKenna
PRACTICE AREA GROUP: EU, Competition and Regulatory
Further Proof of Irish Trend of Behavioural Remedies and Long Length of Irish Process
The Irish competition regulator has this week cleared a media merger, subject to a behavioural remedy of ‘ring-fencing’. However, the parties cannot complete the deal for some time yet, as a separate Irish media plurality process may only commence now such that the total length of the Irish ‘standstill obligation’ could be more than 9 months.
In M/18/016 Trinity Mirror/Northern & Shell, acquirer Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror) undertook to ‘ring-fence’ the acquired shareholding in a joint venture with a competitor in order to secure competition clearance from the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”). This behavioural remedy is intended to prevent access to competitively sensitive information in the context of post-merger management of the joint venture. The CCPC has a long track record of accepting behavioural remedies and in particular ‘ring-fencing’ – making it stand apart from other EU competition regulators to some extent. This year alone, a confidentiality remedy was accepted in two cases: (i) in M/18/031 Uniphar/SISK Healthcare, to address a concern that the acquirer healthcare wholesaler might use its new access to pricing data etc. to influence the target distributor’s strategy in selling certain competing products, and (ii) in M/18/009 BWG/4 Aces, to address a concern that the acquirer food retailer and wholesaler might have new access to sensitive pricing information from the target’s relationship with a buyer group.
The CCPC’s track record of ‘ring-fencing’ behavioural commitments can be traced back further in time also, for example to the 2009 Phase 2 case of M/09/13 Metro/Herald AM on which Matheson advised, where ring-fencing was required due to a concern that the Metro Herald freesheet newspaper should operate separately from its shareholders’ broadsheet newspapers.
The CCPC’s general approach to monitoring compliance with behavioural commitments is to require the acquirer to self-certify compliance to the CCPC annually.
While such behavioural remedies show a degree of pragmatism and flexibility by the CCPC, parties to a media merger raising issues in Ireland have to expect a long merger control and ‘standstill period’.
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Matthew Sklar
The Prom The Prom: The Novel Elf: The Musical Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas The Wedding Singer
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By Jesse Green
CRITICS’ PICK! “The Prom begins when a theater critic for The New York Times writes a pan so poisonous that the show he’s reviewing dies on the spot. That’s ridiculous. It could never happen. At any rate, it won’t happen now, because The Prom, which opened on Thursday at the Longacre Theater, is such a joyful hoot. With its kinetic dancing, broad mugging and belty anthems, it makes you believe in musical comedy again.”
By Frank Rizzo
“It seems like a dubious musical mash-up: Broadway narcissists-turned-activists take over a middle-American town to help a lesbian teen who just wants to bring her date to the prom. But with a tuneful score, a playful book, and performances that remind you what Broadway heart and chutzpah are all about, this cause celebre of a show turns out to be a joyous, funny, and sweet production that should appeal to several generations of musical fans. Bob Martin (“The Drowsy Chaperone”) and Chad Beguelin (“Aladdin”) wrote the lively, tender, big-laugh book — based on an original concept by Jack Viertel — for the musical that premiered at Atlanta’s Alliance Theater two years ago. It’s a 21st century “Bye Bye Birdie,” with showbiz interlopers causing havoc before finding their better selves — but re-imagined with a millennial slant and an echo of “Dear Evan Hansen” empowerment.”
By David Cote
“The tag line: Broadway Boomers try to save prom for a millennial lesbian who is totally embarrassed by them. A good premise executed well is the formula that wins here.”
By Terry Teachout
“The Prom will make you laugh—I can’t remember the last time I laughed so hard at a new musical—and it will also fill you with the toasty-warm glow of unchallenged righteousness. That’s a surprising combination, especially nowadays.”
By Joe Westerfeld
“The Prom is a laugh-inducing juggernaut. That said, no drinks should be allowed at the seats during the performance: The risk of spit takes here is much too great.”
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By Roma Torre
“When The Prom begins, you might think you wandered into the wrong show. The scene is the opening night party for a new Broadway play and the stars are just getting around to reading the reviews. They’re bad of course, really bad. And so the two stars and a pair of actor friends decide they need a good cause to buoy their sinking careers. They settle on the case of a high school senior in a small Indiana town that’s refusing to let her bring her girlfriend to the prom. The four thespians swoop in thinking they’re actually going to change the conservative minds in the town, and naturally, chaos ensues. Hysterical chaos. It’s a zany concept, but book writers Bob Martin and Chad Beguelin, who also wrote the lyrics alongside composer Matthew Sklar, have devised a witty and joyful romp that also happens to be quite moving. The songs are mighty tuneful; and the show's winking theatrical references are a delightful bonus. ”
We’ve got trouble, folks, right here in Indiana and when Broadway’s brassiest hear a student is unceremoniously sidelined from a small-town Indiana prom – and the press is involved – they are ready to kick-ball-change the world. A new musical comedy about the power of love (and a good 11 o’clock number), THE PROM is about so much more than just a dance.
By Sara Holdren
“The giddy, smart, big-hearted new musical The Prom has arrived on Broadway after a much-praised 2016 run at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, but really, it’s always been here. Its story begins at the glitzy opening-night party of a self-serious Broadway biomusical called (what else) Eleanor!–The Eleanor Roosevelt Musical. The show’s stars prance and preen, confident not only in their artistic genius but in the knowledge that they’re nightly “changing lives.” It’s all champagne and finger food and air kisses until—dun dun dunnnn!—the Times review comes in. Faced with a brutal show-closing pan (it even includes that damning favorite arrow in the critical quiver: misguided), the devastated actors need a new stunt: something that will raise their spirits and their profiles. Then, eureka! “I know how we can still love ourselves, but appear to be decent human beings,” declares Drama Desk-winner Barry Glickman (Brooks Ashmanskas), whose FDR has just been called “offensive and laughable” in the paper of record: “We’ll become celebrity activists!” I had already been giggling, but Barry’s fervent resolution—delivered as if he were about to mount the Les Mis barricade—produced one of those cackles that makes other audience members notice me. This particular tree is ripe for shaking, and The Prom sets about its parodic business with mischievous brio and, importantly, real affection. With irrepressibly energetic tunes by Matthew Sklar and winking lyrics by Chad Beguelin (the duo behind The Wedding Singer), and a cheeky, just-poignant-enough book by Beguelin and Bob Martin (The Drowsy Chaperone), The Prom has that same lovingly satirical spirit as Chaperone, or as another of Martin’s co-creations, the brilliant Canadian TV series Slings and Arrows. Beth Leavel, who won a Tony for her performance in The Drowsy Chaperone’s title role, is doing deliciously funny work as Barry’s fellow narcissist (and star of Eleanor!), an actress called Dee Dee Allen, and Chaperone’s director and choreographer Casey Nicholaw infuses the proceedings with his signature high-energy effervescence.”
By David Rooney
“The legitimately funny book is co-written by Bob Martin, who won a Tony Award (as did Leavel) for his work in the same capacity on The Drowsy Chaperone; and Chad Beguelin, who penned Disney's Aladdin, another Nicholaw musical. The two-pronged score, which has distinct styles for the Hoosier teens and the Manhattanite interlopers, is by composer Matthew Sklar, with clever lyrics by Beguelin; the two last teamed on yet another Nicholaw show, Elf. Any musical that makes it to Broadway these days without a familiar movie source or a popular jukebox score is an achievement, so this original story is a rainbow unicorn that wins points right there. And Nicholaw's handle on musical comedy is unimpeachable, taking as much care with the little character details and peripheral action as he does with the splashy musical statements.”
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By Christopher Kelly
“MVP credit here goes to Nicholaw, who not only moves the show along at an exuberant clip and keeps the tone balanced between sincerity and self-referentiality, but also serves up some of the mostly deceptively sophisticated, purely entertaining choreography of any recent Broadway musical. In the show's dance sequences, the performers -- younger and older alike -- move with an uncontainable, unrelenting sense of joy and energy. Their good vibes come cascading through the audience, helping to make "The Prom" arguably the happiest show around.”
By Adam Feldman
“Though it teases Broadway, The Prom has the appealing scrappiness of a party thrown by the theater community for itself, and nowhere is this celebration more joyous than in the deliciously hammy performances of its two seasoned stars, who take over-the-top to dizzying heights. The hilarious Ashmanskas never seems more than a hop, skip and jump away from actually hopping, skipping and jumping, and Leavel churns her big number, a pastiche called “The Lady’s Improving,” into pure showtune butter.”
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Menasha Ridge Press :: Authors :: Tao Berman and Pam Withers
Tao Berman and Pam Withers
Tao Berman holds three world records, including one of the two world-record waterfall-descent records of 98.4 feet. He has also completed more than fifty first descents of rivers and was a Pre-Worlds champion for freestyle kayaking competition. He has starred in many extreme-sports videos and on TV programs, including Dateline NBC, CNN’s World Sports “Play of the Day,” and two episodes of Discovery Channel’s Stunt Junkies. He’s also been featured in Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, Rolling Stone, and Maxim magazines. Counting print, TV, and video exposure, millions of people view Tao every year. One recent program alone—the Teva Mountain Games coverage on Fox Television—was broadcast to 150 million households. He’s a public speaker sought by business audiences seeking lessons on risk taking and goal setting, and by schoolchildren keen to meet an extreme-sports celebrity. Sports Illustrated writes, “Berman is the best-known kayaker on the planet,” and Rolling Stone calls Tao the “world’s most extreme paddler.” His Web site is www.taoberman.com.
Pam Withers is a longtime whitewater kayaker and author of
thirteen teen adventure novels, most of them best-sellers and
three of them award nominees. A former editor at River World and
Adventure Travel magazines and a popular public speaker, she has written
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Running wild in the mountains of eastern Washington as a child, world-class extreme kayaker and entrepreneur Tao Berman continues to run wild through the record books and life. A world-record waterfall-drop holder since his 98.4-foot kayak flight off of Upper Johnston Falls in Banff National Forest, Berman is a powerhouse, a living riveting story of pushing envelopes to the unthinkable edge.
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Home / Arts + Entertainment / Stage / Big Government
''The Government Inspector'' is a refreshing change from the usual safe-but-dire comic menu so often served in mainstream theater
By Kate Wingfield
An utterly giggle-worthy mix of satire, irreverence and fuel-injected wit, the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s souped-up take on Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector seriously raises the bar. For those who like their humor like they like their food — highly processed and full of high fructose corn syrup — this kind of lean, mean cuisine may leave them agog. But for everyone else The Government Inspector is a refreshing change from the usual safe-but-dire comic menu so often served in mainstream theater. High praise to director Michael Kahn and adapter Jeffrey Hatcher for interpreting Gogol’s play into something that they, no doubt, would like to see and damn the tourists.
That’s not to say that this is some kind of ”occupy STC” alternative — there’s plenty of the conventional here, humor and otherwise. Indeed, with the simplest of plots, silly characters in silly costumes, slapstick and one-liners (low and high in brow) flying like balls out of a tennis machine, everyone will get hit with at least something. It’s just that, along with all that, there is an overarching sensibility so often missing from such crowd-pleasers.
The Government Inspector
(Photo by Scott Suchman)
Setting the tone, much as he did with last season’s spectacularly good Much Ado About Nothing, Derek Smith plays Hlestakov, a feckless young man who is mistaken by a small Russian township for an all-important visiting government inspector. Ridiculous, pompous and truly funny, Smith’s man is pitch-perfect, whether he’s throwing himself across the furniture, flipping a one-liner or standing stock still. It’s the je ne sais quoi of what makes one actor funny and another not, but for Smith, besides the superb comic timing, it’s about a certain intelligence behind the performance. He can deliver his wit with the glint of a rapier and, a second later, be giving even the hokiest stunt the kind of absurdity that would make a cynic snort.
Of course, no man is a vacuum, and Smith has much to play against in an ensemble of some of Washington’s most seasoned performers. Peopling the bribe-driven town in which Hlestakov finds himself is a ridiculous mix. Blustering and determined to keep the supposed inspector happy at any price, Rick Foucheux’s Mayor Antonovich is an energetic anchor to the proceedings. As The School Principal, Craig Wallace has a noticeable knack for silly but understated humor, while David Sabin gives The Judge just enough kick to keep him out of musical theater territory. Always a standout and offering as much élan as he does comic timing, Floyd King imbues his Postmaster with endearing impudence.
As the mayor’s robust and randy wife, Anna Andreyevna, Nancy Robinette’s sing-song delivery feels a tad whimsical for this go-getter, but she never misses a beat and her pleasure in playing this pretentious, big-bustled woman is infectious. Bringing an inspired Goth deadpan to spoiled daughter Marya Antonovna, Claire Brownell hits it out of the park and works great chemistry with Smith.
In smaller but very memorable roles, Sarah Marshall plays her various plebs to the hilt, tongue firmly in non-politically correct cheek (and does her best to carry the only scene that lags, when three merchants compete for the Inspector’s attention. Liam Craig gives Hlestakov’s long-suffering servant Osip the kind of flat-line delivery, with a subtle attention to detail, that brings an all-too-rare comic edge and, as The Doctor, Tom Story acquits himself with mischievous aplomb.
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Balancing nicely their Tweedledee and Dum roles with some very amusing repartee (sometimes delivered a little too fast to catch), Hugh Nees as Bobchinsky and Harry A. Winter as Dobchinsky, the two townsmen who start the fracas, complete the ensemble of buffoons. In Gogol’s mind, these two were meant to represent the large and anonymous Russian middle class, eager for power and identity. As adapted, this doesn’t jump out. What does, and, as such, certainly constitutes part of the fun of the evening, is spotting the parallels between this grasping little town and the big one in which it’s currently playing.
And there is some comment to be found amid the frenzy. Hlestakov’s drunken cri de coeur on the faceless masses being one such moment. But the beauty here is that, just as the moment gets even a whiff of the serious, it gets an even bigger whiff of the ridiculous. You can’t buy that for love or money. Well, actually you can. Get a ticket.
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Elizabeth Warren: Making campaigns ironic again – Washington Examiner
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., may be a former Harvard Law professor, but her campaign strategy is utterly absurd. Consider Warren’s tweet thread on Tuesday, in which the Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful explained her rejection of a Fox News invitation for a town hall event.
Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren)
Having ruled that Fox News is a modern day equivalent to the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (side note: Warren’s comments represent an attack on the press matching the worst of President Trump’s excesses), the senator continued:
I’m running a campaign to reach all Americans. I take questions from the press and voters everywhere I go. I’ve already held town halls in 17 states and Puerto Rico—including WV, OH, GA, UT, TN, TX, CO, MS & AL.
Help me with something.
If Warren is “running a campaign to reach all Americans,” why is she so determined to insult Americans who watch Fox News? Whatever you think of that network, it retains the highest share of cable news viewers across the nation, and by quite a long way. That’s why, even though he disagrees with much of Fox News’ coverage and commentary, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., decided to join a recent town hall with the network. Sanders knows he needs to maximize his ability to persuade Americans to vote for him.
Warren’s outburst reflects a campaign that is caught between the hard realities of angry primary voters, far-left policies, and a not-so-impressive candidate.
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The Mahablog
Politics. Society. Group Therapy.
Selling Out Owls
Posted on September 30, 2007 by maha
Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers:
A group of independent scientists has concluded that a draft recovery plan for the northern spotted owl was “deeply flawed,†fueling allegations that the proposal was manipulated by political appointees in Washington who were determined to boost logging in Northwest forests.
No shame.
Posted in Bush Administration, environment
Smart v. Stupid
Tom Friedman has written something smart about 9/11; he says we should stop being stupid about it. Naturally, the stupid disagree.
Update: See also The Talking Dog.
Posted in September 11
Via Hilzoy, Peter Beinart writes about his early support for the Iraq invasion.
“I was willing to gamble, too–partly, I suppose, because, in the era of the all-volunteer military, I wasn’t gambling with my own life. And partly because I didn’t think I was gambling many of my countrymen’s. I had come of age in that surreal period between Panama and Afghanistan, when the United States won wars easily and those wars benefited the people on whose soil they were fought. It’s a truism that American intellectuals have long been seduced by revolution. In the 1930s, some grew intoxicated with the revolutionary potential of the Soviet Union. In the 1960s, some felt the same way about Cuba. In the 1990s, I grew intoxicated with the revolutionary potential of the United States.
Some non-Americans did, too. “All the Iraqi democratic voices that still exist, all the leaders and potential leaders who still survive,” wrote Salman Rushdie in November 2002, “are asking, even pleading for the proposed regime change. Will the American and European left make the mistake of being so eager to oppose Bush that they end up seeming to back Saddam Hussein?”
I couldn’t answer that then. It seemed irrefutable. But there was an answer, and it was the one I heard from that South African many years ago. It begins with a painful realization about the United States: We can’t be the country those Iraqis wanted us to be. We lack the wisdom and the virtue to remake the world through preventive war. That’s why a liberal international order, like a liberal domestic one, restrains the use of force–because it assumes that no nation is governed by angels, including our own. And it’s why liberals must be anti-utopian, because the United States cannot be a benign power and a messianic one at the same time. That’s not to say the United States can never intervene to stop aggression or genocide. It’s not even to say that we can’t, in favorable circumstances and with enormous effort, help build democracy once we’re there. But it does mean that, when our fellow democracies largely oppose a war–as they did in Vietnam and Iraq–because they think we’re deluding ourselves about either our capacities or our motives, they’re probably right. Being a liberal, as opposed to a neoconservative, means recognizing that the United States has no monopoly on insight or righteousness. Some Iraqis might have been desperate enough to trust the United States with unconstrained power. But we shouldn’t have trusted ourselves.”
Hilzoy adds, wisely, “It’s not just that we aren’t the country Beinart wanted to think we were; it’s that war is not the instrument he thought it was.” I suggest reading Hilzoy’s post all the way through; it’s very good.
But I want to go on to another thought here. Yesterday I wrote about nonviolent resistance and quoted from an article in the Spring 2007 issue of the American Buddhist magazine Tricycle — available to subscribers only — called “The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker†by Pankaj Mishra. It begins:
“I NEVER KNEW A MAN,†Graham Greene famously wrote in The Quiet American, “who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.†After the disaster in Iraq, Greene’s 1955 description of an idealistic American intellectual blundering through Vietnam seems increasingly prescient. People shaped entirely by book learning and enthralled by intellectual abstractions such as “democracy†and “nation-building†are already threatening to make the new century as bloody as the previous one.
It is too easy to blame millenarian Christianity for the ideological fanaticism that led powerful men in the Bush administration to try to remake the reality of the Middle East. But many liberal intellectuals and human rights activists also supported the invasion of Iraq, justifying violence as a means to liberation for the Iraqi people. How did the best and the brightest–people from Ivy League universities, big corporations, Wall Street, and the media–end up inflicting, despite their best intentions, violence and suffering on millions? Three decades after David Halberstam posed this question in his best-selling book on the origins of the Vietnam War, The Best and the Brightest, it continues to be urgently relevant: Why does the modern intellectual–a person devoted as much professionally as temperamentally to the life of the mind–so often become, as Albert Camus wrote, “the servant of hatred and oppressionâ€? What is it about the intellectual life of the modern world that causes it to produce a kind of knowledge so conspicuously devoid of wisdom?
What is it about the intellectual life of the modern world that causes it to produce a kind of knowledge so conspicuously devoid of wisdom? Wow, that’s a question, isn’t it? Where do overeducated twits like Doug Feith and Paul Wolfowitz and Condi Rice come from, and how the hell did they get put in charge of foreign policy? They may be articulate, and they have Ph.D.s and impressive resumes, but they don’t have the sense God gave onions.
THE POWER OF secular ideas–and of the men espousing them–was first highlighted by the revolutions in Europe and America and the colonization of vast tracts of Asia and Africa, and then with Communist social engineering in Russia and China. These great and often bloody efforts to remake entire societies and cultures were led by intellectuals with passionately held conceptions of the good life; they possessed clear-cut theories of what state and society should mean; and in place of traditional religion, which they had already debunked, they were inspired by a new self-motivating religion: a belief in the power of “history.â€
It took two world wars, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust for many European thinkers to see how the truly extraordinary violence of the twentieth century–what Camus called the “slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy‖derived from a purely historical mode of reasoning, which made the unpredictable realm of human affairs appear as amenable to manipulation as a block of wood is to a carpenter.
Shocked like many European intellectuals by the mindless slaughter of the First World War, the French poet Paul Valéry dismissed as absurd the many books that had been written entitled “the lesson of this, the teaching of that†and that presumed to show the way to the future. The Thousand-Year Reich, which collapsed after twelve years, ought to have buried the fantasy of human control over history. But advances in technological warfare strengthened the conceit, especially among the biggest victors of the Second World War, that they were “history’s actors†and, as a senior adviser to President Bush told the journalist Ron Suskind in 2004, that “when we act we create our own reality.â€
These are the same people who have pathological confidence in themselves, of course. As Peter Birkenhead wrote, “Pumped up by steroidic pseudo-confidence and anesthetized by doubt-free sentimentality, they are incapable of feeling anything authentic and experiencing the world.” Perhaps its a class thing; perhaps these are people who have lived lives so buffered from failure and the consequences of misjudgments that they never learned a healthy respect for failure and the consequences of misjudgments.
History as an aid to the evolution of the human race seems to be most fully worked out by the respected Harvard historian Niall Ferguson. Writing in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks after the invasion of Iraq, Ferguson declared himself a “fully paid-up member of the neo-imperialist gang,†and asserted that the United States should own up to its imperial responsibilities and provide in places like Afghanistan and Iraq “the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets.†In his recent book Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (2004), Ferguson argues that “many parts of the world would benefit from a period of American rule.â€
Ferguson has a regular column at the Los Angeles Times. And he’s a classic overeducated twit.
But back to Pankaj Mishra:
IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE now how this all began, how, in the nineteenth century, the concept of history acquired its significance and prestige. This was not history as the first great historians Herodotus and Thucydides had seen it: as a record of events worth remembering or commemorating. After a period of extraordinary dynamism in the nineteenth century, many people in Western Europe–not just Hegel and Marx–concluded that history was a way of charting humanity’s progress to a higher state of evolution.
In its developed form the ideology of history described a rational process whose specific laws could be known and mastered just as accurately as processes in the natural sciences. Backward natives in colonized societies could be persuaded or forced to duplicate this process; and the noble end of progress justified the sometimes dubious means–such as colonial wars and massacres.
Pankaj Mishra is arguing that this view of history is a kind of secular thinking, and it is, but not purely so. I’ve been reading Mark Lilla’s book The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics and the Modern West
. I blogged about this book here and here. Very briefly, Lilla writes about the nexus of politics and religion in western civilization, particularly since the end of the Reformation and the publication of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. I’m not all the way through it yet. But he seems to be building an argument that messianic religion as a habit of mind continually re-asserts itself and seeps into secular thought. So we have public intellectuals who may or may not be followers of religion or believers in God, but who still think in messianic terms. However, instead of looking forward to the Second Coming, secular messianic thought sees history building toward some politically and economically ideal future as if compelled by natural law.
Some might argue that any kind of messianic thought is religious, but defining religion that way would make Christopher Hitchens the bleeping pope.
Lilla’s book suffers a bit from a narrow understanding of religion, IMO. But perhaps that’s me. As I wrote a couple of days ago, east Asian religions as a rule think of time and events, cause and effect, as circular rather than linear. The revered Zen master Dogen Zenji (1200-1250) presents linear time as a kind of delusion; see Uji. If you don’t perceive time and history as linear it’s hard to be messianic. However, as I’ve said elsewhere, certainly Asia has seen its share of mass movements bent on shaping history — China under Mao comes to mind.
Pankaj Mishra continues,
This instrumental view of humanity, which Communist regimes took to a new extreme with their bloody purges and gulags, couldn’t be further from the Buddhist notion that only wholesome methods can lead to truly wholesome ends. It is in direct conflict with the notion of nirvana, the end of suffering, a goal many secular and modern intellectuals purport to share, but which can only be achieved through the extinction of attachment, hatred, and delusion.
Indeed, no major traditions of Asia or Africa accommodate the notion that history is a meaningful narrative shaped by human beings. Time, in fact, is rarely conceptualized as linear progression in many Asian and African cultures; rather, it is custom and religion that circumscribe human interventions in the world. Buddhism, for instance, in its emphasis on compassion and interdependence, is innately inhospitable to the Promethean spirit of self-aggrandizement and conquest that has shaped the new “historical†view of human prowess. This was partly true also for many European cultures until the modern era, when scientific and technological innovations began to foster the belief that man’s natural and social environment was to be subject to rational manipulation and that history itself, no longer seen as a neutral, objective narrative, could be shaped by the will and action of man.
It was this faith in rational manipulation that powered the political, scientific, and technological revolutions of the West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; it was also used to explain and justify Western domination of the world–a fact that gave conviction to such words as progress and history (as much ideological buzzwords of the nineteenth century as democracy and globalization are of the present moment).
Now we circle back to Peter Beinart and other prominent “public intellectuals”:
The great material and technological success of the West, and the growth of mass literacy and higher education, produced its own model of the secular thinker: someone trained, usually in academia, in logical thinking and possessed of a great number of historical facts. No moral or spiritual distinction was considered necessary for this thinker; not more than technical expertise was asked of the scientists who helped create the nuclear weapons that could destroy the world many times over.
I should note, to be fair, that Robert Oppenheimer had studied eastern religion, particularly Hindu.
IT IS STRANGE TO THINK how quickly the figure of the spiritually-minded thinker disappeared from the mainstream of the modern West, to live on precariously in underdeveloped societies like India. It was left to marginal religious figures such as Simone Weil, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Thomas Merton to exercise a moral and spiritual intelligence untrammeled by the conviction that science or socialism or free trade or democracy were helping mankind march to a historically predetermined and glorious future. But then, as Hannah Arendt wrote, “The nineteenth century’s obsession with history and commitment to ideology still looms so large in the political thinking of our times that we are inclined to regard entirely free thinking, which employs neither history nor coercive logic as crutches, as having no authority over us.†[emphasis added]
We don’t often think of history as a crutch. Maybe we’ve become a little too obsessed with remembering history so we don’t repeat it. Since the invasion of Iraq we’ve argued whether Iraq is World War II or Vietnam or some other historical relic rattling around in our national attic. What we don’t do so much is try to understand Iraq as Iraq. Of course, we don’t remember our history as-it-was, either, but as we want to believe it was.
In America, religious and political ideology have always been interconnected, but in recent years we’ve taken this interconnection to absurd degrees. For example, the above-mentioned Niall Ferguson argues that America is more productive than Europe because our workers go to church more often than their workers. This begs the question — why is productivity a more “religious” virtue than, say, spending more time away from work to be with family? I think what we’re really seeing here is less about religion and more about voluntary submission to the authority of churches and employers.
But don’t hold your breath waiting for a public intellectual like Ferguson to make that connection. That requires thinking outside the box, and our public intellectuals are like a priestly caste charged with maintaining and protecting the box.
Peter Beinart may be trying, however. “[L]iberals must be anti-utopian, because the United States cannot be a benign power and a messianic one at the same time,” he said. Exactly. But we’ve got a job ahead of us explaining that to the rest of America.
Posted in American History, big picture stuff, Bush Administration, Religion
Mutiny?
I hope this isn’t wishful thinking, but The Buddhist Channel reports —
Rangoon, Burma — Reports from Rangoon suggest soldiers are mutinying. It is unclear the numbers involved. Reports cite heavy shooting in the former Burmese capital.
The organisation Helfen ohne Grenzen (Help without Frontiers) is reporting that “Soldiers from the 66th LID (Light Infantry Divison) have turned their weapons against other government troops and possibly police in North Okkalappa township in Rangoon and are defending the protesters. At present unsure how many soldiers involved.”
Soldiers in Mandalay, where unrest has spread to as we reported this morning, are also reported to have refused orders to act against protesters.
Some reports claim that many soldiers remained in their barracks. More recent reports now maintain that soldiers from the 99th LID now being sent there to confront them.
Growing numbers of protestors are gathering in Rangoon, with 10,000 reported at the Traders Hotel and 50,000 at the Thein Gyi market. The police are reported to have turned water cannons against crowds at Sule Pagoda.
The latest from Mizzima News is that people rallied in the streets of Rangoon this afternoon but were dispersed.
An editorial from a Burmese activist: “Burma needs Strategy not Strategery.”
Posted in Asia
Faith, Hope, Metta
Although — for reasons I went on and on about in the Wisdom of Doubt series — I object to using the words faith and religion as synonyms, I still liked this op ed by Sam Leith in The Telegraph — “The power of faith against the bullet.”
This – these monks staring down the guns – presents a problem for a militant secularist in the Dawkins or Hitchens mould. I don’t mean that it has any bearing on the argument about whether there is or is not a God. Buddhist monks don’t worship anything resembling the God on whom the Dawkins guns are trained in any case; and the fact that they stare down the guns doesn’t make a difference to whether or not what they believe is true.
BTW, this week, while much of the world’s attention was riveted on the monks of Burma, the great blowhard Christopher Hitchens appeared at the Washington Post‘s “On Faith” site, ranting about “The Subtle, Lethal Poison of Religion.”
So much for Hitchens. Here’s more Leith:
But stare down those guns they do – and their behaviour does have a strong bearing on the question of whether religious belief “poisons everything”, as Hitchens puts it. I’d submit, as an irreligious bystander, that one of the things that helps those monks hold the line is faith. The form that their resistance takes is shaped by that faith – and it is uniquely powerful.
The monks’ action is a demonstration of faith, but not belief. In religion — including Christianity, IMO — belief and faith are two different things, although this is a point lost on fundies and atheists alike.
They can’t be written off as “terrorists” or “communists”. They are not a rival faction seeking power. They can’t be co-opted into a fight. That is their strength against a regime that has only repressive force at its disposal.
If someone’s shooting at you, or throwing rocks at you, it’s not very long before the rights and wrongs of the original dispute get entirely lost amid the fighting. But if someone’s sitting patiently in the street, unarmed, daring you to shoot him dead … One of the reports from Burma has soldiers in tears. Early reports also suggested that more shots have been fired into the air than into the crowds.
In Burma, and in much of southeast Asia, it is customary for a young man to spend at least a few months as a monk before taking up his adult activities as a husband, father, and worker. It’s probable some of those soldiers have been monks themselves. I believe there was some hope soldiers would switch sides and join the monks, but I haven’t heard this has happened.
But what does this say about the nexus of political power and moral authority? They can’t be written off as “terrorists” or “communists”. They are not a rival faction seeking power. They can’t be co-opted into a fight. Religionists in America have waged an all-out campaign to get political power, and along the way they’ve proved themselves to be as morally frail and corruptible as any other human, “believer” or not. The monks of Burma renunciate power, and that renunciation is the source of their power.
That renunciation is also true religious faith. Religionists who seek political power in order to carry out some doctrinal agenda are demonstrating their own faithlessness.
I am encouraged by the fact that many of these soldiers will themselves be Buddhists; that they are facing crowds of fellow citizens who are also Buddhists; and that they know those fellow citizens are also prepared to take a bullet for their basic freedoms.
That reminds me of a Zen story, although a relatively modern one, taking place when the Japanese were overrunning Korea in the 1930s. Japanese soldiers entered a Korean Zen monastery and found most of the monks gone. But the abbot remained, sitting like an iron lotus in the zendo. The officer in charge drew his sword, walked up to the abbot, and said, “I could run you through without blinking an eye!” The abbot roared back, “I can be run through without blinking an eye!” The soldiers left the old man alone. I believe that really happened.
That suggests that a tipping point might be reached. It suggests that – as Patti Smith puts it – they might “get ’em like Gandhi; get ’em with the numbers”. Small flowers crack concrete.
Here’s the bad news — the tipping point may be postponed. The Buddhist Channel reports that monks are locked into their monasteries.
Thousands of monks had provided the backbone of the protests, but they were besieged in their monasteries, penned in by locked gates and barbed wire surrounding the compounds in the two biggest cities, Yangon and Mandalay. Troops stood guard outside and blocked nearby roads to keep the clergymen isolated.
The monks remained inside their monasteries late Saturday morning (Sept 29) with troops remaining on guard outside and blocking nearby roads. The streets of the two Yangon and Mandalay were quiet.
Many Yangon residents seemed pessimistic over the crackdown, fearing it fatally weakened a movement that began nearly six weeks ago as small protests over fuel price hikes and grew into demonstrations by tens of thousands demanding an end to 45 years of military rule.
The corralling of monks was a serious blow. They carry high moral authority in this predominantly Buddhist nation of 54 million people and the protests had mushroomed when the clergymen joined in.
“The monks are the ones who give us courage. I don’t think that we have any more hope to win,” said a young woman who had taken part in a huge demonstration Thursday that broke up when troops shot protesters. She said she had not seen her boyfriend and feared he was arrested.
The monks themselves have not given up hope.
At the Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar’s most important Buddhist temple, about 300 armed policemen and soldiers sat around the compound eating snacks while keeping an eye on the monks.
“I’m not afraid of the soldiers. We live and then we die,” said one monk. “We will win this time because the international community is putting a lot of pressure.”
Condemnation of the junta has been strong around the world. On Friday, people protested outside Myanmar embassies in Australia, Britain, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Japan.
The Tao Teh Ching says nothing is softer or weaker than water, yet water wears down what is hard and strong. Whatever happens in the next few days, the monks of Burma will, eventually, prevail.
Posted in Asia, Religion
Burma Petition
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Posted in Asia, big picture stuff
I want to respond once again to this fellow, who thinks the Burmese monks are saps for not leading an armed resistance against the military junta instead of a nonviolent protest.
The monks and their followers have caught the world’s attention, I’ll grant you that. (That and a subway token…) International pressure is probably the only hope right now, but see what good that’s done for Tibet or Darfur. Or against Iran. Or against the Taliban. I don’t need to continue. …
… These people don’t want to lose, and they’re prepared to fight a lot dirtier than the monks are.
But we already knew that.
As for Gandhi (and Martin Luther King), they knew that their opponents, bad as they were, had moral limits.
The blogger may be a graduate of the Michael Medved School of History; I don’t see many “moral limits” in the history of racial violence in America.
The American government sent the military to enforce civil rights, not suppress them. If the protestors thought they were up against similar foes, they misjudged badly. The protests are gone, and people have died.
Isn’t it only decent to ask what for?
In other words, means justify ends. But Buddhists don’t think that way. In fact, one of the differences between Eastern and Western thought is that westerners tend to think of events in terms of ends, or results, whereas easterners are more likely to think in terms of never-ending cycles of cause and effect. Ends are not, in fact, ends. Even after great victories — or defeats — the wheel of existence does not stop, and in time “ends” dissipate like smoke. Because cause and effect are locked together in a great, eternal continuum, means do not justify “ends,” ever. Even if you achieve a desired goal, sooner or later you will enjoy — or suffer — the fruits of whatever means you used to achieve it.
As my first Zen teacher said, often, “What you do to others is done to you.”
There was an article in the Spring 2007 issue of the American Buddhist magazine Tricycle — available to subscribers only, alas — about political action and nonviolence. In “The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker,” Pankaj Mishra wrote,
It may be hard to conceive of nonviolence as a viable force, especially as we appear to be in the midst of a worldwide upsurge of violence and cruelty. Nevertheless, the history of the contemporary world is full of examples of effective nonviolent politics. The movements for national self-determination in colonized countries, the Civil Rights movement in the United States, the velvet revolutions in Russia and Eastern Europe, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the gradual spread of parliamentary democracy around the world–the great transformations of our time–have been essentially peaceful.
Every time a peaceful resistance is put down, somebody is bound to say they should have used guns. But when an armed insurgency is put down, or when it turns into a cycle of violence and vengeance dragging on for generations, for some reason this doesn’t count against the effectiveness of armed insurgency. And how often does the residual anger from one war blossom into the next one?
In fact, I’d say nonviolent resistance has a pretty good track record, particularly as far as long-term results are concerned.
I particularly like this next paragraph (emphasis added):
And there have been activists and thinkers in our own time, such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thich Nhat Hanh, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, and Václav Havel, who rejected politics as a zero-sum game (in which the other side’s loss is seen as a gain) and adopted moral persuasion and conversion as means to political ends. As the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh wrote to Martin Luther King, Jr., after a spate of Buddhist self-immolations in Vietnam in 1965, “The monks who burned themselves did not aim at the death of the oppressors, but only at a change in their policy. Their enemies are not man. They are intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination, which lie within the heart of man.â€
This touches on Pankaj Mishra’s thesis, that the western concept of “shaping history,” or pushing mankind toward some idealized future by any means, is the chief cause of much of the violence of the past couple of centuries. And I acknowledge that much of Asia got sucked into the game of shaping “history” by force — Japanese militarism of the 1930s, China under Mao. But it’s a very un-Buddhist way of interacting with the world.
“Their enemies are not man. They are intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination, which lie within the heart of man.†If you observe long enough, you notice how easily un-self-aware people become like their own enemies. Consider the McCarthyite or Bushie, eager to flush the Bill of Rights down the toilet in the name of “freedom.”
The monks of Burma make a conscious choice not to become what they are trying to defeat. They choose not to give in to intolerance, fanaticism, dictatorship, cupidity, hatred, and discrimination. That’s the point of chanting the Metta Sutta as they march. To do otherwise would betray everything they have vowed to maintain as monks.
Pankaj Mishra continued,
Imprisoned by the totalitarian regime of Czechoslovakia, Havel echoed a Buddhistic preoccupation with actions in the present moment when he warned that “the less political policies are derived from a concrete and human ‘here and now,’ and the more they fix their sights on an abstract ‘someday,’ the more easily they can degenerate into new forms of human enslavement.†In his own political practice, Gandhi opposed any mode of politics that reduced human beings into passive means to a predetermined end–it was the burden of his complaint against history. He insisted that human beings were an end in themselves, and the here and now was more important than an illusory future.
This has always baffled or disappointed those who measure nonviolent political action in terms of the regimes it changed. But for Gandhi, nonviolence was not merely another tactic, as terrorism often is, in a zero-sum game played against a political adversary. It was a whole way of being in the world, of relating truthfully to other people and one’s own inner self: an individual project in which spiritual vigilance and strength created the basis for, and thus were inseparable from, political acts. Gandhi assumed that whatever regimes they lived under–democracy or dictatorship, capitalist or socialist–individuals always possessed a freedom of conscience. To live a political life was to be aware of that inner freedom to make moral choices in everyday life; it was to take upon one’s own conscience the burden of political responsibility and action rather than placing it upon a political party or a government.
As Gandhi saw it, real political power arose from the cooperative action of such strongly self-aware individuals–the “authentic, enduring power†of people that, as Hannah Arendt presciently wrote in her analysis of the Prague Spring of 1968, a repressive regime or government could neither create nor suppress through the use of terror, and before which it eventually surrendered.
Many of Gandhi’s own colleagues often complained that he was delaying India’s liberation from colonial rule. But Gandhi knew as intuitively as Havel was to know later that the task before him was not so much of achieving regime change as of resisting “the irrational momentum of anonymous, impersonal, and inhuman power–the power of ideologies, systems, apparat, bureaucracy, artificial languages, and political slogans.â€
This power, the unique creation of the political and economic systems of the modern world, pressed upon individuals everywhere–in the free as well as the unfree world. It was why Havel once thought that the Western cold warriors wishing to get rid of the totalitarian Communist system he belonged to were like the “ugly woman trying to get rid of her ugliness by smashing the mirror which reminds her of it.†“Even if they won,†Havel wrote, “the victors would emerge from a conflict inevitably resembling their defeated opponents far more than anyone today is willing to admit or able to imagine.â€
This takes us back to what Glenn Greenwald wrote in (A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency:
One of the principal dangers of vesting power in a leader who is convinced of his own righteousness — who believes that, by virtue of his ascension to political power, he has been called to a crusade against Evil — is that the moral imperative driving the mission will justify any and all means used to achieve it. Those who have become convinced that they are waging an epic and all-consuming existential war against Evil cannot, by the very premises of their belief system, accept any limitations — moral, pragmatic, or otherwise — on the methods adopted to triumph in this battle.
Efforts to impose limits on waging war against Evil will themselves be seen as impediments to Good, if not as an attempt to aid and abet Evil. In a Manichean worldview, there is no imperative that can compete with the mission of defeating Evil. The primacy of that mandate is unchallengeable. Hence, there are no valid reasons for declaring off-limits any weapons that can be deployed in service of the war against Evil.
Equally operative in the Manichean worldview is the principle that those who are warriors for a universal Good cannot recognize that the particular means they employ in service of their mission may be immoral or even misguided. The very fact that the instruments they embrace are employed in service of their Manichean mission renders any such objections incoherent. How can an act undertaken in order to strengthen the side of Good, and to weaken the forces of Evil, ever be anything other than Good in itself? Thus, any act undertaken by a warrior of Good in service of the war against Evil is inherently moral for that reason alone.
It is from these premises that the most amoral or even most reprehensible outcomes can be — and often are — produced by political movements and political leaders grounded in universal moral certainties. Intoxicated by his own righteousness and therefore immune from doubt, the Manichean warrior becomes capable of acts of moral monstrousness that would be unthinkable in the absence of such unquestionable moral conviction. One who believes himself to be leading a supreme war against Evil on behalf of Good will be incapable of understanding any claims that he himself is acting immorally.
In Buddhism, good and evil are not thought of as attributes one may or may not possess. Rather, they are the consequences — beneficial or detrimental — of thoughts, words, and volitional acts. A practicing Buddhist doesn’t think, well, I’m a good person, and my cause is just,and my intentions are good, so whatever I do to attain this goal is OK. Believe me, after a few years of meditation practice, when a thought like that comes up you recognize such an idea as folly and let it go.
Of course, sometimes you have to fight. I don’t know where Burmese Buddhism falls on the pacifism scale, but Zen Buddhism in particular has a long association with the martial arts. However, even the most proficient martial artist should recognize there’s a time to fight, and a time to walk away from a fight.
The monks of Burma have chosen nonviolent resistance, as did the monks of Tibet and the monks of Vietnam, who still face oppression from Communist leaders. Short-term, this may not seem an effective strategy. Long-term, I suspect it is the wisest course.
Posted in Asia, big picture stuff, Religion
Burma Updates
The AFL-CIO is organizing a rally at the Burmese embassy today in Washington, DC, beginning at 3:30 pm. This will be followed by a march to the Chinese embassy.
Seth Mydans writes for the New York Times:
Myanmar’s armed forces appeared to have succeeded Friday in sealing tens of thousands of protesting monks inside their monasteries, but they continued to attack bands of civilian demonstrators who challenged them in the streets of the main city, [Rangoon].
Witnesses and diplomats reached by telephone inside Myanmar, a sealed country, said troops were now confronting and attacking smaller groups of civilians around the city, sometimes running after them through narrow streets, sometimes firing at protesting groups.
“Today has been quieter than previous days, meaning far fewer protesters came out, but the military is being very quick to use violence, tear gas, guns and clubs to break it up,†said the chief diplomat at the United States Embassy, Shari Villarosa.
Diplomats said there was no way to estimate the numbers of dead and wounded in Yangon or other cities, but they said it was certainly far higher than what the junta has reported.
Most recent news from Jason of The Buddhist Channel:
Kindly forgive the brevity and the lack of formatting of the following email. I am now sending this information out as we are now receiving it. As many of you are now aware phone lines have been cut, mobile networks have been disabled, and Internet access has also been disabled.
Information, therefore, is now very difficult to obtain and confirm. I therefore am unable to confirm any of that which follows, but my sources are adamant that this is the truth:
Soldiers from LID #66 have turned their weapons against other SPDC soldiers and possibly police in North Okkalappa township in Rangoon and are defending the protesters. At present unsure how many soldiers involved. Some reports cite “heavy shooting” in the area.
Other unconfirmed reports have stated that soldiers from LID #33 in Mandalay have refused orders to act against protesters. Some reports claim that many soldiers remained in their barracks. More recent reports now maintain that soldiers from LID #99 now being sent there to confront them.
Reports of approx. 10,000+ protesters gathering around the Traders Hotel in Rangoon. Other reports of 10,000+ protesters gathering at San Pya Market in Rangoon. Further reports of approx. 50,000 protestors gathering at the Thein Gyi Market in Rangoon.
According to Mizzima, an unknown number of soldiers from Central Command and South East Command are presently on their way to Rangoon to reinforce SPDC army troops.
Also according to Mizzima, an unknown number of aircraft have been scrambled from “Matehtilar” airbase – probably a reference to Meiktila in Mandalay Division.
According to one journalist, SPDC have turned water cannons against crowds at Sule Pagoda. The report maintains that the water contained some type of chemical. awaiting further information. Please circulate this information as widely as quickly as possible.
See also the hourly dispatches from Mizzima News. There are reports that troops are marching to middle Burma. “At this reporting, it is not clear if the troops are marching to reinforce or to challenge the troops in Rangoon for shooting the Buddhist monks.”
Update: See also Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés at The Moderate Voice.
More Drool
Believe it or not, Michael Medved has a column at Townhall making excuses for slavery in America. It wasn’t all that bad, he says.
Medved presents six “inconvenient truths” about slavery, which (condensed) are:
1. American didn’t invent slavery. Lots of other countries did it too. Yes, but by the mid-19th century the practice had been pretty much run out of Europe, as well as the northern states, for being barbaric and immoral.
2. Slavery existed only briefly — 89 years from the Declaration of Independence to the 13th Amendment. It probably didn’t seem all that brief to the persons who were enslaved. And, of course, it had been going on for some time before the Declaration of Independence. Medved figures that only about 5 percent of today’s Americans are the descendants of slave owners. That may or may not be true, but I’m not sure why it’s relevant to anything.
3. Slavery wasn’t genocidal. Dead slaves brought no profit, Medved says. Of course, about a third of the people captured in Africa to be sold into slavery died in the ship voyage to America, but Medved says the slavers didn’t intend the slaves to die, so it doesn’t count. “And as with their horses and cows, slave owners took pride and care in breeding as many new slaves as possible,” Medved writes. No, really, he actually wrote that. I am not making this up.
4. It is not true that the United States became wealthy through slave labor, Medved says. Many “free soil” states were more prosperous overall than the slave states. That may be true, or not, but those cotton plantations were cash cows for the plantation owners. In 1855 raw cotton amounted to one-half of all U.S. exports, valuing $100 million annually in 1855 dollars. (Source: Encyclopedia of American Facts & Dates [Harper & Row, 1987] p. 255.) There was huge income disparity in the slave states; the plantation-owning elite hoarded the wealth.
5. The United States deserves special credit for abolition. Huh?
6. “There is no reason to believe today’s African-Americans would be better off if their ancestors had remained in Africa. ” Actual quote. Who says conservatives are insensitive? Well, me, for one.
Jillian at Sadly, No and John Holbo at Crooked Timber also comment. But no one so far has asked the critical question, which is What the hell was eating at Medved’s reptilian brain that inspired him to write this? Has criticism of American slavery been in the news lately?
Update: See also Kevin at Lean Left, who has a more substantive retort to “fact” #5 than I did.
Year the British ended slavery throughout the Empire: 1833. Number of wars it took to do so: 0. Year the Spanish Empire ended slavery (except in Cuba, where the ban was not enforced by local governors until 1886): 1811. Number of wars to do so: 0. Year the U.S. ended slavery throughout the country and its territories: 1865. Number of wars it took to do it: 1, the bloodiest one in American history. In fact, all European powers abolished slavery before the United States did. So, no, dear Mr. Medved, we as a nation don’t deserve special credit for a bloody damn thing. We were below average, even by the standards of the day.
Update 2: I’d like to add that during our civil war the wealthy industrial interests of Britain put a lot of pressure on Victoria and Parliament to enter the war on the side of the Confederacy. The Americas were their chief supplier of raw materials for their textile mills, and the owners were losing money. But anti-slavery sentiment was so strong in Britain — even among mill workers who’d been laid off because of the war — that active support for the Confederacy was out of the question. And, of course, Prince Albert favored the Union, which means Victoria did, also.
Update 3: This is a riot.
Posted in American History, conservatism
Loose Lips, Drool Drips
Media Matters:
Limbaugh: Service members who support U.S. withdrawal are “phony soldiers”
During the September 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh called service members who advocate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq “phony soldiers.” He made the comment while discussing with a caller a conversation he had with a previous caller, “Mike from Chicago,” who said he “used to be military,” and “believe[s] that we should pull out of Iraq.” Limbaugh told the second caller, whom he identified as “Mike, this one from Olympia, Washington,” that “[t]here’s a lot” that people who favor U.S. withdrawal “don’t understand” and that when asked why the United States should pull out, their only answer is, ” ‘Well, we just gotta bring the troops home.’ … ‘Save the — keeps the troops safe’ or whatever,” adding, “[I]t’s not possible, intellectually, to follow these people.” “Mike” from Olympia replied, “No, it’s not, and what’s really funny is, they never talk to real soldiers. They like to pull these soldiers that come up out of the blue and talk to the media.” Limbaugh interjected, “The phony soldiers.” The caller, who had earlier said, “I am a serving American military, in the Army,” agreed, replying, “The phony soldiers.”
In RushWorld, Staff Sgt. Yance T. Gray, 26, and Sgt. Omar Mora, 28, who died in Baghdad a few days ago, were “phony soldiers.” Gray and Mora were two of the authors of a New York Times op-ed called “The War As We Saw It” that criticized the Iraq occupation.
Limbaugh has never served in the military. He got a medical deferment from the Vietnam-era draft. Exactly how Rush would know what constitutes “phoniness” in soldiering is anyone’s guess. Historically, loyalty to “the cause” has never been a prerequisite for soldiering, as the bulk of the wars fought since the invention of war didn’t involve a cause at all, and soldiers fought because they were ordered to fight. Military historians long have noted that soldiers on the battlefield say they fight for each other, for their comrades in arms, more than for king and country.
See also Jon Soltz, “So I’m a ‘Phony Soldier,’ Rush?”
And, of course, criticism of George Bush and his “policies” is not unpatriotic, a point few righties seem to be able to wrap their heads around.
A few right-wing blogs have weighed in, all huffing and puffing indignantly at the liberal smear of Rush. They note that Rush didn’t explicitly say, word-for-word, “Service members who support U.S. withdrawal are phony soldiers.” Someone else brought up soldiers who express criticism of the occupation to media, and Rush interjected “phony soldiers.” See, that’s entirely different.
So far, the best explanation of the smear against Rush comes from the ever brilliant Macranger. After repeating the much-debunked lie that Media Matters is funded by George Soros, Macranger points out that it was a caller, not Rush, who criticized critical soldiers — Rush was just helping him out when he said “phony soldiers.” Then in the next paragraph Macranger says [emphasis added],
By the way, his and Rush’s opinion is not a lone one among active soldiers by the way, many of whom view “malcontents†with not so loving feelings. In fact as I told you before that back “in the day†we spotted these types in basic training and “marked them†with a special party! You know, to let them know just what they had signed up for in case they forgot.
I think somebody needs to get his story straight. See also Digby.
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Video: 'Self proclaimed 'world's largest urban farm' gets green light in Detroit
By Gus Burns | fburns@mlive.com
Hantz Farms After receiving approval on the sale of 1,500 parcels of Detroit city-owned land, Hantz Farms begins prepping for the planting of thousands of hardwood trees on nearly 150 acres by next fall.
Video: Hantz Woodlands announces approval for 140-acre urban farm in Detroit
DETROIT, MI — In some of Detroit's most deserted and blighted neighborhoods, where residents see little more than hopeless despair, John Hantz spotted opportunity.
The wealthy businessman, founder of Hantz Group, a family of financial companies based in Southfield, decided to purchase and convert hundreds of acres of vacant city-owned plots into farmland.
It's taken five years, but this week Gov. Rick Snyder approved the sale of nearly 150 acres, 1,500 parcels, to Hantz Woodlands, a private business, for about $500,000.
Urban farming has been discussed and tested as a possible land-use solution for Detroit's enormous inventory of empty lots, but never on this scale.
Hantz Woodlands receives state approval to start demos
Gallery: Hantz Woodlands receives state approval to start demos
The price equates to about $300 each parcel, but doesn't include the nearly $3 million the company plans to invest over the first three years.
The agreement requires Hantz Woodlands, formerly Hantz Farms, to clear the lots of tires, brush, illegally dumped trash and other debris. Hantz agreed to raze 50 homes, will regularly mow and the lands are now back on the city tax rolls, rather than sitting stagnant and neglected by the broke Detroit government.
Hantz plans to start planting hardwood trees on the lots by next fall — original plans included fruit trees, but complicated food-production rules and neighbor concerns that fallen fruit might draw rodents led to the timber alternative. Hantz Woodlands President Mike Score said there is an option to buy 180 more acres in two years, pending approval of the city.
Hantz Woodlands dubs itself the "world's larges urban farm."
The company fought through a backlash commenced by those wary of a wealthy man buying up swaths of Detroit's impoverished neighborhoods for such little money.
City Council narrowly passed the sale, 5-4.
According to Hantz, despite the objectors, nearly 90 percent of those surveyed about the project who live in the farm areas support it.
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Biba Adams | Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Amidst new development, what will it take to keep Jefferson Chalmers affordable?
IDAO Building in Jefferson Chalmers prior to redevelopmentCity of Detroit
In its heyday, Jefferson Avenue was known as one of the busiest commercial corridors in Detroit. Small businesses once bloomed near the dense residential community of Jefferson Chalmers.
But like many other Detroit neighborhoods, the population decline in Jefferson Chalmers left a great number of small to medium sized commercial and multi-family residential spaces abandoned. Fortunately, many of those houses and commercial properties had great bones and remain standing, awaiting redevelopment.
That's exactly what's underway in Jefferson Chalmers.
This Thursday, Jefferson East Inc. (JEI), Shelborne Development, and residents will be joined by Mayor Mike Duggan to celebrate the redevelopments of the Marlborough and IDAO apartment buildings. Visitors will hear more about the projects, including the rates for and amount of affordable units, and be able to look around inside the buildings.
Other funding and support for the projects came from the city of Detroit, Enterprise Community Loan, Twain Capital, and the Kresge Fund. Construction, which began in December last year, is expected to be completed by the end of 2019.
But redevelopment in Detroit is often met with a healthy amount of skepticism. While affordable housing is high on the list of priorities in the city, a common follow-up question is, "Affordable for whom?"
In 2015, JEI entered into a partnership with Shelborne Development through their development arm, East Jefferson Development Corporation (EJ DevCo). The join venture's first project was Chalmers Square, a redevelopment of three apartment buildings of nearly 50 one to three bedroom units. The developers found that demand was high for both affordable and market rate housing, sparking a realization that multi-family development is necessary in the community.
To learn more about its commitment to building affordable housing, we spoke with Joshua R. Elling, executive director of JEI. Some of the topics covered in this conversation include what affordability truly means, what it will look like in Jefferson Chalmers, and why there is lingering anxiety about development.
Joshua R. Elling
Model D: Tell me a little about Jefferson East, Inc. What are some of your goals and projects in Jefferson Chalmers?
Joshua R. Elling: Jefferson East has been around since 1994. When we were originally founded, it was really to support the commercial district. It was all about getting retail, and helping people start businesses and facade programs.
But, the Jefferson Chalmers business district has one of the highest number of early 20th century apartment buildings. The challenge with that was present right at Chalmers Square — you had four small apartment buildings that were in either in mid-collapse or disrepair.
So in the early 2000s, JEI got really busy figuring out how to renovate apartment buildings. That is when we really got to know Kathy Makino-Leipsitz at Shelborne Development. Kathy was able to acquire that building as well as three others. We knew that the redevelopment would be at tremendous cost, but also that we still wanted the units to be affordable to the neighborhood.
What exactly does "affordable" housing mean?
The city's affordable housing ordinance requires that if you receive any public subsidies you have to do 20 percent of the units at 80 percent area median income (AMI). Here's the problem with AMI: that number is not just determined by the city of Detroit. That includes the metropolitan area; cities like Livonia, Warren, the Grosse Pointes, Dearborn — the core suburban area.
The AMI for the metro area, of course, is a lot higher than it is for the actual city. So, many times, that isn't actually affordable. To truly do affordable housing in an area like Jefferson Chalmers you have to produce housing at 60 percent AMI or less. The real biggie is 30 percent AMI.
But, you also have to temper that with the fact that restoring these units comes at a huge cost.
In the Marlborough Building, we have been able to keep 60 percent of those units at 60 percent AMI or below and 40 percent at market rate. That kind of approach fuels EJ DevCo and JEI as we continue to put together multi-family unit development deals. We want to make sure that the majority of the units are affordable and reflect the income levels in the surrounding neighborhoods.
What is the biggest type of pushback experienced in the community as this redevelopment takes shape?
There is a fear that if you bring on market rate units in a vacant building that somehow that is going to drive up costs in surrounding buildings. What that doesn't take into account is the law of supply and demand. As this neighborhood improves, as crime goes down, retail amenities and transportation improves, our neighborhoods are going to become more desirable places to live. By providing market rate units to service that demand, we are also helping supply keep up and cost increases down.
How do longtime Jefferson Chalmers residents benefit from this redevelopment?
As residual profits are received, that revenue is returned back to Jefferson East to support all of the other things that we are doing to improve the neighborhood. That's more money to fund our foreclosure prevention work, our home repair programs, or our safety and financial literacy programs. That is another way we're able to reinvest funds back into the neighborhood to support existing and long-term residents.
How do you communicate the messaging to change the perception that redevelopment equates to pushing out existing or long-term residents?
It's so new. Part of the challenge for us is that we get so consumed in making the project work that we don't have a lot of time to message. Part of our job in the next year is to beef up our messaging process so that residents can understand and inform the development process, can give us design feedback, and understand the affordability goals. The Knight Foundation has supported us in hiring a Civic Engagement Director.
I think as we continue to do this work, our goals has to be to help residents not feel threatened by development, but to understand the benefits and to understand that Jefferson East and East Jefferson Development Corporation are doing development differently, and doing it without displacement.
Join Jefferson East, EJ DevCo, and Mayor Duggan at the Jefferson Chalmers Neighborhood Celebration on Thursday, Feb. 28 at 12:30 p.m. for networking and appetizers provided by Norma G's Caribbean Cuisine and a hard hat tour of the Marlborough and IDAO Apartment Buildings.
This article is part of our "On the Ground" series, where a journalist reports from a dedicated neighborhood for weekly coverage. Support for this series is provided by the Kresge Foundation.
Read more articles by Biba Adams.
Biba Adams is a Detroit-based writer whose work has been published in Ebony Magazine, Revolt, AllHipHop.com and more. Find her on all social channels @BibatheDiva.
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The figures, calculated as part of the DfT's revised national policy statement, suggest nearly 674,000 households affected by the two current Heathrow runways will experience less noise after the expansion.
CGI of what Heathrow Airport may look like after third runway expansion (Image: Heathrow Airport/Grimshaw Architects)
Paul McGuinness, chair of the No 3rd Runway Coalition, accused the government of wanting to conceal the true impact of “expanding [the] highly disruptive airport”.
“It has long been clear that the DfT has understated the numbers who will be impacted by an expanded Heathrow's noise,” he said.
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The coalition said the 2.2 million figure was a “best-case scenario”, as they suggest noise from non-replaced older planes could take the overall numbers affected to 3 million.
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Mr Grayling said: “[The proposed new runway] would be accompanied by a world-class package of measures to limit the effects on local communities.
“The package includes above-statutory levels of compensation for the purchase of the most affected properties, as well as a pledge of more than £740m to insulate nearby homes, schools and community buildings from noise.
“The draft Airports National Policy Statement requires the creation of a Community Compensation Fund which could be worth up to £50m per year, specifies that new binding noise targets should be set, and proposes a 6.5-hour ban on scheduled night flights.”
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling after announcing plans for a third runway at Heathrow (Image: newcastle chronicle)
A spokesman for DfT said on Tuesday (April 10) that it was "disingenuous to suggest 973,000 households will be worse off as a result of Heathrow expansion".
“We have been clear that expansion at Heathrow would not be allowed to proceed without a world-class package of compensation and mitigation measures for local communities," the spokesman said.
"This includes noise insulation for homes and community buildings and a community compensation fund worth up to £50m per year.
“We have consulted extensively on the options for airport expansion and will continue to engage with MPs and their communities as the proposals develop.
"The figures used [by CAA] demonstrate almost 700,000 households will see a reduced level of noise and by the time any expansion of Heathrow was complete, we would expect to see greater use of quieter, more efficient aircraft, helping reduce aviation noise."
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Woman says she was billed $350 after negatively reviewing Indiana hotel
Discussion in 'Foreign Affairs, Topics' started by akatalady, Dec 20, 2017.
BROWN COUNTY, Ind. – A customer at a Brown County hotel said she was charged $350 and threatened with legal action after leaving a negative review about her experience, according to WRTV.
The case has captured the attention of the Indiana Attorney General’s office who filed a lawsuit December 15 alleging the hotel violated the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act.
Katrina Arthur and her husband, who live in Greene County, stayed at the Abbey Inn & Suites in Brown County in March 2016.
“We were just wanting to get away and have some alone time,” said Arthur. “It looked really pretty on the website.”
But Arthur said the problems started as soon as they arrived.
“It was a nightmare,” said Arthur. “The room was unkempt, and it looked like it hadn’t been cleaned since the last people stayed there. We checked the sheets and I found hairs and dirt.”
Arthur said the room also smelled like sewage, the water pressure was lacking and the air conditioner didn’t work.
“We didn’t see anybody we could talk with, so I decided to call the number that goes to the front desk and it automatically went to a lawyer’s or something weird like that,” said Arthur. “I actually had to clean the room myself.”
Arthur later received an email from the hotel asking for an online review, and Arthur didn’t hold back.
“I was honest,” said Arthur. “I wanted people to know not to waste their money because I know people save their money for special occasions.”
After posting the review, Arthur said the hotel charged her $350 and she received a letter from the hotel’s attorney threatening legal action.
“That scared me to death,” said Arthur, who then deleted the review.
After finding similar complaints about Abbey Inn, Arthur filed a complaint with the Indiana Attorney General in an attempt to get her $350 back.
“I feel like they were punishing me for being truthful and I don’t think that’s fair,” said Arthur. “I was very angry they had done that.”
The Indiana Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit on December 15 against Abbey Management, which owned and operated Abbey Inn when Arthur visited.
Between September 2015 and November 2016, Abbey Inn had a policy in place that allowed them to charge customers $350 for negative reviews, according to the lawsuit.
The state alleges the hotel violated Indiana’s Deceptive Consumer Sales Act by enforcing a customer review policy that is “unfair, abusive, and deceptive.”
“Guests agree that if guests find any problems with our accommodations, and fail to provide us the opportunity to address those problems while the guest is with us, and/or refuses our exclusive remedy, but then disparages us in any public manner, we will be entitled to charge their credit card an additional $350 damage,” the policy read, according to the lawsuit. “Should the guest refuse to retract any such public statements legal action may be pursued.”
The policy was posted on the website Abbey-Inn.com, located on page two of a seven-page document, the lawsuit alleged.
The hotel did not provide guests with a copy of the policy, nor was it posted in individual rooms or common areas, according to the Attorney General.
“I never got any paperwork,” said Arthur.
The email requesting customers leave an online review did not warn consumers of significant consequences for posting a disparaging or negative review, the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit alleged Abbey Inn & Suites often did not have employees on-site and available to resolve customer issues – instead they had a sign threatening a $100 charge for anyone who called the overnight number when there wasn’t an emergency.
Online reviews are an important factor for consumers when deciding where to spend their money, and the lawsuit alleges Abbey Management used the reviews as a sales tool.
WRTV called Abbey Inn Monday morning, and a worker told the reporter to send them an email. Then, in an emailed response, the station received a promise that the request would be forwarded to management.
When a reporter stopped by Monday, however, WRTV could not find any staff to talk to and signs indicated the hotel does not have a front office.
Attempts to contact Andrew Szakaly, owner of Abbey Management, failed. A number listed for him was disconnected, and an email to Szakaly bounced back.
WRTV received a phone call from a woman named Amanda who said she and her husband have been in the process of buying the 40-year-old Abbey Inn since January 2017.
Amanda said she was unaware of the lawsuit, but said they are working to improve the hotel. Amanda said she was working to get in touch with Szakaly who still owns some of the property until the transfer goes through.
Amanda told WRTV she would provide a statement via email, but WRTV has yet to receive a statement.
As for Katrina Arthur, she wants her $350 back and hopes the state’s lawsuit sends a message to consumers who post online reviews.
“There’s nothing wrong with being truthful,” said Arthur.
The Indiana Attorney General’s office said consumers should not be afraid to speak the truth about businesses, and provided the following tips:
Consumers should not be afraid to leave a negative review of a business if warranted. Consumers should leave truthful reviews regarding the goods and services that they received. It is unlawful for a business to attempt to penalize you for leaving a review — unless the review contains certain prohibited information, such as confidential information, libelous statements, etc.
Based on the protections of Indiana and federal law, consumers should feel comfortable leaving truthful reviews about their experiences. If consumers encounter any attempts to penalize them for reviews — or encounter contracts seeking to prohibit them from leaving reviews — they should report the incidents via consumer complaints to the Office of Attorney General online at indianaconsumer.com or by calling 1-800-382-5516.
WRTV also spoke with several national experts who have been outspoken about how Google fails to weed out phony reviews.
National consumer watchdog Jason Brown said many companies still aren’t aware they can’t retaliate against customers for reviewing their business.
“It is illegal, unethical for businesses to charge consumers or threaten legal action,” said Brown. “Currently only Yelp warns consumers of this this practice. Consumers should continue to write truthful reviews.”
Mike Blumenthal at GetFiveStars.com, a platform that helps companies gather customer feedback, called the allegations about Abbey Inn “egregious.”
“Reviews have long been an area where free speech has been protected and promoted,” said Blumenthal. “The ability for a consumer to say what they want about a business via an online review is largely protected at both the state and federal level. This question has long been settled and it is amazing to me that any business in this day and age would think that they could constrain a consumer in such a way.”
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Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology (INP), University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom (UK)
Brain Imaging Center (BIC), GU, Germany
Division of Psychiatry, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)
Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom (UK)
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience/Centre for Neural Computation, NTNU, Norway
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, CIMH, Germany
Brain and Mind Centre, USYD, Australia
Institute for Biomagnetism and Biosignalanalysis (IBB), WWU, Germany
University Hospital of Psychiatry Bern, UniBE, Switzerland
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, HHU, Germany
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, CIMH, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (MPIBRAIN), Germany
Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society (ESI), Germany
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany
Are there genes that help you stay in school?
The University of Queensland (UQ)
Fuelling the motion of droplets
The University of Wollongong (UOW)
Boosting cancer therapies with natural killer cells
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Giants Don't Think Belt's Ready: Report
By Will Brinson
Published Mar 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM
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The Giants are inching closer and closer to Opening Day and therefore inching closer and closer to finalizing who will begin the season on the opening MLB roster.
It doesn't sound like, according to Andrew Baggarly of CSN Bay Area, that first baseman/outfielder/giraffe-at-large Brandon Belt will be one of the players that starts the season in San Francisco.
Baggarly reports that members of the Giants front office met on Monday evening and didn't come away feeling that Belt was ready to begin the year on the big-league roster.
"Giants brass met last night to discuss roster," Baggarly tweeted on Tuesday. "The mood: Brandon Belt is having a nice spring, but all not in agreement he's ready."
Now, this may be true. Baggarly followed up by noting that the Giants are still working on things.
"Just chatted with Hensley Meulens on Brandon Belt," Baggs tweeted. "Giants working w/him to stand taller and move back in the box. Still a work in progress."
It doesn't appear that way based on Belt's spring training stats, however. Belt's hitting .380/.429/.660 with three home runs, seven RBI and five walks in 17 games. His 11 strikeouts are a concern.
The more likely issue is that the Giants need depth up the middle with Freddie Sanchez hurt, and have plenty of depth at first base with Aubrey Huff and Buster Posey and in the outfield, where they would prefer not to play Belt.
And, as Baggarly points out, there "is little percolating on the trade front for" Mike Fontenot and Ryan Theriot.
So the case may simply be that the Giants want to keep their depth flexible without putting Belt into a position that could result in a yo-yo situation. Additionally, expectations placed on him will dip significantly if he doesn't start the year with the team.
Hopefully it pans out better than it did for Belt in 2011.
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Nucleic Acids Res. 2007;35(5):1452-64. Epub 2007 Feb 6.
The structure and function of small nucleolar ribonucleoproteins.
Reichow SL1, Hamma T, Ferré-D'Amaré AR, Varani G.
Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700, USA.
Eukaryotes and archaea use two sets of specialized ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) to carry out sequence-specific methylation and pseudouridylation of RNA, the two most abundant types of modifications of cellular RNAs. In eukaryotes, these protein-RNA complexes localize to the nucleolus and are called small nucleolar RNPs (snoRNPs), while in archaea they are known as small RNPs (sRNP). The C/D class of sno(s)RNPs carries out ribose-2'-O-methylation, while the H/ACA class is responsible for pseudouridylation of their RNA targets. Here, we review the recent advances in the structure, assembly and function of the conserved C/D and H/ACA sno(s)RNPs. Structures of each of the core archaeal sRNP proteins have been determined and their assembly pathways delineated. Furthermore, the recent structure of an H/ACA complex has revealed the organization of a complete sRNP. Combined with current biochemical data, these structures offer insight into the highly homologous eukaryotic snoRNPs.
10.1093/nar/gkl1172
The guide snoRNAs and their target RNAs. The class (A) C/D and (B) H/ACA snoRNAs (grey) contain conserved and class-specific sequence motifs ‘boxes’ (blue) and unique guide regions that define their respective target RNA site(s) (magenta). The sites targeted for nucleotide modification are marked with a star.
The structure and function of small nucleolar ribonucleoproteins
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Mar;35(5):1452-1464.
The conserved C/D methyltransferase fibrillarin. Crystal structure of (A) the archaeal fibrillarin (1FBN) and (B) of the double-stranded DNA methyltransferase HhaI (1MHT). The catalytic domains are colored according to their secondary structural elements (red: α-helices; violet: β-strand; grey: variable regions). S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) binds at a conserved site (yellow star) of these related enzymes. Structural details of fibrillarin interaction with the sno(s)RNA-target RNA complex are unknown. HhaI flips out the nucleobase to be modified in dsDNA (blue). (C) Fibrillarin catalyzes the ribose-2′-O-ribose methylation of its RNA substrates by converting AdoMet to S-adenosylhomocycteine (AdoHcy).
The conserved H/ACA Ψ synthase Cbf5. Crystal structures of (A) the archaeal H/ACA Ψ synthase Cbf5 (2APO) and (B) the E. coli tRNA Ψ synthase TruB (1K8W). The catalytic domains are colored according to their conserved secondary structural elements (yellow: α-helices; green: β-strand; grey: PUA domain and variable regions). The site of uridine isomerization (red star) is surrounded by highly conserved residues in Cbf5 and TruB. The TruB induces a base flipping of its tRNA substrate (blue). Structural differences between Cbf5 and TruB reflect differences in RNA substrate specificity; for example, a characteristic TruB peptide sequence (coral) is absent from Cbf5 homologs. (C) The isomerization of uridine to Ψ requires an overall 120° rotation of the uracil base.
K-turn recognition by L7Ae. (A) Sequence of a canonical K-turn motif with conserved C/D nucleotides in blue. (B) Crystal structure of the archaea L7Ae protein (gold) bound to the canonical K-turn motif of C/D sRNAs (1RLG). RNA elements are colored as in (A). The K-turn adopts a characteristic ∼60° bend in the phosphate backbone and L7Ae makes several interactions with conserved structural features of this motif.
Crystal structure of the archaeal fibrillarin-Nop5 tetrameric complex (1NT2). Nop5 (blue) interacts with fibrillarin (Fib; red) through its N- and C-terminal domains. The C-terminal domain of Nop5 binds to the guide RNA and is positioned near the catalytic site (yellow star) of fibrillarin. The N- and C-terminal domains of Nop5 are connected by a coiled–coiled motif that facilitates dimerization of the Fib-Nop5 complex.
Class C/D sno(s)RNP architecture. (A) The archaeal C/D sRNP assembles with a copy of each core C/D proteins (colored as in and ) at both the C/D and C′/D′ RNA motifs (blue) of the sRNA (grey), and guides methylation of a RNA nucleotide (pink) at each site. The observed quaternary structure of the fibrillarin-Nop5 complex would position two fibrillarin catalytic sites (yellow star) ∼80 Å apart. In contradiction to this observation, the distance between catalytic C/D and C′/D′ sites of the sRNAs is highly conserved and only ∼25–35 Å, suggesting the coiled–coiled interactions (transparent coloring) of Nop5 may be reorganized and/or disrupted in the fully assembled sRNP. (B) The C/D snoRNP is proposed to assemble into a pseudo-symmetric architecture. In contrast to the archaeal L7Ae protein, the Snu13/15.5 kDa protein appears to bind solely at the C/D site of the snoRNA. The Nop5 paralogs, Nop56 and Nop58, recognize the C and C′ Box elements, respectively, while a copy of fibrillarin (Fib) interacts with each D and D′ Box, consistent with its role in the catalytic center (yellow star).
Crystal structure of the archaeal Cbf5-Gar1-Nop10 heterotrimer (2EY4). The catalytic domain of Cbf5 (yellow) is surrounded by the Cbf5 PUA domain (green), Nop10 (blue) and Gar1 (purple) proteins. The Cbf5 PUA domain contributes to the extended RNA-binding surface of this protein. Nop10 packs against the back-side of the catalytic site (red star) and contributes to the organization and stabilization of the active site itself. Gar1 contacts Cbf5 through conserved hydrophobic interactions that may modulate substrate RNA loading and release.
Class H/ACA sno(s)RNP architecture. (A) The crystal structure of the archaeal H/ACA core proteins with a guide sRNA (2HVY). (B) The H/ACA sRNA secondary structure and color scheme (base-paired stems and apical loop: grey; conserved ACA Box and K-loop nucleotides: blue; pseudouridylation pocket: red). The sRNA is recognized by Cbf5, L7Ae and Nop10 (colored as in and ). The ACA Box and proximal stem are bound by the Cbf5 PUA domain, while the apical stem and K-loop are bound by Nop10 and L7Ae, respectively. These interactions act as conserved molecular clamps that precisely position the sRNA pseudouridylation pocket at the catalytic site of Cbf5 (red star). (C) The H/ACA snoRNP is proposed to adopt a bipartite structure with a copy of the core H/ACA proteins assembled at each hairpin motif of the snoRNA. The core H/ACA interactions are expected to be similar between eukaryotic and archaeal sRNPs, but some interactions with the snoRNA are expected to be unique to eukaryotes. For example, the Nhp2-snoRNA interaction differs from the L7Ae-sRNA K-turn (or K-loop) interaction.
Archaeal Proteins/chemistry*
Archaeal Proteins/metabolism
Archaeal Proteins/physiology*
Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/chemistry
Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone/physiology
Hydro-Lyases/chemistry
Hydro-Lyases/physiology
Methyltransferases/chemistry
Methyltransferases/physiology
Models, Molecular
RNA, Small Nucleolar/chemistry
Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nucleolar/chemistry*
Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nucleolar/metabolism
Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nucleolar/physiology*
Archaeal Proteins
Chromosomal Proteins, Non-Histone
RNA, Small Nucleolar
Ribonucleoproteins, Small Nucleolar
fibrillarin
Methyltransferases
Hydro-Lyases
pseudouridylate synthetase
Molecular Biology Databases
Saccharomyces Genome Database
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Ahmed Bouanani
A melancholy, hallucinatory, biting meditation.
A tour de force: an utterly singular modern Moroccan classic
Fiction by Ahmed Bouanani
Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
With a contribution by Anna Della Subin
“When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive…” So begins Ahmed Bouanani’s arresting, hallucinatory 1989 novel The Hospital, appearing for the first time in English translation. Based on Bouanani’s own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming the lives of a motley cast of inmates one by one; childhood memories and fantasies of resurrection flash in and out of the narrator’s consciousness as the hospital transforms before his eyes into an eerie, metaphorical space. Somewhere along the way, the hospital’s iron gate disappears. Like Sadegh Hedayat’s The Blind Owl, the works of Franz Kafka—or perhaps like Mann’s The Magic Mountain thrown into a meat-grinder—The Hospital is a nosedive into the realms of the imagination, in which a journey to nowhere in particular leads to the most shocking places.
Paperback (published June 26, 2018)
Price CN
Ebook (published November 16, 2017)
Moroccan writer, poet, illustrator, and filmmaker
An interview with Ahmed Bouanani (1974)
AN INTERVIEW WITH AHMED BOUANANI June 1974 The reclusive poet, novelist, and filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani died on February 6, 2011. In an interview from 1974, he reflected upon a film …
Bouanani sought to bring out the truth of his homeland even as that land itself, one way or another, rendered honest expression impossible; he had no end of impediments and no more than the narrowest way out. Yet with The Hospital he made it, demonstrating, again, how the best work can run any gantlet, even one lined with devils.
—John Domini, Brooklyn Rail
Hallucinatory.
—Guy Gunaratne, Guardian 2018 Best Summer Books
The Hospital has attained cult status.
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The newsonomics of momentum in the WSJ/NYT battle
Fueled by Rupert Murdoch’s ambitions and significant investments, The Wall Street Journal seemed to have all the momentum in its newspaper war against The New York Times. That’s changed. Why?
By Ken Doctor @kdoctor Jan. 10, 2014, 11:44 a.m.
What a difference a year makes in America’s national newspaper war.
As we look back at 2013 — and forward to 2014 — we see that The Wall Street Journal, an innovative leader in the digital news business, seems to have lost momentum in its titanic battle with The New York Times. TWEET
When Rupert Murdoch bought the Journal and its parent Dow Jones six years ago, he declared that war, aiming to blur the historic line between a business newspaper and a general interest one. The declaration was pure Rupert: part real animus, part envy, part bluff, and wholly aimed at winner-take-all. Even as the deep recession wounded all publishers, Murdoch invested in the conflict, establishing The Wall Street Journal as a pioneer in news video, tablet innovation, and global growth, while also investing in old-fashioned reporting resources, launching expansions both in general news and in coverage of New York City. His moves on offense contrasted with the strategic retreats of the Times. The proud company was forced to sell its new headquarters space, take on onerous loans, and live perilously on the edge.
For much of the past half decade of hand-to-hand combat, the Times appeared uneasy in its footing. Through tough times, it managed to hold together its core asset — the 1,100-or-so–strong newsroom. But for much of 2012, the eight-month search for a new CEO emphasized the Times’ double vacuum of leadership and strategy. The media’s whispering classes conjectured that the Times was taking so long to find a CEO because the choice could be the one that would make or break the Times’ ability to survive as a standalone, Sulzberger-family–directed institution. Then, enter new CEO Mark Thompson, immediately dogged by various BBC messes, as he worked to establish credibility for himself on this side of the Atlantic.
Today, the tables have turned a bit. At the Times, the reader revenue strategy — exemplified by its digital paywall — has offered a greater sense of stability, a modicum of hope, and a budding confidence. It has completed a multi-year strategy to place all its chips on the flagship New York Times brand, selling off The Boston Globe and rebranding the storied International Herald Tribune as the International New York Times. Thompson looks like he has survived the North Atlantic winds of controversy. Though execution remains a big question, its areas of focus are the clearest they’ve been in a long time — innovating the second phase of reader revenue (“The newsonomics of The New York Times’ Paywalls 2.0”), finding new growth in digital advertising, and redoubling efforts and staffing in video and mobile. The Times organization is moving in a more unified direction than it had in previous years. Further, it is basking, even if just for a digital moment, in the glow of being the global pioneer in paid digital reader revenue models.
The year’s final financial performance (to be reported Feb. 6) will show a year similar to 2013, with maybe a little growth in revenue. It’s not out of the woods yet, but a clearing is visible.
The Journal is another story. At best reading, it’s been a year of reorganization, shuffling just about everything that could be shuffled, above and within the Journal’s reach. Its parent company spun off all its newspapers (and a couple of other balance sheet-improving ventures) into the new News Corp, complete with lyrical Murdoch-written logo, as the now-separate 21st Century Fox moves forward into the more profitable world of TV, film, and digital video. Lex Fenwick, the CEO of immediate WSJ parent Dow Jones, has brought Bloombergian B2B zeal to the remaking of the company.
Fenwick’s moves to radically rationalize and reshape Dow Jones B2B products have gained most of the attention, but a careful view shows that the same one-product, one-price strategy has fundamentally altered the Journal’s direction. Further, we’ve seen a profound exodus of top Wall Street Journal execs and much change in management overall — and limited new product development. Though fewer financial performance numbers are released about the Journal than the Times, a set of them affirms that the Journal’s assumed ascendancy in its head-to-head war with The New York Times is no longer true.
In previous years, I’d written much about the Journal’s innovations in video, mobile advertising, and other areas, more than I’d noted the Times’ product innovations. What happened in 2013 to turn the innovation tables? Though Dow Jones declined to comment on the company’s overall performance and strategic focus, I talked to numerous people in and around the war to get a sense of the wider newsonomics of the competition. Here we focus on their businesses, not their journalism — which continues to be distinguished in both shops. The success of those businesses, inevitably, will shape available newsroom resources for both companies in the years ahead.
Unexpectedly, this battle has between much more of a newspaper-to-newspaper competition. Six years ago, the Times still owned a variety of businesses from which it has now exited. Now it’s the Times alone. The corporate change in and around the Journal is more profound: While the Journal is part of a larger company, it is now a part of a newspaper company. Until the mid-2013 News Corp split, its performance could be subsidized by an Avatar blockbuster or healthy Fox News profits. Now it’s looked to as a profit center.
With News Corp’s London-based Times papers and New York Post being money losers, the Journal stands after the U.K. tabloid Sun (the best-selling paper in Britain) and its Australian newspapers in financial performance. Though new News Corp CEO Robert Thomson inherited a comfortable $2 billion cash cushion and no debt (in contrast to the planned Tribune spinoff), the cratering of the print ad business means that News Corp shares the financial pressures of its peers. The Journal must begin to stand on its own.
With that landscape in mind, let’s look at where the Journal now stands, in its management, its business performance, and its product innovation.
Fenwick took command of Dow Jones two years ago. Long-time Murdoch loyalist Les Hinton stepped aside, as the collateral damage of Murdoch’s U.K. Hackgate threatened to impact the Journal.
Fenwick seemed like an odd choice at the time. A veteran business-to-business executive, he brought the legacy of his long-time Bloomberg tenure to what had long been mainly a business-to-consumer company. Though Bloomberg’s B2B terminal-based model has been wildly successful, its multiple attempts to grow consumer businesses in TV, radio, and magazines have far less so.
Public attention on Fenwick has focused on two things. One is his management style. Fenwick is universally described as a man who likes to be the decider, a top-down exec in an age where at least the hint of collaboration is nearly universally espoused. Secondly, the information world has been astounded at his remaking of the B2B side of Dow Jones.
Launched after lots of internal integration at year’s end, DJX has become Dow Jones’ Bloomberg. It’s one product, largely at one price, bringing together its Factiva enterprise information services, the Dow Jones Newswires, and much more. The early reaction to the higher pricing (with some customers being asked to pay three times or more what they previously did) and to the lack of separate product choice has been noteworthy. Cancellations have been reported, but it’s too early to know the overall business impact of the major change.
What’s important for Journal watchers to know is that the same single-product, single-price strategy now being tested in the B2B marketplace has been applied to the Journal.
As the application became clear, the exodus began. The Journal has seen dozens of managers leave. Alumni talk about the exodus of summer 2012 and summer 2013. Within six months of Fenwick’s arrival in February 2012, the departures had begun, concentrated early on in and around the Factiva business. Some were forced; many were voluntary. The summer timing wasn’t coincidental: News Corp’s fiscal year ends June 30, and annual bonuses are paid in August. Consequently, it is the last 18 months of the Journal that have seen the greatest change.
Across the Journal, top management change has been sweeping. A very partial list of the departed:
Todd Larsen, president
Alisa Bowen, head of the digital business
Michael Rooney, chief revenue officer and ad head
Beth Buehler, head of business management and business development
Laura Evans, head of audience insights/analytics
Jennifer Jehn, head of consumer sales
Daniel Bernard, chief product officer
Dean Delvecchio, chief information officer
Bethany Sherman, chief communications officer of Dow Jones
Christine Brendle, publisher at Wall Street Journal Asia
All but Bowen — who now heads the challenged-but-cash-flow-vital digital business for News Corp’s Australian papers — left News Corp.
Why did they go? While Fenwick’s management style is part of it, the reasons go directly to the nature of what they were able to do to move the Journal’s business forward. As Fenwick moved toward single-product, single-price, the execs found:
they had less latitude to experiment and innovate in their groups;
that if they could justify innovation, necessary resources — tech and otherwise — had been diverted to the massive DJX changeover; and
that the B2C business had switched places in Dow Jones thinking, becoming the less-favored child.
Some weighed a personal strategy of waiting out the new regime. Most decided that even if top management were to change again, the unwinding of this single-product, single-price change would take a couple of painful years to happen.
The shock of the change — close to a 180-degree reversal — permeated all parts of the Journal’s consumer operation. It’s meant that the Journal — which put its model-breaking WSJ Live on more than two dozen non-WSJ video platforms (“The newsonomics of WSJ Live”) and did an early test with Pulse to determine the pros and cons of third-party distribution — cut back on its partnership and third-party platform testing. While the Times and the Financial Times are testing subscriber-authenticated reading on Flipboard, the Journal is absent.
The 2011 “WSJ Everywhere” strategy seemed an artifact of the past. Many of the business partnership plans and tests — all designed to pour new would-be paying customers into the top end of the customer flow via sampling — ebbed away. The issue: If you don’t throw out more fishing lures, through introductory pricing and wider sampling across platforms, paid subscriptions inevitably will flatten — which they have.
Further, the strategic change meant that new segmented, separately priced digital news products, like CFO Journal and CIO Journal, would be folded into the single subscriber proposition. Ironically, that comes at a time when separate niche products like Politico Pro is the new industry model — at the arch-foe Times too, where executives plan to test three such products in the spring.
That’s not to say that the Fenwick pricing philosophy doesn’t get credit. Even his critics say he has rationalized pricing that was too loose. The problem, they say, is that in swinging the pendulum over to stronger pricing, he hasn’t allowed that cheaper, introductory-offer sampling that the business today requires.
Among many of the exec replacements is a common career stop: Bloomberg. For instance, Trevor Fellows, who replaced ad leader Michael Rooney, is one of the many Bloomberg vets to have replaced the old guard. Beyond the question of clubbiness is that B2B background and how well it applies to the Journal’s consumer business.
To be clear, Fenwick had done with the B2B business what he was hired to do. Robert Thomson had longed talked about the B2P (professional) market, and how a company with Dow Jones’ vast resources should more smartly serve it. He’d been frustrated about the pace of that rethinking and reorganization. Thus he had a strong hand in selecting Fenwick. The goal: Make more out of the B2B businesses that may have contributed only about 30 percent of Dow Jones’ revenues — but a higher proportion of its profit.
The consumer impact of the Fenwick appointment may have been unanticipated.
When Robert Thomson leapt from his position as top editor of the Journal to CEO of the new split-off News Corp, the balance of power at the Journal shifted. Though Thomson had been the editor in title, he wielded much wider business influence. His successor, Gerry Baker, is much more a traditional newsroom leader. The business savvy that Thomson had brought to his job is no longer in place to balance Fenwick’s B2B proclivities, as the new CEO faces the big task of managing the new three-continent News Corp, the largest news company by revenues globally.
The Journal and Dow Jones financial performance is somewhere in the middle of the new News Corp pack. News Corp doesn’t break out the results of its individual companies. Overall, the company’s first quarterly report as a spin-off, issued in November, was subpar, down 5 percent in EBITDA and 4.3 percent in adjusted revenues.
Its majority News and Information segment was worse, off 6 percent in adjusted revenues year over over year. We do know that circulation revenues were down 6 percent overall at Dow Jones for the last quarter, or $11 million, though we attribute that decline to the company’s struggling B2B sales, not its Journal print and digital subscriptions.
Advertising still represents a majority of revenues for the Journal, sources say, in the mid-50s percentagewise, with circulation in the mid-40s. That’s the inverse of the Times, which recently reported that 56 percent of its revenues now come from readers. Given that reader revenue is now growing as paywalls have gone up, and that print ads remain in sharp decline, majority reader revenue seems to be the preferable market position.
Sources say that the Journal failed to make its advertising budget for 2013. Like all dailies, it is struggling with print, likely with a low-to-mid single-digit decline and a mild drop in digital advertising as well. That performance would be quite similar to the Times.
We can estimate the Journal’s current profit in the 5-8 percent range.
If we measure Lex Fenwick’s application of single-product, single-price to Journal subscription pricing, we can see where he’s had success. The Journal has long lagged the Times in pricing, and even his critics credit him with rationalizing print and digital pricing. While that has meant less sampling, it’s also meant more immediate revenue, with double-digit price increases in print and digital. How much more circulation revenue we don’t know, nor do we know how it compares to the Times’ year-over-year increase of 4.8 percent there.
The overall readership numbers for the Journal, though, appear flat. Total average circulation, as measured by the Alliance for Audited Media (the industry’s successor to the Audit Bureau of Circulation) is down 1 percent, 2013 compared to 2012, as we can see in the chart below. The Times is up 15 percent, as we see below.
Both papers have lost print readers, of course, but the Journal lost more last year: 9.5 percent of its daily (six days a week) print circulation, compared to a 5.7 percent comparable weekday loss for the Times. Over the last two years, the Journal has lost 13 percent of print circulation; the Times has lost 12 percent.
Over the last year, the Times posted a 31 percent gain in paid digital products; the Journal was up 15 percent. Over the last two, the Times posted a 265 percent gain in paid digital products; the Journal was up 55 percent. (Observers may note that The New York Times’ “total non-replica” number through September 2013 — 1,206,214 — is substantially higher than the paid digital-only subscriptions it announced at about the same time, 727,000. That’s because the AAM number counts digital usage as well as individual paid subscriptions. Constructively, that’s a double or triple accounting of some paid customers, a metric whose value is uncertain. For our purposes, the AAM numbers, though, offer apples-to-apples comparison between the Journal and the Times.)
Consequently, in all the available public reader data, the Times is faring better than the Journal of late.
To be fair, the Journal was a turn-of-the-century pioneer in paid digital strategy, and one might imagine a plateau would come given that 10-year lead. Acknowledging that, the questions become: What has the Journal recently done to build on that lead? And how come it let its foe catch up?
In digital traffic, October Nielsen data below shows the Times with far greater reach than the Journal in their home country. Its U.S.-based audience is more than double the Journal’s. The Times manages 36 percent more time per person than the Journal and a page more per month, a 9 percent advantage there. The Times’ new redesign, launched Wednesday, is intended to further that engagement lead, even as the Journal gets ready to launch its own digital redesigns later in the quarter.
Looking forward both on reader revenue and engagement, a critical question facing the Journal is whether to stick with its freemium model. That model, more commonly used in Europe, puts up a hard wall in front of many articles, especially the Journal’s unique stories, while allowing others to be freely read. Developed before the meter — which allows readers a free sampling of from 5 to 25 stories a month — the freemium model may be less flexible and consequently less successful in converting occasional readers into paying subscribers.
New product development is a reach for new subscribers and readers, for advertising — and for buzz. Both the Journal and the Times have learned from digital startups the value of launch announcements.
Both have emphasized video. Late last year, The New York Times Minute won lots of notice as an attempt to satisfy news customers with quick three-subject reports several times a day. Its year-earlier Snow Fall project had redefined integration of multimedia into traditional storytelling. The Journal’s WSJ WorldStream, a first-of-its-kind video blog, launched in mid 2012, but has received less attention. Alan Murray, the Journal’s then deputy managing editor and a key part of much of the pre-Fenwick consumer innovation, is another of the execs who’ve left, becoming head of the Pew Research Center in November 2012.
Video is a key battle area between the Journal, which once had a substantial lead, and the Times. Chris Cramer, named head of video last March, is one of those trying to restart the innovation engines at the Journal. A BBC/CNN veteran, he has been joined by Edward Roussel as head of product and Michael Rolnick as chief digital officer.
Cramer points to growth in the video business, citing:
expanded WSJ Live coverage in Asia and Europe;
a 200 percent growth in WSJ Live pageviews since the September 2011 launch; and
plans for a bigger focus on global technology coverage and U.S. political coverage in Washington.
Further, the December News Corp purchase of video aggregator Storyful should help video strategies — and indicates the potential of greater strategic alignment across News Corp news properties.
For all who’ve moved into new roles at the Journal, the tasks are straightforward and parallel the goals that Mark Thompson has set out at the Times. They are all around the familiar: more reader revenue, support of digital advertising, mobile expansion, video exploitation. That requires building on innovation, marketing it well, and being perceived as a leader. This is a game both about leading change — and grabbing attention for it. Here, too, the Times seems to have gained an edge on the Journal.
We’d have to believe that a comparison of the Journal’s and the Times’ recent trajectories would make Rupert cringe. He believed he had the Times on the ropes, and now he finds his prized Journal playing catch-up. at least in the game of media perception and in a number of key metrics. In trying to fix the B2B side of Dow Jones, the company looks like it took its eye off of the Times competition, allowing the Times to catch up after Murdoch and Robert Thomson had invested so much in the new Journal.
Thomson, himself, has got to be casting a more direct eye on the paper’s fortunes as Lex Fenwick enters his third year of reorganization with quite uncertain results in both B2B and B2C. We may see the News Corp culture — pick a top leader and give him room to make the changes he sees fit — tested strongly by the time 2015 comes around. Commanders have their place, but changing out the officer corps in mid-battle takes its toll.
In the Journal/Times faceoff, the competition is far from over — but the battle lines have changed.
Photo by Jonathan Seitz.
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Chapter 391: Summon Barbarian Warriors (Part One)
The commanders besides Fei were stoked.
Fei’s strength was beyond their imagination! From the look of it, they felt like this No.1 Commander was worth more than tens of thousands of soldiers! As long as the king of Chambord was there, Dual-Flags City won’t be in any danger.
Fei had shot out four arrows in an instant, and they all hit their targets. As air-piercing noises sounded, the four catapults far away were exploded like balloons that got popped by needles.
“Thank you Prince Fairenton for the bow! It is powerful, and I like it a lot!”
Fei stopped after he had shot out five arrows. He took a deep breath and shouted loudly as he laughed. Everyone on the battlefield heard it, and some soldiers of Zenit even repeated after him and cheered, “Thank you Prince Fairenton for the bow!”
Fairenton stood up and clapped down at the chair he was sitting on; his face was very gloomy.
The guards beside him all shivered in fear. This prince was known for his short-temper! Not too long ago, a young nobleman offended him. As a result, that young nobleman got smashed into meat paste, and his family got wiped out.
It was evident that this prince was mad at the moment; all the guards hoped that he wouldn’t take out the anger on them.
Fortunately for these guards, they were safe.
They found out surprisingly that Prince Fairenton actually tried hard and suppressed his anger
After five catapults were destroyed, the commanders of Jax decided to abandon these siege machines, and they moved the rest of catapults back to their camp. It sounded impossible for someone actually to defeat 20 catapults using only arrows, but it took place on this battlefield. The soldiers of Jax experienced the power of the king of Chambord again.
However, this siege was far from over.
The soldiers of Jax started the most direct method of siege. They rushed at the defense wall like waves of water, and they all used siege ladders that were hundreds of meters long. After hundreds of these ladders were hooked onto the battlements, it seemed like what happened two hours ago was being replayed again; the cruel battle was about to begin.
However, Fei clearly sensed the difference.
Although there were tens of thousands of enemies charging at the city, they were more scattered around. They didn’t use expensive and bulky siege machines like [Siege Dragon Birds]; they only used light siege ladders and ropes that were easier to carry. Also, they didn’t target the city gate this time; it seemed like there wasn’t an emphasis as they just tried to climb up the defense wall.
“Huh? It seems like they don’t want actually to conquer the city. Could it be that they want to prolong the war as well?”
Generally, in sieges, the attackers would try to get a breakthrough point. As long as they could get into the city, the city would be conquered for sure. Therefore, that was why the strategy Jax was using was bizarre; it seemed like they didn’t want to commit to anything. As if they were teasing Dual-Flags City, it felt like they could break through the defense of Dual-Flags City but weren’t going to do it.
In this situation, the power of Fei’s arrows was significantly reduced.
After the enemies scattered around, Fei’s arrow couldn’t kill 30 enemies at one go anymore. At the moment, he could only kill one to two enemies at a time, and the threat he posed to this siege was minimalized.
After giving it some thoughts, Fei didn’t use any more of Amazon Character’s skills such as [Multiple Shot] and [Exploding Arrow]. Instead, he put away [Eagle of the Desert] and switched back to Barbarian Mode. Then, he used the miraculous skill [Summon].
After a bloody red light flashed by, 15 huge warriors appeared beside Fei.
These warriors were almost completely naked; only their abdomens and thighs were protected by leather armors that were bloodstained. They were either holding dual-swords or axes in their hands, and green beast tattoos and green totem tattoos were all over their muscular bodies including their necks and faces.
With a wild and berserk aura around them, they looked like 15 Demon Beasts.
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Many cn novel like to write these kind of scene where mc will stole/rob a person item or person. Then used it to kill them while shouted praise and thank
What is more insulting than having your own weapon stolen and then killed by it?
Its not like only cn novel use this.
Remove the cn and you will be right.
Leafron
Is this where the cliche plot where the enemy commander grows and matures into an excellent commander within weeks/months under the repeated provocations of the MC of the story kicks in?
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Now Reading: EU calls for less red tape for use of renewables
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Moreover, MEPS said the use of electric vehicles fed by renewable electricity and the renewable use in heating and cooling should be promoted more, according to an e-mailed ITRE press release on May 24.
“The target of 10% renewables by 2020 in the transport sector is significantly lagging behind, partly due to the challenges for a biofuel-based renewable strategy for transport,” said MEPs, calling on the European Commission to develop a framework for the promotion of the use of electric vehicles fed by renewable electricity.
MEPs highlighted the lack of progress and low targets set for renewable use in heating and cooling, in particular in buildings and called on the Commission to bridge regulatory gaps in the post-2020 renewables legislative package.
The renewables should be assessed on their competitiveness, sustainability, cost-effectiveness and contribution to geopolitical stability and climate change goals, MEPs said.
They stressed the importance of stable and cost-effective renewable support schemes and regretting retroactive changes of renewable support schemes that alter the return on already made investments.
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Australia heads for showdown over greenhouse gas emissions
Division appeared in Australian government ranks last week, as the federal cabinet wrestled with conflicting promises concerning Australia�s greenhouse policy. Since the Kyoto meeting in 1997, the government has vowed that it would limit greenhouse gas emissions to an 8% increase over 1990 levels by 2010. It has also promised Australian industry that it would do nothing to harm industry�s international competitiveness. It seems unlikely that both promises can be met.
MELBOURNE�Division appeared in Australian government ranks last week, as the federal cabinet wrestled with conflicting promises concerning Australia�s greenhouse policy.
Since the Kyoto meeting in 1997, the government has promised on the one hand that it would limit greenhouse gas emissions to an 8% increase over 1990 levels by the year 2010. One the other hand, the government has promised Australian industry that it would do nothing to harm industry�s international competitiveness (OGJ Online, May 16, 2000). If debate on the issue in cabinet last week is any indication, it seems unlikely that both promises can be met.
Environment Minister Robert Hill pointed out that a "blowout" in greenhouse gas emissions�particularly in the industrial and electricity sectors�has taken Australia further away from its Kyoto target. His statistics said that, by 1998, Australia�s emissions had risen by 19% from 1990 levels�more than twice the Australian "special case" allowance agreed in Kyoto. Emissions from the industrial and electricity sectors had risen a staggering 26% above 1990 levels by 1998.
Hill has proposed that industry be subject to more stringent requirements to reduce or offset greenhouse emissions, including the use of a veto under federal environment law that would be triggered by projects emitting significant amounts of carbon. A figure of 500,000 tonnes/year of carbon has been mentioned as the trigger point.
However, Energy and Industry Minister Nick Minchin brandished some figures of his own. He said that economic research commissioned by him from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics has found that forcing industry to meet Australia�s targets under the Kyoto agreement could reduce the country�s gross national product by as much as 1.4% in 2010. The research also suggests that achieving Australia�s Kyoto commitment could necessitate gasoline price increases of 5-18 � (Aus.)/l., and the cost of coal use could rise by $50-200 (Aus.)/tonne.
Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson weighed into the debate by being publicly critical of Hill�s "trigger" proposal, saying that it would harm employment, investment, and regional growth.
Industry's view
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Executive Director of the Business Council of Australia, David Buckingham, said that business believes a trigger would be unhelpful to industry and a bad strategy for reducing emissions. He said that there is a need for a comprehensive policy framework before such a greenhouse trigger is pulled.
Executive Director of the Australian Greenhouse Industry Network, John Eyles, added that the greenhouse trigger would cause a significant loss of investment, jobs, and new technology to overseas competitors. It would discriminate against some projects just on the basis of the volume of their emissions output without taking into consideration their greenhouse efficiency and contributions to the country�s economic growth.
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