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WHAT WOULD THEY SAY TODAY?
I have received today this paper that has made me angry:
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2245613-cold-fusion-fusion-telecommunications-inc
Actually, it is not about our Cold Fusion, bur from sci-populistic reasons it infamously tells that “cold fusion died an inglorious death”
This is completely false, however, sadly enough, after 301+ months of history, of bright and smart worldwide efforts, the desired contrary of that: “it has started a glorious and useful new life” is also not true.
We still have to wait while fugit irreparabile tempus however hope is still there…but for how many of us?
I have repeatedly stated that classic cold fusion/LENR is not what we wanted it to be and, as such, it remains weak and unmanageable. Few of you believe me, however cannot contradict me with facts. The new forms of CF (if we take it in its broadest sense) are under strong attack on many fronts.
The state of the field is not a source of happiness and I am asking with sadness:
What would my dear, good friends, already in the Heaven of Cold Fusion: Hal Fox, Chris Tinsley, Gene Mallove, Akira Kawasaki, say today about CF’s status?
A painful question and unanswerable- infinite energy generates also infinite patience?
I will ask them all soon, but I am not in great hurry, so I am asking you now, my friends still in battle, old and young, what do you think- what would our Heroes say and DO? And you?
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INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO OF DEFKALION GREEN TECHNOLOGIES, MR. ALEX XANTHOULIS
In order to see the context and deeper details of the Gamberale Report published here: http://animpossibleinvention.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/dgt-faulty-demo-140502-english.pdf I have asked the most authorized person- the leader and strategist of the Defkalion company to give me an interview. CEO Xanthoulis has accepted and has answered to all my questions. It was an illuminating discussion despite revealing somewhat shadowy sides of that Report.
Q: Based on the recent publications of Mr. Gamberale & various others, what is your position?
A: Firstly we need to see what happened during the two live streaming presentations.
From 1st June 2013, our chief engineer Mr. S Amaxas & Mr. Gamberale were setting up the Laboratory in Milan. From the 25th June they were both running tests checking the set-up, the performance and the software.
During those days they made various adjustments and improvements which were mutually agreed upon, based on my knowledge.
On Friday the 19th July, I and my team arrived in Milan. In the meeting after my arrival NO questions or quires were raised by Mr. Gamberale on the performance of the equipment. Furthermore on Sunday the 20th July our stock broker arrived and as per my promise given to Mr. Gamberale previously, he opened the Accounts to receive shares of the Defkalion Holding Company of Canada and he signed for them.
On Monday the 22nd July Mr. Gamberale performed and presented the live streaming test for Italy in Italian, he was enthusiastic about the technology to all of the attendees.
Attending were journalists and scientists from Italy to whom afterwards in private he explained in detail the technology. On the same day, all night and till early morning of the next day our technical staff was preparing the equipment for the Live Streaming presentation for ICCF18.
On Tuesday 23rd July at 11.00am Mr. Gamberale declared himself sick and did not attend the live presentation.
The Live presentation was witnessed by many attendees, including Mr. Mats Lewan, who later was controlling independently and in detail all of the equipment and operations.
The live presentation was carried out with several difficulties such as power failures, no A/C and inadequate time to degassing from Argon to Hydrogen. During this live test none of the attendees raised any questions, doubts, whatever.
On Wednesday the 24th July and before our departure from Milan we were requested to participate in a meeting with the following participants, Alex Xanthoulis, Stavros Amaxas, Franco Capielo, Lucas Gamberale. At the request of Mr. Gambarale our CTO Mr. Hadjichristos was not invited to attend.
During this meeting Mr Gamberale made a presentation of his “SO CALLED” secret test which were conducted on the 18th of July, I was totally surprised and shocked because his attitude the previous days (of the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd July) was positive and enthusiastic.
My question to him was why he accepted the Defkalion Shares, why he made the Italian presentation and why he brought the subject up when we could not repeat the same test together because of our departure schedule. I have never received any answer to the above also to why he excluded Mr. Xadjichristos from that meeting.
Due to shortage of time and since all the questions were on the calorimetry, I suggested to send him test that were conducted without calorimetry. These tests were delayed to be sent due to my health problems at that time. However they were actually sent one month later. In fact this information was sent two times and although this information was strictly confidential we never received further questions or any answers.
So I was shocked when I saw published a test of Mr. Gamberale that was never conducted together with us to prove his position. Although a strict NDA was signed by Mr. Gamberale with a very high penalty clause in the case of a breach.
I was strongly advised by our personnel to use our Lawyers for the breaching of the NDA, but so far I have not taken any action, as I strongly believe that there are strong hidden interests.
Q: You mean that Luca Gamberale has made his test prior to your arrival and official tests in Milan?
A: Yes, he could not have done it during our presence or after because our engineers were next to the reactor all day of our presence and when we departed, we have taken the reactor with us. Anyhow, he told us that his test was on the 18th.
Q: Who prepared the software on National Instruments Board?
A: N.I. and Luca Gamberale according to our instructions.
Q: Did Luca Gamberale attend tests prior to Italy and ICCF presentations?
A: He was two days in Athens, 15 days in Vancouver and 35 days in Milan conducting tests.
Q: Did he have any remarks or objections during the tests?
A: None that I know.
Q: Did he really receive shares of the company?
A: Yes, and he signed for the shares.
Q: Did he signed a NDA?
A: Yes, with a very high penalty for breach of contract. My question is: if we go legally against him, who is going to pay the penalty? Probably, somebody has promised to pay for him. What the public seems to forget is what big interests are behind this technology.
Q: Do you believe that Luca Gamberale is a good scientist?
A: Yes, I believe that Luca Gamberale is a brilliant scientist and I am wondering how on earth he did not understand earlier that calorimetry was wrong.
Q: Was calorimetry wrong?
A: I am not a scientist. Calorimetry was not set by us but from brilliant and well known international scientists.
Q: Do you have any scientists who observed the tests and examined the data?
A: As I have repeated several times, we are a business entity and not a lab. Up to now, we have 12 scientists from big international companies who have signed and accepted our tests and data and 3 who were neutral and still examine the data with a lot of questions and answers.
Q: What about your interview with Mats Lewan?
A: Mats is a very good journalist but he, as every journalist, takes bits and pieces from every sentence and he publishes accordingly depending how he wants to present his view.
Q: Are you going to publish any scientific paper on this issue?
A: No, the next publication will be on our R6. Anyhow what we are doing and how we do it concerns only our shareholders.
Q: You have announced that you will trade your shares in the stock market soon.
A: We believe the right moment is when R6 pre-industrial product is ready and licensed. Anyhow our new shareholders do not believe in stock market. I have to convince them.
Remark: “My personal opinion is that the statements from the Gamberale Report re. the malfunctioning of the flowmeter have nothing to do with the actual modus operandi of the Hyperion R5 in conformity with the Defkalion Protocol during standard tests and the Demo"
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The Emergency Law: Reading between the lines
19 April, 2017 - (10:16 AM)
Problems on hold
The Palm Sunday (9 April) twin suicide bombings at the church of Mar-Girgis (St George) in the mid-Delta town of Tanta, and at Alexandria’s St Mark’s cathedral sent shock waves through Egypt. The State moved to take serious measures against the terrorism brazenly targeting Copts and their churches; the solidarity of the Egyptian people, police and army; and the dignity and authority of the State. President Sisi directly called for an emergency meeting of the National Defence Council, a move that reflected the gravity of the situation. The Council decided to declare a three-month state of emergency and to form a supreme council to counter terrorism and extremism on the religious, education, media and legal fronts.
Less than 24 hours later the House of Representatives approved these decisions. A three-month nationwide state of emergency was declared as of Monday 10 April 1.00pm. The House’s decision fulfilled the constitutional requirement that gave State apparatuses a free hand to implement the measures needed to battle terrorism. The armed forces were accordingly deployed in towns and around urban areas to collaborate with the police in enforcing the law, ensuring security, preventing crime and working to put an end to terrorism.
I would like to highlight and comment on a few points that caught my attention in the House of Representatives’ special committee report on the declaration of a state of emergency.
The report cited the terrorist bombings on Sunday 9 April 2017 at Mar-Girgis’s in Tanta and St Mark’s in Alexandria, and the victims and injured from among civilians and security forces left in their wake. It stressed the international predicaments and strife that abound in the region; also the attempts by some regional forces to interfere in Egypt’s affairs, and the emergence of organisations and cells that work inside Egypt for the benefit of these forces, threatening thus Egyptian safety and security. All these grave hazards, the report said, could only be countered through special deterrent toolscapable of dealing with organised terrorist waves.
I confirm my confidence that Egypt’s State apparatuses know and can identify the forces that conspire against our country and people, be they terrorist groups, foreign countries, or quasi-States on our northeast border. I am also confident that determining the means and timing to deal with these evil forces is controlled by Egyptian national security considerations alone.
The report declared that the Emergency Law would allow the security forces to dismantle numerous terrorist organisations, dry up their sources and funding resources, expose their communication channels with the outside, and abort their peril beforehand. I see this preamble as very clearly revealing the need to fill specific gaps which under normal circumstances fettered the efforts of the authorities concerned and hindered them from swiftly moving, pursuing and dealing with suspicious incidents or elements. It barred security forces from taking pre-emptive measures to cut the road before terrorism and crime, and restricted security action to responding to terrorism.
The report stressed that the Emergency Law 162 of 1958 included a number of judicial provisions to secure that individuals’ constitutional rights and freedoms are not compromised on account of the special measures taken to combat terrorism. I was relieved to note the keenness of the committee to stress this point, especially following media campaigns against the Emergency Law, under the pretext that it threatened individual rights and freedoms. These campaigns were spearheaded by various movements that claim to defend human rights, but that nonetheless appear unconcerned that these rights and freedoms are usurped by terrorism in all its forms inside and outside Egypt: by trans-continent religious terrorism, education terrorism, media terrorism and armed terrorism.
The supreme council for countering terrorism and extremism is now shouldered with the task of living up to its name.
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The boy was the 10th fatality. More than 50 people were injured when Russell Weller drove his car through the pedestrians-only, three-block stretch crowded with shoppers, police said. Weller may face manslaughter charges, police said Thursday.
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office identified the latest victim as Brendon Esfahani.
Despite the tragedy, officials said a farmers' market will be held as scheduled Saturday at the same location, along with an interfaith service to mourn those killed and injured.
Weller told police he could not stop his 1992 Buick LeSabre as it barrelled through the crowd. Santa Monica's police chief said Weller might have hit the gas pedal instead of his brakes.
The car finally stopped with a man on the hood and a woman pinned underneath, a witness said.
One witness, Anne Sage, called the scene -- about three blocks from the Los Angeles suburb's landmark pier -- "complete bedlam."
"There was one woman who was obviously killed on the pavement," said Sage, a worker in a nearby office. "I went over to a young girl who was just sitting there, completely dazed, and tried to help her. It was horrendous."
Sage's co-worker, Tracy Williams, said she feels "terribly sorry" for Weller. She said a friend, who attends the same church as Weller, is "just devastated and told us what a wonderful man he is, and I feel terribly sorry for him and his wife."
Santa Monica Police Chief James Butts Jr. called the scene "the single most horrific, devastating scene of tragedy I've ever witnessed in 30 years of law enforcement."
Butts said Weller could be charged with manslaughter once police turn the case over to the district attorney's office, which he said could happen in two to three weeks.
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Alec Brooks has been helping pioneer electric drive technology for more than twenty years dating back to the original GM Sunraycer solar car that won the World Solar Challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia. He has been a vigorous and vocal advocate for electric vehicle technology, bringing a pragmatic approach to the challenges confronting EVs as well as the hydrogen pathway.
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Mechanical Waves Versus Electromagnetic Waves
Posted by Thomas DeMichele on April 20, 2016
The Different Types of Waves
There are two types of waves: mechanical waves like sound that must travel through a medium like air, and electromagnetic waves like light that don’t. Both types of waves transfer energy in a wave-like manner, as that is what a wave is, a physical effect of energy being transferred over space and time.
On this page, we explain the different types of waves, the difference between sound waves and light waves, and the difference between mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves. I suggest this video for a visual overview.
Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves. Sound is a mechanical wave; that means it must travel through a medium. Light is electromagnetic radiation propagating in a wave-like manner; it can travel through empty space or a medium.
Summary of the Difference Between Mechanical Waves and Electromagnetic Waves
Mechanical waves like sound are pressure traveling from a source, through a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma, medium, distorting that medium’s molecules. Mechanical waves aren’t made out of anything and can’t travel through “empty space.”
Electromagnetic waves describe the wave-like manner in which photons (and other quanta) travel. Electromagnetic waves can travel through a medium like air, passing through it or reflecting off it’s molecules, but they don’t have to. Electromagnetic waves are made out of energy and can travel unimpeded through empty space.
Other Categorizations of Waves
Waves can also be divided into three categories based on the direction of their movement:
Transverse waves travel perpendicular to wave motion.
Longitudinal waves travel parallel to wave motion.
Surface waves travel in a circular motion on the surface of a medium.
Classic waves are continuous.
Quantum waves exist in quantum superposition and quantize in discrete packets.
Beyond this, there are some other ways to categorize waves like a cresting surface wave, but this is enough to understand the basics of waves and wave-like movement. If we consider waves broadly, we can say that all forms of energy are transferred by waves (see forms of energy).[1][2]
Traveling Waves: Crash Course Physics #17. A video is discussing waves the properties of different types of waves.
FACT: In almost all instances light travels faster than sound, but not always. See instances where sound can travel faster than light.
TIP: The carrier of electromagnetic force is the photon. The photon carries electromagnetic radiation. Light is a specific wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum, and so are radio waves, X-rays, and some other recognizable waves. The photon is one of the primary building blocks of matter; sound is an effect of objects made out of matter.Aa mechanical wave displaces particles while an electromagnetic wave is itself particles (see the standard model of particle physics for a closer look at photons).
What are Mechanical Waves?
Mechanical waves like sound are pressure traveling from a source, through a solid, liquid, gas, or plasma, medium, distorting that medium’s molecules.
For example, a sound wave traveling through the air displaces air molecules, causing them to vibrate and collide with other air molecules at a given frequency as the wave travels through the medium. The molecules bounce back in place; for every force there is an equal and opposite force. The result is molecules vibrating back and forth parallel to the source. This is true for gasses and liquids, but not for a denser matter, see Longitudinal Waves, Transverse Waves, and Circular Waves section below.
A water molecule doesn’t travel from one place to another with the wave, the wave travels through the water while the molecules bounce back into place. The wave of pressure created from the source of the sound travels through the medium until it reaches our ears, we hear the vibrating of molecules at certain frequencies as sound via our sense of hearing (click that link to understand the human senses, it is vital to understanding waves).
TIP: There is no sound particle, a sound is an effect that displaces molecules made of particles. Most waves that aren’t quantum waves like light are mechanical waves including ocean waves and gravitational waves as far as we know.
TIP: You can use electromagnetic energy to measure all particles, so you can think of electromagnetic waves as being like electricity and mechanical waves as being like gravity. One is a thing; the other is an effect. Both transfer energy.
What are Electromagnetic Waves?
Electromagnetic waves describe the wave-like manner in which photons (and other quanta) travel. Electromagnetic waves can travel through a medium like air, but they don’t have to. When they do, they travel between air molecules and have their travel slowed accordingly. Even though photons can bounce off some mediums or be slowed down, it doesn’t affect the medium directly like the concussive nature of sound.
Electromagnetic waves travel through the vacuum of empty space and are massless. Thus, they don’t directly affect objects with mass. “The speed of light” is a term that describes electromagnetic energy traveling at it’s constant and only speed in a true vacuum although it can slow down in a non-vacuum when it does interact with the medium.
TIP: Only objects with mass can affect objects with mass. A photon can only add to the mass of a system by being absorbed by the system.
TIP: Electromagnetic energy is carried by a particle, the photon. The photon doesn’t displace other molecules to create a wave, the photon itself propagates in a wave-like manner.
FACT: This means that in space no one can hear you scream, but they can see you shine a flashlight.
7.1.3 Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves.
The Major Differences Between Mechanical Waves and Electromagnetic Waves
Given the above, the differences between mechanical waves like sound and electromagnetic waves like light are:
Mechanical waves have to travel through something, electromagnetic and waves don’t.
Mechanical waves aren’t made out of anything. They are the disruption of a medium. Just like a wave in water, the wave is pressure displacing water; it isn’t itself a thing. There is no widget, just an effect. Electromagnetic waves, on the other hand, are made out of something, electromagnetic energy. There are only four forces in the universe. The most important by many measures is electromagnetic energy.
Longitudinal Waves, Transverse Waves, and Surface Waves
Mechanical waves can propagate as longitudinal waves, transverse waves, or surface waves, but electromagnetic waves can only propagate as transverse waves. Understanding the ways in which a wave can travel is important for understanding the difference between sound and light.
Most mechanical waves, including sound, are “longitudinal waves” or a wave in which the particles of the medium move in a direction parallel to the direction that the wave moves. When sound displaces molecules in the air, they push forward in the direction of the wave, bump into the next molecule, and then bounce back into place in the opposite direction because the medium is elastic enough and for every force, there is a equal and opposite force. The result is particles moving back and forth parallel to the direction of the wave.
Light waves are always “transverse waves” or a wave in which particles of the medium move in a direction perpendicular to the direction that the wave moves.
Meanwhile, the waves that appear on the surface of a medium are surface waves, they are sometimes called circular waves because in surface waves only the particles at the surface of the medium undergo circular motion that is a combination of transverse and longitudinal motion. Water has surface waves on its surface, and longitudinal waves in its currents. There is no rigid surface in water, so there are no longitudinal waves. There are also elliptical surface waves called Raleigh surface waves.[3]
Some mechanical waves can act as more than one wave type. Earthquakes are capable of producing both transverse waves that travel through the less dense parts of the Earth, like water and the molten core, and longitudinal waves that travel through the denser parts of the Earth, like rock. Transverse waves require a relatively rigid medium to transmit their energy while longitudinal waves require a more elastic medium.
See Transverse & Longitudinal Waves: Definition & Examples Chapter 8 / Lesson 3 Transcript. See a visual of Longitudinal and Transverse Wave Motion.
Physics Lecture – 40 – Transverse and Longitudinal Waves.
The Difference Between Sound Waves and Light Waves
Other important differences between sound waves and light waves include:
With sound waves, frequency tells you about the pitch, and amplitude gives you information about the volume. With light, amplitude gives you information about intensity, and frequency tells you about wave type or color.
Sound travels faster in most solids than it does in air, light typically slows down or reflects off solids.
FACT: If we consider the Grand Unified Theory, which unifies every force but gravity at the start of the big bang, we are left with little more than electromagnetic energy to explain the universe. This is why the theory that “we live in the Matrix” is not off the table.
The Similarities Between Mechanical Waves and Electromagnetic Waves
Some similarities between mechanical waves like sound and electromagnetic waves like light are:
Both wave types are defined by their frequency. The higher the frequency, the less distance between successive crests of a wave (aka wavelength). We can only hear and see waves in a specific frequency; we can only hear and see specific wavelengths.
Both types of waves can reflect and amplify under the right conditions.
Classic Wave Versus Quantum Waves
A classic wave is a continuous wave; a quantum wave exists in an uncertainty of superpositions (more than one place at once) until it quantizes.
Classic waves are associated with mechanical waves, and travel through something and quantum waves don’t have to.
All the elementary particles exist as quantum fields (which act like quantum waves, learn more about quantum field theory and the photon). Effects like sound and gravitational waves, that travel through mediums made out of Quanta. All matter is made of Quanta. Quanta is another word for quantum particles, quantum particles make up molecules and act like classic waves.
Mechanical waves resulting from pressure, like gravitational and sound waves, are continuous and consistent. Like if you hit a drum head and see the head ripple.
Electromagnetic energy is a quantum wave, if we consider a single photon (the carrier of electromagnetic energy) we can say: The photon is an electromagnetic field, propagated in a unidirectional wave-like manner, that exhibits quantized measurable excited energy states we call particles. Until we measure the location of a photon, it exists in uncertainty. Once we measure it, it quantizes to a specific excited state in orders of the Planck constant.
Anatomy of an Electromagnetic Wave
Categories of Waves
"Mechanical Waves Versus Electromagnetic Waves" is tagged with: Energy, Light, Music Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Sound
Donald Hill on August 12, 2016
ALL WAVES ARE CREATED BY PARTICLES OF MATTER IN CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER MECHANICAL IN NATURE.ELECTROMAGNETIC (and LIGHT). THEY ARE MADE BY PLANCK SIZE MATTER OSCILLATING AT FREQUENCIES SO HIGH AND PARTICLES SOOO SMALL. THEY CANNOT BE DETECTED BY ANY SENSOR KNOWN TO MAN. THEY ARE IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER AND AS ANY MATTER IT CAUSES WAVES WHEN EXCITED BY ANY FORCE. AETHER, NEWTON’S CORPUSCLES AND GRAVITY SPINNING A PLANCK LENGTH PARTICLE FILLS THE BILL. WAVES ARE CREATED BY PARTICLES OF WATER, AIR, ALL SOLIDS, LIQUIDS, AND GASES, EVEN A PERMANENT WAVE. IF YOU LOOK AT PICTURES OF GALAXIES YOU CAN SEE THEM BY THE INCREASE IN DENSITY BY THE SURROUNDING GRAVITY. .THIS AETHER TRAVELS WITH ITS MASS. THE SIZE OF THE FIELDS AROUND THE INDIVISIBLE PARTICLES VARIES WITH THE PRESSURE BUT THEY ALWAYS MAINTAIN CONTACT SO THE SPEED OF THE MODULATING SIGNAL TRAVELS AROUND EACH PARTICLE REMAINS CONSTANT AS THE DISTANCE CHANGES WITH PRESSURE
Thomas DeMichele on August 12, 2016
Good feedback. We go into waves as transfers of energy here: http://factmyth.com/factoids/all-waves-transfer-energy/
And massless particle interaction here: http://factmyth.com/factoids/all-particles-are-made-from-massless-particles/
Midnight on January 16, 2018
It didn’t help me figure out if either a Mechanical wave or a Electromagnetic Wave or both of them fits a wave model
Thomas DeMichele on January 20, 2018
If you can be more more specific about your questions I’d be happy to try to answer it.
We can model both mechanical and Electromagnetic waves. They both act differently.
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DAVE SCHMIDT UPDATE, 31 JAN
BANK STORY FROM NEW ZEALAND, 31 JAN
I rarely go to my local bank but this morning I needed to organize an automatic payment. While I was standing in the queue, an overseas visitor asked a teller about exchanging currency. The teller replied that 'their system was being changed over' and she couldn't help him unless he banked with that branch.
When I got to a different teller I asked her about the conversation I had over-heard. She said, 'Yes it is true, our system is in the process of being changed over and we can only exchange currency for our own clients.' I asked her how long it would take to do. She replied, 'Well, we were told a month ago that it would be two weeks and we are still waiting...'
Love and Light Sierra (NZ)
Restored Republic via a GCR Update as of Jan. 31 2018
Compiled 12:30 am EDT 31 Jan. 2018 by Judy Byington
The Big Call w/ Bruce Intel Notes by PinkRoses 1-30-18
1. We are very close. We are so close that the Intel that we normally get is very light. It is quiet. It seems that it is quiet for a reason.
2. In the last few days, there have been some exchanges that have gone on. There have been some Table Top meetings that have gone on in major cities in Europe and the US a little bit as well.
3. We also have evidence that Wells Fargo has done some exchanges yesterday in about a dozen cities across the country for a limited time we think.
The good news is these exchanges are done at the most recent screen rates that we have seen. These are not buy back rates or teaser rates, but higher rates than we thought possible rates without negotiating. That has happened yesterday. It wasn’t wide spread, it was sporadic.
4. There is a lot to give us hope that this is the very end of the ride. We are almost at the end of the month. We could expect some great things here very shortly.
5. I am very pleased the community, the other major call and myself finally are seeing the rates coming together at about the same level.
6. One of our Iraq contacts was saying that he needs to be completely silent tomorrow from sunrise to sunset. I wonder if that might be or could be they may use that time of silence to put out the rate and actually make it publicly known.
B. Jan. 30 2018 5:03 pm EST Intel Alert: Operation Disclosure GCR/RV Intel Alert for January 30, 2018 https://operationdisclosure.blogspot.com/
1. This month multiple Cabal-MIC surveillance and weapon satellites in orbit were shot down by the Alliance.
2. Ghost Operatives successfully destroyed multiple undisclosed Cabal biological weapon laboratories hosting diseases and viruses such as the flu.
3. Trump would be giving his State of the Union Address today Jan. 30, which would be a pivot point for the transition process to proceed.
4. Private humanitarian projects were informed to prepare for the RV this week.
5. Current RV release window remains at 11:58 pm EST tonight Jan. 30 to after midnight at 12:01 am EST Jan. 31.
C. Jan. 30 2018 4:16 pm EST: Intel Drop: George Soros' Son Being Held to Force his Father's Surrender
1. Benjamin Fulford says that the White Dragon Society has kidnapped George Soros' son. He is being held at a secret base near Kathmandu in the Himalayas.
2. The hope is that they can force Soros to give himself up to the Gnostic Illuminati in Russia and admit his crimes.
3. More details as they come. Stay alert. Big things are happening.
D. Jan. 29 2018 10:11 pm EST Well Over 13,605 Elites Named in Sealed Indictments: Sealed Indictments Per State as of January 26, 2018
Indictments shown here by state did not anywhere represent the number of elites being charged with Federal offenses (Just one of the 13,605 indictments had 13 people on it).
Download PDF file:
http://nesara.news/documents/Sealed_Indictments_Jan%202018_Update.pdf
E. Jan. 30 2018 10:51 pm EST, Fulford on Wilcock: David Wilcock Update via Ben Fulford -- January 29, 2018 Ascension With Earth
1. 13,605 total sealed arrest warrants:
https://twitter.com/damartin32/status/957756322564493312
2. Q Anon briefings are real, and coming from the highest levels of the Alliance. Entire teams of people are working on putting it all together. It is now considered the main way the Alliance is getting info about these operations out to the public.
3. Link to Q Anon briefings: https://qcodefag.github.io/
4. Child trafficking usually goes hand in hand with money laundering, scrubbed gun and arms trafficking, and distribution of drugs.
5. Thus we are seeing more and more oddities with the Vegas shooter and his brothers being involved in gun trafficking, child trafficking, and as a bonus, having a property directly next door to Bohemian Grove: https://needtoknow.news/2018/01/weird-link-las-vegas-shooter-bohemian-grove/
6. 40,000 arrests of pedophiles just in the US for 2016.
F. Jan. 30 2018 4:31 pm EST: "Re: Hodges and Cottrell" by Brigantine - 1.30.18
1. Attorney At Law Al Hodges and his client Michael C. Cottrell have been on standby for a go signal for many years. The background:
http://www.writebyte.net/writebyte.dll/GetPage?PageId=litigation
2. First, let me assure all that I am still involved and represent Mr. Michael C. Cottrell and several others. My firm would continue to be involved, though I have attempted to retire on a number of occasions over the years.
3. Second, to those who somehow have come to believe that I sold my personal CMKX shares and am now living a resultant plush life, you are mistaken on both counts. It’s been a very long [15+ years] and bumpy road, and the most recent six or seven years I have devoted my entire existence and resources to accomplishing goal fruition.
4. Third, this has become something much larger than CMKX ROI. It has become, primarily by necessity, a global reset of 7+ billion peoples’ existence and future.
5. We are willing/unwilling participants in a global reset of human existence.
6. The “protocol” for payout of all relevant moneys has changed a minimum of 80 to 100 times. Protocol changes have been made without notice by the New Powers That Be, largely as a result of the nefarious activities of those societal elements opposing this reset.
Protocol changes have been necessitated frequently because the opponents [“Cabal”] have engaged in a habit of making agreements and then denying their existence, efficacy, or possibility; this, when combined with a requirement imposed by the NPTB that no force or bloodshed be involved, is [IMO] the reason for the many, many changes in the protocol and payout schedule.
7. The CABAL has been defeated, and almost all of their teeth pulled; what you see continuing on TV and reflected in the media is all a dog-and-pony show to keep the general populous calm and non-reactive.
8. It would end very, very soon. It was proceeding to its final event.
9. NESARA was in fact real, and was scheduled shortly to be announced. [It was first to be announced at 10 AM on the 11th of September, 2001, which indicated to a degree the success that the CABAL has hence enjoyed].
10. I am advised that the Paris Climate treaty contains secret language that all country signators agree to implement the crux of the standards laid out in NESARA in their own countries and being collectively referred to as GESARA.
11. Your world was about to change for the very much better in ways only dreamers usually embrace. Sobeit!
IQD CHAT, 31 JAN
Baxter: I cant wait to hear Trump announce the RV Tonight... ;$$$ I might have a long night.. :laugh
Spectra: @Baxter ARE YOU DREAMING-?
Spectra: @Baxter LOL
Spectra: @Baxter DREAMER
Baxter: WOW.... I just woke up
Spectra: @Baxter Go back to sleep ill wake you up rumplstiltskein,when it RVS...
Baxter: Ok...
JoeSchmoe: Who is the ** that is saying Trump will announce the rv? That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard!
blackgold: Thats President Trump
Sergio: News Report!!! Trump to announce the RV.!!!! Meaning the Revitalization of America
B52: No, Trump won't. Trump might get impeached before we even RV. He's making the Congress, and Senate very angry. Regardless of how you feel about him, positive or negative.
BREW: he want be impeached, these ** has someone in there they can't put a saddle on.
firefarmer: If you remember history Bill Clinton gave America a big spurt to the US when he did his tax cut. Most of the income came from Kuwait revalue
B52: @BREW That's true, in that he's very independent. Brew, I hold no political sides. I am neutral. However, am I correct in assuming you're a big fan? Strictly just polite conversation, I promise.
BREW: @firefarmer geez, i never saw a dime of that money, lol
firefarmer: you did not own the kuwait currency
firefarmer: Trump may be trying to do the same thing.
BREW: @B52 no harm intended, i think congress and the senate needs to be cleaned out. put some new blood in there.
Tebow: how can cutting people's taxes be income from Kuwait's revalue. :laugh
firefarmer: The tax cuts is what they claimed the economic spurt but it was the income from the KRV that actually made it happen
Baxter: Kuwaitt.... never revalued.... period
Tebow: as I remember it was Newt's Congress who wrote the tax cut which Clinton signed
Baxter: yep... i am correct
firefarmer: ok so all the money we stole from them for nothin while we saved them was worth a whole lot more when we liberated them
Baxter: it wasnt worth a dime more... it was re instated to the exact rate it was before sadaam
Tebow: @fire farmer very few people made any money from Kuwait's re instatement
Tebow: stole money :laugh
firefarmer: @Baxter yes but we stole so much of it for nothin when it was reinstated we spurred our economy with that money it only went into the gov coffers and some of the rich folks
B52: @Tebow I believe that's because of the media, or lack thereof at the time. Today, with the internet's evolution... it would be way more widely known, before and after
Tebow: yes more people know about the dinar
Spectra: @tebow a few more than you know..Contractors have ..and my own husband knew a few so get it right....................T.............
Spectra: i lived in kuwait
B52: @Spectra Did you live there when they reinstated their currency?
Spectra: @B52 actually i came after
Spectra: @B52 but my husband was acontractor there and he knew people who did make a good profit...
B52: But you saw it in person... the situation? Did you hear about the rate change there... or did you just go there and it had already been boosted?
B52: Ah, friends. Right on. I bet they made a crazy profit. Not quite the same ROI as Iraq will provide. But I'm sure they made a massive return.
Spectra: @B52 i dont need to see it to know....when you someone retire from their job that good enough for me....
B52: lol true
Spectra: yes
B52: Retirement is always a great indicator
B52: Especially when they're in their 30's lol
Spectra: some people like to get in here like they know it all ..but they nothing
Spectra: no names here .....
Spectra: @B52 yes young men ...
blackgold: My friend made enough off of Kuwait to retire on, so I know some people made it
B52: @blackgold and is that same friend also invested in Iraq?
Spectra: @blackgold alot of us do know of it...Their problem if they dont believ i could care ;lless
Spectra: @blackgold i dont feel a need to prove ................it to anyone..what i know is what i know...
Tebow: delusional
Spectra: @blackgold i wish my husband was there ...and so did he after it happened..
Tebow: he'd take away your computer
blackgold: @B52 No
Spectra: This is a whole different thing here...Iraq ..
blackgold: @Spectra I missed it too
Spectra: @blackgold my husband was pretty sad he missed it too
Spectra: @blackgold but next came Iraq...so here i am...
blackgold: @Spectra Me too but i never figured they would pull the crap they pulled by starting a second war
blackgold: @Spectra ISIS was a Joke
Spectra: @blackgold right no one seen this coming ..true..
Spectra: @blackgold i know what it is and who started it all believe me...
Spectra: @blackgold sadam wanted a gold dinar?
KTFA UPDATE, 31 JAN
Stand4Christ: In Trump's SOTU speech, did anyone catch Trump saying something about starting "next month", due to tax reform, many Americans will take home more money ??
That also means, more spending and more money will suddenly circulate in the market due to, according to his public statement, the effect of the tax reform.
When is "next month", family??? It's February 2018; which Trump has said it for the first time at the DAVOS' Q&A section last Friday.
All signs point to some sudden big movement of money is about to hit America starting in the month of February 2018, but especially at the beginning of February 2018 !!
Remember, like the Joker said, "It's All Part of the Plan"!!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/state-union-speech-excerpts/
Richard: I personally do not believe that his statements have anything to do with what we are waiting for.
Stand4Christ I agree, that statement itself has absolutely nothing to do with what we are waiting for. However, the timing of February 2018 (even especially the beginning of February) has everything to do with all that Trump has planned, which includes what we are waiting for.
Stand4Christ: FRANK26, You have mentioned in your last CC that, you'll keep your eyes on February 8th, because that's "January 8th +30 days".
I have a different suggestion : before you pay attention to February 8th, you might want to 1st pay attention to Friday February 2nd 2018 (and also that whole weekend), because that's the 30th day counting from January 4th being the 1st day .....
I think you have mentioned that, America was launching a new USD system on January 4th 2018 (even behind the scene) that would have something to do with the new UST/USN;
I really think you were onto something, AND, if a new dollar system will come online, when IQD RV happens, and will peg itself to a basket of currencies, as for "USD system" speaking, which "USD system" do you think should the RVed IQD peg itself to??? The new one?? Or the old one ??? ^_^
Oh, also, don't forget, a new sheriff is coming to town ..... starting in this February 2018 (I think it'll be on February 4th; need to double check), a new FED chair Jerome Powell will be swearing in !! New boss, new policy, new direction, and, can I hear, NEW DOLLAR (well, not in February, but still soon coming anyway) !!?? LOL
Remember, "It's All Part of the Plan!! ~ Joker"
Of course, these are just my IMO speculative opinion!!
Laf19954: "Do not pour new wine into old wineskins, or else they will burst. Put new wine into new wineskins? Just a thought, my friend!
Bonk: Isn't February 8th the day that another government shutdown looms? The approval to re-open the gov. was only for a short time. I could be mistaken about that. Anyone know for sure?
Frank26: W CC OF LAST WEEK .................EXPRESSED THIS ........IMO. TIME WILL TELL.
Stand4Christ: very important excerpt from Trump's SOTU that talked about the imminent economic boom that is about to hit America starting "next month" (February 2018)
Trump: Millions of Americans will have more take home pay next month - YouTube
And, starting tomorrow and into February, start paying attention to how news will re-visit this narrative, and how they will credit the soon coming American economic boom to Trump's tax reform, even though, IMO, a HUGE part of that "new money going into the market" will in fact be coming from the Dinar community.
Samson: Treasury bonds / Contractors' receivables for the year 2018
To / Banks (Rafidain / Rasheed / Iraqi Bank for Trade) Regulations of public
treasury bonds / Contractors' entitlements for the year 2018
https://cbi.iq/news/view/586
Samson: Integrity issued arrest warrants against 26 people with special grades, including a minister
The Integrity Commission announced on Wednesday the issuance of arrest warrants against 26 people of special grades, including a minister during the last year 2017.
"The Integrity Commission issued arrest warrants against 25 people of special rank and general managers and those of their rank," said Hassan Yasiri, head of the committee.
"Among those arrested were a minister," said Yasiri. LINK
Samson: Decisions were issued prohibiting the travel of 315 officials and employees during 2017
The Integrity Commission announced on Wednesday that 315 decisions had been issued to prevent the travel of officials and employees during 2017, adding that 76 decisions were still in force.
"The Integrity Commission issued 315 decisions last year to prevent the travel of officials and employees," said Hassan Yasiri, head of the committee. "Among them are five ministers and 29 special grades."
"76 decisions to ban travel are still in force," Yasiri said. LINK
Samson: Yasiri announces the return of about 133 billion dinars to the treasury of the state
The head of the Integrity Commission Hassan al-Yasiri, on Wednesday, the success of the Commission in the return of about 133 billion dinars to the treasury of the State during the last year 2017.
"In the last year 2017, the Integrity Commission succeeded in returning 133 billion dinars and 949 million dinars to the state treasury," Yasiri said at the annual conference of the authority and his follower.
"The money seized by the criminal offense amounted to five billion dinars and 130 million," said Yasiri, adding that "the body is seized on a daily rigging of sukuk in large amounts." LINK
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Scenario Development
Integrated Phase Classification
FEWS NET Data Center
Food Security Classification
Agroclimatic Monitoring
From NOAA
From USGS
Remote Monitoring Report
Season 2019 B harvests expected to enhance food availability and access through September
June 2019 to January 2020
June - September 2019
October 2019 - January 2020
IPC v3.0 Acute Food Insecurity Phase
1: Minimal
2: Stressed
3+: Crisis or higher
Would likely be at least one phase worse without
current or programmed humanitarian assistance
FEWS NET classification is IPC-compatible. IPC-compatible analysis follows key IPC protocols but does not necessarily reflect the consensus of national food security partners.
FEWS NET Remote Monitoring countries use a colored outline to represent the highest IPC classification in areas of concern.
4: Emergency
5: Famine
Would likely be at least one phase worse without current or programmed humanitarian assistance
Presence countries:
Well-distributed rainfall since mid-April has led to average to above-average harvests. Food access also remains favorable driven by increased market supply. In May, the prices of staple foods were below the three-year average and 11.6 percent lower than May 2018. Most rural households are expected to be net food sellers, which is anticipated to keep prices low and benefit market-dependent poor households. Improved food availability and access is expected to drive Minimal (IPC Phase 1) outcomes through September.
Average to above-average rainfall during the October-December short rains season is expected to raise the risk of flooding and landslides. In addition, malaria incidence, which has already surpassed the national epidemic threshold, is expected to reach its peak during this timeframe. The anticipated impact on agricultural cultivation and expectation that households dependent on agricultural labor would have reduced capacity to work, at a time when food reserves are seasonally low, is expected to lead to Stressed (IPC Phase 2) outcomes.
According to IOM, the number of IDPs, Congolese refugees living in settlements, and monthly rate of newly arrived Burundian returnees from Tanzania was estimated in May to be 115,708, 43,800, and 3,000 respectively. Given improved food availability and access countrywide, the old caseload of IDPs, now settled and engaged in agricultural livelihoods, are likely in Minimal (IPC Phase 1). It is expected that humanitarian food assistance, coupled with limited access to harvests, is likely to sustain Stressed! (IPC Phase 2!) outcomes for recent IDP caseloads, Congolese refugees, and recent returnees. In the absence of assistance, recent IDPs and returnees would likely deteriorate to Crisis (IPC Phase 3) when food stocks are seasonally low.
CURRENT ANOMALIES
PROJECTED ANOMALIES
National According to the WHO, 31 out of 46 health districts have surpassed the epidemic threshold for malaria. The number of cases exceeded the national epidemic threshold on May 5th, when 171,349 clinical malaria cases were reported in a week. 3,207,552 clinical malaria cases were reported as of May 26th with a case fatality ratio of 0.04 percent, indicating a 53 and 22 percent increase in cases and in deaths, respectively, compared to January-May 2018. Although a response plan is in the process of being validated, the WHO reports that there is a lack of resources for effective response. Based on seasonal trends, malaria incidence is likely to decline in June-September and increase in the short rains season in October-January, reaching its peak in December. The major drivers of the epidemic include low use of preventive measures, low immunity, climatic changes leading to increased vector density, reduced sensitization, and budget and logistics constraints.
Ngozi and Kayanza Provinces Viral Sheep and Goats Plague has killed more than 500 livestock, prompting the closure of small animal markets to prevent the spread of the disease. Based on similar outbreak that occurred last year, it is expected that markets will remain closed for three to four months. Markets are likely to re-open by September.
Localized areas in Busoni Commune, Kirundo Province
Out of the 30 collines in Kirundo Province that had severe crop production shortfalls in Season 2019 A, three collines in Busoni also had rainfall deficits during the beans flowering stage in May, leading to significant beans production shortfalls. However, crop development of other staple foods is near normal. Busoni has few lowlands for Season C cultivation. As a result, poor households having significant bean production deficits are not expected to have a significant harvest until December. Most poor households will be dependent on market purchases and perennial roots and tubers and are likely to expand other minor income sources. They are also likely to access safety net programs offering cash transfers to poorest and most vulnerable families.
PROJECTED OUTCOMES THROUGH JANUARY 2020
Seasonal Calendar in a Typical Year
FEWS NET
The amount and distribution of rainfall in the February-May rainy season was sufficient to result in average Season 2019 B bean harvests in most provinces aside from a few localized areas. In one area of concern in Busoni commune, Kirundo Province, bean production in the collines of Munazi, Kivo, and Gatare is estimated to be 40 percent below average due to the impact of rainfall deficits. Despite localized bean shortfalls, banana, cassava, and sweet potato production is above average across the country. Given favorable harvests and increased market supply, the price of staple foods, including beans, are lower than last year. According to the National Statistical Institute ISTEEBU, the prices of food and non-alcohol drinks in May were 11.6 percent lower than May 2018, though prices slightly increased from April to May 2019 by 1.4 percent. This helped the annual inflation drop by 3.9 percent in May, the highest monthly drop since the beginning of the year. As a result, household food availability is generally adequate for both own consumption and some crop sales, while food access is favorable for very poor households who are more market dependent. This is expected to drive Minimal (IPC Phase 1) outcomes for most households through September.
In June, viral Sheep and Goats Plague reappeared in Ngozi province, killing a total of 542 goats in 3 communes (Tangara: 476, Busiga: 62, and Ruhororo: 4) and leading to the closure of small animal markets in Ngozi province and in neighboring Kayanza province. In these areas, located within the Dépressions de l’Est livelihood zone, sales of goats and chickens are secondary to agricultural labor as a source of income for poor households. Based on the precedent set by market closures last year in localized areas of central and northeastern Burundi, it is expected that these measures would limit the spread of disease and markets will reopen in three-four months. As food reserves are still high and prices are expected to be seasonally low through September, it is expected that poor households would only resort to sales of small animals as a coping strategy in October when the sheep and goats plague will probably be under control and markets open.
Looking forward, Season 2019 C (July-November; 15 percent of annual production) is also likely to result in average to above average crop production, since sustained rainfall through early June has created favorable moisture conditions for that season. The preliminary forecast for average to above-average rainfall in the October 2019-January 2020 period also bodes well for national Season 2020 A production (September 2019-January 2020; estimated 35 percent of annual production), but increased rainfall would also likely increase the risk of flooding and landslides. However, the current malaria epidemic is expected to worsen during the October-December short rains season, based on seasonal trends. Because malaria incidence is typically highest among poor households, reduces their ability to work, and increases medical expenses, and because current malaria incidence has already reached epidemic levels, it is expected that the seasonal resurgence in malaria will contribute to the deterioration of food security outcomes. Given the likelihood of climatic and disease shocks, and that food stocks will have seasonally declined, Stressed (IPC Phase 2) outcomes are expected.
At present, improved food availability and access is expected to support Minimal (IPC Phase 1) outcomes for old caseload IDPs. Among newly arrived voluntary returnees, newly displaced IDPs (which IOM estimates compose 6 percent of the total IDP population), and Congolese refugees who have limited ability to engage in agricultural production, humanitarian food assistance is expected to sustain Stressed! (IPC Phase 2!) outcomes. In the absence of assistance, Crisis (IPC Phase 3) would be likely when food stocks are seasonally low. There is concern that ongoing intercommunity violence in southern Kivu Province of the DRC could lead to an increase in the refugee population within Burundi, which would increase the population in need. Should in-migration increase, or if civil insecurity and widespread displacement occur within Burundi, food security outcomes would deteriorate for a large number of IDPs and refugees, likely leading them into Crisis (IPC Phase 3).
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By Luke Dunne
IMAX arrives at the Odeon Blanchardstown
IMAX’s second screen in Ireland is opening in Blanchardstown this evening, with some big blockbuster films just over the horizon.
ODEON Blanchardstown will be join Cineworld on Parnell Street in hosting an IMAX screen. to come with reclining seats. The cinema screen, which is called ODEON Luxe, will come equipped with 310 reclining seats which will each come equipped with a hand table and promise more legroom and personal space. The current Screen 9 at ODEON Blanchardstown is set to be reopened as an IMAX screen this evening.
A special private screening of Top Gun will officially open the screen tonight, just in time for some big blockbusters that will be shown on the massive screen in the next few months. Star Wars: The Last Jedi is likely to be the first open to the general public later this month, with films soon to follow in 2018 like Marvel’s Black Panther and Pacific Rim: Uprising, both set for release next February.
Speaking back at the announcement last month, IMAX Europe’s MD Giovanni Dolci said:
“ODEON shares IMAX’s commitment to entertainment excellence and we look forward to combining the world’s most immersive cinema experience together with luxury seating to deliver a truly special offering to moviegoers in Blanchardstown.”
Ireland’s first IMAX screen was unveiled at the Sheridan Theatre in 1998, located where Cineworld now stands on Parnell Street. Though it closed just two years later, the cinema was considered ahead of its time and Ireland’s first IMAX there was the subject of a documentary by Robert O’Brien .
2017, 3D, Black Panther, Blanchardstown, Cineworld, December, Dublin, IMAX, Odeon, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Robert O'Brien, Star Wars, Top Gun
Luke Dunne
Luke is a writer, film addict and Dublin native who loves how much there is for film fans in his home county. A former writer for FilmFixx and the Freakin' Awesome Network, he founded Film In Dublin to pursue his dual dreams of writing about film and never sleeping ever again.
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October 1, 2018 January 2, 2017 by Samit Bhattacharya
Our Nepal Trip, was formally ending. It was the last day with the villagers and the community of Jonapur Village. After some remarkable three days with them, it was finally, time to leave. We were taking back with us some wonderful memories, memories of a sleepy little village wrapped up in fog, with mountains bordering it at a distance. Memories of golden yellow and green fields, patchy roads, of ducks floating on large water bodies and bullock carts on its potholed streets. The abundant trees, rickety fences, thatched houses and their simplistic lives. We brought home memories of a village and their community, a community that has pledged free labour from each and every household, to build a school for their new generation, and a better future for their children.
This is the concluding part of my Nepal Travelogue. You can read it from the beginning by clicking here.
Bullock cart and hay
A community which we were so very fortunate to meet. We carried back with us memories of some wonderful host families, and the way they tried to accommodate every small need of us through their little means. We also came back richer with a greater team spirit, greater compassion for humanity, empathy and openness to other’s ways of life. An enlightening experience in all.
The return plans had also changed since yesterday. The original plan to fly back from the nearest airport – Dhangadi was shelved because of persisting fog and cancellation of regular flights from this local airport. The plan to drive back to Nepalgunj was on till late last evening when we received reports of an indefinite road block across the region, along with some more reports and incidents of vehicles being burned by mob rage. The dispute between two different states of Nepal, on some territorial rights, and political activists having a field day.
So the BuildOn Team as well as the local community started to connect to local and powerful people in order to find a solution. The local Director General of Police, who had been the chief guest at the village programme two days back was contacted and other politicians were notified. Maneuvering for an exit plan was being worked out. The fallback plan, in case this didn’t materialize, was to hire a chartered plane to fly us back to Kathmandu. Troubled times, as the evening progressed. Late evening, confirmation came that the DGP has spoken to others and have offered to provide us escort protection as and when needed.
Would be schoolchildren @ Jonapur, Nepal
Thus after three days in this village of Jonapur in North western Nepal, it was finally our time to leave. By then it felt like we were also part of their lives, their dreams. Their struggles, pains and miseries also burnt a hole in our hearts. The farewell was a touching one. Jonapur community spoke about their experiences and we spoke about ours. There was a small congregation where the important members of the community came forward, gave their thanks and wished us well. So did we, representing Jafza and UAE as a whole. We wished them success in their initiative of building the school, to which they promised to keep up the good work that has been started, and to complete the school ahead of schedule. The target was to bring the school up and running before April when a new batch of students can start.
They wished a safe journey back and we wished them well. Both sides seemed to be losing a friend of long, and our hearts were saddened.
Granny and children
Leaving the village
Around 10, we left the community. We packed our bags and hauled them into the BuildOn bus that was supposed to take us back to Nepalgunj. It was a drive of about 4 hours, a small detour to another school which BuildOn had built a year back. We reached the school in about an hour, it teeming with small children, their parents and the teacher and school management. They explained that though it was Saturday and their school was off. But everybody wanted to meet us and the children wanted to show us their classes and what they were learning.
We spent a half hour with these little kindergarten children and interacting with them. We asked them questions and spoke to the teachers. The next classroom was full with a team of about 30 women who were attending an adult education. The class happens every Saturday. They told us that they wanted to learn a bit of mathematics which can help them in their day to day lives. They also wanted to read and write in English as their children have started school and needed support in their homework. One of them wrote her name on the class-board amid cheering and clapping from everyone around. It was a moment of pride for all of them.
Here is a link to the video used by Jafza , who had sponsored our trip.
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We left the school, an hour later and were back on the road. Another half an hour’s drive and we met protestors blocking the road. The DGP was called, more discussions with other important functionaries and then the protestors yielded. We moved on. But every dozen kilometers or so, we had to repeat the procedure and gain access to cross and move ahead. Nick, the BuildOn coordinator always used to humour the protestors by speaking with folded hands in his heavily accented Nepali. “Namaste ! Mora naam Nirmal Chaudhuri ho”. Nirmal was the pseudonym given to him by the village community here in Jonapur. It matched with his very own Nick. But the way he started flaunting it along with his white skin, blue eyes and blond locks; it never failed to bring smiles and funny looks from the protestors.
This funny usage of forceful Nepali usually broke the ice, and then a little coaxing, pleading, informing them delicately that the bus is from an American NGO carrying foreigners who had come here on a school-building project, ultimately broke the shackles. This was repeated each and every time, on the dozens of road blocks that we faced on our way. And ultimately it worked every time. The Nepal police kept a respectable distance, keeping an eye on the developments. Watching these little meets and discussions that were happening along the highway. We were probably the only vehicle plying the Nepal highway in these two disturbed states that day. We were escorted by the paramilitary with a red hooter for the last 25 kilometres to Nepalgunj airport. A couple of hours later the Buddha Air flight left for Kathmandu. We were at Hotel Thamel before dinner time.
Pashupatinath Temple:
No trip to Kathmandu is complete without a visit to Pashupati Nath Mandir for the religious Hindu. You can check the video here. Early next morning, after a hot shower we started for the Temple, about 6 kms from our Thamel Hotel. We hired a taxi, wait out a half hour and then bring us back to the hotel after some small negotiations. The usually packed roads were still empty being so early and for some local festival, and thus we reached quickly.
Pashupatinath Mandir or Pashupatinath Temple is the most sacred temple for the Hindus in Kathmandu and in all of Nepal. The Temple is dedicated to Shiva the king ( nath) of the Pashu (animals). Attracting tourists from not only Nepal, but also from India and abroad, Pashupatinath Temple holds a special place in the Hindu map of spirituality and penance for the religious minded Hindu, -a must in a lifetime. Nepal was officially a Hindu nation till about 5 years back, and the sentiments for a Hindu state run high.
The Temple sits on the west bank of Bagmati river, and there is also an adjoining cremation ground. It is said that many of the old and the weak travel to this temple and live in the adjoining shelters in the hopes of a divine death here and a salvation for the soul. The presence of sadhus or sanyasis is also common around the temple and its different courtyards and cells.
Crowds were just beginning to form at Pashupatinath early in the morning. The temple management manages an external counter to keep your shoes/ bags and belongings safe. In return the office provides you a token. My friend bought flowers from a local vendor, and offered his Pujas and prayers to Lord Shiva. The Temple priest taken with by his elocution of the mantras, brought out garlands from inside the sanctum to offer us. Post pujas we had a look at the beautiful motifs and statuettes around the main temple and its adjoining courtyards. We spent a few minutes in front of the huge idol and then left. We were just back in time to catch the buffet breakfast at our hotel. Bread/jam/ chicken franks and the coffee tasted delicious. We then packed our bags for the flight early afternoon.
Now, no trip to any new place can never really conclude till you have brought home some souvenirs and mementoes from the place. Our flight with FlyDubai was scheduled to leave at 3.40 in the afternoon. This meant that I barely had enough time to get hold of a few items before we left Kathmandu and Nepal. Off I went for some quick shopping around the busy streets of Thame. But b
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The Frustrating Fraud
the Hijacking of the 9/11 Truth Movement by the No-757-at-the-Pentagon Theory
OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE FOR 9:38
PENTAGON ATTACK TIMELINE QUESTIONS PART 3: OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE FOR 9:38
Adam Larson / Caustic Logic
For those who see no reason to question the official time of the Pentagon attack, this post will be unnecessary. But for those confused by claims of different times, primarily 9:30-32 am, this may prove quite useful. If you're willing to learn... (sigh). Of all the times cited for the impact/explosion/whatever at the Pentagon on 9/11, one stands above as the most-cited, most-supported, and most-likely true – by this I mean, approximately, 9:38 am. Officially the explosive impact of Flight 77 is given as 9:37:45 or :46 based, it seems, on the Flight Data Recorder. In reality, the impact time is impossible to pin down exactly, but likely a bit after this, probably between 9:37:50 and :55 (see FDR section, first up). Following is a nearly-comprehensive list of the most direct evidence establishing the impact at right around that time.
1) Flight Data Recorder:
Much rhubarb has been made of the information on Flight 77’s Flight Data Recorder and how it doesn’t match the reality necessary to get it inside the Pentagon where it was said to be found. The last frame of data recorded is 9:37:44 or :45, depending on the exact file one’s looking at. While this is officially the moment of impact, the recorded values do not match those evident in the physical damage (most important – too high!) This is taken by some nitwits/liars as proof the plane didn’t hit. Another view takes this as a clue that this last data is actually NOT from the moment of impact, but a mile or more back, as the INS positioning says (it’s prone to error of about 1/2 mile I hear). Most analysts have come to this realization, though opinions differ on how far back, how much data is missing, and why (which is beyond the scope of this piece). Estimates range from 2 to 10 seconds remaining to impact at last frame, with the upper end of 8-10 seeming most likely to me, and placing impact at 9:37:50 or later. This slight variation of the “official” time alternates with it in the list below and illustrate that roughly all evidence points at a roughly 10 second time range best rounded to the minute as 9:38.
2) Radar:
We’ve always heard the radar data supported and defined this impact time, but fact is it can’t tell us exactly when, or even if, the plane impacted. The raw data of the Air Force’s 84th radar evaluation squadron (84RADES) was released in 2006 to researcher John Farmer, showing all returns from the DC area on 9/11. As I understand it, ‘blips’ are sent and returned every 12 seconds; the last three attributed to Flight 77 are at 9:36:48, 9:37:00, and 9:37:12 (see graphic at right, from Marco Bolletino’s reconstruction of the data). Before the next return, the airliner dropped below the coverage level of app.2,000 feet above ground [this altitude is passed by FDR about 9:37:18]. There is an established NEADS clock issue, known to be app. 25 seconds slow relative to other clocks in the FDR and at ATC facilities. Therefore, the last return would actually be at about 9:37:37, with impact presumably some seconds after that. This support is vague but would hint at an impact somewhat later than the official time less than ten seconds hence. On the other hand, the FDR pressure alt for 9:37:37 is 786 ft AGL, which seems too low to be just disappearing from radar. Perhaps I’m confused on the timeline discrepancy. Anyway, it’s all there… it doesn’t prove a 9:38 impact, but it fits it just fine.
1a+2a) FDR/Radar Combo:
In its Final Report, the 9/11 Commission gives the impact time of 9:37:46 [p 96], citing as its source NTSB report, "Flight Path Study-American Airlines Flight 77," created Feb. 19, 2002 by the National Transportation Safety Board. The full document in question is available in PDF form [here. The report in turn lists its sources as FDR data “as well as” (implying no conflict with) “radar data from the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Route Traffic Control Centers, approach control at Washington Dulles Airport, and the U.S. Air Force’s 84th Radar Evaluation Squadron.” [This is the data examined above]. From this, the report summarizes that “the airplane accelerated to approximately 460 knots (530 miles per hour) at impact with the Pentagon. The time of impact was 9:37:45 AM.” Ooh! A one-second discrepancy! And both were likely a bit early, with the Commission closer it seems.
3) Arlington County Emergency System:
From Arlington County After-Action Report, and its first-hand access to emergency communications , we can see that key information was called in just before and after the 9:38 mark, and reactions followed in the next minutes, as recorded and logged as at a time generalized as 9:38. [emph mine].
“In the moments immediately before impact at the Pentagon, the Arlington County ECC began receiving 9-1-1 calls reporting a low flying airliner that seemed off the normal flight path. When the crash actually occurred at 9:38 a.m., all area communications seemed simultaneously overwhelmed. Firefighters calling the ECC couldn’t get through. Relatives of Pentagon workers found cellular and land lines jammed. Emergency traffic flooded radio channels.” [page A-34]
“Captain Steve McCoy and the crew of Engine 101 were […] traveling north on Interstate 395 [when they saw] a commercial airliner in steep descent, banking sharply to its right before disappearing beyond the horizon. At 9:38 a.m., shortly after American Airlines Flight #77 disappeared from sight, a tremendous explosion preceded a massive plume of smoke and fire. Unable to pinpoint the precise location, Captain McCoy immediately radioed the Arlington County Emergency Communications Center (ECC), reporting an airplane crash in the vicinity of the 14th Street Bridge or in Crystal City.” [page A-34]
At 9:38 a.m., a large smoke plume appeared beyond the Rosslyn skyline. Arlington County Police Corporal Barry Foust radioed the ECC that he saw an American Airlines jet crash into the Pentagon. The ECC swung into action [page A-35] […] [B]etween 9:41 a.m. and 9:43 a.m. on September 11, the ECC Administrator, Steve Souder, acting on his own initiative, contacted the Fairfax, Alexandria, and District of Columbia fire departments. He gave them identical instructions: deploy four engines, two trucks, one rescue unit, four EMS units, and a command officer to a staging area short of the Pentagon and hold them there until called forward.” [page a25]
4) C130 pilot report via FAA:
The 9/11 Commission briefly discussed the “second plane” at the Pentagon, a C-130H cargo plane dubbed “Golfer 06.” The Commission noted on page 26 of their final report:
“At approximately 9:38 A.M., the C130H aircraft reported to Reagan Airport controllers that the aircraft it was attempting to follow crashed into the Pentagon.” The source is given as “FAA audio file, Washington Tower, Tyson/Fluky Position, 9:38:52 .-M.; FAA letterhead memorandum, 'Partial Transcript; Aircraft Accident; AAL 77; Washington, DC; September 11, 2001,’ 7.
Although the two planes had crossed path just a minute before, both radar and the pilot’s own words agree that Golfer 06 was too far away to see Flight 77 itself at impact, but was close enough to see the smoke and to know where it was coming from. Certainly the impression was there from the beginning, and was only confirmed as it approached at 9:38, passing nearest to impact point at 9:39:15, after which it veered off to the north and west and continued on to witness the crash site of Flight 93 as well before reaching base in Minnesota.
5) 9:39 News Report - NBC:
Among the most solid clues to at least the general time of the attack of the Pentagon attack is in NBC News coverage of the 9/11 events. [video link - when watching the video, note that it starts at 9:12 am, so the video time is to be added to this for the real time] At perhaps 10 seconds after the 9:39 mark [26:24 video time], the newsroom interrupted its coverage to let Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski bring them their first news of something awry there. He told the nation:
"I don’t want to alarm anybody right now, but apparently - it felt, just a few moments ago, like there was an explosion of some kind, here at the Pentagon.” He explains he was on the east side of the mammoth building, opposite from the impact, so it was a big explosion. He saw no smoke from his side, inside the E ring, and didn’t know what was going on. “I just stepped out in the hallway, security guards were herding people out," he explained, meaning some time at least had elapsed. So far impact is looking to be one minute, 15 seconds before this broadcast. Sounds like “moments” to me.
6) Security video time stamps – Pentagon, Doubletree, Citgo:
Though neither the Citgo or Doubletree videos, released in 2006, shows the official time in their on-screen clocks, both timers roughly bracket it: Doubletree – 9:34:10 impact (app 3:35 behind) Citgo 9:40:36 (app 2:51 ahead)
It’s a very small sample to be conclusive, but this is what’s called a normal distribution, that sets a center point of app. 9:37:00. That’s pretty close for a sampling of two clocks, one of which also bears the default date of Jan 1 1993 [for a clue to the professionalism and precision of their deployment].
Regarding the time stamp of the Pentagon’s own CCTV gate cameras that famously captured the plane and impact, Col. Alan Scott told the 9/11 Commission in May 2003:
“The timeline on the impact of the Pentagon was changed to 9:37 -- 9:43 is the time that was reported that day, it was the time we used. And it took about two weeks to discover in the parking lot of the Pentagon this entry camera for the parking lot, which happened to be oriented towards the Pentagon at the time of impact, and the recorded time is 9:37. And that's why the timeline went from 9:43 to 9:37, because it is the best documented evidence for the impact time that we have.” [source]
It should be noted that the time stamp is not reproduced on-screen. The initial five released framed show a time of the following evening Sept 12 – much to the delight of mystery-mongers, it’s more likely the time the frames were processed and labeled “plane,” “impact,” etc… but they seem to have been recorded in the 9:37 slot on the correct day, and were in fact instrumental in setting the time initially. We find later it’s actually near the end of that minute, but still technically not 9:38.
7) Eyewitnesses:
Considering the known unreliability of eyewitness recollection, and that most people do not directly time-stamp their memories, it should not be surprising that this sector of the evidence is the least clear on the actual impact moment. Just a few of the published accounts provide useful clues, while many specifically disagree or are hopelessly vague. The oft-cited “9:30” is too common a rounding point to be taken too seriously, and it appears several times. A small sampling that are said to specifically cite something more like 9:32 were outlined in a previous post. But the sampling of five below does establish a normal distribution around the minute all other evidence is pointing at.
“It was about 9:35 […] it came from the south. […] I watched it come in very low over the trees and it just dipped down came down right over 395 into the Pentagon.” – Don Wright
“At 9:40 a.m. I was driving down Washington Boulevard (Route 27) along the side of the Pentagon when the aircraft crossed about 200 yards… in front of me.” - Donald R. Bouchoux
“At 9:35 a.m., I pulled alongside the Pentagon. With traffic at a standstill, my eyes wandered around the road, looking for the cause of the traffic jam. Then I looked up to my left and saw an American Airlines jet flying right at me.” - Vin Narayanan
“At 9:35, as we were watching this on TV, we heard over the loudspeaker “All medical personnel report to the front desk of Medical.” We did not know at that time that the Pentagon had been hit.” - Captain William B. Durm
“About 9:30 or so — I don't know the exact time, maybe quarter to 10 — we were still in the conference room, and we heard and felt the loud explosion of the plane hitting the Pentagon, and it reminded me of an earthquake.” – Lt. Col. Frank Bryceland [note: the mid-point of the range from 9:30-45 is 9:37:30.]
Update:As the brilliant JREF member Mangoose pointed out to me a while back:
I would also draw your attention to the witness account of William Paisley who posts as Pinch at JREF and who has a blog http://www.instapinch.com/.
You might want to contact him directly but he has elsewhere related that he was at Crystal Park 3, 10th floor on 9/11, and was watching NBC coverage of the terrorist attacks; when he saw Jim Miklaszewki's report at 9:39:10 he took a few steps to his office window and immediately saw a billowing, building mushroom cloud of black smoke rising up above the roofs of the buildings between his building and the Pentagon. This is pretty good confirmation that the explosion was not too much sooner than 9:39.
8) Wall clocks at the Pentagon:
In the Book Pentagon 9/11 [Goldberg, 2007] is pictured a wall clock from an office above the impact area, stopped at 9:36:27 – one minute, 25 sec behind the time in discussion. This is reasonably close and solid evidence of the general time at least.
Ironically enough, the famous 9:30-ish stopped clocks, which stand as the best (basically only) evidence for a blast at that early time, may also support the 9:38 time-frame. Non-nutty 9/11 Truther Russell Pickering decided that the low time is a case broken mechanisms as the clocks hit bottom-first after falling from their mounts, with simple gravity responsible for pulling the hands down to near bottom. He issued a challenge for anyone to take, which no 9:32 event supporters did, For one, CIT ally Mirage of Deceit (nutty) later confirmed the results (link unavailable). The pictures indicate the minute hands were somewhere past the 6, not before, but little else can be said for sure. But since everything else says it all went down at 9:38, is it not reasonable to call these a double-confirmation of that time with gravity rounding it down towards 9:30? [note: although it seems to have fallen differently and onto carpet, a similar effect could be behind the above clock’s being behind – or perhaps someone at the Pentagon actually was synched over a minute behind.]
So now that the 9:38 case looks strong enough to actually absorb even the best early-attack evidence, I’d like to turn to some assorted other evidence that doesn’t fit, and for shits and giggles use it to craft smtig even stupider than the 9:32 Pentagon attack meme (which CIT doesn’t even buy). Who knows, some bold Truther might just run with the 9:30-or-before scenario (oops, they already have) or the 9:25 WTC attack (no takers yet).
Posted by Caustic Logic at 1:04 AM
Labels: 9:38, 9/11 Commission, attack timeline, clocks, eyewitnesses, FDR, radar, video of attack
The Frustration Ends Here... Or Starts, Depending...
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
- Thomas Pynchon, Jr.
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 191
The "9/11 Truth" scene has made major inroads on the mainstream American psyche in the last two years. A record number of people now believe the government, at best, allowed the attacks to occur. Personally, I'm convinced the kernel of this is the same deep-seated suspicion I and many others have felt since that fateful morning. But the reason it's coming out in such a flood now has numerous explanations, one of which is the cumulative effect of various alternate theories, most notably the strain spread via the video Loose Change.
It is my opinion that these arguments have swelled the movement for all the wrong reasons. The “hard proof” crowd have claimed to find literally hundreds of “smoking gun” clues left laying out in the open. While some have real validity, many, on closer inspection, are fraudulent. Yet somehow the worst arguments get more air play and capture more attention and so the “Truth” movement has become dominated by the desire not to provide the most rational explanation but the one most opposite to the official story. Beyond providing endless distraction and requiring endless de-bunking (and they keep coming back!), this approach alienates intelligent skeptics, whom we need on our side.
It's not for me to say who has intentionally misled and who is simply wrong, but herein I hope to help break the spell of one of their key arguments – no big Boeing jet hit the Pentagon on 9/11 - in hopes of getting some people off that train before it crashes for good. Luckily others have gone before me, and this once crowded carriage is steadily emptying. Through careful research, I have found as have others that almost all evidence points clearly to a 757 as the attack vehicle, piloted by whatever means, and in the process have exposed a long thread of apparent disinformation running from 9/11 to the present and continuing despite all evidence to the current day.
Truth is a road, not a destination, and it's much safer to walk.
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Emphasis on results treats people as things
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On his personal blog Texas preacher Kevin Cauley wrote today something that is valid for churches the world over, and especially for those who tend toward the practical and toward efficiency:
This [emphasis on results] never works with the church because the church is not a product, the church is a people, and we should be people focused. People are not predictable. They have free-will. You never really know what they are going to do. For this reason, they can never be “results.” People are not results. When we look at people as if they are a result, we dehumanize them. They cease being people and start becoming a commodity. Jesus didn’t die for a commodity; He died for people. Things are commodities; people are not commodities. Things may be abused, misused, and destroyed. People may not be abused, misused, and destroyed. Our mistake is that we use people and love things when we should be loving people and using things (thank you Dick Sztanyo for this point)!
What do we lose when we are results oriented? People. People become means to an end.
Read the whole article here.
Biblical articles from a mission perspective
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Alabaman Mike Brooks has been writing for quite a while as a columnist for Forthright Magazine. His column is called “Field Notes,” reflecting his experiences in Nepal and Bangladesh. Mike spends about six months a year in those two countries. He normally uses some event or happening as a starting point for his articles. These serve as an excellent perspective to keep one from getting too comfortable with one’s own culture.
Others who write for Forthright also have cross-cultural experience. Jon Galloway lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Stan Mitchell grew up in Africa, son of a missionary. Yours Truly, of course, is a marathon guy in Brazil.
So reading Forthright Magazine, you get a huge dose of missions. FMag is unique in that way. Another good reason to sign up.
Learning from missions
Among us, missions efforts go in many different directions. As people interested in, and involved in, missions, you might find this article, “What American churches can learn from the mission field,” to be of interest to you.
Additional points that others might add would be most welcome. Comments on the points listed are also desired.
The ongoing need for sustainable missions
I almost let the Gospel Progress website go by the wayside. There’s not much demand for it. Most missionaries and missions trainers already have too much to do, yours truly included. And what difference would one little website make in the big scheme of things?
But didn’t the Lord say that where one or two are gathered, he is there in their midst? The context? Saving a soul. Continue reading “The ongoing need for sustainable missions” →
2015 retreat photos
Enjoy these photos from the 2015 retreat!
2015 theme: Fundamentals of missions — Do the old ways still work?
The Maywood Missionary Retreat will be held April 30 through May 2 on the theme, “Fundamentals of Missions—Do the Old Ways Still Work?” The location will be Maywood Christian Camp in Hamilton AL. Continue reading “2015 theme: Fundamentals of missions — Do the old ways still work?” →
2015 date set for April 30 – May 2
The retreat organizers announced today that the 2015 event will be held from April 30 to May 2, as always, at the Maywood Christian Camp in Hamilton AL.
In the first week of February, more information about the retreat will be forthcoming.
No option to determine who should hear
Jesus does not give to Christians the option of determining who should hear the message of salvation. The gospel is to be preached to “all creation” or to “every creature” Mk 16.15. We have no way to judge accurately who will accept and who will not. To judge receptivity, or the lack of it, in a person’s heart, before the message is shared, is to put ourselves in God’s place.
The rescue mission of Proverbs
Very interesting perspective on Proverbs and 24.11-12 especially:
Suffice it to say that, in the dramatic context of Proverbs, this verse has a different immediate force. The ones “being taken away to death” and “staggering to slaughter” are the fools and simpletons of the early chapters of the book. Throughout those chapters, the simpleton is depicted as one who blissfully follows the adulteress to the grave (2:18-19; 6:33; 7:22-27; 9:18). Proverbs 7:22 says that the fool follows the woman Folly as “an ox goes to the slaughter.”
In context of the whole book, then, Proverbs 24:11-12 instruct us to rescue fools and simpletons from the folly and simplicity. The idea is close to that of James 5:20: “he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.” The rescue operation in view in Proverbs 24:11-12 is primarily the rescue of foolish sinners from the highway that leads to the grave.
via Biblical Horizons » No. 43: The Dramatic Structure of Proverbs.
Willing to go through a thousand deaths
If Paul could only know the consolation and hope that he has ministered to the countless generations who have marched along the pathway from the cross to the kingdom above! He would be willing to go through a thousand lives and a thousand deaths such as he endured for the blessing that has followed since his noble head rolled in the dust by the Ostian Gate of Rome. Continue reading “Willing to go through a thousand deaths” →
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The city of Detroit has a long and storied history of greatness, yet also is the poster child for industrial decline. When someone casually asks where I’m from, and I say Detroit, too many people ask me “What was that like?.” The idea that a lot of people share about the motor city is a negative one. We set out to reposition a city that is capable of reclaiming its once glorious place.
The Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts is one of the most intense and brilliantly difficult tests you can put yourself through, taught by the best of branding professionals. Our final challenge, was to revitalize iconic brands that had fallen out of favor with popular culture. As a Detroit ex-pat, the opportunity to look at my hometown through the eyes of a strategist was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Our team dove headfirst into everything Detroit, but first we had to know what we were up against. Advised by two of the best in the business, Dr. Dan Formosa of Smart Design and psychologist Dr. Tom Guarriello, we started by asking questions.
In 2013, the once economic powerhouse that was Detroit filed for bankruptcy, making it the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history by debt. Detroit had been attempting a renaissance for over 40 years, battling corruption, bankruptcy, racial and class divisions, arson and blight. The blight begets further blight, yet people stay, and among those who have stayed, there are countless who have taken matters into their own hands. Teaming up with fellow Masters in Branding alums Andy Schwartz, Veta Bates, & Saloni Soni, we set out to put our ears to the ground and listen to Detroit’s heart beat. What we learned was nothing but extraordinary.
Detroit in terms of branding is often seen as the red herring, or a project too big to touch. But if you change your approach and instead look at the task more along the lines of developing a system of organizing principles that can unify a bunch of disparate parts, then maybe you can create a movement.
The smallest effort drives the biggest impact.
Detroiters should be given the tools to re-shape Detroit.
No one is going to save Detroit, except Detroit.
Our challenge was to first identify the smallest definable amount of change that could engage and encourage a social movement in this city. To do that we had to tap into the spirit of Detroit by getting in the city and meeting with those who had already started to take things into their own hands.
My connection to the city enabled us to reach a variety of citizens who were involved with movements in progress. We met and listened to their stories, their struggles and asked them what was the one thing they needed most to accomplish their goals. We learned that while there were many initiatives in action, they were lacking a unified voice.
Looking at how social movements begin at the grass roots level, it helped us understand the manners in which a unifying plan could take root. We looked at similar organizing principles found in nature, like the migrational patterns of starlings and compared it to similar social structures already in place. Our thinking is that a more distributed system could empower citizens to bring change to a very small accomplishable piece of their hood. City leaders don’t have the resources to do everything, yet with the right tools and principles, citizens can start something and help it grow.
Movements are already happening – active enclaves are getting the attention and resources they need to make direct impact in their neighborhoods.
Visual progress of blight removal as well as movements like “Opportunity Detroit” and “Imported from Detroit” can ignite further movements.
Movements attract attention from outside media, increasing awareness and re-shaping old beliefs and judgements.
Seeing visible change is a powerful tool that time and again stirs others to take action. In a previous effort by Loveland Technologies to take stock of the sheer amount of blight that Detroit is dealing with, the city was divided up in 132 equal square mile microhoods purely for administrative purposes and to map progress as it was happening. We think this model can be repurposed to and used as a tool to brand individual microhoods, empower microhood citizens, and work towards building a distributed social system.
In our re-organized system, we applied Detroits existing 7 districts to the microhood map, and unified each district with two microhood district managers. The idea is that microhood managers are the cities eyes and ears on the ground, all whom have been empowered to distribute resources. In effect, we are creating a city-wide conversation.
With so many microhoods and people to unify, we needed a multi-pronged execution strategy that included print and digital campaigns. Printed pieces would serve to inform each citizen about what we dubbed “Detroit City Citizen.”
Print collateral would be critical when a majority percentage of homes don’t have internet or mobile phone access. We also had to take into consideration, methods to inform skeptical citizens who didn’t feel safe enough to talk to strangers.
Individuals could fill out print documents, have them collected by their microhood manager, and slowly build trust as resources made it to the people who needed it the most.
A website that serves as a public dashboard for success and failures would support the individual initiatives. This is where the voices would be unified to encourage further non-traditional problem solving. Beyond Detroit, this site serves to alter the ever present judgements of the motor city, and in time shift those perceptions.
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Disrupt existing patterns by enabling emergent and unpredictable futures, questioning behaviors and processes, and embracing uncertainty.
Encourage novelty by empowering individuals to explore non-traditional solutions without fear of failure.
Act as sensemakers by making principles easy to understand, and amplify success by sharing collective success, failure and resources.
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There has never been a good 3D Sonic game.
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Subject: There has never been a good 3D Sonic game. Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:32 pm
Sonic 2 Special Stage doesn't count, of course.
Man, I can't think of a series that's been as comprehensively ruined as this one. Every aspect of the product is just embarrassing. Levels are either cumbersome or over-scripted to the point where they practically complete themselves. They've tried so hard to give Sonic "attitude" that he's basically become Poochie, and his supporting cast are annoying without exception. They've got a game coming out where he transforms into a fucking werewolf. I played Sonic Adventure 2 a while back, and I swear to god one of the stages' background music was a rap song about the Master Emerald. Just about the only fun thing about that game was throwing your Chaos in the pool when they couldn't swim, and that's meant to be one of the good ones. I got a copy of Sonic Heroes bundled with a Gamecube, and I swear that since I opened the case women have found me less attractive.
Basically the very mention of Sonic nowadays makes me look like this:
Subject: Re: There has never been a good 3D Sonic game. Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:44 pm
The first Sonic Adventure for the dreamcast was great, but everything after that has indeed been a big pile of horse shit. It's made worse by the fact that with consoles these days they could easily make Sonic 4 the greatest 2D game in the history of gaming.
Subject: Re: There has never been a good 3D Sonic game. Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:42 pm
Yes. I loved Sonic for the Gensis. I loved Sonic & Knuckles. I loved all that shit. But then this happens. WHY?
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Subject: Re: There has never been a good 3D Sonic game. Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:08 am
He talks like a Power Ranger now. ONLY POWER RANGERS CAN DO THAT.
Sonic, how could you?
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What is regional transit? RTA undertaking its own strategic plan update process
It’s rare to see CTA and Metra signs in the same place. The LaSalle Intermodal Transfer Center at LaSalle Street and Congress Parkway is a great step in making transit work “regionally”: it connects Rock Island District trains and multiple bus routes. It provides weak signage directing riders to the Jackson Blue Line station one block away. Photo by Anne Alt.
“The Regional Transportation Authority values input of how to better the regional transit system. The RTA is conducting a survey to help gather ideas to inform the strategic planning process.” This quote is from its website promoting the process.
In August we published an article from two guest contributors about Metra and its own strategic plan update process. One critique was that Metra was doing this independently of the other “service boards” (Chicago Transit Authority and Pace) and its parent organization, RTA. You can provide your input on their strategic planning process with an online survey through January 25, 2013.
I reached out to RTA to understand why, again, there is an organization doing this planning process alone.
In a nutshell, there are separate (coordinated, not independent) strategic planning processes that are undertaken by the individual agencies because transit aims to strike a balance between addressing long-term, regional concerns and more near-term, local needs.
The scope of Service Board strategic planning initiatives usually encompasses operating and service provision issues—issues for which the service boards are experts. For example, this might include developing or revising service planning standards—at what level of demand should we increase service or build an infill station? Does the agency have enough reliable vehicles in its fleet to provide the desired levels of service envisioned for the next 2-3 years? These are the nature of issues for which the service boards have the most experience and local knowledge by which to develop plans and policies.
I’m not very familiar with what the RTA does on a day-to-day basis making it difficult for me to generate specific recommendations and suggestions for what the RTA should be doing as the oversight agency of CTA, Metra, and Pace. But I have a belief on what it should be doing: I recommend such pan-system improvements as “implement a universal fare payment mechanism”, or “market all transit services collectively to potential new users” (see Update at the end).
In coordination with these plans, the RTA also undertakes a strategic planning process that focuses on shared regional issues—issues that would be more effectively taken up if addressed collectively rather than independently. For instance, some of these issues include the role that transit plays in promoting a greener environment, our need to address a significant and long-standing capital backlog, and transit’s role in providing mobility to a region that is increasingly aging.
While from a general public standpoint it may be confusing to see separate strategic plans led by different agencies, it’s important to note that these plans intend to address different issues and are done in consultation of and coordination with other agencies.
Regional cooperation is not simply about making explicit connections like the LaSalle Intermodal Transfer Center (pictured above), but also about understanding what the region needs. A job that should be specifically assigned to RTA is one of obtaining funding on behalf of its three service boards. Do four separate agencies need to be making appeals to state and congressional legislators? The RTA, as an organization that gathers a lot of information from its service boards and is focused almost entirely on administration and planning, seems well-poised to gain understanding of transit needs and present their requests with greater force and earnestness. Or tell Grid Chicago readers that if they want better transit, they’re going to have to demand it from the legislators who control transportation funding. (I see complaints weekly, wherein people harp on CTA for not doing enough. In many cases their hands have been tied by the subsidy amount they receive; it costs a lot of money to operate buses and trains 24 hours a day and the CTA does an excellent job maximizing many revenue opportunities like advertising and real estate.)
You might be like me, seeing quirks in the day-to-day operations of Chicagoland transit systems, as you ride them, where they’re not working “regionally” and cohesively. Take a look at the downtown Chicago Metra train stations. None of them have direct, easy, and apparent connections to CTA’s rail transit. On a baseball game day, thousands of Cubs and White Sox fans are entering Chicago via Metra trains making their way to stadiums where each have multiple CTA lines reaching them (Wrigley Field has Red and Purple; U.S. Cellular Field has Green and Red). Yet, as hundreds exit Northwestern, Union, Millennium, and LaSalle Street stations by the minute, a large portion of these transit passengers are hailing taxicabs. When the City of Chicago ran a free shuttle bus service, some of these travelers would board the vehicles (to where I’m not sure).
The RTA is assisting in creating the interagency transfer signage improvements at Blue Island/Vermont Street stations in Blue Island (to be installed by 2015) and “Real Time Next-Bus Signs for shelters and key transit centers for CTA and Pace”, according to RTA spokesperson Diane Palmer. She noted that many other stations in the system have had interagency signage installed and that there are plans to test new signage at Union Station this year.
The pickup and dropoff zone on Madison Street outside Northwestern Train station sees a lot of taxi activity for arriving Metra passengers. Would they ride CTA to their destination? Photo by Eric Pancer.
Would it not be RTA’s job to say, “Hey Metra and CTA, thousands of baseball fans are taking Metra but few of them are finding themselves on a CTA train that drops off within a few hundred feet of their respective stadium. Let’s sit down and talk about how we can keep these transit users continuing to use transit for each segment of their trip.”?
Disregarding a costly – but highly effective – direct walkway between CTA and Metra stations downtown, what are other ways to direct incoming Metra passengers to use CTA for the second trip in their journey? The universal fare payment mechanism could be a start in this direction – CTA and Pace will be using Ventra later this year. Some signage may help. Paid staff acting as “ambassadors” directing people between stations. There is no shortage of signs on the roads in Lakeview and environs telling car drivers how to access the Cubs-specific parking lots where for $6, fans – everyone in a single car – can get a parking space and a bus ride to the stadium plus a return trip to the car!
As transit advocates, and advocates for lower pollution and less destructive use of our costly roads, we want more people to make more of their trips on buses and trains. The ideas I’ve described are bottom of the barrel in terms of complexity and feasibility but it would have a lot of effect in promoting and solidify the concept of “regional transportation”. I look forward to RTA’s continued improvement on achieving that.
I asked RTA for some information about its involvement in implementing universal fare payment and its marketing programs. Spokesperson Diane Palmer returned my email just after publication explaining that the organization has done quite a bit to develop a regional fare system:
The RTA recently developed an interagency fare policy that has been shared with the service board operators and our board. We support the region moving towards an open and electronic payment system that is convenient and makes transit across our region more accessible. To that end, we have funded demonstrations and studies for the transit agencies. We are all working towards meeting a legislative requirement that all three services boards provide an open fare payments system by 2015. The RTA manages Reduced Fare and Free Ride programs for seniors and people with disabilities, and we are currently in the process of preparing for the open fare payment transition that will be compatible with the CTA/Pace Ventra system scheduled to debut later this year. The RTA also funded demo projects to test regional fare solution technologies for Metra.
Palmer identified its websites as part RTA’s marketing strategies, including Drive Less, Live More that was launched last year in partnership with Active Transportation Alliance.
Metra’s movement in the direction of implementing universal fare payment is slow and, well, I wish I could say calculated, but that would be too generous. It’s dumb. Instead of announcing that they’ll join the Ventra system – which they can integrate using handheld electronic ticket readers that’ve been used in places around the country and the world for years* – they’ve mentioned they’ll be testing a barcode and smartphone based electronic ticketing, and published this “update” in their newsletter, On The Bi-Level, in September 2012:
Metra is currently evaluating options for a potential new and improved transit fare payment system.
Earlier this year, Metra established an internal working group to guide the implementation of a regional fare payment solution that would meet the intent of the state law…
The article, by Metra CEO Alex Clifford, then lists all the principles they’ve adopted that will guide them in the search for such a system. In other words, they’re thinking about maybe doing something that uses standards, and are exploring how to comply with the bare minimum of their legal interpretation of what the law intended.
An example handheld electronic ticket reader used on South West trains in the UK. Photo by John Bullas.
* Caltrain, a single commuter rail line between San Francisco and San Jose, uses handheld readers, as does DB in Germany.
Updated 12:50 to clarify status of Blue Island/Vermont Street stations signage project. Also added a sentence to that paragraph.
Posted on January 9, 2013 January 9, 2013 Author Steven VanceCategories Beyond Chicago, Chicago, Planning & Policy, TransitTags Metra, Metra strategic plan, regional cooperation, RTA, survey, universal fare
21 thoughts on “What is regional transit? RTA undertaking its own strategic plan update process”
Ability Chicago says:
The cost for the RTA Sign project is not disclosed in article, it was estimated in the millions. The RTA also has not addressed the many concerns for the RTA Sign project of People with Disabilities, or addressed the issues questioned by there own RTA Advisory Committee (current or past committee).
Which sign project are you referring to?
I think would improve the coordination of all these agencies if the state legislature changed it so CTA did not have defacto majority control on its board by the Mayor of Chicago. The 5-4 split (plus President) makes no sense when you look at the funding streams. For the rough equivalent of one day’s take at the farebox the City gets to run CTA. How does that make sense?
I don’t understand how “one day’s take at the farebox” means that the City gets to do anything with the CTA. That doesn’t make sense.
What does the City of Chicago contribute to CTA financially? $3 million dollars? There are roughly 1.5 million fares each day where the CTA nets a little less than $2 each in revenue. That’s what I meant by my “farebox” remark.There’s also some kind of real estate transfer tax that funds CTA that kicks in something like $80M per year. Total public funding is over $600 million dollars. Meanwhile for something like the Red Line capital projects the state is kicking in $646M to Chicago’s $44M.
Why should the Mayor control the board of the CTA when the state is footing the bill? CTA as an agency is run (a majority of appointments + the President) by Mayoral appointees (who I see as defacto agents of City Hall, you may disagree). Shouldn’t the governing power be tied to the source of funding? I think this disconnect is a big reason for dysfunction between the alphabet agencies (CTA, MTA, RTA) and the false “city-vs.-everywhere else” mentality that comes up.
nonya says:
Because the state ISN’T FOOTING THE BILL. RTA provides most of the non-farebox revenue for CTA. Where does RTA get the money? Sales taxes in the area. Where is most of that sales tax revenue generated? Chicago.
Isn’t RTA sales tax a Cook County tax? So why does the Mayor of Chicago get to appoint CTA board members and not the Cook County President? That law was passed at the state level and City Hall has exactly zero to do it. Chicago residents are represented by many elected officials. I just question why the head of our municipal government gets so much say over money collected at the county and state level. And I stand by what I said about capital funds which come overwhelmingly from the state of Illinois.
Cameron Puetz says:
Also when the state does kick in some money, remember where that money came from. Chicago tax payers are a huge part of the state’s revenue. Why shouldn’t state transportation funds be spent on projects that benefit them?
In addition to the railroads listed in the main article, Amtrak has also successfully rolled out a bar code scan ticketing system that works on a smartphone and tablet screens, or printed tickets and allows tickets to be bought online, in station, or with a smartphone app. This isn’t some bleeding edge, untested technology, other fairly conservative operators have this system up and running with most of the bugs worked out. Expecting Metra to keep pace with other RTA agencies and Amtrak doesn’t seem like an unreasonable expectation.
Adam Herstein says:
It always frustrates me that there is not a direct connection between Metra and CTA, even in places where the stops are right next to each other (See Evanston Davis Street station).
Also, why does Mr. CTA only announce Metra connections in the Loop? The Damen Brown Line station connection to the Metra UP-N line at Ravenswood, and the aforementioned Davis Street connection should have announcements as well.
You make a good point. Metra and CTA should announce the connections that are natural. It would be a good diplomatic gesture from both agencies.
Also the Western Pink Line, and Western BNSF, Kedzie Green Line and Kedzie UP-W (also Harlem Green and Oak Park UP-W), Montrose Blue Line and Mayfair MD-N, Irving Park Blue Line and Irving Park UP-NW (also Jefferson Park), and 35th Red Line, 35th-Bonzeville-IIT Green Line and 35th-Lou Jones RI to name a few more. The potential for non downtown CTA to Metra transfers is huge.
Brian Chang says:
There is a direct indoor connection between the Harlem Green line and Oak Park UP-W stations.
Ryan Richter says:
Also a direct connection between Jefferson Park UP-NW and CTA stations.
Beta Magellan says:
Google Earth has a .3-mile walk between Damen and Ravenswood—it’s something of a rule of thumb that people are willing to walk only a half-mile or so to transit, so a .3 mile walk for a transfer—something people already hate doing—means that almost no one will take it. Then factor in your the chance the CTA’s running slow—you may well be waiting for an hour or more if you miss your train. Even if it was announced, almost no one would use it.
No excuse for Davis, obviously.
I use that connection all the time because I live on the north side and it saves me from having to go downtown just to take Metra back north.
OTC to Washington/Wells and Union Station to Quincy/Wells are both 0.4 mile walks. Union Station to Clinton Blue Line and OTC to Clinton Green/Pink are both 0.3 mile walks. Ravenswood to Damen is on par with the announced Metra to CTA transfers.
blueducttape says:
I’m a daily Metra UP-N rider and a Cubs fan. I (and many other fans) use the transfer point at Evanston-Davis-Metra-Purple-CTA stations to get to games. People coming from the north can take the UP-N to Davis, change to the purple line, take that down into the city if it’s an evening game or transfer to red for day games.
It’s not straightforward, and you’d have to do your homework or be relatively transit savvy to do it! Not to mention you have to pay both Metra and CTA fares….
It’s ludicrous to me that there is not a link between Union Station and the El. I know dozens of people who walk 30 minutes plus from Union Station to the North Loop ever day because there is no rail and the buses are unreliable (too slow, too crowded, or don’t come at the right time). This is a major reason why I don’t want to move to the suburbs. An expensive problem, but worth fixing. Maybe dedicated bus lanes would help?
I believe the chief goal of the Central Loop BRT is to create this link. I hope CDOT/CTA goes with the maximum time saving ‘Focused’ option.
http://gridchicago.com/2012/brt-to-arrive-in-chicago-in-2012-while-cdot-plans-for-more-enhanced-routes/
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Undoubtedly the highlight of the visits that Granada can offer, a wonderful walk of less than 3 hours that reveals the keys of a monument that attracts more than 2 million visitors annually.
This is a scheduled visit in which you join an organized group. The entrance ticket to the monument and the official guide who acommpanies you throughout the tour are both included.
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In this tour you visit the Generalife Gardens and the citadel of the Alhambra (without the Nasrid Palaces) in daytime schedule, always accompanied by a professional private guide.
The visit takes place on foot, starting from the meeting point, the map of the Alhambra by the ticket office. Important to know that despite its lenght is by no means a difficult or complicated walk, we make frequent stops for the explanations and you will see how fast time passes admired of so much beauty! Even disabled in a wheelchair can do most of the tour, with the logical exception of small sections with steps. The infrastructures of the monument with toilets, shops and fountains with drinking water allows us to enjoy the visit with little breaks and no inconvinients.
Highpoint of the visit are the Nasrid Palaces inside the citadel, we speak of the well-known Comares Palace with its courtyard of the myrtles and the impressive Throne Hall and the Lions Palace or court, perhaps the greatest exponent of the refinement and creativity of Islamic art around the world.
But the Alhambra as a royal city offers much more, we'll cross the medina or neighborhoods inside the walls where different people lived, the artisans, servants and civil servants and also some noble families that were close to the kings, to understand this way the urbanism, architecture and daily life of a medieval Islamic city.
We can not forget to mention all the changes made in the Alhambra by the Christians after Granada was taken, we will of course also visit the greatest exponent of this new era, the palace of Emperor Charles V, one of the purest and most perfect examples of the Renaissance ideal throughout the world.
The second part of the tour takes place outside the walls, a pleasant short walk with spectacular views takes us to the country house of the Generalife, the villa of the nasrid sultans, where we'll see the old orchards with its fig and pomegranate tress and cross the world known maze created with geometrically trimmed cypress hedges, all under the rumour of the fountains and scent of the orange blossom, roses and jazzmins. The wonderful paths of the maze take us to the last treasure of the visit, the courtyard of the water channel inside the Generalife palace, with its lush vegetation and splashing fountains will be the end of a journey we are sure you won't forget.
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"It's the birthday of Wernher von Braun, who was born in 1912 in Wyrzysk, Poland. Braun studied rocketry and mechanical engineering at the Berlin Institute of Technology. He went on to earn a PhD in physics from the University of Berlin in 1934. His thesis, on liquid-propellent rocket engines, was classified by the Nazi regime. Braun joined Germany's rocket R&D program. By the end of World War II, thousands of the V-2 rockets that he had designed and which were built by slave labor had been fired at London and Antwerp. Braun and members of his team surrendered to the US Army at the end of the war; they were taken to the US, where they formed the nucleus of America's rocket and space program. Braun's career culminated in design, development and construction of NASA's Saturn V rocket, which remains the only launch vehicle to have carried astronauts to the Moon."
Von Braun was an amazing individual - he was WAY ahead of his time. He was definitely way ahead of all the others in the years before World War II in his grasp of rockets and the possible...
In America, where is that vision today? I see talking points aimed at primary voters but I don't see a real global vision of how America wins in a world on fire. Not from any of those running for President. All I see them offering to throw more gasoline on the fires.
I don't see it in Ted Cruz, whose idea of following Jesus would be to deny care to the sick--he actually shut down our government over the idea of people getting healthcare. That ego stunt cost taxpayers $24 billion. Ted Cruz Jesus would not be dividing bread for the 5,000. Quite the opposite. They would go hungry. Where the Affordable Healthcare Act giveth, Cruz would taketh away.
Nor do I see Mr. Cruz, or Jeb Bush or any other GOP candidate with a space vision--which actually is VITAL to our national security and future prosperity. Not since JFK has any president been bold on space.
What the Germans did during World War II was bold by picking a young Polish man and let him build the impossible. They were seeking cutting edge high technology and it almost won them the war. Their V-2 rockets would have soon reached New York. Their atom bomb program that was only stopped when two Norwegians managed to blow up their sole source of heavy water made in a secret plant in Norway, after numerous bombings had failed.
After the war, the USA got the services of Mr. Braun, who helped build NASA that lead to an amazing skill upgrade for America. One wonders if he had been an illegal immigrant, if Mr. Cruz would allow him into the country! In fact we are denying entry to talented people like von braun because our immigration law is so out of date and broken.
Today China is building high tech and space tech which we have neglected because of a lack of vision. They cornered the market on rare earth materials needed to make computers, satellites and anything high tech worth building. And they did it on a global scale while Congress fiddled in Washington.
China has invested in education while education investment has declined substantially under the party of Cruz in my home state of Texas. With Mr. Cruz' blessing, Texas has shorted education funding over $5.4 billion, despite a huge SURPLUS in the budget -- and despite more than 70,000 new students arriving in the state every year.
Its school financing system has been ruled unconstitutional. Yet Texas legislators still have not made vital changes to give Texas kids a chance in this new global high tech economy. That failure is why China is producing more scientists than we are and is building its own Space Station. Instead of investing in education Texas GOP leaders want to give the money away in tax cuts to the wealthiest. It's beyond short-sighted.
A real road-map and American vision is set out in the "Agenda for American Greatness" linked below. The goal: Make America No. 1 again!
I have negotiated worldwide and know what the balance of power technology looks like. Photo evidence of those changes over the last 30 years is in my book "Better Times Ahead April Fool."
Compare the vision in Agenda for American Greatness to Mr. Cruz's -- and let's discuss.
P.S. JIM BAKER, former Secretary of State, is a Republican who outclasses today's Cruz's by a thousand percent.
http://bettertimesaheadaprilfool.com/Agenda_for_USA_Greatness.html
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Gerrymandering is Killing American Democracy - and Giving Us a Crazy Congress of Lunatics
It has been announced that House Speaker Boehner is going to ISRAEL to meet with Mr. Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister. The Constitution gives international affairs to the PRESIDENT not 535 members of Congress.
There is nothing worse than an uppity Congressman. Or more DANGEROUS to American security. A house member trying to sabotage a President is one thing. But house members negotiating with foreign leaders is unprecedented. It is inappropriate at best, treason at the worst. Neither are good for our country. American speaks with one voice through the President, not 535 voices crying in the wilderness.
Our Congress politics is now so low that it includes attempted SABOTAGE of our economic revival from Day 1 of the election of President Obama, who inherited the worst economy since the Great Depression.
It now extends to SABOTAGE of a NUCLEAR AGREEMENT with IRAN. The same Congress that threw America into two wars they never bothers to pay for now want to throw gasoline on a potential deal that would avoid an even deadlier war. That is not only sick but STUPID - says this terrorism analyst who did predict 911 and has the tapes on YouTube to prove it.
We are electing such shallow representatives that it has turned into SICK politics. It is no longer about competing views on a bill. It is all about poison pills, making up false facts, pettiness, disrespect of an elected President, and continued attempts to rob from the poor to give to the already filthy rich. It's crazier than a rabid shunk.
It's cynical. It is the opposite of what we need to move the country forward.
Gerrymandering is the reason for this sickness. Our Congress reps are picked by the most extreme voters in rigged primaries. How does that work?
The winner of the primary automatically wins in November because the district boundaries are rigged. So the real choice was made in the primary by partisan voters, not in November where even independents and others can vote --there vote doesn't vote at that point. So the Congress winner (and state office winner) was picked by maybe 10% of the voters in that district!
I experienced this personally - seeing three different boundaries in three elections in the same district when Republicans were designing districts in Texas (details in my book 'Better Times Ahead April Fool').
Picking our Congress members from gerrymandered districts in rigged primaries --where the most extreme control -- makes the November vote pointless in most districts. It screws the minority party and independents alike.
As a result of gerrymandering we get these small men (and women) who now play political games instead of doing their jobs. Many of them exhibit incredible ignorance about basic facts while collecting $185,000 a year up to show up 100 days a year. They get government paid for health care while telling Americans that they can't have the same thing.
It's pathetic and hypocritical. How does America win when our own Congress is sabotaging progress? Only the rich and privileged can afford to play these stupid political games when the world is on fire -- from Ukraine to the Middle East. Ordinary people don't have that luxury.
The U.S. Senate can't even multi-task, like most American workers have to do everyday, by debating one bill and voting on other things on the agenda, like the next attorney general we need in office doing that job for the taxpayers. Voter her up or down but hold the damn vote! (same thing on immigration; Boehner has refused to hold a vote on the bill because he knows it would pass).
Instead of doing their jobs in the U.S. Senate, Mr. McConnell and Cornyn are making Ms. Lynch wait longer than any Attorney General nominee in the history of the United States! That is putting her at the back of the bus, literally and figuratively. If they hate Eric Holder so much, why are they holding up his departure by not voting on his replacement?
Gerrymandering has led to this Congress which is willing to put the American people at the back of the bus too -- wasting weeks avoiding the vote, interfering with our foreign relations, offering budgets to take even more from the poorest to give to the richest. It's madness.
They need to grow up and we need to eliminate gerrymandering before it kills America. It already is.
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How Our Ignorant Congress is Sabotaging America's Future Success
I first saw India as a legal negotiator in 1979, China in 1982. Went to Syria in 1996 for a child kidnapping negotiation as a young entrepreneur lawyer. They were crowded then. They were stable then.
It is worse now. Action needs to be taken. Iraq opened Pandora's Box.
It's not being fixed because we have been electing hillbilly congress reps who are totally clueless. They have never traveled on business globally. In fact, they have never been anywhere (beyond Frog Jump Arkansas, or Corpus Christi), but are so "expert" on everything, right? lol.
Mr. Cotton's breach of protocol with Iran could result in making a nuclear event MORE likely because of that ignorance about the real world that I have seen the last 30 years.
Global wars and country instability will INCREASE in coming years because of climate disruption. California is now in such a drought the USA could lose its vegetable food supply.
Even conservatives in Europe recognize climate change is real!
The only logical conclusion is that our conservatives apparently are the dumbest group in the entire world. They are the only ones left on the entire planet that don't believe in man-made climate change, or addressing it. LOL.
Now isn't that special?
Some REAL Solutions are in Agenda for American Greatness.
Let's debate something real for a change.
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How War With Iran Could Cost More American Lives in 5 Minutes Than Iraq Did in 10 Years
Last Military Simulation of Conflict with Iran Ended Worse than Pearl Harbor
There is bold talk by some in Congress that WAR with IRAN is a solution if the nuclear talks don't work out. This reminds me of the loose talk before the Iraq invasion when I was a terrorism analyst, the lone voice in the wilderness opposing it at the time.
However, we DO have evidence of what a short conflict with Iran would look like - and how it would end. Ugly, very ugly.
A 2002 military exercise simulating a "War with IRAN" took place. Result? America's worst naval disaster since Pearl Harbor. The military stopped it after we lost 16 ships including an aircraft carrier! We could lose more people in 5 minutes than we lost in Iraq in over 10 years!
Before we convince ourselves to kick open yet another Pandora's Box, read the following--because some of the Senators and Congress reps urging a military solution don't even know that Tehran has been the capitol of Iran for thousands of years--that's how little they know about the real world (sad to say, but I have more global negotiating experience than the entire current GOP Presidential field!).
Below is a description of the exercise and results of a realistic war game called Millennium Challenge.
(It's a warning not to believe rosy predictions of easy victory -- like we heard before the Iraq invasion that created ISIS and cost us over $6 TRILLION dollars and countless lives ruined). Pass it on!
Iranian ship killer "Sunburn" missile - based on Russian technology
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WAR GAMES DESTROY MYTH OF U.S. NAVAL INVULNERABILITY
NEWS BRIEF: "Myth Of US Invincibility Floats In The Persian Gulf", Rense.com, 4-16-2005
"During the summer of 2002, in the run-up to President Bush's invasion of Iraq, the US military staged the most elaborate and expensive war games ever conceived. Operation Millennium Challenge, as it was called, cost some $250 million, and required two years of planning ... it was set in the Persian Gulf, and simulated a conflict with a hypothetical rogue state. The "war" involved heavy use of computers, and was also played out in the field by 13,500 US troops, at 17 different locations and 9 live-force training sites. All of the services participated under a single joint command, known as JOINTFOR. The US forces were designated as 'Force Blue', and the enemy as OPFOR, or 'Force Red'. The 'war' lasted three weeks and ended with the overthrow of the dictatorial regime on August 15."
"At any rate, that was the official outcome. What actually happened was quite different, and ought to serve up a warning about the grave peril the world will face if the US should become embroiled in a widening conflict in the region ..."
This is not the first time that the American high command has fudged the results of a war gaming exercise because the real results would be very embarrassing to all U.S. leadership, from the White House down to the Pentagon. In the early years of the Clinton Administration, America's top guns -- her elite fighter pilots -- engaged in an war gaming exercise with Israeli pilots. The American aces were humiliated, so much so that the Pentagon discreetly asked the Israeli government not to publicize the results! The story I read was very small and buried deeply in our local paper.
Now, let us return to this news story. The American officer leading the "enemy" -- the "Force Red" team -- was "the straight-talking Marine commander who had been brought out of retirement to lead Force Red. His name was Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper, and he had played the role of the crazed but cunning leader of the hypothetical rogue state ... In the first days of the 'war', Van Riper's Force Red sent most of the US fleet to the bottom of the Persian Gulf." (Ibid.)
The tactics adopted by this Marine Corps general were astounding and they produced "The Worst US Naval Disaster Since Pearl Harbor".
"The war game was described as 'free play', meaning that both sides were unconstrained, free to pursue any tactic in the book of war in the service of victory ... Much of the action was computer-generated. But representative military units in the field also acted out the various moves and countermoves. The comparison to a chess match is not inaccurate. The vastly superior US armada consisted of the standard carrier battle group with its full supporting cast of ships and planes. Van Riper had at his disposal a much weaker flotilla of smaller vessels, many of them civilian craft, and numerous assets typical of a Third World country." (Ibid.)
"But Van Riper made the most of weakness. Instead of trying to compete directly with Force Blue, he utilized ingenious low-tech alternatives. Crucially, he prevented the stronger US force from eavesdropping on his communications by foregoing the use of radio transmissions. Van Riper relied on couriers instead to stay in touch with his field officers ... At every turn, the wily Van Riper did the unexpected. And in the process he managed to achieve an asymmetric advantage ... Astutely and very covertly, Van Riper armed his civilian marine craft and deployed them near the US fleet, which never expected an attack from small pleasure boats ... Force Red's prop-driven aircraft suddenly were swarming around the US warships, making Kamikaze dives. Some of the pleasure boats made suicide attacks. Others fired Silkworm cruise missiles from close range, and sunk a carrier, the largest ship in the US fleet, along with two helicopter-carriers loaded with marines ... the Navy was unprepared. When it was over, most of the US fleet had been destroyed. Sixteen US warships lay on the bottom, and the rest were in disarray. Thousands of American sailors were dead, dying, or wounded.
"If the games had been real, it would have been the worst US naval defeat since Pearl Harbor." (Ibid.)
Clearly, this war games disaster was something the Pentagon could not have foreseen. Publicly, Pentagon spokesmen admitted of no disaster, since, in war gaming, destroyed equipment and dead sailors can be "resurrected" at the touch of a keyboard. At the end, the government of the rogue state was overthrown and victory achieved -- but only after General Van Riper quit in disgust. Oh, yes, and the Pentagon did not admit that they had anything to learn and insisted there was nothing they needed to change.
But, you may argue, surely they knew better internally and were working madly to change tactics so they would not have this kind of real disaster, from a real enemy, who can really kill our sailors and marines. You may be right, except for the fact that most of the reasons for this disaster are systemic and cannot be easily or quickly corrected. How can this be?
The first problem is that the Navy has heavily invested in equipment which does not work effectively in close-in places like the Persian Gulf. In other words, our Navy was created, and equipped, to fight a blue-water enemy out in the open ocean, and is very vulnerable to a determined close-in enemy using unconventional tactics. Listen as this article explains this terrible reality.
"... instead of being over the horizon like the Navy would normally fight, and at stand-off ranges that would enable their protective systems to be employed, now they're sitting right off the shore ... where you're looking at them. I mean, the models and simulation that we put together, it couldn't make a distinction (between enemy vessels vs friendly) ... all of a sudden, whoops, there they are. And that's about the time he attacked ..."
"Gen. Kernan's nuanced defense was that the simulation had necessarily been conducted in the vicinity of busy sea lanes, hence, in the presence of live commercial shipping; and this required the Navy to 'turn off' some of its defenses, which it would not have done in a real wartime situation. All of which is probably true, but the general's remark that in a real Gulf war the fleet would be deployed differently, in a stand-off manner, with its over-the-horizon defenses fully operable, was a misrepresentation of the actual situation in the Persian Gulf, today. The US Navy's biggest problem operating in Gulf waters are the constraints that the region's confined spaces impose on US naval defenses, which were designed for the open sea. The Persian Gulf is nothing but a large lake, after all, and in such an environment the Navy's over-the-horizon defenses are seriously compromised. Nor can the Navy withdraw to a safe distance, so long as its close-in presence is required to support the US occupation forces in Iraq. The serious implications of this simple fact for a possible future conflict, for instance, involving Iran, have never, to my knowledge, been discussed in the US press." (Ibid.)
As the interview with General Kernan continued, he kept talking about the Navy operating "over-the-horizon", which is fine if you are fighting the blue-water Russian navy in the open ocean; however, if the US Navy is fighting an Iranian force of quick, mobile fighting ships and boats, and aircraft, all of which are equipped with Russian-made supersonic missiles, losses are likely to be staggering, just as this war simulation demonstrated.
General Kernan should not have been surprised, because earlier studies had reported that these kind of problems existed, and were not reserved just for the Iranians.
"As recently as 1997 some forty different nations possessed these awesome weapons (anti-ship cruise missiles). By 2000 the number had jumped to 70, with at least 100 different types identified, and a dozen different nations actively pursuing their own production and research/development programs ... why are anti-ship cruise missiles so attractive? The answer is that they are relatively simple to develop, especially in comparison with ballistic missiles. Cruise missiles can be constructed from many of the same readily available parts and components used in commercial aviation. They are also reliable and effective, easy to deploy and use, and are relatively inexpensive. Even poor nations can afford them. One cruise missile represents but a tiny fraction of the immense expenditure of capital the US has invested in each of its 300 active warships. Yet, a single cruise missile can sink or severely disable any ship in the US Navy."
Now, listen carefully to this next revelation, for it validates a fact Cutting Edge reported several years ago, when we posted an article entitled, "Has Russian Technology Just Doomed The U.S. Naval Fleet?", NEWS1449. A key factor which rendered the American fleet so vulnerable to these Russian supersonic anti-ship missiles was that they flew so quickly, American protective radars could not react quickly enough to track the incoming missile, plot a solution, and fire the defensive gattling guns. This next revelation validates our concerns, and the source is highly believable, for it is the U.S. Congressional (Government) Accounting Office.
"According to the GAO (Government Accounting Office) report, 'the key to defeating cruise missile threats is in gaining additional reaction time', so that ships can detect, identify and destroy the attacking missiles. The thorny problem, as I've pointed out, is that the Navy's long-range AWAC's and intermediate-range Aegis radar defense systems are significantly less effective in littoral (or coastal) environments, the Persian Gulf being the prime example." (Ibid.)
Here we have two distinctively different problems, which combine to produce a very fatal result.
1) American anti-ship missile protective radar cannot reach a solution quickly enough to fire the protective guns fast enough to kill the incoming supersonic missiles flying at 1,700 miles per hour.
2) American radar systems were not designed for coastal situations, where an enemy can hide and pop out to fire quickly at a passing ship and then get out of harm's way. No, U.S. radar is designed to track an enemy vessel "over the horizon", plot a solution, fire the missile, and kill the enemy ship without ever physically seeing it. Smaller vessels firing a variety of close-in weaponry -- including the supersonic ship killers -- can get in under this American radar, and score the kill.
You just do not change this kind of wrong weaponry problem overnight. Meanwhile, the Russians are proceeding quickly to make their ship-killers even more deadly.
"The other important factor is that cruise missile technology itself is racing ahead. The GAO report warned that the next generation of anti-ship missiles that will begin to appear by 2007 will be faster and stealthier, and will also be equipped with advanced target-seekers, i.e., advanced guidance systems. In fact, one of these advanced anti-ship cruise missiles is already available: the Russian-made Yakhonts missile. It flies at close to Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound), can hit a squirrel in the eye, and has a range of 185 miles: enough range to target the entire Persian Gulf (from Iran), shredding Gen. Kernan's glib remark that in a real war the US expeditionary force will stand-off in safety 'over the horizon' while mounting an amphibious attack. Nonsense. Henceforth, in a real Gulf war situation there will be no standing off in safety. The Yakhonts missile has already erased the concept of the horizon, at least, within the Persian Gulf, and it has done so without ever having been fired in combat---yet ... By their own admission the Russians developed the Yakhonts missile for export. No doubt, it was high on Iran's shopping list." (Ibid.)
The concluding information is truly sobering.
"... for a variety of reasons the Navy's forecasts for upgrading US ship defenses against cruise missile attack are overly optimistic. The Navy's own data shows that there will be no silver bullet. The technology gap is structural, and will not be overcome for many years, if at all. US warships will be vulnerable to cruise missile attack into the foreseeable future, perhaps increasingly so ... the most vulnerable ship in the US fleet is none other than the flagship itself, the big Nimitz-class carriers."
The knowledge that our mighty carriers are extremely vulnerable to these anti-ship missiles is not new information, nor is it limited to naval experts. During the early days of the Iraq invasion (March - April, 2003), I talked at length with a family friend who had recently retired from the Army as a Major. He gave me much good advice, including the status of our aircraft carriers if they faced a determined enemy equipped with modern missiles. He said that our carriers were "just sitting ducks". Yet, most Americans still believe that the safest place to be stationed during a battle is on a carrier.
The author of this article then concludes his assessment.
"Just think: If Van Riper could accomplish what he did with Silkworms, the lowly scuds of the cruise missile family, imagine what could happen if the US Navy, sitting in the Gulf like so many ducks, should face a massed-attack of supersonic Yakhonts missiles, a weapon that may well be unstoppable?"
Labels: Congress, GOP., Iran, nuclear talks, Obama, sunburn missile, tom cotton, war
Scott Kelly: One of our space Ambassadors with our earthly neighbors...and not just Russia
Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the
Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko
March 27th! Almost here. Houston's Scott Kelly takes off with a Russian to arm wrestle in the International Space Station (ISS). NOT.
I have met Scott at his home in Houston. NICE guy! He will be in space with Russia's Mikhail during strange times between the US and Russia since the "cold war" Soviet days -- due to Ukraine...
If Putin had not gone nuts and sent his troops and military hardware into the Crimea and East Ukraine we'd still be buddies.
Astronauts, fortunately, are not politicians; they could be more valuable as our space Ambassadors with our earthly neighbors...and not just Russia.
We really need to involve CHINA since they are going to the moon independently from us - and will have their own NEW space station when ours is falling into the ocean due to Congress neglect and old age. China has the hordes of cash needed to be in the space business - and their kids at tops in the world of science and math.
Right now, an astronaut like Scott cannot even LEGALLY talk to a Chinese astronaut, or official for that matter...Now isn't that just silly? I've been a terrorism analyst and international lawyer who has been to China and it is beyond silly. It's a short-sighted, foolish policy to continue. Because otherwise they will pass us by due to Congress' inaction and poor funding.
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Give George W Bush Credit for Showing Up at Selma's 50th When Most GOP Leadership Didn't Bother
Give George W Bush Credit for Showing Up at Selma's 50th When Most GOP Leadership Didn't Bother.
I opposed his war in Iraq while on TV as a terrorism adviser (story at www.BettertimesAheadprilFool.com). Yet I am willing to give W credit for showing up at this historic occasion when most of the current GOP leadership could not be bothered.
That shows the current state of the GOP, who are either hostile to minorities of all kinds --and/or are afraid being seen with the President since they know it would get them "primaried" in the next election. The next candidate would claim that "Incumbent X" didn't hate Obama enough because he did go to Selma. It's crazy. And getting crazier.
That happens because gerrymandering districts --today's common practice--gives the most extreme candidate the edge. The moderates on both sides who get things done are left out.
It is the politicians stacking the political deck like a card shark does with the marked cards. They pick their voters instead of the voters picking them.
Gerrymandering is covered in the chapter "Predicting 911 and Running Against the Hammer" in Better Times Ahead April Fool, my true global adventure story. "Running Against the Hammer" refers to when I ran against the most powerful Congressman of the time (his nickname was "The Hammer"). I saw 3 different boundaries in the same district in 3 consecutive election cycles....
Gerrymandering and our own extremists in Congress are killing our ability to get important things done. Right now it can't even do simple things easily - like funding Homeland Security!
This is sabotaging our future.
Let Congress prove otherwise by doing these things:
Actually PASSING a new Voting Rights Act that President's Obama and Bush support.
Let Congress ENACT CYBER-Security legislation -- which it has failed to address, despite foreign governments and global crooks stealing our most secret of secrets (like the designs to the billion dollar F-35 program) as well as our citizens social security numbers.
Let's see Congress finally invest in America's 100 year old infrastructure, from bridges to roads and pipelines. Half of Houston's water is wasted from leaks. 50 year old gas pipelines are exploding in neighborhoods all the time, and it will get worse if neglected. MILLIONS of jobs would be created and our kids would have a better future infrastructure to keep America in the lead.
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If Obama Were Like Putin the GOP Leaders Would Be in Jail or DEAD now - Fox Would Be Shut Down
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Republicans have said how much they admire Russia’s Vladmir Putin’s “leadership style” over President Obama’s. If Obama was like Putin, the GOP leaders would be either in jail, exile or DEAD. People like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Fox executives would be off the air and so would FOX NEWS. Do they really have a clue what Putin is like?
The latest incident in Moscow proves it. Be careful what you wish for. Putin is Frank Underwood (House of Cards) on steroids, with nukes! Except Putin couldn't care less what even Frank Underwood thinks.
Putin has turned Russia into a country Mafia. Except if it was a room with just Putin and the Godfather Michael Corleone, it would be Corleone getting the bullet.
The killing of Putin's most vocal opponent who dared remain in Russia -- Boris Nemtsov—was clearly a cold, deliberate, bold assassination. Doing it in the shadow of the Kremlin is like having your opponent shot on the steps of the capitol. It is not unlike what happened to JFK, MLK and Robert Kennedy in the U.S.
Boris was not the first opponent of Putin to catch a bullet – or be poisoned. More than six have been killed since the 1990’s. One woman reporter was shot to death in her apartment entrance. The poison was delivered in an umbrella in London on the street. That’s how Putin rolls.
Putin now rules like a dictator on the level of a Saddam or Kim Jung Un in North Korea. Americans need to realize that he is far more dangerous than ISIS. He is far more dangerous than China, Kim Jung Un, or Iran. Putin has gone rogue on a whole new level.
Putin--the ex-KGB man--has engineered a series of unnecessary, dangerous confrontations and land grabs from Georgia, the Crimea, and now eastern Ukraine. Which country will he attack next?
Putin has turned Russia into an oligarchy--run by a few super rich billionaire friends who keep contracts as long as they don’t oppose him politically--and a nation of fear. The fear and hate is fed to the public 24/7 by state-controlled media that praises Putin and blames ALL of their troubles on the United States.
Does it help us to have the people of a major nuclear power run by a one-man mafia lying about us every day 24/7?
Most Americans have no idea that millions of Russians are being told on their "Fox" TV that Putin is wonderful and the U.S. is the reason for their inflation and lousy job situation! Russian media NEVER mentions that Putin's budget was based on $100 oil and it went to half that. You either clap for Putin or get condemned as a traitor. There is no "Meet the Press" of opponents and talking points. The opponents are dead or living outside Russia, in fear.
His air force has been having near misses crossing over borders of almost every European country. Ukraine has seen a ridiculous series of promises by Putin not kept--arming rebels and supplying tons of advanced weapons like GRAD rockets to the rebels who rain it down on civilian and soldier alike. Inch by inch Putin is stealing Ukraine, like Saddam tried to take Kuwait.
ISIS is a threat but not a nuclear threat. Russia is. China will be.
Stay tuned. If Putin has the nerve to kill a man in sight of the Kremlin, he is capable of anything."Follow" to keep advised as a Global Tsunami of threats come our way, and events unfold....
Labels: assassination, Fox, GOP, ISIS, Nemtsov, Obama, Putin, Russia, Ukraine
Which GOP Candidate Has Foreign Experience - More than Me~! NONE....But Hillary does...
Dismissing an expert seems to be in vogue by the mindless these days. I just heard on a "Meet the Press" discussion about the GOP candidates for President, not one of them has any real foreign experiences (or knowledge for that matter).
Not Rick Perry, not Ted Cruz, not Scott Walker, not Jeb Bush, not even Donald Trump! Come to think of it, after having been blown off by trolls as a "know nothing," NONE of the GOP Presidential candidates at CPAC can even match my bio of expertise (negotiations in over 50 countries including child kidnaping in Syria) and time as a terrorism expert on TV!
The ONLY person in the Presidential pack with more global expertise than little ole me and all the GOP candidates is Hillary Clinton, who had an intense global schedule as Secretary of State. It is impossible to top being the chief global political negotiator for the United States as a qualification to be an astute President. Perry's guided tours of foreign countries is not experience; Scott Walker or Chris Christie going to London is not experience -- it is being a tourist! They know about as much as I did as a naive young attorney three decades ago whose first trip abroad was Nicaragua after growing up on a farm in Iowa, and that was nothing. LOL. Being President is not for global amateurs - not with ISIS, China, India, Russia competing to win in the global economy.
My final advice on social media: NEVER waste your time arguing with cement-heads (you won't change ISIS mentality by talking any more than our own trolls or zealots).
You can try to speak Spock logic to them, but without a mind meld, I am afraid that's an impossible task. Beam me up Scotty! We miss Spock's logic down here. lol
That's how I roll.
Labels: Chris Christie, CPAC, foreign experience, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, Michael Fjetland, mind meld, politics, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Spock, Ted Cruz
WHAT makes Kids from 90 countries Join ISIS? How about AMERICAN produced VIDEOS?
What force is ISIS/ISIL using that is sucking in kids from 90 countries around the world, including the U.S. and Europe? Part of it could be due to their social media videos being produced by a U.S. person. Yep, an AMERICAN, with unique video editing skills not found in the Middle East could well be the key in making this sick bunch look like Hollywood.
This is apparently a “shock” to people. The sad truth is that professional video editing is likely the reason ISIS/ISIL has been successful sucking in innocent middle-class Muslim kids from around the world into its black hole of death. Estimates are that about 150-200 of them are from the U.S., 2,000 – 3,000 from Europe and the rest from other countries, making up about a total of 20,000 to 30,000 members (good enough to defeat a much larger Iraqi army.) That’s out of 1.5 BILLION Muslims worldwide (mathematically 30,000 of 1.5 billion is 0.002%!). So you can see why no President has framed this as a ‘war against Islam’ because that would be both wrong and nuts!
The ISIS/ISIL videos are not the boring ones that grandpa Osama bin laden did. Osama was like the YouTuber who thinks an hour of them yakking into a camera is exciting to see. I recall from my days doing television terrorism analysis that bin Laden’s videos mostly consisted of one guy (him) sitting with a rifle, blabbering for an hour! Just words and a stale presentation. A couple shots of him firing an AK-47. No black uniforms. Definitely not an Oscar winner or nomination there.
ISIS is Osama 3.0 with modern Internet and Social Media fueling recruits. They show ACTION-- lots of U.S. style quick edits of reality TV-type people talking trash and doing stuff (like breaking 3,000 year old ancient artifacts recently -- using slow motion scenes of statues falling, accompanied by a singing soundtrack in Arabic in the background!
WHY do kids from Europe or the U.S. (or 90 other countries) go to ISIS? Is it just the slick videos that an American created? Are they really aware of the hell hole they are stepping into?
You have to know that fact in order to know how to address it. Then we know HOW to STOP it from taking more innocent youth into their dark, violent, intolerant world. It's a world where women are used as breeding stock, bought and traded like sex slaves. It's a world that hates every religion, even other Muslims! It kills Shia Muslims because even they are not "pure" enough. Christians are but one of many minority sects assaulted by this genocidal mob of ignorant men who act like a religious mafia.
ISIS is insane level intolerance. It's one step removed from what happens in Congress today. Congress isn't shooting anyone except from drones; Congress displays intolerance when it prefers to starve people to death by cutting food stamps or denying them medical care! lol.
Do these kids go to join ISIS because they have no job or self-esteem?
Or because they were abused by police and the authorities like "Jihadi John" claims? If police can shoot minority kids like Michael Brown and countless others, could you see how they might be attracted to fight back via ISIS?
Or do these kids travel to Turkey in order to cross into Syria and its horrors chambers for something else?
I have worked globally including the Middle East. I was treated with respect and I treated them with respect. I found people extraordinarily helpful and kind even when I couldn’t speak their language. I have seen what being poor is like to self-esteem. I have seen prejudice against people because of their color or religion or sexual preferences. None of this is helpful.
I think these kids go for some or all of the above reasons. If you can’t get into school in America or Europe, why not go where they give you a gun and you feel like a hero? It’s not until they get there will they realize their cell phones are taken away and they become raw meat for the front lines and a pawn who can’t escape Pandora’s Box they just opened.
We must change our own thinking to address all of it to solve it.
Our youth need education opportunities and jobs. Adults need to leave the world a better place for them than we found it.
We as individuals need to break out of our mental silos and–and our comfort zone—and get to know people of other cultures and religions that live in America. I found them to be people just like you and me when you finally break bread together over a meal and meet their families. I wrote of these things in Better Times Ahead April Fool. I never landed in a new country without having butterflies in my stomach. But every time it proved to be a rich and rewarding experience in what I saw and learned. Do some traveling!
Congress has been more interested in fueling political wars than creating jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure and investing in leading this global, high tech 21st century. They can’t even vote to FUND HOMELAND SECURITY department during all these new threats! If that isn’t an indictment of our own petty purists who put partisanship in front of American security, nothing is!
We people cannot wait on small-minded politicians to make it better. Start reaching out now…go to a new place to meet people--at a mosque or synagogue or a Hindu temple, whatever. America has many of each.
If you are Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, Atheist or Martian, embrace the interfaith groups. They are the bridge builders we need to live together. That act alone will make this a better world.
Michael Fjetland, BBA/JD
Author, Better TimesAhead April Fool
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Sports and leisure > G2K Correspondent > Criticism: Reflex or Rationalization?
Recently while hanging out with a mix of local and foreign friends (both long-time residents and visitors) we got on the subject of criticism – of Ukrainians, of Ukrainian society and of criticism in general. Are Ukrainians who have foreign friends immune to the criticism? Do they accept it? What is the limit of such criticism and is there implicit arrogance in it all?
I engage in Ukraine-bashing with friends when specific topics of conversation happen to set us off: poor customer service, lack of attention to detail among professional workers, excess vodka consumption, political malaise – whatever. This bashing often amounts to simply remarking on the mere facts of the case; we have a laugh and then go on about whatever larger issue we were discussing. There’s no ill intent to it; it’s just a matter-of-fact regurgitation of something we saw, experienced or heard.
My fiancée really has a bone to pick with me about this, but her beef with my Ukraine-bashing is unique in the sense that she hears more of my criticism than any of my other friends. She is my best friend and so I relate virtually everything to her about my day and my experiences – from the sublime to the bizarre and the completely idiotic. I rarely spare her the details of this or that thought. However, the more she hears of such things, the more she fights back and either demands we switch topics or she gets on the defensive and responds in kind about the idiocies of life in the West. But that’s just it – I don’t spare anyone or anything from my criticisms.
I am equally appalled by the slovenly and even piggish living and eating habits of Canadians and Americans; of the overbearing tone of westerners in general towards other people (the irony runs thick at such moments when it’s me talking, obviously); of the lack of culture and sophistication among many in the West (this is a moot point, we both admit). Virtually all of my close friends in Ukraine have been foreigners and we brought our western culture of criticism to bear on Ukraine and Ukrainians from Day One. Rather than complain just about life in the West, our new lives here meant we would focus such energies on the ins and outs of life in the former Soviet Union.
From my very egocentric worldview, I see many positives in criticism of Ukraine and of the many classic local examples of people or situations completely lacking in common sense. The Soviet Union utterly lacked social criticism as those who spoke out were often persecuted if not jailed; some even disappeared altogether. And this has also happened since 1991. In the West, I feel that the current climate of political correctness has ruled out many forms of social criticism and, especially in Canada, the media have been terribly compliant in surrendering to big business and government on the notion of free speech, reigning it in so as to not offend this or that group or business interest. But if no one criticizes, who truly benefits?
In the Ukrainian media I can find but a handful of examples of people or organizations actively pursuing a mandate of free speech, of government and citizen accountability and of common sense prevailing in favor of the common good. In general, Ukrainians like to complain, too, but perhaps they just don’t like to hear about it from an outsider. As someone who’s lived here for nearly seven years and experienced firsthand the Orange Revolution, I have a sense of the immense potential of this country like anyone else who’s been around a while and yet see huge problems; I want to speak out and delve into a forum of public discussion. I fear complacency. I revel in open debate. I just wish that a few more Ukrainians weren’t so cynical about the future of their country and would instead carry on the fight started that cold, snowy December morning in 2004 when a few hundred brave souls erected barricades on Independence Square and decided to challenge the government by speaking out about the obviously rigged election results.
A former colleague said that no one in this country wants to be a martyr for free speech. I guess by complaining about the way this country works sometimes, I want to prove him wrong and find someone who actually does. Or at least someone who isn’t afraid to speak their mind.
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Home » Great Britain and the American Civil War
CHAPTER XVII. THE END OF THE WAR
Ephraim Douglass Adams
"I think you need not trouble yourself about England. At this
moment opinion seems to have undergone a complete change, and
our people and indeed our Government is more moderately
disposed than I have ever before known it to be. I hear from
a member of the Government that it is believed that the
feeling between our Cabinet and the Washington Government has
been steadily improving[1261]."
Thus wrote Bright to Sumner in the last week of January, 1865. Three weeks later he again wrote in reassurance against American rumours that Europe was still planning some form of intervention to save the South: "All parties and classes here are resolved on a strict neutrality[1262]...." This was a correct estimate. In spite of a temporary pause in the operations of Northern armies and of renewed assertions from the South that she "would never submit," British opinion was now very nearly unanimous that the end was near. This verdict was soon justified by events. In January, 1865, Wilmington, North Carolina, was at last captured by a combined sea and land attack. Grant, though since midsummer, 1864, held in check by Lee before Petersburg, was yet known to be constantly increasing the strength of his army, while his ability to strike when the time came was made evident by the freedom with which his cavalry scoured the country about the Confederate capital, Richmond - in one raid even completely encircling that city. Steadily Lee's army lost strength by the attrition of the siege, by illness and, what was worse, by desertion since no forces could be spared from the fighting front to recover and punish the deserters. Grant waited for the approach of spring, when, with the advance northwards of the army at Savannah, the pincers could be applied to Lee, to end, it was hoped, in writing finis to the war.
From December 20, 1864, to February 1, 1865, Sherman remained in Savannah, renewing by sea the strength of his army. On the latter date he moved north along the coast, meeting at first no resistance and easily overrunning the country. Columbia, capital of South Carolina, was burned. Charleston was evacuated, and it was not until March, in North Carolina, that any real opposition to the northward progress was encountered. Here on the sixteenth and the nineteenth, Johnston, in command of the weak Southern forces in North Carolina, made a desperate effort to stop Sherman, but without avail, and on March 23, Sherman was at Goldsboro, one hundred and sixty miles south of Richmond, prepared to cut off the retreat of Lee when Grant should at last take up an energetic offensive.
In the last week of March, Grant began cutting off supplies to Richmond, thus forcing Lee, if he wished still to protect the Southern capital, to come out of his lines at Petersburg and present an unfortified front. The result was the evacuation of Petersburg and the abandonment of Richmond, Jefferson Davis and his Government fleeing from the city on the night of April 2. Attempting to retreat southwards with the plan of joining Johnston's army, Lee, on April 9, found his forces surrounded at Appomattox and surrendered. Nine days later, on April 18, Johnston surrendered to Sherman at Durham, North Carolina. It was the end of the war and of the Confederacy.
The rapidity with which Southern resistance in arms crumbled in 1865 when once Sherman and Grant were under way no doubt startled foreign observers, but in British opinion, at least, the end had been foreseen from the moment Sherman reached the sea at Savannah. The desperate courage of the South was admired, but regarded as futile. Equally desperate and futile was the last diplomatic effort of the Confederate agents in Europe, taking the form of an offer to abolish slavery in return for recognition. The plan originated with Benjamin, Southern Secretary of State, was hesitatingly approved by Davis[1263], and was committed to Mason for negotiation with Great Britain. Mason, after his withdrawal from London, had been given duplicate powers in blank for any point to which emergencies might send him, thus becoming a sort of Confederate Commissioner at Large to Europe. Less than any other representative abroad inclined to admit that slavery was other than a beneficent and humane institution, it was felt advisable at Richmond not only to instruct Mason by written despatch, but by personal messenger also of the urgency of presenting the offer of abolition promptly and with full assurance of carrying it into effect. The instruction was therefore entrusted to Duncan F. Kenner, of Louisiana, and he arrived in Paris early in March, 1865, overcame Mason's unwillingness to carry such an offer to England, and accompanied the latter to London.
The time was certainly not propitious, for on the day Mason reached London there came the news of the burning of Columbia and the evacuation of Charleston. Mason hesitated to approach Palmerston, but was pressed by Kenner who urged action on the theory that Great Britain did not wish to see a reconstruction of the Union[1264]. Slidell, in Paris, on receiving Mason's doubts, advised waiting until the Emperor had been consulted, was granted an interview and reported Napoleon III as ready as ever to act if England would act also, but as advising delay until more favourable news was received from America[1265]. But Mason's instructions did not permit delay; he must either carry them out or resign - and Kenner was at his elbow pressing for action. On March 13, therefore, Mason wrote to Palmerston asking for a private interview and was promptly granted one for the day following.
Both personal disinclination to the proposal of abolition and judgment that nothing would come of it made Mason cautious in expressing himself to Palmerston. Mason felt that he was stultifying his country in condemning slavery. Hence in roundabout language, "with such form of allusion to the concession we held in reserve, as would make him necessarily comprehend it[1266]," and turning again and again to a supposed "latent, undisclosed obstacle[1267]" to British recognition, Mason yet made clear the object of his visit. The word slavery was not mentioned by him, but Palmerston promptly denied that slavery in the South had ever been, or was now, a barrier to recognition; British objections to recognition were those which had long since been stated, and there was nothing "underlying" them. On March 26, Mason called on the Earl of Donoughmore, a Tory friend of the South with whom he had long been in close touch, and asked whether he thought Palmerston's Government could be induced by a Southern abolition of slavery to recognize the Confederacy. The reply was "that the time had gone by now...." This time the words "slavery" and "abolition" were spoken boldly[1268], and Donoughmore was positive that if, in the midsummer of 1863, when Lee was invading Pennsylvania, the South had made its present overture, nothing could have prevented British recognition. The opinion clashed with Mason's own conviction, but in any case no more was to be hoped, now, from his overture. Only a favourable turn in the war could help the South.
There was no public knowledge in London of this "last card" Southern effort in diplomacy, though there were newspaper rumours that some such move was on foot, but with a primary motive of restoring Southern fighting power by putting the negroes in arms. British public attention was fixed rather upon a possible last-moment reconciliation of North and South and a restored Union which should forget its domestic troubles in a foreign war. Momentarily somewhat of a panic overcame London society and gloomy were the forebodings that Great Britain would be the chosen enemy of America. Like rumours were afloat at Washington also. The Russian Minister, Stoeckl, reported to his Government that he had learned from "a sure source" of representations made to Jefferson Davis by Blair, a prominent Unionist and politician of the border state of Maryland, looking to reconstruction and to the sending by Lincoln of armies into Canada and Mexico. Stoeckl believed such a war would be popular, but commented that "Lincoln might change his mind[1269] to-morrow." In London the Army and Navy Gazette declared that Davis could not consent to reunion and that Lincoln could not offer any other terms of peace, but that a truce might be patched up on the basis of a common aggression against supposed foreign enemies[1270]. Adams pictured all British society as now convinced that the end of the war was near, and bitter against the previous tone and policy of such leaders of public opinion as the Times, adding that it was being "whispered about that if the feud is reconciled and the Union restored, and a great army left on our hands, the next manifestation will be one of hostility to this country[1271]."
The basis of all this rumour was Blair's attempt to play the mediator. He so far succeeded that on January 31, 1865, Lincoln instructed Seward to go to Fortress Monroe to meet "commissioners" appointed by Davis. But Lincoln made positive in his instructions three points:
(1) Complete restoration of the Union.
(2) No receding on emancipation.
(3) No cessation of hostilities "short of an end of the war,
and the disbanding of all forces hostile to the Government."
A few days later the President decided that his own presence was desirable and joined his Secretary of State in the "Hampton Roads Conference" of February 3. It quickly appeared that the Confederates did indeed hope to draw the North into a foreign war for a "traditional American object," using the argument that after such a war restoration of the Union would be easily accomplished. The enemy proposed was not Great Britain but France, and the place of operations Mexico. There was much discussion of this plan between Seward and Stephens, the leading Southern Commissioner, but Lincoln merely listened, and when pressed for comment stuck fast to his decision that no agreement whatever would be entered into until the South had laid down its arms. The Southerners urged that there was precedent for an agreement in advance of cessation of hostilities in the negotiations between Charles I and the Roundheads. Lincoln's reply was pithy: "I do not profess to be posted in history. On all such matters I turn you over to Seward. All I distinctly recollect about the case of Charles I is that he lost his head in the end[1272]."
When news of the holding of this conference reached England there occurred a panic on the Stock Exchange due to the uncertainty created by the prospect of an immediate end of the American War. "The consternation," wrote Adams, "was extraordinary[1273]." What did the United States intend to do? "The impression is now very general that peace and restoration at home are synonymous with war with this country." There existed an "extraordinary uneasiness and indefinite apprehension as to the future." So reported Adams to Seward; and he advised that it might be well for the United States "to consider the question how far its policy may be adapted to quiet this disturbance"; due allowance should be made for the mortification of those leaders who had been so confident of Southern victory and for expressions that might now fall from their lips; it was possible that reassurances given by the United States might aid in the coming elections in retaining the Government in power - evidently, in Adams' opinion, a result to be desired[1274].
Adams' advice as to the forthcoming elections was but repetition of that given earlier and with more emphasis[1275]. Apparently Seward was then in no mood to act on it, for his reply was distinctly belligerent in tone, recapitulating British and Canadian offences in permitting the enemy to use their shores, and asserting that the measures now proposed of abrogating the reciprocity treaty of 1854 with Canada and the agreement of 1817 prohibiting armaments on the Great Lakes, were but defensive measures required to protect American soil[1276]. These matters Adams had been instructed to take up with Russell, but with discretion as to time and he had ventured to postpone them as inopportune. Professing entire agreement with the justice of Seward's complaints he nevertheless wrote that to press them "at this moment would be only playing into the hands of the mischief-makers, and disarming our own friends[1277]." The day before this was written home Seward, at Washington, on March 8, recalled his instruction as to the agreement of 1817, stating that Russell might be informed the United States had no intention of increasing its armaments on the Great Lakes[1278].
Thus there were incidents offering ground for a British excitement over a prospective war with America, even though no such intention was seriously entertained by the North. The British Government did not share this fear, but Delane, of the Times, kept it alive in the public mind, and indeed was sincere in efforts to arouse his readers to the danger. "I do not know what grounds Delane has for it," wrote W.H. Russell to his American friend Bigelow, "but he is quite sure Uncle Samuel is about to finish off the dreadful Civil War with another war with us scarcely less horrible[1279]." Governmental circles, however, belittled the agitation. Burnley, temporarily representing England at Washington, was assured by Seward, and so reported, that all these rumours of a foreign war were of Southern origin, had in fact been actually elaborated at the Hampton Roads Conference, but were perfectly understood by the North as but part of the Southern game, and that the Southern offer had been flatly refused[1280]. In a parliamentary debate in the Commons on March 13, arising out of governmental estimates for military expenditures in Canada, opportunity was given for a discussion of relations with America. A few Members gave voice to the fear of war, but the general tone of the debate was one of confidence in the continuance of peaceful relations. Bright, in a vigorous and witty speech, threw right and left criticisms of Parliament, the Press, and individuals, not sparing members of the Government, but expressed the utmost confidence in the pacific policy of Lincoln. As one known to be in close touch with America his words carried weight[1281]. Palmerston gave assurances that the present relations between the two Governments were perfectly friendly and satisfactory. The effect of the debate, reported Adams, was to quiet the panic[1282], yet at the same time England was now awake to and somewhat alarmed by, America's "prodigious development of physical power during the war." To quiet this, Adams recommended "prudence and moderation in tone[1283]."
Thus the actual cessation of hostilities in America and the possible effect of this event on foreign relations had been for some time anticipated and estimated in Great Britain[1284]. The news of Lee's surrender, therefore, caused no great surprise since the Times and other papers had been preparing the public for it[1285]. Newspaper comment on the event followed closely that of the Times, rendering honour to the militant qualities of the South and to Lee, but writing finis to the war:
"Such is the end of the great army which, organized by the
extraordinary genius of one man, aided by several other
commanders of eminent ability, has done such wonders in this
war. Not even the Grand Army of Napoleon himself could count
a series of more brilliant victories than the force which,
raised chiefly from the high-spirited population of Virginia,
has defeated so many invasions of the State, and crushed the
hopes of so many Northern generals. Chief and soldiers have
now failed for the first and last time. They were victorious
until victory was no longer to be achieved by human valour,
and then they fell with honour[1286]."
The people of the North, also, were complimented for their slowly developed but ultimate ability in war, and especially for "a patience, a fortitude, and an energy which entitle them to rank among the very first of military nations[1287]." No one remained to uphold the Southern banner in Europe save the Confederate agents, and, privately, even they were hopeless. Mason, it is true, asserted, as if bolstering his own courage, that "this morning's" news did not mean an overwhelming disaster; it could not be wholly true; even if true it must mean peace on the basis of separation; finally, "5th. I know that no terms of peace would be accepted that did not embrace independence." But at the conclusion of this letter he acknowledged:
"I confess that all this speculation rests on, what I assume,
that Lee surrendered only in expectation of a peace derived
from his interview with Grant - and that no terms of peace
would be entertained that did not rest on
independence[1288]."
But Slidell saw more clearly. He replied:
"I cannot share your hopefulness. We have seen the beginning
of the end. I, for my part, am prepared for the worst. With
Lee's surrender there will soon be an end to our regular
organized armies and I can see no possible good to result
from a protracted guerilla warfare. We are crushed and must
submit to the yoke. Our children must bide their time for
vengeance, but you and I will never revisit our homes under
our glorious flag. For myself I shall never put my foot on a
soil from which flaunts the hated Stars and Stripes.... I am
sick, sick at heart[1289]."
The news of Lee's surrender arrived at the same moment with that of a serious injury to Seward in a runaway accident, and in its editorial on the end of the war the Times took occasion to pay a tribute to the statesman whom it had been accustomed to berate.
"There seems to be on the part of President Lincoln a desire
to conciliate vanquished fellow-citizens. Under the guidance
of Mr. Seward, who has creditably distinguished himself in
the Cabinet by his moderate counsels, and whose life will, we
trust, be spared at this crisis to the Union, he may by
gentle measures restore tranquillity, and perhaps, before his
term of office expires, calm in some degree the animosities
which have been raised by these years of war[1290]."
Nor was this insincere, for Seward had, first in the estimate of British statesmen, more slowly in the press and with the public, come to be regarded in an aspect far different from that with which he was generally viewed in 1861. There was real anxiety at the reports of Seward's accident, but when, in less than a week, there was received also the news of the assassination of Lincoln and of the brutal attack on Seward, all England united in expressions of sympathy and horror. "Few events of the present century," wrote Adams, "have created such general consternation and indignation[1291]."
In Ford's Theatre on the evening of April 14, Lincoln was shot by Booth, a fanatical Southerner, who had gained entrance to the box where the President was sitting. Lincoln died early the next morning. On the same evening, at about ten o'clock, an unknown man was admitted to Seward's house on the plea that he had a message from the physician, passed upstairs, but was stopped by Seward's son at the door of the sick room. Beating the son into semi-unconsciousness with a revolver which had missed fire, the stranger burst open the door, attacked the Secretary as he lay in bed with a bowie-knife, slashing at his throat, until Seward rolled off the bed to the floor. Seward's throat was "cut on both sides, his right cheek nearly severed from his face"; his life was saved, probably, because of an iron frame worn to support the jaw fractured in the runaway accident nine days before[1292]. The assailant fought his way out of the house and escaped. For some days Seward's life was despaired of, whether from his injuries or from shock.
These tragic occurrences were the outcome of a revengeful spirit in the hearts of a few extreme Southerners, and in no sense represented the feeling of the South. It was inevitable, however, that abroad so horrible a crime should react both to the detriment of the Confederacy and to the advantage of the North. Sympathy with the North took the form of a sudden exaltation of the personality of Lincoln, bringing out characterizations of the man far different from those which had been his earlier in the war. The presence of a "rural attorney" in the Presidential office had seemed like the irony of fate in the great crisis of 1861. Even so acute an observer as Lyons could then write, "Mr. Lincoln has not hitherto given proof of his possessing any natural talents to compensate for his ignorance of everything but Illinois village politics. He seems to be well meaning and conscientious, in the measure of his understanding, but not much more[1293]." But Lyons was no more blind than his contemporaries, for nearly all characterizations, whether American or foreign, were of like nature.
But the slow progress of the years of war had brought a different estimate of Lincoln - a curious blending of admiration for the growth of his personal authority and for his steadiness of purpose, with criticism of his alleged despotism. Now, with his death, following so closely the collapse of the Confederacy, there poured out from British press and public a great stream of laudation for Lincoln almost amounting to a national recantation. In this process of "whitening Abraham's tomb," as a few dyed-in-the-wool Southern sympathizers called it, Punch led the way in a poem by Tom Taylor:
"You lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier,
You, who with mocking pencil wont to trace,
Broad for the self-complacent British sneer,
His length of shambling limb, his furrowed face."
"Yes, he had lived to shame me from my sneer,
To lame my pencil and confute my pen -
To make me own this hind of princes peer,
This rail-splitter a true-born king of men[1294]."
Less emotional than most papers, but with a truer estimate of Lincoln, stood the Times. Severely reprobating the act of Booth and prophesying a disastrous effect in the treatment of the conquered South, it proceeded:
"Starting from a humble position to one of the greatest
eminence, and adopted by the Republican party as a
make-shift, simply because Mr. Seward and their other
prominent leaders were obnoxious to different sections of
the party, it was natural that his career should be watched
with jealous suspicion. The office cast upon him was great,
its duties most onerous, and the obscurity of his past career
afforded no guarantee of his ability to discharge them. His
shortcomings moreover were on the surface. The education of a
man whose early years had been spent in earning bread by
manual labour had necessarily been defective, and faults of
manner and errors of taste repelled the observer at the
outset. In spite of these drawbacks, Mr. Lincoln slowly won
for himself the respect and confidence of all. His perfect
honesty speedily became apparent, and, what is, perhaps, more
to his credit, amid the many unstudied speeches which he was
called upon from time to time to deliver, imbued though they
were with the rough humour of his early associates, he was in
none of them betrayed into any intemperance of language
towards his opponents or towards neutrals. His utterances
were apparently careless, but his tongue was always under
command. The quality of Mr. Lincoln's administration which
served, however, more than any other to enlist the sympathy
of bystanders was its conservative progress. He felt his way
gradually to his conclusions, and those who will compare the
different stages of his career one with another will find
that his mind was growing throughout the course of it."
"The gradual change of his language and of his policy was
most remarkable. Englishmen learnt to respect a man who
showed the best characteristics of their race in his respect
for what is good in the past, acting in unison with a
recognition of what was made necessary by the events of
passing history[1295]."
This was first reaction. Two days later, commenting on the far warmer expressions of horror and sympathy emanating from all England, there appeared another and longer editorial:
"If anything could mitigate the distress of the American
people in their present affliction, it might surely be the
sympathy which is expressed by the people of this country. We
are not using the language of hyperbole in describing the
manifestation of feeling as unexampled. Nothing like it has
been witnessed in our generation.... But President Lincoln
was only the chief of a foreign State, and of a State with
which we were not infrequently in diplomatic or political
collision. He might have been regarded as not much more to us
than the head of any friendly Government, and yet his end has
already stirred the feelings of the public to their
uttermost depths."
"... a space of twenty-four hours has sufficed not only to
fill the country with grief and indignation, but to evoke
almost unprecedented expressions of feeling from constituted
bodies. It was but on Wednesday that the intelligence of the
murder reached us, and on Thursday the Houses of Lords and
Commons, the Corporation of the City of London, and the
people of our chief manufacturing towns in public meeting
assembled had recorded their sentiments or expressed their
views. In the House of Lords the absence of precedent for
such a manifestation was actually made the subject of remark.
"That much of this extraordinary feeling is due to the
tragical character of the event and the horror with which the
crime is regarded is doubtless true, nor need we dissemble
the the fact that the loss which the Americans have sustained
is also thought our own loss in so far as one valuable
guarantee for the amity of the two nations may have been thus
removed. But, upon the whole, it is neither the possible
embarrassment of international relations nor the infamous
wickedness of the act itself which has determined public
feeling. The preponderating sentiment is sincere and genuine
sympathy - -sorrow for the chief of a great people struck
down by an assassin, and sympathy for that people in the
trouble which at a crisis of their destinies such a
catastrophe must bring. Abraham Lincoln was as little of a
tyrant as any man who ever lived. He could have been a tyrant
had he pleased, but he never uttered so much as an
ill-natured speech.... In all America there was, perhaps, not
one man who less deserved to be the victim of this revolution
than he who has just fallen[1296]."
The Ministry did not wait for public pressure. Immediately on receipt of the news, motions were made, April 27, in both Lords and Commons for an address to the Queen, to be debated "Monday next," expressing "sorrow and indignation" at the assassination of Lincoln[1297]. April 28, Russell instructed Bruce to express at Washington that "the Government, the Parliament, and the Nation are affected by a unanimous feeling of abhorrence of the criminals guilty of these cowardly and atrocious crimes, and sympathy for the Government and People of the United States[1298]...." Russell wrote here of both Lincoln and Seward. The Queen wrote a personal letter of sympathy to Mrs. Lincoln. Already Bruce had written from Washington that Lincoln "was the only friend of the South in his party[1299]," and he was extremely anxious that Seward's recovery might be hastened, fearing the possibility of Sumner's assumption of the Secretaryship of State. "We miss terribly the comparative moderation of Lincoln and Seward[1300]."
The American Minister naturally became the centre toward which the public outpouring of sympathy was directed. "The excitement in this country has been deep and wide, spreading through all classes of society. My table is piled high with cards, letters and resolutions[1301]...." Indeed all the old sources of "addresses" to Adams on emancipation and many organizations having no professed interest in that subject now sent to him resolutions - the emancipation societies, of horror, indignation, and even accusation against the South; the others of sympathy, more moderate in tone, yet all evincing an appreciation of the great qualities of Lincoln and of the justice of the cause of the North, now victorious. Within two weeks Adams reported over four hundred such addresses from Emancipation Societies, Chambers of Commerce, Trades Unions, municipalities, boroughs, churches, indeed from every known type of British organizations[1302].
On May 1 the motion for the address to the Crown came up for debate. In the Lords, Russell emphasized the kindly and forgiving qualities of Lincoln as just those needed in America, and now lost by his death. Derby, for the Opposition, expressed the horror of the world at Booth's act, joined in expressions of sympathy to the United States, but repeated the old phrase about the "North fighting for empire, the South for independence," and hinted that the unusual step now being taken by Parliament had in it a "political object," meaning that the motion had been introduced in the hope of easing American irritation with Great Britain[1303]. It was not a tactful speech, but Derby's lieutenant in the Commons, Disraeli, saved his party from criticism by what was distinctly the most thoughtful and best-prepared utterance of the day. Palmerston was ill. The Government speech was made by Grey, who incautiously began by asserting that the majority of the people of Great Britain had always been on the side of the North and was met by cries of "No, no" and "Hear, hear." Disraeli concluded the debate. He said:
"There are rare instances when the sympathy of a nation
approaches those tenderer feelings that generally speaking,
are supposed to be peculiar to the individual, and to form
the happy privilege of private life; and this is one. Under
all circumstances we should have bewailed the catastrophe at
Washington; under all circumstances we should have shuddered
at the means by which it was accomplished. But in the
character of the victim, and even in the accessories of his
last moments there is something so homely and so innocent
that it takes as it were the subject out of all the pomp of
history and the ceremonial of diplomacy; it touches the heart
of nations, and appeals to the domestic sentiment of mankind.
"Sir, whatever the various and varying opinions in this
House, and in the country generally on the policy of the late
President of the United States, on this, I think, all must
agree, that in one of the severest trials which ever tested
the moral qualities of man, he fulfilled his duty with
simplicity and strength. Nor is it possible for the people of
England, at such a moment, to forget that he sprang from the
same fatherland, and spoke the same mother tongue.
"When such crimes are perpetrated the public mind is apt to
fall into gloom and perplexity; for it is ignorant alike of
the causes and the consequences of such deeds. But it is one
of our duties to reassure the country under unreasoning panic
or despondency. Assassination has never changed the history
of the world....
"In expressing our unaffected and profound sympathy with the
citizens of the United States at the untimely end of their
elected Chief, let us not, therefore, sanction any feeling of
depression, but rather let us express a fervent hope that
from out the awful trials of the last four years, of which
not the least is this violent demise, the various populations
of North America may issue elevated and chastened; rich in
that accumulated wisdom, and strong in that disciplined
energy which a young nation can only acquire in a protracted
and perilous struggle. Then they will be enabled not merely
to renew their career of power and prosperity, but they will
renew it to contribute to the general happiness of mankind.
It is with these feelings, Sir, that I second the Address to
the Crown[1304]."
Lincoln's assassination served to bring out not only British popular sympathy, but also the certitude that the war was over and the North victorious. But officially the Government had not yet recognized this. Even as early as January, 1865, Seward had returned to the old proposal that the nations of Europe should withdraw their recognition of Southern belligerent rights[1305], and in March he had asked Stoeckl, the Russian Minister, whether Russia would not lead in the suggestion of this measure to England and France[1306]. Meanwhile Sherman's army was rapidly advancing northward and reports were arriving of its pillagings and burnings. March 20, Gregory asked in the Commons whether the Government was taking any steps to prevent the destruction of British property and received from Layard an evasive reply. Merely a "confident hope" had been expressed to the United States that "every facility will be given" to British subjects to prove ownership of property[1307]. Evidently the Government was not eager to raise irritating questions at a moment when all eyes were strained to observe the concluding events of the war.
Then came the news of Lee's surrender and of the assassination of Lincoln, with the attack on Seward, already incapacitated from active duties. Seward's illness delayed American pressure on England - a fortunate circumstance in the relations with Great Britain in that it gave time for a clearer appreciation of the rapidity and completeness of the collapse of the South. May 15, Lord Houghton asked whether the Government did not intend, in view of recent events in America, "to withdraw the admission of belligerent rights conceded to the so-called Confederate States." Russell promptly objected to the form of the question: England had not "conceded" any rights to the South - she had merely issued a proclamation of neutrality after Lincoln had declared the existence of a war by proclaiming a blockade. England had had no other recourse, unless she chose to refuse recognition of the blockade, and this would have drawn her into the war. As to a withdrawal of the neutrality proclamation this must wait upon official announcement from the United States that the war was at an end. Texas was still in arms and Galveston still blockaded, and for this section the United States would no doubt continue to exercise on neutral vessels a belligerent right of search. It followed that if Great Britain did prematurely withdraw her proclamation of neutrality and the United States searched a British vessel, it would be the exercise of a right of search in time of peace - an act against which Great Britain would be bound to make vigorous protest. Hence England must wait on American action proclaiming the end of the war. Russell concluded by expressing gratification at the prospect of peace[1308].
But matters were not to take this orderly and logical course. Seward, though still extremely weak and confined to his home, was eager to resume the duties of office, and on May 9 a Cabinet was held at his house. A week later Bruce wrote to Russell in some anxiety that America was about to demand the withdrawal by Great Britain of belligerent rights to the South, that if Great Britain would but act before such a demand was made it would serve to continue the existing good feeling in America created by the sympathy over Lincoln's death, and especially, that there was a decided danger to good relations in the fact that Confederate cruisers were still at large. He urged that orders should be sent to stop their presence in British colonial ports securing coal and supplies[1309]. Three days later Bruce repeated his warning[1310]. This was, apparently, a complication unforeseen at the Foreign Office. In any case Russell at once made a complete face-about from the policy he had outlined in reply to Lord Houghton. On May 30 he instructed Cowley in Paris to notify France that England thought the time had arrived for recognition that the war was ended and laid special stress upon the question of Confederate cruisers still at sea and their proper treatment in British ports[1311]. Thus having given to France notice of his intention, but without waiting for concurrent action, Russell, on June 2, issued instructions to the Admiralty that the war was ended and stated the lines upon which the Confederate cruisers were to be treated[1312]. Here was prompt, even hurried, action though the only additional event of war in America which Russell could at the moment cite to warrant his change of policy was the capture of Jefferson Davis. On the same day Russell wrote to Bruce stating what had been done and recognizing the "re-establishment of peace within the whole territory of which the United States, before the commencement of the civil war, were in undisturbed possession[1313]."
This sudden shift by the Government did not escape Derby's caustic criticism. June 12, he referred in Parliament to Houghton's previous inquiry and Russell's answer, asking why the Government had not stuck to its earlier position and calling attention to the fact that the United States, while now proclaiming certain ports open to trade, yet specified others as still closed and threatened with punishment as pirates, any vessel attempting to enter them. Derby desired information as to what the Government had done about this remarkable American proclamation. Russell, "who was very imperfectly heard," answered that undoubtedly it was embarrassing that no "regular communication" had been received from America giving notice of the end of the war, but that the two Confederate cruisers still at sea and the entrance of one of them to various Australian ports had compelled some British action. He had consulted Adams, who had no instructions but felt confident the United States would soon formally declare the end of the war. The "piracy proclamation" was certainly a strange proceeding. Derby pushed for an answer as to whether the Government intended to let it go by unnoticed. Russell replied that a despatch from Bruce showed that "notice" had been taken of it. Derby asked whether the papers would be presented to Parliament; Russell "was understood to reply in the affirmative[1314]." Derby's inquiry was plainly merely a hectoring of Russell for his quick shift from the position taken a month earlier. But the very indifference of Russell to this attack, his carelessness and evasion in reply, indicate confidence that Parliament was as eager as the Government to satisfy the North and to avoid friction. The only actual "notice" taken by Bruce at Washington of the "piracy proclamation" was in fact, to report it to Russell, commenting that it was "unintelligible" and probably a mere attempt to frighten foreign ship-owners[1315]. Russell instructed Bruce not to ask for an explanation since Galveston had been captured subsequent to the date of the proclamation and there was presumably no port left where it could be applied[1316].
In truth the actual events of the closing days of the war had outrun diplomatic action by America. Scattered Southern forces still in the field surrendered with an unexpected rapidity, while at Washington all was temporarily in confusion upon the death of Lincoln and the illness of Seward. Bruce's advice had been wise and the prompt action of Russell fortunate. Seward at once accepted Russell's notification of June 2 as ending British neutrality. While again insisting upon the essential injustice of the original concession of belligerent rights to the South, and objecting to some details in the instructions to the Admiralty, he yet admitted that normal relations were again established and acknowledged that the United States could no longer exercise a right of search[1317]. July 4, Russell presented this paper to Parliament, reading that portion in which Seward expressed his pleasure that the United States could now enter again upon normal relations with Great Britain[1318]. Two days later Russell wrote to Bruce that he had not expected Seward to acknowledge the rightfulness of England's neutrality position, pointed out that his Admiralty instructions were misunderstood and were less objectionable than appeared and concluded by the expression of a hope for the "establishment of a lasting and intimate friendship between the two nations[1319]."
Great Britain, wrote the Russian Minister in Washington in January, 1860, was about to experience one of those "strokes of fortune" which occurred but rarely in the history of nations, in the approaching dissolution of the American Union. She alone, of all the nations of the world, would benefit by it in the expansion of her power, hitherto blocked by the might of the United States. Broken into two or more hostile pieces America would be at the mercy of England, to become her plaything. "The Cabinet of London is watching attentively the internal dissensions of the Union and awaits the result with an impatience which it has difficulty in disguising." Great Britain would soon, in return for cotton, give recognition to the South and, if required, armed support. For this same cotton she would oppose emancipation of the slaves. The break-up of the Union was no less than a disaster for all nations save England, since hitherto the "struggle" between England and the United States "has been the best guarantee against the ambitious projects and political egotism of the Anglo-Saxon race[1320]."
This prophecy, made over a year in advance of events, was repeated frequently as the crisis in America approached and during the first two years of the war. Stoeckl was not solitary in such opinion. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs held it also - and the French Emperor puzzled himself in vain to discover why Great Britain, in furtherance of her own interests, did not eagerly accept his overtures for a vigorous joint action in support of the South[1321].
The preceding chapters of this work will have shown how unfounded was such prophecy. Stoeckl was behind the times, knowing nothing, apparently, of that positive change in British policy in the late 'fifties which resulted in a determination to cease opposition to the expansion of American power. Such opposition was then acknowledged to have been an error and in its place there sprang into being a conviction that the might of America would tend toward the greatness of England itself[1322]. In the months preceding the outbreak of the Civil War all British governmental effort was directed toward keeping clear of the quarrel and toward conciliation of the two sections. No doubt there were those in Great Britain who rejoiced at the rupture between North and South, but they were not in office and had no control of British policy.
The war once begun, the Government, anxious to keep clear of it, was prompt in proclaiming neutrality and hastened this step for fear of maritime complications with that one of the belligerents, the North, which alone possessed a naval force. But the British Ministry, like that of every other European state, believed that a revolution for independence when undertaken by a people so numerous and powerful as that of the South, must ultimately succeed. Hence as the war dragged on, the Ministry, pressed from various angles at home, ventured, with much uncertainty, upon a movement looking toward mediation. Its desire was first of all for the restoration of world peace, nor can any other motive be discovered in Russell's manoeuvres. This attempt, fortunately for America and, it may be believed, for the world, was blocked by cool heads within the Ministry itself. There was quick and, as it proved, permanent readjustment of policy to the earlier decision not to meddle in the American crisis.
This very failure to meddle was cause of great complaint by both North and South, each expectant, from divergent reasons, of British sympathy and aid. The very anger of the North at British "cold neutrality" is evidence of how little America, feeling the ties of race and sentiment, could have understood the mistaken view-point of diplomats like Stoeckl, who dwelt in realms of "reasons of state," unaffected by popular emotions. Aside from race, which could be claimed also by the South, the one great argument of the North in appeal to England lay in the cry of anti-slavery. But the leaders of the North denied its pertinence. Itself unsympathetic with the emotions of emancipation societies at home, the British Government settled down by the end of 1862 to a fixed policy of strict neutrality.
In all this the Government but pursued that line which is the business of Governments - the preservation of the prosperity and power of the state. With the unexpected prolongation of the war and the British recognition of the Northern "will to conquer" there came, as is evident from a scrutiny of Russell's diplomatic tone and acts, a growing belief that the North might after all succeed in its purpose, at least of subjugating the South. This would mean the possibility of continuing that policy of friendship for a united America which had been determined upon in the 'fifties. Here was no special sympathy, but merely a cool calculation of benefits to Great Britain, but there can be no question that the general attitude of the Government by midsummer of 1863 was distinctly favourable to a restored Union. A "friendly neutrality" began to replace a "cold neutrality."
But it is the business of Governments not merely to guard national interests and prosperity; they also must guard their own authority and seek to remain in political power. Here emancipation, never greatly stirring the leaders, whether Whig or Tory, exercised an increasing pressure by the force of public approval. It made impossible any attempt to overthrow the Ministry on the score of non-interference in America, or of favouritism toward the North. It gave to an enthusiastic and vociferous section of the British public just ground for strong support of Lincoln and his cause, and in some degree it affected governmental attitude.
There was, however, another question, much more vital than emancipation in its relation to British home politics, that ran like a constant thread through the whole pattern of British public attitude toward America. It had always been so since the days of the American revolution and now was accentuated by the American war. This was the question of the future of democracy. Was its fate bound up with the result of that war? And if so where lay British interest? Always present in the minds of thoughtful Englishmen, appearing again and again through each changing phase of the war, this question was so much a constant that to have attempted discussion of it while other topics were being treated, would have resulted in repetition and confusion. It is therefore made the subject of a separate and concluding chapter.
[Footnote 1261: Bright to Sumner, Jan. 26, 1865 (Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, XLVI, p. 132).]
[Footnote 1262: To Sumner, Feb. 17, 1865 (Ibid., p. 133).]
[Footnote 1263: Dodd, Jefferson Davis, p. 343]
[Footnote 1264: Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, March 4, 1865.]
[Footnote 1265: Ibid., Slidell to Mason, March 5 and 6, 1865.]
[Footnote 1266: Ibid., Mason to Slidell, March 15, 1865.]
[Footnote 1267: Mason to Benjamin, March 31, 1865. (Richardson, II, pp. 709-17.)]
[Footnote 1268: Ibid., p. 717.]
[Footnote 1269: Russian Archives. Stoeckl to F.O., Jan. 24, 1865. No. 187. It is interesting that just at this time Gortchakoff should have sent to Stoeckl the copy of a memorandum by one, C. Catacazy, employe of the Foreign Office and long-time resident in the United States, in which was outlined a plan of a Russian offer of mediation. The memorandum specified that such an offer should be based on the idea that the time had come for a complete restoration of the Union and argued that both North and South regarded Russia as a special friend; it was Russia's interest to see the Union restored as a balance to Great Britain. Gortchakoff's comment was favourable, but he left it wholly to Stoeckl's judgment and discretion to act upon the plan. (Russian Archives. F.O. to Stoeckl, Feb. 6, 1865.)]
[Footnote 1270: Feb. 4, 1865.]
[Footnote 1271: A Cycle of Adams' Letters, II, 254. To his son, Feb. 10, 1865.]
[Footnote 1272: Bancroft, Seward, II, pp. 410-14.]
[Footnote 1274: U.S. Messages and Documents, 1865-66, Pt. I, p. 182. Adams to Seward, Feb. 23, 1865.]
[Footnote 1275: Ibid., p. 112. Adams to Seward, Feb. 2, 1865.]
[Footnote 1276: Ibid., p. 180. Seward to Adams, Feb. 21, 1865.]
[Footnote 1277: Ibid., p. 199. Adams to Seward, March 9, 1865.]
[Footnote 1278: Ibid., p. 197. Seward to Adams, March 8, 1865.]
[Footnote 1279: March 8, 1865. (Bigelow, Retrospections, II, p. 361.)]
[Footnote 1280: Russell Papers. Burnley to Russell, Feb. 23 and March 13, 1865.]
[Footnote 1281: "The speech of Mr. Bright is universally admitted to have been one of the most brilliant specimens of his peculiar style of oratory. In its reminiscences, equally unwelcome to both sides of the House, it was yet received after the fashion of an unpleasant medicine, which has the aid of a strong and savoury medium to overwhelm the nauseous taste." (U.S. Messages and Documents, 1865-66, Pt. I, p. 246. Adams to Seward, March 16, 1865.)]
[Footnote 1282: Ibid.]
[Footnote 1283: Ibid., p. 262. Adams to Seward, March 24, 1865. Adams wrote of his own situation that it "seems at last to be getting easy and comfortable, so far as freedom from anxiety is concerned." (A Cycle of Adams' Letters, II, p. 258. To his son, March 24, 1865.)]
[Footnote 1284: Bruce, who succeeded Lyons at Washington, reached New York on April 7. His first letter to Russell from Washington, dated April 14, stated that America was certainly preparing to oust Maximilian in Mexico, and that even the Southern prisoners were eager to join the United States troops in an expedition for this purpose. (Russell Papers.)]
[Footnote 1285: U.S. Messages and Documents, 1865-66, Part II, p. 323. Adams to Seward, April 20, 1865.]
[Footnote 1286: April 24, 1865.]
[Footnote 1288: Mason Papers. Mason to Slidell, April 23, 1865.]
[Footnote 1289: Ibid., Slidell to Mason, April 26, 1865.]
[Footnote 1291: U.S. Messages and Documents, 1865-66, Pt. I, p. 331. Adams to Seward, April 28, 1865.]
[Footnote 1292: Bancroft, Seward, II, p. 417.]
[Footnote 1293: Russell Papers. Lyons to Russell, April 9, 1861.]
[Footnote 1294: May 6, 1865.]
[Footnote 1297: Hansard, 3d. Ser., CLXXVIII, pp. 1073 and 1081.]
[Footnote 1298: Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons, Vol. LVII. "Correspondence respecting the Assassination of the late President of the United States."]
[Footnote 1299: Russell Papers. Bruce to Russell, April 18, 1865.]
[Footnote 1300: Ibid., April 24, 1865.]
[Footnote 1301: A Cycle of Adams' Letters, II, 267. Charles Francis Adams to his son, April 28, 1865.]
[Footnote 1302: U.S. Messages and Documents, 1865-66, Pt. I, pp. 344, 361. Adams to Hunter, May 4 and May 11, 1865.]
[Footnote 1303: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXVIII, p. 1219.]
[Footnote 1304: Ibid., pp. 1242-46.]
[Footnote 1305: Russell Papers. Burnley to Russell, Jan. 16, 1865.]
[Footnote 1306: Russian Archives. Stoeckl to F.O., March 1-13, 1865. No. 523. Stoeckl was opposed to this.]
[Footnote 1307: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXVII, p. 1922.]
[Footnote 1308: Ibid., CLXXIX, p. 286.]
[Footnote 1309: F.O., Am., Vol. 1018. No. 297. Bruce to Russell, May 16, 1865.]
[Footnote 1310: Ibid., No. 303. Bruce to Russell, May 19, 1865.]
[Footnote 1311: Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons, Vol. LVII. "Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 10.]
[Footnote 1312: Ibid., "Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America."]
[Footnote 1313: Ibid., "Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 9.]
[Footnote 1314: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXX, pp. 1-6.]
[Footnote 1315: Parliamentary Papers, 1865, Commons, Vol. LVII. "Correspondence respecting President's Proclamation of 22nd May, 1865." Bruce to Russell, May 26, 1865.]
[Footnote 1316: Ibid., June 16, 1865.]
[Footnote 1317: Ibid., "Further Correspondence respecting the Cessation of Civil War in North America." No. 9. Seward to Bruce, June 19, 1865.]
[Footnote 1318: Hansard, 3rd. Ser., CLXXX, p. 1143.]
[Footnote 1320: Russian Archives, Stoeckl to F.O., Dec. 23, 1859/Jan. 4, 1860. No. 146.]
[Footnote 1321: Ibid., Stoeckl to F.O., Jan. 17-29, 1861. No. 267. He reports that he has seen a confidential letter from Thouvenel to Mercier outlining exactly his own ideas as to England being the sole gainer by the dissolution of the Union.]
[Footnote 1322: For an analysis of this change see The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, Vol II, p. 277, which also quotes a remarkable speech by Disraeli.]
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CHAPTER VII. The Philippine Flag
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy
In conformity with my orders issued on the 1st of September, all Philippine vessels hoisted the national flag, the Marines of the Filipino flotilla being the first to execute that order. Our little flotilla consisted of some eight Spanish steam launches (which had been captured) and five vessels of greater dimensions, namely, the Taaleno, Baldyan, Taal, Bulucan, and Purisima Concepcion. These vessels were presented to the Philippine Government by their native owners and were converted by us, at our Arsenal, into gunboats, 8 and 9 centimetre guns, taken from the sunken Spanish warships, being mounted on board.
Ah! what a beautiful, inspiring joyous sight that flag was fluttering in the breeze from the topmasts of our vessels, side by side, as it were, with the ensigns of other and greater nations, among whose mighty warships our little cruisers passed to and fro dipping their colours, the ensign of Liberty and Independence! With what reverence and adoration it was viewed as it suddenly rose in its stately loneliness crowning our victories, and, as it were, smiling approvingly upon the undisciplined Philippine Army in the moment of its triumphs over the regular forces of the Spanish Government! One's heart swells and throbs again with the emotions of extreme delight; the soul is filled with pride, and the goal of patriotism seems well-nigh reached in the midst of such a magnificent spectacle!
At the end of June I called on Admiral Dewey, who, after complimenting me on the rapid triumphs of the Philippine Revolution, told me he had been asked by the German and French Admirals why he allowed the Filipinos to display on their vessels a flag that was not recognized. Admiral Dewey said his reply to the French and German Admirals was - with his knowledge and consent the Filipinos used that flag, and, apart from this, he was of opinion that in view of the courage and steadfastness of purpose displayed in the war against the Spaniards the Filipinos deserved the right to use their flag.
I thereupon expressed to the Admiral my unbounded gratitude for such unequivocal protection, and on returning to the shore immediately ordered the Philippine flotilla to convey troops to the other provinces of Luzon and to the Southern islands, to wage war against the Spaniards who garrisoned them.
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P3 and ASIMO – The Honda Humanoid Robots
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The chronology and history of P3 and ASIMO
In science fiction, humans often interact with life-like robots who can perform a wide range of functions. Though currently we are nowhere near the sophistication of Star Wars’ C3PO, Honda is making great strides in that direction. ASIMO, Honda’s human-like robot can perform and amazing array of activities that before only humans could.
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Honda began developing the prototypes to the Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, or “ASIMO,” in 1986. The first three models (E1 through E3) focused on what engineers felt was the most difficult task; walking on two legs. The following three models (E4 through E6) focused on balancing those legs. Those first six prototypes took a combined six years to perfect. These were followed by “humanoid prototype models” in 1993, 1996 and 1997 and were numbered P1, P2 and P3 respectively. P1 was over 6 feet tall and weighed almost 400 pounds. By the P3 model, the size and weight of the ASIMO prototypes were a mere five foot two inches tall and weighed just under 300 pounds. At this point the P model prototypes had the ability to walk, climb and descend stairs as well as complete a handful of other engineer-controlled movements. The first true ASIMO debuted in 2000 and was improved upon; ASIMO “for hire” was produced in 2001, “intelligent” ASIMO in 2002, “next-gen” ASIMO in 2004 and “New” ASIMO in 2005. Throughout those model iterations, the functionality of ASIMO was improved and advanced. Currently, there are 47 ASIMOs in operation.
ASIMO has mastered basic functions such as walking, running, dancing, and climbing stairs and uneven terrain. Additionally, ASIMO has been programmed to understand a limited amount of verbal and non-verbal commands. Honda engineers have also programmed ASIMO to grasp objects with its hands, to remember faces, and to be able to remember rooms as it walks through them, so that when it returns, it can navigate it more easily.
According to Honda, ASIMO was meant to be a helper to human beings in a household environment, particularly people who are bed-ridden or in wheelchairs. ASIMO’s size is deliberately set at four feet tall to “look” its owner in the face. Currently, however, ASIMO is only used in Japan and is mostly used as a guide in museums or as a greeter of visitors for some companies. There are currently no plans to sell ASIMO in the United States.
ASIMO is a specific type of robot called an “Android” meaning “human-like.” As an android, ASIMO has been programmed to do a number of human-like things. Famously, the “next-gen” ASIMO showed off its dance moves (perhaps ironically doing the “Robot” to techno music) in 2004. The “new” ASIMO took that appreciation of music a step further and played a violin. Later, Honda executives staged a publicity stunt where ASIMO conducted an orchestra.
Additionally, ASIMO can use its programming to recognize when a collision is imminent and can avoid it smoothly. This applies to stationary and moving objects as well; one of ASIMO’s feats was avoiding another ASIMO; both ASIMOs were able to detect small shifts in each other’s movements and correct themselves accordingly, proving that ASIMO could “think” its way out of a situation.
Though ASIMO can “think” its way out of simple situations or recognize faces, it is not a true “Artificial Intelligence” or AI. To be considered an AI, ASIMO must be self-aware (in other words, it knows that it is a computer) and it needs to be able to teach itself. Currently, ASIMO only knows what its programmers “tell” it through software coding. Still, the abilities of ASIMO are steps toward AI status; problem solving, noticing differences and recognizing individuals.
It is perhaps ironic that in 1970 a Japanese scientist named Masahiro Mori first postulated the so-called “uncanny valley” in relation to robots. In essence, Mori postulated that as robots come to look and more more like humans, the more humans would be repulsed by robots. Somewhere deep inside human beings, there is the sense that “something isn’t right” about the robot and that sense translates into fascination, revulsion and fear. While humans can “forgive” the odd movements of a somewhat-humanoid ASIMO, if a similar robot had a latex face which moved when it “talked” or walked or did any of those actions, it would activate the “uncanny valley” reflex. Zombie-like movement in horror films, prosthetic limbs and other unnatural movements also activate the “uncanny valley” feeling in humans.
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The succees of ASIMO
Honda take the opportunity in the development of the two-legged humanoid robot that can walk like humans. This Honda’s humanoid robots are small size, lightweight, and called Asimo (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), a robot revolution in the new era which robots have a style looks like a man when running.
One of the reasons Honda robot Asimo created in the past few years is to develop robots that can run itself, which help the human, as the practice of their use in the community. Research and development of robot Asimo began in 1996 with a prototype robot P2, and in 1997 in the format of P3 robot.
Asimo robots including the prototype of P3, which may be smooth and without a voice. With a high body Asimo about 120 cm eyes will be visible with the eye of the adults when adults sit in the chair. Asimo more lightweight than P3, the higher 40 cm and 87 kg more weight than the Asimo. With the weight of 43 kg, Asimo can operate household appliances, to reach the door knob, dance, and run the household tasks.
Asimo robot has a walk Advanced Technology which is able to estimate and control the movement in accordance with the direction of gravity, combined with the control that is already running, namely, technology iWalk (intelligent real-time, flexible walking). A combination of both technologies can change the direction of the fine, so it looks natural and stable as human beings. Operation of the robot using the method to Simple Operation, smoothing the way for the robots, control run which are flexible, and key operations (from the signal of movement and wave hands), which can be operated from portable workstation or control, which was installed in the hand. Expansion of distance movement Asimo can be done by adding a movement of shoulder angle around 20 degrees and high angle of about 15 degrees horizontally, the upper arm vertical movement of 105 degrees, far wider than the P3 robot.
The following are specifications of Asimo robot from Honda:
* Weight: 43kg
* Height: 1.200 mm
* Thickness: 440mm
* Length: 450mm
* Speed run: 0 – 1.6km / h
* Degrees of freedom movement of the head: 2 degrees
* Degrees freedom of movement of arms: 5 x 2 = 10 degrees
* Degrees of freedom of movement: 1 x 2 = 2 degrees
* Degrees of freedom footwork: 6 x 2 = 12 degrees
* Total freedom of movement degrees: 26 degrees
* Precursor robots: Servomotor + + Decelerator Harmonic Drive ECU
* Checker: walk / Operation Control ECU, ECU Wireless Transmission Sensor
* Sensor feet: 6-axis
* Sensor body: Gyroscope & Deceleration
* Source of energy: 38.4V/10AH (Ni-MN)
* Operation: Work Station & Portable Controller
* Excess robot Asimo:
o Small and lightweight
o walk Technology advanced
o a broad movement of arms
o Design a people-friendly
o How operation is easy
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Excerpts: Golan attack ‘colossal failure’ for Hezbollah. Palestinian knife attack on Tel Aviv bus.U.N.Independent Commission of Inquiry.Jordan opposes Israel airport plan January 21, 2015
Excerpts: Golan attack ‘colossal failure’ for Hezbollah. Palestinian knife
attack on Tel Aviv bus.U.N.Independent Commission of Inquiry.Jordan opposes
Israel airport plan January 21, 2015
+++SOURCE: Al Arabiya News 21 J an.’15:”Golan attack ‘colossal failure’ for
Hezbollah, analysts say” by Staff Writer
SUBJECT Israel helicopter attack impact
QUOTE:”It is also one of the biggest losses inflicted on Hezbollah by Israel
in recent years. (AFP)”
FUL L TEXT:An Israeli helicopter attack killed five members of Hezbollah
operating out of Syria over the weekend. Among the dead were senior
Hezbollah figures and an Iranian general, raising tensions in Lebanon of a
potential return to hostilities between the two neighboring countries.
The attack – which killed Hezbollah military chief Imad Mughniyeh's son,
Jihad, a high ranking member by the name of Mohammad Ahmad Issa – took place
near the Golan Heights and is the latest in a string of escalating attacks
by Israel on Hezbollah targets in Syria.
It is also one of the biggest losses inflicted on Hezbollah by Israel in
recent years.
To date, Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack. Nonetheless,
international as well as local Lebanese media, including the Hezbollah
affiliated Al-Manar, seem certain the attack bears the hallmark of the
Israeli military.
Analysts, speaking to Al-Arabiya News, said the attack represented a major
breach to Hezbollah’s security and a tactical misjudgment on the part of the
Iranian-backed militant group.
“This was a colossal failure … because they [Hezbollah] put this number of
senior figures in one spot and at the same observation point and at the same
time,” Wehbe Katicha, a former Lebanese army general, told Al Arabiya News.
“You rarely see armies committing such a mistake,” he said.
“This is represents a weak point of Hezbollah because of this behavior,” he
added.
While not describing it as a failure, Dr. Hilal Khashan, a political science
professor at the American University of Beirut, said the incident was a
“major security breach” to Hezbollah’s security apparatus.
“Hezbollah moves secretly and a number of ranking officials are even
tighter. The fact is Israel had information from within,” he said.
A member of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s inner circle was recently
reported to be spying for Israel. Local media identified the man as Mohammad
Shorba. This is one of the most pressing and prominent breaches in the group
since its formation.
Katicha noted Shorba’s case, saying the Shiite group was always vulnerable
to such infiltration.
“This is not only a failure from [strategic] point of view but also it is
obvious that Hezbollah’s apparatus has been infiltrated by Israeli
intelligence,” Katicha said, referring to Shorba’s case.
“Shorba was arrested by Hezbollah. He was a senior figure,” he said.
“This may not be the only infiltration and therefore as a group … it is
always vulnerable to such infiltration,” he added.
Can Hezbollah respond?
In an article on its English language website, Al-Manar rounded up the
reaction of the Israeli media with a headline that read: “Israeli Media:
Hezbollah Response Certain, But How and When?”
While analysts said Hezbollah might respond, there were mixed views on the
imminence of such an attack.
"Hezbollah will retaliate for the assassination of [these] cadres but it
will not happen immediately," said Dr. Haytham Mouzahem, a Lebanese
political analyst and the Director of the Beirut Center for Middle East
Studies. "The Israelis are on high alert now and the party will study the
best way to [take] revenge."
Mouzahem said the retaliation could be in the Golan, the Shebaa Farms, a
disputed area that Israeli currently controls and Lebanon claims are
occupied by their Southern neighbors, or even beyond.
"This is open confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel, not only in
Lebanon but [it has extended] to the Syrian side where the assassination
took place," said Kamel Wazne, Director of American Strategic Studies in
Beirut and a political analyst.
"Usually when Hezbollah declares the name of their martyrs then revenge will
be taken," Wazne added.
In the past, such attacks have struck fear into the Lebanese populace as
scarred memories linger from the 2006 July War. But regional events over the
last few years have changed the game a bit. With Hezbollah engaged in the
Syrian Civil War, many analysts believe they are hesitant to open up a
second front on the southern border with the Israelis.
"Hezbollah will respect the Lebanese government," said Wazne. "Their
[retaliatory] measures will take this into consideration."
Still, Wazne said, a full-on war will not be entirely taken off the table if
Hezbollah feels that is the proper action to take. More likely to happen
however is a series of small scale, tit-for-tat, targeted attacks in the
same vein as yesterday's.
Katicha was also convinced that Hezbollah, despite its announcements, would
unlikely launch any imminent attack from Lebanese soil.
“I think Hezbollah has no interest in launching a response from Lebanese
soil because it knows this will lead to a catastrophe in Lebanon,” he said.
“If it does carry out such an action, it will destroy Lebanon … and then all
the Lebanese, even the communities supporting it, will turn against them,”
the former general said.
Israel's 'red-line'
Mouzahem said that Israel decided to strike at Hezbollah yesterday to send a
"Don't cross the red line," he said. Attacking Israeli troops and settlers
from the Golan area or receiving sophisticated weapons - like the Iranian
Fateh-110 missiles that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah announced the party
had acquired since 2006 - are two of those red lines, according to Mouzahem.
"Israel wants to say that its security in the Golan Heights and Galilee is a
red-line. Meanwhile, the Israelis believe that Hezbollah has been behind
some attacks against [Israeli] troops in Golan - from the Syrian side."
Mouzahem said that Israel likely believes Hezbollah is training members for
an attack on Golan and this latest operation was a preemptive attempt at
thwarting future attacks.
Mouzahem and Khashan also brought up the correlation of Israeli elections.
In the past, election years in Israel have coincided with military
operations to drum up national unity.
“Hezbollah knows the timing of the Israeli attack is to serve [Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu in the elections,” said Mouzahem. “Of course,
the retaliation will be limited since the Lebanese group does not want to
get involved in a comprehensive war with Israel now.”
Khashan said that Israel had called Nasrallah’s bluff. “Hezbollah was trying
to later the rules of engagement in the Golan Heights.”
Nasrallah’s fiery speech from last week warned Israel of repercussions
should they attack Hezbollah or the Assad regime in Syria. Khashan said the
latest attack has put Nasrallah in an awkward position. “The Shiite
community is restless,” he said. “[Nasrallah] has to do something but doesn’t
have anything to do. It’s a very serious problem.”
Meanwhile, in Beirut on Sunday[18 Jan.] night, rumors swirled over whether
or not Hezbollah’s leader Nasrallah would take to the airwaves and comment
on the recent events. While it is still unclear where these rumors came
from, Lebanese media picked them up and eventually had to release comment
that Nasrallah would not speak that night.
“[Nasrallah] will appear and will decide what to say and how to say it,”
said Wazne.
“Revenge … could take place anywhere or anytime,” Wazne said
+++SOURCE: Naharnet (Lebanon) 21 Jan.’15:”12 Wounded in Palestinian Knife
Attack on Tel Aviv Bus”, Agence FrancePresse
SUBJECT:Palestinian knife attack on Tel Aviv bus
FULL TEXT:A knife-wielding Palestinian attacked passengers on a bus in Tel
Aviv on Wednesday[21 Jan.] wounding at least 12 people before being shot by
a passing prison officer, Israeli police said.
It was the first attack in Tel Aviv since mid-November when a young Israeli
soldier was stabbed to death by a Palestinian.
The attacker struck in the morning rush hour in the heart of Israel's
commercial capital, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said, describing him as a
"terrorist."
Twelve people were wounded in the attack, including three who were in
serious condition, four in moderate condition and five who sustained light
injuries, hospital sources said.
Another seven people were treated for shock.
"The terrorist stabbed the bus driver several times but the driver fought
back until he fled on foot and was neutralized by a guard from the prisons'
service," a police statement said.
He was shot in the leg then taken to hospital for further investigation.
Witnesses told army radio the driver apparently used pepper spray or tear
gas to try to stop the attack.
Police identified the attacker as a 23-year-old Palestinian from Tulkarem in
the northern West Bank, who was staying in Israeli illegally.
Pictures from the scene released by the police showed what looked like a
large kitchen knife lying on the ground.
Speaking to army radio, the prisons service officer, identified only as
Benny, described how the incident played out.
"We saw the bus swerve to the side... then stop at a green light," he said.
"Suddenly, we saw people running out of the bus and when we saw them
shouting for help, we jumped out (of our vehicle) and I and three others
started running after the terrorist. At first we fired in the air, then at
his legs.
"The terrorist fell, we handcuffed him and turned him over to police," he
told the radio.
The last attack in Tel Aviv was on November 10 when a Palestinian from the
northern West Bank stabbed a young Israeli soldier who later died of his
injuries.
That attack took place as Israel was struggling to contain a growing wave of
violence in annexed east Jerusalem which spread to Arab towns and villages
in Israel.
It has since abated, although there have been a number of violent incidents
over the past month.
+++SOURCE: Jordan Times 21 Jan.’15:”UN investigators meet victims of Gaza
conflict in Amman”,by Jordan Times
SUBJECT: U.N. Independent Commission of Inquiry re Israel- Gaza 2014
FULL TEXT:AMMAN – The United Nations’ Independent Commission of Inquiry
probing the 2014 Gaza conflict on Tuesday[20 Jan.] announced it has held
meetings in Amman with victims and witnesses from Gaza as part of its
investigation over the Israeli aggression on the besieged strip.
In a statement e-mailed to The Jordan Times, the commission said the recent
visit to Amman was the second, adding that during their stay, commissioners
held private meetings with an array of witnesses from the region.
“In the course of their work the commissioners and their team of
investigators have already spoken to a wide range of witnesses and victims
in the Gaza Strip, as well as the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and
Israel and they expect to hear from more in the coming weeks,” said the
statement, adding that the commissioners remain ready to travel to meet
witnesses face-to-face if Israel grants them access, or the security
situation is safe enough to cross from Egypt into the Gaza Strip.
During this visit, many victims and witnesses recounted “deeply traumatic”
events for the benefit of the commission, the UN body said.
The fact-finding team was established after the July 23, 2014 resolution
issued by the UN Human Rights Council calling for “ensuring respect for
international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories”.
Following the move, the council called for dispatching an international
commission of inquiry to investigate all violations of international
humanitarian law and international human rights law in the Palestinian
territories including East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the context of
the Israeli military operations conducted since June 13, 2014, “whether
before, during or after, to establish the facts and circumstances of such
violations and of the crimes perpetrated and to identify those responsible,
to make recommendations, in particular on accountability measures, all with
a view to avoiding and ending impunity and ensuring that those responsible
are held accountable, and on ways and means to protect civilians against any
further assaults, and to report to the council at its 28th session”,
according to the statement.
Among the commissioners is Mary McGowan Davis, from the US, who served as a
justice of the supreme court in the state of New York and as a federal
prosecutor during the course of a 25-year career in the criminal justice
sector in New York City.
Doudou Diène, from Senegal, is also a member of the commission. He was the
United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial
discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance from 2002 to 2008
+++SOURCE: Jordan Times 21 Jan.’15:”Jordan has taken all measures to halt
Israel airport plan –gov’t”, Jordan Times
SUBJECT: Jordan re Israel airport plan
FULL TEXT:AMMAN — The government on Tuesday[20 Jan. said that it has taken
all measures to protest an Israeli plan to build an airport near the border
north of Aqaba that is considered a threat to Jordan’s airspace security.
During an “oversight” House session, Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said
that the government is aware of all the details regarding the Israeli
scheme, adding that the Foreign Ministry, through Foreign Minister Nasser
Judeh, has made all the necessary contacts with international parties and
Israeli officials to assert that the airport’s location constitutes a
violation to Jordan’s sovereignty, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
The issue was ra ised after MP Rula Hroub said she was not convinced with
the government’s reply to a query she had filed, insisting that Judeh take
the responsibility for alleged failure to press for a halt to Israeli plans,
suggesting a vote of no confidence against the minister. For lack of quorum,
the Chamber failed to vote on the proposition — whether or not to hold a
no-confidence session — and Lower House First Deputy Speaker Ahmad Safadi,
who chaired the session, postponed the discussion till next Tuesday.[27 Jan]
For her part, Transport Minister Lina Shbeeb confirmed that the planned
Israeli airport is a violation to the Kingdom’s sovereignty, outlining the
steps authorities have taken to halt the plan, adding that the International
Civil Aviation Organisation will hold a session to vote over the Jordanian
complaint and establish whether the Israeli facility poses a violation to
Jordan’s right and a danger to its airspace security. She did not elaborate
on the timing of the vote.
The airport, which Israel plans to build some 18 kilometres north of its
port city of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba, would serve domestic and
international flights and is projected to open in 2016, according to Israel’s
Haaretz newspaper.
In previous statement, the Foreign Ministry said the airport is in violation
of international laws, especially Article 1 of the 1944 Convention on
International Civil Aviation.
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How To Help A Fasd Teen To Focus On Learning
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Moss Hill woodland up for sale
by John Ruch • March 4, 2011 • 0 Comments
Multiple bids in for 15 acres
JAMAICA HILLS—A 15-acre woodland in JP’s ritziest neighborhood is up for major development as a Catholic religious order reviews private bids for the land, the Gazette has learned. The bidding is already over, with one proposal calling for 40 housing units.
“This is just excess property,” said Sister Nancy Usselmann, treasurer of the Daughters of St. Paul (DSP), about the woodland behind the order’s 50 St. Paul Ave. headquarters in Moss Hill. “We are looking at options. We may not do anything.”
Usselmann declined to comment on the asking price and the number or details of the bids. No matter what, DSP, a women’s order that publishes Catholic media, will remain in its building complex. “We’re not going anywhere,” she said.
“We don’t have anything in particular in mind” in terms of types of development, Usselmann said. And DSP would not necessarily choose the highest bidder if someone has a better plan, according to bidding documents obtained by the Gazette.
But the process is leaning toward high-price, high-density development, according to bidding documents and a source familiar with the offering. A bidder who proposed 40 housing units was told by the sales agent to “nearly double” his offer to be “competitive”—which would require 75 to 121 units to make a profit, according to bidding documents.
That unidentified bidder decided not to boost his proposal out of concern that it would spark public controversy like that over a similar woodland sale on JP’s Hellenic Hill, according to the source. [See related article.]
The bidder “didn’t think it was going to fly, didn’t think it was right,” the source said. “It makes me think there’s probably a proposal out there that’s six to eight units an acre.”
The sales agent, Mike Ryan of Greenwich Group International, declined to comment about the offering.
Criterion Development Partners, a major housing developer with an offer on Hellenic Hill, looked at the DSP land but did not place a bid, according to company principal Jack Englert, a JP resident. “I wish we had [bid],” he added.
DSP sits atop a hill on the JP/Brookline border. Its wooded property is roughly bordered by the Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture; residential Malcolm Road and Whitcomb Avenue; and the Boston Police K-9 Unit and Allandale Farm on Allandale Street. It is accessible only from St. Paul’s Avenue and JP’s Westchester Road.
The property is valued at more than $4 million by the city’s Assessing Department. A privately circulated sales offer obtained by the Gazette marketed the woodland as “one of the largest available parcels of land in the city of Boston.”
“The site provides excellent views of Moss Hill and the Boston skyline,” the sales offer continues.
The deal could include two DSP buildings as well, according to bidding documents: a 46,000-square-foot former bookbinding factory, and a single-family residence. The documents solicited proposals for both sale and lease of the property.
The woodland is not entirely empty. A mausoleum containing the remains of DSP sisters sits on the hillside. DSP would move the mausoleum for the right development plan, Usselmann said.
The property offer went out in September and bids were due in January. Greenwich Group then asked the bidders to submit more details by Jan. 31 “with an eye towards improving the offers,” according to the bidding documents.
“Nothing has been finalized or decided,” Usselmann said, adding that there is no deadline. She described the property offering as a “very simple inquiry” to see what the land is worth. Even if DSP accepted a proposal, it would need approval from the order’s government in Rome, which would take time, she said.
The woodland is zoned as a Conservation Protection Subdistrict (CPS), meaning that any redevelopment must be “protective of its special natural and scenic features,” according to the Boston Zoning Code.
Housing is the main use allowed under CPS zoning. But that comes with many restrictions, including a maximum density of three units per acre. That density can be boosted if the city approves zoning variances or rezoning.
Any large-scale redevelopment of the land would require detailed review by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, including public comment and community meetings.
DSP has been on the site since 1954. About 70 sisters live there in residential facilities that include a novitiate for new sisters and retirement housing for older sisters. There is also a variety of media facilities for Christian evangelism, including a recording studio and a computer lab for making iPhone apps.
The order is independent of the Boston Archdiocese. Archdiocese spokesperson Terrence Donilon referred all questions about the property offering to DSP.
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Dr. White is a professor emeritus at the University of California (UC) at Irvine. Beginning his career on campus as an associate professor in 1976, he formerly served as a faculty member at The University of Texas at Austin from 1974 to 1975, and taught at the University of Pittsburgh between 1967 and 1976. During his tenure in academia, he was a visiting professor at the Institut National d’Etudes Demographique between 2000 and 2002, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France, between 1999 and 2002. He served as president of Linkages: World Development Research Council in Maryland and was deputy director of the Language Attitudes Research Project in Dublin, Ireland.
As a social science professor at UC, Dr. White taught social relations, comparative culture, social networks and anthropology. He co-founded and chaired the social networks Ph.D. program and chaired the social dynamics and complexity research group and the UC four-campus videoconference group within the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. Dr. White also twice served on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, was on the governing council of the European Complex Systems Society and was president of the Social Science Computing Association and the Linkages Development Research Council.
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Completing his undergraduate degree in 1964, master’s degree in 1967, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1969 at the University of Minnesota, Dr. White has received several accolades for his work. He is the recipient of the U.S. Distinguished Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, received a Best Paper in Mathematical Sociology of 2004 Award from the American Sociology Association, and won a Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award for an article he published in the Field of Economic Sociology in 2007, among others.
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Every day, as I either skirt around or clunk into and out of potholes, I’m reminded of our crumbling infrastructure and of the lame political promises of the Trump administration to fix our roads, bridges, airports, water and sewer pipes ... Continue reading ->
Every day, as I either skirt around or clunk into and out of potholes, I’m reminded of our crumbling infrastructure and of the lame political promises of the Trump administration to fix our roads, bridges, airports, water and sewer pipes and more. Just before the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre in Parkland Florida, Donald Trump’s presented his infrastructure plan with great flourish. But, like so many other lies he has told, this proposal is a fraud.
Do not be fooled by the idea that what the President proposes is a great idea because it envisions $1.5 trillion to be spent on roads, bridges, airports, and other parts of our antiquated and long-ignored infrastructure. It’s an abdication of responsibility that could ultimately undermine our economy.
Eighth district Congressman Michael Capuano of Somerville sits on the House Transportation Committee. Speaking last week before the New England Council, Capuano blew a hole in any hope that the President’s proposed infrastructure bill offers hope of upgrading our roads, bridges, airports, communications networks, or, for that matter, any real opportunity for meaningful bipartisanship.
Here’s why. In the old days, infrastructure costs were covered 80 percent by the federal government and 20 percent by cities and states. Then it slipped to a fifty-fifty sharing of costs (e.g. Green Line extension). But the President’s proposal calls for a whopping 87 percent to be paid by cities and states, with the feds paying a measly 13 percent. Plus, there are limitations on the kinds of projects that would even be eligible for those limited matching funds. That means there simply will be no more big infrastructure projects. ‘If the cities and states had the money, they’d be doing the projects now,’ said Capuano. The federal government should not be taken out of the transportation business.
If you have any doubts about the President’s intentions, please note that the same day Trump outlined his infrastructure plans, he also presented a proposed federal budget that slashes funds for transportation by more than the parsimonious amount he laid out in the infrastructure proposal. What a cynical game he is playing!
Infrastructure is just one of many discrete issues on which the Administration is dead wrong. Think immigration, environment, consumer protection, trade, ethics, transparency. The question is whether the Democrats can weave those free-standing issues into a unified message that will resonate in this fall’s elections and beyond. It’s not enough just to be anti-Trump. Failure to win back the House or the Senate in 2018 will signal to Donald Trump that the country likes things just the way they are. We can expect the situation to go from worse to worst.
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2018 The Republican tax overhaul bestows an initial infusion of cash on nearly every taxpayer next year. That extra income is likely to please millions of households, support consumer spending and perhaps give the economy a short-term lift. Ordinary households should enjoy it while it lasts. Over the next several years, multiple analyses of the law have found, those tax cuts will gradually fade — and then morph into tax hikes for a majority of people who are solidly middle class. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-gop-welfare-medicare-social-security-cuts-20171201-story.html
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Two features in the tax bill — a child tax credit and a $10,000 limit on state and local tax deductions — won't adjust to keep pace with inflation, thereby reducing their value each year. What's more, the individual tax cuts are set to expire after 2025. And once the individual tax rates revert to their former levels, a stingier inflation gauge would raise taxes for most households.
President Donald Trump has largely sidestepped these trade-offs in promoting the overhaul he's set to sign, a measure whose benefits largely favor corporations and wealthy individuals.
"The heart of our bill is a tremendous amount of relief for the middle class," the president said Wednesday. "It will be an incredible Christmas gift for hard-working Americans."
Trump has also said that "whoever" is president in 2025 would ensure that the expiring tax cuts for individuals are renewed. But doing so would cost heavily: The national debt would likely balloon by over $2 trillion — far more than the $1.5 trillion increase that lawmakers approved for the tax cuts — according to an analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.
The rising debt could eventually force spending cuts to social and educational programs that serve many who aspire to join the middle class. Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have both raised the prospect of reducing spending on social services next year, with Ryan specifically mentioning changes to Medicare.
Trump, Republican lawmakers and their allies are betting that higher take-home pay from the tax cuts will shore up public support for a bill that poll show a sizable number of Americans view unfavorably. They also appear confident that ordinary Americans will have no objection if corporations and the wealthy receive the bulk of the tax-cut gains so long as middle class households, on average, also receive some benefits.
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Why Trump’s War on the Deep State Is Failing—So Far
By Benjamin Wittes Monday, January 1, 2018, 10:00 AM Google+ Reddit LinkedIn In May of 2016, when Donald Trump was still a long-shot candidate for president, I warned with some specificity about what he would try to do to the U.S. Department of Justice and the law enforcement apparatus of the United States:
The humanitarian crises in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are ongoing. People have gone without electricity, clean water, or open schools, businesses, and hospitals for four months. Florida, Texas, and California are continuing the slow process of rebuilding, without federal aid, after suffering from natural disasters. Community health centers ran out of federal funding four months ago, and more than one hundred DACA recipients lose their legally protected status every day. Funding the government for weeks at a time, followed by a government shutdown, continues to threaten the readiness of our military, and the well-being of our troops and their families. These issues have been floundering for far too long. The people of our country deserve action and results.
Instead, they've seen a tax bill get passed that disproportionately benefits corporations on the backs of working families while adding over $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit. We continue to see environmental protections eroded, subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, loosening of regulations for big Wall Street banks, and Big Pharma continuing to flood our streets with opioids, fueling the epidemic that is ravaging our country. The people of Hawai‘i and this country are paying the price for decades of failed leadership, as we now live under the threat of a nuclear attack from North Korea. The Trump administration is doubling down on their cozy ties with Saudi Arabia, providing them with arms, intelligence, and military support as they wage war on Yemeni civilians. This administration is continuing to wage costly, counterproductive regime change wars, promising to keep U.S. troops in places like Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria indefinitely.
Enough is enough. The American people are ready for change.
The soft spot, the least tyrant-proof part of the government, is the U.S. Department of Justice and the larger law enforcement and regulatory apparatus of the United States government. The first reason you should fear a Donald Trump presidency is what he would do to the ordinary enforcement functions of the federal government, not the most extraordinary ones. . . .
A prosecutor—and by extension, a tyrant president who directs that prosecutor—can harass or target almost anyone, and he can often do so without violating any law. He doesn't actually need to indict the person, though that can be fun. He needs only open an investigation; that alone can be ruinous. The standards for doing so, criminal predication, are not high. And the fabric of American federal law—criminal and civil law alike—is so vast that a huge number of people and institutions of consequence are ripe for some sort of meddling from authorities. . . .
The Justice Department has some institutional defenses against this sort of thing, but they are far weaker than the intelligence community's institutional defenses against abuses. They mostly do not reside in statute or in . . . complex oversight structures. . . . They reside in the Levi Guidelines, in certain normative rules about contacts between the Justice Department and the White House, in norms that have developed over the years in the FBI. And they reside in the hearts of a lot of replaceable people. . . .
What would a president need to do to shift the Justice Department to the crimes or civil infractions committed—or suspected—by Trump critics and opponents? He would need to appoint and get confirmed by the Senate the right attorney general. That's very doable. He'd want to keep his communications with that person limited. An unspoken understanding that the Justice Department's new priorities include crimes by the right sort of people would be better than the sort of chortling communications Richard Nixon and John Mitchell used to have. . . .
Certainly, a bunch of pesky, scrupulous AUSAs might have to go. But that's not a problem. Make the environment hostile enough, and law firm life will start to look very attractive to them.
Yes, Trump might develop a problem with our redoubtable FBI director, who doesn't leave with the outgoing administration and has stared down a president once before. But so what? . . . [James] Comey will not be there forever anyway. And even without the FBI, and even using only the discretion it lawfully has, the Justice Department has remarkable fangs to bare when it chooses to bare them. NSA can only spy on people. Why bother with that when you can sue them? As a statement of Trump’s aspiration, I could not—unfortunately—have been more spot-on. In the near-year he has been president, he has done or tried to do all of the things I flagged:
He has demanded substantive outcomes from investigations.
He has demanded investigations of political opponents.
He has raged against the norms that prevent these wishes from being fulfilled.
He has attacked—publicly and by name—people who have acted honorably to defend those norms.
He fired the redoubtable FBI director whom I flagged as an inconvenient bulwark—for precisely the reason that James Comey was functioning as an inconvenient bulwark.
He has harassed Comey’s management team and demanded publicly their replacement.
He has made the environment for those assistant U.S. attorneys committed to their jobs so uncomfortable that one literally sat in my office and told me that he was going to resign because “I don’t want to stand up in court any more and say, I’m [his name] and I represent the United States.”
He has appointed an attorney general he specifically intended to protect him and go after his opponents.
This is banana-republic-type stuff. One year into Trump’s term in office, his character has not changed. The president of the United States—as John Bellinger warned as early as December 2015 and as I elaborated on in March of 2016—remains the principal threat in the world to the national security of the United States. His aspirations are as profoundly undemocratic and hostile to the institutions of democratic governance as they have ever been. He announces as much in interview after interview, in tweet after tweet. The president has not changed, and he will not change. Whether he has grown or will grow is not even an interesting question.
The interesting question, one year in, is how the apparatus of democratic government is weathering his onslaught. The answer to this question is complicated but, I think, ultimately encouraging.
Let’s start with the frank acknowledgment that there has been damage and that this damage may prove severe. There is, at the visible level, the tangible damage that Trump has done to the institutions that protect national security and democratic governance as well as to confidence in the United States as a protector of democracy and, indeed, as a democratic actor on its own terms. This damage is hard to assess because a lot of it is invisible. It’s State Department Foreign Service officers who have left in droves. It’s people who went to law firms instead of becoming assistant U.S. attorneys. It’s marginal judgments made less well because of the political climate. The damage from these things is hard to measure and thus are easy to deny.
No less hard to measure is the damage Trump has done to world confidence in the United States or what it will take to restore that confidence once he is gone. I also don’t know how to assess the opportunity costs of the near total failure of policy development in his administration across a wide range of national security matters. Nor, for that matter, do I know how to evaluate the likelihood that Trump’s myriad personality defects will trigger a national security catastrophe, rather than merely the sequence of injuries (such as spontaneous disclosure of important allied intelligence programs to the Russians) and embarrassments (like his phone call with the Australian prime minister) we have seen so far. The hits taken by law enforcement and other domestic institutions have been real, but they have not yet done irreversible damage. So for right now, at least, my impression is that the tangible damage from Trump is likely substantial but also likely reparable with time and decent government of either the political right or the political left.
I am decidedly less confident about our ability to weather a less tangible form of damage Trump is doing—that is to say the damage of which he has shown proof of concept. It was only recently that the notion of a modern president of the United States openly demanding politicized law enforcement or openly saying that the job of the attorney general was to protect him from investigation was unthinkable. Even Richard Nixon, who believed such things privately and acted on them in secret, never had the audacity to state them publicly. Trump has not merely advocated for the notion of law enforcement as a mechanism of political attack; he has campaigned against those within the bureaucracy who have resisted the vision. He has adopted an active policy of institutional attack on the FBI and public discrediting of intelligence-community findings inconvenient to him on Russia. The question is whether this style of politics—or aspects of it—catches on. This may be hard to imagine if Trumpism ends in a crushing electoral defeat and repudiation. But what if Republicans outperform expectations in 2018 or Trump wins reelection in 2020 or both? What will other politicians take away then?
That is not an idle question—one germane only to future populist demagogues who may arise. Because Trump has not, alas, flown solo in this project of institutional degradation. He has brought much of his party with him. The House Republican caucus is up in arms not about L’Affaire Russe but about the special counsel’s investigation of L’Affaire Russe. The braying for Robert Mueller’s blood and for a housecleaning at the Justice Department and the FBI pervades conservative media. We have to be concerned that Trump is in the process of normalizing for an entire political movement the politicization and weaponization of law enforcement and intelligence. No, he has not yet successfully corrupted these institutions. But he has made surprising inroads in corrupting public expectations of them. That damage is hard to calculate—but it could end up being devastating.
So for right now, let’s consider the damage—both tangible and intangible—as a work in progress: non-trivial, potentially severe, but so far not catastrophic, and difficult ultimately to assess.
And despite all of that, I think we can say that, broadly speaking, the apparatus of democratic rule-of-law governance had held up reasonably well so far. Trump aspires to corrupt the Justice Department, but he has not yet managed to corrupt the Justice Department. He aspires to use the FBI to go after his political enemies, but he has not yet managed that either. He aspires to an intelligence community that will validate his premises, but he has not managed to get one. At the end of the day, Trump has not managed to shut down the Russia investigation. He has not managed to fire his attorney general or his deputy attorney general—both of whom he evidently hates. He has not even managed to rid himself of the lowly deputy FBI director, Andrew McCabe—though he so clearly wants that particular scalp—who will retire in March and not be removed before then. He’s already angry at his new FBI director, Christopher Wray.
The president is evidently incredulous about his inability to corrupt these institutions. He waxed frustrated about it, for example, in a recent radio interview:
But you know, the saddest thing is, because I am the President of the United States, I am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. I’m not supposed to be involved with the FBI. I’m not supposed to be doing the kind of things I would love to be doing and I am very frustrated by it. I look at what’s happening with the Justice Department, why aren’t they going after Hillary Clinton with her emails and with her dossier, and the kind of money… I don’t know, is it possible that they paid $12.4 million for the dossier . . . which is total phony, fake, fraud and how is it used? It’s very discouraging to me. I’ll be honest, I’m very unhappy with it, that the Justice Department isn’t going . . . maybe they are but you know as President, and I think you understand this, as a President you’re not supposed to be involved in that process. But hopefully they are doing something and at some point, maybe we are going to all have it out. One might look at all of this as evidence that Trump is not wholly unwise, so he announces his intentions to do all sort of bad things but then ultimately does not pull the trigger on many of them. I think the better understanding is that he is, at least for now, meaningfully constrained—both by politics and by law and rules.
This is not to say that Trump has had no effect on the institutions in question. He has had an effect. At the most visible level, the effect is agency leadership that don’t effectively stand up for the rank and file. Wray is in an impossible position, as are Rod Rosenstein and Jeff Sessions. The intelligence-community leadership is too. Yet all have responded with little public institutional defense—which would necessarily require a confrontation with the president. Some, like Sessions and CIA Director Mike Pompeo—have added a distasteful dollop of active humoring of the president’s self-image. And some, like Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, have simply vanished from public view. The result has been tolerance of the Trumpian cult of personality. And that is certainly corrosive of the rule of law from agencies that are supposed to be about rigorous facts and analysis and even-handed application of the rules.
But for now, at least, the edifice has held. All of that could change tomorrow if Trump were to demand Mueller’s removal or demand things of the leadership at the Justice Department that would provoke a crisis. To say that someone is constrained, after all, is not to say that he is entirely immobilized or that he cannot overcome his constraints. The presidency is an office of titanic power, and what look like constraints today may look very different if Trump were to feel more immediately threatened by Mueller, if he feels more secure electorally or if he sees weakness in his currently resurgent political foes. But so far, at least, the president has done nothing to the Justice Department or the intelligence community that could not be repaired.
A number of factors have contributed to the edifice’s relative durability in the face of Trump’s personality and overt aspirations.
The first is that Trump has been checked more effectively by institutional constraints than many commentators acknowledge. Jack Goldsmith has made this point repeatedly—and he is clearly correct. Congress, which has enabled Trump in many respects and been lackadaisical about confronting his worst predations, has nonetheless checked him in other ways. The Senate intelligence committee’s Russia investigation has been a serious undertaking, and the legislature really boxed in the president with the sanctions legislation it passed last year. Sessions is still attorney general because Republican senators made clear that they wouldn’t tolerate his removal. And while support for Mueller on Capitol Hill has ebbed of late, when Trump made noises about firing him over the summer senators of both parties reacted strongly. (Trump has more recently disclaimed any intention of removing Mueller.) Some of us would like Congress to do a great deal more than it is in the way of protecting institutions, but it’s important to appreciate that it has not, in fact, done nothing.
More robust responses have come from the courts, the press and the bureaucracy. The ever-present factor of Trump’s unpopularity with the public—and the resulting political mobilization of forces to oppose him—has further reduced his room to maneuver.
And then there is the Mueller investigation itself, which has kept the administration very much on tenterhooks; nobody knows what will happen tomorrow. While the president’s lawyers talk a tough game about how he’s entitled to do anything he wants with respect to managing the executive branch, they are clearly concerned about how his interactions with the investigation or the Justice Department might be seen to a group of prosecutors that is already examining obstruction-of-justice questions in connection with prior such interactions. Mueller has Trump walking on eggshells.
The cumulative impact has been an environment not all that conducive to imposing tyranny. So Trump tweets. He rails. He complains. He threatens. Yet the investigation goes on. Law-enforcement activity continues more or less as usual—there being plenty of assistant U.S. attorneys who are still willing to stand up in court and say that they represent the United States. And while the president’s machinations have some impact, of course, they have far less impact than one would imagine they should in an executive branch meant to be unitary. This is part of a far broader pattern of the executive branch ignoring its titular head, who is increasingly isolated within it.
This brings me to a final factor that has protected the country and its intelligence and law-enforcement apparatus from Trump’s tyrannical aspirations: Trump’s personality.
The first few weeks of the Trump administration raised the question of the degree to which Trump’s malevolence would be tempered by his incompetence. In the first year of the Trump presidency, the answer to that question was that incompetence did a lot of tempering. Trump blundered from crisis to crisis. The lawyering around him was comically dreadful—as was the broader executive functioning. Taking on established democratic institutions and wrecking them actually takes a certain amount of focus and energy—and Trump just isn’t very good at it. His heart may be in it, but Vladimir Putin he isn’t. And the United States isn’t a fragile new democracy with weak institutions either.
Trump has another personality liability for the project at hand, one that fewer people notice: He is ultimately a wuss. He talks about his boldness all the time, and a lot of people—including his enemies—lap up the self-description. He likes to talk in sweeping, grandiose terms about the things he is going to do and the things he has done. In practice, however, he’s actually very cautious most of the time. Think about it this way: Leaving aside Trump’s words and claims about himself, do the actions of his first year in office generally bespeak boldness? Yes, he left the Paris Climate Agreement. And yes, he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. And yes, he did the travel ban. But think about all of the bold things Trump has promised and backed away from: scrapping NAFTA and waging a trade war against the Chinese, ditching the Iran deal, walking away from Europe, draining the swamp, and confronting conservative orthodoxy on taxation.
The boldest step Trump has taken, the firing of James Comey, was an accident. Trump actually appears to have believed that this move would be popular, because Comey had angered Democrats during the 2016 campaign. Most of Trump’s supposed boldness is just tweets and bombast and things he says. It’s a big part of his self-image, but the self-image is mostly a game of dress-up. When push comes to shove, he’s pretty paralyzed by circumstances much of the time.
Taking down an established democracy requires not merely words but also bold action. And paralysis won’t cut it. A genuine attack on American democratic institutions will require some heavy swings of a sledgehammer at a very well-built wall. And with one great exception, nothing Trump has done in his first year in office has really taken pieces out of that wall.
What’s that one exception? It’s Trump’s efforts to hollow out the bureaucracy. As the Washington Post reports, it’s not just the State Department that he’s gutting:
Nearly a year into his takeover of Washington, President Trump has made a significant down payment on his campaign pledge to shrink the federal bureaucracy, a shift long sought by conservatives that could eventually bring the workforce down to levels not seen in decades.
By the end of September, all Cabinet departments except Homeland Security, Veterans Affairs and Interior had fewer permanent staff than when Trump took office in January—with most shedding many hundreds of employees, according to an analysis of federal personnel data by The Washington Post. This effort sweeps far more broadly than simply impacting the institutions of national security and law enforcement under the rule of law. It’s about governance as a whole. But it may be a more effective—precisely because it is less visible—means of attacking what the Trump forces offensively term the “Deep State” than all of the high-profile attacks on law enforcement and intelligence leadership.
All of which is to emphasize that we are emphatically not out of the woods. The situation remains dangerous, because Trump’s personality is so fundamentally incompatible with the nature and demands of the office he holds. His impulsiveness can get us into trouble any day. As his political situation, or his legal situation, continues to degrade, he could lash out and change the equilibrium at any time. Moreover, chipping away at institutions slowly, both by institutional and budgetary evisceration and by leadership attrition—one Chuck Rosenberg a few months ago, one James Baker last month, one Andrew McCabe in March—will take a big toll over time.
But Trump simply cannot look back on the last year and be satisfied with the success of his war on the Deep State. His battle to remake it in his image has been largely unavailing—and has come at far greater cost to his presidency than to the institutions he is trying to undermine.
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Douglas R. White (born 1942) is an American complexity researcher, social anthropologist, sociologist, and social network researcher at the University of California, Irvine. He attended the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and the University of Minnesota, where he received a B.A. in 1964, an M.A. in 1967, and a Ph.D. in 1969, all under advisor E. Adamson Hoebel and the Travelling Scholars Program.
White taught at the University of Pittsburgh from 1967 to 1976. Since then he has been a Social Science Professor at the University of California, Irvine, teaching in Social Relations, in Comparative Culture, in Social Networks and in Anthropology. He co-founded and chaired the Social Networks PhD program and within the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences chaired the Social Dynamics and Complexity research group and the UC four-campus videoconference group.
He is on the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, was on the governing Council of the European Complex Systems Society, and served as President of the Social Science Computing Association and of the Linkages Development Research Council.
He founded the World Cultures electronic journal in 1985 as part of the movement for open access scientific data and publication and founded the open access and peer reviewed Structure and Dynamics electronic journal in 2005, where he continues as editor-in-chief.
He is a recipient of the U.S. Distinguished Scientist Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the "Best Paper in Mathematical Sociology of 2004" Award of the American Sociological Association (2004), and of the 2007 "Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award" for the outstanding article published in the field of economic sociology in the previous two years.
Major contributions of Douglas R. White:
White is known for Cross-cultural studies, studies of the division of labor, sexual division of labor, polygyny, marriage and kinship, his collaborative creation of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS with G. P. Murdock), and public domain distribution of SCCS data, courseware and software, which has given way to the UCI Complex Social Science Gateway that hosts Anthropology's Ethnographics of the Lives of World Peoples along with software used in solving Galton's problem of autocorrelation for analysis of observational data, and for research on: Longitudinal historical evolution and field studies of human groups, larger societies, and city systems Mathematical modeling of social, economic, and historical dynamics, as well as statistical entailment analysis, Galton's problem, the Natchez Paradox, Structural endogamy and network simulation, regular equivalence, flow centrality, and structural cohesion, Social networks, including, more specifically, the network realism paradigm, Social complexity and complex-network system dynamics. Standard Cross-Cultural Sample System dynamics Studies of world system dynamics and urban studies, including his current studies of urban dynamics over the last millennium, A reaction to his latest book, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems, by one reviewer, was that this "could be the most important book in anthropology in fifty years." His work on implications of feedback and feedforward processes, published in Physical Review in collaboration with the founder of nonextensive physics, a founder of chaos theory, and two young computer scientists, provides one of the foundational network simulations for understanding complex networks.
Resources for Cross-cultural modeling
White's Main page hosts a public server, that if used externally at http://SocSciCompute.ss.uci.edu, offers ethnographic data, variables and tools for inference with R scripts by Dow (2007) and Eff and Dow (2009) in an NSF supported Galaxy (http://getgalaxy.org) framework (https://www.xsede.org) for instructors, students and researchers to do cross-cultural research modeling with controls for Galton's problem using Standard Cross-Cultural Sample variables at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9256203/SCCScodebook.txt.
White has authored or coauthored 5 books and over 100 articles, and edited 3 books and 2 special journal issues dealing with his research interests.
1972, The Anthropology of Urban Environments. with Thomas Weaver. Society for Applied Anthropology, Monograph Series. 1975, Tuaraiscail: Report of the Committee on Language Attitudes Research Regarding Irish. 5 volumes. with Lilyan A. Brudner. Dublin: Government Printing Office. 1991, Research Methods in Social Network Analysis. with Linton C. Freeman and A. Kimball Romney. Transaction Publishers. 1998, Kinship, Networks, and Exchange : Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, with Thomas Schweizer. Cambridge University Press. 2004, Network Analysis and Ethnographic Problems: Process Models of a Turkish Nomad Clan. with Ulla Johansen and Foreword by Andrey Korotayev). Lexington Press.
White has circa 200 of the ethnographies of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (SCCS) available for California anthropology libraries.
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The Plot to Loot America’s Wilderness: A little-known bureaucrat named James Cason, a lobbyist for big oil, gas, coal and mining corporations that operate on public and Indian lands, including former Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Solicitor David Bernhardt, and former Deputy Secretary Steven Griles, who was indicted earlier this year on obstruction of justice charges over his involvement with criminal former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and (who) is reshaping the Department of the Interior. and ...part of a department-wide purge, and that climate scientists in particular were targeted. Cason, who once described himself as the department’s “regulatory czar,” has also overseen the dismantling of rules governing energy development on public lands. The DOI is poised to open up millions of acres to drilling and mining—from Utah’s red-rock country to the frigid, perilous waters off Alaska’s coast—while stripping away basic environmental protections and reducing transparency. Across the Trump administration, the new mantra is “energy dominance”—a vision of the world in which the United States will amplify its influence with a dramatic expansion of oil, gas, and coal production, whatever the environmental costs.
Last month Wendy Cleland-Hamnett in Falls Church, Va, retired last month (2017) as the top official overseeing pesticides and toxic chemicals as the E.P.A. “I had become irrelevant,” she said about changes there under the Trump administration.
The assault on science at the Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump Administration is unprecedented. Experienced academic scientists have been removed from advisory boards and replaced with industry shills. Key regulations on proven carcinogens and mutagens like trichloroethylene have been abandoned without explanation. Trump's “Red Teams” are being set up to challenge the scientific consensus in peer-reviewed journals. Finally, the free speech of EPA scientists is being censored by Trump’s political appointees – which is exactly what happened this week (Oct 24, 2017) when EPA scientists were ordered to cancel their talks on climate change at a scientific conference.
Last week, EPA scientists were scheduled to participate in a conference on the environmental health of Narragansett Bay, the largest estuary in New England and key to the region’s fishing and tourism industries. The EPA scientists were to deliver keynote presentations on current and prospective environmental damage to the bay from climate change. However, at the last minute, the EPA announced without explanation that the three scientists scheduled to appear at the conference would not attend. The motivation was clear – to silence the scientists working on and speaking publicly about climate change. There has not been such a concerted and well-funded effort at distorting and silencing scientific research since Congress “debated” the link between smoking cigarettes and cancer. --- Rep. Schiff puts end to question of Trump Russia collusion as Rachel Maddow shares video of Congressman Adam Schiff listing the times that Russia reached out to help the Donald Trump campaign.
"Resist Trump installing an IRS acting commissioner who could interfere with audits and investigations into Trump and his associates' potential tax fraud and money laundering."] IRS Commissioner John Koskinen’s term ends in November. But instead of nominating someone who would face Senate confirmation, Trump could simply name a trusted crony as a “temporary” appointment who would wield the exact same power.2 The Senate must pressure Trump to not install a puppet IRS commissioner without senators’ advice and consent. We can win this fight if all the members of the Senate Democratic caucus and key Republican senators who are concerned about the integrity of the Russia investigation hold firm. Our activism is crucial, and it works. Together we have stopped Trumpcare three times, and now we must demonstrate that the public is paying attention and will not tolerate Trump picking an IRS chief while he or his associates are under investigation for wrongdoing, potentially including tax fraud and money laundering.
Toni G. Atkins (D) District 39 call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121 to be connected with the office of one your senators. When someone answers, say this: "Hi, my name is ___ and I’m calling from ___. I strongly urge you to oppose the nomination of Sam Clovis – a racist and a climate change denier with no background in food or agriculture. - Clovis - Trump plan re Iran nuclear dal. In a statement sent to HuffPost exclusively by Meryl Streep’s longtime publicist Leslee Dart, Streep says she did not know that Weinstein― with whom she has collaborated for years on films like “August: Osage County” and “The Iron Lady” and once referred to as a “God”― was engaging in “inappropriate, coercive acts” and that he had paid financial settlements to at least eight women after they accused him of harassment and assault. After spending a weekend screaming at NFL and NBA athletes over Twitter, Donald Trump has embarrassed our country yet AGAIN. Stop Trump and Pruitt from undoing the Clean Power Plan! And David Letterman believes we should BOOT Trump out of office.
The Senate must pressure Trump to not install a puppet IRS commissioner without senators’ advice and consent. We can win this fight if all the members of the Senate Democratic caucus and key Republican senators who are concerned about the integrity of the Russia investigation hold firm. Our activism is crucial, and it works. Together we have stopped Trumpcare three times, and now we must demonstrate that the public is paying attention and will not tolerate Trump picking an IRS chief while he or his associates are under investigation for wrongdoing, potentially including tax fraud and money laundering.
Tell the U.S. Senate: Resist Trump installing an IRS acting commissioner. --- Trump's idiocy - believes totally stupid ideas re North Korea challenges. Click here to sign the petition.
Trump has already installed more than 1000 political appointments to head up federal agencies – all without Senate approval !! The administration has been able to place industry insiders and shadowy Trump loyalists in charge of much of the government’s day-to-day operations. Trump could do the same thing with the IRS, unless the Senate insists that he play by the rules.3
Even before the 2016 election, the IRS joined the FBI in investigating former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort on suspicion of money laundering and tax fraud.4 In recent weeks, the IRS has coordinated with special counsel Mueller on his investigation of Manafort and other Trump associates, including former White House national security adviser, Michael Flynn.5 As Mueller’s investigation has gotten closer to Trump’s finances, Trump has accused the special counsel of crossing a line, prompting many to speculate that Mueller's firing is imminent.6
The IRS' cooperation is crucial for federal prosecutors in investigating tax crimes, and Trump has made it clear he will go to great lengths to hinder Mueller’s investigation – possibly even installing someone loyal to him to oversee the IRS. The Senate must intercede now – we need to keep reminding Democrats to use their power to keep Trump from being able to advance his dangerous agenda on any front, especially when it comes to the agency investigating his ties to Russia.
EPA chief Scott Pruitt just announced that he is repealing President Obama’s signature plan to stop climate change. It’s the biggest environmental rollback we’ve seen since Trump withdrew from the Paris Accord. Now, President Obama’s plan to decrease carbon emissions will be GONE. Big business polluters will be able to DESTROY our planet. And it’s all because Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump, and Republicans want to score political points with big business polluters -- and undo President Obama’s legacy. It’s indefensible. It’s life-threatening. And it will devastate our environment. Pruitt will roll back this rule October 10, 2017.
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This is one of the smartest scams I have heard about. You arrive at your hotel and check in at the front desk. Typically when checking in, you give the front desk your credit card (for any charges to your room) and they don't retain the card. You go to your room and settle in. All is good. The hotel receives a call and the caller asks for (as an example) room 620 - which happens to be your room. The phone rings in your room. You answer and the person on the other end says the following: 'This is the front desk. When checking in, we came across a problem with your charge card information. Please re-read me your credit card numbers and verify the last 3 digits numbers at the reverse side of your charge card.' Not thinking anything wrong, since the call seems to come from the front desk you oblige. But actually, it is a scam by someone calling from outside the hotel. They have asked for a random room number, then ask you for your credit card and address information. They sound so professional, that you think you are talking to the front desk. If you ever encounter this scenario on your travels, tell the caller that you will be down to the front desk to clear up any problems. Then, go to the front desk or call directly and ask if there was a problem. If there was none, inform the manager of the hotel that someone tried to scam you of your credit card information, acting like a front desk employee.
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James Fowler of UC San Diego and Nicolas Christakis of Harvard have demonstrated that helping is contagious: Acts of generosity, compassion, and kindness beget more generosity in a chain reaction of goodness. This is how culture is formed. Isn’t that the kind of workplace culture you would want to work in or lead? (comes from http://newsle.com/article/0/70145038/)
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A half billion dollars of foul play with taxpayer money by lawmakers like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, and Senators Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, and Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, who hold heavy sway over Medicare payment policy as the leaders of the Finance Committee with deep financial and political ties to Amgen who pays them perks from $60-90,000 each. NYTimes: January 19, 2013, by ERIC LIPTON and KEVIN SACK
Now revealed that the big banks themselves coordinated the fall attacks on occupy with the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police: a totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent. Naomi Wolfe, Guardian UK
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Independent Party- The independent movement HuffPost 2009 Is the independent movement over? 2012
Story emerges of Labor Day armed infighting at “FreedomWorks” which dominates the Tea Party clique that defeated Boehner’s attempt to negotiate the fiscal cliff settled by a libertarian magnate’s promise of $400,000/year to get rid of “FreedomWorks” leader Dick Armey, former Republican House leader. RSN Dec 26 2012
More slaughters on the way thanks to the NRA backed by The Right’s Second Amendment Lies Dec 21, 2012
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Republicans oppose Regulation of assault weapons: not even the assault weapons that can fire 30 rounds of .22 caliber bullets in half a minute. Salon.com Dec 19 2012
RSN Dec 12 2012: Lawrence Tribe: "It badly distorts the meaning of everything I have written on the subject to treat me as remotely hostile to the comprehensive national regulation of firearms and ammunition possession, transfer, and use; and it even distorts my meaning to regard my views as similar to those that the Roberts Court has expressed on the subject, although I hasten to add that even this Court's unfortunate views leave very substantial room for close regulation and even prohibition of entire categories of dangerous firearms and the ammunition that makes them lethal. The fact that many of my fellow gun control proponents were disappointed by the nuanced character of what I wrote in 2000 shouldn't be allowed to distract from my continuing conclusion that the Constitution permits, and that sane public policy demands, vastly stricter firearms regulation than exists in the United States today.""
These congressmen have received between $7,400 and $9,900 to "represent" the NRA: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Mike Coffman (R-Co), Rick Berg (R-ND), Jim Renacci (R-OH), Steve Fincher (R-TN), and more.
For Whom Is College Being Reinvented? A two-tier system?
Rupert Murdoch calls for ban on automatic weapons after Newton massacre of children and did so after Aurora massacre ... and Fox news?
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"... report concludes that tax cuts for the rich don’t seem to be associated with economic growth. The report, from the Congressional Research Service, finds that tax cuts for high earners can be linked to a different outcome: income inequality." WSJ Dec 13 2012
A war on workers: US wages back to 1985, Bureau of Labor Statistics Q3 2012: http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/twinkies-pensions-real-wages-and-poverty
Massive Money Laundering by British Bank HSBC "too big to indict in the US???"
Behind the Grover Norquist Pledge: A money-making racket
Sea levels are rising 60% faster than predicted, says IPCC. Thanks alot, VP Chaney, and mindless Republicans, for encouraging with your lies the destruction of the world's coastal cities. Meet the climate denial machine Now: http://www.thenation.com/article/171504/fracking-our-food-supply Climate change
West Antarctica Warming Twice As Fast As Previously Believed: Study HuffPost Dec 24 2012
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Extreme Dangers of Obama's Trans-Pacific Partnership
Thanks to Mr. Cheney and his party: Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High in 2011 LiveScience
12Nov'12 Search for: Naomi Klein Author and activist | Shameless Disaster Capitalism | Naomi Klein, The Nation. Klein writes: As for Hurricane Sandy "This catastrophe very likely created by climate change -- a crisis born of the colossal regulatory failure to prevent corporations from treating the atmosphere as their open sewer-is just one more opportunity for more deregulation."
9 Nov'12 For the first time ever, 1/3rd of our nation's 20-29 year olds have completed a Batchelor's degree.
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‘Dough’: Kosher Baker Meets Drug Dealer
Yes, there’s a movie about a kosher bakery in London with a special ingredient in his recipe – and it came out during Passover! Read More
By Abe Fried-Tanzer / May 3, 2016
Food may well be the defining characteristic of the Jewish people. Any culture has its signature, but to add to that, there’s a ritual element, and even the term “kosher” can’t be broadly applied since everyone has a slightly different idea of what kosher means, especially in the United States.
Nothing is quite that complicated in Dough, the new film from British-Austrian director John Goldschmidt. In London’s East End, Nat Dayan (Jonathan Pryce) owns and operates a kosher bakery. He has steady clients and no real competition until a neighboring supermarket chain poaches his kitchen assistant and prepares to manufacture its own line of kosher bakery items while simultaneously expanding and attempting to acquire his bakery space. No one is debating whether Nat is kosher enough, but he may soon become irrelevant. Fortunately, he finds Ayyash (Jerome Holder), the son of the woman who cleans his shop. When Ayyash’s side gig as drug dealer leads to him dropping his stash into the dough, the results are incredible, and before long, this kosher bakery is seeing more business than it has had in years.
That summary suggests a slapstick format where everyone gets high the entire film without knowing it. That does happen, admittedly, but it’s far less highlighted than it might be in, say, a stoner comedy. This is a much more sophisticated film about cross-cultural relations than its title and premise might suggest. The fact that Ayyash is Muslim – and observant at that – adds tremendously to the film and its interesting depiction of a positive relationship that starts out somewhat rocky and builds towards something much stronger.
Shortly after Ayyash is hired, Nat, wearing a tallit and tefillin in the middle of his morning prayers, emerges from the back of his shop to find Ayyash conducting his own morning prayers on the floor of the shop. His first reaction is one of surprise, and his next move is to tell Ayyash to move away from the window so that no one will see him. No hints of extremism are present, and Ayyash gets a stern and hilarious slap from his mother when he reacts with shock to the news that she works for a Jew. Nat’s Jewish friend does refer to Ayyash as an Arab, prompting Nat to correct him and note that his new Muslim employee is actually African.
Depictions of observant Judaism in film and television are usually cringe-worthy, with stereotypes exaggerated to make sure that someone is recognizably Jewish. There are moments when Nat murmurs prayers to himself, but, surprisingly, the words are mostly correct! Nothing is done explicitly to be showy, and most religious cameos – like Nat’s tefillin – aren’t even addressed at all. Nat keeps kosher and runs a kosher bakery because it’s part of his religion, and at no point does he wrestle with staying faithful to his traditions or adapting to a new world. For him, it’s just a fight to hold on to his shop, not his defining principles.
Ultimately, both Nat and Ayyash are struggling to survive in changing times. Nat used to have a thriving business inherited from his father, and now he is getting older and finding it more difficult to run it by himself. Ayyash lives with his mother in their decrepit apartment, where he sleeps on the floor, and constant assurances that his father is coming soon are continually met with disappointment. Together, the two men are able to accomplish something, and even though Nat would never approve of Ayyash’s secret ingredient, the way that the bakery manages to take off in popularity is affirming and delightful.
Jonathan Pryce, an actor known for starring in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 cult classic Brazil and probably more widely for playing Keira Knightley’s father in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and the High Sparrow on Game of Thrones, is the unusual choice to play Nat. The Welsh actor is actually a wonderful fit for the temperamental but kindhearted baker who eventually takes a liking to his new employee. Opposite him, Jerome Holder delivers an endearing performance as the initially troubled Ayyash, headed down a dark path as he tries to make ends meet before letting his sweeter side shine through as he adjusts to a more stable life in the kosher bakery business. Pryce and Holder are joined by Pauline Collins as a local woman and friend of Nat, Ian Hart as Ayyash’s other boss, and Philip Davis as the imperialist owner of the supermarket chain, a respectable and effective ensemble that helps to elevate this dramatic comedy above its potential.
Could such a story play out in real life? Maybe not the part about baking marijuana into the challah, but the notion of Muslims working in kosher establishments has definitely happened. Lassana Bathily famously saved a number of French Jews in the Hypercacher in Paris when it was attacked by gunmen. That true story has far more frightening undertones, and this more light-hearted tale about inter-religious cooperation is appropriately calm and pleasant. Even if it doesn’t achieve world peace, this movie should at least have you craving the baked goods shown on screen — with or without a special something.
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Lessons from Collaboration: How One Nonprofit Scaled Up Nutrition Education
by Tina Casey
Mar 21, 2019 10:00 AM ET
This is how @Walmart Foundation helped @FoodCorps scale to serve more than 160k students in both urban and rural areas across 18 states and Washington D.C. http://bit.ly/2Fak2T3 by @TinaMCasey for @TriplePundit
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This article series is sponsored by Walmart and produced by the TriplePundit editorial team.
Corporate charity is branching out from its roots in the traditional gift-giving model. The innovative corporate foundations of today are engaging in transformative, dynamic work with nonprofits to achieve impacts far beyond their initial scope. The collaboration between the Walmart Foundation and the nonprofit organization FoodCorps exemplifies this trend, and it illustrates how companies can lend both their financial firepower and their expertise to help nonprofits scale up their missions.
The FoodCorps nutrition education model
FoodCorps launched in 2010 with the mission of reaching children in school with empowering lessons about healthier eating.
The FoodCorps nutrition program involves the whole school—including teachers, staff and foodservice workers—and often extends to students’ families to create a culture of health. It revolves around hands-on and interactive classroom learning, healthier school meals, school gardens, and lessons that students can apply at home.
The “Corps” part of the program is also a key factor. As an AmeriCorps grant recipient, part of the FoodCorps mission is to support a new generation of emerging leaders. Schools that participate in the FoodCorps program host an AmeriCorps service member, who oversees the program as a school leader, role model and mentor throughout the academic year.
“The program is not just about creating an interest in healthy food,” explains FoodCorps co-founder and CEO Curt Ellis. “It’s really about taking ownership and bringing it home to their families.”
From startup to nutrition education powerhouse
In its earliest years, FoodCorps was a startup with a modestly-scaled base of operations.That changed five years ago, when its innovative, holistic education model caught the eye of the Walmart Foundation. Today, with the help of the Walmart Foundation and other funders, FoodCorps serves more than 160,000 students in both urban and rural areas, across 18 states and Washington, D.C.
“The work has been a two-way street of learning and improvement, not only improving food access for students in need but improving food education,” Ellis says.
Ellis credits the Walmart Foundation’s razor-sharp focus on the FoodCorps mission for the success of the collaboration. He draws a contrast between the Foundation’s approach and traditional corporate giving, which is sometimes aimed at getting the biggest public relations bang for the buck. That kind of funding relationship can quickly cause a nonprofit to veer off track and focus on perceived success rather than concrete achievements, he explains.
“The Walmart Foundation is an incredibly rigorous and high-trust funding partner,” Ellis says. “They also have depth of knowledge on food education and food access. They bring strategic expertise to bear, helping us do our work smarter. The future of solving the problems of healthy food and access require us to be rigorous and innovative. We need to respond to our beneficiaries as customers and respect them fully as customers. If we as an organization want to tackle the problem of healthy food and access at scale, we need to bring the same focus and determination to social-sector work as companies like Walmart bring to the private sector.”
High standards make a difference
Support from the Walmart Foundation enabled FoodCorps to embark on a broad survey of peer-reviewed literature, resulting in the development of a toolkit for action planning and goal setting that emphasizes hands-on learning and high-quality lessons in school gardens.
A recent assessment of the FoodCorps program demonstrates how nonprofits can benefit from this kind of intensive, fact-based analysis. The FoodCorps assessment describes areas of strength and pathways for improvement. For example, it shows that students in schools with the highest rating for hands-on learning are eating three times more fruits and vegetables than children in schools with the lowest rating.
The detailed evaluation also correlates the number of hours that AmeriCorps members spend in schools with a measurable improvement in healthier eating.
FoodCorps is not the only beneficiary of the Walmart Foundation’s rigorous approach. In 2014, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation made a commitment to provide nutrition education to 4 million people over five years, and met the milestone a year early. This was accomplished by working not only with FoodCorps, but also supporting other nutrition programs such as 4-H, Common Threads and Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters program.
As important as the numbers are, the human factor is still fundamental to success.
Looking at the experiences of students and families who are learning through the FoodCorps program, Ellis shares a story about a student who took a recipe home and created a new meal with both her mother and her grandmother. “It’s about unlocking the full power of food as this thing that brings us all together,” he says.
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The Tolix A chair has become an icon of industrial esthetics. It’s unfailing popularity since 1934 has enabled to enter the Collections of the Vitra Design Museum, MOMA and the Pompidou Center. This mythical chair, crafted of sheet metal, has been assured by «it’s fool-proof solidity, it’s unequalled lightness, it’s easy maintenance» advantages of which can be included «inexpensive».
All merit goes to Xavier Pauchard (1880-1948) who was a pioneer of galvanisation in France. Shortly after World War 1, based in Autun, Burgundy, he found himself (a visionary and inventive entrepreneur) in charge of a flourishing manufacture of galvanised sheet-metal domesic items, which at the time, embodied household comfort. It was in 1927 that he registered the trademark TOLIX, at the same time converting to the «production of chairs, armchairs, stools and metal furnitures».
The different models (rustproof, robust and stackable) conceived by Xavier Pauchard found their place directly inside factories, offices and hospitals, as well as outside, on cafe terraces and in public parks. Embarked aboard the ship, Normandie, in 1935, these chairs also filled the aisles of the 1937 Exposition Internationale –Arts et Techniques. Furniture for children was created in 1935 under the mark of « La Mouette ». At the end of the 50’s, with the succession of his son, Jean, Tolix and it’s 80 workers produced about 60 000 units annually. This prosperous company remained in the same family until 2004.
We owe the revival of the brand Tolix to Chantal Andriot. It was with passion and loyality for the company that this, ex Financial Directrice, launched into the adventure, along with a handful of employees, and bought back Tolix. The only woman in a man’s world and with her knowledge she was able to give back a new vitality, in perpetuating the dual standards of quality and innovation to an industry skilled in the making of functional furniture. Today, half of Tolix’s annual turnover is for export, half of which, is for the United States.
To assist in the artistic direction, Chantal Andriot has chosen the designers Jean-François Dingjian et Eloi Chafaï alias Normal Studio. Their design questions industrial workmanship, freeing it from the past in order to valorise the workshop’s legendary know-how.
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To coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (August 5 – 21), an alternate iteration of the iconic Air Jordan 7 Olympic is scheduled to be offered.
Designed by Nike designer extraordinaire, Tinker Hatfield, this particular colorway slight differs from its predecessor. While compared to its original counterpart, hits of blue are more prominent across its underlays. Comprised of premium leather, the overall aesthetic is essentially filled with patriotic flair. Pristine white dominates the upper, as navy-colored nubuck is utilized for its underlays, in addition to more applied on the ankle portion and outsole.
To encapsulate the USA-inspired palette, vibrant pops of red adorn the midsole unit more prominently, while additional accents are applied on the heel and inner lining. Finishing touches of metallic gold are seen on the tongue label, lace tips and jumpman logo across the ankle to coordinate with its respective theme.
Update: (8/03) Tinker Hatfield acknowledges that this Alternate pair was 1 of 2 variations that he designed for the 1992 Summer Olympics and MJ had chosen the white-based version as his preferred pair.
Update: (8/03) PS and TD sizes will be offered as well, and retail for $80 and $60 respectively.
Update: (7/30) More official images are featured. GS sizes (3.5y – 7y) will be offered and listed at $140.
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By the Numbers: A Win!
Jason Babin, after the game:
“I don’t know how many times we stopped them, but it was almost unfathomable. I wouldn’t have even guessed we could stop them that much.”
I think I speak for all Eagles fans when I say, yes, that is “almost unfathomable.”
10 = Stops by the Eagles on downs of two yards or fewer. Very unexpected, although if you go through them individually as the above linked article does, you’ll see not a single linebacker’s name among the list of defensive players who came up big in short yardage.
9 = Sacks by the Eagles, including 3 each by Trent Cole and Jason Babin. Note that no one is talking about how bad the wide nine formation is today.
1.4 = LeSean McCoy’s yards per carry. McCoy finally got a ton of carries, but he was largely stuffed. Undoubtedly this will be used as proof that running the ball doesn’t work, and Marty Mornhinweg will call 50 passes next week against the Jets.
12 = Interceptions for Michael Vick in 10 games. In 2010, Vick had a 1.6 percent interception rate — better than Donovan McNabb’s career rate. This year that’s up to 3.6 percent, which is just barely off the Hall of Fame-type pace set by Mike McMahon in 2005.
57 = Yards from scrimmage by the Eagles in the second half. That’s in 7 possessions, with 6 punts and 1 interception. Good thing they got out to such a big lead in the first half.
1 = Win. If you look at the box score, it’s hard to understand how the Eagles won. Their leading rusher went for 38 yards, their leading receiver for 59, and their quarterback completed only half his passes. Still, getting a victory has been nigh impossible for this team at various points in the season, so it’s hard to be too negative. Plus, playoff possibilities!
Photo from Getty.
Tagged with Philadelphia Eagles, NFL, Week Fourteen, Miami Dolphins, Michael Vick, Jason Babin, Defense, Short Yardage, Trent Cole, Sacks, Wide Nine, LeSean McCoy, Marty Mornhinweg, Donovan McNabb, Mike McMahon, Second Half, Playoffs.
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Suit up! Custom-made clothes are often considerably cheaper in Metro Manila than in Western countries. Finding those small tailor shops in the Megacity can be a feat, but there are a couple of places where they will provide you with that suit you need.
The best places to look for these shops are the shopping malls scattered all over the metro, but it is usually difficult to spot them. If you see a shop that sells Filipino traditional wear for men along with different types of textile, chances are, they also do tailoring jobs.
Sometimes it is cheaper to get the fabric separately in one of those stores that sells nothing but fabric by the yard.
Expect your suit to be ready in one to two weeks, but allow some extra days in case it does not fit right at the first fitting. There are certain times of the year when it takes longer, such a June and December, the preferred months for weddings in the Philippines.
If you do not want to go about guessing which shops have a tailor in-house, you can go to the following places:
Tiño Suits and Barongs
If you really need a bespoke suit for that special occasion, you’re in luck because an established Filipino tailor and master cutter opened his shop in Makati in 2012.
Napoleon Arienza of Tiño Suits and Barongs studied in Italy, making Arienza one of the best tailors in Manila. He also worked with Brioni for a certain time so essentially, the tailor and master cutter made a few suits for the British spy character James Bond. If his Bond, James Bond experience is not enough, Arienza has over 30 years of experience under his belt. Before opening his Legaspi Village store in 2012, Tiño Suits and Barongs was the tailor of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
What makes the shop different from other tailors in the Megacity is its Italian craftsmanship. But how much will one have to spend to get a suit from Mr. Arienza? As far as prices go, Tiño is affordable compared to other top tailors in the metro but one has to keep in mind that the price tags are slightly higher as compared to buying ready-to-wear suits.The price range, according toTiño, can go from Php23, 000 to Php100, 000 depending on the fabric you want them to use.
Address: 114 Grounnd Flr., Herco Center, Benavidez St. Legaspi Village, 1740 Makati (near Greenbelt 1).
Tel: (63) 2 782 7160 ; 511 1274
Email: elbalagon@yahoo.com
Website: facebook.com/tinosuits/
Shop Hours: Mon – Fri: 10 am – 8 pm; Sat: 10 am – 6:30 pm.
Toppers Gent’s Haute Couture
Established in the 70s, Toppers makes suits and other garments. The master cutter, Jun Castro, started his tailoring business when he was 19 and because the garments he made were affordable, Toppers grew into the business that it is today.
Mr. Castro makes coats and trousers for a number of Philippine celebrities.
Katipunan Branch Tel. (63) 2 436 7938 | (63) 2 434 4115 | 0923 506 0965
Marikina Branch Tel. (62) 2 943 4745 | 0916 266 5344
Kamuning Market
In the heart of Quezon City lies an old market where old school craftsmen have set up shop. While the market does not have the right kind of ambiance or the air conditioned facilities, custom-made suits are very affordable. One has to keep in mind to bring a photo for the craftsmen’s references though.
According to those who have experienced getting a suit made at the Kamuning Market, the usual price tag is around Php 8,000 including fabric costs. Among the shops to look for is Julynneth Tailoring. If you are adventurous, you can go to the market and look for other tailoring shops too.
Address: L. Sianghio Street, Quezon City, near HotDot Thomas Morato.
Exclusively His
Exclusively His is the biggest chain of tailoring shops in the country, with about 250 personnel, including 150 well-trained in-house tailors. Exclusively His is specialized on office attires for men and on barongs, the traditional Filipino shirt for festive occasions and formal office environments. However (and despite the name), their product range also includes business attires for women, wedding gowns and entourages, and more.
Exclusively His has four branches in Metro Manila and another three outside the Megacity. For the branch directory, click here.
Website: exclusivelyhistailoring.com
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Special interview with the creator of Zung Jung rules, Alan Kwan
This month, we had a chance to conduct a very special interview with the creator of Zung Jung rules, Alan Kwan. Mr. Kwan is a world-renowned Mahjong scholar who has enriched the global Mahjong community with his influential writings and, of course, the Zung Jung rule set. Zung Jung was the style of choice for the biggest Mahjong tournament in the world: The World Series of Mahjong!
Q: How did you originally discover Mahjong?
A: I discovered mahjong when I watched my family play while I was a small child. Then during a Sunday family gathering, my elder sister taught me a simplified version of the game. I was around 8 years old then.
Q: What inspired you to create the Zung Jung rule set?
Q: What are the features that make Zung Jung unique?
A: I would answer these two questions as one. For a couple of decades since my first encounter with the game, the Hong Kong version (Old Style), with its very limited set of scoring patterns, was all I knew. Then one day, I came into contact with the Modern Japanese (Riichi) version, which has imported some patterns from the New Style version (the version which also formed the source of many of the patterns in the MCR version). I was very fascinated with the New Style patterns, and played Modern Japanese a lot for quite a while.
But after a while, the Riichi game grew stale on me. As the initial infatuation wore away, I began to see the imbalance in that scoring system, which encourages certain easy patterns and combinations (namely, those easy tanyao-pinfu type hands) too much over others, eventually undermining the game's variety and causing it to become more monotonous than it should be. (I later learned that this problem has been inherited from the version before it, namely Japanese Classical.) In other ways also (such as its retaining of triplet-point counting, and a logically inconsistent pattern set which for example recognizes "Two Identical Sequences" and "Two Identical Sequences Twice" but not "Three/Four Identical Sequences"), Modern Japanese is confined too much by its historical roots. Also, the rules of the game are the consequence of patch atop patch, with new rules added to fix problems created by a previous addition; the end result is a rather complex set of rules with lots of little pesty prohibitions and exceptions here and there, quite a bit more complex than what the original game is supposed to be.
Around that time, I also came into contact with the rest of the New Style patterns. I then began to develop my own variation by addressing the problems I saw in Modern Japanese, and above all by learning about the rules used in the early history of the game and finding the principles which should form the core of the scoring system. I realized that my fascination with Modern Japanese was really with the New Style patterns adopted by Modern Japanese, rather than with Modern Japanese itself. Hence I developed Zung Jung with the focus on those patterns themselves, and discarded those elements I deemed obstructive or unnecessary.
In a nutshell, Zung Jung is New Style which has a similar set of principles to Modern Japanese over which patterns to adopt and which not (as opposed to common New Style, where the choices tend to be arbitrary), while in most other areas adhering to the same principles of the game as it was originally conceived (around the 1850s to 1900s, probably). The game balance (pattern values) has been reconsidered anew in accordance with mathematical principles and empirical data, enlightened by modern theories of game design and playability, thereby shaking off deeply-rooted historical imbalances in the established systems.
Or in simple words, Zung Jung is pattern-building mahjong which tries to be well-balanced for high variety and good fun, as well as being easy to learn. :)
Q: What is the philosophical meaning of the name “Zung Jung”?
A: There are two layers in its meaning. On the surface, it means the "intermediate" or "middle" way, which is for example neither too simple and plain-tasting as for Hong Kong mahjong, nor too complicated and overwhelming as for MCR. On a deeper layer, the term philosophically means the way of consistency, the way of stability, and the way which things should be.
Q: What is your favorite rule set other than Zung Jung?
A: Something close to the original Classical rules. The original rules scored the hand primarily by each set it contains (triplet-point counting), instead of by the patterns found across multiple sets or the hand as a whole as in the later/modern systems. Although it did not offer the excitement of pattern-building, it was a consistent and elegant set of rules in its own right. As later variations added patterns atop it without carefully considering their impact on game balance and other issues, the game got distorted and deformed.
Q: What piece of advice would you give to a Mahjong player looking to improve their skills?
A: Zung Jung is designed to exhibit some principles in the original conception of the game, but some other versions tend to bury them, especially certain house rule versions such as Hong Kong with 3 faan minimum. Also, many players of various versions of the game, from New Style versions such as Zung Jung and Riichi to even Hong Kong Old Style, tend to become overly attached to the scoring patterns and forget that the primary goal of the game is to complete a winning hand (regular hand). One can see and learn new discoveries by occasionally going back and playing the original Classical version, or by playing with uniform scoring (winning hand scores constant value regardless of patterns).
Q: Tell us more about yourself! What would the Mahjong Time community be surprised to know about you?
A: I play mahjong, but I also believe in God. And I also believe in the sciences and mathematics. And I even believe that, mahjong is among one of the good games that will be played in the Kingdom of Heaven. :-)
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Interview: Guro Dino Flores by Christof Froehlich, March 2012
Q: Guro Dino, please introduce yourself.
Guro Dino:
I am Guro Dino Flores and I am a member of the organization Kapisanang Mandirigma. I was a member of the late Punong Guro Edgar Sulite’s Backyard Group, also known as the Lameco SOG (Sulite Orehenal Group). I am also a practitioner of Ilustrisimo taught primarily by the late Master Christopher Ricketts.
Q: How did you first start in the Warrior Arts of the Philippines?
I was first introduced to the existence of the Philippine Warrior Art in 1975 by my father. As a child, my father would tell me stories about the battles against the Spanish and Americans during the struggle for Philippine independence. Some of the stories he told were of his grandfather, Segundo Morato Flores, who was a Katipunero in the Bicol Province during the Philippine Revolution. His grandfather would proudly celebrate Philippine independence day by putting on his Katipunero uniform. He would dress my father in a matching outfit and wooden sword. Then with great pride they would march to the town square and meet with other veterans. Other stories involved my paternal grandfather, as a decorated Captain in the USAFFE (United States Armed Forces in the Far East). He was also a guerilla fighter after the Americans surrendered with the fall of the Philippines to Japan.
On my mothers side, my grandfather fought on the Island Fortress of Corrigador as a staff sergeant in the USAFFE where he was in charge of a unit of 50 caliber water cooled machine guns. He survived the infamous Bataan “Death March” and numerous solo recon missions.
One day during story time, my father showed me the sword my paternal grandfather used in World War II. It was in a leather scabbard and had a water buffalo horn handle (Kalabaw). He held it proudly over his head pointing to the sky telling me these swords were used in “Filipino Arnis”! He did a few fighting stances, and that was how the seeds of the Philippine Warrior Arts were first planted in me.
My first instruction was in the early 80′s as a young teen in my mother’s province of Laguna, Philippines. I had bought my first Balisong knife and would practice with it constantly. The town of Balisong where the knife was invented was less than 30 miles away in my maternal grandmothers province of Batangas. Laguna was known for practitioners of the balisong knife and there was an abundance of these knives available at the traditioal outdoor market (Palenke). One day, I way fooling around with the knife in front of my uncles who were having a “Tagay” or loosely translated, a serious drinking session. They yelled at me that the balisong wasn’t a toy and that relatives have been seriously injured in knife encounters. One of their friends showed me his scar from a knife fight. This began my “informal lessons” in the knife arts. One of the first lessons was to “never brandish that thing unless you plan to use it”.
When I moved to Los Angeles in the late 80′s, my cousins, Ariel Flores Mosses and Choy Flores and I would train with each other. Our first “formal studies” in Eskrima were with Grandmaster Henry Bio in Sikaran Arnis and Grandmaster Conrad Manaois in his family system of Ninoy Cinco Teros.
Q: Can you tell us some things about your training with Punong Guro Edgar Sulite & Master Christopher Ricketts.
They were both in love with the Philippine Warrior Arts. Both were very attentive and respectful of the proper form and function of the fundamental and original movements taught to them. From my first day to my last day of training with them, we always began with the basic foundations. They were both at the conclusion that real fighting must be kept simple.
One of the primary things Punong Guro focused on with the Backyard Group was sparring at various levels of intensity. Frequently with live stick with full punching, kicking, elbows, knees, takedowns and grappling permitted. Even though he acknowledged that the sword was the soul of the art, he found sword techniques did not always work with a stick in these conditions, especially with headgear. It was an amazing learning opportunity for me.
Master Ricketts’ primary focus became the perfection and preservation of the original ways Grandmaster Ilustrisimo actually moved with his sword. He constantly sought to master these techniques even further, and this is what he wanted me to perfect. When I first met Master Ricketts in the Philippines, within minutes I was sparring some of his senior students. He was a big believer in the importance of physical conditioning and sparring.
It was an honor and privilege to train with these Grandmasters and I miss my friends dearly. I miss being their student. I will always do my best to conduct myself in a way that they would make them proud and do my part to keep their legacy alive.
Q: For the people that have not had an introduction to Kali Ilustrisimo: What is so unique about it?
Ilustrisimo is a sword fighting method of Grandmaster Antonio Ilustrisimo. Its among the finest blade systems to come out of the Philippines. To illustrate the point, Master Ricketts told me of a NARAPHIL tournament held in Manila in 1979. The tournament had numerous well known Grandmasters in attendance. Grandmaster Ilustrisimo suggested that there should be a Grandmaster’s division using real blades. Grandmaster Ilustrisimo was the only one to enter the Division and won by default.
Punong Guro Sulite travelled throughout Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao to research his beloved art. He interviewed and trained with many incredibly masters of Eskrima. He even went to Grandmaster Ilustrisimo’s home of Bantayan Island to seek the roots of that art. When Punong Guro got back to Manila, Master Ricketts asked him who the best was. Punong Guro responded that even the original Ilustrisimo family system on Bantayan Island “was not the same as Tatang’s”. He said that when it came to the blade, no one could compare to Grandmaster Antonio Ilustrisimo.
The art of Ilustrisimo is a truly refined sword art system. This is where it’s true beauty and effectiveness dwells. It is efficient, direct and functional. It is full of subtle movements, strategic positioning and superior timing. It can appear simple, but when attempted, seems complex.
Q: What is Kapisanang Mandirigma all about?
Kapisanang Mandirigma was founded by members of the Backyard Lameco Group who continued training together after the passing of Punong Guro Edgar Sulite. Kapisanang Mandirigma also recognized Master Ricketts as the heir of Lameco Eskrima after Punong Guro’s passing and began training under him in Ilustrisimo. At the same time, other Backyard members trained with the other “Five Pillars” of Ilustrisimo while continuing training with each other in the “Lameco Backyard Tradition”.
Q: Why the seperation between Lameco SOG, Backyard Eskrima & Kali Ilustrisimo?
Both, Punong Guro Sulite and Master Ricketts, were firm believers in giving credit where credit was due. My interest is preserving and continually seeking deeper understanding of the original techniques.
Punong Guro Sulite had a method of training us in the Backyard. It was functional and practical and this method will be preserved. We will continue to do this, just as we have for the last 15 years, since Punong Guro’s passing.
Master Ricketts’ objective was to preserve the “pure” Ilustrisimo sword movements. We will do our part to help continue his wishes. Before Master Ricketts passed away, he put together a strict curriculum with the objective of preserving his beloved teachers art. We are assisting the Ricketts family who are in the process of implementing Master Ricketts Ilustrisimo Legacy so it will continue to be preserved and continued in an honorable manner.
Backyard Eskrima is how Kapisanang Mandirigma continues the backyard tradition. At our teachers request, we were instructed not to teach certain techniques and concepts to the “general public”. Backyard Eskrima allows us to honor this request and continue training with carefully selected members.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
I will continue to honor my teachers and the lineage.
Filed Under: Filipino Martial Arts, FMA, Interviews, Kali Arnis Eskrima Escrima, Kapisanang Mandirigma, Lameco Eskrima, Masters and Guros
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= Clean-up needed =
'''The very existence of this page, and the confusion in the below text re-affirms that anything to do with [[namespaces]] is confusing, and for the most part, a waste of time. For more on why this is a waste of time, see the [[namespaces]] page.''' - [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 15:15, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
'''[[to-do]]: This page should be processed into a set of discrete individual issues on a page like [[namespaces-issues]]. This will enable better handling (through FAQs, changes to wiki text, etc.).''' - [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] 15:15, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
=Introduction=
This page outlines a disputed inconsistency that the Microformat's community has had for a number of years. Namely, in the way the community defines "namespace" and the position it takes against that definition of a namespace.
This page outlines a disputed inconsistency that the Microformat's community (note: nearly all of the below was authored by Manu Sporny, one person, and thus it is ''not'' representative of "the Microformat's (sic) community) has had for a number of years. Namely, in the way the community defines "namespace" and the position it takes against that definition of a namespace.
=Brief Definitions=
* [[User:ManuSporny|ManuSporny]] 07:54, 5 Feb 2008 (PST)
* [[User:Guillaume Lebleu|Guillaume Lebleu]] 04:46, 6 Feb 2008 (PST)
=Known anti-pattern=
1 Clean-up needed
3 Brief Definitions
4 Required Changes
5 Logic
5.1 Microformats Use Context, Scope and Namespaces
5.2 Microformats Use Emulated Namespaces
5.3 Microformats as overlapping trees
5.4 Microformats Do Not Use Fully Qualified Namespaces
8 Sympathetic to the Cause
9 Known anti-pattern
10 Resolution
Clean-up needed
The very existence of this page, and the confusion in the below text re-affirms that anything to do with namespaces is confusing, and for the most part, a waste of time. For more on why this is a waste of time, see the namespaces page. - Tantek 15:15, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
to-do: This page should be processed into a set of discrete individual issues on a page like namespaces-issues. This will enable better handling (through FAQs, changes to wiki text, etc.). - Tantek 15:15, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
This page outlines a disputed inconsistency that the Microformat's community (note: nearly all of the below was authored by Manu Sporny, one person, and thus it is not representative of "the Microformat's (sic) community) has had for a number of years. Namely, in the way the community defines "namespace" and the position it takes against that definition of a namespace.
Brief Definitions
Here are the widely accepted definitions for context, scope, namespace, fully qualified namespace, and emulated namespace:
A context is an enclosing structure that provides semantic meaning to the elements that it encloses.
A scope is an enclosing context where values and expressions are associated. The term is interchangeable with context.
A namespace is a named scope/context.
fully qualified namespace
Fully qualified namespaces remove all ambiguity from a name. An example of a fully qualified namespace is: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator, which is a fully qualified namespace for the Dublin Core property named 'creator'. In C++ std::string is an example of a fully qualified namespace.
emulated namespace
A namespace can be emulated by using an identifer naming convention. For example, png_create_write_struct, png_get_signature, png_read_row, png_set_invalid are examples of C functions that use an emulated namespace called 'png'.
Required Changes
These are the changes that would need to be made to the namespaces page to bring the Microformats definition of a namespace in line with the commonly cited definition of a namespace.
The five brief definitions on context, scope, namespace, fully qualified namespace, and emulated namespace should be included on the page.
Citations to more detailed definitions from reputable sources should be included on the page, the list of literature at the end of this page would be a good starting point.
It should be made clear that Microformats use context, scope, namespaces as a general concept, and emulated namespaces in certain situations.
It should be made clear that Microformats do not use fully qualified namespaces for class names, data, or any other Microformatted content.
Microformats Use Context, Scope and Namespaces
The following is an example of pure context and pure scope:
var A;
var B;
var C;
// at this point, A and B are accessible in this context/scope, but C is not.
The example above demonstrates what a pure context and a pure scope look like. The curly-braces are what denote the change in scope from one scope to the next. For example, the variable named C only exists in the inner-most scope.
The following is an example of namespaces (a namespace is a named scope):
NAMESPACE_X {
NAMESPACE_Y {
The only change from Example 1, is that now we've named each scope - when you name a scope, it is called a namespace. There are two namespaces defined in this example, NAMESPACE_X and NAMESPACE_Y.
Example 2 can be extended to HTML quite easily:
<span>Manu Sporny</span>
The example above is similar to Example 2, but it uses HTML markup. The
and tags are what denote the change in scope. The SPAN element is in the DIV namespace in this example.
<div class="vcard">
<span class="fn">Manu Sporny</span>
The example above now has two top-level named scopes that are defined, the DIV namespace and a new namespace called "vcard" - the currently active Microformat namespace. A named scope is a namespace, thus - Microformats use context/scope and namespaces.
Microformats Use Emulated Namespaces
An emulated namespace is a named scope that uses the same prefix to denote semantic similarity. An example of an emulated namespace is:
png_create_write_struct
png_get_signature
png_read_row
png_set_invalid
The example above uses "png" as the emulated namespace identifier.
Microformats use emulated namespaces in hAtom:
entry-title
entry-content
entry-summary
The example above uses "entry" as the emulated namespace identifier. The claim that "entry" is a namespace is contested by the primary editor of hAtom. However, "If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck - it's a duck."
Microformats as overlapping trees
Microformats attempt to use a single vocabulary. Therefore, properties like URL, have one definition across all formats, it makes little sense to have hcard:url, hreview:url, hcalendar:url, etc. They all mean the same thing, therefore there is no reason to group them, scope them or namespace them. If you think of each format as a tree structure mapped onto HTML elements, some portions of various trees will overlap and share branches. Scoping and namespacing would prevent these things from happening, but they occur in microformats all the time.
If an hCard is within an hCalendar, all shared properties (i.e. URL) are mixed between both formats. These are the points at which the trees overlap. This was done by design. It does create some limitation, but these where not great enough to out weight the benefits to publishers.
The "overlapping trees" model causes problems when (in the above example) there are two, different URLs:
<a href="example.com/johndoe">John Doe</a>
would like to invite you to
<a href="example.net/widget-event">a meeting about widgets</a> on...
If John Doe is marked up as an hCard and as the event's organiser (both perfectly reasonable actions), his URL will become the URL for the event, whereas the latter should be used. Such overlaps could be dealt with by parsing rules, but these would be many and convoluted, and may be counter-productive where the URL is shared. This has already been an issue for me, on live pages. Andy Mabbett 02:42, 6 Feb 2008 (PST)
Microformats Do Not Use Fully Qualified Namespaces
There is agreement on Microformats not using fully qualified namespaces. For example, this is verboten:
<div xmlns:vc="http://microformats.org/wiki/vcard-namespace#" class="vc:vcard">
<span class="vc:fn">Manu Sporny</span>
The above example uses a QName to specify a fully qualified namespace for the FN class in the VCARD container. This is confusing for beginners, and difficult to author. The difficulty in understanding fully qualified namespaces, and the difficulty in authoring fully qualified namespaces are the primary reasons that fully qualified namespaces are not used in Microformats.
Here are excerpts from the definitions and links to further definitions supporting the arguments listed on this page.
The general definition of context is:
Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation.
--- Wordnet: context
The definition of scope is:
In computer programming, scope is an enclosing context where values and expressions are associated. Various programming languages have various types of scopes. The type of scope determines what kind of entities it can contain and how it affects them -- or semantics.
Scopes can:
contain declarations or definitions of identifiers;
contain statements and/or expressions which define an executable algorithm or part thereof;
nest or be nested.
A namespace is a scope that uses the enclosing nature of the scope to group logically related identifiers under a single identifier. Thus, scopes can affect the name resolution for their contents.
--- Wikipedia: scope
The general definition of namespace is defined as:
...a namespace is an abstract container providing context for the items (names, or technical terms, or words) it holds and allowing disambiguation of items having the same name (residing in different namespaces)...
--- Wikipedia: namespace
The Computer Science definition of namespace is:
A namespace is an abstract container or environment created to hold a logical grouping of unique identifiers (i.e., names). An identifier defined in a namespace is associated with that namespace. The same identifier can be independently defined in multiple namespaces. That is, the meaning associated with an identifier defined in one namespace may or may not have the same meaning as the same identifier defined in another namespace. Languages that support namespaces specify the rules that determine which namespace an identifier (i.e., not its definition) belongs.
--- Wikipedia: Namespace (computer science)
The Computer Science definition of an "emulated namespace" is:
In programming languages that do not provide language support for namespaces, namespaces can be emulated to some extent by using an identifier naming convention. For example, C libraries such as Libpng often use a fixed prefix for all functions and variables that are part of their exposed interface. Libpng exposes identifiers such as:
This gives reasonable assurance that the identifiers are unique and can therefore be used in larger programs without fear of identifier naming collisions.
--- Wikipedia: Namespace emulation
The Computer Science definition of a "fully qualified namespace" is:
In computer programming, a fully qualified name is an unambiguous name that specifies which object, function, or variable a call refers to absolutely. To fully-qualify most often means to explicitly refer to namespaces that would otherwise be implicit because of the scope of the call.
--- Wikipedia:fully qualified name
In June of 2007, while discussing what should be the name of a song, album or audio recording for hAudio, it was suggested that TITLE be re-used from hCard. This kicked off a debate about whether it would be appropriate to re-use TITLE because TITLE was previously defined in hCard as "job title". Manu pointed out that this was not the proper English definition for TITLE, would confuse authors, and inquired as to why TITLE was defined in such a constrained way. It was shown that TITLE re-used the definition of TITLE from the VCARD specification, and since TITLE had been set as such, re-defining it to become in-line with the English definition of TITLE would have ramifications on hCard implementations out in the field.
A suitable replacement for TITLE was discussed and FN was adopted for hAudio.
Several months later, Martin McEvoy raised the issue again - that FN is not a suitable replacement for the title of an audio recording. Manu argued that TITLE should be brought in line with the English definition once again, and another argument about namespacing started on the microformats-new mailing list. This discussion revolved around an assertion that Manu was making about Microformat's having a stance against namespacing, but then turning around and inconsistently using "emulated namespaces" as a replacement when there was no other option but to namespace (such as in hAtom - "entry-title", "entry-summary", "entry-description")
Manu asserted further that the community has an inconsistent stance on namespaces because the community's definition of namespacing was not standard. It deviated from the definition in the field of linguistics, programming language design, and mainstream computer science literature. To illustrate the point, it was shown what the standard definition of 'namespace' is using a number of text books on the subject.
Manu is currently challenging the vague and inconsistent definition of namespace that is being used in the Microformats community and is asking for further refinement on the types of namespaces that are and are not allowed in the Microformats community.
Sympathetic to the Cause
Below is a list of people that would like the namespace inconsistency more directly addressed by implementing the changes listed above in the "Required Changes" section.
ManuSporny 07:54, 5 Feb 2008 (PST)
Guillaume Lebleu 04:46, 6 Feb 2008 (PST)
Known anti-pattern
Below is a list of people who believe the namespace anti-pattern has already been adequately addressed in namespaces.
hober 11:44, 5 Feb 2008 (PST)
Danny Ayers resolves pretty much all of the above regarding "namespaces" in his email:
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-new/2008-February/001438.html
This resolution is being contested by Manu since none of the namespaces pages were updated as a result of the discussion. ManuSporny 19:45, 4 Feb 2008 (PST)
References that support the commonly understood definition of namespace:
Wikipedia:namespace
Wikipedia:Scope
Wordnet:context
History of Programming Languages II, By Thomas J. Bergin, Richard G. Gibson, p.265
Programming and Problem Solving with C++, By Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, p.369
Computer-Aided Verification '90: Proceedings of a DIMACS Workshop, June 18-21, 1990. p.571
Handbook of Object Technology By Saba Zamir, p.15
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“They Helped Me Up” Staff Sergeant Eddie Peoples – DoD Blogger’s Roundtable
Staff Sergeant Eddie Peoples
How do I start? This story is about one of our own, a hero for wearing his country’s uniform, a “Defender” in his one words and certainly a model for caring! United States Army Staff Sergeant Eddie Peoples came home on leave from Vicenza, Italy with his family to care for and see his ill father who had had a stroke. Stopping in the branch of the Sarasota, Florida Bank of America, he saw a robbery “go down” and elected to get involved! More defending to do and children to protect (two of his own were with him), he described himself as on call 24 hours a day.
Waiting for the robber (I hate the “suspected robber term in this case”) to leave the bank he followed him to the getaway vehicle and then blocked it with his own (it was a rental after all). When the robber finally realized he could not leave with his vehicle, he jumped out and confronted Peoples with his “gun” which looked real but when the soldier took it from him using combat skills taught to him by the Army instructors, it was a fake. Subduing the bigger man (hard to believe seeing some of the pictures of the Staff Sergeant) and placing him on the ground on, “a pile of money”, he waited a very short time for the police to respond. Not knowing which guy was the bad guy, the police used their standard protocol which Peoples said he followed very closely until the police had the whole picture. What happened next? Peoples said, “They Helped Me Up” and one gave me a hug afterwards.
He estimates the robbery suspect as being 6 foot 3 inches tall and weighing 260 pounds! I am sure the police were very happy this suspect was on the ground (“cowered” on the ground is how Peoples described it) without his potential weapon when they arrived. Remember our soldier did not know the weapon was a fake when he saw and dealt with it. I ask him if he felt like he had a “combat flashback” and he said, not much but a slight tremor and bit of an adrenalin rush and letdown. He said combat experiences were much worse and described his response there as well. When asked about his wife’s response he described it as very subdued and then kind of a jovial celebration.
Realizing that Staff Sergeant Peoples would be heading back to Italy soon, the Sarasota county sheriff’s office coordinated for a recognition ceremony the very next morning. Peoples received a commendation medal from them for interceding and was part of their press conference. Now he is waiting to hear about coverage of his rental insurance deductible. With a wry sense of humor he said that Bank of America (which needs some good publicity within the military community) waived his $10 fee for the transaction that day! How about picking up any costs from the incident too? Or Enterprise could close the incident and write it off too! He said he would prefer that his expenses to bring his family home to see his dad did not go up due to the incident.
We salute you, Staff Sergeant Eddie Peoples for not staying out of the fight when it would have been easy to do!! We wish your father well too! God speed and safe travels back to your home.
If you would like to listen to an audio of Staff Sergeant Peoples' interview or read more about him please go http://www.dodlive.mil/index.php/2011/06/u-s-army-bloggers-roundtable-staff-sgt-eddie-peoples/. To read more of Col K's blogs please go to MilitaryAvenue's Col K.
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It was a month between runs for the up-and-comer Amerock but there was still an air of confidence surrounding the four-year-old as he returned to Ballarat on Tuesday - the chestnut up in weight but contesting a similar race to the 2000m BM64 contest he won late last month.
Ideally we had wanted to race the son of Melbourne Cup hero Americain sooner but it was not so easy to get him a run in the right race - but as it turns out, this one was worth waiting for!
"It is a credit to my people at home giving the good feed back in the morning," Mitch Freedman said, "just so that we know that the fitness levels are still there when they miss a run or two."
"The horse is going really well," he continued - "and I thought he was even more genuine today than last start, he took a gap and really flattened out well."
Jockey Jarrod Fry agreed - "the other day he got a bit lost and waited for the others but today he really raced away to the line, he is racing with good confidence."
"He travelled smoothly throughout the whole race and conserved energy. I just had to wait for the gap to come and when it did he showed a good turn of foot."
It was win number four for Amerock, one that saw his prize money tally increase to beyond $116,000 - a good result for his many happy owners including his breeders, the Bamford family.
Bred to appreciate the 2000m and beyond, Amerock is out of the Zabeel mare Miss Shamrock whose dam is the Gr.1 Australasian Oaks winner Irish Darling, also dam of the Listed winning stallion Fighting Sun.
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The Value of Things imagines the store and the museum as perfectly representing the technologies for the sourcing, transportation, warehousing, accounting, stocking, display and redistribution of material things. Although clearly organized around different economic drives, what the store shares with the museum is the encyclopaedic desire to render the whole world knowable, classified and displayed for the visitor to consume. If the museum is driven by a set of values and narratives to protect the image of singularity through souvenirs of the past, in simple contrast, the department store holds the promise of a semiotic democracy, played out live, amongst the profusion of the present.
Although The Value of Things is not a task of mourning. As we embark on the new millennium, our traditional play with value has exceeded it’s previous limits. Value expressed as the accumulated excess through profit, no longer correspond to the circulation of things and the logic of the marketplace. Value as capital is ever more intensively squeezed from the movement of the digital image, of capital itself. These two great institutions, while acting as a model to structure and narrate previous cultural shifts, are also caught in a process of radical transformation. They may even be accelerating towards a strange convergence. As the Store is superseded by out of town shopping cities (or its convenience replaced by the point and click of e-commerce) it reconstructs its past with a gentle mercantile nostalgia; reinventing itself as a spectacular tourist destination, dispersed amongst other cultural sites. The Museum in turn, as an effect of changes in the constitution of its public, and public provision, aggressively markets and licenses its own collection, history and building, as a brand. The stored old things, and their parallel information shadow are harnessed as potential new revenue streams.
The Value of Things pictures Selfridges, the first purpose built department store in London, and the British Museum, England’s earliest public museum, although their specific histories unfold as emblematic of institutions worldwide. Through images and text the book mirrors the uncanny narrative of the twinned sites, as a beautiful but failed catalogue. Systems of taxonomy and classification emerge as the text and images break into a familiar, yet displaced, departmental structure.
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Browse > Home / FX, TUF, TV, UFC / TUF 16 Episode 5: 624,000 viewers
TUF 16 Episode 5: 624,000 viewers
MMA Junkie reports that the fifth episode of TUF received a dismal 624,000 viewer average. The rating is the lowest for the TUF series.
TUF 16 Episode 1: 947,000
TUF 16 Episode 4: 1.1 million
One might argue that the MLB Baseball Playoffs were on Friday night but with the exception of last week, the ratings have dropped each week. Five episodes in and it still looks like there may not be a floor to the TUF ratings.
Written by Jason Cruz · Filed Under FX, TUF, TV, UFC
8 Responses to “TUF 16 Episode 5: 624,000 viewers”
Jake on October 15th, 2012 9:22 PM
“FX is happy with another grand slam” – Uncle Dana
Buba on October 15th, 2012 10:16 PM
I’m really curious for the Brain Smasher excuses on this one.
Random Dude on October 15th, 2012 11:33 PM
I wouldn’t say last week’s ratings were good although they went up.
Last week:
The movie shown on FX at 6pm before the fights and the movie (Taken) shown at 11pm after the Ultimate Fighter scored higher in numbers and 18-49 demo.
FX MOVIE PRIME FX 11:00 PM 1.594 0.7
ULTIMATE FIGHTER FX 10:00 PM 1.056 0.6
FX MOVIE PRIME FX 6:00 PM 1.353 0.6
UFC FIGHT NIGHT FX 8:00 PM 1.084 0.6
Sampson Simpson on October 16th, 2012 5:25 AM
BRAINSMOOSHER!!! “I ALWAYS SAID TUF WAS STALE”
STFU?
Felix on October 16th, 2012 6:35 AM
Christ, every time I come to site there is a depressing story about how everything is going downhill for MMA. That is my personal observation too, but damn it’s depressing witness. Fox is going to pull the plug on the UFC deal with these results.
Machiel Van on October 16th, 2012 7:33 AM
The show has run it’s course in the U.S. The interested viewers have left (I’ve got to admit this is the first season that I’ve completely ignored), and they just aren’t going to get anyone new interested when the die hard fans are no longer telling their friends to watch. Most reality shows should never reach a 16th season, and TUF is no exception. None of this is surprising.
jose on October 16th, 2012 7:39 AM
Anything new and exciting benefits from bandwagon fans. UFC was the exciting, new thing for almost a decade. It’s not anymore. UFC is 20 years old, 12 years under Zuffa management. If you are a 15 year old then UFC is the thing your uncle likes to talk about when he tries to be cool.
UFC still has tons of room to grow internationally. And it will cycle up and down in popularity on the back of it’s stars. Brazil is booming with Anderson Silva. But after Silva retires if other Brazilians don’t continue to dominate then the bandwagon fans in Brazil will go back to soccer.
UFC will only ever be a niche sport, but it can be a niche sport all over the world and make lots of money.
UFC should use more national rivalries to get that team sport flavor. Notice the UFC 153 was almost entirely a Brazilian vs some foreigner. Cause Brazilians love being on Team Brazil and seeing foreigners get beat up, especially Americans.
I believe if they had stuck with Spike, they wouldnt be inthis situation. It would have been far less tgen the 90 million annual fox deal but they would have ideal time slots for their target audience
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Ethiopia attempts to mediate Sudan crisis after bloodshed
Friday, 7 June 2019 22:19 GMT
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, arrives to mediate in the political crisis that has followed after the overthrow of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan June 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Although no breakthrough was announced, an adviser to the Ethiopian prime minister said the talks went well and that Abiy would be returning to Sudan soon
By Khalid Abdelaziz
KHARTOUM, June 7 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's prime minister on Friday urged Sudan's military rulers and civilian opposition to exercise "bravery" in trying to agree on a transition to democracy after the worst bloodshed since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who flew to Khartoum from Addis Ababa to try to mediate the country's crisis, held separate talks with the country's ruling military council and leaders of the Declaration of Freedom and Change Forces, an alliance of protesters and opposition parties.
The visit came days after forces stormed a protest camp outside the Defence Ministry in central Khartoum where demonstrators were demanding civilian rule. Dozens of people have been killed since Monday.
Khaled Omar, a leader of the opposition alliance, said Abiy proposed setting up a transitional council comprised of eight civilians and seven military officers with a rotating presidency.
The opposition demanded that the military rulers take responsibility for the bloodshed, allow an international investigation into the violence and free political prisoners, Omar added.
But instead of releasing prisoners, security forces arrested Mohammad Esmat, a member of the opposition delegation shortly after he met with Abiy, sources from his party said.
The military council could not immediately be reached for comment.
"This amounts to a practical response from the military council that effectively rejects the Ethiopian prime minister's mediation effort," Omar told Reuters, adding that the Sudanese opposition would not agree to any deal before all of its conditions are met.
The military council said it was ready to negotiate at any time, state news agency SUNA reported.
Although no breakthrough was announced at the end of the one-day visit, an adviser to the Ethiopian prime minister said the talks went well and that Abiy would be returning to Sudan soon.
The military council and opposition had been in talks for weeks over who should lead Sudan's transition to democracy.
But negotiations collapsed after Monday's violence. The opposition said it could not talk to untrustworthy rulers. Opposition medics say 113 people were killed in the storming of the camp and subsequent crackdown.
The government, however, has put the week's death toll at 61, including three security personnel.
Abiy made his visit the day after the Ethiopia-headquartered African Union bloc suspended Sudan, backing the opposition's demand for civilian rule.
He was welcomed by Lieutenant General Shams El Din Kabbashi, spokesman for the Transitional Military Council. Abiy later hosted a meeting with the opposition alliance.
"The military and the people and the political forces need to act with bravery and responsibility in taking quick steps to a democratic, reconciliatory transitional period in the country," he said in a statement.
Abiy, a reformer who took office last year, has won wide praise for his diplomatic skills, including brokering peace with Eritrea, Ethiopia's neighbour and long-time foe.
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Stability in Sudan is crucial for a volatile region struggling against Islamist insurgencies from the Horn of Africa to Egypt and Libya. Various powers, including Russia and the Gulf Arab states, are trying to influence its path.
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have close ties with the military council, have said they are watching developments with concern and support a renewal of dialogue.
Russia said on Thursday it opposed foreign intervention in Sudan and the authorities in Khartoum must subdue what it described as "extremists," a Russian news agency reported.
Sudan was placed on a U.S. list of sponsors of terrorism under Bashir, an Islamist former general accused of war crimes in the western Darfur region.
A doctors' group linked to the protest movement said hospitals were now overcrowded with people injured in this week's crackdown. Worsening the situation, five hospitals had been shut down by the feared paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which grew out of Darfur militia, it said.
"There is a great shortage in medical staff, mainly caused by the military militias targeting doctors and preventing them from reaching hospitals and clinics to perform their duty," it said. "For all these reasons, more and more lives are being lost every day."
The World Health Organization said some medical staff and patients had been injured during raids into hospitals, and emergency services were being shut down.
Mobile tent clinics set up to treat injured protesters had been set on fire and destroyed while medical equipment had been looted and some women health workers were reportedly raped, it said.
"These actions represent a total and unacceptable violation of international human rights law and must stop," said Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean.
Rights group Amnesty International and the opposition have blamed the RSF for the violence.
The military council counters that infiltrators are putting on RSF uniforms. It says Monday's raid was targeting criminals in an area next to the camp, but got out of hand. (Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz in Khartoum, Lena Masri, Ahmed Tolba and Omar Fahmy in Cairo; writing by Lena Masri; editing by Angus MacSwan, Andrew Cawthorne, William Maclean, Toby Chopra and G Crosse)
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Cyber security in focus as business breakfast
21st June 2018 newsquest-admin
Education, buy-in at board level and cultural change. If the alarming cyber attacks of the past year should have taught us anything about securing our personal and business data, then these should be at the top of the list, according to the industry experts at The Herald Cyber Security business breakfast, held in association with international law firm CMS yesterday.
The event, at CMS’s offices in Glasgow’s West Regent Street, attracted some 60 delegates from organisations that included Scottish Water, NVT Group, Morgan Stanley and Diageo – all with a significant stake in the security of their data and acutely aware of the new compliance responsibilities demanded after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted last month.
Gordon Stevenson, digital transformation director at The Herald’s parent company, Newsquest, chaired an event that started with keynote speeches from Alan Nelson, a partner at CMS and Matt Little, chief technology officer at Zonefox, followed by a lively discussion session joined by John Gibson of insurance giant AIG, Iain Johnson of Newsquest, Laura Thorburn of Carlyle Associates and Lorraine Mills of Blue Rock.
Alan Nelson stressed the urgency of having an effecting crisis management plan in place. “If you suffer a breach you only have 72 hours to respond,” he said. “Investing in crisis management now will pay dividends later.”
While Matt Little pointed out that the threat was not always the sophisticated international hacktivist: “Often it’s the result of Timmy from accounts taking his work laptop home and syncing it with the cloud.”
Several delegates left determined to sharpen their password practices – Lorraine Mills alarmingly revealed that 65 per cent to 85% of passwords can be cracked by a professional within four days. “And unsecured public wi-fi in airports, buses and trains are emphatically not suitable for any business use,” she added.
Most importantly, the session concluded, information technology security policies cannot be imposed on a workforce. “Everyone must be educated so they are able to understand and proactively implement these measures. And when senior management realises that this is fundamentally a commercial, not just an IT issue, that culture change can start at the top,” said Mr Little.
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Time running out to get in on the act at the Heraldfashion.co.uk Awards
26th September 2017 newsquest-admin
Double winners at the Herald Fashion Awards 2016 at the Grand Central Hotel, Online Accessory Retailer of the Year and Twitterati winner Trakke, Alec Farmer and Dakota Wilson.
TIME is running out to enter this year’s Heraldfashion.co.uk Awards as the deadline looms.
The top online fashion businesses for Scotland will be rewarded at a gala awards ceremony at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow on Sunday November 5, but hopefuls must get their entries in by Friday October 6.
Now entering its fourth year, it is held in association with Bridge 2 Business, Of One Mind and Walker Slater.
The judges are looking for only the best in each of the 12 categories, highlighting success stories in social media, e-commerce, mobile and education.
Businesses are being asked to put forward their online fashion campaigns, the only requirement being that success – inventive, financial or in terms of online popularity – is demonstrated to the judges.
Brian McEwan, Bridge 2 Business programme manager, said: “These awards have helped to raise the profile of some of the best up and coming fashion professionals in Scotland.
“Applicants are up against some of the UK’s top talent and these awards are a great way to enhance their understanding of the sector.”, refine exactly what image and offering these businesses want to communicate, and whether they win or not, use that experience to really push on with their ideas.”
Paul Walker, the founder and lead designer at Walker Slater, which is supporting the blogger of the year category, said the awards are a “unique and brilliant opportunity” for people in the “fashion sector in Scotland with an online presence to be recognised for the incredible work which our industry does.”
He added: “Having previously attending and received an award Walker Slater can do nothing but highly recommend entering the category most suited for your business.”
Hospitality, public relations, marketing and event management specialists, Of One Mind, said they are delighted to be supporting the Best Online Newcomer award.
A spokesman added: “We are excited to see start ups and entrepreneurs enter into the awards and showcase the fantastic work that is taking place in this sector.”
The judges are Dr Jen Ballie, Research Fellow at Glasgow School of Art, Eva Arrigh, Group Fashion Editor, Herald & Times Group, Matt Collins and Nana Hughes-Lartey, Directors of Spectre Creative and James Jefferson, Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder of creative agency Equator.
Log onto http://newsquestscotlandevents.com/events/the-herald-fashion-awards/ to complete an entry by Friday October 6 deadline.
Contact Nina Holmes on 0141 302 6036 for further assistance
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Vijay Shekhar Sharma, ranked 1,394th on the list with a fortune of $1.7 billion, is the only Indian billionaire in the under-40 league.
Story Of Gaurav Rana, From Collecting Cow Dung To Building A Rs 11 Crore...
At just 24, he has made his name in the start-up world and comes across as a charismatic young entrepreneur.
Through his venture, FairPencil, founder Yatish Jain, helps create aesthetically brilliant architectural spaces
FairPencil, aims to help people solve the various challenges faced in terms of house designs/architecture and provide design solutions.
Anjana Reddy goes all WROGN with Virat Kohli to pocket Rs 100 crore
Anjana Reddy, Founder of Universal Sportsbiz Pvt Ltd (USPL), which owns the brands Collectabillia, Imara and Wrogn is not your usual girl.
The Great Khali to enter the entrepreneurial scene
He along with Franchise India, announced the launch of The Great Khali Gym & Fitness Club, an exclusive chain of luxury gym and fitness centres, which led to his entry in the field of entrepreneurs.
With its techie idea, this Indian startup offers to provide free wifi in 1000...
Pujashoppe.com offers complete solutions by offering access to religious festivals and pujas all across the country both online and its chain of religious stores keeping in mind the purity and utmost quality in every product and services we offer.
From Uber to Zomato, tech startups struggle to sustain valuations
Many global internet companies are battling this downtrend. Uber, LinkedIn, Twitter, Airbnb, Snapchat, Dropbox, Cloudera and Palantir are some of the internet stars that have been devalued by 15-60% in the past year by some of their mutual fund investors
Valuation of Flipkart slashed by two more investors
There is a growing sense of uneasiness within the Flipkart investors as they realize India’s top e-commerce firm to be overvalued. It is still to be seen by how much margin.
How a Farmer’s son and College-dropout became a Tech Millionaire
For Varun Chandran life has been the biggest teacher, and the need to survive has been the biggest motivation.
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Members of this community should come at forefront to claim rights : Tamang
Kathmandu (Pahichan) December 4 – Parshuram Tamang, leader of CPN (Maoist Centre) has said that any communities aspiring for rights should come at forefront. Speaking to Pahichan, Tamang said members of this community should themselves claim their rights.
“I am in party headquarters of Maoist party. If needed I could play role to make decisions in favor of gender and sexual minority,” said Tamang adding that members of this community themselves should claim their rights.
He expressed the commitment to lobby in party about the rights of gender and sexual minority. Tamang said state should make efforts to provide equal rights to this community like other communities.
He said members of this community should reach at leadership level for the implementation of constitutional rights. “In the PR list of party, the representation of some communities is missed. I am ready to address them,” said Tamang.
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Phuket marina villas completed
Phase Two Gets Underway Following Successful Sales of Phase One
Following the successful sale of all 66 luxury condos and penthouses in Phase One, Royal Phuket Marina has announced the sale of fifteen ’Aquaminium’ condominium units with private, drive in boat-berths and a collection of eight palatial ’Royal Villas’, with up to five themed bedrooms, private swimming pools and doorstep moorings.
These new properties will officially launch with an exhibition in Hong Kong at the Four Seasons Hotel's Peak Suite, from May 19 to 20, 2007.
Royal Phuket Marina's Aquaminium is a pioneering concept and the world's first condominium to feature private boat-berths within the residence itself. The property comprises three buildings and offers investors varying unit types including triplex and duplex penthouses, and two and three bedroom condominiums, and offers one of the world's most unique investment opportunities.
The eight Royal Villas, the most prestigious homes available at Royal Phuket Marina, open onto sweeping views of the Mediterranean-style marina with its profusion of luxury yachts and boardwalks.
These grand residences which have been designed in classic Thai style, blend seamlessly with the resort-inspired surroundings of the marina. Expansive outdoor terraces come with a private swimming pool with built-in Jacuzzi at one end and at the other, a traditional Thai-style sala which overlooks a private boat berth.
Royal Phuket Marina, Thailand's first world-class luxury lifestyle marina community, rivalling top resort communities in Europe and the Caribbean, is located on Phuket's up-and-coming eastern seaboard overlooking scenic Phang Nga Bay.
The Marina is being developed by telecom tycoon Gulu Lalvani, the founder of Binatone, the world's second largest manufacturer of digital cordless phones. It is his vision to develop Phuket as a world-class yachting hub in one of the world's most idyllic and accessible locations.
With all of the 66 condos and penthouses in Phase One of the island's first 'high-end' residential marina already snapped-up, the launch of the Aquaminiums and villas is poised to meet the market's current demands.
"We were delighted with the market's response to the condos offered for sale as part of the first phase of development," said Norbert Zuber, Royal Phuket Marina's Sales Director. "The Aquaminiums and Royal Villas, with their private berths and stunning design are so unique that we anticipate an equally strong level of interest," he added.
David Simister, Chairman, CB Richard Ellis Thailand and sales agent for the Hong Kong launch commented: "Over the last three months our enquiry levels for resort homes has never been stronger and whilst buyers carefully weigh up political considerations, we are still closing sales. Phuket purchasers have enjoyed 50-100% capital appreciation, this factor coupled with a lifestyle to rival any worldwide resort has promoted continued interest."
"These increases may seem exaggerated but actual sales and resales bear this out. Phase I of Royal Phuket Marina sold out last year and resale stock now commands premiums of up to 100%. Purchasers buying now will have made a smart move as they take advantage of a temporary lull in the market to buy prime units at launch prices", he added.
The marina will be double the size of any other yachting haven in Phuket, with 300 berths for yachts of up to 30 metres long, and the only facility with a non tidal boat lock, deepwater basin and private moorings on the doorstep of residences.
More than half of the Royal Phuket Marina development is devoted to leisure and shopping facilities, including cafes, restaurants, a fitness centre and spa, which are set amidst landscaped gardens and attractive communal areas.
Royal Phuket Marina was awarded the prestigious "Five Gold Anchor" by the Yacht Harbour Association, an arm of the British Marine Federation.
The marina has quickly established itself at the forefront of Phuket's yachting establishment, sponsoring the prestigious international Phuket King's Cup each December.
A partnership with The Cruising Club International, 'The Royal Phuket Marina Cruising Club', is the first Fractional Boat Ownership Company in Thailand, offering the opportunity to own an equity percentage of a range of luxury power boats, sharing purchase and maintenance costs through syndicated ownership.
The entire US$150 million Royal Phuket Marina project is due for completion in 2010.
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Thursday, July 11, 2019 by The Press in Local News
THURSDAY JULY 11
·Take Off Pounds Sensibly at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Breinigsville, 10 a.m.-noon. Call 610-398-9272.
·Model Railroad Explorer Post 101 at Coplay Municipal Building, Room 201, 96 S. Fourth St., 7-9 p.m. Call 610-965-2598 or 610-262-7013.
·Al-Anon Family Support group for adult children of alcoholics and dysfunctional families at First Presbyterian Church, Tilghman St. and Cedar Crest Blvd., Allentown, 7-9 p.m.; Alcoholics Anonymous, 8-9 p.m.
·Alcoholics Anonymous at New Life Lutheran Church, 6804 Weiss Road, New Tripoli, 7 p.m. Enter at far end of church. Call 610-298-2710.
·Cetronia Senior Center, 12:30 p.m., in the social hall behind the Cetronia Fire Company, 3950 Broadway. Pinochle and bingo. Beverages and doughnuts served. Must be age 55 or older. For residents of all areas. For info, call 610-751-0912.
·New Life Evangelical Lutheran Church, 6804 Weiss Road, New Tripoli, 7-8:30 p.m. Women’s Bible Study. Baby sitting for small fee. Call 610-298-2710 for information.
·Allentown Garden Club at Allentown Public Library, 12th and Hamilton streets, 12:30 p.m.
·Lehigh Valley Blue Star Mothers support group for members and veterans of armed services and their families, 7 p.m. Weichert Realtors, 2330 Schoenersville Road, Bethlehem.
·Men’s Prayer Breakfast 7 a.m. at Cracker Barrel Restaurant, Fogelsville. All men are welcome.
·Lehigh Valley Decorative Painters at Jordan UCC, South Whitehall, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Call 610-398-1802.
SATURDAY JULY 13
·Forgotten Feline and Fidos cat and kitten adoptions noon-4 p.m. at the shelter, 6022 Mountain Road, Germansville. Adopt a kitten, adult or foster one. Call 610-760-9009. To adopt that day, vet records from other pets would be helpful in completing adoption. To adopt any other day, call Therese at 610-248-7399.
·The Marine Band of Allentown, under the direction of Tom Heinick, concert 3 p.m. at West Park, 16th and Linden Sts. Allentown. The band has partnered with Gerry Music Studio, Schnecksville, to bring Irving Berlin songs to life. In case of rain, the concert will be moved to the Active Life Center, 1633 W. Elm St., Allentown.
·Alcoholics Anonymous at Ziegels Church, Breinigsville, 7:30 p.m.
·Alcoholics Anonymous at First Presbyterian Church, Tilghman St. and Cedar Crest Blvd., Allentown, 7:30-8:30 p.m.
·NAMI Family support group for family members and friends of an adult with a mental illness at St. Timothy’s Church, Ott and Walnut streets, Allentown, 7 p.m. Call 610-882-2102.
·NAMI C.A.R.E. support group for individuals with a mental illness at NAMI Lehigh Valley office, 820 West Broad St., Bethlehem, 7 p.m. Call 610-882-2102.
·Mt. Zion Lutheran Church, 1343 Long Lane Road, Krumsville, sausage sandwich sale from 4-7 p.m. July 19. Meal includes sandwich, chips and beverage. Eat in or take out will be available. Orders are requested by July 15. Walk-ins also welcome. To order, call Sue at 610-683-3662, Janice at 610-683-7901 or email mimom13@ptd.net.
·Stepping Stones Al-Anon Family support group 7 p.m. in Room 15 at Neffs UCC, Route 873, Neffs.
·Take Off Pounds Sensibly at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Main St., Slatedale. Weigh-in begins at 6 p.m.; meeting follows. Call 610-767-6804.
·SPADE International, 9077 Steinsville Road, Kempton, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Women’s Bible Study. Call 610-756-6510 for information.
·Greenawalds Senior Citizens, 12:30 p.m. at Greenawalds Fire Co., 2500 Focht Ave. Pinochle, bingo and refreshments available. For information, call 610-395-4261. New members are always welcome.
·Trexlertown Senior group, meets 1 p.m. Tuesdays at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 8227 Hamilton Blvd., Breinigsville. Light refreshments are served. Occasional guest speaker, entertainment. Piano player is needed. Seniors are invited to play bingo, cards, joke telling and interesting stories. New members welcomed. For info, call Charlie at 610-391-0549.
·Fibromyalgia Support Group of the Lehigh Valley meets at Grace United Church of Christ, 623 Cleveland St., Allentown, 7 p.m. Call 610-797-3977.
WEDNESDAY JULY 17
·Fogelsville Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary bingo, 7850 Lime St., 6:30 p.m. Doors open 5 p.m.; kitchen opens 5:45 p.m. For more information, call Evelyn Bell at 610-655-5497.
·Sertoma Club at Knights of Columbus, 1519 Greenleaf St., Allentown, noon.
·Fogelsville Senior Citizens at Fogelsville Firehouse, 1 p.m.
·Allentown West Rotary Club, 7:30 a.m. at Luther Crest, 800 Hausman Road, South Whitehall Township. Call 610-298-2250 for information.
·Depression Bipolar Support Alliance at First Presbyterian Church, Cedar Crest Blvd. and Tilghman St., 7-9:30 p.m. Call 610-437-2741.
·Busy Bee Quilters of Union UCC, Neffs, 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. New quilters welcome. Call 610-767-6961.
·Sunrise Toastmasters, 7:25 a.m. at Asbury Methodist Church, 1533 Springhouse Road, South Whitehall. For information, email michele.salomon@gmail.com.
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Why Ontario?
Success profiles
Ontario Food Cluster success profiles
In Ontario the agri-food and beverage sector is the number one employer. Many major domestic and multi-national manufacturers locate in Canada, all with a presence in Ontario:
ADM, McCain Foods, Labatt Breweries of Canada, George Weston Ltd., Saputo, Kellogg Canada, General Mills Canada, Sleeman Breweries, Parmalat Canada, Heinz Kraft, McCormick Canada, Cargill Canada, Diageo Canada Inc. and these:
Unilever Canada Inc. – Norfolk County. Unilever’s 1.2-billion annual business in Canada includes the 264,000-square-foot ice cream manufacturing and packaging plant in Norfolk County. It is operated by over 300 employees, producing Klondike, Magnum, Ben & Jerry’s, Breyers, and Popsicle brands. The plant is part of Unilever’s global plans to operate as an environmentally responsible manufacturer, achieved zero waste by landfill status. www.unilever.ca
Shabatura Produce – Norfolk County. Shabatura Produce operates on 1,350 acres, growing strawberries, zucchini, spring and summer cabbage, storage cabbage, a variety of peppers, field tomatoes and cantaloupe. The company delivers to the Ontario Food Terminal six days per week in summer, as well as major grocery chains. Produce is also shipped to the eastern seaboard of the United States and to the mid-west. Other large scale growers in Norfolk County include EZ Grow Farms, Lake Erie Farms, Magalas Produce, Norfolk Potato Company, Procyk Farms, S&I Agricultural Commodities, and Welsh Brothers. www.shabaturaproduce.com
Frito-Lay Canada – Waterloo Region. Frito-Lay Canada recently announced a 144,000sf expansion at its existing site in Waterloo Region employing 650 people. This manufacturing facility produces the majority of Canadas’s Lay's, Doritos, Tostitos, Ruffles, SunChips, Cheetos, Miss Vickie's, Smartfood and Twistos and exports to the United States. http://pepsico.ca/en/Brands/Frito-Lay-Canada.html
Huron Produce Ltd. – Middlesex County. Has acquired the former Wescast Production Facility located at Hwy. 402 and 81 in Strathroy, ON – 165,000 sq. ft. to centralize their distribution of fresh produce throughout the region. www.huronproduce.ca
NSF International – City of Guelph. NSF International’s Canadian headquarters, located its 20,000 square foot, state of the art facility, employing over 70 people in the heart of Ontario Food Cluster, Guelph Ontario. They are amongst an internationally renowned food cluster including Canada’s Food University, the University of Guelph and over 3000 leading agri-food companies and associations in the province. NSF International offers fully integrated services which set the industry standard for food safety, certification, training and consulting and supports their mission to protect and improve global human health.
Planet Shrimp – County of Elgin. They will operate the largest indoor Pacific white shrimp farm in Canada. The indoor farm will be housed in a 225,000 square foot state-of-the-art bio secure facility in the Town of Aylmer. The site of the former Imperial Tobacco plant, the facility has seen significant private investment and was the recipient of a $237,000 provincial investment. The farm will supply millions of naturally raised, organic, sustainable shrimp annually to customers. The shrimp will be fresh, never frozen, and arrive at tables within hours of harvest. www.planetshrimp.com
WeedMD.com – County of Elgin. WeedMD.com has launched a new plant in Aylmer, Ontario to produce affordable, high quality medical marijuana that exceeds stringent new Health Canada regulations. The Toronto based company will develop a facility in south west Ontario that will also create many local jobs. The location of the medical marijuana facility is on the site of a large former Imperial Tobacco factory in the Town of Aylmer. WeedMD.com has secured a pre-approval license to produce 2,500kg of medical marijuana per year from Health Canada. www.weedmd.com
Fire Roasted Coffee – London. Opened a new 28,000 square foot Agri-Food Incubator on Dundas Street in London for small-batch production of locally sourced food products by various small and start-up food manufacturers. Read more.
Toboggan Brewing Company – London. Opened a new craft brewery in downtown London, employing 10 staff. Read more.
Bosco & Roxy’s – London. Expanded into a new 30,000 square foot facility for the production of dog treats. With the expansion, the company now employs more than 100 staff in London. Read more.
McCormick Canada – London. Received a grant of $354,240 from the Southwestern Ontario Development Fund to retain 435 jobs and add 27 new positions. Read more.
Innerseasonings International Inc – Windsor-Essex. A local company spawned from Windsor’s famous Tunnel BBQ restaurant that produces spices and sauces is expanding into the Middle East. They are currently in the process of getting their sauces and spices labelled in Arabic and certified halal and kosher to increase appeal, where they will be used on beef, lamb and chicken but not pork. Read more.
Highbury Canco – Windsor-Essex. In the 18 months since Highbury Canco engineered a rescue plan for Leamington’s biggest employer after Heinz’s shocking exit announcement, the company has gone from an initial 250 full-time employees (down from more than 700 when it was owned by Pittsburgh food giant Heinz) to 325 last fall and now to more than 400. Read more.
Strathroy Brewing Company – Middlesex County. The craft brewing industry continues to expand in Western Ontario as the Strathroy Brewing Company continues to build momentum in the municipality of Strathroy-Caradoc located in Middlesex County. The microbrewery installed 7 fermentation tanks and a new brew house at its facility located on the site of Strathroy’s old flour mill. The company has developed several pale ale recipes including its flagship 1812 brand and a new gluten-free brew. www.strathroybrewingcompany.ca
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Ontario's agri-food sector successes include strategic R&D initiatives
The Canadian Government and the Government of Ontario are both active players in the province’s innovation economy, and agri-food is no exception.
On April 1, 2013, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's new federal-provincial-territorial initiative representing a $3 billion investment, known as Growing Forward 2: 2013-2018, came into effect to enhance innovation, competitiveness and market development in provincial agriculture, agri-food, fish and seafood sectors.
The province of Ontario supports its world-class education system, highly skilled workforce, creative environment and diverse culture. For the Ontario Food Cluster, that means government support for:
Conestoga College:Institute of Food Processing Technology (IFPT), in Waterloo Region, in partnership with Food and Beverage Ontario, is Ontario's first and only engineering and technology centre focused on providing leading edge training in the state-of-the-art food and beverage manufacturing facilities with the latest technology in robotics and automation
University of Guelph: School of Hospitality, Food and Tourism Management, Centre for Nutrition Modeling, Aquaculture Centre, Centre for the Genetic Improvement of Livestock (CGIL), Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety (CRIFS), Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, Human Nutraceutical Research Unit (HNRU)
NSF-GFTC in Guelph, Ontario: Each year, NSF-GFTC experts audit and consult with over 1500 businesses in the food and beverage industry and train more than 3000 professionals in 26 countries.
Ridgetown, Ontario, campus of U of G: Agriculture Program
Western University in London, Ontario: Food and Nutrition Sciences
Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario: Culinary Management and Chemical Production & Power Engineering Technology
Greenhouse and Processing Crops Research Centre in Harrow, Essex County, Ontario: the largest greenhouse research complex facility in North America
Wilfred Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario: Health Studies
University of Toronto:Department of Nutritional Sciences, Bachelors of Nutrition, Bachelor Environmental Management, Bachelor of Ecology
McMaster University:Children’s Exercise and Nutrition Centre, Children’s Health and Exercise Program
Ryerson University: Centre for Studies in Food Security (CSFS), Certificate in Food Security, Bachelor of Nutrition and Food, Bachelor of Hospitality and Tourism Management,
St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto): Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre
Three Research Chairs in Food Science & Technology at the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Canada
Fanshawe College (London campus): Bachelor of Applied Technology – Biotechnology
George Brown College:Hospitality and Culinary Arts Program, Advanced French Patisserie (Postgraduate) Program, Advanced Wine and Beverage Business Management Program (Postgraduate), Baker / Patissier Apprentice Program, Baking and Pastry Arts Management Program,Bachelor of Business Administration (Hospitality), Culinary Management Program
Niagara College:Canadian Food and Wine Institute
Durham College:Centre for Food, Diploma in Horticulture, Diploma in Culinary Management, Diploma in Pharmaceutical and Food Science Technologies
York University:Faculty of Science and engineering: Biotechnology, Faculty of Science and Engineering: Environmental Science
University of Ontario Institute of Technology:Faculty of Health Sciences,Applied Engineering: Bioscience
Brock University: Oneology and Viticulture Program
Seneca College:Food Manufacturing Diploma,Industrial Food Technology Program, Food Service Worker Program, Food Nutrition and Hospitality Management
Humber College: Food and Beverage Service Program,Foods and Nutrition Management,
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Mary Minifie » Groton, MA
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Mary Minifie
Groton, MA
Fee range: $9,000+
maryminifie@gmail.com
Mary Minifie was educated at Wellesley College and earned an M.F.A. from Boston University School of Fine Arts. For the next ten years she lived and worked abroad in Cairo, Egypt, Oxford, England, and Vienna, Austria, exhibiting widely. In 1985 when she returned to the U.S., she began her study of portrait and the figure with portrait painter, Paul Ingbretson.
B.A. - Wellesley College, 1973, studio art and art history major
M.F.A. - Boston University School of Fine Arts, 1976, painting major
Private Study with portrait painter Paul Ingbretson, a modern master of the Boston School tradition, Boston, Massachusetts 1985-1997
2003 - Guild of Boston Artists, Edmund Tarbell Prize for Painting for The White Vase
2001 - American Society of Portrait Artists, National Competition, Honorable Mention, 4th Place for
Woman in Pink
1998 - The Washington Society of Portrait Artists, WSPA National Competition, Honorable Mention for Portrait for Ben
1998 - First Prize for Painting for Woman with Pearls, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Foundation Show, National Arts Club, New York, New York
1999 - John Stobart Foundation Grant Recipient, followed by one artist show at The Kensington - Stobart Gallery, Naples, Florida - March, 2001
February, 2005 - Feature article on portraits in American Artist
2004 - Featured in International Artist's book "100 Ways to Paint Flowers and Gardens"
April, 2001 - "Portrait Painting" published in Artist's Magazine; Page 45
Guild of Boston Artists
The Copley Society
American Society of Portrait Artists
Portrait Society of America
National Cathedral, Washington, DC - Icon Commission
Boston Ballet, Boston, Massachusetts - 30th Anniversary Series Portrait of a Dancer
Many private portrait commissions
Many still life and flower commissions
References available upon request
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Portrait Fees
The prices of the portraits start at $8,000.
Additional portraits
© 1996 - Artist works, scans and web design protected by copyright.
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415 ppm: We Are all Part of Exxon’s Unchartered Climate Experiment Now
May 16, 2019By Andy RowellBlog Post, Featured
Earlier this mon th, we collectively walked into the unknown.
We are all now a living experiment. Never before in human history have carbon dioxide levels reached 415 parts per million.
These levels were last seen maybe some 2.5-5 million years ago, during the Pliocene, but then the earth was much warmer than it is today and it was way before us.
Back then, there was no Greenland and trees grew near the South Pole. Sea levels were much, much higher. Maybe 25 metres higher.
415 ppm is a grim number. It signals we are in deep, deep trouble. And in the words of Rolling Stone magazine: “Further evidence (as if further evidence were needed) of just how hell-bent we are on cooking the planet we live on.”
To show you how much we are changing the climate: Every year another 2-3 ppm of carbon dioxide enters the atmosphere. Before the industrial revolution it was 280 ppm. And now it is 415 ppm.
We could have stopped the relentless rise of carbon dioxide, but we did not. In part the reason collectively we have failed to do so is the power of the oil companies and one of the most sophisticated public relations exercises ever undertaken to deny and obfuscate the truth.
The oil companies could have acted and kickstarted the renewable revolution, but they did not. But they knew. #ExxonKnew.
As Think Progress noted this week, one of the documents obtained by InsideClimate News into its investigation into what Exxon knew about climate science decades ago was an internal 1982 document from the Exxon Research and Engineering Company.
In this document the oil company mapped the “growth of atmospheric CO2 and average global temperature increase” over time.
Amazingly, as Think Progress highlights, “the company predicted that that, by 2020, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would reach roughly 400 to 420 ppm. This month’s measurement of 415 ppm is right within the expected curve Exxon projected under its “21st Century Study-High Growth scenario.”
Exxon not only predicted the future, it knew how bad it could be.
Not only did Exxon predict the rise in emissions, it also understood how severe the consequences would be, including warning of “considerable adverse impact” of rising carbon dioxide levels, including flooding and the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet.
Exxon knew all this, but instead of acting, went on to pour tens of millions of dollars into a massive disinformation campaign that we still see today being spouted by President Trump and Fox News.
No wonder climate scientists are alarmed at us reaching 415 ppm.
Professor Michael Mann told Think Progress “If you do the math, we’ll cross 450 ppm — which likely locks in dangerous planetary warming of more than 2C/3.5F — in just over a decade”.
Peter Gleick, the President Emeritus at the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, added: “Not that we need it, but the latest numbers are further evidence of the massive impact humans are having on our atmosphere and climate … We are entering an era never before experienced by humans.”
Meteorologist and journalist Eric Holthaus noted on Twitter:
This is the first time in human history our planet's atmosphere has had more than 415ppm CO2.
Not just in recorded history, not just since the invention of agriculture 10,000 years ago. Since before modern humans existed millions of years ago.
We don't know a planet like this. https://t.co/azVukskDWr
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) May 12, 2019
We don’t know a planet like this. We don’t know what will happen, except that climate chaos will get worse. We do know the answers, though.
As Oil Change International pointed out yesterday, in yet another groundbreaking report, we have to stop drilling. It really is that simple. Not tomorrow. Not today. But yesterday. We need a just transition now.
Predictably, the denial in the Trump Administration continues: This week, Donald Trump’s Interior Secretary said he had not “lost sleep over” over the 415 ppm figure.
David Bernhardt, who is a former oil and gas lobbyist, said “I believe the United States is number 1 in terms of decreasing CO2”. He added: “I haven’t lost any sleep over it.”
Meanwhile, just as Exxon warned that Antartica would be in trouble, there is new research published showing just how bad things are.
According to new academic research published in the Geophysical Research Letters, warming of the Southern Ocean now means that with ice is being lost from Antartic glaciers five times faster than in the 1990s.
It is yet another sign we are in deep, deep trouble.
Fortune 5 employee says:
Exxon (and now ExxonMobil) have failed to lead the way to demonstrating highly profitable energy alternatives. Yes, apparently oil companies like Exxon knew that they would not be the breakthrough global leaders in their industry (of thousands of companies) and would not be able to provide economic, long-term, Wall-Street-approved business plans with good returns using renewable energy, and would therefore not be the breakthrough leaders of the solution to solve the brewing CO2 crisis. If academics and average citizens (but not shareholders…) called the shots on their board of directors, their cash and staff could have been used to research alternatives, even if Wall Street would have decried the result, and even as other companies would have seized their market share as quickly as they lost it in pursuit of potential new alternatives. But this is hardly a surprise, considering how large publicly traded companies work. Given the quarterly profit-driven hawks of Wall Street, and the millions of people who blindly empower them with retirement plans, I doubt many companies in the world will choose to commit economic hari-kiri purely to pursue the remote possibility of becoming a change-leader in the energy industry. What incentive do they have? And what true pressure do they have to do so, in economic terms? While we can sue for idealized behavior in one country, it will be hard to force multinational conglomerates governed by global shareholder populations to ignore their owners everywhere, without being forced to be either market regulations or economics. Where is the voice of The People in deciding that we as a country must choose to support alternatives? Where are dominant hoards of outraged shareholders demanding lower returns (or profit-negative business models, which do exist for companies like Lyft or Uber) in return for better alternatives? Their voices are rising. But still too few people care to pressure representatives / MPs / congressmen and women about this issue enough to provide market opportunities for true business growth in alternative industry. Blaming specific companies is wishful thinking, and ignores the reality that most people globally vote with their pocketbooks on this issue by proxy, through their shareholdings in energy companies, or with their political votes, as they ignore candidates who promote plans to direct markets towards alternatives. Expecting businesses to both toe the bottom line of profit while also destroying their own business models by taking on gargantuan shareholder risk is disingenuous. Crying fowl of the supposed leaders of industry ignores the reality that they adhere slavishly to the strictures of their Wall Street masters, and the governments that regulate their incentives and those of all industries. This exercise is wishful thinking, and ignores the real work to be done, which would be to make fossil fuel industries obsolete by empowering alternative industries.
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Red Lionesses Bow Out Gracefully
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By Michael Swann August 12, 2013 News, Photo Galleries
The UQ Red Lionesses made history by securing a finals berth in their first season in the SEQAFL Women’s League.
The girls were ultimately unlucky not to proceed further, going down narrowly in their elimination final to Griffith Moorooka 4.10 (34) – 2.8 (20).
It was an arm wrestle in the first, with the ball caught in midfield congestion for much of the term.
UQ had a number of opportunities early but couldn’t quite damage the Reds on the scoreboard.
After a goalless opening term, the Reds managed to take a slight edge in the second, with some clean transition through the ground.
Reds coach, Adam Fry, said the game started to fall in their favour when his side started taking possession from stoppages.
“I think once we started to win the clearances, we were delivering it int our forwards and we started to turn around a bit,” he said.
Samantha Virgo was damaging across the ground, clearly the best on gorund for her side, in the win.
After losing a couple of players early to injury, Fry said it was efforts from players like Sheridan Connor that made the difference in the match.
“Both teams had to grind it out,” he said.
If we were hurting, then UQ was hurting equally.”
“For Sheridan to just keep on running even though we were out on our legs was fantastic,” he said.
Fry said he hadn’t spoken to the girls about the improvement over the last 12 months, going from winless in their inaugural season to a Div 2 preliminary finalist, and was simply focusing on the game at hand.
While the Reds look to their final against Logan on Sunday, UQ was left to reflect on their own improvement in their debut season.
The Red Lions showed their grit in the match, led by midfielder Amelia House and Daryl Jenson.
Kate Heliotis was a rock at centre half-back, continuing her recent run of good form.
UQ coach, Nick Kent, said he was proud of the efforts of his side in their first finals experience.
“Finals footy isn’t about flashiness, it’s about guts and determination & the girls showed plenty of guts,” he said.
“Whether it was putting their heads over the footy, backing into packs, every girl on the park for both sides gave 100 percent.
“Every girl on the park played above themselves.”
And while many sides could find negatives from a finals elimination, Red Lions coach, Nick Kent, said he struggled to find any from their first season of competition.
“On a results basis, we exceeded expectations, on a personnel level we exceeded expectations and on an enjoyment level, judging by the group & the smiles you on the girls’ faces after the game yesterday,” he said.
“I have already received texts from girls talking about how much they can’t wait for next season, which is the real kicker for me.
“The fact that hours after being knocked out of a finals race they already want to jump back in is how you judge the real success of an inaugural season of women’s football.”
Beth Newman
Fourths Fight for Further Flag
Northern Uni Games Success
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Bedrock Geology of the Eastern Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, scale 1:24,000.
Gilbert, W.G.
The eastern Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, are composed of Early Proterozoic crystalline rocks and overlying mid-Tertiary continental clastic and volcanic rocks of the Sil Murk Formation. Slightly more than half of the bedrock in the eastern Gila Bend Mountains is composed of granitic rocks, mainly located in the eastern and northern part of the map area. Except for a few scattered exposures, the Tertiary continental clastic and volcanic rocks crop out in the southwest part of the map area. The eastern Gila Bend Mountains were mapped with funds provided to the Arizona Geological Survey by the U.S. Geological Survey COGEOMAP program, contract #14-08-001-A0785. Field work was carried out from December, 1990 to February, 1991. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the U.S. Government.
Bedrock Geology of the Eastern Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona - Report
Bedrock Geology of the Eastern Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona - Map - scale 1:24,000.
Gilbert, W.G., 1991, Bedrock Geology of the Eastern Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, scale 1:24,000. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-91-05, 1 map sheet, map scale 1:24,000, 13 p.
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Tony's thoughts....
This blog is an attempt to expose the propaganda masquerading as political correctness which is epidemic in the news media. A news media which is following the model established by fascist, communist, and dictatorial regimes. Plus a few fun videos mixed in with some product reviews. Also, exposing the hypocrisy of cult groups such as She Shepherd and their type .
Sea Shepherd Faroe Islands Update
Sea Shepherd, the floating circus has arrived in the Faroe Islands to perform in free shows for the Faroese. Some of the clowns arrived in the Faroe Islands via ferry from Denmark. This allowed the clowns to bring their own vehicles. The performers were kind enough to place Sea Shepherd insignia on both sides of the vehicles making it easy for the descendants of the Vikings to easily identify the clown cars. This identification resulted in a few of the tires on the clown cars to go flat. Wonder how that happened?
It has been reported one clown was arrested. Also another report of a fist fight between a clown and a Faroe Island resident. Earlier in the week one of the clowns was interviewed by a reporter. The clown stated they were willing for forfeit their comical lives to save a whale. Really? Apparently that did not include a forfeiture of their sensitivity. One of the clowns got into an argument with a resident and got his/her feelings hurt. This caused the clown to call the police. Such brave people.
Some of the clowns who traveled to the Faroe Islands did so on a ferry. While on this ferry an eyewitness filed a report claiming the clowns were stealing food. Here is part of the eyewitness account of the food theft by the clowns from the Floating Circus:
“The Faroese travelers were shocked by their unashamed behavior. I witnessed, along with four other Faroese persons, four Sea Shepherd people sitting across from our table filling their bags with stolen food from the restaurant on the ferry this morning, Sunday morning.
Their method was to go up to the buffett many times filling their plates and at the same time taking many napkins, which they used to pack their food with, before stocking up their bags.
……….. darkhaired woman also steals some butter, while she is holding the bag between her legs with her right hand, and food packets after food packets go in this bag.
The redhaired woman ………. did not have a bag but used a hat that resembled a ski mask. She filled the ski mask with as much food as the ski mask could hold.
I spoke with other Faroese people who were also having breakfast this morning and they were shocked by what they saw by another team of Sea Shepherd people.”
Flea Face and Cabin Boy (Peter Helmethead) are also in the Faroe Islands. The residents of the islands state to Sea Shepherd, they are not the same as the people are in Taiji, Japan. With the star circus performers there, where is the ring master pope Paul the Watson?
He too once boasted he was willing to forfeit his freedom to save the life of one whale. Apparently that boast exclude going to a jail in Tokyo. His holiness will not be in the Faroe Islands for fear of that Interpol arrest warrant. With that fear, no Watson, just minions.
Link to Texas Daddy store:
http://texas-daddy.shop-pro.jp/
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Labels: Faroe Islands Grind the Grind GrindStop GrindStop 2014 Sea Shepherd save the whales anti-whaling floating circus Paul Watson whale wars Føroyar Faroese Færøerne Texas Daddy Tony propagandabuster
Japan: Worlds best soccer fans
The World Cup 2014 (2014 FIFA World Cup) in Brazil held a match between Costa Rica, and Japan. Plenty of fans from Japan traveled across the Pacific Ocean to attend the game cheering on their home team.
The Japanese team lost to Costa Rica, 2 – 1. What did the Japanese fans do in the stadium after the game? In many such instances violence has erupted. Not with the Japanese fans, the Japanese fans cleaned up the litter in the section of the stadium they were in and parts of adjacent areas.
That is the character of the Japanese people. Hoteliers throughout the world rate Japanese tourist as one of the best guest in their hotels. Why I Love Japan.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/world-cup-2014-japanese-fans-clean-stadium-after-losing-21-against-ivory-coast-9539793.html
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mrloganrhoades/more-proof-that-japan-really-does-have-the-best-world-cup-fa
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2098077-japan-fans-reportedly-clean-up-after-themselves-at-2014-world-cup
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Labels: 2014 FIFA World Cup World Cup 2014 World Cup Brazil Costa Rica Japan Soccer World Cup Soccer fans Japanese fans Japanese soccer fans Japanese tourist Why I Love Japan Texas Daddy propagandabuster
Blocked by the South Korean government
Try to access any of my videos on YouTube in South Korea and you will be unable to do so. The government of South Korea through their Korea Communications Standards Commission fear my expression of free speech in my videos and blocked me. The blockheads blocked me.
How unstable and insecure must a so-called free country be to fear a little guy in Texas? Article 21 of their Constitution guarantees free speech only for their citizens. It reads in part:
(1) All citizens shall enjoy freedom of speech and the press, and freedom of assembly and association.”
It seems South Korea is not the only nation to enjoy a façade of freedom, because recently the world’s largest democracy, India arrested seven people for their expression of free speech.
A blockhead was blocked by blockheads in South Korea. Now how silly is that? By blocking me they in essence elevated my status. Thank you to the government of South Korea for this elevated status. I feel as if I was awarded the Legion of Honor. Viva la South Korea!
South Korean Constitution, Article 21 in reference to so-called free speech:
http://english.ccourt.go.kr/home/att_file/download/Constitution_of_the_Republic_of_Korea.pdf
Korea Communications Standards Commission:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Communications_Standards_Commission
Korea Communications Standards Commission warning:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KCSC-Warning.png
Article in reference to the seven arrested in India for exercising free speech:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2014/06/13/charged-with-defaming-india-new-prime-minister/6la0ubgLg2D9BAxyNYrP4O/story.html
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Sea Shepherd Grindstop 2014 Thievery
Eyewitness account of Sea Shepherd thievery. This happened on a ferry from Denmark to the Faroe Islands. The Faroe Islands this summer will be enjoying free performances from Sea Shepherd’s circus clowns in a project called “Operation Grindstop 2014.” This is Sea Shepherds mission to stop whaling in the Faroe Islands.
The eyewitness account:
Headline "Sea Shepherd people with full bags of stolen food"
I arrived (in Faroe Islands) with Norrønu (ferry that sails between Iceland, Faroe Islands and Denmark) tonight. About 20 Sea Shepherd people also arrived.
The Faroese travelers were shocked by their unashamed behavior.
I witnessed, along with four other Faroese persons, four Sea Shepherd people sitting across from our table filling their bags with stolen food from the restaurant on the ferry this morning, Sunday morning.
Unfortunately, I was only able to take a picture of the thieves, which is attached (to the letter sent to the news site), where we see 3 Sea Shepherd people having breakfast next to our table. Their method was to go up to the buffet many times filling their plates and at the same time taking many napkins, which they used to pack their food with, before stocking up their bags.
In the photo we see some of the food packed in napkins, where the dark haired woman also steals some butter, while she is holding the bag between her legs with her right hand, and food packets after food packets go in this bag.
The red haired woman, who is seen partially, did not have a bag but used a hat that resembled a ski mask. She filled the ski mask with as much food as the ski mask could hold.
One chair in the photo is empty because the fourth thief had just left with his stolen food.
The man on photo who saw us taking the picture was the person with the largest bag. It was a very large back bag and he was pacing a lot to steal food and fill his bag. I followed him when he left with the bag stuffed with stolen food. I walked behind him and he went to his room where he delivered his bag and then he went to the 8th deck (open deck on top of the ferry). There he provoked some Faroese people at the bar. He did not succeed in provoking them and I stopped following him.
Furthermore, almost all Sea Shepherd people had the Faroese flag on their shirts - and tonight, before going ashore, they plastered banners with a skull on the Faroese flag.
I would like to know if journalists will ask them in any press conference if Sea Shepherd will continue their mission with stuffed bags of stolen food, and thereby preventing Faroese people getting food legally.
The “Kono Statement,” valid, incomplete, or misguided?
The “Kono Statement,”
valid, incomplete, or misguided?
The “Kono Statement” issued on 4 August 1993, by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono in reference to the Comfort Women issue has been interpreted as an official apology by the Japanese government. The Koreans are claiming it was not a “sincere apology.” Critics claim it was an apology issued falsely while ignoring the realities of the issue. I claim the “Kono Statement” is invalid because it seems to be based on information gathered to prove women were forced into becoming Comfort Women. As oppose to conducting an examination to determine if any of the claims were valid through balance research.
The impudence for the Kono Statement seems to have gained strength from research conducted by Professor Yoshiaki Yoshimi of Japanese modern history at Chuo University in Tokyo, Japan. Mr. Yoshimi went on a fishing expedition to uncover war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during and before World War Two.
While fishing at the Defense Agency Library of Tokyo he claims to have located documentary evidence the Imperial Japanese Army established and ran Comfort Women Stations. Mr. Yoshimi cites as evidence a notice written on 4 March 1938 by the adjutants to the Chiefs of Staff of the North China Army and Central China expeditionary Army titled “Concerning the Recruitment of Women for Military Comfort Stations.”
Shall we examine key sections of this document to uncover support for claims of impropriety by the Imperial Japanese Army? Certainly!
"Many agents should have required special attention. Some of them accentuated the name of the armies as much as they might hurt the credibility of the armies and cause misunderstanding among the public, others recruited women without control through war correspondents or entertainers, and others selected the wrong agents who took a kidnapping approach to recruit women so that the polices arrested them. In the future, the armies in the field should control recruiting and select the agencies circumspectly and properly, and should build up a closer connection with the local polices and the local military polices in the implementation of recruiting. Take special care not to have problems which have the potential to damage the armies' credibility or are not acceptable to social standards."
This is glowing statement acknowledging that in 1938 the Army recognized there was some miss-deeds in the recruitment of these women AND took steps to correct them.
On page 8 of the document the following was written:
“There have been a lot of cases as above reported,
therefore, from now on, the dispatch force will carry out screening for the brokers carefully and adequately and will corporate with the police and kenpei in regulating the recruitment so that it won’t cause the social problem and it won’t damage the prestige of the military”
The Army identifying a wrong-doing and taking steps to correct it. The document was exploited to prove there were forced Comfort Women, however portions illustrating some were identified and measures were implemented in 1938 to eliminate the abuses.
The Kono Statements acknowledges military involvement in the Comfort Women Stations and mentions:
“The Government study has revealed that in many cases they were recruited against their own will, through coaxing coercion, etc., and that, at times, administrative/military personnel directly took part in the recruitments. They lived in misery at comfort stations under a coercive atmosphere.”
This part of the Kono Statement is questionable. It did not mention the problem was identified in 1938 corrected and involvement of “many” taxes reality. Another failure when mentioned “military personnel directly took part,” ignored the fact the military involvement was to stop the abuses.
As for “They lived in misery at comfort stations under a coercive atmosphere,” seems to have been written without reference to a report on this issue written by the United States Army in 1944 titled, “Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report No. 49.”
Notice the “…Prisoner of War…” in the titled. It was an interrogation report of Comfort Women captured by the U.S. Army as prisoners of war, not as people who were rescued. The report notes their living conditions:
“They lived in near-luxury in Burma in comparison to other places. This was especially true of their second year in Burma. They lived well because their food and material was not heavily rationed and they had plenty of money with which to purchase desired articles. They were able to buy cloth, shoes, cigarettes, and cosmetics to supplement the many gifts given to them by soldiers who had received ‘comfort bags’ from home.”
Did that read as if “They lived in misery at comfort stations under a coercive atmosphere,” as claimed in the Kono Statement?
Another bases for the Kono Statement was the interviewing of around sixteen Korean women who claimed to have been forced into being Comfort Women. Okay now where is the report where around sixteen former men of the Imperial Japanese Army were interviewed who paid for services at these Comfort Women Stations? That part of the investigation either never took place or got lost in history. The investigation into the issue prior to the release of the Kono Statement seems to have been aimed to gather incriminating so-call evidence to warrant an apologetic statement. There seems to be an absence of any investigation into areas that may have or would have proven claims as invalid or an exaggeration.
The Kono Statement seems to have been issued more as a political statement than an historical statement. Many lunatic, Japan-bashing Koreans claim the Kono Statement did not represent a “sincere apology.” Really? Here is part of the Kono Statement:
“The Government of Japan would like to take this opportunity once again to extend its sincere apologies and remorse to all those, irrespective of place of origin, who suffered immeasurable pain and incurable physical and psychological wounds as comfort women.
It is incumbent upon us, the Government of Japan, to continue to consider seriously, while listening to the views of learned circles, how best we can express this sentiment.
We shall face squarely the historical facts as described above instead of evading them, and take them to heart as lessons of history.
We hereby reiterated our firm determination never to repeat the same mistake by forever engraving such issues in our memories through the study and teaching of history.”
What could be more “sincere” than that? It was a sincere apology based on partial historical facts, while ignoring other facts, and rooted in a political exercise resulting in a failed diplomatic effort.
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Planning and Development Office
The Salesians of Don Bosco (SDBs) run projects in many African countries, which have been adversely impacted by HIV/AIDS.
There are an array of projects in Southern Africa AFM Province, including South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho.
The focus is on meeting the needs of orphaned children, training vulnerable and disadvantaged youth. The presence of these SDB youth centres offers a unique opportunity to link crucial HIV/AIDS prevention efforts with the youth development activities for which the SDBs are already well-known.
For more information on individual projects please see below or click on one of the links on the right.
GAUTENG currently has 5 projects operating; 3 of which fall under the SDBs (AFM Province) and 2 under the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians (FMA).
The LOVEMATTERS (LM) programme is geared towards teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19 years and is facilitated by the SDBs and volunteers at Bosco Youth Centre, in Walkerville, south of Johannesburg.
It provides behaviour change education to South African scholars to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS infection. The programme is based on sexuality teaching in the context of adult responsibility, a holistic education in human sexuality. Classroom teaching and individual counselling are included.
The programme is currently offered to youth and peer group leaders who then return to their communities and act as behaviour change advocates. Personal development is promoted through communication, self-esteem and self-evaluation courses, setting short and long-term goals, and opportunities to make decisions.
Our programme content is continually improved and adapted to take into account advances in medical research as more becomes known about HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. We also take into account the comments made by the participants in the post-programme evaluation – this enables us to continually update and improve our sessions and tailor them to participants needs. Our programme has improved significantly since inception in 2001.
Each year, we have seen an increase in numbers attending and our outreach has extended outside of Gauteng to the Free State, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Swaziland.
Bosco House, P O Box 25, Randvaal, 1873
Randvaal Road, Walkerville, Gauteng, South Africa This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DON BOSCO EDUCATIONAL PROJECTS (DBEP) encompasses the Don Bosco Educational Centre (DBEC), Declan Collins Skills Centre (DCSC), the Laura Vicuña Educational Centre (LVEC) and the Sancta Maria Early Learning Centre (SMELC).
The Declan Collins Skills Centre was initiated by the Salesian Family after the murder of Salesian Father Declan Collins. He was the Parish Priest of All Saints Catholic Church, Ennerdale, at the time of his death in November 2002. Father Collins devoted his life to assisting young people who, because of poverty and unemployment, are in need of basic skills training in order to equip themselves to earn a living. He worked closely with the FMA Sisters in Finetown, who run Sancta Maria Early Learning Centre (SMELC), and the Laura Vicuña Educational Centre (LVEC). The LVEC caters for children who are not attending school for various reasons, but mainly due to poverty. It was Father Collins’s dream to extend help to those who have reached an age where they could no longer be prepared for formal schooling and catered for at the LVEC and therefore needed not only life-skills but also employment skills.
All these programmes are in close proximity to the residents of Finetown, Mountain View, Ennerdale Ext 6, and within easy reach of those further away. The area is known for its high unemployment, poverty, child abuse, HIV/AIDS, child headed households and other social ills.
The DBEP as a group, addresses not only the educational dimension, but also attempts to deal with social issues viz. medical assistance, malnutrition, and counselling.
DBEP Board Members
Robert Gore SDB - Chairman; Emmanuel Kagimbanabo Principal of the Declan Collins Skills Centre; Chester Browne- member, local community business man; Rosa Calaca - Educationist, Gilbert Swats - Lawyer, Anthony Reeves - member, Lisa Rossi – Director Ekukhanyeni Relief Project, Janice Seland - Financial Director, Joy Sebastian SDB – Provincial member, Marie-Claire Jean – Vice Chair,Provincial member, Therese Pietersen - member, Sean McEwen SDB – member, Marian Kulig - member and Melanie Goldsmith – Secretary, Administration.
Tech Pro2 Opens at Don Bosco Educational Centre
There was an abundance of excitement on the 23rd of April 2015 at the Don Bosco Educational Centre in Ennerdale as the TechPro2 Programme was officially inaugurated. Sponsored by CNH Industrial in Turin, and supported by Iveco South Africa, the TechPro2 Programme was created to support local communities by training young people and providing them with technical training in the automotive and industrial vehicle sectors. In her address at the inauguration, Daniela Ropolo, CNH Industrial’s Sustainable Development Initiatives Manager, explained that, “TechPro2 has created a model for innovative relationships between schools and the professional workforce. Students will rediscover a passion for learning and studying and are then able to put it all into practice. They will feel more in charge of their own lives, already having a foot in the door and receiving further encouragement to make the most of their potential.
”The TechPro2 Programme was initially launched in 2008 as a collaboration between CNH Industrial’s sister company, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and the Salesians of St. John Bosco. Currently this project has expanded to 11 countries and over 50 schools with more than 9000 students having already been trained in the sector. With the knowledge of such success, it is with great enthusiasm that the Salesians of Southern Africa and the Don Bosco Educational Centre in Ennerdale look forward to this new venture as a sure way of expanding their mission of evangelization, education and the empowering of young people in the spirit of St. John Bosco.
The event was well attended by local representatives and employees of CNH Industrial and Iveco SA, members of the local government, representatives from the merSETA, from the Catholic Institiute of Education, from the Catholic Schools Office and of course members of the local Salesian communities. Fr. Francois Dufour, the Provincial of the Salesians in Southern Africa, concluded the programme when he blessed the brand new facility, which also houses a heavy range Stralis truck from the Iveco brand. Following the blessing a reception was held in the workshop for the guests while outside on the school grounds the students of the Laura Vicuña were treated to games and a braai that was sponsored by Trencon Construction who were contracted to build the new structure.Currently, the first group of students have already eagerly begun the course, which is being facilitated by Mr. Cedric Poley, who along with his wife are Salesian Cooperators in Ennerdale. Mr. Poley not only brings his vast experience from the field but also the Salesian spirit as well.
More information on TechPro2 can be found by visiting the site: http://www.techpro2.com/en/homepage
Don Bosco Educational Projects (DBEP)
P.O. Box 170, Ennerdale, 1826, Gauteng, South Africa
James & Zirconium Streets, Ext 6 Ennerdale, Gauteng
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Fr Emmanuel Kagimbangabo - Principal: DCSC, Cell: 083 237 0264, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Mrs Melany Goldsmith - Administrator,
DBEP Admin - Tel: 010 230 0962, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
DCSC Admin - Tel: 010 230 0084
website www.donboscoeducationalprojects.co.za
NPO 039-918
PBO 930-003-621
Tax: 9062338158
VAT: 4880255031
Laura Vicuña Educational Centre (LVEC),
Sr Motselisi Maliehe - Principal
Sancta Maria Early Learning Centre (SMELC)
Cnr Phillip & Beatrice Streets, Finetown,
Sr Giovanna Pecenti - Principal, Cell: 083 984 1894, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
CAPE TOWN and LANSDOWNE.
The Salesian Institute in Cape Town city was built in 1910, a decade or so after the SDBs first established themselves in South Africa. Over the years it served as an orphanage, later as a technical school and it now accommodates the SALESIAN INSTITUTE YOUTH PROJECTS (SIYP) which run a range of projects for youth at risk.
The following programmes are run from the SI:
Porsche Project
LEARN TO LIVE School of Skills (L2L)
L2L educational programme for street children has been recognised as an independent school by the Western Cape Educational Department. Between 40 and 90 school children from various shelters in and around Cape Town or directly off the street, attend daily, including school drop-outs from various communities. In addition to the school curriculum there are activities such as soccer, swimming, music, dancing, art and drama. Life Skills form an integral part of the curriculum. The ethos is one of acceptance and development.
Many of the learners attending L2L are able to reintergrate into mainstream schooling, once they have
been placed in a more stable home environment.
Salesian Institute Youth Projects (SIYP)
P O Box 870, Cape Town, 8000
2 Somerset Road Cnr Chiappini Street, Greenpoint, Cape Town
SALESIAN LIFE CHOICES
This innovative HIV/AIDS prevention project works with youth between the age of 10 - 19 and is located at the Salesians’ Lansdowne premises in Cape Town.
With a growing population of youth in South Africa (over 19 million), now more than ever, it is essential to nurture them for the future of our country.
Life Choices is founded on the belief that once off interventions are not enough to transform a young person's life.
With this in mind we provide comprehensive services in Family Stability, Health, Education and Leadership. Life Choices believes that these four building blocks are critical for youth to thrive.
Since 2005, Life Choices have impacted over 138,000 lives with choices and not charity.
For more in-depth information click here.
P O Box 14290, Lansdowne, 7790
312 Imam Haron Road, Lansdowne, Cape, 7780 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ms Sofia Neves - Project Director
MANZINI and MALKERNS
For more than 50 years MANZINI YOUTH CARE (MYC) in Swaziland has provided support and care for homeless and marginalised youth, who would otherwise be living on the streets. Based on the guiding principals of the Salesians, MYC's holistic approach provides the basics of food, shelter, clothing, medical treatment, education, skills training, assistance with job placement or self-employment, and moral and spiritual development.
Through the support of many international and local donors, MYC has extended its commitment to marginalised and underprivileged youth. MYC has responded to the needs of the community and developed social, educational and entrepreneurial projects in addition to its residential homes. The fundamental aim of every project is to address problems caused by poverty, so the most needy are able to look forward to a more sustainable and hopeful future.
PO Box 3700, Manzini, Swaziland
Office 2, Bosco Study Centre, Southern Distributor Road, Manzini, Swaziland This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tel / Fax Office: (+268) 2505 6963
Skype: Manzini.youth.care
DON BOSCO MISSION, MALKERNS The 11 acre property was acquired for Emalengeni E300 per acre, and the final transfer took place on 30th April 1973.
Don Bosco High School, Malkerns After getting approval from the local education authority and Chief Lusendo, Fr Pat Flemming secured the initial funding from the mission office in Pallaskenry and from a tour of his diocese in Ireland, as well as financial aid from the German Catholic bishops under their agency Miseor.
The school was first used on 26th January 1983, 2 classrooms were furnished with desks and chairs. The other 2 classrooms, despite having little or no furniture, had to accommodate Fr John Butler, the Headmaster, his small staff as well as a supply for a science laboratory.
The qualified and experienced Salesian headmaster had 2 degrees both obtained at University of Dublin. Of the 3 staff members, 2 were school leavers with no teaching qualifications and a retired teacher.
In subsequent years a Science Laboratory, metal work shop, Technical drawing room, 2 animal houses for agriculture, 6 classrooms and 7 teachers houses were added.
The school hall built in 1975-76 was blessed by the Rector Major and is known as John Bosco Hall.
John Bosco Primary School, Malkerns
In 1982 the Salesians received a request from Lusito Child Care management unit to take over responsibility for running the project. The request made by Susan Kershaw, Managing Director of the Project, was passed onto the Salesian Sisters (FMA) or The Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.
The sisters had seen a suitable property, next to Mangozeni village. A quick survey of the village revealed that there were 60 - 70 children not attending school and another 15 children from another village.
After a considerable delay the site was given to the Salesians, to use as a primary school for the children of Malkerns.
PO Box 391, Malkerns , Swaziland
Main Road, Mahlanya, Malkerns, Swaziland This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
MAPUTSOE and MASERU
St Luke’s Salesian Mission in Maputsoe, is situated on the border of South Africa near Ficksburg. The Salesians here are responsible for St Luke’s Parish – one of the largest missions in the diocese of Leribe. There are also pre-schools, primary and high schools which are animated in partnership with the Salesian Sisters, who also run the Mazzarello Craft Centre where girls with less academic aptitude learn sewing and tailoring skills.
P.O. Box 75, 350 Maputsoe, Lesotho
St Luke's Mission, Sir Seretse Khama Road, Maputsoe, Lesotho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tel / Fax: (+00266) 2243 0247
Ferrando Convent, Ha Chonapase
P.O. Box 85, Maputsoe - 350, Lesotho This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Sacred Heart Parish, Ha Seleso Primary School and Abia High School are situated in Ha Seletso, Maseru.
Mr Letsela - Principal Abia High School
Tel / Fax: (+00266) 283 17208
Mrs Mamolise Ntabaki - Principal Ha Seletso Primary School
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SHAUN THE SHEEP | REVIEW
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The creators from WALLACE & GROMMIT return with another stop-motion piece of amazement – this time the fluffy feature length version of sheep shenanigans in SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE. Of all the filmmakers on the planet I do believe the makers of stop-motion deserve the most respect – they have to shoot every single frame of the movie by hand moving everything a millimetre at a time, I am always gobsmacked watching the final productions, they are the zen masters of filmmaking – everything is made at a literal snails pace and signing on to make one of these things is years or your life. Kernel Kate hit this one up and she shares her thoughts below. SHAUN THE SHEEP is releasing on March 26th in Australia from StudioCanal Australia however it is on advanced screenings from today in most cinemas. It is rated G (suitable for the entire family) and it runs for a comfortable 85mins. Enjoy Kate’s review………….JK out.
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BY KATE BRADLEY
From the studio that brought us CHICKEN RUN and WALLACE AND GROMMIT – THE CURSE OF THE WARE-RABBIT comes the new, equally charming, stop-motion animated feature film SHAUN THE SHEEP, borne of the popular kids TV show with the same name.
In the idyllic countryside of Mossbottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep is tired of his day to day living and feels somewhat unloved by his owner, The Farmer, and Bitzer, the Sheepdog, both of whom Shaun was once very close with. Shaun orchestrates a day off for himself and the flock, however it goes awry and ends up with the Farmer, Bitzer, Shaun and his sheep peeps lost in the Big City. Hijinks ensue and Shaun must rally the team together to get them back home on green pastures.
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While SHAUN THE SHEEP may not be ground-breaking or thought-provoking cinema, it is very sweet, funny and entertaining, which is to be expected when the Aardman Studios logo pops up at the top of the film. Nick Park, credited as one of the Executive Producers, who joined Aardman back in 1985, not only had the original idea for the “Shaun the Sheep” TV Show, but many moons ago wrote, directed and animated the first “Wallace and Grommit” short film A GRAND DAY OUT, produced by Aardman. Aardman Studios also produced the second “Wallace and Grommit” short, THE WRONG TROUSERS, which won an Oscar in 1994, and the studio has been pumping out a string successful stop-motion shorts, TV shows and feature films ever since, including the “Creature Comforts” series which happens to be my favourite. Much like Pixar, Aardman is one of the world’s most trusted brands when it comes to animated entertainment and is synonymous with flawless stop-motion, comic timing and endearingly British-y storytelling. So it’s no surprise that SHAUN THE SHEEP should be just as lovely as its predecessors, even with absolutely no dialogue.
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With a release date coinciding with the Easter school holidays obviously this film is meant for children and I’m sure there are many parents out there who will appreciate the opportunity to have their little ones settle for the film’s running time of 85 minutes. However, like with all good kids films, SHAUN THE SHEEP isn’t so mind-numbingly simple that the parents can’t enjoy it as well. Of the thirty or so people at the preview I went to, only two audience members were kids (they were entranced the whole film FYI), but us adults were dissolving into fits of giggles on many occasions. There was a lot of old-school humour and slapstick that felt tried-and-true rather than outdated or lame, and any kids film that can slip in a SILENCE OF THE LAMBS gag is okay by me. If I’m being very honest, I did find myself waiting for the film to end in the last ten minutes or so – the relentless antics were wearing me down a little. But I didn’t have to wait long for the finale and I still found myself laughing during the credits.
Highly recommended for families looking for something to do together during the holidays that doesn’t involve endless queuing at the Easter Show, but also if you are an adult heading to the cinema to take your mind off things and no other films appeal, or if you happen to be on a plane and see it showing on the in-flight entertainment, this isn’t a bad choice either. Light-hearted and funny, SHAUN THE SHEEP will leave you with the warm and fuzzies while whistling the very catchy main tune on the way out.
My kids love shaun the sheep a lot.I love it because it is funny and does not teach kids any bad words…
Amanda Casalanguida
Can’t wait!! We (meaning myself and my 8yr old) LOVED The Wrong Trousers and Were-Rabbit. Absolutely cannot wait to see Shaun.
Ajubile Lam
This is definitely an entertaining family film and I agree with your review. Never seen the series and thought the trailer was not enticing at all. However, after watching the film, I was wrong. It’s actually pretty funny and I think the adults would definitely find this amusing as well. StudioCanal and Event Cinemas Innaloo (Perth) did a pretty good promotion of this having set-up the Perth Farms Market at the cinema and not to mention the cute cupcakes they gave away at the preview.
Overall, out of the kids film that I’ve seen, this would definitely be the better choice to see (Dreamwork’s Home was quite good too whilst The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – avoid!)
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Salesforce.com Creates Bigger Cloud Marketplace at Dreamforce
Jeffrey M. Kaplan, Managing Director
THINKstrategies
The only thing that could dampen the spirits at Dreamforce this year was rain.
Once again, tens of thousands of corporate decision makers, sales executives, marketing managers, ISVs, entrepreneurs, analysts and press converged on the Moscone Center and every nearby hotel to soak up the latest vision and solutions from Salesforce.com. And despite the rain, Dreamforce was another love fest fueled by the enthusiasm of customers finally able to harness the power of software to achieve their business objectives and intoxicated by the vast possibilities being proposed by Salesforce for a new way of doing business in the future.
Along the way, Salesforce is always looking for methods to extend its reach into the enterprise and tighten its grip on its customers. It has been focused on two primary tactics to achieve this objective — building a potent platform that encourages customers and partners to build apps that align with Salesforce’s primary SaaS offerings, and generating a compelling vision for the new world order of business.
This year, the company rolled out a new aspirational marketing mantra, “The Internet of Customers,” along with a new vendor-centric platform name, Salesforce1.
The Internet of Customers replaces last year’s Social Enterprise slogan. Why the previous attempt didn’t work and whether the new campaign will succeed is up for debate. But, no one can blame Salesforce for sitting still or pushing an idea too long. Instead, the company definitely lives by the new rule that you have to “fail fast” and move on if things are not working.
The same holds true on the platform side. Marc Benioff and Parker Harris both admitted that their previous platform offerings were too fragmented and not designed to truly satisfy the higher standards set by today’s mobile devices. Last year’s Touch didn’t meet the expectations of today’s mobile users. Salesforce1 combines the development capabilities of Force.com, VisualForce and its other platform capabilities with a more open and powerful API that makes it easier for third-party ISVs and enterprises to connect their software solutions to Salesforce’s CRM database via mobile devices.
This consolidated development platform makes it easier for Salesforce’s partners to develop and deliver their solutions. However, it also may cause some confusion among its enterprise customers who were just getting comfortable using Salesforce’s previous development tools. It may also be overwhelming for new customers who aren’t sure where to begin with all the functional capabilities at their disposal under the umbrella Salesforce1 brand.
In either case, Salesforce1 also could complicate Salesforce’s sales process and create a greater demand for consultative selling skills among its salespeople. Third-party consulting firms — like Accenture, Appirio, Bluewolf, Capgemini, Cloud Sherpas and Deloitte — and integration solution vendors — like Dell Boomi, Informatica, Jitterbit, MuleSoft and SnapLogic — will be the biggest winners as they are called upon to help customers pull all the pieces together.
While all of this will keep the Salesforce ecosystem abuzz for a while, I think the Salesforce/HP alliance will have the greatest impact on the overall cloud marketplace. This partnership will offer enterprises that are reluctant to rely on external, “public” cloud services an opportunity to deploy dedicated instances of Saleforce’s solutions behind the firewall via “superpods.”This is significant because it removes the most important obstacle to cloud adoption — enterprise fears regarding security, privacy and compliance — and exponentially expands the addressable market opportunity for cloud services.
It is also ironic because Marc Benioff had a heyday ridiculing his mentor, Larry Ellison, when Oracle unveiled its own cloud pods a couple of years ago. Now, he is willing to give customers a choice that cloud zealots have said would never work. (I’ve been advocating “location-independent” cloud services for a long time.)
While Salesforce.com has found a new way to expand the market for its solutions, the big winner will be HP. This alliance gives it renewed recognition in the market and a clear differentiation over IBM and Dell in the cloud arena.
Salesforce’s other recent announcements regarding identity management and private AppExchange are also closely tied to the new offerings unveiled at Dreamforce.
Once again, Salesforce is defying the concerns of many industry research and Wall Street analysts who have questioned its ability to continue to grow at the same pace long term. In response, Salesforce is constantly iterating its marketing message and product portfolio to appeal to its growing customer base and partner ecosystem while it aggressively hires salespeople to capitalize on today’s “cloud rush” environment.
Jeff Kaplan is the managing director of THINKstrategies, founder of the Cloud Computing Showplace and host of the Cloud Innovators Summit conference series. He can be reached at jkaplan@thinkstrategies.com.
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What is that bee gee song that is very similar to one the band The beatles could have written?
Topic: How to write a song like the beatles
July 16, 2019 / By Hayleigh
Question: they sing in unison and it's a slow song. anyone???? they sound very much like the beatles. no high pitched voices and the song is very slow. Sounds as if it were on of their earlier songs. before disco maybe...
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I can think of several early songs that could fit that description: New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have You Seen My Wife Mr. Jones) Holiday To Love Somebody Lonely Days How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
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Originally Answered: So how exactly are the Beatles THE NUMBER 1 BAND EVURRRR?
Nice try,but that "Beatles version"of House of the Rising Sun sounded fake as hell! edit-They're not the number 1 band ever,but here are some of the reasons why they're considered among the best: The Beatles inspired other artists and bands to write their own songs,They changed the artist/producer relationship in the studio,They changed the way music was made in the studio,They made an impact on pop culture that's being felt even as we speak,They made it fashionable for men to have long hair,They changed the way people perceive rock groups by not having the standard front man with backing group,They redefined what it meant to be an international celebrity,They inspired other musicians to use certain instruments and music companies to make instruments,They inspired other bands and artists to speak their minds about the relevant issues of the day,They helped to change the perception of the rock album from being a collection of songs to a work of art,They unofficially made english the language of rock and roll(thus inspiring many overseas musicians to learn english),Lennon and McCartney were among the 1st songwriters to have a stake in the publishing of their songs,They helped to inspire other rock groups to create their own record labels,They brought the music of india to the west by being the 1st Western musical act to use Indian instruments on their records,They were the ones who created music videos(though other artists like Queen,MJ,and Duran Duran perfected the art form.They used the blueprints the beatles drew up!),One of the 1st acts to take a stand for civil rights Need i go on... I think this quote from The Compleat Beatles says it better than I ever could:"It must be stoically accepted that The Beatles were in the end a phenomenon of the 60's,the 70's and beyond were only to feel their influence." It's been almost 50 years since The Beatles came out and 40 years since they broke up and The Beatles are still remembered,talked about,and still influencing artists to this day! Now to elaborate on how The Beatles took a stand on civil rights:In September of 1964,The Beatles were giving a concert in Jacksonville,FL at The Gator Bowl,Well word had gotten out to The Beatles that the audience at the concert was going to be segregated,Well The Beatles and Brian Epstein sent a letter to the venue owners stating that if this was the case that they could have their money back and that The Beatles would boycott the performance,Of course racially separating the audience was never planned,but it said a lot about The Beatles to take such a stand!Also on that same tour,at a stop in Philadelphia,The Beatles were dismayed to find the entire audience for that show(13,000)were all white!
This version clearly sucks. There's no doubting that, but there's a reason it is a bootleg! They were clearly drunk, stoned, or both during this screw around session. It can be proven that the Beatles are the best band ever and are, in no way, The Jonas Brothers of the 60's. They were different. They dressed in suits and bowed but played some loud-*** rock n roll when they wanted to. They took the instrumental precision of a rock n roll group and added the vocal harmonies of Motown singers and choral groups. They wrote all their own songs and followed no code of how to be in a band. If they did, they probably would have been called John Lennon and The Beatles are something throughout their career. If you haven't noticed the Jonas brothers have brought nothing new to the table. Just a handful of hits...they suck live and the actual Jonas Brothers are just 2 rhythm guitarists and a mediocre singer. All the real guitar/bass/drum work is done by hired professionals. I'd be surprised if the real guys played on the albums at all. Another thing unique about the Beatles is that they never repeated themselves. All of their songs are completely unique in sound, but have certain "flavors" added to help the overall theme of the particular album stay in tact. They broke down the limits of what could be done in a few minutes of pop music with epics like A Day In The Life and spent more time working in the studio and playing live in just a few short years than many bands will in a whole lifetime. Now I know you hate the word "ignorant" but I have to say that to really hate them you need more information as to why they are simply not influential or good than an embarrassing video of them between takes messing around for fun. That's just...wait for it...ignorant! Why don't you give a reason why they aren't good instead of just repeating, "they're not good" over and over again?
I am not a big fan of the beatles but I love music. You can't deny the influence a band like the Beatles have had on music as a whole. They were just one of those bands that came along at the right time. It was also a band where young girls were able to freely and openly lose their minds over (much to the dismay of parents at the time) up until now women were supposed to be proper and reserved. Also the influence they continue to have behind the music scene nowadays can still be felt. I would not go so far as to say they are the no. 1 band every but in the overall history of music they will forever hold a constant place and mark the beginning of a new era and type of music that still influences us today.
FACT: The Beatles are the best selling band ever They have made the most money off of their music than any other artist OPINION: The Beatles are the best band ever In my opinion The Beatles are the best musicians ever, but maybe my next door neighbor thinks that Beethoven is. Or Bach. Or Elvis. Or Michael Jackson. Or Weird Al Yankovic. FACT: The Beatles are one of the most influential musicians ever. To influence means to have effect on something or someone. The amount of people who have gone out and made music like them shows this. You could also use it in another situation. T-Pain is one of the most influential musicians ever because of the amount of people who have gone out and auto-tuned their voices to sound like him. So whether or not you like the Beatles' (or T-Pain's) music, you can't say aren't some of the most influential artists ever. PS - I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I also don't care for the song you linked to. There are also many others I don't like, but that shows that I'm not just a mindless Beatles fanboy who says that everything they did is great.
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Originally Answered: How did you like the Beatles song "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"?
It's okay. They were probably "trippin" when they wrote that one. I remember it was the opening theme song to a tv show in the late 80's early 90's called "Life goes on" about a family with a son who has Down Syndrome. Cute show, fitting theme song. "Desmond and Molly Jones"
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" is a song written by Lennon/McCartney and released by The Beatles on their 1968 album The Beatles (also referred to as The White Album). It was released as a single that same year in many countries, but not in the United Kingdom or the United States.
One of my least favorite songs they've ever done together, I definitely agree with you that it was an early stage of the crappy songs Paul would write and perform later on in his career (late 70s-mid 80s) and that's what that song reminded me of
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1-(1-Naphthyl)ethylamine
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[42882-31-5] · C12H13N · 1-(1-Naphthyl)ethylamine · (MW 171.26) (+)
[3886-70-2] (-)
[10420-89-0]
(chiral reagent used for resolution of carboxylic acids,1 alcohols,2 and lactones;3 a chiral derivatization agent used for chromatographic resolution of carboxylic acids4 and alcohols;5 can serve as a chiral solvating agent6)
Alternate Name: NEA.
Physical Data: (±) form: bp 156 °C/15 mmHg; d 1.063 g cm-3. Oxalate: mp 221 °C (dec). (S)-(-) isomer: bp 153 °C/11 mmHg; d 1.060 g cm-3; [a]25 -80.8° (neat); [a]20 -59° (c = 5, MeOH). Oxalate: mp 232 °C (dec). (R)-(+) isomer: bp 153 °C/11 mmHg; d 1.060 g cm-3; [a]25 +82.8° (neat); [a]20 +60° (c = 5, MeOH). Oxalate: mp 240 °C.
Solubility: sol alcohol, ether; insol H2O.
Form Supplied in: clear liquid; both enantiomers and the racemate are all widely available.
Analysis of Reagent Purity: the enantiomeric purity of the reagent can be determined by either NMR or HPLC analysis of derivatives produced from a-methoxy-a-(trifluoromethyl)benzyl isocyanate,7 a-methoxy-a-(trifluoromethyl)benzyl acid chloride,8 or 2�-methoxy-1,1�-binaphthyl-2-carboxylic acid chloride.9
Preparative Methods: racemic 1-(1-naphthyl)ethylamine can be resolved with camphoric acid,10 tartaric acid,11 L-menthyl hydrogen phthalate,11 di-O-isopropylidene-2-ketogulonic acid,11,12 and (S)-(-)-(2-phenylcarbamoyloxy)propionic acid.13 These procedures can also be used to enhance the enantiomeric purity of the reagent.
Handling, Storage, and Precautions: use in a well-ventilated fume hood.
Resolution of Carboxylic Acids.
The enantiomers of 1-(1-naphthyl)ethylamine are used to resolve racemic carboxylic acids by selective crystallization of diastereomeric salts. For example, crystallization of racemic 3-bromobutyric acid with (R)-(+)-NEA followed by acidification of the diastereomeric salt afforded (S)-(+)-3-bromobutyric acid (eq 1).1 In the same manner, resolution with (S)-(-)-NEA yielded (R)-(-)-3-bromobutyric acid after liberation of the amine (eq 1).1
Resolution of alcohols can be achieved following derivatization with phthalic anhydride.2 Racemic 1-undecyn-3-ol was converted into a phthalic monoester derivative and resolved with (R)-(+)-NEA (eq 2). Liberation of the resolved phthalic ester and saponification yielded (R)-(+)-alcohol in 92% optical purity (eq 2). Similarly, the (S)-(-) alcohol is obtained upon resolution with (S)-(-)-NEA (eq 2).
Optically active lactones are also readily available through this classical resolution technique. The racemic lactone is hydrolyzed to the hydroxy acid and resolved with (S)-(-)-NEA (eq 3).3 After crystallization, the dextro (+)-lactone is regenerated upon acidification of the chiral salt. Resolution of the lactone with (R)-(+)-NEA leads to the levo (-)-lactone (eq 3).3
Chromatographic Resolutions.
1-(1-Naphthyl)ethylamine serves as a chiral derivatization agent useful in preparing diastereomeric amides from racemic acids for chromatographic resolution.4 For example, various terpenoid acids, after conversion to the diastereomeric amides using (R)-(+)-NEA, were analyzed by HPLC to define the enantiomeric composition (eq 4).4 Application of the procedure has been used to analyze the enantiomeric purity of several carboxylic acid derivatives.14
In some cases the resolution of the diastereomeric amides on silica gel is sufficiently large to achieve preparative separation. The preparative separation of diastereomeric hydroxy amides has proved useful in supplying quantities of enantiomerically pure lactones (eq 5).15
Nonracemic NEA is equally useful in preparing diastereomeric carbamates. Typically, the carbamates are derived from alcohols and (R)-(+)-naphthylethyl isocyanate,16 which is conveniently prepared from (R)-(+)-NEA (see (R)-1-(1-Naphthyl)ethyl Isocyanate). However, the diastereomeric carbamates may also be produced by treating the chloroformate derivative of a racemic alcohol with (R)-(+)-NEA.5 Preparative separation of racemic 1-heptyn-3-ol was achieved through chromatographic separation of the diastereomeric carbamates prepared via the chloroformate derivative (eq 6).17 The carbamates are conveniently cleaved by the action of trichlorosilane (see Trichlorosilane).18
Chiral Solvating Agent.
NEA is an effective chiral solvating agent for NMR determination of enantiomeric purity.6,19 The combination of enantiomerically pure NEA (3-5 mol excess) and racemic solute causes the NMR spectra of the diastereomerically solvated enantiomers to differ. Since NEA is an efficient hydrogen-bond acceptor, it solvates better if the solute is a hydrogen-bond donor. (R)-(+)-NEA has been used to determine the enantiomeric purity of a variety of substrates.20
Chiral Stationary Phases for GC and HPLC.
Enantiomerically pure NEA has been used to prepare a variety of chiral stationary phases for liquid,21 gas,22 and supercritical fluid23 chromatography. These stationary phases are used to separate enantiomers without derivatization of the substrate with a chiral agent.
(R)-1-(1-Naphthyl)ethyl Isocyanate.
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8. Dale, J. A.; Dull, D. L.; Mosher, H. S. JOC 1969, 34, 2543.
9. Miyano, S.; Okada, S.; Hotta, H.; Takeda, M.; Suzuki, T.; Kabuto, C.; Yasuhara, F. BCJ 1989, 62, 3886.
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11. Newman, P. Optical Resolution Procedures for Chemical Compounds; Manhattan College: New York, 1978; Vol. 1, p 230.
12. Mohacsi, E.; Leimgruber, W. OS 1976, 55, 80.
13. Brown, E.; Viot, F.; Le Floc'h, Y. TL 1985, 26, 4451.
14. (a) Eberhardt, R.; Glotzmann, C.; Lehner, H.; Schlogl, K. TL 1974, 4365. (b) Bergot, B. J.; Baker, F. C.; Lee, E.; Schooley, D. A. JACS 1979, 101, 7432. (c) Mori, K.; Masuda, S.; Suguro, T. T 1981, 37, 1329. (d) Vandewalle, M.; Van der Eycken, J.; Oppolzer, W.; Vullioud, C. T 1986, 42, 4035. (e) Hiratake, J.; Inagaki, M.; Yamamoto, Y.; Oda, J. JCS(P1) 1987, 1053.
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20. (a) Weisman, G. R. In Asymetric Synthesis; Morrison, J. D., Ed.; Academic: New York, 1983; Vol. 1, Chapter 8. (b) Pirkle, W. H.; Hoover, D. J. In Topics in Stereochemistry; Wiley: New York, 1982; Vol. 13, p 263.
21. (a) Oi, N.; Nagase, M.; Doi, T. J. Chromatogr. 1983, 257, 111. (b) Pirkle, W. H.; Hyun, M. H. JOC 1984, 49, 3043. (c) Pirkle, W. H.; Hyun, M. H. J. Chromatogr. 1985, 322, 295. (d) Lloyd, M. J. B. J. Chromatogr. 1986, 351, 219. (e) Dappen, R.; Meyer, V. R.; Arm, H. J. Chromatogr. 1986, 361, 93.
22. (a) Weinstein, S.; Feibush, B.; Gil-Av, E. J. Chromatogr. 1976, 126, 97. (b) Oi, N.; Kitahara, H.; Inda, Y.; Doi, T. J. Chromatogr. 1981, 213, 137. (c) Oi, N.; Kitahara, H.; Inda, Y.; Doi, T. J. Chromatogr. 1982, 237, 297.
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Our Solar System.
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Presentation on theme: " Our Solar System."— Presentation transcript:
1 Our Solar System
3 Our Solar System: The Planets
Who is Stan Hatfield and Ken Pinzke
4 The Sun is at the center of our Solar System.
The Sun makes up 99.85% of the mass of the solar system.
6 The Solar System The Planets: An Overview
The terrestrial planets are planets that are small and rocky—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. The Jovian planets are the huge gas giants—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto does not fit into either the Jovian or the terrestrial category.
7 Terrestrial Planets Mercury Venus Mars Earth
8 Jovian Planets Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn
9 The terrestrial planets are also called the Rocky or the Inner planets.
The Jovian planets are also called the Giant or the Outer or the Gas planets.
10 Orbits of the Planets The Sun’s gravitational pull guides the elliptical orbits of the planets in our Solar System. Makes no sense without caption in book
11 The Solar System The Planets: An Overview
Size is the most obvious difference between the terrestrial and Jovian planets. Earth’s mass is 1/17th of the mass of Neptune (the smallest Jovian planet). Density, chemical makeup, and rate of rotation are other ways in which the two groups of planets differ.
13 Planetary Data Makes no sense without caption in book
14 Interior Planetery Composition
The planets are made of three different substances: gases, rocks, and ices.
15 Gases (hydrogen and helium) are those with melting points near absolute zero (-273⁰ C).
16 Rocks are mostly silicates (silicon and oxygen) and metallic iron which have melting points above 700 ⁰ C.
17 Ices are ammonia (NH3), methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) which have intermediate melting points.
18 The terrestrial planets are dense with mostly metallic and rocky substances. The Jovian planets are less dense with large amounts of gases and ices.
20 The Atmosphere of the Planets
• The Jovian planets have very thick atmospheres of hydrogen, helium, methane, and ammonia.
21 By contrast, the terrestrial planets, including Earth, have thin, meager atmospheres at best.
22 Gases can escape from its planet’s gravity if it reaches escape velocity.
For Earth, escape velocity is 11 km/s. For Jovian planets, the escape velocities are between km/s. So it is more difficult for gases to escape a Jovian planet’s gravity.
24 Scale of the Planets Makes no sense without caption in book
25 The Solar System Formation of the Solar System Nebular Theory
• A nebula is a cloud of gas and/or dust in space. A nebula often consists of 92% H, 7% He, and <1% heavier elements.
26 According to the nebular theory, the sun and planets formed from a rotating disk of dust and gases.
As the speed of rotation increased, the center of the disk began to flatten out and become more concentrated. This eventually became our sun!!
27 Nebula
28 The Hubble Telescope captured this picture of a nebula near a dying star (450 light years away in the constellation Aquarius) (these are two gases colliding)
29 Formation! The Solar System was formed from the contraction of a pre-solar nebula, a vast cloud of gas and dust. The center of the nebula became the Sun and the outer parts accreted to form the planetesimals.
30 The Solar System Formation of the Solar System
• Planetesimals are small, irregularly shaped bodies formed by colliding matter. Over time, these planetisimals will collect enough material/mass to have their own gravitational pull. The inner planets (close to the sun) were too hot for ice to form and only rocky material accreted. The outer planets (far from the sun) had both solid matter and ice to accrete.
31 Formation of the Universe
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32 Planetary Composition, Distance from the Sun, and Melting Point
34 The Terrestrial Planets
Mercury: The Innermost Planet The Terrestrial Planets
35 Mercury is the innermost and second smallest planet; it is hardly larger than Earth’s moon.
37 Because Mercury is so small, the gravity on Mercury is 38% of the gravity on Earth.
A 100 pound person would weigh only 38 pounds on Mercury. To calculate your weight on Mercury, just multiply your weight by 0.38
38 Orbit: very elliptical with no seasons (because no tilt)
Mercury orbits the sun every 88 days and has a rotation of 59 days.
39 Surface Features • Mercury has cratered highlands, much like the moon, and vast smooth terrains that resemble maria.
41 Surface Temperatures Mercury has a very, very thin atmosphere.
This means that it has no shielding from the sun’s energy (on the light side) and no way to hold this energy (on the dark side). Mercury has the greatest temperature extremes of any planet.
42 Since the atmosphere is so thin, the sky would appear pitch black (except for the sun, stars, and other planets, when visible), even during the day.
43 Mercury has a daytime temperature of about 400⁰ C and a nighttime temperature of about -200 ⁰ C, a mere 73 degrees above absolute zero.
44 Mercury’s Surface Makes no sense without caption in book
45 If you were on the surface of Mercury, the Sun would look almost three times as big as it does from Earth!
47 Venus Mercury was visited by NASA's Mariner 10 in 1973 and 1974 (robotic space probe that visited both Venus and Mercury). Mariner is STILL orbiting the Sun, but is no longer transmitting (and is probably horribly damaged by the Sun’s energy.)
49 Currently, the MESSENGER space probe is orbiting Mercury and sending messages back to Earth.
Probe launch in 2004 First image of Mercury sent back to Earth (2008)
Venus: The Veiled Planet The Terrestrial Planets
52 Venus Venus is similar to Earth in size, density, mass, and location in the solar system. Thus, it has been referred to as “Earth’s twin.”
53 Venus Makes no sense without caption in book
54 Surface Features Venus is covered in thick clouds that visible light cannot penetrate. About 80 percent of Venus’s surface consists of plains covered by volcanic flow.
55 Venus’ Surface
57 Venus’ Atmosphere Venus has the densest atmosphere (93 times denser than Earth’s) of all the terrestrial planets, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide (97%). Venus is covered with an opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light.
58 Revolution and Rotation
Venus’ orbital length is Earth days. Venus’ rotational period is 243 Earth days (slowest of any major planet). Also, Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise!!!
59 Surface Temperatures The average surface temperature of Venus reaches 475oC. There is little variation between night and day because of the thick atmosphere and slow rotation. There is minimal tilt so essentially no seasons.
60 Mariner 10 Images
62 Mars (taken by the Hubble)
63 Mars is the Red Planet because of the iron oxide in the crust
Mars is the Red Planet because of the iron oxide in the crust . Iron oxide is reddish in color.
64 Mars: The Red Planet! The Martian Atmosphere
The Martian atmosphere has only 1 percent of the density of Earth’s. Although the atmosphere of Mars is very thin, extensive dust storms occur and may cause the color changes observed from Earth.
65 Surface Features Most Martian surface features are old by Earth standards. The highly cratered southern hemisphere is probably 3.5 billion to 4.5 billion years old.
66 Mars’ Moons Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are small and irregularly shaped.
67 Orbiting spacecraft Mars is currently host to three functional orbiting spacecraft: Mars Odyssey, Mars Express, and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is the most of any planet (other than Earth).
68 Surface Landers The surface is also home to the two Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) and several inert landers and rovers, both successful and unsuccessful. The Phoenix lander recently completed its mission on the surface.
70 Mars Makes no sense without caption in book
71 The Polar Landers have determine water on Mars!!!
72 Water on Mars Makes no sense without caption in book
73 23.3 The Outer Planets Jupiter: Giant Among Planets
Jupiter has a mass that is 2 1/2 times greater than the mass of all the other planets and moons combined. Structure of Jupiter • Jupiter’s hydrogen-helium atmosphere also contains small amounts of methane, ammonia, water, and sulfur compounds.
74 Jupiter and the Great Red Spot
75 23.3 The Outer Planets Jupiter: Giant Among Planets Jupiter’s Moons
• Jupiter’s satellite system, including the 28 moons discovered so far, resembles a miniature solar system. Jupiter’s Rings • Jupiter’s ring system was one of the most unexpected discoveries made by Voyager 1.
76 Jupiter’s Largest Moons
77 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet
The most prominent feature of Saturn is its system of rings. Features of Saturn • Saturn’s atmosphere is very active, with winds roaring at up to 1500 kilometers per hour. • Large cyclonic “storms” similar to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, although smaller, occur in Saturn’s atmosphere.
78 Cassini Approaching Saturn
79 23.3 The Outer Planets Saturn: The Elegant Planet Saturn’s Rings
• Until the discovery that Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune have ring systems, this phenomenon was thought to be unique to Saturn. • Most rings fall into one of two categories based on particle density. Saturn’s Moons • Saturn’s satellite system consists of 31 moons. • Titan is the largest moon, and it is bigger than Mercury.
80 Saturn’s Rings Makes no sense without caption in book
81 23.3 The Outer Planets Uranus: The Sideways Planet
Instead of being generally perpendicular to the plane of its orbit like the other planets, Uranus’s axis of rotation lies nearly parallel with the plane of its orbit.
82 Uranus Makes no sense without caption in book
83 23.3 The Outer Planets Neptune: The Windy Planet
Winds exceeding 1000 kilometers per hour encircle Neptune, making it one of the windiest places in the solar system.
84 Neptune Makes no sense without caption in book
85 23.3 The Outer Planets Pluto: Planet X
Pluto’s orbit is highly eccentric, causing it to occasionally travel inside the orbit of Neptune, where it resided from 1979 through February 1999.
86 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System
Asteroids: Microplanets 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System An asteroid is a small, rocky body whose diameter can range from a few hundred kilometers to less than a kilometer. Most asteroids lie between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They have orbital periods of three to six years.
87 Irregular Orbits of Asteroids
Comets 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System Comets are small bodies made of rocky and metallic pieces held together by frozen gases. Comets generally revolve about the sun in elongated orbits.
Comets 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System Coma • A coma is the fuzzy, gaseous component of a comet’s head. • A small glowing nucleus with a diameter of only a few kilometers can sometimes be detected within a coma. As comets approach the sun, some, but not all, develop a tail that extends for millions of kilometers.
90 Comet’s Tail Points Away from the Sun
Comets 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System Kuiper Belt • Like the asteroids in the inner solar system, most Kuiper belt comets move in nearly circular orbits that lie roughly in the same plane as the planets. Oort Cloud • Comets with long orbital periods appear to be distributed in all directions from the sun, forming a spherical shell around the solar system called the Oort cloud.
Comets 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System Halley’s Comet • The most famous short-period comet is Halley’s comet. Its orbital period is 76 years.
Meteoroids 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System A meteoroid is a small, solid particle that travels through space. A meteor is the luminous phenomenon observed when a meteoroid enters Earth’s atmosphere and burns up, popularly called a shooting star. A meteorite is any portion of a meteoroid that reaches Earth’s surface.
Meteoroids 23.4 Minor Members of the Solar System Most meteoroids originate from any one of the following three sources: (1) interplanetary debris that was not gravitationally swept up by the planets during the formation of the solar system, (2) material from the asteroid belt, or (3) the solid remains of comets that once traveled near Earth’s orbit.
95 Major Meteor Showers Makes no sense without caption in book
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It is the hottest star. All the planets rotate around the sun. Years ago people thought that all of the planets, including the sun, revolved around.
Touring Our Solar System
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1. L ist the 9 planets in our solar system. Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto (dwarf planet)
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The Outer Planets Also called the Jovian planets or gas giants.
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Comparing planets Anw. Mercury Distance to the sun58 million km Time to orbit the sun (Year)88 days Time to rotate itself (Day)59 days CompositionIron,
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Touring Our Solar System Chapter The Solar System 99.85% of the mass of our solar system is in the Sun, planets make up the rest. Gravity.
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Peter Parker and his friends go on a summer trip to Europe. However, they will hardly be able to rest - Peter will have to agree to help Nick Fury uncover the mystery of creatures that cause natural disasters and destruction throughout the continent.
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Alita: Battle Angel 2019
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
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Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. With help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba will have to figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
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Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called "Forky" to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
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Captain Marvel 2019
The story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. Set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel is an all-new adventure from a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and restore order to the universe once and for all, no matter what consequences may be in store.
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A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019
As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.
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Thor: Ragnarok 2017
Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home-world and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new threat, the ruthless Hela.
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Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
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Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths -- and about the villain who's to blame.
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The Avengers 2012
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014
Immediately after the events of The Desolation of Smaug, Bilbo and the dwarves try to defend Erebor's mountain of treasure from others who claim it: the men of the ruined Laketown and the elves of Mirkwood. Meanwhile an army of Orcs led by Azog the Defiler is marching on Erebor, fueled by the rise of the dark lord Sauron. Dwarves, elves and men must unite, and the hope for Middle-Earth falls into Bilbo's hands.
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When my downstairs neighbor ran his horror film marathon in October (31 horror films in 31 days), there were a few I knew I'd be getting for myself... and did. That's how Pontypool and Only Lovers Left Alive got into my collection this week, along with The Rocketeer and Season 1 of Young Justice.
"Accomplishments"
DVDs: Sherlock Season 3 is when the show decided to embrace that it was, in reality, a comedy. I don't mind that, though Sherlock's portrayal, especially on second viewing, is starting to get a little intolerable. He's always been a real git, but episodes 1 and 2 each have moments where I feel like he should just shut up. They're just trying to hard to sell his sociopathy and it turns into petty megalomania. There are many things that get me over that hurdle, however, including the infusion of several interesting characters. Mary Watson is an awesome addition to the program, smart and enigmatic, but also earthy, tragic and funny. Magnussan, the third episode's villain is effective and creepy. And I really like Janine, Sherlock's new... girlfriend? Plus, Sherlock's lovely parents and perhaps the hint of a third brother. Some great mind palace scenes here as well, as the show continues to set the style for brilliant detectives, pulling all the tricks that will become fashionable on TV later. The DVD includes three featurettes: How they filmed Sherlock's death, the fans' reactions and speculations, and the making of Series 3.
Woody Allen's Mighty Aphrodite made Mira Sorvino an unlikely Oscar winner, but it's her earnest character that does indeed steal the show. Allen plays a man obsessed with finding the mother of the son he adopted, and she turns out to be a prostitute and adult film actress, so his obsession turns to changing her life for the better. While the film must necessarily feature the healing power of infidelity (it's Woody Allen, what can I say?), it's really a story about friendship, and about helping others with no strings attached. It's heartfelt, but also very funny - Michael Rapaport as a possible match for Sorvino is especially amusing, even dumber than Sorvino's Linda. It's not an obvious thing to write and act characters that aren't very intelligent when you yourself are (just check out Sorvino's Harvard pedigree), but they pull it off. These are just people who don't think very much, and in a sense, that liberates them from anxiety about their respective situations. But because Allen IS an intellectual, he inserts a Greek chorus into the film that's pretty funny unto itself. A manifestation of his character's conscience, amusingly anachronistic commentators and Broadway dance troupe all rolled into one. It may well be one of my favorite Woody Allen films.
Only God Forgives may team Nicolas Winding Refn with Ryan Gosling again, but it's a team-up that lacks any of Drive's charm. Set in Bangkok, this tale of sex and violence looks gorgeous - the cinematography couldn't be any more intriguing and beautiful - but isn't in any way easy to follow. Refn almost tries to tell it with images only - the dialog is very spare - and many of those images only make sense once you've seen the entire thing. It's a mystery to be decodes, though the plot, about a series of revenges between Gosling's family and a Thai mob, is pretty basic. But though it follows a martial arts film structure, it's far from action-packed. I predict Only God Forgives will frustrate many a viewer going in with certain expectations. Still, worth it if only for Kristin Scott Thomas' monstrous character, looking and acting like a demonic Cameron Diaz; and for the discussions that might ensue with fellow viewers on the film's ambiguities. In the director's commentary and interviews, Refn discusses how those ambiguities were created by removing explanations from the script and letting the actors make choices for their characters. The DVD also includes about 20 minutes worth of behind the scenes footage.
I consider The Aztecs as one of the first Doctor's best adventures, with an unusually strong role for Barbara, and - surprise! - a nice little romance for the Doctor, wrapped up in a Shakespearean teleplay. Read all about it in the daily Who reviews #27 to 30. I just flipped the Special Edition DVD and thought I might discuss the extras. The first disc is almost exactly the same as the original release. The commentary track unites William "Ian" Russell, Carole Ann "Susan" Ford, and producer Verity Lambert, but they kind of need a moderator there to keep the conversation going. Production note subtitles shore up the necessary gaps in recollection. There's a nice making of in the company of the guest actors, an interview with the designer, a featurette on the restoration of The Aztecs and other stories (make sure to turn on the subtitles, otherwise it's all image comparisons with no commentary), a 6-minute docu-feature from Blue Peter about Cortex and Montezuma, a cute cocoa recipe with South Park versions of the Aztec characters, an unrelated TARDIS-Cam CG experiment, the Arabic soundtrack on one of the episodes, and a photo gallery. This edition adds 6 different introductions voiced by the guest actors when you press Play All (unless this was a feature on the original too and I never noticed). The second disc has one feature related to Aztecs, a one-hour documentary that tells the full story of Cortez and Montezuma - interesting if not exactly essential - but otherwise only bits and bobs with a connection to the first Doctor. Of course, the big reason to get this release is that it includes the newly-found third episode of Galaxy 4. Possibly one of the worst things ever on audio (bleep, bloop!), it's actually redeemed in part by the visuals. I've re-reviewed it at its original blogular location HERE. It's in context with a condensed reconstruction of the other three chapters. The disc also features a fun featurette on Doctor Who merchandise and toys, the very first Doctor Who comedy sketch from "It's a Square World", and a 4-minute interview with Gordon Flemyng who directed the Dalek films.
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Blog Tour: BILLIONAIRE'S MATCHMAKER by Sierra Cartwright
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Rich, powerful men don’t intimidate matchmaker Hope Malloy. So when she’s hired to find a bride for billionaire Rafe Sterling, she’s certain the assignment will be easy. Not only is he sexy and a renowned philanthropist, the man is heir to one of the country’s largest hotel fortunes. Who wouldn’t want to marry him?
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The air conditioner kicked on. The whispering cool air did nothing to dissipate the heat between Rafe and Hope, his beautiful, but unwanted matchmaker. He slid his hand around to the back of her neck, then feathered his fingers into her hair. “I want to kiss you, Ms. Malloy.” “Uhm…” “Ask me to.” She scowled. “I won’t have you pretending that you’re not curious. This room is swimming with your pheromones. Deny it.” She sagged a little against his hand, and he tightened his grip on her hair, as much to offer support as to imprison her. “You’ll remember this moment, fantasize about being mine.” “No…” “Invite me to kiss you or tell me to release you. The power is yours. Yield to temptation or leave, wondering if it’s as good as you imagine it will be.” “This can’t be happening.” Despite her protest, she didn’t try to escape. “It’s the first time I’ve had any sexual longing for an adversary. Ask me to kiss you,” he repeated instead of arguing. “Be sure to say please.” He loosened his grip, and she leaned toward him, keeping herself hostage. Rafe didn’t smile with triumph. “Kiss me.” “There’s nothing I’d enjoy more.” That wasn’t the entire truth. There were a hundred things he’d like to do to her, but he made no move Her internal standoff lasted longer than he thought it would. Excellent. She had a stubborn streak. Hope glanced away and sighed. Then she looked at him with clear, confident eyes. “Please kiss me.” He could drown in her and be happy about it. He captured her chin to hold her steady. On her lips, he tasted the sweetness of her capitulation. “Open your mouth, sweet Hope.” She did, and he entered her mouth, slower than he would ordinarily, softer than he would if she were his submissive. Hope responded with hesitation, and he continued on, driving deeper, seeking more. Within seconds, she yielded. She moaned and raised onto her tiptoes to lean into him. A few seconds beyond that, she wrapped her arms around him. Hope, his adversary, had now become his willing captive. He released her chin and moved his hand to the middle of her back, then lower to the base of her spine. Rafe drank in the scent of her femininity. His cock surged, not from ordinary arousal, but from soul-deep recognition. Her eagerness sought the Dom in him. It took all his restraint not to press his palm against her buttocks. He wasn’t sure how he’d banish this memory of her—strength and suppleness in one heady package. She offered more until she was panting and desperate, gripping him hard. Instead of giving in to the driving need to possess her, he distracted himself by tugging on her hair harder. As he’d requested, her eyes were open. So trusting. Did she have any idea how close he was to shredding the veneer of civilization that hung between them to claim her, mark her as his?
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Tomorrow would be soon enough for them to go exploring and try out the stand-up paddleboards Allie had eyed when she’d checked out the beach.
Her face heated at the fact she’d been caught topless sunbathing. Whoever that guy was, he’d been far off enough that she couldn’t clearly see his face. Those shoulders, though… Allie shivered. Even at a distance, she’d seen the cut of his muscles and how purposefully he’d maneuvered the kayak through the turquoise waters. The island must have already gone to her head, because she’d spent a truly insane moment hoping he’d come to shore so she could get a better look at him.
Maybe more than a better look.
Allie laughed at her fanciful thoughts. Vacation hookups were all well and good, but if that was what she’d wanted, she’d chosen the wrong place to go. Isolation and relaxation were the name of the game on West Island, which was exactly what she’d craved when she let Becka talk her into booking the trip. It was the exact opposite of New York and her life there.
But now she found herself wondering if maybe something slightly more chaotic would have been a better choice. The sun and sea had soaked into her blood and the heady feeling had her convinced anything was possible. It was only a week. The perfect length of time for a fling…
If she wasn’t on a private island in the middle of the ocean without a single man in sight.
She bypassed the little golf cart that was one of the main forms of transportation here. It felt good to walk after being cooped up on the plane and then lying prone while she sunned herself. She usually taught at least one class a day at Transcend—more if she needed to cover someone else’s schedule—so being inactive wasn’t natural for her. It was only a mile or two to the restaurant and the day had started to cool as the sun reached for the horizon. It’d be downright pleasant tonight.
She’d make sure to wake early and attend one of the yoga classes offered, and the rest of the day would be filled with activities that would keep restlessness from setting in. There was even scuba diving available, though Allie wasn’t sure she was feeling that adventurous. Snorkeling? Sure. Going deeper with only a tank and a few tubes between her and drowning? That would take a whole lot more convincing.
The path was cleared and well maintained to allow the carts to drive without problems, so she let her mind wander as she fell into a natural stride that ate up the distance without tiring her out. Every once in a while, the path would branch off in different directions, some heading toward other villas, some heading deeper inland. There was a small selection of hiking trails that offered tours of the history of the island.
She made it to the restaurant easily, and found it practically deserted. Allie paused in the doorway, wondering if she’d misunderstood the woman who’d checked them in. Maybe it was closed?
“Looks like it’s just you and me.”
She jumped and spun around. The man stood a respectable distance away, but his sheer size ate up the space and made her feel closed in. She froze. I’d recognize those shoulders anywhere. Confirming her suspicion, his gaze slid over her body as if he was reminding himself of what she looked like with nothing but what she’d worn on the beach. She tried to swallow past her suddenly dry throat. “You.”
“Me.” He finally looked her in the face, and she rocked back on her heels. The man was an Adonis. There was no other way to describe his blond perfection, from his hazel eyes to the square jaw to the cleft in his chin to the body that just wouldn’t quit. He might be wearing a shirt now, but the button-down did nothing to hide his muscle definition.
He held out a wide hand with equally perfect square fingers. “Let me buy you a drink?”
“We’re at an all-inclusive resort.”
His lips twitched, eyes twinkling. “Have a drink with me.”
Oh, he was good. Charm practically colored the air between them, and she had the inexplicable impulse to close the distance and stroke a finger along his jawline. To flick that cleft chin with her tongue.
Allie gave herself a shake. “Since we’re the only ones here, it’d be silly to sit apart.”
The look he gave her said he saw right through the excuse, and why not when it was pathetically flimsy? The truth was that this man was magnetic and she suspected she’d be drawn to him even in a room full of people. He waved a hand at the empty place. “Lady’s choice.”
“How magnanimous of you.”
“I try.”
She laughed and headed for the table in the middle of the small patio. There were half a dozen tables, and she picked a spot that put her back to the building and presented the best view of the ocean through a carefully curated gap in the foliage.
He eyed the view and then the chair on the other side of the table, and then he picked it up and set it adjacent to hers so they were sitting on a diagonal, rather than directly across from each other. “Nice view.”
She turned to agree—and found him staring at her.
Allie wasn’t falsely modest. Life was too short to play games with body shaming and pretending she didn’t have access to a mirror. She was pretty—beautiful when she put some effort into it—but she’d given up being skinny or petite after the agony of high school, and she wasn’t athletically built like some of the women at her gym. Sure, she had muscle beneath her softness, and she could keep up with the best of them in her spin classes, but she loved food just as much as she loved to sweat, and her curves reflected that. Some guys had a problem with that, though she didn’t keep them around as soon as comments like “Should you really be eating that?” started.
This guy looked at her like he wanted to put her on the table and feast on her for dinner.
The desire stoked the flame inside her that had kindled the second she saw him. She leaned forward, checking his left hand. No ring. No tan lines, either. “What brings you to West Island?”
“It’s paradise, isn’t it? Who wouldn’t want to come here to get away from it all?”
That wasn’t quite an answer, but she was distracted by the intoxicating way his mouth moved when he spoke. Get ahold of yourself, Allie. You’re in danger of panting for him. She took a quick drink of water that did nothing to quell the heat rising with each minute she sat next to him.
Luckily, a waiter appeared to save her from saying something truly embarrassing. He outlined the menu for the night and took their drink orders, then disappeared as quickly as he’d come.
They were in the middle of one of the most beautiful places Allie had ever seen, and she couldn’t manage to tear her gaze away from this stranger. She licked her lips, every muscle in her body tensing when he followed the movement. She opened her mouth, but before she could speak, he took her hand, running his thumb over her knuckles.
The touch was innocent enough, but she felt that light movement in places that were most definitely not innocent. She didn’t have to look down to know her nipples now pressed against the thin fabric of her sundress.
His smile was slow and sinful and promised things she never would have had the gall to ask for. “This is going to sound unforgivably forward, but what do you say we get out of here and go back to my villa?”
It was crazy. More than crazy. She didn’t even know his name, and she sure as hell didn’t know anything more pertinent about him.
But there on the softly lit patio with the tropical scent of some flower she didn’t recognize and the soft shushing sound of the tide coming in, she didn’t feel like Allie, gym owner and mother hen, the responsible one who could never afford to do anything out of line or make a misstep because too many lives depended on her.
Here, she was just Allie, a woman. A woman who desperately wanted the man staring at her mouth as if he was doing everything in his power to keep from kissing her right then and there. She licked her lips again, secretly delighting in the way a muscle in his jaw jumped. “Yes.”
“Yes, let’s get out of here.”
About Katee Robert
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Katee Robert learned to tell her stories at her grandpa’s knee. Her 2015 title, The Marriage Contract, was a RITA finalist, and RT Book Reviews named it 'a compulsively readable book with just the right amount of suspense and tension." When not writing sexy contemporary and romantic suspense, she spends her time playing imaginary games with her children, driving her husband batty with what-if questions, and planning for the inevitable zombie apocalypse.
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Blog Tour: How to Fall for the Wrong Man by Harmony Williams
How to Fall for the Wrong Man
by Harmony Williams
Genres: Adult, Entangled: Amara, Historical, Romance
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If Mary Babington-Smith knows nothing else, it’s that Lord Edwin Sutton kissed her. Regardless of who-kissed-whom, with the deed witnessed, they have no choice but to carry on with a temporary, fake, engagement. When Edwin sweetens the deal, offering Mary the money she needs to pursue her independence if she can play the lovesick fiancée for two weeks, Mary rises to the challenge. In two weeks, she’ll have everything she wants, and this time she’ll be the one to walk out of his life.
Despite Sutton’s argumentative, self-assured nature, when Mary glimpses a sliver of the boy he used to be, she vows to peel away every layer of armor he uses to shield his emotions. Somewhere underneath that worldly exterior is the kind-hearted man she once loved, but in order to find him, she’ll have to give him the power to hurt her…and he’s already broken her trust once.
ABOUT HARMONY WILLIAMS
Harmony Williams has been living vicariously in Regency-era England since she discovered Jane Austen. Since time machines don’t yet exist, she’s had to make do with books—fictional and non-fictional. On the rare occasions she doesn’t have her nose stuck in a book, she likes to drink tea and spend time with her 90-lb lapdog. A feminist, she writes stories about strong women and the men who support them as equals.
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Blog Tour: Law of Attraction by Alison Bliss
Meet the Author:
Alison Bliss is a best-selling, award-winning author of humorous, contemporary romances. A born and raised Texan, she currently resides in the Midwest with her husband, two kids, and their dogs. As the youngest of five girls, she has never turned down a challenge or been called by the right name. Alison believes the best way to find out if someone is your soul mate is by canoeing with them because if you both make it back alive, it's obviously meant to be. She writes the type of books she loves to read most: fun, steamy love stories with heart, heat, and laughter. Something she likes to call, "Romance...with a sense of humor."
To learn more about Alison Bliss, visit her website at http://authoralisonbliss.com, where you can sign up for her newsletter to keep up with her latest book news. You can also email her at authoralisonbliss@hotmail.com or connect with her on social media.
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For single mom Bobbie Jo Weston, finding a husband is not on her to-do list. She's focused on turning a run-down chicken farm into a Bed & Breakfast. She agrees to let a friend’s nephew stay with her in exchange for his handyman skills, but she wasn’t counting on the super sexy Seth Landry being that guy.
Seth has a special skill-set, all right, but it has nothing to do with hammering nails. As a retired member of The Resistance—an elite group of ex-military soldiers—his dark, unsettling past haunts him. He needs a place to lay low, and an out-of-the-way B&B is nothing short of perfect. The blonde beauty doesn’t trust men, and he doesn't plan on sticking around long enough to change her mind.
The closer they get, the more they can't seem to keep their hands off each other. And while Bobbie holds on to her fear of watching another man walk out of their lives, Seth's mere presence has put them all in jeopardy. The only way to ever be free of his dangerous past is for him to accept one last mission...
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Release Day Blitz: Touch Wood (Ash Brothers #3) by Jenika Snow
The Ash brothers—they know how to handle their wood.
A new smoking-hot Ash Brothers novella from USA TODAY bestselling author Jenika Snow
I’ve been celibate for years, by choice. No woman has held my interest long enough to be worth sacrificing time spent at Ash Lumber, energy spent building the family business.
All that changed when a feisty redhead walked into our job-site trailer.
Andra.
Her skirts drive me crazy and her trying so hard to flat-out ignore me does the rest. Her flushed cheeks when we flirt are enough to send me to bed for a week.
Andra might be supervising this development deal, but there’s no way we’re going to be able to keep things professional around here. My celibate streak is over, and I owe it all to her.
I was a fiend for Andra, so far gone that stopping seemed like a distant thought. Even if I had the strength to walk away from this I wouldn’t have. I needed her in all ways, needed to claim her in the way that only I could. To make her mine. Andra would soon see I was the one in control, that I was the one who would give her pleasure, hear her calling out my name as she came.
I stood there staring at her, unable to take my gaze off her. She was perfection, beautiful…mine.
Her cheeks were flushed, dotted with red from her lust. I started kissing her again, taking in her flavor, her very essence. My desire was so fucking intense that I ground myself against her belly. Her mouth was hot and sweet, and my cock jerked behind my jeans, the fucker needing out and buried deep in her body.
I swept my tongue into the wet cavern of her mouth, stroking it along hers, bringing out a moan from her. I swallowed that sound, wanting more of it. Sliding my hands down her back, I gripped her full, round ass and brought her closer to me, which was almost an impossible act, given the fact we were pressed tightly together. My cock jerked at the feel of her softness, at the scent of her.
“I want you so fucking badly. I can feel it in my marrow, taste it on my tongue,” I said against her mouth, kissing her harder after the words left me.
The sound of her lightly moaning told me she was finding pleasure in this, that she craved me as much as I craved her. And the way she dug her nails into my arms let me know she needed more.
And I’ll give her so much more she can’t even fucking breathe.
Andra slid her hands up my chest and dug her nails into my skin. I hissed in pain…in pleasure. It felt good, so fucking good I could have probably gotten off on this alone.
I needed us naked, needed her bare skin pressed to mine. I wanted to feel her body shaking beneath my hands and mouth, losing control because she came, because I was the one who brought that out in her. I was purely working on instinct now, and there wasn’t anything on this fucking planet that could stop me from claiming her, from making her mine in every way I saw fit.
“You sure you want this, baby?”
“I want this. I want you,” she said instantly and looked into my eyes.
I kissed her harder and with more possession, needing her to see that she was, in fact, only mine. She moaned and pressed her breasts harder against my chest.
“I’m going to have you so sore tomorrow you won’t be able to sit comfortably, but you’ll want more. So much more.”
Jenika Snow, a USA Today bestselling author, lives in the northeast with her husband and their children.
She prefers gloomy days, eats the topping off of her pizza first, and prefers to wear socks year round.
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Release Day Blitz: Until Daddy by Measha Stone
Carissa knows the score when it comes to relationships. They don’t last. Sure, they’re good for some fun in the short term, but that’s all. Fun. There shouldn’t be any exceptions, not even for Jamison Croft, but he’s not an easy man to shake. He blasts through every brick she lays.
He may look the gentleman in his expensive suit, but he’s anything but when it comes to Carissa.
But how can Carissa let herself ease into his dominating presence when she knows it has an expiration date?
Jamison is determined to break through her walls with his relentless care and patience. And when their bond is threatened, he will show her he’s in it for the long haul. No matter what barrier gets thrown up in his way.
Measha Stone is an international bestselling author of erotic romance. She’s had #1 top-selling books in BDSM, and suspense. She lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband and children, who are just as creative and crazy as her. Her vanilla writing has been published in numerous literary magazines, but she’s found her passion in erotic romance. She loves reading it, writing it, and living it whenever possible.
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Blog Tour: ACQUAINTED by London Miller
by London Miller
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Mafia, Organized Crime, Romance
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They met under summer showers …
Vera Markovic only wanted a vacation away from New York where everyone knows her as a Russian Mafiya printsessa of the Markovic Bratva. She didn’t expect to find something worth remembering. And definitely not a man like Alfie Shelby.
They fell in love when the leaves changed colors …
As New York City’s notorious fixer, Alfie Shelby always gets what he wants—and when he sets his eyes on Vera, he’ll do anything to keep her … even if she’s not sure she wants to be kept.
And they nearly lost it all when the snow started to fall …
She wants nothing to do with a gangster. A life of crime is all he knows. But neither can deny what they have, even when forces beyond their control try to keep them apart.
ABOUT LONDON MILLER
With a degree in Creative Writing, London Miller has turned pen to paper, creating riveting fictional worlds where the bad guys are sometimes the good guys. Her debut novel, In the Beginning, is the first in the Volkov Bratva Series.
She currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two puppies, where she drinks far too much Sprite, and spends her nights writing.
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I hope this guy's name is The Malingerer. I just want Deathstork to have an enemy named The Malingerer.
The Commentary!
• Douchéstork is written in short stories. It's almost as if Christ Priest (you can shorten Christopher to "Christ", right?) realized Deathstork wasn't interesting enough to carry a comic book all by himself so he decided to explore the entirety of his life through bullet points. Instead of learning about Deathstork through his own personal war journals, or his incessant Narration Boxing, the reader is allowed to see moments of Slade and his family's life to really see what makes Deathstork murder and have sex with underage females.
• The first short story is called "Home Alone". It's about how Joseph Wilson was constantly being left home by himself due to his mercenary parents constantly rushing off to other countries to assassinate people and his older brother throwing temper tantrums and running away because he didn't feel like his dad loved him enough. Joseph apparently doesn't feel loved enough either because when the house is empty, he invites a bunch of strange teenagers over to party on the off chance that a few of them might think, "Jake Wilbur is the coolest!"
• The second short story is called "Ishmael". It has nothing to do with the Moby Dick Ishmael which everybody probably first thought because holy fuck why are so many people in love with the novel Moby Dick?! It's almost as if they've got some kind of obsession or something?! No, this story is called "Ishmael" because it's about the sacrifice of a son. I know what you're thinking! You're thinking, "But Tess! Isaac was the son who was almost sacrificed!" Sure, if you want to believe the Old Testament and the way the Old Testament contradicts itself! Because, seriously, you can't have Abraham sacrificing Isaac if he's sacrificing his only son. The only time Abraham had an only son was when he had Ishmael. The Koran gets it right. Although, to be absolutely fair and transparent, the Koran is a bit lax with its proper nouns. So it's not like it's super clear either! But at least it's not trying to obfuscate things on purpose to make Abraham's story about the Jewish line of decent and not about the Muslim line of descent. Although Joseph, who has been kidnapped and may be sacrificed, is the second son which would make him Isaac. So maybe the title did reference Moby Dick since the bloody writing on the wall says "CALL ME DEATHSTROKE". At least that's what Adeline reads. I think the bloody "E" may have merged with the comma.
• So that past story about Joseph getting kidnapped and eventually getting his throat slit which leads to Adeline putting out Slade's right eye is being told alongside the present story of Deathstroke being forced to wear an old costume that doesn't have boots with huge fucking cuffs on them.
• The next story is still in the past. It's called "Our Gang" and it's Slade's half of the story after he hangs up on Adeline and refuses to hear why she sounds so panicked. It's because somebody took her son and she thinks it's somebody called Deathstork. Slade doesn't have time to talk because he's busy yelling at Wintergreen for crashing the plane they're in.
Apparently you talk upside down and backwards when you're upside down. I had no idea!
• The next story is called "Two Guns" and takes place in the present in Edinburgh. Wintergreen and Wilson are visiting one of the guys who was in that crashed plane eight years ago. I would have guessed it was eighteen years ago based on how badly he and Wintergreen have aged. Wintergreen is searching for the person who was responsible for his kidnapping and only five people knew he was still alive (four if you don't count Wintergreen himself which I totally wouldn't but Wintergreen chooses to do for--I don't know--accuracy's sake?). After Wintergreen and Wilson, their old mate Fredric was one of them. It probably doesn't matter who the others were because it was probably Adeline who had Wintergreen kidnapped.
• In the hopes that Slade doesn't murder him, Fredric tells a story about a man named Racskowski. Why couldn't he be named Smith?! I'll never remember how to spell that! Although the story Fredric tells is called "Rax" so I can probably just refer to him as Rox from here on out. I mean Rax!
• Rax was the other guy in the plane! The story is about how he was murdered by some unknown assailants in a way that would make it look like Rax hung himself (which is probably why Fredric's bar is called "The Hanged Man")! They were unknown because nobody could question them after Deathstork murdered them to death.
• Fredric points out the last person who went on the mission where the plane crashed in Cambodia and Slade probably impregnated a whore with Rose (since the next story is called "Rose" and since that's sort of how it happened in the Preboot, Post-Crisis era) was a Canuck named Isherwood. Unless he didn't go on the mission because he wasn't in the plane that crashed earlier. Although he could have been in the back! I don't know because I haven't read the short story that tells his tale yet.
That was a rough eight years! Although I'm probably entering those eight years now as I turn 45. I should take a before picture now and an after picture in eight years and see if they're similar to this!
• Lillian (Rose's mother) runs a hotel where mercenaries in Cambodia go to have a nice cup of tea and a short nap between missions. She's also the kind of person who mentions how smart they are which means she isn't really that smart. Although it's a comic book so there aren't many ways to let the reader know how smart a character is without somebody vocalizing the fact. And since Lillian doesn't have an advocate the reader can trust to tell us how smart she is, she has to do it herself. But if she were a real person and I met her at a party and she was all, "I'm smarter than 75% of the people I meet," I would probably try to have sex with her. I mean, if I met her at a party and she said, "Der! Der duh der doy!", I'd probably try to have sex with her.
• Apparently Slade has already had sex with her. Several years ago so Rose can be a teenager in the present time.
• Oh! I guess I was mistaken about who was in the plane. Isherwood was the guy in the glasses. Fredric was just the recon guy sent to check out the brothel run by Lillian, the person Slade and his team were trying to rescue. Wait. He got paid for that?
• The brothel was attacked by drug cartel muscle and in the ensuing rescue, Fredric was shot by a ten year old girl with silver hair. Why did she have silver hair when Deathstork's hair only turned as he got older? Was it because Slade's semen was full of the lie detecting drugs which gave him his power? Did he have his powers ten years ago?! Maybe I just don't understand genetics.
• Fredric admits that he happened to mention to somebody that maybe Wintergreen wasn't actually dead which is all Slade needs to head to Canada to find Isherwood.
Why is Wintergreen so familiar with Batman and the way he disappears? I bet he's an old SAS friend of Alfred's and Alfred talks way too much when they get together to drink and reminisce.
• The Doctor Slade goes to see is Isherwood. The guy in the plane with the glasses. Otherwise known as Ikon. Or Doctor Ikon. Or Professor Ikon. He's the guy who built the suit Slade is currently wearing. He's also got his own suit and can fly. So instead of just asking him questions about Wintergreen's kidnapping, he has to also punch him a lot.
• Dr. Ikon is a hero of God. He uses that as an excuse to judge Slade's life of killing even though God loves to kill for justice even more than Slade! Or at least he used to before his peacenik son decided to change the entire message, so much so that it's barely recognizable from one Testament to the other. Almost as if they don't actually have anything to do with each other!
• Slade knows Dr. Ikon wasn't the guy to rat out Wintergreen but he needed more information to help find the people who killed Rax and kidnapped Wintergreen. Wintergreen, meanwhile, kills Fredric. It also turns out they were doing these things at the same time and the Deathstork in Fredric's bar was just a guy paid to hang out in the costume and look scary. Anyway, that whole thing is still a story that is happening. But now they have a twist that is probably tied to that story: Deathstork received a contract to kill somebody named The Ravager. I suppose Deathstork doesn't know anything about Rose yet. But the silver hair and the blue and orange uniform seems to show she knows about him.
I forgot I wasn't doing a review section anymore! I'm not a Reviewer! I'm a Reader! But I will keep leaving undefended changes in the rank of the comic book which place it in an imaginary list of comics from best to worst!
The Ranking: +1! If you want to read about Rose Wilson's first appearance, check it out here!
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U2ie Tour, Part One - London, The Tour Madness Has Started!
I know I am guilty of neglecting my blog recently, but I'll make up for that in the next few weeks as the U2ie Tour shows have started for me - at long last. We got the tickets almost a year ago and it seemed so far away, and in a strange way, it also felt unreal, even when my friend Debbi and I arrived in London on October 24th. We had rented an apartment a ten minute walk from the O2 with a glorious view across the river Thames, which turned out to be perfect. We explored the area and got shopping in and had a relaxing evening really looking forward to the concerts to come.
We got up late and had a leisurely breakfast. Later we wandered up to the O2, what an amazing building it is, like some huge white flying saucer. We had a Mission this tour. My friend Debbi and I have collaborated to produce a book of her writing and my paintings. We have put together a first draft and wanted to give one to Bono, and we were determined to fulfil The Mission!
We hoped to see the band arrive but didn't so we had a meal at the nearby Cafe Rouge, I had Garlic Mushrooms and Chicken Breton and a glass of very nice champagne. I will write a full review of the meal at a later date.
Afterwards we sat by the river watching a beautiful sunset then it was time to go into the O2 and find our seats. We got in the queue and waited and waited and waited. It was at least one hour and a half minutes before we got in, never have I had to wait that long to get to my seat at a gig. We found out later that the scanners had broken down. Technology is great when it works.....
Our seats were wonderful, in the lower tier almost directly opposite the e-stage, I certainly was glad I wasn't in the upper tier, very, very high up and scary. At the other end of the floor was the rectangular i-stage which was connected to the round e-stage by a long catwalk. I will be seeing a few shows and won't be reviewing them in detail here, I'll just pick out certain bits.
At around 20:15 Patti Smith's People Have the Power rang out and Bono entered the arena via an entrance just below us, he clapped and ambled along in his inimitable way and walked up some stepa and onto the e-stage. Then the opening chords of The Miracle (of Joey Ramone) thundered out and Bono walked the length of the catwalk and onto the i-stage to join his bandmates and the song started properly. Great start.
I was kind of overcome at the beginning of the concert, it had been a long time coming and right until that moment it had felt almost unreal. Then suddenly there was the band I've been a fan of for 32 years doing what they do best, playing live, and it was REAL!
Photo by Christine Moeller
The sheer power and energy of the opening set of songs, The Electric Co, Vertigo and I Will Follow was stunning, and it was just the four band members playing on the i-stage, no gimmicks just four musicians giving it their all. It really showed how good they are.
The mood changed with he next song Iris, a song about Bono's mother who died when he was fourteen. A huge video wall (almost the length of the catwalk) descended and it showed various images including including his mother. It was incredibly emotional. He said when she died she left him an artist. He was singing about himself in that song, but the gist of it can apply to anyone who has lost a loved one.
This was followed by Cedarwood Road, the street where Bono grew up. Wonderful images on the video wall of the street and images from Bono's youth that it conjured up. At one point Bono got into the video wall and was walking along within the video, very clever. I found the songs from the new album stood up very well live, especially Raised With Wolves which was amazing live.
There was a short interval when a virtual Berlin Wall completely separated the two sides of the audience. Then, one of my favourite new songs, Invisible, began. Then there were areas where the wall disappeared and showing glimpses of the band members inside the wall. It's hard to explain really, but it was very cleverly done and so in tune with the song. I think initially some of the audience thought the images of the band were part of the video, not humans within technology/
Bono got a woman up for Mysterious Ways, Trish from Canada, whose vintage style must have caught Bono's eye. She was really good, she danced well and flirted with Bono but didn't go too far. She was given a phone to film the audience which apparently was being broadcast live all over the world.
A few songs on they did a reworked Bullet the Blue Sky, which was absolutely amazing! At one point Bono argued with his 19 year old self who said he sold out and had private planes and lots more. At the end Bono said wearily, "I know, I know." We are all very different people from when we were 19. Edge's guitar solo in this song was wonderful.
After this the final segment of the show they did a run of some of their most popular songs, including
Streets, Pride, With or Without You. Streets was so uplifting, the audience sang most of it with Bono looking on in wonder. They finished with One.
In conclusion for me it was a stunning, powerful gig, the sound was good, video screen was amazing. They used the catwalk and stages very well and the setlist was well put together. All in all a brilliant concert. U2 are definitely not past it.
As Debbi and I walked home we hardly said a word, the show just blew us away and we initially couldn't find words to describe the experience. One home we opened a bottle of champagne to celebrate the start of our U2ie Tour.
Labels: Bono, Cafe Rouge, Edge, London, O2, Photo by Chris Moeller, U2, U2ie Tour 2015
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Epinephrine may save the heart, but not the brain, says study
Using the drug epinephrine during a cardiac arrest may do more harm than good, says a new study.
Researchers at the Kyushu University School of Medicine in Japan looked at the medical records of more than 400,000 cardiac arrest patients over a three-year period and found that while the drug may be effective in the short-term, it may not improve survival outcomes in the long-term.
According to the report, patients who received doses of the adrenaline-like drug in the ambulance were three times more likely to regain a heartbeat before they reached the hospital, when compared to those who did not get the drug. FULL POST
Post by: Matt Sloane - CNN Medical Producer
Filed under: Brain • Emergency care • Heart • Public Health
Cops more forgetful after chases or altercations
Police officers who engage in at least 60 seconds of intense physical energy while involved in a combative encounter may suffer memory loss, according to a newly published study in the journal Psychological Science.
Researchers found that officers chasing down a suspect or engaging in a physical altercation with someone can often forget details of the incident, including being unable to identify the suspect from a lineup.
The study's lead author, Dr. Lorraine Hope, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, said the study's findings are a "warning" to officers, police chiefs and even the court system.
Filed under: Brain • Exercise • Mind and body
Four-time cancer survivor gives back
Editor's note: In the Human Factor, we profile survivors who have overcome the odds. Confronting a life obstacle – injury, illness or other hardship – they tapped their inner strength and found resilience they didn't know they possessed. This week, Jon Huntsman Sr., father of former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr., shares his story.
When this businessman was born 74 years ago, he wasn't expected to live. He's also survived four types of cancer: prostate, mouth and two types of skin cancer - squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Yet, he says his biggest challenge in his life was watching his daughter Kathleen die after suffering from drug addiction and leaving behind seven young children, whom he helped raise.
Huntsman has donated more than $1 billion dollars for cancer research and scholarships. He sat down with CNN at his headquarters in Salt Lake City and shared some of his thoughts. The following is an excerpt from that interview:
CNN: You say your success was built by working hard and with the help of many others and always thinking of others.
From very humble beginnings, surrounding myself with very marvelous people, we've been able to build quite a large business. And I'm pleased to say that right from the beginning, we started giving money away to charity over 40 years ago, even when I had to borrow from the bank.
Post by: Miriam Falco - CNN Medical Managing Editor
Filed under: Cancer • Human Factor
Ibuprofen may ward off altitude sickness
Ibuprofen has been used for decades to treat pain. Now, research suggests the drug's anti-inflammatory properties also may help prevent the piercing headaches and other symptoms of altitude sickness.
A small new study, published this week in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, found that people who took four 600-milligram doses of ibuprofen over a 24-hour period in which they ascended to 12,570 feet above sea level were less likely to experience altitude sickness than people taking a placebo.
Sixty-nine percent of the participants who took placebo during the ascent developed the headaches, nausea, dizziness, and fatigue that characterize altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness. By contrast, just 43% of people who took ibuprofen developed the condition.
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Nancy Klinger, far right, goes for a run with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and other Fit Nation Tri Challenge participants in Atlanta.
Triathlete: I allowed myself to change my life
Editor's note: Nancy Klinger is one of seven CNN viewers chosen to be a part of the CNN Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge. Nancy applied for the Challenge after separating from her husband of 26 years.
On November 17, 2011, I sent in a video submission to CNN hoping to be selected as a participant in the CNN Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge. I shared my fears and showed my emotion.
I shared that I was afraid about being able to make it on my own through the upcoming Minnesota winter. I shared things that no one knew I was going through, not even my closest friends. I allowed my vulnerability to show, which is something that I just don’t do - something that I have always been really good at not doing.
Something that drove husband crazy for many years. I have always been the strong one, the helper, the caregiver, the protector, the giver.
I became this person at an early age out of necessity and since that time I just don’t let my guard down.
This time I allowed myself to be vulnerable because in my mind I was just talking to a computer screen. It was cathartic. I did not think for an instant that someone would actually hear me, and never in my wildest imagination did I even consider that I would be selected as one of the Lucky Seven.
Post by: Nancy Klinger - Fit Nation Participant
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Keep kids away from the medicine cabinet
It’s a stunning statistic: Each day roughly four school busloads of U.S. children – about 165 young kids – are seen in emergency rooms after getting into medications - and each visit is preventable.
Those are the findings revealed in a report by Safe Kids Worldwide, which unveiled a new initiative Tuesday called “Safe Storage, Safe Dosing, Safe Kids." The campaign calls on caregivers, medical personnel, pharmacists, drug makers and government groups to work to reduce accidental poisonings of children from medications.
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Chevron CEO Is Lying to His Own Shareholders Over $12 Billion Ecuador Liability
Posted on Friday, June 02, 2017
One thing clear from the wreckage that was Chevron's annual meeting this week: CEO John Watson is blatantly lying to his own shareholders over the disastrous handling of the company's $12 billion Ecuador environmental liability.
Putting out fake news is not working for Donald Trump and it will not work for John Watson either. But that is exactly what he is trying to do to obfuscate the company's responsibility for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into the waterways of indigenous groups in Ecuador's Amazon.
Chevron's liability stems from the findings by three layers of courts in Ecuador that the company deliberately discharged the oil waste over two decades and abandoned roughly 1,000 unlined oil waste pits gouged out of the jungle floor. The contamination decimated indigenous groups, causing an outbreak of cancer that has killed or threatens to kill thousands of innocent civilians. Chevron operated in Ecuador under the Texaco brand from 1964 to 1992.
(See here for a summary of the overwhelming evidence against Chevron. See here for a photo essay by journalist Lou Dematteis on the humanitarian catastrophe caused by Chevron's oil pollution in Ecuador.)
Worse, Watson and members of his legal team -- led by Chief Counsel R. Hewitt Pate and outside counsel Randy Mastro -- might face criminal prosecution for bribing a critical witness to try to evade paying the judgment. That's on top of Watson recently being caught red-handed trying to rip off Australia with a tax scheme related to the company's Gorgon natural gas project, costing Chevron shareholders about $300 million in addition to major reputational damage.
As we sit here today, after two decades of the historic battle in Ecuador between Big Oil and indigenous groups, Watson's biggest problem is that a legal case that the company probably could have settled for approximately $100 million in the mid-1990s is now worth $12 billion. That's on top of the estimated $2 billion Chevron has spent on 60 law firms and 2,000 lawyers to defend the case. And it doesn't include the $300 million in annual interest that accrues to the judgment.
The $12 billion figure is based on a final and enforceable judgment that was affirmed unanimously by Ecuador's Supreme Court in the venue where Chevron accepted jurisdiction. The company had filed 14 sworn affidavits praising Ecuador's judicial system when it insisted the trial be held in the country. Now, Watson refuses to pay the judgment despite overwhelming evidence of Chevron's toxic dumping, fraud, and other wrongdoing .
One might think that by now Chevron's massive expenditures should have achieved its obvious objective -- the killing off of the environmental claims of the villagers. Instead, the expenditures seem to be backfiring. The villagers simply won't go away. Despite some occasional setbacks through the years, the undeniable truth is that they are now gaining strength both in court and with the company's own shareholders.
In court, Chevron faces a critical hearing this October in Toronto as the villagers try to seize company assets in Canada to recover the full amount of their judgment. Already, two appellate courts in Canada (including the nation's Supreme Court) have ruled unanimously against Chevron as Watson continues to fail in his attempts to try to shut down the the asset seizure action.
Watson's effort to block a similar enforcement action targeting company assets in Brazil also has failed.
Among Chevron shareholders, several large institutional investors put the hurt on Watson at the company's annual meeting. They lined up behind a resolution that accused Watson of "materially mishandling" the Ecuador litigation. This is a startling public rebuke of a CEO that one rarely sees in annual meetings of large companies.
One shareholder resolution that sought Watson's removal as Chairman over the Ecuador disaster received a whopping 39% of all outstanding shares -- a huge level of support. Normally, a shareholder resolution that receives 10% support is considered fantastically successful. Two other resolutions challenging Watson over his mishandling of the Ecuador litigation also received significant support. One received 31%, the other 20%.
In the court of public opinion, Watson's position also seems to be deteriorating as he fails to address shareholder concerns over Ecuador.
After the slap down of Watson's leadership at the annual meeting, Watson made the extraordinary claim that the company's Ecuador policy actually "enjoys overwhelming support from shareholders." Watson later turned off the microphone when a shareholder challenged him over the Ecuador policy. He is burying his head in the sand.
In his terse statements about Ecuador at the meeting, where he looked visibly uncomfortable, Watson refused to acknowledge that 43 civil society groups sent him a letter criticizing the company's attempt to use "racketeering" laws in the U.S. to retaliate against the villagers and their lawyers. He also ignored the 17 environmental and human rights groups and 19 international law scholars who have backed the villagers in legal briefs.
Watson's so-called "disclosure" of the Ecuador liability at the annual meeting and in the company's public filings are part of an elaborately constructed lie.
Watson tries to claim a 2013 decision by a U.S. federal judge in a farcical non-jury trial that has no legal relevance somehow nullifies the entire Ecuador judgment. But even in that one-sided proceeding, called a Dickensian farce by a prominent trial lawyer, the judge said he was not exonerating Chevron from its responsibility for the environmental damage in Ecuador.
Further, the entire factual basis for that U.S. case has collapsed in spectacular fashion -- a reality that Watson also refused to acknowledge to shareholders or in the company's SEC filings. It turns out that Chevron bribed its admittedly corrupt star witness, Alberto Guerra, with $2 million in cash and benefits. That witness later admitted repeatedly lying in U.S. court about several key issues.
Worse, Guerra's lies were corroborated by a scientific forensic analysis that completely debunks Chevron's main defense in the case. This bombshell report also explains in detail how Chevron fabricated evidence to try to evade paying the Ecuador judgment.
Amazon Watch, the environmental group that has battled Chevron for years, posted a blog detailing how the company's illegal witness payments likely violate federal criminal law and could subject those involved to criminal prosecution. Another prominent U.S. environmental group, Earth Rights International, also posted a blog explaining how Chevron fabricated evidence.
We will give the final word to Carlos Guaman, the President of the Ecuador-based Amazon Defense Coalition, known more widely by its Spanish acronym FDA. The FDA is the group that has received international renown for courageously bringing the environmental lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of the affected indigenous and farmer communities.
Guaman warned Watson that the villagers are considering a new plan to file additional judgment enforcement actions in other countries to seize Chevron assets to force the company to abide by the rule of law. "Our people are dying because of Chevron's pollution, so we have no choice but to bring as much pressure to bear on the decision makers," he said.
That's putting it nicely. To Guaman and his followers, we say please continue to kick Watson's posterior until he and his cohorts are held fully accountable.
It is only a matter of time before Watson is either forced out of his job ,or forced to pay the full cost of the grotesque environmental catastrophe his company has visited on the people of Ecuador.
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Goodbye "Captain" Lou
Flamboyant - and legendary - professional wrestling manager (and wrestler) "Captain" Lou Albano died yesterday at age 76 in NYC. He was known to the world outside of professional wrestling for a role he played in the Cyndi Lauper video "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." The Captain was in his heyday when my son, Jason, was very young and we used to watch pro wrestling just as I did growing up when the big attraction was Championship Wrestling with Johnny Powers on Saturday afternoon (along with Monster Movie Matinee where we saw all the great B horror movies like Them and The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Thing from Another World where Scotty concluded with "Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!," etc.). Here's the CNN article on Lou: Lou Albano dies at 76.
So what's the Kerouac connection? Well, it turns out that Jack's dad, Leo, managed some semi-pro wrestlers according to author Barry Miles in Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats:
Leo did well in Lowell. He left L'Etoile to set up his own print shop, Spotlight Print, where, in addition to handbills and other such work, he published his own little newspaper, the Spotlight, which featured his own reviews of local theatrical productions. He was a well-known figure in the town though not necessarily well-liked: muscular, short, stocky, overweight, loud, verbose, opinionated, bigoted, leaving a trail of cigar smoke behind him as he stamped from place to place. He was a sporting man who followed the horses and managed a few semi-pro wrestlers and boxers, promoting the occasional fight. He was a classic small-town personality. A big fish in a small pond.
Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep looking. Keep watching the skies!
It's fun to be alive.
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The Cape May Lewes Ferry has stepped up its efforts to go green. The Delaware River and Bay Authority announced today that ferry food services has eliminated all Styrofoam and single use plastic bags; plastic straws will be available upon request. The...
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Riverrun Series
The Riverrun Trail Series is an off-road running series designed to showcase the spectacular lakeside and river tracks in Lake Wanaka.
The first event is on the 17 October, on the Hawea River Track and offers a 5km, 10 km and half marathon option.
The Riverrun Trail Series will allow competitors to explore three of the region’s recently developed tracks – the Hawea River Track, the Upper Clutha River Track and the Glendhu Bay Track. The tracks are all lakeside or riverside and all are challenging in their own respects and will provide a memorable experience for athletes, from first timers to experienced runners.
The Riverrun Trail Series begins October 2010 and concludes in May 2011 with three races making up the series. There are prizes for place getters and plenty of spot prizes to ensure everyone’s in with a chance of winning.
Enter one or enter the whole Series – the overall winner of the Series will earn the John Pawson Trophy, named after local John Pawson who was the first chair of the Upper Clutha Tracks Trust and a driving force behind the creation of the tracks.
More information about the Riverrun Series can be found at www.trailseries.co.nz
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Wanaka Millennium Track News September 09
Millennium Track Update 11 September 2009
Wanaka Millennium Track near Glendhu Bay
Work is progressing well on stage 3 of the Millennium Track from Damper Bay to Glendhu Bay. This is an Upper Clutha Tracks Trust project that is being funded and managed by Queenstown Lakes District Council with assistance from the Department of Conservation, and support of the adjoining landowners. This is another link in the Te Araroa long distance footpath.
Stage 3 runs from the small beach near the Mt Aspiring viewpoint on the road close to Glendu Bay, and a new car park has been built at the start of the track.
A stile on the new part of the track
This part of the track is virtually finished and is able to be used with care. The track is not yet a through route and finishes at Damper Bay from which you have to return the same way. The return walk takes about 3 hours. Part of the track crosses the Damper Bay Bluff and is quite high and exposed.
Safety Rail on an exposed part of the Wanaka Millennium Track
Stage 2 of the Wanaka Millennium Track will run from the current end of the track at Ironside Trig and join up with Stage 3 at Damper Bay. This section is being developed by Otago Regional Council and the contractors Fulton Hogan are currently building the track. It is expected to be opened before Christmas.
View of the route of stage 2 from Ironside Trig to Damper Bay
Stage 1 of the track is currently being upgraded and maintained on behalf of QLDC by contractor John Sutton. If you see him and his colleagues on the track, say hello and tell them what a good job they are doing removing the boggy sections. The track is also being re-routed near Slaughter Creek at the junction with the link track that connects to Mt Aspiring Rd and on to the Mt Roy track. The new route will improve the gradient and provide a better track surface.
The Wanaka Millennium Track Story
Stage 1 of the track from waterfall creek to Ironside Trig was originally developed by Ralph Warburton and was known as the Warburton Walkway. It was later upgraded and renamed the Wanaka Millennium Track by the Otago Regional Council.
The intention was to eventually extend the track to Glendhu Bay and Otago Regional Council commissioned a scoping report to detail the route and costs of the project. The idea was to split the remaining route into 2 parts with stage 2 being from Ironside Trig to Damper Bay, and stage 3 being from Damper Bay to Glendhu Bay near the Mt Aspiring viewpoint, on the road to glendhu Bay.
Damper Bay Bluff looking north
The Upper Clutha Tracks Trust was formed in October 2006 and one of the early projects considered was the Millennium Track extension. We soon became aware that Otago Regional Council had set aside funds to build stage 2 to Damper Bay, and we were hopeful that the project would be started soon.
In May 2007 the Trust placed an ad in the Upper Clutha Messenger urging Upper Clutha Residents to make a submission on the Otago Regional Council Annual Plan in support of allocating funding to build stage 3 of the track from Damper Bay to Glendhu Bay.
The ad produced a great result and more than 150 submissions were sent in support of funding for stage 3 but sadly Otago Regional Council were not prepared to allocate the required funds although they did assure us that work would commence on stage 2 in the near future.
Near Glendhu Bay
At the time the Trust was mainly focused on the Hawea River Track, but with the assistance of DOC and Trish Wrigley and Mark Symons, the Queenstown Lakes District Council Project Managers, the Trust and QLDC started planning how we could build stage 3 of the track.
In 2008, QLDC commited funds to the project and a route was marked and construction of the difficult section around the bluffs at Damper Bay was started in the summer. Unfortunately the contractor, John Sutton, was committed to other projects, and once the bluff section was completed, had to leave the site to meet prior commitments.
Happily John and team have been back on site for the last few months and stage 3 of the track is virtually complete and can be used although it is still a dead end track.
Work has just commenced on stage 2 and this should be finished before Christmas. It will ten be possible to walk and cycle nearly all the way from Wanaka to Glendhu Bay.
The Trust is currently looking at the short and final section from the new car park to the Glendhu Bay camp ground and hope that this can be developed early next year.
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CMD® Workshop : Future Issues
Hisazumi Akai
Professor Emeritus, Osaka University / Director, Groningen Center for Education and Research, Supervisory Office for Overseas Centers for Education and Research, Osaka University (at that time)
Looking back on the 20 workshops that have been held up to now, it seems to me that almost all of the lectures and hands-on sessions have been limited to the stage of quantum simulation. Quantum simulation is the process of elucidating the functions and physical properties of existing materials. In contrast, what we have set as a goal is computational materials design (CMD®) ̶ quantum design in which materials and structures with newly desired functions and physical properties are designed theoretically.
From now on, I think we need to have a greater awareness of this “design” in hands-on practice and implement it at a higher level. Naturally, it is not possible for us to “design” something in hands-on sessions that cover a period of only five days. After all, this is something that is only rarely achieved even after many years of research. The CMD® Workshop should be a place where researchers learn design techniques and approaches and pick up hints on how to proceed, and then take these back to their own workplaces and laboratories to pursue research.
Another issue that we need to consider from now on is how to create a mechanism to publicize our research achievements widely to ensure that they are used in society. The software used in the CMD® Workshop handson sessions is all freeware, so it can be used by anyone. There are many different approaches to the release and dissemination of scientific and engineering software, but in our community
we use “CMD® Copymart®,” a contract model for the distribution of digital contents. Unlike conventional rights management in which copying is prohibited, Copymart®, proposed by Zentaro Kitagawa, a professor emeritus at the Kyoto University, establishes a mechanism by which the agreement permits copying as long as permission has been obtained from the copyright holder in advance. Research on this type of copyright mechanism began even before the CMD® Workshop, and many discussions were held at the International Institute for Advanced Study.
CMD® Copymart® was adopted in the lectures beginning with the 12th CMD® Workshop in an effort to popularize its use. We think CMD® Copymart® could be considered as one possible model to create such a mechanism because it is crucial to enable our research achievements to benefit society as widely as possible.
Interviewer: Masaaki Geshi (Project Associate Professor at Institute for NanoScience Design, Osaka University)
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#RIP: ARTIST, ROBERT THERRIEN
From Gagosian Gallery,
“It is with great sadness that Gagosian announces the death of Robert Therrien, at the age of seventy-one, on Monday, June 17, just weeks after his acclaimed exhibition at our San Francisco gallery. Time and again, Robert altered our sense of reality by reimagining and reinventing the most commonplace objects in two and three dimensions with an uncanny accuracy.
Robert—Bob to his friends—spent most of his time researching and making art at his studio, which grew to be a fabled fixture in downtown Los Angeles and straddled the line between fantasy and reality, like much of his work. Throughout his career, Bob expressed his singular and enigmatic genius through an impeccable attention to detail, a transformative imagination with regard to scale, and an ability to translate the oft-overlooked into his own vision of beauty.”
Tags: Robert Therrien, art, artist, Gagosian, pop, scale
Trey Speegle
"PRIDE" CELEBRATES WITH 30 ARTISTS PAYING TRIBUTE TO #STONEWALL50 AT POSTMASTERS GALLERY
Pride marks the Stonewall 50th anniversary curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel and Magda Sawon, featuring 30 prominent artists from the LGBTQ community.
Tom Bianchi, Nayland Blake, Luis Carle, Molly Crabapple (with Chelsea Manning),Patricia Cronin, Lola Flash, Anthony Goicolea, Dan Halm, Barbara Hammer, Erik Hanson, Deborah Kass, Linda LaBeija, Scooter LaForge, Karine Laval, Beau McCall, Marilyn Minter (with Ruth Bell), Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Catherine Opie, Jack Pierson, Zachary Tye Richardson, Lissa Rivera, Carlos Rolon, Nelson Santos, Martin Schoeller (with Adam Rippon), Trey Speegle, Mickalene Thomas, John Waters and Matthew Weinstein
Cross-generational, varied, and diverse, and arriving in tumultuous times when gay life is still under threat, the exhibit will include explorations of historic marginalization and contemporary threats of repression; love, play, and tenderness, and queer resilience and resistance to hate; lovers and muses, friends and flings, comrades and communities. Tal San-=ta
Co-curator, photographer Ruben Natal-San Miguel said,
“We’re going to see so many gay lives –mine any many others– reflected on the walls in so many ways.“
Pride opens Thursday, June 6th, 6 – 8PM, June 6 – July 20, 2019. Postmasters Gallery 54 Franklin Street, NYC.
Ruben Natal-San Miguel
Tom Bianchi
Martin Schoeller with Adam Rippon
Dan Halm
Matthew Weinstein
Anthony Goicolea
Karine Laval
Carlos Rolon
Lissa Rivera
Erik Hanson
Tags: Pride, LGBTQ, Ruben Natal-San Miguel, Postmasters, John Waters, Deborah Kass, Marilyn Minter, Catherine Opie, Jack Pierson, Stonewall50, Stonewall, art, artists
BANKSY CRASHES THE VENICE BIENNALE...
A video posted to Banksy’s Instagram account shows the secretive British artist trying to crash the 2019 Venice Biennale. He set up a stall to sell his work and according to Artsy,
“Due to the guerilla nature of his work, an Instagram post or acknowledgement on his website is considered a marker of an authentic Banksy project.”
The stall is in the famous Piazza San Marco, displaying a nine-panel painting on it accompanied with a sign reading
“Venice in Oil.”
The painting shows a massive cruise ship towering over the city and overturning gondolas. The caption reads,
“Setting out my stall at the Venice Biennale. Despite being the largest and most prestigious art event in the world, for some reason I’ve never been invited.”
Venice is plagued with over-tourism, but it a particularly tricky subject considering it’s THE major source of the city’s economy. The video ends with him being told to leave the premises for lack of a permit, and as he wheels his cart away we see a cruise ship not unlike the one he painted looming in the canal behind him.
The selling stall is similar to another of Banksy’s stunts pulled during his 2013 takeover of NYC. One of his hired collaborators set up a stand right outside Central Park, on 59th St, offering authentic prints for $60 each. Just three people bought the prints and one of the lucky buyers sold hers at auction at Bonhams. They made $158,000.
(Photo via Banksy.co.uk; via Artsy)
Tags: Banksy, Venice Biennale, Venice, art, artist, Artsy
#RIP: Lawrence Carroll
“It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Lawrence Carroll, who suddenly passed away this morning, Tuesday 21st May, at the age of 65.
He leaves behind an intimate and melancholic body of work, a unique testimony of both a creative and deconstructive time. In his paintings, which often morph into objects, humble materials, forgotten fragments and the passing of time always leave their mark on the canvas. They are continuously being reinvented as every brushstroke erases the precedent. For Lawrence Carroll, creativity lay within a lengthy process of concentration and contemplation: he constructed an intimate connection with his work until it, in effect, slowly revealed itself to him. The Galerie Karsten Greve has had the privilege of collaborating and promoting his sensitive and subtle oeuvre since 1999.
Moments, his last solo exhibition, opens on Friday at our gallery in Cologne.” –Galerie Karsten Greve
And Peter Frank wrote on Facebook,
“Lawrence’s passing would be a great loss even if it weren’t so untimely. He was one of my favorite artists, not least because I had an unwitting hand in getting him his start. In October or November of 1987 Stefan Stux and I went out to judge a show in Newark. We entered the space, looked around, and both instantly settled upon a small group of what seemed like distorted, abject boxes and/or stretched canvases. Brief closer inspection convinced us both that, with nothing else in the show seen, these irresistible objects had to be first place. We then went around choosing the rest of the show and its lesser winners — although I had to keep Stefan on project, as he kept drifting back to those charming, sensuous canvas-thingies.
I left the building knowing I’d hear from that artist again. Stefan left the building determined to find that artist and exhibit him. Lawrence owed his launch to Stefan, but it was nice to play a supporting role. Years later, when I recounted the story to Lawrence, he told me he almost didn’t make it to the competition; the truck he was driving broke down I believe just the other side of the Holland Tunnel (or in it? nah…) and he barely had enough money to get it up and running again.” –Peter Frank
I knew Lawrence’s work from designing the catalogue for that first Stux gallery show over 30 years ago.
Sadly, the galley’s website sill says the preview for"Moments" on Friday, May 24, 2019, 6 - 8 p.m. will be
“in the presence of the artist.”
It won’t be.
Lawrence Carroll was 65.
Lawrence Carroll, Grotte Painting, 2017, house paint and dust on canvas on wood, verso signed: Carroll 2017, 290 x 178 x 4 cm / 114 1/4 x 70 x 1 1/2” (from ‘Moments"‘)
Tags: Lawrence Carroll, RIP, art, artist, Peter Frank, Stefan Stux
THIS GUY GOES TO A BEAUTIFUL SETTING JUST TO PAINT HIS OWN SHIRT PATTERN...
Artist Hank Schmidt in der Beek and photographer Fabian Schubert offer a hilarious take on classic outdoor painting. In their collaboration, And in the Summer, I do paint, Schubert photographs in der Beek at various locations captured by artists like Cézanneand Monet.
But, rather than focusing on the obvious landscape around him, in der Beek paints just the pattern of his shirt.
In der Beek explains,
“Confronted with the immenseness of the mountains and the littleness of my canvasses, I decided to paint what’s nearest to me instead of what’s afield and giant.”
(Photos, Fabian Schubert, via Booooooom)
Tags: art, artist, Fabian Schubery, paint shirt patterrn, Hank Schmidt in der Beek
ARTISTS, LED BY RON ENGLISH, ARE BUILDING A "WELCOME WALL (& MEXICO IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT!)
A thousand artists are lined up to build the Welcome Wall, an art installation wall running the length of the US/Mexico border. The first section of the Wall was unveiled in Mission, Texas, at the National Butterfly Center, painted by eight artists, including organizer/creator and artist Ron English. (A fellow New York -based Texas native, like myself)
“The wall is being built NOW, but not by Trump, and Mexico is paying for it, not American taxpayers. And it really is beautiful.
It’s environmentally neutral, and we hope it becomes a global tourist attraction and national treasure. Our wall is a welcome, not a rebuff. Our wall has doors and climbing rocks!”
The first section of the wall was funded by an indiegogo campaign raising some $20,000+. But other sections will be funded by the Mexican government, which has agreed to provide contractors and construction support for the installation to run from Texas to California along the US/ Mexico border.
Tags: Ron English, border wall, Welcome Wall, Trump, Mexico, art, arttists
ON ARTIST YVES KLEIN'S 90TH BIRTHDAY, HIS SIGNATURE BLUE IS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR WALLS
The high-end decorative paint company Ressource, now offers a color VERY close to the Yves Kelin’s International Klein Blue.
In cooperation with the artist’s estate, the company is marking what would have been Klein’s 90th birthday by releasing a paint (called Yves Klein®) inspired by the artist’s signature color. (Klein died at age 34)
Available in matte and velvet matte finishes, the paint sets (available at the company’s New York showroom) sell for $100 per liter. That’ll cover about 85 square feet. Expensive but It’s still a bargain compared to cost of Klein’s ArchispongeRe11, 1960, which sold at Sotheby’s in 2008 for $22 million.
In the mid-50s, Klein began making monochromatic paintings, applying layers and layers of paint to build up an even surface without no variation. This achieved what he called “the Unity.” After experimenting with a variety of colors, he focused just on blue.
Working with a paint supplier named Edouard Adam, who helped Klein develop a resin binder called polyvinyl acetate, Klein was able to capture the intense blue he was after. Adam still sells the pigment from his Montparnasse store.
(Photos, courtesy of Ressource; via Artnet News)
Tags: Yves Klein, Yves Klein blue, pigment, art, artist
TWIN ARTISTS, THE HASS BROTHERS, CREATED SOME "FUCKING WEIRD" LITTLE MONSTERS (LADY GAGA IS AWARE)
Their new collection, L’Objet Haas Brothers, features the twin designers’ signature monsters, that serve as tableware, light fixtures, textiles, and tabletop doo-dads.
The Haas Brothers, Simon and Nikolai (one is gay and one is straight) make creatures that recall the beasts of Maurice Sendak and there is a curly white porcelain monster with gold-plated horns and lips will serve as your incense holder in the new collection. The brothers make pieces that are meant to be used, but this is their first truly pragmatic collection. Nikolai explained.
“The beauty of functional objects is that they require the viewer to interact with them. There’s just so much opportunity in that interaction to create something intimate, to pull someone into another world.”
Simon says,
“Any object that somebody performs daily rituals with gets imbued with all kinds of meaning.”
Monsters have appeared in their work for several years, since Nikolai returned from Iceland with a sheepskin, and they envisioned their first creature. (Lady Gaga, who calls her fans “little monsters,” even tapped their beast masks for her 2012 perfume campaign.)
L’Objet founder Elad Yifrach said,
“It’s a complete fantasy world, unlike any other. Each piece is so special on its own, but when mixed together, it transports you into a different world.”
In the L’Objet catalogue, Nikolai was more blunt,
“The collection is fucking weird. It’s a big risk for all of us. But what’s the point of doing something that isn’t?”
The collection is available through L’Objet and Bergdorf Goodman with prices ranging from $28- $3500.
The Haas Brothers were tapped by Lady Gaga to make masks for her 2012 perfume campaign
(Photos from “L’Objet Haas Brothers,” 2019; via Artsy)
Tags: Haas Brothers, LGBTQ, L’Objet, Bergdorf Goodman, art, ceramics
ERIK HANSON'S "BLUTO" SERIES IS A “QUEER STRUGGLE WITH DEEP PSYCHIC ATTACHMENTS”, CARTOON “HYPER-MASCULINITY” & MORE!
New York magazine art critic, Jerry Saltz wrote on Facebook recently,
“Get to Work! Man-up! Woman-up! Stop Procrastinating big Babies!”
To which artist Erik Hanson responded,
“Just like Bluto, get to the gym and work those muscles so you can make some money at the Circus!!”
Hanson’s not been slacking. His multitude of Bluto paintings are currently installed in Two Years of Bluto at Marlbrough Contemporary gallery in NYC.
(Do I need to explain who Bluto is? He’s Popeye‘s burly, bullying arch-nemesis always out to get his Olive Oil…)
Ramzi Fawaz is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison is the author of The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics and co-edited the Queer About Comics special issue of American Literature last June.
David Getsy is a Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and editor of Queer for the Whitechapel Gallery’s Documents of Contemporary Art book series.
Here’s an excerpt of Fawaz and Getsy’s conversation, conducted over email in December, about Hanson’s Bluto series and their multiple variations of interpretations,
David Getsy: …I’ll dive in and say that — whatever else they do — Hanson’s paintings immediately jumped out at me as a queer struggle with deep psychic attachments. They pore attention and affection on the villainized figure of Bluto, and it’s hard to decide when looking at the paintings (especially all together) where the love ends and where the misgivings start. The erotic pull of Bluto’s exaggerations is evident throughout even the most abstracting of Hanson’s paintings. Interwoven with this, however, is a critical and skeptical understanding of the limits of Bluto’s overplayed and phobically clichéd performance of masculinity. But isn’t that already part of Bluto’s role in the Popeye cartoons? For all the antagonism of Bluto, he is always needed by Popeye as the foil for the different version of masculinity that Popeye is understood to perform. What do we make of this preening bully?
Ramzi Fawaz: I think what is revealed in this series is that the the love and the misgiving we have toward Bluto’s “phobically clichéd performance of masculinity” are precisely the same thing. In these paintings, Hanson puts his finger on a sort of melancholic attachment that both gay men and the society at large have to the figure of hyper-masculinity — that ideal that both magnetizes our desire and constantly hurts us, reminding us we are never enough (never big enough, powerful enough, strong enough to be “real” men or desirable to those men who seemingly fit the ideal). We (both the particular subculture of gay men, but also a patriarchal culture as a whole) “love” men—some of us pursue them erotically, others symbolically or behaviorally worship at their imputed power—but that love is often exactly what undermines our own self-image, promotes rigid gender norms, and reproduces patriarchy.
Part of the brilliance of these pieces, to my mind, is that they capture both what is so erotically appealing about Bluto—his baldly brutish masculinity—but also what is so tragic about his version of manliness, while never feeling sorry for, or making Bluto into a martyr. Bluto is wounded throughout the series, beaten up, given a black eye, made vulnerable to the erotic gaze, but he is not merely an icon of wounded masculinity. Rather his form of masculinity is painful, these images tell us. It wounds us all. And yet, we keep looking. We keep replaying that version of manliness in countless iterations. What exactly is the effect of this endless repetition, the variation on a theme, or ceaseless unfolding of Bluto into a seemingly indefinite future?
DG: Repetition is the key to these paintings, and it’s no surprise that when Hanson started showing them to people he aimed for a sort of visual overload. He installed them all clustered and stacked together as a means to reinforce and demonstrate his serial practice of grappling with this image. Hanson has talked about how the character of Bluto was both fascinating and fear-inducing, and it became a capacitating image for homoerotic investment and for anxieties about the queer transgression of normativity. Bluto was a conflicted model for his desire and adolescent relationship to gender. Returning to this stereotype in adulthood, Hanson has wrestled with its continued power even as he recognizes all that there is to criticize about it. Repetition is the form that this agonism has taken.
RF: Hanson’s obsessive repetition of Bluto, and the minute variations in his appearance, speaks to that very singular or particular experience of a reader—perhaps a young boy who will develop an erotic attachment to other boys, or a tomboy (or perhaps transgender girl) who identifies with a powerful male physique, or a wife who projects her husband, or a fantasized lover, onto Bluto, and on and on. Hanson’s expansion of the series into a range of iconic comics scenarios, including the explosive battle clouds where stars, fists, arms, and legs fly outward from a ball of dust indicating a fight sequence, the beach scenes in which Popeye and Bluto lay out on the sand, at times relaxing, at other times displaying their bodies, reminds us of the countless images and icons that comics offered readers to which they might attach their expanding fantasies.
As the tragic muscle queen Malone famously states in Andrew Holleran’s 1978 gay literary classic Dancer from the Dance, “given enough time, everyone will sleep with everyone else”; and so too, given enough space, a sequence can account for, or represent, every desiring possibility.
Hanson’s Two Years of Bluto runs through March 23, 2018 at Marlborough Contemporary in New York.
(Photos, courtesy Erik Hanson)
Tags: Erik Hanson, Bluto, art, artist, Two Years of Bluto, Marlborough Contemporary, painting, quuer, gay, homoerotic art, paintings, Popeye, cartoon
Ellsworth Kelly’s work reduces perfectly to stamp size
HERE'S HOW ART DIRECTOR DERRY NOYES TURNS ICONIC ARTWORK INTO STAMPS...
Stamp with artworks are the mini-curatorial work of Derry Noyes, a longtime art director for the USPS. For nearly 40 years, she’s created tributes to some of the biggest names in art and design: Alexander Calder, Georgia O’Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi, Ellsworth Kelly, Charles and Ray Eames… and there list goes on and on.
The Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee (CSAC) is a 12-person panel composed of historians, educators, designers, and others who determine the subjects for each year’s crop of stamps. According to Noyes who served on the board first, is to,
“Pick a broad spectrum that reflects American history, pop culture, people, events—to try to get a good balance for each year.”
Some are harder sells than others to the CSAC, but new stamps released last year of Ellsworth Kelly’s work (above) sailed right through,
“This art is so well-suited for stamps. It reduces down beautifully. The simplicity of the forms and the bright colors and the crispness of it all, it’s just made for stamp size.
When you reduce art down, it can get very muddled, sort of fussy. It doesn’t look well at a tiny size, whereas it looks great as a poster.
Your eye gets better and better at figuring out what is going to work and what isn’t at this little one-inch scale.”
One piece of the stamp-making process that’s gotten much trickier over the years is getting legal approval to use particular images. But his particular set was helped along by the late artist’s husband and director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation, photographer Jack Shear, who was able to grant them the permissions needed.
“It’s unusual, now, to have 10 different stamps pass through all the legal hurdles that we have. We didn’t have to go through the layers and layers of different estates and different families.”
Noyes has also been involved in a range of projects, besides fine art over the years, directing series on endangered species, children’s book characters, American ballet, and lacemaking.
“To be given subjects that you know absolutely nothing about is fun, because you delve into finding out about people that you never would have been exploring otherwise. And that’s sort of a lesson in American history in a funny way. I’ve learned a lot of history by designing stamps over the years.”
Her father, Eliot Noyes, was a well-known modernist architect and industrial designer who ran in the same circles as Calder, Marcel Breuer, and Philip Johnson and as a child, Noyes met Calder. His sculpture Black Beast stood in her family’s courtyard and Charles and Ray Eames were close family friends. Noyes even worked on a stamp commemorating her father’s work, as part of a series honoring pioneers of American industrial design.
“That’s actually been the total plus of this job for me—the timing of these things, and being able to work on something that has such a personal connection. It’s still fun working on the ones you have absolutely no connection to, but that was just an added delight.”
Letter-writing and snail mail in general has waned over the years. But, Noyes says,
“We are still at it. There are enough people out there using the mail that we’ll keep making these little pieces of art.”
(Image courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service; via Artsy)
Tags: art, sesign, Derry Noyes, USPS, stampas, artists, Ellsworth Kelly, Philip Johnson, Calder, Eames, Noguchi
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PNS Azmat Launched, First ZDK-03 AEW & CS For PAF Airborne
The Pakistan Navy’s Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Noman Bashir was the Chief Guest on September 20 at the launching ceremony of the first of two FAC-Ms being built for the Pakistan Navy at China’s Xingang Shipyard in Tianjin on September 20. Each FAC-M, displacing 260 tonnes and armed with four C-802A anti-ship cruise missiles, is manned by a crew complement of 20.—Prasun K. Sengupta
how many of these will pn get
wasnt pn abt to get type022?
PN will receive two of these, plus two Type 022 Hobei-class FAC-Ms for protecting the approaches to Gwadar from the Straits of Hormuz, plus four stealthy 1,500-tonne littoral combatant vessels also designed by China, and the two Jinkai-class FFGs (525 and 526) on a 10-year lease.
i think you conveniently forgot to mention that it was designed by Pakistan Navy School of Logistics and Management, Bahria University and Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNS Jauhar)...
Anurag said...
@Prasun,any news on the Sudarshan LGB kit??Last year it was reported to be successfully tested from a IAF Jaguar with 5 m CEP and IAF cleared it for production.So,has it entered into production or still under testing??
PLEASE try to reply.
The ship lacks basic Air Defense capability like fast guns or short range missile.
Mr Anon Pakistani @10 : 42 AM
If You are an Engineer then YOU must KNOW that making a DESIGN for any
Machinery or Equipment is Just a SIMPLE and BASIC thing
What is IMPORTANT is MANUFACTURING Abilities
Pakistan's Manufacturing Abilities are very RUDIMENTARY
My Dear Indian JINGO Brothers
SHAURYA Missile has been Test
Fired Successfully
An article on Global proliferation of missile tech would be nice.
The KH55 obtained by china(C 602) and Iran,How did Tehran and Beijing benefit from KH55s delivered to it?
You mentioned Brahmos II hypersonic missile not an operational reqmnt.So whhy is GOI pursuing this?What will this do in an operational scenario that Brahmos I would not do apart from hypersonic speed? Is it an effort to advance cruise missille tech and graduate to next level?
anon@4.22
Hahaha it's not that we can't build a simple gunboat when we are building Agosts Submarines.The problem is cost.we can outsource construction to china and have it built there at a fraction of the cost compared to pakistan, where wages are higher considering most pakistanis are well educated and hence expect more salary.its just like intel, not that americans don't have any capability of making intel chips, but get it manufactured in china due to the cost advantage. even america acknowledges this but india still thinks its manufacturing is more cost effective than Chinas...and by the way if its so easy to design a warship i wonder why india had to buy even Super Dvoras from Israel. Ok and cut the crap about Shivalik, it is a bought off-the-shelf design from Severnoye Design Bureau with active support of Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute andstaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo
To Anon@10.42AM: If the vessel was designed in Pakistan then why is the lead boat being built in China? KSEW have been in a position to built both boats in-country. Leave alone such boats, even the scale-models of such boats are not built in Pakistan, but are bought from a Singapore-based firm. And the photo I've uploaded above was taken in April 2010 at the COSC's booth, and not at KSEW's booth, during the DSA 2010 expo. You're of course free to now accuse COSC of 'stealing' KSEW's design!!!
To Anurag: The LGB kit is still undergoing fine-tuning.
To Austin: The FAC-Ms will have Anza Mk2 MANPADS on board.
To Anon@5.14PM: If according to you China enjoys the cost advantage concerning produced products then why build only one FAC-M in China, and why not both? No one has ever claimed that designing warships is easy and even after a design is complete, it has to be validated by independent consultants. The design bought off-the-shelf you're referring to concerns the AOPVs to be built by Pipavav Shipyard, and not the Project 17 Shivalik-class FFGs. And lastly, India has not only bought much smaller-sized vessels from Israel, but also from France, Greece and now from Sri Lanka. It has nothing to do with vessel design or construction. It is all about capacity generation within a short span of time.
Confusion over specs
Mr Sengupta,
it's seems there is a lot of confusion over the precise specifications of the PNS Azmat and her possible sisters.
Some Pakistani media sources listed the crew complement at 12-14 which would put it at roughly the same requirements as the Type-022 class rather than the new design you showed.
http://paktribune.com/news/Pak-Navy-Fast-Attack-Craft-launched-243804.html
This defensenews article claims its a "heavy" missile boat displacing over 500 tonnes-
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=7742911&c=SEA&s=TOP
The defensenews article can be corroborated by the fact that the Pakistanis had tendered to buy a pair of big missile boats a year or so ago.
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/09/chinese-500-ton-fac-for-pakistan.html
what kind of guidance system is present on pinaka mbrl ??
is it true that pinaka rockets have a cep of about 400-500mtrs...???
why gps guidence is not used on pinaka rockets ??
any update on tejas mk2 and arjun mk2 ??
plzz do upload the pics as soon as u r allowed to.....
sir how many variants of insas are actually present in service....the ofb site shows a lot of insas variants.....namely assault rifle , standard rifle , ex calibur , kalantak , amogh carbine , modern submachine carbine (MSMC)
so how many of the above are in service actually ???
Mr. Ra said...
The Shourya missile tested today was picked up from the production lot.
Please inform in what manner our defense preparedness needs to be improved, with the inclusion of fast attack PNS Azmat like stealthy featured crafts by Pakistan.
I have a couple of questions regarding choppers.
I thought the ALH Dhruv was specifically developed for high altitude areas as a replacemnt for the Cheetahs and Chetaks. Then why does the 114 HU in Leh still use Cheetahs? Also if the ALH replaces the Cheetahs and Chetaks what role will the 197 Light copters to be ordered as well as the LUH play?
To Anon@5.55PM: The photos released thus far of the first FAC-M clearly bear a strong resemblance to the one I’ve posted above and it proves beyond doubt that these FAC-Ms are not catamarans like the Type 022 Hobei-class. Nor will they displace 600 tonnes each. The heavy missile boat report is erroneous, as are the tender specs quoted by the DEFENSE NEWS report. The two Type 022 Hobei-class catamarans will be acquired off-the-shelf, with no licence-assembly being done by KSEW. The next shipbuilding JV between KSEW and COSC will produce 1,500-tonne stealthy littoral combatant vessels.
To Anon@7.32PM: The existing rockets fired by the Pinaka MBRL system have on them the TCS. Read this for more info on TCS: http://www.imi-israel.com/home/doc.aspx?mCatID=68414
For ensuring land navigation & north-pointing accuracy for the Pinaka MBRL’s launch vehicle, use is made of the Sigma-30 INS (read this: http://www.sagem-ds.com/spip.php?rubrique111)
To Mr.RA: The Pakistan Navy’s FAC-Ms—whether mono-hulled vessels or Type 022 Hobei-class catamarans--can each carry only four C-802A ASCMs, not eight. Such vessels are normally for coastal patrol and are easily detected by maritime reconnaissance aircraft and MALE-UAVs like the Searcher Mk2 and Heron-1. Nothing to be worried about, since these FAC-Ms are used only for littoral warfare and that too when operating in and around coves like the ones in the Andaman & Nicobar Island chains and the Spratlys/Paracels. Therefore, I wouldn’t lose any sleep over the existence of such FAC-Ms in my neighbourhood. In case such vessels are employed for offensive purposes, the FAC-Ms will be easily detected by the coastal surveillance radars that will soon dot the coastlines of Gujarat and Saurashtra. Furthermore, since these FAC-Ms do not possess an appreciable degree of integral air-defence cover, they will never venture beyond the maritime surveillance coverage provided by the PN’s P-3C Orions or Saab 2000 AEW & Cs. Thus, the FAC-Ms will be restricted to only within Pakistan’s territorial waters. Therefore, in the event of a future round of hostilities, one of the first tasks of the Indian Navy will be to render inoperable the two/three air bases housing the P-3Cs and Saab 2000 AEW & C platforms in Sindh and Baluchistan, by employing vertically-launched BrahMos Block-2 land attack cruise missiles. A salvo of 16 such missiles fired by no more than two Kashin 2-class DDGs will suffice. Only after this has been done will the Indian Navy’s carrier-based battle group will be able to commence its tactical manoeuvres along a west-to-east ‘sweep’ axis starting from the Gulf of Hormuz, then locating the shore-based land-mobile C-602 anti-ship cruise missile launchers (and their 120 missiles) with the help of MiG-29Ks and neutralising them. At the same time the Ka-31s employed for AEW plus the P-8I LRMR/ASW platforms will also be able to locate and track the offshore targets like FAC-Ms and FFGs and neutralise them with Kh-59ME air-launched anti-ship cruise missiles. All this can be achieved within a 7-day period. The challenge can be met militarily, but the main stumbling block will be political: will the GoI allow the Indian Navy to fight without its hands tied? Will the GoI be able to withstand the enormous pressure that will be applied by an OIC led by Saudi Arabia (as was the case in mid-1999) to spare Pakistan’s maritime lifelines? It would appear that, based on past events in 1999 and 2002, the GoI has traditionally shied away from taking the correct and tough decisions when they were needed most.
To Anon@10.47PM: Let’s first get the physics right. A twin-engined light medium-lift helicopter can never replace a single-engined light utility helicopter. The twin-engined Dhruv ALH was never developed to replace the single-engined SA.315B Lama/Cheetah or SA.316B Alouette III/Chetak. Even though the Dhruv ALH and the to-be-acquired single-engined LUH are optimised for high-altitude flight operations, their mission profiles are different and are used for different purposes. It is the to-be-acquired single-engined LUHs that will replace the Cheetahs and Chetaks. But having said that, the re-engined Cheetal and Chetan variants of the Cheetah and Chetak still have a lot of life left in them (for at least another 15 years) and can therefore be gainfully employed by the likes of the BSF and ITBP. In fact, HAL and Alpha Technologies Pvt Ltd have together developed ultra-light avionics packages for these venerable machines, including AMLCD cockpit displays, comms radios, and radar warning receivers coupled with countermeasures dispensers. It needs to be borne in mind that even Central Armed Police Forces like the BSF and ITBP have helicopter-based air support demands that need to be met urgently.
Shree said...
Any news on the status of Supersonic ALCM jointly developed with Israel.
Could you give its specifications?How much of it will be indigenous?
We buy a lot of stuff from Israel but what we most need to buy from that small country is its GUTS ... I am not saying that we dont have it but how much of it we posses will be seen in our actions in south chini sea after the warning from chini about oil exploration by ONGC near Vietnam...
what do you think?????????????
agree on the guts point.
as an assumed pacifist nation, self assumed because of the lack of courage, self confidence, and ofcourse the wherewithal to otherwise, we always shied away from that 4 letter word. for a small country it is an existential problem, while for us it is a matter of integrity which we rarely bother.
But regarding the s.china sea incident, the chinese did what they had to do. They claim the area and they donot want it to be gone unopposed to any contestant. If they allow one exploration it will become an excuse for 10 such.
But our reaction is not what it should have been. Opposing a giant in its backyard needs the thing you mentioned..guts. Nor do we have the resources to open conflict with china and get the exploration continuing. Neither Vietnam nor India has the capability to keep the project ongoing if china opposes it by teeth. if an untoward incident happens around that it will be a moral backlash to India and its ambitions in ASEAN. we are giving China a chance to give us a blow like 61.
such rhetoric can only be made if we have the guts to confront china in Indian ocean, a kind of stalemate, and it is a million dollar question which any one can win that whether we do have such capabily.
going to strategic partnership with Vietnam is one thing while putting your billions open for an enemy to blow you is another. open a conflict with a bigger enemy only when you have a chance to win, otherwise you will be fighting an already lost battle.
May be Prasunda can have a take on this.
To Shree & Anon@1.31AM: Prudence suggests that India refrain from any kind of oil exploration activities in the South China Sea until the binding code of conduct is formalised between China and ASEAN. That is the only realistic course of action available right now.
As for importing GUTS, this virtue used to exist in India since tens of thousands of years ago and was correctly and judiciously put to use under the overall concept of Dharamyudha, or righteous war. Regretably, since the previous century this concept has been maligned, corrupted and superceded by the doctrine of non-violence-induced pacifism, which should have no role whatsoever in realpolitik--if common sense and logical reasoning are applied. And after listening to the Indian PM's speech at the UN General Assembly yesterday, it became more than evident that India's decision-making mandarins have chosen to perpetuate their utopian existence by sticking to the descredited concept of pacifism.
Regarding the ALCM, here's the link for specifications: http://livefist.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-look-indias-long-range-cruise.html
The navigation and propulsion systems of the ALCM will be indigenous as the former is already in production for missiles like the BrahMos, Shaurya and Prahaar. Only the two-way data-link plus terminal imaging infra-red seeker as part of the digital scene co-relation matching system will be imported from Israel.
To Shree & Anon@1.31AM: Just try to absorb and analyse the inherent contradictions in the Indian PM’s speech at the UN General Assembly yesterday:
Remark 1: “societies cannot be re-engineered by outsiders”---------But isn’t the India of today itself re-engineered, thanks to invasions staged by the Huns, Kushans, Turks, Mughals and the English over the past millennium? Had the Brits not re-engineered India during their colonization, then today India would in all probability still be using Farsi as the method of instruction instead of English.
Remark 2: “Dr. Singh devoted a substantial part of his speech to addressing the growing reliance on the use of force by Western powers to engage with political conflicts, often legitimised as humanitarian interventions.”------------doesn’t the PM know that this is precisely what India did to the Portuguese in Goa, in Hyderabad in 1961, in East Pakistan in 1971 and Sikkim in 1975? How can the mandarins of the MEA even dream of being so sanctimonious?
Remark 3: “The observance of the rule of law is as important in international affairs as it is within countries. Societies cannot be re-ordered from outside through military force. People in all countries have the right to choose their own destiny and decide their own future.”-------------if indeed that’s the case, then why does India continue to reiterate that the Tibet Autonomous region is an inalienable part of China? Why can’t the Govt of India accord legitimacy to the Dharamsala-based Tibetan Govt-in-Exile?
Remark 4: “The fight against terrorism must be unrelenting. There cannot be selective approaches in dealing with terrorist groups or the infrastructure of terrorism. Terrorism has to be fought across all fronts.”-------------------if that’s indeed the case then why on earth did the PM unilaterally declare in mid-2005 that the peace process between India and Pakistan was irreversible? And does this remark mean that India has forever discarded the option of using offensive military force to reign in a recalcitrant neighbour that is for all intents and purposes a failed state? And if that indeed is the case, are India’s armed forces from now on to be used only for constabulary duties?
Remark 5: “Nuclear proliferation continues to remain a threat to global security. The Action Plan put forward by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi for a Nuclear-Weapon-Free and Non-Violent World provides even today a concrete road map for achieving nuclear disarmament in a time-bound, universal, non-discriminatory, phased and verifiable manner.”----------------Who is the PM of India? Dr MMS or Rajiv Gandhi? Shouldn’t it be rephrased as “the then PM Rajiv Gandhi”?
Needless to say, speeches like these make India look like a fence-sitter, ever willing to avoid taking tough decisions, and turn India into a global laughing stock. Most uninspiring leadership from both regional and national security perspectives, to say the least. The full text of the Indian PM’s speech can be read at: http://www.thehindu.com/news/resources/article2482449.ece
To Shree: This is how India combats Maoist insurgencies nowadays: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/living-in-a-place-unfit-for-humans-a-battalion-revolts/851367/0
To AUSTIN: Read this: http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?278421
so how many of them are in service actually ??
sir are they doing anything to reduce the already huge rcs odf su 30mki in the upcoming upgrades ???
is it true that su 30mki's rcs even from the fronyal sctor is around 15-20mtr sq in when in clean config ???
plzz di give the ans sir....eagerly wwaiting for them....thnks in advance....
are they also going to relive the airframes in the upgrade ??
To Prasun: Thanks , This really shows that its not just MOD but successive Army Chief has played the game like you said before and they have played in Tango with MOD.
Sometimes the script goes wrong and we have VKS like problem but even this phase will pass away and life at MOD will go on as usual.
i read your response to that pak psycho - but what boats are we importing from Ceylon?
btw that analysis to pm's rubbish speech is spot-on. with the support for arab rogue regimes and support for palestine, this italian-bootlicking spineless shemale manmohan is just trying to pander his dear minority (islamist) vote-bank...
Please answer my question
The Shaurya missile will carry ONE Ton Warhead
So If we reduce the warhead weight and in place of a conventional warhead ,
If we use instead A 350 KG Nuclear bomb Then Can its RANGE be increased from 750 KM
"And the photo I've uploaded above was taken in April 2010 at the COSC's booth, and not at KSEW's booth, during the DSA 2010 expo." ===================================
KSEC is the biggest flop of Pakistan and have no right to even have a presence in any show. It has been miserably failed by our hopeless politicians, especially that traitors MQM. Hardly anybody works there, and those who do are all politician's / military personnel relatives. It's agreed and accepted that our shipbuilding facilities are below par.
"If according to you China enjoys the cost advantage concerning produced products then why build only one FAC-M in China, and why not both?"
You yourself answered this question at the end of that very same comment: "It is all about capacity generation within a short span of time."
"No one has ever claimed that designing warships is easy and even after a design is complete" --
Exactly, this is what I said. We lack very modern production facilities (although knowhow exists), but are completely capable of designing ships in this class. The fact is this ship was 90% designed in Pakistan with only powertrain related design and design validation done in China. If you find it hard to swallow, for a starter, Chinese naval engineers learned Tribon M3 and Nupas-Cadmatic from Bahria/PNS Jauhar. Prior to that China had little knowledge on using integrated suites and use to rely on packages of standalone software e.g. Autocad, Tekla etc.
"it has to be validated by independent consultants." --
It was validated in China.
"leave alone such boats, even the scale-models of such boats are not built in Pakistan, but are bought from a Singapore-based firm."
So what are you suggesting now? Singapore designed it? I have in front of me a scale model of a Mazda Tribute that came with my car. It's labelled Made in Taiwan. So I guess my Mazda is a Taiwanese? Or probably an American car since the car itself is built in Claycomo?
"As for importing GUTS, this virtue used to exist in India since tens of thousands of years ago and was correctly and judiciously put to use under the overall concept of Dharamyudha, or righteous war. Regretably, since the previous century this concept has been maligned, corrupted and superceded by the doctrine of non-violence-induced pacifism,"--- GRAND.
is t true that the radar onthe drdo awac's will have a coverage of only 270 degrees instead of 360degrees.....if yes then why , and why was it allowed ???
Plzz shed more light on this radar.
How indigenous awac's are planned for iaf ?? And is true that iaf has asked to look for larger platforms ??
To Anon@11.24AM: AFAIK, the Excalibur , Kalantak , Amogh carbine and modern submachine carbine (MSMC) have not yet entered production. A lot of work has already been done to reduce the Su-30MKI’s RCS characteristics like application of radar-absorbing paint. Whenever any combat aircraft is subjected to a mid-life upgrade, the airframe and engines too are always relifed.
To AUSTIN: That’s right. If at all administrative reforms need to be carried out by the MoD, then such reforms must also make sure that the armed services chiefs do not run their institutions in an autocratic manner, especially with regard to promotions and manipulation of the line of succession. All such practices can and should be done away with and this can be done only if the post of CDS is created without any further delay and then it will be the CDS along with HQ IDS and its CIDS who will then be held accountable as the topmost military advisers to the GoI for all decisions affecting the armed forces.
To Anon@11.55AM: The FACs are for the Sagar Prahari Bal. Read this: http://www.colombopage.com/archive_11A/Jun30_1309443637CH.php
To Anon@2.23PM: Yes.
To Anon@4.44PM: Capacity generation and economies of scale always go hand in hand and therefore construction of both FAC-Ms in China would have been the logical choice since—as you allege—KSEW is not up to the task of warship construction. Building one of each in China and Pakistan does not in any way contribute to capacity generation, but merely provision of jobs/employment opportunities at KSEW. As for Chinese naval architects (not engineers as you’ve stated) learning Tribon M3 and Nupas-Cadmatic from Bahria/PNS Jauhar, as far back as 2004 both CSTC and CSIC were using such CAD software. One can hardly expect one of the world’s top three shipbuilding nation to seek Pakistan’s help in mastering CAD/CAM applications. And if as you claim it was Pakistan teaching China the art of ship-design CAD usage, then logically the design validation would have to be done by a third party, since China could not have achieved proficiency in usage of Tribon M3 and Nupas-Cadmatic CAD tools within such a short timeframe. Your claims are therefore laughable at best and highly mischievous at worst. Lastly, I’m not suggesting or insinuating anything of the type that your wild imaginations have conjured up, rather I’m just stating facts.
To Anon@5.33PM: Yes, the IAF wants and has larger AEW & C platforms. In addition to the three received so far, the IAF has ordered two more A-50I platforms. As for the indigenous AEW & CS, go to: http://trishul-trident.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-spectrum-hawk-eyes.html
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_11A/Jun30_1309 - page is not viewable sir..
Try these: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-01/india/29725794_1_coastal-security-kochi-and-port-blair-sagar-prahari-bal
http://www.domain-b.com/defence/sea/indian_navy/20110701_lankan_firm_oneView.html
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Blending Science and Art: Experimentation at The Storey Today
A unique arts event - "Constants & Variables - as Part of the Understanding The Ritual Exhibition" - takes place at The Storey today (Friday 26th June) from noon, featuring the work of Adam York Gregory and Gillian Jane Lees.
Gillian has created a pattern, cut and sewn a dress from paper. Adam has created ink using candles, gum arabic and water. Wearing the white paper dress and using a metal teaspoon, Gillian will transfer twenty full vials, across her lap, into twenty empty vials.
The task is complete once all the ink has been transferred from one set of glass vials to the other. each drop spilled represents a degree of failure, indelibly marked and recorded on the white paper.
By their very presence, the audience will be recorded as variables in this performative experiment.
Gillian Jane Lees is the co-artistic director of Proto-type and a freelance performer and collaborator. Adam York Gregory is a scientist, visual artist and film maker.
Together their practice seeks to explore the notion of 'the imagined ideal' through subjective performance, objective experimentation, documentation and observation.
• "Constants & Variables - as Part of the Understanding The Ritual Exhibition" 12 – 6.00pm, The Storey Gallery Friday 26th June 2015.
• You can see more of Gillian and Adam's work at www.aworkinghypothesis.co.uk
Roseacre Wood shale gas application refused
Members of Lancashire County Council's Development Control Committee (DCC) have voted to refuse the application by oil and gas company Cuadrilla to explore for shale gas at Roseacre Wood by drilling, hydraulically fracking and testing the flow of gas.
The application for Roseacre Wood was recommended for refusal for the following reason:
"The proposed development would be contrary to Policy DM2 of the Joint Lancashire Minerals and Waste Local Plan – Site Allocation and Development Management Policies in that it would generate an increase in traffic, particularly HGV movements, that would result in an unacceptable impact on the rural highway network and on existing road users, particularly vulnerable road users and a reduction in overall highway safety that would be severe."
The committee approved a separate application for the same site to enable Cuadrilla to monitor its operations. The monitoring arrays are designed to monitor seismic movement and water quality. The approval is subject to conditions controlling time limits, working programme, site operations, times and hours of working, highway matters, protection of public rights of way, drainage, noise, protection of trees, ecological and archaeological protection, restoration and aftercare.
The full reports relating to the applications can be viewed on the Lancashire County Council website.
County Councillor Marcus Johnstone, cabinet member for environment, planning and cultural services, and member of the DCC, said:
"The Development Control Committee has listened very carefully to many hours of evidence both for and against the proposal, and considered the report of the council's planning officers. The decision to refuse this application has been reached by a vote of the committee, and each member of the committee has ultimately cast their vote based on the evidence they have heard and whether they think the proposal is acceptable."
The DCC will meet again on Monday 29 June at 10am to continue the hearing on Cuadrilla's application for exploratory fracking at Preston New Road. This was deferred yesterday to enable members to consider legal advice regarding the Lancashire Minerals and Waste Plan policy CS5, which deals with the sustainable production of minerals.
Frack Free Lancashire, Friends of the Earth, 38 Degrees and Greenpeace are calling for support for a "Don't Frack Lancs! Rally in Preston!" from 9am outside County Hall on Monday. You can find out more about it on their facebook event page.
Labels: Cuadrilla, fracking applications, Lancashire County Council, Preston New Road, Roseacre Wood
Fracking decision deferred until Monday as Council hustled by corporate lawyers
Demonstrators outside County Hall today
Photo by Miles Newman
Members of Lancashire County Council's Development Control Committee have voted to defer consideration of applications relating to a site at Preston New Road, Little Plumpton, until 10am on Monday 29 June 2015.
The deferral will give councillors time to consider written legal advice requested during today's meeting.
The written legal advice will be shared with the committee at the beginning of Thursday's meeting (10am, 25 June, 2015), which will then continue with its scheduled agenda, to consider applications to explore for shale gas at Roseacre Wood, by drilling, hydraulically fracking and testing the flow of gas, and for monitoring their operations.
The advice will then be published on the county council's website, via a link from its planning page www.lancashire.gov.uk/planning.
Crowds of protesters came by coach, train and tractor convoy to demonstrate their opposition to Cuadrilla's applications for exploratory fracking at Preston New Road and at Roseacre Wood.
Despite overwhelming regional and national opposition to fracking, the Council has been threatened publicly and privately by political and business interests. The government has made changes in legislation eroding the powers of the local authority to protect local communities from damaging developments, prioritising the interests of business over democracy or public welfare.
So, from the day that Cuadrilla set its sights on Lancashire, it was always going to be an expensive business to defend the county against a company with the government in its pocket.
As Chancellor George Osborne's leaked email made clear, it was always going to be the case that if Cuadrilla's applications were declined, Cuadrilla would appeal and the regulatory framework would be modified as necessary to allow the Secretary of State to recover and allow the applications. If this was not threat enough, it now seems that there is an implied threat that Cuadrilla may use ISDS legislation to sue the Council if it should have the temerity to do the job it was elected to do.
The council faces a difficult decision which will be costly whatever is decided. But if fracking is refused, the damage is recoverable. If it goes ahead, the damage will blight the region for generations to come.
Every generation has its predatory forces to face and its battles to fight. This is ours.
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Local Cinema Round-Up for the 24th June to 2nd July 2015
This week sees four new films arriving at the local cinemas. We have comedy animation with the much anticipated Minions (U) and comedy drama with Queen and Country (12A). Science fiction adventure somes with Terminator Genisys (12A) and finally there is the romance/horror/Iranian cowboy A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
Unfortunately the region has lost the horror film Insidious: Chapter 3. Also it is looking like the films Mad Max: Fury Roadand Pitch Perfect 2 may soon be coming to the end of screening. However we do see the return for just one showing of the The Water Diviner.
There are three offerings of music this week. We have Take That at the O2 (encore); the documentary Heaven Adores Youabout the singer-songwriter Elliott Smith and Amy Winehouse with AMY gala. Also, for one day only, there is a screeing of English National Opera: Carmen.
The main offering of laughter this week comes with the delightful Minions. Other comedies are Entourage; Moomins on the Riviera and Pitch Perfect 2. For drama there is Jurassic World; The Longest Ride; San Andreas and the excellent Mr. Holmes.
One film of note is Audrey Hepburn's Funny Face, being screened as part of the Journey Cafe series, helping people with memory problems.
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Cast includes: Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan, B.D. Wong, Chris Pratt
This is the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park series and the best of the sequels. Jurassic World is a theme park in Costa Rica that has been open for some two decades. However visitors are starting to get bored with the sight of tame dinosaurs. Hence, their lab has been using genetic techniques to create a real monster dinosaur, Indominus Rex, to rekindle interest. The park is managed by Claire Dearing (Howard) and Owen Grady (Pratt) is an animal behaviourist working with the Dinosaurs. On the day that Claire brings her two nephews to the park the Indominus Rex escapes. She must work with Owen to save her nephews and save the day. The movie has number of fine action pieces though the action gets in the way of character development. Also there is a romance element between Claire and Owen. The dialogue in not always believable, but there are jokes and the film pays homage to the original Jurassic Park. For an audience not yet jaded by dinosaur action, this is an entertaining action film.
Director: Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda
Certificate: U
Cast Includes: Sandra Bullock, Michael Keaton, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Saunders.
The film is both a spin off and a prequel to the Despicable Me franchise. The Minions have always existed on earth and the movie begins by tracing their evolution. They have the purpose of serving the most despicable of masters though not very successfully. The race finally retired to the Antarctic where they fare badly. Hence Minions Kevin, Stuart and Bob decide to seek a new master for their race to work for. In a villain convention in Orlando they decide to serve the supervillain Scarlet Overkill (Bullock) who is planning to overthrow the Queen of England. The film, using skits and Musical numbers expands on this plot. The Minions were the best part of the Despicable Me franchise and so it is fitting that they have their own film. The movie is very entertaining, inoffensive and funny and will delight all ages. However this reviewer would have liked more minions and fewer supervillains.
Director: Bill Condon
Certificate: PC
Cast includes: Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Milo Parker.
A Sherlock Holmes film that is loosely based on Mitch Cullin's 2005 novel 'A slight trick of the Mind'. Holmes is aged 93 and has retired to the Devon coast where he lives with a housekeeper Mrs Munro (Linney) and her son Roger (Parker). His passion is now bee keeping. His memory is fading and Holmes suspects he is succumbing to dementia. He is unhappy with the way he has been portrayed in Watson's accounts of his famous adventures and wishes to address this by writing his own account of one of his cases. The film is much slower than the portrayal of Holmes in recent TV series and Holmes himself has a more fragile and human character. Much of the sequences in the film are flashbacks and McKellen makes a superb Sherlock Holmes. An excellent film.
Pitch Perfect 2
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Cast includes: Anna Kendrick, Elizabeth Banks, Rebel Wilson, Adam DeVine, Brittany Snow
A sequel to the the 2012 movie 'Pitch Perfect' with many of the cast from the previous movie continuing with their roles. The Bellas are an a cappella singing group at Barden University who have previously won a national competition. A hilarious 'wardrobe malfunction' during a performance means the group will be disbanded unless they can redeem themselves by winning the world a cappella tournament in Holland. This requires beating their rivals, a techno group called Das Sound Machine. This is one of the better teen movies and is the highest grossing musical comedy. A worthy successor to the original film.
Director: Brad Payton
Cast Includes: Dwane Johnson, Carla Guging, Ioan Gruffudd, Alexandra Daddario, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Art Parkinson
A magnitude nine earthquake hits California, demolishing Los Angeles and San Francisco. Chief Ray Gaines (Johnson), a pilot working for the LA Fire Department, rescues his estranged wife Emma (Gugino) from a crumbling building. The the two of them fly to San Francisco to save their daughter Blake (Daddario). Blake meanwhile been rescued by an engineer Ben (Johnstone-Burt) and his brother Ollie (Art Parkinson). This is a feel good disaster movie, following the lives of a half dozen people against the backdrop of a devastating series of earthquakes. There is impressive CGI footage of levelled cities and widespread destruction. Also we have fine acting from Daddario and Johnson, the latter playing his archetypal action character with a soupcon of humour. A proficient and watchable film.
Cast includes: Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Jude Law, Rose Byrne
Susan Cooper (McCarthy) is a CIA agent who works at a desk. However her partner Bradley Fine (Law) is assassinated in the field whilst another agent Richard Ford (Statham) is compromised. Despite lack of practical experience, Cooper volunteers to go underground and infiltrate the network of the arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Byrne) in order to avenge Fine's death. In truth the plot does not really matter in this film, simply enjoy it as a tremendous send up of spy movies. McCarthy brings all her comedic talents to bear in this spoof and Statham also sends up his usual macho roles. Great performances, great comedy.
The Water Diviner
Director: Russell Crowe
Cast Includes: Russell Crowe, Isabel Lucas
Joshua Connor (Crowe) is an Australian farmer, water diviner and greiving father. He lost his three sons in the First World War Battle of Gallipoli and after a four years period he decides to travel to Turkey to locate their bodies. In doing so he comes to terms with the Turks as he finds obstacles to be overcome in getting to the battlefield. This is Crowe's first experience as a director and the result is a sombre but beautiful film, well acted and with a strong anti war message.
Review: Haffner Orchestra
Haffner Orchestra
In the Ashton Hall, Lancaster
Reviewed by Henry Prince
Haffner Orchestra, Ashton Hall, Lancaster
One of the great joys of attending a live orchestral concert is that not only does one hear the music and feel the atmosphere, one can also ‘see’ the music. Many listeners may not be aware, for example, that the soloist’s first note of the Elgar cello concerto is accompanied. Despite hearing the work many times in radio or television broadcasts or seeing it played on DVD and on YouTube, unless one has access to the score, that fact can be easily missed because it is hidden by the visual attention normally devoted exclusively to the soloist. In fact the low strings supply the root in the opening E minor chord, the solo cello sounding the same note unaccompanied only in the second statement of the chord.
Other examples of the value of ‘seeing’ the music occurred in the opening Larghetto. The first note of the movement is an open-string G marked piano for first violins. Only a visual observer could have experienced the effort that was exerted by the section in preparing to play that first quiet sound perfectly. Another example: when the low strings at one point take a break from playing and bows go down, the listener is immediately alerted to pay closer attention to the exquisite three-part ensemble of first and second violins and violas. There were many such visual nuggets to be found in the performance.
It must be daunting to play the Elgar cello concerto. Surely there is always the risk that any deviation from the well-known Du Pré recording will be considered unacceptable. Thank you for your bravery, Megan Rolf. Your performance was wonderful. You and the orchestra seemed to inspire each other to give your best. Everything was solid: strings, wind, soloist.
The second half of the concert was given over entirely to Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony—a massive work stuffed full of contrasts and climaxes. By the time Beethoven was writing it in the early years of the 19th century, all the tools ever to be required by him or any other future composer had already been invented and were in the bag. During his lifetime, Beethoven used them all and employed quite a large number of them (maybe all) in this work alone. Key change, imitation, homophony, polyphony, fugue, theme and variation, AB form, augmentation, diminution—everything is there. The compositional device he preferred, however, was the sonata form element known as ‘development’.
Beethoven could develop any motif, however unsuitable it might seem. The Eroica is one huge swimming pool of developing themes. Trying to spot them all is hugely entertaining. Beethoven loved to pluck a passing rhythm or group of notes and blow it up like a toy balloon almost to bursting point, only to let it go and look for another to play with. Whereas the Classical composer kept the development section neatly boxed between exposition and recapitulation, Beethoven seemed to delight in seeing how much music he could wring out of as little material as possible.
Of course, the listener does not need to be aware of all the compositional games going on to enjoy the exciting sounds coming from the concert platform. But occasionally a little knowledge is needed to avoid being tricked by the composer. The programme note drew attention to the fact that critics at the first performance wrote that the horn had commenced the recapitulation section in the first movement a bar or so early. It certainly sounded that way on Saturday but we all knew that it was only Beethoven’s little joke.
The members of the orchestra clearly enjoyed the Eroica enormously, as did the house. What a pleasure to see so many smiling faces! The orchestra believed it had done well and the audience agreed.
Megan Rolf and Bob Chasey
It is always well worth the effort to arrive a little early in order to hear the customary pre-concert talk. It is then that the listener has the opportunity to be made aware of what to listen for in the performance. In my on-going quest to find a rational explanation for why this orchestra, of which I continue to be a patron, seems to have improved every time I hear it, I took a mental note of two points made, respectively, by soloist Megan Rolf and conductor Bob Chasey. The first was that the player had observed that the members of the orchestra did not cocoon themselves in their individual parts but instead looked up and engaged with the whole of the performance. The other point was that the conductor’s job was not to entertain the audience but to facilitate the performers.
Putting the two pre-concert-talk points together with the fact that, as I learned later, the orchestra had been encouraged to play without a conductor at times during rehearsals, it seems to this reviewer that the players’ potential is simply being released little by little. Under a conductor who is able to harness that collective capability, this orchestra cannot help but continue to get better and better.
H. Prince
Haffner Orchestra’s website: http://www.haffnerorchestra.org
Concert Programme:
Elgar: Larghetto from Serenade for Strings
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 (Eroica)
Tickets were priced: Adults £13.50, Concessions £12.50, 18 and under free
Next Haffner Orchestra concert: Saturday, 28 November 2015, Great Hall, Lancaster University
Labels: Haffner Orchestra, Henry Prince, Music, Review
National demonstrations in Preston this week as Council decides fracking applications
Lancashire County councillors have been receiving messages from all over the world urging them to reject Cuadrilla's applications for fracking exploration at their meetings this week.
The New York State legislature outlawed fracking last December. Last week, 850 of the state's current and former elected politicians have written a letter to Lancashire's councillors asking them to note the findings of a two-year study by New York State Department of Public Health. With regard to the industry's claims that it would bring jobs to the region they stated:
"We are sure that the fracking industry will promise jobs and prosperity. We urge you to treat these claims with deep skepticism. The experience in the U.S. is that these claims are false and vastly overstated. Meanwhile, local communities are faced with significant costs including road and infrastructure damage, emergency response, heightened crime rates, and lingering contamination and pollution. Additionally, fracking threatens to negatively affect existing economic sectors. Like Lancashire, New York has strong agriculture and tourism sectors. We believe that fracking would put these at risk.
"To safeguard the county’s economy and environment, and to protect the health of its citizens, we urge you to say no to fracking in Lancashire."
Legal pressure
Tomorrow, Tuesday 23 June, the council will begin deciding Caudrilla's application to frak at Preston New Road, with a decision expected on Wednesday. The Council's Officers have recommended conditional approval for this application. At a previous meeting they recommended that the application be rejected, but a panel of lawyers from Cuadrilla persuaded them to defer the decision to give Cuadrilla time to amend its application.
Furthermore, the Council was reminded by a pro-fracking central government of limitations to its powers, and the possibility of these being further limited by future legislation planned to ease the way for fracking companies. (See previous news item: "Fracking battle heats up: leaked Osborne letter shows plan to force permits through"
In keeping with the legal tone of the debate, the officers' recommendation for approval comes with 48 conditions, 44 of which must be met prior to any development taking place. However, the region is overwhelmingly opposed to fracking so, although onerous, these conditions, designed to cover the council's back, don't come close to reflecting the wishes or the welfare of the region, but do serve to illustrate the very heavy levels of pressure being brought to bear on the both officers and elected councillors from a government made up of politicians with strong personal financial interests in the oil and gas industry.
Smear Campaign
Complaints have been lodged against the officers' reports' 'smear campaign' against expert witnesses. David Smythe, emeritus professor of geophysics at the University of Glasgow, submitted written evidence to the council on what he saw as the risk of fracking to water pollution in the Fylde. He also gave a 30-minute presentation at a pre-meeting of the committee last week. The planning officers’ report said of Professor Smythe: “Comments that the geology of Lancashire is not suitable for fracking have been provided by a professor who retired 18 years ago and is now living in France running a B&B. Evidence in the US and UK is to the contrary.“ This statement was “a calculated denigration of an expert witness”, Professor Smythe said. He said he took early retirement from the chair of Geophysics at Glasgow 16 years ago and then spent about 10 years consulting for oil companies throughout the world. (His wife, not he, runs a B&B).
Other expert witnesses have also been denigrated in a manner generally considered inappropriate for a planning report. Human rights lawyer, Damien Short, was concerned about the democratic process of previous Council meetings in which he noted that Cuadrilla always was given the opportunity to speak last, and thus their words where always the last the council heard, with no opportunity given to rebut inaccurate of misleading statements.
On Thursday 25 June the Council will consider Cuadrilla's application to frack at Roseacre Wood, with a decision expected on Friday. Officers have recommended that this application be refused.
Labour MP for Lancaster & Wyre Cat Smith has set up a petition calling on councillors to reject the applications, citing serious environmental and health concerns and warning that 'A green light for fracking could open the floodgates for applications in Lancaster and Morecambe'.
Demonstrations planned
Protesters are expected from across the UK from Tuesday to Friday with Green Party leader Natalie Bennet joining them outside County Hall on Wednesday to add her support to the anti-fracking demonstrations.
Council officers have warned of 'potential disruption', leading Green Councillor Gina Dowding to point out that this would be insignificant compared to the disruption planned by Cuadrilla 'who, if granted their applications, will disrupt the quiet lanes of rural Lancashire for years on end, threaten our clean source of water, risk polluting our air and ride rough-shod over our local communities; all for a quick buck that that will add to carbon emissions and will not solve our long term need for sustainable energy."
Lancaster contingent
Lancastrians intending to join the protesters will be travelling to Preston together on Tuesday morning on the 8.28am train from Lancaster Train Station, meeting on the platform at 8.15am.
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Access All Scareas!
On the 28th October the studio did an event called "Access All Scareas" which was a Halloween themed evening, the studio and the members to the studio really put so much effort into this night, and as someone who attended this evening, I can say that they're effort and hard work was well placed.
On the big stage there was fog, and Halloween themed lights, there were decorations, webs and pictures of ghosts. There were four acts who played at the event, Me, Springbok, Haze and The Metal Head Monkeys.
I played six of my songs at this event, I announced my new E.P. and played a new song.
When I went off, Springbok came on, they were amazing to watch, they played four songs, including a new song.
Then Haze came on who played amazingly and got the crowd really excited, they also interacted with the audience which is a very key thing while performing.
Then came on the "Metal Head Monkeys" they played all covers, and they made the songs they're own. While Tom played guitar and did backing singing, Rhys sung, while he also asked for audience participation. This included clapping, singing along and asking the audience to swing their arms.
When they went of the studio played a radio recording of a horror story. This was wrote and acted out by members of the studio.
The night was a great success and it was a lot of fun to play and watch. The studio members and staff did a lot to make that evening and they made it a brilliant night, thank you to any one who came, and I hope you had a happy Halloween!
Written by James Swift- Musician and Writer for the Press Gang
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Ansel Adams - Into Plain Sight
Presented by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster and Charlotte Kieltyka
The photo below, taken at the home of Arthur C. Pillsbury in Oakland, California around 1918-20, is from my Aunt Grace's album. She predeceased my father, Dr. Arthur F. Pillsbury, by several years, dying August 12, 1979. Aunt Grace, like others at the Studio of the Three Arrows, usually did not bother to take her own photos. It was easier to print those she wanted out of the thousands stored there for use in a system which was both numeric and descriptive. Family photos in the archive were supposed to have the identifying number stamped on the back, when printed.
The archive in Yosemite included family photos of the kids growing up there and photos from the workshops which Pillsbury was putting on from the time his son, my father, Arthur F. Pillsbury, was around 12 - 14. This photo would have been at the Oakland lab facility, in the smaller collection as well as in Grace's album. There is no number on the reverse but Grace signed her name. In this shot Arthur F. is around 16.
Ansel Adams appears in the photo below. He also appears in photos from photographic workshops given by Arthur C. Pillsbury from the period.
These pages place Ansel Adams through family photos, photos available through the Harry Pidgeon Collection located in Fresno, California, and images from the estate of Mildred Clemens during the shadowy period from 1916 - 1927 which is only lightly touched on in the Adams Autobiography, "Ansel Adams, an Autobiography," written by Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, published by Little, Brown and Company, 1985, hard cover edition, paperback edition, 1996. Pillsbury is barely mentioned in the Adams autobiography, receiving not even a place in the book's index.
Did Adams know Arthur C. Pillsbury? Why yes, very well, according to this letter written by Ansel Adams in 1978.
The photo from which the young Ansel Adams is cropped is in the Harry Pidgeon Collection in Fresno. We are now preparing a comparison of Pidgeon's photographs with those which appear to have been taken by Pillsbury. In most of these cases Pidgeon appears in the photo. These photos each show a group of mostly young people who, by the evidence, were taking one of Pillsbury's workshops. Harry Pidgeon and Earl Brooks appear to be among these. We believe, based on reports from Arthur F. Pillsbury and other relatives, that these Pidgeon photos were taken during a workshop in photography he and others attended at the Pillsbury Studio while it was still in Old Village. The Pillsbury Studio moved to New Village in 1924.
What was Ansel Adams doing when in Yosemite from 1916 - 1927?
SEE HOW Pillsbury Conducted PHOTO SESSIONS.
Arthur C. Pillsbury had begun giving lectures using motion pictures in 1909. These were nature films. In 1912 Pillsbury added lapse-time films showing flowers blooming, images which had in one day reversed a Federal policy regarding wildflowers and began to mainstream knowledge through the medium of motion pictures, according to Park records. Pillsbury was the photographer chosen to contribute a chapter to "Handbook of Yosemite National Park," compiled and edited by Ansel F. Hall. Nearly 1/3, 9 plates of the photographs, are by Arthur C. Pillsbury.
The Pillsbury chapter provides explicit and easily understood instructions on how best to photograph Yosemite. A highly competent man, an innovator in photography, giving workshops to those who wished to improve their skills was a natural extension of his work. The following was reported by Dr. Arthur F. Pillsbury at different times to all of his children, still living. Anne AEtheline Pillsbury Gripp, Carol Sylvia Pillsbury Holbert, and Charles Arthur Pillsbury, deceased, most likely heard the same stories they were not available to be cited.
Below I have compiled those recollections where they match absolutely.
"It was my job to run the photo post card machine back then. It was located in the studio, next to the workroom. Frequently, the studio show room would be filled with students taking the workshop classes and they would intrude on the area around the machine making it hard for me to work. We printed both post cards and the smaller cards, which were packaged and sold in the Studio. Ansel Adams took workshops there. He could not afford to pay so was allowed in as a scholarship student. Payment for classes came in the form of labor, in his case doing janitorial work."
All three of the living Pillsbury offspring, Melinda Pillsbury-Foster, Stephen M. Pillsbury, and Morgan Pillsbury Gell, heard these and other stories while growing up and later as adults before the death of their father in 1991, None realized Adams did not mention this in his autobiography because none of us read the book until the last few weeks.
Stationary for Camp Curry
During his stay at Camp Curry in 1916 Adams wrote a letter home to his Aunt Mary, who evidently did not accompany them on their vacation. The letter, dated June 23, 1916, is written on Camp Curry stationary which includes a printed image of Happy Isles.
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Arthur Francis Pillsbury, the youngest son of Arthur C. Pillsbury. Trained in photography, Dr. Pillsbury used his skills as a photographer and surveyor, learned from his father, professionally while designing projects for the Civilian Conservation Corp., illustrating academic papers during his career, first teaching and then as the Director of the Water Resources System for the University of California, as well as personally.
His older brother, Ernest Sargent Pillsbury, was a professional photographer for the police department in Los Angeles and in the film industry after serving in WWI.
(Circled) Ansel Adams, around 1920.
(See below) Adams, circa early 20s, from the Harry Pidgeon Collection. The photo, in which Pidgeon appears, we believed had been mis-attributed. (At the Cutout No. 1) More photos with Adams appear further down the page.
Ansel Adams first went to Yosemite in June, 1916, according to his own report found in his autobiography, "Ansel Adams, an Autobiography."
In this autobiography Adams states he and his mother and father left San Francisco on June 1st, spent the night at the Hotel Del Portal in El Portal, and the next day took the open bus into the Valley, staying at Camp Curry in tent No. 305. A short time later his parents gave him his first camera, a Kodak Box Brownie. His first roll of film, Adams reports, was developed personally by Arthur C. Pillsbury.
FROM: Ansel Adams, an Autobiography, Pg. 43 if referenced in the fourth printing of the first trade paperback edition 1996, printed in 1998 - "I remember that it was Mr. Pillsbury himself, commercially successful in photographing Yosemite, who presented me with my developed film. He had not cut it apart, as he wanted to inquire how this picture had come to be upside down in reference to the others on the roll. He asked, "Did you hold the camera over your head to avoid close foliage?" After I explained to him about my accident, he gave me a strange look and I do not think he was ever certain of my normalcy from then on. " Adams had fallen off the stump he had climbed on to in Camp Curry while photographing Half Dome, this explained earlier on the same page.
Adams would have been aware, because the policy was posted and advertised, that amateurs could arrange to use Pillsbury Studio dark rooms. (see advertisement to Right, "Make our Studio your headquarters Free dark room for amateurs," published in the Foley Guide)
Pillsbury was the photographer who provided photographic services for the Curry Company from 1914 until into the 1920's, according to existing records from the Yosemite Archive. Pillsbury produced the post cards for Camp Curry, which carry his handwriting and vary only slightly from those he produced to sell in his own studio. Pillsbury images, some identical, for instance of the Fire Fall, were sold at Camp Curry as well as at the Pillsbury Studio.
The photo images below, both of Happy Isles, one for Pillsbury Studio as a post card and the other on the Right for the use of Detroit Publishing. The two below, taken from the same spot, are Pillsbury photos taken before 1906. Tinting a photo for publication can changes its appearance to some extent.
Pillsbury, for his own use, this is a post card with a Pillsbury BACK, Possible Pillsbury, Detroit Publishing, as a post card.
Pillsbury postcard, Meeting of the Waters, Happy Isles, No. 23 Pillsbury Postcard, Meeting of the Waters, Happy Isles, No. 52
Photographers in Yosemite made a practice of photographing tourists at several different spots in the Valley because Park policy mandated this as a desirable service. Pillsbury also photographed guests around the Park elsewhere, including at Camp Curry. He would invite them to come to the studio later in the day to view the proofs and see the nature movies shown there.
The glass plate negative for the photo below was purchased from the estate of Mildred Clemens, an old friend of Arthur C. Pillsbury, who had in her possession a large number of glass-plate negatives and lantern slides in the collection.
The photo on the left shows Ansel Adams in Yosemite, 1916. He seems to be participating in a summer camp day activity with other young boys.
Although a thorough research was carried out of the several sources available we could not find a mention of programs for 'city slicker' kids. However, the Currys were always trying things out to see if there would be a demand and so make Curry a more attractive destination. 1916 was particularly busy because the Currys were forced to compete with the Desmond Company, subsidized by Stephen T. Mather and his associates. For more read Chapter 17 COLLAPSE, from "Creating the National Park Service, The Missing Years" by Horace M. Albright and Marian Albright Schenck.
Mildred Clemens' collection included a large number of glass-plate negatives taken by Pillsbury of herself and others. The size of Pillsbury's glass-plates depended on the use for which the image was intended. Those destined to become post cards were produced either on a Compact Graflex, 5" x 7" or an adaption Pillsbury designed himself, or a smaller 5 1/2" x3 1/4" Compact Graflex. These were all part of the Graflex SLR cameras and were specially favored by journalists for easy viewing of the subject and did not require a tripod. This exactly matches the format of the early brown-bordered Pillsbury post cards.
The Three Generals, Mariposa Grove, Pillsbury Picture Co. No. 20
Pillsbury's Photographic Workshops
The photo on the immediate left is from a larger photo, circling three young men, one of whom appears to be Ansel Adams, standing by the post.
The young man in the last row appears to be Earl Brooks. Either of the two young men below, within the circle, could be a slightly older Ansel Adams than seen in the Reunion photo at the beginning of this page. The other young man could be a cousin.
Full sized photo, arrow pointing to Harry Pidgeon.
Class photos are taken in schools, for workshops, for summer camps, you name it They are usual for people of all ages. Below is a photo which is archived in the Harry Pidgeon Collection in Fresno, CA. Ansel Adams is listed as appearing in the photo as A. Adams. We believe it was taken by Arthur C. Pillsbury as a 'class picture.'
Special Collections at the Henry Madden Library, Harry Pidgeon Collection
Title California Tree
Photographer Pidgeon, Harry
Physical description 13 cm. x 18 cm.
Notes California Tree. On back of print: James Johnston, Inos Whit, Jas. Donald, A. Adams, James Hannah, Alex Brydson.
Format Photograph
Item number 12d.147
Physical collection Harry Pidgeon collection
Note: There are eight men in the photo but only six names appear in the notes. Harry Pidgeon and Earl Brooks are not among these.
If Harry Pidgeon did not take the photo but appears in it as a 'class picture' this would be the case. According to Leroy Radanovich, a photographic expert in Yosemite, this appearing in the Bay Citizen article, dated November 9th, that "Harry Pidgeon, a known Yosemite photographer who traveled with Brooks." If Earl Brooks was a close friend Pidgeon would likely not write his name. The names written would be those he did not know
Ansel Adams Earl Brooks Harry Pidgeon
A. Adams, identified in this photo from the Harry Pidgeon Collection, (See archival notes above.)
Questions about where Ansel Adams, Harry Pidgeon, and Earl Brooks received their training in photography have been broached during the course of this discourse. Theories have been thick upon the ground but proof scarce as hen's teeth.
Pillsbury was a highly successful photographer who, unlike any other Yosemite photographer, had studios in other places around California, including San Francisco and San Diego. Like so many other top photographers, he gave regular workshops for those interested in photography.
Attendance at these trainings was heavy both because of the excellence of Pillsbury's work and because the sessions took place in one of the most popular resort areas in California, Yosemite. Students could either stay at Camp Curry of at the Studio of the Three Arrows, where tents were available. Some students worked for Pillsbury in an apprenticeship relationship, before, afterward or both.
Theory: Each of these men took workshops from Arthur C. Pillsbury, at least one of these at the same time. (More on this on Page Two, coming next week)
Each can be placed in Yosemite during the time Pillsbury was providing workshops in photography. Two of the men were friends, making it more likely they would arrange to take such a workshop together. Therefore it is likely this is their group photo, taken upon completing of the workshop.
The photography is strikingly like those taken by Pillsbury, who routinely photographed groups of people as part of his work.
No other explanation has been found for the expertise each man possessed in photography. This also explains the prints Brooks gave to relatives. Charlotte is exploring the theory that the Brooks prints and Norsigian negatives are flawed in some ways. For example, the Jeffrey Pine photos, both the Norsigian and Brooks, have sun flares. The Pillsbury published version has no such flaws and the presentation is far more dramatic. We believe the Norsigian and Brooks negatives were never used because they were not up to the standard to which Pillsbury adhered, explaining why no published prints exist.
These flawed, rejected or discarded negatives could have been printed by students as a challenge during the workshop. Pillsbury might even had offered a prize for the best rescue. Charlotte is compiling the comparisons so these issues are more accessible.
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Duggie Fields interview (on Syd)
"Steve" (melodylaughter) from Laughing Madcaps Syd Barrett Pink Floyd yahoo group at: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/madcapslaughing/ recently re-posted a great chunk of history. An interview with fab artist & ex-Syd Barrett roomie, Duggie Fields. Here is Steve's description and a link...
Duggie Fields interview
> Q: "do you still have that mashup and subsiquent audio?"
I dug it up. Hard to believe that was six years ago. We were still using
SHN files. Pete probably still has it, but I converted them to flac. It's
definitely smaller that way, the Lucy interview in particular.
Both of them are available in a .rar file here--
http://www.megaupload.com/?d= BH2UF6YT
The first interview is in the pub; that's the one I had to mess with. I
think 60% of it had to be cut, because it was Bolan this and Sex Pistols
that, and London in '77 instead of London in '67, and then back to Syd after
five or ten minutes off-topic.
The second one is in the Madcap room. Daniel's an excellent interviewer,
and by the end of it you feel they really have exhausted the subject.
I'm not sure these interviews broke as much new ground as we would have
liked, but it's great hearing it directly from Duggie rather than as a quote
somewhere in one of the Syd books. Enjoy.
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THE CRYPT OF THE CRAMPS: "The Way I Walk" Oslo 2006
Labels: cramps, lux interior, poison ivy, videos
CHARLES BUKOWSKI'S SCARLET - Pamela "Cupcakes" Wood's memoir coming in May 2010
From bukowski.net at: http://bukowski.net/forum/showthread.php?t=6916
Photo: http://bukowski.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=2083&stc=1&d=1266921890
Charles Bukowski's Scarlet coming in May 2010
HERE's some latest info on Pamela 'cupcakes' / 'scarlet' / 'Tammie' Wood's book about her relationship with Hank.
(The upcoming yearbook of the Buk-Society will include the first 3 chapters of this book in a slightly earlier state of the manuscript.)
Labels: buk, literature, pamela wood, Scarlet
LESLEY (MARRIOTT) ASHCROFT INTERVIEW
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=206577037536&topic=14434
Mick Taylor over at SMALL FACES: GROPING WITH A STOKER group recently interviewed Steve Marriott's daughter, Lesley. Here's a re-post & go check out the group too...
Hi there, I'm Lesley, Steve Marriott's oldest offspring! (we think, although there could be more of us out there).
The late great Steve Marriott
I was born in North London, as Sarah Lisa Foulger and stayed with my mother Sally Foulger until I was 15 months old. Sally filed a paternity suit, naming Steve as my father, however after lots of publicity, she decided to drop it and have me adopted. So at 15 months old I went to a National Children's Home in Surrey and was luckily adopted at about 18 months old. I moved back to North London to Winchmore Hill, ironically 10 minutes away from where I was born. I grew up with two very caring parents and a lovely younger brother, Keith, who was also adopted.
I went to Latymer Grammar School, got 9 O levels and 3 A levels, then went on to study Human Resources at the London College of Technology. Sounds like I was a right swot, but I was actually always in trouble in school, and just managed to cram for my exams and somehow passed (more luck than anything else). I have to say that I rebelled against my very strict parents, was a bit of a party girl, had unsuitable boyfriends and enjoyed every minute of it . I moved out of home at 21, left a great job at Mitsubishi and the UK at 26 to do a ski season in Austria and met my husband Mike (who is the best thing that ever happened to me). We consequently travelled through Asia for 6 months with about 20 quid to our name (I got very skinny!) and ended up in NZ, Mike's home, and mine now. We have three hobbits and live happily by the beach in the North Island.
MICK: Hi Lesley many thanks for doing this interview. When did you first find out you were Steve Marriott's daughter?
LESLEY: When I found my mother again at age 18, she told me who my father was. Sally was just 16 when she had me and I consider myself very lucky not to have been one of the many flushed into the sewage system after a hot bath and a bottle of gin!!! Steve apparently knew about me and once rang Sally to get her to bring me round so he could see me……………however it was about 1am, so Sally decided to stay at home. He certainly wasn't ready to get tied to a bird with a kid!! He was just getting famous and who can blame him?
MICK: Have you ever met Steve or seen him?
LESLEY: Once I knew who he was (I had to go and look on an album cover), I went to see Steve play many times. He was with the Packet of Three then and was playing small gigs around London. Sometimes he'd be fantastic and sometimes he'd be crap…..but he was always entertaining. My boyfriend at the time did actually approach him once before a gig – Steve was at the bar having a beer – and told him I was there. His response was "what do you want me to do, mind me f*!&ing language" Hahaha, isn't that just so typical of him!!!
MICK: HaHa, yeah, typical Steve. When did you decide to get in touch with more of Steve's family/children? And how did you go about it?
LESLEY: I didn't make any further effort to contact him and strangely enough, I heard about his death on BBC1 news. About 3 years ago my best friend Kate went to London and brought me back the "All Too Beautiful" biography. It was fascinating for me as the more I read about him, the more similarities I found between myself and him and my children. I suddenly had this urge to meet his mum Kay, his sister and my siblings, all of whom I didn't even know about as I'd sort of closed the book on that chapter of my life. Anyway, I wrote to my grandmother Kay, helped by John Hellier and Iain McGonigle, and sent some photos. I got a lovely response back from his sister Kay saying that they'd both love to meet me. I was taking a trip back to the UK in September 2007, so that's when I first met Kay. After that meeting went well, it felt OK to contact Mollie, Tonya and Toby (facilitated by Mick Taylor!!). I felt that if Kay accepted me, then it would be OK to take it further. We had a laugh about that later as Mollie and Tonya both said "Well if you got past Nan, you must be for real".
MICK: The first of Steve's family you met was Steve's mother Kay – how did that go?
LESLEY: Kay lives about half an hour drive from my parents house, so off I went, with my 10 month old son Leo and drove to Sawbridgeworth, not with butterflies but with bloody great big pigeons flapping around in my stomach. She was at the window when I pulled up and then she opened the door and just gave me a huge hug. I found her to be warm, very switched on, and so very funny. She was only too happy to talk about Steve and how it was around the time I was born. She really didn't know I existed, as the whole paternity suit was dropped and there was never any proof. She said that she only had to look at me and Leo to know! She loved Leo and both her and Aunt Kay plied him with cake and chocolate continuously…..so of course he started bouncing off the walls and smashed one of her ornaments, but she just laughed. She is a very special lady.
MICK: Nice one. What was the reaction from Steve's children, Toby, Mollie and Tonya when they found out they had another sister? And who got in touch with you first?
LESLEY: Well, it was Mick Taylor who broke the news to Tonya and Mollie, and I think it was Tonya I spoke to first. We ran up a big phone bill with her in Canada and me in London. She was amazingly excited and happy about my appearance and I'll never forget that! Luckily for me, I was able to meet Mollie on that trip, just before I left for NZ. I met her, James (her lovely man) and her mum,Manon, in the Dorchester and we had tea (although I could've downed a bottle of wine). They were fantastic and welcoming and I felt very honoured to be accepted so readily.
MICK: Yeah, I was really chuffed for you. You arranged to meet Steve's other children in September 2008 – what was it like when you actually came face to face with them?
LESLEY: This was like the weirdest day of all – going to meet your brother and sister from a plane at Heathrow. Then we drove to Nans and stayed there, like we'd known each other for years. And that's the strangest thing – I do feel like I've known them for years. Of course they have all grown up knowing one another and are obviously really close, but I don't feel like an outsider. We all stayed at Mollie's before the Convention, and we had a great night out together – the first time with the four of us together. In fact we had horrible heads on that Sunday, then we all had Sunday lunch at Manon and Joe's before heading to the Convention. We are all so similar in the way we talk, the things we laugh at, even our dress sense……except Toby wouldn't look so good in a frock. Heehee, he's the loveliest guy and I feel like I've known him forever. We all stay in touch by phone and facebook and are planning a reunion soon.
MICK: Do you listen to a lot of your Dad's music?
LESLEY: Hmmmm, well I know I'm talking to the hardcore fans here and yes, I love Steve's music, but I don't listen to it an awful lot I have to admit. I have two daughters who blast out Lady GaGa, the Sugababes and even Green Day. Although they know every word to the Small Faces hits and are very proud, the good stuff has to wait until they've gone to bed. We all listen to Mollie's album with Dean Reese, "Sweet Felicity Arkwright" too – it rocks.
MICK: Yes, I love Dean's album myself and I recommend it to anyone. Mollie's vocals are outstanding! - Which of your Dad's music do you prefer? What's your favourite songs by your Dad? And what are your other musical tastes?
LESLEY: Really and truly, best of all I love the blues he used to play in those dingy old pubs. He'd grab his guitar, mutter (or shout) a few obscenities and then the magic would start and he'd just make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. His voice and stage presence were truly unique.
As far as other music is concerned I'm a bit mainstream I'm afraid. I started with Rolf Harris, moved on to the Bay City Rollers, then got really grown up and tuned into jazz-funk/soul, followed by acid house. Those were the days when you went out at midnight, drove around looking for the rave/club where it was happening, queued for a couple of hours, finally got in and then the police would do a drug raid and everyone would be sent home. Sod that!! In the nineties I was really into Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins.....and my all time favourites, the Red Hot Chili Peppers who I've seen live a few times. I used to love going to Ronnie Scotts (esp George Melly) and still go to as much live music as possible (but now have three little handbrakes). I still love any reggae, the Stones, Pink Floyd, Sting, Paul Weller and of course the Small Faces. New Zealand has some great sounds too, but not many make it internationally - Bic Runga perhaps and the Finn Brothers (Crowded House).
MICK: I couldn't agree more about your dad being unique - You, Toby, Mollie and Tonya all turned up at the Small Faces convention in 2008 – what did you think of the convention and the fans loyalties to your Dad. I believe you were signing autographs yourself as well, weren't you?
LESLEY: I was actually blown away by the Convention. It was like being on the set of Quadrophenia, without the rockers!! I found it really amazing that all the people there were there for him and the band, and obviously loved him so much. I like to think that he's up there somewhere knowing how much he is appreciated and that his talent is recognised, and I think he'd like that. I felt a bit of a fraud to be sought out for autographs, as who am I really? – but my friends thought it was highly amusing. I'd love to go to another one – the quality of the bands was great and I loved the atmosphere. It was great that John Hellier and the Small Fakers gave Steve jnr a chance to play guitar too. Awesome stuff.
MICK: Talking of Steve Jnr - we're putting an interview together so watch this space - What did your mother tell you about Steve?
LESLEY: My mother died soon after Steve and now there is so much I would have liked to ask her. She did tell me stuff about Steve and I remember looking through her photo album and seeing photos of her with the Who and the Stones (think she was a bit of a groupie). She certainly had some stories. Looking back, I wished I had tried a bit harder and got to know Steve, but I'm just so grateful that I've found such lovely additions to my family. We're all coming back to the UK in June, so we'll be visiting Kay snr, Kay jnr, Lucy, Steve, Mollie, James and my new niece Tabitha. We're trying to persuade Tonya to come too……and Toby promises he's saving for a trip to NZ.
MICK: Have you inherited any of your fathers talents? I've seen and heard Mollie singing on stage and on various albums and she has an outstanding voice especially like you say on the Dean Rees album. Toby is very talented on the guitar and vocal wise and ive seen and heard him do some good stuff. Tonya i've seen doing backing vocals at a small faces convention SO what about yourself? Do you sing or are you like me and only sing in the bath ha?
LESLEY: I adore music, love dancing and play a mean triangle, ...but if I ever try to sing, well, I get abuse from all directions. I have never been a singer. In fact I was even told to mime in the choir at Junior School. Sorry to disappoint but I am atrocious. Leave it to the experts is my motto - in my case that's Mollie and Toby, and I'm sure Tonya too.
MICK: Ha, so you're like me then ;0). Last but not least, is there anything you would like to add?
LESLEY: Although I didn't manage to inherit any musical talents from my father, I was still a big show off like him. I trained as a gymnast and did a lot of competitive stuff and just loved the limelight in that respect. I remember doing a floor routine at The Royal Albert Hall once, in a spotlight, on my own, to thousands and loving it, but put a microphone in my hand and I would have cleared the place in seconds.
Anyway, WAKE UP everyone, I've nearly finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to you all for keeping him, his music and everything around it alive. I think he put his heart and soul into everything he did, and I know that Toby, Mollie, Tonya and now me too, are really happy that he is still being so appreciated.
Cheers Lesley, thank you so much for doing this, you're a star. Speak to you very soon, love and hugs........................Mick xx
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Absence of the Hardback: New Buk from City Lights
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Absence of the Hardback
Hello all:
Sorry I haven't checked in in a while--editorship at City Lights is wonderful, but pretty work-intensive, so I've been a little swamped of late.
In any case, you guys are going to kill me, but we've had to cancel the hardback version of Absence. The one of Portions didn't really work out for us; there were pre-orders for 500 off the top, ALL of which were returned. All of them. This was difficult to fathom, though I imagine the economy crashing during the season we published it was a factor. The other factor is that, when our distributor went around to bookstores with Absence, almost no one pre-ordered the hardback. Everyone wants the paper for price reasons. It's very disappointing because I thought the Portions hardback was a beautiful book and we seldom have the opportunity to publish hardbacks here.
So I'm not sure what to tell you all; the paperback of Portions is selling very well, but the hardback--after the initial flurry of the hardcore fans like yourselves--is just sitting there, costing us money due to warehousing the books and so on. They mock us with their future collectability, but right now, they sit there like stones.
In another note, yes the cover is still blue; the copies that have gone out so far are what we call galleys--an uncorrected advance copy in order for any writer to work on a review before it comes out--so those are all b&w to save money. Anyway--keep those galleys if you got 'em; there's only about 50 of them and there's a few typos subsequently corrected, making it a unique edition.
So again, I'm very sorry about the hardback; fire away your wrath at me, though bear in mind we really tried to make it happen, so try to cut us some slack. I think it's a pretty awesome book.
Also, to take some of the sting out of this, we're in the (very) preliminary stages of developing a third volume, but different from the others because it'll be entirely composed of Notes of a Dirty Old Man columns. Apparently there's a million of these that haven't been collected, so we thought something more focused than the more general uncollecteds we've done would be a good move at this point.
Alright--I'm outta here; let the beer bottles fly.
(2-18-10)
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Syd Barrett - Old Shoes
A recent re-post from: http://www.sydbarrettpinkfloyd.com/2010/02/syd-barrett-old-shoes.html
Something written by the Laughing Madcaps' own Jean-Grégoire Royer waaaaay back in 2000!
At least once in a lifetime you wake up and think now is the time: you are going to do something forever. Some get married, others stop smoking, and a very limited number of people actually have a real idea of their own. Among them, some create while others somehow create meaning out of the former’s creation; they try to make sense out of it. It is, of course, much more gratifying, as far as the historical record is concerned, to be part of the first group than of the second.
However, overall, it is also much less risky and tiring to belong to the second. No surgeon ever suffered as much as a mother giving birth did. The same thing applies to the critic. Furthermore, that second group is where the power lies. Creation is always too violent in itself. We need to be protected from it and what keeps us safe is the sense we make of it. Moreover, most of the time, the sense we make does not come directly from us but from the critics. They act like shields.
When I first came into contact with Syd Barrett, I had never heard such a thing before. It was strong, undiluted and dangerous. Moreover, whether because I needed a shield to be protected from that danger or because I was a daredevil and wanted to go further, I started looking for more about Syd Barrett. And as there is not much actually in the way of music, I had to make do with words or pictures.
All I know then is what I have been told, what I have read or seen. There are precious few interviews of Syd Barrett, some articles, one or two biographies, and a chapter at the beginning of each of the numerous books that have been written about the Pink Floyd. There are now quite a number of web sites, some offering copies or excerpts from the former, some boasting exclusive documents (there’s one interview of his nephew!). There have been bootlegs, pictures, T-shirts, badges. At one point you could even buy a box set with his first solo album, plus a beautiful collection of photographs, plus a yellow satin shirt like the one he wore on the rear cover of that very album. They have even gone so far as to release a best of ! Some day, somewhere, there may also be a Pink Floyd anthology, a statue and a museum and a Syd Barrett church or temple, who knows?
For the time being what I have at my disposal is a bunch of songs and some (not all) of the items quoted above. And what do you think I know that I did not know or could not have imagined the first time I listened to him? Well, there is Lindsay Korner. And the Mandrax incident. And the lost year. Stars. The bleeding finger. The cellar incident. And the Chelsea cloisters. The dust and guitars. The 1978 photo of a balding beer-bellied Roger. If you put it all together chronologically, it points out to a most extraordinary story. I mean what is more endearing than a fallen angel ? It is both utterly good and so evil. It is all so human after all.
I can remember a time when I was definitely obsessed with this story. Like any of us, I would sometimes dream about it. There was a mysterious record shop where they had all the unreleased tracks. And I bought everything, spent hours simply watching the sleeves, reading the notes (some pieces were part of the home-made demos!) before I listened to the songs themselves and that was far above anything you would imagine. Or was that, really? When I woke up there would be nothing left of course.
This dream was recurrent. It actually lasted until I went to Cambridge. What happened in fact is that I was in charge of a group of students on a holiday camp in the Fens. And there was this visit to Cambridge : punting, a picnic in a park, the visit of an art museum and about two hours of free time. The latter was all I had been waiting for. It started pretty well : there was a record fair on Marketsquare (imagine that, on Marketsquare !!!). Unfortunately, most of what you could find was legal recordings and, what’s more, mostly hits of the period (late 80’s, Sting, Phil Collins, that sort of thing…). There was only just one stall where they had " 60’s " stuff.
I browsed and browsed and found nothing of real interest. Kind of upset (I was losing precious time) I asked the guy if he had any recording by Syd Barrett (I’m French, it was the first time I had come to England and my English was still rather basic, so I pronounced Syd Beret). He looked at me like I had just arrived from outer space. " Pardon ?", he said. "Syd Beret", I insisted, "former member of Pink Floyd" ! And then the guy turned green, well light green actually, and upped it a bit so that everybody around stopped talking and looked at me : "Syd Barrett", he said, "he’s fallen off his trolley man, leave him alone". And that was it. He then he simply refused to listen to me.
I was as good as dead : cold sweat, blushing so hard as I stumbled my way out of the crowd. Next thing I realized I only had an hour and a half left. I walked past a post office, had second thoughts, made a U-turn and entered the office. Opened a directory. Barrett. There were like 40 people called Barrett in Cambridge. None of them Roger. Then I looked for "Andy’s records". I had heard that Syd was always welcome when he went there. It took me some time to locate it on a map but I finally found it and walked out of the office hurriedly, thinking things like "I’m treading the backward path" or "I’m going far further than you could possibly go". Imagine Syd Barrett walking up and down these very streets, high heeled boots, bell bottoms, an alligator leather coat, cropped hair. Then he enters the shop. Two floors. Lots and lots of records.
But forget it ! There is no Barrett record there. Not even the legal ones. So, I go out of the shop and I realize I have less than an hour left. And then there is this huge bookshop. I get in. There is a board telling you that there is a music and fanzine department on the lower ground floor. I browse again, hoping to come across an issue of Terrapin or Dark Globe or something. But there is nothing. So, I go to the counter and ask my question again, this time paying real attention to my accent. "Syd Barrett ? uh", the guy says, "Oh, I see ! Well, I’m afraid we do not have anything worthy of note here, but go to the hifi department and ask for Mark Richardson, he might have something". Thank you very much indeed, says I, thinking to myself that I have been undergoing some sort of test all the way. This is it now, I have passed the final test, I am going to be handed the pearl !
It so happens that the hifi department is not within the same building. It is another shop altogether, and not very far from Andy’s records, am I told! It is now a matter of minutes before I have to go back to my group of students. I start to run. I see the shop, I come in. Breathless. Mark Richardson please. Wait a minute please, he is not available right now. Then I hear someone flushing the toilet. Here comes my man. I tell him the whole story. The guy’s about Syd Barrett’s age I believe, kind of stiff upper lip. He remains silent for a few second and says, "I have a pamphlet at home. I could send it to you if you like. What is your address? ".
I offered to give him some stamps or some money. He bluntly refused. We shook hands and I raced back to my group and bus and Fens. A few weeks later, back home, I received a huge envelope through the mail. And this is what I found : the Making of the Madcap Laughs, by Malcolm Jones, two newspaper clippings from the early seventies covering the release of "Barrett " (one, headlined: "profile", appears inside the 1974 double album edition), and a badge with an octopus on it. Plus a short handwritten letter. It sort of boiled down to what I had been told at the record stall: “Leave him alone".
I immediately wrote back to Mark Richardson. A long letter. I wanted more. Actually, I wanted to understand why so many people in Cambridge had seemed reluctant to simply talk about Syd Barrett. Was there a sort of secret police in charge of his protection?
Mark Richardson never answered. And I thank him again, not only for sending me this “pamphlet” (back in 1989 you couldn’t find such a thing so easily), but primarily for keeping silent.
Silence does not mean consent. Silence makes good room for music. If you like Syd Barrett, listen to him. You need nothing and no one else. So I played the Madcap Laughs as I read Malcolm Jones’s account of its making. And everything it taught me was already there. Or almost. All this frenzied search for something else from or about Syd Barrett suddenly proved pointless. I should have stayed home and listened more carefully.
Still, something from Jones’s pamphlet caught my attention. He had added a few notes at the end of his text. The Pink Floyd recording sheet and the gig sheet to be precise. It is there that I learned there was quite a lot of unreleased Floyd material “still languishing in the vaults ". It dawned on me while peering at those sheets that no sooner had Piper been released than the Floyd began to rehearse new numbers with Syd, probably with a view to making another album. And this came as a shock. The common idea is that “if he had stayed with the Floyd, they’d have died an ignominious death” (1). You know what that means : Syd was supposedly unable to write new material, he couldn’t or wouldn’t play on stage but stood there staring blankly at the audience, refused to lip-synch Emily on American Bandstand, would spend hours dazed and confused, would sometimes have fits of anger… They had to get rid of him or simply disappear with him. But why talk of death or disappearance when a group is still booking studio time to rehearse and record new songs?
We have all heard some of these songs (One in a million, Scream thy Last Scream, Vegetable Man…). We like them, we cherish them but it is also very difficult, indeed almost impossible “to divorce them from their creator’s personal trauma ", as Brian Hogg put it as a conclusion to the liner notes accompanying the “Crazy Diamond " box set. In other words, these unreleased recordings, as well as those resulting from former and further sessions, have always been associated, consciously or not, with the notion of failure, owing especially and first of all to the Floyd’s repeated refusal to release them. The rumour has it that the last thing Syd’s Floyd rehearsed was a tune entitled " Have you got it yet ?" which Syd kept changing, supposedly so as to make it impossible for the rest of the band to follow him. Then the chorus would go (Syd) “Have you got it yet?” (the others) “No! No! No".
Whatever happened during this last rehearsal we will never know. And it is the critic’s duty to stick to the facts. The critic is not expected to start commenting other people’s comments. The time has come to ignore the rumour and pay closer attention to the bulk of unreleased material recorded by Syd Barrett. From that viewpoint, the initiative of the Laughing-Madcaps is probably the greatest Syd-related thing that has ever happened since he last walked out of a studio. For the first time we will have at our disposal a documented series of recordings covering the whole span of his career. It is most likely that this will come as a shock if only we listen to this music without prejudice.
Chronologically speaking, it all started without a doubt when the Pink Floyd recorded "Lucy Leave" and "King Bee" in 1965. Typical British Beat from that era, you would think, and yet most promising. Musically, the latter is very much akin to the Rolling Stones’ version, cut two years earlier, but also hints at a rather more mature, almost ambient approach to music. The former is an original number, reminiscent of the Pretty Things. It could easily have been featured on Pebbles vol.5, along with recordings by the Fairies for instance. At the same time, what immediately stands out at first hearing are the lyrics: as soon as Syd starts singing you realize something new is taking shape. Things are on the move.
Then we have the "Tonight Let’s all Make Love in London" soundtrack Two long instrumentals that do more than keep the promise of the 1965 recordings. The R&B patterns have given way to something unheard of at the time : free form ambient rock. It has often been underlined that the Floyd were not the first to develop that musical style. Some even said that those two instrumentals are directly influenced by an obscure underground group known as Amm. Amm were actually much closer to the French electronic avant-garde of the late 50’s (Pierre Henry…) than to the Rock scene. The early Pink Floyd sound actually bears more resemblance to mainstream sounds. Mick Farren, singer with the Deviants and Rock critic, once described it as an extended version of a middle section from a song by the Who. But anybody can also trace the origin of that sound back to the 1950’s and the Shadows. Syd’s guitar playing is as pure as Hank Marvin’s, only it is free from any rule.
At the same recording session, the Pink Floyd also cut " Arnold Layne " and "Let’s Roll another one". Both are close in content to the 1965 recordings. It is still a very basic R&B sound or Pop sound but it is as though that sound was living a life of its own, bridging a gap between the present and the future. And, once again, what stands out is the lyrics. Anybody who has tried to play these songs has no doubt realized the importance of the lyrics. If you do not sing along, the music does not seem to make much sense. I remember my guitar teacher’s reaction when I asked him to show me how to play "Astronomy Domine" and the rest of the Floyd’s early material. He would go like " Wow ! That is a riff ", and then "What does that mean ? There is one bar too many!".
It is striking that we never pay real attention to Syd Barrett’s songwriting. Throughout his short career, he remained a lyricist rather than a musician. It is true that his lyrics are for the greatest part so abstruse, as it were, that you will inevitably tend to take no heed of them, indeed sometimes ignore them. But from the creative viewpoint, they are the moving force behind his work. It is blatant with any song from the Piper. Even on Waters’ "Stethoscope ", his playing is modeled on the main melodic line and develops as a variation to it.
The Floyd spent the first half of 1967 recording that album and their second single. For some of their early fans, among which you could count Pete Townsend, the result was a definite anticlimax. Most of what had made them famous on the underground circuit now boiled down to very short instrumental sections ornamenting powerful pop songs. It stood as the clear evidence of a move on their part towards novelty. One of the last songs they recorded during the Piper sessions is "One in a million" a.k.a. "She was a millionaire" (18.4.67). It has supposedly been erased, but a live version from September 1967 (Star Club, Copenhagen) clearly indicates that at the very moment they were completing their first album, they were already making another move towards a new sound. Change returns success.
During the summer of 1967 their music got slower and heavier, still merging R&B patterns and free form improvisations, but somehow turning them into something akin to what would then become the trademark of the New Yardbirds (listen to their early versions of "Dazed and Confused") and then Led Zeppelin. Other examples of such a move can be found on "Stoned Again" or "Reaction in G".
The question is, was this move a reaction indeed, or the first sign of Syd Barrett’s incapacity to cope with stardom and work the seam that had made his group famous? The answer, once more, is in the recordings. What we have next is a bunch of songs cut at the end of the summer of 1967, and then in late October of the same year. At that time the group had taken a break from their exhausting schedule and then made their first attempt in the USA. These events have been detailed elsewhere and there is no need to go back to them. So the first thing the Floyd came up with after the Piper was "Scream thy Last Scream". What is striking with this song, according to me, is that it stands as a turning point. The song itself is a whimsical ditty, somehow reminiscent of (or should I say heralding) the Beatles’ "What’s the new Maryjane" : if you compare the 3rd and 4th bars of Syd’s song to the recurrent melody of the latter, you will realize they are almost identical (and I am perfectly aware that this is going to start a new series of squabbles over Syd’s possibly taking part in the recording of "Maryjane" !). The arrangement on the other hand is closer to heavy metal than anything else the original Floyd ever recorded. At that point then the group seems to be torn apart.
Next come the Fall sessions, and the desperate search for a third single. Both "Millionaire" and "Old Woman with a Casket" (the original title for "Scream", it seems) had been mentioned as the possible A-side for that single. Why the group chose neither will remain a mystery. Nevertheless they went back to the studio and recorded "Apples and Oranges", once more a move away from the past. This one is a pearl. Everything about it is just about perfect. Only it is definitely not the sort of song you would choose for a single. Is this a mistake on the group’s part ? I would tend to think it is Syd Barrett’s" declaration of independence ", or rather a first draft of it.
At that time Syd was supposed to be totally zonked out of his brains. It has been reported that on the Jimi Hendrix package tour of December 1967, his collaboration to the group had virtually boiled down to nothing. On occasions, he was replaced by Nice lead guitarist David O’List. Still his playing on both sides of the third single as well as on the December Top Gear sessions is nothing less than powerful and purposeful. Or was this just a lull before his final collapse?
Well, then there’s the real "declaration of independence". "Vegetable man", to begin with. Definitely the song that paved the way for his future output: words, nothing but words, and music as a background. From then on indeed, his music would definitely tend towards a soundtrack. This song is impossible to play. It is as close as you can get to the spoken word without entirely crossing the barrier. And what message! "I ‘ve been looking all over the place for a place for me, but it isn’t anywhere, it just isn’t anywhere". Was this a way to announce that the band should split? Or simply asking for a break? Apparently the group then recorded more stuff: "Remember a Day", "John Latham", the soundtrack to the " Committee " (I am not absolutely sure whether Syd recorded it anyway) . There may have been no plan on Syd’s part to ruin things, perhaps only a desire to make it clear to the rest of the group that they needed to agree on which course to follow next.
But then there is the conspiracy. The three others were not going to let go of the goose that lays the golden eggs. They were neither patient enough to wait for Syd to recover. So they hired David Gilmour (Mason told him "things are on the move", but he should have known they had always been…) and one day simply forgot to pick Syd up on their way to the studio. Just like Brian Jones during the Beggar’s Banquet sessions six months later.
Only, Syd had left a message. In his so called "ultimate self diagnosis on a state of schizophrenia" (2), he sings: "I’m grateful to you that you threw away my old shoes and brought me here instead dressed in red". It has been reported that at the time he wrote these lines (October 1967), he was totally unable to look after himself and had to be taken care of by the Floyd. And maybe it was true or partially true. But why should he have written a song to tell the world that that was it, he was through with the band, for the latter is sake? This does not make sense. Instead what is intriguing is the details in Syd’s descriptions of the situation in "Jugband Blues". The band is a "Jugband", to begin with, something rather old fashioned, you would think, and above all ludicrous. And the singer and songwriter waves them goodbye, improvising a blues song of his own making. He has been dressed in red for this final performance. Red is just a colour. But it also happens to be the one that used to be associated with madness in the days of yore (the days when you would listen to jugband music for want of anything worthier of note). In other words, the band makes him out to be mad. And they take care of throwing away his old shoes.
Whadayamean? Maybe there were holes in his (yellow) shoes? Of course not! Every one of us remembers this: Syd used to wear sneakers as a sign of protest against the frivolousness of stardom (read " Groupie " again if you don’t recall this detail or simply watch the photos from 1967). He was no shallow person. Throwing away his shoes meant dishonest compromise. Meant he could not walk straight any longer but just "careen through life".
So he was ousted. And then "his band", for better or for worse, tried to make up for lost time. And they eventually managed to do it. It did not keep Syd from carrying on. The 1968 recordings saw him start work again with a bunch of songs he had supposedly written during the Floyd days. I’ve always wondered if "Clowns and Jugglers " is not actually an early rendition of the mysterious "In the Beechwoods": while the fair is going full swing (the music at that fair is not swing by the way but most probably jugband music…), while the clowns make faces and the jugglers blow hot air, it is definitely more pleasant to go away and hide. "Isn’t it good to be lost in the (beech) woods"?
Lost he was, or may have been, but he found his way back, back to the studio with Malcolm Jones. Jones lays the stress on Syd’s being totally "together" in 1969, even if still whimsical and a bit "offhand" (as Syd later put it himself) about things. His two official albums as well as Opel and the Crazy Diamond box set do not reveal him slowly "falling into an abyss" (3) but still carrying on with his search for a perfect balance between new words and new music. Syd once declared that he was absolutely satisfied with "Wolfpack", and with hindsight there is no denying that this is a masterpiece: mingling jet and statuesque. But he went one step further with "Word Song", and maybe one too far. If "Scream" was a turning point, then "Word Song" is a point of no return. It is his ultimate statement on the pointlessness of his search. Words are unrelated to each other. Meaning is a fraud. It is a truth, which no music whatsoever can hide.
Maybe he felt at that time that he was going nowhere. Then he went back home to Cambridge, got engaged, considered becoming a doctor, broke the engagement, owing to a dog, went back to London, and back to Cambridge, made several ill-starred attempts at a come back, and fell off his trolley.
Isn’t it sort of scary to think that the last thing he recorded with a name on it was entitled "If You Go, Don’t be Slow"?
What the Laughing Madcaps propose is the key to a mystery. What the Laughing Madcaps propose is what I have been dreaming about for so long I don’t even remember. What the Laughing Madcaps propose is a boon. That is why I am honoured to be one of the Laughing Madcaps. From a legal viewpoint this may not be allowable. But who pays for the lawyers apart from those who are responsible for the waste of Syd Barrett’s talent? What do the lawyers do apart from receiving stolen goods? What do they do apart from keeping Syd Barrett’s old shoes locked in a box since the Fall of 1967?
What the Laughing Madcaps propose is to tear open the box. Take the shoes, they are made for walking, put them on and walk on up the road to Syd Barrettdom. To everything there is a season. Today is the beginning of a new one: after the Fall, let it be the Rise.
Jean-Grégoire Royer, La Flèche , France, 12.21.2000
(1)David Gilmour in " Crazy diamond ".
(2)Mike Watkinson in " Crazy Diamond ".
(3)Julian Cope in " Crazy Diamond ".
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"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Volumes 1-3
Twilightzone! is one of my favorite music blogs because we have similar tastes and they come up with the goodies. Stuff I have old vinyls of, stuff I have on ancient homemade cassettes, stuff I've been looking for, and new-to-me cool stuff that enlightens or makes me laugh. An example of of several facets are these Italian Spaghetti Western volumes I'm re-posting and sharing today. Thanks Twilight Zone!
From: http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/2010/02/spaghetti-westerns-classic-italian.html
"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Vol. 1 - 1995
"Hi Ryp, Just uploaded this fantastic compilation of Spaghetti Westerns for you. I've uploaded Volumes 1, 2 and 3. There are other volumes out there so I'm kind of hoping that someone out there has this and wouldn't mind uploading it! Cheers" - Russ
Composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone, Pino Donaggio, Riz Ortolani, and others. Vocals by Katina Ranieri. Among the 28 films represented are "Duck You Sucker," "A Fist Goes West," "Wanted Johnny Texas," "Night of the Snakes."
I have a very extensive music collection, and was looking for something missing: that beautiful but haunted and lonely sound of Ennio Morricone's music: spaghetti westerns!
I was simply looking for all the soundtracks from those countless obscure Italian Westerns that where made in the 60s and 70s. But how to find them, or worse, the titles?
This collection, as well as Part 2, 3, and 4, hosts them probably all. It also has an extensive booklet with very good info on the music, as well as the movies that made them, or is it the other way around? This set is simply the best Italian Western music money can buy, and should be famous and sold-out! I recommend to buy all 4 sets! - By Martijn13Maart1970 (Husavik Iceland)
trax disc 1:
01 Jeff Bloom [From Shango (The Invincible Gun)] 02 Fiesta, Fiesta! [From Shango (The Invincible Gun)] 03 Pistole Che Scottano [From Shango (The Invincible Gun)] 04 Quanto Costa Morire [From Quanto Costa Morire] 05 Una Colt Bruciata [From Quanto Costa Morire] 06 C'E Sempre Una Vita [From Quanto Costa Morire] 07 Tema Di Clayton [From Amore Piombo E Furore] 08 Tema d'Amore [From Amore Piombo E Furore] 09 Just a Coward [From Ed Ora Raccomanda L'anima A Dio] 10 Just a Coward [#][From Ed Ora Raccomanda L'anima A Dio][Instrumental] 11 Main Titles [#][From Wanted_ Johnny Texas] 12 M 22 [#][From Wanted_ Johnny Texas] 13 Finale [#][From Wanted_ Johnny Texas] 14 Tema Per Una Vendetta [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano Di Sudore E Di] 15 Oltre Il Confine [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano di Sudore E di Mor] 16 Tema Per un Amore [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano di Sudore E di Mor] 17 Cento Cavalleggeri [From Quei Disperati Che Puzzano Di Sudore E Di Mor] 18 Black Jack [From Kid Il Monello del West] 19 Main Titles [#][From Deserto di Fuoco] 20 Ombre Sulla Sabbia [#][From Deserto di Fuoco] 21 Finale [#][From Deserto di Fuoco] 22 Main Titles [#][From Carambola] 23 Mexican Cantina [#][From Carambola] 24 Finale [#][From Carambola] 25 Tema Principale [#][From Carambola Filotto Tutti in Buca] 26 Funny Town [#][From Carambola Filotto Tutti in Buca] 27 Let It Rain, Let It Pour [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 28 Un Passaggio Per Red Rock [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 29 Sensazioni [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 30 Ridendo E Scherzando [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 31 Addio, Sarah [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 32 Controluce [From Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo] 33 Giù la Testa [From Giu' La Testa]
01 Main Titles [From Uno Straniero A Paso Bravo][Version] 02 Main Titles [From Uno Straniero A Paso Bravo][Version] 03 Main Titles [#][From Uno Straniero A Paso Bravo][Version] 04 Main Titles [#][From Prega Dio E Scavati La Fossa] 05 M 26 III [#][From Prega Dio E Scavati La Fossa] 06 M 9 V [#][From Prega Dio E Scavati La Fossa] 07 Main Titles Xiii [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 08 Canzone VI [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 09 M2 I [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 10 M 38 XI [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 11 M 3 I [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 12 M 25_Xvii and M 42 II [#][From La Notte Dei Serpenti] 13 Sandstorm [From Requiem per en Gringo] 14 Twilight [From Requiem per en Gringo] 15 The Moon and You [From Requiem per en Gringo] 16 Pistols Galore [From Requiem per en Gringo] 17 Vado Vedo E Sparo [From Vado Vedo E Sparo] 18 Galoppa Susanna! [From Vado Vedo E Sparo] 19 Disco Western III [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 20 M 4 III and M 6 I [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 21 M 21 I and M 65 III [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 22 Finale [#][From Johnny West Il Mancino] 23 Suite [#][From Roy Colt & Winchester Jack] 24 M 6, M 7, and M 8 [#][From Sartana Nella Valle Degli Avvoltoi] 25 A King for a Day [From Sartana Nella Valle Degli Avvoltoi] 26 M 18 V [#][From Sartana Nella Valle Degli Avvoltoi] 27 M 5, M 9, M 15 and M33 III [#][From Ancora Dollari Per I Mcgregors] 28 M 9 and M 15 V [#][From La Collera del Vento] 29 M 34 [#][From Sella D'argento] 30 Fantasia Western [From Franco E Ciccio Sul Sentiero Di Guerra] 31 Main Titles [From I Quattro Dell'ave Maria] 32 Suite [From La Collina Degli Stivali] 33 Slow Violence [From I 4 Dell'apocalisse] 34 L' Estasi del Miracolo [From Occhio Alla Penna]
...served by Russ...
(see the comments at Twilightzone!'s original blogposting for each compilation for further instructions & links)
From: http://twilightzone-rideyourpony.blogspot.com/2010/02/spaghetti-westerns-classic-italian_04.html
While the first album contained lots and lots of great tracks, coupled with some merely pretty good ones, this album has almost only really great ones! There is hardly a single "pretty good" track here! This continues the tradition of a few better known tracks, such as the theme to Django and the Hellbenders, as well as plenty of lesser known film scores, in U.S.
For those of you keeping score, this is my second purchase in an attempt to locate music from Red Dead Revolver; I am happy to say that music from "A Man Called King" and "Death on High Hill" fit that bill.
This is a needed item for any kind of Spaghetti Western Music Collector. Any kind of fan of the Italian film genre will apreciate this album. This contains all the components for a quintessential spaghetti western CD: songs with the high, hauntingly beautiful backgrounds, clumsily translated lyrics, and of course, the inescapable Ennio Morricone. And, at the reasonable price, how could you resist? - By Colin "The Ninja Guy" (LA, CA)
01 100,00 for Ringo (Suite) [From 100.000 Dollari Per Ringo] 02 Main Titles [From I Due Gringos del Texas] 03 M 11 [From I Due Gringos del Texas] 04 M 54 [From I Due Gringos del Texas] 05 Main Titles [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 06 M 13 [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 07 M 14 [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 08 M 43 [From Django, l'Ultimo Killer] 09 Can Be Done [From Si Puo' Fare... Amigo!] 10 M 27 [From Si Puo' Fare... Amigo!] 11 Can Be Done [From Si Puo' Fare... Amigo!][#][Instrumental] 12 Viva la Revolucion [From Tepepa] 13 Main Titles [From Vamos A Matar, Companeros] 14 Main Titles [From Una Ragione Per Vivere E Una Per Morire] 15 Main Titles [From Io Non Perdono... Uccido] 16 M 28 [From Io Non Perdono... Uccido] 17 M 29 [From Io Non Perdono... Uccido] 18 Main Titles [From Killer, Adios!] 19 M 26 [From Killer, Adios!] 20 M 27 [From Killer, Adios!] 21 Theme Song [From Killer, Adios!] 22 Hellbenders [From I Crudeli] 23 What Am I Doing_ [From Che C'entriamo Noi Con La Rivoluzione_] 24 Greatest Robbery in the West [From La Piu' Grande Rapina del West] 25 Main Titles [From L'oro Dei Bravados] 26 A [From Il Grande Duello] 27 M 10 [From Il Grande Duello] 28 Main Titles- M 1 [From Nel Nome del Padre, del Figlio E Della Colt] 29 Alternate Main Titles [Beat Version] 30 Main Titles [From I Lunghi Giorni Della Vendetta]
01 My Name Is Nobody [From Il Mio Nome E' Nessuno] 02 Main Titles [From Quien Sabe_] 03 Texas Addio [From Texas Addio] 04 Seven Men [From Sette Winchester Per Un Massacro] 05 Main Titles [From Sugar Colt] 06 Main Titles [From I Quattro del Pater Noster] 07 M 33 [From I Quattro del Pater Noster] 08 M 20, M 43, M 24, and M 22 [From I Quattro del Pater Noster] 09 Professional Killers (Suite) [From Professionisti Per Un Massacro] 10 M 19 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 11 M 3 and M 12 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 12 M 34 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 13 M 40 [From Monta in Sella, Figlio Di...] 14 Main Titles (Theme Song) [From Lo Chiamavano King] 15 Man Called King (Suite) [From Lo Chiamavano King] 16 M 11 [From La Morte Sull'alta Collina] 17 M 33 [From La Morte Sull'alta Collina] 18 Blue Eggs and Ham [From Partirono Preti E Tornarono Curati] 19 M-23 [From Partirono Preti E Tornarono Curati] 20 Blue Eggs and Ham [From Partirono Preti E Tornarono [From Partirono Pre 21 M 1 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 22 M2 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 23 M 15 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 24 M 17 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 25 M 20 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 26 M 24, M 25 and M 27 [From Un Buco in Fronte] 27 Crying (Main Theme) [From Un Buco in Fronte] 28 Main Titles [From Una Colt in Mano Al Diavolo] 29 M 16 [From Una Colt in Mano Al Diavolo] 30 Django [From Django] 31 Main Titles [From Se Incontri Sartana, Prega Per La Tua Morte] 32 Main Titles [Alternate Version] 33 Man Called Noon [From Lo Chiamavano Mezzogiorno]
"Spaghetti Westerns" (Classic Italian Soundtracks) Vol. 3
This addition to DRG's Classic Italian Soundtracks series captures spaghetti Westerns at their eeriest and funniest. Ennio Morricone is predominant, of course, with tracks to such films as A Pistol for Ringo and Blood and Guns, and vocal themes to The Return of Ringo and Death Rides a Horse. A rarely heard voice-free version of "My Name Is Nobody" has the virtue of sounding like a soda pop commercial. Other pasta-and-pistols maestros such as Piero Piccioni ("I Don't Forget... I Kill"), Carlo Savina ("The Two Ringos from Texas"), and Luis Bacalov ("Gold of the Proud Ones") make an impressive showing, though there are some dull moments. In contrast to our domesticated Tiomkin-style Hollywood clichés, these eccentric to melancholy flourishes represent fantasies of the American West nurtured by a pastry-crazed European imagination. - Joseph Lanza
trax:
1. Gunfight at Red Sands [A Gringo Like Me] 2. Pistol for Ringo (Main Titles) 3. Seven Guns for the Mac Gregors [Santa Fé Express] 4. Return of Ringo [The Return of Ringo] 5. Death Rides a Horse [From Death Rides a Horse] 6. Days of Violence (Finale) [The Days of Violence] 7. I Don't Foget...I Kill [I Don't Forget...I Kill] 8. Two Ringos From Texas [The Two Ringos from Texas] 9. Seven Guns for a Killing 10. Sugar Colt: Sugar Colt [Orchestal Suite] 11. Blood and Guns [Alternate Version] 12. Rose [Alternative Version][Alternate Take] 13. Professional Gun (Main Titles) 14. Face to Face (Main Titles) 15. Gold of the Proud Ones 16. Companeros (Main Titles) [Alternative Version] 17. Life Is Tough, Eh Provodence? (Main Titles) 18. My Name Is Shanghai Joe (Departure) 19. Man Called Noon (Suite) 20. My Name Is Nobody [Alternative Version][Alternate Take]
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Fasbinder 62's Collection of Quotable Cramps Quotes
Fasbinder 62 from the Staysick Yahoo Group at: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/staysick/ recently posted a collection of Cramps quotes he saved.
(Image from Miriam Linna's kicksville 66 blog at: http://kicksville66.blogspot.com/2009/05/my-first-band-cramps-1976-pt-1.html)
"Here's some clips from various Cramps articles and interviews I have collected (and then brilliantly lost) over the years..."
--Fasbinder 62
http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/Zombies_ March_On/
Cramps, the: Interview (june 1980 ZigZag) – Lux trembles with glee at
the memory of a night in Bristol, where they played an old church "It
was in the cellar, there was no floor. So they had this tarpaulin
where the floorboards used to be. You could see the church through
the holes and there was the Lord's Prayer behind us, it was great."
That night Lux was compelled to indulge in some of his notorious
onstage lunacy and got hold of some wires hanging down to swing out
over the punters. He made it back onto the stage by walking on their
shoulders. "They were all going, step on my shoulder, hurt me!"
Interview (4 jan 86, NME) "Nick's been to every Raiders game this
season," beams Lux. "The Raiders are more rock'n roll than 99 out of
100 groups today. Wherever they go people are frightened to death of
them…" Ivy "They're a bunch of hoodlums. There's a cliché about
sport; it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.
But their motto is just `Win, Baby!'"
Lux "The truth of the matter is they just want to go in and destroy
the other team… Their uniform is silver and black with skull and
crossbones. Anyplace they play they can sell out the stadium because
people know there's gonna be fights. When the Raiders play, they
say `Your mother's a fuckin' bitch you fuckin' asshole!" They scream
at other players, they antagonise them. It's not like morale-
building, good natured sports, it's way beyond."
Lux "I feel like I've been surfing, I've listened to enough surf
records. I think there's something more deviant about surf records
than really had to do with surf music. All the best surf music was
made in our part of town, a whole way away from the beach. That
becomes suspect in my mind because all these records are so, like,
Manic. Maybe the girls in their bikini's caused all this manic
activity. But I think it had to do with something more involved than
that." He trails off mysteriously.
"Ecstasy is really great!" proclaims Lux. "Have you ever taken
ecstasy? It's LSD, heroin… it makes you lurve your fellow man. Can
you imagine a drug that makes you lurve your fellow man?" his
beatific grin quickly evaporates into a mock responsible expression
following a warning glance from Ivy.
"Yeah," she says "It'll give you Parkinson's disease."
Lux says "It's too bad they're not legal cos anybody can make `em and
anything can happen."
Clipping - "I wish I could make my new stuff sound as different as
the Cramps are to Status Quo, but I can't." Frank Black.
3 reviews of Flamejob – The Cramps also ritually abuse `Route 66' in
a way that makes the Stones sound like the safe old English drips
that they are, treating it with the same reverence as their version
of `Heartbreak Hotel' – that is, with all the respect of a PCP crazed
drunk starting a fight at the Queen Mothers funeral. / Lux Interior
once memorably stated that he spends 95% of his time having sex and
the other 5% thinking about having it. / Signing to hip indie label
Creation was a most unlikely but highly clever move.
Interview (Halloween 1989) The album's title was originally the catch-
phrase of an obscure `60s TV horror host in Cleveland who went by the
name of Ghoulardi. Lux, who was a teenager at the time, remembers his
performances well. "He was really great! He'd say `Stay Sick!,' `Turn
Blue!' and `Purple Knif' which is fink spelt backwards. Everybody
drank these big Ghoulardi shakes which had every flavour imaginable
mixed into them… and then green dye! That guy was intense. On TV he
had this wavering little halo around him and one spot light under his
face. He'd blow things up on TV. They'd be showing a horror movie and
then, after the commercial break, he'd have a model of a split-level
house with a car and mom and dad waving to each other in the front
garden… then he'd blow it up on TV. That guy was like Hitler or
something, he was really something different."
On Date with Elvis not being released in the States… "All these A+R
departments in America are a buncha scared bunny Rabbits" sneers Lux
in disgust "all hoping they can hold onto their pay-cheques for one
more week. There are a lot of record companies that have tied up a
lot of our time over the years, going out to dinner with us, talking
with us… But when it comes round to the real thing, they're all
groupies. Some people talk about it and some people do it!"
Interview (City Limits) "You can see a film like Naughty Dallas and
the strippers really existed. It happened. There was no concept or
anything. These are things that interest us because they're to deal
with real people." Opines the striking Mr Interior as a way of
expressing his disgust at those who see the band as a two-dimensional
cartoon. "We have 3000 films on video-tape and we're looking for
stuff all the time."
Interview – "We're the Kings and Queens of Rock
and Roll." Says Ivy "We don't take life seriously, we take ourselves
seriously, and what we do, we're just totally committed to
it." "We've already dominated the world" snarls Lux "If only they'd
just come to that realisation. "
Interview (Poison Ivy on her self-image) – What image do you have of
yourself? "Flaky and incredibly disorganised. I also think that I am
completely normal and it is the rest of the world which isn't. A lot
of values that are really valued in contemporary society I don't
have. I'm spaced out most of the time. I like it that way, being on a
different wavelength." What image are you trying to achieve? "That of
a well-decorated Christmas tree." Do you wear make up? "People think
I wear too much but I don't think that's possible. I hate the natural
look."
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Record Collector-April '88: Syd article by Mark Patriss
Mark Jones from the mapcaplaughs yahoo group at: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/madcapslaughing/ has been scanning Syd Barrett articles from Record Collector Magazine. Today, we re-post an article pertaining to Syd Barrett & the early Floyd by Mark Patress from April 1988...
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AASD denies gun was in school
Greg Bock and Russ O'Reilly
gbock@altoonamirror.com and roreilly@altoonamirror.com
Altoona Area School District officials are disputing parts of an allegation that a student took a handgun into class during summer school in June.
AASD Superintendent Charles Prijatelj told the Mirror on Thursday that the gun was never brought into the building but instead was buried outside.
A student involved is no longer a student, nor a resident of Blair County, Prijatelj said.
According to the latest amended complaint (see related story) about bullying filed by the estate of Wyatt Lansberry in federal court by attorney Steven Passarello, an unnamed student has come forward to say they were threatened on the high school campus, both inside and outside the school, by another student with a handgun.
The student who came forward said they were standing by the mountain lion statue before summer school on June 22, when a male student walked up to the witness and their friends and showed them a semiautomatic handgun.
The juvenile pulled out the gun’s clip, which was loaded, and told them that “he had a bullet for each while showing them the bullets,” the attorney noted in the latest filing.
The juvenile with the gun was also selling Klonopin pills to other students, the witness told the Lansberry attorneys.
It was pointed out that no security guards were present at the school’s entrance, nor were metal detectors in place.
Had bullets for witness
The student witness cited in the lawsuit said they watched the juvenile with the gun go into the school and a few hours later, prior to the start of a math class, the boy with the gun walked into the classroom.
The student witness said the boy again pulled out the gun and said he had bullets for the witness student’s head, the lawsuit claims.
No teacher was in the room at the time, and because the class was in the basement, there was no cellphone service. The student “took heroic unilateral action and got the other students out of the room and held the door shut from the outside while another student ran for help,” Passarello wrote in the filing.
The lawsuit contends that when the math teacher was found, the teacher did not believe the student witness’ “screams for help in what was nearly an active shooter situation.”
When the teacher walked into the classroom and found out the student was not lying, the juvenile with the gun handed it off to another male student who ran from the classroom, the lawsuit said. Once outside, the second male student allegedly ditched the gun in some bushes before police arrived and took the two male students into custody.
School district spokesman Paula Foreman said Thursday she was unaware of the latest filing but did confirm there was an incident where students were concerned and brought it to the attention of staff.
‘Weapon was found’
Foreman said action was taken immediately.
“A weapon was found,” Foreman said, adding charges were filed in the case, although she said she was limited on what she could say because it involved juveniles.
Altoona police, when asked about the incident earlier this month, said they were aware of the radio call about a gun on campus but had not responded. Altoona police Lt. Jeffrey Pratt said the incident was handled by Altoona Area School District police.
On Thursday, Foreman confirmed that the school district’s police handled
the investigation.
“The student is no longer a student,” Foreman said without elaborating.
Foreman also said the district followed up with the students involved in the June 22 incident, something Passarello disputed in the filing.
Notification in dispute
According to the lawsuit, the district did not contact the parents of the juvenile witness who was threatened and the witness’ mother only learned of it from a counselor with a private business who happened to be at the school the day of the incident.
The lawsuit also claims “no lockdown message or other emergency message was ever sent to the parents of the children in the building that date despite policy to do so.”
The district’s police officers did use metal detector wands the following Monday but not after that, Passarello asserts in the filing.
Foreman said as far as notifying the public of the incident at the time, the district is limited because the actors were juveniles, but they do contact parents directly affected.
“The hard part is — what we struggle with is — people want details, and we just can’t release details,” Foreman said.
What details were provided even school board members is unclear.
School Board President Dutch Brennan said there are a lot of rumors that come past the board members but nothing specifically like that.
Brennan reacted with surprise when told about portions of the lawsuit regarding the June 22 incident.
“If it was spelled out like that, then I am pretty confident we would have been told,” Brennan said, adding that he would call Superintendent Charles Prijatelj immediately after the call with the Mirror was over.
Board member Sharon Bream initially sounded surprised by the Mirror’s inquiry but declined to comment.
“I think you need to talk to Dr. Prijatelj about that. I can’t comment on that,” she said.
On Thursday, Prijatelj confirmed that there was a juvenile case, but he had not seen Passarello’s version of the events.
“There is a juvenile case. I will give you as much information I can without violating privacy. There was a child coming to summer school, June 22. On the break between the first and second sessions (of summer school) the child showed other children a pistol outside the building. It was never inside the building,” Prijatelj said. “When those children came in, it never came into the building. They buried it outside in bushes. The students who were shown the gun immediately went to a teacher. That teacher told district police services director Bill Pfeffer, and district police recovered the gun and took the juvenile into custody.”
Prijatelj noted the male student was not present for the morning session and only arrived for the afternoon session.
He said he made the board aware of the juvenile case. He declined to talk about what he understood of the student’s intent with the gun, saying it would only be hearsay.
After hearing some statements from the complaint filed by Passarello, about the student threatening the victim inside the classroom resulting in a student-led evacuation, Prijatelj said the narrative in Passarello’s revised complaint never happened.
Regarding the information of the events involving the gun inside the school, Prijatelj said, “That’s up to Mr. Passarello to explain to you. As far as we know, that incident never occurred on our school grounds.”
Student not in district
“The student was taken into custody. And that child is no longer in this district, in fact, that child is no longer in this county,” Prijatelj said.
Without divulging specific details, Prijatelj said regular education students are expelled for such violations and special education students get a change
in placement.
“Because the student is no longer a resident, the carrying out of that (discipline) falls on the district he is attending. We handled this. … Adjudication of the child was handled through juvenile court. All those things are being dealt with according to current residence, which is not Blair County,” Prijatelj said.
Passarello’s complaint says there were two students involved with handling the gun. Prijatelj said he could not confirm or deny two students being involved.
“We only found one to be responsible,” he said. “I was here that day. His (Passarello’s) statements are conjecture.”
Prijatelj was asked to clarify whether he believed the witnesses in the complaint were lying.
“I’m saying that, to my knowledge — and I was here that day– Passarello’s facts are not true,” he said.
Prijatelj declined to provide the Mirror with the victim’s written statement that was mentioned in Passarello’s complaint, saying it was evidence.
Asked whether the public was made aware of the incident of a gun on campus and why not, Prijatelj referred to school policy and laws regarding juvenile offenses.
“Juvenile offenses are never published. It was handled. I am trying to speak with you as honest as is legally possible.”
By law, juveniles identities are not released to the public, but police departments routinuely release information to the media on incidents involving juvenile suspects, including details of the alleged crime, the age of the juveniles and the town where they live.
Foreman said the issue has been the subject of discussions, and it’s a tough decision as to when the public should be made aware of an incident.
“How do you weigh inciting more fear and panic if it was isolated and handled?” Foreman asked.
Foreman noted the students who alerted staff on June 22 did exactly what school officials want students to do when they see something.
“We’re grateful the kids seem to be reporting things they are seeing,” Foreman said.
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Storytelling and MCH: A Conversation with Andy Goodman
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Professional Coaching: An Innovative and Promising Leadership Development Approach for MCH Professionals
AMCHP Strategic Plan
The Community Guide Provides Important Resource on Evidence-Based Practices
The Importance of Sharing Emerging, Promising and Best Practices with the MCH Community
Teen Pregnancy Prevention: Dr. Frieden Charges National and Local CDC Grantees to Help Reduce Teen Births
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State Transition Results for Youth with Special Health Care Needs
Promoting Innovations in Adolescent Health Care
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Meeting the Promise of ACA: How Bright Futures Is Being Used by State MCH Programs
NICHQ Joins the Collaborate for Healthy Weight Initiative to Combat Childhood Obesity
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AMCHP > About AMCHP > Newsletters > Pulse Newsletter > Archive > 2011 > June 2011 > NICHQ Joins the Collaborate for Healthy Weight Initiative to Combat Childhood Obesity
By Charlie Homer
National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ)
Shikha Anand, MD
Physician Champion
“It was impossible to choose one thing to work on, because this isn’t just a project. This is about changing attitudes throughout the entire community. As a pediatrician I’ve learned that you can’t make meaningful change for children unless you involve their families, their schools, and their communities. And that’s exactly what we’re trying to do.”
Dr. Marsha Raulerson is a pediatrician in Brewton, AL with whom NICHQ has worked through our Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supported program to train health care professionals in community advocacy. After caring for obese children for years, she recently teamed up with Mim Gaines, Director of Nutrition and Physical Activity for the Alabama Department of Public Health in Montgomery to co-lead Healthy Community, Healthy Children. Through this initiative, the two have engaged diverse partners including: the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) to create six community gardens; the Brewton Area YMCA to create safe and appealing outdoor spaces for exercise, including walking trails that connect the parks and green spaces; and the Brewton School Board to convert an old school into a community center. The Brewton team believes the success they have achieved occurred only because they were able to establish meaningful partnerships across diverse stakeholders.
Obesity is a leading preventable cause of death nationwide. Disadvantaged and underserved communities are disproportionately affected. As a multi-faceted public health issue, obesity requires a multi-sector approach to resolve. Reversing this trend will require concerted, collaborative effort by diverse stakeholders including families, clinicians, government and community partners. Ongoing national efforts, such as the first lady’s Let’s Move Initiative, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation activities and numerous others reflect the importance of such partnerships. For example, Let’s Move calls on parents, kids, chefs, elected officials, community leaders, schools, and healthcare providers to make positive change in communities.
At NICHQ, we are collaborating with the Heath Resources and Services Administration on the Collaborate for Healthy Weight Initiative, a trans-federal, public-private effort to promote healthy weight and health equity across the country. Along with a core set of consortium partners —including AMCHP — and a larger group of partners from federal agencies, community, public health, and primary care, we are launching a nationwide Healthy Weight Collaborative to support at least 50 multi-sector, place-based teams from across the country (soon starting initially with 10 experienced teams). Teams, facilitated by partners and other experts, will work together to implement evidence-based changes within their communities. By leveraging partnerships between primary care, public health, and community agencies, teams will engage in a variety of activities and interventions to help local communities, states and other interested groups develop practical approaches that link public health and primary care to prevent and treat obesity for children and families. These approaches will focus on strengthening community partnerships, promoting healthy eating and active living through environmental change, and delivering effective services to those in need.
“It’s bigger and better than we ever imagined it would be,” says Dr. Raulerson of their community mobilization. By promoting partnerships that combine public heath and other agencies within a community, we at NICHQ hope to spread the success seen in Brewton to communities across all 50 states.
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Is This "Top 10" List Worthy of Aviation Late Night Television?
By Dan Pimentel,
Airplanista Blog Editor
Sometime in about the third year of every boy's life, it happens. Their career path as an adult is etched in their brain for all time, and with a few exceptions, if you ask most three-year-old boys what they want to be when they grow up, the answer is always the same:
Grinning wide, the tot will look up at you and with great seriousness, tell you it'll be fireman, astronaut, cowboy or airline pilot. While the first three can be debated and the answers vary widely, it is almost a foregone conclusion that all young boys - and even a few girls - want to be airline pilots. I know one that did...me.
Now, 54 years later, is it any surprise that I STILL want to be an airline pilot? Of course, that isn't going to happen, because I can't afford the schooling and time-building it would take just to get an interview with a carrier. And once I got in the room, they'd take one look at my middle-aged self and realize in an instant that with mandatory retirement looming, the money it would take to train me to be a good little line pilot would be a really sorry ROI.
But if I throw out all reality, there are a number of very cool aviation jobs I'd love to have:
10. Airline Pilot: Yes, what private stick wouldn't really want to be at the controls of a 747 as it carried several hundred souls on a Great Circle route over the North Pole en route to Europe? Even a left seat job driving CRJ-700s might be a rewarding way to fill the bank account once you worked through that bitter period where you fly right seat on a dinky regional and they pay you just a few bucks over minimum wage because they know your only goal in life at that point is to build time.
9. Charter pilot: Sure, you spend a lot of time lounging around FBOs, surfing the Internets on their free wi-fi, eating free cookies and waiting for the boss to finish gladhanding downtown. But look at all the awesome hardware you get to fly! And having the honchos in back change up the trip mid-flight so they can get in nine holes in Florida (or Hawaii) would keep you at the top of your piloting/flight planning game.
8. Airshow performer: What a wild life you'd have, hopping from airshow to airshow, wringing out your Edge 540 to the adoring throngs of fans below. Yes, you mostly live in hotels for a good amount of the year, and yes, you damned well better be in great physical shape which means you're in the gym whenever you're not tail-diving out of a Hammerhead. Oh, and you get to go to Oshkosh every year, how sweet is THAT?
7. Astronaut: What a rush it would be to blast off at the Cape and go floating around space for a couple of weeks. Enjoy spacewalks in the morning, a lunch of Tang and dehydrated Pork and Beans, closing out the day in the cocktail lounge aboard the ISS. Look a few years out and you'll get to pilot a yet-to-be-designed spacecraft up to the moon, hauling freight for all the new neighborhoods that will be going up. Hopefully, there will be no SUVs among that cargo.
6. CEO of a major airframe manufacturer: Now THIS is living! Jetting off to Miami for a morning board meeting, smoozing with ultra-high rollers in Vegas for lunch before slipping into something more comfortable...like Maui, after hours. Somewhere in there, you force yourself to make a few tough decisions, and come up with new ways to justify your $34 million annual salary.
5. President of AOPA: Who wouldn't want to lead such an important organization? AOPA is the most valuable asset GA has right now, and what a joy it would be to wake up every morning, strap on the gloves and head over to D.C. on the a.m. train to duke it out with the clown posse up on The Hill. And a huge bonus is the exceptional staff at AOPA HQ that you get to surround yourself with!
4. Burt Rutan's personal assistant "back in the day": What right-minded pilot wouldn't have wanted to be a fly on the wall in Rutan's world back in the Voyager days? You KNOW he has one guy or gal who is welded to him at the hip, someone who knows everything about everything that is going on at the Rutan Skunk Works. We all know that the stuff Rutan comes up with blows our mind, and with commercial space travel just around the corner, even in "retirement" you can bet the farm he has more than we know about going on down there in Mojave.
3. Boeing sales guy: You walk into the room, wearing a $5,000 Brooks Brothers suit, with a couple of beautiful female “assistants” wearing tight black 787 shirts following. One – a tall, blonde number from Sweden – carries your fine Italian briefcase, while the other – an ex-Laker girl that could stop traffic – carries a stack of jetliner order forms. Before you can even sip the free scotch they're offering you, the bigwigs from the airline are clawing at those order forms, shouting “more, more more!” It's your Dreamliner and 777X they're after, baby, and they can't get enough. Life as a Boeing sales rep these days is about that sweet, at least it is in my wild imagination.
2. EAA Media Relations Guru: O.K., we all know Dick Knapinski, EAA's Director of Media Relations, is not going anywhere, he is a fixture at EAA HQ. The guy manages to stay cool during the most intense week of the aviation year, juggling 1,000 camera crews sometimes while Mother Nature slaps Central Wisconsin upside the head. But can you even IMAGINE how cool it must be to live, eat, sleep and breathe Airventure 12 months of the year? Sure, the historically large Wisconsin mosquitoes and winter snow drifts would prevent me from living IN Oshkosh, but as a long-time media guy, it has to be a thrill a minute to be on the "inside" of Airventure. Yeah, Dick's job must be way cool, until you have to write the press release that announces all those good people with paid reservations for Camp Sholler have to camp over at the abandoned Sears parking lot because of "Sloshkosh" or some other unforeseen disruption.
1. What I'm doing right now: As I try to live in the present and not look back on the "what if" of yesterday, I am content doing my current gig...aviation writer for FOUR magazines, ad agency president, graphic designer and ad campaign developer. Am I too busy? Hell yeah. But it's a good busy...and I will take busy over sitting around, head in hands, waiting for the next little job to come in so I can pay the rent.
What is your fantasy aviation job? Head over to Twitter and tell the #Avgeek world.
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Welcome to our virtual cooking school on BakeSpace. This is a place where students, alumni and fans of Le Cordon Bleu Schools in North America and Kitchen Academy can hang out, swap stories and share recipes. We invite you to join our network of friends and be the first to see what's cooking! Check out our recipes below. ________________________________________________________ function OpenFlash() { options = "location=no,menubar=yes,resizable=no,"; options += "scrollbars=no,status=no,toolbar=no,"; options += "height=500,width=850"; url = "/make-your-dish.html"; window.open(url,"",options); } TEST YOUR CULINARY SKILLS: ________________________________________________________ If not now, when? Have you ever dreamed of owning your own restaurant or bakery? Looking for challenging recipes that will take your cooking/baking to the next level? Want to impress your friends by whipping up a gourmet meal effortlessly? Have you ever thought of attending culinary school? 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Moving from introduction to mastery of breads, confections, plated desserts, doughs, cakes, decorating and more, students can use their Kitchen Academy experience to help them pursue careers in roles in a professional kitchen that may include pastry chef, confectioner, cake decorator and caterer. ________________________________________________________ ANSWERS TO THE CELEBRITY CHEF QUESTIONS: Answer #1: Marcel Boulestin was the first television cook when he presented the first of the Cook's Night Out programs on BBC on January 21, 1937. Julia didn't appear on TV until 1962 when she appeared on a book review show on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station of Boston, WGBH, led to the inception of her television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to cook an omelet. Hector Boiardi is better known as Chef Boyardee, but he didn't become a television icon until the company's commercials ran. Answer #2: While Julia did write Julia's Declicious Little Dinners, she did not write Julia's Delicious Little Kitchen. If you said My Life in France, that was her 2006 autobiography. It was compiled by her and Alex Prud'homme, her husband's grandnephew, during the last eight months of her life, and completed and published by Prud'homme following her death in August 2004. Answer #3: Nigella Lawson - the other three chefs (Child, De Laurentiis and Batali attended Le Cordon Bleu. ________________________________________________________ Culinary School Q & A 1) I love to cook and my family says that I really am talented. Do I need to go to school to become a chef? Not everyone who works as a cook or chef has formal culinary training, but a good education can help establish and solidify skills that might make you a more desirable employee. Individuals who invest in their career and attend a culinary arts or hospitality school might have increased opportunities for advancement. 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Business As Unusual: How To Turn A Profit From Doing Good
Jennifer MacKenzie March 2, 2014
This week in Dubai, a game-changing approach to business is bringing together leaders of groups as disparate as financial services giant J.P. Morgan, retailer TOMS, and international NGO Water.org. The magnet is SOCENT Week, a series of panels and networking events designed to share best practices of social entrepreneurship in order to guide the public towards fulfilling the same mission of “creating sustainability, encouraging social innovation, and re-investing in the community,” explains its co-founder Fereshteh Amarsy.
Panels will focus on everything from the environment and healthcare to fashion and architecture, with success stories including TOMS’ “One-for-One” sales model, which pushes a portion of profits into distributing shoes in 60 countries and restoring sight in 13. The Hult Prize competition will meanwhile task students with preventing disease in slums.
Awareness of social entrepreneurship’s potential has certainly come a long way. Five years ago, when Baraka Advisors’ communications strategist Rama Chakaki said that the company was supporting social entrepreneurs, “the public’s reaction was, ‘What’s that?’” she recalls. Chakaki, also a co-organizer of SOCENT Week, says she is now “delighted to see growth and a real, vibrant community come together.”
Co-organizer Medea Nocentini agrees that the number of global leaders participating in the second annual edition “is a sign that the sector is attractive for investors, and that we’re gaining credibility as a region in that sense.”
For more info – http://socentweek.me/
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Poet, writer and teacher Jennifer MacKenzie grew up on Bloomcrest Dr. in Bloomfield Hills, MI, which inspired her to wonder about places with patterns other than floral. Following her education at Wesleyan University's College of Letters and the University of Iowa's Writers Workshop, she followed a zig-zag course that included a pilgrimage across the top of Spain and a long sojourn in Syria in pursuit of the language of Muhammad al-Maghout and Moudthaffar al-Nawwab. While in Damascus she completed the books of poems "Distant City" and "My Not-My Soldier" (forthcoming from Fence Books) and edited the magazine Syria Today. Her poems and essays can be found in numerous journals including the Kenyon Review online, Guernica, Quarterly West, and Lungfull. She currently lives in New York.
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Queer Highlights of the Film Festival!
With the help of FIN Program Director Jason Beaudry, Wayves presents a comprehensive list of queer cinema you can't miss.
Splinters
This film is directed by queer filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald and is based on the life of queer playwright Lee-Ann Poole.
It shows the struggle of Belle, who told her Conservative mother she was a lesbian in her teens. Now, she comes home to Nova Scotia for her dad's funeral, and has to tell her mother that she's in a relationship with a cis man.
Playing Thursday, Sept. 13, 7 p.m. -- Rebecca Cohn Auditorium. Seats are limited.
PLAIRE, AIMER ET COURIR VITE (SORRY ANGEL)
Jacques is a nearly-40 Parisian writer who falls in love with student Arthur. But will their love last? This comedy-drama shows the difficulties of relationships when two people are so far apart on what the future might hold for them.
Presented in French. Playing Friday, Sept. 14 at 9:40 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
This documentary focuses on Studio 54 -- a 1970's nightclub that was a safe haven for LGBTQ+ people and marked the era. It follows the co-owners Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, and shows the ups and downs of the club business. This full-length documentary is set to tell the true story of this historic New York Club.
Playing Saturday, Sept. 15 at 9:40 -- Park Lane Cinemas
This film, directed by Sam Levinson -- son of the famous Barry Levinson -- follows high school senior Lily and her friends when someone starts posting private texts and digital content of people in their small town. People get murderously angry, and like the FIN program says, a "Category 5 shitstorm" occurs, with Lily right in the centre.
Playing Sunday, Sept. 16 at 8 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
JUST BE GEMMA
This documentary looks at Gemma Hickey's gender transformation and her struggles as she moves forward. The St. John's, NFLD activist is knowing for co-leading a same-sex marriage legalization movement in Canada and is the founder of Pathways. This film is a raw look into her journey.
Playing Monday, Sept. 17 at 4:30 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
LOVE, SCOTT
This documentary follows Scott Jones, a gay musician who is attacked in small-town Nova Scotia, and paralyzed from the waist down. His journey of healing is chronicled here, and Jones moved toward forgiveness and acceptance on-screen. This is a difficult, raw film playing in two theatres during its premiere, and shows this man's anti-homophobia campaign Don't Be Afraid, and his push to take his life back.
This acting showcase stars Keira Knightley as Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, who marries a successful Parisian writer. But when she ghostwrites for her husband and her story becomes a best-seller, she begins to fight for the credit that is rightfully hers. In a clash over gender roles, Colette begins to revolutionize her life and express herself in every way possible, including sexually. Featuring a strong female lead and a fearless performance, this will be one to watch for.
Playing Monday, Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
This feature film about Lizzie Borden shows the passionate relationship that develops between herself and live-in maid Bridget in 1892. However, Lizzie's difficulties with her family makes her feel closed in, and is sure to bring things to an enthralling conclusion. With queer performers Chloe Sevigny and Kristen Stewart on board, this is sure to be an eloquent feature.
Playing Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 4:10 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
This film is based on a two-woman play by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, and is about a writer attempting to reconcile her feminism with the "conformist choices" of her mother following her death. There's this consistent conflict between progress and regression in the film, and between cultural values.
Playing Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
THE HEAT: A KITCHEN (R)EVOLUTION
This documentary follows the injection of women now taking the helm of restaurants and kitchens in an industry previously dominated by men. With brutal hours, difficult conditions and a rough nature, women are breaking through and changing the culture of kitchens they run.
This about "a generation unwilling to submit" to things that were once considered normal for the job.
Playing Wednesday, Sept. 19, at 4 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
This film -- a triple threat from gay actor Rupert Everett -- sees him writing, directing and starring in his passion project. It chronicles the last three years of the life of flamboyant, in-your-face Oscar Wilde, the famous writer and storyteller. It's a raw, intimate crowd-pleasing film and may just be a crowning work for star Everett, and another solid one in the canon for Colin Firth.
Playing Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
THE FRUIT MACHINE
This touching film about the purge of homosexuals in the military and public service sectors of Canada should be a deeply emotional tale. Those who went through the 40-year "witch hunt" are speaking out about living in a society that cast LGBTQ+ people aside. Timely and provocative, The Fruit Machine features sadness, anger and everything in between.
THE ICE KING
This is the story of John Curry, an Olympic ice skating winner in 1976, and the first openly gay Olympian. It tells his difficult story, and portrays the man as the conflicted, at times contradicting person he truly was. His story -- on and off the ice -- is told in great detail here.
Playing Thursday, Sept. 20 at 6:40 p.m. -- Park Lane Cinemas
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POSTED: January 22 2018 18:36:33. By Keith Long - Junior Section Match Details 20th January 2018
A mixture of Rain, Sleet and Snow forced the postponement of a large percentage of games within the Junior Section but four teams were in action.
Beechfield United Under 11's Typhoon (9v9) struggled against a very good and physical Moorside Rangers Blue outfit. In the Development Group Blue Division United were largely outplayed for most of the game but the Beechy boys worked hard to contain their opponents. Rangers single goal proved to be the match winner but Beechy created a few late chances to score an equaliser. The game was played on the all weather surface at Albert Park and named Typhoon's Man of the Match was defender Milonga Mututa following a dynamic performance.
The Under 10's Tornadoes were in action on an Astroturf Pitch at Salford Sports Village. This Development Group Red Division fixture was played at a fast and furious pace throughout. Beechy player Joel Thorndyke netted the games only goal while chosen as the Tornadoes Man of the Match was Oliver Percival.
At the Trafford Soccer Dome the Under 8's Tornadoes played a friendly match against AFC Monton Lions. Despite having no substitutes the Tornadoes produced a great all-round display and were gracious in defeat. Stewart Kay with a brace and Daire Cox got the goals plus there was an inspired performance from goalkeeper Oliver Wood who was named Man of the Match.
In the Development Group Red Division Beechy Under 7's Storm's latest match was away against Salford Juniors. The Storm's Star Player Award went Charlie Pugh and on target with both goals was Harry Wallis.
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Miketz
"at the end of"
(28 Kislev 5775 - 20 December 2014)
This week’s par’sha is entitled Miketz. It spans B’reshith 41.1 through 44.17 and continues the story of Yosef’s time in Mitsrayim. Miketz means at the end of, but this is certainly not a reference to the end of Yosef’s time in Mitsrayim. As the par’sha opens Yosef is about to come to the end of his time in prison after being falsely accused of trying to seduce Potiphar’s wife. In just a matter of days, if not hours, Yosef would be promoted from a Hebrew prisoner and servant of the captain of the guard41.12 to the second most powerful man in all of Mitsrayim - second only to Pharaoh himself. Can you imagine how this made the captain of the guard feel? Here was a young, thirty-year old Hebrew man who had been his prisoner one day and his commander the next day.
Thinking of what must have been going through this captain of the guards’ mind made me think of what Yosef must have thought all these years. As I’ve mentioned before, we have a tendency to read about the lives of the men and women of the Tanakh and see them as great men and women of Elohim, blessed with tremendous strength, wisdom and endurance. While their lives reflected their tremendous love and devotion to Elohim, Scripture also reveals their weakness, fears, and even confusion at times. There were times, even in their lives, it seems that they didn’t fully understand what Y-H-V-H was doing in their lives or why certain things had to happen to them. Yosef’s live is a prime example of this.
We learned in last week’s par’sha (V’yeshev, B’re. 37.1 - 40.23) that Yosef was just seventeen years old when Ya’akov finally settled in the land. Like his brothers, he was a shepherd, but unlike his brothers, he brought evil reports about them to their father. Though we aren’t told, we believe most of these reports were factual, which caused strife between Yosef and his brothers. We also aren’t told if Yosef first warned his brothers about their behavior before reporting to their father. Was he a spoiled young man like many believe, or was he genuinely concerned about his brothers?
Ya’akov’s mother had loved him more than Esau because he had been a complete man, dwelling in tents25.27 - a euphemism for one who spent his time studying and living Y-H-V-H’s Word. We know that Yosef was the son of Rachel, Ya’akov’s most loved wife. We are also told that one of the reasons Ya’akov loved him more than the others was because he was the son of his old age37.3, but then Binyamin had been born after Yosef - when Ya’akov was even older. Could one of the reasons Ya’akov loved Yosef more than his other sons be because Yosef demonstrated the same love of Y-H-V-H’s Charge, just as he had had at his age? After all, we aren’t told Yosef behaved like a spoiled brat or that the evil reports that he brought were not justified.
What we are told is that his brother’s came to hate him because he told their father the evil things they were doing - things that obviously did not line up with Y-H-V-H’s Charge that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had guarded and taught to their children. Some of you may can emphasize with Yosef. Ever had people turn against you when you pointed out something they were doing, saying or planning was not in agreement with Y-H-V-H’s Will for their lives or went against His Word?
There is another interesting aspect to Yosef’s reports to his father. We are not told that Ya’akov ever acted on what Yosef told him. Instead, he made Yosef a special tunic, which angered his brothers even more. If Yosef was indeed a young man studied in Torah, what did he think about Ya’akov’s not acting on his reports?
The dreams created an even larger gulf between the brothers and while Yosef might have expected his brother’s response, his father’s response must have surprised him. He was the son Ya’akov loved more than all the others and yet, when he told Ya’akov about the second dream, his father rebuked him. Instead of taking him seriously, though we are told Ya’akov guarded his word37.11, he rebuked Yosef.
Soon after this Ya’akov sent Yosef to check on his brothers and their flocks. Once he arrived at their camp, Yosef found himself in the bottom of a pit in the wilderness after begging his brothers not to do what they were doing to him. If he hadn’t realized how much his brothers hated him, he certainly did now.
His first twelve years in Mitsrayim were hard ones. Even so, he recognized the hand of Elohim directing his life. Sold as a slave, Y-H-V-H blessed him. As Yosef prospered, so did Potiphar’s house. Yosef was soon appointed head of all that Potiphar owned. But then, as Yosef began to grow and prosper, disaster struck and he found himself falsely imprisoned. As he refused Potiphar’s wife’s advances. He had respected his earthly master, but even more, he had respected Elohim.
Imagine how demoralizing that must have been. For the second time in his life the people closest to him had turned on him and he had lost everything he had. He was at rock-bottom again. Those who have been to that place - rock-bottom - can certainly understand the pain and depression he suffered.
Ten years later we catch a glimpse of his suffering. As he learned of the cupbearer and the baker’s dreams, he told them, Do not interpretations belong to Elohim? Relate them to me, please.40.8 Even after ten years in prison, his belief and trust in Elohim was still true - and Elohim honored his faith. He gave Yosef the interpretation of their dreams and Yosef’s hopes of being released started to grow. He told the cupbearer, …remember me when it is well with you…mention me to Pharaoh…for truly I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews. And I have done naught that they should put me into the dungeon.40.14-15 But, once he was free, the cupbearer forgot about Yosef and he spent another two years in prison. It’s not hard to imagine how his hope grew dimmer and dimmer as the days passed by. He had put his hope in a man and that man had failed him.
Ever been there? Ever found yourself in a place you didn’t belong, suffering for reasons you didn’t understand? Ever put your faith in someone you had once helped only to have them forget you when you needed them? If so, perhaps you can empathize with Yosef.
Of course, I would be amiss if I didn’t ask the other side of the coin. Ever failed someone who had been depending on you? Remember that feeling?
Now, two years later, Yosef is summoned from the prison and brought before Pharaoh. The cupbearer had finally remembered Yosef after Pharaoh himself had had two dreams. Here was Yosef’s chance: interpret these dreams and he would be home free. But once again, after all he had suffered, Yosef didn’t hesitate to tell the Pharaoh the truth: It is not in me, let Elohim answer Pharaoh with peace.41.16 It is clear, Yosef preferred to run the risk of being returned to prison rather than take credit for something only Elohim could do through him. Yosef would not edify himself, only His Father in the Heavens.
His trust in Y-H-V-H was rewarded. He interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams and he had been so impressed that he made Pharaoh the second most powerful man in the world, subject only to Pharaoh himself. He was given a wife that bore him two sons and it is in the names of his two sons we may get a glimpse into Yosef’s heart.
His first son he named Menashsheh, For Elohim had made him forget all his toil and all his father’s house.41.51 The shoresh of Menashsheh’s name is nashah נשׁה, which means to forget; to give up rights. And consider the things Yosef said Elohim had enabled him to forget:
all his toil. Toil is from עמל, which refers to hardship, labor, misfortune or worry. Being a slave, being falsely accused, prison - all that was behind him now. He was living a blessed life.
but he also said Elohim had enabled him to forget all of his father’s house. He had gotten beyond what his brother’s had done to him. He had forgotten what had been taken from him as the son of a wealthy man and one of Isra’el’s patriarchs. It seems as if Yosef was had finally found peace. Some of us can relate to this experience as well.
But we should not overlook an important point in this passage. This son’s name meant Yosef had forgotten all of his father’s house. All - from the shoresh כלל, means complete by including everything - or in this case everyone. This would include his father as well and here is the glimpse that we get into the depths of Yosef’s suffering. Why had he had to forget his father? Did he somehow fault his father for what he had been through?
As the number two man in all the land, why had he never tried to sent word to his father that he was alive?
To the best that he could know, why had no one come searching for him for the past twelve years?
Had his father known what his brother’s were planning? After all, his father had rebuked him for his second dream and then sent him to his brothers knowing how much they hated him.
It is obvious that whatever Yosef suspected or believed, he had suffered considerably. Remember the pain of having a family member turn on you? Have you ever had to forgive family members - even if they haven’t asked for forgiveness? Yosef was able to forgive his family, but he also tells us why: For Elohim had made him forget… Yosef relied on Elohim’s strength and mercy to forgive and forget what people - especially family - had done to him.
He named his second son Ephrayim, For Elohim had caused him to be fruitful in the land of his affliction. Mitsrayim was not his home; his home, his inheritance, was the land of Isra’el - his father. The shoresh of Ephrayim’s name is פרה and means to be fruitful or to flourish.1 No matter his position or authority, Mitsrayim would never be his land and it appears the Mitsrites would never let him forget that fact either.
In B’reshith 43.32 we are told, for the Mitsrites could not eat food with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Mitsrites. The Mitsrites knew Yosef, despite having a Mitsrite name and dressing as a Mitsrite, was a Hebrew. Even though he was second only to Pharaoh in the land, they still would not eat with him. Verse thirty-two begins by telling us that the Mitsrites set Yosef a place by himself and them (the brothers) by themselves, and the Mitsrites who ate with him by themselves. Yosef was a Hebrew: he ate different, lived different and served a different Elohim and only One Elohim, not that the thousands of mighty ones the Mitsrites had created to worship. Yosef just couldn’t be a part of their world - even if he had wanted to.
How many understand what that is like? How many of you are not accepted or don’t fit in with those you work with every day, or other friends, even family, because you choose to serve the only True Elohim and follow his ways? Do you think you could ever feel as isolated and set-apart as Yosef must have felt? And yet, he remained faithful to Elohim. He stayed in the land of his affliction so he could accomplish what Y-H-V-H had ordained for him to do.
The seven years of plenty passed and the seven years of famine began. Two years into the famine Yosef saw his brothers for the first time in almost twenty years. Finally, after overcoming the pain and forgetting his suffering, here they were to remind him. At their first meeting the brothers had not recognized him - he had changed dramatically. He looked, dressed and spoke like a Mitsrite - but he has certainly recognized them. At first he dealt harshly with them and in this afternoon’s study we will explore some of the reasons why he may have treated them this way, but for now…
What would you have done? Standing before you are the ten men whose hatred and jealousy of you - all of which was probably unwarranted - had caused you so much pain and suffering. At the age of seventeen, all he could do was beg his brothers not to throw him into a pit in the wilderness, but now - now he was in the position to make them beg. He was in a position to punish; to exact retribution for what they had done to him. What would you have done? In fact, what have you done when you were in a position to pay back those who have harmed you?
It appears from Scripture that Yosef put his brothers through a series of test in order to see what kind of men they had become. He threatened them, called them spies, put them in prison for three days and then set them up to look like thieves before finally calling out to them and revealing himself to them.
While some, maybe even most of us, would agree with Yosef’s handling of the situation, that’s not the way the Messiah handled what His brothers did to Him. He revealed Himself from the very beginning. He resisted any urge to punish those who were inflicting so much pain and suffering upon Him. He resisted the urge to accuse or berate and choose instead to forgive and restore them.
As we study the great men and women of the Tanakh we learn powerful lessons about how to live our lives according to Y-H-V-H’s charge from them. We draw strength from their pain, suffering and shortcomings as we realize that we are so much more like them than we often realize. But while we draw strength through studying their lives, we draw our example from the Messiah. We aren’t called to the standards of Avraham, Yitz’chaq, Ya’akov and Yosef - all though their standards were quite high. We are called to the standard our Messiah set - a man who was:
despised and rejected by men
a man of pains and knowing sickness
a man pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our crookednesses
and yet, though He was oppressed and afflicted…did not open His mouth.Yesh. 53.
We can empathize with Yosef, but we must emulate Messiah. It will not always be easy, as Yosef’s life certainly demonstrates, but it will always be necessary. In some ways it is so much easier for us. Yosef was alone through much of his suffering - as was the Messiah. We have each other - and that’s another lesson we dare not forget.
Yosef.
28 Kislev 5775
1 see T’hillim 128.3
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Happy Independence Day! ‘A nation alive, a people with pride. Belize at 25.'
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bemetu
Honorary Cruffy
gumagarugu
whe she got wong k from....is she a black chiney by birth or by injection??
"Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a mans last romance." - Oscar Wilde
Another Belizean Guest
Obsessive compulsive!!!!!!
Originally posted by tyshepp
You are an expert?
Certified.
Cant Get Right Guest
I just wahn someone too send me a calender
Go and get it CGR.
Originally posted by Another Belizean
I think on my next vacation I'm gonna go visit Ty and tear up Japan.
Besides last time I went they didn't have any. I got an old one.
If you are retarded to get banned from your own country than I guess you deserve to live in one you don't like. Or die.
All ah we da Belizeans!
The Most Honourable P.J. Patterson has accepted the invitation of Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Said Musa to join in the celebration of Belize’s 25th Independence Anniversary.
The Former Prime Minister of Jamaica is scheduled to arrive on the 13 September 2006 and will be participating in various activities planned for his stay in Belize. The highlight of Prime Minister Patterson’s visit will be the delivery of a lecture at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts entitled, The Significance of Independence to a Small State in the Caribbean.
Throughout his tenure in office, Honourable P.J. Patterson has had a clear vision for, and unwavering dedication to the integration of the Caribbean Community. Today, the manifestation of that integration is the Caribbean Single Market which became fully functional in Belize on 1 January 2006. Former Prime Minister Patterson was one of the few fortunate Caribbean leaders to have been involved in several of the Councils of the CARICOM over its almost 33-year history.
The ties between Belize and former Prime Minister Patterson span beyond belonging to the same regional grouping.
Belize is very grateful for Honourable P.J. Patterson’s immense contribution in the internationalization of Belize’s quest for a secure independence with its territory intact. As Foreign Minister of Jamaica in the critical years 1978 to 1980, he took a leading role in fighting for the rights of the Belizean people at the United Nations, in the Non-Aligned Movement and in the Commonwealth, and has since then been steadfast in supporting our continuing struggle to settle the Guatemalan claim in a peaceful and just manner.
In recognition of his sterling contribution and steadfast support to Belize and for his other regional accomplishments, the Order of Belize will be conferred on the Most Honourable P. J. Patterson.
The former Prime Minister will also address a luncheon of the business community at which he has agreed to speak about the CSME.
Belize celebrates in grand style on Sept. 10 &21
By Joseph Stamp Romero - Staff Reporter
As the country of Belize embarks on its 25th anniversary as an independent nation and the 208th anniversary of the battle of St. George’s Caye; this year’s September celebrations promises to be the nation’s most spectacular.
The events take place under the theme: A Nation Alive A People with Pride Belize at 25.
Twenty-eight-year-old Victor Cucul, a volunteer firefighter of Belmopan won the $1,000 prize money for selecting this year’s theme.
There were two other individuals who were given special mention. They are Stephanie Betancourt and Sheena Banner. The theme was chosen from among 49 other entries.
On Wednesday the celebrations calendar of events was launched at the House of Culture in Belize City.
On hand for the launch was celebrations Chairman Godfrey Smith who gave the opening remarks. Co-Chair Yasser Musa made the various activities a whole lot more inviting when he spoke about the events.
The celebrations officially opens on Friday, September 1 at the parking lot of the Bliss-Centre for the Performing Arts on Regent street.
On Saturday, September 2, the stage is set for the 61st annual Queen of the Bay pageant at the Belize City Centre. The official 10th day ceremonies take place on Monday, September 11, at the Memorial Park at 8:15A.M.
The improvements on the calendar of events are expected to be the catalysts that rejuvenate the festive spirit within Belizeans. For example the We are Belize Project, which opens on September 17 buy invitations only at the Bliss. The same event is opened to the public on the 18th and 19th.
The Belize City Council takes on a new addition-the Municipal Multi-Cultural Fair on September 10-11 at the former Belize Technical College grounds.
For a look at the sights and sounds of the celebrations visit www.septembercelebrations.com
sweet_lime
Old School Cruffy
...belize nuh got ONE dolla fi celebrate anything eena "grand style"....city council bruk, all town boards bruk, central govament bruk....we owe 2 BILLION dollars....
...only the teefing politicians got money....
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but the dust on my boots and the rythm of my feet and my heart say africa - vusi mahlasela
Ch 5:
Tony Wright releases patriotic CD
Just in time for the September celebrations, local musician Tony Wright has released a compilation of all his most patriotic songs. According to Wright, "September Feelings" is designed to fill listeners with national pride.
Tony Wright, Artist
“It’s a CD I put together from over the last fifteen years of my music. Every year I use to put a celebration song on each one of the album them and so this year, since it’s our twenty-fifth anniversary, I decided to bring out this album with all of the songs I did over the years concerning the celebration. This album has ten of the great songs them, specifically based with the celebrations songs them. September was a time when the artists and the people excel. It was a time when we get on the stage on show we selves you know. And it seems over the years it has been dying and dying, and we need to put it back because our young people them seem that they no really know which direction to go. It seems that they don’t really know what happened years gone by you know. So we need to get back. Well we no gwen back ina the past, but we need to let people know we had we culture, that September dah fi we thing. So that’s really what I want we bring back this September.”
"September Feelings" is available for ten dollars at gift shops and music stores across the country.
ilam96 Guest
i wuda really wah know weh belizeans gat fi be proud offa...?....jus di name?
Mosquitorose
Cruffy Queen Admin
Originally posted by ilam96
Weh di go ahn Illam....yu done jump ship nuh tru? hahahahahha..good fe yu
Love is a many splendid thing and food run a close second.
bzegirl
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You notice nuh rosy? The gial come da foreign and already losing her loyalty badge.
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Eschew THIS! (Leela Bruce takes on Richard Bausch)
These guys have learned to love.
Why do you have to be a h8er, Richard Bausch?
Making my fists tingle for the sweet taste of battered bad advice isn't usually something I can control. Someone just says some ridiculous prescription about what writing must entail (or not entail) and I immediately go into ass-kicking mode. I like to think I do it for the children--for all the young people out there who are trying to take a shot at writing and maybe don't have all the tools to filter through the advice that might not always apply to them...
Oh who am I kidding? That's a total lie. I do it because it feels really good to punch someone in the face who's just being self righteous about telling the world the way they write is the One True Way. And usually they are wrong. So they're actually being self wrongteous.
So when Chris Brecheen told me he was going to some political speech and could I tailor my Wednesday offering to a politics theme, at first I thought "Hey man, I can't can't control who deserves an ass kicking in a given month." But then he kept talking about some guy named Richard Bausch and his advice to "Eschew politics."
And I'll be damned if my fists didn't start to tingle.
Normally I only fight dead white guys, but since this is advice-centric, I can make an exception for someone who tells writers something so blatant as to actively avoid politics. So come at me Richard Bausch('s advice to eschew politics!)
I'm going to start with a sucker punch, just to throw this bad advice off balance. So I'll walk up and say "Oh my god! Richard Baucsh's advice to 'eschew politics'! I can't believe I'm actually meeting you. I'm your biggest fan! You have spoken so deeply to me. There were times when I really felt like joining the DNC, but then I remembered you and your advice, and I--"
BAM. Suckerpunch! This advice is in Richard Bausch's ten commandments to a young writer. Wanna know what the tenth commandment was? His last piece of advice? It was to ignore general advice. Advice as general as, say, his entire list. Advice like eschew politics. Yes, exactly like such advice. He even invites us to discard all other commandments if they get in the way of writing a good story. This almost makes me feel bad about the rest of the beat down to come.
I will now unleash the butterfly/bee dance/sting combo-move of pointing out that this is advice to a young writer--one just starting out in the world. Much like C.S. Lewis's similar advice, this must be considered when evaluating the whole. We tell young piano players not to mess with the pedals as well. That doesn't mean they never learn to use them. It just means that it can complicate the initial process. As a writer's sophistication grows, they can learn to love the flaws in humanity, and acknowledge the imperfection of a political party or political position without needing to give up that position completely.
Now that this bad advice is reeling a bit, I'm going to risk telegraphing a little so I can deliver a few Angry-Rhino punches. Reading Richard's advice, it is very clear he's talking about a writer's fiction, not a writer's whole life. He talks about historical backdrops to your story and offers the example of "if your character gives a speech with deeply held beliefs, make sure you don't believe a word of it." These are examples on the page, not from the writer's own life. Bausch isn't saying a writer can't be political, he's saying that a story shouldn't be political. That leads to didactic crap at best and rank propaganda at worst . But there's nothing to suggest that a writer can't be political themselves.
And let's be honest here. This isn't advice about how to write. Really, it's not. This might be advice about how to write honestly, or genuinely, or possibly even "well," but it's not advice about how to write. And it's certainly not advice about how to be a monetarily successful writer. Plenty of writers the world over, in every time and political climate, have done well for themselves by writing didactic literature and even propaganda. People will always pay to be told that they are right, and be patted on the head for what they already believe. Headbutt to the bridge of the nose!
Now that this advice is really weak and loopy, I'm going to start throwing kicks to end this, starting with a wheel kick to the temple. Hello? McFly? There's an entire genre of fiction called political fiction. I'm going to write that again. It. Is. Called. POLITICAL. FICTION. Do we think somehow that has eschewed politics? Did The Republic eschew politics? Brave New World? The Chocolate War? Animal Farm? No, these works were directly political. They didn't eschew politics! They slipped their hotel key into politics's front pocket and told it to give them ten minutes before coming up so they could put on something sexy. And then these authors and politics had a steamy rendezvous that involved strawberries and a flogger.
Okay, this crummy advice is just standing there, bleeding, so I can do a spinning camel hump death kick to the sternum. Bausch is a white male. White males have a greater latitude to avoid politics for the actionable results of politics are least likely to affect them. They have almost nothing to gain and very little to lose from engaging in politics--at least compared to people of color, women, or other marginalized groups. Politics can be extremely important if they are the most effective means one has to pursue equality or opportunity--which for many non-white male (het, cis) groups, they very much are. It's kind of like like most people who say there's "no difference between the two political parties" or salivate over Ron Paul's "brilliance" are almost always white, heterosexual, and predominantly male. To them, there probably isn't much of a difference because they're not vested in the fights that don't concern them. Ignoring the fight is easy when one doesn't have much of a stake in the outcome of it, but it's considerably harder when it involves someone directly. Make no bones about it, Richard Bausch lived in The South during the civil rights era, so he knows exactly what politics can do and exactly what a powerful force "eschewing" can be. That's why he says that writing about the personal impact and damage that "bad politics" has on people IS a part of a writer's job, and why he says totalitarians are rightfully afraid of such writers. Even his advice about eschewing politics admits that eschewing the personal impact of such politics would be bad advice.
Lastly, as I take this advice's broken body into my hand like a groom holding a bride to cross the threshold, lift my knee, and slam "eschew politics" down to snap its spinal column like a broomstick, I will point out that "politics" is a word of enormous breadth, but with the potential for incredible specificity. Artists often involve themselves in causes without necessarily entwining themselves in politics. Many artists today struggle for LGBT rights, but that doesn't mean they are volunteering to man the Democrats' phone banks. Artists relentlessly pursue truth, as Chris wrote about yesterday, and the truth of an issue can be political--depending on who wants that truth to come out....or who doesn't. But while artists' truths might be political, they rarely politicize them. As Bausch himself says: "The writers who have gotten into trouble with despots over the shameful history of tyranny did so because they insisted on not paying any attention to the politics except as it applied to the personal lives of the people they were creating. They told the truth, in other words, and refused to be political." What Bausch is describing is very much what we might today consider deeply within the realm of politics--be they identity politics or otherwise. So don't let the semantics of his advice fool you into being apolitical in you writing or in your lives. Just because he doesn't want your book to be the talking points of Mitt Romney's campaign doesn't mean you can't be political in context.
I end with Richard Bausch's own words, using them to deliver the ironic death blow: "The paradoxical truth of the matter is that a writer who pays attention to the personal life is subversive precisely because he refuses to pay attention to anything else." While this might seem to reinforce his idea to eschew politics, he is essentially providing the secret back door to be more political than anyone who speaks of it directly could possibly imagine.
Eschew politics is bad advice, until you take it with all the grains of salt and realize that what Bausch is really saying is..."so that you can do even MORE damage than politics ever could."
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Often times I wake up in the middle of the night and have trouble going back to sleep. Whenever that happens, I’ll turn on the radio beside my pillow. It never takes more than about 15 minutes of listening to lull me back to sleep.
This happened the other night and the show that my radio was tuned to was “Coast to Coast”…the show Art Bell created. They’re always talking about the super natural world such as UFO's, Big Foot, Shadow People, Out of Body experiences etc…..the kind of stuff that will put you to sleep in a New York minute.
Seems like they were talking about horror films and suddenly I hear a caller say something about a Charlotte North Carolina filmmaker named Harry Joyner!
Suddenly I was wide awake. The caller was saying Joyner never got the recognition that he deserved as an innovative movie maker, and sighted what he said was a 1973 ground breaking horror film titled “THE BODY SHOP.”
I remembered that Martin Hill had worked with Harry back in those days so I called Martin and he confirmed that Harry had indeed made a movie called “THE BODY SHOP” and in fact, Martin was the photographer for that movie. He even had character parts in several of Harry’s other films!
Searching the internet, I found this post:
Harry Joyner Under appreciated pioneer of film
"……You're very right about Harry. I too knew him and considered him a wonderful talent and a great man. He owned his own company and gave me my first job in my field. It was always an adventure there, one day you might come to work and find him bulding a model city out of cardboard boxes. The next day he might have been hosting a local filmmaker, and you'd find yourself watching the edits.
I lost touch with Harry, but saw him much later on the David Letterman show. He had made his own how-to movie about how to create special effects on your own home movies. Letterman showed portions of the video, didn't have Harry on his show directly. In Harry's inimitable style, perhaps a disdain for perfection, he sits behind his desk in his study, talking to the camera about whatever special effect he had demonstrated. While filming, the phone started to ring. Instead of stopping, answering the phone, or even unplugging it, Harry IGNORES it, just lets it ring. Letterman starts yelling at the tape, "Answer the phone! They're trying to order your video!" The audience howled with laughter!
Wow, just realized it's been 10 years since the world lost Harry. What a poorer place the world is. Miss you, Harry!
I'm not sure who wrote this, but I agree that we miss Harry too! Especially his sense of humor.
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Trains, toilet bowls & Superbowls: The story of a gastro-apocalypse
[WARNING:] The following story contains some rather descriptive passages about bodily excretions. Nothing perverted or twisted, just a rather detailed account of a Superbowl weekend gone horribly, horribly wrong. It is most certainly not for those among you who have delicate sensibilities, or particularly vivid imaginations. For that matter, anyone currently eating, anyone who has recently ate, or anyone planning to eat in the near future should also reconsider proceeding. With this in mind, enjoy.
This is actually my third attempt to write this up. It's a bit of a monster to wrestle down to an appropriate size. Take my word for it, it was a memorable weekend. The basic premise is that I, and a few of my buddies, got together to watch the Superbowl. Sounds simple enough right? Nothing out of the ordinary there. Certainly nothing that would irrevocably change the course of four men's lives for all of history. No no, just a few beers, some munchies, and double dose of the norwalk virus, and apparently, what was Via Rail's most unreliable piece-of-shit locomotive in their entire fleet. Allow me a moment to try to set the scene for you. I'll be using my friend's nicknames so as to preserve their privacy, and hopefully save what's left of their 'respectable' reputations.
January 26th, 2003; Superbowl XXXVII: A contest of skill between the Oakland Raiders, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A Superbowl significant if only for it's complete inability to garner any interest from the viewing public. Note worthy perhaps if only for the fact that it had the third lowest attendance recorded in Superbowl in history. An all star line up like the Raiders vs. the Buccs, and no one's interested? I can't begin to fathom why.
Our tale takes place in the snow-dusted surroundings of the quaint little village of Oshawa. Also known as the industrial heartland of Ontario's manufacturing industry, home to the largest collection of automobile manufacturing factories in Canada I believe. The principle characters in our little drama were:
"HeeMan"
"Big Al" (B.A.)
"Pedro"
"Mrs. Pedro"
Yours truly.
Heeman, B.A., and I took the train from Ottawa to Oshawa so that we could go visit Pedro who had volunteered to host the festivities. Sadly what we had failed to notice, was the diseased ladened Typhoid Mary who was sitting across the aisle from us. Like some sort of evil she-devil from a Shakespearean tragedy, this germ spreading old crone doomed our weekend before it even began. Hunched over, wrapped in blankets and wearing a tuque, she sweated profusely while seeming to shiver from the cold. It wasn't until approximately forty-eight hours later that I would fully comprehend the look of unmitigated misery that adorned the visage of this sickly bitch-beast.
The three of us arrived in Oshawa oblivious to our impending gastro-apocalypse, and proceeded to throw ourselves whole heartedly into the magic that is Superbowl weekend. That is to say, we began drinking. Dinner was consumed, bars were visited, ladies of questionable virtue were admired, large intimidating gang members were cautiously appeased, more beer was consumed, and eventually.... the first day of the weekend came to a finish.
We awoke the next morning in a dehydrated stupor, which was quickly remedied by an ancient curative known as "hair of the dog". Superbowl Sunday morning was something of a hungover lazy endeavour in which a lively game of Risk was engaged, fought over, and finally concluded in the only way a true game of Risk can be; anarchy and chaos. While we entertained ourselves, Mrs. Pedro had been up with the crack of dawn throwing herself with lively gusto into the task of preparing a feast without equal. I know that any description I may offer would fail miserably to do justice to the cornucopia of dishes layed out by our esteemed hostess, and to try would merely cheapen the achievement that she so gloriously wrought. That is to say good reader, there was a shit-load of food, as fate would later demonstrate ad nauseam. Mrs. Pedro had surprised, to say the least, all of us with the magnitude and the abundance of choices, and her efforts and accomplishments were very much appreciated and in NO WAY responsible for the horror that was soon to visit her happy, unsuspecting home.
It was soon revealed that B.A. was not feeling up to his normal, reliably durable, high standard of peak efficiency. Not one to normally be layed low by a mere hangover, his honest and sincere appeal for support and understanding was met with the only appropriate response. A chant of "Girly-boy! Girly-boy!" was soon livening up the house while we all enjoyed a good laugh at the expense of our soon-to-be-fallen comrade. If any of us had even the slightest insight into what was in store for us we would have called for an ambulance and an industrial strength power washer right then and there.
All too soon, game time was upon us, and the spectacle had begun. To this day, I can recall with perfect clarity the kick-off that began the penultimate showcase for the contrived glory of American football that is the Superbowl. I can remember it with perfect clarity, because that is the only portion of Superbowl XXXVII that I saw. Three minutes into the game, I began to notice an odd feeling below the safety line, as I call it. For those familiar with such things, I was in the first stages of what has been described in less-than-polite society as "a case of the gurgles". An affliction I once heard referred to in a children's rhyme as "rumble guts & rumble butts".
With an immediate sense of urgency, I ascended the stairs to the lavatory, and proceeded to attend to my rather pressing business. Once concluded, I congratulated myself on a disaster narrowly averted, and set off down the stairs to return to the party. It was then, that I became acutely aware that something was wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong.
When I say, "something was wrong" I don't mean it in an average Monday-to-Friday, regular day, common-use sort of way. I mean it in more of a - 'This is what inspired Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg to develop a scale to measure the magnitude of tectonic plate collisions' - sort of way. I mean it in a - 'Atheist-finding-God at the last second' - sort of way. I mean it in a - 'There's only one parachute left!' - sort of way. Have I sufficiently conveyed the scope of the situation? Is the magnitude of my all too late epiphany adequately established?
I had descended no more than a half dozen stairs before I turned and sprinted back up the steps only to arrive at my destination within the narrowest of safety margins. Where I had so recently patted myself on the back for a job well done, I once more took up the challenge that was before (or rather behind, as the case may be) me. Imagine my surprise when the task at hand, a task that I have no small amount of expertise in, presented itself not in it's well established familiar fashion, but rather a considerably less structured, down right fluid like, manner. Suffice it to say, that I met the challenge presented to me. I stood before my foe, and I was tested in the crucible of battle. I was found to be adequate to the task. I left that bathroom a changed man. Fearful of what I had seen and experienced, but elated that I had managed to survive it.
Unfortunately for all involved, that was not the last battle I would fight that evening. Nor was I alone in fighting the war against the dreaded foe. I can only recall what was the following twelve hours as a hazy blur of toilet bowls and puke buckets. B.A. and myself had been stricken with a variation of a norovirus, or the "Norwalk virus". Not to be melodramatic, but people have died from this in the past. I don't mind saying that I was reasonably well convinced that I was dying that very night. The thought occurred to me just how ridiculous a death it would be. To be found dead on a toilet bowl with a full puke bucket on your lap. Not the "blaze of glory" I had imagined in my youth to say the least.
Those twelve hours are easily the longest hours I have ever spent on this earth. While I set up residency in the basement bathroom, B.A. claimed the upstairs washroom as his new domain. Between the two of us, we occupied the only two lavatories in the house for a full half day. Twelve solid hours of violent expulsions from one end or the other adds up to a wicked case of dehydration. Irritatingly, our foe had the last laugh as neither one of us were able to keep water down for more than a few minutes before it came back up in horrendous stomach churning fashion. Needless to say, no one got any sleep in that house on Sunday January 26th, 2003.
Eventually, after what seemed like an eternity had passed, morning finally arrived. B.A., Heeman and myself were scheduled to return to Ottawa on a morning train. A journey that neither B.A. nor myself were all that eager to undertake. However, after the horrors we had visited upon Pedro & Mrs. Pedro's good house, we were keen to depart and leave the disheveled and obviously traumatized couple in peace. The symptoms of our affliction had not retreated entirely, but were no longer presenting themselves with the veracity of the overnight onslaught. With no other options available, we set out once more to travel the rails.
Clearly, a strategy was required. While our situation was dire, it was not hopeless. Heeman had already planned ahead that he would be getting off the train in before B.A. and I, in order to visit family. Thus, he was seated on a different car and was not present for the final leg of our journey. B.A. and I were to travel the remainder of the trip with out the safety net of a healthy companion, dangerous, but still feasible. Our plan was simple but effective. Rush the train with all available haste and claim the two seats closest to the washroom. If they were already occupied, beat unconscious anyone who may already be sitting in them and move their bodies to other chairs. With unfettered access to the washrooms, we were essentially guaranteed priority 'seating' as circumstances may dictate. The train soon arrived, and we put our plan into action.
Thankfully, the seats we coveted were unoccupied, and so a trip of leisure and convenience was all but assured. Or so fate would've had us believe. The train ride between Oshawa and Ottawa takes roughly four hours on your normal day. This particular day: Monday January 27th 2003, turned out to be the exception that proves the rule. Keep in mind, that during this trip, B.A. and myself were fooling absolutely no one. It was abundantly clear to everyone in our train car something was seriously wrong with us. Two large gents, who are gaunt and pale, sweating profusely, and seemingly down right territorial in regards to one of the two available bathrooms does not pass without notice. Wisdom prevailed, and they gave us a wide berth while trying to discretely ignore us.
Our situation was made infinitely worse however, when our chosen mode of transport broke down. Not once,.... not twice,... but three times. THREE [EXPLETIVE DELETED] TIMES! Before arriving at it's final resting place that god forsaken piece-of-shit locomotive broke down, and ceased all forward motion, on three separate occasions. Each unscheduled stop lasting longer than the last, until finally, "the little locomotive that couldn't" gave up the ghost in Brockville. Brockville. Nearly-an-hour-and-half-from-home Brockville. By this time, my travelling companion and I had entered a dehydrated trance-like state of exhaustion, only coming out of our daze long enough to crawl to the bathroom, conduct whatever business we needed to, and return to our respective seat. It was then that the conductor "apologized for any inconvenience", and announced that Via Rail, had arranged for a bus to come pick us up at the train station, and take us the rest of the way into Ottawa.
What choice did we have? None. None what so ever. We waited for the bus,.. hoping, praying, begging that it be a coach bus with an on-board bathroom. What did we care if we usurped it for the remainder of the trip? These other people could clearly see that we needed exclusive use of the bathroom, surely they wouldn't risk injury, nay death itself by putting themselves in our way. They were strangers to us. It's not like we asked to be in this condition, all we wanted was to go home. What pulled up was a modified cheese-box that so many of today's youth ride every day to and from school. A distinctly "no-frills" bus, free of any unnecessary clutter of modern convenience like seat belts, televisions... or more notably, bathrooms.
I'm not the most fit fellow you'll ever meet. I don't have washboard abs, or chiseled pecs, or tight glutes. I haven't run a marathon, and I don't know what the hell "upward dog" is, and I 'pre-load carbs' pretty much every day. Even so my friends, despite all of this.... I am convinced that my stamina is at minimum measured on an Olympic scale, if only based on the seemingly never-ending endurance test that was that bus ride. If I had to choose one single word to describe that exercise in agony it would be: "Clenched".
One hour, and twenty-seven minutes later, the bus pulled up to the Ottawa train station. I vaulted off the bus, body-checked a Via Rail attendant, and sprinted at near-light-speed to the nearest bathroom. As I rounded the corner to men's room, I noticed a small tiny yellow & black coloured sign hung on the door:
"Closed for cleaning"
I payed it no heed what so ever. I flung open the door, and quick-marched into the nearest stall and proceeded to let loose the wrath of hell itself on that previously pristine toilet bowl. A few minutes later, I exited the stall, and apologized profusely to the cleaning lady who had stood mop-in-hand for the duration. Transfixed in shock and horror at what she no doubt has had nightmares about ever since. My trial was over. I washed my hands, left the bathroom, retrieved my luggage, said my goodbyes to B.A., and went home.
While the symptoms were essentially over by the next day, it would be at least 3 days before I had the strength to get out of bed, and a full week before I or B.A. returned to work. I don't think I've ever been so dehydrated ever before. Part of the feast that Mrs. Pedro had prepared contained shrimp. Despite the obvious source of our illness (Typhoid Mary on the train ride down) I had made the association in my mind, and couldn't eat shrimp for at least five years after that. That's my story of the worst Superbowl ever. Go Niners!
- Unknown @ 21:14
Has nobody been able to slay Mary with those light sabres you guys carry?.... or this hunk of crap SDBOT-WK WORM!
it's been bustin' my balls. any help?
Larry Tate
Banerixat said...
@ Larry: Potato. Balloon on the porch swing with a top hat. Worms have been sending me handkerchiefs and post cards.
and the mome raths outgabe...
glad you got that "out of your system" as it were ;o)
Perspective is an odd thing...
Thanks for the memories BigGuy even if it is slightly on the exaggerated "I've got a sore tum" side..
Yours compassionately,
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Posted on May 26, 2018 May 19, 2018 by Rainey Wetnight
Chris Ruest – Been Gone Too Long | Album Review
Chris Ruest – Been Gone Too Long
Enviken Records
www.chrisruest.com
CD: 13 Songs, 39:05 Minutes
Styles: Guitar Monster Blues, 1950s-Style Blues
Sometimes the simplest things are the best: a walk in the park, a grilled cheese sandwich at a diner, catching up on TV shows after work. New England’s Chris Ruest, now based in Texas, knows this down-home truth and reflects it in his music. It’s classic 1950s-style blues Some of his guitar grooves are reductive, as on the opener, “I’m Goin’ Home.” However, the way to success in so many areas is to find a formula that works. Ruest isn’t trying to be an artiste, but to provide good, solid entertainment. He uses familiar beats (Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry’s on “Run Rudolph Run”) as a template for new lyrics. The only song that can be considered ‘out there’ is the final number, “Jive Talk” (reviewed below). Vocally, he’s in the middle of the talk-singing pack.
Chris doesn’t overact, so to speak, but there’s plenty of expression in his words. His new album, Been Gone Too Long, is perfect to use as background music for tasks one wouldn’t otherwise enjoy. It features two covers and eleven originals to make a baker’s dozen of tasty tunes.
According to his website, “The Connecticut native’s interest in guitar was encouraged by his father and his uncle, jazz musician Louis Mastrobattisto. Ruest began taking lessons at 15, hoping, rather typically, to emulate blues-based rock guitarists Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page, but soon discovered the artists who inspired them…After playing around CT between the ages of 17 and 25, Ruest resolved to make music his main priority, gave up his factory job, and relocated to Texas in 1999.
“Ruest’s band has opened for Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, Johnny Winter, Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets, and Little Charlie and the Nightcats. 2005 brought Ruest’s recording debut as a solo artist.”
Performing alongside lead vocalist and guitarist Ruest are Peter Fröbom on double bass; Mattias Hyttsten on drums; Gene Taylor on piano; Knock-Out Greg on harmonica; Billy Bremmer and John Lindberg on background vocals and guitar; Christian Dozzier on accordion; Martin Borgh on organ, and Chris Bergström on backup vocals and handclap. Guest stars include Marti Brom on female vocals for “Mind Out That Gutter” and Wes Race on vocal rap for “Jivetalk.”
The following songs will get people’s feet moving and their minds grooving.
Track 03: “Henhouse to the Doghouse” – This spicy rock-Zydeco stew is as flavorful as jambalaya, telling what just might happen if one has a fickle (and greedy) romantic partner. “From the henhouse to the doghouse in just about a minute or two, but I guess it’s just a lesson I’m learning from trying to make a living for you.” Dig Christian Dozzier’s awesome accordion.
Track 10: “I Quit” – Taking Chuck Berry’s lead on the riff and rhythm, number ten will have crowds at live festivals and indoor shindigs doing the Twist. When you’ve gone “From the Henhouse to the Doghouse” too many times, the title of this track is what you’ll be shouting. The clear highlight here is Gene Taylor’s barrelhouse piano.
Track 13: “Jivetalk” – Okay, this song’s a rap, but it’s worth it for the disses. The subject in question is someone who’s all jive and no juice. “Last week you were claiming you were still a big shot, but it’s like the hole in your mouth [uh, I think he meant ‘head’] is really all you’ve got. My, my, my…” Great harp here from Knock-Out Greg.
Been Gone Too Long doesn’t reinvent the wheel when it comes to blues, but it doesn’t need to!
CategoriesAlbum Reviews Tags1950's-Style Blues, Been Gone Too Long, Billy Bremmer, Chris Bergström, Chris Ruest, Christian Dozzier, Gene Taylor, Guitar Monster Blues, John Lindberg, Knock-Out Greg, Marti Brom, Martin Borgh, Mattias Hyttsten, Peter Fröbom, rainey wetnight, Texas, Wes Race
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Calvin 16 12 11 17 56
Trine 16 19 18 19 72
Pts: Kara Minderhoud - 15
Reb: Gabby Timmer - 13
Ast: 3 Players (#10, #11, #15) - 3
Pts: Brandi Dawson - 24
Ast: Cassidy Williams - 5
Calvin (9-10 overall, 4-6 MIAA) fought Trine to a 16-16 tie through one quarter of play and trailed 35-28 at halftime. The Knights trailed 53-37 late in the third quarter before rattling up eight unanswered points to trail 53-45 with 7:11 left to play. Ranked 10th nationally, Trine (17-2 overall, 10-0 MIAA) answered with a 7-0 run to build a 60-45 lead and retake control of the game.
The Knights were led in defeat by junior Kara Minderhoud (Grand Rapids, Mich./Covenant Christian HS) who tossed in a team-high 15 points off the bench as she was 6 of 7 from the floor while dishing out three assists. Freshman Gabby Timmer (Caledonia, Mich./South Christian HS) notched her eighth double-double of the season with 14 points and 13 rebounds.
Freshman Baylee GalanBrowne (Evergreen, Co./Evergreen HS) had nine points and four boards. Senior Becca Richards (Fort Gratiot, Mich./Port Huron Northern HS) and freshman Stephanie Coors (Evergreen, Co./Valor Christian HS) had eight points apiece with Coors grabbing six rebounds and collecting three assists.
Brandi Dawson led Trine with 24 points and six rebounds with Cassidy Williams chipping in with 13 points.
Calvin returns to action on Saturday when it hosts Adrian at 3 p.m. at Van Noord Arena.
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The Rosenbach Museum & Library announced today news of an important acquisition of two rarely seen portraits depicting Rebecca Gratz and her brother, Joseph Gratz, belonging to the beloved Gratz family. Canary is very excited to be working with the museum – a long-time media relations client – to share the news of these culturally significant portraits. The Gratzes were a prominent early American Jewish family who lived in and made many lasting contributions to both the Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania regions throughout the 19th century.
We encourage you to visit the Rosenbach Museum & Library in the coming weeks to experience these visually stunning portaits, an important addition to Philadelphia’s art world, and explore the history and legacy of Rebecca Gratz and her family to our city. To learn more, check out today’s Philadelphia Inquirer which includes a great spread detailing this remarkable story by culture writer Stephan Salisbury, Rosenbach acquires portraits of Gratzes, or view our press release online.
Philanthropist, social activist, and Jewish leader Rebecca Gratz (1781– 1869) painted in 1831 by Thomas Sully. As the founder and secretary of Philadelphia’s earliest women’s philanthropic organizations, Rebecca helped define a new identity for American women. Read more »
Learn more about Rebecca Gratz at the Jewish Women's Archive
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Mayor Michael A. Nutter, Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer and over 200 arts professionals, advocates and artists celebrated the launch of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia on October 5, 2010 at a special reception at TRUST in Old City.
Building on the momentum of the arts in Philadelphia, the Knight Arts Challenge seeks out innovative projects to inspire and enrich Philadelphia’s communities. “The challenge opens a window of opportunity for everyone in the community,” said Dennis Scholl, Knight Foundation’s vice president/arts. “In each of the next three years, we will invite every artist, every arts institution, every business and every individual in Philadelphia to offer the best art ideas for this community.”
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