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E. Jean Carroll ‘sleeps with a loaded gun near her bed’
An acclaimed journalist who accused President Trump of raping her in a New York department store in the 1990s now sleeps with a loaded gun beside her bed, after she received a wave of online death threats.
E. Jean Carroll, who enjoyed a lengthy career as an advice columnist, described the fallout from the New York Magazine excerpt of her book, which detailed an alleged sex attack by the then-real estate mogul in Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman store.
She said she had received so many threats that she had been forced to stop looking at her social media platforms, and for the first time in her life put bullets loaded into the handgun kept in her bedroom, she told the Guardian on Friday.
E Jean Carroll, who enjoyed a lengthy career as an advice columnist, described the fallout from the New York Magazine excerpt of her book, which detailed an alleged sex attack by the then-real estate mogul in Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman store
‘I’m not stupid,’ Carroll said, referring to the threats she has received in the wake of the explosive claims that stoked the ire of the president, sparking a tit-for-tat series of comments between the pair.
Despite the death threats, Carroll also claims she has been buoyed by the support of many women who have written to her in gratitude.
‘The mail bag is huge, I can’t begin to get through it. Women are telling me their stories – and that’s the biggest thank you you can get.’
The storm began when the New York Magazine was given a preview of her book What Do We Need Men For? in which she gave a detailed account of her alleged forced sexual encounter with Trump, who at the time was married to Marla Maples.
Carroll added that she hesitated for years coming forward with her allegations, describing herself as a ‘coward’.
She also suspected that branding Trump a sex attacker might paradoxically help him politically.
‘It’s the image of a male leader – think Alexander the Great, think Genghis Khan. Think John F Kennedy. Great leaders take what they want without asking,’ she said.
The storm began when the New York Magazine was given a preview of her book What Do We Need Men For? in which she gave a detailed account of her alleged forced sexual encounter with Trump, who at the time was married to Marla Maples
Trump allegedly shoved Carroll against a wall, unzipped his pants and forcibly penetrated her in an attack she claims lasted three minutes. Carroll claims she was on her way out of the store when Trump asked her for help with a gift and guided her towards the lingerie department
She appears on the June magazine’s cover in the very same coat dress that she claims she was wearing on that day in the fall of 1995 or spring of 1996 when a chance encounter with Trump allegedly turned into a sexual assault.
Trump allegedly shoved Carroll against a wall, unzipped his pants and forcibly penetrated her in an attack she claims lasted three minutes.
Carroll claims she was on her way out of the store when Trump asked her for help with a gift and guided her towards the lingerie department.
Carroll was doing a daily talk show called Ask Carroll at the time for Ailes’ America’s Talking cable network, which is how she drew Trump’s attention. ‘Hey, you’re that advice lady!’ said Trump according to Carroll.
That was allegedly followed by a request from the real estate developer, whose Trump Tower is located just one block south of Bergdorf Goodman.
‘Come advise me. I gotta buy a present,’ said Trump according to Carroll, who tried to point out a few ideas in the store’s main foyer.
When they were all dismissed by Trump, she asked the age of the woman he was shopping for, prompting him to ask her the same question.
The store in which the alleged sex attack is said to have happened in the 1990s
Trump rape accuser E Jean Carroll confirms she never washed the dress she wore during the alleged assault while Mayor Bill de Blasio promises to launch a full criminal investigation
She was 52 at the time, two years older than Trump, and when she told him he allegedly started laughing and said: ‘You’re so old.’
He then said ‘lingerie’, according to Carroll, and the pair headed upstairs to that department.
Once there, Carroll claims she tried to diffuse repeated attempts to get her to model one of the wears by suggesting Trump try them on in a nearby dressing room. It was when they went to one of those rooms that the alleged assault took place.
‘The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips. I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again,’ writes Carroll.
‘He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.’
She continues: ‘I am astonished by what I’m about to write: I keep laughing. The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.’
Carroll claims that she fought off Trump before she was able to flee from the dressing room and out of the store.
She did not report the alleged assault to police, but did tell two friends she said, and has kept the dress ever since.
Trump quickly dismissed the claims and appealed online: ‘If anyone has information that the Democratic Party is working with Ms. Carroll or New York Magazine, please notify us as soon as possible,’ he said.
‘The world should know what’s really going on. It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations.’
He added: ‘Ms. Carroll & New York Magazine: No pictures? No surveillance? No video? No reports? No sales attendants around?? I would like to thank Bergdorf Goodman for confirming they have no video footage of any such incident, because it never happened.’
Carroll is now the 16th woman to accuse the president of sexual misconduct.
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Games How To
How to get the best ending in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice?
Haisam Munir
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has a lot of content and some of it can get quite overwhelming at times. There are so many little things hidden in the game that it is almost impossible to notice them through your first play through. As the game has multiple endings, this means that the chances of you getting a good ending on your first run are pretty low. The game does not really do a good job at telling players what to do in order to get a relatively good ending either.
Being a From Software game, Sekiro is an extremely challenging game. It can be quite heart breaking when you work so hard to finish the game only to get a bad ending. However, you don’t have to bow down to the gods of Soulsborne punishment. We have the perfect guide for you here. Just follow these steps and you’ll get the best ending Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has to offer.
The Return Ending
Arguably, the best ending you can get in Sekiro is called The Return Ending. Subsequently, this is also the hardest one to get. All of the steps required for this have to be completed before defeating the Divine Dragon as some of the things get locked out after that fight. So, let’s begin.
Start off by completing the Senpou Temple area. At the end of the area before the Genichiro fight, talk to the Temple leader in front of the large Buddha statue. Get the Holy Chapter: Infested Text from him and go to the Inner Sanctum with it. (If you’ve already defeated Genichiro, you can find the text in a pond in Temple grounds. Get the underwater diving ability by defeating the Corrupted Monk to get the text in that case).
Once you’re in the Inner Sanctum, you’ll meet the Divine Child and eat the rice she offers. You can also give it to the Old Woman. The goal here is just to tire the Divine Child out. This can be done by taking a couple of batches of rice from her. Doing this will trigger her to ask for a persimmon which you can buy from the Memorial Mob Merchant in Shugendo near Senpou. You can also get a persimmon by killing enemies in the Senpou Temple area. Talk to the Divine Child again after giving her the Persimmon and she’ll give you even more rice. If you keep talking to her, she’ll eventually give you rice for Kuro.
Give the rice to Kuro and get the rice ball in return from him. Go back to the Inner Sanctum to find out the Child has gone. After that, go to the Hall of Illusion and talk to her. She’ll tell you about another text to be retrieved from the leader of the Senpou Temple. Go inside the cave behind the temple and drop down. Turn back and swim underneath the wall from which you just dropped down. Going down the path will lead you to skeletal monks. Retrieve the text from the monk wearing brighter clothes and bring it back to the Divine Child. Rest up and talk to her now.
The Divine Child will tell you to get two fruits from the Great Serpent. You need to earn the Puppeteer Ninjutsu kill to get the fruits. Go to the entrance to the Abandoned Dungeon at Senpou Temple where Kotaro is. You’ll find a crank with a kite if you head down and turn right from the entrance. There will also be a short round hat Senpou Assassin there. Make him crank the kite by using the Puppeteer skill on him. Climb up to the mountain now with the massive tree and grapple on to the kite.
Face towards the mountain you just came from and climb down to the left side where the snake-skin is hanging from the trees. You’ll find the entrance to a cave alongside a Sculptor’s idol. Going through will lead you to a wooden beam to walk onto. Look down from the beam and deathblow the Great Serpent to get the Fresh Fruit. Now, move to the Sunken Valley to retrieve the Dried Fruit. Go to the snowy mountains from the Riven Cave Sculptor’s idol and jump down when you see the statues. Grapple on to a tree below and head towards the valley to the right.
You’ll now be at the cave entrance that leads to the merchant. Move through the cave until you reach the Giant Serpent. Hug the stone pillar and drop yourself on the left side of that place away from the serpent. After moving for a little while, you’ll encounter a monkey here that you need to backstab with the Puppeteer kill. The monkey will then distract the snake giving you a chance to grapple and enter the temple. You’ll find the Dried fruit inside this temple.
Go back to the Inner Sanctum and give the fruits to the Divine Child. Rest once or twice while checking the door in between until the Child gives you the Frozen Dragon Tear. Take the tear and complete the game normally going through the usual stuff. After the Silvergrass field fight, you’ll be prompted to use the Frozen Dragon Tear. Do it and you’ll unlock the Return Ending. This is arguably the best ending you can get in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and there is nothing more satisfying than getting this ending.
To unlock all the other endings in the game, see this handy guide!
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Qualcomm Accuses Apple Of Breaching Confidential Information To Help Intel
Stan Brendon
Qualcomm, the leading smartphones chip manufacturer filed a case against Apple back in November which has now dramatically reached a whole new level. In the latest court filing on Tuesday Qualcomm alleged that Apple is stealing their trade secrets, confidential information and source code for the purpose of helping Intel to improve their chips.
Basically, Qualcomm provided modem chips for the iPhone which was used to connect to wireless data networks. Apple started using Intel chips in some of its models in the past years.
According to the CNBC reports:
“Qualcomm has unveiled explosive charges against Apple for stealing “vast swaths” of its confidential information and trade secrets for the purpose of improving the performance of chipsets provided by Qualcomm competitor Intel, according to a filing with the Superior Court of California.
The allegations are contained in a complaint that Qualcomm hopes the court will amend to its existing lawsuit against Apple for breaching the so called master software agreement that Apple signed when it became a customer of Qualcomm’s earlier this decade”
The company also requested to Judge Jacqueline M. Stern to add consideration of the latest accusation to its existing case instead of forcing it to file a new lawsuit.
Qualcomm even interacted with some of their investors and told them that according to their research the modem chips have been removed from the latest iPhones and were replaced with Intel chips. They even tear the newest generation Apple phones which were released this month which confirmed that Intel is supplying the modem chips.
There also have been reports about the poor network performance for some of the iPhone XS models, regardless of the faster downloads and uploads which is the cause of the ‘antenna gain issues.’
Qualcomm’s general counsel, Donald Rosenberg, told CNBC this case stands on its own and would have been filed regardless of the on-going dispute between the two companies.
“Unlawful use of Qualcomm’s valuable trade secrets to try to help a competitor catch up irreparably harms us and must not be allowed to continue,” he said.
Apple started using Qualcomm modems back in 2011 and completely switched to using it exclusively for that part. In 2016, when the iPhone 7 came out Apple then went back to using some Intel chips before the beginning of the legal dispute with Qualcomm in early 2017. It now mainly uses Intel modems in all of their new generation smartphones.
Did Apple really steal the source code to help improve Intel chips or Is it just a conspiracy against them to bring their market down? Tell us your opinions in the comments section below.
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About Stan Brendon
A computer engineering graduate from University of Oklahoma, who has a passion for writing technical blogs and craves to explore news about emerging Technologies, gadgets, Information Security etc.
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Saint Laurent Spring/Summer 2016 ready-to-wear collection – Paris Fashion Week
05/10/2015 06/10/2015 | Syuzena Pitz
Hedi Slimane unveiled his Saint Laurent spring/summer collection.
Hedi Slimane has turned Saint Laurent into a power brand. More than that, the success of his breaking down the house and rendering it into accessible, uncomplicated items has set off a chain reaction at the top of the designer fashion industry.. Not everyone can package up a look and whack it to the public in such a first-degree, widely understandable as Slimane. For Spring, one glance at the lowbrow tiaras, the sparkly see-through mini-mesh dresses, the rock-chick leather jackets, and the skinny legs of the models shoved into Wellington boots told us where he was going. To Glastonbury with Courtney and Kate Moss it was, with an entourage of throwback shaggy-headed waifs and a caravan-load of ready-made vintage-y stuff.
Slimane was smart to suggest he was pitching it in a more down-to-earth way this season. There is a movement toward real, ordinary clothes going on. Slimane seemed to have tuned into that when he came up with a perfectly ordinary beige trenchcoat, sand-color camisole, jeans and black Wellingtons, a faded army-surplus shirt, patchworked denim capes, and leather bomber jackets . For the people who only saw the Saint Laurent collections via their cell phones or computers, it is hard to comprehend the quality of the materials and the detailed craftsmanship that go into every shimmering see-through minidress or patchwork denim coat that appears on the runway. Underneath all of Silmane’s sartorial insubordination are well-made clothes that are deftly executed.The designer titled this collection “Saint Laurent Skin,” and while he might still be getting under the skin of a few people, Silmane also has found a way for the brand to completely shed the skin of its past for one of his own making
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Residue of the Residents
SV 073LP SV 073LP
"Residue of The Residents collects outtakes, rare tracks and other experiments from this legendary San Francisco collective. Originally released on Ralph Records in 1983 and spanning The Residents' career up to that point, this first-time vinyl reissue has been expanded to a double LP and contains 26 songs from the late '70s and early '80s?the group's most fertile period. Highlights from the first LP include the Morricone-inspired 'The Sleeper,' the dreamlike 'Whoopy Snort' (initially on the LAFMS compilation Blorp Esette), the intense collage piece 'Kamikaze Lady' from the pre-Residents 1971 Baby Sex tapes, and the RAO Studio Orchestra version of 'Ups & Downs' (which may be the group's finest pop moment). The second LP features many insider favorites that have not been available on vinyl for decades: 'Loser = Weed' (initially released as the B-side to the Satisfaction single), 'Death in Barstow' and 'Melon Collie Lassie' (from the Babyfingers EP), as well as The Residents' contributions to the great Subterranean Modern compilation. Balancing the group's conceptual impulses with a dark palette of electro-esotericism, Residue of The Residents is an intoxicating collection that serves as an ideal starting point for the uninitiated."
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Walmart Bets On Ever Faster Delivery to Compete With Amazon
Phil Wahba
Research firm eMarketer’s recent prediction that Amazon.com (AMZN) would control nearly half of all U.S. e-commerce this year prompted many analysts to focus on the converse—that Amazon’s online competitors continue to fall further behind.
But Walmart.com CEO Marc Lore says not so fast.
The retailer’s extensive network of 4,700 stores gives Walmart the distribution points it needs near most Americans to achieve its ultimate goal within five years: same-day delivery of fresh and frozen food, as well as other Walmart wares, to most of the country. That’s something Amazon also has its eye on and was a key factor in its $13 billion decision to buy Whole Foods last year.
“We’re playing to our strengths right now,” Lore said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colo., on Monday. “Everyone is racing toward same-day delivery and I think we’re set up really well.”
Lore has promised Walmart investors that its U.S. e-commerce would grow 40% this year, making new strides in grocery delivery even more crucial. Last week, its jet.com division announced a new distribution center in New York City’s Bronx borough, a facility likely to handle walmart.com orders down the line.
Though Lore has played his cards close to the vest, he made clear that Walmart (WMT), which he joined two years after selling jet.com to the giant for $3 billion, will invest aggressively in faster delivery.
“We can see where the puck is going- it’s toward faster delivery time,” said Lore.
Same-day delivery will be the bare minimum a retailer needs to offer customers, especially for the 100,000 or so items Walmart sells most commonly. So a web site that is only transactional and about convenience won’t be enough for consumers.
That is why Walmart has been busy in the last year and a half buying brands such as Bonobos, Modcloth and Moosejaw, and recently started to host a section on its e-commerce site for struggling fashion retailer HBC’s (HBC) Lord & Taylor, the first of many such deals Lore has said people should expect. “Proprietary product and assortment is going to be key,” he said.
Yet building up Walmart’s delivery speed will remain a key objective, and an area where Lore believes Walmart can effectively fight Amazon.
“That’s a big place where we’re going to play offense and ultimately win,” he added.
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Bloomsburg University
Its Personal: The Campaign for Bloomsburg University
Faculty Support
Professional Experience Grants
Henry Carver Fund
Phonathon
The Benner-Hudock Center for Financial Analysis
When Barbara Benner Hudock ’75 spoke to Bloomsburg University’s May 2013 graduates, she shared 11 Lessons for Life from her 38-year career in financial services and her lifetime of community involvement. The commencement address for nearly 1,300 graduates and their families not only offered guidelines for success, happiness and fulfillment, it also demonstrated the value the CEO and founding partner of Hudock Moyer Wealth Resources (HMWR), Williamsport, Pa., places on the education she received from Bloomsburg University.
The dedication of the Benner-Hudock Center for Financial Analysis in Bloomsburg University’s Sutliff Hall reaffirms Hudock’s belief in the quality of a BU education. It also recognizes the history of philanthropic initiatives established by Hudock, who is joined by her son and business partner, Michael J. Hudock Jr., in their most recent gift to the Bloomsburg University Foundation. The naming of the center combines wishes to honor Barbara’s parents and Michael’s grandparents, Frank J. and Margaret B. Benner, and the ongoing support of BU by the Hudock family.
The Hudock family has a long philanthropic history, both personally and through their firm, of strategic giving focused on support of the arts, education and health initiatives in the community. Previous gifts to Bloomsburg University have provided a Steinway concert grand piano for Haas Center for the Arts, Mitrani Hall, in memory of Barbara Hudock’s father; a study room in Andruss Library; a student lounge in Sutliff Hall, overlooking the Academic Quad; and an auditorium in Warren Student Services Center. She has supported the Celebrity Artist Series and a documentary on MBA leadership. Contributions also have benefited the Presidential Leadership Program and scholarships through the Henry Carver Fund, the university’s annual fund, and she served as chair of the New Challenges, New Opportunities capital campaign in the early-2000s.
SEKISUI partners with Bloomsburg University to bring a Professional Experience Lab downtown
The Bloomsburg University Foundation announces that SEKISUI SPI made a $500,000 gift to construct a state-of-the-art professional experience workspace for students in downtown Bloomsburg.
$2.2 Million Gift to BU Charts a Course Forward for Foster Children
A $2.2 million gift will provide youth from the Pennsylvania foster care system with the opportunity to explore educational experiences on the Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania campus.
Supporting Impact Beyond the Classroom
Since the launch of BU’s Professional U initiative in 2012, more than 100 alumni and friends have been inspired to support the university in preparing students to apply their education beyond the classroom. On Thursday, Jan. 31, the university recognized the breadth of that impact and generosity with the announcement of the 2019 faculty fellowships and endowed professorships.
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Twelve Critical Skills for the Future
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The Future of Ignorance
by Thomas Frey | Jan 18, 2016 | Future Trends
In 1901, Dr. Duncan MacDougall set out to discover if the human soul weighed anything.
Working in the local old age home, he conducted a series of experiments where he weighed six patients on a precision scale both before and after they breathed their last breath. Comparing variations in the patient’s weight, he declared his findings, that the human soul weighed, on average, 21 grams.
To underscore his point, MacDougall did a similar study on 15 dogs that were also on their deathbed and reported no perceived change in weight.
Armed with the results of his brilliant study, he was able to confirm that the human soul did indeed have weight and that dogs did not have a soul.
But of course that wasn’t the whole story. Out of his six patients, only the first one showed a perceptible loss of weight. The others had mixed results so they were discarded. Since none of the dogs lost weight, that was all the proof he needed.
This is a story that made headlines in the New York Times in 1907, but the entire episode was based on one of the worst research studies of all time.
So how do you know when you’ve been lied to?
In a situation where one of the country’s most reputable newspapers reports the findings of a reputable doctor, the average reader will naturally assume it to be true.
In spite of those who argued with the findings when they came out, the “21 gram weight of the human soul” became a cultural meme that permeated society for decades, even though several other experiments since then showed no measurable difference.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, a meme is “an idea that spreads from person to person within a culture.”
Rest assured, not all memes are based on lies. In fact the vast majority are based on some measurable evidence of being true.
But here’s where it gets confusing. Virtually every lie has some portion of truth in it, and virtually every truth has some amount grey area or falseness associated with it.
This becomes a critically important point to consider as we build artificial intelligence engines based on trillions of “grey area facts” and the primary reason why the topic of ignorance made its way to the top of my list.
Living with a Distortion Index
The world is neither black or white, right or wrong, or truth or fiction. Rather, every statement comes with a percentage of correctness that we unconsciously filter through our personal “bullshit meter” and file it accordingly in our brain.
Yet we’re being lied to in so many subtle ways its nearly impossible to separate reality from distorted reality. Here are eleven quick examples commonly used by Hollywood:
LIE – Most Hollywood fight scenes show people getting punched in the face repeatedly with no ill effect. REALITY – Even a single blow to the face can be enormously debilitating.
LIE – Teenagers today commonly believe you can jump out of a car at 50-60 mph, roll a few times and they’ll be fine. Hollywood shows this happening all the time. REALITY – Jumping from a car, even at 20 mph, will kill most people.
LIE – In Hollywood, the good guys always arrive at just the right time to save the day. REALITY – This has only happened one time in the entire history of the human race.
LIE – Good hackers can always outsmart any form of encryption, and they can do it in a matter of seconds. REALITY – Nobody is that good.
LIE – Every bomb has a countdown clock and colored wires. REALITY – Very few have either.
LIE – Any gun with a silencer becomes whisper quiet. REALITY – Typical gunfire is at 140-160 decibels while a silencer will only reduce it to 120-130 decibels. A silenced gun is still roughly as loud as a jackhammer.
LIE – Most guns never run out of bullets and Hollywood gunfights often drag on for 10-20 minutes. REALITY – Even a large capacity gun like an AK-47 can fire 30 bullets in 3 seconds. Most gunfights are over in less than a minute.
LIE – Assassins always use lasers sightings that put a red dot on their target. REALITY – They never do.
LIE – Gunshot wounds are quickly cured by extracting the bullet. REALITY – Removing a bullet is unnecessary and will typically cause far more tissue damage than the original gunshot.
LIE – Dogfights always happen at close range where pilots can see each other. REALITY – Close range dogfights are nearly a mile apart and are as exciting as watching a blip on a cockpit screen.
LIE – Bulletproof vests will stop anything. REALITY – Even military-grade vests are vulnerable to an assault rifle closer than 40 feet.
Because of the enormous influence of movies and television, every distortion of the truth, regardless of business decisions based on market demand, creative license, or even good intentions will foster a widely distorted view of the world among impressionable young people.
People make decisions today based on their life history of “perceived truths.” Young adults who consume tens of thousands of hours of movies and television will have great difficulty making sound decisions based on these distorted truths.
Defining Ignorance and the Five Fundamental Laws of Human Stupidity
The word ignorant is an adjective used to describe a person who is unaware and is often used to describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard important information or facts.
Ignorance is different than stupidity even though they have overlapping characteristics. Ignorance involves “not knowing” but stupidity is more about “knowing incorrectly.”
Carlos Maria Cipolla, an economic historian rose to fame by authoring the five fundamental laws of human stupidity:
Always and inevitably each of us underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a given person is stupid is independent of any other characteristic possessed by that person.
A person is stupid if they cause damage to another person or group of people without experiencing personal gain, or even worse causing damage to themselves in the process.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the harmful potential of stupid people; they constantly forget that at any time anywhere, and in any circumstance, dealing with or associating themselves with stupid individuals invariably constitutes a costly error.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person there is.
To put this into perspective, if you were unaware of the fact these laws existed, you could appropriately be labeled ignorant. If someone called you stupid for being unaware, well, that makes them ignorant of the fact that they are they stupid one.
But I digress!
Agnotology and the Fine Art of Distorting the Truth
Agnotology is the study of willful acts to spread confusion and deceit, usually to sell a product or win favor. It’s an area of research that got its start in the heyday of the tobacco industry.
In 1979, a secret memo from the tobacco industry came to light that revealed many of the tactics employed by big tobacco to counter “anti-cigarette forces.”
Using a rather generic report title to mislead those who might come into contact with it, the Smoking and Health Proposal was drafted a decade earlier as something akin to a quarterback play-list for the Brown & Williamson tobacco company.
In one of the paper’s most revealing sections, it described one rather deceptive approach for marketing cigarettes to the masses. “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the best means possible for establishing controversy.”
As outrageous as some may find this statement to be, it is not much different than marketing tactics used for nearly every other product on the market – use testimonials to emphasize the good, gloss over the bad, and confuse the terrible.
Every person has a number of products that they surround themselves with. Whether its clothes, food, makeup, shoes, furniture, cars, or appliances, we’ve made a conscious decision to associate ourselves with those products.
Do we always select the very best product? Not always. Very often a cheaper product will be good enough.
So if a product came along that was both cheaper and better, would we select that one? That’s where we enter the murky waters of truth, half-truths, and politics. Perception is worth far more than some point-by-point analysis that few people ever do.
A New Era of Ignorance
We live in a world with amazing levels of ignorance.
At a talk I gave recently on the “future of advice,” I showed how in the past the advice-givers were the privileged few that had access to the information, but in today’s world, with information being free and easy to access, only the advice-givers will know what to pay attention to.
With today’s abundance of information it has become easier than ever confuse an issue and turn every fact into a series of arguments.
For example, if we consider the fight over climate change, the fight is not just over the existence of climate change, it’s over whether scientists have a political agenda, whether God has created the Earth for us to use, whether government has the right to regulate industry, whether environmentalists should have this much power, and much more.
What somehow got lost in the blurring of issues is the fact that pollution is bad for us and we should stop polluting the earth.
It’s not just about the facts, it’s about motives, hidden agendas, puppet master, conspiracy theories, and just enough facts to make every argument sound plausible.
Ignorance – The Big Picture
Most of us today are living with a false sense of expertise. Any answers we need are only a click away, and whatever preconceived notions we may have, its easy to find supporting arguments online.
If we were to dissect every college course and hold a truth meter next to the core subject matter, we would find a substantial percentage that falls into the arguable category.
Even our most foundational subject matter comes with built-in grey areas. For example, 2 + 2 does not always equal 4. It depends on what type of measurement scale we are using. There are four types of measurement scales – nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio. Only in the last two categories does 2 + 2 = 4.
As we move into an era where artificial intelligence is making exponentially more decisions on our behalf, we will want the AI to be rooted in solid facts before making those decisions. But the basis for decision-making will likely come from our personal preferences, a compendium of online perceived facts, and the thoughts and attitudes of those in our social circles.
Studies have shown that our most authoritative source of information today is Wikipedia, created through their time honored tradition of having experts argue with experts until the wording is close enough for everyone to live with.
In what year did the human race reach “peak ignorance?”
Many will argue that we’re still not there yet.
Misinformation cycles reach their peak every four years leading up to the presidential elections in the U.S. where our bullshit meters are tasked to work overtime.
We are indeed intelligent beings, but with all of our limitations, the intelligence we possess is never enough.
As we think through our systems for automating our decisions, unless they’re based on something far better than the decision points we’ve used in the past, we will achieve little more than having more efficient ways of making poor decisions.
Perhaps a more important question to ask, at what point will we achieve an optimal level of ignorance, and how will we ever know?
As for me, I’m looking forward to the day when I can adjust the dial on my own ignorance settings to “just right.”
By Futurist Thomas Frey
Author of “Communicating with the Future” – the book that changes everything
By Futurist Thomas Frey, author of 'Epiphany Z – 8 Radical Visions Transforming Your Future'
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Wii U launch line-up: it’s here, and it’s awesome
Posted: September 26, 2012 by Joel Kost in Gamenomics - Video Games
Tags: Nintendo, Wii U
Unlike the Nintendo 3DS’s abysmal launch titles, the Wii U is coming out strong. With 23 games being released on the day of the system’s launch (Nov. 18) there is something for everybody. While games like Lego City Stories and Pikmin 3 won’t be appearing right away, they in the the Wii U’s “launch window” period, so you won’t have to wait too long to get your hands on them. Here’s what you can get on day one:
Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
ESPN Sports Connection
Game Party Champions
New Super Mario Bros. U
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge
Nintendo Land
Rabbids Land
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Sing Party
Skylanders: Giants
Sonic & All-Starts Racing Transformed
Warrior’s Orochi 3 Hyper
Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2013
From platforming, to shooting, to dungeon exploration, everything is there. No more complaining, Nintendo fans! I do believe that Nintendo has fixed its past mistakes.
It’s time for a Transformers Beast Wars video game
Deadpool…Deadpool everywhere.
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HomeIn Congressional Races, Some Jewish Incumbents Are at Risk
In Congressional Races, Some Jewish Incumbents Are at Risk
Ron Kampeas (JTA)July 29, 2010 Washington
The Senate could go either way. Hopes are dimmer in the House. And Eric Cantor may at last have company.
At least that’s the conventional wisdom on how Jewish lawmakers will do in November.
If Jewish candidates sweep all the Senate races in this midterm election year, the Jewish total in the upper chamber would jump from 13 to 18. But with tight races in California and Wisconsin dogging incumbents, the number of Jews in the Senate also could drop to 11.
In the U.S. House of Representatives, where all the seats are up for re-election every two years, four of the country’s 31 Jewish representatives could lose their seats – two of them because of Jewish anger over President Obama’s relations with Israel. In any case Cantor (R-Va.), the minority whip, stands a good chance of finally shedding his lonely sobriquet as “the sole Jewish Republican in the House.”
Here is a preview of the congressional contests involving Jewish candidates ahead of the November vote.
Colorado: The Aug. 10 Democratic primary is a contest between two Jewish candidates: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), named to the post in 2009 when President Obama tapped incumbent Ken Salazar to be secretary of the interior, and Andrew Romanoff, a former speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives. Bennet’s mother is a Holocaust survivor, but he did not acknowledge his Jewishness until recently, raising Jewish representation in the U.S. Senate from 13 to 14. Romanoff has not shied away from his Jewishness and until recently was a Wexner fellow. Both candidates are outspoken in their support for Israel and on isolating Iran. Romanoff refuses to take special interest money, which has left him at a disadvantage; Bennet’s ads have been on TV much longer, and Romanoff recently sold his home. ColoradoPols.com predicts that Bennet will win the primary, although polls show Romanoff faring better against Republicans in November.
Connecticut: The state’s attorney general, Democrat Richard Blumenthal, has overcome questions raised by The New York Times about how he characterized his Vietnam War experience. In some speeches throughout his career, he appeared to describe himself as a veteran of the war’s battles, although his service was on the home front. His campaign pushed back hard against the Times reports, showing that in other speeches – some delivered on the same day – he made the distinction clear. He is now polling well ahead of Republican Linda McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment whose campaign was peddling Blumenthal’s Vietnam discrepancies. McMahon has had difficulties overcoming her own controversies having to do with a colorful career in wrestling. If Blumenthal succeeds the retiring Chris Dodd, also a Democrat, he will join Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) in making Connecticut’s U.S. Senate representation all Jewish.
New Hampshire: U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes’ win in the 2006 Democratic sweep of Congress was seen as a sign that the Granite State was moving from mixed purple to Democratic blue. Now he is seeking the seat of Judd Gregg, the Republican incumbent who is retiring, and is facing an uphill battle: New Hampshire is leaning a redder shade of purple this year, with majorities opposing the health care reform bill passed in March. Hodes faces no real opposition in the Sept. 14 primary, but he trails by substantial margins two of the four candidates running for the GOP nomination. Democratic heavy hitters who helped elect Obama to office already are in the state helping Hodes campaign.
Ohio: Lt.-Gov. Lee Fisher, a Democrat, is putting up a battle against Republican Rob Portman in the race to succeed Republican George Voinovich, who is retiring. Portman, a former U.S. trade representative who is close to the state’s Jewish community, has raised substantially more funds than Fisher, but the Democrat remains neck and neck in the polls. Fisher has won statewide office twice – as attorney general and as lieutenant governor in 2006 – and nearly took the governorship in 2000 in a year when Republicans were favored.
Arizona: For a time during the spring, Democrat Rodney Glassman looked like a contender. Sen. John McCain, the incumbent and Republican presidential candidate in 2008, faced a serious primary challenge from former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth based on McCain’s earlier backing for immigration reform. Hayworth had the backing of immigration hard-liners and Tea Party insurgents. In recent weeks, however, McCain has pulled well ahead of Hayworth, and pundits see that momentum propelling McCain to a sixth Senate term. Democrats say Glassman, a former Tucson vice mayor, is still worth watching. Only 32, he already has put together an impressive CV: Glassman founded a nonprofit for children’s causes at 23, and serves on a long list of charitable boards; he turned around the family business, an ice skating rink, and sold it for a substantial profit; he has funded much of his own campaign; he’s a reservist in the Air Force Judge Advocate General; as an aide to U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), he worked to bring the Jewish and Latino communities closer together. On the state’s signature immigration issue, Glassman opposes a recent controversial law that expands police power to arrest illegal immigrants.
California and Wisconsin: Longtime incumbent Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) face close fights in November, each suffering from the midterm swing against incumbency. Pollsters following Boxer’s race against Republican Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO, have been swinging back and forth, the result of a state rattled by near-bankruptcy and climbing unemployment. Feingold maintains a narrow lead over his opponent, Republican Ron Johnson, a plastics executive, but one-third of the voters have told pollsters that they are undecided. That’s not good news for the incumbent, who is known statewide; Johnson can at least claim that he has yet to make his case.
HOUSE INCUMBENTS
Of 30 Jewish Democrats running for reelection, four are seen as potentially facing tough races:
Republicans still haven’t forgiven Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) for taking what they believe should be a GOP stronghold in her Tucson-area district in 2006. She trounced her opponent in 2008 but is taking no chances this year against whichever of four contenders wins the GOP’s Aug. 24 primary. Giffords has sharpened her criticism of the Obama administration’s immigration enforcement policies and has raised more than $2 million in cash.
Democrats still count Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.) as likely to retain his South Florida seat, which he wrested from years of GOP control in 2006. In 2008 he defeated his current opponent, Allen West, by 8.5 percentage points. However, West – a retired Army lieutenant colonel seen as one of the GOP’s best chances to reintroduce a black Republican into Congress – has hammered Klein in this heavily Jewish district by going after President Obama over his recent tensions with Israel over settlements. It might help Klein that he is one of the more hard-line Democrats in Congress when it comes to Israel, and has distanced himself from Obama’s Israel policies.
U.S. Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.) faces similar challenges in his southern New Jersey district, but without Klein’s advantage of not being close to Obama. Adler in 2008 was one of the first candidates in his campaign to endorse Obama as a presidential candidate. Insiders say that’s hurting him in a district that includes a heavy Orthodox Jewish representation in towns like Cherry Hill. Some Democrats have described Adler as facing “Jewish tea parties” when he speaks at synagogues. GOP insiders, however, are not so sanguine that their candidate, Jon Runyan, a former offensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, is mounting a credible challenge; Runyan has lagged in fund raising, they say.
Like Giffords and Klein, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) is a target because his Orlando-area district is seen as naturally Republican – but put Grayson under the “more so” column. He has become a lead Democratic bomb-thrower, calling Republicans “Neanderthals,” describing the GOP health care plan as “dying quickly” and calling the health care crisis a “holocaust.” (He later said he regretted the Holocaust allusion.) Grayson is a favorite of the party’s “net roots” and has raised $1.4 million, much of it from small donors. Similarly, whichever of six candidates running in the Aug. 24 GOP primary is likely to mine Republicans eager to send Grayson home.
HOUSE CHALLENGERS
Three Jewish challengers are seen as competitive in November: one Republican, and two running for the same seat.
Randy Altschuler, an electronics recycler, has outraised incumbent Rep. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.), $2.8 million to $1.1 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, making him competitive in November in the district that covers Long Island’s eastern tip. “He’s a terrific candidate and a real rising star,” said Matt Brooks, who directs the Republican Jewish Coalition. “I look forward to him joining Eric Cantor,” the minority whip who has long been the House’s only Jewish GOP member.
Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) is retiring, and two of the four candidates running in the Sept. 14 Democratic primary are Jewish: David Segal, a state representative, and Providence Mayor David Cicilline. The seat is considered a Democratic shoo-in.
This story "In Congressional Races, Some Jewish Incumbents Are at Risk" was written by Ron Kampeas (JTA).
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Vergennes to the American Commissioners, 18 December 1778: résumé
Vergennes to the American Commissioners7
L (draft):8 Archives du Ministère des affaires étrangères; copies: Massachusetts Historical Society, National Archives, Library of Congress (two)
<Versailles, December 18, 1778, in French: Dr. Smith’s effects have finally been found in the customs at Calais. They are a packet containing twelve tablecloths, twelve knives, and twelve iron forks with silver ferrules.9 He must pay the usual charges if they are to be used in France, but not, provided he obtains the necessary documentation, if they are to be taken to America.>
7. Published in Taylor, Adams Papers, VII, 289–90.
8. In the hand of Joseph-Mathias Gérard de Rayneval, Vergennes’ premier commis (undersecretary) in charge of American affairs.
9. The more Smith’s effects were investigated, the more trivial they became. He had originally called the knives and forks “plate” and silver-handled: XXVII, 292–3. The tableware is now described as iron with nothing more than silver rings. When it arrived at Passy via Ferdinand Grand on Dec. 27, it proved to be, as WTF described it, “Green handle Knives and Forks tiped with Silver”: Taylor, Adams Papers, VII, 290n.
Vergennes, Charles Gravier, comte de
“Vergennes to the American Commissioners, 18 December 1778: résumé,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-28-02-0189. [Original source: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 28, November 1, 1778, through February 28, 1779, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990, p. 242.]
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Chapter Rewind: November Breakfast – PR in the Boardroom
Jeff Grainger, APR, VP of Accreditation, Marni Stahlman, President/CEO, Shepherd’s Hope, Amy Cameron O’Rourke, President, The Cameron Group, JoAnn Newman, President/CEO, Orlando Science Center, Kim Lopdrup, CEO of Red Lobster, Dennis Lemma, Sheriff-Elect, Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, and Alayna Curry, APR, President.
Chapter Rewind | By: Gabriel Soltren
The Orlando chapter of FPRA heard from five local chief executive officers who delivered pearls of wisdom to attendees at our “PR in the Boardroom” panel discussion at Full Sail University.
According to the panelists, PR professionals can help their CEOs by asking if they are sure about what they are going to say. Contrary to popular opinion, executives should never say, “no comment.” Problems start with “less than perfect communication,” said a panelist. They suggested that reading statements drafted by legal teams could come across negatively. Instead, executives should practice their remarks.
Marni Stahlman, President/CEO, Shepherd’s Hope, Amy Cameron O’Rourke, President, The Cameron Group, JoAnn Newman, President/CEO, Orlando Science Center, Kim Lopdrup, CEO of Red Lobster, and Dennis Lemma, Sheriff-Elect, Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.
During a crisis, legal teams should not be the primary voice of the organization. The CEO in charge can provide a stronger voice. For example, after an assault with a deadly weapon, the public will feel more comfort from the words of an armed law enforcement officer assuring them that the situation is under control.
Kelda Senior and Bailey Morris, Vice Presidents of Professional Development & Media Mashup.
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Member PRofile: Allison Reis
I research, develop and implement strategic marketing plans for physician practices affiliated with Florida Hospital Medical Group, by identifying services and opportunities to increase volumes that yield a positive return on investment.
How long have you been a part of FPRA? Why did you join? #myFPRA
This is my first year in FPRA! I joined to further my professional development; and develop relationships and network with fellow communications practitioners.
Tell us an exciting achievement.
My first promotion at my current job was so exciting and made me feel very accomplished.
What was your very first job?
My first job in the communications field was with The Kurtis Group Ad/PR agency in Jacksonville Beach, Fla. I was assistant to an account executive and I learned SO SO much.
Share a fun fact that people may not know about you.
I started my own business in College…. needless to say, I still had a lot to learn. But it was a fantastic experience.
Allison.Reis@FLHosp.org
On October 30, Lindsay Hudock and Lisa Malone, APR, CPRC led a group of Quotes, the PR Club at UCF, members to a behind the scenes tour of the Kennedy Space Center.
On their trip, they toured the Launch Control Center, the Vehicle Assembly Building, and the space shuttle Atlantis. They also visited the launch press site and Space X launch pad, and the room that houses the debris from the Columbia disaster. They heard from the NASA communication team about the Atlantis grand opening campaign, the challenge of communicating through a shuttle disaster and the comprehensive strategy of NASA Press Operations.
Intern Pursuit
Katarina Dos Santos, Multimedia Digital Coordinator for Orange County Government and Whitney Ramirez, Digital Content Coordinator for Orange County Government.
Intern Pursuit | By: Katarina Dos Santos
As a student, I remember attending Intern Pursuit and how nervous I was to find the perfect internship. Rows of tables lined the ballroom with various employers eager to meet me. Year after year, I attended the event as a student and remember how encouraging and welcoming all the employers made me feel. I can honestly say that the internships I got from Intern Pursuit were truly the most rewarding.
This year, I was excited to provide that same opportunity as an employer to a fellow Knight. I wanted to ensure I made them feel comfortable while giving them a platform to share their experience and skills with me. It was extremely gratifying to be able to take my experience at Intern Pursuit full-circle. We are currently interviewing some great candidates for 2017 and I am excited to help these future PR professionals grow and learn from this internship, as much as I learned from mine.
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GMA - Vol 212 - DevilDriver, Subliminal Fear, Epidemia, Hecktic, Soulcrusher, Impunity, Inception, Porko Dio, Orobas, Alcor
'Trust No One'
Even with half of the original line-up no longer playing a part of DevilDriver's future, the formula devised by Fefara and co. since day one, which involves infusing unstoppable groove elements with their mesmerizing slice of Melodic Death Metal, carries on cooking some serious material, which in the drug world would equate to a well-deserved snort of meth. But if these guys were to break bad, it would not be on this new album, in fact 'Trust No One' is so damn good, it's criminal! Fans of DevilDriver will not be disappointed (when have they?) as this album will set their summers up nice and proper, what with the music demanding imminent headbanging and the artwork graphically representing the cliche 'a wolf in sheep's clothing', to 'Trust No One' is to acknowledge the dark truth that everyone, even yourself, has a dark side (not a Star Wars reference by the way). All in all, one word can sum up this entire album... 'Fuck!'
Download This: "Bad Deeds"
For Fans of: Pantera, Lamb of God, Chimaira
'Trust No One' is out now via Napalm Records
SUBLIMINAL FEAR
'Escape From Leviathan'
In this day and age of modern machinery, technical developments and cybernetic nexus', the whole movement of Modern Metal takes centre stage as it expresses a forward thinking notion rather than reflecting on the 'has been and done' sounds of early metal genres. Leading the new wave of Italian Modern Metal is Subliminal Fear with their infectious blend of Melodic Death Metal, Groove Metal and Electro Metal, following a sprinkling of Industrial and Progressive Metal influences. So imagine it, a full-on heavy blow to your cranium as the imminent result of switching on 'Escape From Leviathan', the third album by this sensational quintet. Connect yourself with the world of digital reality and let the matrix of this band's music surge through your ears, down your spinal cord before shooting up into your brain like a lightning strike from the skies. Soar into the upper echelons of Modern Metal with Subliminal Fear's 'Escape From Leviathan' and embrace what could be called the renaissance period of Italian Metal.
Download This: "Nexus"
For Fans of: Amaranthe, Sybreed, Mnemic, Scar Symmetry
'Escape From Leviathan' is out now via Inverse Records
'Leprocomio'
SATANATH
The exploitation of South American Metal continues with Ecuador throwing their next band out to the international press. Ok so it has been ten years since Epidemia dropped their debut album 'Mutilador De Cuerpos', but they've had a line-up change and two-year hiatus so it's excusable. But they've come back in style with their filthy-rotten second album 'Leprocomio' which compromises of epic blastbeats, chunky riffs, stomach-churning vocals and a raw production sound that epitomizes the lesser equipped underground metal scenes in terms of the quality of equipment and studios available. 'Leprocomio' however stands on it's own two as a decent and respectable slab of gore-rotten Death Metal, whilst it is in the Spanish language this should not deter die-hard Death Metallers from sinking their teeth into this decent effort.
Download This: "Agonistes En El Inframundo" - Click to listen
For Fans of: Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus
'Leprocomio' is out now via Satanath Records
HECKTIC
'Crossroads'
Whatever the lads in Hecktic were drinking when they recorded their premier EP 'Crossroads', it certainly helped them craft a good start to their career. Rest assured you will not fall asleep from boredom with this effort, there are twists and turns at every unsuspecting moment. Take for example their song 'Kill The Core', there's a section where some Balkan influences creep in on the guitar playing and whilst throughout they shred, growl and give the drumkit mechanical pain, Hecktic's focus never slips, never. For the Bulgarian Metal scene, which tends to be ignored by the West, 'Crossroads' is the rallying cry for all musicians within said scene to support Hecktic in becoming a force to be reckoned with. If Testament and Machine Head were to ever have any offspring, Hecktic would be their first.
Download This: "Kill The Core" - Click to listen
For Fans of: Testament, Machine Head, Sylosis
SOULCRUSHER
'Death Rides Tonight'
Along with Brazil and to a certain extent Argentina, Chile is one of the most successful and vibrant metal scenes on the South American continent and it's latest offering, Soulcrusher, aim to point out that the underground is sometimes the best place to stay. Their second demo released this year, 'Death Rides Tonight', is a slick mix of old-school Thrash Metal with Black Metal vocals, so you know none of the fancy stuff, no polished sound, just simply a pure DIY sound emerging from this quartet's musical unity. Embrace it's unrelenting speed, raw ferocity and sharp atmospherics as 'Death Rides Tonight' offers itself as an excellent example of what lo-fi metal is all about. Think Slayer meets Carpathian Forest, yeah you get the idea, so unless you're a fan of the extreme side of metal, best to stay away. As for 'Death Rides Tonight' as a whole, quite frankly one of the songs should be featured on a metal compilation called "Now that's what I call underground".
Download This: "Madness" - Click to listen
For Fans of: Slayer, Carpathian Forest, Deströyer 666
'Raíz Ennegrecida'
It comes to something when Colombians sing about socio-political issues and bid for freedom, it seems that the correlation between anger against oppression and a country's level of corruption is becoming more and more evident. But for the trio known as Impunity, metal is more than just music, it is in fact a vehicle to deliver a personal statement and some. In this case anger, discontent, injustice and flipping the middle finger to a fragile and unstable system; no wonder Colombian Metal music is extremely underground. Five years have passed since their inception and the wait for their first album release has been worth it, hands down. 'Raíz Ennegrecida' is around 20 minutes long, so for some it's more of an EP, but what the hell, this music is as brutal as someone smashing your head against a brick wall, with the sole exception being that no blood will be lost because of the music.
Download this: 'Títere En Utilería' - Click to listen
For Fans of: Destruction, Deathchain, Slayer
'The True Face Behind The Smile'
Make it past the first track and you will be listening to the proper music by Costa Rica's Inception, sure this stuff is nothing and new and has been recycled by more bands than pop musicians have copped off one another, albeit for those using autotune. 'The True Face Behind The Smile' is Inception's debut album and as you would expect from a band indulging in Old-School Heavy Metal, it's full of melodicism, harmonics and upbeat atmospherics, nothing more. Granted for those who love this style of metal, they will not grow bored of it but for the average metalhead it might fail to keep their attention. Kudos for them standing up and defending a style that is on the fading away path, because the old styles are becoming weighted down by the ever-growing modern styles of metal. It might necessarily propel them to international recognition, but heck the album is worth investigating.
Download This: "Another Chance" - Click to listen
For Fans of: Diamond Head, Heaven & Hell, Black Sabbath
PORKO DIO
'Unrest'
Two EP's in and Croatian Death Grinders Porko Dio demonstrate that they're focused on creating music designed to make you cry for your mummy. It's fast, it's brutal and it's sickening to think that this music doesn't come with a health warning, let alone parental guidance giving it's violent nature. Violent nature?!?!? This is full-on metal bitches, and do you think that Porko Dio want their music restricted? Hell no. By letting their insanity be unleashed upon their music, their versatility outwits the likes of Luka Modric, their creativity demands great attention and of course they demand in return utmost respect for dropping an EP so potent, not even sniffing sulphur dioxide is as brutal as this.
Whether the title of the EP is a political statement describing Europe and it's migrant crisis is one big question, but the answer probably lies within the unruliness of their music.
Download This: "More Than Ourselves" - Click to listen
For Fans of: Deathbound, Napalm Death, Carcass
OROBAS
'Arise In Impurity'
SYMBOL OF DOMINATION PROD.
Another slice of bestial Blackened Death Metal is here with Bangladesh's Orobas stepping up to take the bullet. Armed with their debut EP just one year after their formation, Orobas waste no time in constructing a decent first-time effort to kick their career off with. 'Arise In Impurity' is the band's premier EP and whilst the music predominantly resides within the old-school Black Metal style, the vocals remain firmly rooted in the Death Metal style. Aside from the main three tracks and intro, Orobas have included a cover of Venom's 'Black Metal', which isn't half bad except cover's are too common these days and it makes as a poor excuse just to release the EP instead of recording another song in its place. 'Arise In Impurity' may not be innovative or anything new, but it certainly is a decent listen if your up for checking it out that is.
Download This: "Bad Blood Hunter" - Click to listen
For Fans of: Impiety, Bestial Warlust, Arallu
'焦土之上 (On The Scorched Earth)'
MORT PROD.
What with flying, rocket-propelled llamas on the artwork of their debut album, you would instantly think that the music is going to be just as (or possibly more) insane as the artwork as a result. Well you'd be correct to think that assumption, by using their native Mandarin language in their lyrics and bolting it onto old-school Thrash Metal, the result is a chaotic, explosive-yet-entertaining work of art. I am of course referring to Alcor's debut album '焦土之上 (On The Scorched Earth)'. Chinese Metal has come a long way since it's founder Tang Dynasty made it's debut, it's gotten heavier, darker, faster, basically it's become its own powerhouse and is one scene that is set to lock horns with the West. Musically it's nothing new but taking an overall perspective, there is something that makes this album distinguishable and its not the language difference, whatever it is here's hoping Alcor use it to their advantage all the time.
Download This: "秩序與混亂 Order & Chaos" - Click to listen
For Fans of: Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax
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CBI files charge-sheet against official
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02 Tue 2019
The central bureau of investigation (CBI) has filed a charge-sheet against Agnelo Fernandes, the then passport officer, Goa and currently additional collector-I (South Goa) in an alleged disproportionate assets case of 2016.
The 354-page charge-sheet has been filed before the District Principal Sessions Court, Margao. The CBI has relied upon 115 witnesses in the case. The CBI has also named Agnelo’s wife Cynthia for offence of abetment.
According to the CBI officials, during the check period from April 1, 2002 to September 9, 2015, Agnelo Fernandes, while serving in the government of Goa and central government (Regional Passport Office, Panaji) services, by allegedly indulging in corrupt activities, acquired illegal assets, both movable and immovable in the name of self, his wife Cynthia and children, which are disproportionate to their known sources of income to the tune of Rs 70.71 lakh, which they could not satisfactorily account for. Between April 10, 2013 to April 8, 2016, Agnelo Fernandes was on deputation in the Ministry of External Affairs, government of India, serving as deputy passport officer, regional passport office, Panaji.
A CBI official said that the disproportionate assets case of 2016 against Agnelo Fernandes was an offshoot case of passport case, which was registered in 2015 against him and three others, alleging illegal issue of passports to applicants having criminal backgrounds.
According to the CBI, as a part of investigation in the passport case, searches were conducted at the residence of Fernandes wherein amassing of huge wealth was detected and on further verification, possession of assets disproportionate to his known sources of income was found, based on which the disproportionate assets case was registered and detailed investigation taken up.
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March 8, 2017 - 8:17 am EDT 2 years ago
Tour Pros Try to Escape The Snake Pit
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What to watch for this weekend at the @ValsparChamp.
Here's your Championship preview. pic.twitter.com/eOq3G1VgQQ
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) March 8, 2017
The PGA Tour returns to Florida for a two-week stay leading up to the second World Golf Championship and first major of the year at the Valspar Championship. The early portion of the first two rounds from Innisbrook Golf Resort’s Copperhead Course can be seen exclusively on PGA TOUR LIVE before the televised coverage begins on Golf Channel.
Valspar’s spot on the schedule forces top players to make difficult decisions as they ramp up to the Masters, which is less than a month away. However, 19 of the top-30 in the FedEx Cup standings, as well as 13 major champions, are teeing it up at the home of the Snake Pit, which will be shown on featured hole coverage on PGA TOUR LIVE throughout the week.
Starting early on Thursday morning, Patrick Reed, Jim Furyk and Ernie Els kick off the coverage, with Henrik Stenson, defending champion Charl Schwartzel and Bubba Watson following them off of the 10th tee. On Friday, three-time winner this season Justin Thomas is joined by Daniel Berger and Steve Stricker going off No. 10, with the threesome of Bill Haas, Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland in the group behind.
299 bogeys or worse last year at the Snake Pit..
Expect more carnage this week. pic.twitter.com/WNB1Sun7Jz
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The first two rounds of the Valspar Championship will be live streamed on PGA TOUR LIVE beginning at 6:45 a.m. EST, giving subscribers just shy of 12 hours of live golf that otherwise would go unseen. Through the Tour’s partnership with Twitter, the first hour-plus of the PGA TOUR LIVE broadcast can be seen for free.
Here is PGA TOUR LIVE’s schedule for Thursday.
Broadcast time: 6:45AM/ET – 6:00PM/ET
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Featured Groups – Hole 10
7:45 AM/ET: Patrick Reed / Jim Furyk / Ernie Els
7:56 AM/ET: Henrik Stenson / Charl Schwartzel / Bubba Watson
7:45 AM/ET: Justin Thomas / Daniel Berger / Steve Stricker
7:56 AM/ET: Bill Haas / Matt Kuchar / Gary Woodland
There will be Featured Hole coverage at 3:00PM/ET. Featured Hole Coverage will consist of the 15th (Par-3) and 17th (Par-3) on Thursday and Friday.
Last year’s Valspar needed more than 72 holes to be decided. The difficult Innisbrook track left Schwartzel and Bill Haas tied at 7-under par, two strokes better than their nearest competitor, Ryan Moore. A par four on the 18th, the first playoff hole, gave Schwartzel his first PGA Tour win since the 2011 Masters.
Congratulations Charl Schwartzel on winning the 2016 @ValsparChamp! ? https://t.co/zgVjIglz86
About PGA TOUR LIVE: PGA TOUR LIVE is a subscription-based digital platform service that offers live coverage of two concurrent featured group pairings during morning competition prior to the start of the regularly scheduled television coverage. It also offers live-streaming coverage from select holes after early-round group coverage has concluded. You can watch on iOS, Android, computer or Apple TV 4 for one-tap access to live golf. Keep track of your followed players across all devices with a free account.
Starting with the CareerBuilder Challenge, broadcast of all tournaments for the rest of the 2016-17 PGA Tour season will be available on PGA TOUR LIVE except for the majors (The Masters, U.S. Open, The Open Championship, PGA Championship) and alternate-field events.
Monthly subscriptions are $5.99 and an annual subscription is available for $39.99.
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Differences Between a Crossbow Scope and Rifle Scope
by Peter Timm
Having a scope on your rifle or crossbow can greatly increase your accuracy with either weapon. Precision optical sights have become commonplace among both rifles and crossbows. While the scopes for rifles and crossbows may appear similar, and even function in similar fashion, there are significant differences between them.
Rifles are designed to engage targets at much longer ranges than crossbows; consequently, rifle scopes are designed for ranges of 100 yards and beyond, while crossbow scopes are designed for short ranges of 20 to 50 yards. This is the primary reason that the scopes are not interchangeable.
Magnification Settings
Most crossbow scopes are available with low-power, fixed magnification settings. Crossbow scopes are generally available from one to four power. A one power scope has no magnification qualities and a four power scope magnifies your target four times greater than your normal vision. Rifle scopes typically feature adjustable magnification for short range to long range targets. Perhaps the most common rifle scope is the 3-by-9 power, which gives you a choice of magnification settings between three and nine times your normal vision.
Rifle Scope Reticles
Rifle scopes typically feature crosshair reticles, the intersection of which represents your point of aim. Generally, rifle scopes are sighted in for a distance of approximately 100 yards. Tactical, or Mil-Dot, rifle scopes feature ranging marks that can be used for estimating range to target.
Crossbow Scope Reticles
Crossbow scope reticles are similar in design to rifle scopes, but typically feature descending range marks along the vertical reticle, each representing increasing range. The central aiming point typically is sighted in for a range of 20 yards; each range mark represents an increase of 10 yards. For example, if your target is at a range of 40 yards, your aiming point would be the intersection of the vertical reticle and the second range mark down from the horizontal reticle. If your crossbow scope does not have range marks, you must estimate your aiming point depending on the range.
Hunters Friend: Crossbow Scopes
Optics Planet: Rifle Scopes
Peter Timm has been writing since 2002 for both print and online publications. Timm earned a Bachelor of Arts from the New York Institute of Technology in 2008 and emerged a technically astute writer.
Different Kinds of Scopes
Understanding Rifle Scopes
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Recent Work (26)
Top Management Involvement in the Adoption of Energy Efficiency Projects
Blass, Vered
Corbett, Charles J.
Delmas, Magali A
Muthulingam, Suresh
This paper investigates the role of top management in the adoption of energy-efficiency initiatives. We study data from 175 energy efficiency assessments done by San Diego State University (SDSU) during 2000-2008 as part of the Department of Energy’s Industrial Assessment Center Program. We find that top management involvement leads to firms adopting 30% more of the savings identified in an assessment. We also find that when top management is involved, the average payback of adopted proposals is 57.7% longer. When top managers do reject a recommendation, they are more likely to cite operational barriers, as opposed to economic or organizational ones, than other employees are. Altogether, this suggests that top managers perceive less resource constraints than other managers do and adopt a longer perspective on energy efficiency investments. Overall, our findings shed new light on how top management involvement influences the adoption of process innovations.
Sustainability and Market Conditions:The Resource Efficiency paradox
Delmas, Magali
Pekovic, Sanja
In this paper we analyze the factors that drive the adoption of resource efficiency practices in constrained economic times. We uncover the ‘paradox’ of lower investments in resource efficiency practices in a downturn market and identify the characteristics of firms that seek the opportunity to invest more in such conditions. We argue that even though the attractiveness of resource efficiency practices should increase in downturn market conditions, such practices require complementary capabilities, strategies and organizational structure for their successful adoption. We test our framework using data from a French survey with responses from5, 877firms. Our results show that only 6% of the firms in our sample invest in resource efficiency practices in downturn markets, and that those firms are more likely to be vertically integrated, and to have a main focus on cost leadership strategies, have adopted environmental standards and conduct their research internally. We provide recommendations to encourage more widespread adoption of such models of frugal strategies.
Multi-objective fuel policies: Renewable fuel standards versus Fuel greenhouse gas intensity standards
Rajagopal, Deepak
Governments throughout the world have enacted policies to support the introduction of alter- natives to crude oil. These policies are viewed as means to achieve multiple objectives such as energy independence and security, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, protect fuel con- sumers and support infant industries. We evaluate the trade-o�s presented by di�erent policy instruments such as renewable fuel (biofuel) standards (RFS), fuel GHG intensity standards (FGIS) and fuel GHG tax in achieving these objectives. Using a two-region partial-equilibrium model, we �nd that the relative performance of the two policies, RFS and FGIS, relative to each other and relative to a fuel tax, depends on whether the policy is global or regional in scope. Whereas the FGIS has better environmental performance than RFS when applied globally, the two policies lead to similar environmental outcomes when the policy is regional. RFS leads to bigger marker share for non-crude oil fuels than both FGIS and fuel tax.
Information Strategies for Energy Conservation: A Field Experiment in India, 2017
Chen, Victor L.
Delmas, Magali A.
Locke, Stephen L.
Singh, Amarjeet
Field Experiments in Corporate Sustainability Research: Testing Strategies for Behavior Change in Markets and Organizations
Aragon-Correa, J. Alberto
Organizational Configurations for Sustainability and Employee Productivity: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach
THE DYNAMICS OF BEHAVIOR CHANGE:EVIDENCE FROM ENERGY CONSERVATION
Asensio, Omar I
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Gergaud, Olivier
Lim, Jinghui
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Calls for better regional effort to stop influx of Rohingya
August 30, 2017 September 2, 2017 Nur Farzana Md Yusof
PETALING JAYA: Human rights groups claim the outflow of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar can only be controlled through greater regional cooperation.
Responding to a statement yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, several human rights groups claimed a durable solution to the refugee crisis can only come about if there was a greater sharing of responsibilities by countries near Myanmar.
Zahid, who is also Home Minister, had said the Malaysian government would not arbitrarily issue the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) card to Rohingya refugees as it wanted to better manage their influx into the country.
“Our priority is our people and their welfare. It is not that we are not being humanitarian. I think the international community should show concern for the plight of the Rohingyas,” Zahid had said, but added that Malaysia did not wish to be a receiving country for Rohingya refugees whenever there were problems in Myanmar. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs Myanmar refugees in Malaysia, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
MP wants independent probe of death in police custody
PETALING JAYA: Opposition MP M Kulasegaran has asked for an independent probe into the death in custody of security guard Baskar Rao.
The DAP politician said he had just attended the final rites of Baskar, 47, who allegedly set himself on fire while handcuffed at the Jelapang police station on Aug 22.
“Baskar’s mother wept uncontrollably not knowing how her loving son was burnt to death while in the custody, care and control of the police.
“He was in his hospital bed for the last nine days. He was fighting for his life,” said Kula in a statement.
Baskar is survived by A Thanaletchemy, 45, and his two children. He died yesterday at 4.10pm, the statement said. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs Baskar Rao, custodial death
Wife of pastor missing for 200 days pens scathing letter to IGP
August 30, 2017 October 11, 2017 Nur Farzana Md Yusof
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 — The wife of pastor Raymond Koh penned an open letter to police today, the 200th day since her husband was abducted, to express disappointment and consternation over the handling of the investigation.
In Susanna Liew’s letter, she said her family was denied updates on the investigations and forced instead to learn of new developments via the Inspector-General of Police and his officers’ remarks reported in the news.
Liew also noted that investigations appeared to shift towards Koh and his alleged proselytisation prior to his abduction, rather than on locating the missing Christian pastor.
Police announcements on the case were also “disturbing”, she said when complaining that these were often “sensationalist” and “inconsistent”. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Khalid Abu Bakar, Raymond Koh
Move to set up committee to discuss laws to benefit children
August 29, 2017 January 19, 2018 Nur Farzana Md Yusof
Source: The New Straits Times
KUALA LUMPUR : A mediation committee comprising Muslims and non-Muslims should be set up to implement the provisions of the amendments to the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976.
International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) deputy chief executive officer Prof. Madya Dr. Mohamed Azam Mohamed Adil said this would enable parties to negotiate to reach a consensus to benefit children.
He also said the coordination of administrative aspects of the Syariah Court needed to be streamlined through the role of Malaysia Syariah Judiciary Department without affecting Islamic religion in other states.
“This mechanism should be implemented to ensure that efforts to upgrade the Syariah Court jurisdiction through Bill 355 can be realised,” he said. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS), Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) (Amendment) Bill 2017, Shariah/Syariah Courts
DPM denies arbitrary issuance of UNHCR card for Rohingyas
August 29, 2017 August 30, 2017 Nur Farzana Md Yusof
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 29 — Malaysia will not arbitrarily issue the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) card to the Rohingyas who have sought refuge in the country, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Ahmad Zahid, who is also Home Minister, said this was to avoid Malaysia and its people from being overburdened with a flood of Rohingyas fleeing the ethnic clashes in Myanmar.
The decision to deny arbitrary granting of the refugee card to the Rohingyas had the cooperation of the UNHCR itself, he said to reporters after handing over sacrificial cows for Aidiladha in his parliamentary constituency of Bagan Datuk, here, today.
“Our priority is our people and their welfare. It is not that we are not being humanitarian. I think the international community should show concern for the plight of the Rohingyas,” he said. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs Myanmar refugees in Malaysia, Rohingya, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Human trafficking eyes in the sky
(From left) Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) president Nancy Rivard, American Airlines flight attendant Donna Hubbard and Alaska Airlines stewardess Andrea Hobart.Pic by The Malay Mail Online
SEPANG, Aug 29 — Airline staff can play a vital role to stop human trafficking in Southeast Asia and around the world, as they are at the front line of the fight against a crime which sees victims transported on major flights on a daily basis.
Airline Ambassadors International (AAI) president Nancy Rivard said air travel had become a popular human trafficking method because the mode left victims in the strong grip of traffickers.
“Picture this: A 10-year-old boy from a non-English speaking country is brought across international borders by his trafficker.
“He doesn’t understand what is going on, he is closely monitored by his trafficker, and his documentation is not with him.
“This child would be terrified for his life and the trafficker succeeds in smuggling yet another human,” Rivard said during a recent anti-trafficking roadshow orgarnised by AirAsia. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs Airline Ambassadors International (AAI), awareness on human trafficking issues, human trafficking, United States annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP)
Women’s council should be led by women, says Marina
PETALING JAYA: Prominent activist Marina Mahathir has slammed the appointment of two men including the prime minister to helm Putrajaya women’s empowerment council, saying it reflects a narrow “patriarchal belief” that only men can lead.
Speaking to FMT, Marina said it should be obvious to anyone that a council for women, if it sincerely wants to help them, should be led by them.
“Men appointing themselves as heads of a women’s council is another example of the sheer tone-deafness of male privilege. It underscores the patriarchal belief that only men can lead,” she said.
She was responding to the recent appointment of Najib Razak and advertising mogul Lim Kok Wing to chair national women’s empowerment council, Women’s Innovation Academy, better known as myWIN. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs national women’s empowerment council, Women’s Innovation Academy
Two Bersih leaders, PKR MP freed from 2015 #KitaLawan rally charge
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 28 — The Magistrate’s Court discharged today polls reform group Bersih 2.0 chief Maria Chin Abdullah and two others from an 2015 criminal case over a #KitaLawan rally, but issued an arrest warrant for the fourth person charged.
Lawyer Vince Tan, who represented Bersih 2.0 secretariat manager Mandeep Singh — one of the three people freed — said today was initially set for trial for the two-year-old case.
Tan said the defence team for the accused were ready for the trial, but the original deputy public prosecutor’s absence led to the discharge of three of the four accused present in court — Maria, Mandeep and PKR’s Bayan Baru MP Sim Tze Tzin.
Another deputy public prosecutor had attended court proceedings today for a mention of the case on behalf of the initial deputy public prosecutor, he said.
“The court gave discharge not amounting to acquittal to all accused because the prosecution was not there. So the magistrate decided the matter, three of the accused given discharge not amounting to acquittal,” he told Malay Mail Online when contacted. Read more →
Human Rights & Wrongs #KitaLawan, Mandeep Singh, Maria Chin Abdullah
Non-interference must give way to human rights — Centhra
August 28, 2017 December 4, 2017 Nur Farzana Md Yusof
AUGUST 28 — The Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (Centhra) is deeply concerned over the renewed violence affecting the Rohingya Muslim community in Rakhine state in Myanmar which has caused hundreds of innocent lives killed and thousands other to flee to the border with neighbouring Bangladesh, whose border guards are turning them back in breach of international humanitarian principles.
While Asean members continue, disappointingly, to turn a blind eye, even the Pope, Francis I, has condemned the renewed violence and called for an end to the persecution of Rohingya Muslims, which Centhra welcomes.
It must be emphasised that the current crisis in Rakhine state in Myanmar has the potential of unravelling the entire Asean project unless member states deal with it wisely. To this end, two international treaties binding the Asean community as a whole, namely the Asean Charter and the Asean Human Rights Declaration (AHRD). Read more →
Opinions & Statements Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Azril Mohd Amin, Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (CENTHRA), Rohingya
Rohani says 581 child abuse cases reported from 2015 until June
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 — A total of 581 child abuse cases involving child caregivers were reported from 2015 until June this year, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim.
She said according to statistics from the Welfare Department, 146 of these cases occurred from early this year until June.
“Action in the form of written directives were taken against 32 nurseries while seven nurseries had their premises sealed off, 14 nurseries were issued with compounds, four were ordered to be closed temporarily, 52 had their registration terminated and another two were prosecuted within that period.
“My ministry views seriously cases of child abuse and neglect that occur in various places, including in nurseries,” she said when closing the Kindergarten at Home special workshop, aimed at ensuring all nurseries are registered with the ministry, in Putrajaya today.
She said most cases of accidents that occurred in the nurseries were those that were unregistered and arising from the caregivers having not attended the PERMATA Early Childhood Teaching and Care Course (KAP).
Human Rights & Wrongs child abuse
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Kilohertz Quasiperiodic Oscillations
The fastest periodic signals seen to date in astronomy have been observed by RXTE in accreting neutron stars. In February 1996, two groups analyzing data at Goddard Space Flight Center began to see evidence for these ultrafast variations in the X-ray light curves of 4U 1728-34 (led by Tod Strohmayer of Goddard) and Sco X-1 (led by Michiel van der Klis of the University of Amsterdam). The oscillations they observed are nearly periodic and have frequencies of about 1000 hertz - hence the name "kilohertz (kHz) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO)".
To date these signals have been seen in about 15 neutron stars in the galaxy. Figure 1 shows a power spectrum of Sco X-1 in which the relative amplitude of oscillation as a function of frequency is plotted. One can see two tiny peaks near 1000 Hz which represent the kHz QPO. They are dwarfed by the much larger peak near 6 Hz showing the usual QPO which has been known and studied in many systems for over 10 years. Since the amount of power associated with an oscillation varies as the frequency times the amplitude of the power spectrum at that point, there is far more "power" in the kHz QPO than the normal QPO. Figure 2 shows an expanded view of the high frequencies. In many of the sources one sees two frequencies which vary with flux - the exact relationship is different for different objects. For some of the sources the difference between the frequencies remains constant, and is thought to be telling us the rotation rate of the neutron star. The rotation rates seen so far are all between about 250 and 350 hertz (i.e., rotations per second). Figure 3 shows a dynamic power spectrum of 4U1728-34 in which the frequency of the two kHz QPO features is shown as a function of X-ray flux. The difference is nearly constant at 363 Hz. Will Zhang at Goddard and collaborators have followed the variations of two frequencies in the ultra-compact binary system 4U 1820-30 and found that above a certain flux level, the frequencies saturate to a maximum (Figure 4). The current understanding of this saturation is that we are seeing the ``innermost stable circular orbit'' (ISCO) around the neutron star, a radius predicted by general relativity inside of which matter must inexorably spiral down to smaller radii (Figure 5).
The kHz QPO are the most important scientific result to date of RXTE, and fully utilize the high timing capability of the satellite. The most developed model to account for kHz QPO is the "sonic point model" of Cole Miller, Fred Lamb, and Dimitrios Psaltis. The model follows the detailed trajectories of blobs of gas leaving the inner edge of the accretion disk around a neutron star and spiraling down to the neutron star surface, taking into account the effects of general relativity (Figure 6). The gas spirals inward supersonically and collides with the surface of the neutron star. These authors utilize observations of the highest frequency kHz QPO to place constraints on the allowed "equation of state" for neutron stars. This relationship between pressure and density for a gas made up of dense neutrons determines the mass-radius relation for neutron stars (Figure 7).
Alternatively, one can constrain the "compactness" of the neutron star by measuring the amplitudes of the periodic oscillations (which give direct evidence for the neutron star spin rates) during thermonuclear bursts. General relativity predicts that signals arising from near the surface of the neutron star should be deflected by the strong gravitational field. The more compact a star is, the more that strongly varying signals are homogenized into smoothly varying signals. This occurs because the light from any localized spot on the surface of the star would be bent considerably, so that the spot might be seen even when it was on the far side of the star from our line of sight. The observed amplitudes of the ~300 Hz oscillations tell us that the lower limit on the radius for a neutron star is about 7.7 kilometers (for an assumed mass of 1.4 solar masses). A neutron star could not be more compact and yet show oscillation amplitudes as large as those seen.
Figure 1: Power Spectrum of RXTE light curve of Sco X-1 from February, 1996.
One sees evidence for several periodicities in the power spectrum of Sco X-1: one at about 6 Hz, and two smaller spikes at around 1000 Hz (van der Klis, et al. 1997, ApJ, 481, L97).
Figure 2: A detailed view of the kilohertz QPO in Sco X-1.
A close-up view of the two small peaks in the power spectrum of Figure 1 (van der Klis, et al. 1997, ApJ, 481, L97).
Figure 3: Dynamic Power Spectrum of RXTE light curve of 4U1728-34.
The difference between the two kHz QPO frequencies in 4U1728-34 remains constant at 363 Hz as the flux varies. The constancy seems to be showing us the rotation rate of the neutron star. The 363 Hz frequency is seen in the power spectrum during thermonuclear bursts (figure courtesy of Tod Strohmayer).
Figure 4: The kHz QPO frequencies in the compact binary 4U1820-30 versus flux.
The frequencies of the twin kHz QPO in 4U1820-30 vary with the X-ray flux. Above a certain flux level, however, the frequencies remain constant, indicating that the periodically emitting region has collapsed to a minimum possible size - most probably the ISCO (Zhang, et al. 1998, ApJ, 500, L171).
Figure 5: A schematic representation of the ISCO.
Matter orbiting a central potential in general relativity is stable if it lies at radii which exceed the ISCO. Inside of this radius, however, the matter quickly spirals inward to smaller radii and so must give rise to signals of increasing frequency (so-called ``chirps'') rather than periodic or quasi-periodic signals. (figure courtesy of Tod Strohmayer).
Figure 6: A schematic view of the "sonic point" model of Miller, Lamb, and Psaltis.
Material travels supersonically from its last stable orbit down to the surface of the neutron star, creating a burst of energy upon impact. The continual accretion of many such blobs may provide a plausible explanation for kHz QPO (Miller, Lamb, & Psaltis 1998, ApJ, 508, 791).
Figure 7: Constraints on the neutron star equation of state from the kHz QPO.
The highest observed kHz QPO frequencies of about 1220 Hz are already providing interesting constraints of the "equation of state" (EOS) of nuclear matter. The EOS, which relates the pressure of a gas to its density, also determines the equilibrium relation between the mass and radius of a neutron star. As one can see, the theoretical EOS's designated "L" and "UU" lie in the excluded regions. A kHz QPO of 1500 Hz would exclude all current neutron gas EOS's. (Miller, Lamb, & Psaltis 1998, ApJ, 508, 791).
Figures provided by Cole Miller, Tod Strohmayer, Will Zhang, and Michiel van der Klis. Captions and supporting text provided by J. Cannizzo
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Muck Blu-ray Release Date and Art
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Steve Wolsh‘s Muck (2015) is releasing this upcoming March 17, 2015 in 4K Ultra HD. Muck will be available on Blu-ray in Uncut, Uncensored and Unrated version. The trailer looks great and I cannot help watching Kane Hodder movies. Count me on board to watch this new horror movie the first day it is released. Starring in Muck are Lachlan Buchanan, Kane Hodder and Jaclyn Swedberg.
This St. Patrick’s Day, Anchor Bay Entertainment invites fans for a little bit’o the green and a LOT of the red with MUCK, a chiller seething with the greatest fear of all: that nowhere is safe! The directorial debut of Steve Wolsh, who also wrote and produced, MUCK reads like a bloody love letter filled with just the sort of jolts horror fans have been waiting to hear - and see!
Shot in state-of-the-art 4K Ultra HD resolution, MUCK is packed with old-school effects, shocks - and yes, breasts - that stick with you, creating terror with effects and stunts without the use of CGI. MUCK arrives Tuesday, March 17th - uncut, uncensored, and unrated - available on Blu-ray(TM) for $26.99 and $22.98 for the DVD.
For fans who like their 4K horror on the big screen, MUCK will also have a limited theatrical engagement starting Friday, March 13th.
After narrowly escaping an ancient burial ground, long forgotten and buried underneath the marshes of Cape Cod, a group of friends emerge from the thick, marshy darkness, tattered and bloody, lucky to be alive. They have already lost two of their friends in the marsh, presumably dead. They stumble upon an empty Cape Cod vacation house alongside the foggy marsh and break in to take shelter.
Whatever was in the marsh is still after them, and soon after one of them goes for help, the rest of the group learns that the evil in the marsh is not the only thing that wants them dead. Something worse, something more savage, was lying in wait just outside the marsh, in the house. What happens next is unspeakable horror that cannot be unseen. These unlucky travelers spend their St. Patrick’s Day trapped between two evils forcing them to fight, die, or go back the way they came.
Featuring Kane Hodder (Hatchet, Jason Voorhees in four of the Friday the 13th films), Lachlan Buchanan ("Pretty Little Liars"), Puja Mohindra (Foreign), Bryce Draper (Bound), and YouTube Sensation Lauren Francesca (iwantmylauren), MUCK is throwback horror at its best.
Directed by Steve Wolsh
Movie Overview | Review | Trailer
Official Synopsis: After narrowly escaping an ancient burial ground, long forgotten and buried underneath the marshes of Cape Cod, a group of friends emerge from the thick, marshy darkness, tattered and bloody, lucky to be alive. They have already lost two of their friends in the marsh, presumably dead. They stumble upon an empty Cape Cod vacation house alongside the foggy marsh and break in to take shelter. Whatever was in the marsh is still after them and soon after one of them goes for help, the rest of the group learns that the evil in the marsh is not the only thing that wants them dead. Something worse, something more savage, was lying in wait just outside the marsh, in the house. What happens next is unspeakable, horror that cannot be unseen. These unlucky travelers spend their St. Patrick's Day trapped between two evils forcing them to fight, die, or go back the way they came.
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Preview: James Bond: Casino Royale Signed Edition HC
Posted on June 30, 2018 by Graphic Policy Team
James Bond: Casino Royale Signed Edition HC
writers: Ian Fleming, Van Jensen
artist: Dennis Calero
cover: Fay Dalton
FC | 176 pages | $49.99 | Teen +
Featuring a tip-in sheet signed by writer Van Jensen!
Ian Fleming’s literary debut of British Secret Service agent 007 is stylishly adapted to the sequential art medium by Van Jensen and Dennis Calero in the official James Bond: Casino Royal graphic novel. Sent to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux, Bond aims to eliminate the threat of the deadly Le Chiffreby bankrupting the ruthless SMERSH operative at the baccarat table. However, when the luck of the draw favors his enemy, 007 becomes the target of assassins and torturers in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
James Bond: Casino Royale Signed & Remarked Edition HC
Featuring a tip-in sheet signed and remarked with a James Bond head sketch by artist Dennis Calero!
Preview: James Bond: Casino Royale HC
Posted on April 10, 2018 by Graphic Policy Team
James Bond: Casino Royale HC
FC | 160 pages | $24.99 | Teen+
AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL!
Ian Fleming’s literary debut of British Secret Service agent 007 is stylishly adapted to the sequential art medium by Van Jensen and Dennis Calero in the official James Bond: Casino Royale graphic novel. Sent to a French casino in Royale-les-Eaux, Bond aims to eliminate the threat of the deadly Le Chiffre by bankrupting the ruthless SMERSH operative at the baccarat table. However, when the luck of the draw favors his enemy, 007 becomes the target of assassins and torturers in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.
Van Jensen and Dennis Calero take on James Bond’s Casino Royale
Award-winning writer Van Jansen and artist Dennis Calero have been selected as the creative team to bring the very first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, to the pages of comics for the first time in the series’ history. Set for release in October, the 160-page graphic novel will transport 007 fans back to the 1950’s with its stylish artwork and classic story!
Ian Fleming’s Original James Bond Novels Get Graphic Novel Adaptations
Posted on July 20, 2016 by Graphic Policy Team
Dynamite Entertainment has announced the first-ever graphic novel adaptations of Ian Fleming‘s original James Bond novels, beginning with his seminal debut, Casino Royale, slated for release in November. The first book in the newly announced series will be adapted by Van Jensen, with art by DC and Marvel veteran Matt Southworth.
James Bond Goes Dynamite
Posted on October 7, 2014 by Brett
Dynamite Entertainment has announced their partnership with Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., the company that owns and administers the literary copyright of Ian Fleming‘s published works, including his fourteen James Bond books.
Under their agreement, negotiated by Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown, Dynamite has been granted worldwide rights to publish comic books, digital comics, and graphic novels starring 007, Fleming’s iconic secret agent will re-live the exploits that have thrilled and captivated fans for over half a century in fresh visual adaptations of the classic Bond stories.
Moreover, Dynamite plans to create a series of brand new adventures unveiling the defining – and largely undocumented – early years of Bond’s career. These new stories will draw inspiration from the Fleming canon to explore Bond’s ‘origins’: his raw early years before he gambled with his life in the first novel, Casino Royale (1953). Some other familiar faces from the expansive 007 mythos will also make appearances in this series – criminal masterminds, hired henchmen, glamorous Bond Girls, and secret service allies – alongside all-new characters.
Ian Fleming’s World War II service as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence in London granted him a wealth of experience in the world of espionage, on which he drew when writing his novels. Fleming published fourteen James Bond titles and lived to witness their enormous success in print and on film. His cultural legacy has thrived for over fifty years, as millions of readers worldwide continue to discover and enjoy his work.
Dynamite plans to launch its first James Bond comic books in 2015.
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By Steve Lansdale
Soccer - Womens Sports
Texas soccer edges Long Beach State, routs SFA to improve to 4-0-1
Posted on September 3, 2018 by Steve Lansdale |
Sophomore forward Cydney Billups scored twice in four minutes to lead the Texas soccer team to a 5-0 rout of Stephen F. Austin (photo by Horns Illustrated).
AUSTIN, Texas — The No. 23 Texas soccer team picked up a pair of wins to improve to 4-0-1 on the season, knocking off Long Beach State, 2-1, Thursday and then rolling over Stephen F. Austin, 5-0, Sunday at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Junior forward Cyera Hintzen gave the Longhorns the lead against Long Beach State with an unassisted goal — her fifth score of the young season — in the second minute of the game. Long Beach State tied the game in the 50th minute, but Texas freshman Mackenzie McFarland’s first career goal, scored in the 62nd minute on an assist by Kayra Dollas, proved to be the game-winner.
“I couldn't have done it without my teammates,” McFarland said. “They gave me a great shot, and I kept composed and just finished it off.”
Texas head coach Angela Kelly said that the win over Long Beach State provides further evidence that the tough non-conference opponents on the schedule are preparing the Longhorns for the challenges that await later on the schedule.
“I am very pleased with that because it means that they have to fight,” Kelly said. “If you look at Long Beach State, they took UCLA to the last two seconds of the match. They are a quality opponent. Last week we faced two preseason high-ranked teams. We started school yesterday, and there were some players that had class 'til 5 p.m., and there are a ton of different factors, but once again, it's a lot better to teach off of a win, and we are excited about that.
Against SFA, the Longhorns employed a balanced attack, getting goals from four different players. Senior forward Alexa Adams scored what ended being the only goal UT would need when she netted her first of the year in the ninth minute on a breakaway goal set up by an assist by Katie Glenn. Sophomore forward Cydney Billups then added her first two goals of the season in the 24th minute and the 27th minute to give Texas a 3-0 lead at the halftime intermission.
Haley Berg scored her first goal of the year in the 73rd minute and Amber Stearns added a penalty kick in the 89th minute to close out the scoring.
UT outshot SFA, 25-2. The five Texas goals were the most the Longhorns had scored in exactly two years, when they scored seven in a win over Sam Houston State.
The Longhorns will be back in action Friday when they host Texas State at 6 p.m. in a game that can be seen on the Longhorn Network.
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HOWARD AIR EARNS 2018 ANGIE’S LIST SUPER SERVICE AWARD
Phoenix, AZ, March 5, 2019– Howard Air is proud to announce that it has earned the home service industry’s coveted Angie’s List Super Service Award (SSA). This award honors service professionals who have maintained exceptional service ratings and reviews on Angie’s List in 2018.
“Service pros that receive our Angie’s List Super Service Award represent the best in our network, who are consistently making great customer service their mission,” said Angie’s List Founder Angie Hicks. “These pros have provided exceptional service to our members and absolutely deserve recognition for the exemplary customer service they exhibited in the past year.”
Angie’s List Super Service Award 2018 winners have met strict eligibility requirements, which include maintaining an “A” rating in overall grade, recent grade, and review period grade. The SSA winners must be in good standing with Angie’s List and undergo additional screening.
Howard Air has been listed on Angie’s List since 2005. This is the 13th year Howard Air has received this honor.
Service company ratings are updated continually on Angie’s List as new, verified consumer reviews are submitted. Companies are graded on an A through F scale in multiple fields ranging from price to professionalism to punctuality.
For over two decades, Angie’s List has been a trusted name for connecting consumers to top-rated service professionals. Angie’s List provides unique tools and support designed to improve the local service experience for both consumers and service professionals.
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Notes on The Cultured Life
Kinds of minds
On Comments
On the pictures
Why do great artists allow their failed works to be published?
Some nice interiors, though.
(Of course, an Italian director who fails to show you a good interior must be mentally retarded).
The usual story is Orhan Pamuk: one reads two of his books (Red, Snow), gets excited (wow!), goes out and buys everything the man has ever written only to discover that… nothing beyond the first two (or three — White was OK, too) – books are worth reading. Marco Bellocchio recently delivered the same bait-and-switch: hooked me with Buon Giorno, Notte, and L’Ora di Religione, only to let me seriously down with Il Regista di Matrimoni. Why does this happen?
Partly, the problem is the production system: a novelist is expected to produce a novel a year; a film-maker, a film a year – because “the market expects it: if you do not, you drop out from public view, become forgotten and have to start from scratch”. This is actually not true, but this is the official industry party-line pushed heavily by agents and promoters who live on the stream of new works and artists come to believe it. But this annual procreation adds up to something like 40 works over a lifetime. And no one – not even Michelangelo – can possibly have in him enough material for 40 masterpieces, especially if his life becomes reduced to turning out novels (or films). (To write a novel, just like making a film, takes a lot of time). To make an interesting novel (or film) one has to live, experience, and reflect, i.e. get away from his desk/camera; and there is just no time for any of it if you are “successful”. Truly great film directors (e.g. Kubrick) and great novelists (e.g. di Lampedusa) know it and go slow – that is, they shuddup when they have nothing to say.
I would be prepared to pay serious money to know the truth behind works like Bellocchio’s Il Regista or Pamuk’s Black. Did they get published/released because the author has come to believe in his own infallibility (“yes, it does seem weak when I look at it, but perhaps my eyesight has gone weak, how can I possibly turn out a bad work, surely, if it is by me, it must be great, and perhaps one day I will see it”) or did they get published because the author/director decided that the public was stupid (“not a great film, I know, but they can’t tell anyway, why worry about it too much”).
Why worry about it? A Chinese proverb explains why: a tiger dies and leaves its skin, a man dies and leaves his reputation.
October 24, 2012 | Categories: aesthetics, art in life, Orhan Pamuk | Tags: aesthetics, ART, ART MARKET, Marco Bellocchio, Orhan Pamuk | Leave a comment
Regarding aesthetic dim-sightedness
Writes Rebecca Willis:
Back in the days when I wrote about hotels for a living, the man I was eventually to marry sometimes joined me on my travels. And a curious thing would happen as we crossed the latest hip-hotel lobby: a thought would flash across my mind—”what a hideous lamp”, for instance—and a micro-second later he would say: “I love that lamp, I wonder where it’s from?” It could be a sofa, a painting, a fabric, a paint colour: whatever, I soon learnt to wait for the inverse echo of my reaction. It was the first inkling that we might not be totally compatible in the taste department.
Rebecca Willis is no dummy. It takes well demonstrated brains even to write for The Economist; presumably more better brains to reach the associate editorship of The More Intelligent Life (as the title clearly states). Yet, for what is probably the most important decision in her life – the choice of life partner – she was prepared to compromise her tastes: she went ahead and… married him.
It’s not clear from the article how she makes that work. Is her husband allowed to express his tastes at home, forcing Rebecca to live with wall colors she hates, night-lights and bathroom towels which make her go YUCK? Or have the two decided for the functional neutrality in the house, living permanently in some sort of hotel-lcum-trainstation-like off-white/stainless steel dullity which does nothing for the eye? Since neither decision means living in a home which does not provide the comfort of pleasure, can either decision truly be said to be intelligent life, let alone more intelligent?
As Rebecca observes, plenty of people make the same decision – opt for a life with a person whose tastes they do not share, with, presumably the same consequence: in other words, they do violence to their own tastes for the sake of a relationship. Personally, I could never ever do this: I feel too strongly about my tastes; their violation offends me too much and their satisfaction is too rewarding to countenance giving them up. I could never have my living room wall-papered in a way I did not care for: I spend too much time there. The wallpaper I do have gives me a sense of pleasure and contentment, it turns my living room into an oasis of pleasure in an otherwise pretty ugly world.
Yet, it would appear, other people do not think that way: they are perfectly willing to compromise their wallpaper (and aesthetic pleasure in general) for other values (Sex? Companionship? The increased purchasing power of double income?). Perhaps their tastes aren’t especially strong i.e. aesthetic appreciation does not actually give them any meaningful/detectable pleasure. This would explain why they can go on writing the sort of garbage they write about art – because if not entirely aesthetically blind they are, at a minimum, aesthetically dim-sighted. If so, here is the central reason why one cannot discuss art with some/most people. If they do not possess a strong aesthetic sense themselves, I can never explain to them what I mean anymore than a bat could explain to them echolocation.
October 21, 2012 | Categories: aesthetics, other people | Tags: aesthetics, ART, other people, TALKING ABOUT ART, theory of art | Leave a comment
One reason to embrace the crisis
Given the wild historicist philosophising to which historians of the old school were inclined, it is small wonder modern-day historians eschew theory-making as such. It is also regrettable because it is an act of over-compensation: an exaggeration in the opposite direction. After all, history is supposed to teach us something about the world: trying to draw conclusions about general mechanisms of how things work really should lie at the heart of its inquiry.
C. V. Wedgwood does this rather well. Her way of interpreting some mechanisms of history is ambitious and thought provoking, without being wild — perhaps because it is couched in economic and psychological terms rather then the vague “civilization” or “progress” or “gender construction” or “Orientalism”. The author’s seemingly “sweeping” observations strike us with their profoundly common sense. Such as her observation that the cause of the decline of the Catholic church in the Netherlands in the 15th century was a brain-drain from the church to the professions, a brain-drain caused by… the rapidly improving opportunities in trade and industry. She thus suggests the existence of a fascinating cultural/economic mechanism (also proposed by someone else to explain America’s cultural decline during the Gilded Age): that a society’s economic success can be bad for its art.
One can see the mechanism at work in our own time: the last 50 years in the “first world” have seen fantastic opportunities in banking, finance, technology, real estate and marketing and that’s where all talent went; by contrast, the fields of artistic production (painting, sculpture, literature) and art management (museum directors, theater directors, critics, scholars) have failed to attract the best talent; which has resulted in the sort of production we have seen: uninspired, shallow, derivative, technically poor, gimmicky. In culturally more successful periods (such as the Renaissance) artistic production attracted talent which may equally well have been deployed in science or engineering (and often was: Leonardo was a anatomist, Michelangelo a builder, Cellini an engineer). By contrast, twentieth century art looks like something produced by people whose alternative economic options were on the scale of selling pimple remedies via mail order in small town newspapers.
Perhaps when at last the true (economic) “decline of the West” finally sets in, talent will begin trickling back to art.
Embrace the crisis.
September 24, 2012 | Categories: art theory, economics | Tags: ART, art theory, economics | Leave a comment
Reading Soseki: a great artist is no more (and no less) than someone in extraordinary control of his craft
Without seeing Glenn Gould’s 37 pages of notes on Kusa Makura (Three-cornered world) — the book became something of an obsession for him — it is hard to guess what it was that he loved about it. Did he like the reflections on the similarities and differences of poetry and painting? (But Lessing’s Laocoon has already made it amply plain that nothing interesting can be said about the matter: the two can not be any more usefully or meaningfully compared than recreational swimming and differential equations can). Did he believe in the existence of moral or artistic truth? (But what on earth is an “artistic truth”?) Or did Gould really think the work accurately represented the process of the creation of a work of art? (I find it unconvincing, probably because Soseki was not a painter and therefore had no clue what he was writing about).
All of Kusa makura‘s hero’s reflections on art are 19th century claptrap and can only bore and exhaust someone like me who knows that a great artist is no more (and no less) than someone in extraordinary control of his craft; that great art has nothing to do with moral truth, or artistic truth, or any otherwise truth, but everything to do with technique; that it need not describe or discuss or reveal human feelings at all only manipulate successfully the human cognitive system; and who, like me, does not believe that a great artist either is or needs to be spiritually different from “most people” (which the novel repeatedly claims, “as an artist I am more sensitive” etc.). GIGO (“garbage in garbage out”) describes the meditations of Kusa makura rather well: starting out from false first principles one can only arrive at nonsense conclusions. It describes our modern art theory, too: what wonder we have the art we do given that we had started out with all that nonsense?
Soseki’s meditations on art aside, several sections of the novel are extraordinarily beautiful, and its last chapter is absolutely breathtaking. In English, this beauty owes as much to the translator (Alan Turney) as it does to the original: much of it is verbal; consider how beautifully this poem is translated:
Your obi worked loose and flutters in the breeze,
But once again ’tis for pretence and not spring’s passion it unwinds.
The maker’s name, though woven into silk,
Is, like your heart, unreadable.
But there is also that special je ne se quoi aspect of it — that it infuses the reader with a profound sadness on the one hand and on the other urges him to out the book down and reflect. (Magic Mountain has the same effect and, not surprisingly, it was Gould’s other most favorite novel). That the chapter portrays a universal archetype — the departure of a soldier — has more to do with its impact than one is at first inclined to believe.
September 22, 2012 | Categories: aesthetics, art theory, Japan, literature | Tags: aesthetics, ART, art theory, Glenn Gould, Kusa Makura, Kusamakura, Literature, Natsume Soseki, Soseki, Three-cornered world | Leave a comment
Readig Soseki: a matter of a single image, a very few words
“She had tied the red obi around her waist with a simplicity which suggested a young girl’s indifference as to whether or not it enhanced her charms. Carrying an old fashioned taper in her hand, she had led me to the bathhouse now this way now that, around the bend after bend along what appeared to be passageways, and down flights of stairs. In front of me all the time were that same obi and that same taper, and it seemed as though we were going along the same passage and down the same staircase again and again. Already I had the feeling of being a painted figure moving along on a canvass.”
Natsume Soseki, Kusa Makura (The three-cornered world), III, 40-41
Kusa makura is an introspective novel. The first chapter is indicative of the rest: it starts with the sentence: “Going up a mountain track, I feel to thinking” and the rest are the hero’s thoughts. This is a very attractive structure for someone like me – more interested in the internal life of men than in what actually happened (the action is always the same – she wants him, but she does not want her back, or the other way around).
The thoughts themselves are rather disappointing: they illustrate the disarming lack of training in rigorous thinking rather typical of all exclusively humanist training; and even if the total lack of familiarity with recent advances in psychology and cognitive science are forgivable (after tall the book was written in 1906), the most serious problem with all these introspections is that the novel describes the internal life of a man of around 30. Think about it: when is the last time someone aged 30 has had anything interesting to say to you?
Yet, to me, reading Kusa Makura has been a remarkable experience — and this entirely on the strength of the passage I quote above. The hero arrives at a remote guesthouse in the mountains; it is night-time; and the maid – the sole person in the whole house as far as he can tell – is taking him to the mineral bath somewhere at the bottom of the house. This image – the red obi, the taper, the going down and down endless narrow passages and stairways in the moving globe of flickering light and the altered state of mind of having entered a painting. There is much reflection on painting in the book, but this is the only one that matters: yes, there is that state of mind one enters into when looking at paintings, a moment of endlessly suspended time.
It is almost as if the entire novel – all those pages, all those chapters – were needed only to provide the setting for that single image, like all that twisty metal which holds the one object of any worth, the jewel. Much art is that way: the slow, repetitive, mesmerizing overture is needed to put the audience in the mood, to sensitize them, so that they may be ready to receive what you have to tell them.
Which may well be a matter of a single image, a very few words.
September 16, 2012 | Categories: aesthetics, literature, painting | Tags: aesthetics, ART, Literature, Nastume Soseki, painting | Leave a comment
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UNFICYP Head: upcoming consultations at the UN on Cyprus ‘very important’
Edited by Stelios Marathovouniotis
UN Secretary General’s Special Representative Elizabeth Spehar described the upcoming deliberations on Cyprus as very important.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, after meeting with President Anastasiades, Spehar said that she is not aware of a tripartite meeting between the Secretary General of the UN with President Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Spehar said she was “very pleased to spend some time with Mr. Anastasiades ahead of his upcoming trip” noting she touches base with both leaders at this time of the year before they go to the General Assembly “where both Mr. Anastasiades and Mr Akinci will be having bilateral meetings with the Secretary General”.
Describing her discussion with the President as “very good conversation”, she said they talked about his expectations and “also discussed the report that will be tabled in the middle of October, the outcome of Ms. Lute ‘s (UNSG`s Special Envoy Jane Holl Lute) consultations and how this is a very important period going forward because what is in that report, what is in the next report in January, is of great interest to the council in terms of how they understand the way ahead in the future”.
Lute concluded her meetings with all interested parties with a meeting she had last week in Strasbourg with High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, and will submit a report on her contacts to the Secretary General.
Asked whether there will be a tripartite meeting of the leaders with the SG, Spehar said she was “not aware of anything of that sort that has been set up” while she also said that Lute “will be reporting to the SG quite soon”.
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The Hardraw Scaur Brass Band Festival. Massed bands performance. Organised by the Yorkshire and Humberside Brass Band Association, the competition is Britain's second oldest outdoor contest and takes place annually in Hardraw Scar in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, England, UK. The area, a natural amphitheatre, attracts bands from all over the North of England and is a popular event amongst players and audiences alike. The traditional end to the day takes the form of an impromptu concert given by the massed bands drawn from those who have competed in the contest.
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UK - Culture - Gay and lesbian Pride Parade through central London
Pride London gay and lesbian parade through central London. Pride London (founded in 2004) aims to promote equality and diversity through all of its campaigns. The Pride London festival uses theatre, music, debate, art and entertainment to raise awareness of discrimination and the issues and difficulties affecting the lives of lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people around the world. The annual parade is an explosion of Pride in the heart of the capital, attracting over 1,000,000 people in a celebration of diversity.
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1. Your relationship with incisive software corporation (“incisive”)
1.1 Incisive is a wholly owned property of Incisive. These terms and conditions apply to all Incisive services.
1.2 Your use of Incisive’s products, software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Incisive under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Incisive. “Incisive” means Incisive Software Corporation, whose principal place of business is at 300 Santana Row, Suite 200, San Jose, California, United States. This document explains how the agreement is made up, and sets out some of the terms of that agreement.
1.3 Unless otherwise agreed in writing with Incisive, your agreement with Incisive will always include, at a minimum, the terms and conditions set out in this document. These are referred to below as the “Universal Terms”.
1.4 Your agreement with Incisive will also include the terms of any Legal Notices applicable to the Services, in addition to the Universal Terms. All of these are referred to below as the “Additional Terms”. Where Additional Terms apply to a Service, these will be accessible for you to read either within, or through your use of, that Service.
1.5 The Universal Terms, together with the Additional Terms, form a legally binding agreement between you and Incisive in relation to your use of the Services. It is important that you take the time to read them carefully. Collectively, this legal agreement is referred to below as the “Terms”.
1.6 If there is any contradiction between what the Additional Terms say and what the Universal Terms say, then the Additional Terms shall take precedence in relation to that Service.
2. Accepting the terms
2.1 In order to use the Services, you must first agree to the Terms. You may not use the Services if you do not accept the Terms.
2.2 You can accept the Terms by:
(A) clicking to accept or agree to the Terms, where this option is made available to you by Incisive in the user interface for any Service; or
(B) by actually using the Services. In this case, you understand and agree that Incisive will treat your use of the Services as acceptance of the Terms from that point onwards.
2.3 You may not use the Services and may not accept the Terms if (a) you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Incisive, or (b) you are a person barred from receiving the Services under the laws of the United States or other countries including the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services.
2.4 Before you continue, you should print off or save a local copy of the Universal Terms for your records.
3. Language of the terms
3.1 Where Incisive has provided you with a translation of the English language version of the Terms, then you agree that the translation is provided for your convenience only and that the English language versions of the Terms will govern your relationship with Incisive.
3.2 If there is any contradiction between what the English language version of the Terms says and what a translation says, then the English language version shall take precedence.
4. Provision of the services by Incisive
4.1 Incisive has subsidiaries and affiliated legal entities (“Subsidiaries and Affiliates”). Sometimes, these companies will be providing the Services to you on behalf of Incisive itself. You acknowledge and agree that Subsidiaries and Affiliates will be entitled to provide the Services to you.
4.2 Incisive is constantly innovating in order to provide the best possible experience for its users. You acknowledge and agree that the form and nature of the Services which Incisive provides may change from time to time without prior notice to you.
4.3 As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree that Incisive may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services (or any features within the Services) to you or to users generally at Incisive’s sole discretion, without prior notice to you. You may stop using the Services at any time. You do not need to specifically inform Incisive when you stop using the Services.
4.4 You acknowledge and agree that if Incisive disables access to your account, you may be prevented from accessing the Services, your account details or any files or other content which is contained in your account.
4.5 You acknowledge and agree that while Incisive may not currently have set a fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions you may send or receive through the Services or on the amount of storage space used for the provision of any Service, such fixed upper limits may be set by Incisive at any time, at Incisive’s discretion.
5. Use of the services by you
5.1 In order to access certain Services, you may be required to provide information about yourself (such as identification or contact details) as part of the registration process for the Service, or as part of your continued use of the Services. You agree that any registration information you give to Incisive will always be accurate, correct and up to date.
5.2 You agree to use the Services only for purposes that are permitted by (a) the Terms and (b) any applicable law, regulation or generally accepted practices or guidelines in the relevant jurisdictions (including any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from the United States or other relevant countries).
5.3 You agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services by any means other than through the interface that is provided by Incisive, unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with Incisive. You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the Services through any automated means (including use of scripts or web crawlers) and shall ensure that you comply with the instructions set out in any robots.txt file present on the Services.
5.4 You agree that you will not engage in any activity that interferes with or disrupts the Services (or the servers and networks which are connected to the Services).
5.5 Unless you have been specifically permitted to do so in a separate agreement with Incisive, you agree that you will not reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade or resell the Services for any purpose.
5.6 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Incisive has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under the Terms and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which Incisive may suffer) of any such breach.
6. Your passwords and account security
6.1 You agree and understand that you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the Services.
6.2 Accordingly, you agree that you will be solely responsible to Incisive for all activities that occur under your account.
6.3 If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or of your account, you agree to notify Incisive immediately by writing to us at [email protected]
7. Privacy and your personal information
7.1 For information about Incisive’s data protection practices, please read Incisive’s privacy policy at https://incisive.com/company/privacy-policy. This policy explains how Incisive treats your personal information, and protects your privacy, when you use the Services.
7.2 You agree to the use of your data in accordance with Incisive’s privacy policies.
8. Content in the services
8.1 You understand that all information (such as data files, written text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images) which you may have access to as part of, or through your use of, the Services are the sole responsibility of the person from which such content originated. All such information is referred to below as the “Content”.
8.2 You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Incisive has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any Content that you create, transmit or display while using the Services and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which Incisive may suffer) by doing so.
9.1 You acknowledge and agree that Incisive (or Incisive’s licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in the Services (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). You further acknowledge that the Services may contain information which is designated confidential by Incisive and that you shall not disclose such information without Incisive’s prior written consent.
9.2 Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Incisive, nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use any of Incisive’s trade names, trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and other distinctive brand features.
9.3 If you have been given an explicit right to use any of these brand features in a separate written agreement with Incisive, then you agree that your use of such features shall be in compliance with that agreement, any applicable provisions of the Terms, and Incisive’s brand use guidelines as updated from time to time.
9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Section 11, Incisive acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). Unless you have agreed otherwise in writing with Incisive, you agree that you are responsible for protecting and enforcing those rights and that Incisive has no obligation to do so on your behalf.
9.5 You agree that you shall not remove, obscure, or alter any proprietary rights notices (including copyright and trademark notices), which may be affixed to or contained within the Services.
9.6 Unless you have been expressly authorized to do so in writing by Incisive, you agree that in using the Services, you will not use any trademark, service mark, trade name, logo of any company or organization in a way that is likely or intended to cause confusion about the owner or authorized user of such marks, names or logos.
10. License from Incisive
10.1 Incisive gives you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable and non-exclusive license to use the software provided to you by Incisive as part of the Services as provided to you by Incisive (referred to as the “Software” below). This license is for the sole purpose of enabling you to use and enjoy the benefit of the Services as provided by Incisive, in the manner permitted by the Terms.
10.2 You may not (and you may not permit anyone else to) copy, modify, create a derivative work of, reverse engineer, decompile or otherwise attempt to extract the source code of the Software or any part thereof, unless this is expressly permitted or required by law, or unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Incisive, in writing.
10.3 Unless Incisive has given you specific written permission to do so, you may not assign (or grant a sub-license of) your rights to use the Software, grant a security interest in or over your rights to use the Software, or otherwise transfer any part of your rights to use the Software.
11. Content license from you
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Incisive a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Incisive to provide the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
11.2 You understand that Incisive, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Incisive to take these actions.
11.3 You confirm and warrant to Incisive that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.
12. Software updates
12.1 The Software, which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Incisive. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new software modules and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Incisive to deliver these to you) as part of your use of the Services.
13. Ending your relationship with Incisive
13.1 The Terms will continue to apply until terminated by either you or Incisive as set out below.
13.2 If you want to terminate your legal agreement with Incisive, you may do so by (a) notifying Incisive at any time and (b) closing your accounts for all of the Services which you use, where Incisive has made this option available to you. Your notice should be sent, in writing, to Incisive’s address that is set out at the beginning of these Terms.
13.3 Incisive may at any time, terminate its legal agreement with you if:
(A) you have breached any provision of the Terms (or have acted in manner which clearly shows that you do not intend to, or are unable to comply with the provisions of the Terms); or
(B) Incisive is required to do so by law (for example, where the provision of the Services to you is, or becomes, unlawful); or
(C) the partner with whom Incisive offered the Services to you has terminated its relationship with Incisive or ceased to offer the Services to you; or
(D) Incisive is transitioning to no longer providing the Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the service; or
(E) the provision of the Services to you by Incisive is, in Incisive’s opinion, no longer commercially viable.
13.4 Nothing in this Section shall affect Incisive’s rights regarding provision of Services under Section 4 of the Terms.
13.5 When these Terms come to an end, all of the legal rights, obligations and liabilities that you and Incisive have benefited from, been subject to (or which have accrued over time whilst the Terms have been in force) or which are expressed to continue indefinitely, shall be unaffected by this cessation, and the provisions of paragraph 19.7 shall continue to apply to such rights, obligations and liabilities indefinitely.
14. Exclusion of warranties
14.1 Nothing in these terms, including sections 14 and 15, shall exclude or limit incisive’s warranty or liability for losses which may not be lawfully excluded or limited by applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or conditions or the limitation or exclusion of liability for loss or damage caused by negligence, breach of contract or breach of implied terms, or incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, only the limitations, which are lawful in your jurisdiction, will apply to you and our liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
14.2 You expressly understand and agree that your use of the services is at your sole risk and that the services are provided “as is” and “as available.”
14.3 In particular, incisive, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its licensors do not represent or warrant to you that:
(A) Your use of the services will meet your requirements,
(B) Your use of the services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or free from error,
(C) Any information obtained by you as a result of your use of the services will be accurate or reliable, and
(D) That defects in the operation or functionality of any software provided to you as part of the services will be corrected.
14.4 any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the services is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer system or other device or loss of data that results from the download of any such material.
14.5 no advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained by you from incisive or through or from the services shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the terms.
14.6 incisive further expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to the implied warranties and conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
15.1 subject to overall provision in paragraph 14.1 above, you expressly understand and agree that incisive, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and its licensors shall not be liable to you for:
(A) Any direct, indirect, incidental, special consequential or exemplary damages, which may be incurred by you, however caused and under any theory of liability. This shall include, but not be limited to, any loss of profit (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill or business reputation, any loss of data suffered, cost of procurement of substitute goods or services, or other intangible loss;
(B) Any loss or damage, which may be incurred by you, including but not limited to loss or damage as a result of:
(I) Any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, or as a result of any relationship or transaction between you and any advertiser or sponsor, whose advertising appears on the services;
(II) Any changes which incisive may make to the services, or for any permanent or temporary cessation in the provision of the services (or any features within the services);
(III) The deletion of, corruption of, or failure to store, any content and other communications data maintained or transmitted by or through your use of the services;
(III) Your failure to provide incisive with accurate account information;
(IV) Your failure to keep your password or account details secure and confidential;
15.2 the limitations on incisive’s liability to you in paragraph 15.1 above shall apply whether or not incisive has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising.
16. Copyright and trademark policies
16.1 It is Incisive’s policy to respond to notices of alleged copyright infringements that comply with applicable international intellectual property law (including, in the United States, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) and to terminating the accounts of repeat infringers.
17. Other content
17.1 The Services may include hyperlinks to other web sites or content or resources. Incisive may have no control over any web sites or resources which are provided by companies or persons other than Incisive.
17.2 You acknowledge and agree that Incisive is not responsible for the availability of any such external sites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such web sites or resources.
17.3 You acknowledge and agree that Incisive is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external sites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such web sites or resources.
18. Changes to the terms
18.1 Incisive may make changes to the Universal Terms or Additional Terms from time to time. When these changes are made, Incisive will make a new copy of the Universal Terms available at https://incisive.com/company/terms-of-use-and-disclaimer and any new Additional Terms will be made available to you from within, or through, the affected Services.
18.2 You understand and agree that if you use the Services after the date on which the Universal Terms or Additional Terms have changed, Incisive will treat your use as acceptance of the updated Universal Terms or Additional Terms.
19. General legal terms
19.1 Sometimes when you use the Services, you may (as a result of, or through your use of the Services) use a service or download a piece of software, or purchase goods, which are provided by another person or company. Your use of these other services, software or goods may be subject to separate terms between you and the company or person concerned. If so, the Terms do not affect your legal relationship with these other companies or individuals.
19.2 The Terms constitute the whole legal agreement between you and Incisive and govern your use of the Services (but excluding any services which Incisive may provide to you under a separate written agreement), and completely replace any prior agreements between you and Incisive in relation to the Services.
19.3 You agree that Incisive may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms, by email, regular mail, or postings on the Services.
19.4 You agree that if Incisive does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms (or which Incisive has the benefit of under any applicable law), this will not be taken to be a formal waiver of Incisive’s rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to Incisive.
19.5 If any court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of these Terms is invalid, then that provision will be removed from the Terms without affecting the rest of the Terms. The remaining provisions of the Terms will continue to be valid and enforceable.
19.6 You acknowledge and agree that each member of the group of companies of which Incisive is the parent shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms and that such other companies shall be entitled to directly enforce, and rely upon, any provision of the Terms which confers a benefit on (or rights in favor of) them. Other than this, no other person or company shall be third party beneficiaries to the Terms.
19.7 The Terms, and your relationship with Incisive under the Terms, shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. You and Incisive agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the county of Santa Clara, California to resolve any legal matter arising from the Terms. Notwithstanding this, you agree that Incisive shall still be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction.
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Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family’s struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around “the help”; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
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Home » Nominees » 2015 Winners » System drives efficiencies for contractors, curbs gridlock agony
System drives efficiencies for contractors, curbs gridlock agony
Traffic congestion is one of the most ubiquitous and vexing problems of urban life, causing untold frustration and lost productivity. Construction necessary to maintain and improve the road network exacerbates the problem, especially when several projects happen simultaneously. Indeed, given Canada’s cold climate, such work is condensed into just a few months, often referred to as “construction season.”
Managing and co-ordinating roadway lane restrictions and closures – as well as communicating about them to drivers – helps limit the inconvenience they cause. A new Roadwork Scheduling System (RSS) developed by Parsons Corporation for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) demonstrates the power of technology to improve efficiency, starting with the morning commute.
The MTO handles tens of thousands of road closure requests from hundreds of contractors each year, says Mark Conrad, the RSS project manager at Parsons, a global engineering, construction, technical and management services firm with Canadian operations based in Markham, Ont. Processing such requests is demanding and time-consuming, he notes. “The previous paper-based, manual database entry process often had errors and omissions in contractor-submitted road closure requests, requiring follow-up by the ministry and resulting in resubmission by contractors.”
He says that Parsons, working closely with the ministry, set up the new streamlined system based on MTO’s detailed workflows and system requirements. The result was a secure web-based platform to process, manage and disseminate information related to roadwork scheduling. The application allows hundreds of users across many organizations to use it, including contractors applying for road closure permits and MTO officials processing them.
Since the RSS launch, some 1,000 contractor staff have registered and more than 40,000 closure permits have been issued, Mr. Conrad says. Contractors report time savings of 40 per cent in submitting closure requests, while the number returned due to conflicts and incomplete information has decreased 80 per cent.
Nancy Adriano, head of safety, traffic information and roadwork co-ordination in MTO’s central region traffic office, says the online application saves the ministry 1,540 hours of staff time annually. “It also saves more than 15,000 sheets of paper,” she notes.
Mr. Conrad says that road closure details are also more quickly provided to the public, so motorists can make informed travel choices and plan their routes around closures.
“This information means fewer delays for freight carriers who drive the overall economy of the province,” he adds. “It increases safety for road workers and the travelling public, reduces traffic gridlock and saves motorists fuel costs.”
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Beyonce pens heartfelt appreciation letter to late Nelson Mandela
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– Top music star, Beyoncé, penned a heartfelt letter of gratitude to South African revolutionary leader, Nelson Mandela
– In the letter, the superstar wrote how much she learnt from him before he passed away in 2013
– Meanwhile, footage emerged on social media which showed the famous Carter family landing in South Africa
South African daily newspaper, The Sowetan, published a letter which Beyoncé allegedly wrote to the late Nelson Mandela ahead of the Global Citizen Festival.
Legit.ng learned that Queen B thanked Madiba for the lessons she learnt from him before he passed away five years ago. She added that she can now pass on those lessons to her kids.
Beyoncé and Mandela
Here is the full letter:
“Dear Madiba,
“I first met you in 2004 for the 46664 AIDS Benefit Concert in Cape Town, and the impact you have had on my life resonates with me today and every day. Your kindness and gratitude for every experience, and your ability to forgive are lessons I have learned and will pass on to my three children. My entire family holds you in high regard.
“It is an honor for me to travel to South Africa this week in celebration of you and your efforts to right so many wrongs. You were a strategic warrior, a bold activist, and charismatic and well-loved leader. Your vision for dignity, for human rights, for peace and a South Africa free of racism and apartheid, allows us all to turn dreams into reality.
“I remember taking that walk with you back to the prison on Robben Island where you spent 18 of those imprisoned 27 years. I recall your measured but focused steps in as you recounted the stories of the struggles, the sacrifices and your resilience.
“You smiled as you talked to a crowd of artists and their guests, including my mother, who first told my sister and me about the great Nelson Mandela. In that moment I truly understood your heart and humility. You made it possible for so many people like me to reject impossibilities and understand our capabilities in making lasting change in the world.
“The smallest efforts could change the trajectory for so many living in extreme poverty, facing injustices, the indecency of racism and fighting for their rights as humans. As we celebrate the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100, honoring your centennial year, I promise you that we have made your dreams our own.
“Your work and your sacrifices were not in vain. I will cherish every moment shared in your presence and use the lessons learned from you as fuel to stir positive ideas and solutions.
“Beyoncé Knowles-Carter.”
Meanwhile, videos were shared on social media which showed Queen B and her family touching down in South Africa.
Beyonce and her hubby, rap superstar Jay Z, performed at the Global Citizen Festival, which was held in honour of Mandela’s 100th birthday this year.
It is reported that Beyoncé and Jay Z are both worth N453 billion. This means; while Jay Z’s net worth N326 billion, Queen B is doing great sitting on N128.8 billion.
This musical couple has earned their riches fundamentally through music royalties, album sales and live performances.
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2014 South Bay Home Prices and Sales
City Homes
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2014 Median December
2013 Median Year
over Year % Change
Carson 44 $365,000 $343,250 6.34%
El Segundo 13 $735,000 $742,500 -1.01%
Gardena 38 $387,000 $367,500 5.31%
Harbor City 19 $479,500 $428,000 12.03%
Hawthorne 41 $537,000 $497,500 7.94%
Hermosa Beach 14 $1,360,050 $1,000,000 36.01%
Lawndale 15 $415,000 $380,000 9.21%
Lomita 11 $490,000 $459,750 6.58%
Long Beach 294 $390,000 $400,000 -2.50%
Manhattan Beach 45 $1,689,000 $1,300,000 29.92%
Marina Del Rey 34 $759,550 $684,000 11.05%
Palos Verdes Estates 33 $1,150,000 $1,200,000 -4.17%
Playa Del Rey 11 $482,000 $490,000 -1.63%
Rancho Palos Verdes 36 $1,200,000 $996,500 20.42%
RedondoBeach 88 $770,000 $775,000 -0.65%
San Pedro 50 $493,500 $437,000 12.93%
Torrance 106 $567,500 $555,000 2.25%
Westchester 34 $807,500 $721,750 11.88%
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2014 Median November
Carson 44 $385,000 $337,500 14.07%
El Segundo 7 $853,000 $710,000 20.14%
Hawthorne 35 $436,250 $465,000 -6.18%
Hermosa Beach 12 $1,050,000 $1,089,000 -3.58%
Lawndale 12 $432,500 $320,000 35.16%
Lomita 13 $490,000 $400,000 22.50%
Long Beach 262 $380,000 $365,000 4.11%
Manhattan Beach 40 $1,900,000 $1,987,000 -4.38%
Marina Del Rey 32 $822,100 $1,000,000 -17.79%
Palos Verdes Estates 21 $1,860,000 $1,300,000 43.08%
Rancho Palos Verdes 34 $935,000 $1,010,000 -7.43%
Redondo Beach 66 $790,000 $720,000 9.72%
San Pedro 47 $462,000 $422,500 9.35%
Torrance 99 $575,000 $517,000 11.22%
Westchester 27 $805,000 $749,000 7.48%
Sold October
2014 Median October
Gardena 35 $397,000 $359,000 10.58%
Harbor City 12 $303,750 $421,500 -27.94%
Hawthorne 57 $585,000 $496,000 17.94%
Lomita 18 $508,750 $560,000 -9.15%
Marina Del Rey 35 $712,500 $876,000 -18.66%
Palos Verdes Estates 34 $1,140,000 $1,337,500 -14.77%
Playa Del Rey 23 $490,000 $442,500 10.73%
RedondoBeach 92 $809,000 $750,000 7.87%
Torrance 122 $590,000 $515,000 14.56%
Sold September
2014 Median September
Segundo 9 $526,250 $730,000 -27.91%
Lawndale 15 $400,000 $432,500 -7.51%
Lomita 8 $522,750 $430,000 21.57%
Marina Del Rey 31 $797,000 $848,000 -6.01%
Rancho Palos Verdes 51 $1,038,000 $1,053,000 -1.42%
Sold August
2014 Median August
El Segundo 10 $957,500 $703,000 36.20%
Gardena 39 $380,000 $382,159 -0.56%
Harbor City 10 $425,000 $415,000 2.41%
Lawndale 5 $381,000 $360,000 5.83%
Rancho Palos Verdes 47 $1,100,000 $1,065,000 3.29%
Sold July
2014 Median July
Segundo 15 $872,000 $797,000 9.41%
Lawndale 8 $412,000 $331,250 24.38%
Rancho Palos Verdes 54 $1,069,00 $1,100,000 -2.82%
Redondo Beach 97 $865,000 $758,000 14.12%
Torrance 142 $540,000 $576,250 -6.29%
Sold May
2014 Median May
Hermosa Beach 21 $1,102,000 $955,000 15.39%
Lomita 9 $381,500 $478,000 -20.19%
Palos Verdes Estates 37 $1,430,000 $1,345,000 6.32%
Rancho Palos Verdes 32 $906,000 $860,000 5.35%
Sold April
2014 Median April
El Segundo 13 $830,000 $780,000 6.41%
Marina Del Rey 27 $1,075,000 $830,000 29.52%
Playa Del Rey 20 $505,000 $473,750 6.60%
Sold March
2014 Median March
El Segundo 9 $727,500 $732,000 -0.61%
Harbor City 12 $328,500 $334,500 -1.79%
Long Beach 304 $389,500 $325,000 19.85%
Marina Del Rey 26 $747,500 $732,500 2.05%
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“This is the year I will be stronger, braver, kinder and unstoppable. This year I will be fierce.”
LOVE IT. I may print off that quote and frame it on my desk.
Let me introduce you to the author…
Miss Panhandle, Mindy Schreiber
As you might have seen from my other features on this year’s Miss Nebraska contestants, the year of service as a local titleholder is no easy job. It requires time, dedication and preparation, often in addition to school, work and other commitments. This is Mindy’s FIFTH year of service. She’s been a titleholder in Nebraska since 2010, finishing as 1st runner up TWICE at Miss Nebraska.
“My determination has allowed me to keep persevering for my dream job of Miss Nebraska,” said Mindy in a recent interview. That same drive has also helped Mindy graduate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in three years and complete her graduate degree (in addition to her bachelor’s) within five. Just four months from completion of that degree, she’s also a Family Medical Therapy Intern with the University of Nebraska. Still, she’s managed to make her way around the state speaking about her platform and making appearances, this year as Miss Panhandle.
“My friends and family joke that I live out of my car because I am always on the go to another appearance, school, or whatever may be on my calendar for the day!” said Mindy. “I love being involved in many activities and organizations because it enables me to give back in diverse ways and meet people all across Nebraska while having fun.”
DETERMINED, PASSIONATE, OUTGOING
From the beginning, Mindy has been an ambassador for the TeamMates Mentoring Program, created by Nebraska legend Tom Osborne. Mindy shares those experiences through appearances as Miss Panhandle, advocating for her platform of service she calls ‘Mentoring: The Power of ONE.’
“Growing up the youngest of four children, I always looked up to my siblings in every aspect of life,” said Mindy. “The lessons I learned from them, as well as from other mentors of mine, will guide me for the rest of my life. Mentoring is ONE mentor, giving ONE hour of their time ONE day a week to help ONE young person be successful. Everyone can spare one hour to make a difference in a young person’s life.”
That influence from her older sisters is actually what inspired Mindy to participate in the Miss Nebraska system.
“I saw how they grew as individuals and as I watched them on stage, I told myself, ‘someday, I’m going to do that,'” said Mindy. “Now, in the final year of this journey, I feel so blessed to be part of this wonderful organization. What I have gained from competing cannot be taught anywhere else, nor can this experience be repeated anywhere else.”
That is just one of the positive takeaways from the Miss America Organization, according to Mindy.
“These relationships are invaluable,” said Mindy. “When the pageant is over, I will still have the friends I have met throughout competing and I will forever be grateful for that.”
Mindy says she has also remained debt free throughout her entire post-secondary education, thanks to Miss America.
“The organization is still relevant today because it is the leading scholarship provider for women in the world,” said Mindy. “Any young woman can be a part of this incredible organization; there is no stereotype, making Miss America both relevant and relatable.”
“Passion flows out of me no matter what I may be doing. I genuinely want to invest 110% of my heart into everything I do. It’s how I was raised and it’s a standard I hold myself to.”
The young women who participate in this system are the best of the best; they lead the pack in their communities, schools and churches. In Mindy’s case; she’s leading a marathon of sorts and the finish line is drawing closer in North Platte.
Mindy Schreiber has her fierce game face on. Smiling, of course.
Connect with Miss Panhandle, Mindy Schreiber
contact her by email at mindyschreiber27@hotmail.com
The Miss Nebraska pageant takes place June 5-7 in North Platte, Nebraska. For more information, visit the Miss Nebraska website.
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For Dan Ariely, ABCs of economics are alcohol, ‘bubbles’ and comedy – Jerusalem Post
Categories: Scoop.it
For Dan Ariely, ABCs of economics are alcohol, ‘bubbles’ and comedy
Behavioral economics can have lessons for some of the toughest problems Israeli policy-makers face, including peace negotiations.
Source: www.jpost.com
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Unlocking The Brain: Are We Entering A Golden Age Of Neuroscience?
Brain science is entering what some researchers say may be a golden age, gaining important new insights into the workings of the brain — even as brain disorders, from autism to Alzheimer’s to mental illness — are increasingly recognized as a worldwide scourge affecting over a billion people and growing rapidly.
That’s the monumental gamble of Obama’s BRAIN initiative — and other major neuroscience efforts now getting under way around the world. They’re not trying to solve philosophical questions. They’re responding to the growing realization that brain disorders — from autism to mental illness to dementia — are a worldwide scourge, affecting at least a billion people.
“The global cost from brain disorders is about $2.5 trillion, and will go up more than double over the next two decades,” says Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. “So policymakers look at these numbers and say, ‘Oh my God, we have got to begin investing to make sure we don’t incur those kinds of costs.’ ”
Source: commonhealth.wbur.org
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IntelliJ IDEA Plugin Users
Why oh why isn't here an official Clearcase-plugin for IntelliJ? Follow
Wesslan
Created September 29, 2006 15:39
Yes, I know about the ClearcasePlugin but it is not an official plugin...
We've used the ClearcasePlugin for a while now but it has its faults and it does not seem to work 100% with IntelliJ 6... :(
Hello weasel,
w> Yes, I know about the ClearcasePlugin but it is not an official
w> plugin...
w>
w> We've used the ClearcasePlugin for a while now but it has its faults
w> and it does not seem to work 100% with IntelliJ 6... :(
Official ClearCase support is one of the features we're strongly considering
for version 6.5.
Dmitry Jemerov
http://www.jetbrains.com/
"Develop with Pleasure!"
Official ClearCase support is one of the features
we're strongly considering
That's good news. We'll just have to wait and see then...
Sergei Ivanov
Created October 02, 2006 11:31
Oh, blimey! That's the best news I could have on Monday morning!
I also found out that FileWatcher.dll causes severe performance degradation while working with dynamic views, so I had to remove it from the Demetra's 'bin' directory.
Dmitry Kashin
Hmmmm London... Moscow so expensive for programmers? :)
Hmmmm London... Moscow so expensive for programmers?
Believe it or not, but it is. I'm much better off in London.
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This is the First Salamander Ever Found Preserved in Amber
Filed to: paleontologyFiled to: paleontology
ancient salamanders
amber preservations
Paleontologists working in the Caribbean have uncovered the first-ever salamander preserved in amber. It’s a discovery that’s shedding light not just on salamander evolution, but the ancient geology of the Caribbean itself.
“I was shocked when I first saw it in amber,” noted George Poinar, Jr., a professor emeritus in the Orgeon State University College of Science, in a statement. A co-author of the study, Poinar is an expert in the study of creatures caught in amber.
“There are very few salamander fossils of any type, and no one has ever found a salamander preserved in amber,” he says, “finding it in Dominican amber was especially unexpected, because today no salamanders, even living ones, have ever been found in that region.”
The fossil was discovered in an amber mine located in the northern mountain range of the Dominican Republic.
The newly described salamander, now dubbed Palaeoplethodon hispaniolae, featured back and front legs, but lacking in distinct toes. The salamander’s webbing suggests it wasn’t a prolific climber, so it probably preferred to dwell in small trees or tropical flowering plants. The full description of Palaeoplethodon, which may have lived as far back as 40 to 60 million years ago, can now be found (pdf) in the journal Palaeodiversity.
The researchers aren’t sure why salamanders no longer exist in the Caribbean, but they suspect it was on account of climate change or a particularly prolific predator. Interestingly, the physical evidence suggests that an early lineage of phethodon salamanders evolved in tropical America—a time when the Proto-Greater Antilles, which now includes the islands of Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola, were still joined to North America. This means the salamanders must have remained in these areas as they turned into islands. Either that or they crossed a land bridge, or rode in on floating debris.
Fascinatingly, the preserved salamander appears to have come to an untimely demise. Analysis of the fossil suggests it had a leg bitten off during an encounter with a predator, and during the confusion, fell into a gooey resin deposit, allowing it to be preserved in amber.
Read the entire study at Palaeodiversity: “Palaeoplethodon hispaniolae gen. n., sp. n. (Amphibia: Caudata), a fossil salamander from the Caribbean.”
Email the author at george@io9.com and follow him at @dvorsky. All images Ponar & Wake, 2015/Palaeodiversity/Oregon State University
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New Music: Hipshaker with Jassi Sidhu and Superwoman
Manjot Bains August 29, 2013
Watch out, Honey Singh, there's a new rap artist in town and she's fabulous. Get ready to shake your hips to this new track from Bhangra artist, Jassi Sidhu. ... Read More...
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New Music: Diljit Dosanjh’s Proper Patola
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DJ Rekha: Pyar Baile Video
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Techno Trance: Culture Shock with Nindy Kaur
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Notes on Craft – (Part 5 of 6): Dialogue & Scene
PART 1: Premise & Concept
PART 2: Structure
PART 3: Character
PART 4: The First 20 Pages
PART 5: Dialogue & Scene
PART 6: Rewriting & Polishing
Kurt Wimmer (Law Abiding Citizen, Salt, Equilibirum)
– “Once your scene states what it’s about you should be out. It helps punctuate the next scene as well.”
– “The way to affect an audience who’s seen everything is give them dialogue they don’t expect. They feel like like it’s real all of a sudden because they didn’t see it coming.”
– “Try to make your scenes simpler so you don’t get trapped by exposition. Simple story; provocative emotion.”
– “To draw in the audience create a compelling character and give him a big question to be answered. Movies are answering a series of questions.”
– “The more your characters disagree and have opposite POVs the more the scenes write themselves.”
– “There’s a fine line with mystery where just enough keeps the audience on board vs too much which alienates and tires them.”
– “Don’t talk in speeches.”
– “Test yourself. If you have a 3 page scene, try to communicate the same information in 1 page. You’d be surprised how much it will work.”
– “If you write the 1st act correctly the rest will write itself.”
Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex, Marley & Me, Bounce)
– “In life, people usually hide their feelings. They don’t usually say how they feel unless they’re mad.”
– “When deciding how to write a scene, think ‘What is Character A afraid Character B will find out about him?’ and ‘What does Character A want Character B to think about him?'”
– “I establish one main character (ideally) and make the audience connect with him right away so they’re on board with the story.”
– “Characters need two things.
Objectives.”
– “Don’t tell us everything about your main character right away.”
– “To get the audience to like your hero give them a scene where a group of people leaves the room and your hero is left alone. Imagine a close up where he sighs. For some reason, the audience empathizes with this feeling of how difficult it is to operate in society.”
– “Subtext comes from what the character wants and what they’re afraid to say.”
– “You must know the ‘moment before’ whatever scene you’re writing.”
George Nolfi (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Adjustment Bureau, Ocean’s Twelve)
– “Movies are about having one large question to be answered… and riddled with a series of smaller questions along the way… and conflict.”
– “The best way to handle exposition is visually.”
– “Not every scene has a 3-act structure.”
– “Come in to a scene as late as possible so the previous part is inferred. A good tactic is to have characters arguing about something we don’t know about until it’s slowly revealed within the scene.”
– “To surprise the audience you have to lull them into something they expect- and then alter it.”
– “The best thing you can do with dialogue is eliminate it.”
– “Too much subtext and characters not saying what they want and the audience won’t understand what’s happening.”
Qs:
– Do you tend to overwrite your scenes?
– How does dialogue function with two vastly different movies like Drive (by Hossein Amini) and Moneyball (by Aaron Sorkin)?
– Do you think about writing scenes with a 3-act structure?
Categories: Notes on Craft, Writing . . Author: Jesse Warren
Notes on Craft – (Part 4 of 6): The First 20 Pages Notes on Craft – (Part 6 of 6): Rewriting & Polishing
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Bali Nine judges allegedly “asked for bribes”. Wouldn’t happen in Australia, right?
The judges who heard the Bali Nine heroin trafficker cases allegedly asked for bribes to give them a reduced sentence. There are calls to have the executions of 2 Bali Nine members stayed while the alleged bribery is investigated. (Click here to read more)
Some people might think it is just lies and a tactic to save the lives of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. But that sort of thing happens in Australia so there is a good chance it could be true.
Some examples are Murray Farquhar and Rex Jackson. The former NSW Chief Magistrate Murray Farquhar went to jail in 1985 for being corrupt and the infamous Rex Jackson who was the NSW Minister for Corrective Services in the 1980’s took bribes to grant prisoners early release. In “April 1982, he instituted an early release scheme for some categories of prisoners”. It started off with an average of one prisoner a month being released early but quickly escalated to 50 a month when Jackson’s bribe taking was at its peak. (Click here and here to read more)
Rex Jackson was sent to jail for 3 years for a couple of the bribes but most of it was swept under the carpet by the then Labor Government.
People might say the Jackson and Farquhar crimes where 30 odd years ago and it doesn’t happen now. Well the NSW parliament has just had an inquiry and is due to publish a report in the next week or so regarding police corruption. It also included over 20 NSW Supreme Court judges issuing corrupt warrants based on little or no evidence justifying the warrants. So why did more than 20 judges issue the warrants? There must have been some benefit for them to issue dodgy warrants.
And of course this website is a judicial corruption site and there are many instances of recent judicial corruption in the other articles on here.
Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran awaiting the death penalty
I am no fan of the death penalty but I do believe if you commit a crime in another country you have to take the consequences and it is not for us to interfere in another country’s legal system. But the key point is that judicial corruption happens here and clearly happens in Indonesia. So should people be sent to their death when the conviction is possibly tainted?
There is no disputing the Bali Nine are guilty of the crimes they have been convicted of. What is debatable is whether or not Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran should have been given the death sentence when the other 7 have been spared. And have the judges acted fairly and honestly?
The Bali Nine drug couriers
Understandably Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are getting all the media attention at the moment but the other 7 members of the Bali Nine have almost been forgotten. I think their lighter sentences should be highlighted to put Chan’s and Sukumaran’s death penalty into context because I do not think what they did was any worse than the others.
The Bali Nine crimes really needs to be a 10,000 page book, not a short post such as this, but I think the points I make above add some value to the debate. And that is what is happening right now, politicians and the public in 2 countries are debating whether or not 2 people should live or die. The allegations against the Federal Police and their role (as per the below video) is not one of corruption but of pure incompetence and dereliction of their duty. To the best of my knowledge the Federal Police have never fully explained themselves regarding the Bali Nine. Maybe it is about time they did.
(Click anywhere on the above video to watch)
The video is of former federal police Commissioner Mick Keelty and current Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan giving evidence for the Bali Nine member Scott Rush death sentence appeal in 2010.
Everyone has an opinion on the Bali Nine and if Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are executed it will have a polarizing effect for the nation. It is a complex issue. People who deal heroin ultimately kill me but does that give us the right to kill them? And if the federal police had not tipped off the Indonesian police regarding the Bali Nine and had waited for them to come back to Australia and arrested them then they would be out of jail now.
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Categories: Australian Federal Police
Tagged as: Andrew Chan, Australian Federal Police, Bali, Bali nine, mick keelty, Myuran Sukumaran
Bill Shorten’s supporters involved in multi-million-$ fraud at the HSU
The World As It Truly Is says:
Isn’t it a bit odd that the AFP say they were already surveilling the Bali Nine, before they were tipped off? Isn’t that a huge coincidence? Had they been “surveilling” many such operations, but someone in the AFP was making some cash out of it? Were the Bali Nine sacrificed to send a message “Don’t be a do-gooder, just keep quiet about our dodgy operations?” And why is the Bali Nine kingpin known to police but living a quiet life in Sydney, reportedly having won millions in a lottery (an amazing piece of luck)! It is a strange, strange story…
Its all a strange story indeed (as they usually are), with the moral to the story being “Don’t Deal in Drugs” and if you do Internationally, you will be in the hands of a different culture, paying the price in a way that is completely under their control (corrupt or not)..!!
I am sure that we still have Corrupt Judges, Police and Politicians in abundance, with a good dose of incompetency in the mix also, that we need to be worried about and working on …!!
had_enough says:
“The video is of former federal police Commissioner Mick Keelty and current Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan giving evidence for the Bali Nine member Scott Rush death sentence appeal in 2010”. So, what’s the connection between Keelty, Phelan & Scott Rush? Does it have anything to do with Scott Rush’s UK banker love interest – Nikki Butler? According to her statement, she only met him once (casually) while in Indo, BEFORE he was arrested!?! How much $money$ was put forward – aka – bribes – to move Scott Rush & take him off the death list? Did anyone note the wedding band on his (Scott Rush’s) left hand in the last photograph depicted here with the love of his life, who he only met once – Nikki Butler >> http://www.news.com.au/national/bali-nine-drug-courier-scott-rush-falls-in-love-with-london-banker-nikki-butler/story-fncynjr2-1226970171142. Corruption is rife – it’s everywhere. The more one digs, the more one finds. We must keep digging. Look forward to hearing more about this, Shane. Thanks for all you do!
You involve yourself in trafficking drugs you involve yourself in corruption. What starts as corrupt ends as corrupt. You live by the sword you die by the sword. No sympathy here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2869230/Bali-Nine-ringleader-Andrew-Chan-mastermind-international-drug-deal-went-horribly-wrong-threatened-17-year-old-mule-Hong-Kong-jail-mouth-shut.html
Please read the link above which has not been reported in mainstream, funny about that. These two were the ringleaders in a criminal enterprise and were prepared to risk young lives to bring Heroin into our country. The seven were spared because they were mules taking the risk for these two. Others before them haven’t been so lucky as this article tells. No sympathy here.
It is a fact of life in Indonesia that earnest money can solve many issues including breaches of the law. It saves time and serves as salutory warning/punishment. It is also a fact of Australian law that until a crime is committed and evidence produced there is nothing police can do. Police cannot set people up. There are entrapment laws in place. Whether judges, police, or lawyers receive bribes is not the issue. Drug smuggling is.
The real criminal and coward is the fellow in Australia who masterminded the Bali 9 operation. His silence has allowed the whole sorry situation to become politicised and therefore newsworthy.
Should the two men on death row turn State’s evidence, name the Australian mastermind to AFP, we could then believe they deserve clemency. Dragging in as many of the dramatis personnae as possible is counter productive and certainly will not work in Indonesia. There is only one person (perhaps a small group) that needs dobbing in.
My view is that the whole system is corrupted here and there and I really smell a big fat rat here ,so I am against this execution due to the More than likely corruption that existed then and Now .
I was once told by an arrogant cop after doing a U turn inside thirty meters of a set of traffic lights, “Ignorance is no defence in breaking the law” The two Bali nine drug traffickers would have been aware of what they were perpetrating and the consequences,harsh as they are. Politicians crying crocodile tears does nothing for me and if that gains them a few votes from the 48% who say they don’t agree with Indonesian justice, so be it, no sympathy here. What about showing some of the victims of drug deaths parents, or is that moving the goal posts. Allan from Myalup WA.
Dr. Barry Taranto says:
If the current Mercy-Political campaign is successful, will the signs in the airports in Indonesia soon say “Heroin traffickers will be put to death, unless you are Australian, and promise not to do it again” ?
edwincameron2015 says:
I have also read in the S.M.Herald, around about the same time as the above article that when they went before the Supreme Court for an appeals hearing, there was another guy, “Hangky Gunawan’ also appearing on appeal, he was busted running an ÍCE’ factory in Surabaya, his trial was in 2007, found guilty and sentenced to death. They went before the Supreme Court in may 2011 to have there appeals heard. Chan was #37, Sukamayan #38 and Gunawan #39, Chan and Sukamayan’s appeals thrown out and when Gunawan came up next, surprise, surprise, one of the judges on the bench found that the death sentence was unconstitutional in his case for some obscure reason and had his sentence reduced to 15 years, one judge who must have got a bigger ‘back-hander’crossed out the 15 and substituted 12 years, apparently as the story goes he was found out and stood down (struck off?) but the 15 years stood. As I said I read this a week or so ago in the S.M.H. I don’t know exactly how accurate the story was but I have been quoting it in the comments section of the Jakarta Post also Antara (state run media) and other papers since I read it. I would love to know if this indeed happened as it reeks of corruption to ‘blind freddy’ can someone please enlighten me.
Alan Wetton says:
I fail to understand the claims made that the AFP are somehow responsible for the current situation the Bali nine find themselves in. If indeed the AFP tipped off the Indonesians, that discounts the fact the Indonesians may well have intercepted them without the AFP’s tip off. Blaming the AFP is akin to blaming a victim in a shooting for getting in the way of a bullet!
tonimartin2406 says:
The Bali Nine can’t blame anyone but themselves for the situation which they find themselves in. What needs to be done, must be done.
wgirling says:
Of course there are still corrupt judges in Australia. Supreme court judge Marcus Einfeld lied under oath – how can anyone forget that!
Ken.T. says:
It never ceases to amaze me that the Criminal is the Poor Bloody Victim, and the Victim is the one who is to blame for the Criminals Plight.
If the AFP did tip of the Indonesian police/customs about these criminals then OK, I am grateful to know that our Law enforcement is doing some thing towards protecting our children from the scourge of these criminals.
I have no sympathy for the likes of these criminals. They are the dregs of society and they wouldn’t turn a hair to any young person who died from their illicit drug dealings. They are the scum of the earth. If Indonesia wants to eradicate the world of these vermin then we shouldn’t interfere, but give them more assistance to do so.
media puppet says:
Have just been gazing with wonderment at my own (previously compassionate, educated and mature) reaction to the first sight of this this story: the photographs (above) of Chan and Sukamayan.The power of media…. Chan appears to me to need a library of books thrown at him: arrogant, unfeeling, acquisitive and sly… Sukamayan: when I’ve seen him interviewed he has an air of humility certainly lacking in Chan.
Unfortunately for Chan and Sukamayan, all this hectoring and bullying talk from Australia about Indonesian justice (yeah, I know) has probably hardened the resolve of the President and the judiciary there to carry out the executions, regardless of allegations of corruption at this or that point in the process. It looks to me like they will be executed by politics now, not Law. We may have made things worse for them in trying to save them via the bully pulpit.
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Weird Cars
This Weird Panhard Is The King of Le Mans Efficiency
Bradley Brownell
Filed to: Le MansFiled to: Le Mans
Index of Efficiency
Aerodynamic science was still something of a black art in the mid 1960s, which is why it was still a major focus of a particular highly regarded trophy at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Index of Efficiency was the second most important trophy at Le Mans, following the overall win, of course. And because it was so important, there were many teams who had no chance of winning that would go for the IoE victory.
Tiny streamliners with diminutive engines dotted the course, and as the speeds increased for the highest classed teams, it became quite dangerous for all parties involved, which is why the idea was abandoned. This car, the Panhard CD LM64 is likely to blame for the death of this class. Despite neither of the two entered actually finishing the race, or winning the trophy, they won my heart.
The Mk1 Ford GT40 was introduced to Le Mans in 1964. That’s something you immediately think of as having a low slung and slippery shape, right? That car with its “Le Mans nose” is quoted as having a coefficient of drag in the 0.35 range. What did this little Panhard streamliner achieve? Its coefficient of drag is a Le Mans record of 0.12. That’s absurdly low!
So we’ve established that the CD LM64 is extremely aerodynamically efficient. It was also extremely light weight at just 1230 pounds. Add in a supercharged 848cc flat-twin engine with 78 horsepower and you get a car that can run at 137 MPH at flat chat.
While I realize how incredibly dangerous it would be for such a thing to exist in 2019, I would have loved to have seen a modern streamliner out on track this weekend with a 250cc motorcycle engine revving to 19,000 rpm and a hybrid electric motor and active aero getting 60 miles per gallon or something equally absurd in race trim.
I’m not going to say racing was better in the 60s, because we’re in a golden age of motorsport right now, and I love it. That said, racing was innovative and interesting and competitive in the 60s in a different way, perhaps a way that we could never hope to see again.
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Pictured: Me shredding the gnar on my way to Radwood PNW in Tacoma, Wash. this weekend.
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PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Recovery of Hydrogen Peroxide-Sensitive Culturable Cells of Vibrio vulnificus Gives the Appearance of Resuscitation from a Viable but Nonculturable State
Gregg Bogosian, Noelle D. Aardema, Edward V. Bourneuf, Patricia J. L. Morris, Julia P. O'Neil
Gregg Bogosian
Monsanto Company, Chesterfield, Missouri 63198
Noelle D. Aardema
Edward V. Bourneuf
Patricia J. L. Morris
Julia P. O'Neil
The viabilities of five strains of Vibrio vulnificuswere evaluated during the storage of the organisms in sterile seawater at 5°C. The number of CFU was measured by plate count methods on rich media. The total cell numbers were determined by direct microscopic count methods. The titer of CFU declined logarithmically to undetectable levels over a period of 2 to 3 weeks, while the total cell numbers were unchanged. Midway through each study, higher culturable cell counts began to be observed on plates containing catalase or sodium pyruvate; during the latter stages of the study, the plate counts on such media were up to 1,000-fold higher than those on unsupplemented plates. Because autoclaving is known to generate hydrogen peroxide in rich media, and because catalase and sodium pyruvate are known to eliminate hydrogen peroxide, it appears that the conditions of the experiments led to the selection of a hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cell subpopulation. At the time of the final stage of the decline in viability of each culture, hydrogen peroxide-sensitive cells were the only culturable cells present. Warming samples of the cultures to room temperature led to the growth of these residual culturable cells, utilizing nutrients provided by the nonculturable cells. The cells that grew recovered hydrogen peroxide resistance. When mixtures of culturable and nonculturable cells were diluted to the point where only nonculturable cells were present, or when the hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells had declined to undetectable levels, warming had no effect; no culturable cells were recovered. Warming has been reported to “resuscitate” nonculturable cells. Recognition of the existence of hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cell populations, as well as their ability to grow to high levels in the warmed seawater microcosms, leads instead to the conclusion that while warming permits culturable cells to grow, it has no effect on nonculturable cells.
When many species of bacteria which are readily culturable in standard laboratory media are subjected to prolonged incubation in sterile water, the culturable-cell counts decline over time to undetectable levels. The total cell count usually remains constant at the initial level, so that as the culturable-cell count declines, the fraction of nonculturable cells increases (1,2, 5, 6, 13, 24). The simplest explanation of these results is that nonculturable cells are dead (5, 6), and indeed, this is the basic presumption of standard plate count methods for enumerating readily culturable bacteria (13). An alternative explanation that has been advanced posits that the nonculturable cells have entered a state in which they remain viable but cannot be cultured on standard microbiological media (1, 2, 13, 24). Such cells are said to be in the “viable but nonculturable” (VBNC) state.
Confirmation of the VBNC hypothesis would require recovery of culturable cells from a population of nonculturable cells. There have been numerous reports of the appearance of large numbers of culturable cells after the addition of nutrients to populations of nonculturable cells in a process termed “resuscitation” (reviewed in references1, 2, 13, and 24). However, a critical review of this literature indicates that such observations could be attributable to the presence of a low level of residual culturable cells that are able to respond to the addition of nutrient, thus giving the appearance of resuscitation (1, 2, 13). Extensive nutrient addition experiments with nonculturable populations of various species of enteric bacteria have indicated that no culturable cells could be recovered (5, 6).
One explanation of these results is that the nonculturable population is composed of dead cells. However, proponents of the VBNC hypothesis have offered two alternative explanations. First, it has been suggested that the presence of culturable cells is required for the recovery of nonculturable cells, perhaps owing to a factor produced by culturable cells that triggers resuscitation in nonculturable cells (12, 26,33). This possibility could neither be confirmed nor ruled out in pure-culture studies, since it was not possible to determine whether the additional culturable cells were new cells or resuscitated nonculturable cells. This question was addressed by the development of a method, termed “mixed-culture recovery” (MCR), in which mixtures of easily distinguishable culturable and nonculturable cells were used to determine whether only culturable cells or both culturable and nonculturable cells had responded to nutrient addition. In repeated applications of the MCR method to mixed populations of culturable and nonculturable cells of several species of enteric bacteria, only the culturable cells responded to the addition of nutrient. The nonculturable cells were dead (5).
Second, it has been suggested that something in rich media may inhibit the recovery of culturable cells from nonculturable cells (37). This would imply that the earlier reports of resuscitation following nutrient addition should be reinterpreted simply as the growth of residual culturable cells. It also raises the question of the nature of the inhibitory component of rich media. More importantly, experimental support for this modified VBNC hypothesis requires the establishment of methods which can recover culturable cells from nonculturable cells without the addition of any rich nutrients. An answer to this question has been proposed by Whitesides and Oliver (37), who reported that nonculturable cells ofVibrio vulnificus in sterile seawater could be returned to culturability by a temperature upshift in the absence of any added rich nutrient.
The observations of Whitesides and Oliver (37) are consistent with the modified VBNC hypothesis. However, in a related study we reported that a temperature upshift had no effect on nonculturable cells of five other species of enteric bacteria (5). In the present study, we have repeated and extended the experiments of Whitesides and Oliver (37). Our results lead to the conclusion that the effects of a temperature upshift on V. vulnificus are attributable to a previously unrecognized population of hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells.
Bacterial strains.The strain of V. vulnificusused in the Whitesides and Oliver study (37), designated C7184-opaque, was obtained from J. D. Oliver, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte. Four other strains of V. vulnificus were also employed, an attenuated seawater isolate designated MLT367, an attenuated oyster isolate designated MLT403, and two virulent clinical isolates from patients who died of sepsis following ingestion of contaminated oysters, designated VV1009 and 2400-112 (31a, 32); these strains were obtained from P. A. Gulig, University of Florida, Gainesville. All five strains were confirmed to be V. vulnificus on a Vitek system (bioMerieux, Hazelwood, Mo.) and by fatty acid methyl ester analysis performed by two laboratories, Microbe Inotech (St. Louis, Mo.) and Microcheck, Inc. (Northfield, Vt.). Microbe Inotech also identified the strains asV. vulnificus on a Biolog (Hayward, Calif.) system. All five strains were strongly catalase positive.
Media and chemicals.Heart infusion (HI) broth and agar, Bacto Peptone, Bacto Proteose Peptone, lactose, and Bacto Agar were obtained from Difco Laboratories (Detroit, Mich.). Acridine orange, neutral red, sodium pyruvate, 3% hydrogen peroxide, sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium chloride dihydrate, magnesium chloride hexahydrate, magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, and sodium bicarbonate were obtained from Sigma Chemical Co. (St. Louis, Mo.). Beef liver catalase (65,000 U per mg) was obtained from Boehringer Mannheim (Indianapolis, Ind.). Neutral red lactose plates consisted of 17 g of Bacto Peptone, 3 g of Bacto Proteose Peptone, 5 g of sodium chloride, 0.03 g of neutral red, 15g of Bacto Agar, and 10 g of lactose per liter of distilled water; before autoclaving, the pH of the medium was adjusted to 7.1. HI plate and broth media were prepared according to instructions provided by the supplier and were sterilized by being autoclaved for 30 min. HI-80 plates were prepared by surface spreading a filter-sterilized solution containing 80 mg of sodium pyruvate onto each HI plate. Individual plates contained about 30 ml of HI agar medium.
Seawater microcosms.Artificial seawater (ASW) (38) contained 24.7 g of sodium chloride, 0.67 g of potassium chloride, 1.36 g of calcium chloride dihydrate, 4.66 g of magnesium chloride hexahydrate, 6.29 g of magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, and 0.18 g of sodium bicarbonate per liter of distilled water. The ASW was sterilized by being autoclaved for 30 min.
The strains were grown in HI broth at 37°C and, in mid-logarithmic growth phase, were washed twice with ASW and then used to inoculate duplicate 1-liter flasks of ASW to an initial concentration of about 107 CFU per ml. The inoculated flasks of ASW were placed in a 5°C refrigerator with no agitation.
Colony and cell counting.Plate counts were performed by diluting samples in ASW and then spread plating 0.1-ml aliquots in duplicate. The plates were incubated at 37°C for 24 h or at room temperature (about 22°C) for 48 h prior to being counted. Longer periods of incubation, 5 days at 37°C or 10 days at room temperature, never yielded any additional colonies. All of the colonies on plates containing fewer than 300 colonies were added and divided by the total volume plated to estimate CFU per milliliter; a limit of detection of 1 CFU per ml was obtained by plating five 0.2-ml aliquots. Acridine orange direct counts (AODC) were performed by the method of Hobbie et al. (10), i.e., staining with 0.01% acridine orange at room temperature for 15 min; this indicated the total number of cells per milliliter, regardless of whether they were able to form a visible colony. A second direct-count method, the “live/dead” kit of Molecular Probes, Inc. (Eugene, Oreg.), was employed using instructions supplied by the company; this kit utilizes a mixture of the stains SYTO 9 and propidium iodide to evaluate cell membrane integrity (15). A Nikon Optiphot fluorescence microscope with an HBO-100 light source was used for the examination of the preparations at a magnification factor of 1,000. Most-probable-number (MPN) estimates were performed with tubes containing 10 ml of ASW microcosm supernatant, which was prepared by centrifuging samples of ASW microcosms at 3,000 × g followed by passage through a 0.2-μm-pore-size filter to remove the cells. A 10-tube procedure and probability table (9) were employed; the tubes were incubated at room temperature (about 22°C) and scored after 3 days by HI and HI-80 plate counts.
Decline of the strains in cold seawater and development of hydrogen peroxide-sensitive cells.Figure 1shows the responses of V. vulnificus strains to long-term starvation in ASW at 5°C. Three different methods were used to monitor the cells in the cold ASW: plate counts, AODC, and SYTO 9-propidium iodide staining. Total cell counts remained constant at the initial levels throughout the experiments; with the SYTO 9-propidium iodide staining technique, all of the cells remained fluorescent green, indicating that the cells retained intact membranes (15). The HI plate counts declined gradually (over 10 to 23 days) to undetectable levels (<1 CFU per ml). For the entire strain C7184-opaque study shown in Fig. 1, duplicate sets of plates were incubated at 37°C and at room temperature. The incubation temperature did not affect the plate counts.
Decline of V. vulnificus strains in sterile seawater at 5°C. Colony counts on HI plates (●) and on HI-80 plates (■) are shown. (A) Decline of strain MLT403; (B) decline of strain C7184-opaque; (C) decline of strain VV1009. The declines of strains MLT367 and 2400-112 were very similar to the declines of strains C7184-opaque and VV1009, respectively (data not shown). Each point is the mean of values from duplicate microcosms. The standard errors averaged 20% of the presented values when the CFU per milliliter were greater than 100.
The addition of sodium pyruvate was found to increase the HI plate counts of samples taken during the latter stages of the studies. The maximum effect of sodium pyruvate was achieved with 40 mg of sodium pyruvate per plate; higher levels of sodium pyruvate were tested, up to 320 mg per plate, without additional benefit. The amount of sodium pyruvate added to each HI plate for the remainder of the studies reported here was 80 mg per plate, yielding a medium designated HI-80.
Since one known effect of sodium pyruvate on microbiological media is to degrade hydrogen peroxide (3, 7, 14, 16, 17, 18, 29), the possibility that a hydrogen peroxide-sensitive population of culturable cells had formed in the cold ASW was investigated. Catalase, an enzyme which breaks down hydrogen peroxide, was added to HI plates by surface spreading. The presence of as little as 130 U of catalase per HI plate yielded counts identical to those on HI-80 plates; higher levels of catalase (up to 13,000 U per plate) had no additional benefit. Heat-inactivated catalase (held at 80°C for 30 min) did not increase the HI plate counts.
In subsequent experiments (Fig. 1), samples were plated at each time point on HI and HI-80 plates. The results show the development of a hydrogen peroxide-sensitive population of culturable cells, which by the later stage of each study became the only culturable cell type in the ASW microcosms.
The development of hydrogen peroxide sensitivity in the ASW microcosm populations was further characterized by measuring their hydrogen peroxide resistances relative to that of fresh cells. Various amounts of a 3% solution of hydrogen peroxide were diluted to a convenient volume and spread on HI plates, which were then inoculated with samples of the five V. vulnificus strains. Cells obtained from fresh HI broth cultures of the five strains formed colonies on plates supplemented with up to 20 μl of 3% hydrogen peroxide but did not form colonies on plates supplemented with 40 μl of 3% hydrogen peroxide. Samples of each strain taken from the ASW microcosms at a time point about midway through the studies formed colonies on plates supplemented with up to 2.5 μl of 3% hydrogen peroxide but did not form colonies on plates supplemented with 5 μl of 3% hydrogen peroxide.
Effect of a temperature upshift.Starting about midway through the studies, 10-ml samples were removed on a daily basis from the ASW microcosms and placed at room temperature without agitation. The plate counts in these samples declined about 10-fold during the first 12 h at room temperature and then increased gradually, reaching maximum levels after 3 days; in samples monitored for much longer periods (up to 30 days) there were no further increases in the plate counts. For the strains MLT367, MLT403, VV1009, and 2400-112, the maximum plate counts observed were about 1.5- to 3-fold higher than the plate counts from the start of the study. For strain C7184-opaque, the maximum plate counts observed were about 10-fold lower than the plate counts from the start of the study. The plate counts at these maximums were essentially identical on HI and HI-80 plates.
After HI plate counts had declined to <1 CFU per ml, but while there were still cells present capable of forming colonies on HI-80 plates, warming samples to room temperature still resulted in increases in the colony counts (Table 1). As the HI-80 plate counts declined to about 250 CFU per ml or less, however, the initial decline observed after shifting a sample to room temperature occasionally drove these plate counts to <1 CFU per ml with no subsequent recovery. When the HI-80 plate counts had declined to less than 80 CFU per ml, the temperature upshift always resulted in the complete loss of CFU on HI-80 plates (Table 1).
Effect of shift to room temperature on ASW microcosm samples
Increases in colony counts after temperature upshift are attributable to growth of culturable cells.More-detailed experiments were performed to characterize the observed increases in plate counts following the shift to room temperature. When the ASW microcosm HI-80 plate counts had declined to about 1,000 to 2,000 CFU per ml (at which point the HI plate counts were <1 CFU per ml), samples were placed at room temperature, and HI and HI-80 plate counts were performed every hour (Fig. 2). The HI plate counts remained at undetectable levels for several hours before increasing rapidly to the level of the HI-80 plate counts, after which the two plate counts increased in essentially identical fashions.
Growth curves (■) of V. vulnificus strains C7184-opaque (A) and MLT367 (B). Also shown are the plate counts for the two strains on HI plates (▴) and HI-80 plates (●) after cold ASW microcosm samples had been shifted to room temperature. The strain C7184-opaque sample was taken on day 25, and the strain MLT367 sample was taken on day 26. Strains MLT403, VV1009, and 2400-112 exhibited similar responses (data not shown). After the HI plate counts increased to the level of the HI-80 plate counts, the counts were essentially identical, and only the HI-80 plate counts are shown past that point.
The HI-80 plate counts exhibited an initial decline, after which they recovered and began increasing in a fashion which resembled a growth curve (Fig. 2). To test the possibility that ASW microcosm cell suspensions could support the growth of V. vulnificus, 5 days after the ASW microcosm HI-80 plate counts had declined to <1 CFU per ml, samples of these completely nonculturable ASW microcosm cell suspensions were inoculated with about 200 cells per ml from a fresh HI broth culture and placed at room temperature, and HI plate counts were performed every hour. The growth curves obtained (Fig. 2) were very similar to the curves from the plate counts of the temperature upshift experiment described above; the doubling times for both sets of cultures ranged from 30 to 35 min. This experiment was repeated with the nonculturable cell suspensions centrifuged and filtered through 0.2-μm-pore-size filters to remove all of the cells prior to inoculation with culturable cells; similar growth curves were obtained, with the only difference being that these cultures reached final cell levels which were about half of the levels shown in Fig. 2. In a third experiment, the test medium was composed of the nonculturable cell suspension pellets resuspended in fresh ASW prior to inoculation with culturable cells; again, similar growth curves and final cell levels of half those shown in Fig. 2 were obtained. Finally, the nonculturable ASW microcosms were autoclaved and then reinoculated with culturable cells; growth curves essentially identical to those shown in Fig. 2were obtained. When the cells which had grown in the medium with ASW plus nonculturable cells were passaged 10 more times in this medium, the same growth profile was obtained each time.
MPN estimates and MCR tests.Toward the end of each study, MPN estimates were made with ASW microcosm supernatant as the MPN growth medium and with the tubes incubated at room temperature (Table2). Independently, HI broth (plus and minus sodium pyruvate) MPN counts were determined to be similar to the HI and HI-80 plate counts. The ASW microcosm supernatant MPN counts were lower than the HI-80 plate counts and sometimes were completely negative when the HI-80 plate counts were low, presumably due to the initial loss of culturable cells when ASW microcosm samples were warmed to room temperature (as described above). The MPN counts were extended past the point when the culturable cells in the ASW microcosms had declined to undetectable levels; no culturable cells were detected in any of these later MPN counts (Table 2).
MPN and MPN-MCR test results
Combination MPN and MCR tests (5) were performed with strain C7184-opaque, which was lactose positive, and strain 2400-112, which was lactose negative. About 200 culturable cells of the lactose-negative strain 2400-112, obtained from an ASW microcosm, were used to inoculate each tube in a second set of strain C7184-opaque MPN tubes. The converse experiment was performed with a second set of strain 2400-112 MPN tubes, each inoculated with culturable cells of strain C7184-opaque. The inoculated tubes were placed at room temperature and scored after 3 days by colony counts on neutral red lactose plates. Since all of the MPN tubes initially contained at least one type of culturable cell (having all been inoculated with culturable cells of one lactose phenotype and also potentially containing culturable cells of the other lactose phenotype), the MPN-MCR tubes were scored as positive if they yielded colonies of both lactose phenotypes and negative if they yielded only colonies with the lactose phenotype of the inoculated cells. These combination MPN-MCR estimates were essentially the same as the standard MPN estimates (Table 2).
Five different strains of V. vulnificus, inoculated at high levels into sterile seawater at 5°C and monitored for nearly 50 days, displayed declining numbers of CFU and increasing numbers of nonculturable cells. The total cell counts remained constant at the initial level, while plate counts indicated that the number of culturable cells dropped to less than 1 CFU per ml (Fig. 1).
After the plate counts had declined by about 100- to 1,000-fold (Fig.1), subpopulations of hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells developed. A plating assay revealed that the culturable cells from middle time points in the studies were much more sensitive to hydrogen peroxide than fresh HI broth-derived cells. Supplementation of HI plates with either sodium pyruvate or catalase, agents which degrade hydrogen peroxide (3, 7, 14, 16, 17, 18,29), yielded higher colony counts. However, there was also a continued decline to complete loss of these culturable cells (Fig. 1).
Later in the studies, the hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells were the only culturable cells remaining in the ASW microcosms. Warming samples of the ASW microcosms to room temperature resulted at first in a slight decline and then in an increase in plate counts (Fig. 2). Several lines of evidence indicated that the increased plate counts were due to the growth of the residual hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells in the warmed ASW microcosms.
First, regardless of how the ASW microcosm samples were treated, additional culturable cells were observed only when there were residual hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells initially present in the samples. Immediately after the HI-80 plate counts had declined to <1 CFU per ml, none of the recovery methods yielded any culturable cells. Second, with the strains MLT367, MLT403, VV1009, and 2400-112, the increased plate counts reached levels of about 1.5 × 107 to 4.0 × 107 CFU per ml (Table 1), higher than their initial levels of about 1 × 107 CFU per ml; clearly, some additional growth had occurred. Apparently, a mid-logarithmic-phase HI broth-derived cell of these strains contains enough nutrient to support the formation of more than one progeny cell. Third, the plate counts increased in a manner which resembled the growth of these strains in this medium (Fig. 2). The fact that the medium with ASW plus nonculturable cells contained nutrients capable of supporting the observed growth was demonstrated by similar growth profiles of the strains in the cell-free component of the medium, in the nonculturable-cell component, and in autoclaved flasks of the medium. The strains were growing on nutrients on the medium rather than by “reductive division,” since repeated passages yielded the same growth profile. Finally, the MPN and MCR results indicated that the nonculturable cells were not affected by a temperature upshift, even in the presence of culturable cells (Table 2).
The suggestion that a temperature upshift could resuscitate cells ofV. vulnificus that had become nonculturable in cold ASW (23) initiated a debate over whether the observation was due to the regrowth of residual culturable cells. Supporting the regrowth explanation were observations with V. vulnificus that are similar to some of the findings reported in this paper. For example, it was reported that recovery occurred for only a limited time after the microcosms reached complete nonculturability (4, 36) and that nonculturable cells provided sufficient nutrient for considerable growth of culturable cells (8, 36). In agreement with our SYTO 9-propidium iodide staining results, others have shown that nonculturable cells retained an intact morphology (36) but appeared to lose intact nucleic acids (35). Antibiotics were shown to inhibit the increase in culturable cell numbers (23). In a paper which foreshadowed our recognition of hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable-cell populations, Weichart and Kjelleberg (34) suggested that “injured subpopulations may partly explain the resuscitation of a fraction of the cold-incubated populations.” The debate turned in favor of the resuscitation explanation with reports which employed diluted cell suspensions clearly free of culturable cells able to form colonies on HI plates and yet retaining virulence towards mice (25) and the capacity to respond to a temperature upshift (37).
In the Whitesides and Oliver study (37) with strain C7184-opaque held in cold ASW to the point of complete nonculturability on HI plates, warming a sample of the ASW microcosm to room temperature for 7 h resulted in the subsequent appearance of CFU on HI plates at a rate exceeding the growth rate. These authors concluded that they had observed rapid resuscitation of large numbers of nonculturable cells. Given the data presented, this was a reasonable conclusion. The results we present here, from studies designed to replicate the experimental conditions of the Whitesides and Oliver study, suggest that hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable-cell populations could be the basis of their observations as well as of the in vivo-virulence observations (25).
Resuscitation of nonculturable cells, which is the keystone of the VBNC hypothesis, is operationally defined as the conversion of nonculturable cells into culturable cells without any change in cell numbers due to regrowth. The results presented here suggest instead that additional culturable cells observed following a temperature upshift originated only from the growth of residual culturable cells. Furthermore, our results indicate that the rapid increase in HI plate counts after the temperature upshift, at a rate exceeding the growth rate, was due merely to the recovery of hydrogen peroxide resistance in the growing population of cells (Fig. 2).
While our results would seem to invalidate the suggestion that a temperature upshift rapidly resuscitates large populations of nonculturable cells, they also raise the question of the nature of the small transient populations of hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells which were observed. The transient nature of the hydrogen peroxide-sensitive culturable cells suggests a model in which cells ofV. vulnificus inoculated into cold ASW gradually degenerate, passing through a hydrogen peroxide-sensitive injured state as they die. Injury in bacteria has been defined by respected workers in the field, such as Speck and McFeters, as an increased sensitivity to components of growth media which are not normally inhibitory (11,19, 20, 27, 28, 30, 31); the injured state is transient, resulting from cumulative damage, and death in bacteria has been defined by these workers as the point “where injury extends beyond the ability of a cell to multiply and form a colony” (28,31). Amendment of plate count media with catalase or sodium pyruvate has long been employed as a means to recover injured bacterial cells (3, 7, 14, 16, 17, 18, 29). It could be argued that our results support the VBNC hypothesis, in that the cells have entered a state in which they are viable but nonculturable on HI plates. Rather than exhibiting long-term survival, we note that the hydrogen peroxide-sensitive populations continued to decline to complete loss of culturability (Fig. 1). Furthermore, we feel that such a definition of the VBNC state does not distinguish it from established views of injured bacteria (1, 2, 11, 19, 20, 27, 28, 30, 31), failing to describe a specific program of differentiation into a long-term survival state (akin to spore formation) as opposed to degeneration into a short-term injured state followed by further degeneration to death. The continued decline of hydrogen peroxide-sensitive cells has also been noted with Escherichia coli (21), with complete loss of culturability of such cells obtained in studies withVibrio parahaemolyticus (22) and V. vulnificus (L. Sides, M. F. Hite, and J. D. Oliver, Abstr. 99th Gen. Meet. Am. Soc. Microbiol., abstr. Q-129, 1999).
We also considered the possibility that the amended HI plates enumerated only a fraction of the residual culturable cells. Indeed, the AODC and SYTO 9-propidium iodide staining results of the nonculturable cells obtained in the present work have been interpreted by others to indicate that such cells were still viable. For readily culturable species of bacteria, we equate viability with culturability and contend that nonculturable cells which stain the same as culturable cells have not been shown to be alive. Indeed, we observed a tight correlation between loss of CFU on HI-80 plates (and loss of viable cells by MPN counts) and disappearance of any response to a temperature upshift or other attempts to demonstrate culturability. We conclude that a temperature upshift only affected the residual culturable cells and, through MCR tests, that the residual culturable cells did not have any effect on the remaining nonculturable cells. Equating viability with culturability for readily culturable species of bacteria, it is our contention that nonculturable cells of V. vulnificusunable to form progeny should be considered dead.
We thank James D. Oliver and Paul A. Gulig for gifts of strains, Steve Denham for assistance with statistical analysis, and Michael R. Barer, Ronald L. Somerville, Thomas C. White, and Wesley E. Workman for critically reviewing the manuscript.
Received 15 March 2000.
Accepted 19 June 2000.
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DoT: OSP License & Registration in Mumbai
As per New Telecom Policy (NTP) 1999, Other Service Providers (OSP), such as tele-banking, tele-medicine, tele-trading, e-commerce etc will be allowed to operate by using infrastructure provided by various access providers for non-telecom services. The Telecom Commission in May 1999, accorded in principle approval for registration of Call Centers, both International and Domestic, in the country under the above category. Later, services like Network Operation Centers and Vehicle Tracking Systems, were also added to this category. As per the Terms and Conditions formulated by the Telecom Commission in February 2000, these application Service Providers could take telecom resources from authorized Telecom Service Providers only and may not infringe upon the jurisdiction of other authorized Telecom Service Providers and they will not provide switched telephony. The Department of Telecommunication (DOT) will charge a processing fee of Rs.1000/- per case.
OSP REGISTRATION
· Restrictions on 'Transfer of Registration'
· Requirement to furnish information:
· Suspension, revocation or Termination of Registration
· Actions pursuant to Termination of Registration:
· Technical Conditions for Domestic or International OSP
· Terms & Conditions for OSP Operation
· Terms & Conditions specific to the Domestic OSP
· Terms & Conditions specific to the International OSP
Thirteen Vigilance Telecom Monitoring (VTM) Cells are functioning in different parts of the country. The responsibilities of these cells include Vigilance and Technical Monitoring of all telecom Service Providers.
Applications Services means services like tele-banking, tele-medicine, tele-education, tele-trading, e-commerce, call centre, network operation center by using Telecom Resources provided by Authorised Telecom Service Providers.
'Other Service Provider' (OSP) means a company providing Application Services.
'Telecom Resource' Telecom facilities used by the OSP such as Public Switched Telecom Network (PSTN), Integrated Services Data Network (ISDN), Domestic Lease Circuit, International Private Leased Circuit (IPLC) and / or the telecom bandwidth provided by authorised telecom service provider.
'International OSP' – OSP providing the Application Services using domestic and International Telecom Resources
General Terms & Conditions for OSP Registration for Domestic or International OSP Centre
(i) The Company to provide Application Services. These service providers will not infringe on the jurisdiction of other Authorised Telecom Service Providers and they will not provide switched telephony.
(i) Company may have more than one registration.
(ii) As the registration is location specific, any change in the location of OSP Centre shall require amendment in the original registration.
(iii) The OSP shall take prior approval of the Authority in case the OSP proposes to change the POP or add another POP.
(iv) No license fee is payable.
(v) A processing fee of Rs. 1000 is payable alongwith the application for registration in the form of a challan via bharatkosh.gov.in.
(vi) The validity of the registration shall be 20 years from the date of issue unless otherwise mentioned in the registration letter.
(vii) The validity of the registration may be extended, if deemed expedient, the period of registration by 10 years at one time, upon request of the OSP, if made during the 19th year of the registration period on the terms mutually agreed. The decision of the Authority shall be final in regard to the grant of extension.
(viii) The OSP shall inform the Authority of any change in the information stated in the proforma submitted at the time of registration or thereafter.
The OSP shall not, without the prior written consent as described below, of the Authority, either directly or indirectly, assign or transfer this Registration in any manner whatsoever to a third party or enter into any agreement for sub-Leasing and/or partnership relating to any subject matter of the Registration to any third party either in whole or in part i.e. no sub- leasing/partnership/third party interest shall be created. Provided that the OSP can always employ or appoint agents and employees for provision of the Service.
The OSP shall furnish to the Authority, on demand in the manner and as per the time frames such documents, accounts, estimates, returns, reports or other information in accordance with the rules/ orders as may be prescribed from time to time.
The Authority reserves the right to suspend the operation of this Registration at any time, if, in the opinion of the Authority, it is necessary or expedient to do so in public interest or in the interest of the security of the State or for the proper conduct of the TELEGRAPH. If situation so warrant, it shall not be necessary for the Authority to issue a notice for seeking comments of the OSP for this purpose and the decision of the Authority shall be final and binding.
If under the Registration Agreement, material event occurs which entitle the Authority to terminate the Registration Agreement, the Authority shall proceed in accordance with the terms and conditions provided in the Agreement.
On termination or surrender or expiry of the Registration, the Bank Guarantee shall be released to the OSP only after ensuring clearance of all dues, which the OSP is liable to pay to the Authority. In case of failure of the OSP to pay the amounts due to the Authority, the outstanding amounts shall be realized through encashment of the Bank Guarantee without prejudice to any other action(s) for recovery of the amounts due to the Authority without any further communication to the OSP.
(1) The OSP shall take the Telecom Resources from an Authorised Telecom Service Provider only.
(2) The Authorised Telecom Service Providers shall provide resources to the OSP after examining the schematic diagram contained in the registration for OSP and as per the terms and condition of registration.
(3) Both the Authorised Telecom Service Provider and the OSP shall be responsible for any violation of the terms & conditions for OSP in the use of the Telecom Resources.
(4) OSP may have Internet connectivity from the Authorized Internet Service Provider.
(5) OSP is permitted to share the Telecom bandwidth with other activities of the same Company or group of companies. However the OSP shall ensure that there will be a logical separation between the Telecom Resources for OSP and the Telecom Resources for their other activities. There shall be no voice / non voice traffic flow between them.
(6) Interconnectivity of the International OSP with Domestic OSP is not permitted.
(7) OSP shall furnish periodic statements about its operational parameters as prescribed by Authority from time to time.
'Domestic OSP' – OSP providing the Application Services using only the domestic Telecom Resources
(1) Domestic OSP is permitted to have both way PSTN connectivity for the Stand alone OSP centre where there is no other connectivity e.g. lease circuit and virtual private network (VPN).
(2) Domestic OSP is permitted to have PSTN connectivity with only incoming facility from the Authorised Telecom Service Provider unless otherwise stated in the registration letter where there are other connectivity e.g. lease circuit and virtual private network (VPN).
(3) Interconnectivity of two or more Domestic OSP Centres of the same Company or group of companies is permitted.
(4) Domestic OSP is permitted to use Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) connections only for the purpose of back up of domestic leased circuits.
(5) For making outgoing calls, Domestic OSP, with prior written approval of Authority, may terminate the local PSTN lines to their OSP Centres subjected to the following conditions.
(a) The Company shall ensure complete separation between such PSTN lines with out-going facility & the other Telecom Resources and there shall not be any call flow between them. Such PSTN lines shall be used for making calls through normal PSTN network only and in no way directly or indirectly cause bypass of licenced National Long Distance Operator (NLDO) jurisdiction. The Company shall be responsible for any violation of this condition by anyone including but not limited to it's employees.
(b) The ratio of outgoing PSTN lines to total PSTN lines shall be restricted to 10%. Authority may permit the use of more outgoing PSTN lines on merits.
(c) The Company shall submit a security deposit in the form of a Bank Guarantee in the specified format for Rs. 10 Lakhs in favour of the Authority for the period of such permission. In addition the Company shall submit an Affidavit in the prescribed format.
(d) Registration for such facility shall be for a period of 3 years. This may be extended for a further period of maximum 3 years after expiry.
(e) For extension of registration period beyond 3 years, the OSP shall submit such request for extension alongwith extended validity period of Bank Guarantee, 60 days prior to the expiry date, failing which the registration will lapse without notice.
(f) The Authority reserves the right to carry out the audit periodically.
(g) If the Authority is satisfied that there has been a violation of any of the conditions, it reserves the right to take punitive action including forfeiture of the security deposit and / or the cancellation of the registration.
1. No PSTN connectivity shall be permitted to the International OSP at the Indian end. PSTN connectivity on foreign end is permitted having facility of both inbound and outbound calls.
2. Interconnection of two or more International OSP of the same Company or the group companies may be permitted, with prior written approval of the Authority.
DoT: OSP License for Call Center in Mumbai
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VTM Cell
Circle/ Jurisdiction
1st Floor, P&T Administrative Building,
Khanpur, Ahmedabad-380001
DTOBuilding, 1st Floor, Bengali Club Road, Near Head Post Office, Port Blair, A&N – 744101
D-11,Telcom Officer's Complex,
Tikkel Road, Mogalrajpuram,Vijayawada – 520 010 (AP)
Andhra Pradesh excludingHyderabad
Guwahati (361) 5th Floor,
O/o CGMT, BSNL, Assam,
Pan Bazar, Guwahati, Pin-381001
II Floor, Aminity Block, Palace Road,Bangalore-560001Bangalore
7th Floor, Telephone Bhawan, R Block, Patna – 800001
3rd Floor, Kellys Telephone Exchange, 22 Kellys Road,
Chennai-10
Chennai Metro andPondicherry
Room No. 108, Door Sanchar Bhawan, GE Road, Raipur – 492001
5/6th Floor,MTNLTelephoneExchangeBuilding,Nehru Place, New Delhi – 19
DelhiincludingGhaziabad, Noida,Faridabad, Gurgaon
Gujaratexcluding Ahmedabad
R.No.302, 3rd Floor,CGMTBSNLHaryanaOfficeBuilding, 107, The MALL, Ambala – 133001.
Hari Niwas, Khalini, Simla, HP-171002
#104, TEC COMPLEX, Cherlapally,
Hyderabad-51
Hyderabad.
TE Bldg, Sect-5, Vidyadhar Nagar,Sikar Road, Jaipur-23,
4th Floor, Technical Block,TelephoneExchangeBuilding, Trikuta Nagar, Rail Head Complex, Jammu.
Room # B-202, ARTTC, BSNL,
(Near JumarRiver),Hazaribagh Road, Ranchi – 835217
2nd Floor, Aminity Block, Palace Road, Bangalore-560001
Karnataka excludingBangalore
O/o the DDG(VTM), Kerala, DoT, Near Fire Station, Gandhi Nagar, Ernakulam 682020
Kerala and Lakhadweep
4th Floor, 3A, Chowringhee Place
Kolkata 700 013
Kolkata Metro
5/464-465, Viram Khand-5, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow
UP(East)
Doordarshan Bhawan, Room No.222, II Floor, Hoshangabad Road,
Bhopal-462015
1st Floor Khamla Telephone Exch. Khamla Nagpur-440025
Maharashtraexcluding Pune and Mumbai
4th Floor, Versova Tele Exchange Bldg, S V Road, MHADA, SVP Nagar, Andheri (W), Mumbai 400 053.
Mumbai Metro
North East-I
III Floor, CTOBuilding, Shillong-793001
North East-I (Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram )
North East-II
Behind OCB-TelephoneExchangeBuilding, Dimapur – 797112
North East-II (Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Nagaland )
7th Floor, IDCOTower, Bhubaneswar-22, Orissa
281/B, II Floor, Technical Wing, Telephone Bhawan, Baji Rao Road, Pune-411002,
1st Floor ,TelephoneExchangeBuilding, Sector-70, Mohali, Chandigarh-160071
PunjabincludingChandigarh
TE Bldg, Sect-5, Vidyadhar Nagar,Sikar Road, Jaipur – 23
Rajasthan excluding Jaipur
5th floor, LICBuilding, No.1544,Trichy Road, Coimbatore- 641 018
Tamilnadu excluding Chennai and Pondichery
Uttar Pradesh (East)
5/464-465,Viram Khand-5,Gomti Nagar, Lucknow
UP(East) excludingLucknow
Uttar Pradesh (West)
1st Floor Brahmpuri Tele. Exch. Meerut (U.P.)- 250002
UP (W) excluding Uttaranchal
UP (West)
1st floor, BSNL Telephone Exchange,197 Rajpur Road, Dehradun , Uttarakhand
82,Bullygunj Place,II Floor, Near Convergence Hall, Kolkata-700019
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Guelph IndyCar driver Robert Wickens to drive parade lap at Honda Indy after shocking crash
Robert Wickens speaks for the first time since crashing in an IndyCar race last August.
Published Monday, July 8, 2019 3:29PM EDT
Robert Wickens will get a chance to drive on a racetrack again this weekend in the parade lap at the Honda Indy in Toronto.
The 30-year-old driver from Guelph announced the news Monday in a video on his Twitter feed.
Wickens has posted periodic updates on his recovery following a horrific August crash during an IndyCar race at Pocono. He suffered a thoracic spinal fracture, spinal cord injury, neck fracture, tibia and fibula fractures to both legs, fractures in both hands, a fractured right forearm, fractured elbow, four fractured ribs and a pulmonary contusion.
Wickens says he'll drive an Acura NSX with hand controls provided by Arrow, and he says he plans on going fast.
"I get to basically be pole position for the race, which is a blast," Wickens said. "I can't wait to get a helmet on and go around in an amazing car."
Wickens, who is undergoing an intense rehabilitation program in Colorado as he attempts to recover from his serious spinal cord injury, has maintained he wants to race again, and driving a car with hand controls could be a big step toward that goal.
Wickens has said he eventually wants to come back at the same level he was at before his accident, which ended a promising rookie season for the IndyCar newcomer.
I’M GETTING BACK IN A CAR! I’ll be doing the parade lap for the @hondaindy! This is just amazing and couldn’t happen without the help of @arrowelectronics installing the hand controls and @HondaRacing_HPD trusting me with such an awesome car! #IndyTO #ArrowDriven #SCIrecovery pic.twitter.com/mmaTIlrxCW
— Robert Wickens (@robertwickens) July 8, 2019
Robert Wickens reveals dramatic crash left him paraplegic
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Why was Quran not compiled at the time of the Prophet?
In the holy Quran, Quran is mentioned numerous time as the book
It is He who has sent down to you, [O Muhammad], the Book; (3:7)
In the last sermon of the prophet, the prophet said
I leave behind me two things, the QUR'AN and my example, the SUNNAH and if you follow these you will never go astray.
But Quran was never compiled as book in the life of Muhammad (PBUH). Why was it left out of the book form when the Quran itself refer to it as a book?
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kitab in arabic origanilly refered to scriptures not an actual book – NesreenA Aug 12 '12 at 22:02
The revelation of Quran took 23 years and it had continued to the last year of the Prophet Muhammad's(PBUH) life. So nobody was able to compile it as a book during the Phrophet's life, since it was not complete.
But after the Prophet's demise everyone knew that the revelation had finished and Quran was not going to change anymore(no ayah would be added).
So at that time they collected all those scripts written by sahaba and compiled it.
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It just dawned on me, the prophet himself did not know when it is going to finish. So he never put it in the book form. I would say he should have known that since he was the prophet. – muslim1 Aug 13 '12 at 1:32
If the prophet had done this work, I would say yes, of course he knew. But now I can just come to this answer that "Allah didn't want him to know". And Allah knows best. – Zahra Ezati Aug 13 '12 at 1:50
and I think this verse can somehow help you: quran.com/25/7 – Zahra Ezati Aug 13 '12 at 2:01
problem was not adding ayah. problem was different reciting methods. which could have different meaning of same word. also why Abubakr and Umar did not compile? – Battle of Karbala Sep 3 '12 at 10:04
@Ahmadi - "problem was different reciting methods..." How do you know that? – Zahra Ezati Sep 3 '12 at 20:27
The written compilation process did not take place during the prophet's time as revelations were an ongoing process. Manuscripts were not generated clearly earlier in his time. However, it was still recorded in bits and pieces.
From a historian point of view, citing islamic written material as reliable is difficult based on the theory that the complete compilation of the Quran was only seen in the 8th century, a century after Muhammad's death . Historical evidences (Historical Archaeology method) are evaluated based on textual sources: inscriptions, archival documents, narrative histories, law codes and guidebooks that support the main source (Quran in this example).
In the Muqaddimah, Ibn Khaldun warned of seven mistakes that he thought that historians regularly committed. In this criticism, he approached the past as strange and in need of interpretation. The originality of Ibn Khaldun was to claim that the cultural difference of another age must govern the evaluation of relevant historical material, to distinguish the principles according to which it might be possible to attempt the evaluation, and lastly, to feel the need for experience, in addition to rational principles, in order to assess a culture of the past. Ibn Khaldun often criticized "idle superstition and uncritical acceptance of historical data." As a result, he introduced a scientific method to the study of history, which was considered something "new to his age", and he often referred to it as his "new science", now associated with historiography. His historical method also laid the groundwork for the observation of the role of state, communication, propaganda and systematic bias in history, and he is thus considered to be the "father of historiography" or the "father of the philosophy of history". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_early_Islam#7th-century_Islamic_sources
With that said, the scientific method of historical manuscripts as evidences alone are not suitable for the compilation of the complete quran as you must understand that the arabs at the time did not have any paper. Paper, originally, was brought by the Muslims from China.
"It followed the battle of Tallas (751) fought between Chinese and Muslims, when Chinese prisoners revealed the secret of papermaking to the Muslims. From an art, the Muslims developed it into a major industry." http://www.muslimheritage.com/article/beginning-paper-industry
Location of the Quranic material included parchments, scapula, leafstalks of date palms and from the memories of men. Thus most of the written items before the Quran had disintegrated with time. In addition, it was discouraged to make coins or any form of adornments related to the prophet as it may mislead people to worship him instead. The difference in culture and civilization and limited access to academic tools like paper contributed to the little amount of manuscripts available. "Before the Quran was commonly available in written form, speaking it from memory prevailed as the mode of teaching it to others. The practice of memorizing the whole Quran is still practiced among Muslims. Millions of people have memorized the entire Quran in its original Arabic. This fact, taken in the context of 7th-century Arabia, was not an extraordinary feat. People of that time had a penchant for recited poetry and had developed their skills in memorization to a remarkable degree. Events and competitions that featured the recitation of elaborate poetry were of great interest". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Quran
What sets the quran apart from this was that, interpretation was strictly excluded to retain the purity of the material. People may then relate to the hadith for the majority agreed interpretation if they could not understand properly. In a way the Quran is unique in that it is the only source of its own with any sources before it to be of little importance as every detail were confirmed and recorded in the Quran. Further interpretation are to be based on human judgement or tradition in a separate book, thus preventing the corruption of the intended material. Interpretation is subjective depending on the person's level of experience, intellect and understanding.It is understandable if people discredit its credibility but it is important to understand the lack of writing technology that contributed to the late written entry of the Quran, hadith etc. Nevertheless, the practice of standardization had to be commended for it ensured that there is a clear distinction between what was confirmed and what was not. In addition of the oral authenticity, witness matching was to a certain extent, evidence of reliability.
http://www.quranreading.com/blog/the-history-of-revelation-and-compilation-of-quran/
There were no solid manuscripts that contributed to the production of the Quran, but as I said, the Quran is a unique form of literature with unorthodox, advanced authentication practices that were not seen in the early few centuries. Quran is unique in that it is the only source of its own and required majority voting of a group for authentication purposes justifying its written distribution unlike most religious material that were written and confirmed only by a few., thus compiling at a later time made more sense was made even more urgent when war killed most of the Quran reciters.
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Quran comes from the root word "Qirat" which means recitation. So the Prophet (pbuh) gave the Quran in the form of a recitation. "Al-Quran" means "THE RECITATION".
The first word revealed of the Quran was "IQRA", which means "Recite".
Recite in the name of your Lord, Who created- Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood (Quran 96:1-2)
But the Quran (recitation) is in the form of a Book with Allah. The following verses indicate that...
Ha, Meem. By the clear Book, Indeed, We have made it an Arabic Qur'an that you might understand. And indeed it is, in the Mother of the Book with Us, exalted and full of wisdom. (Quran 43:1-4)
The Quran clearly indicates "We have made it an Arabic Quran", so it is THAT BOOK that is made into a recitation and given to us in Arabic. Allah has the "Mother of the Book".
Today the Quran exists in books but also exists in the hearts of millions of Muslims who know it by heart it. We have the "hafiz", who is a person that knows the whole Quran by heart.
Quran as a book
The main aim of the Quran is to learn by heart, but to assist in learning it, people would write it down as it was being revealed to the Prophet (pbuh). It was written on wood, leather etc. by different people. But 19 years after the Prophet (pbuh) passed away the Khalifah Uthman(ra) realized that there were too many of these pieces that were floating around and could cause corruption or loss of text. Hence he gathered all those small pieces together and burnt them. The Muslims formed a committee and compiled a standard version. This was in presence of Uthaman(ra), Ali(ra) and many other people who were present always beside the Prophet(pbuh) when the Quran was revealed or had learnt the entire Quran by heart under the Prophet(pbuh). This was easily compiled as all of them knew the Quran entirely by heart.
This compiled version is still present in Turkey.
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why was this answer downvoted ? – pckabeer Aug 12 '12 at 22:40
@pckabeer Downvoting makes sense. This answer is not the point and is mostly off topic. Ezati answer is right at the point. Although I did not vote here. Just saying why it could be ... – muslim1 Aug 13 '12 at 1:43
According to Shia Quran was compiled at life of prophet by Imam Ali as. He came to home of prophet every night and said Salam. If heard reply entered and if not backed.
At nights prophet said the Quran to Ali as and he wrote them on animal skins.
Also at time of Government of Uthman ordered to all cities that all Qur'an should be collected and burnt them all. But Ali sa did not obey and did not deliver his Quran to be burnt and kept it.
Also Quran was protected by memorizing it by hundreds of sahaba and even if no written Quran existed still it survived by high number of Quran memorizes.
This Quran also has comments of Gabriel about verses of Quran told to prophet and its volume is 3 times of Quran only. This Quran was on separated animal skins and prophet before his death said to Ali as whe I died remain at home and collect my Quran and make it compiled. When Ali as finished compile took it to mosque and said to Sahab this is Quran of prophet. They said we have our own Quran and do not need it. (In commentaries of that Quran there was some interprets about Caliphet of Ali as) then Ali as said you will never see this Quran. this Quran passed to next Imams and now it is with Imam Mahdi a.s. each Imam said parts of it to their students and thy wrote 400 books based on them and those 400 formed knowledge and Fiqh of Shia.
Lots of Sunni references can be found in this page:
The Quran Compiled by Imam Ali (AS)
-1 Please add references to backup. After you add the references, DV will be removed. – Abdullah Sep 3 '12 at 14:45
@Abdullah I improved answer – Battle of Karbala Sep 5 '12 at 6:51
The Quran was revealed during the time of the Prophet Muhammads (saws) lifetime. Many verses came down and pertained to that period in time for the Muslims.
One example is when Allah mentioned the Prophet saws and his siddiq (Abu bakr) in the cave going towards Madinah. Surat Al Tawbah 9:40
The Quran was relayed through oral tradition and was memorized by those who heard it and also written on palm leaves. There are many reasons why it wasn't compiled during the time of the Prophet saws, books can be lost like we've seen with previous books of Allah when families were stripped of their rights to carry the Torah or Bible in their homes. The Quran was memorized immediately and was undisputed. Every single Muslim could vouch for every single letter in the Quran. So much so that if one letter was omitted they would burn that whole batch of books.
The compilation was done during the time of Abu Bakr when so many companions who memorized the Quran were dying, Omar al Khattab plead the case that it needed to be written down and standardized. Abu Bakr initially refused saying "Do you wish me to do something that wasn't done during the Prophets time?" But he later took the advice and a sahaabi named Zaid bin Thabit was designated to write the Quran down and the chapters were arranged by size from long to short.
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The Priestly Colleges
Although many deities are worshiped in the Motherlands, the following deities are the most popular and well known. Most city-states have a temple or shrine to each of them. Each city-state in the Motherlands has a college of priests (usually 10 to 20), with one priest assigned to manage each temple. The college is headed by a pontiff, and each temple priest is assisted by a staff of lesser clergy. Some city-states have an upper college dedicated to the Motherlander deities and a lower college that oversees the temples of foreign deities.
Apollo Helios
Apollon, Apulu, Belenus
Lawful god of sun, music, archery and herdsmen
Wields a bow
Patron deity of Antigoon
Served by elohim and nymphs
Symbols are the lyre, crook, sunburst or cross
Clerics can cast the magic-user spell Fireball as a 5th level cleric spell, dealing damage as though 3 levels lower.
Apollo Helios is the god of the sun, archery, medicine, healing, light, truth, oracle, colonists, patron defender of herds and flocks, music and poetry, homosexuality, harmony, order, reason and plague. He helps ripen crops, destroys pests, cures illnesses, and protects shepherds and their flocks. Apollo is not entirely beneficent. He carries a bow with terrible arrows that visit plague and disease upon the targets he fires them at.
In his true form, Apollo Helios is a beardless young man of divine beauty who radiates warmth and light. Apollo Helios always carries a lyre or longbow; in fact, the object he carries can take either form as the god desires.
Apollo Helios is the son of Jove and Leto, half-brother of Mars, Minerva and Hercules and twin brother of Diana.
Midsummer’s Day (May 15): People build huge bonfires and walk themselves and their livestock between them to protect them from the diseases of warm weather. Masked mummers frolic and folk stay up all night making merry.
Atlas Telamon
Lawful god of strength, perseverance, exploration
Wields a club
Patron deity of Dweomer Bay
Served by devas, giants
Symbolized by a globe or compass
Clerics can cast the magic-user spell Enlarge
Atlas is worshiped not only as a deity of strength and endurance, but also as a god of exploration and cartography. He is the strongest of the titans who separates the heavens from the earth. Atlas appears as a giant of man holding the tools of exploration: compass, sextant, spyglass and globe.
Atlas is the son of Japetus and Clymenem, the daughter of the titan Oceanus. His brothers are Prometheus, Menoetius and Epimetheus. His own children are mostly daughters, and include the Hesperides by Hesperis, the Hyades and Pleiades by Aithra, and Calypso, Dione and Maera by unspecified goddesses.
Atlas’ temples are supported by merchant societies and in turn fund cartographers and explorers. Temples of Atlas are decorated with images of exotic lands, animals and people. The classic cleric of Atlas will wear three-quarters plate and be found at the head of a column of explorers plunging into unknown lands.
Ceres Dea Frugu
Neutral goddess of grain, agriculture and fertility
Wields a staff
Patron deity of Lyonesse
Served by fey creatures, earth elementals and erinyes
Symbolized by a poppy, sow or mare
Sacred animals are the bear, crow and horse
Druids can cast the spell Respite from Death
Ceres is the queen of the fruitful earth, goddess of agriculture, and patron of motherly love. Without her blessing, no crops may grow on the earth. Ceres will not hesitate to use this fact to blackmail men and other gods if the need exists. Ceres also has control over the weather. A sow is sacrificed to her when a death occurs in a family. Ceres is a usually a benevolent goddess. If her worshipers ignore their duties, however, she does not hesitate to destroy their crops and send famine upon them.
In her true form, Ceres is a beautiful woman, but she can change her own shape and that of others at will. She carries the cornucopia, or horn of plenty, and a scepter.
Ceres is the daughter of Saturn and Rhea and sister of Jove, Juno, Vesta, Neptunus and Plutus. She is the mother of Persephone by Jove. When pursued by Neptunus, she took the form of a mare to escape him. She could not hide her divinity, though, and Neptunus took the form of a stallion and coupled with her, producing a daughter called “the Damsel”, who leads the avenging erinyes, and a black-maned, divinely swift, speaking horse called Arion.
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Respite from Death (Druid Level 4): A recently killed comrade’s soul is released from the Land of the Dead as a shade for a limited time. If the person’s body has not been destroyed, it can re-animate it as a zombie with the mentality of the deceased (with one half of the deceased memorized spells, determined randomly, and all special class abilities except saving throws and attack bonuses, which are per a zombie’s statistics). The shade can persist in the re-animated body for 24 hours only. If the body cannot be inhabited, the shade uses the statistics of a shadow, but can only remain for 1 hour. In either case, the soul cannot subsequently be raised, resurrected or reincarnated for a period of 9 months.
Diana Prima Dea
Artemis, Brigantia, Nicevenn
Neutral goddess of maidens, the moon and hunting
Patron deity of Tremayne
Served by dryads, nymphs and giant animals
Symbolized by a boar or the moon
Sacred animals are the eagle, boar and wolf
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The huntress Diana is the patroness of young girls and the mistress of beasts and all wild things. Because she will have nothing to do with men, she is a favorite goddess of the Amazons. Except for helping women during childbirth, she avoids involving herself in mortal concerns and matters. She values her privacy, and will severely punish any man violating it. Merchants, always on the hunt for profits, also pray to her to give them persistence.
In her true form, she appears as a slim young girl wearing buckskins and carrying a longbow. She is sometimes mounted upon a stag. Oak groves are sacred to her. Diana is the daughter of Jove and Latona and the twin sister of Apollo Helios. She is associated with the water nymph Egeria and the woodland god Virbius.
Diana’s high priest is the rex Nemorensis, or “King of Groves”, stationed near a sacred lake near Tremayne. The rex Nemorensis attains the position through a trial by combat, killing the reigning king of the grove. Combat may only be initiated, though, if the challenging druid is able to pluck a golden bough from one of the trees in the sacred grove.
Those trees in whose dim shadow
The ghastly priest doth reign
The priest who slew the slayer,
And shall himself be slain.
Whitsuntide (May 15): On this day Whitsun Ales (fairs) and horse races are held, mummers dress as wild forest men, and hunting is forbidden.
Coursing Hound (Druid Level 2): The druid conjures a ghostly hound that can track on a roll of 1-5 on 1d6 (-1 chance for each day since the tracks were made, additional -1 chance if the tracks have been obscured by snow, hard stone or running water). The hound exists for 24 hours and cannot attack or be attacked.
Hekat, Trivia
Neutral goddess of ghosts, witchcraft and curses
Wields a dagger
Served by demons and the fey
Symbolized by a torch and key
Sacred animals are the wolf, serpent and horse
Priests can cast the spell Entrancing Dance
Hecate is the enigmatic and dark virgin goddess of the undead and witchcraft. She is also associated with childbirth and rearing, doorways, walls, crossroads, torches and dogs. Most city-states, towns and villages honor her with, at the very least, a shrine and a lichfield. She is also associated with the concoction of medicines and poisons, thus making her a patron of alchemists, apothecaries and assassins. Hecate is served by chaotic clerics and druids.
Hecate is depicted as a three-headed goddess, either with the heads of three maidens or with the heads of a dog, serpent and horse. She is the daughter of the titans Terra and Uranus, the Earth and Sky.
The most common offering to Hecate is meat left at a crossroads. Dogs are sometimes sacrificed to her. A more intense ritual requires one to bathe in a stream of flowing water at midnight, don dark robes, dig a pit and then offer a libation of honey and blood from the throat of a sheep. The libation is placed on a pyre next to the pit by the petitioner, who then leaves the site, never looking back.
Hallowtide (Nov 1): The boundaries between the Mortal World and the Ethereal Plane are thinnest on this day. People light bonfires, stay up all night, drink beer and enjoy the end of the harvest season.
Entrancing Dance (Cleric/Druid Level 3): As the priest dances, all those present (except the priest’s allies, unless the priest chooses to affect them as well) must save or become entranced. A new save must be made each round the priest dances without interruption (i.e. takes damage), and a dancing priest loses any dexterity bonus to Armor Class. Entranced creatures take on a bestial aspect and begin attacking one another savagely (+2 to hit and damage) until no rivals survive or the dance stops.
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Ashimom Msuguhter, a member of the National Youth Service Corps, who also served as an ad hoc officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission, discredited Saturday’s election in his unit in Nasarawa State.
Msuguhter, who describes himself as “NYSC Doctor at Dalhatu Araf Specialist Hospital Lafia, Nasarawa State,” said the card readers could authenticate only 15 people out of 900 registered voters in the polling unit, while all others voted without being accredited.
In a Facebook post, the corps member said he was forced to give ballot papers to people who printed the papers for a particular party.
He said he regretted working for INEC because his life was endangered. “This is the last time I would do this bullsh** INEC ad-hoc nonsense,” Msuguhter said. “I was almost thoroughly beaten when I disenfranchised myself on behalf of ad-hoc staff. I was cowed to submit most ballot papers for mass thumb printing. “well, I filled out the form and I hope that the result will be cancelled. “I’m just angry with everything, especially for first place involvement.
Actually, nobody forced me. “first, in subsequent elections, this card reader rubbish should be quashed. The whole goal was defeated. “of approximately 900 registered voters in my unit, only 15 could authenticate the card reader.
The rest had to accredit manually, which opened up more room for rigging. Very sad! “While calling for the resignation of the INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the corps member said Saturday’s election was not as good as the 2015 election, which Prof. Attahiru Jega supervised.
He said rural areas are known for rigging, and Nigeria’s democracy has continued to be undermined. “Prof. Mahmood must resign immediately after this election and apologize to Nigerians,” the corps member said. The extra week he got proved nothing else. In fact, he’s much more coveted at Jega’s INEC.
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“from 11am, we hadn’t seen any materials, people were already agitated, thinking we were compromised… they began to threaten to come down on us… fortunately, we escaped. “because we reported late in the polling unit, we had to extend the voting time until around 7.30pm.
“when it was dark, these people asked for the remaining ballot papers, which is the polling unit’s tradition of not returning ballot papers to INEC… the atmosphere became very tense before we knew it.
“the short thing is we allowed them to fulfill their wishes, but I pray that the result will be cancelled. “the fact is that in rural areas, most of the rigging is done. There’s no electoral law, everything goes… Party agents vote for people and you don’t dare to talk. “if we have to overcome this plague, we have to penetrate the grassroots.” I’m happy I came back safely.
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Mike DeNardo
Mike DeNardo, a veteran of KYW Newsradio for more than 35 years, covers a broad array of news stories for KYW. He specializes in stories about education and the schools. DeNardo has won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award four times -- in 2016 for his writing in "A Stanza For Danza"; in 2008 for his series on Philadelphia’s school dropout crisis; in 2005 for his coverage of “The Smarty Jones Story”; and in 2000, along with KYW Newsradio colleague Tony Romeo, for the stadium series “Where To Play Ball.” Mike achieved a lifelong dream in 2008 when he called the final out of the Phillies’ World Series championship for KYW Newsradio. Each year from 2002 to 2005, he won first-place awards from the Pennsylvania Associated Press for his public affairs, sports, and feature reporting. Throughout 1999, DeNardo prepared a year-long series of reports on the Year 2000 computer bug entitled “Countdown Y2K.” In 1986, he was awarded an honorable mention by the Associated Press for his coverage of the 69th Street train crash. During his radio career, DeNardo has worked as a reporter and anchor for WSSJ in Camden and WIIN in Atlantic City.
A South Jersey native, Mike attended Edgewood Regional Senior High School. He has a journalism degree from Temple University. In addition to his reporting and editing duties for KYW Newsradio 1060, Mike is serving his second term as president of the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association. DeNardo is an avid softball player and still-budding violinist. His secret desire after his journalism career is to become a roadie for the rock band Kansas.
Mike and his wife Barbara raised two rescue cats named Fenway and Wrigley.
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Drug Ring Bust
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Drug 'kingpin' busted for operating meth ring inside Bucks County prison
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) -- A woman will face an extra 10 to 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to smuggling drugs into the Bucks County Correctional Facility and running a drug ring inside the prison. Shayla Hadley, 24, of Quakertown, pleaded guilty Thursday to 14 counts of...
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) -- Investigators say they've broken up a major drug ring with the arrests of eight men in Montgomery County. They were selling all sorts of drugs, but Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele says the defendants primary money-makers were heroin and...
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Strikes Sweep France, Opposing Labor Law Rollbacks
June 09, 2016 / Dawn Tefft Enlarge or shrink text login or register to comment
"We're tackling the labor law..." Just as massive numbers of tourists enter France for the European soccer championship, strikes are preventing half the trains from running. Workers are protesting a bill that would strip them of basic rights such as a ceiling on overtime hours. Striking rail workers marched at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. Photo: Dawn Tefft
Just as the tourist season is starting in France, strikes are preventing half the trains from running. Fuel is in short supply, as workers blockade oil refineries. The news is full of riots, burning tires, and police attacking protesters.
Strikes across multiple industries are shutting down transportation across France, as workers protest a labor reform bill that would strip them of certain basic rights, such as ceilings on overtime hours and job security.
Rail workers with the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) and Solidaires union federations began their eighth strike in three months on May 31, and they have no end date in sight. The CGT is also leading blockades at oil refineries, docks, and nuclear power plants.
Paris metro workers are expected to join the strike on June 10—as massive numbers of tourists enter the country for the European soccer championship.
Labor reforms proposed by President Francois Hollande would increase the number of hours employees could be expected to work, reduce overtime pay, make it easier to lay off workers, and undo certain national rights, such as maternity leave.
Unions and much of the general public strongly oppose the reforms because they would undermine the high labor standards that French activists have worked so hard to win—standards that are models for unions across the world.
Rail workers are on strike for two reasons—against the proposed national law, but also against changes to their specific working conditions, according to Manue Bigot, a member of Rail SUD, a local union within Solidaires. The rail system is proposing changes to the numbers of days they work per week and per month.
“We have more and more people who are working for one day, and we don’t want that kind of thing anymore,” Bigot said. “We have no solution but to go on strike.” It’s good, she says, that the changes are proposed at the same time as the law—because now they can strike for both.
PROPOSED REFORMS
Rail workers are on strike for two reasons—against the proposed national law, but also against changes to the numbers of days they work per week and per month. Photo: Dawn Tefft
French unions strike more often than their American counterparts. But the current strikes are larger and have more public support than usual, because the legislation they oppose would so drastically change French work life.
Under current French law, workers in both the public and private sectors enjoy certain basic rights, what Solidaires National Secretary Stéphane Enjalran calls “social minimums.”
A 35-hour work week, job security, and overtime premiums of 25 percent to 50 percent are among the items that are considered basic worker rights, Enjalran explains, and thus guaranteed by national law.
Under the proposed law changes, these rights would no longer be guaranteed. Instead, employers would negotiate them—with unions or with individual non-union workers. In the case of overtime premiums, the employer would be allowed to negotiate down to as little as 10 percent.
The elimination of these basic rights is the worst of the proposed changes, because it would give employers so much power, force unions to start from a weaker bargaining position, and divide workers to fight their separate employers to regain these rights. Unions would have to demonstrate incredible leverage just to negotiate terms that used to be given by law.
The reforms would also allow employers to request more hours of work and reduce overtime pay. The upper limit on work hours would be raised from 10 to 12 hours a day and from 48 to 60 hours a week. The premium for overtime—hours past 35 a week, the standard in France—is currently 25 percent for the first eight overtime hours and 50 percent after that. Under the reforms, employers would have the option to reduce that premium to just 10 percent.
Employers would also be allowed to lay off employees without showing evidence of economic need, and to pay less severance than was previously required. Unemployment is already 10 percent in France.
STRIKES AND PUBLIC SUPPORT
Workers and student allies are reacting to the proposed reforms with a militant energy that has revitalized labor.
The Nuit Debout social movement—born out of opposition to the bill and aimed at creating public discussion on this and other economic issues, such as gentrification—has organized nightly assemblies and helped mobilize allies for street protests.
Even though union membership in France is down to just eight percent, and even though the strikes have disrupted commutes, polls have repeatedly shown public support at 50-70 percent.
Enjalran believes the support is so strong because people don’t like to see power concentrated in the hands of politicians. “Collectively we are saying, ‘They were not elected for that,’” he said. “They are acting in the name of the people who own large businesses and not in the name of the people.”
The public was especially angry that President Hollande prevented discussion of the reforms in the Assembly, relying on a law that’s constitutional but undemocratic.
Police violence against the protesters has only fueled public support, Enjalran says. When hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Paris, Bordeaux, Grenoble, and Nantes, the police used tear gas and water cannons against them.
Tensions between police and protesters continue to escalate, to a degree that France hasn’t seen since 1968—when students and workers staged a general strike so large that President Charles de Gaulle briefly fled the country.
French workers also filled the streets in mass strikes and protests in 1995 (when they halted a government plan to cut back public pensions), in 2006 (when they reversed a law that would have made it easier to fire younger workers), and in 2010 (when they fought in vain to stop then-President Nicolas Sarkozy from raising the retirement age).
GLOBAL INSPIRATION
The process by which the workers decide to strike is very democratic; it requires group decision-making on an almost daily basis.
“We have General Assemblies every day but Saturday or Sunday,” Bigot said, “where we vote on whether we want to strike the next day or call it off. After the assembly, we usually make some demonstration.”
Solidaires and other unions will stage a national demonstration in Paris on June 14, with representatives of unions from many countries.
In the meantime, activists are working to build greater support among unionists in the public sector. “The current laws are mostly aimed at private workers,” Enjalran said. “But actually the private sector laws tend to get applied to them [public sector workers] within a few years.”
A public school teacher himself, Enjalran finds inspiration in the Chicago Teachers Union strikes. After talking with CTU members at a Labor Notes Conference, he brought back their stories and told French teachers, “If American teachers who rarely strike can do it, then French can too.”
Dawn Tefft is an organizer with the Graduate Employees Organization of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Unions in the U.S. can send statements of solidarity with the ongoing French strikes to senjalran[at]yahoo[dot]fr
Correction: This article has been updated to correct the spelling of Manue Bigot's surname.
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Editorial issue n° 8.1 — Eastern Daze III
We proudly present you the third edition of the Eastern Daze festival, a co-joined effort between Sound in Motion, Vooruit, and ourselves. This edition is again loosely inspired by the common and parallel paths off-stream music is following in every corner of the world. We shift from post-postmodern exotic music over female Touareg music to possible ethnic tapecollages, zenlike proto-minimalism, kosmische music and more.
11 November 2016 | AG 8.1
One could easily say US experimentalist Spencer Clark is the ultimate shapeshifter. Notorious with ‘partner in drone’ James Ferraro as The Skaters or on his own under hilarious monikers like Monopoly Child Searcher, Vodka Soap and Black Joker amongst many others. Under his latest alias Typhonian Highlife he recycles the trashcans of forgotten eighties electronics and adds a heavy dose of new age mysticism and vhs-induced fever dreams. His record ‘World of Shells’ - out now on the Belgian Kraak-label - is a masterclass of dystopian exotica. Yes, that’s a genre now.
by Gabriela Gonzàlez
Artwork n° 8.1
by Jelle Crama
Giancarlo Toniutti is an electro-acoustic composer, anthropologist and visual artist living and working in Italy. Ever since the very early eighties he has been steadily building a completely unique ‘universe of sound’ through detailed tape collage and analogue sound synthesis. Toniutti’s solo work is well revered and for good reason; his 1985 album ‘La Mutazione’ is regarded as a missing link between the dark cosmic electronics of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream and the early noise esthetics of Whitehouse and Nurse With Wound. Next to his solo work he collaborated with kindred spirits like Andrew Chalk and Conrad Schnitzler. For Eastern Daze III Toniutti will do an exclusive quadrophonic performance of his 1986 ambient masterpiece ‘Epigènesi’, a concept album dealing with new forms of languages and - in a way- new types of humanity. Expect to be taken on a trip to far away forgotten cultures that might never even have existed in the first place..
by Cristina Amelia Messer
EASTERN DAZE CONNECTS TRADITIONAL FOLK MUSIC AND CONTEMPORARY UNDERGROUND. A REFLECTION BY MIKE COOPER. At 70 years old, Mike Cooper is a highly inventive bottleneck slideguitarist, a veteran of the music world and a fearless world traveller. During the sixties he was one of the upcoming stars of the British Blues and Folk boom, next to six string heroes like John Martyn, Michael Chapman and Roy Harper. He moved towards more unexplored territory on records like ‘Trout Steel’ where he combined country infused rock with jazz, free improv and field recordings. The last 50 years saw him creating an oeuvre that is now being rediscovered by new generations, thanks to a batch of reissues on labels like Paradise of Bachelors and - most of all - continuous exhilarating live performances. On his 2014 LP ‘Cantos de Lisboa’ Cooper collaborated with longtime fan and current guitar hero Steve Gunn. Mike Cooper’s music is impossible to pin down; there’s loop based exotica, deconstructed Hawaïian music, outsider ambient combined with straight up top notch fingerpicking and slide guitar playing. It’s deep, wholly original and impossible to forget once heard.
by Hans van der Linden
Yes people, there’s an underground music scene in Toulouse and one of the best things coming out of it is an unknown duo named Nibul who can put down some of the most hypnotic, trance inducing drones that side of the border. Armed with a saxophone, loop station and some ramshackle Tibetan percussion they create a massive wall of sound that will make your head spin and bob at the same time. In other words; a perfect way to conclude the first day of the festival..
by Wouter Vanhaelemeesch
Sanskriti Shrestha is a descendant of a highly illustrious Nepalese family of professional musicians and regarded as as one of Nepal’s youngest leading tabla players. Playing since the age of 4 and currently residing in Oslo, she has developed into one of the most exciting percussionists of the moment. Fusing Eastern and Western music, incorporating the principles of free improvisation and experimenting with a non-traditional extended setup. For Eastern Daze III she will do a set on tabla tarang - a melodic percussion instrument that includes up to 16 tabla’s - supported by Indian lehara player Tejaswinee Kelkar on harmonium. In an article for Dawn.com Pakistani author Uzma Aslam Khan asks herself where the women tabla players are.Well, here’s one: Sanskriti Shrestha. She plays in the ensembles Avatar and Moksha as well as performing solo. Growing up in Nepal, she took her tabla and the traditionial music she was raised on and ventured out for the North.
by Claire Stragier
There is nothing the fantastic Sahel Sounds label puts out that can’t be classified as essential listening, but we have an extra special place in our hearts for the record guitarist Fatou Seidi Ghali & vocalist Alamnou Akrouni put out just last year. As Les Filles de Illighadad they play an ultra minimalistic form of desert blues; dreamy and laced with melancholy but at the same time tough and raw. There is quite an abundance of Tuareg guitar bands touring Europe these days, but the Niger based Les Filles are something quite different and wholly unique. This is their first time in Belgium and if they’re half as good as on record, they might very will be the highlight of this festival.
by Seb Basleer
Sure, Waterloo has seen some major historic figures pass through it, but when all is said and done the most important one for us is easily Ernesto Gonzales. Nearly 10 years ago this Venezuelan wünderkid showed up in Belgium and started bombarding the local underground scene with music that was drenched in mescaline and attitude. His projects involve a membership in satanic krautrock ensemble Silvester Anfang and deep listening drone duo Steenkiste / Gonzales. He also produces the dirtiest kind of underground techno in Tav Exotic and turns country clubs into moshpits with his mighty crust punk band Viper Pit. But it all started from a solo endeavor which is still firing on all cylinders; Bear Bones Lay Low. Under that moniker Gonzales mixes drunken and dubby exotica tunes with tropical psychedelia into unforgettable mindbenders. We’ll be seeing all of you on the dancefloor.
by Lizzy Vandierendonck
AN ESSAY ON E2-E4, AN OPENING MOVE IN CHESS OR A HIGHLY INFLUENCIAL RECORD IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC. Manuel Göttsching is pretty much a living legend. The man behind krautrock pioneers Ashra Temple (with Klaus Schulze) and Ashra, is basically one of the founders of Kosmische Musik, post-Eno ambient and electronic music. With his 1984 solo masterpiece ‘E2 - E4’ he created a 58 minute trip through icy synths, metallic percussion en spacey guitar solo’s. Göttsching geniusly combined the minimalism of composers like Terry Riley and Steve Reich with an irresistible groove. Thus the German musician – along with colleagues Kraftwerk – unknowingly inspired an avalanche of imitators on the other side of the Atlantic who would pioneer genres like house and techno.
YZ is Younes Zarhoni’s moniker to create a highly personal blend of Sufi mysticism and electronic music. His powerful voice sings medieval Arabic poems on top of acid-like electronics and beats. Music led him towards a deepened identity in which beauty, freedom and spiritualism is more dominant than culture, background and the place where you’ve been born. In November he will release his debut 10” on Lexi Disque, and he will conclude the Saturday of the Eastern Daze festival in Ghent. We met him at the always cosy Brasserie Verschueren, in the center of hipster Sint-Gilles.
Stephane Ginsburg
La Monte Young once confessed ‘November’ to be the inspiration of his own magnus opus ‘The Well-Tuned Piano’. Written in 1959 by his friend composer Dennis Johnson, ‘November’ is a 5 to 6 hour composition that can safely be regarded as the first real piece of minimalism. Johnson unfortunately disappeared from the pages of music history to devote his life to the study of advanced math. It wasn’t until musicologist Kyle Gann, who heard the piece on a well worn cassette tape in the mid nineties, was blown away by it that ‘November’ was saved from obscurity. He tracked down Johnson, who was by then battling dementia, and painstakingly reconstructed the piece together with him. During Eastern Daze III ‘November’ will be performed by Stephane Ginsburgh, a pianist who’s renowned for performing avant-garde and modern classical works. Ginsburgh’s repertoire goes from Morton Feldman to Marcel Duchamp to Prokofiev and he’s also a frequent collaborator with Ictus. This will be a one of a kind performance that is the perfect ending to Eastern Daze III
by Brecht Ameel
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Home » About » Blogs » Digital Library Blog » Improving functionality for Spotlight and SDR content for full text and beyond
Improving functionality for Spotlight and SDR content for full text and beyond
Mark A. Matienzo
Stanford Libraries recently announced the launch of Virtual Tribunals, a collaborative project with the WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice, intended to be a broad platform for access and research to records from international criminal tribunals. As noted in the launch announcement for Virtual Tribunals, this project has allowed Stanford Libraries to make additional incremental improvements to Spotlight at Stanford, and to the parts of our infrastructure that support access to our digital collections. Cathy Aster recently wrote about the support added to Spotlight for internationalization of exhibit page content and user interface labels. In addition, a number of other additions developed for Virtual Tribunals will be made more broadly available for Spotlight exhibit creators and for content managed in the Stanford Digital Repository.
Much of the work undertaken on the Virtual Tribunals project relates to supporting full-text search for items with text produced using optical character recognition (OCR). While descriptive metadata produced for the records made available on Virtual Tribunals serves as a strong basis for discovery, adding full text search was identified as a core deliverable for the grant project used to fund the first phase of its implementation. Staff in DLSS recognized that full-text search would provide transformative access to this collection, as well as unlock the potential to improve access to many other collections. Based on the software improvements we made to Spotlight at Stanford, we are introducing features that support full-text search across items in an exhibit and show matches in full text as part of the item display in search results. While supported previously in The Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers exhibit, the work completed on Virtual Tribunals will serve as a basis for further work to expand this functionality to further exhibits hosted on Spotlight at Stanford.
In addition, we have introduced an implementation of the International Image Interoperability Framework’s Content Search API to allow “search within” functionality within the context of a specific object with page-level machine-readable text. This implementation allows searching for queries within a particular document in a standards-compliant way that will work across IIIF viewer software like Universal Viewer and Mirador. The viewer can then show the location of matching hits for those queries and allow you to navigate to where they are located. For example, this can be seen in this item from the Virtual Tribunals exhibit shown below.
Based on a feature request for Virtual Tribunals, we also have added new functionality that allows an exhibit creator to add a search box to browse categories. This provides an easier pathway for users to limit their query based on a specific curated feature.
While these improvements are intended for broader use by Spotlight exhibit creators, Digital Library Systems and Services staff are investigating remaining barriers to enable full-text searching for resources in SDR, and ensuring that we understand needed functionality. Some of these barriers include the wide variety of OCR formats that Stanford has used, the quality of the source images and the level of accuracy of the OCR that exists, and the permissions of the digital objects. For example, items in the Joint Commission on Atomic Energy exhibit have text produced by OCR, but the SDR objects for these items require further remediation work to make the text searchable. Despite the additional forthcoming work necessary to extend this functionality to other collections, we are excited about the possibilities to expand searching of collections containing full text in Spotlight. If you have further questions about the status of this work, please contact Josh Schneider.
Posted in Digital Library Blog by Mark A. Matienzo
Topics: Digital library, Stanford Digital Repository
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Documentary humanizes
Campus gets culture
Perry Continente, pcontinente@lmcexperience.com
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Human, a documentary that examines the depth, complexity, triumph and tragedy of the human condition, was shown Wednesday by the LMC Office of Student Life. Student associate Tammy Smith and Student Life Adviser John Nguyen organized the showing.
Smith described the documentary as “an inner journey to the heart of the human soul.” This was an apt description as the film paired artistic, sweeping shots of human endeavors, both beautiful and terrible, with emotionally honest interviews with people from a variety of backgrounds about everything from love to spousal abuse to economic disparity.
Nguyen characterized the documentary as a study of “how different people in different countries react to the same question.”
The people answering these questions ranged from a man serving life in prison for the murder of a woman and her son to a survivor of the Hiroshima bombings to a beleaguered textile worker struggling to get by.
By analyzing these vastly different situations, the film strives to find the heart of what makes us human. Each interview, while wildly different, features enough emotional honesty that everyone in the audience can see a part of themselves in every person on screen. The documentary’s interviews were all devoid of context and did not denote the country of origin, economic status, or vocation of the interviewee, allowing them to be viewed more objectively.
Dale Satre, a student at LMC, was moved by the documentary. “It was very much an eye opener,” he stated. “I really liked the portraits of the people, and the small quotations.”
“The idea behind the simplicity was they wanted everyone to be seen equally,” Smith observed. “Regardless of country.”
Nguyen was a big proponent of the effects of the film, stating, “It encourages dialogue.”
“Its cool to have an open mind,” Nguyen stated.
The Office of Student Life, which also puts on the “A Place to Talk” functions, where students can gather in a safe environment and discuss current events, has recently shifted the focus of many of its functions.
“We are currently focusing on social justice and you can expect to see more from the Office of Student Life,” said Nguyen.
The next section of the three-part documentary will be shown September 22 in Room L-109.
Perry Continente, Campus Editor
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L.M. Montgomery Online began in 1998 as LMM-L, a moderated listserv that was housed at the University of Toronto and that I founded in collaboration with Jason Nolan and Yuka Kajihara. This listserv, still going strong today, is geared specifically to researchers (with or without university affiliation) undertaking interdisciplinary work on all aspects of L.M. Montgomery: her life, her work, and her legacy. In 2007, after eight years at the University of Toronto, the listserv became part of the L.M. Montgomery Research Group, a broader Web 2.0 resource that featured a blog of news and updates, a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship, and a detailed filmography of screen adaptations of her work. L.M. Montgomery Online, the most recent incarnation of this scholarly resource, was launched in 2014, expanding its scope to complement the rare periodical pieces appearing in the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader.
I am grateful to several friends and colleagues who offered feedback and help on various incarnations of this web resource: Vanessa Brown, Melanie J. Fishbane, Yuka Kajihara, Jason Nolan, and Emily S. Woster. Colleagues whose suggestions helped with the organization of the content include Richard Cunningham, Misao Dean, and Linda M. Morra. I am also grateful to Holly Blackford, Carole Gerson, Yuko Izawa, Yuka Kajihara, Jennifer H. Litster, Laura M. Robinson, Mary Henley Rubio, and Hildi Froese Tiessen for bringing items of scholarship to my attention, and to Donna J. Campbell, Mary Beth Cavert, Carolyn Strom Collins, Joanne E. Wood, and especially Christy Woster for their generosity in sharing with me rare periodicals by or related to L.M. Montgomery.
An earlier discussion of screen versions of L.M. Montgomery’s work appeared as “L.M. Montgomery: An Annotated Filmography” in Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 99 (Fall 2000): 43–73; © 2000 by Benjamin Lefebvre. I thank Mary Henley Rubio, who solicited that filmography for CCL/LCJ in 2000 and who shared several of her materials with me. I also thank Patsy Kotsopoulos and Vikas Duggal for several years of email disussions, as well as Maryam Haddad for her generosity in sharing Disney Channel material not available in Canada.
The following contact people were also extremely helpful, either for the 2000 filmography or its expanded version on this website: Jim Bertin, CBC (Toronto); Norman Campbell (Toronto); Len Cervantes, Sullivan Entertainment (Toronto); Christy Danger (Texas); Colette Forest, Société Radio-Canada (Montreal); Renée Fournier and Kerry Fraser, Salter Street Films (Halifax); Rachael Fowler, BBC (London); Tanya Fruehauf, City-TV (Toronto); Goldie Gardner, WNED (Buffalo, NY); Jim Gore, Tattersall Casablanca, post-production facility for Alliance Atlantis (Toronto); Faye Hammill, Cardiff University; Roy Harris, Visual Resources, CBC (Toronto); Betsy Veal Jones (Texas); Yuka Kajihara, Osborne Special Collection of Early Children’s Books, Toronto Public Library; Katina Katadotis, CINAR Productions (Montreal); Bernard Katz, McLaughlin Library archives, University of Guelph (retired); Gerald M. Lefebvre and Claire Pelland Lefebvre, Comme dirait l’autre (Trois-Rivières, Québec); Jeremy Lefebvre, Université de Montréal; Jennifer H. Litster, University of Edinburgh (Scotland); Jason Nolan, Division of the Environment, University of Toronto; Rory McLellan, University of Guelph; Joanna O’Driscoll and Ursula Perry, Channel 4 (London, UK); Monika Reif-Hüesler, University of Guelph; Kevin J. Rice, Confederation Centre Art Gallery Museum (Charlottetown); Becky Seifert (North Carolina); Ruth-Ellen Soles, CBC (Toronto); Charlie Trax, Universität Konstanz (Germany); Julie Trépanier, Université de Montréal; and the staff at the McLaughlin Library archives, University of Guelph.
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Home Arts & Culture A Healthy Dose Of Sadness From Steve Murphy
A Healthy Dose Of Sadness From Steve Murphy
LondonFuse has been fortunate to have Steve as our music reviewer, but that doesn't really work when it comes to his own music. Thankfully, Andy Scott had a chat with Steve on a cold winter's day and we're happy to give you the goods.
Andyy Scott
Once upon a time, on a rather cold winter Monday, I sat down at the Poacher’s Arms with a pint of stout…
I thought I was the most British person in the building until Westminster Park’s Steve Murphy dressed in tweed came through the doors.
With a TARDIS filled with records at home, and a tabby cat called Billy Braggs (which Billy Braggs the English folk-artist knows about), Steve embodies his life with his love of music. He calls himself a “snob at everything.” As a coffee snob and a film snob, I personally think he’s being too hard on himself.
With The Jesus and the Mary Chain “fuzziness and romantic preppy vocals” playing Just like Honey in the background, Steve was brimming with nostalgia about on how “This is the sort of stuff I listened to in High School, and I thought “I wish I could find a girl who likes this, and we are going to make out to this.”
His wish definitely came true by meeting his wife Colleen (one-quarter of Westminster Park) in this very pub.
Checking out the scenery
In preparation for meeting with Steve, I hiked around Westminster Ponds listening to Steve’s solo album Lonesome Scrapbook. While I walked along the wooden boardwalk, the trees and the hills were conducting his melancholic voice like a familiar bandmate.
I wondered how many times he walked the same path as I did, especially that he spent his high-school days skipping class to spend time with his friends at the ponds. It’s no wonder that his JRLMA-nominated band is named after this beautiful park. Or maybe because it sounded “British and cool.”
However, the main difference between the band and himself as Steve puts it, “Is that whenever I write a song it’s like a solo record, but then we go to the band, we sort of break up what I play on the acoustic guitar.”
Now I got to be honest with you, I’m a sickly optimistic guy – to the point that I’m pretty sure Paramore’s Rose Coloured Boy is certainly based on me. If you got the same condition as me, I reassure you that Lonesome Scrapbook is healthy sadness.
Do not shy away from it.
“I am an optimist at heart,” Steve explains. “But I feel like it’s important to listen to sad songs, so you don’t suppress your real emotions. Sometimes it’s nice to be sad.
“Morose even.”
Steve is inspired by the English acoustic folk-artist Nick Drake, and 1800 Spanish guitarists, to the point where he is growing his fingernails so he can turn his fingers into individual plectrums to hit the exact chords. He is literally one with his guitar, which would make his musical heroes proud.
Unlikely inspiration
However, Steve does have one muse that inspires him, that causes other Londoners dread, despair and delays: The LTC.
“Usually the last eight years I write a song on the bus and waiting for the bus.”
Thank you buses, you have done something right. Now can I pay for a ticket using my debit card now?
After three pints and three hours of recording, Steve and I ended up quoting British panel shows which are so niche I wouldn’t dare to put up on this article. However, what resonated with me the most was when Steve put down his pint and said, “It would be awesome for someone who listens to my songs at a rough time and they would say ‘finally someone gets it, finally someone understands me.'”
Good news Steve, you understand me.
To listen and buy Lonesome Scrapbook please follow this link and pour yourself a well deserved glass of wine.
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Bob Klanac July 18, 2018 at 4:23 PM
Nice piece. Steve is good people. And a terrific singer and songwriter.
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File photo – Hoopa senior Alexia Jackson and her teammates will compete for a second straight Little 4 championship in a doubleheader against St. Bernard’s next week.
The Hoopa valley girls set up a title deciding softball doubleheader against St. Bernard’s next week after beating South Fork twice at home on Tuesday.
The Warriors, who are defending Little 4 champions, won 5-0 and 8-2.
With the doubleheader sweep, the Warriors improved to 8-2 in the Little 4, and now trail St. Bernard’s (8-1) by half a game.
The two frontrunners will meet in a doubleheader at Hoopa on Thursday of next week, with the league title guaranteed to be up for grabs no matter how the Crusaders fare against Ferndale in their game in hand.
And, according to Hoopa head coach Glenn Moore, his team appears to be peaking at an opportune time.
“They’re playing well together,” the head coach said. “They’re starting to come into their own. They’re a good team and they’re starting to figure it out.”
Savannah Colegrove pitched both wins, striking out nine in 14 innings work.
She also was 3-for-4 at the plate in the nightcap with two doubles and three RBIs.
Naschewen Hunsucker and Beyonce Bussell each also had big days in the sweep.
Hunsucker hit a home run and finished 2-for-4 with three RBIs in the second game, after hitting a double and driving home two runs in the opener.
Bussell had three hits in each game, as well as an RBI in the opener.
“We played really well on both sides of the ball,” Moore said. “Defensively we pulled three double plays.”
Junior Jasmine Kinney had two unassisted double plays at first base.
The Warriors will play at the Arcata tournament on Friday and Saturday.
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Lost Musicals™ will present a lost play that was acclaimed when it appeared, but has not been seen for decades, with actors drawn from the National Theatre, the RSC through to the West End.
We have found the perfect venue. the semi-staged play will be presented in the
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Auntie Mame (1956)
Jerome Lawrence — Robert E Lee
Rosalind Russell in the original Broadway1956 production of Authy Mame
Lawrence and Lee (Inherit The Wind) based this comedy on Patrick Dennis’s comic novel about his aunt. A huge success in New York and London, it was made into a movie, a musical, and a movie of the musical. For the first time in many decades, here is the original play.
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Characters, Ajira Airways Flight 316 Crew and Passengers, Miles' flashback characters,
"Namaste"
"The Substitute"
2007 (Day 5)
Impaled by a piece of wood by MIB
("LA X, Part 1")
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Bram was a member of a team that worked for or with Jacob. He abducted Miles shortly before the departure of the Kahana, and offered him an alternative to joining Widmore's team. He directly opposed Widmore and had interests in the Island, claiming that he was on "the winning side" of the war. He was also a passenger aboard Ajira Airways Flight 316 and a survivor of the crash on the Hydra Island.
Bram, along with Ilana Verdansky, indicated that he was on the island to protect Jacob. However, upon discovering Jacob had been killed, he attacked the man claiming to be John Locke, who then revealed himself to be the Monster and killed Bram.
Before the Island
Bram talks to Miles. ("Some Like It Hoth")
Bram's earliest chronological appearance is prior to the departure of the Kahana, when he and several others abducted Miles off the street outside of a taco stand. While in the van, Bram attempted to convince Miles not to go with the science team to the Island. When Miles failed to answer the question, "What lies in the shadow of the statue?", Bram said that he was not yet ready to go to the Island. Bram instead offered Miles a chance to come with them and discover answers about many things, including what happened to his father. Miles, however, demanded $3.2 million, twice the amount offered by Widmore. Bram refused to pay him, dumped Miles from the van and told him he was on the wrong side. When asked which side he was on, Bram replied that he was on the side that was "gonna win." ("Some Like It Hoth")
Bram was one of the passengers of Ajira Airways Flight 316, which crashed onto Hydra Island. Bram was most likely aware of 316 either through Jacob or Ilana; presumably, he was aware the plane would land on The Island and was onboard to protect Jacob. Given Bram's knowledge of the Island, it is likely he knew who Ben, Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid were, as well as being aware that Locke's body was aboard.
2007 (Season 5)
Bram and Ilana hold Frank at gunpoint. ("Dead Is Dead")
After surviving the initial crash of Flight 316 onto the Hydra Island, Bram listened on the beach near the crash site while Frank and Caesar debated on what the survivors should do. ("Namaste")
Soon after this, Bram and Ilana worked on transporting the Ajira Crate, which they had found in the cargo hold containing the body of John Locke. When questioned by Ben on what the contents of the crate were, Ilana responded that the crate's contents were "just some stuff we need to get moved," and Bram politely declined Ben's offer to help. The next morning, Frank returned to the Hydra Island on the outrigger canoe. Ilana and Bram, still working on the Ajira crate, suddenly held Frank at gunpoint and asked him what lay in the shadow of the statue, a question that Frank did not know the answer to. Ilana promptly knocked Frank unconscious with the butt of her gun, informing Bram that "it was time," and instructing him to get the rest of their people and to tie Frank up, as he would be accompanying them. ("Dead Is Dead")
Bram grabs Frank out of the canoe after reaching the Island. ("The Incident, Part 1")
Using Frank's outrigger, Bram, Ilana, and three other survivors of Flight 316 paddled to the main Island. Upon arrival on the Island, Bram and Ilana discussed the still-unconscious Frank, who Bram did not think they should have brought with them. Ilana, however, told Bram that Frank was possibly a "candidate." Bram then realized that the nearby Frank was actually conscious and eavesdropping upon them. Frank asked Bram and Ilana who they were, and Bram replied that they were Frank's "friends." When asked by Frank what was in the Ajira crate that they were carrying, Bram and Ilana opened the crate and revealed that Locke's body was inside, visibly shocking Frank.
Bram and Ilana reveal to Richard and the Others the contents of the crate. ("The Incident, Part 1")
Bram, Frank, and the three other survivors followed Ilana into the jungle. Bram attempted to convince Frank that they were "the good guys," but Frank was skeptical if Bram was telling the truth. The group soon arrived at Jacob's cabin, Ilana ventured inside and discovered that it was abandoned. She informed the rest of the group that Jacob had not been inside the cabin for a long time, and showed Bram the woven illustration of the statue of Taweret, a location that Bram seemed familiar with. After setting the cabin afire, Bram and the group and began their journey to the statue, still carrying the crate.
They arrived at the statue that night. Their arrival startled the others, who began to react with hostility until Ilana asked for "Richardus," at which point Richard Alpert stepped forward, correctly answering the question "what lies in the shadow of the statue (the correct answer being the Latin phrase "Ille qui nos omnes servabit", which can be translated to "he who will save us all"). Bram then overturned the Ajira crate, revealing to Richard that the contents were Locke's body, whom they claimed to have found in the cargo hold of Flight 316, leaving Sun to question who was inside the statue with Ben. ("The Incident, Part 1")
Bram is killed by the smoke monster inside the statue. ("LA X, Part 1")
Afterwards, Bram, Ilana, and Richard argued over what to do about Locke's body. Bram eventually lost his cool and demanded Ben bring him into the statue with some of his men. Upon encountering the Locke impostor, Bram asked where Jacob was, and was taunted by the impostor. The impostor revealed he had killed Jacob, and Bram ordered his men to open fire. Bram's bullets were useless, and the man went behind a pillar. Soon the characteristic sounds of the smoke monster were heard and it emerged into the chamber. Bram's men were violently killed by the Monster while Bram created a circle of ash around himself. The ash protected him from a direct attack by the Monster. However, the Monster instead brought a chunk of the ceiling down on Bram, knocking him out of the ash circle. The Monster then hurled Bram through Jacob's loom, impaling him on a piece of wood. ("LA X, Part 1")
Bram's name did not appear in dialogue in "Namaste" and the final broadcast edit of the episode did not include any speaking lines for him. Nonetheless, he was credited as "Bram".
The casting call described him as "Brian, any ethnicity, late 20s to mid-30s. Smart, charismatic and clever with the ability to be physically imposing. He is wise beyond his years. Capable of genuine charm, he is also the first person you'd want to help you out of any serious jams."[1]
Bram is one of the eight recurring characters whose last names we don't know, the other seven being Omar, Phil, Zack, Emma, Jason, Neil and Zoe.
Abraham "Bram" Stoker is the author of Dracula, one of the most famous "undead" characters in literature. Stoker also wrote The Lair of the White Worm and The Jewel of Seven Stars. The first is about an ancient serpent living under an English manor, leading its inhabitants to the occult. The latter is about an attempt to reanimate an Egyptian mummy.
Bram is impaled by wood, which is a method for killing a vampire.
Of the main characters; Bram has met Ilana, Richard, Frank, Ben, Sun and Miles. He has also met the Man in Black manifested as Locke and has seen his body (and carried it around in a crate for several days).
Bram was on the same flight as Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid; however, he never spoke to them.
For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Bram/Theories
↑ http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2009/01/episode-512-casting-call.html
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"The Incident, Part 1" • "Ab Aeterno"
Jacob • Russian nurse
Bram • Jacob's followers • Richard Alpert • Sayid Jarrah
Ajira crate • Jacob's ashes • Shadow of the statue
Miles Straume
Portrayed by Ken Leung and Lance Ho
"Some Like It Hoth"
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Bram • Lara Chang • Naomi Dorrit • Evelyn • Felix • Mrs. Gardner • Mrs. Gardner's grandson • Howard Gray • Russell Gray • Trevor • Mr. Vonner • Kimberly Vonner
James Ford • Sayid Jarrah • Hugo Reyes
Ghostbuster device • Diamonds
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Events, Objects & Locations
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Staff/Crew
Rupa Krishnavani • Frank Lapidus • Nabil • Nalini • Peter Ross
Benjamin Linus • Bram • Burnette • Caesar • Hugo "Hurley" Reyes • Ilana Verdansky • Jed • John Locke • Kate Austen • Roxanne • Salinger • Sayid Jarrah • Sun-Hwa Kwon • Jack Shephard • Wolfe
See Also: Main Characters
Retrieved from "https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Bram?oldid=1115681"
Ajira Airways Flight 316 Crew and Passengers
Miles' flashback characters
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Johnny Depp courts controversy with statement on Donald Trump
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Johnny Depp courted controversy by appearing to threaten US President Donald Trump in a speech at the Glastonbury Festival.
Depp was at the music festival to introduce his 2004 film The Libertine along with director Julian Temple but began talking about the 45th US president, reported The Guardian. “Can we bring Trump in? I think he needs help and there are a lot of wonderful dark, dark places he could go,” Depp told the crowd.
The 54-year-old knew that what he was going to say next will be controversial. “It is just a question—I’m not insinuating anything. By the way, this is going to be in the press. It will be horrible. I like that you are all a part of it… When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?” Depp asked, apparently referring to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination at the hands of actor John Wilkes Booth in 1865.
“I want to qualify, I am not an actor. I lie for a living. However, it has been a while and maybe it is time,” the Alice in Wonderland star said.
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Chris Robinson Brotherhood Announces Hiatus & Departure Of Founding Keyboardist Adam MacDougall
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The Chris Robinson Brotherhood announced late last night that they have parted ways with keyboardist and original member, Adam MacDougall.
Along with that bummer news, the band has cancelled their album release party in Brooklyn, NY in June, and after July of this year, they will be going on hiatus for the remainder of 2019.
The new album Servants of the Sun will still have a June 14th release date.
Other cancellations include the October 9th Webber Hall show in NY, and their upcoming show at the Hoxeyville Festival.
MacDougall, who has been playing with Robinson since 2007 in the Black Crowes, is also touring with the band Circles Around The Sun this summer (which also features CRB bandmate Neal Casal). The band has not named a replacement for MacDougall in CRB’s remaining dates at this time, nor have they named a replacement for this weekend’s As The Crow Flies show at The BeachLife Festival.
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This quarter-million-dollar Mustang from sixties hides a modern electric powertrain under its classic body-shell
by Sayan Chakravarty
A new hot-rodding trend is emerging lately. A lot of people are experimenting with the idea of swapping big fuel-guzzling internal combustion engines from classic cars with eco-friendly electric motors to build retro-futuristic hotrods. A simple search on YouTube will return plenty of videos of such conversions where you can see big muscle cars with electric powertrains taken from Tesla cars. But a London-based company has done something that will piss-off a lot of automobile purists. The company aptly named Charge Automotive has created a fully-electric classic Ford Mustang with a body-shell from the sixties.
For the electric Ford Mustang project, the company teamed up with engineers who previously worked at Williams F1, McLaren Automotive, and Jaguar Land Rover. The electric car gets an officially licensed Ford Mustang body-shell, available in both Fastback and convertible versions, and is fitted with a 64kWh battery pack paired to an electric motor producing 300kW power and 1,200Nm of torque, which is equivalent of over 400bhp and a tarmac-ripping 885lb ft of torque. While the maximum range on a single charge is a dismal 125-miles, it is capable of accelerating from zero to 60mph in just over 3 seconds. The prices start at an equivalent of $256,000 USD and the company plans to build 499 of them. If American muscle is not your taste and you want an electric version of something more beautiful, something like the Jaguar E-Type Zero might interest you.
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262 Arrester Little Su
Yangxia, being a part of Hua Province, stood at the juncture of provinces of Hua, Ning, Di, and Zhong on the banks of a large river. The place was home to the complex cobweb of influence that was Zhenwu, Hengyuan Zheng, Pinjin Cui, Luoyang Zhao, and the Dajiang Gang. It was hard to say which reigned supreme, resulting in many masters that went unrecognized. Compared with Yedu and Xuanwu City, Yangxia was more disorderly.
Arrester Li Chong happily hummed a tune inside the Six Fan School, snacking on broad beans and drinking wine. He was past his fifties. Having served as an arrester in Yangxia for 30 years, he was familiar with the locals. He had many connections and formed friendships with many underground influences. Disregarding his love for wine, he was a pretty good person. If he had been a bit more capable, he would have already been named the Assistant Arrester or even the Governor Arrester.
He suddenly dropped his chopsticks and spilled half of his wine. He stood up and stuttered, "G-Governor Arrester Zheng! I saw that there's nothing to do this afternoon so I had a few drinks to pass the time."
He was still hoping to be promoted to the Assistant Arrestor before retirement. That would really mean honor to his family.
The one at the door was none other than Zheng Jushan, the Governor Arrester of Six Fan School in Yangxia. Bringing a young man with him, he entered the room. He laughed and patted Li Chong's hands. "Old Li, don't be nervous. Afternoons are precisely the time when we get sleepy. You're not young either. It's not a bad idea to get a few drinks to refresh yourself."
Zheng Jushan had always been tolerant of Li Chong, who was well-informed and respectful of his superiors. Many times, he had promised to recommend him at the Yamen of Jun City.
"Meet Su Ziyuan or Little Su. He's an Assistant Arrester from the Yamen in Jun City. Introduce him to some of the local influences and arresters. In the entire place, you're the only one who wouldn't bully a newbie," Zheng Jushan said, pointing at the young man beside him.
Li Chong looked up and greeting the young arrester, Little Su. In his maroon Six Fan School robe, he looked exceptionally handsome. He had a dagger strapped to his left and a sword to his right. His eyebrows were dark and straight, his nose upright and comely, and his bright eyes sparkled. He carried not even a hint of arrogant air. When he laughed, he did so brightly like a bubbling stream. "Ah, Governor Arrester Zheng, you're exaggerating. I won't be 'training' Arrestor Little Su. I'll just introduce him to some Turf Lords."
"Arrester Li, please take care of me," Meng Qi replied with a smile.
When he thought of the many masters and remarkable techniques available in River East, Meng Qi began to feel excited. This was a great opportunity for him to cultivate himself. He was increasingly glad that he decided to come to Yangtai of Hua Province to investigate Assistant Arrester Cai Xiang's death instead of going to Luoyang.
Earlier, he did wonder if someone was deliberately assigning him such a dangerous mission but he squashed those suspicions when he noticing the timing of the homicide. Cai Xiang's body was found four days before the documents arrived at Yedu. In the other words, the Six Fan School in Luoyang assigned him the mission as soon as they received the request from Hua Province. They themselves were unclear about the circumstances and likely only tasked him to prevent him from stirring up trouble while entering Shengdu.
The Six Fan School in Yangxia reported the body to the county government after confirming its identity. The latter then passed it onto the provincial government, which then requested for the headquarters in Shengdu to send a Secret-searching Nark to investigate the case. Since the case involved two provinces, it was difficult to decide which province to take the lead. Thus, the better option was to appeal to a higher authority. The entire process, if there weren't any delays, would take at least two or three days.
Li Chong immediately took a liking to the clean-cut and polite young man. He repeatedly said that he would help the young man familiarize himself with the different influences in Yangxia.
Governor Arrester Zheng looked at the arrester that had appeared out of nowhere and smiled. "Little Su is from the Yamen of Jun City and his main mission is to investigate the death of Cai Xiang. Old Li, I hope you can spare no effort in helping him."
Li Chong's expression changed and he hesitated momentarily before replying, "This lowly officer dares not obey a direct order."
So Arrester Little Su was ostracized and sent here to investigate the case! No wonder they would give him the position of Assistant Arrester. He would undoubtedly suffer even more in the future.
After they saw Governor Arrester Zheng off, Meng Qi smiled and said, "Arrester Li, I've reviewed the confidential files. Can you take me to meet Blade Scar?"
Li Chong inhaled deeply. "Okay."
After grabbing his dagger and badge, he led Meng Qi out of the Six Fan School toward the most chaotic street in Yangxia.
He pursed his lips after a while. "Arrester Little Su, I'm a man who is close to retirement. As a veteran, I'll give you an advice. Something's nefarious about this case."
Considering how clean-cut, gentle, and polite Little Su was, Li Chong thought he didn't seem like an exceptionally cunning or strong person. He deduced that Little Su was only assigned the case after other arresters refused to accept it.
"Nefarious?" Meng Qi calmly asked.
Li Chong was momentarily quiet before sighing. "Arrester Cai was an assistant in Mao Ling of River East. He disappeared while investigating the underworld of Mao Ling and his body was found half a month later in Yangxia. From his appearance, he looked as if he had just died but his insides had already rotted, suggesting he had been dead for some time. Don't you think it's strange? Can the corpse bring itself to Yangxia?"
"More importantly, he could still walk on his own when he was discovered. It was only after the sailor gave him a slight push that he fell dead to the ground."
Meng Qi made a deliberate guess. "Perhaps his body was placed on a boat traveling from Mao Ling to Yangxia. A demon then discovered the body and manipulated it to leave the boat."
Li Chong replied helplessly, "Ah, Arrester Little Su! Consider the distance between Mao Ling and Yangxia. It takes at least a month to sail down the river from Yangxia to Mao Ling, let alone against the current. It's impossible to sail the other way around in just half a month unless you use Lightness Skill..."
"They traveled in a hurry!" They spoke at the same time.
This was the problem that Meng Qi had noticed since the beginning. Even with favorable winds and current, it took him nearly one and a half month to travel from Yedu to Yangxia. The distance between Yangxia and Mao Ling was nearly the same.
Li Chong saw that Meng Qi finally understood his point and put his claps together with a loud clap. "Think about it, Arrester Little Su. How could a corpse use Lightness Skill to travel in a hurry? That's why I said something's nefarious about this case."
Meng Qi smiled and nodded. "Regardless, I must do my duty now that I'm assigned to the case. Thank you for your cooperation, Arrester Li."
"That's a given," Li Chong replied. How rare it was to meet such a polite young arrester.
The two men exited the chaotic, noisy street and made their way into a small, quieter alley. Vendors in the alley were selling lamb and dog stew that emanated a pungent fragrance. Most of the pedestrians in the alley looked intimidating.
"Blade Scar is one of the top Turf Lords. The boatman that pushed Arrester Cai works for him and is now in hiding. We must go through Blade Scar if we want to speak to him." Li Chong took this opportunity to brief the clean-cut and gentle Arrester Little Su to prevent his ignorance from possibly causing any trouble.
Meng Qi listened quietly, looking like a gentle and amiable newcomer who didn't want to ruffle any feathers.
"Blade Scar has connections with the Dajiang Gang and Pingjin Cui. He controls 30 percent of the business in the Yangxia underworld. He has many connections and allies and isn't one to be messed with." Li Chong first emphasized Blade Scar's background and influence. "In his younger years, he was fearless. He was merciless toward others and himself and thus was able to rise to the top of the Yangxia underworld. After earning the favor of a few powerful gangs, he was trained to become a Heterodox Expert. Rumor has it that when he was 40, he battled the top 30 warriors on the Ranking List of Young Masters and held his own. 10 years had passed since and no one knows how strong he is now."
Meng Qi knew Blade Scar was an important character. Though he had already read up on him in the confidential file, he still listened intently.
Li Chong quietly approved of Arrester Little Su after observing his positive attitude and patience. Most who were promoted to Assistant Arrester at such a young age had an air of arrogance. With the support of the Six Fan School and their own abilities, they would treat the gang leaders with disdain and believe that the gang leaders should revere them, not the other way around. A composed and humble young arrester like Little Su was a rare sight.
"In the whole of Yangxia, Governor Arrester Zheng is among the few who can command Blade Scar's attention. That's how I gained access to him. Arrestor Little Su, please don't say or do anything selfish. Just let me do the talking. If you have any questions, use Secret Voice-sending to communicate with me. Wait, do you know how to use Secret Voice-sending?" Li Chong was unsure if Arrester Little Su had opened the Acupores at such a young age.
Meng Qi smiled. "Yes."
"Okay, then we have no problems." Li Chong let out a sigh of relief. No wonder Arrester Little Su was promoted at such a young age. No wonder he would be ostracized. He would obviously draw the envy of many.
He continued, "Blade Scar assumed his current position seven years ago and eased up a little. He's no longer as cruel, so there won't be any problems as long as you don't upset him."
"How did he get the nickname 'Blade Scar'? It doesn't carry the style of a Heterodox Expert at all," Meng Qi said.
Li Chong laughed. "Those scars are from the worst of his injuries during his younger years. The scars are on his face, chest, and abdomen. He barely managed to survive. He later named himself Blade Scar as a reminder of the sneak-attack."
While engaged in their conversation, the two of them arrived at a shopfront guarded by several large and muscular men.
The men at the entrance recognized Li Chong and asked, "Drunkard Li, who's this?" They started murmuring among themselves when they saw the clean-cut Meng Qi.
Li Chong chuckled. "This is the new arrester from Yamen, Arrester Little Su. I'm bringing him to meet the boss."
"Even this little smiling rascal can become an Assistant Arrester..." the head guard mumbled to himself. Li Chong couldn't hear the comment, but Meng Qi could hear it clearly.
The head guard coughed, "You're in luck. The boss is here. I'll take you to him."
Meng Qi finally met the powerful man of Yangxia, the Heterodox Expert whose real name was Yan Xiao, after passing the shopfront, a patio, and a number of guards. His front was dilapidated, a stark contrast to his powerful position. Inside, however, was elaborately decorated. Whether it was the dark maroon carpet or the large sandalwood bed, all cost a hefty price.
He had gone a little over the top... Meng Qi could only think of this when he met Blade Scar.
Sitting in the middle of his living room was a large black bed. Blade Scar laid on it like a mountain of flesh, flanked by half-naked women covered with white lace. Some were feeding him grapes, some massaging his legs, and some massaging his temples.
There was an obvious scar on his face. He squinted and asked, without turning his head, "Arrestor Little Su, I'm sure you're here to ask about Arrester Cai's case. You people have been coming here many times in the past few months. Different arresters, same questions. Do you think I, Blade Scar, has lost my temper entirely?"
With every word he spoke, the flesh on his fat body would tremble.
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Rage Before Beauty
Logan takes the Wolverine to a darker place.
Dafne Keen
If there was any reason to suspect that co-writer/director James Mangold was going to deliver just another adventure for the Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in Logan, he takes approximately two minutes to dispatch such notions. Gone are the trademark muttonchop sideburns, replaced by a full (and graying) beard. The healing powers that have kept him alive for more than 150 years are fading, leaving him limping, coughing and self-medicating through his days. As for the much-publicized decision to make this an R-rated film—well, the first word out of Logan's mouth is "Fuck," shortly before he skewers and dismembers a bunch of guys trying to jack the rims of the limo he drives as a chauffeur around El Paso, Texas.
Stripping the claw-wielding mutant down to his brutal essence—a lonely warrior who never seems to have a shot at finding peace—makes for a fascinating change of pace for a character Jackman has already played in eight previous films. Mangold bypasses many of the trappings of the past decade's superhero blockbusters, finding something that's more mournful, and more packed with a violent sense of consequence, than other entries in this franchise. Yet that new direction also comes with its own set of unique pitfalls.
None of that is the fault of the terrific setup, which finds Logan and the albino Caliban (Stephen Merchant) among the few surviving mutants in their world. In an abandoned building south of the U.S./Mexico border, they alternate serving as caretaker for Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), whose mental powers are now a threat to everyone around him, as a degenerative illness results in periodic seizures. But their attempt to stay under the radar is thwarted by the appearance of a mute, nearly feral young girl named Laura (Dafne Keen) and the robot-handed government operative (Boyd Holbrook) determined to retrieve her.
The parental dynamic between Logan and Laura drives much of the narrative in Logan, as the veteran killer accustomed to isolation poses as part of a makeshift family when forced to hit the road with Charles and Laura and seek out a mutant sanctuary rumored to exist in Canada. Jackman has inhabited this character for more than 15 years, and he digs deep to gather all the loss we've seen him endure in the other films (along with other revelations that trickle out over the course of this one). If this is indeed Jackman's farewell to the Wolverine, as he has indicated, he goes out with a renewed vitality, and a recognition of how to fashion Logan's journey as analagous to that of the eponymous hero of Shane, scenes from which are pointedly included here.
Of course, much of Logan's distinctive sensibility comes as a result of its R-rating, which likely was only made possible thanks to the success of the similarly brutal and foul-mouthed Deadpool. Mangold certainly doesn't waste his opportunity to make an adults-only Wolverine story, as the severed body parts and fountains of CGI blood accumulate at an impressive rate. Yet while Logan isn't nearly as gleeful as Deadpool in flaunting its license to kill and drop F-bombs, the action sequences begin to take on a numbing sameness—and that's even after Laura is shown to be nearly as dangerous an adversary as Logan himself. Even a grown-up's idea of a comic-book movie can't entirely shed the expectation that the fights will get bigger and bloodier right up to the climactic showdowns.
It's hard to complain about the ambition Mangold shows in Logan, considering how rare it is to find such an approach to these carefully protected intellectual properties. At times, the narrative seems on the verge of getting even stranger and wilder, including a subplot involving an agribusiness conspiracy that feels underdeveloped and tossed off. But Mangold is impressively dedicated to making the most of his character beats, especially in the messy but genuine relationship between Logan and Charles that benefits from the long cinematic history shared by Jackman and Stewart (whose performance is, by turns, sad and unexpectedly frisky). Perhaps it's impossible to completely shed the tropes of the comic-book movie, but Logan at least earns its emotional moments by committing to a tale of the damaged man inside the Wolverine.
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13 Janeiro, 2019 · by Marcos Bulcao · in The Tennis GOATs. ·
thetennisgoats@gmail.com
Please visit my new site/blog: The Tennis GOATs
Ok, ok, the title of this new blog cannot be right!
There cannot be multiple GOATs, that doesn’t make sense.
There can be only ONE player that truly deserves the title of THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME. This is a unique kind of glory, not to be shared, there can be no tie in this contest.
I couldn’t agree more.
There is & there can only be one GOAT sitting atop the Tennis Olympus.
HOWEVER – and this is a big however –, there can be multiple opinions as to who is THE GOAT.
And that’s actually the current case. Fans and tennis aficionados all over the world dispute and claim their right to elect the true GOAT, each group pretending to have the final answer.
Now, our problem is precisely this: we don’t want this “holy” discussion to be a simple matter of opinion based on personal preferences, like there were no solid criteria to help us judge who is the best player of them all.
In the current state of the discussion, opinions seem to be divided in “fan groups”. There is no true conversation and the only thing they agree is their right to disagree: “Nadal is my GOAT, Federer is your GOAT, end of discussion”.
Now, I think we can definitely do better than that. And the key word here is CRITERIA.
I do believe there is a way – if not to reach a perfect consensus – to lay down certain criteria as fundamental and, in doing so, we may lay down the foundations for a more reliable judgement as to who may rightfully deserve to be called the GOAT.
And, fortunately for all of us who love this debate, there are indeed very safe – and agreed upon – criteria to help us decide who is the greatest of them all.
One small proof of the existence of such solid criteria is that, no matter how much we disagree as to who is the GOAT, we rarely disagree as to who can be a legitimate GOAT candidate.
There may be people who defend Sampras to be the GOAT, or Federer, or Nadal, or Djokovic, or even Borg. But no one would dream to propose Murray, Edberg, or Wilander – let alone Wawrinka or Davidenko – to be true GOAT candidates.
And why is that?
Because even if we haven’t reached a consensus as to who is the greatest of them all, we have pretty much settled the main requisites, the main conditions the GOAT has to fulfill.
Generally speaking, a GOAT candidate must have accomplished in his career a number of things that nobody else did. More than that: a number of great things, of the greatest things a tennis player can aspire to achieve.
Now, what are those conditions, what are those agreed-upon criteria, what are those achievements that a player must have in his resume to be a legitimate GOAT candidate?
In a word: what are the biggest prizes in the tennis world?
Now, it happens that we can all easily agree on what the biggest prizes are.
Be the #1 player in the world & winning Grand Slam titles (not necessarily in this order);
Winning other “big titles” (like the Master Series and Tour Finals – some people may add the Olympics Gold and, in a stretch of imagination, the Davis Cup).
Indeed, there can be little doubt that the two greatest achievements for a tennis player are to win a Grand Slam crown and to sit atop the rankings, to be the best player in the world. Sure, there may be people who think that having more Grand Slam titles is more important than having more weeks as #1, or vice-versa, but no one will say that there are higher glories than those.
The same can be said about the next big prizes. There is in fact very-little-to-none disagreement as to which tournaments qualifies as “Big Titles”.
This may seem trivial to say, but this represents the basic and sole foundation upon which to build our arguments – our cases – as to who legitimately can be said the GOAT.
Straightforward, and useful, conclusions from this are:
No Grand Slam titles or no weeks/year-end as #1 = not a GOAT candidate.
No relevant records in terms of Slams titles, weeks/year-end as #1, and/or other big titles = not a GOAT candidate.
In other words, to even be mentioned in the GOAT conversation, the player has to show in his resume something unique, something no one else has achieved in those top categories. And I think we can ALL agree on that.
And by agreeing on that, we immediately and dramatically reduce our list of candidates to a handful: Federer, Sampras, Nadal, and Djokovic[1]. Not necessarily in that order.
Federer is the current leader in both Grand Slam titles and weeks as #1. To many, this should be the decisive criterion to elect him as the GOAT.
Sampras is the only player not only to have finished atop the rankings 6 times, but did so consecutively. That unprecedented dominance could well boost his case as the GOAT.
Nadal is the only player to have multiple Slam titles in all surfaces, as well as an Olympic gold. He’s also the current leader in Master Series’ titles, besides edging Federer in H2H. Some believe that this is good enough to make him the GOAT.
Djokovic is the only player to have won every one of the so-called Big Titles, has a winning H2H against both Nadal and Federer, and may be said to have dominated the tennis world in its arguably most competitive era. One could claim that this outweighs his having less Slam titles than Federer and Nadal.
Disagreements apart, it’s very clear that each of those four players have achieved (great) things that no other player has. And because of that, they can be said legitimate GOAT candidates.
But let’s digress a little bit here and ask ourselves what exactly does it mean to consider them as legitimate GOAT candidates?
For starters, it means (1) that a solid case can be built for each one of them and (2) that it’s not easy (this in an understatement!) to reach a consensus, even after examining all kind of arguments and stats about their careers.
But why can’t we find a consensus, why is it so hard?
Because – and this is crucial – depending on the relative value we assign to each set of achievements, the verdict as to who is the GOAT might change.
Let’s break this down.
We all easily agree that winning multiple Slams and being #1 and winning other big titles is crucial for the GOAT.
But when no player is better than the others in every possible category, that’s when we have to start assigning relative value to each of their achievements, that’s when we have to start asking “what’s worth more, X or Y?
Being #1 or winning Grand Slams? Weeks or Year-End #1? Overall or consecutive? Being the first in Slams and having a losing H2H or being the second with a winning H2H record? How crucial is to have won the four different Grand Slams to be the GOAT? How valuable is to win all Big Titles? What’s the role of multiple finals, semi-finals and other lesser records when judging their overall achievements? Should we assign “points” to every achievement and the one who’s amassed more points is declared the GOAT? But how many points is a Grand Slam title worth? A final? A week as #1? As top 10? A Tour Finals title?
And what about the flaws? How bad is not having achieved something? Not having a winning H2H against all opponents? Not having won all Grand Slams? Not having won a Tour Finals? Not…?
As we can see, we can all easily agree on which achievements are the greatest and crucial in the GOAT’s resume. The trouble starts when we have to decide their relative merits!
And that’s why I decided for the “S” in the title.
Although there can be only ONE GOAT, and although we can all agree on the hard-core criteria the GOAT needs to fulfill, different people may end up reaching different verdicts depending on subtle divergences when assigning values to those most celebrated achievements.
So, the “S” is not to imply that they can all be simultaneously declared GOATs.
Rather, it’s to point out that, depending on how we finely interpret those hard-core criteria, each of them could – separately – be elected the GOAT.
The title of the blog is “The Tennis GOATs”, but it would perhaps be more accurate to say “The potential Tennis GOATs”!
But it would be less catchy, wouldn’t it? 😉
Please allow me to be somewhat repetitive and spell my conclusion out.
There are hard-core criteria that the GOAT must fulfill:
he must have a unique collection of the greatest tennis achievements;
we can ALL agree on which the greatest achievements are.
Within this primordial agreement on the greatest achievements, there might be disagreements as to their relative merits:
These disagreements can lead to different verdicts as to who the GOAT is;
However, based on (1), we can reduce our list of potential GOATs to as few as four candidates[1].
Once a person commits to a certain interpretation, to a certain way of assigning values to the different set of achievements, he/she has no choice but to say: based on that interpretation, “X is the true GOAT” (and not Y, or Z);
This implies that the four of them cannot be, simultaneously, declared GOATs;
This also means that the verdict reached is not a “relativistic” one: declaring “X is the GOAT” excludes all the others.
In the end, we may not reach a consensus as to who the GOAT is, but we can certainly hope to pinpoint, as clearly as possible, where our views diverge. And that is no small feat. I invite you all to this journey!
[1] Laver could be mentioned as the fifth. But as I wrote elsewhere, since many of Laver’s achievements were attained before the Open Era, I decided to leave him out of the main discussion and dedicate a special post/chapter to him.
A few nostalgic fans could also propose Borg as a legitimate candidate based on the premise that “if he hadn’t retired, he would have…”. I’ll address this kind of argumentation and try to show that not even using it would Borg be able to beat, for instance, Nadal’s resume. I feel confident that this will leave no controversy worth mentioning.
[2] What about the other greats, like Agassi, Connors, McEnroe, or Lendl? As great as they may be, upon close examination it’s not too hard to see that they clearly have a lesser set of achievements than the selected four, meaning by that that for every great thing they achieved, one of those four achieved more or better. I’ll extensively cover that base in other posts/chapters.
Etiquetas: Djokovic, Federer, GOAT, Grand Slam, Nadal, Sampras, tennis
← WHO IS THE G.O.A.T – the long introduction
The GOAT Candidates: the best 10 →
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Borg starship classes
Borg type 03
Forward view
Lore's rogue Borg faction
2370 (destroyed)
Transwarp capable
Beam weaponry
Aft view
Designated by Starfleet as the Borg type 03, this class of Borg starship was used by a rogue faction of Borg led by Lore.
This unusual design was asymmetrical and totally unlike the previously encountered Borg cube and Borg scout ship, causing Captain Jean-Luc Picard to speculate whether it was something they constructed or an alien vessel they captured and assimilated. Whatever its origins, the vessel was still heavily armed and massively armored, as direct phaser and photon torpedo strikes from a Galaxy-class starship caused no damage to the ship.
Only one ship of this type was observed, when in 2369 this group of rogue Borg began attacking Federation outposts and colonies in several outlying sectors.
The ship attacked the research outpost on Ohniaka III, as well as the MS-1 colony, using previously-unknown transwarp conduits to appear suddenly over the target and launch a quick attack. In both cases it confronted the USS Enterprise-D, which responded to the colonies' distress signals. The Enterprise then followed the Borg ship through the conduits to locate their base of operations. (TNG: "Descent")
As numerous Enterprise personnel searched the surface of the unnamed world for the missing Lieutenant Commander Data, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse played out in orbit. The Borg ship attacked, forcing the Enterprise, under the temporary command of Doctor Beverly Crusher, to flee to the edge of the star system. However, Crusher resolved to retrieve the remaining crew who had been left behind, and returned to the planet, evading the Borg ship's attack long enough to retrieve most of the remaining personnel. However, the Enterprise delayed long enough that its warp drive was crippled by the Borg ship. Forced to flee again, but this time restricted to impulse speeds, Crusher ordered the Enterprise to activate an experimental metaphasic shield that allowed the ship to enter the nearby star's corona, where the Borg ship could not follow.
The Borg ship held position outside the corona, waiting for the Enterprise to emerge. However, the Enterprise used a particle beam to cause a solar fusion eruption that completely engulfed the Borg ship, destroying it. (TNG: "Descent, Part II")
Appendices Edit
Background information Edit
Vessel designation display.
The "Type 03" designation is visible on a tactical scan analysis appearing in "Descent, Part II". This classification is presumably because this was the third class of Borg starship design encountered by Starfleet (after the cube and the scout ship).
For information on the studio model, see TNG studio models.
Apocrypha Edit
Rogue Borg ship in a pinball machine
This design was designated as an "Assimilator" in the PC game Star Trek: Armada II. This a reference to its in-game special weapon, that can assimilate the crew members of a target and add them to the player's or computer's own crew reserves.
The ship was used as the centerpiece in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball machine.
In the novel Greater than the Sum and in Star Trek Online's "Delta Rising" expansion, Hugh commands one of these vessels, christened the Liberator, under the auspices of the Cooperative. In the game, the ship class is called a "Type 03 Command Vessel", the most powerful class of vessel used by the Cooperative.
External link Edit
Borg assimilator at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Retrieved from "https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Borg_type_03?oldid=2278736"
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Local libraries announce topics for “Noise vs. News” series
By: Staff - Updated: 2 years ago
OGLESBY – Scholars, journalists and the public are gathering this month to explore the professional and public responsibilities related to establishing truth in news and using that knowledge as a first step in finding common ground.
Offered on consecutive Thursdays in April, “Noise vs. News” is being hosted by the Jacobs Library at Illinois Valley Community College and the LaSalle Public Library. This important and timely series will include topics on the First Amendment and its protections, “fake” news detection, the ethics of journalism and the importance of truth and courage in maintaining a democracy.
The first program, “The First Amendment and the Free Press" was held April 6 at IVCC.
On April 13, the LaSalle Public Library, 305 Marquette St., LaSalle will host Bill Cassidy, associate professor of journalism, Northern Illinois University for the second in the series. Cassidy will present “Online Journalism and the Proliferation of Fake News.”
The third program, “The Allure of Fake News: Journalism, Ethics, and Critical Thinking in the Age of Misinformation,” will be presented by Professor Stephanie Craft, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign School of Media, beginning at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 at the LaSalle Public Library.
The final program will take place on Thursday, April 27 at Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby in Room CTC 124-125. Moderator Amanda Cook Fesperman will discuss diverse aspects of media, journalism and democracy with accomplished representatives of the journalism community including Jenna Dooley, reporter for WNIJ and host for All Things Considered; Jeff Dankert, reporter for the News Tribune; and David Giuliani, reporter for The Times.
Each of the events will be followed by an audience question and answer session.
This series is free and open to the public. Funding for “Noise vs. News” was made possible through a grant from the Reaching Across Illinois Library System. All events will be live-streamed; links for streaming will be available on both the Illinois Valley Community College and LaSalle Public Library websites. Each event will later be archived, captioned and available in English and Spanish via links provided by both institutions.
IVCC and the LaSalle Public Library are ADA compliant and welcoming. If you wish to attend an event and have special needs because of a disability or if you have other questions, please contact Jayna Leipart Guttilla at (815) 224-0306 or Donna Blomquist at (815) 223-2341 to discuss arrangements. Please provide one week to arrange for an American Sign Language interpreter.
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OGLESBY – Scholars, journalists and the public will gather this month to explore the professional and public responsibilities related to establishing truth in news.
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When semiconductors stick together, materials go quantum
March 7, 2019 by Theresa Duque, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The twist angle formed between atomically thin layers of tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide acts as a "tuning knob," turning ordinary semiconductors into an exotic quantum material. Credit: Berkeley Lab
A team of researchers led by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has developed a simple method that could turn ordinary semiconducting materials into quantum machines—superthin devices marked by extraordinary electronic behavior. Such an advancement could help to revolutionize a number of industries aiming for energy-efficient electronic systems—and provide a platform for exotic new physics.
The study describing the method, which stacks together 2-D layers of tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide to create an intricately patterned material, or superlattice, was published online recently in the journal Nature.
"This is an amazing discovery because we didn't think of these semiconducting materials as strongly interacting," said Feng Wang, a condensed matter physicist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and professor of physics at UC Berkeley. "Now this work has brought these seemingly ordinary semiconductors into the quantum materials space."
Two-dimensional (2-D) materials, which are just one atom thick, are like nanosized building blocks that can be stacked arbitrarily to form tiny devices. When the lattices of two 2-D materials are similar and well-aligned, a repeating pattern called a moiré superlattice can form.
For the past decade, researchers have been studying ways to combine different 2-D materials, often starting with graphene—a material known for its ability to efficiently conduct heat and electricity. Out of this body of work, other researchers had discovered that moiré superlattices formed with graphene exhibit exotic physics such as superconductivity when the layers are aligned at just the right angle.
The new study, led by Wang, used 2-D samples of semiconducting materials—tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide—to show that the twist angle between layers provides a "tuning knob" to turn a 2-D semiconducting system into an exotic quantum material with highly interacting electrons.
Entering a new realm of physics
Co-lead authors Chenhao Jin, a postdoctoral scholar, and Emma Regan, a graduate student researcher, both of whom work under Wang in the Ultrafast Nano-Optics Group at UC Berkeley, fabricated the tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide samples using a polymer-based technique to pick up and transfer flakes of the materials, each measuring just tens of microns in diameter, into a stack.
The large potential energy of three distinct exciton states in a 2D tungsten disulfide/tungsten diselenide device could introduce exotic quantum phenomena into semiconducting materials. Credit: Berkeley Lab
They had fabricated similar samples of the materials for a previous study, but with the two layers stacked at no particular angle. When they measured the optical absorption of a new tungsten disulfide and tungsten diselenide sample for the current study, they were taken completely by surprise.
The absorption of visible light in a tungsten disulfide/tungsten diselenide device is largest when the light has the same energy as the system's exciton, a quasiparticle that consists of an electron bound to a hole that is common in 2-D semiconductors. (In physics, a hole is a currently vacant state that an electron could occupy.)
For light in the energy range that the researchers were considering, they expected to see one peak in the signal that corresponded to the energy of an exciton.
Instead, they found that the original peak that they expected to see had split into three different peaks representing three distinct exciton states.
What could have increased the number of exciton states in the tungsten disulfide/tungsten device from one to three? Was it the addition of a moiré superlattice?
To find out, their collaborators Aiming Yan and Alex Zettl used a transmission electron microscope (TEM) at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a nanoscale science research facility, to take atomic-resolution images of the tungsten disulfide/tungsten diselenide device to check how the materials' lattices were aligned.
The TEM images confirmed what they had suspected all along: the materials had indeed formed a moiré superlattice. "We saw beautiful, repeating patterns over the entire sample," said Regan. "After comparing this experimental observation with a theoretical model, we found that the moiré pattern introduces a large potential energy periodically over the device and could therefore introduce exotic quantum phenomena."
The researchers next plan to measure how this new quantum system could be applied to optoelectronics, which relates to the use of light in electronics; valleytronics, a field that could extend the limits of Moore's law by miniaturizing electronic components; and superconductivity, which would allow electrons to flow in devices with virtually no resistance.
More information: Chenhao Jin et al, Observation of moiré excitons in WSe2/WS2 heterostructure superlattices, Nature (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0976-y
Journal information: Nature
Provided by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
It's all in the twist: Physicists stack 2-D materials at angles to trap particles
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New imaging technology captures movement of quantum particles with unprecedented resolution
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IRS: White House never asked for secret information on taxpayers
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The White House never requested any secret taxpayer information from the IRS, the tax agency said in a sworn statement filed with a federal court on Friday, hoping to put to rest lingering questions about whether political operatives tried to peek at confidential records.
IRS lawyer Sarah Tate said she searched all of the likely places where such requests would have been catalogued and concluded that the White House “has never requested or received return information of any taxpayer.”
Taxpayer information is supposed to be tightly guarded by the agency, and unauthorized releases can be strictly punished under federal law.
But conservative groups had suspected a release had happened after a top White House economic official seemed to discuss the tax status of Koch Industries in 2010. They demanded the IRS disclose whether the White House had ever requested information about Koch or any other taxpayer.
The IRS’s inspector general conducted an investigation but refused to say what it found, so Cause of Action, a pressure group, filed an open-records request and eventually sued the IG and the IRS itself in 2012, demanding they release records.
A federal judge ruled that the IRS did have to search for any records, and the tax agency finally complied earlier this year, leading to Friday’s court filing.
Ms. Tate filed a sworn declaration detailing her search, which she said included all of the likely places and all of the parameters Cause of Action sought, and she came up empty.
Conservatives grew suspicious after Austan Goolsbee, who at the time was chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, appeared to describe the tax status of Koch Industries, a privately owned multibillion-dollar corporation. He said he believed Koch was treated the same as a small business.
Koch Industries said it was concerned about the remark, fearing its confidential tax information had been sought and reviewed by political appointees at the White House. The two brothers who run the company are well-known financiers of conservative causes.
The White House at the time said Mr. Goolsbee’s comment wasn’t based on inside knowledge, but lawmakers demanded the inspector general’s investigation, and conservative groups pursued their own inquiries through open-records requests.
The matter took on added urgency after the IRS admitted it targeted tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. No evidence links the White House to the targeting, though conservatives say Mr. Obama created the environment that allowed the targeting to happen.
Congressional Republicans are still pursuing leads in the tea party targeting case, but Friday’s court filing appears to set to rest concerns that the White House sought or was given specific taxpayer data.
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Where might our journey take us?
TEXT ANDREA FREUND/ANTONIA SCHAEFERS
Perhaps to Gouda or Gnomesville, onto the seabed, into outer space or even back in time. Here are suggestions for 20 places to visit in the next 20 years.
The next solar eclipse, when the moon grows big enough to cover the sun, takes place July 2. Practically impossible to see on land, your best chance of catching a glimpse is from the airport of the Argentinian capital (EZE): at exactly 17:44 hours local time, for nearly a minute the sun will be 99.7% covered before setting.
In about 20 years, bacteria will have polished off the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic. For a last look, book a submarine trip with Blue Marble Private: 105 000 dollars will take you down 3803 meters to the seabed.
The new Jeddah Tower is a record-breaking one kilometer tall. From the highest observa-tion platform even the Red Sea looks like a pond.
In orbit
The Aurora Space Station is set to open 80 kilometers below the ISS as the first “hotel” orbiting 320 kilometers above the earth. For a cool 9.5 million dollars per person you can take unlimited photos of your hometown from above.
By Zeus
Around 170 BCE,
a gigantic altar, measuring
roughly 36 by 34 meters,
was built for the king
of the gods in the ancient
Greek city of Pergamon
(now Bergama in Turkey).
After a ten-year restoration program,
the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
is reopening its replica,
which features the
original marble friezes.
Hello, Mars
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All roads lead to Rome – but for absolution you’ll have to wait outside the Holy Door of St Peter’s until 2025. Pass through this portal three times and your sins will be forgiven. Eager pilgrims have already booked their hotels.
The building work started 144 years ago, and now, for the centenary of the death of the architect, Antoni Gaudí, the Sagrada Família is finally due to be completed. The interior of the basilica with its gothic and art nouveau details is already open to the public, as are some of the 18 towers with panoramic views of the city.
Table for two?
The world’s most popular restaurant may have a table free now. Damon Baehrel, north of New York city and famous for cooking with local ingredients, is fully booked until the end of 2025, but is taking inquiries for 2026.
Counting fish
As you lie in bed
under the transparent ceiling
of what claims to be
the world’s first “affordable”
underwater luxury hotel
you can watch swarms of
fish and dolphins drift by.
Part of the profits of the
Planet Ocean Underwater Hotels
in the Atlantic off the coast
of the Caribbean nation are
used to restore coral reefs.
Swiss games
Yodeling, alphorn and dances in regional costume: What began in 1805 as a shepherds’ gathering in Interlaken is now celebrated every twelve years as the Unspunnenfest. Strong men compete by tossing stones.
The little folk
Show your garden gnome a bit of the world: If you truly love him, take your gnome to Wellington Mill in southwestern Australian and set him free. By 2018, some 10 000 gnomes from all around the world had gathered here.
The red lump of sandstone standing tall in the North Sea is the new Sylt: high and remote enough to feel exotic, and getting there is a lot easier than the present problem-beset train service to the island. Forget about oysters and go for the delicious local lobster, caught in the crevices of the island’s rocky foundation.
At age 105, Elizabeth II celebrates 80 years on the throne. Our guess is that she’ll abdicate in 2033, making way for her great-granddaughter Charlotte, who will have just turned 18.
Culture counts
The European Capitals of Culture (TBA) will be in the Netherlands and Italy. Our tip: Gouda, hoping to emancipate itself from cheese, and Turin, where Juventus coach, Cristiano Ronaldo, always subs himself into the game.
Fancy floating on your back in the sea in the middle of a desert and reading the paper? You shouldn’t put off visiting the Dead Sea for too long, as the water level of the gigantic salt lake between Israel, Jordan and the West Bank is sinking by around one meter every year. It could all be gone by 2050.
Elvis lives!
Fans are expected to come from all over the world to Graceland in Tennessee/USA to celebrate the King’s 100th birthday on January 8. But hurry – there are only a few places left in the local Rock‘n‘Roll refresher classes!
Make space!
Many cities urgently need more room to spread out. The new district Wescape, 40 kilometers from Cape Town, has enough for 800 000 people. There will also be plenty of hotels, as South African surf hotspots Grotto Bay and Ganzekraal are close.
Ireland’s wild west
Traveling along the edge of Europe, we visit curious birds, explore untamed nature and look deep into the Irish soul
What’s in your bags, Mighty Oaks?
“Howl” was the song that, in 2014, spelled overnight success for Craig Saunders, Ian Hooper and Claudio Donizelli. Lufthansa Magazin took a peek into their hand luggage
Pop trio
Look forward to the second album of the three HAIM-sisters
Inside Rio’s digital heart
Rio de Janeiro is using high-tech systems to prepare for the Olympic games. We visit the city’s digital hub
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The trailer for Riley Keough’s new horror film The Lodge is here and it's creepy AF
Yep, we're never going to be able to sleep again.
The Girlfriend Experience's Riley Keough wants to make you feel uncomfortable about sex
Riley Keough talks to Metro.co.uk about The Girlfriend Experience, sex and social justice.
Riley Keough flaunts toned body in new campaign
It’s not hard to see why Robert Pattinson has eyes for Elvis' granddaughter Riley Keough.
R-Patz promises K-Stew her friends are off limits
Robert Pattinson has promised ex-girlfriend Kristen Stewart that he will not date any of her friends because he doesn’t want to make her feel ‘awkward’.
K-Stew 'confronts' Keough over R-Patz
Kristen Stewart has allegedly confronted Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough over rumours Stewart's former co-star is romancing her ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson.
R-Patz & Keough are 'not dating'
Robert Pattinson and Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough have denied rumours that they are now a couple following his split from ex-girlfriend Kristen Stewart.
Face Off: Kristen Stewart v Riley Keough – the Twilight actress and granddaughter of Elvis Presley fight it out over Robert Pattinson
They both starred together in the 2010 film The Runaways but it has been suggested Kristen Stewart and Riley Keough are sharing something more than screen time.
Has Robert Pattinson moved on to Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough?
Uh-huh-huh! Robert Pattinson has been preoccupying himself with Elvis Presley’s granddaughter Riley Keough following his split from Kristen Stewart.
Nicholas Hoult quashes Jennifer Lawrence dating rumours as he is spotted getting cosy with Riley Keough
Nicholas Hoult has quashed rumours he's back with his ex-girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence – as he's spotted getting cosy to actress Riley Keough.
Elvis Presley’s granddaughter to join Mad Max 4 cast?
Riley Keough, the granddaughter of Elvis Presley, could bag a role in Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth in the film series that originally featured scandal-hit Mel Gibson as the eponymous road warrior.
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We played quickfire questions with John Boyega and his answers were A+
By Sam Haysom 2018-03-21 16:59:17 UTC
If you've ever found yourself wondering whether John Boyega prefers cats or dogs, or what his favourite comedy show is, you're in exactly the right place.
SEE ALSO: John Boyega says there's 'no excuse' for Hollywood's lack of diversity
During an interview to promote his latest film Pacific Rim Uprising, we played a fast-paced game of "Quickfire Questions" with everyone's favourite Stormtrooper.
The highlight? Probably his thoughts on aliens.
Pacific Rim Uprising is out in cinemas this Friday 23 March.
Explore the origins of the Kingsman series in the first trailer for 'The King's Man'
'Lion King' director Jon Favreau explains how they used VR to make the movie
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Idle Hands Craft Ales Announces Adelais and Four Seam Can Release
by Rob Vandenabeele | Jan 29, 2018 | Beer Releases, News | 0 comments
PRESS RELEASE / MALDEN, Mass. – January 29, 2018 – Adelais, a German-style pilsner, and Four Seam, a New England style IPA, will both return to cans on Wednesday, January 31, for Idle Hands Craft Ales’ latest can release.
This will be the first Adelais can release since March 2017, while Wednesday marks the return of Four Seam in cans for the first time since December 2017.
Idle Hands uses a blend of three pilsner malts, along with Hallertau Hersbrucker and Saphir hops to create Adelais. The end result is a pilsner with a clean, crisp malt character, balanced bitterness, and delicate noble and light citrus hop notes.
Four Seam allows the true character of its hops to shine through in bursts of citrus, mango, and guava, thanks to a refrained malt backbone and subdued bitterness. The cloudy appearance elevates the drinking experience, providing a true New England IPA.
Both Adelais and Four Seam will be available in the Idle Hands Craft Ales taproom starting at 3pm on Wednesday, January 31. (Click this photo for video about these two brews)
“Adelais and Four Seam are both special beers for us,” said Chris Tkach, founder of Idle Hands Craft Ales. “They’re actually the first two beers we ever canned back in March 2016. They’re also great beers for a Super Bowl party, pairing well with a variety of foods. With the game only four days after the release, people will be able to share great, fresh beer with friends and family while cheering on the Patriots.”
Find us on social media: Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
About Idle Hands Craft Ales
Idle Hands Craft Ales was founded in 2010 by husband and wife team, Chris and Grace Tkach. Today, it focuses on producing a wide-array of craft beer with uncompromising quality. Its taproom in Malden, MA, is open seven days a week, serving fresh IPAs, lagers, sours, and more for visitors to drink on-site or take home. To learn more, visit www.idlehandscraftales.com.
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Blessed chance to become a paid model, jump on mini-trampolines
Photographer Meredith Bless writes: “JumpSport (maker of fitness mini-trampolines) is shooting a photo and video project in June in San Diego and is looking for models to participate. It will be fun. Needed: two men and two women, aged 45 to 65. Need to be relatively fit but do not need to be buff. This is targeted toward regular people, not professional athletes. Pay: $100 per person. Each person will be needed for roughly 4 hours.” Selected models will be provided with a fitness trampoline to borrow and asked to practice a few simple routines (provided) prior to shooting. The…
Records May 28, 2018
Latvia’s Valdis Cela crushes M70 decathlon WR with stunning 8142
Valdis Cela is not a masters household name. Perhaps he should be after becoming the first M70 to break 8000 points in the decathlon. On Saturday and Sunday, the Latvian competed in the sixth annual Stendaler Hanse-Cup in Stendal, Germany. His 8142 (corrected from earlier 8143) blew away the listed mark of 7940 by German legend Rolf Geese, also at Stendal, in 2016. (See meet results.) A German masters blog notes that Valdis got pacing help in the 1500-meter run by Timo Ritte — son-in-law of vault god Wolfgang Ritte, who also took part in the weekend dec. (M65 Wolfgang…
Best vaulter in world at 36? Fersure it’s Jenn after 15-11 Pre win
London Olympic champ Jenn Suhr is sure having fun in her geezerhood. At 36, almost old enough to be a mother to some rivals, she won the Pre Classic vault Saturday with a W35 world record of 4.85 meters (15-11), upping her own listed WR of 4.83 (15-10) from a year ago. Social media didn’t seem to notice the age-group record. But WMA, bless its little heart, called attention to the mark on its coming-of-age Twitter feed. The WMA site breathlessly announced: “Thats (sic) right, breaking news coming out of Eugene at the IAAF diamond league is that Jennifer Suhr…
Will Anthony Famiglietti run sub-4 at 40? Milestone is goal of steeple Olympian
Anthony Famiglietti, a two-time Olympian with a mile PR of 3:55.71 (in 2006), turns 40 in five months. He’s gearing up by training hard, pitching a documentary and letting the world know he’s shooting for a sub-4. It’s a stretch. But you gotta admire the grit. See Martin Fritz Huber’s story in Outside. The former steepler’s “moonshot mile is perhaps an unusual way to confront the beast of senescence, but it makes a crazy kind of sense. When you’ve spent more than half your life constructing your identity around the fact that you can run faster than 99.99 percent of…
Doping May 24, 2018
USATF masters are subject to snitch program — as cyclist, 59, was
Nobody is safe. That’s my takeaway from an exchange of email I had Thursday with Brad Horn, a spokesman for USADA — the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. I queried him on how 59-year-old cyclist came to be sanctioned for refusing an out-of-competition drug test. I wanted to know where he was when he was solicited. (Brad doesn’t know yet.) But he said: “Ultimately, this case was the result of target testing, based on credible information received through USADA’s Play Clean Tip Line. USADA makes available a number of ways to report the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in an effort to protect clean…
International May 23, 2018
Kenyan ‘trials’ for Málaga worlds? Chinese report is clueless or confused
China’s Xinhua news agency reports from Nairobi that Kenya will send athletes to Málaga worlds. But something got lost in translation. “Rose Tata-Muya, Masters Athletics Kenya Secretary General, said trials will be held on July 21 and July 22 in Iten, located in the Rift Valley area which is the cradle of Kenyan athletics,” the report said. Trials? Well, maybe that’s their way of saying they’ll use a “qualifying meet” to decide who gets travel subsidies. Because, of course, it’s an all-comers meet open to anyone with the cash to enter. A further clue: “We require 20,000 U.S. dollars to…
Cyclist, 59, suspended for refusing drug test outside race. Are we next?
Two months ago, I wrote about M50 thrower David Burrell in Britain, who is suspended until October 2021 for refusing a drug test, possibly at home. Now comes news that an M55 cyclist — Scott Gross of Orange Park, Florida — has accepted a 4-year suspension for refusing an out-of-competition drug test May 3. This hits close to home. So I wrote USATF national masters chair Rex Harvey whether masters tracksters could get a knock on the door. He replied: “All USATF athletes are liable for testing at any time and any place.” While conceding that MTF has no formal…
Mondo in Málaga: Is that your favorite track and field surface?
At WMA worlds in September, sprinters will be pleased to learn, Mondo is the surface of at least one track — at the University of Málaga. But that’s considered a secondary venue. The main one is the City of Málaga’s combined football (soccer) and athletics (track) stadium. Unsure which spikes are recommended for the non-Mondo stadium, but pyramid and Christmas tree spikes (specified for Mondo) may suffice for all. In any case, the 2012 and 2016 Olympics were contested on Mondo — because it’s speed friendly. (I’ve heard that distance runners have a problem with it, but oh well.) What…
Wolfgang Ritte at 65 becomes oldest man to clear 4.0 (13 feet) in vault
Wolfgang Ritte has a thing for Wipperfuerth, Germany. Five years ago Saturday, he set an M60 WR in the vault at that ancient North Rhine-Westphalia town. Don’t look now. Wipperfuerth was the site Saturday of his M65 WR, where he made first-attempt clearances of 4.0 and 4.05 meters (13 1 1/2 and 13-3 1/2) and screamed with joy on the way down. Haven’t seen results site, but a YouTube video and my source are reliable. (He came close to 4.0 indoors in March.) So by breaking American John Altendorf’s listed WR of 3.89 (12-9), Wolfie becomes the oldest man to…
Damien Leake looms as M65 WR man after 12.40 in 100 on May 6
Results are posted for the Southern California Striders Meet of Champions at Santa Ana College. The top mark was by Damien Leake, who at 65 clocked a legal 12.40 in the 100 — with the listed world record being 12.33 by Bill Collins at the 2017 Penn Relays. On Saturday, Damien responded to some queries. “I am hoping to take a real shot at Bill’s WR,” he said. “I was a little surprised at how close I was this early in the season, as I am a little ‘soft’ because I’ve been doing a lot more coaching than training this…
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2018 Will Be Worse for Democrats
byStephenRoberts
That Senate electoral map is bad—really bad—for Democratic senators in the mid-term elections
Just two years from now, so don’t expect a rebound.
Of course, this election has proven that maps and demographics aren’t destiny. The GOP finally broke down the blue wall of battleground states that were supposed to ensure Democratic presidential victories. And the Senate was very favorable to Democrats this year—yet they only picked up two seats.
In a sense, whenever a party makes big gains in Congress—as the GOP did with the Tea Party wave in 2010—they can expect to take a big hit six years later. That happens because such a wave usually sweeps into battlegrounds or even opposing groups. In 2010, the GOP won seats in deep-blue Illinois, traditionally blue Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, and battlegrounds like Florida, Ohio, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. All of those seats were in play, plus a few vulnerable seats in red states like Missouri, Indiana, Arizona, and Georgia. If a Democratic wave had developed this year, they would’ve potentially swept 10 Republicans from the Senate and given a President Clinton unfettered control.
Such a wave did not develop, however. The country was largely split even, with slightly more support for Clinton on the coasts and for Trump in the interior. Democrats picked up Illinois, as expected, and New Hampshire—which also went for Clinton. Yet all the other vulnerable GOP seats were in states that all went red and, due to the consistency of straight-ticket voting, all of the Senate seats went red, as well. Compared to what it could’ve been, the hit on the GOP was not nearly as severe as expected.
In 2012, the GOP had another very favorable map (due to a great Democratic year six years prior), but had to compete against a relatively-popular president. President Obama won reelection by a significant margin and not only prevented further GOP gains, but actually helped achieve two Democratic pick-ups. While the GOP picked up a seat in Nebraska, they lost seats in Indiana, Massachusetts, and Maine (an Independent who caucuses with Democrats). Democrats also unexpectedly held seats in unfriendly territory—Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia.
That election sets the stage for the 2018 election. Democrats will be defending seats in six states where Republicans just won by a huge margin in the presidential election—Montana, North Dakota, West Virginia, Missouri, and Indiana. Even with popular incumbents and/or flawless campaigns, these will be hard seats to hold. They will also be defending seats in five battleground states that all just went for Trump—Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Remember that Ohio went for Trump by nine percentage points as well. There is a twelfth seat that could potentially become vulnerable given the right circumstances in slightly-blue Virginia as well.
Even if the GOP performance in 2018 is underwhelming—like Democratic performance this year—they’ll still likely come away with a number of gains. Despite a lackluster performance this year, Democrats still picked-up their deep-blue seat in Illinois. Expect Republicans to pick up most, if not all, of the deep-red states in the 2016. Also remember that the GOP tends to do better in mid-term elections as well, so the battleground states just won by Trump should be considered dicey for Democrats, as well.
There will also be another “x-factor” in all of this: Will all of the blue collar white voters in the Rust Belt states that just voted for Trump come out to vote in the mid-terms? This current class of Democratic senators won in 2012 in large part because those voters refused to turn out for Mitt Romney. If they come out in numbers anywhere close to their showing last week, you will see a GOP wave sweep through the Senate and produce a nearly filibuster-proof majority.
One thing we pretty much know for sure: 2018 will bring more pain for the Democratic Party.
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2017 MWR Wrestler of the Year: “Mile High Magnum” Dak Draper
Posted by Ben Simon on January 7, 2018
Write up by Ben Simon
Missouri Wrestling Revival is proud to present our most prestigious year-end award to the “Mile High Magnum” Dak Draper.
The 2017 Wrestler of the Year award recipient is a unique one for two reasons.
First, this was the first year anyone had ever heard of Dakota Draper under any ring name in the Midwest. Formerly known as Sammy Six Guns, Draper had wrestled in WWE NXT, but he was unknown in the MWR states.
Second, the MWR board voted unanimously for Draper. This never happens! The decision wasn’t tough though; the six-foot five-inch tall Draper has had one of the best years of any independent wrestler we have ever seen.
It is rare to see such a blend of size, strength, athleticism, and charisma as Dak Draper possesses.
The 250 lb. heavyweight was one of the first signings of the National Wrasslin’ League, which launched in January 7, 2017 and is already the most active promotion in Missouri.
Dak Draper proved unbeatable the entire year. He won the tournament to crown the first NWL Champion on April 1 and held the title until December 8, when he lost it in a 30-man Rumble match (which he entered voluntarily).
Our mathematical Missouri Rankings system has had him at #1 in the State since the end of April (26-0-1 record; the blemish was a double countout in St. Joseph against Maverick). He even surpassed Ricky Cruz‘s record high rating, which means he is the most dominant wrestler in Missouri (at least!) since 2013 (at least!).
Draper’s relationship with the fans has matured this year. He has always been charismatic yet brash. Most NWL viewers thought he was downright annoying at first. However, the man who likes to point and proclaim, “Shame on you!” eventually had a popular catchphrase on his hands.
The fans joined Draper’s favor after he was accused of throwing an elimination match for control of the NWL’s matchmaking. Dak denied the accusation by company owner Major Baisden and sought to prove his word by putting his title on the line in the NWL Rumble, which he lost. This has redeemed his abrasive personality to many fans.
The Denver, Colo. native is a master of self-promotion. He even has his own YouTube series, The Magnum Minute. He has produced about 50 short episodes this year.
Congratulations to “The Mile High Magnum” Dak Draper for earning the 2017 MWR Wrestler of the Year award.
Past MWR Wrestlers of the Year
2016 Mike Outlaw
2015 Jeremy Wyatt
2014 Ricky Cruz
2013 Jake Dirden
2012 Adam Pearce
2011 Brandon Espinosa
2010 Mike Sydal
2009 Mark Sterling
2008“The Rebel” Jeremy Wyatt
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Mañana Clásica
25 Canciones (1 hora y 9 minutos) Publicado el 25 de abril de 2019
Peer Gynt, Op. 23, Act IV: No. 15, Prelude, Morning Mood
Sir Neville Marriner & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Khovanshchina: No. 1, Prelude, Dawn Over the Moscow River
Mariss Jansons & Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Chanson de Nuit et Chanson de Matin, Op. 15: No. 2, Chanseon de Matin
Lawrence Collingwood & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Violin Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 10: I. Preludio (Adagio)
Trio Sonnerie
Preludes, Op. 28: No. 7, Andantino in A Major
Robert Irving and Philharmonia Orchestra
Preludes, Op. 28: No. 13, Lento in F-Sharp Major
Tzimon Barto
The Heart Asks Pleasure First
Ahn Trio
3 Gymnopédies: No. 3, Lent et douloureux (Arr. for Orchestra)
Louis Frémaux & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Aamusumussa (In the Morning Mist)
The Tapiola Chamber Choir
And All in the Morning
Sir David Willcocks & Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Music for Children, Op. 65: I. Morning
György Sebök
Songs Without Words, Op. 62: No. 4, Allegro con anima "Morning Song"
Annie D'Arco
3 Piano Pieces, Op. 54: I. Raindrops
Izumi Tateno
2 Arabesques, L. 66: II. Allegretto scherzando
Jean-Bernard Pommier
Waldszenen, Op. 82: No. 9, Abschied
24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 2, Allegretto in A Minor
Andrei Gavrilov
24 Preludes, Op. 11: No. 4, Lento in E Minor
Heures séculaires et instantanées: 2. Crépuscule matinal (de midi)
Peter Lawson
Ernesto Bitetti
Preludes, W. 419: No. 3, Andante in A Minor
Dario Rossetti-Bonell
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro in E-Flat Major, BWV 998: I. Prelude
Bach Goes to Town, Prelude and Fugue in Swing: II. Fugue
Progretto Avanti
La catedral: I. Preludio saudade
Mayan dance
Marcel Dadi
Chôros No. 1, W. 161
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Sunday, January 10, 2010 ... / /
India Today which has circulation of 500,000 just published an article about the unethical if not criminal behavior of IPCC boss Rajendra Pachauri:
Pachauri in a spot as climategate hits TERI (click)
They say that while he is trying to look politically correct, "back home in India, he seems to be failing to uphold standards of propriety in his professional dealings."
The newspaper explains that TERI, The Energy Research Institute ["The" was formerly "Tata": Tata Group is a giant that owns things from Jaguar, Land Rover, other carmakers, steel makers, and chemical plants to insurance companies and even most Indian string theorists], has benefited from links with Pachauri. He's been the director of TERI since 1982 and director general since 2001.
Between 2006 and 2009, as an independent director of ONGC, another public energy company, he could fly first-class, sleep in five-star hotels, and collect Rs 25,000 ($500) for each meeting. It just happened that during that time, ONGC and TERI secured contracts (and created ONGC-TERI Biotech Ltd in 2008, OTBL). The paper notes that this behavior contradicted ONGC's conflict-of-interest policies. Former minister for petroleum Gangwar has already complained.
While Pachauri claims that TERI hasn't charged OTBL any royalties for ONGC services, another ONGC official confirmed that Rs 300 million ($6 million) was paid to TERI over a few years and OTBL was also involved in the transactions. Pachauri is denying everything and offers a shell game to explain the foggy flow of the money. The newspaper analyzes some of the contradictions of his testimony.
India Today quotes The Sunday Telegraph that Pachauri established an "astounding/astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC's policy recommendations". He says he didn't pocket a penny: he has paid all his earnings for the solar panels of the poor. ;-)
Other texts on similar topics: climate, politics
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China, Psychological Struggle
The Disappearance of China Air
To be completely crass, disaster relief and humanitarian aid is huge opportunity to score points with locals. It is, however, best when it is not done blatantly, but making it clear where the aid was coming from both gives your side points and potentially denies opportunities to competitors.
Reading The New York Times on my Blackberry Thursday morning, the article “Haiti Lies in Ruins; Grim Search for Untold Dead” by Simon Romero and Marc Lacey, dated January 14, 2010, struck a nerve. These are the first two paragraphs as they still read on my Blackberry:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Foreign aid trickled into Haiti’s devastated capital on Thursday morning as the victims of Tuesday’s earthquake, many of them injured and homeless, began to wake from another night spent in makeshift accommodations or out in the open.
A China Air plane landed early Thursday with a search team, medical workers and aid, The Associated Press reported. …
The third paragraph described a “few sport-utility vehicles driven by United Nations personnel plied streets.” The UN appears again in the fourth paragraph, but the context is how many were killed or missing. The ninth paragraph resume the aid theme and opens,
Governments and aid agencies from Beijing to Grand Rapids began marshaling supplies and staffs to send here, though the obstacles proved frustrating just one after the powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit.
The American Red Cross gets two of the following paragraphs. It is not until the 15th and 16ht paragraphs that the US gets attention.
President Obama promised that Haiti would have the “unwavering support” of the United States.
Mr. Obama said that United States aid agencies were moving swiftly to get help to Haiti and that search-and-rescue teams were en route. …
The second paragraph concluded with the President’s urging Americans to go to the White House’s website to find ways to donate money.
This article was stunning because of how China was portrayed: immediately engaged and on the ground. Where was the US? Romero and Lacey didn’t bother to even mention the US until late in the article and when they did, it was a promise of future action.
I had to manually type the story above because the online version was very different. At The New York Times website, the online edition of the same story, with the same title and same picture, did not mention China Air and Romero had the byline to himself. Had the version changed? Shouldn’t there be a note to that effect?
Interestingly, the cache of the NYT search engine still had an old extract of the article. So to did other organizations drawing a feed from the NYT, such as the Rio Grande Guardian.
Another version of the story can be found at the San Francisco Sentinel.
The AP also relayed word January 13, 2010, from China that eight Chinese peacekeepers were killed and ten others were missing.
A Wall Street Journal blog reported early January 14 that “Chinese Relief Team Lands in Port-au-Prince“.
Help began arriving early Thursday when an Air China plane carrying a Chinese relief team landed at Port-au-Prince airport, and more than 50 people in orange jumpsuits accompanied by trained dogs got out, according to the Associated Press.
China said the plane carried a search and rescue crew, medics, seismological experts as well as 10 tons of food, medicine and other supplies.
“Most of the members are very experienced,” Liu Xiangyang, deputy chief of the National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team, told the official Xinhua News Agency before their departure. China’s Red Cross has also offered emergency funding of $1 million to Haiti.
And, oh, by the way,
The U.S. and other nations said they were sending food, water, medical supplies to assist the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation, where the international Red Cross estimated three million people — a third of the population — may need emergency relief.
The combination of the swiftness of the Chinese action, the high-observability of this action (no doubt with help – smart move), and then the disappearance of the same is something to watch. Did the NYT remove the AP reporting because it wasn’t true or because it didn’t look good?
Aid is inherently a positive engagement opportunity, but such a sensitive time means too much attention can backfire and not enough means you somebody else may take credit or your act is erased that much more swiftly.
I have to admit that I haven’t had time to follow the relief operation, or lack of, or the information dissemination and relaying going on. I have heard from others that the State Department – at least Alec Ross and other high profile and senior individuals – have been engaging in online conversations whereas the Defense Department with its public affairs in over drive is doing what public affairs traditionally does: pump out facts.
Galrahn and I talked this evening about this. We’re both sure we’ll see more of this subtle struggle for minds with the Chinese in the immediate future.
What have you observed?
The 1947 Smith-Mundt CODEL to Europe
The Congress and people of the United States have now under consideration a multibillion dollar program to restore Europe and thwart Communism [the Marshall Plan]. Commendable and necessary as this is, we have nevertheless been too preoccupied in the past with feeding the stomachs of people while the Soviets have concentrated on feeding their minds. … We may help avert starvation but in the process produce a generation of healthy Europeans whose minds are poisoned against us and whose loyalties are to the red star of Soviet Russia. If this occurs, our generosity would be surpassed only by our own ineptitude.
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Differences between Eastern and Western culture
Jed Willard
FYI, the print edition of the NYT carried the Romero-only version, beginning “Survivors strained desperately…,” as the front page lead. The second article on the disaster, advertised on the front page, was described as “IN WASHINGTON President Obama moved quickly to send help to Haiti, pledging unwavering support.
Donna Oglesby
Matt,This is an excellent beginning of an important thread. I, too was stunned by the Chinese big-foot early in the story. Perhaps in thinking about how to respond, the historical analogy that came to mind with many of the Obama/Clinton advisors was Somalia. Anyone affiliated with the earlier Clinton administration will certainly pause when recalling how a humanitarian intervention to feed the starving ended in Black Hawk down and a total pull out. In the case of Haiti as well as Somalia there is the additional complexity of strong UN involvement. Slow off the mark, the American response has built over the last three days until it today’s announcement has 10,000 troops being deployed. The United States will ultimately own this story. Whether that will be a good narrative or not will depend on how events unfold. Good intentions will certainly not be enough.
There is no official airline called “China Air”China Airlines is the Taiwan airline. http://www.china-airlines.com/en/index.htm
Air China is the PRC state airline (second largest in China after PRC’s China Southern). http://www.chinahighlights.com/
Both airlines are often called “China Air” but there is in fact no “China Air”
But from the Taiwan based China Airlines web sit comes this news:
China Airlines Carries Emergency Relief Goods To Haiti
CAL e-Message
January 14, 2010, Taipei, Taiwan – In response to Haiti’s immediate need for disaster aid in the wake of its devastating earthquake, China Airlines urgently re-arranged seats on flight CI-008 on January 13, to include 23 rescue team members, and provided cargo space in the belly of the plane to carry relief goods.
The relief supplies, provided by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, including emergency medical rescue equipment, life searching gear, and other rescue materials, weighed two tons, and were transported free of charge by China Airlines. The relief shipment arrived at Los Angeles airport this morning at 10:14 Taipei time, and it will be immediately transferred to Haiti via the Dominican Republic.
China Airlines has committed itself to providing humanitarian aid wherever it is needed, and additional delivery of emergency goods from Taiwan to help the recovery of Haiti can be expected.
But I found the below news article as well (interestingly the official China Airlines (Taiwan) had news about Haiti and links to news on its official web site while Air China (PRC) was all about tours and travel and nothing about any kind of public service or news about the good things it might be doing – comparing the two web sites – the PRC Air China appeared more “capitalist oriented” while the Taiwanese China Airlines appeared to want to call attention to its “socially responsible actions”.):
China leads start of aid lift into Haiti
(AFP) – 1 day ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE — A planeload of Chinese soldiers led the start of a flow of aid into the Caribbean nation of Haiti early Thursday, two days after it was devastated by a powerful earthquake.
Chinese military unloaded 20 tonnes of relief supplies from an Air China flight under the watch of UN Chinese soldiers.
Some 50 Chinese rescue personnel and three sniffer dogs left in minibuses emblazoned with the UN logo, heading into scenes of devastation and despair.
Amid mounting fears for thousands still trapped under the ruins, particularly in the capital of Port-au-Prince, an international aid operation was swinging into gear in a desperate race against time.
The tarmac at the capital’s international airport was welcoming the first trickle of aid, which was set to soon start pouring into Haiti in the coming hours.
“The UN has been coordinating since this morning all of the international aid arriving at the airport and will also distribute the help by nationality across the different site,” Commander Samuel Bernes told AFP.
He was with two French units of firefighters who arrived Thursday just behind the Chinese, equipped with six sniffer dogs.
“The military unit’s mission is to first relieve Guadeloupean volunteer firemen who have already been working for several hours, while looking for other sites to deploy the remainder of national security units.”
There are fears that the death following Tuesday’s 7.0 quake could stretch into the tens of thousands.
An urban search and rescue team from Fairfax, Virginia, was already out at first light combing the rubble with sniffer dogs for survivors.
The 72 staff, including paramedics and six dogs brought with them 43 tonnes of rescue equipment and supplies.
Meanwhile, in a desperate bid to leave, civilians crowded Port-au-Prince airport, which was functioning although its control tower was down.
Copyright © 2010 AFP. All rights reserved. More »
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iN7VlXu0SgxuMQN_IEqlGlaPKhnA
Vince Crawley
Matt,I’d caution against reading too much strategic thought into the very rushed craft of editing news dispatches from breaking news locations. Especially in a disaster area, the immediacy is achieved by anecdotal dispatches from people on the ground with limited understanding of the big picture. Editors back at the home office face something akin to the reverse, lots of big-picture and a mountain of local reports from diverse sources that they all have to blend together. Then the print edition and online editions frequently go through different editors.
On the face of it, the online edition of this story contains principle reporting from one correspondent while the print edition merges two of them, adding the writer with the observation about China airlift.
Regardless of the story compilation via different authors, your point comes through loud and clear: American “soft power” is too late once again (reminiscent of the Lebanon evacuation of American citizens (and Haiti is in or back yard so to speak)). To add injury to insult, most Haitians have a strong dislike for the U.S. military – so we sent in the 82nd and a complement of Marines! It will take a major shift in policy to regain the ground we continue to lose.
Are we now to be obsessed now about the China coverage in a crisis that calls on the world’s best collective efforts? Frankly, I’m impressed by Fairfax County’s footprint; I’d love to take a look at their PD strategy. Same for Dade County, FL. Wanna bet that a heck of a lot more Haitian babies born in the past few days will be named Israel than China????Matt, take a look at Brazilian TV; you have a huge country, the lead UN peacekeeper, keeping a proud 24/7 eye on Haiti. Keep in mind that far more official Brazilians have died than Americans. Keep in mind too that millions of Africans really watch Brazilian TV; it’s far more interesting than China’s, or for that matter, ours.
At the end of the day, are the Haitians really watching or reading any of this, whether Chinese, American, Brazilian, or Israeli? They never did have much in the way of a TV culture. Now, they don’t even have the batteries for radio. But the last “narrative” we don’t want is driven the sight of all those battle-fatigued gringoes sticking around Haiti for two decades, again.
GLGarland
The “Anonymous” comment was mine, Jan. 20, 6:26 AM. Sorry about the mistake. GG
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Massive Work Studio announces Dolmen, a terrifying action-RPG that combines futuristic sci-fi and Lovecraftian cosmic horror
by Jennifer Locke
@JenLocke95
Mar 7, 2018 at 16:59 GMT 1 year ago
Independent Brazilian developer Massive Work Studio has announced Dolmen, a “terrifying action-RPG that combines futuristic Sci-Fi and Lovecraftian Cosmic Horror” as described in its press release. The game will be making its North American debut at GDC 2018, which takes place from March 19-23.
“Dolmen casts players onto a hostile alien world known as Revion Prime, the location of the greatest recorded massacre in galactic history. Little more can be said about the far-off planet since its coordinates were lost to war. As neighbors, it has four gas giants and a nearby star called Nynfield. The corpses of those who lived there long ago orbit the planet — like a mass grave suspended in time. As the sole survivor of a crew of human astronauts, pulled from charted space and abducted into a distant future, you awake below the planet’s surface with no supplies. Being alone on Revion Prime is like having been forgotten by life itself. With no answers as to how you got there, or what happened to your crew, your journey begins in the dark.”
Explore a Devastated, Darkly Beautiful Planet: Revion Prime is an alien world, with environments inspired by the work of macabre artists like H.R. Giger and H.P. Lovecraft, that challenges you to unearth its dark history by connecting fragments of the past.
Engage in Fast-Paced Dynamic Combat: Combat is intense and heavily based on timing, mixing melee-based attacks, Over-the-Shoulder (OTS) perspective long-range shooting and the use of defensive maneuvers such as dodging and blocking.
Adapt or Perish; Craft to Survive: Mankind, so we believe, has become a prevalent species due to its ability to endure and adapt to inhospitable environments. Build up your skills and scavenge what little resources are available to create items and customize your equipment. You’re going to need anything you can find to live to see another day.
Dolmen is planned for an early 2019 release on Steam, with console versions planned at a later date. The team still needs a little help making it a reality, so a Kickstarter for the game will begin on April 5. It’s unclear what its funding goal will be.
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Once, twice, three times a dad, Eugene Levy feels fatherly and familiar in Finding Dory
'I had to establish a nurturing tone in a very short period of time to make Dory's quest make sense'
Eugene Levy is a Canadian comic gem who shined bright with the SCTV ensemble before heading out on a successful solo career as an actor for hire.
Most notably, he was the American Pie patriarch in a series of popular R-rated flicks. Now he’s featured as another kind of father figure on the award-winning Canuck sitcom Schitt’s Creek opposite SCTV buddy Catherine O’Hara and his son Daniel.
In fact, he’s a dad once more but this time in the animated sequel Finding Dory.
In the new movie, Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), the blue tang fish with short-term memory loss, heads out on a journey with Marlin (Albert Brooks) and son Nemo (Hayden Rolence) to find Dory’s parents, Charlie (Levy) and Jenny (Diane Keaton).
The 69-year-old took a break from filming an episode of Schitt’s Creek north of Toronto recently to offer his considered opinion:
On why he said ‘yes’ to the Finding Dory voice role without seeing the script:
“First of all, I knew it was Disney-Pixar, so no matter what it was going to be it was going to be good, because nobody does it better,” Levy says. “And it was a sequel to Finding Nemo.”
On the essence of his part:
“They were looking for the supportive kind of dad,” he says. “I had to establish a nurturing tone in a very short period of time to make Dory’s quest make sense.”
On his nice father qualifications:
“I guess I could look at American Pie,” Levy says. “Maybe that understanding dad came into play.”
On working with Diane Keaton:
“She’s quite amazing,” he says. “We had one session together. I was in Toronto and she was in Los Angeles, and they hooked us up on monitors to do some scenes together.”
On the dynamic of the setting:
“I couldn’t take my eyes off of the monitor,” Levy says. “I had to remind myself I was doing a scene with her, not just stare at, you know, Annie Hall.”
On screening the finished Finding Dory:
“I was very impressed but not surprised,” Levy says.
On the film’s mix of comedy and tenderness:
“They have the ability to mine things for comedy and then weave emotional anchors throughout,” he says. “I love that kind of comedy where the audience is on this roller coaster ride from comedy to deep emotion.”
On the similar style in his sitcom:
“We try that on Schitt’s Creek, too, where we try to make it funny but we want the characters to be real enough that the audience will want to know where they are going.”
On working with his son Daniel on the show they co-created:
“I was excited when he wanted me to work on (Schitt’s Creek),” says Levy.
On his initial apprehension:
“I did have a fear in the first few days, ‘What if he doesn’t have it?’” says Levy. “I had a couple a sleepless nights but it only took a few days for me to realize he is so far ahead.”
Finding Dory is no Nemo and probably won’t make you cry, but it remains a strong, familiar tail
Ellen DeGeneres’ idea for Finding Dory started as a joke, but five years later, ‘the joke became real’
On Daniel following in his father’s footsteps despite growing up outside of Hollywood:
“There may be some showbiz vibe that seeped in there,” says Levy of Daniel. “That’s even though our choice was to raise our kids in Toronto to give them a level playing field.”
How two Vancouver filmmakers are 'fixing' The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — without permission or authorization
Lashana Lynch will be first black woman to take over role of 007 in spy franchise — but not Bond
Crawl is your average 'giant marauding alligator movie' with low-grade scares and mid-grade gore
Maiden is the 'ultimate underdog narrative'
Kumail Nanjiani is the only thing that keeps Stuber from driving off the road
Anti-abortion film Unplanned is useless propaganda and poorly made cinema packed with lies
Is going to the theatre now reserved for big-budget blockbusters alone?
Melody Makers chronicles the music magazine’s heyday in the ’60s and ’70s
Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love celebrates a powerful, impossible bond
I'll Take Your Dead's horror/home invasion mash up doesn't live up to its combined expectations
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is a thoughtful dive into the life of the famous author
You can't hate The Last Black Man in San Francisco unless you love it
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Dow Jones rises 181 points Friday, Nasdaq 68 points
By Jay Jackson, New Jersey State News
NEW YORK, New York - Trade talks between China and the United States, which resumed in Wsahington on Wednesday, dominated talk around the traps on Wall Street Friday, and the mood was optimistic.
All the major indices made strong gains.
"People are expecting some sort of positive news on trade and tariffs with China fairly soon," Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia told Reuters Thomson Friday.
"But we won't know until the end of next week, there has been a lack of specifics."
Specifics may not have been disclosed, however it is understood the parties are at the stage of drafting up heads-of-agreement in relation to aspects of a deal.
The parties have until 1 March 2019 to reach a conclusion to avoid the re-implementation of tariffs by the U.S., although President Donald Trump has indicated that deadliune could be extended.
At the close of trading Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was ahead 181.18 points or 0.70% at 26,031.81.
The S&P 500 added 17.79 points or 0.64% to 2,792.67.
The Nasdaq Composite rose 67.84 points or 0.91% to 7,527.55.
The U.S. dollar was little changed although it lost ground against the Australian and New Zelaand dollars, and the Japanese yen.
Around the New York close Friday the euro was directionless at 1.1332.
The British pound hovered around 1.3051.
The Japanese yen edged up to 110.67.
The Swiss franc was little changed at 1.0003.
The Australian dollar recovered partially from its sudden drop earlier in the week. It last traded at 0.7130 around the close in New York on Friday.
The New Zealand dollar also rose sharply, to last trade at 0.6845.
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Defence awards Telstra six-year contract for enhanced telecommunications
Defence has signed a $1.1 billion contract with Telstra for the provision of telecommunications services.
The six-and-a-half year contract will enable Defence to transform its communications technology including better integrating fixed telecommunications with satellite and tactical networks.
Defence Chief Information Officer Dr Peter Lawrence said the transformation of its network was central to wider strategic reforms throughout the Department.
“This partnership will deliver Defence with robust and secure information communications technology, while creating greater efficiencies and lower costs,” Dr Lawrence said.
“The project includes a major transformation program of work and the ongoing sustainment of Defence’s telecommunications environment.”
Telstra Chief Executive Officer David Thodey said the work with Defence would draw on the company’s long heritage of serving Government customers and its experience of large scale network transformations.
“Telstra’s aim is to deliver technology that can become the backbone of Australian Defence for the next decade and beyond,” Mr Thodey said.
“The agreement represents the largest customer undertaking in Telstra’s history and will support military operations at home and abroad.
“We will create 350 new positions to help serve the contract, including recruiting some of the nation’s leading IT, network and security experts.
“The use of technology such as unified communications, advanced video conferencing as well as tablet and smartphone usage, will provide a vital link connecting troops, commanders, bases and allies around the world,” he said.
Defence will partner with Telstra to implement the transformed network solution which has a targeted completion date of mid-2016.
The Defence telecommunications network includes networks at 430 sites in Australia, supporting some 100,000 users in Australia and overseas. The project will significantly improve network performance and meet capability requirements to 2023.
Media note:
Imagery will be available at: http://images.defence.gov.au/12133433
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Posts tagged Graduation
Motlow commencement to be held at MTSU in May 2019
Officials at Motlow State Community College recently announced the commencement ceremony for the 2018-19 academic year will be at Middle Tennessee State University’s Murphy Center in Murfreesboro on May 5, 2019, at 2 p.m.
Community & Events, For the MediaScott Shasteen November 20, 2018 Graduation
Motlow sets enrollment record for fourth consecutive year; leads in graduation rate
For the fourth consecutive year, Motlow State Community College has the largest enrollment in school history and remains among the fastest-growing colleges in Tennessee, according to Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) official enrollment numbers released for the fall 2018 semester.
For the MediaScott Shasteen November 8, 2018 Graduation
Motlow employees Estelle Davis and Michelle Griffith reconnect with their education
Estelle Davis and Michelle Griffith, have a lot in common, including being Motlow State employees. The Motlow connection became even stronger when both recently became Motlow graduates. When Motlow President Michael Torrence conferred degrees at the 48th Annual Commencement Ceremony in May that recognized the Smyrna campus students, Davis and Griffith were among the 300 students who received degrees. In his opening remarks Dr. Torrence paid special recognition to the Motlow duo.
Student NewsMotlow State June 28, 2018 Graduation, Reconnect, Adults
Motlow Profile: Ashley Donaldson, Nursing graduate
“I believe that women are an incredible force to be reckoned with, and we have the power to dramatically change and shape healthcare. I want to be part of that!”
Student NewsMotlow State June 2, 2018 Nursing, Graduation
Jennifer Jenkins completes her Motlow journey after 22 years
When Jennifer Jenkins registered to attend Motlow State Community College more than 22 years ago, her motivation was simple: Motlow was close to home, and it was a less expensive option for her college education. Twenty years later when she re-registered at Motlow, her motivation was quite different. Due to her life circumstances, she felt a need to reset and restart her life. And she wanted to finish what she started.
Student NewsMotlow State May 24, 2018 Graduation
Motlow State Dean’s List, Honor Roll and Graduates list now available online
Motlow State Community College has recently made available online a listing of students, by semester, who made the Dean’s List or Honor Roll. Also available by semester is a listing of students who have graduated.
Student NewsMotlow State February 2, 2018 Awards, Graduation
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TV Appearance
The Late Show with David Letterman
Strips on Letterman
David LettermanSpanxTina FeyInterview
Fey strips down to her Spanx underwear on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Because this is my last time wearing a fancy dress on a talk show — and conforming to gender norms out of respect for you — my gift to you is I want to give you the dress, you can keep it.
Tina Fey's #LastDressEver – David Letterman
Longest Days performance
John MellencampMusic Performance
Mellencamp performs the song Longest Days from his album Life, Death, Love and Freedo on The Late Show.
John Mellencamp: "Longest Days" – David Letterman
Scarlett Johansson interview
David LettermanScarlett JohanssonInterviewMusic Performance
Johansson appears on the The Late Show to promote her upcoming movie Avengers: Age Of Ultron. She talks about lover for Letterman and her first appearance on his show as a child.
Dave, I have to say, I am so incredibly honored to be on one of your very last shows…The first time I was on this show I was 13-years old, it was 1998 and I was so, so nervous, because for me – and still for me – coming on this show is like you’ve made it when you’re on Dave Letterman. That’s really the truth.
Scarlett Johansson Remembers Her First Appearance with David Letterman
Paul Rudd interview
David LettermanPaul RuddInterview
Rudd appears on The Late Show for promoting his movie Ant-Man. He talks about how he was a member of a Letterman fan club as a child.
About 30 years ago, when you first started the show, back when the [Kansas City] Royals were in the World Series, I joined the David Letterman fan club…What it included was a pin, a collapsible drinking cup, a sponge that – if you put in water – would grow, a back scratcher and a balloon.
Paul Rudd's in The David Letterman Fan Club
The Girl Who Slept For Scotland performance
The WaterboysMusic Performance
The Waterboys perform the song The Girl Who Slept For Scotland from their album Modern Blues on The Late Show.
The Waterboys: "The Girl Who Slept For Scotland" – David Letterman
Stand By Me performance
David LettermanTracy ChapmanMusic Performance
Chapman performs Stand By Me for Letterman at The Late Show. Letterman:
It means a great deal to me. I’m so happy you could do this for us.
Tracy Chapman: "Stand By Me" – David Letterman
Michael J. Fox interview
David LettermanMichael J. FoxInterview
Fox appears on The Late Show to raise awareness about Parkinson’s disease. He talks about his own struggle with Parkinson’s, and the hunt for a cure.
To be kind of corny about it, once you accept it, and you learn about it…. and realize you are in a position to do something about it, and to make a difference and to help, well then it’s just, like, quit your bitching and get on with it.
Michael J. Fox on Parkinson's Awareness Month – David Letterman
Christmas Baby Please Come Home performance
Darlene LoveMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Love performs Christmas Baby Please Come Home for the last time during The Late Show with David Letterman.
Darlene Love Christmas (Baby Please Come) David Letterman 2014 12 19
Buzzcut Season performance
LordeMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
The artist performs her song, Buzzcut Season, from the album, Pure Heroine.
Lorde – Buzzcut Season (Live On Letterman)
The artist performs her song, Bravado, from The Love Club EP, during the program.
Lorde – Bravado (Live On Letterman)
Welcome To New York performance
Taylor SwiftMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Swift performs Welcome To New York during an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman from her album 1989.
Taylor Swift on David Letterman
Jessica Chastain interview
David LettermanJessica Chastain
Chastain and Letterman discuss the movie Interstellar on Late Show with David Letterman.
We get in an elevator and go to space.
Jessica Chastain's "Interstellar" Sneak-Peek – David Letterman
Jenny Slate interview
David LettermanJenny SlateInterview
Slate at Letterman discuss creating Marcel the Shell on Late Show with David Letterman
If you are a human with a nice beating heart you’ll probably like it.
Jenny Slate on the Origin of Marcel the Shell
Stiff Competition performance
David LettermanFoo FightersRick NielsenMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Rick Nielsen joins Foo Fighters singing Stiff Competition from the album Cheap Trick’s on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Foo Fighters with Rick Nielsen: "Stiff Competition" – David Letterman
Tom Selleck interview
David LettermanTom SelleckInterview
Selleck returns as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. He talks about his recent fashion shoot for GQ, and shares how he handles secret grudges on some Hollywood celebrities.
I don’t see any reason to hold a grudge. I mean, a lot of people make mistakes – we get out here, you know, we try and be reasonably entertaining and you’re pushing the envelope. Sometimes, you say stuff, and people have said stuff to me. And I only hold a grudge secretly.
Tom Selleck's Celebrity Grudge – David Letterman
Bill Murray interview
Bill MurrayDavid LettermanInterview
Murray appears as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman and shares three memorable stories about crashing a bachelor party, celebrating his birthday with strangers, and driving a taxi. He also talks about the possibility of making a female version of the Ghostbusters movie.
I think you’d want to have some funny girls, and you’d want to have some action girls. You know, I just of girls that I’ve worked with lately, like I worked with these two girls. I worked with Melissa McCarthy, I think she’s very funny.
Three Great Bill Murray Stories – David Letterman
Miracle performance
David LettermanFoo FightersMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Letterman chokes up as he introduces the Foo Fighters performance on The Late Show with David Letterman. The Fighters perform Miracle, which Letterman reveals was playing when he and his young son learned how to ski.
Lo and behold, it’s me and it’s Harry coming down this mountain. The video is stunning because the kid couldn’t be cuter … and the music the guy chose to put underneath the ski video is the song you’re going to hear now from the Foo Fighters.
Web-Exclusive: Foo Fighters – "Miracle" – David Letterman
War Pigs performance
Foo FightersZac BrownMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
The Foo Fighters are joined by Zac Brown to perform a cover of Black Sabbath’s War Pigs on the Late Show With David Letterman.
The Late Show with David Letterman performance
Aretha FranklinMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Franklin performs Ain’t No Mountain High Enough and Adele’s Rolling In The Deep on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Aretha Franklin: "Rolling in the Deep/Ain't No Mountain"
Ted Danson interview
Ted DansonInterview
Danson appears as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote CSI and the Oceana Organization. He talks about responsible fishing, adding humor to CSI, belittling former castmate Woody Harrelson’s achievements, and their drunken Cheers finale.
They brought us to the bar to do press, and after being apart for like six months, the show had been over, and we were all getting to see each other after six months. And they brought us to the bard about five or six hours early, so we were hammered! Hammered beyond belief. I think Kelsey was the straightest of us all.
Can Ted Danson Make "CSI" Funny? – David Letterman
Kelly Ripa interview
Kelly RipaInterview
Ripa appears as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman and talks about her strong-willed daughter, her accidental “butt selfie” to her in-laws, and the struggles of handling the extra-large iPhone 6 with her small hands.
We got my father-in-law for his birthday an iPad. And I don’t really know about the cloud, I don’t really understand where it comes from, but we’re all operating under the same…it’s the same cloud. And I was sending my beloved husband who was away in L.A. shooting a show, I sent him a cute, adorable butt selfie in my underpants.
Kelly Ripa's Scary Daughter – David Letterman
Jim Gaffigan interview
Jim GaffiganInterview
Gaffigan appears as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman to promote his latest book, Food: A Love Story. He also talks about meeting an old man who drinks gravy, his dislike for seafood, and his donut dilemma.
Sometimes, I will get back to my hotel room, and in my hotel room there will be a box of donuts. And I’ll look at the box of donuts and I’ll think “I’m not, you know, not going to eat those.” That will be rude, they were a gift, Dave.
Jim Gaffigan Likes Food, Hates Emotion – David Letterman
Only Love Can Hurt Like This performance
Paloma FaithMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Paloma Faith appears on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform Only Love Can Hurt Like This, a song from her latest album, A Perfect Contradiction.
Paloma Faith: "Only Love Can Hurt Like This" – David Letterman
Always On The Run performance
Lenny KravitzMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Kravitz appears on The Late Show with David Letterman and performs Strut, the title track from his latest album. Denzel Washinton introduces him.
Lenny Kravitz: "Strut" – David Letterman
Kravitz & Washington interview
Denzel WashingtonLenny KravitzInterview
Kravitz and Washington appear on The Late Show with David Letterman and talk about their boating holiday off the Amalfi Coast, in which Kravitz managed to talk Washington into watching his own films. Kravitz:
I got him to watch all of his movies. We sat on that boat – John Q, Man on Fire, Malcolm X – we watched them all. And what’s great is that you get the commentary.
I was good, too. I was like, “Wow, I’m good!”
Denzel Washington & Lenny Kravitz Tell David Letterman About Their Boat Trip
Denzel Washington interview
Denzel WashingtonInterview
Washington appears as a guest on The Late Show with David Letterman and talks about the possibility of being James Bond.
What happened was someone calls, like a talks radio show – I think I was in London, I was somewhere in Europe. And they said, “Would you want to be the next James Bond?” And I said, “Yeah, sure, why not. In fact, let’s start a campaign.” And you can’t say things like that, they started a campaign.
Denzel Washington Is James Bond? – David Letterman
Mark Harmon interview
David LettermanMark HarmonInterview
Harmon and Letterman discuss his encounter with wolves on Late Show with David Letterman.
Your on your face.
Mark Harmon vs. Wolf – David Letterman
Jack Hanna interview
David LettermanJack HannaInterview
Hanna and Letterman discuss animals on Late Show with David Letterman.
Cheetah is most endangered cat in South Africa.
"Jungle" Jack Hanna, a Cheetah and a Skunk – David Letterman
Gimme Something Good performance
David LettermanRyan AdamsMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Adams performs Gimme Something Good from his album Ryan Adams on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Jake Johannsen interview
David LettermanJake JohannsenInterviewTV Appearance
Johannsen does stand up on The Late Show with David Letterman.
I have to look at this porn to get back into Facebook, that is how they have it set up now.
Comedian Jake Johannsen – David Letterman
Mindy Kaling interview
David LettermanMindy KalingInterviewTV Appearance
Kaling and Letterman discuss nude photos on The Late Show with David Letterman.
I could not have made it easier.
Mindy Kaling's Nude Photos Will Blow Your Mind – David Letterman
Billy Eichner interview
Billy EichnerDavid LettermanInterviewTV Appearance
Eichner and Letterman discuss the role Joan Rivers plays in his career on The Late Show with David Letterman.
My own twisted version of what you do.
Billy Eichner on How Joan Rivers Helped Launch His Career – David Letterman
Girl In A Country Song performance
Maddie & TaeMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Maddie & Tae appear on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform Girl In A Country Song, a track from their upcoming EP.
Maddie & Tae: "Girl In A Country Song" – David Letterman
Jason Bateman interview
David LettermanJason BatemanInterviewTV Appearance
Bateman and Letterman discuss his movie This Is Where I Leave You on The Late Show with David Letterman.
If you come from a family don’t miss it.
Jason Bateman on Jane Fonda's Fake Bust – David Letterman
Katharine McPhee interview
David LettermanKatharine McPheeInterviewTV Appearance
McPhee and Letterman discuss her show Scorpion on The Late Show with David Letterman.
He is the 4th smartest person in the world. He is not really challenged, he is a genius.
Katharine McPhee on "Scorpion" – David Letterman
Dr. Phil interview
David LettermanDr. PhilInterviewTV Appearance
Dr. Phil and Letterman discuss domestic violence on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Children learn what that live.
Dr. Phil on Ray Rice – David Letterman
Richard Branson interview
David LettermanRichard BransonInterviewTV Appearance
Branson and Letterman discuss the upcoming Space trip on The Late Show with David Letterman.
You will know you are in space because when you unbuckle you can just float around.
Sir Richard Branson's Space Venture – David Letterman
All The Rage Back Home performance
InterpolMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Interpol performs All The Rage Back Home on The David Letterman Show from their album El Pintor.
Interpol: "All The Rage Back Home" – David Letterman
Michael Strahan interview
David LettermanMichael StrahanInterviewTV Appearance
Strahan and Letterman discuss Ray Rice on The Late Show with David Letterman.
I think the team handled it right, the NFL handled it right.
Michael Strahan on the Ray Rice Controversy – David Letterman
Bill Maher interview
Bill MaherDavid LettermanInterviewTV Appearance
Maher and Letterman discuss the back-to-back upcoming show on The Late Show with David Letterman.
It’s something that I wish I hadn’t started but it is too late to get out of now.
Bill Maher's D.C. Double Event – David Letterman
Henrik Lundqvist interview
David LettermanHenrik LundqvistInterviewTV Appearance
Lundqvist and Letterman discuss his goalee career on The Late Show with David Letterman.
He did not score, thank God.
New York Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist, Part 1 – David Letterman
Inside Out performance
SpoonMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Spoon appears on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform Inside Out, a track from their album, They Want My Soul.
Spoon: "Inside Out" – David Letterman
Moody McCarthy stand-up
Moody McCarthy
McCarthy appears as a stand-up comic on The Late Show with David Letterman. He talks about his dislike of flossing his teeth, meeting his wife online, and some tips on how to save money when planning a wedding.
It’s true, we did meet on the Internet. We didn’t how our parents would react to that, so we told them we met at the University of Phoenix.
Comedian Moody McCarthy Performs Stand-Up – David Letterman
You In Your Were performance
Kevin DrewMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Drew appears on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform You In Your Were, a song from his latest solo album, Darlings. Stars vocalist Amy Millan joins him in the performance.
Kevin Drew: "You In Your Were" – David Letterman
Left Hand Free performance
Alt-JMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Alt-J appears on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform Left Hand Free, a track from their sophomore album, This is All Yours.
Alt-J – "Left Hand Free" – David Letterman
Brill Bruisers performance
The New PornographersMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
The New Pornographers return to The Late Show with David Letterman to perform the title track from their latest album, Brill Bruisers.
The New Pornographers: "Brill Bruisers" – David Letterman
Kristen Wiig interview
Kristen WiigInterview
Wiig guests on The Late Show with David Letterman to talk about her upcoming film with Zach Galifianakis and Owen Wilson. She also describes the “hippie” culture of Asheville, North Carolina, where they filmed some of the scenes. She also tells Letterman about her father’s reactions to her intimate scenes in movies.
I try to tell him the scene before, so he should go to the bathroom or something, because it’s uncomfortable. But the sex scene he was most uncomfortable was MacGruber.
Kristen Wiig's Hippie Summer – David Letterman
Steve Buscemi interview
Steve BuscemiInterview
Buscemi appears as a guest for the first time on The Late Show with David Letterman to talk about how he almost got into the show in 1994. He also shares his experience being a New York fireman during his early days as a stand-up comic.
Engine 55 is on Broome Street, and so we covered Little Italy and Chinatown and Soho and the Lower East side. Certainly in the early 80s it was probably busier than it is now, but I missed the heyday of when it was super busy in like the 60s and 70s.
Was Steve Buscemi Not Good Enough For David Letterman?
Drinking Class performance
Lee BriceMusic PerformanceTV Appearance
Brice appears on The Late Show with David Letterman to perform Drinking Class, a single off of his upcoming album, I Don’t Dance.
Lee Brice: "Drinking Class" – David Letterman
Julie Chen interview
David LettermanJulie ChenInterviewTV Appearance
Chen and Letterman discuss the new season of The Talk on The Late Show with David Letterman.
They’ve called our family members about our fears, they are sneaky.
Julie Chen Reveals Season 5 Secrets of "The Talk" – David Letterman
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The Slow Readers ClubInterview
We Close Tonight interview
The band are interviewed by London-based music blog, We Close Tonight. On Manchester’s live scene:
Yeah, Kurt had been in a band with David as well before so we were all familiar with the live scene in Manchester. I think our first gig as Omerta was at Band On The Wall and probably our first gig as SRC was at Ruby Lounge. We’ve played a few places around Manchester, some of the newer venues as well like Soup Kitchen and The Castle we’ve played recently. There was a thing in the press recently about it being the most live venues in the country of any city. There’s a lot of choice. There’s not always people there. More recently there tends to be more people. These venues become trendy and suddenly they’re not trendy any more. It’s a cool city for music.
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Trash by Arthur M. Jolly
Alison Dornheggen (L) and Megan Schemmel (R) in the April 2012 premiere by Babes With Blades Theatre Company in Chicago, directed by Delia Ford. Photo by Johnny Knight.
TRASH takes place entirely in a dump - a municipal landfill, where two estranged sisters have come to look for a letter from their mother. They've come from their mother's funeral - the first time they've seen each other in years, and as they dig through the literal and metaphorical trash heap, they get further and further into their complicated relationship - and with the lives they led under the shadow of a domineering mother who still controls and influences them even after her death.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s defense team demands DA drop sexual-assault charges
By Amber Sutherland
July 7, 2011 | 4:00am
KAHN DO: Dominique Strauss-Kahn is helped out of his car yesterday after a meeting with his lawyers, who had pushed for a dismissal with DA Cyrus Vance Jr. AFP/Getty Images
Give DSK the key to his freedom, his lawyers demanded yesterday.
The high-powered defense team for former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn met face-to-face with Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. to insist that all sex-assault charges against the onetime French presidential candidate be dismissed because his hotel-maid accuser has lost all credibility.
“The meeting with Mr. Vance and his staff was very constructive. It is important to understand that the meeting was not to discuss a plea bargain, as Dominique Strauss-Kahn will not be pleading guilty to any crime,” his lawyer Ben Brafman told The Post after the roughly two-hour session with prosecutors in Vance’s office at One Hogan Place.
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Both sides refused to discuss the outcome of the high-level powwow in lower Manhattan, where Vance’s presence underscored the case’s enormous legal and political stakes. But Strauss-Kahn was beaming ear-to-ear after being briefed on the talks later by his attorneys.
As Brafman left with co-counsel William Taylor, Brafman told a throng of reporters out the building, “We appreciate all you coming down here, but there’s nothing more to be said.”
Vance’s spokeswoman, Erin Duggan, said, “The investigative process is continuing, and no decisions have been made.”
Around the time the meeting ended, Strauss-Kahn, 62, and his American-born wife, Anne Sinclair, left the TriBeCa townhouse they have been renting for $50,000 a month since just after his arrest in mid-May, and were driven to the Midtown office of Taylor’s law firm, Zuckerman Spaeder.
There, they met with Brafman and Taylor before returning to the home, where, until late last week, Strauss-Kahn was under house arrest.
Strauss-Kahn said nothing to reporters.
The meeting with Vance came days after prosecutors revealed the 32-year-old maid at the Sofitel hotel had lied on her US asylum application after leaving Guinea, on her tax returns, and about her actions after Strauss-Kahn allegedly attacked her in his Midtown hotel suite on May 14.
Those revelations led a Manhattan judge last Friday to order the return of Strauss-Kahn’s $1 million bail and $5 million bond, and free him from house arrest. He is now allowed to travel anywhere in the country without restriction.
Over the weekend, The Post reported allegations that the maid was collecting cash on the side from male guests for sexual favors.
Her lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, yesterday demanded that Vance withdraw from the case and appoint a special prosecutor. He accused top staffers in Vance’s office — including his chief assistant, Daniel Alonso — of leaking “damaging” information about the maid to the media.
In a letter to the DA, which was obtained by Reuters, Thompson also complained that Vance’s office refused to flat-out deny the Post stories.
The lawyer filed a defamation suit against the Post on Tuesday on behalf of Strauss-Kahn’s accuser.
Duggan, the DA’s spokeswoman, responded to Thompson’s request for a special prosecutor by saying, “We strongly disagree with how the office and the work of the assistant district attorneys have been characterized. Any suggestion that this office should be recused is wholly without merit.”
Additional reporting by Len Maniace, Zach Crizer and Kevin Fasick
dan.mangan@nypost.com
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April’s Action Advances Awareness As All Await Amendments: 5 Things 2 Know – Climate Work
Oregon lawmakers released their first round of amendments to the Clean Energy Jobs bill this month, which have been thoroughly discussed and evaluated by members of the Joint Committee on Carbon Reduction.
“We are now probably in the last month before passage of the Clean Energy Jobs bill,” said Sen. Michael Dembrow last week to dozens of youth advocates and adults during an Earth Day rally at the steps of the Oregon Capitol Building in Salem. His statement was made moments after telling attendees that his inbox if filled with messages supporting House Bill 2020.
“I believe,” said Rep. Karin Power, “Oregon can be proud of where the bill currently stands:
✓ There are no industry exemptions. Every sector has an obligation to do their part in this effort to reduce emissions.
✓ At least 50% of programmatic investments are dedicated to impacted communities in rural, coastal, and urban Oregon.
✓ We’re working closely with Oregon tribes, environmental justice and public health advocates, and our farmworkers’ union to listen to their needs, and reflect those in the bill.
✓ And at the same time, we’re ensuring that the program’s clean energy transition is affordable for seniors on fixed incomes and low income Oregonians.”
We are proud. Thank you, OEC members, for the support and action taken this year to encourage lawmakers like Power, Dembrow and all others, who have voiced support of the bill.
And yet as temperatures increase outside, as we prepare for fire season and continue to monitor our drinking water for harmful algae, we feel it’s critical to re-emphasize the strongest version of the HB 2020. Oregonians must maintain our amplified voice, until the end of the legislative session, showing that we’re urging the strongest possible version of the Clean Energy Jobs Bill.
Click here to email your legislator or if you’d rather call, we can help with phone calls too, thanks to our friends at Renew Oregon.
Please don’t let up. We continue to ask you contact your legislator on a regular basis to let him/her know your thoughts on the bill. As always, don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions about it’s progress.
So let’s celebrate April while we look forward to May. As the public awaits the final round of amendments and further action on HB 2020, youth advocates and partners have amplified their voices at town halls, online forums, and at the Capital this month. April has also shown us success in other legislative accomplishments, such as the unveiling of projects supported by credits from Oregon’s Clean Fuels Standards program.
1. Progress on CEJ Amendments
Lawmakers continued to discuss amendments at the start of the month before a recess from meetings as Capitol staff work to prepare the final bill language.
Last month, lawmakers had previewed the first round of amendments for the Clean Energy Jobs bill, and they have shown they listened to the concerns of hundreds of Oregonians who traveled to statewide public hearings.
The proposed changes made some significant improvements, including:
Permanently allocates 10% of proceeds to Oregon Tribes. This is a first-in-nation dedication of climate investment funds to tribal governments and would not have happened without the engagement of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians.
Eliminated the 5-year exemption for hydrofluorocarbons (greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide) and the exemption for municipal solid waste emissions.
Directly requires landfills to capture methane in line with the most stringent regional standards.
Allocates 40% of proceeds to Impacted Communities–or communities with the fewest resources to adapt to climate change or adopt clean energy technology. This ensures that all communities benefit from clean energy investments.
2. Power to All People
A relatively unknown part of the Clean Energy Jobs bill is a low-income utility work group that has provided analysis and policy guidance for the bill. Supported by Housing and Community Services, this working group has contributed a deeper understanding of the resource gap lower-income households face.
The work group assessed energy burden—or the percentage of income people are paying for energy–and how much of a problem it is in Oregon. Energy burden is defined as households that spend 6% of their income on energy (including electricity, heating and transportation fuels). Those that spend 10% or more are severely energy burdened. In Oregon, we have households in every county that are energy burdened.
To decrease energy burden, we can help increase incomes, decrease energy use (through energy efficiency and weatherization), and reduce bill payments (through bill assistance).
The Clean Energy Jobs creates more solutions to combat energy burden by:
Holding energy bills stable for low-income households and allowing utilities to create a new low-income rate class with the potential for discounted rates.
Generating more dollars for weatherization to lower energy use in low-income housing
Providing resources to build more affordable, efficient housing
Enhancing bill assistance programs
In addition, creating more clean energy jobs creates more opportunities for family-wage supporting job creation in Oregon.
For more information, check out this dynamite presentation from the Housing and Community Services explaining the programs and continuing need to help our more energy-burdened neighbors and this county-by-county assessment.
3. Earth Day Rally & 4. Youth Signatures
Yusuf Arifin travelled to Chile this Spring Break and told dozens of his peers and adults about what he saw and his concern for climate change. Edith Allen and Ruby Haack gathered more than 500 youth signatures, as part of a 1,000+ petition, delivered to Gov. Kate Brown, and Rep. Karin Power and Sen. Dembrow, who both chair the Carbon Reduction Committee.
Youth have been a central voice that are urging climate action this year. Check out the full speeches they gave to lawmakers, HB 2020 supporters and Capitol staff on Earth Day!
5. Clean Fuels Victories!
A week before Earth Day, TriMet rolled out its first all-electric bus. Electric buses have ZERO tailpipe pollution, contributing to cleaner air for all of us. Electric buses have a lot of advantages: they are much more fuel-efficient than diesel buses, have lower maintenance needs (they don’t require air or fuel filter replacements or engine oil changes), and have much lower fuel costs. Most importantly, they significantly cut climate pollution. PGE has committed to supplying TriMet with 100% wind power, making these e-buses the cleanest ride in Oregon. The Oregon Clean Fuels program creates a revenue stream for TriMet, helping them to purchase more truly clean e-buses.
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Oregon must seize the opportunity to be a national leader in responding to climate change The Clean Energy Jobs bill is ready for a vote by the Joint Committee on Carbon Reduction. It’s time. Let’s do this,
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 12, 2019 The Clean Energy Jobs bill now moves toward votes in House and Senate
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Two superstar middle-school student writers and climate advocates had among the most memorable messages to lawmakers Wednesday during a marathon hearing at the Oregon State Capitol, in my own humble opinion. They spoke among:CEOs and small businesses making the economic case for passage, labor representatives voicing support for the workforce and wage standards, farmers and agriculture advocates who are ready to be part of the solution, equity
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What Makes Fraud in Nonprofits Lethal? New Findings Get Specific
Ruth McCambridge
“Fraud 2,” Photo by CreditRepairExpert.
September 26, 2018; The Conversation
In an interesting journal article in the April 2018 edition of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, researchers Deborah S. Archambeault and Sarah Webber of the University of Dayton reveal some new findings about what fraud does to nonprofits of different sizes. Most shocking to us was the finding that 25 percent of the 115 nonprofits studied, all of which had suffered a publicized incidence of fraud, closed their doors within three years of the incident.
As with other closures, most of those that happened after these frauds were in the smaller and newer organizations.
The authors point to a few likely reasons:
Notably, the leaders and staff of newer organizations tend to lack skills and experience, which leads to problems with reliability and accountability. Newer nonprofits may also lack the structure, systems and routines that older organizations typically possess.
Smaller organizations have the disadvantage of being less able to withstand financial shocks than their larger counterparts because they operate on smaller budgets and lack deep pockets. They may also have trouble fundraising, and often find it difficult to compete for good employees. These struggles can make it harder to recover from a crisis.
Other variables played into the likelihood of survival as well. First and foremost, if the fraud was committed against the public, the organization was more likely to close than if it were committed against the organization. Second, organizations are more likely to close when a high-level executive is complicit in the fraud than if lower level employees were involved.
None of these findings ought to surprise our readers, but they do reinforce some basics that often get overlooked when starting up a new organization. Don’t depend on trust or over-rely on a staff or board member who volunteers to “take care of all that financial stuff” without reasonable checks and balances. Get advice on how to establish safe and informative systems early and from multiple sources as you grow and develop. Develop a board that’s unafraid of asking hard questions about the numbers, and make sure both they and you understand what you must monitor and how on a regular basis.—Ruth McCambridge
Ruth is Editor in Chief of the Nonprofit Quarterly. Her background includes forty-five years of experience in nonprofits, primarily in organizations that mix grassroots community work with policy change. Beginning in the mid-1980s, Ruth spent a decade at the Boston Foundation, developing and implementing capacity building programs and advocating for grantmaking attention to constituent involvement.
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Columbus Day: What’s Open, Closed in the Hudson Valley?
Because it's not one of the major holidays, many people are confused as to what services and offices are closed on Columbus Day.
The Columbus Day holiday falls on Monday, October 8 this year. Many local businesses will remain open, but some government offices and services may be affected.
Because Columbus Day is a federal holiday, there is no mail service on Monday and post offices are closed.
Most banks are closed on Monday, including the Hudson Valley Federal Credit Union. TD Bank and Chase Bank are two of the only national banks that will remain open for customers.
All federal offices are closed on Monday. County offices will also close throughout the Hudson Valley. Most local town, village and city offices including Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Kingston will all be closed down.
Garbage Pick Up
Depending on the municipality, garbage pickup may not be happening on Monday. Many private trash services, including Royal Carting, will remain open on Monday.
Most public and private schools are closed for Columbus Day
Most public libraries are closed
Local transit
The Dutchess County Loop bus will run on regular schedule. Kingston busses run on a Sunday schedule, UCAT is canceled and Metro North is running on a regular weekday schedule.
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‘…Mrs. Maisel’ cast seeks raise
Last updated Jan 28, 2019
The practice has been employed by the broadcast networks for decades, with “This Is Us” as a recent example, and also has been adopted by the streaming platforms, illustrated by the recent salary bumps after Season 2 for the actors of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” and “13 Reasons Why”, reports deadline.com.
Originally picked up with a two-season order, the period series from Amy Sherman-Palladino was renewed for a third season in May 2018, months ahead of its November premiere.
Since its launch, “…Mrs. Maisel” has won many awards, including Emmys and Golden Globes.
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At the latest Screen Actors Guild Awards, where the show had another sweep with statuettes for Emmy and Golden Globe winner Rachel Brosnahan, co-star Tony Shalhoub and the cast in the comedy ensemble category, Shalhoub referenced the re-negotiations.
“I want to thank everyone in Amazon, Jen Salke, and especially James Sterling in legal affairs and not just because I’m in the middle of re-negotiation,” Shalhoub quipped in the acceptance speech for his third SAG Award in the actor in a comedy series category — first for “…Mrs. Maisel”.
According to sources, the re-negotiations are ongoing with no major issues, and the deals, which are said to include sizable salary increases for the main actors, are expected to close to pave the way for Season 3.
In addition to Brosnahan and Shalhoub, the core cast of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” includes Alex Borstein, Michael Zegen, Kevin Pollak and Marin Hinkle.
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The Horrendous Creature That Lurks in the Shadows of the Forest
February 19, 2018 ~ jabberw ~ Leave a comment
Sometimes when it’s a sunny day,
I tend to get the need,
To go outside into the woods,
With a book to read,
Yes, I love to go out and sit under,
The shade of an oak tree,
And then immerse myself,
In the pages of fantasy,
But once when I was reading,
Something emerged from the wood,
It announced itself with a vicious roar,
And I said, ‘That’s not good.’
Out came a grisly monster,
Standing as tall as a man,
But had claws and tentacles,
And a mouth filled with fangs,
I froze with fear when it approached,
And it said, ‘I’ve been looking for you,
I see that you like reading,
Well, I’ve written a book too!’
Coming soon to bookstores: My Life as a Horrendous Creature That Lurks in the Shadows of the Forest by Glorgg Slimeson, author of Best Ways to Devour a Soul and 101 Easy-to-Make Christmas Decorations.
February 18, 2018 ~ jabberw ~ 5 Comments
‘O Tiger-lily,’ said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, ‘I wish you could talk!’
‘We can talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: ‘when there’s anybody worth talking to.’
-Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
I had green fingers. My front garden had rows of roses, and there were even more varieties of flowers to be found in the back. Every room in my house had at least one vase or pot; my dining table always sported a vase full of daffodils and my front door was framed by two potted plants. So many plants, yet I was always looking for more.
You know how they say talking to plants helps them grow? I always made sure to talk to my plants as I watered them and fed them, each and every one. Every item of news I heard I told the plants. Anything that happened to me at work or outside I told the plants. Every secret I had, the plants kept. Though I lived alone, I was never lonely. It always seemed like I was coming home to a gigantic family, one that truly understood me.
Every week I had a look around the home and garden shops, looking for more friends, looking to extend my family. Most of the time, however, those trips proved fruitless, as none of the plants really spoke to me. I was more likely to pick up a plant at the market or at a summer fair – suppose they had more of a personal touch.
My local church had a summer fair every year, and every year, I attended as soon as it started. There were always stalls selling old books, stalls for old toys, stalls for homemade apple pies and a stall for plants. The last fair I went to, however, had a strange tinge in the atmosphere I couldn’t quite put my finger on. The same stalls were there, yet there hovered something invisible that made my stomach sink.
There was still a toy stall. Still books and pies. Still a plant stall, and I found myself drawn to a certain potted rose. It called to me with unheard words, beckoned to me with an invisible finger, and it was only 50p as well. As soon as I grabbed the rose and paid the man, I left the church and made my way back home, planning to plant it in the front as soon as I could.
Then I heard, ‘Nice place you got here.’
The rose I had bought, it had suddenly gained a mouth, with teeth and a tongue framed by petals, with two eyeballs atop stalks, making it look a hybrid between a rose and a cartoon snail.
I shuddered as I looked at the rose, almost dropping it to the floor.
‘Hey, what’s wrong?’ it asked, its tiny eyes widening, ‘I thought you liked talking to plants. Come, come.’
It leapt out of the pot, taking its soil with it. It dragged its soil around, clenching its teeth as it did so.
‘Are you okay?’ I asked the rose.
‘Sure,’ said the rose, ‘Just my soil’s a little hard. It has to be, so I can be awake.’
It dragged itself to the other roses. All it did was touch the ground with an eyeball and the soil froze. All of the roses in the bed sprung the alien eyeballs, and yawned, revealing they now sported tongues and teeth. Each of them greeted me with an enthusiastic ‘Hello!’
‘You’ll love it here,’ said an old rose to the new rose, ‘We’re treated really well, and we have such fascinating conversations!’
I probably should have screamed at the sight of these living plants, but instead I could only laugh with glee. This was something I had been wishing for, praying for, and not only had I finally received it, the plants had nothing to say about me but compliments. All of them raised what counted for arms, cheering me for feeding them and speaking to them when no-one else would.
‘That rose came from me.’
I turned around and saw a man looking over me. A man with a face like a shrivelled vegetable…well, it wasn’t really a face, for there were no facial features other than a pair of bulging eyes. His gigantic top hat seemed to be a way of diverting attention from it.
‘I know how you feel,’ he said calmly, ‘so many people these days are revolting, so who wouldn’t turn to plantlife?’ He pointed at his head. ‘I’ve faced so many horrid people in my time, but then I gained the power to find and make true friends! Sadly, it came with a price…’ He rubbed where his mouth should have been. ‘…but it was more than worth it.
‘That rose can bring every flower in your home to life, and you’ll always have a fine partner for conversation, several cheerful and faithful friends, and all you have to do is shake my hand.’
I shook his hand without hesitation.
Straight after that, every flower, everything in every vase and pot, came to life, all of them dragging themselves towards me, thanking me. We had long conversations, sang songs, told stories and jokes, and savoured the rain.
They’re still alive. I still talk to them. Life would be perfect if it weren’t for these thorns growing from my arms.
The Jigsaw Puzzle
Once there was a boy who bought a jigsaw puzzle, one of a happy dog skipping down a field. Despite the jovial picture, the puzzle was said to be one of the most difficult ever made, and it was said that once it was complete, something magical would happen.
The boy indeed found the puzzle was difficult, but determined to see what magical thing would happen once the puzzle was complete, he persevered. Months he spent on that puzzle, the first two months with several pieces in the wrong place. ‘At first you don’t succeed’ and ‘Remember that something magical will happen’ repeated throughout his brain as he attempted to put the pieces in the right place, and though at times he considered giving up, he forced himself to complete the puzzle.
He did complete it. Something magical did happen.
Two legs sprung from the bottom side of the puzzle, an arm sprung from the right side and another arm sprung from the left. A face formed in the middle, making it look like the dog depicted had eyes and a mouth growing out of its belly. The completed puzzle sprung to its feet and struck a pose before it admired itself in the mirror.
It was proud. Proud of its picture, proud of its difficulty. It named itself after what it thought the dog, the chubby, bouncing dog, in its picture was named.
‘Wow,’ said the boy to the puzzle, ‘I brought you to life!’
‘Yes, you did,’ said the puzzle with a smirk, ‘but it wasn’t exactly a speedy process, was it? Months you spent on me. Months!’
‘Hey!’
‘I am truly challenging, aren’t I? The greatest, most difficult puzzle there is! Everyone should know about me!’
Instantly, the puzzle ran out of the boy’s house, with the boy following it. The puzzle climbed the largest wall it could find and then sat atop it, calling one and all to come look at it.
‘Look! Behold the greatest puzzle of them all! A true challenge!’ It gestured towards the boy, standing below it. ‘He may have completed me, but do you know how long it took?’
The novelty of bringing a jigsaw puzzle wore off, and now the boy could now feel nothing but irritation towards the puzzle and its arrogance. He climbed the wall himself, snarling and…
Well, you know how the poem never mentions Humpty Dumpty is an egg?
The Nightmare Man
Do you hate having bad dreams,
Like that one nightmare,
When you’re caught in public,
In your underwear?
Do you hate scary dreams,
Filled with fear and gloom?
If you do, let me in,
Let me enter your bedroom.
Summon me, the Nightmare Man,
I’ll work when you’re asleep,
I’ll make sure not to wake you up,
I’ll make not a peep,
I’ll open up your head, I will,
But I won’t cause any pain,
I’ll pluck every nightmare,
Straight out of your brain,
But there is a price to pay,
I don’t do this for free,
I’ll then release your nightmares,
For an audience to see,
An audience of demons,
Who will watch and dance and laugh,
As I play your nightmares,
All for their behalf,
For there is something about me,
That I think you should know,
I work for The Ringmonster,
And I help give him a show.
A Duck, a Snake and Valentine’s Day
February 10, 2018 ~ jabberw ~ 1 Comment
This is a special Valentine’s Day story set in the same world as my book The Adventures of a Duck and features the eponymous duck and her snake boyfriend.
Anne the duck and Harry the snake were girlfriend and boyfriend and happy to be so, yet neither of them spoke or thought about Valentine’s Day until the Friday before. It was when they went down to the pub for a drink and saw a poster for a Valentine’s Day dance that Harry said, ‘Oh right, Valentine’s is coming up. Think we should go to that dance?’ Anne suggested they only use it as a “last resort” because while she liked the pub, she didn’t really see it as a particularly romantic place.
So the next day, after they bought cards and gifts, Anne and Harry got together to discuss what to do for Valentine’s. ‘Were you thinking of a nice candlelit dinner in some fancy restaurant somewhere?’ Harry asked with a smile.
‘Not really,’ laughed Anne, ‘I knew I said the pub wasn’t really Valentines-y…’
‘Well, how about a boat ride then? I know of this thing that does tours down the river.’
‘Yeah, that would be nice,’ said Anne, before she described the river cruise she had with her parents when she was younger. ‘Oh,’ she added as a thought occurred to her, ‘but we’ve left it too late. They’ll probably be packed.’
‘Oh yeah,’ Harry replied, ‘I bet all the other ideas I have will be packed too.’
So the next hour or so was spent throwing around ideas, with both of them giving consideration to the pub, until Anne said, ‘You know, I don’t mind spending Valentine’s Day chilling out together watching horror films.’
‘That’s what we do every weekend though,’ replied Harry.
‘Yeah, but it’s something we like doing together, and Valentine’s is supposed to be about celebrating being together.’
‘I suppose,’ said Harry, ‘and I did recently get Attack of the Slimy Tentacle Creature recently.’
‘Oh,’ laughed Anne, ‘I’ve heard about that. Supposed to be dreadful.’
‘That’s why I bought it.’
So it was settled. Valentine’s Day for Anne and Harry would not be a candlelit dinner for two in a fancy restaurant but lounging around Harry’s bedroom with a few cans of Guinness and the Slimy Tentacle Creature.
However, when Anne went over to Harry’s home, he greeted her wearing a big bow tie and that fake moustache he wore on Halloween, holding a heart-shaped box of chocolates. ‘Welcome to the House of Love, mon cherie!’ Anne laughed and handed over the card she bought for Harry and his present – a t-shirt with Frankenstein’s Monster on it.
Harry took off his bowtie and slipped on the t-shirt before starting the DVD. Though he had prepared a huge bowl of popcorn, Anne planned to chomp down on her chocolates while watching the movie. Both of them laughed the minute the DVD started, as the terrible “Slimy Tentacle Creature” was shown in all its paper mache glory on the menu. Anne was certain the creature’s tentacles were all sticks of liquorice.
When Harry pressed “Play”, however, the creature looked a little more state-of-the-art. No paper-mache exterior, instead water rolled off shimmering sickly-green skin as the creature rose from the sea. Its tentacles wobbled as it emerged, rising towards the sky as if the creature were celebrating its own arrival. It had watery yellow eyes, which seemed to stare at Anne and Harry.
A tentacle burst out of the screen.
Anne and Harry shrieked, knocking over both popcorn and chocolates. Before Anne could grab Harry, who seemed to be frozen in fear, the tentacle wrapped around him, dragging him into the television. ‘No!’ screamed Anne as she leapt onto the tentacle, poking, pinching biting, doing whatever she could in hopes the creature’s grip would loosen.
The Slimy Tentacle Creature roared, spitting salty water over Anne’s face. Its tentacle quickly snapped back into the screen, bringing Harry with it and knocking Anne to the ground. Anne rose and darted for the TV, only for another tentacle to arise, looming over Anne as if ready to flatten her any moment.
Before Anne could react, before she could fight back, the tentacle wrapped around her, compressing her body and she couldn’t even scream…
‘Oh, hi, Anne!’
Next thing Anne knew, she was sat at a table, facing Harry, who had regained his bowtie. Between them was a single tealight and two menus.
Anne looked around. The Slimy Tentacle Creature. No, not “the”, several. Wet, flabby, rippling creatures, all sat at tables, stuffing what looked like thick vomit into their mouths. Anne almost vomited herself, but then she came face to face with the Slimy Tentacle Creature, the one who had brought her here.
‘You know,’ said the creature, ‘I’m mighty honoured you two chose to watch my movie as a Valentine’s Day treat. To thank you, I’d like you to have a free meal at my restaurant!’
‘You have a restaurant?’ asked Anne, arching an eyebrow.
‘Well, yeah,’ said the Slimy Tentacle Creature, ‘that’s what happens at the end.’
‘You dragged us in here before we could watch it,’ said Harry, ‘Oh, and spoilers!’
‘Calm down, Harry,’ replied Anne, ‘Let’s just take up his offer.’
‘Have you seen the menu though?’
Anne took one look at the menu and felt like throwing up again. ‘Well, a free meal’s a free meal.’
The Thing in the Shower
February 5, 2018 ~ jabberw ~ 3 Comments
Today I had a shower,
To get myself clean,
There I heard a growl,
That sounded quite mean,
Then from the water,
Splattered all over the floor,
I heard the sounds of slaughter,
Then out came a claw,
There rose a beast,
With fangs and a long nose,
It then began to feast,
Upon all my toes,
‘Why?’ I asked the thing,
It said, ‘You drove me mad,
Because the way you sing,
It’s oh so very bad!’
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Hurricane Hermine hits Florida, causes heavy rains
September 2, 2016 Top stories
Tropical storm Hermine has made landfall in northern Florida, becoming the first hurricane to hit the state in 11 years.
Hermine hit the Florida Gulf Coast early on Friday as a category one hurricane, bringing with it a heavy storm surge.
Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for 51 counties as residents were braced for the dangerous storm.
Wind gusts reached 80mph (130km/h), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Two hours after making landfall, as it moved inland, Hermine was downgraded to a tropical storm, the National Weather Service said.
City officials in the state capital Tallahassee, which is in the path of the storm, said at least 70,000 homes were now without power.
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Weather officials in the city warned of the risk of flash floods and urged people there to move to higher ground, but winds have now started to reduce.
South of Tallahassee, the town of Cedar Key has seen a 6.6ft (two-metre) storm surge, raising high tide to almost 10ft. Images from the town posted on social media showed significant flooding.
“It is a mess… we have high water in numerous places,” Virgil Sandlin, the police chief in Cedar Key, told the Weather Channel. “I was here in 1985 for Hurricane Elena and I don’t recall anything this bad.”
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Movie sets from other times, worlds and dimensions.
Forbidden Planet - 1956
Commander Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew cross space to find out what happened to the crew of The Belerephon 20 years ago on Altair 4. When they arrive they find Dr Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter Alraira (Anne Francis) and the powerful Robby the Robot. Suddenly the crew are attacked and Adams soon discovers an unusual suspect.
A 54 card storyboard set is also available as below for £12.00.
Planet of The Apes - 1967
George Taylor (Charlton Heston) and his crew crash land on strange planet 2000 after they had left earth. What they find is a world ruled by apes and mute humans that are hunted like animals. Taylor is wounded and captured during a hunt and his wound causes the loss of his voice. Zira finds him fascinating and when he regains his speech the ruling apes know he is a threat to their entire culture. What Taylor discovers about this planet rocks him to the very core of his humanity.
A 54 card storyboard set is also available as below for £12.00
Beneath the Planet of The Apes - 1970
Brent (James Franciscus) is sent into space to find Taylor (Charlton Heston) and ends up on the same planet ruled by Apes. All he has is the mute Nova (Linda Harrison) to help him. The apes want to wipe out humans for good but do not know they are telepathic and possess a bomb that will destroy the world
Escape from The Planet of The Apes - 1971
The war between man an ape has destroyed Earth. Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and Zira (Kim Hunter) are two apes that use Taylor's spaceship and find themselves in 1970's America. At first they are treated as celebrities but when they reveal the Earth will be ruled by talking apes and that Zira is pregnant Government forces know they have to be destroyed.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes - 1972
Cornelius and Zira are dead but their child Caesar has survived. It is 20 years later and news reaches the Government that he may be alive so he goes into hiding with apes that are kept as slaves. Caesar has seen how badly the apes are treated and he leads a revolt against the humans. He declares there will be a Planet of Apes. Also stars Ricardo Montalban.
Battle for the Planet of The Apes - 1973
Earth has been devastated by war. Caesar is trying to build a world where Apes rule but he is tempted into the Forbidden city where he might find records of his parents. He does not realise the city is populated by mutated humans. This leads to conflict and a final battle for the planet. Caesar also faces danger from Aldo (Claude Akins) and his army of gorillas.
Westworld - 1973
Peter (Richard Benjamin) and John (James Brolin) have paid big bucks to be entertained at the fantasy resort of Westworld. They can live out the dreams of the old west without coming to harm. They are constantly challenged by a robotic gunslinger (Yul Brynner) but as time passes the robots begin to malfunction and they find themselves in a battle against a relentless killer.
A 54 card storyboard set is also available as follows for £12.00
Logan's Run - 1976
In the 23rd century mankind lives for pleasure but only until the age of 30 when their life is ended on the carousel.
They can take their chances and run but they will be hunted down by the Sandmen.
Logan 5 (Michael York) is a Sandman who is sent on a secret mission to infiltrate a gang of runners but there is a catch as his remaining years have been wiped away and he is facing the carousel.
He decides to run with the help of Jessica 6 (Jenny Agutter) but his old Sandman partner Francis (Richard Jordan) chases them all the way to the old world where they meet the oldest man alive played by Peter Ustinov.
A 54 card Movie Storyboard set is also available as below for £12.00
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 1977
Aliens have visited Earth in the past and now they have come back. Not only are Governments affected by this but also ordinary people who find themselves inexplicably drawn to Devils Tower in Wyoming. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) and Jillian Guiler (Melinda Dillon) are two such people, both heading there for different reasons and both believing the Government is hiding something. They soon find this is bigger than they ever suspected.
Flash Gordon - 1980
This 18 card set tells the story of how Pro footballer, Flash Gordon (Sam Jones), travelled from Earth to Mongo to defeat the evil Ming (Max von Sydow). Accompanying him are Dale Arden (Melody Anderson) and Dr Zarkov (Topol). They soon find themselves amid a battle for the throne. Also stars Timothy Dalton and Brian Blessed.
A 54 card movie storyboard set is also available as below for £12.00.
The Terminator - 1984
This is a 9 card set representing the 1984 Sci-Fi classic starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg sent back in time to kill the mother of a future enemy. Following him is Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) who is sent back to protect the target, Sarah Conner (Linda Hamilton). Without her unborn child
A 45 card storyboard set is available as below for £11.00
Highlander - 1985
Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) is banished from his village in the Highlands of Scotland when he is miraculously cured of a fatal wound in 1536.
He finds a new life with Heather (Beattie Edney) but they are visited by the mysterious Ramirez (Sean Connery) who tells him they are immortal brothers
and in the end all of the immortals will fight to the death throughout time for the prize .
Kurgan (Clancey Brown) is an evil Immortal who must not claim the prize so MacLeod is prepared by Ramirez if ever they should meet.
MacLeod is still alive in 1985 in New York where the final battle will take place.
He attracts interest from the police and Brenda Wyatt (Roxanne Hart) a forensic sword expert.
The winner will be the one who does not lose his head.
Predator - 1987
This 9 card set represents the 1987 classic movie, Predator. Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his team of elite commandos are sent into the Latin jungle to rescue a diplomat but the hunters soon become the hunted as an alien predator sees them as the perfect test for his deadly skills. Also stars Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham and Jesse Ventura.
Predator 2 - 1990
The Predators are back and one sees LA Cop Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) as its next target. Harrigan is caught up in a drugs war but when rival gangs are slaughtered he realises there is a new player in town. The Predator begins to target Harrigan's team in an attempt to lure him into a fight to the death. All the while the mysterious Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) appears to have other plans. Also stars Bill Paxton, Maria Conchita Alonso and Ruben Blades.
Hellboy 1 - 2004
This is a 54 card set representing the Hellboy movie (2004) starring Ron Perlman as the title character created by Nazi magic but trying to find his way in the world with the help of his "Father" Broom. This is a flawed hero and time catches up with him when the evil of his past comes calling and tragedy strikes. The story of the movie is told throughout the reverse of the cards.
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AKA Roger George Moore
Born: 14-Oct-1927
Birthplace: London, England
Died: 23-May-2017
Location of death: Undetermined Location, Switzerland
Cause of death: Cancer - unspecified
Occupation: Actor
Nationality: England
Executive summary: James Bond after Sean Connery
Military service: Military Intelligence (required National Service, 2nd Lt.)
Roger Moore grew up in London, and lived through the blitz during WWII. As a young man, he worked as a model and, briefly, as a draftsman, before being accepted to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his film debut with a tiny role as a soldier in two 1945 films, Caesar and Cleopatra with Claude Rains and Vivien Leigh and Perfect Strangers with Robert Donat and Deborah Kerr. But Moore was mostly seen as a TV actor, after starring as Ivanhoe in a 1958-59 series, and The Alaskans the following season. When James Garner refused to play Bret on Maverick in 1961, Moore was brought in to star as his cousin Beauregarde. Moore and Tony Curtis were The Persuaders in the early 1970s.
Moore is best remembered on the small screen as Simon Templar, the lead spy in The Saint, which prefigured his role as James Bond. Moore made dozens of movies, but none were particularly memorable until Sean Connery refused to reprise his role as James Bond, and Moore became 007 in Live and Let Die (1973). Moore was three years older than Connery, and in Moore's final Bond film, A View To A Kill in 1985, he was 58, making him the oldest actor to play Bond. Moore's Bond was seen as somewhat silly, with wisecracks always at the ready, many of which were improvised by Moore.
Father: George Moore (London policeman)
Mother: Lillian Pope (housewife)
Wife: Doorn Van Steyn (ice skater, m. 9-Dec-1946, div. 1953)
Wife: Dorothy Squires (singer, m. 6-Jul-1953, div. 1968, d. 1995 cancer)
Wife: Luisa Mattioli (actress, m. 11-Apr-1969, div. 1996, one daughter, two sons)
Son: Geoffrey Robert Moore (restaurateur, b. 28-Jul-1966)
Daughter: Deborah Moore (actress, b. 27-Oct-1963)
Son: Christian Moore (b. 1973)
Wife: Kristina Tholstrup ("Kiki", Danish stewardess, dated 1996-2002, m. 10-Mar-2002, until his death)
Golden Globe 1980 for World Film Favorite, Male
Commander of the British Empire 1999
Knight of the British Empire June 2003 during Queen's Birthday Honors
UNICEF Celebrity spokesman
Endorsement of Toyota
Prostate Surgery (1993)
Fainted (May-2003)
Risk Factors: Former Smoker, Pacemaker
The Persuaders Lord Brett Sinclair (1971-72)
The Saint Simon Templar (1962-69)
Maverick Beau Maverick (1960-61)
Ivanhoe Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe (1958-59)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (5-Oct-2012) · Himself
A Princess for Christmas (21-Nov-2011)
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (29-Jul-2010) · Tab Lazenby [VOICE]
Boat Trip (4-Oct-2002) · Lloyd
The Enemy (9-Feb-2001) · Robert Ogilvie
Spice World (15-Dec-1997) · Chief
The Saint (4-Apr-1997) · Car Radio Voice [VOICE]
The Quest (19-Apr-1996)
The Man Who Wouldn't Die (29-May-1995)
It's the Monty Python Story (1993) · Himself
Bed & Breakfast (23-Sep-1991)
Bullseye! (28-Aug-1991) · Garald Bradley-Smith
Fire, Ice & Dynamite (18-Oct-1990)
A View to a Kill (24-May-1985) · James Bond
The Naked Face (Jun-1984) · Dr. Judd Stevens
Curse of the Pink Panther (13-Aug-1983) · Clouseau
Octopussy (6-Jun-1983) · James Bond
For Your Eyes Only (25-Jun-1981) · James Bond
The Cannonball Run (19-Jun-1981)
Sunday Lovers (31-Oct-1980)
Sea Wolves: The Last Charge of the Calcutta Light Horse (3-Jul-1980) · Capt. Gavin Stewart
ffolkes (1-Mar-1980)
Moonraker (27-Jun-1979) · James Bond
Escape to Athena (16-Feb-1979)
The Wild Geese (11-Nov-1978)
The Spy Who Loved Me (7-Jul-1977) · James Bond
Sherlock Holmes in New York (18-Oct-1976)
Shout at the Devil (23-Jul-1976) · Sebastian Oldsmith
Street People (30-Mar-1976)
That Lucky Touch (7-Aug-1975)
The Man with the Golden Gun (18-Dec-1974) · James Bond
Gold (7-Sep-1974)
Live and Let Die (27-Jun-1973) · James Bond
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
Crossplot (25-Nov-1969) · Gary Fenn
Gold of the Seven Saints (18-Feb-1961) · Shaun Garrett
The Sins of Rachel Cade (10-Feb-1961)
The Miracle (12-Nov-1959)
Diane (12-Jan-1956)
The King's Thief (5-Aug-1955) · Jack
Interrupted Melody (25-Mar-1955) · Cyril Lawrence
The Last Time I Saw Paris (18-Nov-1954) · Paul
http://www.roger-moore.com/
Author of books:
My Word is My Bond: A Memoir (2008)
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