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Gaffer praises striker
Nigel Clough feels Blades fans are starting to see leading scorer Marc McNulty find his best form.
The 22-year-old, who has netted in both of United's wins of 2015, earnt praise from his manager following his goal in Saturday's win over Preston North End at Bramall Lane.
Speaking in the aftermath of the weekend's 2-1 win, Clough remarked: "It was a mature performance from Marc and you can certainly see a massive improvement in him from when he first arrived.
"He is working harder than he ever as done, he is looking fit and strong and he is holding the ball up. He is now resisting more challenges from the defenders which enables him to bring our midfielders into play."
The Gaffer is now for looking for the Scottish marksman to produce the goods on a regular basis as the next stage in his development.
Clough added: "We have worked tremendously hard with Marc throughout his time here and we are now seeing the rewards, but as we have told him he has now set his standard, what he must do now is perform with consistency
"He has scored ten goals already and he always looks like getting a goal when he is on the pitch, but there is still room for improvement and more to come."
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China's disregard for status quo threatens regional stability: Taiwan President
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Speaking at the 2018 “Formosa Forum: A Dialogue on Maritime Security” on May 31, President Tsai Ing-wen spoke on her current views of the status quo and cross-...
Chinese Shaanxi Y-8 aircraft traces center of the Taiwan Strait, M503 flight path
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Chinese military aircraft continue their drills around the Taiwan Strait, with a Shaanxi Y-8 military transport plane spotted on the morning of Monday, May 14 traveling ve...
Taiwan Air Force moves IDF jets into Penghu in middle of Taiwan Strait
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Air Force has moved Indigenous Defense Fighters (經國號) C/D jets into a base in Penghu County, in the middle of the Taiwan Strait, as part of a project to monitor milita...
Why international airlines are flocking back to Taiwan
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Despite pressure to not recognize Taiwan as a country on their websites by China, several international air carriers are restoring their services to Taiwan because of the poten...
Reshuffle a response to Taiwan sovereignty supporters: analysts
Taipei, Feb. 23 (CNA) Friday's government reshuffle reflects President Tsai Ing-wen's (蔡英文) desire to enhance Taiwan's national security and clear doubts among supporters about her adminis...
President Tsai calls on Taiwanese businesses in China to invest in the island
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – At a Lunar New Year’s event for Taiwanese business people who invested in China, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) called on them to invest in Taiwan. Over the past ye...
Indian media: India and ASEAN should coordinate with Taiwan to balance China's rise
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – On Feb. 3, the Times of India published an article on its op-ed site entitled “Taiwan Card: Coordinating with Taipei is imperative for creating a multipolar Indo-Pac...
Air China announces extra flights from Chongqing to Taipei
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Chinese airline, Air China, announced on Sunday that additional flights will operate between Chongqing to Taipei before the Lunar New Year holiday. Air China state...
U.S. to sell Stinger missiles to Taiwan following M503 dispute
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The United States is preparing to sell 250 Stinger surface-to-air missiles to Taiwan following its dispute with China about the M503 flight route, reports said Friday. ...
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen praises robust Taiwan-US relations
TAIPEI (Taiwan Today) -- President Tsai Ing-wen said Jan. 30 that Taiwan-U.S. relations are going from strength to strength based on a mutual commitment to promoting peace and stability in the Indo-Pa...
China lashes out at Taiwan over cancellation of flights
BEIJING (AP) — China has criticized rival Taiwan over the cancellation of flights during the Lunar New Year holiday in response to a dispute over a new air route. A spokesman for the...
Taiwanese military will provide transport home via Kinmen for travelers after mass flight cancellations
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) said it could arrange military aircraft in Kinmen for Taiwanese people who wished to return to Taiwan ...
Taiwan military simulates repelling Chinese attack on Hualien port
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Taiwan's Hua-tung Defense Command yesterday (Jan. 30) simulated an attack on the Port of Hualien by People's Liberation Army (PLA) forces of China, reported CNA. The...
Did China really win its airlines battle with Taiwan? No!
Last week, I wrote about the ongoing "air-wars" between Taiwan and China which have culminated in the tit-for-tat spat between the two countries. But one commentator has argued the outcome h...
Taiwan wants to continue talks with China about extra Lunar New Year flights
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – China blamed Taiwan for the cancellation of plans for extra Lunar New Year flights, but the island’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) said Tuesda...
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Lionsgold Limited - Exercise of Warrants and PDMR Shareholding
Lionsgold Limited
("Lionsgold", "LION" or the "Company")
Exercise of Warrants and Director/PDMR Shareholding
Lionsgold (LON: LION), the AIM quoted company focused on the exploration, production and retail application of physical gold, including the development of the Goldbloc digital currency, announces that it has received notices of exercise in respect of warrants to subscribe for new ordinary shares of no par value each ("Ordinary Shares") at a price per share as listed below (the "Warrant Shares").
Number of Warrants
The Company will therefore issue and allot 24,931,820 Warrant Shares for the receipt of £393,795. Application will be made for 24,931,820 new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM, which is expected to take place on 27 December 2017.
In addition to the Warrant Shares set out above, Yarramen Corp Limited, which is owned by a family trust of Cameron Parry, Lionsgold's CEO, has exercised warrants to subscribe for 1,500,000 new Ordinary Shares at a price per share of 1.5p, with payment of £22,500 received by LION during the exercise period. The resulting new Ordinary Shares will only be issued subject to the passing of the necessary resolutions at the Company's AGM to be held on 28 December 2017.
Further, Lionsgold's CEO, Cameron Parry, has notified the Company that he has transferred 7,000,000 Ordinary Shares he previously held in his own name to Yarramen Corp Limited. Following this transfer (and not including the warrant exercise subject to AGM), Mr. Parry is interested in 10,000,000 Ordinary Shares, all of which are held in the name of Yarramen Corp Limited.
In accordance with the provisions of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the FCA ("DTRs"), the issued ordinary share capital of Lionsgold following the issue of the Warrant Shares, there shall be 320,711,718 Ordinary Shares with voting rights attached (one vote per share). There are no shares held in treasury. This total voting rights figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculation by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, Lionsgold under the DTRs.
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דף הבית » English » Mili D'agadata » Shmot » Vaeirah » Four Expressions of Redemption
Four Expressions of Redemption
לכן אמור לבני ישראל אני ה' והוצאתי אתכם מתחת סבלות מצרים והצלתי אתכם מעבודתם וגאלתי אתכם בזרוע נטויה ובשפטים גדולים. ולקחתי אתכם לי לעם והייתי לכם לאלקים וידעתם כי אני ה' אלקיכם המוציא אתכם מתחת סבלות מצרים[1]
Therefore, say to the Children of Israel: ‘I am Hashem, and I shall take you out from under the burdens of Egypt; I shall rescue you from their service; I shall redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I shall take you to Me for a people and I shall be a G-d to you; and you shall know that I am Hashem your G-d, Who takes you out from under the burdens of Egypt.
Rashi and Rashbam write[2] that the four cups of wine we drink at the Pesach Seder parallel the four expressions of redemption: והוצאתי—I shall take you out, והצלתי—I shall rescue you, וגאלתי—I shall redeem you, and ולקחתי—I shall take you.
One is allowed to drink between the first and second cups of wine, as well as between the second and third. But between the third and the fourth it is forbidden to eat or drink. Why is this so? There are people who think that the redemption is about the physical deliverance from bondage, freedom and liberation from the yoke of the oppressor. For such people, the first three expressions of redemption are sufficient, והוצאתי, והצלתי, and וגאלתי, I shall take [you] out, rescue [ you] and redeem [you]. The fourth one,אתכם לי לעם והייתי לכם לאלקים ולקחתי, and I shall take you to Me for a people and I shall be a G-d to you—they are willing to forgo. Our Sages teach us that the first three expressions of redemption are not the most significant aspects of redemption, and this is why it is permissible to drink between the first, second and third cups of wine. But between the third and the fourth one cannot eat or drink because the crux of redemption is the redemption of the soul, and it is this redemption for which we are grateful—the salvation of the soul and the closeness to G-d, receiving the Beis HaMikdash and having the Divine Presence rest among us. This is the point of redemption, as the Ramban says[3] “The exile did not end until the day [the people] returned to their place and returned to the stature of their forefathers.”
הוציאנו מעבדות לחרות
From Bondage to Freedom
Slavery is a harsh experience. Within the hardship of slavery there are differing layers of difficulty: there is one type of slavery In which a slave has an evil master with malevolence in his heart, who tyrannizes without mercy. This slave is subject to hard labor, and physical and emotional difficulties as well. There is a second form of slavery where the master is kindhearted, but the slave is nonetheless subjected to hard work and has no respite. There is yet another form of slavery where the master is kind and does not work the slave too hard, but the slave is still a slave, required to do as the master desires. While under this last type of slavery the slave does not work too hard nor suffer under tyrannical rule, he is still a slave, not free to do as he pleases.
Pharaoh was an evil tyrant under whom Bnei Yisrael were subjected to terribly harsh decrees of death and annihilation, in addition to the laborious work they were forced to do. This is why the passuk uses the four different expressions of redemption: אתכם מתחת סבלות מצרים והוצאתי, I shall take you out from under the burdens of Egypt, and Bnei Yisrael will no longer suffer the harsh decrees of Pharaoh. But that is not all; והצלתי אתכם מעבודתם, I shall rescue you from their service, and you will no longer have to work for them. And additionally,בזרוע נטויה ובשפטים גדולים וגאלתי אתכם, I shall redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments, and you will no longer be enslaved but free people living contentedly. G-d had to take them out from under Pharaoh’s tyrannical rule, rescue them from their servitude, and enable them to become truly free individuals. But above all, ולקחתי אתכם לי לעם והייתי לכם ולאלקים, I shall take you to Me for a people and I shall be a G-d to you.
על שום שמררו המצרים את חיי אבותינו במצרים[4]
[This Marror which we eat symbolizes how the] Mitzrim made the lives of our forefathers bitter in Egypt
It seems incongruous that at the Seder, a time when we are commanded to act in ways representative of freedom and redemption, we not only mention, but emphasize, the bondage and enslavement in Egypt. Yet this seeming incongruity is there to teach us a profound lesson: that even that which appears in our eyes to be bad is actually good, for all G-d’s attributes are merciful, and כל מאן דעביד רחמנא לטב עביד[5], everything that G-d does is for the good.
The passuk in Devarim states בנים אתם לה' אלקיכם לא תתגודדו ולא תשימו קרחה בין עיניכם למת[6], You are children to Hashem, your G-d—you shall not cut yourselves and you shall not make a bald spot between your eyes for a dead person. Says the Ibn Ezra, “He [G-d] loves you more than a father loves a son and therefore do not mutilate yourselves because of what He does, for whatever he does is for the good. And if you do not understand what He does, [it is like] the small children who do not [always] understand their father’s actions but they trust him. So too should you do.”
R’ Akiva exemplified this characteristic. When calamity struck he would say כל מאן דעביד רחמנא לטב עביד[7]. The Gemara[8] describes how when R’ Akiva was caught by the Romans and was being executed for learning Torah, he rejoiced. Elsewhere the Gemara[9] describes how R’ Akiva saw the good and kindness in the sickness and suffering of his great master, R’ Eliezer ben Horkanos. R’ Akiva even saw G-d’s kindness in the exile of the Jewish people and the destruction of the Beis HaMikdash.[10]
I once heard from my teacher, the great Rebbe of Sanz ZT”L, that the reason we cover our eyes when we say Shema is that at the moment we accept upon ourselves the yoke of heaven,[11] we state ה' אלקינו ה' אחד, Hashem our G-d is One; namely, the attribute of G-d’s mercy (represented by the name הוי'), and the attributes of G-d’s judgment (represented by the name אלקים) are really the same. Even that which appears to us to be an act of judgment is really enveloped in mercy. This is why we cover our eyes when we state ה' אלקינו ה' אחד. We cover the eyes physically to demonstrate that we do not “see” the goodness that is inherent even in judgment, and that in fact כל מאן דעביד רחמנא לטב עביד, everything that G-d does is for the good.
"אל תירא מרדה מצרימה... ויוסף ישית ידו על עיניך[12]" do not fear going down to Egypt…and Joseph shall place his hand on your eye. The Kol Aryeh explains in his preface that Yaakov was fearful of going down to Egypt, and G-d was telling him that even if initially the going down to Egypt appears to be a harsh decree, in the end it will be clearly revealed that it was for the good. Just like the selling of Yosef, which at first appeared as though the attribute of דין had targeted Yaakov (his son being thrown into a pit and then sold to the Ishmaelites); in the end it became clear that G-d had sent Yosef down to Egypt to ensure their sustenance during the famine. This is why the passuk says ויוסף ישית ידו על עיניך, and Yosef shall place his hand on your eyes, just like we do when we say Shema, to show that we are confident in our faith that inherent in the דין is abundant mercy—we just haven’t merited seeing the mercy as of yet. The Zohar alludes to this and states on this passuk דא היא רזא דקריאת שמע, this [the story of Yosef being sold and Yaakov going down to Egypt] is the secret of Shema
The Kol Aryeh quotes the Chassam Sofer who explains the passuk "וראית את אחורי ופני לא יראו"[13] and you will see My back, but My face may not be seen. He explains that it is not within our power to see the inner kindnesses of G-d, inherent in the judgment בראיית פנים, meaning, prior to the events happening. But וראית את אחורי, you shall see My back, from behind, in hindsight, we and future generations see clearly the extent of G-d’s goodness.
According to this, we can explain the following Gemara[14]:
Rav Yehuda said in the name of Rav: When Moshe ascended to the Heavenly Heights [to receive the Torah] he found the Holy One, Blessed is He, as He was sitting and attaching crowns to some of the letters. [That is, although the Torah was completely written, He was still adding tagin to certain letters,] He [Moshe] said before Him, “Master of the Universe, who is holding you back from giving the Torah as it is?” [G-d] said to him, “There is one man who is destined to exist at the end of many generations, Akiva ben Yosef is his name, and it is he who will expound upon each and every point heaps and heaps of halachos.” [Moshe] said before [G-d], “Master of the Universe, show him to me!” [G-d] said to him, חזור לאחריך “Turn around and see what is behind you.” He found himself in R’ Akiva’s class. Moshe went and sat at the end of eight rows of students, but as he listened to the give-and-take between R’ Akiva and his students, he did not understand what they were saying. Disheartened, [Moshe’s] strength ebbed. However, once they reached a certain matter that required a source, [R’ Akiva’s] students asked him, “Teacher, from where do you know this?” [R’ Akiva] replied to them, “It is a halachah transmitted orally to Moshe at Sinai.” Upon hearing this, [Moshe’s] mind was relieved. He returned and came before the Holy One, Blesses be He. [Moshe] said before Him, “Master of the Universe, You have someone like this and You give the Torah through me?! Give it through R’ Akiva!” [G-d] said to him, Quiet!כך עלה במחשבה לפני Thus has it arisen in the thoughts before Me; this is part of My greater plan to which you are not privy.” [Moshe] said before Him, “Master of the Universe, You have shown me his Torah, now show me his reward.” [G-d] said to him, חזור לאחריך “Turn around and see what is behind you.” [Moshe] turned around and saw that people were weighing the flesh from [R’ Akiva’s body] in the butchers’ meat market in order to sell it. [Moshe] said before Him, “Master of the Universe! This is Torah and this is its reward?!” [G-d] said to him, “Quiet! כך עלה במחשבה לפני, this is part of My greater plan to which you are not privy.”
When Moshe became enraged at the death of R’ Akiva, G-d said to him, I have already told you וראית את אחורי you will understand things in hindsight, but ופני לא יראו, as things unfold you will not understand. This decree of R’ Akiva’s death is מלפני and therefore you cannot understand it, so !חזור לאחוריך—in hindsight, you will understand, but not as it unfolds.
Based on the above, we can glean new meaning from the following Chassam Sofer. The Mishna[15] lists five types of bitter herbs which are suitable for Maror at the Seder. The Gemara there states that חסה (lettuce), alludes to חס רחמנא עלן, G-d have mercy upon us. The Chassam Sofer writes that there is a mnemonic in the תמכא (wild lettuce/burdcok) as well. תמכא is an acronym for תמיד מספרים כבוד א-ל, constantly declaring the glory of G-d. The Chassam Sofer writes further that his Rebbe Rabbi Nosson Adler searched for a vegetable called כרפס and heard from the מהרי"ל that the כרפס is a vegetable known to them as אפיא. אפיא is an acronym for א-ל פועל ישועות אתה, you effect salvations, O G-d.
It seems that the Chassam Sofer’s goal is not merely to find acronyms, rather that this is the purpose of eating Maror, namely, that we should declare the glory of G-d, even during the darkest days when the land is cloaked in darkness, even when we don’t openly see His kindness. We should believe that He, at all times and forever, is a G-d who effects salvations, and brings about the cure from the affliction itself.
[1] שמות ו':ו'-ז'
[2] פסחים צ"ט ע"ב
[3] Ramban, in his introduction to Sefer Shemos.
[4] הגדה של פסח
[5] ברכות ס' ע"ב
[6] דברים י"ד: א'
[7]ברכות ס' ע"ב
[8] ירושלמי, ברכות ט':ה', סוטה, ה':ה'
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Inside the Avant-Garde Townhouse of This Power Artist Couple
Plet Bolipata, who decorated her home with husband Elmer Borlongan, ditched minimalism altogether.
By Devi De Veyra | MAY 18, 2018
IMAGE AT MACULANGAN
“None of the townhouses we visited stirred our souls like this one,” Plet Bolipata says of the three-story structure in Quezon City that she and her husband, fellow artist Elmer Borlongan, purchased for their old age.
Life in Zambales—where the couple has a home—is idyllic indeed, but the province has no reputable medical facilities should they need care, so the couple deemed it necessary to have a place in the city. The renovation and decoration of the couple’s pied-à-terre fell on Plet, who was free to do as she pleased except, says Plet, “touch Elmer’s sacred space—his studio.”
Elmer Borlongan and Plet Bolipata
The boxy chair with wheels is by Bong Salaveria, purchased from his now-defunct Cubao X shop. The painting to the side of the chair, which Plet likes to think of as her brother Coke’s portrait, is by Onib Olmeido. The yellow cabinet was purchased in Bangkal and was passed around among the Bolipata sisters before finding its way to this address.
Plet had initially wanted a more “mature” approach to the design of the interiors, at one point even bravely declaring that she was going for a minimalist style. But those familiar with the artist’s inclinations, especially friends and family who’ve experienced the fanciful ambience of their Zambales home, find the notion unimaginable. The artist would give it her best shot, but the nonbelievers would be proven right. “I exercised a lot of restraint. I mean, a lot. But I think minimalism went out the door as soon as I brought in the big mirror and egg chair. Subsequently, I replaced my vision to one of avant-garde,” the artist admits.
One of the trickier areas to decorate was the entryway. “I was really bothered at the beginning as to where I could incorporate a breathing space at the entrance,” Plet recalls. There was good reason to be troubled. It serves as a resting place for the senses before one submits to a delightful collision of colors, patterns, and objects staged heroically by the lady of the house. A cat by the entrance—a resin sculpture lit from within, its face encrusted with sequins—embodies the genius loci of the beguiling pied-à-terre.
A resin cat welcomes visitors.
Past the living room is the patio
The vertical gardens on the ground floor are gifts from the couple’s friend, landscape designer Bobby Gopiao. The door features repoussé metal ornaments by Pampanga artisans.
An Ifugao ladder leans on the railings. On the walls are Elmer’s works, “Sitting Pretty” and “Mobile Record Shop.”
Plet’s studio and the master bedroom are situated on the second floor. Hanging on the hallway wall is Plet’s mixed media work titled “Blue Hour: Apassionata.” A discarded gothic grill from a church stands beside Kenneth Cobonpue’s “Chiquita” stool. Above it is an early nude by the lady of the house.
This is Elmer’s favorite part of the house. “On lazy nights, we listen to jazz on my portable turntable while I read and Plet does her knitting. It is a place where we rejuvenate ourselves and find total peace and comfort.”
In Elmer's third floor studio, studies of paintings he has kept, including one he made when he was 11 years old, hang in front of his work desk. Meanwhile, Plet’s studio is filled with her signature quirk: The red mannequin is from the time the artist considered fashion design, the antique medicine cabinet painted red is from antique collector and dealer Allan Tan. Plet’s “Self-portrait with the impressionists” dominates a wall.
Elmer, who loves drawing dogs, hung a framed sample beside an old mirror brought in from the couple’s farm home. Above it is a recent experiment with the airbrush technique. “I think that’s me with a shaved head, typically Borlongan!” Plet says.
The barber’s chair in the downstairs studio is from Plet, while the toys above the shelf, at right, are from a gallerist friend. The painting on the wall is by Plet and was part of the Chianciano Biennale in Italy in 2009.
This story was originally published in the October-November 2015 issue of Elle Decor Philippines.
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Why These Bulgari Rings Are Iconic (And Also The Perfect Gift for Mother's Day)
Maze-like jewelry from Bulgari's Bzero1 collection reflects the complex woman that is your wife or mother.
By Clifford Olanday for Esquiremag.ph | MAY 5, 2018
IMAGE BULGARI
We would like to interrupt your scheduled scrolling of the innards of Reddit for this very important reminder: Mother's Day arrives in two weeks.
As a service to you, the always tired and maybe clueless fellow, who doesn't have the bandwidth to think about what to get your special lady, your mother or the mother of your children, we present this will-make-her-light-up gift: a magnificent miniature maze.
This is on the list. You know, that list she keeps in her head or written down on the last page of her Smythson notebook. It is the list of all the eternally stylish and most wanted objects that she believes will make life beautiful.
It's the list that includes the Lady Datejust with an ice-blue dial, the Birkin in black in a very perfect size 30, the Petite Malle (when there are fewer things), the pair of, as Cardi B describes, “these is bloody shoes,” and something small and sparkly for the hands.
When it comes to hand adornments, the Bulgari Bzero1 ring is up there among the most dreamed of. Just take a look at its singular design, which is at once timeless and unconventional. Inspired by the ancient Colosseum in Rome, the ring is never a thin band (you can get that elsewhere), but a drum-like dream, an architectural form with many dimensions.
Officially, it is described as a “central band clasped by two flat rings engraved with the Bulgari double-logo.” On the finger, it is simply beautiful.
This year, the Roman jeweler creates fresh versions of its iconic creation. First, the Bzero1 Labyrinth, which is a souped-up iteration of the original. Now, four inner bands, hewn from alternating white and rose gold, go 'round on an angle. This is also like a chameleon with spirals that appear to change colors depending on how you look at it.
Apart from the rings, there are two pendants that are really mini versions of the finger bands.
Consider, too, the pieces from B.zero1 Design Legend collection, which has been made in collaboration with architecture legend Zaha Hadid. If the bands of the Labyrinth flow at a slant, the irregular rings of the Legend wiggle and undulate to form a complex, helix-like shape.
It doesn't hurt that these are embellished with pavé diamonds, as well as come in other forms: a cuff earring, two bracelets in black or white ceramic, and hoop earrings in rose gold.
Though it defies conformity, the Bzero1 ring remains a classic. Invoking the power of the circle or, in this case, many circles, the small piece of jewelry is a totem of the eternal.
More important, it is highly wearable. Bulgari points out that the rings are perfect on every finger, one above the other, on a chain or on a bracelet. And as befits the times we live in, they are both for women and men, so you can get one for her and another for you.
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New movies at the cinema this week – Friday, 8 March
Captain Marvel. Need we say more?
in Lifestyle, SA TV & Film
Stock photo of cinema seats. Photo: Envato Elements/ilyarexi
Happy International Women’s Day, in advance. Head out to the cinema this week and catch Brie Larson as Captain Marvel. But don’t forget to celebrate all the real superhero women in your life.
New releases drop at Ster Kinekor and Nu Metro cinemas tomorrow. Other than the dose of Marvel, this week’s lineup includes two thrillers, and a biopic. Don’t forget the popcorn!
Highlights this week:
Movie: Captain Marvel
Synopsis: It’s the 1990s, a previously unseen period in the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Carol Danvers (Captain Marvel) becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes. When a galactic war between two alien races reaches Earth, Danvers finds herself and a small cadre of allies at the center of the maelstrom.
Cast: Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, Jude Law.
Age Restriction: PG 13
Genre: Superhero, Adventure, Action, Sci-fi
IMBd Rating: 6.0
Release date: 8 March 2019
Cinema: Ster Kinekor and Nu Metro.
Movie: White Boy Rick
Synopsis: White Boy Rick is set in 1980s Detroit at the height of the crack epidemic and the War on Drugs, and tells the moving story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, who became an undercover informant and later a drug dealer, before he was dropped by his handlers and sentenced to life in prison.
Voices: Matthew McConaughey, Richie Merritt, Bel Powley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Brian Tyree Henry, Roy Cochrane, RJ Cyler, Jonathan Majors, Eddie Marsan, Bruce Dern, Piper Laurie
Age Restriction: 16 D L V
Genre: Crime, Drama, Biopic, True Story
Release date: 8 March 2019.
Movie: Badla
Synopsis: A young dynamic entrepreneur finds herself in a locked hotel room next to the body of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her, and, over the course of one evening, they work together to find out what actually happened.
Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Tapsee Pannu, Amrita Singh, Tony Luke, Antonio Aakeel, Denzil Smith, Manav Kaul, Daniel O’Kane, Tanveer Ghani
Age Restriction: TBA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
IMBd Rating: N/A
Cinema: Ster Kinerkor and Nu Metro.
Movie: Red Room
Synopsis: When the husband of an affluent woman kills himself, the woman loses the high life—and pretty much everything else—and ends up on the street, days before is due to give birth. With nowhere to go and no money, she is attacked and mugged, but a good Samaritan rescues her and takes her to a shelter called ‘God’s Haven,’ a place of safety. She gives birth there, but God’s Haven turns out to be an entirely different underworld—a world of danger, desire and deception.
Cast: Khanyi Mbau, Pakamisa Zwedala, Nicholas Nkuna, Charlie Bougenon, Aubrey Poo, Francois Jacobs, Keru Kisten, Andile Nebulane, Marjorie Langa, Vaughn Lucas
Age Restriction: 16 D L S V
Genre: Drama, Thriller.
Released on 1 March
Lego Movie 2: The Second Part; voices of Chris Pratt and Elizabeth Banks.
Little Italy, starring Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen.
Luka Chuppi, starring Kartik Aaryan and Kriti Sano.
A Madea Family Funeral, starring Tyler Perry and Cassi Davis.
Released on 22 February
Eight Grade, starring Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton.
The Princess and the Dragon, starring Irina Kireeva and Konstantin Kozhevnikov.
What Men Want, starring Taraji P. Henson and Aldis Hodge
Total Dhamaal, starring Anil Kapoor and Ajay Devgn.
Alita Battle Angel, starring Rosa Salazar and Christoph Waltz.
Liewe Lisa starring Elani Dekker and Hendrik Cronje.
Gully Boy, starring Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh.
Released on 8 February
Can You Ever Forgive Me?, starring Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.
Holmes and Watson starring Will Ferrell and Ralph Fiennes.
Prodigy, starring Taylor Shilling and Jackson Robert Scott.
Sew The Winter To My Skin, starring Ezra Mabengeza and Kandyse McClure.
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Loblaw to pay compensation to victims of Bangladesh factory collapse
By Tanya TalagaIndigenous Issues Columnist
On the six-month anniversary of the Rana Plaza tragedy that claimed the lives of more than 1,129 people, Canadian grocery giant Loblaw has stepped forward to say it will offer compensation payments to victims.
Loblaw said in 2014 it will begin providing long-term, direct financial compensation for the victims who were producing garments at the New Wave Style factory and their families.
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Loblaw will be following the United Kingdom conglomerate Associated British Foods (ABF) on how to provide compensation. The British food store owns Primark, one of the most popular fast fashion labels in the U.K.
Since the April 24, 2013, disaster, Primark has been on the ground in Bangladesh, trying to provide some relief to garment workers. Primark developed one of the most comprehensive lists of Rana victims and offered everyone working in the building short-term compensation.
On Thursday, Primark announced it was taking further steps to offer longer-term payouts. The fashion house will compensate those who worked for New Wave Bottoms, the supplier working for Primark in the Rana Plaza.
In a statement, Primark said the compensation scheme was devised by external experts and would look at medical and vulnerability assessments. Those assessments are to be carried out by Dhaka University’s department of vulnerability studies and disaster management, university medical faculty, doctors and the firm’s union partners.
Primark said other companies are considering using its strategy. Loblaw said it would follow Primark’s funding framework.
A representative of the Loblaw Companies public relations department said it would not be offering interviews at this time.
Primark’s moves in Bangladesh are being praised by labour rights advocates, who say it is well past the time for all brands to step forward and compensate.
From the outset, Primark has led by example with its response to the Rana Plaza disaster, said Peter McAllister, director of the Ethical Trading Initiative. The group represents 80 corporate members, including Europe’s biggest fashion producers, non-governmental organizations and global unions, with a collective membership of 160 million workers.
“We commend Primark and urge all brands and retailers that sourced from Rana Plaza to step up to the mark. This must be a credible, multilateral effort so that Rana Plaza workers and their families receive the compensation they are due,” McAllister said via email from London.
Last month, at a meeting in Geneva, international labour organizations called on all 27 brands operating in Rana Plaza to address the compensation issue. Primark and Loblaw were two of only nine companies to show up to the meeting.
Almost $77 million is needed to help survivors and the families of those who died.
Primark was the first and only retailer to offer direct compensation to 3,600 labourers inside Rana Plaza, regardless of whether they worked with them or not. It has made two short-term payments to date and on Thursday it committed to make a third, until long-term plans are resolved.
Loblaw has stepped up with a $1 million contribution to Save the Children in Bangladesh and the Centre for Rehabilitation of the Paralysed.
Going forward, a reported 550 workers will be eligible for longer-term financial assistance from Primark.
“The company calls on other brands sourcing from Rana Plaza to now contribute a fair share of this tranche of aid,” a Primark spokesperson said in a release.
Loblaw echoed that call.
“Should the other brands not step forward and join in this funding, we will join Primark and immediately contribute to the payment of three months’ wages for the approximately 3,600 individuals involved, regardless of the brand apparel that was being produced in their workplace,” said a Loblaw statement from Bob Chant, senior vice-president of corporate affairs.
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YOU COULDN'T MAKE IT UP!
West Ham striker Andy Carroll ruled out of Everton game – after injuring himself mis-kicking the ball
The freak injury to the striker's abductor muscle happened during the 2-2 draw with relegation-threatened Sunderland
By Pat Sheehan
Updated: 21 Apr 2017, 2:11
ANDY CARROLL will miss tomorrow’s clash with Everton after a freak injury — mis-kicking the ball!
The West Ham striker sustained his latest injury — to his thigh — at Sunderland last weekend but managed to complete the game, which ended in a 2-2 draw.
Andy Carroll's injury curse has struck again - and it's all because of a mis-kick in his last gameCredit: Getty Images
Ironically, Carroll’s mis-kick led to Andre Ayew scoring the opener after five minutes.
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Hammers boss Slaven Bilic said: “What’s wrong with Andy? Adductors. He felt it at the start of the Sunderland game.
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“We can talk about a mis-kick or an assist for Andre’s goal but he said at that moment he felt it.
“He had a scan after the game and although it showed nothing major, it is serious enough to rule him out of this game.”
Injury-hit Carroll, 28, out with a knee problem earlier during this campaign, has also battled a recurring groin issue.
But Bilic will be buoyed by the return of key central defender Winston Reid, who has shaken off his own groin problem. Bilic added: “Winston is one of the most important players for us.
“We are going to see if he is ready to start but he has been in training this week.”
There's yet more frustration for under-fire boss Slaven Bilic with Andy Carroll injured - againCredit: Rex Features
West Ham fans are yet to see their powerful frontman have a decent run of goalscoring games in the forward lineCredit: PA:Press Association
The Croatian coach also denied a bust-up with Diafra Sakho, following claims his striker refused to travel to Wearside after being told he would not start.
Bilic said: “There was no row with Sakho, I should know because it was me who spoke with him. He was injured.”
West Ham will wait until the summer before deciding whether to make a move for John Terry, 36, who is quitting Chelsea.
But they could face competition from Paul Clement’s Swansea — if they stay up.
Terry was with the Hammers until he was 14 before switching from hometown Barking in East London to Chelsea.
Bilic added: “We are going to see. I’m a big admirer of John, he is one of the best that ever played.
“We are talking about an England captain, a true leader.”
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The Tech Submit Campus Life Stories Campus Tips
Emma Bingham
Editor in Chief, V138. MIT Class of 2019.
bingham@mit.edu
Science science feature
The languages of science and faith
By Emma Bingham and Anshula Gandhi Jun. 6, 2019
You don’t use the Bible to learn about any quantitative theory, England explained, “because that’s not the language that it’s speaking.” However, it understands scientific reasoning, and it’s interested in the human experience, and how we as ordinary people understand what is alive and not alive.
Welcome to CPW, Class of 2023!
By Nathan Liang, Emma Bingham, and Joanna Lin Apr. 12, 2019
“I feel like something that makes MIT stand out is that it has a relaxed atmosphere. Other schools feel more strict about ‘this is a liberal arts college; this is the science; this is the engineering college.’ Everything is mixed together and there’s more flexibility to choose what you want to do. It also has that relaxed vibe where no one judges you!”
Dan Huttenlocher named College of Computing dean
By Emma Bingham Feb. 21, 2019
There was “a lot of fluidity” in the mid to late 1800s about what the engineering disciplines were, Huttenlocher said. “We’re about to enter a very similar time period of figuring out what computing is and what the different disciplines are.”
Michael Bloomberg to speak at commencement
By Emma Bingham Dec. 6, 2018
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News interview
Martin, Jiang on accessibility, student autonomy, and mental health
By Emma Bingham Mar. 22, 2018
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Fusion energy within fifteen-year reach, MIT says
By Emma Bingham and Jessica Shi Mar. 15, 2018
“This is an important historical moment: Advances in superconducting magnets have put fusion energy potentially within reach, offering the prospect of a safe, carbon-free energy future,” President L. Rafael Reif told MIT News.
BSU kicks off 50th anniversary celebration
By Emma Bingham and Sheila Baber Mar. 1, 2018
In its 50th anniversary year, the BSU wants to “celebrate the black students at MIT and their importance [both inside and outside] the Institute.”
MIT releases findings on relation to slavery, founder William Barton Rogers was a slaveholder
By Emma Bingham and Whitney Zhang Feb. 15, 2018
Green found that 11 of the 18 racialized images within the first 30 years of The Tech and the first 15 years of Technique depicted black people as waiters, even though research has shown that black people during that time period in Boston had a variety of occupations.
MIT announces consensual relationships policy
By Emma Bingham and Whitney Zhang Jan. 25, 2018
The new policy broadly bans any consensual sexual or romantic relationship between MIT faculty, staff, graduate student, or undergraduate student when one party holds authority over the other.
Campus Life by the numbers
18 things to do this IAP
By Charlie J. Moore and Emma Bingham Jan. 11, 2018
Welcome back to campus! Figuring out what to do with yourself at MIT can be hard when you don’t have a schedule, set by classes and UROPs, to regulate your life. Here are some suggestions on how to spend your time this IAP.
News letter from exec
Papers disappear, Tech Exec responds
By Charlie J. Moore, Emma Bingham, Christopher Wang, Vivian Zhong, and Áron Ricardo Perez-Lopez Dec. 10, 2017
No one joins The Tech because they are bored and looking for a way to kill time; no one at MIT adds an activity to their busy schedules under those conditions. We do it because we have a profound desire to serve the community, present and future, with and accurate, fair, and holistic records of the days we spend at the Institute. This week, nearly half our distribution was taken Friday, and this undermines The Tech’s mission of making timely news easily accessible to the MIT community.
Arts album review
‘I swear I don’t love the drama’
By Emma Bingham Nov. 21, 2017
Let’s get one thing out of the way: it doesn’t matter to me whether this album is good. It’s a Taylor Swift album. It’s immaculately produced pop.
LIGO makes its first observation of colliding neutron stars
By Emma Bingham Oct. 19, 2017
Scientists announced Monday the first detection of gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars. Light from the collision was simultaneously observed by telescopes all around the world.
Arts concert review
Alison Krauss brings bluegrass to Boston
By Emma Bingham Sep. 29, 2017
I am not religious, but when I heard this music, I could understand a little better how it feels for those who are. When Krauss’s voice rises on the line “In your love, I find release/ A haven from my unbelief,” it’s like you can feel a presence wrapping around you.
MIT will fight for Dreamers in face of DACA repeal
By Emma Bingham and Patrick Wahl Sep. 6, 2017
In an op-ed in The Boston Globe, President L. Rafael Reif called the repeal of DACA a “mistake” and called on Congress to protect young immigrants allowed to remain in the country under DACA, called Dreamers.
Scientists observe gravitational waves — again!
By Emma Bingham Jun. 4, 2017
The waves resulted from the merger of two black holes, and their discovery has added to our knowledge of both black holes and general relativity.
Faculty approves new rules on half-term subjects
By Emma Bingham Apr. 20, 2017
The aim of the new rules is to standardize expectations for these subjects and prevent confusion among students and faculty.
Error in voting system disrupts UA elections
By Emma Bingham and Vivian Zhong Apr. 18, 2017
Voting for class council and UA president and vice president was supposed to begin yesterday morning, but an error in the online voting system has thus far prevented voters from casting their ballots.
At DataRescue, students collaborate to protect vital government data
DataRescue Boston at MIT, a day-long hackathon focused on preserving federal data at risk of manipulation or removal by the Trump administration, took place Saturday in Walker Memorial.
Hundreds gather in Lobby 7 before Copley protest
By Emma Bingham Feb. 2, 2017
Several hundred MIT community members met in Lobby 7 Sunday before participating in a larger protest in Copley Square against the ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.
Facilities will preserve hacker murals in Building 9
By Emma Bingham Jan. 26, 2017
MIT Facilities will protect hacker murals in the sub-basement of Building 9, and DSL plans to capture high-resolution photos of the murals to post online.
MIT signs agreement to redevelop 14 acres in Kendall Square
MIT and the U.S. General Services Administration finalized a $750 million agreement on Wednesday that will give the Institute access to a 14-acre parcel of land near Kendall Square. In exchange, MIT will construct a federal building on the land.
Climate justice, student activism discussed at climate change forum
More than 250 members of the MIT community filled Morss Hall Thursday to attend Climate Change: Ethics in Action, a forum on ethical responsibility in the context of climate change.
At last, DSL agrees to provide basic amenity
All undergraduate dorms will have soap in every bathroom starting next fall. The issue is important to Maseeh residents, who have been fighting for soap to be placed in their bathrooms for a long time.
Arts theater review
1776 delivers patriotic, playful production
By Emma Bingham Aug. 16, 2016
In the midst of oppressive August heat, the MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players took audiences back to another sweltering summer in a different northern city.
New dorm to be built on West Campus
By Emma Bingham and Divya Gopinath Aug. 25, 2016
A new dorm will be constructed on West Campus with the goal of opening in 2019. Its current location and building plans are undecided.
Nelson begins tenure as VPSL
By Emma Bingham and Charlie J. Moore Jul. 9, 2016
Suzy Nelson, new vice president for student life, began her tenure July 1. The former Colgate University dean felt welcomed on her first day and looks forward to working with students.
Berezin to be head of Random
By Emma Bingham Jul. 7, 2016
The new heads of Random Hall will be Jared and Laurie Berezin.
Summer residents displaced by Random fire
A fire caused significant damage to the Random Hall roofdeck on June 21, and students were relocated to New House. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Barnhart addresses concerns about Senior House turnaround
By Emma Bingham and Charlie J. Moore Jun. 17, 2016
The Tech spoke again with Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart PhD ’88 in order to address concerns about her data analysis, the ban on freshmen in Senior House, the future of GRTs in the dorm, and more.
Chancellor, reporters discuss Senior House turnaround
By Emma Bingham and William Navarre Jun. 11, 2016
An interview with Chancellor Barnhart
Senior House turnaround will address low graduation rates
Chancellor Barnhart announced Friday that no freshmen will be housed in Senior House this fall, citing a comparatively low four-year graduation rate and ongoing problems with illegal drug use.
3,511 degrees awarded at commencement ceremony
By Emma Bingham and Charlie J. Moore Jun. 5, 2016
Matt Damon urges graduates to "turn towards" global problems in order to help solve them. Senior gift breaks records once again.
MIT's 139th commencement to be held June 3
Fun facts about the history of commencement at MIT.
MIT's highest pay goes to administrators, MITIMCo leadership
MIT's highest-paid individuals for the tax year 2014 include MITIMCo leadership, top administrators, and Economics and Sloan School of Management professors.
Freeman: historic number of minors added this year
By Emma Bingham and Charlie J. Moore Apr. 28, 2016
Freeman said that each new major and minor was created in response to needs that the faculty identified. For example, he said, many students are interested in entrepreneurship, and faculty thought there were concrete things these students should know.
Liu, Gomez on communication, diversity, and how to make UA leadership more fun
With elections for Undergraduate Association (UA) president and vice president ongoing, The Tech sat down with candidates Sophia Liu ’17 and Daysi N. Gomez ’18 to talk about their experience in student government, the challenges they’ve faced, the issues they think are most important, and their plans for the future of the UA. Liu currently serves as vice president of the UA. The pair is running unopposed.
Random Hall turns 12
The crowd gathered slowly. People trickled in from across campus after a long day of classes. If you looked closely, the crowd was a little unusual: hair in blues, pinks, greens, and purples; a smattering of matching shirts; and half-sheets of paper printed with script-like font reminiscent of a curious hymnal excerpt.
Insured belongings may be stored in dorms over the summer
Students who can show proof that they have renters’ insurance will be allowed to store items in their dorms this summer, in spaces designated by the Division of Student Life, under a plan first unveiled at last week’s DormCon meeting.
Gravitational waves from collision of black holes detected
“Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves. We did it,” David Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, announced Feb. 11.
MIT’s design wins SpaceX challenge
By Ray Wang and Emma Bingham Feb. 2, 2016
A team of 25 MIT students took the Best Overall Design award in the first stage of SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod competition this weekend. Their design for a pod that will shuttle between San Francisco and LA at prodigious speeds beat those of over 120 teams at the competition’s Design Weekend, held at Texas A&M University.
Students hope for change on campus through new discussion site
A group of students are launching a new Reddit-style discussion website next week with the hope of giving the MIT community a platform to discuss important issues on campus.
MIT will not join CAAS, likes flexibility of its app
By Emma Bingham Jan. 7, 2016
MIT will not be joining the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success (CAAS), an organization of more than 80 colleges and universities that offers an alternative to the Common Application and seeks to help underserved students during the college preparation process.
Student life fee may increase by $11 over the next three years
The Council of the Undergraduate Association voted Monday night to propose a $4 increase in the student life fee (SLF) for the upcoming fiscal year. The Council also discussed possible additional increases of $4 and $3 in fiscal years 2017 (FY17) and 2018 (FY18) respectively.
Woman found dead in athletic center’s locker room sauna
By Emma Bingham and William Navarre Nov. 5, 2015
A woman was found dead in the women’s locker room sauna at DuPont Athletic Center last Friday afternoon. She was not an MIT student.
Students meet to discuss dorm to be built in storage warehouse
On Monday, the Dormitory Council held a meeting about the current architectural plans for turning the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse on Mass. Ave. into an undergraduate dorm. The organization’s executives discussed the dorm’s proposed layout, addressed student concerns, and requested additional ideas.
Can MIT divest while accepting oil money? An activist weighs in.
By Emma Bingham and Katherine Nazemi Oct. 15, 2015
In anticipation of President L. Rafael Reif’s upcoming announcement about MIT’s climate action plan, The Tech spoke with Geoffrey Supran, a graduate student in materials science, about his work on the MIT Climate Change Conversation Committee and student group Fossil Free MIT. We asked about his expectations for the announcement, his thoughts around divestment, his own research, and how he became a climate change activist.
Solve conference gathers ‘change agents,’ takes on global problems
By Emma Bingham Oct. 8, 2015
Leaders from academia and business alike gathered this week for the Solve conference, hosted by MIT to address key challenges in four fundamental areas: education, healthcare, energy, and infrastructure.
Random will seek new housemaster
Nina Davis-Millis, Random Hall’s housemaster, announced Monday that she and her husband, Chris Millis, will be leaving the dorm at the end of this academic year. Davis-Millis, who has been housemaster at Random for more than two decades, is also Director of Community Support and Staff Development at MIT Libraries. In an email to the dorm, she called her experience at Random “amazing” and “transformative.”
Random Hall’s express guest list experiment continues this year
Random Hall’s express guest list system, implemented this past spring, is continuing into its second year. A similar program at Maseeh, implemented in fall 2014, will also continue.
DSL grant bails out UA, allows student group spending to rise
The Division of Student Life has granted $70,000 to the Undergraduate Association in response to the UA’s recent budget crisis. With these funds, and the implementation of new policies, the UA is on its way to recovering from last year’s budgeting errors that left the organization more than $50,000 in debt.
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Oneohtrix Point Never has asked his fans to send him music made out of his midi files
Oneohtrix Point Never aka Daniel Lopatin has buried a series of midi sound files in the mysterious Kaoss Edge Official website for his fans to find and use in their own music. Now Lopatin is asking them to send their tracks back to him so they can be eventually shared in an archive. These files were originally hidden in the depths of his official website to preview his new album Garden Of Delete, which will be released on 13 November by Warp. People can download all the files here and email music made with them to ezralien666@gmail.com
Lopatin has also announced a Oneohtrix Point Never tour of North America, Europe and Japan by a line-up featuring Nate Boyce on guitars and Lopatin on vocals. More information can be found here.
Daniel Lopatin
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It’s Weird That Michael Jackson’s 2005 Trial Hasn’t Gotten the ‘People v OJ Simpson’ Treatment (Podcast)
In an era where almost everything becomes a movie or limited series, is the Jackson trial radioactive?
Tim Molloy | March 13, 2019 @ 4:12 PM Last Updated: March 14, 2019 @ 10:48 AM
It’s fitting that Michael Jackson’s 2005 trial ended with a woman releasing white doves — one for each count on which he was acquitted. Doves are a traditional part of magic shows, and Jackson’s trial may have been his greatest trick of all. We discuss why in the latest “Shoot This Now” podcast, available on Apple or right here:
On every episode of “Shoot This Now,” we talk about true stories that should be made into TV shows and movies. We decided to talk about the trial this week in part because I covered it from beginning to end for The Associated Press.
It’s curious that in an era of peak TV where seemingly every major news story becomes a movie or limited series, the Jackson trial seems to be untouchable. Perhaps it’s because of the upsetting nature of the accusations, but that hasn’t kept HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” from becoming a cultural fixation. And it didn’t keep FX’s “The People v. OJ Simpson” from becoming a massive success with critics and audiences.
It’s especially strange because there’s such a clear angle here: How so many people exploited the trial for their own gain, while Jackson escaped conviction. Jackson’s fame was so vast, even in his waning years, that many believed just a few specks of his magic dust would be enough to transform their own careers.
It’s true that some of Jackson’s secrets were exposed: The world learned his odd habit of drinking wine out of Coke cans, the passwords to the doors at Neverland, and even his porn predilections.
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But the new Dan Reed documentary “Leaving Neverland” argues that Jackson managed to keep his biggest secrets secret. Wade Robson describes in the documentary how Jackson persuaded him to lie on the stand about being molested. And the news media (myself included) sometimes paid attention to his pajama-and-epaulette ensembles instead of everything Jackson wanted to hide.
Jackson’s family has denied that he committed any wrongdoing, and called “Leaving Neverland” an unfair and one-sided account, and said Robson’s testimony that Jackson never molested him undercuts the detailed accusations he makes in the documentary.
But Robson said in “Leaving Neverland” that Jackson persuaded him to lie in part by playing on his sympathies. Robson feared for Jackson’s life if he went to prison, and with good reason. As we noted in the podcast, Jackson was about six-feet tall and 120 pounds at the time of the trial, often checking into a local hospital for a persistent back injury and other health problems.
Jackson’s attorney, Thomas Mesereau, was a master of legal arts, guiding witnesses who were barely in their teens into contradicting themselves on the stand. He said Jackson was not a predator, but the victim of a setup, and that the young accuser’s mother was a serial grifter trying to make him look guilty.
Bizarrely, her name, through marriage, was Janet Jackson.
She had a history of people accusing her of using her children to make money, and did herself no favors with testimony that was both evasive and abrasive.
Was there anyone to root for? Certainly Robson, especially knowing what we know now. But also at least one of the prosecutors, for reasons we explain in the podcast. And Janet Jackson — not the accuser’s mother, but the original Janet Jackson, Michael’s sister, who put herself on the line to defend her brother soon after weathering her own Super Bowl scandal — one she didn’t deserve.
Will the trial ever get the “People v. OJ Simpson” treatment it deserves? FX did not immediately get back to us. The details of the Jackson case may be too repugnant or depressing — but so were the crimes at the center of “The People v. OJ Simpson.”
If you like this episode of “Shoot This Now,” we hope you’ll subscribe to the podcast and let us know what you think of the episode here.
Angela James’ Life Story Is the Hockey Movie We Need Now (Podcast)
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Tim Molloy is an editor at TheWrap. He wrote How to Break Bad News and another book that will be published someday.
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Endoscopy 2010; 42: E92-E93
Endoscopic features of short-term progression of esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis
J. Tsuboi1 , 2 , M. Tajika3 , T. Nakamura3 , H. Kawai3 , V. Bhatia4 , R. Takayama1 , J. Kitamura5 , Y. Yatabe5 , S. Hatooka6 , M. Shinoda6 , K. Yamao1 , Y. Ogura2
1Department of Gastroenterology, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
2Department of Gastroenterology, Matsusaka City Hospital, Matsusaka, Japan
3Department of Endoscopy, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
4Department of Medical Hepatology, Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
5Department of Pathology and Molecular Diagnosis, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
6Department of Thoracic Surgery, Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya, Japan
01 March 2010 (online)
A 58-year-old man presented with an 8-year history of intermittent dysphagia. There was no other relevant medical history. A barium esophagogram revealed a stenotic lesion in the middle and lower thoracic esophagus with multiple intramural tracks [1]. Endoscopic examination revealed an annular stricture of the esophagus extending from 27 cm to 40 cm from the incisors, as well as multiple small orifices ([Fig. 1]).
Fig. 1 Endoscopy showing: a multiple orifices in edematous mucosa in the middle thoracic esophagus; and b annular stenosis in the lower thoracic esophagus.
A diagnosis of esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis (EIPD) was suspected. As the patient did not have diabetes, candidal esophagitis, or esophageal carcinoma, and because esophageal inflammation has been reported in up to 90 % of patients with EIPD [2], we prescribed a proton-pump inhibitor to suppress gastric acid secretion. However, after 7 months, the patient could barely swallow food, and repeat endoscopy showed that the lesions had clearly progressed. The multiple diverticula had enlarged and the lumen was criss-crossed by multiple mucosal bridges ([Fig. 2]).
Fig. 2 Endoscopy showing: a the enlarged orifices; and b a thick mucosal bridge in the lower thoracic esophagus.
Computed tomography of the chest showed marked thickening of the esophageal wall with intramural air sacs running parallel to the lumen of the upper to lower thoracic esophagus ([Fig. 3]).
Fig. 3 Computed tomography (CT) scan showing a markedly thickened esophageal wall. Also seen are intramural air sacs, parallel to the lumen of the middle thoracic esophagus.
A subtotal esophagectomy was carried out in view of the recent worsening of symptoms and endoscopic findings. On histological examination, the esophageal wall was remarkably thickened by submucosal fibrosis and hypertrophic muscularis propria. Dilated excretory ducts were seen extending from the mucosal epithelium to the submucosal layer ([Fig. 4]).
Fig. 4 Photomicrograph of the resected surgical specimen (hematoxylin and eosin, magnification × 40). The esophageal wall is markedly thickened by submucosal fibrosis and the hypertrophic muscularis propria. Dilated excretory ducts extend from the mucosal epithelium to the submucosal layer. A keratin component, inflammatory cells, and fungal hyphae are seen in, and lymphocytes and plasma cells around, the ducts.
There were no features of malignancy in the esophageal wall or the regional lymph nodes, and a final diagnosis of EIPD was made. After surgery, the patient’s dysphagia improved, and he has remained asymptomatic on follow up.
To our knowledge, this is the first report of EIPD with a hypertrophic muscular layer in the esophageal wall, as demonstrated in a full-thickness histological specimen [3] [4]. Furthermore, with serial endoscopy, we observed the progression of EIPD in the short term.
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1 Canon C L, Levine M S, Cherukuri R. et al . Intramural tracking: a feature of esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis. Am J Roentgenol. 2000; 175 371-374
2 Hahne M, Schilling D, Arnold J C. et al . Esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis: review of symptom including upper gastrointestinal bleeding. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2001; 33 378-382
3 Umlas J, Sakhuja R. The pathology of esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulosis. Am J Clin Pathol. 1976; 65 314-320
4 Kataoka H, Higa T, Koono M. An autopsy case of diffuse esophageal intramural pseudodiverticulitis. Acta Pathol Jpn. 1992; 4 (Suppl 2) 837-840
M. Tajika, MD, PhD
Department of Endoscopy
Aichi Cancer Center Hospital
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Chikusa-ku
Nagoya 464-8681
Email: mtajika@aichi-cc.jp
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How much is welding training?
The cost of welding training depends on where you take your classes and how quickly you want to complete the program. In general, junior college welding classes are the least expensive, but may take longer; trade schools offer intensive classes that lead to certification more quickly, but are more expensive. For example, Cerritos College, a junior college in Los Angeles that offers a welding training course, charges an average of $46 per unit; most of their welding certificate programs require 19 units of coursework, so cost about $875 each to complete. Pro-Weld, an on-site welding school in Idaho, offers three different welding courses. The 36-week welder fabrication and the 24-week gas tungsten arc welding courses each cost an average of $3,300, while pipe welding costs an average of $2,500 for a 24-week session or an average of $4,500 for a 52-week session. The 20-week comprehensive program at the Lincoln Electric Company in Ohio costs an average of $9,500. Many programs require students to purchase approximately $120-$200 worth of personal welding equipment in addition to textbooks or other class material fees.
How many types of welding are there?
Welding is a method of fusing together two or more pieces of metal using electricity or flame. Welding is used to construct buildings, make metal sculptures, build and repair cars, make gates and furniture, and for many other practical and aesthetic uses. There are multiple types of welding. Here is an overview of the most popular methods:
Stick welding: Formally known as shielded metal arc welding, stick welding uses extreme heat applied at the seam of two separate metals to melt them together. A third (intermediary) metal may also be incorporated for added strength. As the metals cool, they are bonded together.
Metal inert gas (MIG) welding: Formally known as gas metal arc welding, MIG welding uses a tool to feed metal wire into the weld puddle while an electrical arc melts the wire, which will fuse to the base metal upon cooling.
Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welding: Formally referred to gas tungsten arc welding, TIG welding is a similar process MIG welding, but instead of using a tool that continuously feeds metal wire into the weld puddle, the welder must hold and manually feed the stick.
Gas welding: A mix of flammable gas and oxygen is used to heat metal to the melting point.
Forge welding: Forging metal is an ancient art that involves heating two pieces of metal until they are molten, then hammering them together.
How long is welding training?
Because there are different paths to learning to weld, there’s no single timeline for welding training. Some people attend school part-time while working their current job, while others can focus full-time on their welding training courses. People interested in learning how to weld as a hobby can also take classes from professional welders, such as at KCMA & Services in Waterloo, Indiana.
Expect to take at least two years to go from welding newbie to American Welding Society Certified Welder. A junior college Certificate of Completion welding course is two semesters full-time, or 10 units of coursework. With this certificate, students are qualified for an apprenticeship or internship, rather than a full-time entry-level job. Welding apprenticeships range from 6,000 to 8,000 hours long, equalling three to four years at 2,000 hours per year. Some junior colleges, such as Cerritos College in the Los Angeles area, offer more in-depth welding programs that lead to different welding certifications, such as arc welding and tungsten gas arc welding. These take three to four semesters to complete, so you could be qualified for an entry-level job in about two years of full-time study. Alternatively, you can prepare for employment more quickly through an intensive vocational program at a trade school. For instance, Ohio’s Lincoln Electric Company offers a comprehensive program that prepares people for a welding career in just 20 weeks and 600 hours of hands-on instruction.
Where can I take welding classes?
Your options for welding classes depend on where you live and whether you’re willing to travel. Many skilled professionals offer private or group welding classes across the U.S. Some high schools offer classes for teens, but many people learn from a private trainer or in a junior college or vocational school. Students learn basic welding, machining and fabrication processes, including using gas and arc welding equipment, and qualify for an apprenticeship or internship. Other colleges as well as vocational schools have two-year associate’s degree programs that prepare you to take the welding certification exam and seek full-time employment.
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Higher Power (TheaterByte Blu-ray Review)
September 4, 2018 By Brandon A. Duhamel Leave a Comment
Mathew Santoro, the visual effect artist for 300, Fantastic Four, and X-Men: Origins makes his directorial debut with this indie sci-fi thriller Higher Power. The story follows Joseph Steadman (Ron Eldard, Super 8), a down on his luck father who abandoned his two grown daughters when his wife died from cancer. Steadman finds himself under the control of a mysterious mad scientist (Colm Feore). The “higher power” injects him with advanced cybernetics that allows him to take control of Steadman’s eyes and hearing and threatens the life of his daughters to force him into an increasingly violent series of actions. Steadman does whatever he can to save the life of his two daughters on what turns out to be a quest that just may save the world.
Santoro has indeed proven himself as a visual effects artist, but without the big bucks of Hollywood behind him, and stepping into the director’s chair, his product leaves a lot to be desired. There’s an overriding sense of pretentiousness in Higher Power that is inescapable. Santaro, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Julia Fair, is trying to create an important sci-fi story about humanity here, but it feels hollow. Ultimately, we just get a rambling story about a maniacal villain taking control of a hapless man, beefed up by some okay CGI effects that look stunning for an indie production, but wouldn’t cut it for a blockbuster Hollywood production. The unsatisfying and cliché ending doesn’t help matters much nor does the complete lack of depth to any of the characters in the film.
Higher Power (2018)
Higher Power was shot digitally on the Canon EOS 5D Mark III with Canon L-Series lenses and the Canon EOS C500, Kowa Prominar and Zeiss Super Speed lenses. It comes to Blu-ray in an AVC 1080p encodement famed at 2.39:1 from Magnolia Home Entertainment’s Magnet imprint. It looks generally good for an indie sci-fi film with strong detail and good contrast, but there is some noise and what looks like in-camera posterization, and shadows are a bit mushy. The color palette doesn’t ‘pop’ so this isn’t a film that will leap from the screen. There’s a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray release that may improve things as far as color and ‘pop,’ and there are a lot of highlights in the CGI that can benefit from the HDR.
The Audio
Higher Power comes to Blu-ray with an English Dolby Atmos audio mix that has an abundance of atmospheric effects that surround the listener from all around. The electronic score and sound effects are relentless, and the low-end will rattle the china in the cupboard, so secure it well.
The Supplements
Only the original theatrical trailer (2.39:1; English DD 5.1; 1080p/24; 00:02:18) is included.
The Final Assessment
A visual effects-heavy sci-fi thriller that tries to aim for depth, but ultimately feels shallow and pretentious, Higher Power is a story with a lot of potential and maybe could have been better if placed in the hands of a more experienced director.
Higher Power is out on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray August 14, 2018 from Magnolia Home Entertainment
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Break Media | Campfire | Di Bonaventura PicturesStudios & Distributors
Matthew Charles SantoroDirector
Julia Fair | Matthew Charles SantoroWriter
93 Mins.Run Time
$22.41MSRP
14 Aug. 2018Release Date
2.39:1Aspect Ratio
AVC 1080pVideo
English Dolby Atmos (compatible with Dolby TrueHD 7.1)Audio
English SDH | SpanishSubtitles
The Creative Content
A man who is down on his luck (Ron Eldard), finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist, and must do as he is told in order to save his family -- and possibly the world in this visual effects-heavy feature debut from Matthew Charles Santoro, known for his visual effects work on such films as 300 and X-Men: Origins. Ultimately, however, Higher Power suffers from a lackluster script, boring characters, and lack of a Hollywood budget to allow its effects to be believable.
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27% INVESTMENT GROWTH IN 2018
Turkey 2020 | TELECOMS & IT | VIP INTERVIEW
TBY talks to Paul Doany, CEO of Türk Telekom, on fiber optic rollout, 5G infrastructure, and cyber security.
What infrastructure investments have facilitated Türk Telekom's broadband and mobile success?
In 2018, with an increase of 27% in comparison to the previous year, we actualized TL4.1 billion worth of investments. Of these investments, 68% was allocated to fiber and other fixed network developing structures and the remaining went towards the mobile infrastructure. We delivered our fiber services to a total of 18.6 million households and workplaces. In 2018 alone, we raised the internet penetration within our country to 55% by increasing fiber home pass by 2.4 million and we aim to continue and increase that momentum. With the arrival of more advanced and developed technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things) and smart cities that are gaining popularity with the fast approaching arrival of 5G, the way we as operators deliver services to our subscribers must also be advanced and developed. The high cost and construction of necessary infrastructure that next generation communication technologies such as 5G require for fast data transfer is the largest obstacle facing operators. The most effective solution for this situation lies in inter-sector collaborations and models that will be developed in the construction and utilisation of the fixed and mobile infrastructure.
How will 5G factor into your mobile growth strategy over the next several years?
During the development stage of 5G and once it has been put into practice, this technology will create a global platform encompassing the next generation and digital society. Instead of remaining on a single step of the value chain, operators will spread to each and every step with 5G and will be given the option to widen their range of services and grow; they will become network developers, service providers and even OTT creators which will in turn generate an extra revenue flow. As Türk Telekom, in order to contribute to this development, we are preparing our industry for advanced technologies by providing digital transformation and consulting services to industrial corporations in Turkey with our solution partners. However, in order for the 5G networks to be able to deliver the speeds it promises, all its cells must be connected to a fiber backbone. As Türk Telekom, with our 282 thousand kilometres of fiber network infrastructure, which covers the country end to end, we have already created Turkey's 5G communication backbone. Additionally, due to the 5G network's different architecture, operators must adopt collaborations and sharing models in infrastructure if they want to meet the high data speed and capacity 5G provides and increase return by decreasing capital expenditure. As Türk Telekom, the fixed and mobile infrastructure sharing models we developed in line with sector and country benefits will not only provide operators and our country with a significant profit in the long term, but at the same time will become successful exemplary models for many regions around the world that want to transition over to 5G. With our 282,000km fiber infrastructure, we as Türk Telekom have already reached a fiber household access of 18.6 million and have fiberized approximately 80% of our country. What we need now isn't to take fiber to households, much more than that, we need to ensure more people use the internet; basically, we need to increase the internet penetration.
How does Türk Telekom work with its subsidiary Argela in developing 5G capabilities?
In order to actualize Turkey's goal of becoming one of the first countries to transition over to 5G, our works in 5G technologies and infrastructures are continuing at full speed through Argela, our subsidiary that generates value in information technologies. At our R&D centers such as Türk Telekom Innovation Centre and Argela 5G Centre of Excellence, we develop local products and technologies that create added value for the national economy and accelerate national development as well as maintain our leadership for Turkey to reach a position where it not only produces but also exports new technologies. With the network slicing smart software ProgRAN, which was developed by Argela and its Silicon Valley affiliate Netsia, we have raised our productivity to the highest level through our use of artificial intelligence in the optimisation of fixed and mobile networks. Most importantly, we have reached a position where we are now exporting patented 5G products to leading global operators such as Telefonica, Verizon, and Orange and thus are furthering our contribution towards the national economy. Through Argela and Netsia, we have obtained 6 new patents in 5G on an international scale in 2018. Hence, we have proudly raised our 5G patents to 17 and our total patents to 26 by the end of the year.
Within the health, education, and energy sectors what investments have been made through Türk Telekom's venture capital initiative?
We support the entrepreneurial ecosystem in order for Turkey to become stronger and more economically independent. As Türk Telekom, we define this support as being able to present value-added services to our customers through collaborations with innovative technological start-ups and being able to create economic benefits for our country and sector by accelerating these start-ups. In this context, we set up the sector's first corporate venture capital company; TT VENTURES in early 2018 in order to support growing start-ups. Our first investment was in the healthcare sector to Doctor Turkey; an innovative service that provides online health consultant services. TT VENTURES' second investment was in education and one of our previous initiative accelerating programme PILOT's graduates actualised MentalUP; Turkey's first gamified education platform for children that develops their thinking and learning skills. We are also investing in the energy sector through our collaborations with Turkey's leading energy companies. As a company that prides itself on the importance it places on customer satisfaction, one of our aims is to make the lives of consumers easier by combining electricity services with internet and voice services at a single point of contact. Moreover, one of the results of our investments and work across the vast area of smart cities and IoT are significant savings in the energy area. With the smart solutions we brought to areas such as electricity, lighting, recycling, fuel and irrigation, we generate a large amount of savings for our country and government; up to TL3 billion each year. We will continue to invest in smart cities and solutions that contribute towards Turkey's digital transformation and bring significant savings to our local councils, government, the citizens of Turkey and for Turkey itself.
What investments has Türk Telekom made in cyber security?
As Türk Telekom, we had an aim of becoming the region's data center base and ensuring the safety of our customers, the people of Turkey and the entire country. With the Cyber Security Centre that we opened, which is the country's largest, we have successfully increased the diversity of traditional and innovative cyber security services we provide and have become Turkey's largest cyber-security operator. Ensuring that Turkey's data remains in Turkey and is stored at the highest security is one of our most valued responsibilities we have taken upon ourselves. In addition to providing cyber-security to all 500 of Turkey's largest companies as well as many private and public institutions, we are systematically preparing them for the future with our corporate products, services and digital solutions during their digitalization process. By equipping these companies with the correct moves we are ensuring their adaptation to Industry 4.0.
How will Türk Telekom be impacted by its corporate structure change, involving a majority takeover by a SPV owned by Akbank, Garanti Bankası, and İşbank?
The majority takeover of the company by an SPV owned by said banks has eliminated uncertainties pertaining to the partnership structure and has ensured Türk Telekom maintains its activities and investments more strongly, take the necessary steps towards the future and continue its successful operations and service delivery.
What are Türk Telekom's most exciting plans and primary objectives over the next 12 months?
In order for Turkey to actualize the development leap it is aiming for and be able to take its place amongst the top ten global economies, digitalisation and thus the proliferation of internet usage is of vital importance to our country. Therefore, our main priority for 2019 will once again be to increase the internet penetration. On the fixed internet side, we are aiming to ensure the 5G-ready infrastructure in mobile along with fiber investments. We will increase our project-based collaborations on subjects regarded as concrete indicators of digitalisation such as internet of things, smart cities, and smart health campuses, and we will proliferate our works in these next generation areas across the country. In addition, we will continue to grow our Digital Products and Services, for both the consumer market and the 'new enterprise,' through digital transformation services we provide through our three main subsidiaries Innova, Argela, and Sebit. I am particularly excited about our digital keyboard, TAMBU, which we as Türk Telekom believe will become an important new platform in the upcoming period. With our digital solutions such as our self-service point of contact we have with our customers, ONLINE SERVICES; our loyalty program where we offer awards to our customers, SİL SÜPÜR; our application that allows customers to solve their internet connectivity problems on their own, PRACTICAL SOLUTION; ELEQ, our live mobile gameshow program that presents a brand new gaming experience, Turkey's favorite digital music platform MUUD, Turkey's technologic and rich content OTT TV platform TIVIBU GO, the country's leading digital gaming platform PLAYSTORE, Turkey's rich content digital magazine and newspaper reading platform E-MAGAZINE and EYESENSE, Turkey's first photography application for the blind are providing users novel experiences. It goes without saying that we will continue to develop while we grow and connect Turkey to the future in the period ahead.
Dr. Paul Doany has been serving as the CEO of Türk Telekom since September 2016. He had served for the Saudi Oger Group for 12 years prior to this. During his tenure at the Saudi Oger Group, he led the acquisition of a 55% share of Türk Telekom through privatization and its IPO on the Istanbul Stock Exchange, in addition to the acquisition of IT companies and international wholesale operations (Pantel, rebranded as Türk Telekom International). He also ran the acquisition and start-up operational process of Cell C in South Africa until it was launched. Previously, he served as a senior lecturer for the Department of Electronics/Communications in Beirut American University, then took office as a consultant for the telecommunications business over the course of 14 years. As part of this task, he served as a General Manager for Dar Consultants (based in London) and founded Telecom department as a General Manager/Partner at Dar Al Handasah Consultants (Shair & Partners) and boosted the company to grow in transportation and finance. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Beirut American University, a Master’s degree from Bradford University, and a PhD in from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
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Fowke, Edith. "LaRena Clark". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 07 December 2013, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/larena-clark-emc. Accessed 16 July 2019.
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Fowke, Edith. The Canadian Encyclopedia, s.v. "LaRena Clark", Last Edited December 07, 2013, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/larena-clark-emc
LaRena Clark
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LaRena (b LeBarr) Clark. Folksinger, b LeBarr Landing, near Lake Simcoe, Ont, of French and English-Irish parents, 21 Nov 1904, d Orilla, Ont, 3 May 1991.
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LaRena (b LeBarr) Clark. Folksinger, b LeBarr Landing, near Lake Simcoe, Ont, of French and English-Irish parents, 21 Nov 1904, d Orilla, Ont, 3 May 1991. Raised in various northern Ontario centres (her father and grandfather were hunters, trappers and boat-builders), she learned many songs from her family and developed a large and varied repertoire which included British ballads and music hall songs, country and western songs, and Canadian lumbering songs. For the collector Edith Fowke she sang a number of these songs in the early 1960s. Some were published in Fowke's collections and issued on the LP LaRena Clark: A Canadian Garland (Topic 12T140). Appearances followed on local radio stations and at folk festivals in Canada and the USA. Residing after 1975 in Hawkstone, near Barrie, Ont, Clarke continued to record, completing nine LPs for her own Clark label. In 1987 she was awarded the Marius Barbeau Medal by the Folklore Studies Association of Canada. Her biography, A Family Heritage: LaRena Clark's Story and Songs was completed by Edith Fowke and Jay Rahn in 1991.
Fowke, Edith. Traditional Singers and Songs from Ontario (Hatboro, Pa 1965)
Sarjeant, William A.S. 'Canada's traditional queen of song,' Canada Folk Bulletin, vol 2, May-Jun 1979
Rahn, Jay. 'An introduction to English-language folksong style: metre, phrasing, rhythm and form in LaRena Clark's traditional songs,' CFMJ, vol 17, 1989
Fowke, Edith and Rahn, Jay. A Family Heritage: The Story and Songs of LaRena Clark (Calgary 1994)
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25 Movies You Must Watch if You Love ‘Shutter Island’
Anmol Ahuja
‘Shutter Island’ is one of the best psychological thrillers made in this century. It is set in the 50s and stays true to the film noir style of building a mystery; with a curious lead detective shrouded in his own mystery unveiling simultaneously with the plot, frequent flashbacks that disrupt narrative flow, lingering presence of a femme fatale, supporting characters that are embedded with curiosity rather than solutions, and a tragic universal event preceding the plot that lends a dark or glum ambience.
The mind games, the unknown, the mystery, the twist make ‘Shutter Island’ an absolute favourite among fans. So, we decided to dig thriller movies similar to Shutter Island that are our recommendations. You can stream some of these movies like Shutter Island on Netflix or Amazon Prime or Hulu.
25. The Gift (2015)
With popularity of psychological thrillers in a domestic setting on the rise after the film ‘Shutter Island’, here is another overlooked thriller in the same genre. Whoever knew that our boy next door, Jason Bateman, the hilarious, bumbling Michael Bluth from ‘Arrested Development’ could play a dark role with such a high degree of perfection? A brilliant film which starts off as a stalker type movie and slowly delves into darker territories. The lines between protagonist and antagonist are blurred. The Gift will have you feeling uneasy throughout its duration and almost matches ‘Gone Girl’ in terms of shock factor.
24. Exam (2009)
Exams are scary anyway, so why not make them more terrifying? ‘Exam’ does just that, eight candidates shortlisted for a corporate job and are locked together in a room and given a test with one question and some very weird instructions. This brilliant elimination style thriller, which was nominated for a BAFTA, is almost virtuosic in its camera angles and focus. Watch this low budget gem and never look at exams the same way again.
23. Identity (2003)
This movie rates among the best murder mysteries I have ever seen. The film also doubles up as a brilliant psychological thriller. Heavily inspired by Agatha Christie’s ‘And Then There Were None’, characters stranded at a motel are killed of one by one with a murderer on the loose. The twist is unpredictable but completely believable and ingenious. Watch this one alone for the complete experience. It also features an all-star cast comprising the likes of John Cusack and ‘Goodfellas’ Ray Liotta.
22. Predestination (2014)
‘Predestination’ is a film that toys with complex physical ideas including Time Travel, Temporal Loops, Discontinuities, Paradoxes, concepts that have, till now, caught the fancy of physicists, mathematicians, story tellers and film makers for close to a century. It may not end up satisfactorily answering a lot of the questions it raises, but it is bound to raise a brow or two with the flawed genius behind the big idea of it all, the idea of a timeless soldier, free from the ideas of ancestry, birth, death, conception, and time itself: a predestination paradox. For those who like to think and prefer their films with a side of thought-fodder, this film is a haven among the woods. For those who don’t, it will either blow up your brains, or you will when it ends.
21. Triangle (2009)
This twilight zone style thriller with a haunting soundtrack is a superbly written film that unfolds at a perfect pace. This movie is a hard one to follow so remember to pay close attention to detail. The movie is very David Lynch-like in its direction and cinematography and has a dream-like feel to it. A deeply engrossing psychological thriller which is worth every minute of your time.
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20. Coherence (2013)
‘Coherence’, a story of eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events, is essentially based on a scientific theory referred to as Schrödinger’s cat theory. Schrödinger’s cat is a thought experiment, sometimes described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935. In simple terms, it is the possibility of existence of multiple simultaneous realities at the same time. It is a film that works both as a science fiction and as a great psychological thriller.
19. Inception (2010)
Everything I say or have said about ‘Inception’ will be but a frail effort in describing the monument of a film it is for fans today. Although, I agree that there are definitely better psychological thrillers or mind bending movies out there, I also accept that eight years hence, few movies have been able to match the unparalleled big screen experience ‘Inception’ provided me with. As I have said in a previous article as well, Nolan found a way to marry cerebral cinema with the blockbuster kind and their love child that was ‘Inception’ came out to be nothing short of a transcendent experience for moviegoers, especially here in India where the status quo seemed to be craving smart cinema in a time where Nolan proved to be their saviour.
18. The Game (1997)
David Fincher is the only other director in this list who has a notable presence apart from Nolan simply from the number of their films similar to ‘Shutter Island’, or more aptly, psychological thrillers with rubber realities that fall in this list. ‘The Game’ is one of Fincher’s earlier films, overlooked under heaps of his other, more successful films. But ‘The Game’ is a little enjoyable thriller in its own, another film wherein the protagonist loses grasp of what’s real and what’s not, albeit here, the ‘unreal’ part is the eponymous Game. In that, the film has a more hardened definition of the ‘rubber’ reality wherein there are no visions, apparitions or hallucinations, and the only thing he needs to find his way out of is a sadistic game his brother (an excellent Sean Penn in an extended cameo) sets him up for. Needless to say, most of the heavy lifting is done by Michael Douglas himself, and he embodies the mannerisms of the lonely affluent banker perfectly. I won’t call the film underrated as much as it is underviewed compared to other Fincher films.
17. The Prestige (2006)
With a twist that now has acquired a legendary status, ‘The Prestige’ is one big magic trick of a film unto itself, incorporating the pledge, the turn and the ‘prestige’ into a well-acted, visually pleasing film that builds and builds until its full, and reveals everything in a crescendo of unprecedented events, ones that are sure to take your breath away as they reveal themselves. Its setting of 20th Century London is impeccable, working invisibly in the film’s favour, but it is the film’s themes of one-upmanship and professional rivalry irrespective of the costs bourne that I find more fascinating and interesting. Despite all that, the staging of the magic tricks, the secrets behind how they work and simple details behind their execution astounded me as a viewer, adding to my appreciation of a Nolan film that I feel is somehow piled under more successful and crowd friendly Nolan blockbusters.
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Widely regarded as one of the most important films ever made, and one that introduced the world to the force that was Scorsese, giving us one of the most disturbed, unlikely yet whimsical protagonists of our times in Travis Bickle, ‘Taxi Driver’ is a classic in all senses. The film follows him as he becomes a taxi driver to cope with his insomnia and watches him being slowly overcome by all the madness in the city around him. It is nothing short of a brilliant attempt at understanding the part of the human psyche that most often stems itself in the form of vigilantism, the one that muses about rising up to the incorrectness of our times and giving it back. It is that deep seated wish fulfilment fantasy that ‘Taxi Driver’ toys with in a highly effective manner.
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15. Memento (2000)
While Christopher Nolan seems to be championing lists comprising of psychologically mind bending films with twist endings, ‘Memento’ is where the phenomenon named Nolan was born. All the things about the film’s plot involving a man with short term memory loss on the hunt out for his wife’s killers is widely known by now, but the one thing that is indubitably an attractive quality of this film for me is its non-linear screenplay that defied all norms of non-linearity in terms of narrative structure. The screenplay, which pans out in two different sets of sequences, one in monochrome told chronologically and the other in colour but told in reverse chronology to meet at the end of the film in a common revelation is a touch of unbridled genius in my opinion. The Academy nod for Jonathan Nolan was a given by then.
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14. The Invitation (2015)
This film definitely ranks among the most unpredictable movies ever made. The film will make you question yourself and your thought process at every turn. It’s one of those films which is run entirely by what goes on in the background. The brilliance of it lies in the fact that you never know what is really going on until the climax. The last scene will definitely take your breath away. It is important to ensure that you go into this movie without even reading the plot summary or having a hint of what it is in order to be completely blown away by it. Also, it stars Tom Hardy’s doppelganger, Logan Marshall-Green. I had to actually check to confirm that it wasn’t him. Twice.
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13. Prisoners (2013)
Fear has such power over minds that it can paralyze those, like a tarantula does to its prey. Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Prisoners’ effectively explores the fear of unknown, the boundaries of morality, and the dilemmas of human conscience. Let me warn you right away – It’s disturbing and makes you shiver to the marrows. And you wonder, what if it happens to me?
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12. EXistenZ (1999)
‘EXistenZ’ is one wild psychotropic trip in the head and easily ticks off on all criteria that make a Cronenberg film what it is. Naturally, the film is as divisive as his other films, and is filled with nausea inducing visuals and gross, gory organic matter, some of it even abstract. However, it still remains the most visually dazzling film on the list despite that, by virtue of it tapping into the most aesthetic form of rubber reality: video games! There have been a number of films in the virtual reality gaming arena, wherein something goes wrong or the creator has to play through his own creation, but none like this one, and that is primarily owed to Cronenberg’s twisted signature style. It also has a grounded, less elaborate social commentary about man’s relationship with technology, similar to most of Cronenberg’s popular works. While it may not have aged as well, I can guarantee that you will have a ball of a time when you first view it, provided you keep an open mind.
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11. Videodrome (1983)
‘Videodrome’ is as much a dark satire on the media consumption habits of the masses and its effects on society, as it is a terrifying journey into Max Renn’s degrading psyche as he loses touch with reality, experiencing hallucinations that are increasingly violent, gut wrenching (literally) and plain bizarre after being exposed to the tumour inducing signal of the videodrome channel. Revisiting the film even three decades later may be a harrowing experience, and by that, I don’t just wish to encompass its horrific organic sequences. It’s the fact that it has proved to be almost prophetic with the depiction of the TV viewing audience and the consumption habits of the masses, it’s eerily scary where we may be headed. In summation, ‘Videodrome’ is weird. Perhaps no better, more elaborate term exists in the English language that can sum up your experience of watching the film.
10. The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
A highly underrated film! Conceptually, the film may sound outlandish, but somehow the makers were able to pull it off magnificently. When you have a film that right from the outset is based on a complex subject, the actor’s job becomes even more difficult. But thanks to Damon, he makes both himself and the film completely believable.
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9. Enemy (2013)
The only reason I liked ‘Enemy’ a little less than I should have is its ending, that left me frustrated and scratching my head. I will also admit that it was hard to sit through for all its duration, since the film doesn’t have the appeal or production quality imminent in Villeneuve’s other works, of which ‘Prisoners’ or ‘Arrival’ are stunning examples. Yet in all its chaotic glory, ‘Enemy’ does get to your head and stays there long after the credits have rolled. The ending may not be as mind blowing as some of the other films on this list simply because it isn’t spelled out in front of the audience and quite a lot of it is left for them to figure out themselves. But when you get it, or atleast think that you do, this story of a man’s struggle with his own identity checks a lot of the boxes on what makes ‘Shutter Island’ a great film, especially on the identical psychology part of it. The film stands true on its title card caption, “Chaos is order yet undeciphered”.
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8. Split (2016)
‘Split’ had me riled up with anticipation by virtue of it plot that was ingenious and psychologically terrifying at the same time. A man with 23 distinct split personalities? Not only was it a tremendous responsibility on James McAvoy as an actor, who I have always found to be par excellence, it was also a high stakes bid for Shyamalan, who’d been on a sort of downer following some of his recent films. Thankfully, ‘Split’ proved its mettle on all fronts and marked a much needed and able return to form for Shyamalan, who seems to be in his comfort zone directing a psychological thriller/horror. McAvoy is at his absolute best here, and NONE of his 23 personalities portrayed come off contrived or as a mere gimmick, there’s depth in even each one of them. Not to mention I absolutely adored the tiny cameo in there by Bruce Willis, indicating a cinematic universe in the works, and confirmed by the announcement of ‘Glass’. This is Shyamalan’s tour de force after years, he injects the work with personal pathos and I can’t wait for ‘Glass’ to cap off this excellent trilogy.
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7. Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
‘Jacob’s Ladder’ sensitively portrays the downfalls of PTSD, as a recently returned war veteran fights his way through personal loss and grief, hallucinations, dreary flashbacks and conspiracy theories that are but a product of his own shell shocked mind. As the improbabilities arise, our protagonist Jacob finds himself increasingly torn between reality and his visions or perceptions of reality, while also trying to make sense of what was responsible for his present condition. It is, in all respects, an underappreciated film and needs to be seen more, simply as an intricate study of a human mind that has been through insufferable trauma, and how that story is told with unnatural pathos for a psychological thriller. Tim Robbins delivers an empathetic yet completely credible performance as Jacob, while Adrian Lyne directs it in full force armed with more dramatic chops than thrilling ones.
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6. Fight Club (1999)
Protagonist with a troubled state of mind. Check. Protagonist in an environment he resents. Check. Protagonist psychologically manifesting a completely new identity in response to the resentment. Check. Protagonist struggling to keep a rift between what’s real and what’s not. Check. Unabashed social commentary. Check. An awesome, genre defining, generation abiding film. Check, check and check.
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5. The Machinist (2004)
Right from the opening frame, ‘The Machinist’ has an unmistakable sense of melancholy and a certain weight, both visual and thematic to what unfolds on screen. Adding to that, Christian Bale’s transformation into virtually a skeletal being to play a man suffering from insomnia as he also confronts demons from his past, and ‘The Machinist’ can be quite a dreary watch. While the ending does put quite a twist in the tale, it never has that certain sense of victory that a lot of the other films on this list may have. As a mood piece and character study of a deeply flawed individual struggling with keeping his own sanity in place and discovering what haunts him, ‘The Machinist’ scores, but is far from your usual cerebral blockbuster. It’s grim, and the atmospherics work in giving you an unforgettable yet sober psychological thriller.
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4. American Psycho (2000)
‘American Psycho’ is the story of yet another man disillusioned with his identity, played to haunting perfection and cold precision by Christian Bale, but instead, here he struggles to keep up appearances in a sycophantic society enamoured with the idea of wealth and class. In a way, I find a lot of parallels between ‘American Psycho’, ‘Shutter Island’ and even ‘Fight Club’ for that matter. While I admit I still haven’t been able to get a clear grasp on the film’s ending, and whether any or some of the murders he committed were for real or not, it is clear that Patrick Bateman did psychologically manifest a darker side within him, fuelled by a hidden desire of some sort as a response to the kind of environment he finds himself in, perfectly embodying what is so beautiful about these psychologically dark thrillers, much like either of the two aforementioned films.
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3. Black Swan (2010)
There is no doubt about Darren Aronofsky and his body of work being vastly divisive, but if there is one thing that even the naysayers will confide in, is that his films are different from your regular weekend cinema outing, and in that, they may make you scratch your head more often than you like, thus the divisiveness. Aronofsky has often operated on that thin line in his films where almost everything has a melancholy allegory associated to it (case in point, ‘The Fountain’) to a point where the viewer may be feeling overwhelmed by them. Thankfully, ‘Black Swan’ is bereft of that in a lot of ways, yet is as masterful and feels like the director’s most complete work to date for me. Natalie Portman delivers a deeply engaging and haunting performances as a ballerina, perfectly embodying an artist’s struggle with conviction in her art, and the extents it can make them go in pursuit of that perfection. It is dark and the hallucinations are signature Aronofsky. If you’ve seen something by Aronofsky that you’ve even remotely liked, don’t miss this one.
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2. The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
One of the great modern thrillers, this Oscar winner is a testament to what an assured direction with an intriguing plot should look like. The main strength of the film is in its moments of silences — and the symbolism around them. Psychological crime dramas usually rely on the tried and tested formula, but this film actually relies on the fragile psychological state of the audience, which in turn is the reason why it’s so compelling.
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1. Caché (2005)
Caché in English means hidden, and frankly, there couldn’t have been more apt title for this film, for Haneke is not just playing the hide and seek game with his characters, but the audiences of the film too. In an act of pure genius, Haneke carefully uses still shots where the action may not always be happening at the centre of the screen — sometimes, it may not be happening on-screen at all. He lets audiences make inferences and judgements on their own, giving little-to-no help deconstructing the characters and their motives. One of the most challenging pieces of cinema you will ever see.
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M.K.BHADRAKUMAR | 22 APRIL, 2019
Afghan Talks: Will Delhi’s Investment in Ghani Pay Off?
One more ‘fighting season’
Kissinger wouldn’t have approved the way Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, handles the Afghan peace talks. Even if Tweeter were in vogue in the late sixties, Kissinger wouldn’t have used it to signal to Hanoi or the Vietcong.
But caught between the “Khalid Operation” — Afghan government’s new security plan — and the Taliban’s riposte Operation Al-Fatha (“victory” in Arabic) — dubbed the “spring offensive” — Khalilzad began tweeting furiously to vent his exasperation.
What emerges from Khalilzad’s serial tweets during April 12-14 is that his negotiations with the Taliban are in a state of drift. Khalilzad blames the Taliban for being “reckless” and “irresponsible” to announce the spring offensive. He claims, “Many Talibs including fighters and some fighters oppose this announcement.”
He maintains that the US and its allies back Kabul’s security plan, but qualifies it saying Washington also seeks “to bring parties to the table to negotiate peace.” Khalilzad urges “all sides… (to) end unnecessary violence, and instead engage in intra-afghan dialogue which leads to negotiations on a political settlement and a road map to end the war this year.” The urgent requirement is for a “comprehensive ceasefire and negotiations leading to a lasting peace.”
The sequence of events in the past fortnight suggests that Kabul has effectively put a spoke in the wheel just as Taliban appeared, finally, to soften its stance and agreed to meet government representatives as part of an Intra-Afghan dialogue. The precipitate announcement of the Khalid Operation on April 2 drew forth a Taliban reaction on April 12 — its spring offensive.
A day later, on April 13, Afghan President Asharf Ghani hit Taliban hard with a sharply-worded statement condemning the spring offensive and vowing that the Afghan forces have been “clearly directed to take counter-measures” to defend the country. The fate of the inter-Afghan dialogue slated to take place in Doha on April 19-21 hangs by a thread.
The Afghan leaders who are enthused by the idea of the intra-Afghan dialogue feel stranded — Hamid Karzai, Haneef Atmar, Atta Noor, Ismail Khan, Younus Qanooni, Mohammad Mohaqiq, etc. (In a statement on Sunday, Karzai expressed displeasure over “Khalid operation”.) In essence, Ghani and his circle — defense minister Assadullah Khalid, interior minister Amrullah Saleh, national security advisor Hamdullah Mohib, etc. — will have one more “fighting season.”
The coming fighting season to be exceptionally violent because a new player has appeared. The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) is no longer a phantom. Although concentrated presently in the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar bordering Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ISKP’s regional ambition spans Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan and it takes a special interest in the Af-Pak region. On March 11, ISPK claimed to have undertaken a major operation in Lahore killing Pakistani security personnel and last week in Quetta.
(Afghan security forces line up alleged Islamic State fighters before media, Jalalabad, April 10, 2019)
In this increasingly murky backdrop where the battle lines are increasingly getting blurred, Ghani’s circle is confident that Khalilzad can be blocked from imposing a peace settlement. What counts most will be the support of two regional states — Iran and India. These two countries share Ghani’s angst over an imposed Afghan settlement.
Tehran is furious about the Trump administration’s recent move to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its elite wing the Quds Force as terrorist organisations. The Quds Force leads Tehran’s Afghan strategies. Yet, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened last week that Washington regards the legendary commander of Quds Force, Maj Gen Qassem Suleimani as a terrorist in the same way as the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.
It is doubtful if Pompeo consulted Khalilzad before threatening to eliminate Soleimani. At any rate, there is going to be a price to pay. An influential Iranian strategic expert close to the IRGC, Saadullah Zarei warned in an interview in the weekend that Iran has many friends in the region and Washington should know that its IRGC designation is going to be hugely consequential.
Zarei added cryptically, “The consequences have already started as we can see that the American forces are now exposed to serious risks in Afghanistan.” Indeed, American soldiers are being targeted more frequently of late.
As for India, the compulsions are more varied. Delhi is on the same page as Ghani in harbouring the grouse that Khalilzad keeps it out of the loop on the Afghan peace talks. Khalilzad of course is playing safe, because any display of camaraderie on his part with Delhi will only antagonise the Pakistani leadership, which won’t do good for his peace mission.
On the other hand, Delhi has invested heavily on Ghani’s circle, who in turn reciprocate with unreserved strategic trust in India’s commitment to push back at Pakistan, something in which they cannot do on own steam. Both estimate that Pakistan is persisting with an insidious strategy to gain a backdoor entry for its protégé, Taliban, in the governing structure in place in Kabul — something Islamabad failed to achieve militarily.
They view with suspicion Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s refrain regarding the need of an Interim Government in Kabul. They assess that Khalilzad is ambivalent about it. India has conveyed its disquiet directly to Washington regarding any move to replace Ghani with an interim government on whatever pretext.
An Indian analyst with links to the security establishment wroterecently that the US “cannot afford to achieve durable peace” in Afghanistan via a settlement that sidelines or bypasses the Ghani Government and India. He warned, “At best, any hurried tactically expedient contrived settlement arrived at by US Special Envoy at Doha with unwarranted compromises may only secure a temporary reprieve and fig-leaf for withdrawal of US Forces from Afghanistan. Such a compromise will not only fail to achieve durable peace in Afghanistan but also inherently carry within itself seeds of renewed conflict and strife in the immediate wake of exit of US Forces from Afghanistan.”
However, what the Indian establishment is not going to articulate openly is that far beyond its concerns regarding Pakistan’s perceived power projection into Afghanistan, there is also the dark and brooding medium and long term scenario that China is “waiting in the wings to fill the vacuum in Afghanistan with Pakistan’s collusion” once the US forces withdrew. Indeed, Delhi welcomes a permanent US military deployment to Afghanistan, similar to the decades-long American presence in Japan and South Korea.
Without doubt, high-level consultations between Delhi and Washington are needed, given India’s centrality as a pivotal player in the US-conceived Indo-Pacific Security Template. The current preoccupations in Delhi over the general election will get over by May 19, and in the interim, the Indian establishment heaves a sigh of relief that Ghani government has succeeded in slowing down Khalilzad on his tracks.
(Cover photograph: Remains of three US marines killed in Afghanistan being moved)
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Nature & Biology, Environment
Drones Are Diving Under Antarctic Ice to Map Unseen Portions of Our World
By Chelsea Gohd
Image Credit: Free-Photos via Pixabay
In Antarctica, a fleet of seven drones will embark on a year-long mission under the ice. If they survive, the data they collect could drastically improve predictions of future ice melting and sea level rises.
Diving Drones
As sea levels rise and the need to understand our changing planet grows more serious, we come to face the mysteries of the Antarctic shelves, which hide below them a secret world. Beneath these massive shelves rests glorious caves and canyons, continually carved away by moving, melting water. Ice cracks and tide flow through and tug at its edges, warm and cool water mixing together in this underwater world that exists below as ridges of ice catch on the seabed below. Into this terrestrial, alien environment, seven underwater robots will dive and explore in a new effort to predict sea level rises.
Created by the University of Washington (U.W.) in Seattle, these bots will spend a year observing the melting process under the Pine Island Ice Shelf, a region spanning over 50 square miles, so that scientists might better predict the future of these ice shelves. Because the physics of these unique locations is fairly convoluted, there has been a persisting difficulty in accurately predicting this change. And it’s essential to understand these processes, especially to those living in or near coastal regions,because they will be the first to face the brunt of rising sea levels.
Knut Christianson, a glaciologist on the mission and a leader of U.W.’s Future of Ice initiative, said: “We’ve known for about 40 years that ice shelves are intrinsically unstable. But we don’t really understand the variability of these systems, let alone how they react to a significant external forcing like warming sea temperatures.”
Exploring Antarctica
Originally designed to explore and observe in open water, these diving bots are setting off to explore with acknowledged risk, “There is a real risk that some of the instruments will not come back,” said Jason Gobat, an oceanographer at U.W.’s Applied Physics Laboratory who will deploy the bots from Antarctica.
Over the past 40 years, the melting speed at the Pine Island Ice Shelf has increased by nearly a whopping 75% and if just this one shelf melted, it would flood every coastal city on planet Earth. And, while the mission is dangerous for these precious instruments, the only way to accurately measure key temperature, pressure, water chemistry and turbulence is by putting these drones directly in the water under the shelf.
In previous missions, robots have been sent under the ice on much shorter missions through small holes drilled into the shelf of Antarctica. But these efforts were short and in limited areas, so the data couldn’t accurately represent the larger region or ice melting in a more general sense. This new robot fleet made up of three Seagliders, self-propelled drones, and four drifting floats. “Swimming” by adjusting their buoyancy, these robots will glide through the water with mechanic “wings” and navigate by triangulating from three sonic buoys nearby. An satellite in orbit above Antarctica is capable of beaming down instructions, additionally, and it is where the bots will send their data post-mission. The floats are slightly less capable in terms of movement, only moving up and down by adjusting buoyancy. This makes them susceptible to ocean currents.
This team of robots would drastically improve current understanding of sea level rise and allow scientists to more accurately predict future melting. So here’s to hoping that these diving drones survive the journey.
Source: Futurism - References: Scientific American, Nature
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HD 11025's star type is giant star that can be located in the constellation of Octans. The description is based on the spectral class.
HIP7568 is the reference name for the star in the Hipparcos Star Catalogue. The Id of the star in the Henry Draper catalogue is HD11025.
The Radial Velocity, that is the speed at which the star is moving away/towards the Sun is 17.80 km/s with an error of about 2.90 km/s . When the value is negative then the star and the Sun are getting closer to one another, likewise, a positive number means that two stars are moving away. Its nothing to fear as the stars are so far apart, they won't collide in our life-time, if ever.
Radius has been calculated as being 10.30 times bigger than the Sun. The Sun's radius is 695,800km, therefore the star's radius is an estimated 7,167,318.42.km. If you need the diameter of the star, you just need to multiple the radius by 2. However with the 2007 release of updated Hipparcos files, the radius is now calculated at being round 10.79. The figure is derived at by using the formula from SDSS and has been known to produce widely incorrect figures.
Using the original Hipparcos data that was released in 1997, the parallax to the star was given as 8.94 which gave the calculated distance to HD 11025 as 364.84 light years away from Earth or 111.86 parsecs. It would take a spaceship travelling at the speed of light, 364.84 years to get there. We don't have the technology or spaceship that can carry people over that distance yet.
In 2007, Hipparcos data was revised with a new parallax of 8.57 which put HD 11025 at a distance of 380.59 light years or 116.69 parsecs. It should not be taken as though the star is moving closer or further away from us. It is purely that the distance was recalculated.
Alternative Names HD 11025, HIP 7568
Constellation Octans
Radial Velocity 17.80 ± 2.90 km/s
Semi-Major Axis 6812.00
Alpha Octantis (Alpha Octantis)
Beta Octantis (Beta Octantis)
Gamma1 Octantis (Gamma1 Octantis)
B Octantis
BP Octantis
BQ Octantis
BR Octantis
BW Octantis
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How Uyghurs are silenced from sharing their suffering with the world
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Many Uyghurs don't speak out due to fear of repercussions and others don't because they have been indoctrinated against criticising the Chinese government.
“Two months ago the UN and EU did some inspections in the region [Xinjiang], and my city was chosen for these inspections, and I heard they released a lot of people because they [China] want to hide what they’re doing to Uyghurs, and my mother could be one of the released, but I can’t confirm if the news is true because I don’t want to risk trying to contact her because they [Chinese authorities] will detain and torture her again or worse,” Arapat Erkin, an Uyghur refugee in the United States tells me.
Erkin hasn’t heard from either of his parents since China’s brutal crackdown in Xinjiang was launched in 2016, learning only of their incarceration in what has become a network of Muslim 'concentration camps' in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.
“I was just studying in America when the crackdown started. My contact with them became less and less, and by the time I lost contact with my parents I just presumed they were too afraid to contact me knowing that contacting someone outside of the region poses a big problem for Uyghur," says Erkin continuing that, "last year in August I learned through relatives who escaped to Kazakhstan that my mother had already been taken to a concentration camp at the end of 2017.”
Erkin arrived in the United States in October 2015 on a student visa, later successfully applying for refugee status due to what many have described as “cultural genocide” in Xinjiang, with the US Pentagon last month estimating that the number of Uyghur concentration camp detainees has increased from 1 million to 3 million in the past year.
Like the most horrific genocides of recent times, China is also targeting academics, journalists, and the elite among the 12 million Uyghur population, including Erkin’s father Erkin Tursun, a renowned and award-winning journalist and TV producer for a Chinese government-owned media outlet, who was handed an 11-year prison sentence.
“Tursun's arrest came after he produced a program, ‘The World is Beautiful and Filled with Love and Care,’ which documented the financial struggles of three Uyghur students,” according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
China is using its network of concentration camps to detain Muslims who occupy the lower and middle rungs of Uyghur society but handing out prison sentences to those who occupy the upper stratosphere, including the influential and highly educated, or rather the very type who can lead an uprising against the government.
It’s also worth noting here that credible reports, one quoting a Chinese police official, also suggest China is using its vast prison system to disperse Uyghur across the country is an attempt to conceal the numbers of those detained in concentration camps from the international community.
A question asked by many in regards to China’s Muslim concentration camps, however, is why is there so little global outrage?
The answer to this question has many facets.
Firstly, the control the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has over all forms of digital, print, and social media. In China’s point of view, the control successfully stymies and deprives the rest of the world the kind of horrific images that might otherwise shock the international community into action.
Secondly, China’s ability to project its economic might through soft-power has bought the silence and complicity of the foreign governments it does business with.
The fact that not one Muslim majority country, excluding Turkey, has issued a public statement of condemnation regarding China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims speaks to this point.
Thirdly, China, through its vast security apparatus, threatens Uyghur refugees abroad into silence by promising to detain or harm the family members of those who speak out against China’s human rights violations.
When I spoke with Arslan Hidayat, the son-in-law of detained internationally renowned Uyghur comic Adil Mijit, he told me many Uyghur are even too scared of speaking out against China within their communities—including those he lives among within the Uyghur expatriate community in Istanbul, Turkey—out of fear Chinese government informants will report them, and then in turn target their relatives in Xinjiang, a fear also echoed by Erkin.
Erkin also explained to me that not only are many Uyghur expatriates and refugees “too afraid” to talk publicly about their detained and missing loved ones because of fear of “revenge” by the Chinese government. He also adds that many don't speak out against the government because they are socially conditioned by years of exposure to state indoctrination, no matter how heinous the crime is – even when it is against their community.
The evidence of China’s barbaric abuse of Uyghur Muslims is now undeniable, though. Not only do tens of thousands of personal testimonies harmonise and corroborate tens of thousands of others, but also satellite images and on the ground investigations confirm Uyghur claims.
“China has lied to the international community when it said these are not concentration camps, not prisons, and that they are teaching Muslims skills and trades,” a school teacher and former Kazakh Muslim detainee told CNN. “That’s not true at all because I saw it with my own eyes.”
Seemingly, and tragically, however, it may take the entire world to see with their own eyes the crimes taking place against Muslims in China before we see the kind of global condemnation that might pressure China into changing course.
Disclaimer: The viewpoints expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the opinions, viewpoints and editorial policies of TRT World.
We welcome all pitches and submissions to TRT World Opinion – please send them via email, to opinion.editorial@trtworld.com
@cjwerleman
CJ Werleman is a journalist, author, and analyst on conflict and terrorism.
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human rights Mar. 22, 2018
New Report Finds Twitter Violates Women’s Human Rights
By Madison Malone Kircher@4evrmalone
Photo: AntonioGuillem/Getty Images/iStockphoto
Amnesty International put out a report this week entitled “#ToxicTwitter: Violence and abuse against women online.” It analyzes what it is like to be a woman on Twitter and takes a closer look at the ways the platform fails to protect women against violence and abuse. Spoiler alert: It’s all bad.
“The violence and abuse many women experience on Twitter has a detrimental effect on their right to express themselves equally, freely and without fear,” the study says. “Instead of strengthening women’s voices, the violence and abuse many women experience on the platform leads women to self-censor what they post, limit their interactions, and even drives women off Twitter completely.” To put it more bluntly, Amnesty International published a giant study detailing what most women who actively use Twitter could have already told you: Twitter can be a hostile and dangerous place if you’re not a man.
Conducted with 86 subjects over 14 months, the study is eight chapters long and details a number of instances in which women and nonbinary people faced hate speech, violence, and threats on Twitter. A women’s-rights activist said she was told to drink floor polish after criticizing an actor in an Amazon ad. “I get harassment as a woman and I get the extra harassment because of race and being a black woman. They will call white women a ‘c*nt’ and they’ll call me a ‘n*gger c*nt’. Whatever identity they can pick they will pick it and use it against you,” journalist Imani Gandy said.
Twenty-three percent of women surveyed in eight countries by Amnesty in 2017 said they had faced “online abuse or harassment at least once.” Over half of that percentage said their attacker was a stranger. “Some of the things that have been put on Twitter about me have had people say they know where I live, I’ve had people say that they’ll be outside my work, I’ve had people not just threaten me but also say things that, you know, are clearly veiled threats against my family,” journalist Allison Morris said of the threats she had received. The case studies go on and on. “The assertion that Twitter is consciously unengaged with human rights issues is an unfair representation not just of the facts, but of the ethos of our dedicated teams, and the core mission of the company,” a Twitter representative told Select All.
The study’s final chapter offers Amnesty’s solutions to fixing Twitter for women. (Twitter’s representative told Select All the company agrees with “many” of the recommendations.) Suggestions include getting Twitter to be more transparent with data and information about the prevalence of violence on the platform. Another is fixing reporting structures to have “consistent application and better response to complaints of violence and abuse.” And having Twitter take a more active role in teaching users about how to use existing privacy and safety features — think muting and blocking and keyword filtering — for a better experience online. Decent suggestions Twitter might consider taking to heart the next time it decides to create a tone-deaf ad centered on female empowerment. Pretty sure any woman or nonbinary person would much prefer stricter enforcement of Twitter’s rules to a celebrity-filled commercial, no matter how good the spoken-word poem was.
Update, March 21, 2018, 2:41 p.m.: This post has been updated to include a statement from Twitter. The full statement has been included below.
The assertion that Twitter is consciously unengaged with human rights issues is an unfair representation not just of the facts, but of the ethos of our dedicated teams, and the core mission of the company.
We agree with many of the recommendations contained in the Amnesty International report. A number of the proposals represent work already completed or underway at Twitter. Abuse and hateful conduct directed at women are prohibited on our platform. We have made more than 30 individual changes to our product, policies and operations in the past 16 months. We have increased our action rates ten-fold. We have made significant changes to our reporting tools and continue to improve them as well working to communicate more clearly with our users on reports and how we draft policy. We continue to expand our Transparency Report to include relevant and meaningful data. We have seen extraordinary engagement supporting women. The rise of movements like #MeToo, #WomensMarch, and #PositionOfStrength are testimonies to the power of Twitter as a platform for women and their allies to share stories, offer support, and advocate for change.
We are committed to understanding how we can better combat the hatred and prejudice within society that gives rise to online abuse and how we can encourage a healthier public conversation. We are an open platform and hold a mirror up to human behaviors - both the good and the bad. Everyone has a part to play in building a more compassionate and empathetic society, including Twitter. Our policy, product, and engineering teams continue to work collaboratively to find ways to innovate to protect our users and enhance their experience, particularly as those in our society intent on harm find new ways to hurt and abuse. We look forward to ongoing constructive engagement with Amnesty International and others to find real, lasting solutions to ensure women are safer and feel safer online.
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New York Spends $4.3M on Technology to Stop Vehicles From Hitting Bridges
Governor says detectors should also help curb traffic troubles for Long Islanders.
By Kate GibsonDecember 6, 2017
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Looking to prevent dangerous strikes to bridges, New York is spending $4.3 million to install additional detectors to keep too-tall vehicles off state parkways, where overpasses are lower than many.
The detector systems are intended to curtail incidents that in 2017 have so far included more than 120 intrusions of over-height vehicles onto state parkways, and more than 40 bridge strikes, a spokesman for the New York State Department of Transportation told The Drive.
Because New York State parkways traditionally have bridges that are lower than the standard legal bridge clearance, commercial vehicles, school buses, tractor trailers and other tall vehicles are banned from its parkways. But that doesn't mean trucks always stay off the roadways.
In October, a truck struck a low-lying Long Island Rail Road overpass in Westbury, prompting a move to raise the more than century-old structure two feet.
The project involves installing over-height detector systems at 13 locations with a history of trucks using to improperly enter parkways, with the technology relaying an invisible beam set at a specific bridge clearance height for the area. An over-height vehicle would set off a warning message on a color message sign display, alerting the driver of impending bridge strikes ahead. A camera linked to a state traffic center would also record the incident, and police could then be dispatched to the scene.
"Every bridge strike is not only a danger to the motorists and passengers involved, but also exacerbates the very serious traffic problems that Long Islanders experience every day," Governor Andrew Cuomo, said in a news release.
Similar systems were installed on five parkways in the Hudson Valley in 2015, with 30 percent fewer bridge strikes on the Hutchinson River Parkway in 2016 than four years earlier. The state's transportation department in 2011 installed slightly different technology near a low railroad bridge near Syracuse, with the location experiencing a reduction in bridge hits from several a year to an average of one annually.
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The “Grey to Green” scheme, undertaken by local authorities aims to reinvigorate the historic part of the city
Birmingham City Council with ambitious plan to redesign city centre
Over 5,000 new homes will be created, alongside brand-new office buildings and green spaces
“How to be a spy” event to be hosted in Liverpool on 18 June
Stella Rimington, first female head of the MI5 and alleged inspiration for James Bond’s “M” will be attending the event
Anton Stoyanov
New mobility services to be tested in four cities in the UK
The British government has launched a 90-million Pounds competition for cities to trial new mobility services
The Mayor of London is introducing an Ultra Low Emission Zone
From 8 April 2019 the ULEZ will replace the T-Charge and operate within the current Congestion Charging Zone
European mayors demand EU emissions peak by next year
In an open letter published today, 210 mayors also call on the Council and Member States to halve emissions by 2030 and reach a net-zero by the mid-century
Belfast celebrates 4 years of its bike-sharing program
Since its inception in 2015, users have cycled more than 200,000 hours and have burned more than 1 million calories
London Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) has come into force
In order to prevent thousands of premature deaths, the mayor of London is fast-tracking measures that improve air quality in the city
Innovative billboards triggered by weather data encourage Londoners to help the homeless
The initiative is part of Mayor Sadiq Khan’s campaign to tackle homelessness
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McDonald scores 21 to lead NKU past UMBC, 78-60
Sierra Newton, Assistant Sports Editor
Fresh off his triple-double against Morehead State on Tuesday night, Horizon League preseason MVP Drew McDonald tallied 21 points and five rebounds to help the Norse past last year's NCAA Tournament darlings UMBC, 78-60 at BB&T Arena on Friday night. The Cold Spring, Kentucky native finished ...
Tags: Athletics, Basketball, Drew McDonald, Jalen Tate, Men's Basketball, nku athletics, Tyler Sharpe, Zaynah Robinson
McDonald named to the 2019 Lou Henson Award Watch List
Mike Canizales, Sports Editor
NKU senior standout Drew McDonald has been named to the 2018-19 Lou Henson Award Watch List for the second consecutive season. This award is presented to the nation's top mid-major player in Division I college basketball and will be presented at the College Insider awards event in April at the site of t...
Tags: Athletics, Basketball, Drew McDonald, John Brannen, nku athletics, NKU men's basketball
Volleyball falls to Miami (OH) in first round of NIVC
Jasmine Smart, Reporter
The NKU women’s volleyball team season ended in the first round of the National Invitational Volleyball Championship, after being swept by Miami (OH) in three sets (25-14, 25-18, 25-22) on Thursday night. With the loss, the Norse end their 2018 season with a winning record of 21-10. Laura Crawford and Natali...
Tags: Ashton Terrill, Athletics, Haley Libs, laura crawford, natalie hardig, nku athletics, Volleyball
McDonald posts triple-double in win over Morehead State
It only took 6,506 days, but Craig Conley now has company in NKU's triple-double club, as Drew McDonald became the long-awaited second member on Tuesday night.
Tags: Athletics, Basketball, Dantez Walton, Drew McDonald, John Brannen, Men's Basketball, nku athletics, NKU men's basketball, Tyler Sharpe, Zaynah Robinson
Volleyball earns postseason tournament bid
The NKU women’s volleyball team advanced to the postseason for the first time in the Division I era, when they earned a bid to the 2018 National Invitational Volleyball Championship on Sunday night. “We are very excited to play in the NIVC tournament,” NKU head coach Liz Hart said. “It’s ...
Tags: Ashton Terrill, Athletics, Haley Libs, Horizon League, Liz Hart, Volleyball
NKU drops fourth straight; lose to Austin Peay 52-48
Despite holding Austin Peay to just 15-of-43 (34.9 percent) shooting, the NKU women’s basketball team fell to the Governors 52-48 on the road Monday night. With the loss, the Norse drop to 1-4 on the season, while the Governors improve to 3-3. Taylor Clos led the Norse with 21 points on 8-of-14 shooting, wh...
Tags: Athletics, camryn whitaker, Grayson Rose, Kailey Coffey, Molly Glick, nku athletics, nku women's basketball
NKU falls to UCF on the road, spoiling 6-game win streak
After helping the Norse to their best start (6-0) in the Division I era, Drew McDonald's 22-point performance was no match for the University of Central Florida and their 7'6" blocking specialist Tacko Fall, the Norse suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday night, 66-53. Last weekend's Maui ...
Tags: Athletics, Basketball, Dantez Walton, Drew McDonald, Jalen Tate, John Brannen, nku athletics, NKU men's basketball, Tyler Sharpe
Women’s basketball drop three straight, fall to Belmont 71-53
Ty Debonis, Contributor
After falling to the Belmont Bruins by a score of 71-53 at home on Wednesday night, the NKU women's basketball team suffered their third straight defeat and dropped to 1-3 on the season.
Tags: Athletics, Basketball, Grayson Rose, Molly Glick, nku athletics, nku women's basketball
McDonald named Horizon League Co-Player of the Week
After leading the Norse to a perfect 3-0 record en route to the team title in the KEMI Northern Kentucky Basketball Classic, Drew McDonald was named Horizon League Co-Player of the Week, along with Green Bay's JayQuan McCloud on Monday afternoon. The Cold Spring, Kentucky native was named tournament MVP...
Tags: Athletics, Drew McDonald, Horizon League, Men's Basketball, nku athletics, NKU men's basketball
Norse drop two at Kent State Classic
The NKU women's basketball team traveled north to the Kent State Classic in Kent, Ohio over the weekend and came home with a pair of tough losses. The Norse opened play on Saturday evening with a heartbreaking defeat (62-61) to Kent State, then fell to the University of Akron (77-60) on Sunday afternoon. Sopho...
Tags: ally niece, Athletics, Basketball, camryn whitaker, emmy souder, Grayson Rose, Molly Glick, nku women's basketball
Norse remain undefeated after win vs. Coastal Carolina
Aric France, Reporter
The NKU men’s basketball team collected a clean sweep in the KEMI Northern Kentucky Basketball Classic after beating Coastal Carolina 89-83 to remain undefeated (6-0) on Sunday night. “I thought this was the first of the six games where everyone did their job,” NKU head coach John Branne...
Tags: Athletics, Basketball, Dantez Walton, Drew McDonald, Jalen Tate, John Brannen, Men's Basketball, nku athletics, NKU men's basketball, Tyler Sharpe, Zaynah Robinson
Norse fall to Green Bay in HLVB Championship Finals
The NKU women’s volleyball team fell to the Green Bay Phoenix in three sets (25-22, 27-25, 25-19) at the 2018 Horizon League Volleyball Championship on Sunday afternoon. With the loss, the Norse drop to 21-9 overall and the Phoenix move to 20-10 on the season. This will be the first time since 2003 th...
Tags: Ashton Terrill, Athletics, Bailey Western, Haley Libs, Horizon League, horizon league tournament, laura crawford, Miranda Wucherer, Volleyball
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Thank You, Harvey Weinstein
by Rose Kuan Emory University Nov 20, 2017
Emily Berl for The New York Times
No you are not wrong, this is a thank you note to Hollywood’s domineering Mr. Weinstein.
Following the countless women who came forward accusing Hollywood mogul producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct, the media has finally shed its limelight upon the unacceptable behaviors of the upper echelons of our society. In lieu of silence, more and more women and men opened up their wounds, voicing their sexual assault experiences while severing ties with predators of their industries. Thanks to Weinstein, sexual harassment claims have skyrocketed across fields – the house of cards is finally collapsing.
More than 20 famous men from multiple industries are now accused of the same crime. This long list goes on, including a speaker of the House, executive director of an art fair, former New York Times editor, director, actor, etc.
An actor of wide influence is also caught up in this domino reaction – Kevin Spacey.
The mastermind behind Emmy-winning "House of Cards" series and two-time Oscar Winner, Spacey was accused by actor Anthony Rapp for sexual harassment which took place almost three decades ago. This exposure most likely is a reaction following the fallout of producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment scandal.
Before anything, this thank you note is also from an avid "House of Cards" junkie who has stuck herself with Frank Underwood since the very start, following closely Underwood’s dirty Washington politics and his insatiable greed for power.
Not going to lie, I loved Underwood’s every move on the Hill, until it became reality. Least to say, I am disappointed in Kevin Spacey.
Immediately following Spacey’s breaking report, I found myself bewildered with my laptop screen plastered on my face for nearly two hours. The thought of Kevin Spacey, one of my favorite actors of all time and perhaps one of the most brilliant, as a sexual predator engulfed me in a limbo. My thoughts have fallen into non-sequiturs, but really I was wondering a simple question – How?
How is someone of such talent and authority lack so much moral conscious? Again, and again, I confuse achievement with impulse and cannot seem to find a way out of this labyrinth. Most of my childhood and years of teenage angst were filled with Spacey’s thrillers like "American Beauty" and "21", for once I wished I was as smart as those MIT kids who he brought to Vegas to count cards. I cannot help but merit Spacey for his forceful acting, but then I realize this force was also exerted elsewhere, particularly on young male actors in the industry for more than three decades of molestation.
It is difficult to completely archive the achievements of those who lost our respect, I mean Weinstein is the second most thanked person in the movie industry, right before God and after Steven Spielberg. Growing up watching blockbusters like "Spy Kids" and "Shakespeare in Love", it would be overly whimsical to just simply disregard Weinstein’s cinematic achievements. But it is also for that very fact, Weinstein has the capabilities to induce fear among his subordinates, fostering the culture of silence about sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry.
Thank you, Mr. Weinstein, for breaking barriers for the fearful society we reside in today.
Thank you, Mr. Weinstein, for shedding light on those who have harassed their subordinates.
Thank you, Mr. Weinstein, for your years of “honeypoting” people are now aware of the sexual ploys dominating authorities in many industries have used.
Thank you, Mr. Weinstein, because of you, discussions on how to combat sexual assault are facilitated in colleges and institutions all across the nation.
Maybe today will be the day non-disclosure agreements and threats come to a halt.
Maybe today will be the day people will learn to respect and control their impulses.
Maybe today will be the day voices of the submissive will be heard.
Maybe today will be the day that from an atrocity, we learn the hard truth, that our society at large is phased with a severe issue we ought to solve, now.
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Synopsis | Environment | Environment | Uncategorized | Jun 27, 2019
Flawed Rules Ensnare Marine Mammals
Sarah Madigan
Scholar identifies pitfalls of marine mammal protections and pushes for coordinated global standards.
When accidentally caught in a fishing net, drowning whales and dolphins can experience high levels of stress, pain, and suffering.
But international conservation standards are not doing enough to protect against this type of treatment, according to a scholar with the National Research Council of Italy.
In a research paper, Ilja Richard Pavone scrutinizes two broad sets of regional and global protections for marine mammals: wildlife laws and fisheries laws.
Although Pavone acknowledges that these standards have made a start at protecting marine mammals, he argues that they do not prevent all hunting and incidental catches, nor do they fully protect animal welfare. Given these deficiencies, Pavone urges regulators to systematize wildlife laws and fisheries laws on an international scale for more effective, welfare-focused conservation.
Within the marine mammal category, Pavone includes whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, manatees, and dugongs.
He explains that wildlife laws provide “direct protection” for threatened marine mammals because their entire purpose is to ban the hunting and trade of certain species. Fisheries laws provide “indirect protection” because they limit the number of marine mammals that fishermen catch accidentally.
In Pavone’s view, standards promoting welfare should seek to reduce marine mammals’ pain and suffering because doing so is desirable as a matter of ethics, not economics.
In reviewing wildlife laws, Pavone points to two international treaties: the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), which bans the hunting of certain species of whales, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which restricts trade in threatened and endangered species, including some kinds of whales, porpoises, and dolphins.
In addition, Pavone considers EU rules that provide direct protection on a regional scale, such as a regulation implementing CITES and a regulation banning the importation of products made from whales and similar marine mammals.
The welfare ideals animating wildlife laws have limitations, argues Pavone. For example, he recognizes that CITES is “the only environmental treaty that makes reference to animal welfare,” as it sets minimum standards of care for handling and transporting wild animals. But the treaty gives only tangential attention to animal welfare, as these protections arise solely in the context of the commercial capture of marine mammals. CITES also only applies to species that are already endangered, so it may provide too little protection too late.
Pavone highlights other EU standards that give marine mammals protection because they are living creatures who understand pain—not because protecting them would keep the commercial market for marine animals alive. He cites an EU regulation that limits the trade of seal products because, as the regulation notes, “seals are sentient beings that can experience pain, distress, fear and other forms of suffering.”
In what Pavone deems an “important” step forward for marine mammal protection in the European Union, the World Trade Organization upheld the EU’s goal of protecting marine wildlife as “legitimate.”
Still, Pavone finds problems in existing welfare laws. Countries like Norway, for example, have opted out of the ICRW, symptomatic of a “long-standing struggle” between states that support whaling and states that do not. Although EU member states may protect marine mammals because of their capacity for suffering, places like Greenland and the Faroe Islands continue to hunt for whales for cultural reasons. Pavone paints a picture of standards in conflict.
In the fisheries law context, Pavone states that alleviating bycatch—the incidental catching of marine mammals in fishing nets—is paramount.
In the United States, for example, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service incorporates bycatch mitigation into its plans for sustainable fishing. The Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits any trade in or use of marine mammals that have been caught by commercial fisheries. Under a regulation implementing the Act, the United States will not import seafood from countries that lack similar restrictions of their own on bycatch.
The European Union has taken steps forward as well. Under one EU regulation, fishing vessels must take steps to diminish bycatch of whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Vessels must have “acoustic deterrent devices” to scare marine mammals away, and they cannot use certain types of fishing gear that tend to catch marine mammals. An independent observer must also be on board to record and report bycatch.
But member states have implemented this regulation inconsistently, according to Pavone. Some states have made “genuine efforts” to do so, while other states do not consider bycatch mitigation “a top priority.” And the European Union has failed to penalize these “reluctant” states.
Pavone grants that wildlife and fisheries laws have helped save marine mammals, but nevertheless he expresses dissatisfaction with both legal systems.
“The current regime on marine mammal conservation has not evolved holistically,” he says. It “is too fragmented.”
“Uniformity” across global waters is especially important because marine mammals may face varying levels of protection as they migrate. Pavone asks regulators to work together on a global scale to create more consistent international standards by blending wildlife law and fisheries law.
Pavone provides an example of what this collaboration might look like. He points to domestic and regional laws that regulate fishing of certain species that are especially prone to result in bycatch. He suggests extending CITES’s protections to these species, thereby globalizing protection of marine mammals against bycatch.
In addition, Pavone insists that conservation efforts should promote welfare through standards that recognize marine mammals’ “high cognitive capabilities.” As such, he argues, protective standards should cover all marine mammals, regardless of whether a certain species is endangered.
Considering this vast and perhaps turbulent body of rules, Pavone’s analysis may provide a starting point for policymakers around the world rethinking the laws protecting marine mammals.
Tagged: Animals, European Union, International Regulation, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Marine Mammals, National Marine Fisheries Service
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Giving Regulatory Cooperation a Reality Check
Elizabeth Golberg
International regulatory cooperation agreements have not reached desired levels of effectiveness.
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Lyon County Marriage License, IA
Lyon County
Marriage License Fee: $35
206 South 2nd Avenue
Marriage Application Requirement Iowa: ✔ Get Copy Of Birth Certificate
Party A, Party B, and one witness (must be 18 years or older) must appear in person
Party A, Party B, and one witness must present photo identification (driver’s license or government issued ID)
Party A, Party B must present Social Security information at the time of signing the marriage license application.
$35.00 marriage license fee includes a certified copy of the Marriage Certificate.
There is a 3-day waiting period before the License is valid and the actual marriage may occur.
Iowa marriage license is valid for 6 months.
Once the marriage has been performed and the Certificate of Marriage has been returned to the Recorder’s office and placed on record, a certified copy will be mailed to Party A or Party B. Either Party may use this certified copy for a name change on social security and driver’s license, etc.
Marriage ID Requirement Iowa:
Both parties and the witness will need to provide photo identification. driver’s license or government issued ID)
Marriage Waiting Period Requirement Iowa:
Iowa has a three (3) business day waiting period before the License is valid and the actual marriage may occur.
This does NOT include the day the application is received for processing and will be delayed if there are errors on the application.
If you need a 3-day waiver, there is an additional cost of $5.00 and must be signed by a judge.
Received: License Valid:
Monday Friday
Tuesday Saturday (Next bus. day)
Wednesday Sunday (Next bus. day)
Thursday Monday
Friday Tuesday
License is not available for pick-up on weekends or holidays.
Marriage Residency Requirement Iowa:
You do not need to be a resident of Iowa to obtain a marriage license in Iowa.
If previously married, the date of divorce or date of spouse’s death must be supplied. If the divorce was within 60 days, a signed copy of the divorce decree will need to be shown.
Marriage License Fees Iowa:
The fee to obtain a marriage license is $35. This is the same in every county in Iowa.
same-sex marriages are recognized in Iowa.
Proxy Marriages Iowa:
No. However, if one party can’t be present at the Recorder’s office to apply for the license, the absent party can sign the Iowa marriage license application before a Notary Public elsewhere.
Cousin Marriages Iowa:
Cousin marriages are not allowed in Iowa.
Common Law Marriages Iowa:
Yes, common-law marriages are recognized in Iowa.
Under Iowa Code for Revenue and Finance1, common law marriage in Iowa is legal for the purposes of filing income taxes (Administrative Rule, Chapter 39 [701]) and property tax exemptions (Administrative Rule, Chapter 73 [701]).
Iowans May Claim
Common Law Marriage Status If:
A present intent of both parties freely given to become married exists
Both parties publicly declare themselves as common law married
The parties have lived together continuously and consummated the marriage (no special time limit, however)
Both parties are legally capable of entering into a marriage relationship; that is, both are of legal age and neither is legally married to someone else at the time.
Marriage Certificate Purposes:
Only legally solemnized marriage ceremonies per the Code of Iowa, chapter 595, are registered as an Iowa vital event. Such marriages permit the parties to legally change their surname through the marriage certificate. Common law marriages are not registered in the Iowa vital records system.
1 Adm. Rule 701—73.25 (425) Common Law Marriage:
A common law marriage is a social relationship that meets all the necessary requisites of a marriage except that it was not solemnized, performed or witnessed by an official authorized to perform marriages. The necessary elements of a common law marriage are: (a) a present intent of both parties freely given to become married, (b) a public declaration by the parties or a holding out to the public that they are husband and wife, (c) continuous cohabitation together as husband and wife (this means consummation of the marriage), and (d) both parties must be capable of entering into the marriage relationship. No special time limit is necessary to establish a common law marriage. This rule is intended to implement Iowa Code section 425.17 [Homestead Tax Credits and Reimbursement: Definitions].
Marriage Blood Test Requirement Iowa:
No other tests are required in Iowa for a marriage license.
Name Change Iowa:
Marriage Age Requirements Iowa: ✔ Get Copy Of Birth Certificate
Applicants 16 or 17 years of age must have a consent form signed by parents/guardians and a judge in order to obtain a marriage license. This form is also available at the Recorder’s Office.
Marriage Officiants Iowa:
Any ordained or licensed clergyman and justices of the peace may act as wedding officiants.
Marriage Witnesses Iowa:
You need to have one witness who is over the age of 18 with you when you apply for the marriage license. The applicants and witness must have a photo I.D.
Expiration Date of Marriage License Iowa:
The Iowa marriage license does not expire unless it is not retrieved from the County Registrar within six months from the date of application, the application is then considered null and void.
Iowa Department of Public Health
321 E. 12th, 4th Floor
Please Note: State and county marriage license requirements often change. The above information is for guidance only and should not be regarded as legal advice. For more information regarding Iowa marriage license records please visit Lyon County website.
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Vectra Networks Honored as Cutting Edge and Editor’s Choice winner in Annual Cyber Defense Magazine Infosecurity Awards
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Vectra Networks, the leader in automated threat management, today announced that Cyber Defense Magazine, the industry's leading electronic information security magazine and media partner of the RSA® Conference 2016, has named Vectra Networks, winner of the “Cutting Edge” and “Editor’s Choice” awards in the Network Security Solution and Intrusion Detection Systems categories.
“We’re thrilled to recognize next-generation innovation in the information security marketplace and that’s why Vectra has earned this award from Cyber Defense Magazine,” said Pierluigi Paganini, editor-in-chief, Cyber Defense Magazine. “Some of the best infosecurity defenses come from forward-thinking players who think outside of the box.”
Vectra uses a patent-pending combination of data science, machine learning, and behavioral analysis to detect malicious behavior in the network. All detections are correlated and prioritized to show an attack in context, and Vectra Networks’ machine learning adapts as attacks evolve.
“These awards recognize the advantage we deliver organizations with real-time detection of in-progress cyber attacks,” said Mike Banic, vice president of marketing at Vectra Networks. “Customers are the most vulnerable during the active phases of an attack and this is where Vectra plays a pivotal role. We address the gap between perimeter and forensic security technologies, and can stop attackers from spying, spreading and stealing within our customer networks.”
Award winners will be recognized this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
About Vectra Networks
Vectra® Networks is the leader in automated threat management solutions for real-time detection of in-progress cyber attacks. The company’s solution automatically correlates threats against hosts that are under attack and provides unique context about what attackers are doing so organizations can quickly prevent or mitigate loss. Vectra prioritizes attacks that pose the greatest business risk, enabling organizations to make rapid decisions on where to focus time and resources. In 2015, Gartner named Vectra a Cool Vendor in Security Intelligence for addressing the challenges of post-breach threat detection. The American Business Awards also selected Vectra as the Gold Award winner for Tech Startup of 2015. Vectra investors include Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners, IA Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures and DAG Ventures. The company’s headquarters are in San Jose, Calif., and it has European regional headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland. More information can be found at www.vectranetworks.com.
About Cyber Defense Magazine
Cyber Defense Magazine is the premier source of IT Security information. We are managed and published by and for ethical, honest, passionate information security professionals. Our mission is to share cutting edge knowledge, real world stories and awards on the best ideas, products and services in the information technology industry. We deliver electronic magazines every month online for free and limited print editions exclusively for the RSA Conferences and our paid subscribers. Learn more about us at http://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com.
For Vectra Networks:
Contact: Kylie Heintz, Director of Corporate Communications
kheintz@vectranetworks.com
Tel: 408-326-2020 ext. 136
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Contact: Jessica Quinn, Director of Marketing & Public Relations
jessicaq@cyberdefensemagazine.com
Tel: 1-800-518-5248 x2002
Vectra and the Vectra Networks logo are registered trademarks and Security that thinks, the Vectra Threat Labs, and the Threat Certainty Index are trademarks of Vectra Networks. Other brand, product and service names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective holders.
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Grace Kelly’s granddaughter, Pauline Ducruet, launches a unisex fashion label
Pauline Ducruet at the Alter spring/summer '20 show, Paris Fashion Week, 2019. Image credit: Getty Images
Royally-approved.
Grace Kelly’s 25-year-old granddaughter, Pauline Ducruet, may come from one of the world’s oldest royal houses — the House of Grimaldi — but that doesn’t mean she’s not forward thinking and modern.
The 16th-in-line to the Monégasque throne and daughter of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco has just launched a fashion label that captures the genderless zeitgeist of 2019. The brand, called Alter, is unisex and from the label’s Instagram account looks like it is set to become denim and streetwear fans’ next obsession.
Ducruet held a show to launch the label in Paris overnight, sharing a number of images on Instagram of herself at the show.
Merci à tous 🙏🏻
A post shared by Pauline Ducruet (@paulinedcrt) on Jun 19, 2019 at 10:25am PDT
Creating a fashion label is something the Monégasque royal has been working towards for years. Aside from growing up around the exceptional stylish women in her own family — her late grandmother, Grace Kelly is considered one of the most important style and beauty icons in history —the 25-year-old studied fashion design in New York at the Parsons School of Design as well as interning at Louis Vuitton.
She is also an avid fashion show-goer and, in fact, when she spoke to Vogue Australia late last year, had just returned from attending fashion month in Paris, Milan and New York. At the time, she was deep in design mode getting ready to launch Alter. “That’s basically my life right now,” Ducruet admitted to Vogue Australia in December, “working on sample making and production, all these things.”
All that hard work has finally come to fruition with the launch of Ducruet’s unisex fashion label. The royal-cum-designer shared not only the show news on Instagram but also a post about the label, saying that although it’s been a “bumpy ride”, creating a brand is a dream come true.
“Today is the day I’ve been working towards for quite a while now, it has been a bumpy ride. A lot of self doubt and being hard on myself but today there is no room for that, today is the day my dream comes true! I always wanted to create and today you will have a glance at what is in my little brain. It is an understatement to say that I am stressed and excited but it feels so right! @alterofficial_”.
Today is the day I’ve been working towards for quite a while now, it has been a bumpy ride. A lot of self doubt and being hard on myself but today there is no room for that, today is the day my dream comes true ! I always wanted to create and today you will have a glance at what is in my little brain . It is an understatement to say that I am stressed and excited but it feels so right ! @alterofficial_
No news as yet on where Alter will be available to shop, but check back here, we’ll update this story as details come to light.
PAULINE DUCRUET
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PLAYING FAVORITES with KIM HILL - RADIO NEW ZEALAND, OCTOBER 2015
DAVID HERKT - STUFF.CO.NZ, NOVEMBER 2015
Most often we don't really see the things in front of us. They are too familiar. They're the ordinary landscapes that don't have a tourism tick: the fences, front-gates, culverts, walls, paths, stairs, and letterboxes of our daily life. Yet they create the New Zealand that we hold in our minds and rediscover with pleasure after we've been away.
Landscape designer Philip Smith and documentary photographer David Straight's Vernacular has the uncanny quality of making us look at our world differently. It is an elegantly-produced book and fully-illustrated with colour photographs that are unexpected as well as revelatory.
From the lichened intricacies of drystone walls on the Otago Peninsular to the weathered battens of marae fences in the Bay of Plenty and the shapes of Haitaitai mailboxes, Vernacular is a journey through a New Zealand that most of us take for granted. Smith's text frames the images informatively, but more importantly it provides an illuminating perspective.
Smith mixes background, history, and aesthetics while explaining the logic of utilitarianism. He focuses on the things we use. Bike-racks, hand-rails, and bushwalk steps are all purposive, but the ways New Zealanders construct them are often vastly different. Triangular manhole covers in Lower Hutt differ from the round covers of Nelson. Water-races in Central Otago are unique. The wrought-iron gates of Coromandel township have their own particular local character.
Straight's fine photographs show us just how the remains of Maori garden walls have sunk back into the Cape Palliser landscape and the trenches of the war-pa at Te Pōrere have preserved their essential structure. Equal emphasis is placed on Mt Eden suburban clotheslines and home-made street numbering in Nelson and Bluff.
Vernacular is a long way from the standard package of tourism imagery. It is a beautiful book that gives the everyday constructions of New Zealand a long-awaited reassessment – and, in doing so, shows us just how extraordinary they really are.
GRANT SMITHIES - SUNDAY STAR TIMES, JANUARY 2016
I leafed through the first hundred pages while lounging on a Nelson river bank where a precarious rope swing dangled from the willows. I knocked off another few chapters at the beach, a stone's throw away from a sea wall built from massive granite boulders. I read the rest on the deck in our garden, surrounded by wonky bamboo structures I'd cobbled together for beans and tomatoes to cling to while they grew towards the sun.
All these locations seemed fitting, as this was a book about those useful - and often casually beautiful - examples of "authorless design" that sit in our landscape, reflecting who we are back to us with a minimum of flash and fuss.
Strapped together with an appropriate sense of understated craftsmanship by landscape designer Philip Smith and photographer David Straight, the book is called Vernacular (Potton and Burton, RRP $69.99), and it was my favourite incoming Christmas present this year.
In many ways, I was the perfect person to receive such a book, as I have always noticed these things: a well-made fence, a graceful swing-bridge in the bush, an elegantly simple bench some old-timer has made in his shed so he can park his arse outside in the afternoon and watch the world hurry on by.
Even so, Vernacular made me look at the world anew. For the past few weeks, every trip outdoors has seemed deeper, richer, more satisfying as I take time to notice the unsung creativity of my tribe.
Certainly, such evidence is everywhere, as this book points out. We are invited to admire projects both grand in scale (the network of water races criss-crossing Central Otago; the stone pathways of Coromandel's Kauaerenga Valley) and decidedly modest (improvised farm drains; home-built letterboxes and clotheslines; a lovely little hand-forged gate latch.)
Often designed on the fly by some unknown maker, these everyday objects and forms are an oft-overlooked part of our cultural legacy, yet they are often quietly innovative and have great aesthetic appeal.
The point is made that we have left traces on the land wherever we have lived, and most of these traces are neither huge engineering projects nor imposing public buildings with a famous architect's name attached. In our rush to celebrate the "iconic", we look right past a host of everyday marvels, so this book instead celebrates more humble expressions of human ingenuity within our shared environment.
Stone and steel, wood and wire, rough-as-guts home-poured "shittycrete", cast iron, brick. Each chapter considers practical objects built to solve everyday problems using whatever materials were cheap and close to hand: some steps to get up a steep hill; a channel to divert excess rainwater; a wall to prevent the sea chomping big bites out of the beach; a manhole cover that looks good, gives traction to cars and stops you breaking your ankle crossing the road.
We're invited to contemplate the eccentric geometry of public bike racks where some unknown welder has employed considerable flair in piecing together a parking place for our push-bikes. We are encouraged to take a closer look at sinuous metal hand-rails burnished to a bronzy sheen by the passage of thousands of hands, or ancient basalt kerbstones outlining the margins of recently laid pavement.
Concise, poetic, sometimes very funny, Philip Smith's text is a delight. "With the exception of punk gigs and other sanctioned scenes of social entropy, it is generally considered desireable that people should be civil to one another" runs the opening line of his chapter on public benches. And then he's off, riffing on form, function, materials, the many and varied ways our shared spaces might encourage lingering and interaction "rather than merely providing a handy conduit as we scurry between destinations."
It's a book that invites us to pause and appreciate simple craftsmanship, and for me, it has done just that. Outside the window of my little home office is a long concrete retaining wall built in the 1930s. I've looked right past it for years, to the vege garden and fruit trees above. But now, my gaze stops earlier.
Over a metre high and six metres long, this wall is a minor marvel, carefully angled to optimise structural strength, with inlaid drainage channels directing run-off into a hand-formed gutter. The face of the wall still carries the horizontal indents of the rough-sawn timbers used as boxing eighty years ago, and the surface has weathered to reveal a wild geology of grey-blue, brown and green aggregate dug from some local river bank, studded with the occassional stray seashell.
Best of all, there are steps built into it directly opposite the kitchen door, the treads perfectly spaced and carefully constructed. This is not just a builder's bodgie job holding back a hillside, a functional eyesore supporting a lovely garden above. This humble concrete wall is a beautiful object in its own right, rich with the history of the people who worked out how it might look, gathered the materials, then set about building the bugger.
URBIS MAGAZINE - DECEMBER 2015
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Boxing gyms in London
Roll with the punches at the best boxing gyms in London
Stuart Hendry
By Isabelle Aron | Posted: Friday February 2 2018
So you wanna be a boxer? Now you can be. Well, you can learn to throw a punch, at least. You don’t need to be built like Sylvester Stallone to get into the ring – plenty of boxing gyms in London offer training for all levels, from total beginner to professional boxing. We’ve rounded up the best of the bunch. Put ‘em up!
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Arches Boxing Gym
Want to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee? Get yourself over to Arches Boxing Gym in Bethnal Green, where Muhammad Ali’s brother, Rahman Ali, is a patron, so you know you’re in capable (not to mention very strong) hands. The gym offers classes for all levels and has two boxing rings, 13 punch bags and a strength and conditioning area to get you fighting fit.
186 The Arches, Globe Road, Bethnal Green, E1 4ET
London Community Boxing
Designed to be a boxing space for all – regardless of age, gender, or background – London Community Boxing gym runs kids’ workshops for £1, donation-only community classes and women-only sessions.
Units 3-4, Bellenden Road Business Centre, SE15 4RF. Peckham Rye Overground.
Paragon Gym
If you’ve had a jab at a few boxfit classes and are inspired to learn to fight properly, head to Paragon Gym in Shoreditch. Its eight-week boxing and kickboxing courses will soon have you, ahem, hooked.
6-8 Boundary St, E2 7JE. Shoreditch High St Overground.
Miguels Boxing Gym
There’s something for everyone at Miguel’s Boxing Gym. And we mean everyone. As well as one-to-one training, they offer women-only classes, white-collar boxing, a ten-week ‘beat obesity’ programme, sessions for over 60s (yes, really) and even £1 stress-busting workouts for the unemployed. The gym is tucked away under the railway arches near Loughborough Junction, but once you spot the Muhammad Ali mural, you’ll know you’re in the right place.
Railway Arches, 261-262 Hardess St, SE24 0HN
North London Boxing Club
What do James McAvoy, Denise Van Outen and Sharon Small have in common? They’ve all trained at the North London Boxing Club, where the 90-minute classes will knock you out (not literally, with any luck). The classes start with circuit training, which includes sparring, shadow boxing, skipping and punch-bag drills, before ending with a cardio blast that’ll leave you seriously sweaty. If you don’t fancy venturing north, there’s also a sister branch in east London.
Unit 2A, The Mews, Truro Road, N22 8EL
Glove Up
Compared to some of London’s boxing clubs, Glove Up is relatively new on the scene. But they’re keen to stress their traditional approach: this is not boxercise, it’s proper boxing. They offer boxing, thai boxing, MMA classes and white-collar boxing, as well as circuit and conditioning classes to improve your overall fitness. There’s a professional boxing ring, punch bags, a weights studio and those all-important skipping ropes.
22 Hardwicks Square, SW18 4GS
Left Hook
Thought boxing was just for burly blokes with pent-up aggression? The folks at Left Hook don’t think so. Their ethos is that boxing should be for everyone, and they run classes for all abilities throughout the week. If you already know what you’re doing, they host competitive boxing sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and they also offer personal training if you really want to work on your left (or right) hook.
Unit 1, 1 Martha Street, Shadwell, E1 2PX
Feeling flash? Swanky studio Kobox offers fast and furious HIIT classes combining heavy-bag sparring and functional strengthbuilding. Try the 30 Min Express.
Multiple locations.
Box Clever Sports
If you’ve always wanted to take up boxing but never had the time, Box Clever Sports is the place for you. Their classes cater to all schedules, including a morning ‘wake up session’, a super-speedy 30-minute ‘lunchtime express’ class, as well as a ‘Saturday morning blitz’ to sweat out that hangover. They also offer personal training and private group classes for three-five people, if you and your pals want to learn the ropes together.
Lowerwood Court car park, Westbourne Park Road, W11 1EU
Jodi Redhouse
12 Rounds Boxing
It might be hard to believe, but when it comes to fitness, Clapham isn’t all hot yoga and pilates studios. 12 Rounds Boxing gym is run by John and Kat Bryson who are on a mission to prove that anyone can get into the ring (yes, that means you). They even offer on-site childcare, so that stay-at-home parents can attend the morning sessions. The classes are split into four levels and you can work your way up as you get more experienced, starting with ‘boxing fundamentals’ and finishing with the slightly terrifyingly named ‘warzone’.
1A St John's Hill, Clapham, SW11 5EW
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Israeli power firm urges Fortnite to keep gamers off electric poles
Shock tactic
Electricity Corp. asks maker of survival-themed video game to help ensure its players really do survive
By JTA 13 June 2019, 9:27 pm 1 Edit
An illustration of the Fortnite game developed by Epic Games, a US video game developer. (YouTube screenshot)
Israel’s largest electrical power supplier is taking issue with one of the most popular video games in the world.
The government-owned Israel Electricity Corp. wrote a letter this week to Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, urging it to stop allowing characters to climb electric poles in the survival-themed game.
According to Reuters, the letter says that climbing electricity poles is a somewhat common stunt in real life in Israel, and something the electricity distributor has been fighting for years with an educational campaign.
“You are responsible for the personal safety of your consumers,” said the letter, which was obtained by Reuters. “We therefore ask you to take action to remove dangerous content that encourages life-risking situations related to the use of electricity.”
Since 2017, Fortnite has drawn in hundreds of millions of players around the world. Its battle royale format, which links players online and has them fight until there’s one survivor left, is especially popular among teenagers and has become a cultural phenomenon.
Epic Games has yet to respond.
Israel Electric Corporation
Activation of warning systems comes after pair of projectiles were fired at Israel Friday evening; Egyptian security delegation said to leave Strip after meeting with Hamas leaders
General Secretary Jennie Formby, who is alleged to have interfered in party probes of anti-Semitism, accuses Tom Watson of ‘traducing’ her reputation as she undergoes chemotherapy
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Reunion- Audrey
A high school reunion is around the corner and four friends haven't seen each other in 20 years. WNTW is invading each woman's home with a combined total of $20,000 to reunite them in style. Audrey's up second- can they make this wallflower bloom?
Reunion - Teresa
A high school reunion is around the corner and four friends haven't seen each other in 20 years. WNTW is invading each woman's home with a combined total of $20,000 to reunite them in style. Will Teresa, mother of two, trash her "I-give-up" dresses?
Reunion- Annabel
A high school reunion is around the corner and 4 friends haven't seen each other in 20 years. WNTW is invading each woman's home with a total of $20,000 to reunite them in style. Can petite attorney Annabel start dressing in the 21st century?
Marcy is a 27-year-old receptionist at a Manhattan investment bank who loves to dress up her dog Peanut - and Peanut looks a lot more glamorous than Marcy. Clinton and Stacy have some big plans to bring out Marcy's true beauty.
Susan is a 22-year-old from Brooklyn who is embarking on a teaching career. This classroom novice has all the skills to succeed, but her wardrobe of Winnie the Pooh T-shirts and ponchos make her look like one of her students.
Kristen has a heart of gold that's well hidden in her oversized, outdated wardrobe. Kristen, a size 4, has recently lost about 25 pounds and sees absolutely no reason to discard her size 10-12 wardrobe. Stacy & Clinton teach Kristen What Not to Wear.
Time challenged startup cable network CEO Liz consistently fails on fashion. This is one strong headed young woman, but Stacy and Clinton take executive action to switch this top tv honcho's last minute style.
Thomasita
Thomasita is studying to be a paralegal. She wants to dress more professionally, and be taken more seriously on job interviews, but her closet still says sexy teenager. She'll get an education in What Not To Wear.
After combing the streets of the Windy City, we've found three horribly dressed teachers in dire need of a fashion re-education. Only one can win the $5000 and a trip to NYC to see Stacy and Clinton so we're pitting the teachers against each other.
Michelle literally grew up in the dog show world and has always understood the importance of elegance and grace in pure breed dogs but not in herself. It's up to Stacy and Clinton to make this 6-foot beauty blossom with an age-appropriate look.
Beth is from Chicago and she's just landed a new job at the city's cultural affairs department but with her tattoos, biker chick wardrobe and love of black clothing, S&C have a challenge giving this face of the windy city the style she needs.
Suzannah
Chalk up another age-inappropriate dresser in Suzannah. Stacy London and Clinton Kelly need to refurbish this real estate agent's style, before her look takes her off the job market.
Tracy P.
Thirty-five-year old Tracy's likes to show it off rather than cover it up. Clinton and Stacy try to teach our feisty fiancé to change her overtly sexy style, but she remains absolutely stubborn. When she meets Nick and Carmindy her attitude changes.
Dara dresses for comfort and that has never boded well for her wardrobe. Since going from college directly into medical school then immediately in the army reserves, Dara never had a chance to have fun and do herself up.
What Not To Wear scoured malls across America for nominations. Their latest candidate is 6'1 Lynn from Washington DC. Because of her height, Lynn has a hard time finding a style. Can Stacy & Clinton give Lynn's oversized, colorless clothing a boost?
Ellen E.
Ellen is a 38 year old from Washington DC who nominated herself to be on What Not to Wear. Ellen's biggest problem is that although she's in her mid thirties, her style is stuck in the early 80s. So, it's off to the Nation's capital to help Ellen.
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What happens if...
By Richard Dodd : 14/11/2009 : Comments (250) :
What happens if, by some misguided view of our application, the powers that be decide against Destination Kirkby? When I posed this question in the Freshfield last evening, it was greeted with such gems as "dancing in the streets of Walton" and "a clear signal for Bullshit Bill to depart these shores"...
Now that may well be the knee-jerk reactions of the Luddites within our following but it hardly does much towards guaranteeing that Everton has a meaningful future!
In truth, a NO would, in my view, be the writing on the wall for our great club. Any hopes for incoming investment are pinned on an early move and, admirer that I am, I can hardly see Chairman Kenwright being able to continue his financial juggling act for too much longer without "help from outside".
Only the most myopic of our followers truly believe that an endless chain of billionaires have been rebuffed by Blue Bill and, whilst there may well have been interest from a few fake sheiks of the Portsmouth variety, only the involvement of big hitters such as Sir Terry Leahey and Sir Philip Green can hope to attract the kind of speculators needed to put Everton in the Top Four.
As I have stated in other posts, I have every reason to believe that the money is in place to ensure we can cover our share of the Kirkby move but I suspect its availability will disappear overnight if a negative is given by the Minister on November 27. Over and over again, the Club has made clear that there was no meaningful alternative to Kirkby. Only that deal offered the possibility of a move for a token contribution to costs. Only that deal brought with it a partnership with some of the biggest hitters in the UK economy. And only that deal has allowed the Club to continue to invest in good players whilst garnering every penny possible towards a move.
So the message is clear: Before you start up the band for that dance of celebration or look to wave goodbye to the evil Kenwright, spare a moment to think what may be in store for us if that answer is NO!
Michael Kenrick
Doddy, this phrase caught my eye: "a token contribution to costs".
Was it not £78 MILLION? For who is that "token"?
Matthew Lovekin
Richard, I have been thinking the same. The short-term gain and popularity of not going to Kirkby is likely to be cancelled out by the long term consequences of staying at Goodison in the modern era of football.
Caught between a rock and a hard place. Perhaps Kenwright is doing his best and what’s best in the interests of EFC? Only time will tell.
Doddy, so you really believe that DK will guarantee that Everton has a meaningful future!
It will load us with debt that undoubtedly will NOT get a return.
Ray Said
Richard, What happens is that the board will finally have to get off their lazy arses and consider some alternatives.
To paraphrase Churchill, ’its not the beginning of the end but may be the end of the beginning’. If the harebrained scheme to leave a city that is now fast growing after 40 years of stagnation is rejected, then the owners will have to make some hard choices and start to invest in the club's final asset — Goodison Park.
David O'Keefe
Looks like I got a reaction from Doddy: Get your retaliation in first.
For Knee-jerk Luddites read Keioc. Did Ross write it for you?
Richard, Without the usual nonsense, just what is it about Bill Kenwright that you find admirable?
I’m assuming you're an Evertonian first and foremost and that comes before any other loyalties you may have, so please explain?
Brian Waring
I just can’t understand why the lads who are pro-Kirkby think that, if we move to Kirkby, the streets will be paved with gold. If anything, it will see us in more debt than we are now.
Ignorance, myopia and blind faith, Brian. Anything looks good if you ignore reality.
Robert Daniels
Richard, There are no known benifits for now moving to Kirkby, almost everyone accepts this. The fact that you now think not going will spell the end for us makes no difference because going will be the end for us as well. A sort of Hobsons choice if you like... or — to be more exact — Kenwright's choice... and herein lies the problem.
Your beloved chairman (because he ain't mine) has no Plan B. So whose fault is that? Mine, yours or the thousands of fans that put their trust in him? That's right his and his alone.
Shame on you, Bill, for putting us all through this, for countless arguments between Evertonians, for the worry over moving out of the city, for making us a laughing stock with our nemisis (remember the carrier bags at the derby) "the city's all ours" etc etc.
Yes, Richard, you may be right: DK or no DK might be the end... but the buck stops with one man — and you think the sun shines out of his arse!
David McDonnell
I have to admit, when I first heard about Kirkby, and the vote about moving, my first reaction was Yes, this is what we need, world class stadium for free, etc etc.
I have to say, as time has progressed, the more I hear, the more I think this really could be the wrong choice. But there are people who know more about this than me on here so I'm asking, "Is it really Kirkby or nothing? Is there no way we can stay in the city?"
I watched a video on the KEIOC website showing the redevelopment of Goodison and the Bestway site (the Loop). Both options looked great and they constantly use the word 'deliverable'. What I want to know is: "Is there an actual financial plan to fund either of these?"
From what I can make out, we're putting £70-odd million in now ourselves for Kirkby. So can we not put that into Goodison? And are the council saying they will definitely help with the cost?
Please can someone give me the facts.
Bill Kenright has never ever interfered with team matters. The problem I have with Kirkby is that it's not an attractable proposition for corporates either. I do not believe that many corparates will want to drive to Kirkby or be driven each week.
Kirkby lacks a nationwide train network. Anfield and Walton are in ideal positions in my opinion for the majority of scosue blues. GP is not to far away from Bootle and not to far from town. Plus the fact is that fans travelling by motor vehicle with only have 3 avenues to Kirkby.
Due to the majority of liverpool based fans having to travel north to get to DK creates more congestion. The main routes that will be used are the East Lancs and Longmoor Lane. It will create congestion like you’ve never seen before.
Gavin Ramejkis
Without rising to the usual anti-BK rhtoric which have been told by far more than myself, David, £78m borrowed from anyone is the same £78m — be it from any bank or borrower. Neil Pearse has argued that the likelihood is that it would be borrowed or levied against the prospective building it was for.
The intricacies of whether that borrowing be deemed less of a risk for:
(1) a redeveloped stadium in GP (with proven access capabilities and years of attendance trends to give in the business plan); or
(2) a Kirkby based stadium (with no discernable transport plan, with negligible off field income generation); or
(3) a new City located site (with potential for off-field income generation as a venue for various activities such as concerts and business meetings, again with proven transport access).
Thinking away from your heart, which of the three would you lend money to?
It has been rumoured that Tesco would be willing to underwrite the loan to Everton for the stadium at Kirkby... but that would be dubious given the DK public hearings stated Tesco aren’t giving Everton anything free, don’t want the naming rights.
Even so-called blue, Tesco Terry, still has shareholders to answer to and is not (as some naively believe) doing the club a favour. The supermarket in Kirkby is for Tesco not for Everton; the retail park is for the retailers not for Everton; the football stadium was hoped to facilitate a larger than normal supermarket but that blatant attempt to circumvent planning rules is why the project got called in and has nothing to do with KEIOC.
No matter what the decision is, Tesco will still build a supermarket. They have bought — albeit it at scandalously low prices —enough of Kirkby town centre not to require a return on their investment.
It is rather striking that the same "get over it" crowd will now no doubt begin the blame game on anti-DK supporters and blame them with the demise of Everton FC. The same who have used the fact the club isn’t the property of the supporters and is being run well by BK. Well — hypocrisy apart — which is it?
Is the club being run well by having no alternative to the DK project, which has been blown out of the water from the glitzy, "virtually free, world class, easily accessible, money generating" lies to a costly, mediocre, inaccessible, money burdening white elephant?
David Hallwood
Welcome to Groundhog Day Pt XXIII:
a) Nobody wants to go to DK or at least very few of us;
b) Goodison Park will have to be redeveloped;
c) Staying as we are is not an option — repeat: not an option;
d) There are viable alternatives to DK, but they would probably be swamped by red tape and takes years to be even given the go-ahead.
As an example, can you imagine groundsharing with the RS? — not a nice thought but I believe this is the best option, but how long would it take to get that one off the ground? Walton Hall Park backs onto and large private housing estate and residents have already come out and stated that they would do all it takes to stop the development.
Whether you like it or not (and I’m not dancing in the streets) but DK is the only game in town...
"As I have stated in other posts, I have every reason to believe that the money is in place to ensure we can cover our share of the Kirkby move but I suspect its availability will disappear overnight if a negative is given by the Minister on November 27."
Says it all really...
Greg Murphy
And what happens if we’re faced with the Vicky Pollard scenario a week on Friday?
Government issues a "yeah but no but yeah" decision (e.g. it’s a "yes" in substance but subject to a caveat such as a judicial review) which could drag things out for anything between another 18 months to five years?
Everton would have to withdraw surely?
And whose fault would that be?
Ten years wasted on White Elephants while Goodison falls down around his ears. Let's blame the fans... Let's blame KEIOC... Lets blame the Government... but let's not blame Blue Bill Kenwright — eh, Doddy???
Destination Kirkby was never Everton’s only option — it was Kenwright’s only option — and there’s a bit of a difference there.
It’s ironic that Doddy says regarding funds for DK "it’s availability will disappear overnight"? Whenever have we seen BK do that before?
Fortress Sports Fund, anyone?
Ringfenced money for Kings Dock, anyone?
The Elstone stooge statements saying players will come in early when it turns out the cupboard was bare until Lescott was sold?
Brian Noble
I suspect the short answer to Doddy’s question is ’Not very much!’
Elstone will huff and puff, Kenwright will utter his regrets and availability of the £78M will mysteriously disappear. No serious attempt to find an alternative site or formulate plans for re-development of GP will be embarked on and having manipulated themselves into a blind alley they will sit and wait... and sit and wait... and sit and wait...
Art Jones
What will happen? you ask...
Our Board of Directors haven’t got the ingenuity, desire, drive, or even basic nous to actually do anything of their own accord. Tesco have used Everton to get their foothold in Kirkby — hoping that by tying themselves to the Stadium they’d bypass a Public Inquiry — knowing that the plans on their own would never get through; thankfully it failed.
So, as a back-up, Tesco declared at the start of the Inquiry, the stadium and retail projects would stand on their own — not combined. It's clear Tesco’s priority has changed. Kenwright, his advisors and his fellow directors walked right into this and even foolishly let the exclusivity contract stand!
So you ask, what will they do??? Your guess is as good as mine... I know what I want them to do but I couldn’t possibly put it into print...
But they would not do any worse than they have done and eat a little humble pie and talk to KEIOC and their advisors such as Tom Hughes and Trevor Skempton, or even Malcolm Carter ... At least they’d be dealing with Evertonians who care for the club.
After Hillsborough, a concerted effort was made to make football grounds safe for women and kids. The FA tells us that they are trying to get more and more kids to get involved in football. 10% of match attendees are under 24. I think we need to get more kids to got the match as we are losing our next generation of supporters.
Financially I do not believe that Everton will even get 40,000 fans paying £30 each week. The main idea of getting a new stadium is usually so they can attract more supporters or fit more in. Unless Everton charge about £15 an adult, we will not get anywhere near 40,000. The importance of filling the ground is vital, I think, and more important than anything else.
At the Wolves match, there was a display Everton For All. Some may think I'm going off the point. At Spurs I was sat next to a man from North Wales. He was a season ticket holder and despite the cost involved still went to every home game.
As a young man with no responsibilities, such as children or someone to care for, it's relatively easy for me to go to watch Everton, if financially possible. It dawned on me from speaking to other people that, unless your partner or spouse is also football mad, it's very demanding to watch Everton frequently.
Nowadays you could sign up for sky for a year for the same price as 4 Everton match tickets. The reality is quite a few people I know have given up going; considering that's where Everton get most of their income from, it's worrying.
Christine Foster
Richard, given your statements on DK over the past couple of years I am assuming that your heart is in the right place. But your head never has been.
You have ridiculed those on these pages, including myself, on every occasion with comments such as luddites and talking drivel... You have failed to grasp a very basic point that people keep making: There are always alternatives.
The fact that BK has, by his actions, already secured the demise of this club through his misguided "no Plan B" and "DK or bust" approach, which has led to such animosity and ridicule of the fan base is a disgrace.
The fact that one peddles the lie that there is no alternative to DK is also disgraceful. It is the only alternative offered as a solution to a problem that has not even explored. When one believes there are no alternatives to solving problems then you should always look at the problem again. Its something the club have never done.
Every pillar of Kirkby has crumbled, every promise has been broken, every ruse has been used to get it over the line. Yet you still believe its the best thing for our club Richard. Explain to me why?
I do not expect a sugar daddy to come along and just tip in a few hundred milion with no shares (just an investment); nor do I see BK or the other Directors selling their interests to facilitate the future of the club.
It's ridiculous to say no-one is interested in buying the club, everything has its price. But then some want more than we can afford.
Jason Byrne
Great piece, Richard. There is no doubt that if Kirkby was a NO then we would quickly sink into the abyss — an abyss we would not be able to come out of. However, I feel supremely confident it will get passed and the positive vibes that would spread through the club would spread to the players, majority of fans and result in... significant investment.
"However I feel supremely confident it will get passed and the positive vibes that would spread through the club would spread to the players,"
How do you work this out? Have you forgotten the fans are against this and have been since the lies surrounding DK were exposed. What planet are you from? Speaking out of Uranus by any chance?
Colin Malone
EXCLUSIVITY.
Can anyone tell me what this means?
I know it means; one party grants sole rights to one sole party. No-one else can intervene.
We can all see how our city is getting more cosmopoliton / vibrant, with every company around the world wanting to invest (Abercrombie and Fitch etc etc).
So when Bill Kenwright says he's looking for buyers / investors 24/7, on what terms? TESCO TERRY'S???
Jason, Friday the 13th was last night.
Come on Bill its you really, isn't it? No-one can be that daft or naive .
Ha ha... "spread to the fans", don't make me laugh, what planet are you from? Oh that's right, as Dave says... Uranus. Fucking unbelievable.
But onwards. What happens if?
If DK is thrown out (unlikely in my view but I hope to god I am wrong) the alternative should see the sale of shares by BK and other directors in the club. It should facilitate those with more vision and resources to come in with THEIR VISION and set of solutions.
Will they be any better or more palatable than what we have now? Who knows... but to many of us, what we are looking at now is certainly not.
There is a saying, Richard, that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Every brick laid on route to Kirkby has been done so without any foundation, the very basis of the argument of moving from Goodison was built on a tissue of half truths and conjecture.
Goodison has significant problems due in the main to a lack of investment by mostly same said Board of Directors for over 20 years. Why in god's name should we trust those whose mismanagement of the club got us into this situation to provide us with the best solution?
And therein lies the unfortunate root of the problem: The best solution for whom? ... Not for the fans.... Not for the city.... Not for the finances of the club from match revenue... Not from enticing stars to our club.... Not for history, tradition or roots
Everton FC is a private business that should have a social acknowledgement to its responsibilities to its fans and tradition as well as a corporate responsibility to its shareholders. Many may disagree to the above statement but Everton FC is more than a business — despite what Tesco, BK and others may think.
Unfortunately the vested interests on all parties cannot be ignored but it feels as if Everton FC is being prostituted to maximise a return, a means to an end for Tesco certainly. It's such a big decision that it has to be squeaky clean. But it's not. That's the real reason why Kirkby should crumble.
That there are those who still believe it's the best solution have not stepped back and looked at the real drivers for the change in the first place. Not the obstructed views, the poor facilities etc — that's window dressing to financial drivers.
No one at the club or on this or any other website has come to us with a financial model that justifies the move from an operational requirement. The ROI on revenue expediture alone cannot be met by the facetious expectation of a maximum increase in revenue of £5m based on full capacity at every game ,which in itself will never happen.
There are alternatives, just those that the Board don’t want to consider for whatever reasons they see fit. Sadly, it's the self-justification of those reasons and the judgement of the Board that has led us to Kirkby.
As supporters, we have been told we had a say. But how big is the man who can look at the truth and realise that maybe, just maybe he has got it wrong and needs to look at it again? If I was BK, I would quietly get someone independent of the whole bloody mess and ask for an honest review of options and the current DK option.
Just because the decision is made on the 27 November does not mean EFC have to take it up.
How big is the man?
Christine... good post; no, sorry — excellent actualy. "How big is the man?" brilliant.
If BK came out and said he didn't like the fact that he was tearing the fans apart, that he may have to listen to the real voice of opinion, I for one would forgive his faults. In fact, he could stay as Everton chairman forever as far as I'm concerned. But is he man enough to do it? I don't know.
Come on, Bill — you must monitor these sites, you must know what's going on... be the Blue Bill we all thought you were and say something. Please Bill because people need a leader, we're in turmoil... are you are saviour or the devil? ARE YOU MAN ENOUGH?
You could be the last great chairman who really cares for his club and listens to its fans, The man who saved Everton!
Sorry lads, I'm going to change my dealer tomorrow, this shit makes you think everyone's honest. It won't happen again cos a table for four only costs £500 in the Championship, rather than the five grand at GP, so I will be able to buy better gear from next year or the year after.
C'mon, Bill — prove me wrong please.
From day one, its been a sham: Wyness on the radio, giving the Deal of the Century. BUT NO QUESTIONS, SHAME ON YOU RADIO MERSEYSIDE.
The vote, FUCKING BENT.
Our own Liverpool Echo, "Kirkby says Yes to ground move", FUCKING LIES.
Bill Kenwright, wanting buyers during the exclusivity deal. FUCKING LIES.
I've been watching the blues as my dad and granddad have all our lives and I'm pretty sure they will be in the same mind to myself.
If we have a proper transparent vote, and the vote goes in favour of Kirkby, I will go.
Until such time, sadly this is my last season.
Frank McGregor
Everton is a private business answerable to the shareholders and decisions on running the club are in their hands. I agree with Richard that if the decision to move to Kirkby is turned down it will be bad news and those responsible will no doubt run for cover.
I get the feeling the people objecting to the move have a hidden vested interest against the move. KEIOC will be the first to say "NOT I SIR — we had nothing to do with the outcome".
I am a supporter of the move to Kirkby from day one and remain the same now. As nobody has come up with a viable alternative just emotion and nostalgia. Rebuild Goodison? — give me a break.
Frank, why did they insult the supporters by having a vote?
Frank, do you go to Goodison every home game?
Colm Kavanagh
How many years now has this prize tulip been allowed to peddle such nonsense?
Kirkby’s dead in the water and "Mr Dodd" is being afforded the opportunity to get the retaliation in first, hardly endearing himself with fellow Evertonians with his "luddite" comments.
It’s been almost "a means to an end" with "Mr Dodd" and his ilk over recent years online.
They deserve each other if a franchise ever does appear at a retail park in the NW Lancastrian corridor.
Neil Pearse
What happens if...? First of all, it will be good for all concerned to have a decision one way or the other.
Then the next thing we will discover is how poor we really are. The £80M is not of course sitting under a mattress somewhere, for us to use as we will. It is in all probability a multi-stage loan completely tied to Kirkby, perhaps now it seems in some way backed by Tesco. That particular money obviously simply disappears. The bank doesn’t give you the mortgage for your house when you decide not to buy it after all.
Then I hope that Christine and others are right that ’there are of course alternatives’. But endlessly repeating this doesn’t make it so. When you are poor, you have few good options, sometimes none at all. I cannot imagine what other alternatives we could possibly have for the money we can raise (certainly less than £80M) than some relatively small improvements at GP.
I would hope most of all that a rejection of Kirkby would force the issue of a groundshare onto the table at last. Liverpool increasingly cannot afford to go it alone, so it is to be hoped that all sides at last see sense. But in truth I am not very hopeful. We will look desperate and they are not desperate enough (yet).
In terms of the bigger picture, a Kirkby rejection is of course likely to lead to any potential investors / new owners walking away. They will now be faced with a very uncertain financial future for the club. if they believe that a new ground is necessary, they will be looking at probably a minumum of £200M to find somewhere else. Not very attractive.
Of course it is also possible that rejection will lead to Kenwright trying to sell up a la Ashley - i.e. at some heavily discounted price. Ashley failed, so Kenwright might well too. This would plunge the club into further uncertainty, although perhaps there is someone decent who will emerge to take the club off his hands at a price. A big perhaps.
I believe that it would be best if the Kenwright era was brought to an end if Kirkby was knocked back. We would desperately need more money and a rethink. It would obviously be great if a wealthy new owner emerged to take the club over and substantially expand our options. But, again, this is not particularly likely.
What happens if... the betrayers are betrayed?
Well, Frank provides us with a good insight. The people who voted for a "no alternative" strategy — thus ensuring there isn't an alternative — will then start pointing the finger at people who couldn’t have possibly influenced the decision.
To us "Luddites", Kirkby means certain death; if it get knocked back, we will breath a huge collective sigh of relief — but there will be no winners here... only two lost years.
To expand on my previous comment, I do believe that UNDER THE PRESENT BOARD, our club is doomed whichever way the decision goes. I have been against DK from Day One but, three years down the line, there is little alternative with the management having boxed themselves into a bum deal.
It’s been easy to assume that Kenwright’s plan is to offload as soon as DK gets the go-ahead. Don’t you believe it! He’s after ’strategic investors’ who may — or may not — find Kirkby more enticing than Goodison Park.
Knowing this lot’s form, ANY change of control will take for ever and I fear that here, there or anywhere, Everton are set to go into decline. Hold onto your hats!
Dave W you are right: it would be hugely inappropriate if those who were broadly in favour of Kirkby such as myself turned on the ’Nos’ in the event of its being knocked back.
Let’s not fool ourselves. Kirkby is a big political decision between central and local government, and Tescos. Everton Football Club and its potential ground is largely a sideshow, and the arguments of KEIOC etc will have had little if any impact on the final decision. We are just not the main event here.
If it is knocked back, Kenwright will deserve appropriate criticism. Although as I believe we have few if any other good choices, he will have still bet on an option for the club which, even with Tescos on our side, we failed to win. Unless he can pull any other rabbit out of the hat, that puts him in a pretty untenable position so far as future leadership of the club is concerned.
Brian Noble, if Kirkby does go ahead, let’s see on the new owners. So long as a potential new owner does not subscribe to the view that fans won’t go, then having a new ground at a capped and relatively low cost is bound to make us more attractive.
What happens if...? First of all it will be good for all concerned to have a decision one way or the other.
I agree, Neil.
Then the next thing we will discover is how poor we really are. The £80M is not of course sitting under a mattress somewhere, for us to use as we will. It is in all probablitly a multi-stage loan completely tied to Kirkby, perhaps now it seems in some way backed by Tesco. That particular money obviously simply disappears. The bank doesn’t give you the mortgage for your house when you decide not to buy it after all.
If you're talking about the Investec money, it's already been released Neil, a charge and assignment has been made.
Then I hope that Christine and others are right that ’there are of course alternatives’. But endlessly repeating this doesn’t make it so. When you are poor you have few good options, sometimes none at all. I cannot imagine what other alternatives we could possibly have for the money we can raise (certainly less than £80M) than some relatively small improvements at GP.
The same could be said of you endlessly repeating that Kirkby is in our best interest without any tangible evidence of that; just because you keep saying it, it doesnt make it so.
I agree this could be explored further but I think too much water has gone under the bridge on this.
Absolute conjecture on your part, Neil, this is your opinion, nothing more. As for the £200M, where does that figure come from? I think we’re planning a build for £78M so why will it be £200M? And please don't come back with the non-existent £54M — I think that has already been discredited.)
Of course it is also possible that rejection will lead to Kenwright trying to sell up a la Ashley — i.e. at some heavily discounted price. Ashley failed, so Kenwright might well too. This would plunge the club into further uncertainty, although perhaps there is someone decent who will emerge to take the club off his hands at a price. A big perhaps.
Hmmm... I think newcasle are playing in the Championship at the moment Neil. There is a difference!!
Quite frankly, Neil, this last sentence is waffle.
Ged Simpson
Colm "Kirkby’s dead in the water"
Simple Question....
Thanks Rich. Does anyone know how much the Investec money is and how flexible our usage of it is? I would be suprised if it covered £80M, but maybe it does.
The £200M for another new ground is not at all "absolute conjecture". A KEIOC article as you very well know put the number at £250M. The key point is that — under the present financial regime — it is almost certain that we will not be able to afford a new ground anywhere else. That is the point people have to get their heads around.
On Newcastle and the Championship — point taken of course. But £100M was a very low price for such a business franchise. And the new owner does not have to pay for a new ground.
My last sentences may well be waffle. That would be because I am trying to hope that, if Kirkby is knocked back, a potential new owner will first have to find £200M odd for a new ground as well taking on the debt and buying out Kenwright et al — and yet they will still appear and have surplus funds to invest in the playing side of the club. You are right — I don’t believe it either.
That if Kirkby is knocked back we will mostly likely be stuck for the forseeable future with Kenwright, little money and few if any options — that’s probably the most important ’what if...?’ that we should all consider.
Chad Schofield
Some really good points either side. Rather than try to reiterate what’s already been written, the point I’d like to look at is:
"Only the involvement of big hitters such as Sir Terry Leahey and Sir Philip Green can hope to attract the kind of speculators needed to put Everton in the Top Four."
Frankly had they wished to broker a deal or indeed come more into the fore, then they would have done so already. Whilst it’s been suggested here that a ’No’ would spell the end of the big hitters involvement, I’d say a ’Yes’ would see the back of them as well — given that they’d have extracted what they wanted.
Equally, whilst a ’No’ may mean Bill prolonging his stay as he has to seriously spend some time looking for a buyer, with a ’Yes’ I think Bill may not leave either. Payoff or not, Bill would likely be even more convinced that he’s done everything for his (and our) beloved Everton.
Tim Lloyd
I always feel loath to comment on the DK issue. At my present age of nearly 86 and living in Stockport now, I know I will never again go to a live match whether at Goodison or at a stadium in Kirkby.
Nevertheless, as a lifelong blue of close on 80 summers (or winters) I do feel that I would like to express my opinion.
To me, Richard Dodd talks sense. I have yet to read of a really viable alternative to Kirkby and, no matter how many aeroplanes fly overhead trailing banners for KEIOC, that simple fact seems inescapable.
So many objections to Kirkby seem to rest on matters which are not fact as so often claimed. No Car Parking. My son who spent many years in a local authority tells me that the ground would not get planning permission unless adequate parking provision was made.
Corporate organisations would not trail out to Kirkby to make use of he facilities promised at the new stadium. This of course is completely wrong. People in the Manchester area, much larger than Merseyside, ’trail out’ to comparatively distant areas if the facilities are good.
The new stadium is a ’cow shed’. How one can make that assertion regarding a building not yet built defeats me. Better to make such claims when it is constructed. To me, a layman, there seemed to be empty corners which could be filled in at a later time to provide a quite reasonable stadium.
The difficulties of getting to the ground. Difficulties? These comments emanate from people who must live close to Goodison Park. The present ground is certainly not on my doorstep, nor was it when I lived on the Wirral. I wonder just how many Evertonians travel fair distances to get to the matches.
I get the feeling so often, that to fully enjoy the game, it is necessary to spend a fair time inside a local pub both before and after the game. I feel sure if the demand is there for pubs, they will appear. The Breweies are not noted for being backward when it comes to supplying a demand.
Obviously, a ground in an attractive area with good transport links would be ideal but the present location does not fill the bill. It's a totally unsuitable area and the 70,000 crowds of yesteryear won’t be turning up to make me a liar.
I can’t think of a different solution than Kirkby. If it's turned down, then I feel like Richard, the future is bleak.
Dan Brierley
I also believe that the future is bleak should DK be rejected. Now even if we get a new chairman, how is he going to streamline Everton into producing an extra £20 million per year for players? Are we really that badly run that there is so much money we are not getting? I simply cannot see it.
All a rich chairman will do is underwrite more debt. which might help keep you happy in the short term, but in the long term it is going to leave us in the shit. The other option is that we get an Everton fan with the money of Abramovich who puts his own money in for the love of the club.
A rejection of DK is not going to improve anything, we just perform the same search we already did, and realise we cannot afford a stadium in any available location.
Dan, That rich Chairman will probably be a better businessman than Bill... or should that be Sir Phillip Green. He would do more than spend on players' fees and wages, he would finally solve the clubs stadium problem.
A rejection of DK may not solve anything, it would be the first step towards a solution. However, in light of the Maddock arselicken and Doddy’s pre-emptive strike at Keioc and the no-vote, I don’t think that you and Doddy want a solution. Despite this, your lame apologetics are preferable to Doddy’s rants.
Or Dan, Kirkby gets the go-ahead, and we end up with a lot more debt than we have now. So, things become a lot worse than they are now.
Phil Bellis
I can’t be as generous as Christine and give Richard Dodd any credit for being an Everton supporter.
His mindset is alien to me and I find his puppy-like, blind and unquestioning devotion to the incompetent custodians of our club both sad and shameful
Just an observation... having worked on developing authorship identification and anti-plagiarism software, I suspect Richard had considerable help in constructing this latest missive.
Phil, Doddy’s mindset I’m afraid is familiar to me. The sad thing is that the man’s arrogance leaves him unable to move with the facts and over time change his opinion.
Doddy, Dan and Alan, should be commended for their loyalty even if it is towards a man who has done precious little to deserve such devotion. For everyone else, the penny has dropped.
Dave O’Keefe, that is a classic.
So this chairman is going to be a better businessman, and is going to fund a new stadium, and pump money into the squad without debt moving into an unmanageable position? What you are describing is a magician, not a businessman.
It's simply impossible to fund all those things through the revenue streams available. And if he uses his own money to fund it, thinking he will make it back, he is NOT a good businessman. it will take forever to get a return on the investment without affecting the teams progress.
You might not have noticed, but we simply have not had enough money coming into the club to fund a decent squad FOR YEARS. And you think the solution is to wait another 5-10 years to find an alternative? Will we need a bigger stadium in 5-10 years?
Brian, yes... debt will surely increase to fund the stadium. But when your turnover increases due to the enhanced facilities, the inceased debt becomes manageable.
Congratulations, Dan — your hyperbole and strawman arguments have conspired to make you look almost but not quite a bigger balloon than Doddy.
Beyond that, I won’t respond to your pathetic rant.
Excellent choice David. And may I commend you on your unbridled commitment in waiting for the white knight who will come riding into Goodison with sacks full of money with ’debt free’ printed on the side. And you have the audacity to infer that my point of view is flimsy? Don’t make me laugh.
I can see why you admire Bill, you have a lot in common — neither of you like criticism and don’t like being held to account.
Furthermore, Brierley, I believe your responses, lacking as they are in substance, are motivated purely by personal feeling. Why you may ask? Because I have criticised your arguments in the past and you don’t like it.
If you can’t deal with criticism Dan then stay away from TW and stick to the Echo’s letters pages — a place were BK is revered — and the club website. Just grow up Dan and accept that not everyone is going to agree with you, when you do that I may consider you a grown-up.
David, feel free to comment on some of the points related to football, and how someone can fund a stadium and significantly invest in the team with the revenue streams available.
I apologise if you don't like my writing style, but the point I am trying to make is that the only thing you have contributed, is to say ’someone should come in and give us a lot of money’, without giving credibility to your view by substantiating it with some meaningful ideas or propositions.
We all know we need to get money in, you don’t need to state the obvious. The real point is how we do it without strangling the club with unmanageable debt.
Like borrowing £78M for a white elephant stadium in a little town and turning your back on a large percentage of your fan-base.
Colin Potter
Dan, Do you really believe that if we do go to kirkby, it will generate £20m a year, because that’s what your post looks like. We will be losing money, hand over fist after a couple of years.
My apologies Colin, it wont generate £20 million. But it will generate additional revenue which will allow us to service more debt. Why do you say we will lose money after a few years?
David O’Keefe, I think it’s a terrible sign of weakness when someone has participated in a discussion up to a certain point, where they then seem to run out of rationale thought, and can only resort to personal abuse and blanket condemnation.
I must commend Dan Brierley for holding his ground and not allowing your frankly pathetic jibes to derail him or to induce him to sink to your level.
As a whole, this thread — if you can stand back for a moment and read it less passionately — raises some serious questions for which there are certainly no definitive answers — despite the assertions of the many who claim to know the future.
The post of Dan’s that proved to be your breaking point was the one that really poses the key questions, which the No lobby seems to have such trouble answering. While I personally cannot stand the thought of us moving to the Kirkby cowshed, what Dan said is highly pertinent, and I make no excuse in repeating it below. Let’s see these points addressed rather than spouting anymore personal shite, please.
Most people do not go to one supermarket. They go to the nearest one to their house or workplace. Most people do not go to the same pub all the time. The majority of people do not eat at only one restaurant...
The point I'm making is fans are different from customers. Customers of Everton pay money to help this company get richer. When you go to Tesco you don’t usually come out upset, disappointed or over the moon like you do at a football match.
You travel large distances to support the employees of this company who often do not thank you for your custom and support. If we hadn’t bothered to support this company financially and vocally (well some of us), this company would have gone out of business.
These companies sometimes make us suicidal at worst overjoyed at best. The point I’m making is that, football is not a business — it can give people who have nothing in their lives a sense of belonging camaraderie like few other things.
Chris, sorry but football IS a business. It has been a business for over 100 years...
It may be a business that performs a social function — different perhaps for all types of fans — but it’s a business all the same. Trying to assert that it’s not just flies in the face of reality.
Didn't someone point out that we are still in an exclusitivity deal with Tescos until such time as DK is knocked back?Hasn't that hampered Bullshit Billy's attempt 24/7 to seek investment? Now my point is we don't know if there are any investors because he wouldn't've been able to do anything in case it derailed Kirkby.
Didn't Tony Marsh show how we can provide funding for a new stadium, the New Goodison in fact... surely these things can be looked at if the cowshed is dumped.
Whatever happens, I would still rather take a chance on Kirkby being dumped and looking elsewhere for investment than going there. Once we're in the cowshed, right or wrong, there ain't no way back for us... Now that's the real scary part, what if it is a mistake, like many of us fear — what then?
Richard Dodd
Whilst delighted to see my post has promoted such a wide-ranging debate, my enthusiasm for DK is today tempered by the realisation that acceptance of the scheme will almost certainly necessitate the sale of Jack Rodwell to ameliorate the debt which will be incurred.
You are so right, Editor, football is a business in every sense of the word. The problem for those who run it is that it is conducted in the public spotlight and affects so many more lives than those who merely own shares.
Johnny Griff
I can see it now. Touring Kirkby with the Auto-Glass Trophy with the team celebration in the Kingfisher. The glory that is DK awaits!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why stop at Jack Rodwell ?
You know very well that, if DK gets the nod, Jack Rodwell will be only one of several players leaving GP.
Dan: I also believe that the future is bleak should DK be rejected. Now even if we get a new chairman, how is he going to streamline Everton into producing an extra £20 million per year for players? Are we really that badly run that there is so much money we are not getting? I simply cannot see it.
I disagree with first sentence; I believe the club will die a slow death if we go to Kirkby. As for how the new chairman would streamline Everton into making £20 million a year extra, well he would have to have a different mindset from the current one.
I’m sure the new one would not say silly things like Everton fans don’t buy shirts etc — after all, we were once one of the big five and before that the Mersey Millionaires... surely that's the basis of a good start, if you throw in the fact that we're a big city club, with huge tradition and history?
People have mentioned hotels and football villages — surely a new rich Arab/Russian would want to build his own stadium in a big city with cinemas, casinos etc. From my knowledge of such people, they have big egos and want to put their own stamp on things. All this bullshit about a new owner wouldn’t want to buy a new ground is rubbish — he would be buying it because of the increase he would have to pay for the share value.
All a rich chairman will do is underwrite more debt, which might help keep you happy in the short term, but in the long term it is going to leave us in the shit. The other option is that we get an Everton fan with the money of Abramovich who puts his own money in for the love of the club.
Speculating to accumulate is fine by me. Loading debt on the club just to get rid of it and make you and dodgy friends a few quid is something else. If you borrow money to build income-generating assets ie, places where people want to be for leisure and entertainment and retail, then someone with vision and wealth I believe could use Everton to its full potential and good luck to them.
Totally agree with this paragraph, while BK is in charge — that is why he has to go. The only good thing to come out of it is that my Everton will be where god intended for them to be — in the City of Liverpool — and a man with vision and money can put us back where we belong. So avoiding the biggest tragedy that could have ever happened.
Colin Fitzpatrick
First of all, Neil, the Everton’s CEO claims the Investec loan has been secured against part of the 2010-11 season broadcasting revenue, this season's broadcasting revenue being borrowed against only two months earlier from Barclays. The charges relating to these loans can be viewed here - http://www.scribd.com/doc/22199839/The-Extent-of-Evertons-Debt.
Apart from the fact that Everton, rather alarmingly, are borrowing against the following seasons income streams is bad enough; but eyebrows are slightly raised at the involvement of Investec and Teacher Stern with their association with Kia Joorabchian and Pini Zahavi and their advocating of, shall we say, innovative methods of realising future income streams for cashflow purposes.
Moving to the article in question, it’s intent is clear; it’s a wind-up from beginning to end. The use of evocative language such as “luddites” “no meaningful alternative” “a token contribution to costs” and perhaps, bizarrely, “involvement of big hitters such as Sir Terry Leahy and Sir Philip Green” are all statements designed to wind-up those fans that’ve followed the debacle whilst giving those who are still pro-Kirkby some apparent comfort in their stance. I’m only amazed he left the old dumbing down chestnut of being just outside the city boundary alone.
What will the decision be; yes, no or a definite maybe? We will soon know; it may surprise some of you that Wednesday, 18/11/09, is the anniversary of the opening of the inquiry; tempus fugit and all that!
Most will know there are two parts to the decision; the Planning Inspector's report with a recommendation to the Secretary of State (this was delivered in July), and the decision itself from Secretary of State, John Denham. The Inspectors Report examines the application from the perspective of compliance with planning regulation and it doesn’t take Nostradamus to forecast the recommendation; the applicant witnesses readily admitted breaches in compliance but argued that the regenerative element and creation of 3,000 new jobs should outweigh them.
The applicants were making a case directly to the Secretary of State but of course the opposition QC’s did their job; as can be seen here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/22231205/Lcc-Closing-Submissions.
Paragraphs 76 & 77 report what was admitted during the inquiry that only 132 jobs in the Northwest would be created under the guaranteed part of the development, Phase One and Two, up to a maximum of 308 if all phases of the application are delivered.
Apart from a massive failure to deliver a workable transport plan to the inquiry and the amount of local opposition from all neighbouring authorities, CABE also were heavily critical of the design, calling the stadium a missed opportunity, and the Government listen very carefully to their advisors, even when making a political decision.
If the decision is a Yes, Everton will have to demonstrate they have the £78m of funds in place before work on any phase can begin; their back-of-a-cigarette-packet list submitted in the application, which they refused to elaborate on, won’t be good enough. Presumably they’ve been working on this all of this year...
The prospect of Everton moving to this stadium that fails to meet the requirements of the fans and the club leaves many Evertonians cold. The stadium at 94% average attendance will generate an additional £6m of annual profit; Liverpool is forecasting £50m from their new stadium.
I ask each of you to visit the KEIOC website and look at the media section: http://www.keioc.net/index.php?page=media-information, index down to the section named “How others see their future” and see how out of step Everton are under Bill Kenwright’s tutelage... NSNO?
If the decision is a No, I don’t envisage the dancing in the streets that is described in the OP; against all logic, a decision was taken to follow a plan that had every prospect of being called in; it was... and one that had every prospect of being rejected; we’re about to find that out.
The decision this board has taken is seen by many to be one that is not in the best interests of the club, it's shareholders and stakeholders. It has taken up five years of valuable time, in which Everton clearly required improved facilities, and has cost in excess of £4m.
Those involved with the KEIOC campaign contend that the Everton Board of Directors stood by whilst shareholders and fans were misled over the alleged £52m contribution towards the stadium cost; last month the Everton CEO even repeated the claim, to Michael Durkin, saying that “Nobody should lose sight of the fact that around 40 percent of the cost of the new stadium will be met by Tesco” — an answer that sadly went unchallenged... whilst in December 2007 director Robert Earl stated that Everton were receiving an irrevocable cheque from Tesco. Everton are unwilling or unable to reveal the source of the £52m; here’s our proof:
The COST of the stadium can be found in Section 3 of this document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21384169/Everton-DTZ-Report-Financial. The total COST is specified at £130m, note that this includes the stadium construction company’s profit of £3.8m.
In Section 4 you will find that Everton’s “contribution” to the stadium is identified as £78m; Section 2.6 identifies the source.
The shortfall, £52 million and its supposed source, are identified in sections 4.2, 4.12 and 5.3.
It may surprise some people to learn that you can claim what you like in a planning application; experts provide expert advice on what information they are given, but at a government inquiry you have to provide evidence. Tesco refused to provided evidence of the source of this £52m — a clear dilemma for Tesco...
So, on the morning of the first day of the inquiry, Tesco astonishingly claimed that it was never their case that it was an enabling development... and that the stadium and the retail developments stood on their own merits — an astonishing statement given that Tesco had stated the retail development was the enabler for the stadium on no less than fifty occasions in their application.
There followed weeks of arguing over where this mysterious £52m was coming from; eventually the truth came out; you can read it here, http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-stadium/2008/12/11/everton-inquiry-mystery-surrounds-kirkby-s-52million-economic-miracle-92534-22451792/.
The truth is the £52m is a 'value', a figure derived from the revaluation of the land Tesco bought from Knowsley Council at a secret price; you build a £78m stadium on land that is valued at £52m and that is where the £130m VALUE stadium comes from.
Suggestions that the multibillion-pound Tesco are somehow doing a £52m foreigner for Everton are ridiculous — as ridiculous as believing Tesco somehow could manage to get this lot past the inspector unnoticed... or as ridiculous that a prospective buyer wouldn’t see through this charade and wouldn’t want ownership of a stadium that couldn’t provide the means for the club to become facility led.
Of course, Sir Terry Leahy has been critical of the Government of late; mentioning faceless bureaucrats in Whitehall deciding where the people of Kirkby can or can’t shop and the Government's poor education policies that are delivering people with poor numeracy skills into the workplace. A bit rich from a man who thinks £78m + 0 = £130M; you can read Terry’s views on Kirkby here: http://inquiry.knowsley.gov.uk/Proof%20of%20Evidence/KEIOC%20A%204%20Appendix%203.pdf
The question left for Evertonians is; did the Board know the true source of Tesco’s £52m contribution? If they didn’t, they’re simply guilty of having the fiscal acumen of Mr Dodd and his friends and have no place running a football club; if they did know then they are guilty of something far more serious.
The 2006 Companies Act introduced changes to company law in relation to the codification of the directors’ fiduciary duties. They have a duty to promote the success of the company; in assessing what will make the success of a company, the directors need to consider the following factors for each transaction they contemplate:
The likely consequence of any decision in the long term;
The interests of the company’s employees;
The need to foster the company’s business relationships with suppliers and customers;
The impact of the company’s operations on the community and the environment;
The desirability of the company maintaining its reputation; and
The need to act fairly as between the shareholders in the company;
A duty to exercise independent judgment;
A duty to avoid conflicts of interest;
A duty to exercise reasonable care, skill and diligence – this sets a subjective test (being the care, skill and diligence of each individual director based on his own experience) and an objective test (being the care, skill and diligence that may be reasonably expected of a director in a company). This creates an onerous obligation and director should take great care in exercising their powers;
A duty not to accept benefits from third parties – this duty does not, however, take effect if the accepting of a benefit would not give rise to a conflict of interests;
A duty to declare an interest in a proposed transaction or arrangement with the company.
It would appear to be at best questionable that this relocation to Kirkby is in the best interests of the club, its shareholders and stakeholders... or that it promotes the success of the club. It is, however, apparent that the presence of the stadium was used as a device to deliver a 450% increase in retail over what was allowed under Knowsley’s planning regulations; this is of no interest or use to Everton once it has been determined that no actual transfer of £52m to Everton towards the COST of the stadium will occur.
Evertonians are in a lose / lose situation with this decision. No matter how much they attempt to hide, the Board of Directors will have to face the shareholders at an EGM; unless they do the honourable, that is...
One final point: I see my old mate Colin Potter has posted a comment; one absolutely staunch Evertonian — e.mail me with your number Colin; I’ve changed phones.
Guys, on Rodwell. No idea whether we have to sell him or not (or anyone else) to get the debt down. But those worrying about the debt and having to sell players are missing the point.
Unless you are completely happy with our CURRENT facilities at GP (I assume no one is in this category), then at some point pretty soon we have to borrow a substantial sum of money to upgrade our facilities. There is no conceivable scenario under which for a new stadium that will be less than £80M, and it is likely to be substantially more. A substantial upgrade of GP will also require major spending and hence new debt (and perhaps the sale of Rodwell too if we are that poor).
The fundamental problem is what Dan has referred to: we need substantially upgraded facilities but are not generating sufficient cash to pay for them without going into more debt. Whether Kirkby or GP or the Loop or ground share or the moon — we will need to borrow more money.
There is no scenario (apart from suddenly finding a rich sugar daddy) in which we do not go into more debt to upgrade our facilities.
I agree that it is alarming if we are so poor that we have to sell players to make this possible. I agree with Colin that is not great if we are so poor that we have to borrow against core future revenues. But it is what it is.
These are not facts about Kirkby. They are facts about the fundamentally poor financial state of our club, developed over many years. And no doubt indicating years of poor management.
These facts actually explain why we can only afford to move to a relatively cheap stadium outside the city. They strongly suggest that there is no way currently that we will be able to afford anything better.
Waiting and hoping for a rich rescuer is a possible strategy. But that is what it is if we don’t go to Kirkby. Don't kid yourselves. It is simply wishful thinking that we are suddenly going to find either new money behind the sofa, or a cheaper option than Kirkby.
Yes, this is a very depressing situation indeed. We should all at least be able to agree about that.
Colin Fitz - intriguing post all round.
Good to be refreshed about things I’d forgotten I knew.
A recent while ago, KEIOC seemed quite confident that the decision would be a "no" (I think it was at the foot of the BBC article).
Am I reading too much into things when I say that I’m now detecting that KEIOC are no longer so confident?
Basically: what’s your gut instinct?
A "yes", "no" or "caveat decision"?
No change in position Greg; we’d be amazed if this went ahead.
We’re using the same advisors who told us the application was a sham and that it would be called in; they’re advising us that the Inspector's report is a No and it’s down to a simple political decision.
Sir Terry did throw his toys out of the pram the other week, twice in fact. If common sense prevailed you’s say to Tesco, "Build your store, reduce the retail to lessen the economic impact on the surrounding areas, and you can have a 25,000-seat stadium that befits the available infrastructure" — which there is, bear in mind, nothing in the plans to improve.
But that would all be too easy and Tesco want it their way or no way. Tesco played hard ball: "all or nothing" — they repeatedly told the inquiry — almost as many times as they said in the application that the retail was an enabling development!!!
Fantastic post, Colin. I took the liberty of emphasising some of the key points that seem to get lost all too easily. If I read it correctly:
Everton are to pay for the entire stadium build, once estimated at £78M.
The perceived value of the land is £52M.
The overall ’value’ of the stadium will be £130M
So... for Jamie Rowland and his misguided comparison on a different thread: £400M for the Emitrates in the Big Smoke... or £130M (actually £78M) for a cowshed in Kirkby.
And to think at the start of the Premier League era, when Bill Kenwright was already a Director of this club, we were neck and neck with Arsenal...
Thanks Colin for the exposition on the £52M. Once more it shows that we we should be concerned with cash rather than accounting fictions.
But you are beyond optimistic if you think there is a winnable case against the club’s directors on the basis of the 2006 Companies Act. No action was even taken against the likes of Fred Goodwin on this basis, so I think Kenwright & Co. can sleep pretty soundly.
Once we think cash rather than accounting nonsense, the directors will have a pretty defensible case anyway. All they will need to say is that we need substantially upgraded facilities and that they couldn’t find anywhere else for a new stadium that was going to involve an ultimate cash outlay of less than £80M. Case dismissed.
More generally, although it is regrettable that Wyness in particular said things that were implausible at the time and have since proved false (and may even have been known to be false at the time), these things are past and irrelevant to the business choice we face right now.
The choice now is simply about the actually available £80M Kirkby versus actually affordable alternatives - including taking the choice to wait in hope for a rich rescuer to expand our options. What Wyness said two years ago reflects badly on him (and probably also on Kenwright), but matters not a jot to the current decision that we face right now.
As a humble Evertonian, I am happy to bow to the superior eloquence and endless financial acumen of Colin Fitzpatrick. Like most ’ordinary’ Evertonians, I happen to believe that Chairman Bill has — all in all — done a decent job whilst he has been at the helm and I have lost count of the times he has said that HIS PREFERRED OPTION was to stay at Goodison Park.
Unfortunately, neither Colin or his knowledgeable chums in KEIOC have ever come up with a single suggestion as to how they would finance such a stance but then it’s so easy to be destructive!
All I know is that if the answer is NO, they will have what they’ve wished for... and the rot can set in.
Doddy, I’ve warned you before: if you want to post on this website, DO NOT write "Like most ’ordinary’ Evertonians, I believe... "
On here, you speak for yourself, whatever your belief might be. If other Evertonians agree with you, they may be emboldened to say so, and that’s fine. But just drop this presumption that you are speaking for some implied majority ’ordinary’ of Evertonians. It doesn’t strengthen your claims: it just makes you out to be a pompous fool.
With all due respect, Michael, and at the risk of suffering a further ’block out’,I suggest that you are no longer facilitating an interesting and meaningful debate but rather orchestrating an anti-establishment lobby.
Again, I apologise for offending your rules but it is surely not offensive to put forward a viewpoint which differs from the majority who post but MIGHT POSSIBLY reflect the views of other Evertonians?
"And MAY even have been known to be false at the time"
"What Wyness said two years ago reflected badly on him (and PROBABLY also on Kenwright)"
Come on Neil you must remember the promotion film.
You're right, it is irrelevant now, but let's not rewrite history. Wyness was merely the messenger, the lies were all Kenwright's and without those lies, the endless debates would probably never have taken place.
Totally unfair and inaccurate Richard. Read just above — Michael makes a strong editorial intervention to ensure that Dan Brierley (generally pro-Kirkby) was heard. I think this thread has had a very good balance of different viewpoints on such an important matter. It does your case no good at all to suggest otherwise.
You may be right Dave. On how close Kenwright has been to Kirkby I’ve never been able to judge whether he knows exactly what is going on or has kept his distance. I actually fear the latter. Which may be even worse.
The club should simply have stated what is still true: this is a good deal in terms of cost and is anyway all we can afford.
The ’endless debates’ could then have been about what they should always have been and have largely ended up being on here: about different views on likely revenues; and whether it is worth waiting in hope for something better.
First of all Richard; KEIOC are not directors of EFC, the directors have a duty of care, a responsibility to the shareholders of the club. They are the ones who will need to provide the answers.
Neil, I’m sorry, many people believe there’s a case to answer here. Everton repeatedly relied on the information in the document known as the DTZ report; I’ve provided the link. It clearly states, in the cost sum analysis, that the COST of the stadium is £130m. If Everton’s putting in £78M where does the remaining COST come from if Tesco, who admitted as long ago a November 2007 that they weren’t giving any money but their contribution was derived from the overall value of the project, aren’t making a contribution?
When at the planning application stage, the mistake was made, they relied on the statement that the greater quantum of retail was required to provide the £52m cross-subsidy to the stadium... no retail, no stadium; no stadium, no retail was the mantra. Unfortunately when it was called in they couldn’t pursue that line as they new full well it would be exposed, and it was.
The moment the board became aware that no cross-subsidy was being made available, and I’m being kind here, they should have walked away at that point in time.
But no, they didn’t... and to make matters worse, they told Liverpool City Council that the only sites they would consider would be those, which could provide a similar contribution to that of Kirkby, which LCC believed, was £52M! They then had the audacity to say LCC didn’t offer them anything?
Neil and Richard you can hypothesise and attempt damage limitation all you want; irrespective of the decision, questions will be asked and answers demanded.
Watch this, listen carefully to the language used -
As my old mate Colm would no doubt say, Tiocfaidh ár lá.
Karl Masters
The whole thing stinks to high heaven and can best be summed up when you recall that Wyness told us he really believed 1,000 Evertonians would cycle to the match in Kirkby! He then put on his red nose, boarded his unicycle and left the room juggling with 4 wads of £100k in £50 notes.
He picked up £450k in one of his years at Goodison. I guess for that, he’d be prepared to say pretty much anything.
His successor, Robert Elstone, is more likeable, but his pained expression as he very carefully and deliberately worded his response to questions on this subject last Sunday, suggested to me that he can see no further than Kirkby as an answer. Basically, if it’s a No, he’ll be stumped along with the rest of the Board. Oh, the rotten borough of Goodison!
Well said, Michael, regarding Richard, and well said, Neil, to point out Dan's view has been heard.
Just thought I would throw a spanner into the works with this, has anyone seen an image of Brighton's new stadium. I think it is almost built now and the total build cost, so I've been told was £130 million — that's right, that giant of football, Brighton, have just built a stadium for £130MILLION.
Now, Richard... tell me ours isn't a cowshed.
Thanks Colin,
Guess it’s just a tedious waiting game now. I’m very pessimistic and I do fear it will get the go-ahead.
After a rather comfortable (well, relatively) 12 months of being able to "park Kirkby" (no pun, ahem), it’s now back to being front and centre of the mind and, like the summer of 2007, my Everton life has now become one big "refresh button" exercise on-the-hour every hour (KEIOC, TW, WSAG, NSNO, NewsNow...any news yet, anywhere?).
Gonna be a long, long 13 days (with the small matter of our brethren rolling into town at the end of it all, not to mention a visit to OT in the middle of it).
Truly the thought of Kirkby getting a green light just 48hrs before the other shower pitch up at Goodison just fills me with dread (I know we’re not meant to "care what the red side say" - but it’s not really true is it?).
On the other hand, there is a chance that all things Kirkby could finally be laid to rest in just 13 days’ time and we could mark the occasion (because can’t be a celebration - just a total frustration) with a nice Derby win.
Right, T-minus-13 days and counting...
Interesting stuff Colin, but why should the Everton board have "walked away" when they "realised the cross-subsidy was not available"?? In the real world of cash, nothing had changed. It was still costing us £80M odd. Just like before.
Can I ask a question and seek clarification from Neil P and Colin Fitz as you appear to give a better fiscal response.
The debt incurred for DK, if it does get the nod and then allows BK and his pals to exit stage left, will surely be passed on to the new owner. Can either of you describe your thoughts on this as an attractive proposition given the debt the club has already?
And finally, Richard Dodd, if you open a can of worms then expect all points of the compass to respond, please don’t stand like some martyr claiming undeserved rebuke.
Come on now Neil, Doddy is Doddy and his gushing admiration of Kenwright is almost homo-erotic, but you are taking your laid-back "what can he do" stance a bit too far. If, in the face of all this evidence, you are now going to use Wyness as his scapegoat for all this — at least allow him that honour.
Richard J - Far from being happy about Kenwright’s ’distance’ from Kirkby, I am intensely critical of it. My comments on Wyness are in no way meant to provide any scapegoat for Kenwright. In blunt terms: he should not have let his CEO say silly things such as "practically free". Especially when "a good deal and all we can afford" was perfectly true and available.
Kirkby can be the best available option that we have even if Kenwright has many failures as a Chairman. The two issues are not the same.
Gavin, my view is it really is all relative. The new owner is going to have to spend money on upgraded facilities one way or another. What they should do is look to see the cash cost/revenue return on Kirkby versus other actually available options. (I know you will like that answer!)
Nothing wrong with debt. It just depends what you are incurring it to achieve, and how much risk it is placing on the club given inevitable uncertainties. In risk terms, our total existing debt plus Kirkby debt is a gamble. (It would be pretty bad for example if we were relegated.) But so is keeping the debt down by selling players and not spending any money on new facilities.
Any new owner who is fazed by spending around £80M on a brand new ground hasn’t got enough money for us anyway.
Richard Dodd, your response is a perfect example of why your appearances on here cause friction. Try reading what I cautioned you about again, or do I have to repeat it?
It’s not the views that are the issue, as Neil so rightly points out; it’s you claiming to speak for ’ordinary’ Evertonians. DO NOT DO THAT ON THIS WEBSITE!!! And do not make false claims about our position... unless there is something you are not telling us about your personal remit to now represent "the establishment".
You did get suspended before for making exactly this kind of false statement about this website. Just don’t go there... instead, why not actually answer some of the questions raised about your Original Post?
For example, what is about £78M that is "token"? Or have you still not moved on from the original "establishment" bullshit that the new stadium was going to be "virtually free"... "The Deal of the Century"???
Why don’t you address some of the lies we have been told, Richard?
Neil, come on you’re embarrassing yourself, you know full well why they should have walked away; you’re putting Roger Philips to shame in your attempt to play devils advocate.
Gavin, the accounts are out this week, lets look at them before we go any further; we know two things already, one, they’re reporting record turnover and two, they’re reporting record levels of debt; particularly total debt. If you take a close look at the last two charges you’ll see a difference in what they are; perhaps a clue as to how Barclays may have taken action to rectify the debt position. By way of explanation a memorandum of satisfaction against charge number 43 is about to be submitted.
If the decision is a yes or a no frankly I’d make the same offer for Everton; no need for much of a due diligence to know that Everton are in the shit; heavily in debt, few assets other than intangibles and either no new stadium or a stadium that fails to meet requirements that they can’t afford to pay for; I’d offer BK £50m take it or leave it and the next one along will offer £51m.
Greg – 12 sleeps mate!
Colin.
I'm sure I speak for most Evertonians. Thanks to you and Tom Hughes and the rest of KEIOC for all you have done.
If DK gets rejected I will be dancing in the street.
A BIG MASSIVE THANKS.
Colin, still don’t get why we should walk away from perhaps the only chance we have to get a new ground - but let’s leave that one there. Perhaps you expect more honesty and uprightness in these matters than I do (on all sides).
I pretty much am in full agreement with you on the fundamental wretchedness of our financial position. Although of course we are not alone in the Premier League on this. £50M may be a bit low, but as a business proposition I certaintly wouldn’t be breaking the bank either.
It does puzzle me therefore if you think we can’t even afford Kirkby how you think we are going to be able to afford much of anything else. Anyway, 13 more days to go....
Same warning for you, Mr Malone: do not presume to speak for "most Evertonians" on this issue, please.
Neil, there’s no puzzle; I’m not a director, employee or a paid advisor, so I have no need to provide an answer that some people have been handsomely paid for.
Being the only game in town isn’t a plausible defence. It’s like an unfortunate being up in court for incest and relying on the defence that his sister was the only bird around!
The time to sell was when our stock was high; finishing 5th and FA cup finalists and we couldn’t find a buyer? I shudder to think who could be looking at us now.
In answer to Richard Dodd’s original question of what if?
Well, how about our Board try again? How about they talk constructively with LCC about expanding the Goodison footprint? How about they open a dialogue with LFC about Stadium share? How about they apologise to Bestway and have a proper look at Scotland Road?
I can already see Neil Pearse getting his, ’ BUT WE HAVE NO MONEY ’ mantra out, but Neil.... sometimes we have to do a bit of lateral thinking, think about what we have got and how we can make best use of it. EFC’s single greatest asset is US, THE FANS. So, to raise £15m to fund stadium redevelopment how about:
1/ The Club open a ’People’s Stadium’ Fund, overseen by independent Third Parties to avoid any shenanigans as, let’s face it, some of us are just about out of trust. The aim is to find 50,000 Evertonians who will pay £240 in 24 x £10 monthly installments for a brick with their name and date of birth on it to be built into the new stands at Goodison. This neatly gives us all the opportunity to be part of the Club for years to come, for our children to visit the brick in decades to come to remember us by or even to view their own brick.
* No share dilution is required
* No messy Fans’ on the Board stuff
* It appeals to the very strong Heritage angle of our Club
* It is affordable (you can all afford tenner a month for 2 years)
* It’s achievable (if there are 900,000 Evertonians worldwide according to the Club, that’s only a take-up of 1 in 18 of us)
* It lowers the build costs by paying for some of the materials
* The maths is 50,000 x £200 = £10m (£40 of the £240 you pay is used to pay for the brick itself and admin costs)
2/ £3 of every ticket sold is put in the fund. With around 800,000 fans through the turnstiles at Goodison every season, that will raise £5m in 2 years.
In 2 years you can raise £15m. That’s enough to put another tier on the Park End and put in extended corporate facilities in that stand. Or enough with borrowing another £15m to do something major with the Bullens Road stand. (Don’t believe Elstone when he said it would cost £75m to rebuild the Bullens Road stand. How can it cost only £3m more to build an entire stadium at Kirkby and Chelsea built a lavish main stand for £34.9m?)
Now I know that this is not enough for an overnight answer, but it’s how other Clubs have redeveloped their stadiums... gradually, over a number of years... Aston Villa being the best example. We have to start somewhere.
Kirkby is not the answer and I hope it’s a No followed by some proper strategic long-term thinking, not lazy, short-term quick fixes — like Kirkby has been all along.
Karl, this Evertonian likes the way you are thinking and I’m sure there are many more lateral minds out there capable of finding ways and means to fund different propositions as alternatives to DK. It still requires a massive about face or change of ownership right at the top which is what worries me most about it’s likelihood of happening.
Something tells me, Gavin, that if it is a No or a Yes, there will be some changes.
If it’s a No, I don’t think we’ll necessarily like all of them in the short term, but in the long term they will be beneficial. Two Spurs fans will want their money back and the likes of Rodwell may have to be sacrificed to enable that. A return to the drawing board would be better in the end though.
If it’s a Yes, I also expect some changes, but I think we will see two things happen:
Firstly, the Green and Earl thing will crystalise and we will become more aware of their true intentions and why they have invested as they will come out into the open.
Secondly, BK will sell up, although not for a while, probably to a Portsmouth like investor and we will be in no-man’s land both physically and metaphorically with a very uncertain future.
In short, Yes will mean major medium- and long-term damage; No will mean short-term damage to the squad, but long-term gain if the Club finally get their heads out of their lazy arses and do what almost every other Club did years ago and re-develop.
None of it is very palatable and whatever the result, there will be no dancing in the streets for me.
Point taken Mr Kenrick. I respect match going supporters' views, not the radio listeners or Sky pundits. I'm annoyed that from day one, it was not a level playing field.
I'm ashamed that my local radio/newspapers/ media, were telling porkies, as I've mentioned above.
Totally agree, Colin, one of the most anoying things for me has been the quietening of the Post and Echo, but more intriguing has been the nationals and the radio.
I hear that KEIOC we’re treated with contempt by Talksport, they had a debate arranged with Wyness and we’re let down last minute, they we’re told it was cancelled for some big fight that was being promoted, low and behold the debate took place with Wynass and some guy from Southport!! KEIOC had never even heard of him.
Anyone who heard the debate on BBC Radio Merseyside would remember how Elstone was given an easy ride by Jackson and how Tony Kelly was talked over and patronised.
It was strange how when the debate swung to where these benefits of moving to Kirkby were, it was swiftly brough back without answer to "What are the alternatives?"
It’s sadly comical that there are still prople who think DK is a good idea, even though the information officially available should be enough to make it clear that it’s a disaster that could end the club.
The same people who think this stadium is such a bargain seem to think that to build it elsewhere would double the cost. Whilst sneering at the possibility that anybody would want to take control of the club, the same people seem to think the new stadium and the debts that go with it will be like a magical honey-pot for potential buyers.
One can’t but think that, if Kenwright’s first thoughts were for the club, we would now be playing at the Kings Dock and wondering whether the take-over that we, rather than Manchester City, have just experienced will turn out for the best or not.
The simple fact is that a bad idea such as DK does not become a good one, just because those responsible claim that they can’t think of anything better.
Ste Traverse
Talking of the Echo, the self-styled paper that "speaks for the City"...Was I the only one who was dismayed at their atitude when this joke project was called-in? They admitted they were "hugely dissapointed" with the decision, which meant that one of the things this City is most known for, Everton FC, may not be leaving Liverpool after all. For me, that was disgusting and proved to me this Red biased paper would be made up to see us leave this City.
Dennis Stevens, not for the first time nodding as reading your comments. Fundamentally, it’s that simple — DK as the plan stands has never been a good idea, so just because it’s the only idea that the board say they can muster — and the exclusivity deal allows them to look at —does not make it a good one.
If Bill decided he was going to sell Howard, Nash, Turner and Ruddy and stand between the sticks himself in order to save money it would not make it a good idea no matter how any times we were told it was the only option we could afford.
From Colin Fitzpatrick’s excellent initial post there was a link (graciously saving me from X Factor & I Was a Celebrity) which led to another link with an interesting quote:
"I knew it was going to be great but after spending five minutes looking at the plans I was just completely blown away by it.
"It’s amazing and the best thing about it is that it’s so different to any other. We will have our own identity stamped all over this stadium and that’s how it should be."
"We expect the best and this will be the best."
Who said this:
a) Bill Kenwright
b) Keith Wyness
c) David Moyes
d) Phil Neville
e) None of the above?
Click here for the "shocking truth".
Stephen Graham
Having read and read and read the articles and comments and links and news copy concerning DK, which are impressive in style, content, argument, passion, and even fear, I feel that it has all been said well, on both sides, to the degree that there is no longer any ambiguity between the lines, no longer any lack of clarity on the issues, but there remains a general lack of agreement on the what the outcome would be should DK persist.
I can only say that from the bottom of my heart that the phrase the best describes how I feel and worry and fear about a ’Yes’ to DK is from a movie where the writing on the wall says "The end is fucking nigh"!
Russell Buckley
Being an Aussie, the location of the stadium isn’t my biggest concern. It's the standard of the stadium and atmosphere it can generate. Kirkby does not fit the bill.
If it gets turned down it is a massive blow to the club as it means we have wasted heaps of time. On the plus side it will force the club to open their minds again and look for alternatives.
If by some miracle we were bought out then the entire ball park could change. Just read and article from Mourinho the special one stating he sees his future in England and this time he wants a real project that he can build over time. Nothing against our Davey but someone get in Mourinho’s ear.
Eugene Ruane
100 Posted 16/11/2009 at 05:02:59
Dodd - "I have every reason to believe the money is in place"
That’s EVERY...reason.
If that is true, then I have every reason to believe you work for Bill.
Don’t get me wrong, i’m NOTsaying you do work for Bill.
I’m saying I HAVE EVERY REASON to believe you do.
I also have ’every reason’ to believe that the inmates of Rampton are allowed unsupervised access to computers.
Not saying you’re truly nuts.
Just that I have every....etc
Two things.
1.We are told 47,000 would mean an extra £6m per year.Can any of you whizz kids work out the likely ticket hike from this?
2.What is the break even attendance given that Everton have never avaraged anything like 47,000 on a regular basis?
David, it's even more complex than just the 47,000 as it also requires sell-out corporate take-up too — when was the last time that happened even with the meagre offerings at GP?
Paul Gladwell
How strange it is after 132 years, splitting into two clubs, two world wars, Heysel ban, etc, we have managed to win trophies, create record after record, some unmatched by everyone, we now have supporters telling us the end is nigh if we don't move to a poxy flat pack miles from the thriving city center.
Col - (well that’s one sleep out of the way!),
Regarding your emphasis on the fact that the decision comprises two parts (the planning inspector’s recommendation; the political recommendation - if I read things right).
Absolutely no reason to doubt your confidence that the (already submitted) planning inspector’s report will be a substantive "No"; and indeed, once anyone re-reads the facts, it’s hard to see how anything other than a "No" can have been reached.
However, if the second, purely political, decision is then a "Yes" (which presumably overrides the planning inspector’s decision?) then the Government will have some pretty neat explaining to do, surely?
I’m interested in the PR that will accompany this announcement. Presumably the "PR package" will comprise the usual component elements (press release; summary of key points; full report; appendices etc).
Surely within this disclosure it will have to be exposed that the planning inspector’s recommendation was a "No" (if nothing else the inspectorate will at least wish to let it be known that it did its job properly). Therefore, if the Government issues a purely "political Yes" recommendation, overriding the "planning No" recommendation, then it will have to adequately explain how it reached such a conclusion (and, as you say, it’s hardly a project that will create thousands of jobs — approx 300 at most).
Call me naive but I just can’t see how this Government, six months before an election, will be prepared to be seen to be acting so flagrantly (yeah, I know, I’m even doubting myself as I type!) especially as it could lay down a planning case precedent that could have serious ramifications in future years.
When you also factor-in Leahy’s known leaning towards New Labour, the Government would be on risky ground if it was seen to be acting so arrogantly. Therefore the whole thing, to me at least, screams "fudge tomorrow".
For how can the Government issue anything other than a cleverly spun PR-line that "while it is minded" to give its approval it must submit the matter to further due process (e.g. judicial review?).
Of course, if the Government is actually afraid of kicking-up a stink then one would genuinely have to ask, certainly locally, who would have the appetite to do so?
The local media is in EFC’s and Leahy’s back-pocket (in fact the Echo now comes out so early that it’s unlikely it will be able to carry any news of the Friday decision until its much-devoured [not] Saturday edition).
Kilfoyle and Howarth won’t say anything and nor will, presumably, the rest of the local Labour ranks; Knowsley Council won’t say boo; the national media couldn’t give a toss; and you’d really have to wonder how far Cameron and his crew would be prepared to make an issue of the matter if they don’t wish to be seen to be standing in the way of "much needed - yawn - urban regeneration". So that only leaves Warren Bradley, as usual, to be the complainer in chief.
Anyway, the only stink-kicking would happen months or even years down the line (far too late for Evertonians sat in gridlock on the M57) when another developer would be able to point to the precedents set in the EFC/Tesco/Kirkby farrago.
Regardless of all that, though, I just can’t see how the Government can make a firm decision if, as you say, the planning inspector’s report was a "no". The Government will surely have to take the only route out that is open to it (for as much as it won’t want to be offering favours to Leahy, it also won’t want to block one of their favoured sons).
< />So, what price a "caveat" decision? And where will that leave us?
Peter Rogers
After all is said and done, both sides have their own agendas and both are not always putting the club first.
What I do know is that, as it says on my arm "Born a blue, Live a Blue, Die a Blue" — no matter what happens, where we play, what league we are in, I will watch and support Everton Football Club. So what I can't understand is all these people who keep saying, "If we move to Kirkby / if we don't move to Kirkby, I will never go again". All this will achieve is taking away much needed finances from the club we all love.
So, to put it bluntly, I don't give a fuck where we play as long as we are playing. Maybe we should be putting are efforts in to getting more coverage of the fact that the vast majority of supporters want Kenwright to sell and new investors in our club.
I dont think anybody is saying the end is nigh, Paul, I certainly am not. The question I am asking is what is going to be the consequence of another 5-10 years of the same level of investments made each year on playing staff? Is the standard of our squad still going to be needing a stadium for pushing for Champions League?
Unfortunately Dan, unless the dreaded "exclusivity" clause is dropped then very little. The club haven’t given any true indication as to what alternatives have been investigated and dismissed, a good original starting point for any project. To at least have alternatives to revert to wouldn’t be too much to ask would it?
Before anyone asks, "But what about the cost?" has anyone under the Freedom of Information Act requested what the club has spent so far on DK to give a fair idea on the various consultancy fees that have been spent? I dare say this would be in seven figures given KW was paid hansomely by the club alone.
Sadly, you need a good deal of investment just to tread water in football today. Unless the company suddenly derives some way to start making vast amounts on and off field then it will only happen through a change from the top and new blood and new ideas.
Don’t forget players get injured, get old, retire, leave for better offers. If the club can’t offer what others can in terms of salary and prestige then they will leave and need replacing. With a tiny squad the current sell-to-buy method has a finite lifespan too.
Dan Brieerly, Sorry for the late reply. I think the club will start losing money because of a number of reasons, location, traffic chaos, parking etc... I, and I suspect maybe a couple of thousand, won’t go on principle. The club itself admits that on a 40,000 gate they will only make £6m a year.
Another question, where do you think extra support needed for monetary survival will come from??
I agree with what you say, Dan, it is a big worry. However, my own personal opinion is if Kirkby does go tits up we will see Bill selling up very quickly.
I do not fall for this garbage that no one is interested in us and strongly believe we are not for sale... YET!
Peter Rogers, you say..
"No matter what happens, where we play, what league we are in, i will watch and support Everton football club. So what i cant understand is all these people who keep saying if we move to kirkby / if we dont move to Kirkby i will never go again"
Let me explain it for the trillionth, gazillionth, time.
Those people - LIKE ME! - don’t think an Everton FC that plays in Kirkby, will be Everton FC.
And if we don’t think it’s Everton FC....why would we go?
In fact some of us even think it’s a possibility that after 10-15 years or so, they might even change the name to Knowsley Everton (If that happens - lucky for you that your ’tat’ doesn’t say ’EVERTON FC )
Anyway, the point is we don’t or won’t think it is US that is being disloyal to Everton, but Everton FC being disloyal to Everton FC.
I’m not asking you to agree OR understand (I don’t for a second expect you to).
But for fuck’s sake, the reasons have been explained here so many bleeding times that to now be saying "I can’t understand blah" is simply dumb
Fact: You will NEVER understand why, just as I will never understand any Evertonian prepared to entertain the idea of Everton FC playing in Kirkby.
That’s just..how it is.
In an effort to sum up the response to my question ’What happens if....’it seems only Karl Masters offers us a positive way forward. Of the other hundred or so replies, most seemed to feel we are doomed if it’s YES and damned if it’s NO.
To most, the opportunity to slag off Bill Kenwright was just too good to miss whilst even the handful of DK supporters (myself included!) feared the move might have to be at the expense of selling our best players.
I have to admit that I have been greatly confused as to whether the opposition of the likes of KEIOC is stimulated by a genuine fear of stepping over the administrative border or concern for the well-being of the club if it gets deeper into bed with the likes of Sirs Leahey and Green. Perhaps, by now they are confused themselves, but at a time when almost every club is looking for the involvement of ’big hitters’ — and they don’t come much bigger than those two — it seems odd that some Evertonians should wish to rebuff them, and even doubt their financial acumen in their attempt to help our club forward.
Of course they will hope to turn a profit on the deal — how else can they justify risking their companies’ capital? But to see them co-joined with Kenwright as devils incarnate is nothing if not ridiculous.
So now we must wait for the big decision. I’m glad I asked the question but sorry it provoked so much venom. I’m speaking for myself when I say that Mr Editor!
This does get a bit in the end like the irresisistible force meets the immovable object. On the one hand there is the view that Kirkby will be a disaster because people won’t go; on the other the view that we need new revenues and cannot afford anything else.
The way out of course is what I call the ’wait and hope’ strategy. Kirkby is so bad that, even though we can’t afford anything else right now, we are better wiating and hoping that some rich new owner will come along and expand our options. This seems a reasonable position to hold although — given that I think fans will go to Kirkby if we have a decent team — it’s a bit too risky for my tastes. The saviour might not come.
What I still don’t understand is this mystical faith that ’there must be other options’ (if only the exclusivity agreement hadn’t prevented us finding them...). Let’s review what we can probably all agree on.
One: we are finding it a very real struggle even to raise the £80M for Kirkby, securitising future core revenues and even possibly having to sell players. We are very poor, and Kirkby getting knocked back is not going to make us one pound richer.
Two: there is no known or conceivable 50,000 capacity new ground in a city centre that could cost us £80M (unless some form of unheard of ’enabling’ factors come into play — which is surely only remotely likely on something like the groundshare option).
Therefore: without major new investment from presumably a new owner, we are not going to be able to afford a new ground which isn’t Kirkby. I like your thinking Karl too, but we need much more than another £10M or £15M.
Our options currently are: (1) Kirkby; (2) wait and hope; (3) incrementally improve GP for whatever we may just be able to borrow against this (it certainly won’t be £80M). There are things to be said for and against all of these options.
But there is no other ’magic new ground’ option, and it really would be best now after all this time to stop dreaming about it. Without new ownership and new money, it simply isn’t going to happen.
Rob Hope
to reprimand someone for saying like most evertonions, seems childish to especially after the silent majority voted for Kirkby FACT. The pole was done through a third party who organise the general election.
So as far as I can see Doddy IS speaking for the majority. Just cause they're not on here, well who can blame them with the response.
Oh and that fool from KEIOC not once has he outlined were funds are coming from. His whole argument is flawed, on one hand he says we can't afford Kirkby but on the other we're going to redevelop Goodison by deliverable methods. Im sorry but these clowns lost all my respect when they're speaking utter bollocks like that.
Joe Cody
Richard, you say that Sirs Leahey and Green "will hope to turn a profit on the deal — how else can they justify risking their companies’capital"
How much money has Green put into Everton? If the answer is none, then how can he turn a profit?
Back to the origional question.
"What happens if, by some misguided view of our application, the powers that be decide against Destination Kirkby"
I will dance in the street’s as It dawned upon me about 9 years ago that Kenwright is not the man for Everton. Sadly for some of you the message is only just starting to hit home.
James I'Anson
Rob, You reprimand "that fool from KEIOC" for not outlining where the funds are coming from, yet Everton refuse to tell the public enquiry where the funds for Kirkby are coming from.
Flawed arguments, clowns, bollocks, respect lost and all that.
Neil, neat summary, though whilst you point out the dangers of "Wait and see", this seems to be be the case for the ’Yes’ lot too. "time will tell [as to whether DK works]" but "better the devil you know [in terms of BK]" — albeit that not all DK fans/acceptors back BK and know we need new investment which will only happen once the club has put itself £80M further into the red — the new owner will have to service this debt not have any say in the plans but a debt, then at least they get potentially £5-10M a year if all goes absolutely perfectly (?!!!).
Maybe just maybe once we have the extra debt then Sirs Leahey and Green will come through and we’ll be rich beyond Billy’s wildest dreams.
Mr Dodd, these men (not Bill — he’s just a fan) are fantastic businessmen... only a complete fool would say otherwise. However, there is nothing to say that that they will become more entrenched if at all — equally it will not be KEIOC’s fault if they bail out — as businessmen they will do what makes business sense (this is not necessarily soley fiscal and certainly not purely emotional). If they don’t plough in their money then I guess we’ll just wait and see whether a wealthy investor will come a rescue us.
Which brings back to to the quote I used in from my last last comment from Steven Gerrard regarding their stadium proposals. If you had no emotional ties to Everton and use wished to purchase a corporate package, where would you go for:
http://www.redsquirrelevents.com/events/football-tranmere-rovers/117
"It may well be the case, as some believe, that a new stadium for £80m still represents value for money and in the absence of any viable alternative represents Everton’s only option. However, such a stadium in a location that fails to attract the level of interest from fans, the corporate hospitality sector and the conference and banqueting market is of little use as a revenue generator or as an aid to the future aspirations of a top flight premiership club." - KEIOC Our Position Explained
http://www.sportingo.com/football/a9022_destination-kirkby-lies-deception-as-everton-fans-misled-over-relocation-knowsley
http://www.toffeeweb.com/season/09-10/comment/editorial/article.asp?submissionID=8442
Pablo Mc
In response to Gavin’s question:- "Has anyone under the Freedom of Information Act requested what the club has spent so far on DK?" — yes indeed, I asked Mr Elstone that very question at the EGM (the last one before Everton banned them).
His (rather surprising) response was that we had spent "between £1 and 2 million, probably closer to 2" and he claimed that all the "experts" consultants etc. had been paid for by Tesco as it was their project.
That was of course a long time ago, and I’m not sure that would also include the work they did in estimating costs for the various ways that Goodison could be developed (yes, that’s right folks, the same people who would be paid millions to build Kirkby were asked to estimate the costs of rebuilding Goodison — I wonder why their estimates were so high ?!?)
Hope that helps Gavin :)
Great post Colin Fitz!
Sorry I haven’t youre e-mail address.
Mine is colinpotter1@blueyonder.co.uk Drop us a line soon.
FOI doesn’t apply to Everton.
Regarding the original article... Can Mr Dodd please explain his reasoning as to why the club would go into meltdown on the basis of a refusal? As part of this answer, can he also explain how the investment process can be linked to a stadium that is ignoring it’s sink areas, dividing fans and creating potential loss of customers?
The problem with English football now is that we have virtually no talent coming through the ranks aged about 10 to 14. Due to most children but not all having game consoles and lots of other electrical appliances, they no longer look on playing football as a leisure activity.
Unfortunately football is becoming a buisness. Micheal Kenrick says it has always been a business; I agree it's always had that side to it. But until the eighties how many clubs went into administration or had huge financial problems like today?
Why I disagree with the way football is going today is that it affects young men's role in society in my opinion. Knowing this first hand from witnessing people I know, young men who 20 years ago would be standing on The Kop or Gwladys Street terrace are now hanging round street corners.
Also, I do worry where Everton will get their next generation of supporters. I was fortunate enough to visit Rome two years ago. Being a football fan and wanting to witness a different style of football, I decided I'd go to watch Roma v Juventus. I didn’t want to spend 100 euros to sit in the side stands or stand near the away supporters.
Having heard about the violent clashes against Manchester United I decided to keep my mouth shut wandering round the ground. I bough a ticket for the Curva Sud, equivalent to our Gwaldys Street except with no stewards. Amazingly for a high profile game the price was 12 euros.
I nervously made my way on to the half-full terrace. When I reached my seat, it amazed me I had an unrestricted view of the whole match.
As kick off approached, this being a Sunday night game, I could see flares being let off in the Juventus sector. About 20 minutes before kick-off, I realised what I'd let myself in for... a group of about 4,000 fans made their way onto the terrace and made their way to the section where I was.
I nervously hoped nobody would speak to me as unbeknown to me I'd got a ticket with the hardcore Roma Ultras. About 10 minutes before kick-off, fans around me started firing flares onto the running track around the pitch.
With Roma legend Francesco Totti injured and a few other Roma players injured, I predicted a Juventus win. Then 1 of the most amazing things happened — who should walk into our section??? Francesco Totti and a few other players I didn’t recognise!!!
So, just imagine that Arteta meeting the fans in Gwladys Street. What amazed me is he seemed to engage with them normally not as footballers tend to now and ignore the fans.
A card show was held up before the game which unfortuanately me being within it i could not witness it. But even though Roma were beaten 4-1, the fans never stopped singing and the players gave their appreciation to the fans both before during and after the game.
Its been over NINE months since the inquiry finished and over FOUR months since the Inspector's report landed on the Secretary of State's desk. The November 27 date was only ever the last possible date it could be announced and many applications get decided well before the final date. My own theory is that DK will get the nod in its entirety (it can only be accepted or refused as it is) but with conditions attached... eg, transport provision improvements.
If DK goes against every policy under the sun, as opponents claim, and if the Inspector AGREED outright with that view, then it simply would not take as long as it has done for politicians to come to a final decision; they would have said NO ages ago because the applicants would not have had a legal or moral leg to stand on to challenge plus the good people of Kirkby deserved a speedy resolution to the case which had already dragged on for a considerable amount of time.
Ciaran, didn’t you read the rest of the thread?
On your first question, you will have seen a number of us state the view that, if Kirkby is knocked back, the most likely scenario given our fundamentally weak financial position is that we will be left with few if any options sitting hoping for a new owner to come along and replace Kenwright. I don’t know whether that counts as ’meltdown’, but it’s not joy either.
On your second point, of course if you believe that Kirkby will be a disaster and fans won’t go, then of course no new investment will be forthcoming. Obviously. But if you don’t believe this, then having a new ground at a relatively low and capped cost may well just attract the new owner and investment we so desperately need.
Harry Reynalds
Can I ask the Yes guys a question?
If the government said yes, BUT the stadium had to be forever limited to 40,000 seats, would you still be for it?
Doesn’t really answer my questions Neil.
Well, it does — sort of... What you’re basically saying is that a rational argument cannot really be forwarded for the scenario that Mr Dodd presents... as it’s merely a matter of opinion..
That’s fair enough — but I really wanted to know how he came to this opinion...
Hey Ciaran — What? Where is the absence of a rational argument? Certainly from me, I have given chapter and verse as to why I think that this negative scenario is highly probable (no money, can’t afford anything else, doubtful that a new rich owner will emerge etc. etc.). I think this is broadly what Doddy thinks too (although he can speak for himself). You may disagree with this for all sorts of reasons, but hard to see why it is irrational.
On Harry’s 40,000 — that’s a good and tough question. I honestly think that — if it was really ’forever’ — it may make the economics pretty marginal. Then again, we are going to have to move at some point, somewhere (or massively rebuild GP). But it would certainly give me pause.
Neil, why do you keep saying that 3rd rate effort in Kirkby would attract a new owner? 1) It's in an unsuitable location. 2) Awful transport links. 3) Likely to be capped at a low capacity. 4) Loads of life-long fans, disillusioned at the way the club has handled it, vowing never to go near the cowshed. 5) It will only generate an extra £6m a year if full to capacity every game. As I said in a previous thread, that stadium has the words "no ambition" written all over it.
First off, the belief we will get 47,000 fans in a ground that nearly half of our season ticket holders did not want is madness. Kirkby is an unfair destination as its cutting a large chunk of our suppport. Anyone who's been to the Reebok knows that it takes you about 50 minutes to get out of the car park.
Fans also need pubs; until recently, all the pubs round Goodison were full to the rafters most games. I thinks its highly unlikely that many pubs will get planning permission from the council for a retail park.
Sorry for going off the point here boys but if anyone is intrested in helping me organise a South Liverpool Supporters Club providing travel to away matches I would be grateful. It's primarily for fans who do not wish to go on an official overpriced coach but do not want to travel with a bunch of thugs and racists... ie, quite a few people that go on happy als. Anyone wishing to help me, e.mail me: chrisbutler10@hotmail.co.uk
Ste, it’s a bit pedantic but my view is that Kirkby is ’more likely’ to attract a new owner.
Firstly, GP hasn’t. You might believe that this is because Kenwright has been turning them all away, but I don’t.
Secondly, without Kirkby the first thing a new owner would face is finding a very substantial and uncertain amount of money to upgrade our facilities. There may be another club where a new owner has come in with the first task of building a new ground (LFC — haha!) — but I’m not aware of it. At best, it’s currently a big deterrent.
Thirdly, nobody can know for sure until it got going, but I don’t share your pessimistic view of likely attendances at Kirkby. Nor might a prospective new owner.
Obviously, like Ciaran and others, if you believe that Kirkby will be a disaster in the most basic way, then all bets are off.
I fully appreciate we need more than £10-15m to rebuild Goodison, but you have to start somewhere. You are continually looking for the quick and easy solution - new owner, new stadium, Paul McCartney leaving his fortune to Bill Kenwright type of solutions. Maybe these solutions do not exist as solutions.?
Get the Park End enlarged with a big increase in corporate facilities. This brings in more revenue and meams you can begin putting money aside for phase 2 etc. It also gives you time to get the footprint expanded. It’s called doing it gradually in sensible, well managed steps.
What I find amazing about this is that this idea is hardly unique, I have not just had some sort of Damascus moment! It’s how just about EVERY other club including Manure, Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle, West Ham, Birmingham, Spurs have done it. Only Arsenal ( and its crippling them ), Man City ( through sheer good fortune ) and the likes of Boro, Sunderlandm Derby, Coventry, Southampton, Hull and Leicester have built new stadia and that was through necessity, bnit choice as their old homes were beyond saving. How many major honours have these NEW STADIUM teams won since moving? NONE! And some are in major decline.
We should have been rebuilding Goodison properly after the Taylor Report, but we have had a series of conservative, lazy, incompetent, visionless people in charge who even managed to fuck up the Kings Dock when it fell into their laps aftyer LFC refused it saying it was too small!
It’s back to basics time should it be a No. Save and generate the money, build when we can, but above all have a proper, joined up long term plan ( like Man Utd did from the 70’s to the current day with only one piece of their jigsaw left to replace ). These Get rich quick, short term fixes are far too risky.
Says it all really, Karl... Here, here.
Rob Hope — you’ve got your FACT wrong. The silent majority certainly did not vote for Kirkby. The club selected the electorate, offered only one candidate to vote for, supported by an expensive, glossy PR campaign full of untruths & inaccuracies & still couldn’t persuade a majority of those invited to vote to support the proposal.
The majority you & the Board have hung this venture on is a majority of those who voted, but not a majority of those invited to vote & obviously takes no account of those of us excluded from the vote. I doubt any other business would proceed with a scheme that met with such an unenthusiastic response from it’s customers.
Neil Pearse — surely any business man worth having in charge of the club isn’t worthy of that description if he thinks taking over Everton once it’s in Kirkby is a good idea. We are more likely to end up a White Elephant club in a White Elephant stadium.
What you seem to forget is that anybody who takes over will be buying the new stadium as well as the club & probably a premium on top, with money that they may well feel they could invest better themselves. Why would any credible businessman want to pay over the top to inherit the mistakes made by the current incumbents?
DK arose because smart businessmen saw Everton’s situation as a great business opportunity — a shame that all these businessmen aren’t on the Board, perhaps & then the club may have got a better deal out of the scheme as well.
I suspect that, if DK should fall through (& it certainly should), there will be people who see the club's situation as a great business opportunity still — let’s just hope that next time we have a Board who can deliver a decent deal for Everton.
By the way, I think Pompey have had about 3 changes of ownership where there can’t have been any illusion about the need for a new or redeveloped stadium — although it remains to be seen when or if they’ll get one. There are probably others but as Evertonians we may well be unaware of them, However, I can’t really see the relevance other than as a scare-mongering tactic. It does seem to me that much of the support for DK seems to be based on fear rather than genuine enthusiasm for the scheme.
Why, then, hasn’t the converse applied?
Why wait all this time to deliver a resounding Yes if it’s deemed from the onset such a wonderful proposal with neither flaws nor valid grounds for objection? Hmmm?
Karl Masters — Here! Here! You’ve got it spot on there.
Neil, forgive me if I am wrong but if Kirkby was reduced to a 40,000 capacity then we would actually lose money as we need a far higher average attendance to actually make money.
I just don't know where an extra 12,000 blues are going to pop up from, do you have any idea? As I have yet to meet someone who has said he will start supporting Everton if we move to Kirkby, but I have met many who have said that will be it for them, and numerous blues who won't renew their season ticket and turn into a casual fan.
It is the same with the corporate facilities, just where are these rich blues coming from? The few we have now are barely half-full most games; some people are living in cuckoo land regarding us filling Kirkby.
Peter Griffin
Building a new stadium should be an exciting time for the fans. We should be over the moon. We should be inundating the club for snippets of info, updates, pictures, plans etc etc.
The fact is we’re not.
Even the people who are apparently pro-Kirkby lack enthusiasm. Why is that?
Peter Griffin — quite right!
When one thinks back to KD, the overwhelming feeling was one of enthusiasm, apart from those who felt any departure from Goodison Park unacceptable — a perfectly reasonable view, but not one shared by the majority at the time, it seemed.
DK would appear to be the opposite — abhorred by many & accepted by some, but with little enthusiasm, as far as I can detect.
Dennis, I'm sorry but the vote was cast, 60% in favour... like it or not, that is a genuine fact, all the other arguments like it was rigged with propaganda etc bears no relevance. I for one am bright enough to know what I'm being told and what I believe.
How can anyone say what might've been, how do you know all these other fans would have voted differently. It's just all hypocritical.
For your information, I could vote but didn’t as I can see arguments either way... but if pushed probably would've been a Yes vote. So there is one POSIBLE vote against your argument.
My point being you can't say what could've been to back up an argument because other match-going Evertonians may have voted EITHER way.
I remember going to Nurembeg to an out-of-town stadium and that stadium was full and I enjoyed the whole experience. All I'm saying is maybe people are pushing their own ends and not what is best for Everton. They knock the stadium etc but if it was offered on Walton Hall Park would they want it?
Also the question if the capacity was capped then I would say No as it wouldn’t allow us to grow.
The Park End could not be made bigger in any way. The Park End for the last few years has served in making our ground look modern and attractive. Not to mention that the area around it is vital for people making their way to Bullens Road and Goodison Road.
I think the stand that needs the most regenerating is the Bullens Road stand. I think it's unfair on fans situated in parts of the lower Bullens and upper Bullens. They pay for expensive tickets and are rewarded with obstructed views. I now have realised why, bar a few teams, hardly any teams sell their allocation at GP.
To regenerate the Main Stand is going to be hard. Goodison Road and City Road have numerous buisnesses and homes around them. Also it would create a lot of hassle for the local Walton residents.
I have never really been one to go for a drink down County Road after the match and then make my way into town. Due to my upbringing, I’ve always had a love of nostalgic areas and places that ooze history and memories.
Do we want to go to a stadium miles away from some of ours beloved city? First of all the 4 miles thing is that from the city centre or GP? DK has not been re-thought as I'm not briefed on the exact dates but many factors have came in after we voted.
I do not agree with the stadium share as currently in terms of support we lag well behind Liverpool. Goodison holds many brilliant memories for my Dad and me and plently of other fans. The memories of legions of fans wandering up Scotty Road to the match still lives with my Dad today. The queues going round onto Goodison Road to get into Gwladys Street.
We still retain one of the most iconic stadiums in the world. I cannot speak for out-of-town fans or foreign fans but do they prefer Goodison or DK?.
Rob, if it was on Walton Hall Park I would be made up.
At the time of the vote, I had already let my feelings be known as regards the stadium in Kirkby. I thought then that it smacked of desperation and still do now, I had a table in the Park End and had sponsored Osman's shirt. Which i was told on handing my money over that I would receive at the end of the season.
I spoke to Blue Bill and informed him in no uncertain terms that in my honest opinion it would be a grave mistake to move to Kirkby. He said he would love to stay at GP but it wasn't feasible.
Rob, I never received a vote; for some strange reason, the computer missed me out, and as much as I protested to the point of allmost being arrested, I never was allowed to vote FACT!
By the way, I never received Leon's shirt either. Blue Bill... don't make me laugh. Dictator more like.
Hello Greg, that fool from KEIOC here; just read your post; you’re getting excited aren’t you!!
The government will indeed need to justify their decision if they go against the planning inspectors planning regulation-based recommendation and it (the decision) needs to be watertight or planning anarchy will ensue.
Tesco has concentrated on their best gambit of regeneration and job creation while the opposition counsel concentrated in exposing the true impact and net job gains for the region, particularly the impact on jobs and on centres in neighbouring authorities which planning regulations are their to protect; another indicator is that all the neighbouring authorities have complied with those regulations when conducting their own developments; Kirkby are the odd man out.
People are starting to get excited over the announcement, it’s understandable... but let’s not get too carried away with all the hype and spin. The game’s afoot, yes, KEIOC’s too, but don’t lose sight of one very important point; no matter how you dress this up, it remains a very poor solution to Everton’s stadium problem and the straw-clutching response — that it is the only solution available so we should support it — won’t make it any better.
Someone, I think it was Karl, has identified that new stadia aren’t everything they’re cracked up to be. At the public inquiry Everton waxed lyrical about new stadia and the new stadium effect, how teams who had moved were so much more successful, in financial terms, for having relocated. KEIOC disagreed; we used exactly the same source of information to prove this is incorrect when applied to Everton’s forecast of achieving a 30% uplift in attendances to generate an additional £6m of profit. The applicants tried, unsuccessfully, to have our evidence thrown out; here’s the particular piece that opposed the theory that new stadia are successful, you can draw your own conclusions:
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/5892/newvoldstadia.jpg
You mention Terry Leahy’s leanings towards Labour, perhaps the relationship's not what it was under Blair if we are to believe just one of his latest tantrums the other week:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6318562/Tescos-Sir-Terry-Leahy-attacks-Government-education-record.html
The government in an election year will be treading very carefully on this one; someone else mentioned, I think it was Jason, about the length of time it’s taking, his reasoning was that if it was a No the answer would have been known; the decision officer, Michael Taylor, has said it has been the biggest application they’ve worked on apart from Heathrow.
Whatever the decision, I think we all agree, the lawyers will be taking a very close look at the decision and the process; they can’t apply for a judicial review simply because the Secretary of State has either approved or declined the decision.
But, in line with many, my opinion is that the decision is academic; the only reason Everton are involved in this is to deliver a massive retail complex beyond what is allowed by local, regional and national planning regulations and the only reason we have this sole proposal on the table is because Everton repeatedly misinformed LCC over their requirements for a £50m cross-subsidy, as you can see here:
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2007/08/10/city-sites-for-everton-fc-were-rejected-a-year-ago-92534-19603874/
http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2007/08/11/everton-chief-in-plea-to-fans-over-kirkby-move-92534-19609551/
I’m amazed at some people calling for KEIOC to deliver solutions to Everton’s problems; there are alleged experts in and attached to the club who are highly paid and are meant to be doing this. They feel the answer is to move to this:
http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5614/trollydolly.jpg
and they feel confident that they can achieve a 30% uplift in attendance whilst overcoming an acknowledged problematical location in relation to where the majority of existing fans live, are in full knowledge that there is a significant amount of fans (customers) with grave reservations about the stadium, that there exists no demonstrable demand for this stadium and that all leading Premier League clubs are taking a different approach. I’m not confident, if anyone is that is clearly their prerogative.
I suppose you can talk and talk until you’re blue in the face about possible solutions... but the fact is this board has committed to this solution; my solution is simply get rid of the chairman and replace him with someone who has vision and the ability to obtain investment. Our current chairman is either unable to do this, is a nominee or a creature; whichever it is I’m not really bothered, I’m just looking at the results and the one above isn’t particularly appetising as an Evertonian.
11... sleeps mate!
"I for one am bright enough to know what I'm being told and what I believe."
Colin F: "My solution is simply get rid of the Chairman and replace him with someone who has vision and the ability to obtain investment".
Well, that’s that sorted then! (And we’ve all been wasting our time all these months arguing about it all on ToffeeWeb...)
Seriously Colin, you very well know that it is nowhere near that simple. It’s a very nice dream that Kenwright only needs to step aside to enable us to have that rich, visionary, ethical new owner who will buy us the nice shiny new stadium. But it’s not really very likely is it?
(Hint: they will need £400M+ to pay for the new stadium, the equity, the debt and the investment in new players. Perhaps not so simple after all...)
Rob, no need to apologise — simply accept what you said was in FACT wrong, when you claimed that vote reperesented "the silent majority".
As we’ve both said, a majority of those who voted said Yes, this is a FACT — that "majority" was only a large minority of those offered a vote, this is also a FACT. The electorate for the vote was selected by the club, this is also a FACT, and so excluded many Evertonians who may have wished to express their opinion.
I’ve not suggested that the vote was rigged, so I don’t know where you pulled that one from. I’m not claiming that all those who didn’t get a vote would be opposed. I’m simply stating the FACTs that you seem so keen on —- and personally I think that the FACT that the Board could not even persuade a majority of those selected to have a vote that this deal was good enough to vote for clearly indicates that DK didn’t generate anything like the enthusiasm for moving that KD did.
Subsequently, much more has emerged about how poor the transport arrangements will really be, how little money the club will make (at best), and how much more debt the club will have to take on compared to the original proposal. Nothing’s emerged to make it look like a better deal than that which couldn’t generate more than a "largest minority" in favour.
You may be right, perhaps some people are "pushing their own ends rather than what’s best for Everton" — but are those people the ordinary Everton supporters or the Board?
My only concern is what’s best for Everton and I fail to see how taking on a huge debt in the hope of a very modest retrun makes any sense, especially when the scheme seems designed to be unsuccessful — who would build a spectator sport venue in a place that’s very difficult for spectators to get to & from?
Your comment about location is very valid — the same stadium, warts & all, placed in a more central location such as Stanley Park, would be immediately more viable, simply due the improved accessibility of the location.
As for growing — we’ll be shrinking out at Kirkby. Once people realise that they no longer need to commit to a season ticket to ensure a decent view and they experience the true horrors of the transport arrangements, they will start to cherry-pick the matches they attend: average attendances will fall... so any capacity cap won’t really matter.
Has anyone read the link from the Echo regarding the Queens Speech on Wednesday? According to their man in Westminister, they are about to announce a Yes to DK. It sounds like it's a reliable source to me. They also go on to mention the tram link from Liverpool to Kirkby which raised its head again in this morning's Daily Post.
I believe this now to be the result and that traitor that fuckin' liar has took us out of this city. I for one will never set foot inside it unless it's to deliver a can of petrol.
BILL KENWRIGHT, YOU HAVE JUST RUINED MY BELOVED FOOTBALL CLUB. HANG YOUR HEAD IN SHAME.
Neil Pearse — your response to Colin makes some valid points, but why would moving to a new stadium in Kirkby & saddling the club with massive additional debts attract this same new owner? (Hint — they’ll need just as much money to pay for the new stadium, the equity, the debt and the investment in new players...) Perhaps that DK scenario won’t prove to be so simple either.
Dennis — Because Kirkby is cheaper than the alternatives. Much. It may or may not make the difference in terms of the new owner — but that is the difference. Especially when it’s been secured and the potential new owner knows exactly what it will cost.
That’s a huge difference from buying a club when you know you will need a very large sum for new facilities — but you don’t know how much or even where they will be.
Karl, I wish you were right, but I think while your steady incrementalism would have been great if we’d started it a decade ago — but it would leave us falling further behind our major rivals if we took that approach now. We need to make more of a leap. Kirkby is sadly the biggest one we can afford.
Of course, if the prospective new owner agrees with many here that fans just won’t go to Kirkby — then of course they won’t buy us, and Kirkby will indeed turn out to be not at all simple (or very simple but not at all a good idea). That goes without saying.
Neil, attach whatever caveats you wish but that is the solution. I don’t want to be unkind but whilst you and everyone else is chatting merrily away, that’s all you’re doing; chatting.
A third rate stadium in a backwater that by its own admission won’t generate anything like the revenue of other main Premier League clubs stadia, that the club will be saddled with for a quarter of a century is unlikely to attract the personage that will enable us to compete in the brave new world of the digital platform football market of the 21st century.
Being facility led and all that bollocks won’t enable us to compete either and it’s no good hitting me with your particular brand of financial double dutch gobbledygook. Not too long ago you thought DK was a good idea; take a deep breath; go and lie down and understand Kirkby is not about Everton, never has been and never will be — it was about delivering a massive retail park, nothing more, nothing less.
As unfathomable as it may appear to you at the moment (and whether I or anyone else agrees with it or not is neither here nor there) the only way left to compete is to obtain the levels of investment that have been / will be obtained by City, Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool etc. Cheap isn’t on the agenda; that’s for Wigan, Bolton etc; apologies if I should know Everton’s place is with them and not the aforementioned.
The fact that you think someone out there hasn’t the resources to do this doesn’t surprise me in the slightest; that’s why you’re chatting about it on ToffeeWeb.
Liverpool will be sold in the future; have you worked out how much it will cost someone? £1bn? Pretty much, you think that’s an unattractive proposition for someone?
It’s a different world in the Premier league these days... like I said, chat about it all you want but the factor holding us back is apparent.
Neil, If maybe a new owner got us a far better stadium that generated far more money than an extra pathetic £6m a season, that's in a more suitable location — then they might not have to put their hand in their own pocket for players as much. I agree with Colin, it's time the chairman stepped down and bring some fresh ideas and vision to our club.
It’s funny... one minute, our players are being paid Championship wages, the next, £6m is a ’modest’ amount of money! I’d argue it might allow us to pay ’Premier League wages’!
And to Colin F — whilst I don’t wish to enter a debate on a subject of which I undoubtedly have far less knowledge than your good self, just a couple of points:
1. Your illustration, for me, on unsold seats at stadiums has absolutely no use as a comparison tool — if I can see if Sunderland sell more seats now than they did at Roker Park (which I believe they do), this will tell me whether their move has ’worked’. In other words, IF DK went ahead, with a capacity of 50k, and we averaged 46k, your graph would simply show us as having 4k unsold seats. It wouldn’t show that we’re 10k up on average attendances.
2. On KEIOC being asked to deliver solutions — are they? Or are they simply, after watching a video that was as ludicrous as any I’ve ever seen, simply asking for an explanation on how it could be delivered? The video which demonstrated (if I remember correctly) two potential sites, and also a revamp of GP was excellent insofar as the three solutions looked good, but ludicrous in that there was no mention of affordability or deliverability.
So if I’ve watched this video, produced by KEIOC, and think any of the three are better options than DK (which I did), do I not have the right to ask if it is REALISTIC? You see, I think the club’s experts have looked at these options, and realise, quite simply, that they will COST TOO MUCH.
Neil makes the point that underpins my post — Kirkby may not be ideal, it might even be called worse than that. But we CAN afford it.
And to the person who claims it takes 50 mins to get away from the Reebok — try parking on the road on t’other side of the motorway roundabout and you’ll be away in no time. Kirkby will probably take a long time to get away from unless you use your head in the same way.
Stewart,
You’re missing the point of the graph, but perhaps I simply didn’t fully explain myself; it’s not meant to be taken in isolation it’s meant to be used in conjunction with mitigating factors such as acceptability of the stadium amongst the fanbase, location and demand, in terms of ticket sales. On the left we see Arsenal, they built a fantastic stadium that had overwhelming support amongst its fanbase, much the same as the KD had with Evertonians; they relocated around the corner from where they traditionally draw their support and they had a 20k+ season ticket waiting list. Everton advocate moving out to Kirkby to a stadium that in no way you could ever describe as fantastic, it has been heavily criticised by CABE and has generated significant opposition within the fanbase, the chosen location will offer challenges for the fans, particularly when departing the game and Everton can offer no demonstrable demand for an additional 11,000 seats other than a desire to sell them to generate increased revenue.
Using the graph, which demonstrates how the operators of all these stadia achieve average ticket sales and taking those mitigating circumstances into consideration KEIOC forecast an average attendance of 38,000 at Kirkby. Everton chose 47,000 and you have chosen 46,000. All the stadia no doubt operate marketing plans to fill their stadia, as Everton no doubt will, yet most fail to approach anything like the 94% capacity Everton need to generate £6m and, I’ll remind you, LFC are projecting £50m a season from their new stadium.
In the realm of the digital platform where Internet and TV will place greater demands on the matchgoing fan, in terms of timings of the games, and ease of access for the armchair supporter, hand on heart, who has offered the most realistic forecast, KEIOC, Everton or yourself?
With regard to the video, it offers two solutions, a phased redevelopment of Goodison Park and a new development on Scotland Rd, I’m glad you like them and I’ll remind you that it was produced by Black Widow to accompany KEIOC’s submission to the public inquiry that stated, whilst Tesco’s monetary contribution towards the stadium is nil, other innovative financing methods such as equity seat right, debentures and straight forward equity financing or perhaps stadium leasing could physically benefit Everton financially but these have all been ignored as Kirkby isn’t about Everton’s requirements it’s about Tesco’s need to deliver a massive retail park. If you can provide me with the links to where Everton have conducted a cost sum analysis on any potential alternative I’d welcome it.
You seem happy and are perfectly willing to accept Everton’s explanation of how they can afford £78m, break it down into its constituent parts and explain to me which elements contribute what; I’ll start you off, tell me how 7 acres of land in Walton can generate £15m towards the cost of the project; I don’t understand how you’re so willing, so ready, to accept any figure from Everton’s experts yet when KEIOC use the same broad brush approach they’re criticised.
The problem with all of this is the vision and the [lack of] ability of this present board, I’m not an advocate of some silly sack the board move but if Everton are to survive at the top of the premiership we need something more than cheap and affordable. We could go and play our games on Stanley Park using a few coats as goals, that would be cheap, that would be affordable but it is neither suitable or sustainable for a top flight premiership club.
On the parking Stewart, there will be a two mile car parking exclusion zone around the Kirkby stadium on matchdays, it has been described by the club as being the most heavily enforced scheme in the country; but don’t worry too much, modal share targets in relation to public transport usage in preference to car usage mean that in the event of the targets not being met the stadium capacity will be automatically capped, therefore it will make travelling to and from the game easier; still confident on that 46,000 figure????
Colin - in one way I think we are in complete agreement. I think we need a new owner with new money and new vision too. I just don’t think that typing it on ToffeeWeb is going to be enough to make it suddenly happen. We might need something else first — like a plausible and affordable solution to our ground problem.
No, not excited (that died for me on 31st August 2004).
Pensive is the word.
And Colin - your position seems to be (which again I have some sympathy with) that we are going to be very hard pressed to scrape together the £78M.
You are then naturally asked: so how can we afford anything else? You then say (so far as I can understand): a rich new visionary owner will come along.
Colin, I so much want this to be true, that I would love to know on what you base this belief?
The alternative scenario - quite consistent with your in my view accurate analysis of our financial situation - is that we can afford very little indeed, perhaps Kirkby only just, and that a saviour might not be just around the corner. What then?
Colin I think you are being a bit fair too expecting 38,000 average nevermind the pie in the sky 46,000.
Do the club have any plans for a survey to find out about possible attendance figures?
People are saying that is it for them, some saying they will not renew but just pick and choose, whilst others will go no matter where we play.
Now if it happens you can guarantee alot of the anti kirkby fans will calm down,see the new shiny stadium and get the game, however how long will the novelty last?
I live on the Wirral in a very strong Everton area but gradually over the past few seasons I have seen a large rise in people preferring the warm pub with the foreign channel and Kirkby will only fuel this more when faced with a dull fixture in cold weather and a costly long taxi ride, the pub will be the winner.
Stewart just where on earth do you think the extra 12,000 fans are coming from? you could maybe add an extra few away supporters intent on visiting our new home but that is about it.
After decades, not just with this current regime, of under investment in the clubs infrastructure we’ve arrived at where we stand. My understanding of the situation is that we’re so far behind the pack and that the solution offered is so far from being adequate that the only alternative is to bring in outside investment to rectify all the problems. Kirkby just brings with it a whole host of additional problems.
I agree this is a simple to say solution but what other solution is there; this board have no vision, no ambition and no ability to attract investment, others have; time to address the root cause of the problem in preference to putting in place the temporary fix.
"Dennis — Because Kirkby is cheaper than the alternatives."
Ha ha this made me laugh Neil as it reminded me of a mates know all dad who once bought a radio cassete player from one of those guys on a market stall.You know the type of stall I mean.Britney Spears microphone and the Del Trotter speil and all that.got it home and it had no fucking insides in it.ha ha.
My old Granny used to say dearest is sometimes cheapest.
Your ’chapter and verse’ appears to simply be a list of presumptions which you think will result in a ’probable’ negative scenario for the club..
What I was actually looking for was a reasoned argument as to why these presumptions are likely and a cogent argument on how thye will result in the ’probable’ negative outcome you suggest..
As far as I can see we’ll at worst continue in the current trend...of selling to buy....and at best have 78mill to spend on either the team or an alternative.
I simply don’t understand your doomsday scenario, nor see the reasoning behind it.
Colin - We totally agree that we are in a poor situation and that we desperately need new investment and ownership. You are just much more optimistic than I am that it is likely to show up any time soon. I very much hope that you are right and I am wrong!
Ciaran - You have committed the oldest fallacy in the book: that if you do nothing, things just carry on the same. They don’t. The £78M for a start is not simply sitting there under the bed, so all of it is not automatically available for anything else than Kirkby. If we do not have more money to invest in players, some of the current ones will at some point soon leave. Probably Moyes too. And meanwhile our competitors are not simply sitting there doing nothing - they are investing more in their facilities and their players. Whether or not it is doomsday or not, it is not a happy scenario.
That is why the likes of Colin and I think we desperately think we need new investment, even if differ about how to get it.
’(Hint: they will need £400M+ to pay for the new stadium, the equity, the debt and the investment in new players. Perhaps not so simple after all...) ’
Neil, are you purposely clouding the issue?
The main reason we are proposing to move is ’apparently’ for financial gain in order to improve the team...
Now, if your scenario comes true than why would an investor need to build a new stadium as well as invest in players and clear the debt?
The reason why we have no money at the minute is because every single one of our revenue streams is eaten up by debt repayment and interest...So if that debt is repaid then obviously we free up revenue streams that can go towards team investment..
SO, logically that autiomatically brings into question your suggestion that a new investor woulf also need to build a new stadium AND put up large amounts of money for investment in players..
Now, of course we’d all love a new stadium - but if increasing our attendances is a gamble - then why bother if we don’t need to?
In the circumstance you’ve suggested surely an updating of goodison would be the preferred option - keeping the 40k attendance but sprucing the place up..
Can you see where your figures don’t stack up?
’Ciaran - You have committed the oldest fallacy in the book: that if you do nothing, things just carry on the same. They don’t. The £78M for a start is not simply sitting there under the bed, so all of it is not automatically available for anything else than Kirkby. If we do not have more money to invest in players, some of the current ones will at some point soon leave.’
The above scenario...IS THINGS CONTINUING IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY!
The way I see our situation is very simple:
We have just about enough seats - for now at any rate - with 40,000. We have not averaged over 40,000 since 1975, although we came close in 1978 and 2004. We also have a stadium that is rich in history, in an accessible location, that is safe for mass spectators and generates an atmosphere than can inspire our team and intimidate visitors.
What we do not have is enough corporate facilities or enough good facilities for the fans to maximise matchday revenue. Chris Butler says the Park End cannot be enlarged, but frankly this is nonsense as there is loads of space behind it and it can be raised in height with another tier to the height of the Main Stand.
It would not take more than £15m (what we paid for VDM and Richard Wright and in fees and wages to put it into some perspective) that I have already outlined could be raised quickly with a bit of imagination (somewhere above in this very long thread) to take off the roof, add another tier and build a large Banqueting and Function suite onto the back of it.
You would then start generating money to start work on the Bullens Road stand (Tom Hughes’s innovative ’building from behind’ design both maintaining capacity at a sensible level and keeping the costs reasonable being the best way IMO) once LCC have moved the school and some of the houses - something Warren Bradley has said to me is possible.
Then you use the increased revenues to re-do the Gwladys Street and so forth round to the Main Stand.
It might take 10 years, or even longer, but at least we would get there eventually. Neil P says we need a ’Leap’, steady progress, but I’m sorry Neil, I don’t think we should be taking a leap into the dark with no safety net. Your reasoning that somebody will buy us in Kirkby is questionable and how do you know it won’t be a Gaydamak or an Icelandic Potato Head?
Goodison is not falling down, we can improve it, but that’s if you want to. If you have your mind fixed on DK like the Board do, you cannot and don’t want to think of the other possibilities. Elstone trots out it will cost £75m to re-build the Bullens Road, but got the figures from the same consultants who have everything to gain by DK going ahead. Do you not think they grossly inflated it to serve their own ends? If it’s costing £78m to build a whole stadium then it’s patently nonsense that one stand can cost £75m, when other Clubs have built them for a fraction of this.... the Park End cost £1.8m by the way and even if that was 15 years ago, inflation would not have raised it much beyond about £5m or £6 today.
Re-develop in phases and should an Abramovich or Stadium share ever come along, we can always reconsider. If they don’t at least we know we are going the right way, whereas Kirkby will be one big blind alley.
Well said, Karl! And if DK gets the chop,that’s exactly what should happen!
Peace in our time.
Couldn’t agree more, Karl. But that plan is exactly what the stupid bastard should have embarked on when he fucked up on King’s Dock. If he’d got started then, we’d be well onto the final phase by now.
My guess is that if DK is a no-no then the whole subject will go back into mothballs — just as it did after the last balls-up!
I must be doing something right if I can get Doddy and Brian to both agree!
Well Karl, I am pretty sure that is all we will be able to afford to do if DK is knocked back - so we will be in agreement!
I am in no way an expert on stadium construction costs, but I don’t find it at all implausible that it is very much cheaper per seat to build something from scratch on an open greenfield site than to heavily modify something already in existence in a cramped location and under severe time pressures (to avoid revenue loss). Anyone who has done a major structural rebuilding of their own property can testify to that.
I suspect that we won’t get that much improvement at GP for whatever we can afford if Kirkby is knocked back. And I don’t think that will be enough in the medium term to keep us competitive in the upper half of the Premiership. If Kirkby is knocked back I will still be praying for Colin’s rich visionary new owner so that we can make the ’leap’.
Anyway, maybe we will soon see.
We all want what’s best for Everton , Neil. All we disagree about is how it should or could be achieved.
I accept that building from scratch is always easier, but even if the whole Park End was unusable for a season ( and that is very unlikely if you stated the project in mid May ) the capacity would drop to 34,400, so we would only be losing 2,500 people a game if you look at the current average of 37,000 - £30 + £10 spent at Ground ( being generous there ) x 2,500 x 20 matches = £1m total. That’s not a massive amount is it? With the Park End completed and an extra 4,000 seats and extra facilities we would either be able to demolish Bullens ( 10,000 capacity ) and stay with 34,400 capacity or work from behind, as Tom Hughes has suggested, bringing the capacity up to around 49,000 before beginning work on the Gwladys St end of the ground. Etc, etc.
I’d love an easy answer. I’d love an Abramovich ( although Platini will hopefully soon do something to re-level that playing field ), but sadly in life, these things are very rare.
The mistake many Yes voters made was thinking DK was one of those opportunities, and who can blame them after all the ’Effectively Free’, ’Best transport Links of any Stadiumin the Country’, ’Goodison won’t get a safety certificate’ soundbites that they were fed by Wyness and Leahy?
Of course, ’Too good to be true’ is exactly what has now been realised by many. I just hope it’s not too late.
Sorry, it’s £2m, not £1m, but still only the wages of a VDM for a year.
NO means we stay put and probably decline (unless local and national government get their act together and force the shared stadium idea) but better than going to some shitty two bob box on an a retail park and decline because we are in the arse end of irrelvantsville and no fans or corporates want to come watch us and who would?
I applaud you Karl for getting, Brian, Doddy and Neil to come round to the Plan B that only was after the vote. I suppose it’s now a case of waiting what the result is - and then if it’s a nod to Kirkby, then perhaps some more proactive approach than just talking about it... of course they’ll be the "it’s too late" brigade.
I’ve said it before Neil, I applaud you tenacity... but you do seem to make some of the infuriating comments "That is why the likes of Colin and I think we desperately think we need new investment, even if differ about how to get it." - I don’t think anyone’s ever said "we’re fine as we are and don’t need investment or a new owner."
Alan Clarke
Are you a myopic follower Dodd? You seem to think we’ll get an endless chain of billionaires coming forward once we move to Kirkby.
Nobody has provided any compelling evidence to suggest that we’ll suddenly find investment just by moving to Kirkby. Who are these mysterious billionaires waiting to punce and give us all their money when the club moves to a shithole outside of a city where major investment is taking place? Anyone who believes that our stadium is the reason behind a lack of investment is the most myopic of followers.
So what do you think are the main reasons we haven’t got a new owner yet Alan?
Verbatim excerpt from Gordon Brown’s pre-Queen’s Speech podcast "scene-setter":
"Next week we will be outlining our legislation for the next parliamentary session - a programme that’s in line with our core values of fairness and responsibility.
"Our focus, as ever, is the return to economic growth and forging a stronger, fairer, Britain - for the many not the few.
"We will reduce government borrowing in a fair and responsible way and take forward our strategy for growth, with targeted investment that creates jobs..."
I can easily see how local urban regeneration planks ("in communities that need it most" by any chance?), like the Tesco-led revitalisation of Kirkby, can be shoehorned into this narrative.
However, I really don’t think that the Government gives a toss whether "Destination Kirkby" eventually does go-ahead, just so long it can claim any passing PR kudos for "being seen to be" on the side of urban renewal.
The whole tenor of tomorrow’s speech is based on how he’s single-handedly rescued Britain from the brink of disaster a year ago and there are now green shoots of recovery all over the land - eg, here, there, everywhere...and even in Kirkby!
In short: Ian Hernon - a lobby correspondent since 1978 - hasn’t just plucked this from this thin air. Especially not after Jim Hancock made such a gaff. There really must be some truth in his Queen’s Speech forecast regarding DK and it’s not very hard to see how it can be easily levered into a commentary listing passing examples of growth. Therefore I would expect that there will indeed be some element of Kirkby-type rhetoric in tomorrow’s royal huff-n-puff.
I just hope that whilst it allows Brown to claim credit for localised regeneration it will still be ambiguous enough and loaded enough, with caveats and nuance aplenty, to ensure that DK never sees the light of day.
Thus allowing the Government to claim that they didn’t stand in the way of progress.
And possibly providing Everton with the perfect "exit strategy" should it wish to seize it in the post "exclusivity agreement" era (which surely will end once an announcement is made in full).
The ball is in Everton’s court.
Nice to see you finally agreeing with the secretary of KEIOC Neil totally. I can understand now all the arguments for have disappeared other than we may get a new owner.
Why are we "more likely" to find one Neil?
Nice try Richard, but I don’t think we are quite there yet!
Getting a new owner is not a small thing, so disagreeing about whether we are more likely to get one with Kirkby or without is rather a big thing.
Also, I assume that you think we have some good affordable alternatives if we don’t go to Kirkby. I disagree on that too.
What I agree with is that we need a new owner, and that without one we will be confined to some incremental improvements over time at GP.
Still, I am glad to agree with Karl and others that this thread has largely had honest Evertonians sincerely disagreeing, but out of strongly held views on what is best for the club in a complicated and difficult situation.
Can anyone (Colin Fitz maybe ?) advise me whether the following scenario is still plausible even if (pray, pray, pray it doesn’t) DK is given the green light....
Tesco : Phew! Can’t believe we got through that! OK, on we go then... have you got that £78m then lads?
EFC : Erm... hang on a sec... (checks pockets)... did I give it to you Robert? Did we leave it in the car?
In other words, at what point do Everton have to "pony up the dough" and what if they can’t do so?
Is there still the hope of it all falling through for this reason even if the green light is somehow given?
Because Everton, or Bill, is tied into an exclusivity deal enabling a retail park in Kirkby that Green could benefit from?
Quite obviously, because we haven’t got the added attraction of an extra £80mill debt for minimal benefit (if any), a complete division of fans — and a white elephant that any new owner will be tied to for the forseeable future..
Neil, Your false dichotomy — between Kirkby getting the go ahead and resulting in new ownership, and not getting new ownership while at Goodison — is frankly laughable...
At Goodison we are a far more attractive option.
Neil, to answer your question, years and years of bad management at the top have led to our demise. This predates both Kenwright and Johnson but they’ve both exacerbated the problem. Our club is debt ridden because of this. We missed the gravy train when the Premier League was first set up. Now we are so far behind the top clubs and in so much debt, we are not in any way an attractive investment. It is incredibly naive to think moving stadiums will suddenly find us a billionaire. The problems with Everton are multi-factorial and run a lot deeper than an old stadium. The move to Kirkby would be like polishing dog shit from an investment point of view and does not make us any "more likely".
Alan, would you prefer to buy a business knowing that the needed new facility cost £80M and was approved and on the go? Or when you knew that you still had to find it and didn’t know what it would cost (to the nearest £100M)?
I think I gave you a good reason earlier on in thread Neil, without reply.
I’d say in that case Neil our chances of finding investment change from miniscule to minute by moving to a new stadium. So I apologise, you’re right, we are more likely BUT there is still very little chance of us finding this fantastic magical investor. The truth is we’re fucked, no one in their right mind would want Everton.
Alan, this is obviously the season of peace and goodwill because I agree with virtually every word you wrote.
However, even though I regard myself as pessimistic by nature, I part company with the counsel of despair at the very end of your post.
Since I think we desperately need a new owner and new money (for all the reasons you suggest), I spend my time thinking about how best to make that more likely. For the reasons I state above, I think a new ground should help.
If that doesn’t, I don’t think sitting at GP falling further behind is going to help very much. What else exactly are you proposing to get us out of the mess which you so accurately portray us as being in?
So we have been at GP for the last few years Ciaran — why hasn’t the saviour arrived?
Richard — sorry if I missed your response. I assume it was that Kenwright has stopped all potential buyers — which is an argument we’ve had quite a few times before.
Alan — I am not sure how I feel about finding someone who is even more gloomy about our future prospects than I am! I fear you may be right.
Again, you are making the unexplained assumption that a new owner would need to build a new stadium... I also notice you didn’t answer my query as to why — in addition to building a new stadium — they’d also need to both pay of the debt and make a substantial personal investment in playing staff...
’So we have been at GP for the last few years Ciaran - why hasn’t the saviour arrived?’
ah, logic eh!
Because we’ve been at Goodison for the last few years and no investor has arrived - then that’s the only possible reason that we’ve not had investment!
Neil, shall I just repeat the same possible reason?
Because Everton, or Bill, is tied into an exclusivity deal enabling a retail park in Kirkby that Leahy and Green will benefit from?
If Bill’s not selling then how can someone buy?
Ciaran - I am not saying that a new owner has not appeared JUST BECAUSE we’ve been at GP. I am saying that a new owner has had plenty of time to appear while we have been at GP - and hasn’t. So why are they going to appear now?
Ciaran, my major point is that a new owner would have to pay a very substantial sum to take us over and make us better. Yes, much of this is for the new ground which isn’t Kirkby. I do believe we need a new ground - because I doubt that GP can be developed at low enough cost to generate sufficient revenue. It would also now simply take too long (I know of course that blame for that can be put squarely at the door of the existing management - if Kirkby is knocked back, in effect they bet on the wrong horse).
Chad - I think that the exclusivity agreement has not in reality prevented any new owner coming forth. Even Kenwright has in effect contradicted himself during the period of the exclusivity agreement by making it known that he was willing to sell and that we were looking for ’investors’. It was even splashed all over the sports pages. Everyone knows what it means.
I’m with Alan on the much simpler and less conspiratorial explanation - we are not very attractive to a buyer for a whole host of reasons. I hope Kirkby will make us more so. I understand many of you think it will make us even less attractive. That’s the disagreement.
I wonder what the record number is for posts on Toffeeweb? This must be up there.
Just shows to go the feeling DK brings out, and as somebody said earlier, if it was so good, we’d all be looking forward to it. The fact that a great many of us clearly are not and the fact there is so much controversy around it should have red lights flashing for some.....
Neil, You’re all over the place with this line of reasoning... Firstly I never said that an investor would appear now. Secondly, if you admit that Goodison might not be the only reason why an investor has not appeared, how exactly can you promote the idea that a investor will appear if we depart from Goodison... Your opinion seems to depart from itself here... either Goodison is the reason or it isn’t.
And only if it is the reason for a lack of investment can you promote the absolute idea that kirkby will attract an investor..and without that absolute you're on shaky ground.
So which is it...??
Now on to you assertion that a new investor would need to build a new stadium anyway — I asked this question several feet up the page — as yet I'm awaiting an answer.
You suggest an investor would need to pay the debt, AND invest in players AND build a new stadium...
Now, if the reasoning for building a new stadium is to increase the revenue for players... then surely any one of — paying our debt, OR investing in players, OR building a new stadium will increase our revenue streams to sufficient levels..
So why do you keep promoting the erroneous idea that an investor needs to do all three of these on a purchase of this club?
I agree it certainly supports your pro-Kirkby stance... but it’s also flim-flam.
So please explain.
Neil, despite the foundations of Desperation Kirkby crumbling one by one over the last 2 years, you're still desperate to defend it. It's become embarrassing. Give it up man.
Bill makes a habit of contradicting himself.
Do you mean he contradicted himself with that statement because it came out that he and the board members are not willing to "dilute their shareholding"- therefore were either looking for a hefty donation or he wasn’t really looking?
Or did you mean he contradicted himself some other way?
Neil Pearse - "Because Kirkby is cheaper than the alternatives. Much"
I appreciate that a better stadium than the one planed would cost more, but it would also cost more if it was built in Kirkby. Please explain why building the same stadium currently proposed for DK would necessarily cost more if built elsewhere.
By the way the reason we haven’t been bought out by any new owners in the last few years might have something to do with the club not being for sale, as was clearly stated at the inquiry.
I do find it odd that people who scoff at the idea of Everton’s White Knight riding in on his charger to save the day if we remain at Goodison Park seem to think it’s worth gambling the club’s future on the peculiar expectation that this White Knight will gallop into Kirkby instead. The sort of business man who may want to buy Everton after DK has gone through is the last person I want running the club. I’d much rather have somebody who isn’t prepared to pay over the odds for other people's mistakes because he is confident he can do a better job for the money.
DK would be a big leap — but not a leap forward.
Neil, I’ve read many of your posts since the Kirby fiasco began. Are you also a flat-earther and a firm believer in a creation date of 4000 BC?
As Ste says, above, ’give it up, man!’ Your refusal to remove the blinkers has made you so predictable, and, sorry to say, boring.
I believe you reside Darn Sarf? When you get up to Goodison, ask fellow-Evertonians, in the stands, in the pubs. What they think of leaving a vibrant, progressive City for the alleged to be possibly viable, depending on a full house (how many is that, now?) every game, projected £6m per annum. I think you’ll find your opinions are a bit non-populist.
I’ll give you the opinions, expressed to me, of 2 MPs whose constituencies border Liverpool
1, a red, "I’ll laugh my cock-off if Everton leave Liverpool"
2, a rugby man "Who in their right minds would allow a business the size of Everton to leave their City?"
Colin, sorry for the delayed response. As I said at the outset of my post, I am 100% confident you have more knowledge on the whole subject than I do. My points were:
(1) I never said I expect us to average 46k. I simply plucked a figure out of the air to demonstrate my point regarding your graph. As it happens, I would, hand on heart, say none of the 3 figures are likely to be accurate re our potential average attendance, though 46k and 47k, are IMO too high.
What should be borne in mind is that for every current sell out, we would probably touch those kinds of figures. For games such as Villa the other week, the figure would probably be not too dissimilar from what we currently achieve. So an average may come in at around 42-43k.
MAY being the operative word - for all the people who won’t go anymore IF we go to Kirkby, there will be others who will start going more because of Kirkby (and before anyone ridicules this, I know people like this, who won’t pay £30 to sit behind a post, but would to have a clear view of the pitch, Colin, as more of an expert than me, you will know better how many obstructed views GP has? I’d plump for 4-7k???)
(2)You make a point re Liverpool’s new stadium bringing in £50m per year. Very good. Can you remind everyone why building work has not yet started then? And the cost of this wonderful stadium? I ask because I honestly don’t fully know, but if I was having a guess, I’d say cos they can’t afford it and somewhere around £300m.
(3) I am not happy to accept such figures from Everton. Frankly, I do not have the time to do the amount of research needed to understand it all. But you and KEIOC obviously do, and you are to be applauded for that. Many have criticised Everton for their PR campaign which lead to the Yes vote. But KEIOC’s video was PR promoting an alternative. And as I said, it was very good, apart from the absolute absence of any explanation of how it could be delivered.
Now for fans like myself, who don’t have time to read all the ins and outs, IF KEIOC had done some cost analysis, or whatever it’s called, and included it in the video, they might have been able to demonstrate to a far wider range of Evertonians, such as myself, that an alternative is not only imaginable, but deliverable. They couldn’t, so Kirkby, remains the only deliverable option.
Karl, I can sort of see your logic, and agree that this perhaps should be the way to go regardless. But I cannot see how you think the Park End would only cost £5-6m nowadays? Wembley cost £900m FFS, yet some people think we can overhaul GP for next to nothing. And as for GP being easily accessible — yeah, if you live in L4. Otherwise, I would reckon it provides challenges just like Kirkby would. To put it another way, do you think plans for a 50k seater stadium would be approved on the current site if it was currently wasteland/parkland???
Ciaran, we are more attractive at Goodison? I think this is just the heart talking. If you mean we’re far more attractive in the location we currently have, then you’re probably right. But the facilities at GP are only superior to those of Pompey and Burnley in the Prem (haven’t been to Wolves or Birmingham yet so can’t comment until later in the season).
And if you’re spending the amount of money needed, you’re likely to be the type who would be embarassed at this. Will a brand spanking new stadium 8 miles from Lime St be more attractive? Who knows?
Like Neil Pearse, I reside ’darn sarf’, but I can tell you that it’s not simply a case of whether you live in and around the Goodison area that determines whether you think DK is a good idea.
I usually drive up from Kent and you might think that turning onto the M57 to Kirkby and pulling up by the stadium would appeal to me. However, that rose tinted view is not going to be reality for me or anybody arriving by car via a motorway. With
a 2 mile parking exclusion around DK I’ll be forced to park God knows where and either walk a very long way ( nice not on a cold or wet day ) or be crush loaded into a park and ride bus. After the game I’ll have to jostle with the masses for a bus back to the distant car park or walk a long way back again.
Currently, I drive in on the M62, and either go in to town first, which I find fascinating, or turn down Queens Drive and round to Stanley Park car park if I am pressed for time. I park a 5 minute walk through a Park from Goodison which is quite pleasant and ertainly preferable to a 2 mile hike or squeezing onto a bus.
So, actually, us out of towners have at least as much to worry about as the locals, plus a 4/5 hour drive each way. I’d never be churlish enough to say I’d never go, but I can see it being a right ball ache and me going once a season plus London aways just out of loyalty and no more.
Of course, if I had to go through the difficulties of accessing and leaving DK to watch a match in something like the San Siro, I may consider it worthwhile, but an enlarged version of Ewood Park, with not even a proper Home End, is just about the final straw.
Stewart. Yes it is incredible to think that a Board that included Bill Kenwright only spent £1.8m on a new Park End 15 years ago. It is aIso the only significant investment the custodians of our Club have made in GP bar the Street End roof and the seats in 40 years and that in itself is a disgrace.
I reckon such a very basic single tier structure would indeed only cost £5-6m today. It is a very basic design and totally out of sync with the multiple tiers in the rest of the Stadium. But that is actually irrelevant anyway as what I am talking about is enlarging it. 4,000 extra seats would wipe out the restricted views elsewhere at a stroke.
And yes, I think palns for a 50,000 seat stadium in Walton would sail through. Plans for a 65,000 seat one over the road have already got through relatively easily. There is a 100 year plus track record of managing enormous crowds there as it is a multi-arterial location, easily accessed and left as I mention above.
Kirkby can never match that because it is in the extreme North of Merseyside, and as such can only be accessed in a limited number of ways. It is on the way to nowhere as it’sat the end of the line, whereas numerous bus routes pass near Goodison as well as it being much more central. Even EFC have admitted that one. They just haven’t worked out how to solve it! Probably because they can’t.
Stewart, the cost of Wembley was atrocious and shows how much of a rip off it was when compared to the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff which was built on time and in a similar era, Wembley went on and on with contractors basically taking the piss. The estimate for the work on the Park End isn’t a new stand, it's the removal of the roof section and addition of an extra tier and facilities then the roof to be put back on.
I think £5-6m is a reasonable estimate but am sure the likes of Tom Hughes or Trevor could give a better figure, but as a comparison the entire conversion of Eastlands cost £35m, that was removal of athletics track, lowering pitch and replacement of one end stand to match new double-tiered other end and three-layer sides.
Your view on access to L4 is a personal perception too, I live closer to Kirkby yet have driven to GP for years with no problems and park close due to my passengers needs. Kirkby is closer but would prospectively take longer and no way would I be allowed to park nearby thus alienating my passengers.
Have you ever been to Kirkby? Have you seen how small the place is? Imagine that with 40 thousand people trying to come and go in a short space of time with nowhere to park. I’ve heard all this but the motorway is right next to it, but go to Bolton and see how long it takes you to get in and out of the car park and you can see the motorway from it, likewise Reading, right next to the M4 but an absolute mare to get in and out.
Karl, what's worse about the Park End is that I understand it was paid for by grant money too and not by the club.
Stewart, that obstructed view shout is garbage mate. Maybe not for all but it is a thinly veiled excuse for Can’t be arsed. If you want to see the blues enough you will, the posts are not that bad and have been there long enough.
Have a look at our average gates, you will find whoever wants a good enough view you will get one as there are plenty of empty seats mate, our obstucted views I think are 4,000 though I may be wrong on that.
And if you think that loads of blues who have not given two fucks year in year out all because of a post in the way will all of a sudden start going and fill in for people with decades of season ticket loyalty then more fool you.
These people are casual fans they pick and choose and Kirkby will increase a lot more of those type with its transport problems.
I actually said it woud cost £5-6m to build what is there now.
I said £15m to totally redevelop and build the necessary very large function suites etc on the back of it.
And like I said yesterday, some inventive lateral thinking could raise the money without affecting the Team.
Anyway, we do agree on it, just didn’t want the ’It’s not possible to build it for that’ thrown in again. I’ve said enough on this subject I think, other than I respect all the views, even if I don’t necessarily agree with some of them.
And as for the transport Stewart I live in the Wirral not L4.
For the Benfica game I picked my mate up at 7:15 at the Halfway House, Prenton as he was working late, drove over, parked in Iceland car park, had a pint in the Abbey and made kick-off.
If this was Kirkby, my mate who was working would not have even went the game and I would have got in late for kick off given the two mile walk I would have made from my car to the ground.
Goodison is a great ground to get to given the buses and trains we have on offer and has proven this for decades mate, Kirkby struggles with 2,500 workers each rush hour, god help it if we have the dream on 47,000 figure.
It seems to me that the majority of people do not want to go to Kirkby so why Bill Kenwright has spoken for us I don’t know. Seeing as "We’re not going to Kirkby" is also chanted at away games, its seems bizarre that they're even considering it.
That’s quite right Gavin, the Club levered £1.3m from the Football Trust (set up in 1975 - with contributions from the Pools companies) for the construction of the Park End. Quite how much the whole construct was I don’t know; but I would imagine that £1.3m went a very long way towards the total cost. EFC currently only refer to the amount as a "contribution".
One of the only two things I ever agreed with Peter Johnson on was his dismissal of the unambitious Park End stand as a "wasted opportunity" (the other being the sacking of Mike Walker).
From the moment John Moores turned off the tap, right through to the demise of PJ, there was a succession of non-management cum mismanagement down the decades at EFC that combined to bring us to the mess that Kenwright inherited (notwithstanding his presence on the board before and during the PJ years).
As I’ve often said (and I apologise for it but think the scatalogical metaphor is entirely appropriate), the faeces, to put it politely, were piling up all around Everton for decades and Bill Kenwright then went and stood right in the whole stinking mess - up and over his socks - and has been traipsing his poo-prints, like an untrained pup, all over the gaff ever since!
http://www.evertonfc.com/history/goodison-in-depth.html?page=full
It was stated in the Matchday programme that the cost was under £2m and that they were very pleased to have secured 2/3 of the funding by way of a grant. As you know, they originally published a picture in April 1991 (Chelsea programme I think) showing a continuation of the multi-tier Bullens Road sweeping round onto the Park end with a capacity of 10,000.
Less than 3 years later, they stated in the Southampton programme of December 1993 that 40,000 was easily enough seats (lack of vision or what???) and announced a 5,900 seater single tier stand instead. Work commenced in February and ws completely finished in 6 months, proof of what a simple structure it is.
Like you say, the bunglers have ruled the roost for a very long time.
Colin Wainwright
I cant' be doing with all this "It's all we can afford" nonsense folks. A cheap mistake is still a fuckin' mistake, and I for one am not happy with waiting to see how DK turns out. Too late then. I’m already thinking of what to do if the four fuckin' horsemen do ride over the horizon on the 27th November.
Karl, Cardiff’s new stadium is the newest one I can think of. It cost approx £50m and is a pretty simple design, with roughly 27k capacity. Makes me think the Park End would cost more like £10-12m, 3 times that for a double stand. Suppose there’s no way of knowing for sure.
As for your point re a history of coping with massive crowds — of course that’s gonna sway the application. My question was if it was wasteland/parkland — i.e. a stadium had never been there. Me thinks it might be a little more difficult. It can take me as much as 90 minutes to get home after the game and I live 20 miles away — I’m not saying Kirkby would be better, in fact it’d likely be worse, but don’t paint the picture that getting the ground is rosy at the moment.
Gavin, I went Bolton last season. Parked a mile and a half away. Was home (in Wigan) 90 minutes after the game. No big deal.
Paul, is it really? See, these are real people who have told me that the SPECIFIC reason they are not going the game is cos of the view. As someone said earlier in the post, the days of Sky and now internet viewed football have made it easier for people to use little niggles such as these as an excuse.
And as for the Benfica game, there were less than 30k on and a night fixture to boot — course it’s easier to get to. I left at approx the same time, and made kick off. If it had been at Kirkby, I’d have left earlier or ran from my car — what was it you said about thinly veiled excuses for Can’t be Arsed???
You’re still just picking figures out of the air for potential average attendance; KEIOC’s isn’t a gut feeling it’s based on data from other stadia, current demand and potential demand; 38,000.
According to Everton there are over 22,000 obstructed view seats at Goodison, this is what they attempted to tell the inquiry, shocking but true; it’s generally accepted that approximately 10% of the seats are obstructed.
Stewart I’m not really interested why Liverpool haven’t started construction... the fact is, when they do, it will be one in line with all the other top Premier League teams, that is a city-based super stadia as opposed to a down-market effort on a retail park; take a look here, http://www.keioc.net/index.php?page=media-information, index to the bottom of the page and weep.
KEIOC never put there video out at the time of the ballot, KEIOC were prevented by the club from sending information with the ballot forms, the wonderful ERS allowed Everton to send a brochure promoting Kirkby and Kirkby alone. The difference between KEIOC’s campaign and Everton’s is obvious; we didn’t tell any lies; only one group told the fans of the £52m from Tesco etc etc.
I think you need to watch the two videos again; http://www.keioc.net/index.php?page=keioc-the-movie, the first clearly informs the viewers how those stadia could be funded, the second gives you an idea of how much work Trevor and Tom put into helping produce it. At the public inquiry KEIOC produced a cost and a range of funding options that did away with Everton’s need to be involved with Tesco. Here are those options, based loosely of Everton’s own plans.
ESR Funding £110M - Stadium Naming Rights £25M - Sale of Goodison Park £7M - Sale of Bellefield £4M - Syndicated Debt £19M- Equity Funding £30M -Supporters Trust fund £25M
This amounts to £220m; Everton didn’t challenge it; in fact it was met by a stony silence.
Like the rest of KEIOC Stewart I’m no expert, I just made the effort to sort the wheat from the chaff out; there’s a lot of chaff believe me.
The reason we are a more attractive for an investor at Goodison is that Goodison is not a gamble.
If you can’t see that Kirkby is a big and very genuine problem for a lot of Evertonians, then you’re frankly burying your head in the sand.
Not only is it a gamble for a new investor, it’s a gamble that comes at a hefty price... the £100mill debt that will pay for this gamble and the additional money that our board will be factoring into the cost of the club... because I certainly can’t see the likes of Robert Earl allowing the stadium to be included in the club assets at cost price..
So you tell me... what’s more attractive for a potential investor... a guaranteed crowd at Goodison with crappy facilities... or a gamble in Kirkby and paying £150mill for the pleasure of realising someone else’s mistake?
Stewart, tell your friends they don't have to sit in obstructed view seats there are enough good seats all round for all but a few games per season if you look at our attendances.
I have friends similar and if it was not the view it would be something else and kirkby will offer loads more excuses, seat prices, lack of pubs, no parking, huge taxi fare etc.
As for the Benfica game,read what I said again, I had to leave that late as my mate finished work at that time.
And by the way I can leave the same pub at 2:20 on a saturday game and still make the kick-off too, Goodison has a tried, tested and very good transport structure Kirkby has not.
Stewart, I drive from Upholland, pick up disabled family members and another passenger in Skelmersdale, drive down the M58 and Dunnings Bridge Road to GP, park close to the ground as two of my passengers cant walk v far and then the return from the ground never takes me no more than 40 mins to get back to Upholland after dropping passengers off. If I was to go to the likes of Bolton I would have to park in the car park, which I would be allowed to do, unlike DK, and would spend over half an hour getting out of the car park alone, parking further away isnt an option. 90 minutes from Bolton to Wigan goes to show you how shite a walk and drive is, Bolton to Wigan town centre is only 4.6 miles, you could actually walk to Wigan quicker than that.
Kirkby wont offer me the parking I need and the club wont answer how I get around that giving me the impression they dont give a toss. If DK gets the nod I wont go to Kirkby as it is giving two of my family the equivalent of a two fingered salute so they will lose four season tickets. If I chose to go it will then be away games to clubs who understand and are mindful that some supporters both home and visiting arent capable of parking miles away and making their way by foot,
Ciaran, I totally agree we are more attractive to a buyer at Goodison than Kirkby as they then have 3 options, 1) re-develop Goodison 2) re-locate to a more suitable location or 3) move to Kirkby, whereas if we move to Kirkby they're stuck with that shed for the next 50 years.
"the Park End cost £1.8m by the way and even if that was 15 years ago, inflation would not have raised it much beyond about £5m or £6 today."
According to the Bank Of England Inflation Calculator £1.8m would cost you £2.8 m today.
http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/inflation/calculator/flash/index.htm
How much aid did we get to build the Park End?
Have building costs rose above average inflation figures?
and finally maybe I should be putting these questions to Robert Elstone as he’s obviously using a different inflation calculator to the Bank Of England one I’ve been using.
He’s obviously borrowed one off Bill :)
Colin, thanks for the info. I will make some time to watch the videos again - can’t right now as the work servers won’t let me! Don’t get me wrong, and as I said earlier, I ain’t no expert, and on the one hand, we’ve got a new stadium, which is an undesirable location, with all the problems that brings versus staying at GP, which every Evertonian loves but knows won’t last forever.
There will be many Blues out there who have limited information available to them regarding other options, and I think this is why there has been no demonstration or something - my point was that KEIOC, who I appreciate is made up of people giving up their time, have obviously devoted a lot of time and effort to the whole affair, but don’t seem to have reached a very wide audience with their versions of alternatives - that’s certainly the boat I am in.
Ciaran, I can totally see the problems. I’m simply trying to balance things up by weighing them against the problems we currently have. And you’re right, it would be a gamble. A very big, potentially costly one. Any change always is. But as I said earlier, I think you’re letting your heart do more of the talking - the kind of ’investors’ that are coming into the PL certainly won’t know where Kirkby is, possibly won’t be entirely sure where Liverpool is, and will simply look at numbers - and if Everton tell them the new stadium will fetch in 47k supporters on average, and it’s new and shiny, that will be more attractive to them than GP with it’s average of 35k or so. Whether it does or not is an entirely different matter, but to a non Blue with no ties to the area, I reckon they’d go for the new over the old every day of the week.
Paul, just re-read and apologies, I missed the bit where you said your mate finished late. I retract my comment relating to that. But I’ve looked at the attendances and our lowest PL home attendance this season is a few hundred over 35k, which is all seats apart from the obstructed (Colin F advised around 10% = 4k approx and Wigan didn’t fill their end by some amount).
Gavin, I don’t know the answer to this, but are the club not planning to have on or near site parking for disabled supporters? I’m pretty sure there is a provision in the DDA for this?? P.S. there was a typo back there, it should have read 60!
Stewart the attendance figures from the club are projected against what the stadia would require to achieve a small profit. If anyone was to buy the business they don’t simply take the buyer’s word for it they perform due dilligence and part of that due dilligence would use recognised statistical reporting on the subject matter which would include the statistics Colin has used, they simply can’t be ignored. Hoping to achieve and actually achieving are two completely different things. That would be tantamount to the club using the same sort of lies they used to the supporters to buyers - world class stadium, most accessible stadium in the country, virtually free, etc. People with that sort of money aren’t thick as mince.
In a similar vein, the consultants who said Kirkby could be built on the cheap yet claim just one stand at Goodison Park would cost more than £70m. When compared to Chelsea’s build you could give the club two very good, well equipped stands.
That’s a fair observation about KEIOC to be honest; in the early days the group had a dilemma, concentrate on fighting the already established publicity machines of Tesco and Everton through a campaign designed to educate and encourage protest amongst the fans or take the route of becoming a pressure group and concentrate on simply halting this development. The first route could've perhaps ensured more popularity amongst the fans but probably little else whilst the second would give some opportunity to concentrate on understanding what was going on, we’re no experts, and attempt to influence a reaction from people, groups, authorities that could affect the outcome. Rightly or wrongly we chose the latter but we’ve attempted to keep people up to speed through our website, www.keioc.net, there’s a few interesting pieces just gone on!
Fair enough Stewart I respect your views.
But my final take on it is I see these type each week in my locals, some are friends, they will say they are skint and spend the rest of the day in the pub watching the game.
They refuse free tickets if it is cold or dull oponents and that is up to them.
It does annoy me as I want people at the game, but I have to realise some people just dont care about the blues as much as others and the only way you will get these people at Goodison or Kirkby every week is with a successful entertaining team and if we dont have this at Kirkby there will be a hell of alot more excuses to encourage more of this thinking on a cold January midweek game than Goodison could ever give.
Colin Fitz : "our website, www.keioc.net there’s a few interesting pieces just gone on!"
I’d say that "interesting" was a slight understatement ! One article stating that KMBS could be in contempt of court if they don’t provide details of emails between them and Everton, and another involving Knowsley Councils alleged misappropriation of land in the DK project being forwarded to the European commission to determine whether state aid rules have been infringed!
A poster on The People’s Forum also claims that there is paperwork indicating that, as part of the land deal, Knowsley will be paid ONE THIRD OF ALL INCOME FROM THE STADIUM ! No wonder we’re only looking at £6m a year maximum - that’s just incredible if true !
’I think you’re letting your heart do more of the talking - the kind of ’investors’ that are coming into the PL certainly won’t know where Kirkby is, possibly won’t be entirely sure where Liverpool is’
No offence Stewart...but you’re letting your ass do your talking..
Anyone who seriously suggests that a potential buyer won’t do their due dilligence and will simply accept the figures of Kenwright and Elstone..and ignore the widespread dissent of the actual customers...is being ridiculous.
Queen’s Speech 11:03
"My government is mindful of the need to pick up one’s oven chips and own-brand burgers en route from the match; to facilitate and provide for this immense contribution and stimulus to family life in the North West, we give our approval to the Tesco/Everton development in Kirk-by"
Only kidding...she actualy said "bad idea, poor stadium, wrong location"
Hello Pablo,
Yes indeed, as you are only too aware this is a very murky business at times. There’s a lot more of this to come; the same government commissioner is now investigating a blocking charge against KMBC, seems reasonable enough seeing that they’ve addressed other FOI requests and this one has simply dragged on and on.
The mystery surrounding the land and the equally mysterious £52m clearly warrants much investigation, the reluctance to deliver any evidence concerning the agreements between KMBC, Tesco and Everton save for the basics gave rise to much suspicion.
There’s a very interesting article on the KEIOC website, click the media information link and select Item 4, number four. That story in the Daily Post is from June 2006; as they saw the document from Sheena Ramsey then we see no reason why we can’t see it now; wonderful thing this FOI act!!!!
Perhaps it will answer the question why everyone appears at a loss to explain why a stadium operating at 94% capacity only delivers a mere £6m additional profit. I’m certain there’s a perfectly logical explanation for it.
Cheers for that Colin.
That whole Media Information page is amazing - a huge amount of interesting reading in there!
Kudos to yourself and KEIOC for all your efforts - whichever way this goes you’ll be able to hold your heads up high as true Evertonians.
Let's decide what we want; a ground, for example, like Newcastle's — an improved ground that was made higher rather than bigger. Or do we want a ground like Sunderland's? I have never been fortunate or unfortunate enough to have gone. I’ve been to The Reebok twice and was frankly unimpressed.
Some of the new grounds are appaling new facilties do not make a better day out of stadium. I am hoping to go to Manchester City this year; hopefully everyone that's going will show Lescott what he's missing.
The JJB concourse is good for a sing song but a nightmare for going to toilet. Honestly, bar the Emirates and White Hart Lane virtually none of the grounds I've ever been to have been much better than Goodison. Bar the Bullens Road stand, most of Goodison is ok view facilities wise. I’ve have sat in Upper Bullens, Lower Bullens, The Park End and Gwladys Street.
The stewards at Spurs were immense really for the first 35 minutes of the game we stood up. About 10 minutes before half time they pleasantly asked us to sit down. When we did stand for most of the second half, we were not waded into like certian stewards did, we were just politely asked to sit down. Spurs concourse and food facilities were also immense.
Spurs away this season had the best atmosphere from our fans along with the best stadium in my opinion. At Wembley and the Emirates there are numerous signs and information points to help you.
Phil - don’t know about you but I wanna know what John Denham really meant at 12.42 (link).
He’s sat on the front bench as I type, so he’s clearly not busy!
I’m trying to suss out whether his face is saying "yes" or "no" or whether it’s just wind.
I didn’t catch when Bercow said the Queen’s Speech economy debate would be - but I’m buggered if I’m monitoring the minute-by-minute minutiae til Wednesday at the latest.
http://page.politicshome.com/uk/queens_speech_live_blog_comments_and_reaction.html
Just seen a link on the Newsnow site from another fans website SOS and they have come out in full support of KEIOC in a statement.
Now just an idea, Michael, couldn't you organise a vote with ToffeeWeb members to decide how many are in support of Kirkby and how many are against it, this could be done by way of e,mail and ToffeeWeb could do the count.
Then, once a clear vote either way has been declared, then announce it to the world ie ToffeeWeb members are in favour or not as the case may be.
If all fans websites came out with a statement re DK, this would be a true view of the feelings of the true fans and would send a clear message to Mr Kenwright. One way or another.
Ciarán, you’re quite right about any owner going through due diligence. However, tbh, anybody who wanted to buy Everton because DK impressed them & felt they could develop the club there, is the last person we need to take over - they’d obviously be as incompetent as the current incumbents!
And.... I think you would agree Dennis slightly insane!!
No mention of DK in the Queens’s Speech. As if! It does seem, however, that Tesco are very active on the sporting front.
This morning I received a letter from the other great love in my life — Lancashire County Cricket Club. (Don’t tell the missus I said that!) It contains details of a £47M deveopment plan to ensure Test Cricket stays at OT.
’It is because this project is so important that we have entered into a partnership with Traford Council and TESCO’, they tell me. ’Many local people are supportingthe building of a Tesco store on Chester Road as they will see it will deliver real local benefits not only in shopping choice and convenience but also via the substantial number of new jobs etc etc.......
’We ask all members to write letters in support of our proposals as without the cross subsidy of £21M from Tesco the re-development will simply not be able to go ahead.’
It seems that deja vu is alive and kicking and Leahey will soon rule the sporting world. Is nothing sacred, I ask?
Meanwhile the wait goes on.
The term "The Queen’s Speech" is a bit of a generic misnomer these days and doesn’t just refer to the bit where Liz takes the mic.
It’s a bit like Christmas, you roughly know when it starts and when it’s all over but it’s not all about Dec 25th. The "Queen’s Speech" debates continue until next Wednesday and the legislative (and any other business) un-packing gets done gradually as the cross-bench conflabs continue.
http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/occasions/stateopening.cfm
If matters concerning DK are to be unveiled as part of the Queen’s Speech package, then I’d expect that it will be done during the debate on the economy (Brown will nakedly attempt to showcase a range of examples, both local and national, to demonstrate that he’s rescued the country and confident resurgence is underway - and perhaps DK will [however scandalously] fit the bill).
I’m not sure when the debate on the economy will be though.
When you weight it up, though, Ian Hernon was hardly sticking his reputation on the line (unlike Jim Hancock’s bizarre predictions in July [concerning the Labour Party Conference] which are still heading towards Row Z) by saying that matters pertaining to DK will be revealed alongside the Queen’s Speech process (in any case, he did actually say that DK would just form part of Brown’s legislative programme).
The Queen’s Speech process has to continue til next Wednesday with five days of debates and the DK decision has got to be by next Friday anyway - something we’ve all known about for months.
The key time, though, (in my cynical opinion) was the immediate debate yesterday afternoon which I fearfully watched from behind a cushion, basically in case a Brown produced, not so much a rabbit, but a water-vole from his magician’s hat.
Denham has surely made his decision now and if it’s a green light (that’s the big question - and that’s where Ian Hernon’s reputation will stand or fall) then it makes perfect chronological and coincidental sense for it to be included as part of the Queen’s Speech panto as Hernon has asserted.
I very much hope, though, that this time next week Ian Hernon’s previously spotless lobby-correspondent copybook will have a dirty big blot on it.
I’ve just checked; the debate on the economy is next Thursday 26th.
So if Hernon’s correct, that matter pertaining to DK will form part of the Queen’s Speech programme, then the decision would either have to be revealed next Thursday or, more likely, beforehand in order to facilitate cross bench examination.
If by some chance we get through next Thursday and DK hasn’t been part of the Queen’s Speech guff then not only will Hernon’s reputation be a bit tattered but there will be some nice headlines to listen out for on the Friday.
Here’s hoping.
Perhaps the most worrying thing for those most vociferously against the Kirkby move is the fact leaks have now come from both Ian Hernon and Jim Hancock, both of whom have been Westminster/Whitehall furniture for at least 30 years.
And before you laugh about me including Jim Hancock after his mis-timing gaffe — well that's all it might be — mis-timing, his prediction of a DK go ahead after nods from several well-placed reliable sources may mean he might have the last laugh.
Neither Ian Hernon or Jim Hancock are biased in favour of any particular outcome which makes their view of how they see the situation unfolding very interesting — and worrying for the anti-DKs.
as a Whitehall ’mandarin’ I am not at all worried - weak proposal, transparent misrerepresentation, bad timing, inadequate vision is(are) the word(s) on the (Downing) street
Gavin & Ciaran - I’m not saying they won’t do due diligence. What I am saying is that by doing that, they’re not suddenly gonna go ’oh, lots of fans don’t want this and accept the view that KEIOC for example take’. The dissent may be widespread, it might not be, but we’re not exactly burning effigies on Goodison Road are we? Where do you think they’re gonna go for evidence of this widespread dissent Ciaran, ToffeeWeb? The Wilmslow?
Paul, I know those sorts myself, we all do. Football has become infected with them, but then clubs are asking some people for near enough a day’s wages just to watch the footy. And you’re right — if there is a decline on the pitch if Kirkby comes along, it will hit harder than if we stayed at GP.
Chris, all I can say to that is you must not have gone to Old Trafford, Stamford Bridge, Villa Park, Eastlands, hell, even Craven Cottage. People keep telling me that the atmosphere won’t be the same — what cos Goodison’s bouncing right now? Atmosphere has been disappearing from football for some time now, and anybody who tries to tell me that the atmosphere at Goodison in recent years, or any other ground for that matter, has been better than even the 90s, has a very short memory.
If the approval is given, is that the end of the line - or do the opposing local authorities etc. have the option of taking the matter to a judicial review? My fear is that, whichever way the decision goes, this issue could drag on for years. It would seem to me Everton’s best way out of this mess is if it’s a "No" & Tesco then revisit their plans & jettison the stadium development, otherwise the suffering will just drag on.
I’ll throw my hat in the ring....
The club has a mandate for DK. Although there may be many people, especially on this site, that (especially now) don’t appear to want DK, there was a vote in the affirmative. The club asked the fans and they said yes.
Second... As the writer says... You must be a fool if you think that Kenwright has been turning down good investors.
Third... I think you’d be a fool if you thought Kenwright was turning down a more VIABLE option in Liverpool.
Ultimately there are questions over the viability of DK, but it will work, whilst Terry Leahy is in charge of Tesco, I believe you’ll get a commercially viable deal. However, there’s no way we can afford anything if we tried to do it on our own backs, and that rules out most ventures within the City.
Also, the Council have said no to most of what was asked for. The options are limited, and change is needed, sooner rather than later.
As a personal view, of course I’d rather Goodison was re-developed and we could stay there. But no, I don't think we should.
Stuart,
I won’t respond to most of what you’ve posted, I think it’s all been well a truly covered in the thread but I am intrigued when you say, “the Council have said no to most of what was asked for. The options are limited, and change is needed, sooner rather than later.”
Undoubtedly the Everton board has known for decades that change is needed and clearly sooner rather than later becomes more and more important with every passing season but it’s the bit about the council saying no that confuses me, what have they said no to exactly?
First of all, many people are complaining about DK. I accept that not everyone can afford a season ticket or go to the match a lot. But really out of our average 35,000, about 21,000 are season ticket holders. If you go to away games due to living outside of the city, you are entitled for Everton to listen to your opinion.
The problem is me being orignally from another country myself, I respect foreign blues. But the reality is, unless you're a paying customer, Everton are unlikely to listen to your opinions unfortunately.
I was originally born in Bosnia but left during the war; my dad was born in Liverpool. For a long while he refused to go due to the removal of the terraces and prices. The problem is that 35,000 are the ones that give Everton their revenue so that leaves about 5,000 odd-gamers — where do the other odd thousand come from?
When a sizable proportion of our season ticket holders are unhappy about the move...
Stuart, despite Colin’s answer I do feel compelled to point out a glaring hole in your reasoning. Never at any point has Tesco Terry been the CEO of Everton Football Club, he is responsible and answerable to the shareholders of Tesco and nothing else.
Your commercially viable argument doesn’t make sense when that is taken into consideration that the only commercial aspect Tesco Terry is interested in is return of interest in Tesco’s investment in Kirkby. The stadium would give him the leeway to have a larger supermarket and sell more goods, nothing more and nothing less.
BK isn’t part of Tescos and neither is Everton FC so that profit has nothing to do with grants and favours from Tesco. The retail park won’t give the club a penny, Tesco have said in the enquiry it isn’t giving Everton a penny. Why do you think Tesco Terry will give Everton a deal when the hearing said they won’t?
To Stewart, we have gone from being one of the best sets of fans home and away to the worst. Spurs created a brilliant atmosphere against us in the Carling Cup. Some games are so boring that neither side sings.
But it's when we go to certain teams our support seems to be great and other grounds awful. Eastlands is quite a lively ground, I think, with City's hardcore right by you. Aston Villa's away support is top quality.
I think next season, maybe around Christmas, we should get a vocal standing supporters club. People have said "create your own atmosphere". At away games, you get a group of young and old lads who get an atmosphere on the concourse cos you can no longer stand with who you want.
The reality is I accept we do have supporters that don’t sing at away games but all that most fans who do sing want is to be round like-minded people so it's enjoyable for the standers and the non-standers.
Our away support bar Spurs and Bolton have been poor. The problem is at the new ground there will be nowhere for any vocal supporters to go, Stewart. With Corporates behind one goal and away fans the other. It has been made impossible for fans to stand and sing in upper tiers as well.
It's like what United's fans were complaning about that they put corparates in the Stretford End. Also, in the last few years, more and more supporters home and away have started to stand the whole game.
Julian Simcox
Has anyone out there any inkling of why the Kirby decision is taking s long? Could it be that it’s being delayed until after the General Election?
Julian.
Imagine if they get the nod for Kirkby before the derby game. The ref would have to bring the players off while they get rid of the Tesco bags. Strange but it might be true.
Returning from John Lennon Airport yesterday with a relative who had not been to Liverpool for years, I decided to take the Riverside View route and was struck by the acres of deserted land which made up the Garden Exhibition for the City of Culture year. I’m sure it’s been suggested before but would not this now wasting away space make an ideal site for New Goodison?
I can’t see the LCC getting another tenant so it’s dead land but surely the rates they might gain from it alone would merit their gifting it at a peppercorn rent. Of course, Everton and LCC would have to find enabling partners to bring such a project to fruition but I would have thought it a better bet for innovative development than Kirkby!
Back to the original article... what happens if it's a No...
I’m not sure. In fact, I can’t see anything like a decent forecast for our club if the answer is a No.
That's partly because we wouldn’t have a financial partnership with any retail supremo’s (I’ll come back to this) and its also because the current club leadership... including the occassionals that have dipped their toe in (Wyness) have not really considered anything else.
While any article on here that relates to the need of a new stadium automatically makes you a big fan of DK, the simple fact is our board has put all their eggs in one basket and are hoping that it doesn’t get dropped. It is this that worries me the most regarding an attempt to answer your question Richard. If the answer is no, I really do think that its back to the drawing board. I dont think that there is a plan B. Regardless of the KEIOC effort!
On to the Kirkby ’backing’ from retail moguls... Where exactly (this is a genuine question, not a sarcastic one) does this shortfall come from? I have read the blurb from the club...i.e. deal of the century, stadium for free. I have done the maths (available) myself and come at a shortfall of around £50m - and I have seen on this site figures of around £52m... and now there is a shortfall being mentioned (by Michael Kenrick) of £78m.
I am not doubting any figures - I would just like to see the qualifying maths.
As for where we will get that from... who the fuck knows? It must be under someone’s mattress or a plan has been written and lodged with a bank that states such garbage like ’and extra 10,000 a gate will produce and extra £5m a year profit’... and the shortfall is financed on that over 1000 years!
All this DK arguing makes no sense to me. What is clear is that we need a new stadium to keep us up to date and make the club more appealing to outside investers/buyers. That doesn't mean I like the idea of moving just 4 miles up the road to Kirkby (which by my car's odometer, from Park End to East Lancs, to M57, to Valley Road, Kirkby is over 6 miles)... I actually think it will ruin the atmosphere (but that's clearly already lacking at Goodison of late).
One of the biggest problems in all of this is the complete lack of meaningful communication. What is plan B. What have Everton got on the table should the answer be No?
What are the exact details of the retail partnerships — what contribution are they making? What is the contingency for the project? Wembley was over budget by a few £100m’s... Emirates was over budget — the olympics has broken budget three times already... Capital of Culture, run by LCC, was well spent up some 5 months before 2008 even arrived. So what planning has Everton actually put in place?
DK wont unfold properly until we get that all important answer - whether its a Yes... or a No...
Sorry, I’m new to this thread and haven’t read all the comments but I would like to pose two basic questions.
How long does it take for the result of the original poll to lose it’s validity? After all in politics, we have a General Election at least every 5 years or earlier than that if the Government suffer a lack of confidence!
Secondly, how many Evertonians would endorse DK if a second poll was taken now?
I almost couldn’t bear the thought of another vote on Kirkby but how can anyone at EFC maintain with confidence, after the time that has elapsed since the original poll and in the light of further informed debate, plus the fact that the UK is still in the midst of recession, that the club still has an effecitve mandate to move forward on DK?
If we had another vote now, I suspect the vast majority would be against the move — me included — who voted "Yes" last time round.
Anthony Bailey
I am not particularly sure as to whether the Yes decision would make us more attractive to new investors, or at least not the right type of investors.
If I was going to buy land for a new house to live in for years and be a part of and proud of I’d much rather buy a blank canvas so to speak rather than pay for what someone else had already planned, of which in reality, is poor at best.
I don't truly believe BK has been looking for buyers. He may have had his eye out for someone with more money than sense to invest with little return control wise, but I dont for one mimute believe BK has been out scouring the globe for potential suitors to sell to for the best interests of the club. Whilst I think it is fair for him to try and get some return from his investment he is now slowly but surely dragging the club down and dividing its supporters.
I didn't get a vote but I would have naively voted Yes in the ballot, because of the spin and bullshit that came out of the club. There is no way in hell I would vote Yes now. The plan seems flawed in every instance and whilst I've never really fully backed KEIOC in the past, I have to say they have done an excellent job of opening my eyes to this sham.
I think Karl's development plans sound good and should have definitely been taken forward ten or so years ago. However, I now feel a slightly more drastic overhaul is needed, or at least a slightly more rapid one. We can't keep debating and waiting — we need progress to start now... otherwise we will be so far behind that it may be nigh on impossible to catch up.
Tony Dove
Kirkby — Kiss of death.
With many people still opposed to DK, I thought it my duty to make sure these people were heard. Bill Kenwright has said that Kirkby is the only option for Everton. Could it be that Bill Kenwright knows something we don't?
As a conspiracy theorist, I do not believe Kenwright is looking for investement. Maybe investors have told him they won't invest unless DK happens, despite what the fans think.
It has baffled me why clubs such as Birmingham City and West Ham have had recent investment with virtually no success. As an investor looking on Everton's success with minimal finances, it would attract me.
There does seem to be something strange going on as for the last 5 seasons we've challenged the top four. I would think that it would be an investor's dream, and up a coming club.
Everton, unlike clubs such as Newcastle and Spurs, have not had numerous managers and numerous tits-up signings. I go back to my point what Everton's reputation is with other owners and other clubs officials. There must be something putting off potential investors that we do not know about.
I do not understand why for example Manchester City were bought twice by rich owners when they needed far more investment than Everton did last season.
Our very own TW Rumour Mill reckons that the Queen's Speech would have Destination Kirkby (or similar schemes) in it. Unless I missed a bit (entirely possible), we didn't figure.
Can anyone with more experience of the political system with its obvious interraction with the economy tell us if the run up to the next election could affect us?
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A Pop-Culture Guide to Pose Season Two
By David Goldberg
Photo: Michael Parmelee/FX
With a Ryan Murphy–size budget and a certified-authentic ballroom imprimatur, Pose packs in more culture per episode than most shows do in a season. And while meticulously crafted series like Stranger Things and GLOW act as nostalgic monuments to their eras, Pose is a living history; a celebration of the music and fashion that defined life in ballroom, which, in turn, reverberated (and still reverberates) throughout the larger cultural consciousness.
To help understand the historical significance of the show’s set pieces, social mores, and lewks, we’re breaking down some of the key cultural references of every episode of season two, with some suggestions for further reading on everything from Coming to America to the history of poppers. Here’s where you can catch up on the music, movies, and history that make up the rich history of NYC’s ballroom scene in 1990.
Episode One: “Acting Up”
Photo: Macall Polay/FX
Season two begins with a time jump to 1990 and frames the release of Madonna’s “Vogue” as a similar moment of reckoning to what today’s queer underground, and indeed the cast of Pose, is facing: When the larger culture sniffs blood, is it possible to cash in without selling out? As Blanca predicts, “Vogue” put ballroom on the map, with legends Jose and Luis Xtravaganza joining Madonna onstage for her legendary September 1990 VMAs performance.
“Acting Up” is largely concerned with the ballroom community’s response to the AIDS crisis, and re-creates ACT UP’s 1989 die-in at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. For a deeper understanding of ACT UP’s work, the 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague (available for digital purchase/rental) offers a comprehensive, harrowing chronicle of AIDS activism in NYC, detailing how the movement pummeled the pharmaceutical industry and media to start researching effective treatments.
And for a glimpse of how commerce, mainstream pop culture, and the queer black underground converged in the age of AIDS, watch Susanne Bartsch: On Top (available on Netflix). Revered as the grand sphinx of NYC nightlife and the Club Kid milieu, Bartsch became a key culture warrior in the battle against AIDS. The documentary recounts the 1989 Love Ball, which raised over $2.5 million for HIV/AIDS charities, attracted guests like Madonna, and featured performers from the vogue scene.
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1990 saw another coupling of underground NYC culture and mainstream sensibilities in Sandra Bernhard’s 1990 HBO film Without You I’m Nothing. Filmed when Bernhard was at the peak of her provocateur powers, Without You I’m Nothing tears through disco, cabaret, and black culture, with riffs on Burt Bacharach and Diana Ross. Like “Vogue,” Without You I’m Nothing may read as problematic in 2019, but it’s nonetheless another striking example from the era of a highbrow production by a white woman that takes root in underground black culture. Bernhard starts as a full cast member with this episode of Pose; she’s back in her kingdom exploring this period of NYC history.
Episode Two: “Worth It”
Though Angel is a rare star, her dream of supermodel immortality was common of the age: Between roughly 1988 and 1992, models were the contemporary equivalent of Instagram influencers. As Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and other cover girls became full-fledged institutions, millions of women sought to break out at competitions like The Look of the Year.
The documentary Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women (available on Netflix) chronicles the feverish boom of the era. John Casablancas founded Elite, the agency that has represented Iman, Cindy Crawford, Stephanie Seymour, Paulina Porizkova, and Linda Evangelista. Though the documentary is narrated from a typically chauvinistic late-20th-century male gaze, it’s still an excellent first-person account of the “model wars” of the ’80s and supermodel boom of the early ’90s. Skip past the romanticized accounts of womanizing and gambling for fabulously shady footage of legends like Eileen Ford, Janice Dickinson, and Naomi Campbell.
This episode features no fewer than three separate ball scenes, but the high-fashion feather ball near the end of “Worth It” is arguably Pose’s most spectacular costume showcase to date, with references to a different designer on nearly every competitor. Blanca serves Versace; the children of the House of Wintour vogue like angels from the heavenly gates of Margiela; and Elektra gives a shell-shattering Venus that puts ARTPOP-era Lady Gaga to shame. As always, Billy Porter stands out, this time in a gold satin blouse and jumbo zebra fez that evoke the abundant fabrics and wildly embellished designs of Coming to America. The 1988 Eddie Murphy–Arsenio Hall classic was nominated for an Oscar for costume design and still holds up: Designer Deborah Nadoolman Landis’s designs remained so influential that Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira threw a “Wakandans in Zamunda” party during the filming of Black Panther.
Episode Three: Butterfly/Cocoon
Leave it to Elektra to play Janet Jackson’s “Black Cat” while cock-destroying a wealthy white yuppie. If only he’d paid better attention to the lyrics: I’m tryin’ to tell ya boy / It’s a mistake / You won’t realize / ’Til it’s too late …
“Black Cat” came off Jackson’s massively influential Rhythm Nation 1814, a socially conscious experiment that became the best-selling Stateside album of 1990. Though record executives had pushed for a more personal album that would react to the endless scandals of her family, Jackson envisioned Rhythm Nation 1814 as a utopian vision of musical community. The album addressed substance abuse in the black community, the Stockton playground murders, and other social issues of the late ’80s, though perhaps with less literalism than Pose.
“Black Cat” was Jackson’s first foray into arena rock, and, as you’d expect, she slayed, earning a Grammy nomination that made her the only artist in history with nominations spanning five genres. Her 1990 VMAs performance is yet another showcase of Jackson’s live ferocity.
Elektra’s baking-soda-burial job is inspired by the story of ballroom legend Dorian Corey, who kept a mummified corpse in her closet for at least 15 years. You can read the original New York story “The Drag Queen Had a Mummy in Her Closet” on Google Books (page 50), or the NewNowNext recap here.
As for poppers, Pose may have its moral qualms, but the gay party drug is having a resurgence, with the advent of artisanal poppers like Double Scorpio. You can read about the contemporary video-cleaner renaissance as told by Mel Magazine.
Episode Four: “Never Knew Love Like This Before”
Photo: Eric Liebowitz/FX
Even in 2019, “Never Knew Love Like This Before” is one of the only scripted depictions of an all-too-common tragedy: the death of a black trans woman. Human Rights Coalition reports that at least 11 black trans women have been murdered in the U.S. in 2019 alone, yet their stories rarely make it to the small or big screen.
Candy’s murder evokes the death of Venus Xtravaganza, who was found strangled under a hotel bed on Christmas Day 1988. She was 23 years old. Xtravaganza’s joie de vivre is captured in Jenny Livingston’s essential documentary Paris Is Burning (available on Netflix), with reads like “touch all this skin!” made immortal onscreen. No matter how many times you’ve rewatched Paris Is Burning, which functions in many ways as Pose’s Ur-text, the sudden mention of her death at the end of the movie is a devastating gut punch.
For more of the straight-up, hypertechnical vogue dancing from the opening ball, watch the documentary Kiki. The 2017 feature, set in NYC, effectively follows up on Paris Is Burning with looks at the contemporary evolution of the dance form and the community’s response to AIDS and violence.
Ryan Murphy noted the structural influence of Bob Fosse’s 1979 showbiz classic All That Jazz (Amazon), which, though far removed from the world of ballroom, packs the same punches in its high-drama exploration of grief and builds up to a similarly showstopping final fantasy number.
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The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley: A Novel
Fiction > General Fiction
Author: Jeremy Massey
A dark and unexpected novel about a Dublin undertaker who finds himself on the wrong side of the Irish mob.
Paddy Buckley is a grieving widower who has worked for years for Gallagher's, a long-established--some say the best--funeral home in Dublin. One night driving home after an unexpected encounter with a client, Paddy hits a pedestrian crossing the street. He pulls over and gets out of his car, intending to do the right thing. As he bends over to help the man, he recognizes him. It's Donal Cullen, brother of one of the most notorious mobsters in Dublin. And he's dead.
Shocked and scared, Paddy jumps back in his car and drives away before anyone notices what's happened.
The next morning, the Cullen family calls Gallagher's to oversee the funeral arrangements. Paddy, to his dismay, is given the task of meeting with the grieving Vincent Cullen, Dublin's crime boss, and Cullen's entourage. When events go awry, Paddy is plunged into an unexpected eddy of intrigue, deceit, and treachery.
By turns a thriller, a love story, and a black comedy of ill manners, The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley is a surprising, compulsively readable debut novel.
From the Hardcover edition.
Jeremy Massey is a third-generation undertaker who worked with his father for many years at the family firm in Dublin. A screenwriter by training, Massey has lived in London and Los Angeles. He currently lives with his wife and three childrenin Australia."
Publisher : Penguin Publishing Group
Imprint : Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
Author : Jeremy Massey
Edition : UK ed.
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Monkey Cage Analysis
Counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes
There is suggestive evidence that Trump’s rhetoric matters.
President Trump hugs an American flag at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting at National Harbor near Washington, D.C., on March 2. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
By Ayal Feinberg ,
Regina Branton and
Valerie Martinez-Ebers
During an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation” this past Sunday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) lambasted President Trump for emboldening white nationalism after a young man killed at least 50 people at two New Zealand mosques. Kaine was referring to Trump’s answer after a reporter asked whether he sees "today that white nationalism is a rising threat around the world?” Trump responded, “I don’t really.”
This is not the first time Trump has been accused of catering to white nationalists after a terrorist attack. At an August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, a young white man rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer. Afterward, Trump insisted that “there’s blame on both sides” for the violence.
Then in October 2018, a gunman killed 11 congregants at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. When Trump announced plans to visit the synagogue, many people in Squirrel Hill, the city’s predominantly Jewish neighborhood, took to the streets demanding first that Trump renounce white nationalism before paying his respects to the victims.
Trump has strongly rejected any charges that he’s to blame, tweeting Monday:
The Fake News Media is working overtime to blame me for the horrible attack in New Zealand. They will have to work very hard to prove that one. So Ridiculous!
Our research finds that Kaine could be correct, however: Trump’s rhetoric may encourage hate crimes, as we explain below.
[The daily use of Gab is climbing. Which talker is likely to become as violent as the Pittsburgh shooter?]
Does Trump’s political rhetoric have a measurable link to reported hate crime and extremist activity?
We examined this question, given that so many politicians and pundits accuse Trump of emboldening white nationalists. White nationalist leaders seem to agree, as leaders including Richard Spencer and David Duke have publicly supported Trump’s candidacy and presidency, even if they still criticize him for not going far enough. The New Zealand shooter even referred to Trump as a “renewed symbol of white identity.”
So, do attitudes like these have real world consequences? Recent research on far-right groups suggests that they do, especially when these attitudes are embraced and encourage by peers. Specifically, the quantity of neo-Nazi and racist skinhead groups active in a state leads to increased reports of hate crimes within that state.
[Poll: Only 58 percent of Americans oppose wearing blackface. That divides by party.]
How we did our research
Using the Anti-Defamation League’s Hate, Extremism, Anti-Semitism, Terrorism map data (HEAT map), we examined whether there was a correlation between the counties that hosted one of Trump’s 275 presidential campaign rallies in 2016 and increased incidents of hate crimes in subsequent months.
To test this, we aggregated hate-crime incident data and Trump rally data to the county level and then used statistical tools to estimate a rally’s impact. We included controls for factors such as the county’s crime rates, its number of active hate groups, its minority populations, its percentage with college educations, its location in the country and the month when the rallies occurred.
We found that counties that had hosted a 2016 Trump campaign rally saw a 226 percent increase in reported hate crimes over comparable counties that did not host such a rally.
Of course, our analysis cannot be certain it was Trump’s campaign rally rhetoric that caused people to commit more hate crimes in the host county. However, suggestions that this effect can be explained through a plethora of faux hate crimes are at best unrealistic. In fact, this charge is frequently used as a political tool to dismiss concerns about hate crimes. Research shows it is far more likely that hate crime statistics are considerably lower because of underreporting.
Additionally, it is hard to discount a “Trump effect” when a considerable number of these reported hate crimes reference Trump. According to the ADL’s 2016 data, these incidents included vandalism, intimidation and assault.
What’s more, according to the FBI’s Universal Crime report in 2017, reported hate crimes increased 17 percent over 2016. Recent research also shows that reading or hearing Trump’s statements of bias against particular groups makes people more likely to write offensive things about the groups he targets.
[Donald Trump is a symbol of white identity politics in Europe, too.]
Ayal Feinberg is a PhD candidate in political science at University of North Texas.
Regina Branton is a professor of political science at the University of North Texas.
Valerie Martinez-Ebers is a professor of political science and director of Latina/o and Mexican American Studies at the University of North Texas.
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Finnieston named UK’s “hippest place to live”
Finnieston has been named the number one hip place to buy a house Picture: Lisa Ferguson
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Two areas in Scotland have been named in the top 20 trendiest places to live, by The Times
Finnieston, Glasgow has been named the hippest place to buy a house, in a top 20 list by The Times.
Described as a “buzzing neighbourhood”, the area has been going through a transformation, from former docklands to a trendy area for live music and independent restaurants.
House prices in Finnieston are around £150,000 for a spacious one-bedroom flat.
Finnieston beat out Blackhorse Road in London to claim the top spot.
This area also plays host to the Poetry Club bar, built by Turner Prize nominee Jim Lambie as well as hosting the Electric Frog music festival at SWG3.
Coming in at number nine was Dundee, after GQ’s fashion director Robert Johnston gave the city his seal of approval, calling it “Britain’s coolest little city.”
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Its cool-factor was boosted by having a thriving game industry as well as the new V&A museum, by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma.
Coming in at £106,000 average for a one-bedroom flat, Dundee’s house prices are lower than the Scottish average.
Other places which made the list were Sonning, Berkshire where George Clooney has a property; Ouseburn, Newcastle where a massive regeneration project has been taking place on the post-industrial wasteland; and rounding out the list is Canton, Cardiff which has an art centre and several perfomance spaces.
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The Centex gas station in Calgary where the owner was killed in the car wash on July 3, 2019. (Google Street View)
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The owner of a Calgary gas station is dead after emergency authorities say it appears he was accidentally run over by a vehicle in the station’s car wash.
The 64-year-old man was pronounced dead at a Centex outlet in the city’s southwest around 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Police believe a driver intended to pull forward inside the car wash, but instead reversed and struck the owner.
The station remains closed while Occupational Health and Safety investigates.
The victim has not been identified and Centex Petroleum says in a statement that his family has requested privacy.
Company spokesman Shafiq Bhura says in an emailed statement to CTV News that the owner was a kind gentlemen whom he had known for a number of years.
“We are deeply saddened and heartbroken and are doing our best to support his family through this difficult time,” said Bhura.
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ABS National Committee has met recently in Germany to explores pathways to 2050, automation and digital with German maritime leaders and offered insight on key challenges.
Vessel automation, demystifying digital technologies and pathways to 2050 compliance led the debate at the ABS German National Committee, said a press note from the global provider of classification and technical advisory services to the marine and offshore industries.
“ABS is committed to the German market and we have relocated European management to Hamburg to further enhance our deep relationships with German ship owners. This long-standing relationship means the Committee includes industry leaders that offer powerful insight on the technical and regulatory challenges facing the industry—as we harness digital technologies and innovation to meet 2030 and 2050 decarbonization objectives,” said Christopher J. Wiernicki, ABS Chairman, President and CEO, who actively participated in the Committee program.
ABS continues to hold a leadership position as a global class organization in Germany and maintains a strong command of the new construction market.
The Committee heard about the industry-leading safety performance of ABS, including achieving two years without a work-related lost-time incident. The superior Port State Control performance of ABS and strong fleet safety performance underline its focus on safety and its mission.
Guest speaker Oscar Levander, Rolls Royce Senior Vice President for Concepts & Innovation, discussed autonomous vessels and how they have the potential to be a disruptive force and redefine shipping.
“There was a high standard of dialogue amongst attendees that provided unique perspectives on issues facing shipping today,” said Tom Jacob, Managing Owner from Ernst Jacob and ABS German National Committee Chairman. “Such robust conversations help guide ABS on how best to address the industry challenges we face on our journey to 2020 as well as looking farther ahead to 2050.”
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The RTH 8.25 high capacity telehandler
Magni Telescopic Handlers has introduced the RTH 8.25 SH rotating telescopic handler, which it claims has a higher capacity than any similar machine in the world. Built on the chassis of its 35/39 models, but with major structural components reinforced for strength, the machine can lift 5.3 tonnes at 25m height and 1 tonne at 21m reach. The RTH 8.25 SH, which weighs 24 tonnes, is aimed at the construction and maintenance markets.
On display for the first time in Europe is the RTH 6.46 SH, which boasts a maximum working height of 46m – the highest for a rotating telehandler in the world, according to the company. At its maximum height, the telehandler can lift 2.5 tonnes, making it comparable to a specialised crane while retaining the flexibility to also operate as a telehandler or access platform if fitted with a basket. At its maximum reach of 33.5m, the machine has a capacity of 200kg, making it particularly suitable for vertical construction in markets such as the US, where the company is bullish about the machine's prospects.
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Cars We Remember: 1962 Chrysler and Dodge similarities and a rare ’62 Newport
Greg Zyla More Content Now
Q: Greg can you give some history on the Chrysler Newport, one of my favorite cars from back in the 1960 era? I remember a column you wrote a long time ago about a gentleman who owned a 1962 Newport that was so rare, only a few were built with a 3-speed shifter on the floor. Can you also give information on the Dodge and Chrysler resemblance from 1962?
Glenn, Massachusetts
A: Glenn let’s start with the history of the Chrysler Newport. Chrysler first used the Newport name way back in 1940 and 1941 when just six Newports were built for show car purposes. Featuring a beautiful slipstream design with hidden headlights, they were officially known as the Chrysler Newport Phaeton and most notably paced the 1941 Indianapolis 500. Power came from a straight-8 with dual carbs so it didn’t have any trouble bringing those Indy roadsters to the green flag back then.
Chrysler brought the Newport name back in 1950 more so as a hardtop designation offering and was even featured as a Town & Country style with wood trim (see photo). All Newport trims featured the hardtop style with no B-pillar.
However, it wasn’t until 1961 that the Newport became a standalone model. The lower price, full-size entry-level 1961 Newport carried a base price of $2,964 with the 361 V8. With the demise of the DeSoto line, the Chrysler Newport was an instant hit, even in the “plain Jane” version. Many had crank windows, as power windows and doors back then were options.
As we moved to 1962, this is where the Newport and Dodge resemblance come into play. Chrysler continued to use its nice looking 1961 front end with the canted headlights, but also gave the OK over at sibling Dodge to share three quarters of the full-size Newport sans a distinct Dodge front end. This Dodge in Newport skin was called the 880 line and utilized the exact same new rear clip design from the Chrysler Newport. Thus, all full-size 1962 Dodge 880s use the same 1961 Dodge front design and then feature just about everything else Chrysler Newport, including the chassis and interior. These Dodge Custom 880 models became available in January 1962. The Newport survived until 1981 and proved to be one of Chrysler’s overall most successful full-size models.
As for the rare ’62 Chrysler Newport you mention, it was from a question I received about a two-door coupe that was owned by a man named Brian K., from Sodus Point, New York. He indicated that just seven dealer display models were ever built, but I was not able to track down any further information although I certainly believed what he uncovered about his rare Newport was 100 percent accurate. (I had to go back 10 years to find the original column).
This rare ’62 Newport in question included the Newport/Dodge 880 rear clip, a ’61 Newport front end, 361 V8, 3-speed manual shift on the floor, 40/60 bench seat, crank windows, manual steering, and manual brakes. Each one of the seven had one option, an AM radio. These cars were sent to dealers to be priced at $2,939.00. The car that Brian was able to buy originally went to a dealer in Hay Springs, Nebraska, after it came off the assembly line.
Although Brian had the car’s build sheet, he was unable to find any production records and said that even his father, who was a Chrysler technician in the 1960s, could not remember ever seeing one like his. The Chrysler museum at Dearborn, Michigan, did find records for 10 3-speed transmission orders that year at its Newport assembly plant.
I still hope that one of my readers out there can help out, as all of the people I’ve spoken to about that car came back with the same additional information … namely big zeros. However, because Brian had the build sheet, it at least proves that his car was indeed factory built and worthy of some additional price consideration.
Hope this all helps, as the rare ’62 Newport delivered from the factory with build sheet makes Brian’s Chrysler worthy of this week’s column. And if Brian is still the owner of this Newport and still reads this column, any update, photos or anything else he may have discovered over the last 10 years would be appreciated.
Thanks for your question Glenn.
Greg Zyla writes weekly for More Content Now and GateHouse Media. Contact him at greg@gregzyla.com.
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BIPA Youth is an exciting opportunity to partner with the young people from Britain and Ireland to promote young people’s views and opinions on current politics.
British Strategic Partnership 2014-2018
Five campaigning youth work charities committed to social action, to make England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland the best possible places for young people to flourish.
This Concordat formalises the co-operative and consensual method of co-working that has been developed between UK Youth, YouthAction Northern Ireland, Youth Scotland, Youth Cymru and Youth Work Ireland over the past few years. It acknowledges the changing relationships between the countries and jurisdictions of the UK and Ireland, with youth work policy and other policy agendas devolved to regional and national Parliaments and Assemblies in the UK. The Concordat establishes the status of UK Youth, YouthAction Northern Ireland, Youth Scotland and Youth Cymru as equal partners, and formalises the long standing relationship between Youth Work Ireland and the other youth partners in the UK. The Concordat will provide a framework for delivery on priorities agreed by the British—Irish Strategic Partnership.
The Concordat
The Concordat is agreed by the Trustees of UK Youth, YouthAction Northern Ireland, Youth Scotland, Youth Cymru and Youth Work Ireland, the five leading national youth work organisations, referred to collectively as the youth partners.
Each youth partner recognises and respects the primary of the others as a lead body for the youth sector in their respective countries and jurisdictions. This principle underpins the relationship between the youth partners as leading organisations across the UK and Ireland.
The Five Leading National Youth Organisations Agree:
To share ideas, publications, information and intelligence
To undertake joint initiatives where appropriate) at a bilateral. British/Irish, UK, European or international level
To work collaboratively to develop new opportunities for joint initiatives with the lead youth partner sharing (where appropriate) early plans and proposals before making funding submissions
To co-operate and campaign on issues of mutual interest and concern
To work towards consensual policy positions on bilateral, UK, British/Irish, European and international matters where appropriate
To promote together co-operation and understanding between young people across the UK and Ireland and to promote the participation of young people in civic engagement and decision making
To consult in advance on any action at any level which might have consequences for fellow youth partners
To receive into membership local and regional organisations only in their own nation/jurisdiction
To prioritise fellow youth partners in all partnership opportunities, funding applications and policy discussions over other youth agencies or organisations
The BIPA partnership
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IMO Governorship: Uche Nwosu Heads To Tribunal,Blames APC For His Loss
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IMO Governorship: Uche Nwosu Heads To Tribunal,Blames APC For His Loss. by Fanista at 10:19am
Son-In-law to Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha and governorship candidate of the Action Alliance (AA) in the recently concluded general election, Uche Nwosu, has gone to the election petition tribunal to challenge the outcome of the poll in the state.
Nwosu, who disclosed this on Tuesday, blamed the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for losing the election to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Emeka Ihedioha.
He said APC lost the election when it refused to give him the party’s ticket, noting that the outcome of the election had shown that he was more popular than the APC governorship candidate, Hope Uzodinma.
Expressing hope he will be declared Imo governor by the tribunal, he said he was willing to form an alliance with the APC and other parties to actualise that.
“The national leadership of the APC made a mistake by not giving the party’s governorship ticket to me. We warned them against giving the ticket to Hope Uzodinma, but the leadership of the party ignored our warnings.
“The outcome of the elections has justified us. We joined the AA two months to the election and I won the governorship election if not for the manipulations.
“We also won eight seats in the state House of Assembly. Action Alliance also won two seats in the House of Representatives.
“Now that they have realised their mistake, we are ready to form alliance with APC to reclaim our mandate,” he said.
On why he is challenging the governorship election result, he said Ihedioha’s declaration by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was an aberration.
He said, “I have petitioned the tribunal and I am sure that the issues raised which bother on the constitution cannot be swept away. I am certain that I will reclaim my mandate in no distant time.”
While Nwosu came second to Ihedioha, the APC candidate, Uzodinma came fourth behind All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) candidate in the governorship election.
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“What lion?” Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus
5 July 31, 2015 9:29 AM
via “What lion?” Zimbabweans ask, amid global Cecil circus – NewsDay Zimbabwe July 31, 2015
As social media exploded with outrage this week at the killing of Cecil the lion, the untimely passing of the celebrated predator at the hands of an American dentist went largely unnoticed in the animal’s native Zimbabwe.
“What lion?” acting information minister Prisca Mupfumira asked in response to a request for comment about Cecil, who was at that moment topping global news bulletins and generating reams of abuse for his killer on websites in the United States and Europe.
The government has still given no formal response, and on Thursday the papers that chose to run the latest twist in the Cecil saga tucked it away on inside pages.
One title had to rely on foreign news agency copy because it failed to send a reporter to the court appearance of two locals involved.
In contrast, the previous evening 200 people stood in protest outside the suburban Minneapolis dental practice of 55-year-old Walter Palmer, calling for him to be extradited to Zimbabwe to face charges of taking part in an illegal hunt.
Local police are also investigating death threats against Palmer, whose location is not known. Because many of the threats were online, police are having difficulty determining their origins and credibility.
Palmer, a lifelong big game hunter, has admitted killing Cecil with a bow and arrow on July 1 near Zimbabwe’s Hwange national park, but said he had hired professional local guides with the required hunting permits and believed the hunt was legal.
For most people in the southern African nation, where unemployment tops 80 percent and the economy continues to feel the after-effects of billion percent hyperinflation a decade ago, the uproar had all the hallmarks of a ‘First World Problem’.
“Are you saying that all this noise is about a dead lion? Lions are killed all the time in this country,” said Tryphina Kaseke, a used-clothes hawker on the streets of Harare. “What is so special about this one?”
As with many countries in Africa, in Zimbabwe big wild animals such as lions, elephants or hippos are seen either as a potential meal, or a threat to people and property that needs to be controlled or killed.
The world of Palmer, who paid $50,000 to kill 13-year-old Cecil, is a very different one from that inhabited by millions of rural Africans who are more than occasionally victims of wild animal attacks.
According to CrocBITE, a database, from January 2008 to October 2013, there were more than 460 recorded attacks by Nile crocodiles, most of them fatal. That tally is almost certainly a massive underrepresentation.
“Why are the Americans more concerned than us?” said Joseph Mabuwa, a 33-year-old father-of-two cleaning his car in the centre of the capital. “We never hear them speak out when villagers are killed by lions and elephants in Hwange.”
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T T Chivambo 4 years ago
Whilst the whole world is justified in being outraged by the killing of Cecil, the iconic lion, I am surprised that no one seems to be concerned by the abduction of Itayi Dzamara. He has been missing for over 4 months and yet we have not seen the outrage witnessed globally on the killing of Cecil. Can we put a bit of perspective in our lives
Mpisi 4 years ago
Must pay its way if it is to be allowed to occupy land in Africa. This fracas is damaging conservation in Africa. Hunting is a source of much revenue to the nation and local communities, provided it is well managed. And therefore adds value to and provides a future for wildlife. How many appalled protestors eat meat, I wonder?
mimi 4 years ago
In the same way the same western guys divided Africa to each other without Africans even knowing what was happening only to be shocked when borders were being erected.
During the 2nd world war, Germany even fought and worn a war with the Alias over Sierra Leon . The West perceive African resources as theirs and even see Africans as privileged to be left roaming in their properties.
africa guy 4 years ago
@mimi …uhhh, say what? Your comment is scrambled.
Gonogori 4 years ago
How many lions are shipped to China and why have we not heard any protest against cruelty against animals?
There is nothing specual about this animal otherwise its a story to divert hungry people from their plight if poverty. Nxaaa
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Bikers help Bruce Springsteen, stranded on the side of the road
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<p>In this Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, photo provided by Ryan Bailey, Dan Barkalow, left, and Bruce Springsteen poses for a photo in Wall Township, N.J. Barkalow and a group from the Freehold American Legion was riding after a Veterans Day event Friday when they pulled over to help a stranded motorcyclist who turned out to be The Boss. (Ryan Bailey via AP)</p>
FREEHOLD, N.J. (AP) — Coming across Bruce Springsteen on a broken down motorcycle on the side of the road could probably be a lyric from one of his songs, but it really happened for a group of guys from New Jersey.
A group from the Freehold American Legion was riding after a Veterans Day event Friday when Dan Barkalow says he saw a stranded motorcyclist up ahead near Allaire State Park in Wall Township.
"Bikers gotta stick together," Barkalow said. "I stopped to see if he needed help, and it was Bruce."
Barkalow says they tried to help get his bike running, but when they couldn't, Springsteen — wearing a brown riding jacket and a red handkerchief — hopped on the back of Ryan Bailey's bike and they headed to a local bar.
"We sat there and shot the breeze for a half hour, 45 minutes till his ride showed up," Barkalow said. "Nice guy, real down to earth. Just talked about motorcycles and his old Freehold days."
Springsteen was raised in Freehold and still lives in New Jersey. The American Legion post says Springsteen is eligible to join since his father was a veteran.
"It was nice to help out," Bailey said. "One Freehold person helping out another."
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Top 20 Things To Do In Brasov, Romania 2019
Top Tours and Activities In Brasov, Romania
Bran Castle and Rasnov Fortress Tour from Brasov with Optional Peles Castle Visit
Discover Bran Castle, known as ‘Dracula’s Castle,’ and Râșnov Fortress on this 4-hour tour from Braşov. Travel to Râșnov to explore its stunning 13th-century fortress, and then visit Bran Castle, the turreted hilltop palace linked to Bram Stoker’s fictional Count Dracula. Walk through the spooky rooms and hear tales about Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century noble who was imprisoned here and inspired Stoker’s blood-stained vampire. Afterward, choose to return to Braşov, or extend your tour to nearby Peleș Castle.
Small-Group Piatra Craiului National Park Hiking Tour from Brasov
Explore the pristine Piatra Craiului National Park on this small-group day hiking tour from Brașov. With an expert guide, head to Romania’s Carpathian Mountains and follow one of two 5- to 6-hour routes, according to the weather and your group’s preferences. Depending on your route, cross the narrow Zarnesti Gorge, walk through forests and meadows, learn about local industries such as mountain shepherding and cheese-making, and visit mountain villages or a mountain hut for a rustic lunch. Numbers are limited to eight people to ensure a personalized experience. Entrance fees not included.
Small-Group Brown Bear-Watching Experience from Brasov
Seize the opportunity to witness Carpathian brown bears in the wild on this 3-hour bear-watching experience from Brașov. Leaving at sunset, travel by minivan or car into the Carpathian Mountains, and, accompanied by a forest ranger, walk into the forests to a secure hide. Then, wait quietly to spot the beautiful brown bears that roam the woodlands. Look for youngsters, large males, and females with their cubs, and for other wildlife including deer, lynx and wild boar. Numbers are limited to a maximum six people for a personalized experience.
Sighisoara, Rupea Fortress and Viscri Day Trip from Brasov
Step back in time and explore the medieval gems of Romania’s rural Transylvania region on this day trip from Brașov, led by an expert guide. After a stop in the age-old village of Viscri to see its fortified church, take a walking tour of UNESCO-listed Sighişoara, one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval towns. Enjoy free time for lunch or to explore this stunning town on your own, and then continue to Rupea Fortress, a 14th-century castle that’s one of Romania’s most impressive.
Brasov Old Town Small-Group Walking Tour
Get to know Braşov Old Town on a 3-hour walking tour, with a guide. As you walk between the top Braşov attractions, hear historical facts and stories about this lovely city and learn how it grew and fared in medieval times. Explore picturesque Piata Sfatului Square with its Council Hall and colorful houses; stroll down an intriguing alleyway, said to be the narrowest in Eastern Europe; and see the Black Church, St Nicholas Church and First Romanian School Museum, among other sights. Numbers are limited to a maximum of 10 for a more personalized experience.
Castles Tours from Brasov
Visit Bran Castle, Rasnov Fortress and Peles Castle in one complete tour, small group departing from Brasov city centre, driving through the wonderful "Transylvanian Alps " - the southern Carpathian Mountains. Discover the world famous "Dracula's Castle" in Bran, the impressive Peasants Citadel in Rasnov and , as a wonderful Neo-Renaissance last stop, the magnificent Peles Castle, the former winter residence of the Romanian royal family.
The tour will last approx. 8 hours, entrance fees included, escorted tour.
Full-Day tour Transfagarasan road and Poienari Fortress from Brasov
Visit Poienari Fortress, the real Vlad Tepes' Residential Castle and we drive on Transfagarasan highway, built as a strategic military route, is the second-highest paved road in Romania and considered by some to be the most dramatic.
Full-Day Transfagarasan Private Guided Tour from Brasov
Enjoy a private guided day tour on one of the most beautiful routes in Romania, the Transfagarasan Road.
2-Day Adventure and Culture Hike in Brasov County
Bran Castle aka Dracula's Castle, Rasnov Fortress and trekking in Piatra Craiului National Park in 2 wonderful days. The tour starts/ends Brasov.
Private Guided Day Tour of Harman and Prejmer Fortified Churches and Wailing Waterfall from Brasov
Enjoy a private guided day tour of the fortified churches of Harman and Prejmer, the Wailing waterfall and the Aurochs region and witness some of Romania's most extraordinary natural and architectural wonders.
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Belinda Dulin’s Masters in Dispute Resolution from Wayne State gave her the technical skills to excel in her chosen field, but the hallmark of her tenure as the executive director of the Dispute Resolution Center has been to take the DRC out into the community. As the executive director of the DRC, she and her team have gone into schools to implement conflict programs serving students, families, and school staff in identifying and resolving barriers and issues that affect students. The DRC has also implemented restorative justice practices in schools to address student-student and student-teacher conflict. In addition to its work in the classroom, the DRC partners with the Washtenaw County Peacemaking Court to provide restorative justice services to families in the child protection and delinquency systems.
Restorative justice emphasizes the dignity of every person while addressing conflict in a non-punitive, supportive manner that allows relationships to be restored, problems to be resolved, and support services to be identified. The Youth Justice Fund takes a similar approach by tapping community members and businesses to welcome those who went to prison as kids back into a neighborhood that values their commitment to who they are today.
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Which Martial Art is for Me? Only YOU can choose
Some words of wisdom from Northstar founder Andrew Dickinson
A kick is a kick and a punch is a punch. What makes a system of martial arts unique is the framework that holds the principles together and the objectives behind the moves. In Taekwondo, Judo, kickboxing and any other martial arts that makes competition the priority, winning the game is the primary driver and the techniques, philosophies and system objectives revolve around that mind set.
In competition orientated martial arts such as Taekwondo and Judo, there is physical improvement and there is spirit to continue, but Martial Sports can attract the physically strong and/or gifted. The strong win, the weak lose. Wherever you find any sport, ego is just around the corner. Taekwondo, Judo and Brazilian Ju Jitsu are great for health, fitness and vitality and if you are into sport can be fantastic fun. MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is the latest Martial Arts craze. It is robust, gets you fit, and can teach you good fighting techniques. The new students just needs to be mindful of the Instructors qualifications to teach.
Traditional/classical Martial Arts that have links to a line of legitimate teachers, such as Karate, Ju Jitsu, kenjutsu, Iaido, Wushu and others can best be described as the glue that holds it together. Though, if the traditional martial artist expert has not learned to use his ancient techniques as a working surface to observe the mind and is still concerned with learning self defence or winning then his practice has no more substance than an aerobics class.
Which ever martial art you choose, it really has to fit your personality and reasons for training. Good luck with your quest for truth in Martial Arts.
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The aim of Northstar Ju Jitsu is to teach immediate and practical fighting skills that can be learned, assimilated and used quickly and immediately by men and women of all ages. Simple defensive combinations are taught in all ranges of fighting. Northstar Ju Jitsu is not about learning a 100 different ways to block, punch and kick and it is not about learning 100 different ways to throw or numerous defences against the same kind of attack. It is about having a basic but very effective group of simple techniques that cover all ranges of fighting. These include distant fighting with long range kicks and punches, in close fighting with knees, elbows and standing grappling and control on the ground. There is no time wasted learning complicated patterns or outdated rituals that have no real use. The workouts are physically demanding with emphasis on fitness and conditioning. Separate sparring classes are held and are done over many ranges working up to an all round format with kicks, punches, throws and ground defence.
Northstar Ju Jitsu is a non sport system that retains the traditional elements of martial arts yet is highly practical in our modern society. It follows the standard pattern in martial arts. There are gradings every 3 months and students work towards gaining a Black Belt in minimum 3 years.
Korean Martial Art. Famous for dynamic kicking. Though predominately an Olympic sport practiced world wide there are some traditional schools that still practice the original style of Taekwondo.
(Also known as Ju-Jitsu, Jiu-Jitsu, or Jiujitsu), is a Japanese martial art and a method of close combat for defeating an armed or unarmed opponent, using strikes, throws, locks, chokes and submissions. The sport of Judo was founded by Jigaro Kano, a famous Ju Jutsu Master.
A Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Ueshiba’s goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defend themselves while also protecting their attacker from injury. Aikido is performed by blending with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on. Aikido derives mainly from the martial art of Daito Ryu Aiki Ju Jutsu.
Born in Okinawa and later developed and refined in Japan, Karate is probably the most famous of the martial arts. There are many styles of Karate, ranging from traditional kata or pattern based styles to modern kickboxing orientated styles. Karate is a self defence and fighting system that uses the feet, hands, elbows and knees as weapons.
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The modernization and systemisation of karate in Japan also included the adoption of the white uniform that consisted of the kimono and the dogi or keikogi — mostly called just karategi — and colored belt ranks. Both of these innovations were originated and popularized by Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo and one of the men Funakoshi consulted in his efforts to modernise karate.
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Remembering Koo Sang Sifu
Posted by: Alan Lamb In: Articles 10 Jan 2017 Comments: 0 Tags: Alan Lamb, Koo Sang
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Alan Lamb moved to London in 1968 to study Wing Chun, first with Paul Lamb, then with Joseph Cheng. Finally, he studied under Koo Sang, one of Ip Man’s most knowledgeable disciples in Hong Kong; he graduated in 1974 to become the world’s first non-Asian to master the system.
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Remembering Koo Sang Sifu - January 10, 2017
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON’T KNOW ME, I AM FROM ENGLAND AND THE WORLD’S FIRST NON-ASIAN, HONG KONG TRAINED MASTER OF WING CHUN GUNG FU. I WAS CERTIFIED TO TEACH THE ART BY KOO SANG SIFU IN 1975.
I began my martial arts training in Wado Ryu Karate in the early 1960s under Sensei Danny Chaganis in the little seaside town of South Shields, in the North East of England—the town from which famed moviemakers, Tony and Ridley Scott, hail.
I later studied Wing Chun under Sifu Paul Lam in London. Paul was the first Chinese master to teach Wing Chun to foreigners in the UK. He was held in high esteem by the local Chinese community there, as a teacher and a businessman.
After Paul closed his school to focus on other business opportunities, I trained with Sifu Joseph Cheng in London. Joe and I became like brothers and, like Paul, Joseph taught his classes in Chinatown. However, when he closed his school to become the personal bodyguard to a Saudi Prince, I realised the only way I could get certified to teach Wing Chun was to move to Hong Kong and study with the Chinese masters there.
I wrote to the Hong Kong Martial Arts Association, and they recommended I study with Koo Sang. They passed my letter on to him, and Koo Sang agreed he would consider taking me on as a student. This was a very big deal for me, as traditionally, teachers in Hong Kong refused to teach Gwailo (or “Foreign Devils”).
When I arrived at the airport in Hong Kong, one of Koo Sang’s students picked me up and took me directly to Koo Sang’s gym on Shanghai Street, where I was introduced to Koo Sang. Physically, he was fairly tall and wiry, but well-proportioned. He was friendly and shook my hand. After formal introductions, we all went across the street to the local restaurant, where a student explained we would go back to Koo Sang’s gym after eating. He then handed me a red envelope and explained that Koo Sang would leave his jacket on the back of a chair and go into the next room. I was to put some “Lucky Money” into the red envelope and, depending on how generous I was, he would then decide whether to take me as a student. Obviously, I was generous enough, as he took me as a student and told me to come back early the following morning.
The next day, when I arrived for my first class, there were a lot of young guys and high school kids practising in the morning class. Some were shocked, and others were amused to see a Gwailo participating in their class. But mostly, everyone was friendly and wanted to know who I was.
For the first session, Koo Sang gave me the grand tour of his gym. Since he was a carpenter, he had built a lot of specialised training equipment. There were rows of wall-bags near the entrance, and each bag got progressively harder to work on as you moved down the line. You were expected to do a couple hundred punches on each bag and then rub Dit Da or Chinese medicine into your knuckles as they became bruised. This was just a warm-up before the class began. Then there was a series of Wooden Kicking Posts he had built for specialised Wing Chun kicking techniques. After that, there was a wall-mounted Wooden Dummy, a Long Pole Dummy and a Baat Jaam Do Dummy.
Rounding off the equipment section was a series of heavy bags, including a sausage-shaped bag he had built specifically for Wing Chun centreline punching. For the evening sessions, he would take down the heavy bags to make enough space for the students to practise their Chi Sau and Wing Chun forms. He also had wall-mounted racks, like a billiard parlour, for holding the long poles and training poles of varying lengths and thicknesses.
To end my morning training session, he taught me his version of the Siu Lum Tau, which was a lot different from the way I had learned it in London. Then, when he gave the formal salute to end the morning class, he went back into his private room. Meantime, the students were running around like hornets, frantically trying to get out of there ASAP! Kenny, one of the high school students, ran out of the door laughing as he was pulling on his sweater, almost tripping up as he ran. He looked back at me saying, “You don’t know the rules yet! Last person out has to take Sifu for lunch!” Koo Sang popped his head around the door of his room and said, “Alan?” Actually, it was okay by me. We went to the local restaurant, where I picked up the bill.
Normally, the Chinese would charge foreigners double. However, when I went in with Koo Sang, they charged me the regular price. So it was the same price for me, whether or not I took Koo Sang with me. It soon became a regular thing for me to take him for lunch every day after our morning sessions, and I got to know Sifu well after doing that.
Koo Sang loved the social interaction of eating out. The inside of the restaurant we went to was like a zoo, with people feeding birds and animals on their tables as they ate. Koo Sang was well liked there, and he had one good friend, a Tai Chi master, who loved to spar with me; he would launch a series of attacks at me as we walked into the restaurant! When I counter-attacked, he would squat down, scurry backwards, and hide under a four-legged stool by the entrance that was only three feet off the ground. He could fit under it, while still in his boxing poses! Talk about flexibility! Koo Sang would laugh at all this commotion and then order his favourite dish of Char Siu (roast pork). Not exactly the food of champions, but he loved it.
After eating, I would spend the rest of the day exploring Hong Kong and get back in time for the afternoon and evening classes. After the evening class, Koo Sang would give me my private session before I would turn in. I stayed in a room attached to Koo Sang’s gym for a few months before I found my own place.
I will always remember the day Koo Sang was preparing the room for me. In the middle of his gym was a beautiful table he had built.I said to his students, “That’s a really nice table Sifu built.” They told him, and they all fell down laughing. They interpreted as he spoke, “That’s not a table; it’s your bed!” That’s when I found out the Chinese like to sleep on a hard surface. However, he gave me a bedroll and a regular pillow, though, so that was somewhat of a break.
Koo Sang was best known in the Wing Chun community for his Wooden Dummies. Everyone in the Wing Chun Clan wanted to own a Koo Sang Jong. Sifu built his dummies entirely by hand, and I used to watch in amazement as he was constructing them. Often, he would customise a dummy to suit the height and weight of the practitioner. He would start with an eight-sided piece of teakwood for the trunk. Sifu would buy a square block of teakwood from a local vendor, who would cut it to the appropriate length. He then carried it on his shoulder to the shop of a friend who owned a bench saw. His friend would then cut the block into an eight-sided piece. Koo Sang would then carry it to his gym and make it perfectly round by using an electric hand sander. He made the holes for the arms and the leg by using a hammer and chisel. He took many hours and a lot of elbow grease to make one, but they all turned out beautifully.
And being a master carpenter, Sifu was also a fine artist. He loved to paint using Chinese watercolours. When he was not making Wooden Dummies, he would relax with a steaming hot cup of tea in one hand and a paintbrush in the other, standing in front of a giant easel, with a full-sized painting in progress displayed on it. He really was a multi-talented individual.
Koo Sang took his Wing Chun training seriously. He seldom laughed during our classes, unless he was the one telling the jokes—then he could laugh heartily. Sifu was a good guy and a straight shooter. He always made direct eye contact when he spoke to you, and he could be very intense. However, his touch in Chi Sau was light, compared to some teachers I had worked with in the past. His execution of techniques during Chi Sau practice was always quick, precise, and accurate, with a good sense of flow and sensitivity. His weapons’ techniques were superb, and he was held in high esteem by many of his contemporaries in Hong Kong.
Koo Sang was a consummate martial artist. As a teacher, he was somewhat of a perfectionist. He would put the time in with you until you got what he was trying to convey to you. I was constantly reminded by all of the masters I met from Ip Man’s school how fortunate I was to have someone who was so well-respected in the Wing Chun community as Koo Sang Sifu, to be my teacher. But I didn’t need reminding! I knew how fortunate I was to be his student, and I will always be grateful I could spend the time I did with Koo Sang. I thank him (now in spirit) for the generosity he showed in accepting me as his private student and for sharing with me the art of Wing Chun Gung Fu.
This article first appeared in Issue No. 33 of Wing Chun Illustrated—the world’s only magazine dedicated to Wing Chun, regardless of lineage or style.
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Statement by Justin Podur, YUFA Chief Negotiator 2
by aliakarim90 • Strike 2018 • Tags: academic labour, administration, arbitration, enrolment, equity, LA&PS CUPE3903 Senate
York administration’s latest communication, “Two days of mediation produce no settlement”, sets up the provincial Industrial Inquiry Commission to fail.
The second paragraph of the communique says: “While agreement was reached on two issues – lactation and breast-feeding space and professional expense reimbursement – CUPE 3903’s other proposals continue to be well outside the range of anything the university can ever agree to.” (emphasis mine).
That is an extraordinary statement for an employer to make publicly during bargaining. That it is being made in the middle of a mediation attempt brokered by the provincial government makes it astounding. That it is being made in week seven of a strike makes it mind-boggling.
This particular strike has been defined by a very consistent and specific communicative approach by the employer. Before the strike even began, the administration communicated that it wanted CUPE 3903 to go to binding arbitration. In every single communication, several each week for the past seven weeks, the administration has repeated that message – arbitration, arbitration, arbitration, arbitration. The specific issues that separate CUPE 3903 and the administration are less frequently, and less consistently repeated than that message – that this should not be resolved at the bargaining table but at arbitration.
Since the administration returned very briefly to the bargaining table on March 22 only to walk away again and return to the “arbitration” line, it has made several other attempts to avoid bargaining. The supervised vote, announced on March 27th and resolved on April 9th, entailed nearly two weeks without bargaining. When CUPE 3903’s members rejected the employer’s final offer in the supervised vote, the administration admonished the membership, said it was “disappointed” in the vote, and suggested a new approach – arbitration. There is very little explanation behind this mantra. York’s president said in a radio interview that fundamental principles separate CUPE 3903 and the employer – these principles were the principle of open hiring and of students being able to receive funding without a work requirement. These principles have been bridged in past agreements with CUPE 3903. They have been bridged in other collective agreements. There are ways to fulfill CUPE’s concerns about job security and the benefits of union membership for MA students without sacrificing the employer’s stated principles – but only through negotiation.
If the administration had an interest in bargaining, they would have countered CUPE 3903’s proposals. On March 22nd, CUPE reduced their demands. The administration, instead of countering, publicly said that CUPE 3903’s demands were unrealistic. After the supervised vote, the administration reiterated that CUPE 3903’s demands were unrealistic. Over the weekend, meeting with the provincial investigator, CUPE 3903 again reduced their demands. The administration publicly repeated that CUPE 3903’s demands were well outside the range of anything the university can ever agree to. On three occasions, York could have countered and did not. That is contrary to the conventions of bargaining, as CUPE 3903 said in one of their communications. Submitting successive, reduced proposals is not good bargaining practice – it is called “bargaining against yourself”, and it is to be avoided. York has asked CUPE 3903 on three occasions to bargain against itself – or accept arbitration.
The administration’s approach is not explicable in terms of differences of principles. What can explain it is if avoiding bargaining is the principle. Union bargaining teams receive their mandates from their members. Employer bargaining teams receive mandates as well. Trying to reverse-engineer the employer’s mandate based on their behaviour, it seems to me that they care less about any particular proposal and more about avoiding the table altogether and settling any disputes through arbitration. Long-term, if this strike ends with CUPE 3903 surrendering – if enough violence occurs against picketers, if the demonization of union members succeeds, if they become weary enough to give up with no end in sight (and the administration’s communique explicitly states that it has every intention of letting the strike drag on throughout the summer) – then it will be counted as a major victory for the employer, regardless of the costs to York’s reputation and enrolments. The summer terms will drop one by one, fall enrolments will fall, and the administration hopes, CUPE 3903 will break.
The notion is (perhaps) that reputation and enrolment can be rebuilt, but breaking CUPE 3903 on campus will be a lasting achievement. But the truth is that a union can be rebuilt too, even after it is broken, though lasting damage can be done to morale and community through a forever strike.
Justin Podur, Chief Negotiator, YUFA
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Front Porch Punditry » News » National News » Place a Moratorium on all Refugee Resettlement from the Middle East [Petition]
#1 | Place a Moratorium on all Refugee Resettlement from the Middle East [Petition] Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:34 pm
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This petition was created by The Gates of Vienna.
http://www.vdare.com/posts/gates-of-vien...ugee-moratorium
It has not gotten much publicity on the internet.
Petition Location;
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitio...-terror-attacks
we petition the obama administration to:
Place a Moratorium on all Refugee Resettlement from the Middle East in the Wake of the Paris Terror Attacks.
In the wake of the Jihad terror attacks in Paris of 13 November, we demand that an indefinite moratorium be placed on all refugee resettlement from Middle Eastern nations.
It has recently come to light that one of the Paris Jihad attackers possessed a Syrian passport and passed through Greece in October 2015. According to Nikos Toscas, Greece’s deputy minister in charge of police, “The holder of the passport passed through the island of Leros on Oct. 3, 2015, where he was identified according to EU rules.”
Seeing how this attacker easily exploited Europe's refugee policies, we can only assume that others will exploit our generous, and porous, system in order to commit acts of terrorism on our sacred American soil.
Mr. President, WE demand an indefinite moratorium. Protect America!
Published Date: Nov 14, 2015
Signatures needed by December 14, 2015 to reach goal of 100,000: 87,573
Total signatures on this petition: 12,427
Illegitimi non Carborundum
#2 | RE: Place a Moratorium on all Refugee Resettlement from the Middle East [Petition] Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:50 pm
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-migration-crisis-syrian-refugees-politics-migrants-election-2015-10
#3 | RE: Place a Moratorium on all Refugee Resettlement from the Middle East [Petition] Sun Dec 06, 2015 12:04 pm
Quote: ThirstyMan wrote in post #2
He further said that the possible Syrian migration could be "one of the great tactical ploys of all time."
Boy he's one sharp and brave cookie.
a classic campaign moment:
REPORTER: Mr. Trump, both the people in the shooting, they were regular people, it seemed like, with kids, you know, they didn't seem —
TRUMP: Which people are we talking about?
REPORTER: The husband and wife —
TRUMP: You mean the people that were the killers?
REPORTER: The killers. They were just normal people, with a kid, they went to work, they were unsuspected. What would you do —
TRUMP: Well, I don't know if they were regular people. I heard the apartment was loaded up with bombs and with guns —
REPORTER: But nobody would ever assume that it was the case. What would you do —
TRUMP: Well, I don't know. When you have pipe bombs lying all over the floor, I don't think they're regular people. When you have pipe bombs all over the floor, so I don't think they're regular people.
REPORTER: They slipped under the cracks, though. What do you think should be done differently?
TRUMP: Well, again, there were people who knew bad things were going on. People knew that bad things were going on, and they didn't report it because of racial profiling. But I don't think they were regular people. To me, they're not regular people. To me, they were criminals, and it's too bad somebody didn't find out about it sooner.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-...article/2577717
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Texas Capital Abortion Supporters chant "Hail Satan"
It's been a very interesting day at the Texas State Capitol. Cahnman's Musings hasn't been following the hearing. Instead, we've been participating in the surrounding events. LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast from the rotunda where women have been sharing their abortion related testimonies. The pro-abortion crowd has responded with repeated chants of "hail Satan." It's taken us all day to get a video recording, but here it is:
For the record: They've been doing this all day, this is just the first time we caught it on video.
Update: Twitchy has more.
Update II: The Blaze has a report that includes pictures of the people who were leading the chant.
Update III (7/5): Thomas Umstattd, who ran Let Texas Speak, gives his account here.
Labels: 83rd Texas Legislature, Abortion, Satan
scott richardson July 2, 2013 at 9:31 PM
It's hard to hear them say that, but it's Austin, so I can believe it happened. It's the most liberal city in Texas, pull out a county map and that little blue dot is engulfed by red.
DHignite July 3, 2013 at 4:42 AM
Red dot, blue dots form the red blood of Christ and blue blood of Satan. Red dots take hold of success and life through Christ, blue dots like Ba'al worship and sacrifice life for a decadent lifestyle. Texas should break from the Harlot of Babylon as Beelzebub lord of the Fly’s sends our tax dollars to our enemies. Texas should close its boarders and sift through its populous and send home those who lost their jobs; due to blue dot economic destruction. The blue dots should be looked upon as a radical disease such as AIDs or Cancer and purged! If Texas accepts these lemmings’, then its fate is also doomed like California, Michigan, Illinois and New York. A blue dot is a wasted dot! Blue dots offer nothing less than individual demise in liberties and ruin just look at where they populate and you find failure!
Kevin T. Keith July 3, 2013 at 9:17 AM
You're kind of insane, aren't you?
Christina Dunigan July 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM
They're chanting "Not the church, not the state, women must decide our fate."
It's hard to make out, but you can listen for rhythm and vowels.
A repeated chant of "Hail Satan!" would sound like "AA AAuh! AA AAuh! AA AAuh! AA AAuh!"
The "Not the church" chant would sound like "AHuh UH! AHuh AA! IHuh UHuh IIuh AA!"
They are clearly chanting the second chant.
Also, as the cheering breaks out at the end of "Amazing Grace," you can see the orange-shirt women in the background and their lips match the "Not the church" chant but do not match "Hail Satan."
Yeah, Tongue Chick says "Hail Satan," but she was mugging it up for the camera. She wasn't one of the chanters.
Christina is correct about the overall chanting. It is simply one rude young woman at the end that blurts Hail Satan.
Renee Kingsbury July 3, 2013 at 7:57 PM
Glad you guys cleared that up. I was seriously concerned there for a minute.
Blah Blah Blah July 5, 2013 at 8:51 AM
Don't try to make it into a Satanic thing, Christina has it correctly:
When by the way did Jesus say to go out and protest against the pagan and unjust Roman Empire?
Better to apply that energy the way he did say we should, by sharing the gospel and love of God transforming our society one person at a time.
J. July 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM
The greatest offering available to satan is an unborn child. Abortion clinics open wherever religious freedom is about to become law or has already. satanism is an accepted religion.
lisacarole July 6, 2013 at 10:52 AM
They can offer all the unborn children they want to satan, but he can never have them, since children are innocent, born without sin, and they go to the heavenly Father when they die. Only the soul that sins dies, and babies have never sinned. I agree with Blah Blah Blah, to not waste the time on these protests, better to go out and spread the gospel one person at a time. Crowds have a crowd mentality.
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David Murrell July 2, 2013 at 9:44 PM
I DIDN'T HEAR IT WHATSOEVER.
Joscelynne July 3, 2013 at 12:35 AM
The girl says it at the end with her tongue out.
Ranchman July 3, 2013 at 8:35 AM
Sheesh, how can you miss it?
You can hear it in the back round, What were these people thinking by chanting that? it just goes to show what the state of this country is in right now, and that's NOT good.
Ben July 4, 2013 at 6:42 PM
Satan never did anything like flooding an entire planet simply because he felt angry. He is, in many ways, a more admirable and morally upstanding character than God. You should be glad that the nation is moving away from supporting the Grand Tyrant, and looking to the merits of other celestial leaders.
melodypraise July 6, 2013 at 8:08 AM
Ben, you're sick! What you just said was blasphemous towards God, if I were you, I'd watch my back... God has opened up the earth and swallowed ppl who blasphemed against Him. EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of ALL!!
J Del July 2, 2013 at 9:47 PM
Not all of Austin is liberal, trust me. It's only the UT area and the downtown area that are affected... All the rest of Austin is purely conservative. It's the newcomers from Kalifornia and other liberal states infiltrating our city. Most of us Austinites are gun totin, beer drinkin Americans..!
scott richardson July 2, 2013 at 10:06 PM
Once you get out into the country your right, its good ol boys running, my kind of people. You break out a country map and Austin is the only blue dot engulfed by RED. The one thing that was apparent, most Austin-its always have animosity towards Dallas-its, like me. We are called pretentious and rude. That's totally untrue. Austin is the Hippy capitol of Texas, and Dallas is the Cowboy part of Texas, it's state wide know fact my friend.
Scott it is a conservative state ruled, ran and supported by conservatives. It is the last example of what used to be great about our nation. Under the blue dots in our nation we have failed cities with Detroit being the case to be made as it was the envy of the states, before the Marxist democrats arrived, now Hiroshima looks better. California used to be the 1/5 of our economy, in less than 2 decades of blue dot policies it is dependent upon the federal government to stay a float. If you want dependency, decay,extreme racism, internal rot and degenerative lifestyles then cling to the Marxist Democratic party.
In my humble opinion the racist white liberal Marxist are far worse than a extreme Muslim walking around with someone else s head yelling "Allah Akbar", watch the video and listen to Satan's minions yell in his spirit "Hail SATAN!
Scott, how many cattle are in your herd? How about your friends? Do you even know one person in Dallas who has even one cow?
rt1998 July 5, 2013 at 3:23 AM
I live in Dallas and I have 52 head, I also have several friends in Dallas who own cattle.
River Cocytus July 2, 2013 at 9:56 PM
It's not totally distinct here, wish you had a better recording of it.
Me either but their are some weird people in Austin, I know I have been lived there. In fact their slogan is "keep Austin weird", true story. The women have tattoos all over their bodies, pierced every orifice and unique skin part to make an extravagant torture test painfully apparent, and the normal person would wince at the mere site of the pain a person would have to endure. Atheist do live there fact. Gay town is openly operating on the main drag, just off 6th street.
Normal people wouldn't wince, just people who are *EXTREMELY* faint of heart. You know, like someone who cries at action movies and keeps a strict vegan diet. I've never been anyplace where that was the norm, so you must live someplace pretty weird.
River Cocytus July 2, 2013 at 10:01 PM
It is a picture perfect representation of these folks, anyway. The gloves are off; if they want to act like children they must eat their words.
Paul L. July 2, 2013 at 10:06 PM
Hard to hear what the entire crowd chants but clearly the girl at the end says, "Hail Satan"
The crowd are chanting "Not the church, not the state, women must decide our fate."
Levi Russell July 3, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Nah, just check out the twitter feed. They said the same thing you're saying, only now they're finally admitting it. Sorry, you're just wrong.
J Del July 2, 2013 at 10:24 PM
The "keep Austin weird" thing is pure bullshit that only affects the new assholes trying to fuck up the Austin way,. We are gun toting, beer drinking Americans! Those people are just fools that try to convince people that we're all the same, we're not. Fuck liberals!!
txaggievet July 3, 2013 at 12:17 AM
My wife is from Austin, she hates all the keep Austinweird BS. She said back in the 80s it was just naturally weird, now everyone tries hard to be weirder and weirder, its all fake and forced.
Sounds like you're the one saying Americans are all the same, J Del.
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TexasSportsGirl July 2, 2013 at 10:33 PM
I was born and raised in Austin and it's only the vocal minority that is liberal like this. Most of Austin, at least the natives, are like other Texans in their conservative beliefs.
Alice Venturi July 2, 2013 at 10:39 PM
I don't hear that at all. Sure you aren't just making that up?
katekindle July 8, 2013 at 6:35 AM
They're protecting the unborn. The preborn are fully human beings. How to reconcile? Must be, there is some other avenue to go than abortion because murdering a preborn human is not a moral option to remedy the 'problem' (ie. a beautiful, newborn filled with hope and love).
And your name is 'Ben'. As a woman, I think you might have an agenda other than protection of the unborn, like this abortion perogative gives you an escape from culpability. Moral law is moral law for a reason: it works all around. And if a man can always walk away from a woman who is pregnant, many will. At the expense of both child and mother. People are selfish is not made to observe law.
I've listened to the video several times. Then I checked YouTube for other videos of the same event.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKTFb4iJ4Rs
According to the comments section they're chanting, "Show me what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!"
This sort of crap makes pro-lifers look like morons.
Tony July 2, 2013 at 11:25 PM
umm no. in the 1st video, the girl at the end makes it pretty clear they were chanting "hail satan" at the time. You don't even have to listen, just lipread.
jess July 2, 2013 at 11:33 PM
How does the fact that the woman at the end said it prove that that's what they were chanting? Looks to me like one person being intentionally obnoxious. Not classy, sure, but not representative of the crowd and not worth giving her the reaction she's looking for.
gollumhunter July 3, 2013 at 12:00 AM
Perhaps a Pinkerton implanted herself in the crowd.
Didn't watch the video because I don't do Faux News style ass wipe gossiporting. Just know by the reputation of yellow reporting tied to the raging right... that it's not worth my time watching.
Ya'll will ie about the votes in the end and ya'll will lie about anything else you can lie about. Nothing new.
SDW July 3, 2013 at 12:16 AM
Go kill some babies troll.
Marta Stahlfeld July 3, 2013 at 12:21 AM
Lacey Thompson July 3, 2013 at 12:48 AM
I was there. And that is NOT what was said. Were any of you there?? I'm waiting...
Also, the girl at the end there, if anyone took this with a grain of salt, was probably mocking the overly-religious pro-lifers out there singing amazing grace for no damn reason. In case any of you missed the memo, abortion is already legal. Y'all are fighting a fight that you lost over 30 years ago. I'm waiting for all the "she's just a stupid liberal" comments. Hope you can type with one hand while you polish your rifle with the other (cause you're all for the right to carry weapons, aren't ya?!)
avg jo July 3, 2013 at 2:08 AM
Oh, I wouldn't be so sure that we lost that fight. The slight majority of people in this country are now pro-life, and we'll chip away, chip away at it for the years to come.
I think in your life time, you may well come to eat those words.
As for the bimbo at the end of the video, she's just that, an idiot.
Lacey Thompson July 3, 2013 at 2:23 AM
For the time being, abortion is legal. It is the right of those who chose to exercise it. And someday in the future, if it is banned, I hope your right to bear arms, free speech, and freedom of religion go with it. Let the government make your choices for you...since obviously they know what's best for us all, whether we agree with them or not.
sandwichh July 3, 2013 at 8:07 AM
You want faux news you must be listening to PMSNBC or the late great CNN. Or entertainment news Jon Stewart.
Civitas July 3, 2013 at 11:51 AM
@ Alice Venturi @MS
I am deeply offended by your attempt to spread lies about what took place yesterday. My daughter and I were there, heard every word, talked to a few of the lunatics. Hail Satan is what they said. Whether they meant what they said or were only trying to harass, that's what they said. There's a sickness with liberalism that seems to compel replies like yours. The Pro-life crowd was quite and respectful, the group you defend was nothing more than an unruly mob. What we saw was likely what Paris saw during the disturbances of July, 1789.
During Wendy Davis' travesty last week I heard something akin to "this is what democracy looks like", although if what we saw yesterday and last week was democracy, I prefer the Hail Satan" chant as it more accurately reflects the orange crowd's version of democracy. I hope the crowd in orange grows up and learns to respect traditional values before they take over...
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avg jo July 4, 2013 at 12:11 AM
@Lacey
Hope all you want. The good thing for us is that while the support for abortion continues to slowly but surely drop, the support for gun rights and free speech goes up. (You seem too intelligent to use the tired trope of equating legalized infanticide with real rights. Gawsh!)
After a period of near-hopelessness, I think the left may have finally pushed too far, as it has in the last few months. I now hold out hope for a bright future in which people who hold pro-abortion views, or any lib view in general, will be very hesitant to publicly state those views, for fear of the social pressure that will come to bear. This is precisely what the left has tried to do to us, and I am beginning to suspect that they will one day have to swallow their own, bitter medicine.
Would to God it be so!
Polopaula July 2, 2013 at 11:59 PM
This is blatantly false. I can't even understand the last person on your video. I just spoke with a policeman who has been on the scene since 4pm. He has not heard this from one person...
All I see is lies, liars, and people who get off on being lied too. Same tactics - same fascists ruining what was once a beautiful party. RIP Republican Party. You once served a purpose and were great. Yawn.
scott richardson July 5, 2013 at 9:10 AM
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I heard it. She said it right into the camera.
Did you ever notice how a group of people can be saying one thing, and then one member of that group can say something different afterward? It's crazy, but it happens!
FINALLY MY PLAN TO CONQUER EARTH THROUGH PRO-ABORTIONISTS IS COMING TO FRUITION.
FIRST, THE TEXAS CAPITOL EXTENSION ROTUNDA, THEN THE WORLD.
HAIL SATAN HAIL SATAN HAIL SATAN.
Cahnman July 3, 2013 at 2:04 AM
Actually, numbnuts, the bill passed; you lost, again.
SATAN ALWAYS WINS.
MY BIDDING WILL BE DONE, REGARDLESS OF THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS.
HAIL SATAN. KISSES.
WOW what a faggot you are, so you like the gay party, bigger gov, higher taxes, less pay/jobs? Guess your mother should have aborted you when we sane people wouldn't have to fight in wars to protect your gay ass. There are no Atheist in a fox hole and support right to life, your mother did. As a Christan they say were to turn a cheek, well not any more it's an "eye for an eye" so get ready for WAR. Your sick minded ways will be met in the streets and I for one will git down in the dirt with your pathetic liberal ass.
Caudia Bixel July 8, 2013 at 8:19 AM
The Bible tell the story and Satan loose BIG TIME at the end.... the creation is not bigger than it's creator do you understand that? or Satan jut took over your brain?
Eh. When Christians get up in arms and try to pass off their religion as law, maybe it's high time someone stands up to their idiocy and chants a little 'hail Satan'. Not like God or Satan exist, anyway. All a load of crap. But hey. If you want to believe that someone else is doing all of the work you're actually slaving over, and that HE's the one providing for your children? More power to you. I just prefer to take credit for MY OWN actions. It's called being a man. Being Gay isn't a choice. Having an abortion should be. Get over yourselves, and stop trying to tell other people how to live their lives. You're taking away my rights so that your false God can rule my country. THAT'S what's wrong with society today. More power to those dirty little Satan worshipers. At least they're not sheeple.
Ladies and gentlemen, behold a model product of leftist mind-molestation.
This poor sucker's own personality has been completely assimilated by leftist gobbledy-gook as shoveled in the schools, universities and media.
The funny (or sad, depending on your politics) part is that this goof probably believes he's some sort of independent thinker with a unique point of view, when, in fact, he's different, just like every other leftist useful idiot.
By "gobbledy-gook" do you mean "not believing in ancient fairy tales?" Yeah, I'm all about gobbledy-gook too!
Another sad sack...
And observe the snide, cliche comment, dripping with smug self-satisfaction. This, in the mind of a mind-molestation victim, is thought to be intellectualism. They are wrong.
Funny. Too bad I was there and know they were actually chanting "women must decide their fate, church and state don't have a say".
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Doc July 3, 2013 at 7:52 AM
The pro choicers were chanting, "Not the church, not the state, women must decide their fate." It's a chant that goes back to the late 60's. The girl at the end says, "Hail S8n"
Rob Crawford July 3, 2013 at 8:17 AM
"When Christians get up in arms and try to pass off their religion as law..."
You mean like you Marxists and Greens do? GFY. HAND.
"The pro choicers were chanting, "Not the church, not the state, women must decide their fate." It's a chant that goes back to the late 60's."
The pro-aborts are lying -- no one's trying to take away women's ability to "decide their fate".
If no one's trying to take away a woman's ability to decide her fate (as far as whether or not she'll have to birth a child), then the pro-lifers are lying about their agenda. If they're not trying to get rid of abortion, what are they trying to do?
Could you fill me in here?
faceshaker July 3, 2013 at 8:28 AM
One person--who could have been a plant--says this. Of course, all the "Wakey-wakey we're so fakey" "Christians" are going to picture this as a battle of good versus evil, right along with their Cecil B. DeMille understanding of the Bible.
Here's something to consider: Re-criminalization will once again put women seeking abortions back in the underground to be harmed by self-described "abortion experts", so get ready to watch the casualties mount, because the blood is going to be on your hands, and anyone who believes outlawing abortion is either touched in the head or outright crazy.
You'd think these so-called Christians would understand Jesus' concepts of acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness enough to respect the "individual sovereignty" of other human beings without nosing-in on every little thing in their oh-so-totalitarian way.
This is the United States--not Christiania. And one more thing: What's up with this hinky relationship between Republican Jesus and Mammon? Are they going steady yet? Seems to me Christ taught poverty and humility, not prosperity, riches, luxuries and white-hot militancy.
Leave our freedom alone. Go away.
txaggievet July 3, 2013 at 8:40 AM
Please enlighten me on which part of this bill outlaws abortion? It allows abortion up to 5 months, in no way is this a pro-life bill, not sure why we are even in support of it. After 21 weeks a child can often survive outside the womb. Does that not make it a human? Are you fine with the murder of another person? It also cleans up abortion clinics, calling for reasonable standards and training so we do not have disease infested dungeons like Kermit Gosnell had. So tell me why you are against this bill?
No, anyone stupid enough to get a back-alley abortion has their own blood on their hands.
You are merely parroting the usual leftist drivel, a disavowal of personal responsibility dressed in the rhetoric of 'concern'.
Why don't you instead address the hypothetical women's behavior that leads to the pregnancy? Or the question of the innocent third party (the baby)? Oh, that's right. That's because you freaks put your own libido and well-being above EVERYTHING ELSE in life, from civil society to the lives of innocents.
Plenty of people are addressing the behavior that leads to the pregnancy (although that's not just the woman's behavior--last time I checked, a man has to be involved as well). The problem, though, is that the CONSERVATIVES aren't really addressing this behavior, instead they're trying to keep people from learning about birth control.
Unprotected sex is definitely a behavior that needs to be curbed, and I'm glad you and I both agree on it, but we'd need to expand access to and education about contraceptives in order to address that.
Your answer is not worthy of the name.
I'm not worried about plenty of people, I'm worried about this guy.
And we don't agree on anything. Abstinence before marriage. You're making my point nicely that a lib is like a dog - driven by its libido.
On second thought, that comparison is very unfair, to the dog...
Jerry Mason July 3, 2013 at 10:38 AM
I saw one teenage girl make a joke at the end. That's about it.
davros11 July 3, 2013 at 10:54 AM
I am pro-abortion! Kill all the babies you want,that will mean less liberals. Pro-abortion people want me to cheer for them murdering babies, sorry! that's not my thing!!!
Unknown July 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM
Total bull. The chanters were clearly chanting something that was more than 3 syllables. Camera caught one dumb, young woman at the very end that was dying to saying something snotty about the anti-choice crowd, and the far right is using it to bolster their terrible and ill-informed belief that pro-choice advocates aren't Christian and aren't decent human beings. Grow up and find some way to win your argument besides lying and chicanery.
BigKWS July 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Excuse me, but a child is not a choice, it's a consequence of a choice. If you don't want the responsibility for that choice, then don't make that choice.
And the word "pro-choice" was concocted by one of the founders of NARAL who wanted to make abortion sound more appealing to the masses. Because after all, who would ever want to be "anti-choice".
Just curious, can you justify your comment that our belief that pro-infanticide drones aren't decent? I mean, do you have anything to bolster that claim other than your own, frankly worthless opinion?
And just for the record, for plenty of us, the mere fact that 'pro-choice' dogmatists promote infanticide is plenty evidence that they are neither Christian nor decent.
In fact, they're really not better than the Nazis that used to justify gassing mentally impaired and physically impaired people on the grounds that (a) it was cheaper for society to do so, and (b) that it's for the victim's own good.
I want to know what it says when you play it backwards!
Pro-Abortion advocates aren't decent human beings any more than any other murderers are. You advocate that children be torn apart in their mother's womb. That is sick and evil. Blood all over your hands.
Do you feel the same way about people who support the death penalty, or America's military endeavors? Those people are pro-murder as well. What about non-vegetarians, are they in the "sick and evil" category as well?
Enrique Elizondo July 3, 2013 at 3:34 PM
Not Christ Not Satan but Constitutional rights here . So lifers and nuts get a life away from Doctrine and Talibanic nonsense
LO-HELL SATAN - DOES ALWAYS WIN.
House Officials have issued a correction to final count on #HB2 testimony: 2182 registered AGAINST, 1355 registered FOR the bill #txlege
HAIL SATAN.
Laura Gibson July 3, 2013 at 5:12 PM
For those arguing about whether they were saying "Not the Church, not the State..." or "Hail Satan:" They were saying BOTH, I was there. So no need to argue.
Diva July 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM
What does abortion have to do with religon? Its about murdering a baby, a helpless baby, and I ask you how can any one trust or love a woman who doesn't love her own flesh and blood, her child, who would end their life so early?
Vicky H July 5, 2013 at 2:52 AM
I believe a woman should be able to choose whether or not she has a child. there are already too many children out there in the system that are either abused abandoned hungry psychotic etc. Why add one more to the bunch? Then you have the nerve to complain about taxes. Lets face the fact that not all children are adopted or taken in by family and all homes arent safe for children. as a woman I would rather have an abortion than bring another child into this world
Then keep your legs shut, abortion is not "birth control", when you figure out killing a baby is murder then you will be grown up. Until then your a flake that touts stats that obfuscate facts. Murder is murder. What about the men that want to have the baby and the mother says no, I'm going to kill the kid, where are the mans rights? You women think your GOD for some reason, refusing to consider a mans rights at all. Spare me your pathetic diatribe about your rights, where are the mans and the child's rights? Support right to life your mother did. Oh and lets not escape the fact when a man had to pay child support and never gets to see his kids because the woman is a bitch about it, I live this personally so I know it's a fact.
She'saPistol July 5, 2013 at 8:33 AM
It's funny how they're always anti-abortion until the baby is born and then they don't give a sh*t about whether the child has food, shelter or an education. And don't forget how they treat the dear mother of the unborn, she's a slut who should have kept her knees together with an aspirin, never considering the man who was 50% of the process. Why? Because saying no to abortion doesn't cost them a cent but they can't put their money where their religion is and help women care for those children.
What kinda of BS are you spreading, so people that have kids "don't care about them"? What planet did you come from? I don't know a single person that you have described, maybe you need new friends? Women are sluts that kill babies using abortion as "child control", do you fall into that category? You forget, (conveniently)about the men that want the child and the mother says no, I'm gonna kill it, where are the mans rights or the babies rights asshole. Even better how about the men that pays child support and never get to see their kids because the woman is a bitch, yes it happens all day long, and I am proof. But you don't cite these facts, only your pathetic side that make you FEEL GOOD about your position. Your just a hack, you would not make a good mother either. damdems.wordpress.com
For the Satan lovers, libtards and very sick and confused people this is for you. This country was founded upon religion, to be free from oppressive government. Women who MURDER children so they can still go out and socialize, drink, party and sleep around are scum of the earth (you know who you are). Abortion should only be used as a last resort from deformations or other negative outcomes that will not give that baby a fighting chance to survive, or violent rape victims.
As for the freak who supports satan, you need to get a life. You try to spread your immoral beliefs upon Christians and their kids, that is where I draw the line. You have no right to influence my boys to you sick way of life and lack of a moral compass. Women that kill kids are murders, YOUR NOT GOD, if you wish not to have a child then plan better. It's pathetic to say it's the MANS fault. But here is where your argument falls apart. When the man wants to keep the child he has no rights, and the baby sure as hell has no rights either.
So pretend your nobility puts you on a pedestal, your living in a fallacy that will be your own end. When you don't have anyone else to turn to, then you can say,I would have had a child to help me in my "golden years" but I killed them. Support right to life your mother did.
Liberals have the worst Human Rights Violations of all. When you can murder people like Hitler did, then you just like him. This is a form of genocide and liberals are doing it to themselves, sad part is they are teaching kids that this is OK, and it's NOT.
Seriously... you typify dumb America. This country was not founded upon religion, as you say. Second of all, the chanting folks are not Satanist... they are merely mocking the religious fools as they sing their Christian song. Your rambling, grammatically error ridden rant is fact-less at best. That your moralizing, hate-filled rant is based on your superstitious belief in a perpetuated myth that is devoid of any evidence to substantiate it, speaks to your basic lack of even the smallest amount of intelligence. You and your ilk are an embarrassment to humanity.
Someone (J) wrote "Satanism is an accepted religion"? All the people I know sure as hell would disagree vehemently on that specious remark. Or my favorite part "The greatest offering available to satan is an unborn child. Abortion clinics open wherever religious freedom is about to become law or has already". So let's use some critical thinking here since the person who wrote that has NONE.
All of children are born in the image of GOD, not satin, he was an angle of GOD who was cast out. Satin has many forms, most in the minds of liberals, or as I call them "libtards". These professors of satinism, as a religion proves they are weak minded without morals, that is why they can say and do things that are objectionable to most clear thinking people, yet these people can wallow in the mire of sin without objection from other sinners. In fact he more radical they are the higher they are regarded in their circle of freaks.
Libtards have only one thing in mind, to take your religious views and discredit them using science as a rule of law, yet scientist can't even explain how the inner-workings of a cell actually perform routine duties, like DNA or RNA production, or many other features... Likewise to say that scientist are omnipotent cry out prevarication and fallacy. Yet these libtards hold onto that as accepted science.
Libtards or faggots, want to take away our pursuit of happiness, claiming theirs have been violated. So we are suppose to give up on our beliefs so they can feel better. Well I can tell you that is not going to happen anytime in my lifetime. I keep my guns and freedom, you can keep the change.. I don't care how you slice it, killing a baby is MURDER, you can use any excuse you want to hide or obfuscate the facts, but it is still MURDER.
Choose life, your mother did.
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LulzSec's Raynaldo Rivera, a.k.a. 'neuron,' Gets One-Year Prison Term
By Soulskill from Slashdot's finally-caught-up-to-him department:
hypnosec writes "Raynaldo Rivera, who went by the online moniker 'neuron', has been sentenced to a one-year prison term, 13 months of home detention, 1,000 hours of community service and has been ordered to pay over $600,000 in restitution. Rivera pleaded guilty in October 2012 to charges of conspiring to cause damage to a protected computer after participating in the attack on Sony Pictures in 2011. The court documents note that the main motive of the Lulzsec hacking collective, and offshoot of Anonymous, during its two-month hacking rampage and attacks on corporate and government entities like the Sony Pictures, was to see the 'raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy.'"
Silent Circle Follows Lavabit By Closing Encrypted E-mail Service
By Soulskill from Slashdot's privacy-hostile-environment department:
Okian Warrior writes "Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted e-mail service on Thursday, in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny that may threaten its customers' privacy. The company announced that it could 'see the writing on the wall' and decided it would be best to shut down its Silent Mail feature. 'We’ve been debating this for weeks, and had changes planned starting next Monday. We’d considered phasing the service out, continuing service for existing customers, and a variety of other things up until today. It is always better to be safe than sorry, and with your safety we decided that the worst decision is always no decision.' The company said it was inspired by the closure earlier Thursday of Lavabit, another encrypted e-mail service provider that alluded to a possible national security investigation."
Does anyone have replacement recommendations for people who used these services?
Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook
By Soulskill from Slashdot's giving-up-the-ghost department:
SmartAboutThings writes "More bad news for Microsoft: Acer is apparently rethinking their Windows strategy, planning to offer fewer Microsoft products and focus more on products delivered by Redmond's rival Google, in the form of Chromebooks and Android devices. This comes after Acer's second-quarter earnings call, where the Taiwanese company posted a surprise second-quarter loss, having unexpected lower sales and rising expenses. Acer's change of plans comes not long after Asus' CEO announced that the company would no longer make Windows RT products until Microsoft proves there's real demand."
Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality
By samzenpus from Slashdot's a-spoonful-of-sugar department:
colin_faber writes "Right on the heals of the Bill Gates BusinessWeek article discussing the importance of disease prevention and cure over technological deployment is news from CNN that U.S. researchers may have a viable vaccine for Malaria. If true, this could change the lives of up to 3.3 billion people living in Malaria danger zones and allow us to do away with this disease, which kills hundreds of thousands of people."
Paypal Rolls Out Photo Verification Trial In UK
By samzenpus from Slashdot's your-real-money-is-no-good-here department:
kdryer39 writes "Retailers in Richmond upon Thames are among the first to allow shoppers to leave their wallets at home and pay for items using just the PayPal app and their profile picture. The app for iOS, Windows OS and Android phones highlights nearby shops and restaurants that accept PayPal before the customer checks in by clicking on the required retailer and sliding an animated pin down on their screen. At present, only 12 merchants are using the system but it expects more than 2,000 locations will have the ability to use the app by the end of 2013."
Consumer Device Hacking Concerns Getting Lost In Translation
Posted by News Fetcher on August 08 '13 at 11:15 PM
By samzenpus from Slashdot's tell-him-about-the-twinkie department:
ancientribe writes "Hackers who hack insulin pumps, heart monitors, HVAC systems, home automation systems, and cars are finding some life-threatening security flaws in these newly networked consumer devices, but their work is often dismissed or demonized by those industries and the policymakers who govern their safety. A grass-roots movement is now under way to help bridge this dangerous gap between the researcher community and consumer product policymakers and manufacturers. The security experts driving this effort appealed to the DEF CON 21 hacking conference audience to help them recruit intermediaries who can speak both hacker and consumer product and policy."
Competition Tests Student-Built Aerial Espionage Robots
By samzenpus from Slashdot's eye-in-the-sky department:
Zothecula writes "Some of the most advanced work in autonomous aerial robotics is not done by DARPA, or by massive corporations. Rather, it is accomplished by teams of university students who participate in the International Aerial Robotics Competition (IARC). For the past 23 years, the IARC has challenged college teams with missions requiring complex autonomous robotic behaviors that are often beyond the capabilities of even the most sophisticated military robots. This year's competition, which was held in China and the United States over the past week, saw the team from Tsinghua University in Beijing successfully complete the current mission – an elaborate espionage operation known as Mission Six."
4-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Protein Resurrected
By samzenpus from Slashdot's back-in-the-day department:
First time accepted submitter Zoë Mintz writes "Researchers have 'resurrected' a 4-billion-year-old Precambrian protein and found they resembled those that existed when life began, proving that protein structures have the ability to remain constant over extended periods of time."
First Batch of Libreplanet 2013 Videos Released, Hosted Using Mediagoblin
By Unknown Lamer from Slashdot's in-case-you-missed-it department:
Via the FSF: "The first round of videos from LibrePlanet 2013 is now available for streaming and downloading. LibrePlanet is an annual conference sponsored and organized by the Free Software Foundation, with LibrePlanet 2013 being the best one yet. ... This year we set out to make sure LibrePlanet featured fully functioning live video streaming using only free software, and it was a great success. The videos are now available for viewing in VP8/Vorbis, both free media formats, and are hosted on an instance of GNU MediaGoblin, the social media sharing platform which many of you helped support."
The rest of the videos should trickle onto their Mediagoblin instance over the next weeks. All of the videos are freely licensed (looks like a mixture of CC BY and BY-SA 3.0).
Camels May Transmit New Middle Eastern Virus
By samzenpus from Slashdot's camel-zero department:
sciencehabit writes "Ever since people in the Middle East started dying of a mysterious new infection last year, scientists have been trying to pinpoint the source of the outbreak. Now they may finally have found a clue in an unlikely population: retired racing camels. Countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates produce and consume large amounts of camel meat. The authors of the paper point out that huge numbers of camels are imported to the Middle East from African countries as well as from Australia, where the animals were introduced in the 19th century and which now has an estimated 1 million feral camels. (Australia started exporting camels to Saudi Arabia for meat production in 2002.) That raises the possibility that African or Australian bats harbor the virus and camels carried it to the Middle East."
Lavabit, Email Service Snowden Reportedly Used, Abruptly Shuts Down
By samzenpus from Slashdot's turning-off-the-lights department:
First time accepted submitter bazmail writes "Remember when word circulated that Edward Snowden was using Lavabit, an email service that purports to provide better privacy and security for users than popular web-based free services like Gmail? Lavabit's owner has shut down service, with a mysterious message posted on the lavabit.com home page today. The message reads in part: 'I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.'"
Mozilla Launches Persona Identity Bridge For Gmail
By samzenpus from Slashdot's being-yourself department:
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today announced the Persona Identity Bridge for Gmail users. If you have a Google account, this means you can now sign into Persona-powered websites with your existing credentials. The best part is of course Mozilla's pledge to its users. 'Persona remains committed to privacy: Gmail users can sign into sites with Persona, but Google can't track which sites they sign into,' Mozilla Pesrona engineer Dan Callahan promises."
Soldiers Looking For Hookups On Craigslist Are Being Warned of a Military Sting
By timothy from Slashdot's use-code-words department:
Daniel_Stuckey writes with this excerpt from Motherboard: "Word has it there's a military sting operation to bust soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan who are using Craigslist to find casual hookups, and now troopers are being warned to keep their sexual exploits on the down-low. It all started when news article published last week in the Army Times suggested undercover military cops were trolling the Craigslist Baghdad personals to catch officers posting lewd photos looking for casual sex. (The Baghdad site is presumably a product of the war in Iraq, though most of the posters now are deployed in Afghanistan.) The story was picked up by the Daily Mail and a subsequent wave of media outlets, exposing the X-rated subculture."
Want To Record Xbox One Gameplay? Get Ready To Pay
By timothy from Slashdot's nobody-rides-for-free department:
First time accepted submitter tocsy writes "Microsoft has seemingly not learned from their previous PR fiasco. According to the official site, some features as basic as recording and sharing gameplay videos will require a $60/year Xbox Live Gold account. PS4 owners will of course also have to pay for some online services, but recording and streaming will not be exclusive to Plus subscribers."
Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All
By timothy from Slashdot's context-is-all department:
Dorianny writes "New research which takes advantage of the increase in cell phone use after 9pm due to the popularity of 'free nights and weekends' plans showed no corresponding increase in crash rates (PDF). Additionally, the researchers analyzed the effects of legislation banning cellphone use, enacted in several states, and similarly found that the legislation had no effect on the crash rate. 'One thought is that drivers may compensate for the distraction of cellphone use by selectively deciding when to make a call or consciously driving more carefully during a call.' Score this a -1 for common sense."
Encrypted Email Provider Lavabit Shuts Down, Blames US Gov't
By timothy from Slashdot's land-of-the-free department:
clorkster writes to note the following explanation posted to the front page of encrypted email provider Lavabit: "'I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what's going on--the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.' No doubt this has much to do with Snowden's use of the provider."
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B&W FORMATION SUITE
Bowers & Wilkins Redefines Uncompromised Wireless Sound with the Introduction of its New Formation Suite.
Bowers & Wilkins, the leading global performance audio brand known for its innovative technology, today introduces the Formation® Suite of wireless audio products for whole-home sound without compromise. The product suite seamlessly blends high-fidelity performance with convenience, redefining the industry in true Bowers & Wilkins groundbreaking fashion.
„The Formation Suite is the newest and most technologically innovative line of wireless products our development team has ever created. We are setting a new bar in the world of wireless sound, proving that wired fidelity can be achieved wirelessly,” said Greg Lee, CEO of Bowers & Wilkins. „The all new Formation Wireless Technology enables a fidelity never experienced on a wireless system before. Now consumers can get the high-performance audio quality that they expect from Bowers & Wilkins with the convenience wireless systems offer. With Formation, we’re taking the superior quality sound Bowers & Wilkins is known for and coupling it with an unmatched, easy-to-use, wireless listening experience, making it the new standard in whole home audio.”
With over 50 years of acoustic expertise, consumers can expect to experience an immersive, seamless, high-fidelity soundstage, wirelessly. Featuring Bowers & Wilkins’ iconic audio engineering and the all new patented Formation Wireless Technology, the Formation Suite is the Highest Form of Sound.
Patented Robust Mesh Network – developed to cover your whole home without impacting your home network quality. Our patented mesh network enables seamless sound and a new industry standard for streaming quality and speaker synchronization.
Perfected Speaker Synchronization – imperceptible in-room synchronization of one microsecond between speakers allows them to work in perfect harmony to provide an industry-defining listening experience. It sounds like you’re listening to a live music in your living room.
96/24 Bit Audio Resolution – high-resolution streaming with twice the fidelity than the leading wireless speaker brand that creates denser, richer, best-in-class sound without information loss.
The Formation Suite includes five products at launch:
Formation Bar ($1,199.99) – Nine optimized drive units provide a wide soundstage including a dedicated center channel, so you always feel like you’re in the center of sound action.
Formation Duo ($3,999.99) – With the same carbon-domed, tweeter-on-top technology and Continuum cone driver as Bowers & Wilkins’ industry-defining wired speakers, now experience legendary sound, wirelessly.
Formation Wedge ($899.99) – Uniquely characterized by a 120-degree elliptical speaker shape, with dedicated full-range stereo sound components experience room filling high-resolution stereo sound.
Formation Bass ($999.99) – Opposed drivers, powerful amplifiers and Dynamic EQ provide accurate audio depth and dimension without distortion. Pairs with other Formation components for the ultimate audio immersion.
Formation Audio ($699,99) – Patented Formation Wireless Technology turns any traditional passive system into a high-fidelity streaming system for a best-of-all worlds sound experience.
Each of the products in the Formation Suite includes a streamlined user interface, taking just moments to set up and start playing, as well as world class modern design that was purposely built for superior acoustics.
„Three years ago, we had the vision to take Bowers & Wilkins 50 years of acoustic history and success and combine it with Silicon Valley automation expertise, creating an amazing user experience that is simple, powerful and incredible to listen to. Today, it’s amazing to witness that vision come to life, ushering in the next chapter of sound experience. The Formation Suite introduces consumers to wireless sound technology that is unparalleled in the audio space and showcases the true innovation this company is capable of and this is just the beginning. There is so much more to come,” said Gideon Yu, Co-Chairman of Bowers & Wilkins.
For more information about the uncompromised wireless sound of the Formation Suite, visit www.bowers-wilkins.com.
Bowers & Wilkins New Formation Suite
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American (3-11, 1-6 PL) 4 4 8
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G: Collins, Jenna - 4
A: Larkin, Kelly - 5
Sv: Boyum, Ingrid - 5
GB: Boyum, Ingrid - 4
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GB: 2 Players (#9, #16) - 3
SCHEDULE UPDATE: The April 22 home game against Holy Cross, originally listed at 1 p.m. on the schedule, will now start at noon. The game will close out the home schedule for AU, and will also serve as the 2017 Senior and Alumnae Day.
WASHINGTON - The American University lacrosse team is back on the road this week with the short trip to Annapolis, Md., to face Navy at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19.
American (3-10, 1-5 PL) is coming off its first Patriot League win of the season after the team outlasted Army West Point on Saturday, April 15, 12-7. The Midshipmen (10-4, 5-1 PL), on the other hand, are on a five-game winning streak in the conference, with the league opener against Loyola Maryland being their only PL loss thus far.
Navy holds a 10-1 edge over American in the 13-game series, which dates back to 2008. The only win American has claimed over the Midshipmen came during the 2008 Patriot League Tournament when the Eagles advanced to the Championship game after a 17-15 semifinal win over Navy.
SCOUTING THE EAGLES
AU claimed its first conference victory of the season on Saturday with a 12-7 win over Army West Point. Junior Jennifer DeSimone and senior Sarah Bootman controlled the Eagles' offense with a pair of five-point contributions.
DeSimone tied her career-high with five goals followed by Bootman, who also tied her career-high with three goals and two assists for the afternoon.
A total of five Eagles contributed to the team's final point tally, with sophomore Sam Breeze putting away two goals and freshman Caitlin Schaefer and senior Shauna Norris each adding one.
DeSimone continues to dominate AU's scoring efforts with 38 points for the season off of 35 goals and three assists. The junior currently ranks eighth in the league in goals per game, averaging 2.7 with three games left in the regular season.
Bootman, who has already reached career-highs across the board with 19 goals and ten assists so far this season, is No. 2 on the squad with 29 total points after 13 games.
Senior Madison Hoon remains a solid force on the defensive end, collecting team-highs in ground balls (34), draw controls (45) and caused turnovers (21). Hoon currently sits at No. 4 in the PL for ground balls per game (2.5), is No. 8 for caused turnovers per game (1.6) and No. 10 for draw controls per game (3.2).
Sophomore goalkeeper Fiona Geier also sits within the league's top five rankings with her .437 save percentage (No. 4) and 8.85 saves per game (No. 3). She has tallied 119 saves so far this season and holds a 13.2 goals against average.
SCOUTING THE MIDSHIPMEN
Navy sits tied for second in the Patriot League alongside Lafayette after a 15-14 win over Boston University on Saturday. The Mids were led by a five-goal effort from Jenna Collins, followed by four goals from Meg O'Donnell. Morgan Young added a career-high four assists while Julia Collins contributed a team-high 10 draw controls.
Navy leads the league with 15.5 goals per game, 7.4 assists per game and 22.9 points per game.
Jenna Collins leads the team for the season with 63 total points off of 43 goals and 20 assists. She also ranks third in the conference with 4.5 points per game and 3.1 goals per game. Kelly Larkin and Young follow closely at 59 points (32 goals, 27 assists) and 51 points (38 goals, 13 assists), respectively.
Julia Collins leads the team in the center circle with 69 draw controls so far this season while Jenna Collins has picked up a team-high 28 ground balls.
Goalkeeper Ingrid Boyum ranks second in the league with her 9.97 goals against average and sits at ninth in the PL with 5.2 saves per game.
SENIOR AND ALUMNAE DAY
American will return home for one final time on Saturday, April 22, to host Holy Cross at noon for Senior and Alumnae Day. There, five Eagles will prepare to close their collegiate careers as seniors Sarah Bootman, Kayla Flynn, Madison Hoon, Shauna Norris and Daniella Pino celebrate their four years at AU.
Admission to all AU home lacrosse games is free for fans and students. For the latest on American Lacrosse, stay tuned to AUEagles.com and follow the team on Twitter @AU_Lacrosse.
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Tag Archive: OWI
BBG - USAGM Watch > OWI
HISTORY Senator Taft’s early warning of Soviet propaganda in WWII Voice of America
HISTORY Cold War Radio Museum Could a foreign power such as Russia try to infiltrate the Voice of America (VOA) or influence its executives, broadcasters and programs? Could U.S. government-hired journalists and program contributors, acting on their own, support in…
Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda
OPINION Cold War Radio Museum How Voice of America Censored Solzhenitsyn Brief History of VOA’s Domestic Propaganda By Ted Lipien The Voice of America (VOA) was an easier target than Radio Free Europe (RFE) or Radio Liberty (RL)…
Polish Ambassador’s Fight With Pro-Stalin Voice of America and Soviet Propaganda in the U.S.
Katyn Cover-up – Hidden History of the Voice of America
BBG Watch History Very few Americans and few Poles know today that during World War II, the Voice of America (VOA), then called the Oversees Branch of the Office of War Information (OWI), engaged in a massive propaganda campaign designed…
Voice of America and Internment of Japanese Americans
Introduction With today’s 75th anniversary of the signing of the presidential executive order to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II, when it comes to understanding who really initiates and creates government propaganda in the United States sometimes a little…
The Keogh Memorandum – Voice of America and U.S. Policy
BBG Watch History Documents & Quotes Series BBG Watch begins today publishing historical documents, some of them recently declassified, which relate to U.S. international broadcasting and public diplomacy. We will not be posting them in a chronological order….
Zofia Korbońska – a Voice of America hero
History On the 101 anniversary of the birth of legendary Voice of America Polish Service journalist and broadcaster Zofia Korbońska, BBG Watch re-posts an article written about her by former VOA Polish Service chief and former VOA acting associate director…
The Triumph of Propaganda – Voice of America and Katyn
BBG Watch History April 13 is observed in Poland as Katyn Memorial Day. It commemorates over 22,000 Poles – chiefly officers and reserve officers – who were executed in April 1940 by the NKVD (a forerunner of the Soviet Union’s…
Correcting Voice of America history
BBG Watch Former Voice of America (VOA) acting associate director, Ted Lipien, who earlier in his VOA career was also in charge of broadcasts to Poland, has written a letter to the editor of National Review applauding its article on…
Carter Administration opposed consolidation of U.S. government broadcasting and Voice of America privatization
Commentary By Ted Lipien Recently released U.S. government documents show that President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor (1977–1981) Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski and his deputy Paul Henze opposed consolidation of U.S. international broadcasting and privatization of the Voice of America (VOA)…
Domestic news distribution was bad news for VOA
BBG Watch Commentary Not Knowing Its Own History The federal agency in charge of U.S. international media outreach through such taxpayer-funded outlets as the Voice of America (VOA) suffers from a critical lack of knowledge of its own history. This…
Misplaced priorities of BBG Governor
BBG Watch Commentary We could not find any online trace of U.S.taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) paying any attention to Sunday’s observances in Estonia of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin Pact anniversary. The Estonian Public Broadcasting website had posted a report on…
Voice of America History – Communist Infiltration During World War II
BBG Watch History During World War II, the Voice of America (VOA) operated within a mega propaganda agency — the Office of War Information (OWI) — headed by a powerful but incompetent CEO Director Elmer Davis. Contrary to later claims…
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Donald Trump Defends Military Deployment to the Border: ‘We Have to Have a Wall of People’
President Donald Trump defended Wednesday his decision to send the military to the border in response to the migrant caravan headed for the United States.
“It’s very important,” Trump said. “We have to have a wall of people —very highly trained people, terrific, dedicated patriots.”
The president commented on his commitment to secure the border during an interview with ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl.
Trump dismissed Karl’s description of the caravan as mostly women and children who were “deeply impoverished people fleeing violence.”
“Actually mostly young men,” Trump said. “And a lot of rough people … they are pushing the women right up to the front — not good — and the kids right up to the front.”
The Pentagon announced that they were sending 5,200 troops to the border on Monday, but Trump said he would send up to 15,000 troops to secure the border if necessary.
Trump defended his decision as a way to send the strongest message possible to the continued flood of migrant caravans toward the United States.
“They can’t invade our country,” he said. “You look at that it almost looks like an invasion.”
Enjoy this article? Read the full version at the authors website: https://www.breitbart.com
Gillum campaign workers: Florida is a “f***ed up … cracker state,” or something
Andrew Gillum has more problems than he can handle at the moment between corruption allegations and dealing with the aftermath of a hurricane. Project Veritas adds a couple of more to the pile today, however, with its latest undercover report on Democratic candidates. Their operatives get a couple of Gillum’s campaign workers — one in particular — saying extraordinarily foolish and/or revealing things on camera, such as their strategies to win in a “f***ed up … cracker state.”
Like other previous PV videos, this shows a lot of excuse-making for a lack of truth in advertising. For instance, did you know that Gillum is “part of the crazy, crazy crazies”? “Medicare for All, borderline socialism”? Gun control? No?
Featured in this report is a campaign staffer who works on Andrew Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign. Omar Smith, who says he went to college with Gillum, reveals Gillum cannot fulfill his campaign promises even if he wanted to.
When asked how Gillum would fund all the programs he says he wants to fund, Smith says Gillum “can’t,” and when asked if voters are aware that Gillum cannot deliver on his proposed programs, Smith says:
SMITH: “That’s not for them to know… That’s not for them to know. Remember our saying, modern day fairy tales start with ‘once I am elected.’”
Smith explains that most of Gillum’s campaign promises could never be implemented, and that the Gillum campaign knows this:
SMITH: “So, let’s go back to Mr. Gillum’s platform, right? Raise the corporate tax in Florida from 7 to 11 percent. That will never happen. Raise teacher’s pay to $50,000, that will never happen. Give me another position. Medicare for all, that will never happen. The reason being, the legislature that write the bills is all Republican controlled. Democratic governor, Republican legislature. So, unless the legislature writes a bill, and it got voted on the floor, it cannot pass.”
Smith says that “the rules in Florida are f***ed up” and that Florida is a “cracker state,” explaining that the Florida legislature has to become racially black for Gillum’s agenda to advance.
So how can Gillum win in a “cracker state”?
SMITH: “You whip ’em up. The poor, the middle income. You have to whip them up into a frenzy in order for them to vote. Once Gillum is in, in another 2 years, other Republican Senators and Legislators will be on the ballot. So, you have to whip up the Andrew Gillum voters again in those counties to vote out the Republican to get a Democratic Legislature in order for his (Gillum) will to be executed. … You have to appeal to white guilt… [be]cause that’s what it is.”
There’s plenty more at the link and in the video, so be sure to watch and read it all. The biggest lesson here is don’t hire your old college buddies to run your campaign. Most PV videos have featured a number of campaign workers, some volunteers and low-level paid staffers. Much of PV’s material in this video features Omar Smith, a salaried campaign worker who has been with Gillum since their days as college-campus progressive activists. You’d think that much experience would have taught Smith a thing or two about discretion, or Gillum a thing or two about Smith. Instead, here’s Gillum’s college pal telling everyone who will pay attention to him that it will take “force” to achieve Gillum’s agenda.
Right now, Gillum’s beginning to show some daylight between him and Ron DeSantis, and thanks to early voting, it might be took late for this video to reverse that momentum. However, a few more days of Omar Smith might still have an impact.
Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers on Trump Visit: ‘Pleasantly Surprised by a Warm and Personal Side’ That America Has Never Seen
Tree of Life Synagogue Rabbi Jeffrey Myers on Thursday discussed the president’s visit in the wake of the shooting that took the lives of 11 over the weekend.
Myers said President Donald Trump was “very consoling” and he saw a “warm and personal side to the president.”
“[Trump] put his hand on my shoulder and the first question he asked me was, ‘Rabbi, tell how you are doing?’ Myers recalled on CNN’s “New Day.”
He added, “And I must say throughout the time we spent together, I was pleasantly surprised by a warm and personal side to the president that I don’t think America has ever seen.”
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Weekly Unemployment Claims Fall to 214,000, Ongoing Claims Drop to Lowest Level Since 1973
Fewer Americans lost their jobs to layoffs last week.
The number of Americans filing new applications for state unemployment benefits fell by 2,000 to 214,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. Jobless claims remain near lows not seen for close to 40 years.
Jobless claims are a proxy for layoffs and have been closely watched this year for signs that trade disputes might weigh on the U.S. labor market. So far, there are no signs that tariffs have cost the U.S. economy any jobs.
The four-week moving average of claims, which smooths out weekly volatility and is considered by many economists to be a more reliable gauge of conditions, to 213,750. That is also near the lowest level since December 1969, according to the Labor Department.
Economists had expected jobless claims to fall by even more, to 212,000. Nonetheless, Thursday’s figures show the labor market in the U.S. remains very strong.
The number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid also fell in late October, by 7,000 to 1.63 million for the week ended October 20. That is the lowest level since July 1973. The four-week moving average of continuing claims dropped 6,250 to 1.64 million, the lowest level since August 1973.
WATCH: Warren First Learns Of Ethics Complaint Against Her Over Kavanaugh Fundraising In Middle Of Debate
In a rather remarkable moment in a U.S. Senate debate in Massachusetts Tuesday, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren learned for the first time that an ethics complaint has been filed against her for having fundraised off of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.
K-12: Walk Away
When Brandon Straka founded the WalkAway movement in May, hardly anyone imagined that several hundred thousand longtime Democrats could turn against the party of their family and friends. Although it’s a big, difficult decision, many Walkaways made videos aggressively explaining their decisions. They often conclude: “I’ll never vote Democrat the rest of my life.”
What made these people walk away with such passion? Certainly, Trump’s success and charisma explain a lot. The “lying media” are also a major factor. One woman attended a crowded Trump rally. When she reached home a half-hour later, CNN was showing a half-empty stadium where she had been standing. She knew that the place had been jammed. At that moment, she walked away from CNN.
Perhaps the most important factor is that leaders on the left, for many decades, became increasingly socialist/communist in their perspectives. The rank and file are more sophisticated now and realize that their party bosses walked away from them long ago.
So here’s the picture that Straka has brought into focus. Namely, lots of people are mad as hell and determined not to take it anymore.
We need this exact same spirit in K-12. You’re mad as hell and refuse to continue the same destructive relationship. You know what the schools are doing to children: keeping them ignorant and illiterate. You hate this. You don’t want it being done in your name. Or with your taxes.
So walk away.
Democrats, heretofore passive, are showing you how to do it. Just do it. The liberal leaders at the top of the Education Establishment are exactly the same people whom working-class Democrats have learned to scorn. (Indeed, studying K-12 education is a great way to understand the warped politics of the party. Same people, same goals, same collectivist thinking.)
You’ve heard the rumors, or you have seen the results yourself. Kids can’t read, not fluently. Incoherent Common Core homework makes them cry. Students don’t know the simplest things about geography, history, science, or anything else. Jay Leno, Jesse Watters, Mark Dice, and now Jimmy Kimmel have shown this over and over.
The incompetent, ideological extremists perpetuating this educational malpractice should be rejected or at least rebuked. What’s a simple way to do that? You don’t need to send them a card. Just walk away…if not physically, at least emotionally.
Parents with kids in a public school have to deal with teachers and school officials. But you can withhold support; you can show disdain for programs you don’t like. Let the Education Establishment know that you don’t approve of their dumbing-down strategies. You would like to see children educated at the highest level that each one can handle. The main thing is to stop tolerating what you sincerely feel is unacceptable. (Some people say homeschooling is the only option. I argue that being an informed, demanding parent contributes greatly.)
Teachers in particular know the dark secrets about ideological maneuvering and financial chicanery. The result is that textbooks and methods that didn’t work 25 and 50 years ago are still used today and still don’t work. The dysfunctional gimmicks that made New Math useless can still be found in Common Core Math. Someone is making more money. But the students are losing. Don’t support what you wouldn’t want for your own kids.
According to one of the popular sophistries of the past 75 years, if you criticize public schools, the professors will say you are “opposed to public education.” You may have to spell it out. You’re not at all opposed to public education. You’re opposed to ineffective, screwed up education that keeps many children as ignorant and illiterate in the 10th grade as they were in the 4th grade.
The point is not to give support to something not worth supporting. Our Education Establishment has grown increasingly wacky and reckless over the past 90 years. The country had near universal literacy in 1915, then Progressives started to take over. By 1955, a book titled Why Johnny Can’t Read became a huge bestseller. Apparently, millions of people knew ”Johnny” personally. Many social critics wrote books with titles such as Quackery in the Public Schools and Educational Wastelands: The Retreat from Learning in Our Public Schools. Sixty years later, the steady decline slithers on. Prof. Patrick Deneen at Notre Dame recently accused our public schools of creating “cultural illiteracy” intentionally.
Now is a good time for everyone to start being judgmental.
Walk away from dangerous, chaotic schools. Walk away from sight-words and the functional illiteracy they cause. Walk away from Common Core nonsense that makes little children cry. Walk away from dysfunctional theories and methods that never seem to work as promised. Walk away from imperious superintendents who tell the parents what they can have, not what they need.
Walk away from elaborately engineered pedagogy that diminishes children. Walk away from Constructivism, which dictates that children must figure out everything for themselves while teachers stand idly by. Walk away from Self-Esteem, a cute little sophistry that basically freezes every class at the level of the slower students. Walk away from Multiculturalism, which dictates that American children have to know more about foreign rivers than about American rivers. Walk away from all the clever gimmicks that undercut real education and replace it with “progressive” – actually regressive – folderol.
In particular, walk away from so-called educators who see education as indoctrination, not enlightenment. That is John Dewey’s malignant legacy. We need to walk away from all that.
Bruce Deitrick Price’s new book is Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them? He deconstructs educational theories and methods at Improve-Education.org.
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Caravan migrants different, more violent, than previous migrant groups -U.S. military
That would certainly go for the not just the first caravan headed our way, but the chain reaction of the second, third and more groups following. According to the Daily Mail:
The second migrant caravan, believed to be armed with bombs and guns, crossed into Mexico on Monday despite a huge police presence.
Hundreds of migrants following in the footsteps of the first caravan heading to the U.S. border crossed a river from Guatemala.
The second group back at the Guatemalan frontier has been more unruly than the first that crossed. Guatemala’s Interior Ministry said Guatemalan police officers were injured when the migrant group broke through border barriers on Guatemala’s side of the bridge.
Mexico authorities said migrants attacked its agents with rocks, glass bottles and fireworks when they broke through a gate on the Mexican end but were pushed back, and some allegedly carried guns and firebombs.
There was also this:
The standoff at the riverbank followed a more violent confrontation that occurred on the bridge over the river Sunday night, when migrants threw rocks and used sticks against Mexico police. One migrant died from a head wound during the clash, but the cause was unclear.
The first migrant caravan isn’t without reports of violence, either. According to Breitbart Texas, they’ve already begun using their guns:
Mexican authorities arrested two Hondurans who allegedly shot at federal police officers escorting the migrant caravan across the southern state of Chiapas. The attack follows shortly after government warnings about Molotov cocktail attacks around a second caravan near the border with Guatemala.
The attack took place near Ignacio Zaragoza, Chiapas, when members of Mexico’s Federal Police were escorting the migrant caravan as part of “Operativo Caminante” or “Operation Walker” across the southern border state. According to Mexico’s Interior Secretariat, two men identified only as 22-year-old “Jerson” and 17-year-old “Carlos” spotted the group of police officers guarding the caravan and began firing at them.
The attackers’ pistol jammed, allowing police officers to arrest them without any injuries. Federal authorities seized a .380 caliber Glock with nine rounds still in the magazine.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the Border Patrol has warned Texas landowners at the international line to prepare for armed conflict from the caravan:
The U.S. Border Patrol this week reportedly told Texas landowners along the U.S.-Mexico border to prepare for a possible influx of “armed civilians” on their property as the migrant caravan moves closer to the U.S., a report said.
The Associated Press reported that these civilians say they intend to support the National Guard and Border Patrol to prevent the illegal migrants from crossing into the U.S.
It’s an astonishing departure from the picture the mainstream press has been painting for us about the supposedly harmlessness of the migrant caravans, and it’s completely in line with the warnings President Trump has made about the possibility of criminals within the caravan ranks. If that’s not reason to distrust the mainstream press’s “narrative” reporting, what is?
Image credit: Fox News screengrab
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Empty Seats Galore: Andrew Gillum Holds Rally with Bernie Sanders – And Hardly Anyone Shows Up
by Jim Hoft
Guest post by Joe Hoft
For the past two years we’ve heard talk about a ‘Blue Wave’ as the Democrats would retake Congress in the 2018 Mid-Terms. Sadly for the Dems the wave is now a trickle.
Democrats, Hollywood and their Mainstream Media (MSM) did all they could to promote the far left liberal socialist causes these past several years. They bashed and belittled President Trump at every turn, almost guaranteeing he would soon be gone –
LMAO this video
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— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) October 30, 2018
But as the mid-term elections draw closer, the Blue Wave is receding. Bernie Sanders held a rally with Florida Governor candidate Andrew Gillum and almost nobody showed up:
Bernie Sanders Rally for Andrew Gillum today. Almost no one was there.
This is the Blue Wave power藍 pic.twitter.com/1drlDZUjmY
— PolishPatriot™️ (@PolishPatriotTM) October 31, 2018
The same goes for the former leader of the Democrat Party Barack Obama. He too can’t seem to fill even high school gymnasiums:
Hah-Hah! Obama Can’t Fill High School Gym in Milwaukee — But Daily Beast Hack Claims Line Was Mile Long! https://t.co/NFtFhpVbVO via @gatewaypundit
— Joe Hoft (@joehoft) October 28, 2018
Sorry haters but it starting to look like 2016 all over again –
SORRY HATERS!
BUT IT’S 2016 ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!#memories #MAGA #KAG pic.twitter.com/dxnUjXfTxF
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CBS Reports On Violent Migrant Caravan The Left Claims Doesn’t Exist…
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Phone and online scamming have been on the rise lately and online scammers have been targetting people increasing over the past couple of months. In another cyber fraud case, three people scammed a woman to the tune of Rs 82,000 last year in November. The scammers stole the money from the woman’s account and her father’s as well.
Online shopping may be gaining prominence in our society but there are some issues which need to be resolved by the e-commerce companies such as the problems which customers face when they have to return a product and get the refund. However, several issues are even bigger and a consumer can be at risk of getting cheated if he is not alert and watchful.
On Thursday this week, three people were booked for impersonating customer care representatives of an e-commerce platform to dupe a woman of Rs 82,000 in November 2018, reported Times of India. The woman’s father filed the complaint and three people have been booked under IPC Section 419 and 420 (cheating by personation, cheating), the report added.
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Following this Rs 1,600 were debited from her account in three transactions. The woman filed a complaint online on the site after which another suspect called her and asked details of an alternative card. The woman shared her father’s card details and OTP again. The suspect instructed her to switch off the device for some time. After turning on the device the woman found Rs 20,000 withdrawn from the account.
Father of the girl lodged an FIR against the fraudsters and on February 7, 2019, three people were arrested by the Faraskhana police. Inspector Sambhaji Shirke told TOI that the arrests have been made under Sections 419 and 420 of IPC and provisions of IT Acts.
Shirke further said that when the woman’s father called the person, the suspect told him that they will receive the refund next morning. However, the victim found Rs 60,000 withdrawn from the account again. In total, the victims lost Rs 82,000 to the scammers.
The ToI report stated the according to the investigation, the money was transferred to accounts in Mumbai and Delhi. The victim is a resident of Kasba Peth in Pune.
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The lynching of Colten Boushie
A young First Nations man was killed after seeking help to fix a flat tire. Will justice be done?
Death squads kills hundreds in working-class communities in the Philippines
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Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region and the murder of hundreds of working-class Filipinos by death squads.
Political murder in Cambodia an attempt to intimidate opposition
Labour updates of workers' struggles from the Asia-Pacific region and the significance of the latest political killing in Cambodia.
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Raul Burbano
Condemn the assassination of Berta Cáceres, general coordinator and co-founder of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.
The battered woman's defence
Why would she kill her abuser? Excerpts from mock-trial testimony by psychologist Dr. Lenore Walker.
Charlie Hebdo and the meaning of a massacre
It is true that freedom of expression is meaningless if it does not include the right to offend. But there is real danger of obscuring larger issues by retreating to discussions of high principles.
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Yesterday, 12 journalists were killed at the offices of satire magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris France, rabble.ca is using its front page photo space for a cartoon, with hopes for peace.
Mexican police complicit in murder of 43 student teachers
At the end of September, students from a rural teachers college were protesting in the southern Mexican State of Guererro. 57 students were arrested by police, 43 of whom were never seen again.
'My son will not be raised with guns': Death on the banks of the Peticodiac
Christopher Majka
When three policemen were slain by a deranged gunman obsessed with weapons, residents of Moncton arose in a dramatic illustration that such violence would not become the face of their community.
Profits lead to mass killings -- The Soma coal mine disaster in Turkey
Interview with Kemal Ozkan from IndustriALL Global Union on the Soma mine disaster in Turkey and labour news round up from the region.
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CRISM Investigations and Discoveries
Mars Geology
Mars' General Physiography
Valles Marineris
Flowing Water Features
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Red is high elevation, blue is low elevation. Adapted from map of Mars' elevation from NASA/JPL.
Mars is a transitional planet, part way in the intensity of its geologic activity between the highly evolved, active Earth and the geologically quiet Moon. The surface consists of two main physical provinces: smooth plains that occur mostly in the northern hemisphere, and densely cratered highlands that occur mostly in the southern hemisphere.
We know that the southern highlands are older because they have accumulated more impact craters, formed by the steady rain of comets and asteroids onto Mars. Although the highlands' absolute age is uncertain, they probably date to 3.8–4.0 billion years of age, similar to the lunar highlands and older than nearly all Earth rocks. (Earth's rocks are recycled into our planet's interior by plate tectonics, so only a few special regions from the first billion years of our planet's history have been preserved. Mars, like the Moon, lacks Earth-type plate tectonics so very old rocks still exist at the surface.) The largest craters are "impact basins," hundreds to thousands of kilometers across.
The northern plains are several kilometers (about 3 miles) lower in elevation than the southern highlands. The presence of many large buried impact basins in the northern plains means that they are old like the southern highlands, but covered by a thin veneer of volcanic lava flows and sediments. These deposits make the plains very smooth – at the scale of a few kilometers they are smoother than any part of Earth’s land surface.
Mars has the largest known volcanoes in the solar system. Five of the biggest, whose tops are 27 kilometers (about 17 miles) above the northern plains, are clustered in a region of the planet known as Tharsis.
Mars has tectonic features, that is, features formed by vertical or horizontal movement of the outer rigid layer of the planet, the "lithosphere." The most conspicuous features are long, narrow troughs surrounding Tharsis, and the mammoth Valles Marineris canyon system.
Like Earth, Mars has ice caps at both poles. Each ice cap consists of alternating layers of cleaner and dusty water ice, sitting atop stacked layers of sediments. The southern polar cap is surfaced with a layer of frozen carbon dioxide ("dry ice") a few tens of meters (hundreds of feet) thick. In the winter, both caps are covered with ephemeral frost, dominated by carbon dioxide, that condenses out of the atmosphere.
On Mars, a low-lying plain is called "planitia," volcanoes are called "tholus," "mons," or "patera" depending on their shapes, and southern highlands regions are called "terra." (Image credit Christine M. Rodrigue, Department of Geography, California State University.)
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Human Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective
Past Meets Present
Edited by Tina Moffat and Tracy Prowse
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“The editors provide a nice integration of the book material in the conclusion. While the individual chapters do not, for the most part, provide examples of integrative biocultural approaches, the editors skilfully weave them together thematically and in relation to current issues in the conclusion…the book provides a nice sampling of the spectrum of data and approaches that constitute the field, and as such would be useful for a class in nutritional anthropology.” · JRAI
“The individual chapters presented in the volume are well written and together detail a broad range of methodological approaches to the topics around which the volume is structured…This edited volume would be of particular interest to advanced graduate students or researchers interested in the specific topics covered by each chapter.” · Medical Anthropology Quarterly
"This is a high-quality publication. Many of the chapters are excellent reviews of methods and perspectives in their particular area. The editors have clearly done a good job… There is a strong mix of topics that go well together and are tied together by the first and last chapters." · Alan Goodman, Hampshire College
There are not many areas that are more rooted in both the biological and social-cultural aspects of humankind than diet and nutrition. Throughout human history nutrition has been shaped by political, economic, and cultural forces, and in turn, access to food and nutrition has altered the course and direction of human societies. Using a biocultural approach, the contributors to this volume investigate the ways in which food is both an essential resource fundamental to human health and an expression of human culture and society. The chapters deal with aspects of diet and human nutrition through space and time and span prehistoric, historic, and contemporary societies spread over various geographical regions, including Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia to highlight how biology and culture are inextricably linked.
Tina Moffat is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Her research focuses on child health and nutrition in relation to environmental health and urban ecosystems. She has authored and co-authored numerous scholarly journal publications on child growth and infant feeding in Nepal and nutritional well-being and obesity among North American school-children.
Tracy Prowse is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. Her research explores diet and health in past populations using paleopathological and isotopic analyses of human bones and teeth. She has published on the paleodiet of Roman Italy in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and the Journal of Archaeological Science.
Subject: Food & Nutrition General Anthropology Archaeology
LC: GT2850 .H86 2010
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List of Boxes
Chapter 1. Introduction: A Biocultural Approach to Human Diet and Nutrition
T. Moffat and T. Prowse
PART I: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON NUTRITION
Chapter 2. Nutritional and Metabolic Influences on Human Brain Evolution
W. R. Leonard, M. L. Robertson and J. J. Snodgrass
Chapter 3. Child Growth among Southern African Foragers in the Past
S. Pfeiffer and L. Harrington
Chapter 4. Infant and Young Child Feeding in Human Evolution
D. W. Sellen
PART II: BREASTFEEDING AND BEYOND: NUTRITION THROUGHOUT THE LIFE COURSE
Chapter 5. The Use of Stable Isotope Analysis to Determine Infant and Young Child Feeding Patterns
T. L. Dupras
Chapter 6. A Community in Transition: Deconstructing Breastfeeding Trends in Gibraltar, 1955-96
L. A. Sawchuk, E. K. Bryce and S. D. A. Burke
PART III: FOOD INSECURITY AND MALNUTRITION
Chapter 7. Dietary Diversity, Dietary Transitions and Childhood Nutrition in Nepal: Questions of Methodology and Practice
T. Moffat and E. Finnis
Chapter 8. Responses to a Food Crisis and Child Malnutrition in the Nigerien Sahel
R. E. Casiday, K. R. Hampshire, C. Panter-Brick and K. Kilpatrick
PART IV: NUTRITIONAL FACTORS IN GROWTH AND DISEASE
Chapter 9. Growth, Morbidity, and Mortality in Antiquity: A Case Study from Imperial Rome
T. Prowse, S. Saunders, C. Fitzgerald, L. Bondioli and R. Macchiarelli
Chapter 10. Examining Nutritional Aspects of Bone Loss and Fragility across the Life Cycle in Bioarchaeology
S. C. Agarwal and B. Glencross
Chapter 11. Obesity - An Emerging Epidemic: Temporal trends in North America
P. T. Katzmarzyk
PART V: CONCLUSION
Chapter 12. Diet and Nutrition in Biocultural Perspective: Back to the Future
T. Prowse and T. Moffat
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The building was surrounded, the speaker, late on Friday evening (local time) of units of the police and the army. Due to the use of investigations following the devastating attacks of Easter Sunday with more than 250 dead. The security forces were fired upon, according to the out of the house. Shortly afterwards it came into the building to at least three explosions.
“We’ve found searched the building and 15 bodies, twelve of them in the house and three in front of it,” said the spokesman. The police suspect that the explosions go back to one or more suicide bombers. A child and a woman were injured have been taken to the hospital.
Sainthamaruthu is located about 360 kilometers to the East of the island capital of Colombo, and is not far from the town of Batticaloa, where on Easter Sunday, a Church attacked. Nine native suicide bombers, including a woman, had committed that day, attacks, among other things, on three Christian churches and three luxury hotels. The police warned then against new attacks by Islamists in the island state. Although dozens of Suspects in custody were, some were still at large.
In the FOCUS Online/Wochit CDU-man Bosbach Islam representatives in the ZDF “Gretchen’s question” – the differs from dpa/AFP
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[THE DAILY GRINDHOUSE INTERVIEW] DEBBIE ROCHON OF ‘BLOODY BALLET’
Nov 25, 2018 Featured, Interviews Tagged debbie rochon, Interviews Comments 0
I recently had the extreme pleasure of watching the the modern American giallo, BLOODY BALLET. What a top-notch film. It’s a wild roller-coaster ride of twists and turns, deeply routed in the style of classic Italian films, while maintaining a current horror sensibility. This little slice of terror that takes place at a ballet academy has it all: ghosts, slashers, blood, gore, and tons of style.
I couldn’t stop thinking about BLOODY BALLET. It’s a twisted masterwork. So, I reached out to one of the film’s stars, the genre-film veteran Debbie Rochon. Huge thank you to Debbie for taking the time out of her busy schedule to chat with Daily Grindhouse about BLOODY BALLET, what it was like working on the set, and what projects she has planned for the future.
Daily Grindhouse: You are absolutely stellar as Dr. Carlina Cassinelli. Your performance showed real versatility. How did you prepare for the role?
Debbie Rochon: Well, first I read a lot about therapists working with artists. There is a lot of great information on the subject. It’s not that different than a ‘normal’ patient, but because of what they go through on a regular basis — rejection, competition… it was helpful. I work a lot with the Michael Chekhov technique, so I mostly pulled from that. Quality of movement work. Also, seeing it’s a giallo-inspired film, it was important to understand the visual is equally as important as the emotional.
Daily Grindhouse: Did you have any real-life influences to help form your idea of who your character is?
Debbie Rochon: No, but I usually don’t with most of my characters, seeing as how I play such a wide variety of people in extreme situations in horror or horror-comedies. I really base my characters on a combination of what is in the script and what purpose my character has in the overall story. What relation does my character have to the story evolving? That is my biggest influence. Then I fill it out from there, and depending on what the director wants, it starts to formulate.
Daily Grindhouse: I’ve been a fan of actress Caroline Williams ever since she played “Stretch” in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2. Have the two of you ever worked together before? If not, how was it working together?
Debbie Rochon: We’ve been in a couple of other movies together, and yet not together. Like this movie, we were never on the set at the same time, so while I couldn’t tell you first-hand how it is working with her, I know she does incredible work with her roles.
Daily Grindhouse: You and Caroline are genre film veterans. Did you have any advice to the younger cast members?
Debbie Rochon: It would be fun to say yes, but the reality is the other actresses were very studied and hard-working, skilled performers and didn’t require any. They were solid and detailed in their work and approach, it was a joy to watch. I thought they were terrific in their roles.
Daily Grindhouse: BLOODY BALLET came across to me as a modern interpretation of classic Italian giallo. Everything from the score, to the lighting, to the black-gloved killer evoked that sensibility. Did you get the same feeling from the film?
Debbie Rochon: Yes. Very much. That was really due to the talent of the director, Brett Mullen. He had such a strong vision, and knew exactly what he wanted and how he wanted it to look. He also had a great time putting the scenes and shots together. It was fun to watch him work. I would put him in the top tier of talented directors I have worked with. The movie works as well as it does because of him — he co-wrote it, directed, shot the movie, and edited it. So when you’re dealing with a person with the entire vision on their shoulders, it says a lot when it works so well. Not often you find people who are talented and comfortable in all of those hats. It wasn’t because he had to out of need, either. He did it out of desire. That vision and desire is what can make a really terrific film. Even more than budget.
Daily Grindhouse: You always have the most interesting projects. Can you give me a little sneak peek of what we can expect next from you?
Debbie Rochon: Sure, I am very excited for DOOM ROOM to come out in January as well. It’s a powerful movie, very disturbing yet highly original. Based on true events. It takes the real life story of the woman who was abducted by a husband and wife, then forced to live in a box under their bed for seven years. The movie takes that premise and spins it in a trippy Alice in Wonderland kinda way. Directed by Jon Keeyes, whom I made AMERICAN NIGHTMARE with. I just finished shooting Lloyd Kaufman’s latest and most likely his last movie, SHAKESPEARE’S SHITSTORM, based on the play The Tempest. I will also be directing TORMENT ROAD in 2019, which I’m really excited about.
Once again, I would like to express my gratitude to Debbie Rochon for taking part in this interview. She is a true angel of independent cinema. I feel honored. Thank you! — @rottengerm77
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No. 27 UCSB Edged in Home Opener vs. No. 70 Pacific, Rebound Against Fresno St.
March 1, 2016 at 8:00 am by Daniel Moebus-Bowles
This past weekend, the No. 27 UCSB men’s tennis team played in its home opener, splitting its pair of matches on back-to-back days.
The Gauchos fell 4-3 to the No. 70 University of Pacific in a match that came down to the final set, but bounced back and dominated Fresno State the next day 7-0.
The Gauchos move to a 7-4 record overall, and are 1-1 at home.
Nicolas Moreno de Alboran returns the ball. Jenny Luo/Daily Nexus
“Saturday was a tough loss for us and it was great to see our team bounce back like we did,” Junior Co-Captain Teague Hamilton said. “We really responded well as a team.”
The first match of the weekend was a very lengthy battle for both sides as the deciding point came in the final match of the day. The No. 70 Tigers would capture that win and pull the 4-3 upset over the No. 27 Gauchos.
After gaining the doubles point, Hamilton added the first singles win of the match to put his team up 2-0. Freshman Anders Holm added a win of his own on court four, giving him his fourth straight in dual match play.
The Tigers would respond with three huge wins on the top three courts to ice the match at 3-3. The weight of the match would fall upon the shoulders of sophomore Cody Rakela and Pacific’s Jose Chamba on court five.
Chamba came out on top of the first set grabbing a 6-4 win, but Rakela would bounce back in the second taking a 6-3 win to force a third and final set to decide both the individual match and team competition. The two players exchanged games until they were held at 5-5.
Chamba would win the next game while holding serve and despite Rakela serving in the 12th game, Chamba took another win to close out the match 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 and give his team a 4-3 edge over Santa Barbara.
After dropping a close match to the Tigers, the Gauchos would come back the next day and down the Bulldogs of Fresno State with a 7-0 sweep.
The match started out on an interesting note as the Bulldogs were forced to play to a disadvantage due to suspensions made on the roster. This caused the Bulldogs to forfeit their match on court three for doubles and court three for singles so the Gauchos started off the match with a 2-0 lead.
Heading into singles play the Gauchos were in need of just two wins to seal the match, but went above and beyond winning all five of the matches to take a 7-0 win overall.
Hamilton added his third straight win since joining the starting lineup last week, only dropping three total games on court five. He defeated Jakob Keppelmann 6-2, 6-1 and was the first player to finish for Santa Barbara.
“I’m happy about helping my team with some singles wins,” Hamilton said. “I’ve been really getting into my matches and playing some great tennis.”
Holm added his fifth straight win on court four losing a match low two games to his opponent Patrick Pech. The freshman took a win with identical sets of 6-1, 6-1.
Junior Co-Captain Morgan Mays added a straight set victory of his own defeating Jeremy Moser on court three 6-3, 6-2. Freshman Nicolas Moreno de Alboran added the seventh point for the Gauchos with a sweep on court two. He defeated Mantas Bugailiskis 7-5, 6-4 to end the match.
The Gauchos will play two more home matches this week as they host Sacramento State on Friday and USF on Saturday afternoon. Both matches are set for 1pm starts at the Rec Cen Courts.
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Assessing the Carolina Hurricanes goalie prospects
by Matt Karash | Jul 19, 2018 | Daily Cup of Joe, The Pipeline
In case you missed it, yesterday’s Daily Cup of Joe offered my assessment and rankings of the Carolina Hurricanes blue line prospects.
Today’s Daily Cup of Joe continues down that path and offers a quick assessment and ranking of the Carolina Hurricanes’ goalie prospects.
Graduated with honors from the junior level/still working to make the grade at the AHL level (3)
Alex Nedeljkovic, Callum Booth and Jeremy Helvig
From the draft classes back a few years, the Hurricanes have three goalies who wrapped up Canadian Hockey League careers on high notes and made the jump to the AHL level with high marks at the previous level. Alex Nedeljkovic was the first to make the jump for the 2016-17 season. After a stellar juniors career and similarly strong play in international play, some luster came off of Nedeljkovic’s star after a rough transition to the AHL level in 2016-17. But he rebounded with a better season behind a strong team in 2017-18 and regained some optimism in the process. Callum Booth followed a year behind Nedeljkovic in 2017-18. He played primarily in the ECHL, so he has yet to truly be tested at the AHL level. Finally, Jeremy Helvig will join the group in the professional ranks after finishing up a strong career in the OHL. All three of these goalies have NHL potential and did about all one could hope before jumping to the AHL. All three are in different stages of mastering the AHL level and making a case for being an NHL goalie. Though none are a sure thing, having three goalies with NHL potential in the professional ranks is decent math.
Longer-term wild cards (3)
Eetu Makiniemi, Jake Kucharski, Jack La Fontaine
Below the group of three in the professional ranks is a next wave of three goalies who all have some runway at lower levels before the team needs to decide whether to sign them or not. All three players were mid to late round flyers who will take some time to develop even to determine if they are worthy of an NHL contract and AHL ice time. After a tough 2017-18 season that saw him cede the starting job at the University of Michigan, Jack La Fontaine will take his netminding the the BCHL where he will look to rebound and get back on track. 2017 draftee Eetu Makiniemi will continue his development in 2018-19 in Finland. And the newest member of the group is 2018 draftee Jake Kucharski. All three of these players are set to develop for a few years before the Hurricanes need to make a decision. The Hurricanes retain draft rights for LaFontaine for two more years, for three years for Makiniemi and for four years for Jake Kucharski. With the current logjam at the AHL level, the setup is perfect for having a number of options in the pipeline without issues trying to allocate ice time within the organization.
Netting it out
Ron Francis left the team in a pretty good place as far as goalie prospects go. Sure things are few and far between, but the Hurricanes ability to find goalies who would go on to master the juniors level does well to at least generate potential NHL netminders up to the AHL level. With two more goalies (plus Kucharski added after Francis’ departure) playing at lower levels, the Hurricanes have good volume even if not having a sure thing.
Taking a shot at ranking the Carolina Hurricanes goalie prospect pool
Ranking prospects is a very imperfect process and subject to change by wide amounts in just a couple months when preseason action arrives. But for the sake of July hockey debate, here is my ranking of the Hurricanes prospect goalies.
As compared to position players, my rankings for goalies are bit more holistic and big picture-based and less slanted toward my assessments watching them live.
Without further ado, here are my rankings:
1) Alex Nedeljkovic
As noted above, he lost some luster in 2016-17 but regained at least some of it in 2017-18. I think he is maybe lower than people hoped when he transitioned to the AHL level, but with a better 2017-18, he is the Hurricanes #1 goalie prospect until either Booth or Helvig can outplay him in the AHL.
2) Callum Booth
Booth is tracking a year behind Nedeljkovic. He posted decent numbers at the ECHL level and was good in limited play (only four games) at the AHL level in 2017-18. If he wins more AHL ice time in 2017-18, he gets a chance to outplay Nedeljkovic and jump to #1 on the goalie prospect depth chart.
3) Jeremy Helvig
Helvig is the latest to join the professional ranks. He is trending upward right now after a strong final season in the Ontario Hockey League. If he can garner AHL ice time in 2018-19, he is only a short 3-4 week burst away from vaulting to #1 if he can seize the AHL starting job.
4) Eetu Makiniemi
Makiniemi is quietly developing far away in Finland, but thus far looks like a decent value pick in the fourth round. He did not attend the recent prospect camp because of an injury but still rates highest of the three wild cards entering the 2018-19 season.
5) Jake Kucharski
The newest to join the ranks is 2018 seventh-round Jake Kucharski. Kucharski looked good at times in his first visit to prospect camp. He is slated to play at Providence College in 2018-19 and has up to four years to develop before the Hurricanes must decide whether to offer him a contract or not.
6) Jack LaFontaine
As noted above, LaFontaine’s development suffered a setback when he lost the starting job at the University of Michigan and had a light 2017-18 season. Further, driven by a numbers game, LaFontaine elected to leave Michigan and will try to rebound in the BCHL. Important to note is that everything that made LaFontaine a mid-round draft pick is still intact. He still has decent size, high-end agility and with it NHL potential. Perhaps it is just a matter of getting a restart and more ice time. I actually like his chances to rebound, but based on 2017-18, he starts from the bottom of the depth chart.
What say you Canes fans?
1) After a better 2017-18 season, do you think Alex Nedeljkovic is back on track to become the next internally developed goalie for the Hurricanes?
2) Sort of related, which of the three AHL netminders do you think will emerge as the team’s #1 goalie prospect when we again start measuring these things based on actual play during the 2018-19 season?
3) Does anyone feel like he/she has enough visibility to any of the wild card goalie prospects to really like one of them?
ctcaniac on July 19, 2018 at 7:53 am
1). I really don’t have a good idea what Ned’s future can be. Matt, you have mentioned on several occasions that goalies are unpredictable/different. That seems spot on. For instance, I thought Altshuller had potential. He was outstanding in the CHL, ECHL, and international play. His numbers weren’t great in the AHL, but didn’t strike me as so poor that he should be cut loose. Just goes to show I don’t understand all the intricacies of evaluating goalies–or I don’t know how to throw the bones.
2) I don’t know if it happens in 18-19, but I think Helvig ends up #1. Based on what I read about him on some CHL sites, his biggest asset might be determination. I tried to follow Kingston some online this past year. There was one weekend where Helvig started 3 games in less than 72 hours. He won all three stopping someone like 92 of 97 shots. He was also in goal in the series when Kingston eliminated Barrie–whose top player was Svechnikov. Though Svech did score a number of goals on Helvig.
3) Not me.
fogger794 on July 19, 2018 at 8:31 am
Hahaha Ctcaniac at this point, I think if anyone says they know how the goalie prospects are going to play out are either lying or fooling themselves.
You can’t know what you’re getting in an NHL goalie until they step between NHL pipes, that’s just the nature of the goaltending job, really unlike any other position.
I think Matt hashed out the rankings pretty fairly, though bumping the 7th rounder Kucharsky over LaFontaine was hilariously mean. Didn’t get the consistency or the ice time at Michigan but the man still has the talent and the body that we drafted. We’ll see if his head game is up to recovering.
I don’t worry about goalie stats so much. Ned’s stats blew no one away last year, but at the same time, he was exactly what they needed. Someone who could play solidly in the back, and really stepped up when they needed it. I don’t see that quality being unique to Ned, but we’ll see. Unlike forwards or defensemen, I am far quicker to write off a poor season by a goaltender, because it’s just so much more than a physical position.
3. Again, anyone who says they KNOW is just wrong, but I still am a big fan of Callum Booth. He had a good start to his first pro year, wasn’t asked to do too much, and I always have liked how he showed up when he needed to. In this realm of goalies I think the quantity we have will eventually yield the quality we need, be it Ned, Booth or Helvig, any of the three I could see eventually working their way up to that level. We will see.
jm97 on July 19, 2018 at 8:47 am
Voodoo, sorcery, magical incantations and evaluating goaltending. All dark arts that I try to stay away from.
powerless on July 19, 2018 at 9:25 am
Jm97, Amen brother.
d-rob on July 19, 2018 at 10:03 am
LOL! Talk about SPOT ON!
Nicely done jm97… Nicely done.
raleightj on July 19, 2018 at 9:22 am
I have only seen Ned and Booth. I like both.
Ned is small and quick – but he is either on point or he is off; but I saw one game in Charlotte last season where an error on his part let in a goal very early. But he didn’t get flustered – he shut the door and the Checkers won; that was the only puck that got past him.
Ned also already has 30 minutes of shutout NHL action from a couple of years ago. He didn’t look out of place in that outing.
I saw Booth play once last year – the first thing you notice is his size. He was very effective for 40 minutes (shutout) and then the gates opened on him. But I have to think he is going to be special in a year or two.
In the past several seasons, the Checkers have picked up a veteran goaltender – I am hoping this season they let Booth and Ned handle the work. I actually think Booth will supplant Ned, but I read a great article about Ned last month in which he discussed his work on the psychological part of the game.
In an ideal world Darling finds his magic, Mrazek finds his (and plays for a starter’s contract in 2019-20) – Ned gets time up here for whatever reason. And next season Ned or Booth earn the backup role behind Scott.
May I ask why Jorge Alves is not on this list?
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Best Homesite replacement for PC?
Asked almost 10 years ago by Scott Savage
Scott Savage 49
For the last 11 years I've happily used Homesite as my primary code editor, because I'm a hand-coder and not a big fan of WYSIWYG's. Despite that I've used Dreamweaver and Visual Studio. Unfortunately due to a software restriction at the office, I'm not able to use Homesite anymore. Can someone suggest a great code editor similar to Homesite that isn't a WYSIWYG? I've tried NVU and Amaya and didn't like them particularly either.
Magix 291
Its no good on sites such as this to say which program you like more, as everybody is different, and your favourites may not necessarily be the Asker's preference. Instead, it is far more useful to give specifications of many different choices, and letting the asker choose which program they wish to use...so I shall get started on that.
Actually wait. Before I get started I you start reading, I want you to know that this is a veeeeery long post, so if you don't have the time or if you don't have the patience, then just skip my post. However, you should notice the length of the post, consider how much time it took to write, and checkmark the little "Great Answer" box at the end of the post :)
Anyways...continuing on to the post...
Aptana Studio
[Aptana][1] is a free (or payed) program with great features that many people like. Aptana is very new, but is growing in popularity very fast. It offers JavaScript, HTMl, DOM, CSS and PHP syntax highlighting, proofing, and validation services. Aptana also has a "plugin" feature which you can use to develop iPhone apps, etc.
![Aptana Screenshot, from SmashingMagazine][2]
It is available in free or payed version, the payed version including all features and support. The free version is often more than enough for many coders.
Some features:
FTP Support
CSS Preview -CSS, JavaScript, HTML and DOM coding assistance
Integration with Firebug for Firefox
Komodo Edit
[Komodo Edit][3] is an advanced program with many special features and quirks.The editor includes a full range of supported languages (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl) and platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows ). Like Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit also supports browser-side languages like JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML.
Considering that Komodo Edit is free and offers functionalities which aren
Answered almost 10 years ago by Magix
Hmm. My post has been cut again. Is there a new limit on post size that I am not aware of? — Magix almost 10 years ago
Alex Holt 341
You could try out aptana - it's an IDE style environment - for web app production.
It's been a REALLY long time since i used homesite (and a PC) - so i could be a bit off the mark - but aptana isn't a bad environment (i think it's built on top of Eclipse..)
EDIT: If you are using both PC and Mac, then something cross platform like Aptana (or eclipse) would probably be good, since you could use the same environment at home and work?
Answered almost 10 years ago by Alex Holt
Eli Cochran 70
another vote for Aptana... I love the code completion and svn features. It has become my only code authoring tool.
Answered almost 10 years ago by Eli Cochran
Shaun Robinson 314
I assume you are on a PC, so many of my favourites (Coda, TextMate, TextWrangler) are not available.
Have you tried using Dreamweaver and switching to "Code view"? Nothing about the WYSIWYG is forced on you, and I believe the experience is very similar to Homesite.
Answered almost 10 years ago by Shaun Robinson
I forgot to mention: I primarily prefer to work on a Mac, but at the office I'm forced to use a PC. We use a combo of Dreamweaver CS3 and Visual Studio 2005 here at the office. I'm looking to break away from Dreamweaver despite the fact that the "Code View" is sufficient (and somewhat refined based on Homesite, which Macromedia aquired some years ago).
Answered almost 10 years ago by Scott Savage
I think you would get a better answer if you explained what it is about Dreamweaver that you dislike, what features it lacks for you etc., because from the sounds of it DW would be perfect.
David Vasquez 0
From personal experience as a hand-coder, I would have also suggested Dreamweaver. I simply ignore all WYSIWYG functions, personally.
However, I too, often seek out more light-weight "code-only" solutions. While I don't presume to know what Scott dislikes about Dreamweaver, I would venture to guess it has more to do with the program 'weight' than anything else.
So far I haven't found any applications that compete with the refined nature and feature set that Dreamweaver seems to offer; however it isn't exactly the lightest app out there, either.
My only suggestion to an alternative is one I discovered on this very site. Someone answered a similar question a while back by recommending an app called TopStyle. I have no personal experience with it myself, but after looking into it, I think it might be what you're looking for, Scott.
If nothing else, it's worth a look. http://www.topstyle4.com/
Good luck, and if you find something that suits your needs, we'd love to hear about it! I'm always looking for great hand-coding solutions that are light weight and easy to use.
Answered almost 10 years ago by David Vasquez
Russell Bishop 68
Dreamweaver is great in code view, you can simply ignore any wysiwyg functionality by staying code view.
The only real reason to use dreamweaver over say, notepad, is it's colour-coding, auto-tag closing and site manager. Just a note though, ensure that you remove the "_notes" folders wen setting up your sites - they're unnecessary and you'll scarce need to use them.
Answered almost 10 years ago by Russell Bishop
Darren Newton 10
Notepad++ - give it a try.
Answered almost 10 years ago by Darren Newton
Mirza Rahman 6
If you are on a PC, try InType. if you are on a mac, try Coda
Answered almost 10 years ago by Mirza Rahman
Jussi Jumppanen 0
The Zeus editor has support for HTML.
It is a non WYSIWYG editor with features like:
macro scripting
HTML Tidy
ftp/sftp editing
code templates
automatic indenting
ascii/unicode/utf8
projects and workspace
Answered almost 10 years ago by Jussi Jumppanen
Jefferythomas 0
Some great suggestions here, I can't wait to try some of them.
It always amazes me how many people still use (or would like to use) homesite considering it hasn't been updated since 2003.
Effectively all I am really looking for is a text editor with the following functions: (these are similar to some of the stuff the others posted) - ftp/sftp - some shortcuts for common html tags - inline tag completion - tag highlighting - built in css editor or a link to it - quick preview
Macromedia never understood that dream \weaver was not a substitute for homesite and I am not holding my breath for Adobe to understand it either. My issues with Dreamweaver were never weight related but more related to usability. I got turned off early by the editor rearranging my code and while I understand that it no longer does this (if you set it correctly) I still don't trust it.
Answered about 9 years ago by Jefferythomas
TomBubnick 0
I'll second Notepad++. However, I can also say that it's crashed a few times on me which is really annoying. That said, the price is right (free) and it does it's best to auto back up what you're working on if a crash occurs. It includes a code comparison function (which can also be done with WinDiff or a FireFox plug in), spell check and support for a number of languages.
Answered almost 10 years ago by TomBubnick
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Home Oral History Collection Homer G. Ellis oral history interview transcript
Homer G. Ellis oral history interview
Homer G. Ellis oral history interview transcript
Title Homer G. Ellis oral history interview
USS Arkansas (BB-33)
Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945.
United States. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
Description The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Homer G. Ellis. When he finished high school, he enlisted in the Navy and went on active duty in 1944. When he finished training he reported aboard the USS Arkansas (BB-33). Ellis served as a seaman and worked as a powder handler on a gun crew aboard ship. He was present for the invasion of Iwo Jima. He witnessed the flag flying over Mt. Suribachi. From Iwo Jima, the Arckansas also participated in softening up Okinawa. Ellis describes a friendly fire incident, which wounded about 20 sailors aboard Arkansas, when a kamikaze flew between them and the USS New York (BB-34). After the war ended, the Arkansas ferried sevicemen from Pearl Harbor to the West Coast during Operation Magic Carpet. He was discharged and used the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (GI Bill) to attend Tulane University after the war.
Creator Ellis, Homer G.
Contributors Rabalais, Larry
Norman, Donna
Title Homer G. Ellis oral history interview transcript
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Posted by Steve the Bookstore Guy On Monday, April 04, 2011
In case there was any ambiguity before, we want to set the record straight regarding Jonathan Maberry. He is freaking awesome. On every freaking level. Maberry's THE KING OF PLAGUES was just released, giving us our much needed Joe Ledger fix.
In this latest novel, Joe Ledger is drawn back into the world of horror and terrorism when the Royal London Hospital is leveled by bombs without any warning. As the death toll rises, Ledger realizes he can't watch from the sidelines--regardless of his life being left in shambles following the climatic events of THE DRAGON FACTORY. Ledger faces off against old enemies and new as a secret group weaponizes the Ten Plagues of Egypt.
It's easy to point at Maberry's ability to write action as the best part of his work. It IS fantastic. While unashamedly being over-the-top at times (not a bad thing--we love it in this series), the action scenes in THE KING OF PLAGUES are always crisp, brutal and easily pictured. No, as well as Maberry does action, he does character better.
We absolutely love the characters in the Joe Ledger series, and their progression in THE KING OF PLAGUES is top-notch. One thing that Maberry always manages to do is have his characters behave in realistic ways. Joe Ledger for example has faced terrorists, zombies, Nazi-clones, genetic monsters and now plagues. Many other authors would say, "Oh, well, my character is freaking awesome. Nothing phases him." Not Maberry. His characters are continually hammered emotionally and psychologically. The horrors they face actually affect the characters. Remember, one of the characters is the shrink for the DMS (more on him later). What this does is create a very real sense of danger for the characters Maberry is writing. He has no qualms about killing main characters (we're still feeling one in particular), but Maberry also seems keenly aware that killing a character isn't the worst thing you can do. No, scaring them psychologically can be FAR worse. If only more authors could find this delicate balance...
The great thing is that Maberry does a perfect job of showing just how damaged Joe Ledger really is. With every new person he meets, Joe can't quite hide all of his emotional scarring. Joe tries to cover his issues with jokes and sarcasm--always perfectly timed and written--but it becomes more and more apparent that Joe barely keeping his head above water.
There are a few things we should point out that took away slightly from the overall experience. None of them are huge issues, but in a book this good the little things have a way of standing out. First is the passage of time. For the readers, it has been a few years reading these novels. For Joe, it has been several months. It becomes difficult for the reader to remember that all of this is happening all in a really short amount of time. It magnifies the stress Joe has been under, but because of the time between novels the reader won't necessarily get that full impact. The solution? Heck if we know. Just keep the time-line in mind, we guess.
One of the other issues has to do with the PoVs. The Joe Ledger PoV is in first person while the others are in 3rd Limited. Nothing wrong with this. Our small problem is that it seems like Joe is featured less than what he deserves. It was Joe Ledger that made us instantly love PATIENT ZERO. Like THE DRAGON FACTORY before it, THE KING OF PLAGUES focuses a bit too much on the secondary characters. This is more of a subjective thing, but we like Joe Ledger a lot, and want to see more of his exploits. We want him right at the center of the action.
Almost in direct opposition to the previous issue, we felt Rudy was under used. He is a great character, and in desperate need of some more PoV time. Again, a very minor problem we had.
Yeah, that's it. We didn't have any other problems, and those small issues we had are so ridiculously minor. The novel was THAT good. We get big, stupid grins on our faces every time we even think of this series.
THE KING OF PLAGUES is a freaking thrill-ride of a novel. The pace is fast and furious. the action gripping. The terror and horror described and executed perfectly. The humor spot-on. Is it any wonder that Jonathan Maberry is on of our absolute favorite authors?
If you haven't started this series, you are missing out on one of the most fun series in print.
Language: All sorts, and really strong.
Violence: Weaponized Ten Biblical Plagues. Assassins. Cults. Joe Ledger. Yeah, there is a TON of awesome violence. There aren't many who do it better than Maberry.
Sex: It's talked about, and there are a few scenes that Maberry cuts away from before getting at all graphic.
Books We Love, Horror, Jonathan Maberry
K Said,
I have to agree with you guys that it's an awesome addition to the series. Though I'm surprised you didn't mention the glaring editing error on page 205 that ruined the big reveal later in the book. I'm not sure if the Maberry wanted to intentionally use the actual identity of the character instead of using "The American." Sure you kinda knew it was probably him but it lessened the impact of the revelation later. Still can't wait for the next Ledger book.
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Rude woman refuses to say sorry after bumping into this little girl. What happens next is heartwarming
The video ‘Apologize’ is making rounds on social media, not for a world-famous celebrity or a controversial issue but because of the message it delivers that subtle criticize today’s society who seems to make good conducts and ethics a thing in the past.
The viral video shows how important it is for parents to instil good manners in their children since at a young age. However easy it may sound, teaching young children how important it is to apologise even when it is not their fault or a pure accident is a lot harder in real life.
However, this father manages to prove a point to his daughters that a simple sorry goes a long way than simply standing up to complete ignorance and selfishness.
In this video, the father tries to teach his youngest daughter to apologise to her sister when she bumps into her sister with a mini trolley. After the youngest daughter, Jane, throws a tantrum by refusing to apologise and lying on the supermarket’s floor, the father gets advice from the onlookers who suggest slapping the young child’s mouth and pulling her hair to teach her a lesson.
The father ignores the advice and calmly asks her daughter to say sorry with a streak of authority for her to understand that he is trying to teach her
Thankfully, Jane understands and apologizes to her sister later but it appears that their life lesson does not just end there.
When a rude woman bumps into little Jane afterwards, the girl sees that it is a must for the woman to apologise to her. After all, that is what she just learned from her father.
Unfortunately, the woman refuses to do so and even throws some offensive words at the father for asking her to say sorry to his daughter. Eventually, the father brings the matter to the store manager who also thinks that it is appropriate for the woman to apologise to the little girl.
The unexpected dispute turns the father speechless when the rude woman still refuses to apologise. He is lost for words when his daughters ask him why the woman can get away even after being rude.
Later, the family moves to the cashier to pay for their groceries. However, there is a plot twist that no one expects at the end of the video!
Watch what happens when the family is at the checkout here
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Features Issue 108 Oct, 2010
Text by Kapil Bisht
March, in the district of Kanchanpur in far-west Nepal, is a month of mild, clear mornings. The sky shines again with the sun growing in influence after a brief repression under winter’s gloom. This is a month of short-lived mildness in weather before the ‘prodigal’ sun returns to its searing worst. Perhaps the only ones to dread March – or to renounce it because they know its gifts are always beyond them – are the children who attend schools in the neighboring Indian hill stations; their winter vacations come to an end as March begins. If you live in Kanchanpur year-round, you’ll love March.
It was in March that my uncle, Binod, had an experience that changed his reasons for remembering the month for ever. The experience also made for a great story, told many a time to the children of the house. This is that story.
Uncle Binod loved March, for it added to his real love – hunting. “In March,” he says, “the sal forests were bright with new fleshy lime-green leaves. The does were pregnant during this time of year, and would separate themselves from the stags. It was ideal for a hunter.”
The time was also ideal for another hunter, one capable of turning hunted into hunter. Binod was in the jungle to get a ‘big animal’. The big ones were stag (he never shot a doe, a rule passed down from his father) and wild boar. But he wasn’t a fussy hunter, an appropriate approach at a time when the jungle was alive with “the alarm calls of jungle fowl, made to ward off predators from their recently laid clutch of eggs”.
One day, in March, Binod set out with his cousin, Dambar, for his aunt’s farm in Pipladi, a village south of the East-West Highway. The plan was to hunt the nearby jungle the following day. In the farm, perhaps the only person more excited than Binod was the Aguwa, the title used for the leader of the Tharu families who, in those days, were employed as bonded laborers. The Aguwa, besides being a hunter himself was Binod’s ‘informer’ in Pipladi. He would have news of the jungle for Binod, about animals and their recent movements. He hunted with a muzzle-loading gun, the barrel of which was fashioned by a blacksmith from a four-wheeler’s steering rod. Although an ineffective weapon in itself, it sharpened the skills of a hunter by shifting attention from equipment to stealth. Binod and the Aguwa were a successful team; the former’s marksmanship and guns combined with the latter’s knowledge of the jungle resulted in frequent triumphs of man over beasts.
My grandfather and granduncles did not come to Pipladi only to hunt. Pipladi was also a citadel of the Bisht family. Dacoits from across the Nepal-India border were a constant threat, and, every time news of the robbers’ crossing into Nepal circulated, the Bishts moved in to Pipaldi from various outlying villages. They were never attacked, for their combined arsenal was a formidable defense against the thieves, who had an effective intelligence network. Once, two men belonging to the posse of the infamous dacoit Kallu Khan, came disguised as snake charmers to one of the Bishts’ houses for reconnaissance. What they saw (something the Bishts intended to be seen and, reported) was a massive collection of guns and ammunition spread out on blankets in the lawn. The exhibition worked, and Kallu Khan dropped his scheme of looting the sethjees (wealthy men). Invariably, the sethjees’ attention and guns would then turn away from the robbers towards the bountiful forests.
Binod was popular amongst the families living on the farm as well as in its vicinity. After arriving in the village for a hunting trip, he would spend a few hours visiting old acquaintances. Then, if his hunt was successful, he would give everyone a portion of the kill. So every time he came to the village, there was a chance the Tharu households would have fresh game meat cooking over their fires.
“I had all the information I needed for the hunt. The gothalas (herdsmen) had informed me about the recent movements of the animals,” Binod recalls of the night before the hunt. When asked about any special preparations that were made on the eve of the hunt, he says that was the Aguwa’s department. Riding into the farm on a motorcycle was cue enough for the Aguwa to begin preparations.
The forests around Pipaldi were where young Binod, as a child, had watched his father hunt sambar deer and barasingha (swamp deer). And now, a generation later, as I attempt to get him to revive his jungle adventures, Binod reminisces how during his time in Pipladi he would try to get elderly Tharus to tell stories of his father’s hunts. I can picture a wizened Tharu elder in loincloth, his laborious life etched on the sinewy contours of his dark thighs, regaling him with recollections of the time when my grandfather hunted the forests that his son eventually came to hunt in and love. A Tharu never grows old because he never stops working – toiling in the fields, fishing in a little stream, weeding gardens, or sitting in his smooth mud courtyard braiding a jute rope. And while he’s at it, he enjoys it, or at least it has always seemed that way to me.
To increase their prospects for success, the hunting party set out in the dark just before dawn. The chance of spotting animals was better in the earliest hours of the mornings – animal rush hour. Binod carried the Winchester .22 rifle and Dambar was given the 12-bore shotgun, apt for birds, and for quick, close range shots. Binod’s favorite, and one he hunted with usually, was the Remington bolt-action, 30.06 Springfield caliber rifle, the ‘big game special’, lay tucked under the hay on their transport. This particular model was considered by the legendary British hunter, Jim Corbett, as the best gun to hunt with in the Terai jungles. In the responsible but seldom-appreciated driver’s seat was Lokendra, uncle Binod’s nephew. The Aguwa was the utility man. Besides providing the muscles in a hunt, he was both guide and priest, for if the hunt was successful, he was the one to offer the tip from one of the kill’s ears and a piece of flesh from its knee to the Ban Devi, the Forest Goddess. Similarly, if the hunts were unsuccessful, especially ones where bad luck was involved (the Aguwa would decide when that was the case), a taawa (a slightly convex iron frying pan used for cooking rotis) was shot at to purge the bad luck.
Binod couldn’t have been better equipped, but he couldn’t have been prepared for what was to happen.
During the first few hours of the hunt everything was normal except for the fact that they did not spot a single animal, says Binod. In those days of animal-laden forests, not seeing an animal for hours could never be normal. Somehow, I feel there must have been something different that day. “Was there anything out of the ordinary, something that didn’t feel quite right?” I ask him, seeking to build some tension to make the story more gripping and interesting. Binod strains to remember. He can’t remember anything different that morning other than Lokendra’s uncharacteristically erratic driving. “Lokendra who was an expert driver, kept driving the wooden bullock cart, our transport, into dense areas that day. I remarked more than once that he was going to lead us right into a tiger’s mouth,” he recalls. The hunting party drove on towards another section of the forest.
In every forest, there is an area that is wilder, and has an appearance of having changed very little over time, a place unpredictable even after scores of visits. Laalpani was one such place. Its name means ‘red water’.
Soon they reached a familiar place called Laalpani. In every forest, there is an area that is wilder, and has an appearance of having changed very little over time, a place unpredictable even after scores of visits. Laalpani was one such place. Its name means ‘red water’ after the algae-reddened waters of a lazy stream that flowed between high banks. The stream was darkened in places by the drooping branches of the trees along the banks. The shade from these branches served to cool the waters, creating idyllic pockets for animals to drink from, or to prey on those drawn to it. Sprawling jamoon trees and large thickets of cane bush (from which the cudgels carried by the Nepal police are made) created the many shady areas that attracted animals – jungle fowl, peacock, and the solitary ‘big ones’ seeking shelter from the midday heat. The habitat at Laalpani was more congenial to a tiger than to any other animal. Almost all of its needs, from the need to kill and to rest, and to a dip in the water to cool off could be fulfilled in Laalpani. This was tiger territory.
A visit to Laalpani ensured that there would at least be a pull of the trigger for a hunter. But there was no certainty about what he’d be shooting at.
The Attack
Binod had already got two red jungle cocks when he heard others crying frantically in a nearby thicket. At first Binod thought there might be a big animal like a wild boar in there, for he knew from experience that such raucous alarm calls were made only when a large animal was around. Having fired his 12-bore shotgun only minutes before, he reasoned that it couldn’t be a big animal, however, for the report of the 12-bore would have driven any big critter away. Probably a jackal, he thought. He asked his cousin if he’d like to try flying-shots at pea fowl. He did and headed for the cane bush thicket. It was decided that Binod would enter the thicket while his cousin would skirt it to the other side. Binod would try to spook the jungle fowl or possibly a pea fowl out from the thicket towards his cousin on the other side, who would be ready with the 12-bore.
With the Aguwa following him, Binod entered the thicket. Inside, both darkness and discomfort increased with every step. The hook-like thorns of the cane bush meant movement was slow. Both entering and exiting the thicket was equally difficult. As Binod was negotiating the thorns he heard a noise “like the hissing made by a cat when confronted by a dog, but much louder”. Because he had followed a tiger’s trail many a time and knew what an elusive animal it was, he dismissed that possibility. “A tiger is an extremely shy animal, so the thought of it being in there did not occur to me at all,” he says. When it occurred to him that it might be the hiss of a python, he decided to turn back.
He had just half-turned when he heard a big roar and saw the yellow-and-black stripes of the supreme hunter, the Royal Bengal tiger “tearing the bush to leap towards me”. The thicket prevented the tiger from making a clean, lethal contact, but it came at him anyway with enough force to knock him (a man well over 80 kg) down to a distance of seven feet from where he was standing. Binod fell on one arm. The other, with the .22 in it was free. Then the tiger approached the hunter who, on so many other occasions, had tried to track a tiger to hunt it down. Here they were face-to-face; Binod and a Royal Bengal, and he felt defenseless for a moment. However, as a hunter after the prized head of a tiger, Binod always believed that his ability combined with the power of the gun would prevail. “When the tiger attacked, I actually forgot that I had a gun in my hand!” he admits with the wry smile of a man who has learned a lesson the hard way. When the tiger moved in to maul him, he shouted to frighten it and pushed it back using his gun as a shield. “Surprisingly, the tiger turned around like a dog at his master’s command, and retreated into the dense thicket he had sprung out from”, Binod later wrote in an unpublished memoir of his hunting days.
Like Cat and Mouse
The attack was over, but the threat remained. Binod did not know what to expect next. “I remember thinking: The cat-and-mouse game is on. He is going to toy with me now,” he reminisces. The scene of a cat toying with a mouse; cornering it, clawing it, letting it scurry for a distance before pouncing on it again, played on Binod’s mind. On the ground, and cornered, he was in a dilemma. He couldn’t decide whether to make a break for the exit or stay where he was. To make matters worse, he had been thrown away from the passage that led in and out of the thicket. If he chose to flee he would have to move forward towards the tiger, before taking a right turn out of the thicket. Slowly, as his senses began functioning again, he remembered his gun. But it was “... useless.” he says. “The .22 had neither the power nor enough noise to ruffle a tiger,” explaining his decision not to even bring his gun to a shooting position.
Amazingly, it took Binod “a minute at the most” to decide to exit the bush than wait for the tiger’s next move.
The tiger was angry now. And, for the first time, he heard the Aguwa shouting from outside the thicket to chase the tiger away. Amazingly, it took Binod “a minute at the most” to decide to exit the bush than wait for the tiger’s next move.
“It’s a tiger, you fool! It nearly got me. Let’s get out of here!” he shouted to the Aguwa.
Binod slowly backed out of the thicket where the fleet-footed Aguwa was peeping into the bush on tiptoes. He had run away when the tiger had attacked, but hadn’t fled altogether. “He was standing just outside the thicket when I came out,” Binod remembers with gratitude. Both of them then ran to the bullock cart. “Is it a wild boar?” Binod’s nephew asked, mistaking the duo’s fear for excitement. “It’s a tiger, you fool! It nearly got me. Let’s get out of here,” repeated a cross Binod.
Just as he got into the cart, Binod remembered his cousin Dambar. The tiger had gone in his direction. Too scared to even raise his voice, Binod asked Lokendra and the Aguwa to shout for Dambar. A faint reply came from the distance. They steered the bullock cart towards the place from where Dambar’s voice had come until they finally met him. He then told them what had happened on his side of the thicket. Hearing the tiger’s roar, he had fled to a nearby tree, and thinking that he was climbing, kept scrambling up an imaginary tree.
It was then that the Aguwa spotted blood on Binod’s hip. When Binod reached out to examine his hitherto unnoticed wound, his finger actually went into a hole in the flesh. With his bloodied trousers, he lay prostrate on the cart with the Aguwa pressing down a handkerchief over the wound to stem the flow of blood.
As the village fields came into sight, the Aguwa ran ahead of the cart to fetch the man from the village infirmary. Once in the farm, Binod put up a smiling face to allay his aunt’s apprehensions. After the wound was cleaned and dressed, Binod thought it best to return to Mahendranagar, his hometown. For the first time in his life, perhaps, the thought of riding the motorcycle was not appealing; but he had no option, for, in those days, he was the only one in the village who knew how to ride one. So he rode into Mahendranagar with a sore backside, carefully looking at familiar houses, trees, and other landmarks on the way thinking, “Since I had lost lots of blood, I decided that if I saw two of something where I previously knew only one existed, I would stop,” he says.
He arrived home safely where another cousin, a doctor, tended to his wounds. The doctor, who was himself a great marksman, had heard that there was a wounded tiger in the area where Binod had been attacked. The doctor suggested vaccinating Binod as a precaution against rabies. Since vaccines weren’t available in town, a man was sent to the Rabies Research Centre in Patuwa Dangar near the hill-station of Nainital, located in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. One after another, Binod received 14 injections around his navel.
The Summing Up
Reflecting on why the attack had ended so abruptly, Binod and other hunters with whom he discussed the incident agreed on three reasons. First: The tiger was resting, not feeding on a kill. Second: It was alone, not with cubs. And third: It wasn’t injured. If any of these conditions hadn’t been true, the tiger would have attacked to kill, not just to drive him away.
When Binod thinks back on his encounter with the Royal Bengal, he admits his mistake and always vindicates the tiger from accusations of malice, or whimsical fury. Years have passed since his encounter in the thicket, and more shall undoubtedly pass while he defends the tiger against stigma.
Uncle Binod usually ends his tale of the faceoff with this thought: “My cousin Dambar and I were talking to each other through the thicket. This must have made the tiger feel caged in. I misunderstood his warning – the hissing. But, when he came out to attack me his intention wasn’t wrong.”
Humans have taken their toll on the forests and its rightful dwellers. And, although scars from that incident remain on Binod, it is not known how many tigers, if any, remain to prowl Laalpani. Today, the avarice in man has got the better of him, and the lamentable truth is that our intentions are wrong.
After writing this story the author says: “This is my uncle Binod’s story. As a kid I relished the adventure side of it. Now, I write about it to convey the subtle message it carries. Even the tiger, an instinctive killer, showed surprising restraint and understanding when my uncle trespassed into its territory. My uncle understood the circumstances under which the tiger attacked, and, thus, respects it. For our part, we must understand the situation the tiger is now in and leave it alone in the forests of the Terai, not try bringing it home in parts.”
Kapil Bisht is a freelance writer from far-west Nepal and a frequent contributor to ECS Nepal magazine. He may be contacted at papercloudtree@hotmail.com. Binod Bisht, an ex-sportsman, is now a wildlife conservationist, and can be contacted at mywildwest@gmail.com.
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Dr. Suzanne Gelb
Love, Always
Ever reflect on your professional life and wonder, “Is this really as good as it gets?”
Feel like you haven’t yet reached your full potential? Like there’s more you want to do, experience… or achieve?
Excited about big projects and new plans, but feel somewhat stalled?
As a business consultant, I understand. With my toolkit of consulting skills — and background in human behavior — a passion of mine is to support people (in-person/virtual) to achieve their professional goals. Over the years, this has included supporting people to…
– Switch careers, get raises and promotions, and launch new businesses.
– Make great professional strides, while being “super-parents” and strong role models for their children.
– And more.
The beauty of one-to-one, individualized business consulting is that it can get results.
Through consulting, there’s typically a way to clarify goals, craft a plan, and take action for success.
Recently, my in-person (land-based) work has taken up much of my schedule. So, I’m accepting a limited number of virtual business consulting bookings.
BOOKING A BUSINESS CONSULTATION
I offer consulting worldwide — via phone or video chat.
Business consulting begins with a one-hour consultation (cost: $450 USD).
After the first meeting, if we decide to work together, we’ll create a plan based on your goals — and a timeline. (People often schedule 2 meetings/month for about 6 months, but to progress faster, sometimes an “accelerated” program is set-up with weekly meetings for about 4 weeks.)
Questions? Read the FAQs below. After that?
To inquire about setting up an initial business consultation — click here. Do not include confidential information/details.
Expect a reply within one business day, plus scheduling details, a consulting agreement, and a simple payment link.
It is possible to create the professional life one wants, and it’s never too late to get started.
1. Any articles to read on topics a business consultant may cover?
Sure. First, some context — I’ve been a Master Career Coach for The Muse, an award-winning online career resource, with over 4 million quality, professional members. (Due to schedule demands, I’m not currently taking on new business/career coaching assignments for The Muse.) To read my articles published by The Muse, on my column “Be Well At Work,” click here, here, or here. Please review the Article Disclaimer.
“Wow! This is fantastic stuff. You’re clearly incredible at what you do, and I’m so thrilled to share your advice with our audience!”
— Adrian Granzella Larssen, Editor-in-Chief, The Muse
2. Who is business consulting best suited for?
Speaking from my own perspective, only, I’ve had terrific success working with high-functioning people who have demanding lifestyles — doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, super-busy parents, and others. People who are doing “great” in some areas of life — but want to “raise the bar” in others.
Those who successfully work with me aren’t always (and don’t need to be) doctors, lawyers, and business owners. But they tend to have inspiringly, high standards — and keep striving to be their total best.
They also want results. Once they commit to a business consulting program, they’re all in!
3. As a business consultant, what’s your top tip for people who want to become high achievers?
This brings to mind a career highlight — when a reporter from NBC’s TODAY Show requested an interview with me.
She subsequently featured me in her article, “How to Succeed Everywhere: 10 Tips for Balance at Work, Home, in Relationships” — published on NBC’s TODAY. Here’s an excerpt from her article, addressing becoming a high achiever:
“The first step is to believe in yourself and know that you deserve success. Gelb says that although many women have a hard time overcoming social stigmas — such as the outdated belief that women cannot be competent employees and mothers at the same time — once a woman realizes her full potential and rids her mind of toxic thoughts, she can take over the world, Beyoncé style.
In this week’s Summer of Secrets: Successful Women series, Gelb gives TODAY.com her top tips on how women can become and remain high achievers in all aspects of their life.”
Article Disclaimer
These articles are for informational/educational purposes only. They are not a substitute for professional or psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before starting/modifying any personal growth program/technique, and with questions about health and well-being.
A DIFFERENT SERVICE
In addition to — but completely separate from — business consulting, I’m a psychologist in the State of Hawaii. To learn about my psychology work, head over here.
Suzanne Gelb, PhD, JD,
business and career consultant.
Powerful insights.
© 2019 Dr. Suzanne Gelb.
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Beautiful Me Comes to Centre
Fifth-grade students at Centre Avenue School also got the chance to participate in Beautiful Me, a self-esteem program designed to educate and empower female students.
Facilitated by school social worker Ms. Amy Weissman, Beautiful Me was developed by the Hance Family Foundation and gives students the opportunity to honor the lives of three sisters, Emma, Allyson and Katie Hance. By participating in this self-esteem program, students learn to understand who they are, appreciate their own skills and qualities, and understand that there is gratification in helping others.
The students discussed alternate views of beauty, distorted views of beauty from the media, and learned how to respect themselves and develop healthy relationships. They also engaged in activities that focused on self-esteem, values, problem-solving and positive motivation. Each student was provided with a paper hand and a paper doll where they wrote down the personality traits that make them beautiful on the inside. In addition, they were also provided with a compliment box and were encouraged to identify and write a meaningful, genuine and honest compliment for each member of the group. With that, they shared their compliments with each other.
At the end of the session, students received a three heart-shaped necklace from Jackie Hance of the Hance Family Foundation.
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Work: Awful or Awesome? - Letters from the ebbf board
ebbf’s chair Wendi Momen has just shared this latest “letter from the ebbf board” describing what makes work awful or an awesome experience depending on the purpose and reasons in which you focus your working life.
“Why do some people hate going to work and others love it? Why does the work day drag on and depressingly on for some people while for others work lifts them up, gives them purpose and brings them joy? Why is some work awful and other work awesome?
ebbf has always promoted a set of ideas that makes work awesome — a new work ethic:
* Everyone has both a right and an obligation to learn a useful skill and to use it for the benefit of all
* Meaningful work in an occupation, craft or trade not only provides material means but also performs a service for society
* Work has a spiritual as well as a material significance
* Work undertaken in the spirit of service to others is worship
Looked at in this light, work can be pretty awesome!
But how do we achieve this in our workplace? How can we make work meaningful? What do we need to do to create an awesome work environment? ebbf is trying to discover the answers to these questions.”
You can read the full article here
Giving you a taste of the next #discoveringhow podcast episode, dedicated to consultation.
The next episode of ebbf’s #discoveringhow podcast will be dedicated to the topic of consultation . We offer you a preview:
Valerie Arnold, a keynoter at a recent ebbf international event offers us ideas on how to outsmart personal biases to achieve better consultative processes. Considering how many times we are not even aware of those biases, it is more useful to bring them to our attention and explore how we might overcome them.
“If consultation entails considering all points of view without attachment to personal opinion, then it is essential to become aware of the cognitive biases that prevent us from being open and fully detached from personal biases
We all suffer from biases and these prevent an authentic dialogue during a consultation.
But outsmarting our own biases is tough as we are often unaware they exist. Only by challenging our deeply help assumptions, we will allow enquiry to happen.
Egocentrism is a big factor in distorting reality during a consultation and inserting personal biases but even without the ego
Diana Severati
#ebbfspirit - How can your business apply justice in an unjust environment? (with event keynoter Ralph Blundell)
A lively online interaction occurred during a recent ebbf online learning event with #ebbfspirit speaker Ralph Blundell. The curiosity of people from around the world who took part, was sparked by Ralph Blundell’s testing questions, exploring the topic of the keynote he will offer at #ebbfspirit , “How can your business apply the principle of justice in an unjust business environment?”
He started by sharing his own personal journey and balance of accepting, demanding and living coherently justice in his varied career.
Ralph worked in the Third Sector and public sector till the end of the ’90s. He was focused on social action, working on the penal reform, using psyco-drama in prison, and on social issues like those of refugee resettlement from the Balkan war. He was also involved in the Labour Party with Tony Blair.
During his experience he realized two things: the frequent futility of politics and how helpful business was. It was the time for a switch to business where he thought the fastest road to change could be made. Business is a means by which you can act socially if you apply justice as a guiding principle, it has the agility and effectiveness to allow quick implementations of both bad and good trends.
But his connection with government also helped him see how public policy can unfold in two different directions: creating an enabling environment where civil society and business can take decisions and self regulate (e.g. Internet access, employment contracts etc.).
Or governments can create a controlling environment with rules and regulations strictly set by the central government. However as soon as the regulation is created from above, smarter people find a way around any such controls. It does not work because it is not intrinsic it does not come from within.
Ralph soon saw that in this environment being passive is a luxury reserved to the privileged and he definitely decided he’d not sit on that passive mode and instead look for active ways forward.
#ebbfspirit keynoter Partow Izadi on Evolution & Human Potential: The Big Picture
Partow Izadi is one of the speakers we interacted with in the over 20 sessions we enjoyed at a recent ebbf international learning event,
He shares below a few initial thoughts reflecting the theme of the event: can ethical business build the future through the spiritual enterprise?
“The ongoing global crisis may induce some to despair and give in to cynicism. Yet, viewed in the context of human evolution, we may not be experiencing just a random phase of trouble and conflict, with no light at the end of the tunnel.
All living things — including humankind as a whole — evolve through periods of stable development as well as rapid and painful transitions, crisis. While the risks in such transitions are considerable, the opportunities are even more consequential and have, indeed, spurred the human species on its social evolution.
#ebbfspirit - from believing in to implementing spiritual principles in your organization - mind the gap (with event keynoter Larry Miller)
Below a few highlights of the opportunity that people from around the world took to interact with #ebbfspirit international event speaker Larry Miller.
He answered questions on the challenge of designing into your organizations the systems, structures and habit patterns that reflect principles like justice, consultation, unity or moderation.
See how to join ebbf’s next online video conference
You can also explore the broader theme of why and how the spiritual enterprise can be part of ethical business building the future, with like-minded business people and entrepreneurs from around the world by coming physically to the international event MORE INFO HERE: http://ebbf.org/event/ebbf-spiritual-enterprise/
We asked Larry where do we start implementing new principles and change?
Read this and other answers that Larry gave …
Arlette George
#ebbfmember Nousha Ram: the rise of accompaniment through principles-driven mentorship and coaching ( Part 2 of 3 )
In the previous episode of this three-part interview, we heard from the late Deloitte Canada partner and ebbf advisory council member Nousha Ram, about the need to create agile organizations and processes to adapt effectively to a fast evolving environment.
Coach for soundness of principles
Nousha Ram observed that “With the rise of the sharing economy: Airbnb, Uber, for example; we are starting to see how the foundation of any business idea must be the principles of truthfulness and trustworthiness.”
Therefore, the focus in her mentorship is to coach for soundness of principles drawing out: “courage; trust; valuing diversity; inclusivity; bringing our whole selves to work” in order to create, what she calls; “Mega-Transformational Programs, that not only bring results, but which also speeds up the achievemnt of set goals, often creating unexpected additional outcomes and learnings.
#ebbfmember Nousha Ram on the traits of successful leadership for these complex times: agile, principles-based and collaborative ( Part 1 of 3 )
As we collectively uncover the nature of meaningful work for the 21st Century, the late Nousha Ram, who worked in complex technology project delivery as a Partner at Deloitte Canada and was a member of ebbf’s advisory council had, what may be called, regenerative insights that address many of the issues faced by leaders and teams in these times. We start with the first episode of this three-part interview.
A new agile approach is needed
The essence of Nousha Ram’s role was to help companies maximize the value of IT investments and have IT interact with and improve business strategy:
“You need to understand that you can invest in X, Y and Z over three years, spend $10 million to create A, B and C and still create something irrelevant, and that is of course considered a failure. This you want to avoid. You need to know what would make more sense…” Businesses wanting to invest in IT are faced with a dilemma namely, ‘How do we get from here to there when” as Nousha Ram said “We know long term planning is no longer an option in today’s fast changing environment”.
ebbf's 2016 annual report published : increased impact, learning and geographical spread
An encouraging year for ebbf, its members and the increased impact this now global organization is reaching.
It has also been a year of useful learning both in the way the organization is developing internally and in new learnings as its members increase their interaction in local activities.
You can download and view the entire report clicking here
We invite members to actively participate in ebbf’s Annual General Meeting to be held at 17:00 on Saturday 6th of May at the venue of its next annual conference in Geneva.
The board is asking its members to specifically come and consult on three strategic areas:
a) ebbf reaching sustainable financing
b) fostering current partnerships and extending to new relevant ones
c) expanding local ebbf activities, their impact and learning
More info on the AGM and the venue embedded in the full annual conference program here
#ebbfdiversity - annual conference speaker Arthur Dahl on Diversity from a systems perspective
Arthur Dahl is one of the speakers from over 15 countries who engaged with the diverse global audience during a recent international ebbf conference (more info on the event here) . He offers this article to introduce our understanding of diversity, main theme of the event.
“Diversity refers to the variety of different thing in an assemblage. We may use the metaphore of a beautify garden with many different varieties of flowers, with different colours and shapes adding to the visual interest. But is that enough? If it was just the gardener who planted them all side by side or in some aesthetic arrangement, how long would that beauty last? Over time, would some die out and others take over?
Suppose that you put in the same community people of a wide variety of races, cultures, languages and classes, all of whom though that they were from the superior group. What would that diversity contribute to efforts to build a sense of community? Quarrels and boycotts, or worse?
Imagine a zoo, with all kinds of animals in separate cages, fascinating to admire perhaps, but far from being a harmonious ecosystem and totally dependent on the zoo keepers for their survival.
Systems science can help to explain these phenomena. What is important in a complex system is not just the number of different entities and their distinct qualities, but how they interact. Will they simply fight until one comes out the winner? Or do they have a common purpose, with an organization that is more than the sum of the parts?
Fortunately we have examples from the natural world that can illustrate what is necessary beyond diversity. They show that diversity is the dynamic driver for greater systems complexity, integration, efficiency and resilience. Through long processes of evolution, and both individual and group selection, interactions are selected for that enhance the interrelationships beneficial for all concerned. The greater the number of potential interactions among diverse entities, the greater the capacity of the system to evolve higher levels of complexity.
In a coral reef ecosystem, full of life in the biological desert that is the tropical sea, it is the increasing cooperation among the thousands of species expressed in mutual assistance and symbioses that make such high levels of productivity possible. Corals themselves are already a community of colonial animals living in symbiosis with tiny algae inside of their tissues, fertilized with their wastes and producing much of their food. Among the many kinds of fish, each has a special role in the community. Damsel fish cultivate seaweeds in their garden for food. Parrot fish bite off chunks of coral, creating bare areas where the larvae of other corals can settle, increasing coral diversity. Clown fish attract predatory fish as food for their anemone. Cleaner fish pick parasites off the skin, teeth and gills of big predatory fish at cleaning stations. Everything has its place and function, and together they create one of the world’s most diverse and productive ecosystems.
Unlike the present economic paradigm, where increasing productivity means keeping only the individually most productive and discarding the rest, on the coral reef, the gaps between the most productive are filled by slightly less productive forms, on down to the only marginally productive, because the sum total of all of these is far more than the most productive by itself, not to mention variations in productivity and comparative advantage under different conditions. Different life forms perform different services, all contributing to the overall productivity, resilience and well-being of the community as a whole.
We need to look at human diversity, both individually and its various collective forms, in the same way. Every human being has some capacity to contribute to the material, social, intellectual and spiritual wealth of the society, if we can discover and cultivate those qualities and find the right place in society for them. Our tragedy at the moment is that this rich human diversity, unaccompanied by values of justice, cooperation and reciprocity, can produce the negative reactions and phenomena we see today.
The Institute for Studies of Global Prosperity has described the systems perspective on diversity this way: “Much like the human body, the interdependent body of humanity is composed of diverse elements whose well-being can only be achieved through integration and coordination. No cell or organ lives apart from the human body, and the well-being of each derives from the well-being of the whole. At the same time, it is the unity and interdependence of the body’s diverse cells and organs that permits the full realization of the distinctive capacities inherent in each. The organic unity suggested by this analogy does not imply uniformity. On the contrary, the diversity of the component parts of an organic body permits the full realization of its collective capacity. Within human societies, diversity is a source of inspiration, creativity, productivity, resilience, innovation, and adaptation. Only when diverse segments of society are able to contribute appropriately to the governance of human affairs, within a framework characterized by unity and integration, will real prosperity and well-being be achieved. Such unity can only be achieved, however, as justice becomes the guiding principle of governance at all levels. An essential expression of justice is the desire to ensure that every individual and group has the opportunity to develop their full potential in order to contribute to the betterment of society. A concern for justice is thus an indispensable compass in collective decision making. In the design and implementation of plans, programs, and policies, justice is the sole means by which unity of thought and action can be achieved and sustained among diverse peoples.” (ISGP 2012)
Civilizations have always experienced rise and fall, and ours is no exception. But the decline of an old bankrupt system creates the opportunity to build a new one. Recent historical research by an avowed atheist has suggested that higher levels of ethnically-diverse civilization are catalysed by ethical values from religion, building trust among otherwise competing groups, increasing the level of altruism among leaders, and providing the foundation and energy for new levels of organization and efficiency (Turchin 2016).
Rethinking the economic system
This systems approach is beautifully illustrated in the recent message to the Bahá’í World from the Universal House of Justice, the supreme Bahá’í administrative body, dated 1 March 2017 (UHJ 2017), parts of which are summarized below. It starts by describing the social conditions today, in which the prolonged suffering of so many is evidence of deep-seated structural defects in society causing system failure. It makes the classic systems statement that the welfare of any segment of humanity is inextricably bound up with the welfare of the whole.
The dominant forces of materialism are in fact a negation of the systems perspective, glorifying the individual at the expense of collective welfare. This is obvious in beliefs that:
– happiness comes from constant acquisition,
– the more one has the better, and
– worry for the environment is for another day.
These seductive messages fuel an increasingly entrenched sense of personal entitlement, which uses the language of justice and rights to disguise self-interest. Indifference to the hardship experienced by others becomes commonplace. Entertainment and distracting amusements are voraciously consumed to cover up this reality. This enervating influence of materialism has seeped into every culture.
The message warns that:
– unless you strive to remain conscious of its effects, you may to one degree or another unwittingly adopt its ways of seeing the world;
– very young children absorb the norms of their surroundings;
– for junior youth, the call of materialism grows more insistent;
– adulthood brings a responsibility not to allow worldly pursuits to blind one’s eyes to injustice and privation.
Conscious of this state of affairs, we need to see past the illusions that, at every stage of life, the world uses to pull our attention away from service (the systems perspective) and towards the self, and to manage our material affairs in keeping with spiritual principles and what systems science says is needed for integration.
How anti-systemic it is for each group to think of its own well-being in isolation, to pursue economic gain without regard for the natural environment, and to allow avarice and self-interest to prevail at the expense of the common good. The extremes of wealth and poverty in the world are becoming ever more untenable, with unconscionable quantities of wealth being amassed, while income and opportunity are spread so unevenly, deepening the fractures that affect societies large and small. These are clear signs of systems failure. The message states that there is no justification for continuing to perpetuate structures, rules, and systems that manifestly fail to serve the interests of all peoples.
Behind this systems failure is a moral failure, since morals, in a systemic perspective, can be considered the principles on which social systems are founded and which create their evolutionary potential. There is an inherent moral dimension to the generation, distribution, and utilization of wealth and resources.
The vision of Baha’u’llah highlighted in the message challenges the materialistic assumptions that self-interest, far from needing to be restrained, drives prosperity; that progress depends upon its expression through relentless competition; and that the worth of an individual is chiefly in terms of how much one can accumulate and how many goods one can consume relative to others.
What, then, are the systems requirements for a new economic paradigm capable of meeting the material and social needs of all people, leaving no one behind as the UN 2030 Agenda calls for? Wealth must serve humanity and be used in accordance with spiritual principles. “No light can compare with the light of justice. The establishment of order in the world and the tranquillity of the nations depend upon it.” (Baha’u’llah)
The message calls for the reorganization of human society. Collective prosperity can be advanced through justice and generosity, collaboration and mutual assistance, qualities that are essential to integrated and productive human systems. Every choice we make—as employee or employer, producer or consumer, borrower or lender, benefactor or beneficiary—leaves a trace, and the moral duty to lead a coherent life demands that one’s economic decisions be in accordance with lofty ideals, that the purity of one’s aims be matched by the purity of one’s actions to fulfil those aims.
At this ebbf event in particular, we each need to consider how we can make our own individual and collective contributions to economic justice and social progress wherever we reside. We have the responsibility to find ways of addressing the root causes of the poverty in our own surroundings.
Underlying this, we must acknowledge the spiritual reality of humanity, and the nobility inherent to every human being, one of ebbf’s core values. Economic life is an arena for the expression of honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, generosity, and other qualities of the spirit. The individual is not merely a self-interested economic unit, striving to claim an ever-greater share of the world’s material resources.
“Man’s merit lieth in service and virtue, and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.” (Baha’u’llah)
“Dissipate not the wealth of your precious lives in the pursuit of evil and corrupt affection, nor let your endeavours be spent in promoting your personal interest.” (Baha’u’llah)
By consecrating oneself to the service of others, one finds meaning and purpose in life and contributes to the upliftment of society itself, a complete systems frame of reference.
In this way, we raise economics out of the slough of materialism, and recognize the higher purpose of economic activity. We can see that ordinary economic activities have the potential to add to human welfare and prosperity.
“Every person must have an occupation, a trade or a craft, so that he may carry other people’s burdens, and not himself be a burden to others.” (‘Abdu’l-Baha)
“Wealth is praiseworthy in the highest degree, if it is acquired by an individual’s own efforts… in commerce, agriculture, art and industry, and if it be expended for philanthropic purposes.” (‘Abdu’l-Baha)
“Wealth is most commendable provided the entire population is wealthy.” (‘Abdu’l-Baha)
An important theme in the message is the need for learning based on practical action. We do not have a complete model of an alternative economic system, but only some spiritual principles that should be reflected in systems to emerge in the future. What we can do now is experiment, in our businesses, workplaces and communities, with alternatives to the present ways of doing things, and through action, reflection and consultation in a humble posture of learning, try to take some small steps towards a new vision of the economy.
I hope that, at the end of this event, you will go away with feelings of contentment and moderation, benevolence and fellow feeling, sacrifice and reliance on the divine will, as we work from the bottom up to transform the economy and society.”
ISGP. 2012. Reflections on Governance. Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity, Bahá’í International Community. Bahá’í World Centre, Haifa, Israel, 21 July 2012. http://www.globalprosperity.org/documents/ISGP_Reflections_on_Governance.pdf
Turchin, Peter. 2016. Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth. Chaplin, Connecticut: Beresta Books.
UHJ. 2017. Universal House of Justice, To the Bahá’ís of the World, 1 March 2017. Bahá’í World Centre, Haifa.
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14.05.19 ebbf announces its 2018 annual report – the highest growth in ebbf’s impact and reach, also achieving financial balance
12.05.19 Monday 13th May last online learning opportunity to interact with #rethinkmaterialism speakers
28.04.19 Don’t miss opportunity to rethink business – online course registrations ending now
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27.03.19 What we learnt from owners of company that transitioned from purely commercial to manager-less values-driven status
14.03.19 Rethinking Enterprise Leaderships with Accompaniment – event presenter Moneshia Zu Eitz’s views to #RethinkMaterialism
06.03.19 12th March – #RethinkMaterialism pre-annual conference online learning experience with speakers Jose Soto and Carlos Cordoba
19.02.19 #rethinkmaterialism speaker Sahba Sobhani
30.01.19 Monday 11th February – join #rethinkmaterialism speaker Enrico Giraudi in online interactive session
23.01.19 First #rethinkmaterialism ebbf annual conference speakers announced
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Amazon: I don't sell your home, Google: so YouTube you don't want to see it
via:博客园 time:2017/12/6 17:15:18 readed:784
The war between Google and Amazon has been intensifying in recent two years. The two giants have been making a lot of trouble from the dead end of smart speakers to the contention of video content.
As early as 2015, Amazon began to pull the video player Chromecast of Google from its shopping website, so that users could focus more on their own products and watch Prime videos.
And in September of this year, Google had an argument with Amazon, when Google removed YouYube from Amazon's latest Echo product Echo Show, because the YouTube service that users experience is incomplete.
This is also the start in the Google YouTube vicious spiral, will withdraw from the Amazon Echo Show soon, Amazon began on its website -- Google's Nest series of products.
Two weeks ago, Amazon used the web version YouTube instead of the YouTube service built before in Echo Show to enable users to use it. However, from today on, web version YouTube also can't be used.
In addition, a spokesman for Google said that not only is Echo Show, but a lot of American families are using Amazon
Of course, the two companies later blamed each other, and a new round of verbal warfare is inevitable, Google said:
We have been trying to cooperate with Amazon, allowing users to use their products and services, but Amazon has banned Chromecast and GoogleHome, also did not provide Prime services for Google Cast users, so we will terminate the Echo Show and Fire TV YouTube service.
Amazon responded by saying that the approach to Google was very disappointing and hoped to solve the problem with Google as soon as possible.
The two companies accuse each other, and ultimately affected or each one sticks to his argument, these services and product users, YouTube users in the United States and the amount of needless to say, the Amazon Fire TV is essential for millions of families, that is to say, if Google do, will lose a lot of users.
Amazon is not free, Amazon Prime video applications until this year on the Google Play store, and before that, users need to download the Amazon AppStore to download Prime video applications, while Amazon is to store application guide users to use their own.
In addition, Chromecast video can't be viewed with Prime now, but Amazon can't be used as long as it wants to support, but sometimes it's a subconscious act as a competitor.
But the two giants seem to be immersed in the rhythm of each other. They totally ignore the user's feelings. For those users who have overlapping Echo and YouTube services, they seem to be endured for a long time in the two companies' saliva.
From here:Engadget
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Quotes \ Authors \ Scottish Authors \ George Byron
Facts about George Byron
George Byron was a famous Poet from Scotland, who lived between January 22, 1788 and April 19, 1824. He/she became only 36 years old.
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous. Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by George.
Here is some other popular authors who lived in the same timeframe: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Ward Beecher, H. C. Andersen, Henry W. Longfellow, Berthold Auerbach, Alexandre Dumas, Samuel Smiles, John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, V. Cousin, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, Karl Marx, Robert Browning, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Honore de Balzac, John Charles Fremont, Joseph E. Brown, John P. Kennedy, Judah Philip Benjamin
Famous quotes by George Byron (31)
"Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons"
"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it"
"Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen"
"Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?"
"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure"
"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce"
"Lovers may be and indeed generally are enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations"
"It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts, you have no idea of the pain it gives one"
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Obamas birth certificate.
GOOD DETECTIVE WORK ON OBAMA—–NEW INFORMATION.
SENT BY A RETIRED MARINE FULL BIRD COL.
1. Back in 1961 people of color were called ‘Negroes’. So how can the
Obama birth certificate state he is ‘African-American’ when the term
wasn’t even used at that time?
2. The birth certificate that the White House released lists Obama’s birth
as August 4, 1961. It also lists Barack Hussein Obama as his father. No
big deal, right? At the time of Obama’s birth, it also shows that his
father is age 25 years old and that Obama’s father was born in “Kenya,
East Africa”. This wouldn’t seem like anything of concern, except the fact
that Kenya did not even exist until 1963, two whole years after Obama’s
birth and 27 years after his father’s birth. How could Obama’s father have
been born in a country that did not yet exist? Up and until Kenya was
formed in 1963, it was known as the “British East Africa Protectorate”.
3. On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place
of birth is “Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital”. This cannot
be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called “KauiKeolani
Children’s Hospital” and “Kapi’olani Maternity Home”, respectively. The
name did not change to Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until
1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of
the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not
yet been applied to it until 1978?
Why hasn’t this been discussed in the major media?????
Please send this to everyone you know with the hope that we can force the
media, as well OUR NATION, to address this CORRUPTION.
< http://www.kapiolani.org/women-and-children/about-us/default.aspx>
Post-colonial history (from Wikipedia)
< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Kenya>
The Ten Biggest Corporate Media Cover-ups
by Christopher Rudy, Publisher
Heartcom Network
Please forward freely for mass awakening as to the
problem/solution resolution.
Note: The full documentary on the Thrive Movement will become free with on-line viewing on April 5th. In the meantime, you can watch the free trailer at: www.ThriveMovement.com.
This movie professionally addresses many of the ten points following.
The order of these top-ten cover-ups ranges from the more credible ‘BS’ (Belief Systems) at the top, to the least credible ‘BS’ at the bottom. Each to their own ‘BS’, cherished illusions, willful ignorance or prescient knowing of these things:
10 – Cultural warfare of a predatory nature, pitting Wall Street against Main Street, is rarely explained as simply the money-changers in the public Treasury who, since 1913, have privatized the banking system and socialized public debt for profit and control by the corporatocracy who have a vested interest in a win/lose economics of scarcity whereby they thrive with abundance and the public suffers a scarcity of health, liberty and prosperity.
9 – Free energy technology, pioneered by Nikola Tesla more than 100 years ago, has been suppressed, often ruthlessly, to maintain the giant corporate interests in power and control for profit without the principle of the highest and best use of technology for public service and a clean environment. The same robber barons who suppressed free-energy 100 years ago were involved with the takeover of the public Treasury with the privately owned ‘Federal Reserve’ which is neither ‘Federal’ nor has any ‘Reserves’ (creating money with interest).
8 – Ron Paul’s real popularity and success is blacked out in the corporate media with massive vote fraud since the first Iowa caucus. It’s obvious why. If his Constitutional principles win and the privatized Fed is eliminated, the corporatocracy loses power to monopolize the physical and human resources of the public. The Internet has provided pictures and videos of thousands of people attending Ron Paul rallies while Santorum or Romney get a few hundred people to their meetings, yet supposedly win in blatantly rigged corporate media polls, even when only 1-2% of the vote has been tabulated. See: This Hoax Affects Everyone (YouTube).
7 – Disease care has been privatized for profit and the cost is ‘socialized’ with health deficits in the public-at-large. Corporate disease treatment incentives have inverted, subverted and perverted preventive health-building policies; a pound of cure is now worth 16x’s an ounce of prevention. A covert population reduction agenda via chemtrails, fluoride, vaccines and GMO foods is extremely profitable, making a killing (literally) for the medical-industrial complex. There’s nothing that makes this sick system more self-evident than the ‘Universal Self Care’ that could globally provide practical holistic healing protocols for anyone with an Internet connection.
6 – The world’s fastest growing economies, representing 42% of world population — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) — are abandoning the U.S. dollar as their reserve currency. That’s the REAL issue behind corporate media propaganda about attacking Iran which has been ‘sanctioned’ into selling it’s oil to BRICS. It’s also the REAL reason that Iraq and Libya were ruthlessly plundered for threatening to dump the US dollar as their reserve currency. See: Why BRICS is Dumping the Dollar (YouTube).
5 – The boob-tube indoctrinated masses seem to be oblivious to the key elements of tyranny and oppression reflected in the NDAA signed into law on New Year’s Eve, 2011 by the Obama Administration. This law nullifies the Bill of Rights and eliminates any right to due process for Americans. It allows the government to arrest, detain, interrogate and torture any person, for any reason, even if they are never charged with a crime. Similarly, on March 16 of this year, President Obama signed into effect an executive order that seizes control over all food resources across the country, including food, seeds, livestock, farm equipment, food processing facilities, and animal feed. This is written in clear English, right in the order itself.
4 – Increasing UFO activity is openly reported in nations worldwide, but black-out in the U.S. corporate media. Full disclosure of the ET presence and crop-circle creators would blow the lid on the long-term collaboration of secret government agencies with ET’s on advanced technologies hundreds of years beyond what the public believes exists now. The real reason for corporate media/Hollywood ‘fear porn’ about ‘higher beings’ and UFO’s is to keep the lid on ‘higher Conscience’ and technologies that would liberate humanity from corporatocracy corruption.
3 – AIDS was created and deployed out of American bio-war labs and deployed in hepatitis B vaccines in black and homosexual communities in the U.S. as well as by the World Health Organization in Africa. Vaccines in general are part of a population reduction agenda that injects toxic pathogens directly into the population for extreme profit to Big Pharma as pathologies are seeded for gestation over years or decades. Autism has increased dramatically in proportion to increased vaccination of children, but unvaccinated populations like the Amish don’t get it.
2 – The real story behind global warming and climate change on all planets in our solar system is the surge in the ‘Source Field’ as our entire solar system completes it’s alignment with the Galactic Plane of billions of star systems in our Milky Way Galaxy. That’s the REAL story behind the Mayan calendar and the intensification of bio-energetics accelerating conscious evolution and tech innovations. This ‘Great Crossing’ of the Galactic Plane happens twice in the 25,800 year ‘precession of the Equinoxes’, the last time being about 14,000 years ago with the 2000 year rise and then fall (sinking / Great Flood) of ‘mythical’ Atlantis.
1 – The ‘complex’ of moons and space debris around “Nibiru” (Planet X or PX) is being photographed increasingly worldwide. The vast amount of information on this at ZetaTalk.com (and PoleShift.ning.com) is warning of massive Earth Changes due to the highly charged electromagnets of PX affecting Earth with imminent passage. A high percentage of the IP addresses registering on these websites are visits from the Pentagon and other nations whom consider this information accurate and essential to their preparation for what’s coming soon. This is perhaps the most significant, yet least reported news in the corporate media. When everyone begins seeing this ‘complex’ in the sky, realize that the time is short for the ‘elect’ who elect or otherwise choose to prepare for a major ‘reboot’ of global civilization.
November 7, 2012 @ 7:49 am
The name Kenya was used by Kenyans before Independence despite the British name of East Africa. It was the Kenyans preferred name.
There were ‘Kenyan’ patriotic political parties that wanted home rule from the late 1950s onwards.
Kenyans would regularly state their nationality as Kenyan and perhaps that’s is why Obama’s father said he was born in Kenya, rather than East Africa- which would have sounded loyal to the Colonists.
It’s a name that would be accepted by US immigration officials as well so while I have no knowledge about Obama’s birth the listing of Kenya doesn’t make a difference one way or the other. Cheers
I should have added the reason I know is because my father was born in Kenya to white British parents in 1951 and his birth certificate lists his birth place as Kenya as his parents were anti-colonialists.
re: Nikola Tesla. Don;t forget the cover-ups and destruction of the electric car industry by Detroit. An young Aussie guy has invented a motor bike that runs on compresses air as well. Probably have an accident on that bike if he isn’t careful.
AndyL
It wasn’t just the electric car that was covered up. The ceramic engine was invented in Britain, it requires absolutely no oil to run and ran best using ethanol as its fuel source. Ethanol is now seen as a green fuel, but back then this car was a total threat because it required no oil at all! Just one of the many British inventions that were plain covered up!
The one that really riles me though is the British invention of flat screen technology. George Gray invented LCD and the Ministry of Defence held and kept secret most of the patents until 1993. This tech could have provided jobs for everyone in Britain and boosted the economy hugely, but the Gvt actively refused to release the patents for public use. South Korea leapt on the tech the moment the MoD held patents expired and it owes almost that entire nations wealth to it.
The linear motor is another British invention that britgov refused to invest in. To be honest, the amount of tech that British engineers and scientists discover only for the patents to be snapped up by the MoD and never released to industry is shocking. You can bet your life they are holding onto the next revolutionary tech right now, and are using a half arsed version of it in bombs, once the patent expires the Japanese or Chinese will leap on it and Britain will once more lose out. I fucking loathe our Gvt, it spends less on industrial development than tin pot third world nations. Nobody should be unemployed in Britian. Unemployment is entirely the fault of the British Gvt.
Debunking your conspiracy…
1. ‘Kenya’ appeared on stamps as early as 1935.
2. Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital was called that from 1931.
3. African-American is not mentioned anywhere on Obama’s birth certificate.
If you actually care to look at the microfilm of the Honolulu Advertiser (13/08/1961) and Honolulu Star Bulletin (14/08/1961) in the Hawaii State Library you can view the entries for Obama’s birth there. Or do you really believe those have been faked too?
Hi Mick and Malcolm.
This is not my Conspiracy Theory Malcolm. I republish other peoples research and although I like to think that it is all accurate, the sheer amount of information as a whole that I publish means that I simply do not have the time to check every fact out for myself..
Course having said that facts vary widely depending on the type of site you get them from, and what is available as being fact is not always true. Therefore who can say that your facts are any more correct that the authors?
Pergie
If you cant check every fact then dont publish! Otherwise you have no integrity or credibility.
Well you provide some facts instead of just critizing , btw Obama was born in Kenya or whatever you want to call it ask MI6 as its on there database yah knob , POA .
I’ve no idea what’s a fact or what’s pure fantasy with some of these (although fantasy looks favourite a good deal of the time), but I have noticed a tendency that where messages that are critical receive a reply it’s often insulting e.g. ‘yah knob’ (I can point to several other examples). Not saying these replies are in any way ‘authorised’ by this website’s creator, but they rather undermine some of the respect principles that I read about in the ‘about me’ section and which resonate strongly with me. It’s a pity that differing views can’t be tolerated more graciously and it suggests that although the 1% are up to no good, the 99% are well able to tear themselves and each other apart quite well by themselves.
Keep looking for the truth, people, but don’t assume you have a monopoly on it!
If you walked into a Liverpool pub and started banging on about Man Utd, you would probably not be agreed with. Just the way it is. Plenty of people have been critical of Brand in the AM. Thomas Sheridan had a pop at Brand in 2013 and nothing has changed to make many of us change our mind. I would love him to be genuine, but he rubs shoulders with people that he appears to be trying to undermine and many of us can’t see how that works. I wonder how easy it is to mention Chris Spivey on the Daily Mail comments section. It’s a controlled environment and as celebs know, there is no such thing as bad publicity. Brand is repeating what Icke and many others have been talking about, and brings nothing new to the table other than his persona, which isn’t to everybody’s taste. His 33 tattoo and the eye that I believe he has had inked over on his left upper arm, and his kabbalah wristband makes us think he is less than genuine.
Chris doesn’t tell any of us how to respond to comments. None of the Mods are shrinking violets and Gallows is easily the most gracious of us. Nice to know that we have another reader from Australia, it is just a shame that a polite person such as yourself hasn’t commented before. But well done for finding us. Plenty more articles to comment on, so please get stuck in.
What do you think of Peter Hofschroer’s chances?
As for “yah knob”…
“Well you provide some facts instead of just critizing, btw Obama was born in Kenya or whatever you want to call it ask MI6 as its on there database yah knob, POA.”
That was from 26th December 2013. The only other time it has been used was by yourself. But I concede that we can be abusive to those we consider to be trolls. That won’t change. I’d be grateful for some Aussie AM sites worth looking at.
One comment…is that all you can muster with all the shit Chris has had slung at him. Not interested in Clayton and Stacey. Thought not, so fuck off yah knob. Fuckin’ lightweights…
January 13, 2014 @ 12:27 am
It is not up to anyone but yourself to check the facts. Surely that is the whole point of alternative media, to get you to find things out and not just believe what you are told.
A fair comment imho.
It cannot be left to chance as it can be argued that credibility can be to easily lost over the details and drags down or puts doubts over the consistency of future articles which could otherwise be avoided (half truths are whole lies).
I’m getting the feeling that nothing however small in detail should be debated anywhere anymore, at least in a well mannered and meaningful way, or that the expectations of us to be sponges to this new deluge of digital information we are given at any single moment, is a given.
It also takes valuable time to check, re-check cross-reference the massive deluge of “truth” handed to us via the same government endorsed technology no one is stopping us from using, all the while we continue to avoid personal responsibility, swapping representation of mp’s over to truth gurus is only going half way to overcoming this massive shift in personal security that is coming to our front door very soon, so why put up and keep up material that continues to raise doubts and wastes valuable time for people, essentially over a scumbag whos legal jurisdiction is miles away?
I do like the site though 🙂
I doubt I’ll make any real friends though but I enjoy the level of intellectual insight this site offers, I’m just naturally cynical about what to do with all the information we are now being given, I don’t feel any safer for knowing and I’ve known Obama must be a scumbag as his want for power in my eyes made him the last person to ever deserve it.
So when do we drop tools and starve the beast of our time and efforts (the only foundation for all this mess) and spend it on eachother?
Is it wise to continue debating it for any time longer or continuing to preach to the converted?
only askin!
December 3, 2012 @ 10:32 pm
what happened to the massive scar running around the back of Obama’s head? why are his medical records sealed? what do ‘they’ not want to reveal about the so called president? why does he now look younger and fresher than when he was campaigning?
April 3, 2014 @ 10:23 pm
maybe he’s an alien
OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIONS BY A SHERIFF IN THE USA EVIDENCE COLLECTED HAS SHOWN OBAMMA WAS NOT BORN IN THE USA. the white house have admitted his birth certificate is fake. He has an indonesian passport and his name is barry. The so called passport he showed was not the original but a printed paper copy. there is no record in the hospital he says he was born of his birth. he refuses ro release any offical government documents to clear his name. experts have looked at the (copy of a passport )which wouldnt pass if i sent a copy of my birth certificate for a passport he claims it was a fake and using very elementary techniques a child could see was cut and pasted on.
Has anybody here been to the Whitehouse website and downloaded the long form birth certificate (it’s still there) and opened it in Adobe Illustrator. Right click and select ‘Release clipping mask’ And check out the DIFFERENT LAYERS.
NOW TELL ME THAT IS FECKING GENUINE
Tuppenny Trash
what do you make of this?
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/12/18/278706/israeli-squads-tied-to-newtown-carnage/
Gordon Duff knows his stuff. LOL
Every time a vote goes against the Zionists in Israel, children get killed, it’s the Mossad way. Check timelines on votes against Israel in the UN or in countries like Norway, they voted against the Zionist Israeli’s and Breviek had a bad day in Norway. Also the Fathers of the Batman shooter and the school shooter last week were due to give evidence in the LIBOR scandal this week. Ummm coincidence, i think not
NO FIRM PROOF, COULD BE A STRAW-MAN STORY
‘Also the Fathers of the Batman shooter and the school shooter last week were due to give evidence in the LIBOR scandal this week.’
arm-urself_now
Obama or whatever he wants to call himself was registered as being born in mombasa , according to MI6 but hey who trusts them lol .
othere source http://africanpress.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/obama-registration-sir-edward-of-lavender-was-the-colonial-registrar-in-mombasa-in-1961.jpg
I have stamps from Kenya that are dated around 1935 and a good friend of mine was born in Kenya in 1959 and his birth certificate clearly states Kenya. Apart from that slight dis-info error everything else is correct and lets not forget his real name is Barry Soweto and he is or was a Muslim! anywho, he·s a fekking imposter and has a major Shill dick firmly up his arse!
His aunty and grandmother both stated on Kenyan national radio that he was born there but then again they could all be on crack! I rest my case your honour!
one of the two little boys
To be fair ,if you were going to FAKE the most important doucument would you not make sure it was accurate
Sorry but if the Birth Certificate was accurate there would be no need to fake it, what you mean is would appear to be accurate 🙂
Where has your backbone gone> do somrthing to stopn crimes against US the public!
@ Rhedae
ha ha ha……….. L O L
Imrah Baines
The mo-fo was destined for the Presidency probably even before he was born. All the leaders of the ‘free world’ are chosen before we are told to elect them. Whether he was born in Kenya, USA or Timbuktu, is irrelevant. He is just another Illuminati puppet here to bring about war, misery and suffering to the masses. A great contrast to Bush to give the illusion of democracy.
Dickhead
I think Obama is a Britisher! How the Brits got him to be president I ain’t got a clue!
Hey, don’t you dare blame us! We have enough dipsticks of our own to deal with, without getting the blame for another!
Well said Amethyst, with a name like “Dickhead” you can see why they keep electing illuminati puppets. At least over here vast numbers of people have boycotted elections and politicians no longer have any real validity.
I did see a youtube thing called illuminati clones which had Obama down as a cloned Egyptian mummy, I must admit there was a striking resemblance. The same film also claimed that Obamas catch phrase “yes we can” when played backwards is “thank you satan”, it also showed Obama with a hand gesture which signifies the “image of the beast”. This is the man the Americans have elected twice, it’s all their own work, and the clues are there.
gdee
Hi DICKHEAD! so where are you from?
He’s from Norwich, but only posted the once.
Xanthum
Sorry, mate, you’ve just lost a reader. Your new site is crap. You need 40/40 vision to read it and it’s lost the irreverent style that attracted me to it in the first place. It now looks like just
another Spook-funded site. Have you sold out?
How very dare you Xanthum! Sell out to whom? The government? I remember how they promised to pay the Afghan Opium farmers to stop growing their crops.. And then conveniently forgot to pay them.
This Lady is not for turning.
The site is not even finished yet, but the feedback is very favourable, so ner.
Never the less. I can highly recommend The Slog… What that nice John Ward doesn’t know, isn’t worth knowing.
Hi Xanthum, Chris is far too nice to say this, so I will…. fuck off knobhead 🙂
Xanthum,
Awwwwww please dont go, we cant play with you now, poor Chris as all on here are going to be devastated you’re not staying, never mind you always lose a TROLL or two, plenty more where you crawled from I am sure .
I`m a speccy twat & have no problem with the site.
Me too,
Here have a kiss x
mrs Worried
Lol Tim….. I will out myself and stand up and say I`m a speccy twat too!! I have no problems reading the site, and think xanthum may have his own problems. I find the new site clear and easy to navigate and im a bit of a dunce when it comes to t`internet. Carry on Chris, and xanthum – before you jump to conclusions please ask for help here first. Im sure one of us will jump to advise you on why you are having probs viewing . Chris hasn`t sold out, just upgraded his site.
Hercules McGuire
This site is the dog’s bollocks I love it…..great job yer doing Chris lad, don’t listen to negative crap mate 🙂
CuriousGirl
This stinks – who in their right mind would film a plane crashing when they are a passenger?? Looks like Fuddy had outlived her usefulness. Another one where they don’t name the DM reporter.
A crash last month off Hawaii resulted in the death of state health official Loretta Fuddy, who released President Obama’s birth certificate. New footage taken by a passenger shows the crash as it happened.
Fuddy was the only passenger to perish in the crash
Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2536931/New-footage-shows-harrowing-moment-small-plane-crashed-Hawaii-killed-woman-published-President-Obamas-birth-certificate.html#ixzz2pyvnDrdv
We’re going down: Passenger’s harrowing footage of fatal plane crashA crash last month off Hawaii resulted in the death of state health official Loretta Fuddy, who released President Obama’s birth certificate
New footage taken by a passenger shows the crash as it happened
She clung to her deputy during her final moments of life in the water but then let go and died while everyone else was saved
The eight others on the plane, including the pilot, either swam to shore or were rescued in the ocean
Officials blamed engine failure for the crash
PUBLISHED: 02:50, 10 January 2014 | UPDATED: 07:57, 10 January 2014
Dramatic new footage shows the moment a small plane crashed in Hawaiian waters and resulted in the death of state health official Loretta Fuddy – the woman responsible for releasing President Barack Obama’s longform birth certificate.
The footage obtained by ABC News was taken by a passenger on the plane, who started filming out the window of the flight just moments before it made an emergency water landing.
Water quickly starts to flood the cabin after impact, but everyone on board remains calm and quiet as they exit the sinking aircraft.
Pre-impact: A passenger on board the Cessna flight that crashed off Hawaii last month started recording the accident just before the emergency water landing. The crash resulted in the death of state health official Loretta Fuddy
Ocean spray: White water is seen out of the window as the plane crash lands in the Pacific Ocean
Calm: After impact, the cabin quickly begins to fill with ocean water but the passengers remain calm as they exit the plane
The getaway: The video shows the moment the passenger flees the plane, jumping into the Pacific Ocean
Survivors: Fuddy was the only one to perish in the crash. Eight others, including the pilot, either swam to shore or waited in the ocean to be rescued
Caught on camera: Harrowing footage of Hawaii plane crash Fuddy, 65, was the only person on board to perish in the crash. The other eight people on board, including the pilot, were rescued or swam to shore.
She gained notoriety in 2011 for making President’s Barack Obama’s birth certificate public, attempting to squash rumors that he wasn’t born in the country.
Only victim: Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy was the only death among nine aboard the Cessna Grand Caravan that crashed in the ocean near Molokai, Hawaii last month
Fuddy was on the flight from Molokai to Oahu after visiting a state-run leper colony on the smaller Hawaiian island.
The incident occurred when the single engine of the 2002 Cessna Grand Caravan failed soon after it took off from Molokai and made its turn toward Honolulu, said Richard Schuman, owner of Makani Kai Air, operator of the plane.
Fuddy made it out of the sinking plane fine, but died after escaping.
In the water, Fuddy held hands with her deputy director Keith Yamamoto as he tried to help her relax, said the Rev. Patrick Killilea, who consoled Yamamoto after the ordeal.
‘He recounted how he said he helped Loretta into her life jacket and he held her hand for some time,’ the priest said. ‘They were all floating together and she let go and there was no response from her.’
Coast Guard rescuers who arrived after making the half-hour flight from Oahu to the neighbor island said Thursday that the single-engine turboprop aircraft wasn’t visible when they got there, only the nine passengers floating across about a half-mile of water littered with random debris
The rescuers in two helicopters and an HC-130 airplane said the people were in clusters and acted calm when help arrived.
Rescue swimmer Mark Peer said when he swam to Fuddy, she was unresponsive and he couldn’t find a pulse. ‘It was not a good feeling,’ he said.
Post-crash selfie: The new footage who took a picture of himself in the water after the crash
Waiting for rescue: Puentes holds onto a piece of some sort of flotation device while wearing a life preserver
Proof? Fuddy entered the national spotlight briefly in 2011 when she authorized the release of Barack Obama’s long-form birth certificate to put to rest so-called ‘birther’ conspiracies about the nation of the Commander-in-Chief’s birth
Tribute: Governor Neil Abercrombie (right) said state Health Department Director Loretta Fuddy (left) was loved and respected
C. Phillip Hollstein recalled that the plane had just taken off from Molokai and was making a turn toward Honolulu when it seemed like something on the plane broke.
‘We probably weren’t a minute out,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t real loud or anything. Just a muffled bang. Then we were a glider.’
The plane lost power, he said, and the pilot maneuvered a water landing on the plane’s belly.
More…Australia’s Qantas Airlines named safest air carrier in the world after going more than 60 years without a fatal crash
Pictured for the first time: Woman engineer and her three U.S. Air Force colleagues killed in Black Hawk crash as investigators recover their bodies from wreckage of helicopter
How truck driver frozen to the ground and pinned for 8 hours under his rig was miraculously saved after his phone fell from his pocket and he voice commanded a call for help
‘Everyone was real quiet. We hit (the water) and it was all about getting the belts off,’ he said, describing how everyone started putting on life jackets and remained on the plane until it seemed to start sinking.
‘There wasn’t panic or anything. It was very orderly,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t like any of the movies or the TV shows.’
Help: A U.S. Coast Guard rescue team poses in front of a helicopter used in the rescue at Kapolei, Hawaii
Tragic: A memorial for Loretta Fuddy, the director of the state Department of Health, is displayed outside the department in Honolulu
Bobbing in the water, Hollstein noticed the pilot and seven other passengers seemed fine. ‘I didn’t want to sit out there bobbing, so I figured I’d take a shot at going to the shoreline.’
He guesses the swim to the rugged shoreline took an hour and a half. He was surprised to hear later that one of the passengers, Hawaii Health Director Loretta Fuddy, had later died.
‘She was doing fine out of the airplane,’ Hollstein said. ‘Her assistant was really watching her. He was taking care of her.’
Gov. Neil Abercrombie said Fuddy was loved and respected. ‘Her knowledge was vast, her counsel and advice always given from her heart as much as from her storehouse of experience,’ he said.
About 100 Health Department employees lined up to pay their respects to Fuddy’s family members, who attended a gathering in her memory at the department’s parking lot following her death.
Sad: Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, right, speaks at a gathering in memory of Loretta Fuddy
After the crash, three survivors were transported by helicopter to a Honolulu hospital. Two declined to be medically evacuated, officials said
Hollstein said he and a local couple were taken to the Molokai hospital, where they took hot showers and dried their clothing. They were given a place to rest until they could get rooms at the island’s only hotel.
Fuddy and Yamamoto were on the flight after an annual visit to Kalaupapa, where the state exiled leprosy patients until 1969. The area is accessible only by plane or mule.
The leprosy settlement on Kalaupapa is still run by the Health Department, though only a few former leprosy patients continue to live there.
STEVE COLLIER
just to clear up 911…the real truth is that the twin towers and building 7 were brought down by a directed energy weapon…alot of truthers are misguided in thinking it was done by controlled demolition,i also thought this at first but have since seen the research of dr judy wood who has solved how it was done..the towers were turned to dust,there was no siesmic reading of a 110 story building hitting the ground..if it had the underground bathtub which is a concrete structure to keep the hudson river out would have been damaged..plus the fact firemen in the bottom of stairwell B looked up and saw daylight..they would have been completely buried..research drjudywood.com for the truth
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Dogman ….There are two reasons I follow Chris Spivey…..His full on articles and you insightful comments……i have been researching for 15 years and written a book but have never commented on anything…….preferring to follow Winston Churchill’s (an arch enemy of mine) advice……The greatest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Among one or two others, you and Chris are the exception
Thanks that makes 3 of us lol , POA , Legal Advisor to Tittsworth & Grabbe.
Thank you Hansi. Don’t forget we also have a forum. Without Wolfie, we wouldn’t have a site or a forum and that’s a fact!
I just find stuff and post it on the forum and then refer back to it when it is relevant to one of Chris’s articles.
Chris has to come up with articles on a daily basis and I have no idea how he manages to do it. It is a huge challenge and must be stressful. You certainly know how hard it is to research a subject and then present it for people to read.
If his work wasn’t relevant, THEY wouldn’t try so hard to mess with it!
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. – Mark Twain
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. – Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. – Plato
G. Travers
Judy Wood has done excellent work, Steve, but to suggest that she has solved the problem of how the towers were destroyed is very premature. She has not made any attempt to describe these weapons, nor to put forward any credible method of how they operate, or where they were placed on 9/11. Neither has she put forward any idea as to the type of energy utilised, or how this energy was generated and targeted in order to vaporise and atomise the structures.
Judy Wood has pointed out something valuable, though; she claims that the dust from the towers was “cold” not hot, which makes me think that “cold nuclear fusion” has been perfected in US secret labs. – and it was this process that was used to bring down the towers. (Professor Steve Jones actually worked on “muon-catalyzed fusion” or “locally cold fusion” in the 1980’s, before he came out with his dubious nano-thermite theory – which, to me, sounds very suspicious).
According to the ‘New World Encyclopedia’, fusion reactions have an energy density many times greater than nuclear fission. Therefore, could cold fusion weapons have been used to reduce the twin towers to dust? The United States Geological Survey report into the debris of the World Trade Centre found a whole list of radioactive isotopes that could only be present if nuclear reactions had occurred. For instance; they found very high volumes of Barium, Strontium and Uranium; also Thorium – which should not be present at all, because it is only formed by uranium decay. More evidence of a nuclear “signature” was the discovery of Helium, Lithium, Tritium, and Lanthium, as well as large concentrations of Zinc.
It was Judy Wood who first brought our attention to the hundreds of trucks being brought into Ground-Zero, and dumping thousands of tons of earth over the debris. Were they doing this to dampen the effects of nuclear radiation?
My own theory is that a series of “mini” cold nuclear fusion devices were placed inside the same elevator shaft on each floor of the towers, and these were operated by electro-magnetic detonators which were connected to cables that went down the shaft to below ground floor of each tower. These cables then went underground, and were attached to the huge twin electric generators that stood on the ground floor of Building 7. I suggest that if these generators had been harnessed to their full capacity, then the power would be sufficient to create electro-magnetic fields in 220 individual armatures on each floor of the 110 storey towers, and these could then have been detonated by computer in rapid sequence to create the effect of the buildings being demolished from the top down.
If I remember correctly, the Twin Towers had undergone a major electricity upgrade in the previous 18 months prior to 9/11. So could it be that the necessary work to plant electro-magnetic armatures, cables, switches and couplers etc. was done during the period of the upgrade.
Lastly, was it not terribly convenient for Building 7 to come down for no reason at all and completely destroy the two generators along with any incriminating evidence.
Wikipedia claims that “several emergency generators” were installed inside Building 7 – (which could mean just two, or maybe three or four).
It goes on to say;- “In order to supply the generators, 24,000 gallons of diesel fuel were stored below ground level”….”After the World Trade Center bombings of February 26th 1993, New York City Mayor, Rudy Guiliani, decided to situate the Emergency Command Center and associated fuel tanks at 7 World Trade Centre.”
So, not only were these generators located in Building 7, but Rudy Guiliani had thoughtfully arranged for 24,000 gallons of fuel to be there also, just in case of a future emergency – such as 9/11 perhaps!
This same Rudy Guiliani character did not use his Emergency Command Center on 9/11 because he told us on TV that the building might collapse. And, blow-me, the entire 47 storey skyscraper did just that a few hours later.
And guess who was warned to remain in his hotel room at Liverpool Street on the morning of 7/7. Yes, none other than our old chum Rudy Guiliani, who was actually staying nearby the very first explosion to take place in London on that terrible day.
Wow! , Wow! , and thrice Wow!
Talking of 7/7, if anyone wants to find out how the 3 tube trains may have been attacked that morning (and I emphasise “may”), then please turn to Nick Kollerstrom’s website ‘Terror On The Tube’. At the top of the page click ‘7/7 Articles’ and scroll down to the second entry, entitled ‘Electric Detonation of the Trains.’
There were local tanks for diesel generators at various floors in the building. They were supplied by a bleed off constantly circulating system from the main storage which would be tanker delivery accessible. I think the circulation rate was between 300 and 400 gallons per minute and 12000 gallons of diesel went missing during the time elapsed after the twin towers impacts and the Tower 7 collapse.
Backup generator system sabotage methods reported in UK prior to the 1996 IRA sugar bomb deployment included both diesel overpump (Credit Suisse London where diesel from an overflowing rooftop local tank poured down lift shafts) and diesel non pump local tank running out as a de facto delayed timer (Guys Hospital 1987 and again 1995 when the consequent cut of power to post op ICU caused the death of a child patient) These were not bleed off systems but demand signal systems.
The first report of which I am aware of sabotage of backup generator systems was 1981 from an engineer commissioning for Petbow in Nigeria.
A crime complaint of sabotage (Leeds General Infirmary) was made in 1987 against the Kent manufacturer (alleging company fraud) and an employee accused of sabotage. Kent Police refused to record crime complaints against a Queens Award manufacturer. An associate of the alleged saboteur gained work, using a false REME Service history to clear civilian vetting, with Reliance Security at Deal Royal Marines Barracks. Kent Police ignored security breach warnings. on 22.9.89 a terrorist bomb there killed 11 Royal Marines.
The alleged saboteur continued to enjoy security clearance to work on nuclear power plant, hospitals, police stations etc because Kent Police continued to refuse to record crime complaint. Without a Kent Police nod the Head of Civil Nuclear Security at DTI (Mike Smith) would not deny access to the alleged saboteur.
As far as I know he retired in early 2011 and worked on systems that may be in place for a further sixty years.
Check out Dounreay and Hunterston B 1998 and Plum Island in USA that Hilary Clinton got so excited about.
Sleep tight safe in the knowledge UK teeters on the edge of a multiple Chernobyl ! Welcome to big boys terrorism UK.
Totally agree with you Steve, I bought and have red Dr. Judy Wood’s book, where she spells it out in words and lots of picture. The towers did turn to dust!
Dear Steve Wilson, and Steve Collier
I see that Dr Judy Wood has begun to put some “meat on the bones” of her theory of Directed Energy Weapons – and that’s good. She made a presentation at a conference in 2012 developing her ideas of what may have destroyed the WTC on 9/11.
By typing in “Dr Judy Wood : Evidence of breakthrough energy technology on 9/11”, we see her talk about the idea of “Cold Fusion” – due to the tell-tale presence in the debris of materials that could only be there due to some kind of nuclear reaction. She emphasises the huge amounts of Tritium and Zinc within the dust samples.
Judy Wood goes on to suggest that Dr Steve Jones is not a real seeker after truth, but is a “gatekeeper” who wants to keep “Cold Fusion” – ( an area of research that he was heavily involved in ) – secret from the general public. Judy Wood even shows Jones using “peer pressure” into bullying his colleagues into seeing things his way! She contemptuously describes this as “science by committee!”
Now, if Dr Judy Wood is suggesting that the Directed Energy Weapons were in fact “Cold Fusion” devices, then one has to consider how they were detonated. My own theory is that of an internal computerised electromagnetic configuration, utilising the emergency generators on the ground floor of Building 7. Judy Wood, on the other hand, has put forward an external electromagnetic, or even a micro-wave, source – possibly using the ideas of Tesla, who, back in the early 20th century, experimented with harnessing the abundant electricity that exists in the natural environment.
All very interesting – and Judy Wood may well be right.
Who writes this shite? Thanks for wasting my time.
Michael, you do know how stupid you appear by taking the time to comment don’t you?
Bless…..but keep it up you’re well on the way to becoming a half-wit. It would be silly to stop now that you are so close!
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln
sneaky bastards.
Top notch!
I followed all the birther stuff on US RW websites, and a lot of it is plain silly- a lot of racist Americans simply cannot bear the thought of a black guy in charge. However, it’s all a red herring anyway and it’s a shame when Chris or David Icke etc reproduce stuff like this. Sometimes we forget ‘Divide & Rule’ is the number one rule- just look how frequently forums/comments are hijacked by (usually N. Americans) right-wingers wanting to blame everything on Obama. (or by Liberals blaming Bush in the past) So easy to control the people!
On the birth certificate released by the White House, the listed place of birth is “Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital “. This cannot be, because the hospital(s) in question in 1961 were called “KauiKeolani Children’s Hospital” and “Kapi’olani Maternity Home”, respectively. The name did not change to Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital until 1978, when these two hospitals merged. How can this particular name of the hospital be on a birth certificate dated 1961 if this name had not yet been applied to it until 1978?
but who cares where Obama was born? It’s like the magician making you look at one thing so you ignore what’s actually going on. Whether it’s a President’s sex life, colour, alcoholism or possible President Palin’s ‘child’, it’s all a distraction- while drones kill Pakistani children (‘collateral damage’) and the rich/poor wealth gap increases.
Iff you link on to-www. abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread487435/pg1 you’ll see an uncanny resemblance of Barack and Michelle Obama to Egyptian Mummies. B Obama resembles King Akheneton (though many Egyptians appear to think he looks more like King Tut) and his wife resembles Queen Tiye. Anyway i’m not trying to convert anyone’s way of thinking only think it a possibility he’s a Clone as the similarities of these mummies is eerie.If anyone watches the link they can come to their own decisions-but i found it very questionable indeed?????
Akhenaten and Tutankhamun were father and son Louise. Tutankhaten was the original name of Tutankhamun. There was a rivalry between the believers of Aten and Amun.
Can I just point out that the East African Protectorate was re-named Kenya in 1920? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Kenya
Just referring to the Last and more worrying item, on the list; I was wondering- as you do!
If the huge objects which have been showing up on NASA SOHO etc. sites are in fact alien UFOs and or a planet system they must be so massive in size and weight wouldn’t they instantly make an affect to our orbit or spin?
Could this be affecting the increased seismic activities, and the abnormal weather? Are they coming and going into our solar system?
Would it be a great solution to stop the sheep from seeing these objects for their own eyes, by spraying the sky obscuring the views? With the bonus of poisoning them along the way!
Nibiru has been dealt with by MSM, via the failed 2012 hoo ha ha, so they now don’t need to address this again, other than mentioning it in an amusing condescending arrogance, similar to the sickening smirky grin a reporter is instructed to have when reporting UFOs in general. Or they can resurrect it by renaming it!
Are the Yanks anticipating an imminent massive uprising? is this why they have huge foreign army’s and passed even more executive orders to effectively deal with nonconformists, via FEMAS and the latest guillotine solutions. Would opening up the southern boarders incite unrest among the residents and give the New armies a “just reason “to start assembling the abattoir equipment?
August 5, 2014 @ 10:59 am
Had to comment.
From 1920 The British East African Protectorate was known as?????? ‘The KENYA COLONY’ when it was transformed into a British Crown colony. The ‘Proctectorate Of Kenya’ was ceded to the Colony of Kenya, in 1963.
Eddie Gormet
Nick. maybe Obama is not black, and is a woman.
The point is that if there is even one oversight that is obviously a deception, then there are more discrepancies that are blatant or a little more carefully hidden. And all these are for, and have, a purpose.
Hey, would you purchase a car in belief it was a Ferrari or BMW, only to discover it is a Skoda make-over, and decide to keep anyway?
my point about the ‘magician’ was made because the whole Obama birthplace stuff was instigated by the neo-cons on Fox News, to create a distraction/discussion diverting attention away from the fact that the US Government comprises RW Zionists on all sides, who basically run the world. And guess what? It worked.
BTW two Presidents who tried to change the system (where Bankers control EVERYTHING) by introducing Government banknotes were Lincoln and Kennedy. Of course, they had nothing in common with each other.
Question Everthing
Another great video on how Dianna was used by the blood sucking royals.
http ://youtu.be/hn8BTXdE8V0
watch this video too….. so revealing
http ://youtu.be/m93t985SjMA
is this why she had that “accident” in the tunnel?!?
“In pre-Christian times, the Pont de L’Alma was a pagan sacrificial site.”
In Roman mythology, Diana was the goddess of the woodlands, of wild animals, and of hunting. She also acted as a fertility goddess, who helped women conceive and give birth to children. As Rome’s contact with Greece grew in ancient times, Diana became increasingly identified with the Greek goddess Artemis. In time, Diana and Artemis became essentially identical. Most literary references to the goddess use her Roman name, Diana.
The Romans viewed Diana as a many-sided goddess associated with forests and hunting. Artists usually portrayed her as a virgin hunter, often with a bow and quiver, accompanied by maidens, hunting dogs, or deer.As goddess of childbirth, nursing, and healing—also called Lucina—Diana held an honoured place among women. As goddess of light, she represented the moon. However, Diana was also identified with Hecate, the Greek goddess of darkness and witchcraft, and served as goddess of the kingdom of the dead.
Because of her connections with creatures of the wild, with the hunt, and with the moon, Diana earned the title of “the triple goddess.” Sculptors sometimes created statues of her with three heads: those of a horse, a dog, and a boar. Such statues were displayed at places where three roads met.
Read more: http://ww w.mythencyclopedia.com/Cr-Dr/Diana.html#ixzz3HdtLMG8Q
@ Dogman , thanx for the info, those “royals” are well into rituals, poor Diana, didn’t know what she was getting into, a young beautiful woman, ruined, by those corrupt bastards, she didn’t have a chance. tc Trish x
I started researching stuff on JFK backing October (last 2014) since then i have delved into the Maddy McCann, Princess Diana, extensively on the child abuse issues of Malone, Spivy and Icke to mention a few. I have reposted and tried to spread the word on the evil bastards that crawl amongst us preying on the most venerable. I am really glad that the So-vile saga kicked it all off because i believe that the house of cards and possibly Windsor may be about to fall down, and not a day too soon.
Obamas dad is Frank Marshall Davies, IMO. I think his Mum had affair with Frank and this the reason her marriage ended. Have a look at photos of supposed dad and Frank, the genes don’t lie. Frank originates from Chicago, home of corruption. He was a big commie and poet, Obama went to stay with him saying he was his mentor. They are all aware of the lies but choose to lie to public hence why no birth certificate showing his real dad. They will say they are protecting his Mum when it’s all in the open and Isn’t that just dandy!
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by Luke » Sun Nov 09, 2008 7:53 pm
Any information about uniforms and rank insignia for the new UK Border Agency?
Homepage: http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/
These are rank insignia from its predecessor, the Border and Immigration Agency:
Anyone who knows anything more about these?
New Uniform for UK Border Agency
by Luke » Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:12 pm
See: http://www.porttechnology.org/article.php?id=4432
No information found about rank badges though/Luke
Re: UK Border Agency
by sketor7558 » Sun Apr 28, 2013 5:11 am
http://n2d.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?pid=5549#p5549
Rank Insignia.
sketor7558
Re: UK Border Force
by Luke2 » Tue May 27, 2014 11:59 pm
Sir Charles Montgomery
The Director General of the Border Force with the rank insignia that was in use before the one Sketor is referring to above.
Luke2
by jrichardn2 » Sat May 31, 2014 8:52 pm
I think it's the other way around. That pic comes from a screencap of testimony Sir Charles gave to a parliamentary committee in March 2014. Note that his shoulder title is Border Force. The rank badges sketor posted were from the predecessor Border Agency.
Because the UKBF was planned, to some degree, to be a kind of Home Office police force, and its first Director General was a seconded Chief Constable, I expected British police rank badges. Perhaps this is kind of the equivalent? The portcullis replaces the crossed tipstaves? In which case Sir Charles' badge of rank corresponds to that of Deputy Commissioner of Metropolitan Police.
Found the new badges of rank at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/ ... k_insignia. I'm not intelligent enough to know how to post them!
by sketor7558 » Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:08 am
by Luke2 » Sun Jun 01, 2014 4:40 pm
The photo shows a portcullis, while the rank chart shows another figure. The shape of the wreath is also slightly different.
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by sketor7558 » Sun Jun 01, 2014 4:42 pm
the new badge features the gates of parliament in a wreath, just replace the portcullis with that.
OK! But what was the original figure supposed to display?
Hat and badge
http://www.gettyimages.se/detail/news-p ... /479204577
I think its just a cap badge.
by Medic_in_Uniform » Mon Jun 02, 2014 4:03 am
The insignia shown in the wreath in the images is actually that used for senior managers in the UK ambulance services and comprises a cartwheel (for transport) and the staff with two entwined serpents (for medical care; a variation on the caduceus / rod of Aesculapius). Its use for the Border Force makes no sense at all -- hence my guess that this is a cut-and-paste mock-up only and *not* the finished article.
The Portcullis emblem with laurel branch on either side makes more sense and links back to the former HM Customs and Excise uniformed officers. It also neatly separates the Border Force from the standard police rank markings; I would expect this is far more likely to be the correct insignia used for all the senior ranks (where uniform is worn). There's a video report on YouTube of the official commissioning of the most recent UKBF Cutter by the Home Secretary -- the uniforms are all there to be seen, including the DG.
As for the scheme of insignia themselves... good grief!!
That rank scheme *must* have been designed by a committee -- it's just dreadful. Having chosen to broadly follow the police pattern, why they couldn't simply have put together a chart based on a standard UK Home Office police rank progression from stars to crown (in standard size, not the WO2 over-sized version of the crown...!) is beyond me. This looks a bit like it was done by a departmental official who doesn't really understand the insignia.
Adding the single star insignia at the lower end might be necessary to match their grade structure and that's why they've used one star as part of a broader continuum of "officer" grade insignia rather than using the three chevrons of a police sergeant. That much makes sense -- but I don't quite understand why they've then opted to use a single chevron and the text "ASSISTANT OFFICER" to identify the grade of assistant officer - in this context it seems an odd choice; why not simply use either the text on its own, or drop the text and use a simple device like a plain horizontal bar...?
The use of *two* stars for the Director-General insignia also seems pointless. Why not just use a single star between the crown and the portcullis? Grade equivalence with the Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in London is irrelevant; the DG is head of a national-level service so why should there be a comparison? Again, it just suggests a rank scheme put together by people who either don't understand or haven't thought it through properly.
The cap badge also really doesn't need the wreath around the outside: the star with central badge and the crown above would have been fine! Interestingly, in the video I mentioned above, the DG seems to wearing a different cap badge -- although I can't make out the details. The other thing that looks odd is the lack of gorget patches for the DG on this style of formal tunic.
Its all just very odd and looks a bit amateurish.
by Luke2 » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:42 pm
Maybe the wreath around the cap badge only is for seagoing personnel (to make it more navy like). The image above is taken from a photo series of the launch of HMC Protector.
In this photo, also from the launch, the DG's badge can be seen. It is different, as Medic said. Maybe other land based officers wear the same badge.
by Medic_in_Uniform » Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:05 am
Yep, that's the images I was referring to.
The star with Crown and Royal arms at the centre of the cap badge appears much the same as that previously used by the now defunct UK Border Agency, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if the text around the outside of the shield was simply altered slightly to change the word Agency to Force.
The DGs shoulder rank markings are the same as those shown in the photographs above. Although it's indistinct, the DG's cap badge appears to be all silver and looks like it's just the shield of the Royal arms, surmounted by the Crown and surrounded by the Garter, with the Honi-Soit-Qui-Mal-y-Pense motto, as used by the UK Government and in particular by the Home Office, which is the Department responsible for the Border Force. It could be a plain circle behind the shield with "United Kingdom Border Force" as the text (as per the other cap badges) but the little bit sticking out at the bottom below the shield makes me think the Garter is more likely!
One other possibility: the cap badges worn by the Cutter crew could still be the old UKBA badges that haven't yet been replaced and the DGs might be the new standard version for UKBF...
I know that UKBF has been deliberately established as an independent Home Office law enforcement Command (and hence the intention to follow police-type insignia) but one option would have been to use silver versions of the Royal Navy-type sleeve or shoulder-board distinction lace.
This was previously used pretty much unchanged from the RN version as the insignia for the old HM Customs & Excise uniforms (with the portcullis emblem as the central part of their cap badges too!) so it would have had appropriate historical roots.
by Luke2 » Tue Jun 03, 2014 3:11 pm
UKBA Flag
It sure looks like the old UKBA badge. And I agree with Medic, the one chevron rank insignia looks terribly awful.
by Medic_in_Uniform » Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:06 pm
Hey Luke -- yes, that UKBA blue ensign was one of my sources.
I haven't seen any images of an updated UKBF version so I don't know if it has changed to a new defacing badge for UKBF or whether it's almost identical to the old version but with the one word change from "Agency" to "Force" (or maybe they just haven't bothered to update it at all and the Cutters are all still wearing the old UKBA ensigns -- knowing British public services it wouldn't surprise me at all and, let's face it, things like changing cap badges and flags are not at the top of their priority list at a time of austere public budgets...!!).
by Medic_in_Uniform » Wed Jun 04, 2014 1:21 pm
Apologies in advance... once I'd started thinking about this, the ideas just kept rattling around inside my head so I gave in and decided to get on and do the drawings!
This is definitely NOT the official UKBF insignia and badges; this is what *I* would have suggested. I've tried to stick to their scheme as much as possible but I wanted to tidy it up a little (!).
The organisation's corporate badge and the cap badges are entirely my own concotions, although I have incorporated the historical Tudor portcullis badge, previously used by the former HM Customs & Excise. I think the portcullis is an appropriate emblem as it very much suggests the role of the Force as the guardians of entry into the country, although I suspect the portcullis was deliberately NOT used as it might also be thought to look a little like the UK is trying to keep people out, which could be seen as unfriendly. Given the public mood in recent elections however... (!).
Anyway, in keeping with the intended role as a Home Office border police / enforcement service, I have stuck to dark blue uniforms with silver badges and insignia.
This fist pic is the rank scheme and various badges. The DG and directors wear standard UK police-pattern cap embelishments and gorget patches (essentially army-pattern but in silver), as worn by Chief Constables and Deputy / Assistant Chief Constables.
Deputy and assistant directors have one band of plain raised embroidery and no gorgets, matching police Superintendents and Chief Superinitendents. All other caps have plain patent peaks.
The second pic is the formal uniform -- which probably wouldn't be worn all that much in practice. I guess the day-to-day working uniform would remain dark blue cargo/combat-style trousers with dark blue shirts and the epaulettes shown above.
The final pic is a possible alternative version; it could be for all staff but I originally intended it it to be a specific variant for the permanent crews of HM Cutters. The rank lace (and the rest of the uniforms) is pretty much Royal Navy pattern but with silver instead of gold. Note the different cap badge to the other uniformed officers and the use of RN-pattern oak leaves on the peak. I guess the four-stripe rank would be the overall manager of maritime operations and the three-stripe rank would probably be the CO/Master of each cutter, with other roles ranked as appropriate. All other uniformed staff seconded to the cutters for operational / enforcement duties (as against maritime operational roles) would continue to wear the standard police-style uniforms.
The uniform on the far left in the last pic is a bit of a visual joke: the current Director-General was formerly a Royal Navy Vice-Admiral (and Second Sea Lord), so I couldn't resist including this, although I don't suppose there'd be much need for the DG to have this version of the uniform as well...!
by jrichardn2 » Thu Jun 05, 2014 5:31 pm
Excellent work! (As usual.)
While we're fantasizing a good scheme: I wondered why the UKBF used such odd rank titles. What would be wrong with using police-type titles in the first place?
Director General -> leave as is
Senior Director -> Deputy or Assistant Director General
Director -> Assistant Director General or Commander
Deputy Director -> Chief Superintendent
Assistant Director -> Superintendent
Senior Officer -> Chief Inspector
Higher Officer -> Inspector
Officer -> Sub-Inspector
Assistant Officer -> here I'll admit I'm not sure
BTW the UKBF has black uniforms with silver insignia.
by dcfowler » Fri Nov 07, 2014 9:03 am
A Border Force slip-on, that's on ebay:
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dcfowler
by Necrothesp » Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:02 pm
I think Officer is the standard rank (I've never seen anyone at a British airport with less than one pip on their epaulettes) and Higher Officer is the first supervisory rank. Given they both wear their number on their epaulettes, I assume they're meant to equate to constable and sergeant in British police forces, as inspectors and above do not wear their numbers. Maybe the weird single chevron Assistant Officer is meant to be a (non-sworn) PCSO equivalent or something.
Necrothesp
Location: Kenilworth, England
by Luke2 » Sun Dec 21, 2014 11:01 pm
Source: http://www.hmce-badges.co.uk/items-of-interest/
by Medic_in_Uniform » Wed Dec 24, 2014 1:57 am
Interesting and the insignia for senior officers is more accurate but those still don't look like official images (e.g. the crown is too big and the design not entirely correct).
I still don't understand the need to use *two* stars side-by-side for the Director-General when one star between the crown and the wreathed portcullis would be perfectly adequate to indicate seniority and far more in keeping with other broadly equivalent British systems of grade insignia. Oh well...
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Farmington is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit 19th century home and former hemp plantation. The historic home, completed in 1816, is located on 18 acres in the heart of Jefferson County. Farmington provides the community with a fun, family-friendly environment to learn about Louisville’s rich history and life on a 19th century farm through preservation, exhibitions and education.
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Hemp at Farmington in 1840
April 18, 2016 / Diane Young
The 1840 inventory provides a number of clues about hemp production at Farmington at the time John Speed died.
Approximately 90 acres were used for the hemp crop that year, 87 for producing the fiber hemp and about another 3 for growing seed hemp (calculated by Otteson based on the quantity of seed listed).
The two sheets for cleaning hemp seed document the use of the typical method of obtaining the seed.
The 20 hemp hooks and 21 hemp breaks suggest that about 20 hands were employed in the production of hemp at Farmington.
References in the settlement of John Speed's estate document the presence of a rope walk and waving house at Farmington where the hemp was processed for sale. The "jack screw" in the inventory is probably the piece of equipment used at the end of the rope walk to twist the strands of hemp into rope. Why no looms are listed in the inventory is somewhat confusing.
In 1840, $9,154 was made at Farmington from the sale of hemp products.
To learn more about Farmington and our agricultural roots, join us for Hemp Discovery Day on April 30, 2016 from 4:00 PM - 9:00 PM to celebrate our hemp heritage and learn about the modern day uses of the crop as we prepare to plant our hemp pilot project this summer.
By: Diane Young, Executive Director
categories / history, culture
tags / agriculture, kentucky, louisville, hemp
Growing and Harvesting Hemp
Hemp was planted in mid-April through May in well prepared soil that had been plowed, harrowed and rolled. The growing season was 100 to 120 days.
Hemp grown for seed was treated differently from hemp grown for the fibers or "lint."
Seed hemp was planted first in the very richest soil. Seeds were planted in hills and seedlings were thinned as they grew to about 8"high. They were thinned again as the male plants were identified, with most male plants being removed, leaving only a few for pollination. Often the tops of the female plants were lopped off to create branching and the production of more seed.
Plants were usually ready for harvesting in early September when they were carefully cut down near the ground with hemp hooks and dried. The seed was collected by flailing the stalks on a clean sheet. The chaff was then either blown away or separated from the seed by sifting. The seed was stored for the next year's plants.
Fiber hemp was planted later and seeded more thickly. Stalks grew very tall and close together, thereby preventing the growth of many weeds, causing lower leaves to die off, and creating longer lengths of the desirable fibers. These plants grew 6' to 10' high. These plants, also, were cut down with hemp hooks.
Fiber hemp was left lying in the fields for "dew rotting" so that the gums that caused the fibers in the stalks to adhere to the outer casing would dissolve. After enough rotting had occurred, the stalks were gathered into stacks to dry them out and to await the breaking process that usually began shortly after Christmas.
So-called "hemp breaks" were dragged out in the fields to the stacks, where handfuls of the stalks were repeatedly bashed between the two parts of the break to shatter the outer casing and reveal the desired fibers. Initial cleaning was accomplished by whipping the fibers against the break to knock out remaining bits of the stalk (herds). The fibers were bundled in the field and weighed back at the hemp house. Later they were run through a "hackle," similar to a large and rougher looking carder, to further clean and align the fibers.
The fibers or "lint" were spun into a rough yarn and then either twisted into rope or woven on a simple hand loom into very rough cloth referred to as "bagging."
All these tasks were performed by enslaved African Americans who worked on their owner's plantation or were leased for hemp production. The work was grueling, back-breaking labor, made more unpleasant by the dust and pollen stirred up as the hemp was processed. Many of the hemp workers were reported to have developed awful coughs that took months to go away.
Traditionally in Kentucky, hemp harvesting was assigned as task work to the enslaved African Americans. There were daily quotas for the amount of harvesting to be done and the amount of lint to be processed at the break. These varied depending on the age of the workers. Above and beyond the required amount, slaves were paid a small amount for extra production.
tags / kentucky, louisville, hemp, agriculture
Hemp Farming at Farmington and Kentucky
Hemp was introduced into Kentucky with the earliest settlers. By the early 19th century it had become a significant cash crop with production centered in the Bluegrass and with large amounts also grown in Shelby, Mason and Jefferson counties. These areas had the richest soil, which was needed for high yields.
Hemp farming was extremely labor intensive, requiring extensive amounts of backbreaking work. Hemp, as it was produced in Kentucky, was dependent on a slave economy.
Kentucky's 19th-century hemp crop was used to produce cordage and rough bagging for the baling of the cotton crop in the deep south. Kentucky's dew-rotted hemp was of inferior quality, could never compete with imported water-rotted hemp, and was unsuccessful for marine uses.
The price of hemp fluctuated wildly making it difficult to rely on. ($330/ton in 1810; $60/ton in 1822; $180/ton in 1936; $80/ton in 1837)
Hemp production in Kentucky began to decline dramatically during and after the Civil War. Union forces prevented its river transport and demand was reduced because of reduced cotton production. After the war, new methods of baling cotton using iron bands became prevalent. Also, the end of slavery made finding an adequate labor force difficult.
From the the 1870s through World War II hemp was grown in small quantities in Kentucky with several surges in production prompted by various short-lived demands. During this time Kentucky production was overtaken by hemp grown in Wisconsin where mechanized harvesting had been introduced. In Kentucky, methods of growing and harvesting hemp never changed from those developed in the early 19th century when John Speed was growing hemp.
Increasing concerns over the use of hemp for marijuana production led to a government prohibition on its production.
categories / culture, history
tags / louisville, kentucky, agriculture, hemp, history
Agriculture at Farmington (1810-1840)
March 31, 2016 / Diane Young
Farmington was a 550-acre hemp plantation. Hemp was the principal cash crop, but not the only one. No Kentucky plantations were single crop operations. Diversified farming was the norm. One reason for this was the drastically fluctuating price for hemp sales.
Tobacco was grown at Farmington in some years. By 1840, vinegar, and possibly cider, produced from what must have been a fairly large orchard, were also sold.
Butter was produced in large enough quantities for it to be sold at the downtown Louisville market. Butter making was Lucy Speed's responsibility. In 1840 Farmington had a herd of 17 'milch cows.'
Other seed crops at Farmington in 1840 included corn and timothy and clover hay. Wheat had also been grown at one point.
Crops grown for consumption at Farmington in 1840 included corn, Irish potatoes, apples, cabbages, peas and beans, and sugar beets. Raspberries and peaches were also mentioned in letters. Probably a wide variety of fruits and vegetables were grown in smaller quantities for seasonal consumption by the Speed family.
Livestock and fowl for consumption included pigs, cattle, turkey, chickens, and ducks.
Large quantities of potatoes, cabbages, sugar beets, and salted pork listed in the inventory suggest that these constituted the main portion of the diet for enslaved African Americans at Farmington. (This correlates with T.W. Bullitt's account of the slave diet at Oxmoor.)
Agricultural outbuildings thought to have existed at Farmington include a hemp house (no doubt a brick or stone building), corn cribs, and probably several barns.
tags / hemp, louisville, kentucky, agriculture
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