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Rockabilly Legends
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Examining the Roots
Jerry Naylor - The Rockabilly Legends: Roots of It All - The Rockabilly Roots - Examining the RootsThe Roots of Rockabilly began with a classic combination of African American Spirituals and Slave Songs, Delta Blues, Southern Gospel, Hillbilly Country, and Bluegrass, however, the nurturing of … [Read more...]
We really let it Viberate for Carl
The Tribute Sessions - We really let it Viberate for CarlFor almost a year, Carl Stanley Perkins and I worked, planned, wrote, recorded, produced and created a passionate tribute to Stan’s dad, Carl Perkins.Where do you start on a project like this? “Wellll,” and we used this word to kick … [Read more...]
Rocks, Rags & Riches
Jerry Naylor - Tribute to The Rockabilly Legends: Rocks, Rags & Riches On more than one occasion, I’ve found myself thrust among strangers and courteously introduced as, “Jerry Naylor, who fifty years ago began his entertainment career with Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Roy … [Read more...]
Live on the Louisiana Hayride
Tribute to the Rockabilly Legends: Live on the Louisiana HayrideThe late decades of the teens and early twenties brought us the high-kicking flappers, James P. Johnson’s “Charleston,” Duke Ellington’s ragtime, Bessie Smith’s blues and George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” The thirties and … [Read more...]
Red Robinson – Conversations with the Legends
Tribute to the Rockabilly Legends: Red Robinson Conversations With The LegendsVancouver, British Columbia, is famous for many things, but one of the stand-out legends is the red-headed radio and television personality who introduced Rockabilly and Rock and Roll to all of Canada. Red Robinson, … [Read more...]
2-DVD Set Documentary
The Rockabilly Legends: A Tribute to My Friends 165-minute feature documentary takes you on a unique journey from Rockabilly roots in the Depression-Era cotton fields of Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas, into the southern juke joints, honky-tonks, recording studios and rural churches, and onto the … [Read more...]
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I Was Captivated…
“Jerry Naylor sent me a copy of the documentary while I was on tour in Australia and New Zealand. I settled in and watched the entire thing, and I was captivated. It brought back a lot of good memories of a lot of good friends like Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Cowboy Jack Clement, Carl Perkins and Charlie Rich.
I also learned a few things along the way. The Rockabilly Legends influenced so many of the artists in rock and roll and country music who followed, and Rockabilly music is a key part of our American musical heritage. I’m happy Jerry Naylor invited me to help preserve the rich Rockabilly legacy.”
“Jerry Naylor sent me a copy of the documentary while I was on tour in Australia and New Zealand. I settled in and watched the entire thing, and I was captivated. It brought back a lot of good memories of a lot of good friends like Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Cowboy Jack Clement, Carl Perkins and Charlie Rich. I also learned a few things along the way. The Rockabilly Legends influenced so many of the artists in rock and roll and country music who followed, and Rockabilly music is a key part of our American musical heritage. I’m happy Jerry Naylor invited me to help preserve the rich Rockabilly legacy.”
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Rock On Kitty (Adventures in Self Publishing)
It all began with Choose Your Own Death. I was offered a short story commission from a magazine editor that specialised in macabre fairytales and fantastical stories for young readers. I started writing one Saturday morning thinking I’d knock it over by Sunday evening.
By late Saturday, the story had taken on its own life. Characters refused to die. My carefully plotted index cards were scattered across the room. I submitted the story anyway – 5000 words over the word limit. I never did hear back from the publisher.
I was disheartened but not defeated. I’ve never killed any of my stories. Instead, they skulk in the virtual bottom drawer of my hard drive and every so often, usually on a Friday or Saturday night when I’m home alone with a glass of wine, I’ll find the file and plug away at it. That was how Choose Your Own Death was completed, eighteen months after the initial ‘commission’.
What now? I’d read too many blogs from writers about the difficulties in finding an agent, much less a publisher. When the writers finally did get their manuscript accepted, they were elated. Having a publisher accept your work is a childhood dream. I pursued my dream diligently for a few weekends, firing off emails trying to find an agent willing to take it but at 16000 words, it was an odd fit.
I couldn’t keep searching indefinitely. I had a day job where I taught film students the business of animation— a business where emerging filmmakers spend thousands of dollars marketing and self-distributing their short films to film festivals and online. Sure, film producers also tried to engage with distributors and commissioners but the reality is, the online platform provided the most opportunities for emerging filmmakers. Visual artists were also self-distributers. As an art college graduate, I’d never questioned parting with money to pay for a gallery space as part of a group exhibition. This was just part of the culture. No one ever turned up at the opening night of an exhibition and asked whether the gallery chose to curate the exhibition or whether the artists self-published.
The truth is the book publishing industry has kept their privileged gatekeeper mentality long after it had been knocked down in every other creative field. The decision to open my own indie publishing house was easy. I had a lot of transferrable skills from working in screen production and having completed an animation degree. If there’s one degree that teaches you how to teach yourself every software an artist or writer could possibly need, it’s an animation degree. Still, it’s a lot of work balancing being a writer and publisher. Eventually, I’d love to bring on people to help me with the publishing side of things. For now though, I’m content to tread that fine line between making my work and distributing it, like every other artist.
Marianna 2017-04-09T07:15:19+00:00
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Barriers to Reconciliation
Case Studies on Iraq and the Palestine-Israel Conflict
Edited by Jacqueline S. Ismael and William W. Haddad
This work features a collection of essays regarding patterns of conflict, settlement, and political reconstruction in Palestine, Israel, and Iraq. The case studies in this volume represent the individual efforts of scholars to address issues underlying conflict in these troubled nations. The scholars debate that these issues constitute structural barriers to peace building, and their resolution is fundamental to a furtherance of social justice in the Middle East. « less more »
978-0-7618-3554-7 • Paperback • October 2006 • $60.99 • (£42.95)
Subjects: History / Middle East / Israel & Palestine
Jacqueline S. Ismael is Professor of Social Work at University of Calgary.
William W. Haddad is Chair of the Department of History at CSU Fullerton.
This work features a collection of essays regarding patterns of conflict, settlement, and political reconstruction in Palestine, Israel, and Iraq. The case studies in this volume represent the individual efforts of scholars to address issues underlying conflict in these troubled nations. The scholars debate that these issues constitute structural barriers to peace building, and their resolution is fundamental to a furtherance of social justice in the Middle East.
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Jake McKelvie & The Countertops, Sid Kingsley, Blush Face, Addy @ The Camel
RVA Staff | November 23, 2017
Topics: Addy, Blush Face, Jake McKelvie & The Countertops, Sid Kingsley, The Camel
And now for something completely different. Unlike that last show, this one is not heavy at all, but Jake McKelvie and his Countertops are bringing a sound to the Camel that’s sure to make you smile. Their undistorted guitars, bouncy tempos, and vocal harmonies are closer to a folky power-pop sound than anything, although there’s a nervous energy underlying all of their tunes that make a punk lineage completely undeniable. These guys seem like they’d appeal to fans of Jeff Rosenstock, or the Violent Femmes. Maybe even if you like the dBs or the Bongos you should check this out, though at this point I’m making references that will probably only even ring a bell if you’re at least as old as I am. Oh well, let’s move on.
There’s plenty to move on to, with the lineup of local support this bill is carrying. Sid Kingsley’s been doing a lot to raise his profile around town lately, at least if live dates are anything to go by. His soulful crooning and layered piano melodies stand out in a town full of guitar-slingers, but he’s a bit more Elton John than Little Richard–which is a nice thing, especially in this context. Local up-and-coming power-pop crew Blush Face are also a good compliment to the whole vibe being created here, as has been shown by their excellent new LP, What Do You Want? I honestly have no idea who Addy are, and it’s not an easy name to google, but one band being a mystery is easily dealt with when the other three are this much powerful, melodic fun.
RVA Shows You Must See This Week: 11/22-11/28
Marilyn Drew Necci | November 22, 2017
Topics: Addy, Arkaik, Beex, Blush Face, Champion RVA, Cloak, Disintegration, DJ Baby Maria, DJ Jeeb, DJ RIP, DJ Slimehole, Embra, Exhumed, Imaginary Boys, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, Jake McKelvie & The Countertops, Lightning Born, Loud Night, Memory Loss, Occultist, R Complex, shows you must see, Sid Kingsley, Sleepwalkers, Smoke Break, Spooky Cool, strange matter, The Broadberry, The Camel, The Spliffs, The Trillions, White Boy & The Average Rat Band
Friday, November 24 – Sunday, November 26, 7 PM all three nights
J Roddy Walston & The Business 3 Night Stand, feat. The Trillions (Fri), Spooky Cool (Sat), Sleepwalkers (Sun) @ The Broadberry – $25 in advance/$30 day of show (order tickets HERE)
It’s a holiday weekend, so to a certain extent, all bets are off where live entertainment is concerned. There’ll still be something happening, but it’ll be tribute shows, or goofy themed dance parties, or random one-offs. You’ll see most of that stuff later in the column, but right now, we’ve got a rare case in which the holiday weekend has inspired something pretty amazing.
Back in the day, mid-level touring rock n’ roll bands would do multi-night stands at venues all the time, but these days it’s a pretty rare thing. However, one thing J. Roddy Walston & The Business have always been is old-school, and they’re demonstrating that to the fullest extent this weekend with the total baller move of doing a three-night stand at the Broadberry, booking the entire post-Thanksgiving weekend at one of the bigger rock clubs in town. This might have been a mistake that saw the band playing to a half-full hall three nights in a row, but as of now it looks like they pulled it off–Saturday is a hair’s breadth away from selling out, and Friday’s closing in on a sellout itself.
Walston & co. released their long-awaited followup to 2013 game-changer Essential Tremors a couple months ago, and Destroyers Of The Soft Life adds a bit more Kings Of Leon-style swagger to their energetic, sweat-soaked sound, making that four-year wait totally worth it. The Broadberry is, as previously mentioned, one of the bigger clubs in town, but with the Business’s roof-shaking sound, it’s sure to feel like an intimate night communing with the closest this city’s got to a true rock n’ roll hero. So pick the opener you like best (though if the answer to that one is Spooky Cool, you better hop to it!) and grab a ticket for the night of your choice. Party away the extra weight you gained on Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 22, 7 PM
White Boy & The Average Rat Band, Lightning Born, DJ Jeeb, DJ Slimehole @ Champion RVA – Free!
Look, I know–you’ve got holiday traffic to deal with, Mama wants you to make it up to the old homestead before dark, and you always get a kick out of staying up late watching TV on your parents’ couch like nothing’s changed since high school. But I’m gonna advise you to skip all that and do your driving at the crack of dawn on Thanksgiving Day, because you’ll really be blowing it in a major way if you don’t stick around Richmond long enough to catch a free show from White Boy & The Average Rat Band over at Champion tonight. A lot of you are probably wondering who the hell that even is, but trust me, your friend with the encyclopedic record collection already knows, and he’s already let Mama know he won’t be at the house til 11 tomorrow morning.
If you want to get in the know here, the best way to do that is to take a chance and come out tonight–but failing that, I can let you in on some of the details. White Boy & The Average Rat Band was a tiny little group out of Tazewell County, VA at the dawn of the 80s. They made one solitary LP full of metallic punk sounds at the time, and it totally rips and would thrill today’s denim n’ leather set. And now it’s got a chance to, since that long-gone LP, which has been fetching heavy prices on the collector’s market for years has finally been reissued on CD–which might be why this band is suddenly back in action. Whatever the reason, come out to Champion tonight and find out why Richlands isn’t as much of a hole as you might have been led to believe. Plus, catch a bonus opening set from Demon Eye, still featuring old Richmond pal Erik Sugg, and now featuring Mike Dean of Corrosion of Conformity as well!
Friday, November 24, 8 PM
The Spliffs, Imaginary Boys, DJ RIP @ Strange Matter – $5
Here’s one of those fun random one-offs I was talking about before. The holidays are always a bit weird, and for everyone who has a great time with a loving family over each and every holiday weekend, there’s another person with no one to hang out with or nothing to look forward to back at the old homestead but a bunch of awkwardness, discomfort, and maybe even arguments. Plenty of us need a way to blow off steam after all that, and that’s even more true if we have the misfortune to work or even shop on the day known as Black Friday.
Luckily, Strange Matter is giving us all a chance to let our hair down–or put our hair up, as the case may be–and enjoy ourselves with a fun little covers show. Taking the Black Friday name as an ironic theme, this night features tribute acts covering the Smiths and the Cure, the dynamic duo of darkness and despair. Both of these bands are surprisingly danceable for groups with such persistently gloomy lyrics, and local ensembles The Spliffs and Imaginary Boys will bring their sounds to life and get you waving your arms around in a baggy sweater with a big smile on your face, even as you sing along with lines like “I am human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does” and “Found myself alone, alone, alone above a raging sea.” What’s not to love about that?
Saturday, November 25, 8 PM
Beex, Memory Loss, Smoke Break, DJ Baby Maria @ Strange Matter – $5
All the young and not-so-young punks need to be paying attention for this one. It’s yet another installment of Strange Matter’s Locals Only series, and this one features some punk-as-fuck tuneage from a variety of different scenes and eras of Richmond punk history. Beex go a long, long way back. Best known for early 80s singles like “Beat Beat” and “Black Boots and Pills,” this band was originally led by dynamic vocalist Christine Gibson and her husband, guitarist Tom Applegate. Gibson passed away about a decade ago, unfortunately, but Applegate is still leading a revived version of the band, which has been making excellent new music full of punkabilly swagger for several years now. Recently released album Zero Degree isn’t quite like the Beex of old, but it still has a lot to offer, and it’s great to see these scene legends still out there kicking as hard as ever.
Memory Loss are a much more au courant example of the punk form, bringing it old-school USHC style in a manner that has become quite popular in recent years. Memory Loss brings together people you’ll know from quite a few other recent local punk bands, and speed, anger, and noisy undertones mark the sound they crank out. Get ready to start the pit. Smoke Break have a similar speedy punk vibe going on, but where Memory Loss are abrasive, this trio bringing together members of Sundials, Hold Tight, Springtime, and more is melodic and fun. Their 2016 LP Everything Is Wrong didn’t really get enough attention locally, either, so if they’ve got any left, you’d do well to pick up a copy. Hell, buy all these bands’ records. After the show, though–you wouldn’t want them to get messed up while you’re rocking out.
Sunday, November 26, 8 PM
Exhumed, Arkaik, Disintegration, Loud Night @ Strange Matter – $12 in advance/$15 day of show (order tickets HERE)
What a way to cap off Thanksgiving weekend–with a night of brutal, gory death metal! Exhumed, the legendary California gore metal band who released a bushel of 90s classics before disappearing in the early 2000s, has been back for a while, and thankfully, they’ve now brought us their third LP of new material since their reformation. Their lineup has switched around a bit over the past several years, but leader Matt Harvey’s still heading things up, and his current backing group is mainly made up of veterans from 90s-era Exhumed lineups, so take heart–this is still the brutal machine of death you’ve always loved. Seventh album Death Revenge carries on the band’s traditions of alternating high-low vocals, shredtastic riffage, and surprisingly memorable hooks that’ll keep these powerful songs running through your head all day.
Exhumed are joined on this trek by fellow Californians Arkaik, who are certainly bringing plenty of death metal on their own behalf, though theirs has a bit of a different flavor than that of Exhumed. Where Exhumed are dark and messy, Arkaik is technically-driven and clean as a whistle. Both bands have one thing in common, though–they’ll rip your head off if you’re not careful. Arkaik’s brand new full-length, Nemethia, is a full-on killer, and you can believe that this tunes will knock your socks off even quicker in a live environment. Add opening sets from local grinders Disintegration and thrash shredders Loud Night, and you’ve got a full night of ripping metal power. Don’t miss out on that!
Monday, November 27, 8 PM
Jake McKelvie & The Countertops, Sid Kingsley, Blush Face, Addy @ The Camel – $5 (order tickets HERE)
Tuesday, November 28, 8 PM
Cloak, Occultist, Embra, R-Complex @ Strange Matter – $8 (order tickets HERE)
Metal is a great thing. Whenever you’re confused, not knowing where to turn, you can always count on metal being there for you. It’s the same with this excellent bill happening at Strange Matter Tuesday night–Atlanta killers Cloak will be there to give you something to headbang about and dissolve the mid-week doldrums. Their new album, To Venomous Depths, simultaneously reaches deep into the heart of metal’s mournful roots and explores the sonic rage of classic Swedish death metal sounds like At The Gates, all while bringing a feel that’s completely modern and entirely their own. Seeing this volcanic sound come alive onstage is sure to burn you, but only in the best possible way.
RVA metallic-punk (or is it punk-ish metal?) vets Occultist have been keeping a low profile lately, what with two of the band’s members getting busy in gothic side project Unmaker and all. But they’ve chosen to rear their head for this evening of metal thrashery, and not a moment too soon. We could all use a fiery jolt of blackened thrash terror, and this is just the band to give it to us. Be prepared. Brand new shredders Embra and the experimental noise industrial weirdness of R-Complex round out the lineup, and if the night won’t necessarily be wall-to-wall headbangs, it’s sure to jolt you with a full dose of that cosmic energy. BASH!
Email me if you’ve got any tips for me about upcoming shows (that take place after the week this column covers–this week’s column has obviously already been written): [email protected] [yes, my email is through GayRVA, don’t get weird about it]
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Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Urban Planning
Urban Luminosity
Part of Urban Diagnosis:38 (Sabeya Ali)
Light to darkness – Light has the ability to alter the urban realm and change our perceptions; it can trigger emotions, inform us and excite us. Lighting has become an increasingly important aspect of today’s nocturnal cities. By analysing the existing, challenging and critiquing new ideas, a concluding proposal was made for a light and darkness strategy of the route. The study began by looking at the multiple images of the city that are created the hour when the sun sets. The subtle changes highlight and conceal different features and create different atmospheres. The existing lighting along the route was analysed through measuring and mapping the light levels at each bus stop on nights of various weather conditions. This was then compared with an exercise where each team member marked out where they thought the brighter and darker areas existed. This was mapped and varied from the actual results. The experiment strongly ties into the idea that the eyes only make up 10% of the visual information while the brain makes up the other 90% to perceive things.
What if? This was an exercise of challenging new ideas of lighting the urban realm.
What if there was interactive lighting? Only the areas used being lit, bringing excitement to lighting, it is the people and how they use the space that becomes a spectacle at night.
What if the buildings lit the surroundings? The buildings and lighting could become integrated from the original design concept.
What if voids were lit? If parks were lit they could be used 24/7, however it would disturb the natural wildlife within at night.
What if advertising played a more important role in urban luminosity? It could become a distracting overlay of the city’s architecture, but if this was an overlay of a wall, for example, it could give it an alternative use at night.
What if the M74 extension was lit? Instead of lighting what are landmarks by day, what if the places of negative associations were lit to try and change people’s perceptions? It could give the city a whole new identity at night.
What if there was a canopy of lights along the streets creating an artificial sky? This could enhance streets of special use.
What if lighting and architecture was combined? It could provide a cohesive way of lighting the urban realm.
Lighting model
Light and Darkness Scheme – ideas were combined and applied to different areas of the route to create a proposal of light and dark. The new ideas were combined with old to create a whole cohesive picture of what the urban realm could be like at night. With the select areas lit, the light against the dark backdrop creates a vibrancy. Through the variety of urban luminosity, it creates interest and vitality throughout the urban realm at night.
Sabeya Ali
Urban Diagnosis
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Families: Reestablishing Relationships after a Storm
Family relationships can be damaged for many reasons. Conflicts can arise from varying views and hurt feelings over both serious and petty issues: finances, house chores, jealousy, etc. Ignored, these conflicts can lead to painful rifts between family members. Resolution of these issues and rebuilding and strengthening of family ties are possible with counseling.
More People, More Views
It is normal for people to have different views about things, even among families. A household with more members, such as children, extended family, or stepchildren, has more potential reasons for conflict.
For instance, a parent may see rules as a form of guidance, while an adolescent child may perceive them as intrusions on their independence or violations of their rights. A stepparent may consider a decision to be fair, but a stepchild may see it as biased. A grandparent may consider something an act of kindness, but it may be misconstrued as meddling by a parent or a grandchild.
Because there is love among the members of a family and they do not want to aggravate the issues, there is also a tendency for everyone to keep their emotions under a tight lid. While this can prevent immediate and frequent clashes, it may lead to more intense conflicts later on. This is why it is practical to seek ways to resolve issues affecting relationships, especially after a major conflict.
Resolving Anger
The home is supposed to be a haven where family members seek refuge when things aren’t good at work or school. When the family relationships are in shambles, however, there is nowhere to go. This can push people, especially children, toward negative influences and risky practices or habits.
The price of doing nothing about these disagreements, particularly after an emotional confrontation, can be confusion and anger. Confused children may act out and manifest their inner turmoil in anger. Even the adults in the family are vulnerable to anger when they perceive each other’s actions as intrusive, hateful, wrong, bitter, or vengeful. Because families love another despite the failings, these perceptions may not be real.
To reestablish broken family relationships, the anger has to be resolved. Anger can tinge people’s perception and mar their judgment. Resolving anger and conflict may sound easy, but actually getting into the act can be very nerve-wracking, particularly when one person believes that they didn’t do anything wrong. This is why seeking help from an experienced counselor can be necessary.
Rebuilding Family Harmony
Rebuilding broken family relationships takes love, patience, and honesty. Forgiving, regardless of who is wrong, is an act that requires love. Rebuilding relationships can take time and effort. Unfortunately, anger and distrust can be buried very deep in a relationship, and achieving harmony may take more than one trial; the family has to be patient and stay committed to the process. For forgiveness to work, it has to be done with sincerity.
Resolution of anger also takes listening. It is important to understand how your child, stepchild, spouse, parent, stepparent, or grandparent feels. Listening is also an important ingredient of a healthy, two-way conversation. Communication is usually the first thing to break down in a relationship and must be repaired when healing a relationship.
Counseling Can Help Your Family Heal
Family members can settle issues among themselves, but it can be very challenging. If parents have unresolved issues with their child, it will not be easy for the child to take their words seriously. Children involved in a conflict may be accused of misleading others to save themselves. No, it will not be easy. In fact, it is nearly impossible to be a hundred percent fair and objective within your family or to be perceived that way. This is why seeking help from Carolina Counseling Services – Sanford, NC, can be your best option.
The first real advantage of using the services of CCS is having a neutral setting to resolve your issues. Outside the usual milieu where these conflicts happen, the participants can be more open or amenable to solutions, which they may perceive as more fair and justified. A counselor independently contracted with Carolina Counseling Services – Sanford, NC, can provide that neutral environment for your family. They can also help you sort out the issues troubling your family, heal and rebuild relationships, and strengthen your family bonds to weather fiercer and bigger storms in the years to come.
Ending Conflict Before It Breaks Up Your Family
Serving Areas: Carolina Counseling Services – Sanford, NC
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Zip Codes: 27330, 27332, 28327, 27505, 27546
Rose Thomas, MA, LPC, LCAS, NCC
Specializes in: (Ages 5+) Children, Teens, Individuals, Couples and Families. Anxiety, Depression, ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder, ADHD, Relationship Issues, Marriage Counseling, Parenting, PTSD/Trauma Recovery, Acute Stress Disorder, Adult Sexual Abuse Survivors, Adjustment Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Persistent Depressive Disorder, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Self-injurious/Self-Harm, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Separation Anxiety, Disruptive Disorders, Conduct Disorder, Marital Conflict and Discord, LGBT, Substance Use Disorders
Insurance: BCBS, Tricare,/Tricare Prime, Select, Extra, Retired, Cash, HSA and FSA accepted (credit cards accepted)
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Specializes in: (Ages 6+) Children, Adolescents/Teens, Individuals, Couples, Family Therapy and Marriage Counseling. Anxiety, Depression, Bi-Polar Disorder, Addiction and Recovery, Relationship Issues, Post Partum Depression, Family Conflict, Crisis Intervention, ODD, Conduct Disorder, LGBTQ
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Home Features Community The 2nd Annual Arnie Robinson Invitational
The 2nd Annual Arnie Robinson Invitational
By Darrel Wheeler
Olympian Arnie Robinson celebrated his birthday last weekend at Mesa Junior College for his annual Track & Field Invitational. High Schools and Junior Colleges in and out of San Diego competed in hurdles, high-long jumps, sprints, relays and throwing events to honor San Diego’s king for a day.
The Morse High grad has been involved in track & field as a participant, meet organizer and coach for five decades. Hopefully some of the athletes at the invitational will have a career as predigest as Mr. Clarence Earl (Arnie) Robinson.
Classmate Douglass Tanab had this to say about the gold medalist, “ I have known Arnie since the mid-sixties when we were both on the Morse High School and Mesa college track teams. I remember him as an outstanding long–high jumper, sprinter, hurdler and basketball player. I was thrilled to see him go to two Olympics and win silver, and four years later win the gold.”
Following his interest in track & field, Arnie took over the head coaching position at Mesa College.
Unfortunately tragedy struck when a drunk driver broadsided his car and left Arnie severely injured. The fact that he continued to coach at Mesa until he retired was truly amazing. Since the accident he has battled with major health issues. In the true sense of the word, Arnie has been a superstar and an inspiration to all.”
Arnie was wheeled to the all-weather track and treated to a happy birthday song by the fans and athletes at the second annual Arnie Robinson invitational. Madison High School’s Dotun Ogundeji impressed spectators with shot-put skills, and the senior led all challengers with a 62’6.25 toss. He also won the discus throw.
“He is the best thrower in the nation right now. He is a beast, he has the strength and technique and a good coach. He has the ability to be one of the best ever to come out of San Diego,” said Montgomery High’s throwing Coach Brian Johnson.
Like Arnie, maybe one day Dotun will have a Track & Field Invitational named after him for his outstanding accomplishments.
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Should we get a poop on a Calgary Eco Diaper Company?
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- Like many new mothers in this environmentally friendly city, Keri Hayes, a freelance reporter, diapers her 5-month-old daughter in cloth and biodegradable disposable diapers.
But she was dismayed to learn from her cloth diaper service that the biodegradable disposable diapers she purchases from Whole Foods, a grocery chain that specializes in organic foods and environmentally conscious products, aren't much better for the environment or the health of her baby than the Huggies and Pampers piled up in landfills.
"These diapers all contain super-absorbent gelling materials," or AGM, said the latest newsletter from cloth diaper service Tiny Tots. "AGM is linked to an increase in childhood asthma and a decrease in sperm count among boys. Environmentally, these diapers require as much water, energy and fuel to produce as any other single-use diaper. The bottom line is they offer no environmental or health benefits."
Diapering is arguably the most important decision parents could make for the environment and their young children, who are in diapers around the clock for upward of two years. However, no studies indicate that the absorbent substance used in disposables harms babies. Overall, there is little guidance in the contradictory studies and misinformation put out by the diaper industry.
"There is no answer," said Chaz Miller, director of state programs for the National Solid Wastes Management Association. No one can say definitively whether cloth or disposable diapers are better for the environment.
These are the facts: The average baby goes through 5,000 diapers before being potty-trained. Because 95 percent of these diaper changes are disposable diapers, most of them end up in landfills, said John A. Shiffert, executive director of the National Association of Diaper Services.
Diapers made up 3.4 million tons of waste, or 2.1 percent of U.S. garbage, in landfills in 1998 -- the last year this information was collected, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Diapers in landfills in underdeveloped countries are especially problematic because they often aren't properly disposed, and excrement leaks into the local water supply.
New biodegradable brands such as Seventh Generation, Nature Boy & Girl and TenderCare Plus offer only slightly better options. Nature Boy & Girl diapers are made of cornstarch instead of plastic. Neither TenderCare Plus nor Seventh Generation diapers are bleached in chlorine, a process used by the leading disposable-diaper companies that emits toxins into the air and water.
And contrary to popular belief, no diaper -- not even biodegradable ones -- can break down in an airtight landfill.
"A landfill is not a composting facility," the California Integrated Waste Management Board says on its website. "Nothing degrades well in a landfill."
As if that weren't enough to keep parents awake at night, cloth diaper services and some researchers bombard the public with news articles on the harmful chemicals in disposable diapers. While it is true that the waste water from washing cloth diapers is benign compared with the sludge of dioxins, solvents and heavy metals in waste water from manufacturing disposable diapers, there is no evidence that sufficient traces of the chemicals remain on the diapers to harm babies. As for the primary feature that gives disposable diapers their appeal -- their ability to absorb a large volume of liquid -- no studies indicate that sodium polyacrylate, the gel-like absorbent substance used in disposables, harms babies wearing the diapers.
Sodium polyacrylate was removed from tampons in 1985 because of its link to toxic shock syndrome, a bacteria-caused illness. But no such connection has been proven for outerwear, including diapers, incontinence products and feminine napkins, which all contain the super-absorbent gel, said Celeste Kuta, an environmental scientist with Procter & Gamble, the leading seller of disposable diapers in the United States.
The one study that does give cloth diapers a leg up in health benefits for baby boys appeared in the October 2000 issue of the Disease in Childhood medical journal. In that article, German researchers found that the scrotal skin temperatures of baby boys were significantly higher when they wore disposable diapers than when they wore cloth. While the scientists called for more research, their article suggested that prolonged use of disposable diapers as infants was an "important factor" contributing to the decline of sperm production among adult males. Proctor & Gamble conducted its own study and also found that scrotal skin temperatures increased for boys in disposable diapers, although not to the degree that the German scientists showed, Kuta said.
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Video: A Better View Of That Shark Feasting On A Seal By Alcatraz
After seeing a fairly fuzzy view of the bloody aftermath of a shark preying on a seal next to Alcatraz Island last weekend, via a tourist's cell phone camera, we now get a much clearer view of the scene via a much nicer camera mounted on an Alcatraz Ferry.
As noted earlier, sightings of Great White sharks have become more frequent in the Bay recently, likely as a result of the warm El Nino waters driving them north. However an expert says this was, "the first recorded predation event I know of in the San Francisco Bay." That is, of course, not to say it's never happened before, but still.
The only thing missing from one this one is sound, and that kid going, "Holy crud! That’s the awesomest thing I’ve ever seen in my life!”
[h/t: gCaptain]
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Future Assured at 3: Aisha Buhari Vows To Do More
October 29, 2018 saynigeria Breaking News, NEWS, POLITICS 0
Wife of the President, Dr. Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to continue championing the cause of women and children. She made the pledge during an event to mark the 3rd anniversary of the Future Assured Programme at the Banquet Hall of the State House on Saturday 27th October, 2018.
Mrs. Buhari was happy that the programme has made such giant strides in such a short time, and thanked partners that have made it possible.
She spoke of the programme’s engagement in addressing the deteriorating health status of women, youth and children, working to reduce the rate of maternal, neonatal and child mortality. She quoted nutrition, lack of health education, lack of clean drinking water and poverty as the culprits; leading the programme to provide clean drinking water, nutrition supplements and health screening exercises against killer diseases like breast and cervical cancer, diabetes, kidney disease and hypertension in many parts of the country. She also spoke of interventions in deworming children.
Speaking on the programme’s involvement in empowerment, Mrs. Buhari said poverty had to be tackled through deliberate programmes to develop entrepreneurial skills and provide women and youth with working tools. She mentioned rice mills, fish dryers, and groundnut extruders as well as grinding mills, sewing machines, rickshaws and spaghetti makers. Mrs. Buhari also spoke on the effort of the programme in the protection of human rights of women and children against abuse, violence and rape as well as supporting surgeries and advocacy on conditions like intersex and hydrocephalus.
Mrs. Buhari said the event recognizes that many Nigerians “are working to change lives like the programme is doing and need to be emulated. Some of those recognized and honoured include DCP Abba Kyari, a police officer, for uncommon dedication to duty, Ruona Meyer, a journalist for producing a documentary on Codeine, leading to its ban, Tobore Ovuorie, for her report on human trafficking. Corporate organizations like FlexiSAF Foundation were also honoured for innovation and social service.
Goodwill messages were delivered by the Federal Ministry of Health, UNFPA and Friesland Campina.
Highlights of the event were the cutting of the birthday cake and unveiling of the Future Assured Magazine as well as a platform to promote youth creativity.
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“In the jungle, the mighty jungle / The lion sleeps tonight…”
Cue a group of fifth-graders in their middle school’s chorus room passing time between classes, belting out this classic by Solomon Linda like nobody was listening.
That is, until they were.
The group of friends were asked to perform the song during the North Collins Jr./Sr. High School talent show their seventh-grade year.
Practicing intensely until the day of the show, their performance earned a standing ovation and from then on, the school’s first acapella group was formed.
Group member and now St. Bonaventure University freshman Nate Nicotera has fond memories of that day, and many others following it. He was also able to claim the title of first tenor in chorus and eventually tenor section leader. He landed major roles in school productions like “Little Shop of Horrors” and “Footloose,” all while maintaining A’s and taking advanced placement courses.
Yet the small school in North Collins, N.Y., with a graduating class of 70 students, was not without its challenges.
Throughout his life, Nicotera felt something about him was not quite like others in his town, which offered less in the way of diversity than a larger city. While he still values the close-knit feeling of connection he found within that community, the need he felt to fit in caused him to repress a key part of his identity — his sexuality.
His senior year of high school, Nicotera found the courage to break outside the mold.
“When I told my best friend that I was gay, it was extremely stressful, but relieving at the same time,” he said. “It took a lock off something I’d been hiding for a while.”
He explained that after realizing his own sexuality, it helped him to see and accept the differences in other people he did not before.
Today, he is a member of Spectrum, a campus club dedicated to the LGBTQIA+ community and promoting a supportive, inclusive environment.
“My biggest fear was not being able to make friends in college, but I met them very quickly,” he said.
He has also landed the role of Dwight in Bona’s upcoming theater production of “Dead Man’s Cellphone,” and has enjoyed focusing on his major: biochemistry.
“I’ve always loved the sciences,” he said, noting that biochemistry is a perfect fit for him.
His hope is to one day earn a Ph.D. and work in the field of oncology research. He’s known too many people who have suffered with cancer. “I want to keep others from going through that,” he said.
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For now, he’s focused on exploring the challenges and opportunities of his major and the many clubs and activities the campus has to offer.
"Whenever I talk to alumni, it’s always an overwhelmingly positive conversation," he said. “Multiple people so far have come up to me and said, ‘Listen, you’re not going to regret Bona’s,’ and so far, I don’t see how I could.”
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J. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr. vol.17 no.4 Temuco dic. 2017
Volatile organic compounds stimulate plant growing and seed germination of Lactuca sativa
P. Fincheira1, M. Parada2 and A. Quiroz1*
1Centro de Excelencia en Investigación Biotecnológica Aplicada al Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad de La Frontera. Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Casilla 54-D, Temuco, Chile.*Corresponding autor: andres.quiroz@ufrontera.cl. 2Centro Biotecnológico de Estudios Microbianos, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas y Forestales, Universidad de La Frontera. Av. Francisco Salazar 01145, Casilla 54-D, Temuco, Chile.
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted by Bacillus species have been reported as growth inducers in Arabidopsis thaliana, but their effects on horticultural species have been scarcely studied. In this study, Lactuca sativa emerges as a model vegetable to evaluate VOCs release by Bacillus sp. BCT9. The results indicated that root length, dry weight, number of lateral root and shoot length increased after VOCs exposition. The initial application of 30 µL of BCT9 in Nutrient Agar (N-A) was the best dose to elicit growth; whereas 60 µL of BCT9 inoculated in Methyl Red & Voges Proskauer Agar (MRVP-A) and Murashige & Skoog Agar (MS-A) had a greater effect. It noteworthy that root development was higher when BCT9 was grown in MRVP-A than in the others culture medium. The identified VOCs released by BCT9 in MRVP-A were 3-hydroxy-2-butanone, 2,3-butanediol, 2-nonanone, 2-undecanone, 2-tridecanone and 2-pentadecanone. Furthermore, the toxicity bioassays indicated that most VOCs did not have high toxic effects and some VOCs stimulated the growth at seed germination stage. In conclusion, this study suggests that VOCs can strongly modulate the L. sativa growth during germination and seedlings stages, so new explorations should be carried out in other vegetables to determine their effects.
Keywords: Culture conditions, growth modulation, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), phytotoxicity
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are molecules with low molecular weight (300 g/mol) and high vapour pressure (0.01 kPa at 20 °C) that include diverse chemical compounds (i.e. ketones). In the last decade, VOCs emitted by species belonging to Bacillus genus have been described for their ability to induce growth in Arabidopsis thaliana, which is usually used as model plant (Ryu et al., 2003; Kanchiswamy et al., 2015). The VOCs have the ability to elicit plant growth in absence of physical contact through the induction of physiological changes depending on doses and culture medium for bacterial growth (Zhang et al., 2007; Blom et al., 2011). Therefore, we propose that VOCs emitted by Bacillus species can be a new strategy to induce growth on horticultural species for reducing agrochemical products. Based on the above mentioned, Lactuca sativa emerges as a model vegetable to test volatiles as growth inducer due to easy management, fast germination and sensitivity to compounds exposition (Charles et al., 2011). The objectives of the present study were: (1) to evaluate culture conditions of Bacillus sp. BCT9 for producing volatiles with growth-inducing activity and (2) to determine the effects of identified volatile organic compounds on L. sativa germination.
2.1. Bacterial isolates and plant growth conditions
The Bacillus sp. BCT9 (Genbank access number: KX395632) was streaked on Plate Count Agar. Commercial seeds of L. sativa (Green lettuce cv Reina de mayo asepo, semillas Fito, S.A) were surface-sterilized during 8 min with 3% sodium hypochlorite and washed with sterile distilled water. Later, seeds were placed on Murashige and Skoog basal medium with vitamins 0.5 X (PhytoTechnology Laboratories, LLC™) containing 0.8% agar and 1.5% sucrose (MS-A). Petri dishes were placed under 16/8-h light-dark cycle at 20-25°C. Germinated seedlings were transferred to two-compartment Petri dishes after 2 days for experimental uses (Ryu et al., 2003).
2.2. Evaluation of Bacillus sp. BCT9 dose on L. sativa growth
According to the methodology reported by Fincheira et al. (2016), bioassays were performed in two-compartment Petri dishes (90 x 15 mm) with two 2-day-old L. sativa seedlings placed into one of the compartments containing MS-A and the second compartment containing Nutrient agar (N-A), Methyl Red & Voges Proskauer agar (MRVP-A) or MS-A. The second compartment was inoculated with 15, 30 or 60 µL of Bacillus sp. BCT9 (2 x 108 CFU mL-1). The plates were distributed in a randomized design and non-inoculated plates were used as control (Blom et al., 2011; Velázquez-Becerra et al., 2011). The evaluation of L. sativa growth was measured on day-10.
2.3. GC-MS analysis of volatile organic compounds released by Bacillus sp. BCT9
Bacterial isolate (25 mL) was grown in 250 mL of MRVP for 19 h at 34°C to collect volatiles using Solid Phase Micro Extraction (SPME) fiber polydimethylsiloxane/divinylbenzene(PDMS/DVB), previously conditioned with helium for 10 min at 250 °C. Volatiles were desorbed at 250 °C for 2 min in an injector of gas chromatograph coupled with mass spectrometer (Thermo Electron Corporation). The chromatographic separation was performed by DB-1 column using helium flow (1.0 mL min-1). Mass spectra were acquired in the mass using 35- 500 a.m.v. electronic imput at 70 eV. The VOCs were identified by comparing Kovats indices (KIs) with the corresponding commercial standards by injecting an alkane series (C9C26) (Tampe et al., 2016).
2.4. Germination toxicity assays
The disinfected seeds (n=15) were placed on the surface of MS-A in one of the compartments of two-compartment Petri dishes and exposed to different doses (1,000 µg, 1 µg and 0.01 µg) of identified volatile organic compounds placed in the other compartment during germination stage. Three plates were used to test each combination (compound x concentration). Root elongation (RE) (RE=Elongationsample- Elongationcontrol/ Elongationcontrol) and seed germination (SG) (SG =Germinationsample- Germinationcontrol/ Germinationcontrol) were evaluated as toxicity parameters. The indices are designed with values in a range from -1 (maximum phytotoxicity) to >0. The toxicity effect was evaluated after 120 h according to the following scale: (1) 0 to -0.25 = low toxicity, (2) -0.25 to -0.5= moderate toxicity, (3) -0.5 to -0.75= high toxicity and (4) -0.75 to -1= very high toxicity. A value more than zero indicate growth stimulation (Bagur-González et al., 2010).
The growth parameters were analyzed by Statistix v10. The difference resulted from the VOCs treatments on L. sativa growth parameters was analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and LSD test (P ≤ 0.05).
3.1. The effects of different culture conditions on Bacillussp. BCT9 to release VOCs as growth modulator on L. sativa
Figure 1 shows that seedlings exhibits 24, 54, 51 and 190% increase in root length, dry weight, shoot length and number of lateral roots, respectively, when BCT9 (30 µL) was grown in N-A. Nevertheless, the exposition of seedlings to BCT9 VOCs (60 µL) grown in MRVP-A shows increased root length (80%) (Figure 1a). L. sativa seedlings showed a 98 and 58% increase in dry weight and shoot length, respectively (Figure 1b,d). In addition, dry weight and number of lateral roots increased 127 and 95%, respectively when BCT9 (60 µL) was cultivated in MS-A (Figure 1b). Furthermore, the number of lateral roots increased more than 6-fold compared with the control (Figure 1c). For the next stage, the MRVP medium was chosen to identify VOCs emitted by BCT9 due to its highest capacity to elicit an increase of root length.
Figure 1. Effects of different doses of Bacillus sp. BCT9 on the emission of volatile organic compounds on growth modulation of Lactuca sativa. The growth parameters evaluated were (a) root length, (b) dry weight, (c) number of lateral root and (d) shoot length. N-A= Nutrient agar; MRVP-A = Methyl Red & Voges Proskauer agar; MS-A = Murashige & Skoog agar. Bars represent the standard error. Letters indicate means that differ significantly according to ANOVA (LSD test) for each culture medium (P < 0.05) (N= 15-20).
3.2. The effect of VOCs release by BCT9 on seeds germination of L. sativa.
The identified compounds released from BCT9 grown in Methyl Red & Voges Proskauer were 3-hydroxy-2-butanone, 2,3-butanediol, 2-nonanone, 2-undecanone, 2-tridecanone and 2-pentadecanone. The VOCs showed a low toxicity on L. sativa, according to indices from -0.27 to 0, only 2-nonanone at 1000 µg presented toxicity. Ketone compounds increased both RE and SG in at least one applied concentration. Finally, it noteworthy that 2-nonanone (0.1 µg), 2-undecanone (1 µg) and 2-tridecanone (0.01 and 1 µg) stimulated the growth on L. sativa at germination stage (Table 1).
Table 1. Identified volatile organic compounds release from Bacillus sp. BCT9 cultivated in MRVP medium and their effects on germination (RT = retention time, RL= root length, Germ= germinated seeds, RE=root elongation, SG= seed germination). Letters indicate means that differ significantly according to ANOVA (LSD test) (N=3).
Bacterial species have been intensively studied for their ability to increase plant growth by emission of non-volatile compounds, but recent studies have discussed strongly the relevant ecological role of volatiles by their ability to induce growth without physical contact (Casarrubia et al., 2016; Tyc et al., 2016). In the last decade, Ryu et al. (2003) reported that VOCs emitted by Bacillus subtilis G03 can elicit growth in A. thaliana through the activation of physiological pathways. Nevertheless, culture conditions for bacterial growth have an essential role for the emission of volatiles such as inoculums quantity and culture medium composition (Blom et al., 2011; Velázquez-Becerra et al., 2011). In this study, different culture conditions of Bacillus sp. BCT9 were evaluated for producing VOCs as growth modulators on L. sativa. The VOCs produced by BCT9 elicited L. sativa growth depending strongly on inoculated doses, in agree with the reports by Velázquez-Becerra et al. (2011) and Blom et al. (2011), who indicated that low doses of inoculums elicit growth and high doses can induce phytotoxicity in seedlings. Recently, the Bacillus genus was studied by Asari et al. (2016), who showed that VOCs released by different strains (Coded as UCMB5033, UCMB5036, UCMB5113 and FZB42) induced a significant increase on dry weight of A. thaliana (phyllosphere) when the strains grow in Luria Broth Agar (LB-A), minimal medium (M9) or Trypticase Soy Agar, indicating that doses of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens UCMB5113 from 20 to 100 µL inoculated in MS-A increased dry weight (phyllosphere). Besides, Blom et al. (2011) reported that Burkholderia pyrrocinia Bcc171 increased dry weight on A. thaliana when grown in LB-A and MRVP-A, reaching the best yield with 10 µL of applied inoculums. Furthermore, Medicago sativa - Arthrobacter agilis UMCV2 interaction was studied by Velázquez-Becerra et al. (2011), who reported a dose-dependence response of M. sativa exposed to VOCs release by A. agilis UMCV2, reaching the best increase on root length, root density, stem length and fresh weight with 50 µL of inoculum grown in N-A compared with doses from 100 to 500 µL. The studies described above suggest that low inoculums amount (range from 10 to 50 µL) have a great effect to induce growth. The mentioned studies demonstrated the strong effect of dose dependence of bacterial inoculum (independent of the involved bacterial genus). In this study, it was shown that VOCs released by BCT9 have a relevant role to elicit the root growth, coinciding with the reported by Gutiérrez-Luna et al. (2010) and Meldau et al. (2013), who showed the importance of VOCs released by Bacillus to elicit primary root length, lateral root number and lateral root length. The root development is essential to absorb nutrients and water from substrate; so many studies have focused on these parameters (Salazar-henao et al., 2016). Until now, mycorrhiza associations have been studied intensively for decades by its role to tolerate biotic and abiotic stress, plant productivity, nutrients acquisition and plant productivity (Van der Heijden et al., 2015). Specifically, a recent study performed by Durán et al. (2016) showed that the symbiotic interaction that involve arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Rhizophagus intraradices) applied together with Bacillus sp., Klebsiella sp. or Acinetobacter sp. in L. sativa can increase photosynthetic pigments and antioxidant enzyme levels under drought stress. In this study, the evaluation of physiological effects under stress was not performed, but action mechanisms associated to VOCs emitted by Bacillus have shown their ability to modulate essential nutrients concentration, hormonal balance, metabolisms and sugar concentrations after 48 h of exposition (Zhang et al., 2007). Therefore, VOCs can modulate diverse cellular target after short time of exposure with similar effects compared with symbiotic interaction, but this new mechanisms represents an ecological advantage because it can activate its target at long distance. The BCT9 grown in MRVP, showed a high ability to induce L. sativa growth, so this medium was selected to identify VOCs. The VOCs released are derived from two metabolic pathways: piruvate fermentation (3-hydroxy-2-butanone and 2,3-butanediol) and fatty acid cycle (2-nonanone, 2-undecanone, 2-tridecanone and 2-pentadecanone). Respect to germination assays, the results indicated that both indices showed a sensitivity to evaluate VOCs phytotoxicity and compounds showed a low toxicity on L. sativa during germination stage. Remarkably, the results indicated that 2-nonanone, 2-undecanone and 2-tridecanone had the ability to stimulate seed germination, suggesting their important influence in this stage, but more studies should be performed. This research shows the importance of culture conditions to prospect non-toxic VOCs as growth inducers in horticultural species to study VOCs as a new strategy to reduce agrochemical application.
VOCs released by Bacillus sp. BCT9 act as growth inducer agents at shoot and root level on L. sativa, obtaining the best yield with exposition to VOCs released in a range from 30 to 60 µL of inoculums depending on culture conditions. In addition, the results suggest that VOCs have low toxicity effect on seeds and ketone compounds have stimulating effect on germination stage.
The authors thank CONICYT scholarship (21120145) and project Fondecyt (1141245) for their support in this work. Likewise, we also thank Dr. Maribel Parada for her kind help facilitating bacterial strains. Supported (partially) by Dirección de Investigación, Universidad de La Frontera.
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Application of henna extract in minimizing surfactant adsorption on quartz sand in saline condition: A sacrificial agent approach
Mohd Syazwan Mohd Musa
Wan Rosli Wan Sulaiman
Zaiton Abdul Majid
Zulkifli Abdul Majid
Ahmad Kamal Idris
Kourosh Rajaei
3. Engineering (general)
This study examined the adsorption ability of henna extract as an environment-friendly and accessible sacrificial agent. In this study, the Fourier transform infrared-attenuated total reflectance (FTIR-ATR) was used to characterized henna extract and quartz sand. The adsorption of the henna extract on quartz sand was executed using the ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV–Vis). The current study also assesses the effects of salinity on the henna extract adsorption on quartz sand, and the mechanisms of the adsorption process were interpreted. Apart from that, the ability of henna extract in reducing the adsorption of surfactant in the presence of salts were recorded. The outcome demonstrated that henna extract adsorption on quartz sand increased with the increase of salinity concentrations. Note that the adsorption value increased from 3.14 to 8.11 mg/g in 0 and 50,000 mg/L of salinity, respectively. The main mechanisms involved in the adsorption process were hydrogen bond, hydrophobic interactions, and electrostatic attractions. A reduction of 46% of surfactant adsorption was observed. This was a profound decrease in the adsorption of surfactant in the presence of henna extract, suggesting a possibility to be utilized as a sacrificial agent in reducing surfactant adsorption.
Henna extract Surfactant Quartz sand Adsorption Salinity
Surfactant flooding has been a vital part in enhanced oil recovery (EOR). This method is used to reduce the interfacial tension (IFT) of oil and water to improve the displacement efficiency through oil recovery [1]. Nevertheless, the surfactant adsorption on reservoir rock may impact the deprivation of the concentration of the surfactant, which may yield them less productive and competent [2].
The issues of the adsorption phenomenon of surfactants spark interests in lessening the adsorption of surfactant on reservoir rocks. Investigations on the implementation of similarly charged surfactant on the same surface charge of rock demonstrated that the anionic surfactant adsorption decreased on sandstone. The studies also concluded that the adsorption of cationic surfactant decreased on carbonate because of the repulsion of electrostatic between the adsorbent and the type of surfactants used [3, 4]. However, because of the heterogeneity of the reservoir especially with the diversity of minerals including carbonate, aluminates, silicates, and various clays, it is hard to determine either anionic or cationic surfactants to be used.
Besides that, alkali as additives has been used to lower the adsorption of surfactants [5] and the mechanism of which was considered as changing the surface charge on the rock surface. However, the usage of alkali induces such problems such as severe scaling in the near wellbore and production systems [6].
Following the research, the application of a sacrificial agent (SA) is deemed to be a promising method in reducing surfactant adsorption. The SA is a material that is injected to significantly inhibit or conceal all probable adsorption sites of the rock within the hydrocarbon formation. Weston et al. [7] have found that the formation of admicelles on the solid surface by the molecules of surfactant is the primary reason for adsorption to occur. The SA is strategically implemented to inhibit the development of these admicelles. ShamsiJazeyi et al. [8] in their work announced that polyelectrolyte had been proved to lessen adsorption of anionic surfactant on carbonates and clays minerals. In addition, surfactant adsorption was successfully reduced after the addition of the SA.
However, the materials used in reducing surfactant adsorption were chemicals which may be hazardous to living creatures and environment. Thus, materials that are eco-friendly, fewer impurities and simply accessible and are found from natural products, for instance, plant extracts that can act as an SA or inhibitor are being researched.
In this research, henna, a natural plant-based material was investigated as a potential SA. Henna is also known as Lawsonia inermis L. This substance has been implemented as a corrosion inhibitor [9, 10] and Moslemizadeh et al. [11] revealed that henna extract can reduce the swelling of sodium bentonite better than exposing sodium bentonite to polyamine and potassium chloride due to its inhibitive capability. Apart from that, several researchers conducted inclusive studies on the effect of various parameters on the adsorption of surfactant, especially regarding the influence of added salts. Bera et al. [12] observed that the adsorption of surfactant magnifies with the increased of NaCl concentration while, ShamsiJazeyi et al. [8] found that by increasing the salinity of Na+ ions, the adsorption of surfactant will simultaneously increase too. As indicated by Yekeen et al. [13], the degree of the adsorption of surfactant on reservoir rocks relies mostly on the electrolytes and the mineralogical composition of the rocks. Nevertheless, there is an absence of detailed knowledge on the application of henna extract as a SA in reducing surfactant adsorption in the vicinity of salts. Furthermore, the mechanisms of adsorption of the henna extract on quartz sand are still not well-understood by scholars.
This study was driven by the desire to comprehend the adsorption behavior of the henna extract on quartz sand and its ability in reducing surfactant adsorption with the influence of salinity. To reach this aim, the mechanisms of the adsorption process were analyzed. This study aimed to validate the notion that henna extract could be used as a SA in minimalizing surfactant adsorption.
2 Materials and methods
2.1 Materials
Fresh henna leaves were gathered from henna trees in Johor, Malaysia. Methanol of 99.9% (Acros Organics (USA)) was used as the solvent in methanolic extraction. The anionic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) of 98% purity weighing 288.38 g/mol of molecular weight and manufactured by Fisher Chemical (UK) was used for the surfactant adsorption. Sodium chloride, NaCl (99.8% pure) provided by Vchem was used to study the effect of salinity, and quartz sand used in the experiment was collected in Desaru, Johor, Malaysia. Deionized water (DIW) was used for all experiments. All substances used in this study were of scientific quality and were used as acquired; in other words, devoid of added purifications.
2.2 Preparation of henna powder
The fresh leaves of henna were dried at room temperature and then grounded into powder using an electric blender. The henna powder was carefully packed in an airtight, BPA-free container and stored in room temperature until further used.
2.3 Characterization of henna extract and quartz sand
2.3.1 FTIR-ATR analysis
The FTIR-ATR was conducted using the Perkin Elmer FTIR Spectrometer (USA). Meanwhile, the functional groups of henna extract and quartz sand were identified using the spectrometer by observing the vibrational motion of bonds in the molecules. The spectra were measured in the range of 650–4000 cm−1 with a scan resolution of 2 cm−1. The FTIR data were documented in the transmittance mode. Then, the pattern of the spectrum was examined and compared to the IR absorption table to determine the functional groups encompassed in the samples.
2.3.2 XRD analysis
The quartz sand sample was further characterized by using the X-ray diffraction (XRD) in the continuous scanning mode on SmartLab X-Ray Diffractometer (Rigaku, Japan) operated at 40 kV and a current of 30 mA with Cu–Kβ filter and Cu–Kα radiation source (λ = 0.154056 nm). Particle size ought to be fine to attain a tolerable statistical representation of the components and their numerous diffracting crystal planes and to evade diffraction-related artifacts [14]. All the patterns were collected at room temperature with steps of 0.02° in the 2θ range of 3°–100°. The measurements were taken at room temperature with a scan rate of 8.2551° per minute.
2.4 Preparation of henna extract and surfactant solutions
The solutions of henna extract were prepared in standard 250 ml Erlenmeyer flasks. The henna extract was weighed and transferred into the flasks, and the DIW water was added to the required volume. Henna extract concentrations were prepared in the range of 3000–8000 mg/L. It should be noted that the surfactant solutions were prepared similarly as henna extract solutions. Different concentrations of surfactant were prepared in the range of 1000–5000 mg/L. The influence of salinity on henna extract adsorption was determined by preparing different henna extract solutions using NaCl at concentrations 10,000, 30,000, and 50,000 mg/L.
2.5 Ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy (UV–Vis)
UV–Vis measurement was performed to determine the maximum absorption wavelength of henna extract and surfactant. Besides that, it is also used to compute the concentration of henna extract and surfactant before and after adsorption using Shimadzu UV-1800 Spectrophotometer (Japan). The absorbance–wavelength between 200 and 800 nm was recorded. Quartz cuvettes were used as the vessel.
2.6 Adsorption experiments
The adsorption of the henna extract on quartz sand was determined using the depletion method. This method observed the differences between the concentrations of henna extract before and after adsorption on quartz sand. 6 g of quartz sand was mixed with 30 mL of henna extract solutions. The mixture was then agitated in a temperature controller shaker using IKA KS 3000 I control (USA) at 180 rpm for 24 h at 25 °C under atmospheric pressure to reach the state of equilibrium. They were then centrifuged using Rotofix 32A (Hettich Zentrifugen, Germany) at 4000 rpm for 30 min to isolate the buoyant liquid. The concentrations of henna extract in the buoyant liquid was measured using a UV–Vis spectrophotometer. Adsorption amount at equilibrium time, qe (mg/g), was calculated using Eq. (1). The same procedures were applied in calculating the adsorption of surfactant on quartz sand. Surfactant concentration of 2000 mg/L was employed to determine the surfactant adsorption on quartz sand. In evaluating henna extract performances in reducing surfactant adsorption on quartz sand, the solution mixtures of henna extract and quartz sand were filtered out, leaving only quartz sand behind. Then, 30 mL of surfactant solution (concentration of 2000 mg/L) were mixed with the pre-treated quartz sand with henna extract solution. The mixtures were then left to reach the state of equilibrium for 24 h throughout which they were recurrently shaken in a temperature controller shaker at 180 rpm. After equilibrium was reached, the mixtures were centrifuged, and the buoyant liquid were examined using the UV–Vis spectrophotometer. The adsorption amount at equilibrium time, qe (mg/g), was calculated using Eq. (1).
$$q_{e} = \left( {C_{o} - C_{e} } \right) \times \frac{V}{m}$$
where qe is the adsorption of henna extract and surfactant on quartz sand (mg/g), Co and Ce are the henna extract and surfactant concentrations before and after the adsorption experiment, respectively (mg/L), V is the volume of henna extract and surfactant solutions added to the volumetric flask (L), and m is the total mass of the quartz sand added (g).
3.1.1 FTIR analysis
The FTIR-ATR spectrum of henna extract was analyzed and depicted in Fig. 1, which demonstrates a wide absorption band at 3311 cm−1. Those bands were appointed to the vibration of the hydroxyl groups. A similar observation was reported in other studies [9, 15]. Furthermore, the vibration of the aliphatic C–H group appeared at 2926 cm−1 and 2855 cm−1. The appearance of these functional groups was similar to the ones reported by other researchers [16]. The peaks at 1712 and 1632 cm−1 were assigned to the C=O bond. A similar view was noted by Safie et al. [17]. The peaks at 1510, 1449, 1400, and 1366 cm−1 were credited to the vibration of C=C in the aromatic benzene rings. These peaks were also observed by several researchers [9, 18]. The peaks at 1030 and 1064 cm−1 can be ascribed to the vibration of C–OH of the phenolic group. Such conclusion was inspired by the trend that was perceived by Saadaoui et al. [19]. Phenolic compounds in the henna leaves are the core constituents that contributed to the popularity of henna in specific fields as mentioned above [20, 21]. Figure 2 shows the molecular structure of one of the phenolic compounds that are in the henna leaves—gallic acid [20].
FTIR-ATR spectrum of henna extract
Molecular structure of gallic acid
Figure 3 presents the infrared spectra of quartz sand. The band at 3286 cm−1 corresponded to the OH groups on the surface of quartz sand which made the silanol groups (SiOH). These observations were supported by Akl et al. [22] and Firoozmandan et al. [23]. The peak at 1632 cm−1 corresponding to the OH groups that made the silanol groups existed [24]. Vibrations of Si–O and Si–O–Si is found at 1061 cm−1 as comparable to the ones reported by SöDerholm and Shang [25] and Liu et al. [26]. Hydroxyls functional group of silanol group was found at 778 cm−1. Identical analysis was demonstrated by Péré et al. [27] and Parida et al. [28].
FTIR-ATR spectrum of quartz sand
The XRD pattern of quartz sand is shown in Fig. 4. The diffraction peaks could be attributed to quartz sand and agreed with the standard data given in the ICDD card, 01-076-9282 for quartz sand. No impurity peaks were observed. Furthermore, the intensities of the diffraction peaks were high, and the peaks were sharp. This indicated that the sample were highly crystalline and consisted entirely of quartz sand.
XRD analysis of quartz sand
The wavelength of henna extract and surfactant were determined at 673 nm and 238 nm respectively, which corresponds to the maximum absorbance peak. Standard calibration curves were established by plotting absorbance against henna extract and surfactant concentrations to determine the final adsorption concentrations.
3.3.1 FTIR-ATR analysis on the adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand
The FTIR spectrum of quartz sand before and after adsorption was observed and displayed in Fig. 5. After the adsorption of henna extract, there was a substantial change in the intensity of the adsorption peak at (a), signalling the interactions of the hydroxyl groups. Significant new adsorption peak was observed at (b) which belong to the aliphatic group of henna extract molecules. This was due to the interactions of hydrogen bond between henna extract and quartz sand molecules. The intensity of the characteristic peaks of carbonyl groups seen at (c) increased, after being adsorbed on quartz sand. This proposed that the carbonyl groups took part in the adsorption process. Apart from that, the intensity of the absorption peak that was observed at (d) owned by the aromatic rings, increased, signifying the interactions of aromatics with quartz sand molecules. The intensity of the absorption peak of phenolic groups observed at (e), increased and the range of the peak is sharper than before henna extract adsorption, proposing the interactions of phenolics and quartz sand molecules. At (f), there is an increased of the absorption peak that was due to the interactions of hydroxyl groups from quartz sand molecules with henna extract molecules.
FTIR-ATR analysis on the adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand
3.3.2 Effect of salinity on the adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand
The adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand in the presence of salts was plotted against the concentration of henna extract. The effect of salinity at 0, 10,000, 30,000, and 50,000 mg/L were plotted and presented in Fig. 6. As shown in Fig. 6, henna extract adsorption on quartz sand increased with the presence of sodium chloride (NaCl).
Adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand at different salinities
The adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand increased from 3.14 mg/g without NaCl to 4.48 mg/g with the presence of NaCl. The increment can be due to the presence of the positively charged cation (Na+) that increased the total electrostatic interactions among the henna extract molecules and the sodium ions. The carbonyl and hydroxyl groups in the henna extract molecules contain electronegative oxygen, and those groups were responsible for the increased adsorption. This is endorsed by Mckenzie et al. [29] who studied the adsorption behaviour of phenol in the presence of sodium ions. They concluded that the presence of sodium ions enhances adsorption. This principle is based on the electrostatic interactions between the positively charged cation (Na+) and the negatively charged oxygen in the hydroxyl group of phenol. Figure 7 shows the mechanism of adsorption in the presence of sodium ions.
Electrostatic attraction in the presence of sodium ions
Modified from McKenzie et al. [29]
From the figures, it can be noted that the increasing salinity from 10,000 to 30,000, and 50,000 mg/L, improved the adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand. Adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand increased from 4.48 to 6.65, and to 8.11 mg/g in the presence of 10,000, 30,000, and 50,000 mg/L of NaCl, respectively. Comparable results were attained by Yekeen et al. [13], who also mentioned that the adsorption increased with the increase of the concentration of salt, in the presence of NaCl salts.
These observations can be credited to the increase in the number of cation (Na+) atoms on the quartz sand surface. The presence of salt encourages adsorption by increasing the presence of positive charges on the surface so that the negatively-charged oxygen can bind on the cations. Furthermore, the presence of the aromatic rings in phenolic compounds enhances the adsorption due to the negatively charged rings [30, 31]. This promotes the interaction of cation/π between the Na+ and the rings [32, 33]. Figure 8 demonstrates the interaction of cation/π.
Cation–Π interaction between sodium ion and aromatic ring
Modified from Kumar et al. [33]
Besides electrostatic attraction between the positively-charged cation and the negatively-charged portion of henna extract molecules, Na+ is beneficial in forming bridges of cation between the negatively charged portion of the molecules of henna extract and the negatively charged quartz sand layer [34, 35]. Moreover, the cation bridges can be formed between the henna extract molecules themselves. This will further compress the molecules further, allowing more henna extract molecules to be adsorbed. The neutralizing bridges between the henna extract molecules and the negatively charged quartz sand layer on the surface led to the indirect adsorption. Figures 9 and 10 demonstrate the schematic diagrams of the effect of salt bridges.
Formation of salt bridges due to the presence Na+ ions between the quartz sand surface and henna extract molecules
Modified from Yu et al. [35]
Formation of salt bridges due to the presence Na+ ions (a) between aromatic rings and (b) among henna extract molecules
In addition, the effect of salinity on henna extract adsorption on quartz sand can be attributed to the positive cations (Na+). These cations were attracted to the permanently negative- charged sites (silanol sites, Si–O) on quartz sand surfaces [36]. Therefore, an increase in the adsorption of henna extract with increasing salinity implies that increasing salinity reduces the negatively-charged sites on the quartz sand surface, increasing henna extract adsorption [37]. Then, the negatively-charged groups from henna extract molecules can bind more to these positively charged surface on quartz sand due to the electrostatic forces.
3.3.3 Influence of salinity on the adsorption of surfactant on quartz sand without the presence of henna extract
Figure 11 shows the result of the studies of the adsorption of surfactant without henna extract on quartz sand. It can be observed that the adsorption of surfactant on quartz sand in saline condition is higher than in DIW. This behavior is attributed to the existence of Na+ ions in the solutions.
Surfactant adsorption with the effect of salinity
As displayed in Fig. 11, surfactant adsorption on quartz sand increased from 1.57 to 5.16 mg/g from DIW to saline solutions. These remarks are due to cation being adsorbed on the negatively-charged quartz sand surface, producing additional positive sites for the anionic surfactant to adsorb [38]. Furthermore, the added salt in the solutions made the EDL and zeta potential of the quartz sand surface to compress, allowing more surfactant to be adsorbed [39, 40].
3.3.4 Influence of salinity on the adsorption of surfactant on quartz sand with the presence of henna extract
An evaluation of the adsorption of surfactant on pre-treated quartz sand with henna extract in the presence of salts was conducted. The salinity of 50,000 mg/L was chosen due to the highest adsorption capacity of henna extract on quartz sand. Based on the result of the CMC (not shown), a surfactant concentration of 2000 mg/L was used to determine the capability of henna extract in reducing surfactant adsorption. Meanwhile, for the henna extract concentration, 8000 mg/L of surfactant concentration was chosen. Figure 12 shows the surfactant adsorption data.
Henna extract performances on the reduction of the surfactant adsorption in the presence of salts (50,000 mg/L NaCl)
It is shown that the adsorption of surfactant on pre-treated quartz sand was reduced in the presence of NaCl from 5.16 mg/g to 2.77 mg/g. The reduction of surfactant adsorption was about 46%. The reduced surfactant adsorption on the pre-treated quartz sand with henna extract can be attributed to the presence of cation (Na+). Based on the mechanism discussed above, the cation allows the henna extract molecules to adsorb more, providing less binding option for surfactant molecules to bind to the surface of quartz sand and henna extract molecules. This made the surfactant molecules free to move, reducing surfactant adsorption.
The existence of the functional groups in henna extract, hydroxyls, carbonyls, phenolics, aromatic benzene ring, and aliphatic carbon-hydrogen groups allow for the adsorption process. Quartz sand was characterized and used as an adsorbent to investigate the effect of salinity on henna extract adsorption on quartz sand and to evaluate the performances of henna extract as a SA in reducing surfactant adsorption. The presence of salt improved the adsorption of henna extract on quartz sand, and increasing the salinity further improved the adsorption. Meanwhile, the electrostatic interactions played a substantial role as perceived from the role of a cation such as sodium (Na+). The study of surfactant adsorption was done to determine the efficiency of the henna extract adsorption. This was determined by analyzing the results of before-and-after adsorption values of surfactant adsorption on quartz sand. The salinity demonstrated that the surfactant adsorption exhibited identical traits of adsorption with the henna extract adsorption process. This follows that the adsorption of surfactant on quartz sand increased in the existence of salts rather than in the absence of salts. Moreover, the adsorption of surfactant on pre-treated quartz sand with henna extract in the presence of salts managed to be reduced. It was observed that there was a 46% reduction, caused by the electrostatic attractions between henna extract and quartz sand. The surface of quartz sand was covered with henna extract molecules, inhibiting the surfactant molecules from being adsorbed. Hydrogen bond, electrostatic attraction, and hydrophobic interactions played a significant role in the mechanism of adsorption between henna extract and quartz sand. This study proved that henna extract has the potential to be a SA in reducing surfactant adsorption in the presence of salts.
The authors wish to thank the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia, and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia for assisting this research through Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (R.J130000.7846.4F931) and Research University Grant (12429).
On behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
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1.Department of Petroleum Engineering, School of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Faculty of EngineeringUniversiti Teknologi MalaysiaSkudaiMalaysia
2.Department of Chemical, Faculty of ScienceUniversiti Teknologi MalaysiaSkudaiMalaysia
3.UTM-MPRC Institute for Oil and Gas, Universiti Teknologi MalaysiaSkudaiMalaysia
4.Department of Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Geoscience and Petroleum EngineeringUniversiti Teknologi PETRONASBandar Seri IskandarMalaysia
Musa, M.S.M., Sulaiman, W.R.W., Majid, Z.A. et al. SN Appl. Sci. (2019) 1: 826. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-0870-0
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Journal of Neuroinflammation
December 2019 , 16:141 | Cite as
The effects of human immunoglobulin G on enhancing tissue protection and neurobehavioral recovery after traumatic cervical spinal cord injury are mediated through the neurovascular unit
Jonathon Chon Teng Chio
Anna Badner
Vithushan Surendran
Michael G. Fehlings
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a condition with few effective treatment options. The blood-spinal cord barrier consists of pericytes, astrocytes, and endothelial cells, which are collectively termed the neurovascular unit. These cells support spinal cord homeostasis by expressing tight junction proteins. Physical trauma to the spinal cord disrupts the barrier, which leads to neuroinflammation by facilitating immune cell migration to the damaged site in a process involving immune cell adhesion. Immunosuppressive strategies, including methylprednisolone (MPSS), have been investigated to treat SCI. However, despite some success, MPSS has the potential to increase a patient’s susceptibility to wound infection and impaired wound healing. Hence, immunomodulation may be a more attractive approach than immunosuppression. Approved for modulating neuroinflammation in certain disorders, including Guillain-Barre syndrome, intravenous administration of human immunoglobulin G (hIgG) has shown promise in the setting of experimental SCI, though the optimal dose and mechanism of action remain undetermined.
Female adult Wistar rats were subjected to moderate-severe clip compression injury (35 g) at the C7-T1 level and randomized to receive a single intravenous (IV) bolus of hIgG (0.02, 0.2, 0.4, 1, 2 g/kg), MPSS (0.03 g/kg), or control buffer at 15 min post-SCI. At 24 h and 6 weeks post-SCI, molecular, histological, and neurobehavioral effects of hIgG were analyzed.
At 24 h post-injury, human immunoglobulin G co-localized with spinal cord pericytes, astrocytes, and vessels. hIgG (2 g/kg) protected the spinal cord neurovasculature after SCI by increasing tight junction protein expression and reducing inflammatory enzyme expression. Improvements in vascular integrity were associated with changes in spinal cord inflammation. Interestingly, hIgG (2 g/kg) increased serum expression of inflammatory cytokines and co-localized (without decreasing protein expression) with spinal cord vascular cell adhesion molecule-1, a protein used by immune cells to enter into inflamed tissue. Acute molecular benefits of hIgG (2 g/kg) led to greater tissue preservation, functional blood flow, and neurobehavioral recovery at 6 weeks post-SCI. Importantly, the effects of hIgG (2 g/kg) were superior to control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), and comparable with MPSS (0.03 g/kg).
hIgG (2 g/kg) is a promising therapeutic approach to mitigate secondary pathology in SCI through antagonizing immune cell infiltration at the level of the neurovascular unit.
Spinal cord injury Human immunoglobulin G Neuroinflammation Immunomodulation Dose-response Neurovascular unit
Analysis of variance
Beattie-Basso-Bresnahan
BSCB
Blood-spinal cord barrier
CX3CL1
Fractalkine
CX3CR1
Fractalkine receptor
FcγR
Fcγ receptor
hIgG
Human immunoglobulin G
Iba-1
Ionized calcium-binding adapter molecule-1
LFB/HE
Luxol fast blue/hematoxylin and eosin
Matrix metalloproteinase-9
Myeloperoxidase
MPSS
Messenger ribonucleic acid
Phosphate-buffered saline
Standard error of mean
T-BST
Tris-buffered saline with 0.2% Tween
Tight junction
VCAM-1
Vascular cellular adhesion molecule-1
VEGF
Vascular endothelial growth factor
VHRUS
Very high-resolution ultrasound
Zonula occludens-1
Despite significant medical advances, spinal cord injury (SCI) continues to be a debilitating neurological condition. SCI pathophysiology is divided into two stages [1], beginning with damage from the initial physical injury causing an immediate structural disturbance. This initial physical insult is exacerbated during the second stage by infiltration of immune cells into the injured spinal cord (hereby referred to as neuroinflammation), which is associated with damage to the blood-spinal cord barrier (BSCB) and loss of tight junction (TJ) proteins. To target neuroinflammation, systemic immunosuppressive strategies, including methylprednisolone (MPSS), have been successfully used following the initial physical insult to improve functional outcomes in pre-clinical and clinical SCI studies [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. However, recent research suggests that these therapies may be suboptimal, as patients develop systemic immune deficiency [7, 8] and the beneficial aspects of neuroinflammation, necessary for regeneration and remyelination, become limited [9]. Therefore, immunomodulation is deemed a more attractive approach than systemic immunosuppression to target the neuroinflammatory response.
Human immunoglobulin G (hIgG) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat both immunodeficiency and autoimmune conditions [10, 11]. Despite the wide use of hIgG in the clinic, the mechanism of action remains uncertain [10]. Numerous studies have reported a diverse array of effects, including B and T cell trafficking, neutralization of autoantibodies, modulation of the complement cascade, and cytokine production. These effects are mediated by both Fc and F(ab)2 components of hIgG. Although previous research has demonstrated hIgG-induced increases in functional recovery by reducing neuroinflammation in pre-clinical models of SCI, the method of administration [12] and models used have not been clinically relevant [13, 14]. Further, it is unknown whether the beneficial effects of hIgG following SCI are dose-dependent. Given these gaps in knowledge, we used a well-characterized clip compression-contusion SCI model with a minimally invasive administration method to identify the optimal dose of hIgG administration and examined the immunomodulatory effects on the immune response after SCI. We hypothesized that early treatment with hIgG would immunomodulate spinal cord inflammatory cell populations after traumatic cervical SCI, in part by enhancing the integrity of the BSCB. This work builds on our prior publication [15] by demonstrating that high-dose hIgG (2 g/kg) is significantly more effective than our previously reported hIgG dose (0.4 g/kg) at modulating the acute neuroinflammatory response. Further, the present study shows that hIgG has protective effects that are mediated through the spinal cord neurovascular unit.
Experimental and control groups
A total of 124 female adult Wistar rats (250–300 g) from Charles River were used in this study. Of these rats, 52 were used for dose-response studies to investigate the molecular and biochemical changes, 24 to examine the changes in tissue morphology and histology, and 48 to assess the neurobehavioral recovery and tissue preservation. All procedures followed the animal use protocol approved by the Animal Use Committee at the University Health Network. Rats were randomly assigned to sham (receiving laminectomy only) or SCI groups. For rats in the SCI group, a well-characterized model of injury (35-g modified aneurysm clip applied extradurally at the C7-T1 level for 60 seconds (s) to cause a moderate-severe SCI) was used [16, 17]. Animals were given 1 ml of buprenorphine (0.03 mg/kg) and 5 ml of saline immediately following surgery. Subsequently, buprenorphine and saline were given twice a day up to 3 and 7 days, respectively.
hIgG (100 mg/ml) and control buffer were provided by Shire/Baxalta (USA). At 15 min post-SCI, a single bolus of hIgG was intravenously administered at various doses (0.02 g/kg (n = 9), 0.2 g/kg (n = 6), 0.4 g/kg (n = 12; n = 6 for biochemical analysis, 6 for ultrasound and histology), 1 g/kg (n = 6), 2 g/kg (n = 12; n = 6 for biochemical analysis, 6 for ultrasound and histology)). Control buffer (n = 12; n = 6 for biochemical analysis, 6 for ultrasound and histology) or methylprednisolone (MPSS, 0.03 g/kg) (n = 7) were injected in an identical fashion as negative and positive controls, respectively. The dosage of MPSS given was based on the reported dosage for human SCI patients [18], whereas dosages of hIgG corresponded to those currently used in the clinic [10]. For all studies, randomization was achieved through prepared lists, with treatment allocation remaining concealed from the investigators conducting the surgery or experiments. There was no noticeable difference in the general behavior, appearance, or mortality rate between the animals treated with hIgG, control buffer, or MPSS. Experimental schematic of acute studies is shown in Fig. 1.
Illustration depicting the experiments and protocol applied. Adult female Wistar rats (250 to 300 g) received either a C7-T1 35g clip-compression injury or sham surgery (C7-T1 laminectomy). At 15 mins post-injury, a single bolus of hIgG (0.02, 0.2, 0.4, 1, or 2 g/kg), control buffer, and MPSS (immunosuppressant; 0.03 g/kg) were administered to the injured rats through the tail vein. At 24 hours (h) post-SCI, the spinal cord was collected from the rats for various assays to analyze the local acute inflammatory response. Another group of rats was used for VHRUS, Power Doppler, and immunohistochemistry (IHC) analyses. For protein and histology work, 2 cm of the spinal cord centered at the epicenter was obtained
Biochemical analyses
Biochemical analyses were performed on 52 rats following SCI (hIgG 0.02 g/kg (n = 9), hIgG 0.2 g/kg (n = 6), hIgG 0.4 g/kg (n = 6), hIgG 1 g/kg (n = 6), hIgG 2 g/kg (n = 6), control buffer (n = 6), MPSS (0.03 g/kg) (n = 7), and sham (n = 6)). Rats were sacrificed at 24 h for various assays (western blot, proteome profiler, and myeloperoxidase (MPO) assay). Each animal was deeply anesthetized with isofluorane and transcardially perfused with 180 ml of ice-cold 1× phosphate-buffered saline (PBS). The spleens were subsequently removed and weighed. A 2-cm length of the spinal cord, centered at the injury epicenter, was dissected. The meninges were removed, and the cord was immediately frozen with dry ice. For tissue processing, the spinal cords were thawed and homogenized with 1× PBS without calcium and magnesium (Wisent) containing 1:1000 protease and phosphatase inhibitors (100×) (Thermo Scientific). The homogenate was split for the respective assays and frozen in liquid nitrogen.
Myeloperoxidase activity assay
MPO activity was determined using a MPO fluorometric kit available from Assay Designs (Enzo Life Sciences), according to the manufacturer’s instructions. To prepare the homogenate, the cellular membranes were disrupted and the blood was removed by homogenizing the spinal cord tissue in the provided homogenization buffer (without detergent) containing 10 mM N-ethylmaleimide. The samples were then centrifuged at 4 °C at 12,000g for 20 mins, and the supernatant was removed. MPO was released from the granules in pelleted material by sonicating in solubilization buffer containing 0.5% of the detergent hexadecyltrimethylammonium (w/v) and also by exposing the mixture to two freeze/thaw cycles. The samples were then centrifuged at 8000g for 20 mins at 4 °C. A Perkin-Elmer plate reader measured the fluorescence intensity of the resultant supernatants, with excitation wavelength at 530 nm and emission wavelength at 590 nm. A calibration curve run concurrently with the samples was used to determine the MPO activity from the measured relative fluorescence intensity.
Homogenate was solubilized in 200 μl of RIPA buffer (25 mM Tris-HCl pH 7.6, 150 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40, 1% sodium deoxycholate, 0.1% sodium dodecyl sulfate; Thermo Fisher Scientific) containing a 100× cocktail of phosphatase and protease inhibitors and EDTA (Thermo Scientific). Samples were spun down at 14,140g at 4 °C for 20 mins. The protein concentration of each sample was measured using the bicinchoninic acid assay (Thermo Scientific). To run the western blot, all samples had 20 μg of total protein and were separated using sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with 4% stacking-12% resolving gel. Following electrophoresis, the gel was transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane for 1 h at 100 V. The membrane was then washed in 0.2% Tween Tris-buffered saline (TBS-T) and blocked for 1 h in TBS-T + 5% milk (w/v). The primary antibodies used (concentration, incubation time, purpose) are listed in Table 1. The secondary antibody incubation step was accomplished at room temperature for 1 h with 1:3000 goat anti-rabbit HRP (Biorad). The membrane was washed with TBS-T three times (10 mins each time) between each antibody incubation step. Enhanced chemiluminescence (ECL; Perkin Elmer) substrate for horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was used to detect the signal. Densitometry analysis was accomplished using ImageJ software.
List of primary antibodies used for western blot, concentration, incubation parameters, and purpose
Incubation time and conditions
Rabbit anti-rat Iba-1; Wako Laboratory; Chemicals 019-19741
Overnight; 4 °C
Resident microglia activation
Rabbit anti-rat MMP-9; Millipore; AB19016
Blood-spinal cord barrier degradation
Rabbit anti-hIgG; Abcam; AB109849
Human IgG in the spinal cord
Goat anti-rat occludin; sc-8144
Blood spinal-cord barrier integrity
Mouse anti-rat ZO-1; MABT11
Rabbit anti-rat VCAM-1; Abcam; AB134047
Vascular adhesion molecule
Mouse anti-rat β-actin HRP conjugated; ab49900
1.5 h; room temperature
Proteome profiler
Nine rats were used for the proteome profiler (control buffer n = 3, sham n = 3, hIgG 2 g/kg n = 3). The expression of rat cytokines in the spinal cord (after different treatment administrations) was detected using a commercially available proteome profiler rat cytokine array kit (Panel A) (R&D systems) according to the manufacturer’s instructions and with 100 μg protein per sample.
Histological, functional blood flow, and immunohistochemical analysis
For histology and functional blood flow analyses, 24 rats (control buffer n = 6, hIgG 0.4 g/kg n = 6, hIgG 2 g/kg n = 6, sham n = 6) were analyzed with in vivo very high-resolution ultrasound (VHRUS) and Power Doppler imaging, as previously described [19]. At 24 h after injury, the animals were anesthetized using isofluorane and placed on an imaging platform (Vevo Imaging Station, VisualSonics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, http://www.visualsonics.com) with a custom-made stabilization frame. The injury was exposed with a midline incision and retraction of the paraspinal muscle layers. Ultrasound gel (scanning gel, Medi-Inn, www.medi-inn.com) was placed on the dura mater and scanned with the VHRUS probe (44 MHz, Vevo 770, VisualSonics) in three-dimensional (3D) B-mode. The 3D B-mode scans were analyzed using ImageJ software as previously described [19], with minor modifications. Briefly, the bright pixels were delineated by one independent blinded observer within 19 central sagittal image slices, and these slices were used to generate a reproducible lesion volume with the TrakEM2 plugin. For Power Doppler imaging, functional blood flow was quantified by measuring the percent area of power Doppler signal (color threshold positive pixels) in a standardized spinal cord region within the image slices. The scan speed was 2.0 mm/s, and the wall filter was 2.5 mm/s.
Subsequently, the animals were deeply anesthetized with isofluorane and perfused with 60 ml of ice-cold 1× PBS and 180 ml of paraformaldehyde (Sigma Aldrich) (4% w/v in 1× PBS, pH 7.4). Two centimeters of the spinal cord (centered at the injury epicenter) was dissected and post-fixed for 5 h with 10% sucrose (Bioshop) and 4% PFA-PBS solution. The spinal cord was subsequently cryoprotected in 30% sucrose PBS solution. The spinal cord tissue (2 cm centered at the injury epicenter) was embedded in M1 media (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and stored at − 80 °C. The spinal cords were cryosectioned at 20 μm thickness.
The frozen tissue sections were stained with various antibodies diluted with blocking solution made of 1× PBS containing 5% w/v milk (Bioshop), 1% w/v bovine serum albumin (Sigma Aldrich), and 0.03% Triton X-100 (Thermo Scientific). Antibody, concentration, and purpose are listed in Table 2. The tissue sections were blocked for 1 h in room temperature with a blocking solution. Secondary antibody alone (no primary antibody) served as the negative control. Washing steps after antibody application were accomplished with 1× PBS washes three times each for 10 min, with the last wash also containing 1:1000 DAPI (4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole) to counterstain for the nuclei. The slides were mounted onto the coverslips using Mowiol (Sigma Aldrich).
List of primary antibodies used for immunohistochemistry, concentration, incubation parameters, and purpose
Rabbit anti-rat polymorphonuclear cells (PMN) conjugated with FITC (Cedarlane; CLFAD51140)
Neutrophil infiltration
Rabbit anti-rat Iba-1 (Wako Laboratory Chemicals; 019-19741)
Resident microglia
Lycopersicon esculentum (tomato) (FITC conjugated; Sigma; L0401)
Blood vessel
Rabbit anti-GFAP (Millipore; AB5804)
Mouse anti-NG2 chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan antibody (Millipore; AB5384)
Rabbit PDGF receptor beta antibody [Y92] (Abcam; ab32570)
Goat anti-human IgG (H+L) (cross-adsorbed secondary antibody AlexFluor 568) (Fisher-Invitrogen)
2 h; room temperature
Human IgG
Stereological quantification of neutrophil infiltration and cellular localization/tissue distribution of IgG at 24 h post-SCI
For stereological quantification, tissue was systematically sampled at every 240 μm over a distance of 4800 μm, which was centered at the lesion epicenter of each animal. Neutrophils were quantified stereologically using the Zeiss Axioplan Deconvolution Microscope (with AxioVision), with neutrophils being PMN+/DAPI+. For co-localization of hIgG with rat spinal cord blood vessels, microglia, neutrophils, astrocytes, pericytes, and VCAM-1, tissue was imaged at the lesion epicenter using confocal microscopy (Nikon Eclipse Ti) at × 120.
Tissue preservation analysis
At 6 weeks post-SCI, the spinal cords were perfused in an identical fashion as described for histological, functional blood flow, and immunohistochemical analyses. The tissue sections from 22 animals (control buffer n = 6, hIgG (0.4 g/kg) n = 6, hIgG (2 g/kg) n = 6, sham n = 4) were systematically sampled at every 240 μm over a distance of 3600 μm (1800 μm rostral and caudal of the epicenter). The tissue sections were stained with luxol fast blue (LFB) overnight at 56 °C. Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) was used to stain for the cell nuclei and counterstain, respectively. Unbiased measurements were made with a Cavalieri probe (Stereoinvestigator, MBF Bioscience, Williston, VT) for total tissue, gray matter, white matter, lesion, and cavity volumes.
Neurobehavioral assessment of functional recovery
All neurobehavioral assessments were performed and analyzed by examiners blinded to the treatment groups. A total of 42 animals (control buffer n = 12, hIgG (0.4 g/kg) n = 12, hIgG (2 g/kg) n = 12, sham n = 6) were used for neurobehavioral assessments, which were performed once per week for 6 weeks post-SCI. This neurobehavioral assessment paradigm has been previously used in our laboratory [15, 20]. Hindlimb function was tested using the 21-point open-field Basso-Beattie-Bresnahan (BBB) Locomotor Scale. To assess the whole-body and trunk motor function, the inclined plane test was performed. The animals were placed on a flat plane surface, and each subsequent trial increased the angle of the plane at increments of 5°. The rats were placed with their body axis parallel to the plane. The rats were required to maintain their body position on the plane for 5 s for 3 of 5 attempts. Forelimb strength was tested using a grip strength meter. For this strength test, the animals were held by the hindlimbs and lower abdomen and drawn backwards at a consistent speed within reach of a metal rung connected to the strength apparatus. The animals grasp the rung reflexively, and a strength meter measures the maximal force achieved when the grip was broken. Strength was averaged over 5 successful grasps. To test for neuropathic pain, the animals were subjected to the tail flick test. Using a specialized device, the rats were wrapped in a blanket while the tail was left exposed to a beam of light, which served as a heat source. The time elapsed before the rat flicked its tail in response to heat was recorded.
Data are reported as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). For biochemical, immunohistochemical, molecular, and ultrasound analyses, comparisons were based on a one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance) and Tukey’s post-hoc test, with multiple t tests (Holm-Sidak method) performed for proteome profiler. Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to determine ZO-1, occludin, and MMP-9 relations. For neurobehavioral recovery and tissue preservation, two-way ANOVA and Tukey’s post-hoc tests were performed. All statistical analyses were performed using Prism 6.0 Software (GraphPad Version 6.01). Differences were considered significant if p < 0.05.
Cellular localization and tissue distribution of hIgG in the spinal cord 24 h post-SCI
To determine if the presence of hIgG in the spinal cord is necessary for dose-dependent immunomodulatory effects after SCI, a western blot for hIgG was completed. Previous work has shown [13, 15] that intravenously administered hIgG enters the injured cord through the compromised BSCB. Yet, it is unclear if the penetration of hIgG into the injured spinal cord is a prerequisite for hIgG’s observed effects. As demonstrated in the hIgG western blot, there was a dosage-dependent increase in hIgG that reached the injured spinal cord at 24 h post-SCI (Fig. 2a), while there was no cross-reactivity with rat immunoglobulin G (Fig. 2b).
hIgG crosses the BSCB at 24 h post-SCI. The presence of hIgG in the spinal cord was determined in order to evaluate if it is associated with the immunomodulatory effects of hIgG after SCI. a Western blot was performed to determine the levels of hIgG in the spinal cord after different treatments. b Relative to control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), high-dose hIgG (1 and 2 g/kg) administered at 15 min post-SCI increased the hIgG levels in the injured spinal cord at 24 h post-SCI. c Western blot results are complemented with immunohistochemistry, as in the representative fluorescence images there is a stronger staining of hIgG in the spinal cords treated with hIgG (2 g/kg) as compared to hIgG (0.4 g/kg) and control buffer. d The blood vessels (LEA), neutrophils (PMN), microglia (Iba-1), and astrocytes (GFAP) are stained green, pericytes (NG2 green, PDGFR-β: fuchsia), and hIgG are stained red. Confocal images (× 120) demonstrate that hIgG crosses the compromised BSCB in injured animals. Representative images demonstrate hIgG in the vicinity of resident microglia and neutrophils, but hIgG colocalizes with the hIgG, astrocytes, pericytes, and blood vessels. For both c and d, a hIgG-positive signal was not observed in the spinal cord of rats injected with control buffer. d Scale bars represent 10 μm in length
To complement the hIgG western blot, IHC was performed to detect hIgG levels at 24 h post-SCI as well as potential co-localization with other cell types in the rat spinal cord. Epifluorescent images were acquired using a × 20 objective at the lesion epicenter. At 24 h after injection, the presence of hIgG increased in a dose-dependent manner in rats treated with hIgG and was absent in rats treated with the control buffer (Fig. 2c). hIgG was found inside and outside the spinal cord vasculature (marked by FITC LEA positive staining) in the spinal cord of injured animals; re-affirming that a compromised BSCB after SCI enables hIgG to enter into the injured spinal cord (Fig. 2d). Further, as demonstrated with representative confocal images (× 120), hIgG surrounded the resident microglia, neutrophils, and blood vessels, as indicated by FITC-positive PMN, Iba-1, and LEA staining. Importantly, hIgG co-localized with rat astrocytes, pericytes, and adhesion molecule, VCAM-1. Although our previous publication showed co-localization with rat astrocytes [15], we extended these findings to demonstrate potential interactions between hIgG and the spinal cord neurovascular unit (astrocytes and pericytes) as well as immune cell adhesion molecules [21]. Further, while Iba-1 stains for monocytes and microglia, Iba-1-positive cells were likely microglia, as monocytes infiltrate the injured spinal cord at 3 days post-SCI [22].
hIgG decreases damage to the spinal cord vasculature after SCI
Interactions between hIgG and the spinal cord neurovascular unit prompted us to evaluate the potential effects on the BSCB. In SCI, physical trauma decreases the expression of tight junction proteins, which are needed to maintain BSCB integrity [23]. In addition, the integrity of the BSCB can be further compromised by upregulation of inflammatory enzymes that degrade the components [24]. Abnormalities in the permeability and function of the BSCB after SCI are directly linked with infiltration of immune cells, which exacerbate damage from the primary injury. A key inflammatory enzyme is matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), which is a zinc- and calcium-dependent endopeptidase produced by neutrophils and microglia after SCI to degrade the major components of the basal lamina and tight junctions. MMP-9 facilitates the entrance of immune cells and initiates SCI-induced secondary damage [24, 25]. We have previously shown that hIgG (0.4 g/kg) reduces MMP-9 expression at 24 h post-SCI [15]. Western blots were performed to evaluate dose-dependent effects of hIgG on the expression of MMP-9 at 24 h post-SCI and consequential effects on BSCB integrity (spinal cord protein expression of ZO-1 and occludin).
The western blots demonstrated that the presence of inflammatory conditions can cleave pro-MMP-9 (101 kDa) to become active MMP-9 (92 kDa) [25] (Fig. 3a). The literature indicates that peak expression of active MMP-9 at 24 h post-SCI coincides with maximum neutrophil infiltration [22, 26]. At 24 h post-SCI, there was a dose-dependent decrease in active MMP-9 expression, with a significant difference between hIgG (2 g/kg) and the control buffer (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p = 0.0056) as well as between the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg) (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p = 0.0241) (Fig. 3c). The greater expression of active MMP-9 corresponds to the degradation of tight junctions that disrupt the BSCB, which is shown by the decrease in the expression of tight junction proteins (occludin and ZO-1) (Fig. 3b). Dose-dependent increases in both occludin and zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1) were observed in western blot for both hIgG-treated (0.4 g/kg) and hIgG-treated (2 g/kg) samples relative to the control buffer (Fig. 3b). Quantification of occludin and ZO-1 protein expressions is found in Figs. 3 d and e (occludin: one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p = 0.0317 and p < 0.0001 respectively for hIgG (0.4 g/kg) and hIgG (2 g/kg); ZO-1: one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p = 0.0301 and p < 0.0001 respectively for hIgG (0.4 g/kg) and hIgG (2 g/kg)). Reduced MMP-9 activity is associated with a protective effect on ZO-1 and occludin, as there are significant negative correlations in the expression of active MMP-9/ZO-1 and active MMP-9/occludin (Figs. 3f, g). Loss and degradation of tight junction proteins have been implicated in the hyperpermeability seen in the BSCB after SCI.
hIgG (2 g/kg) effects on the spinal cord neurovasculature 24 h after injury. a At 24 h post-SCI, active-MMP-9 and β-actin (loading control) levels in the rat spinal cord were determined by western blot. A representative image of the blot is shown. b Similarly, at 24 h post-SCI, ZO-1, occludin, and β-actin (loading control) levels in the rat spinal cord were determined by western blot. A representative image of the blot is shown. c Densitometric analysis of the signal ratio between active MMP-9 and β-actin indicated that administration of high-dose hIgG (2 g/kg) at 15 min post-SCI significantly decreased active MMP-9 expression (red arrow) relative to both control buffer and low-dose hIgG (0.4 g/kg). d, e Densitometric analysis of the signal ratio between occludin, ZO-1, and β-actin indicated that administration of high-dose hIgG (2 g/kg) at 15 min post-SCI significantly increased occludin and ZO-1 relative to both the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg). f, g There are significant negative correlations in protein expression of occludin and MMP-9 expression, as well as ZO-1 and MMP-9 expression. h Representative images of Power Doppler imaging for animals treated with control buffer, hIgG (0.4 g/kg), and hIgG (2 g/kg) are shown. i At 24 h post-SCI, functional blood flow was analyzed by Power Doppler imaging. The data presented are normalized to time-matched shams. hIgG (2 g/kg) significantly increased the functional blood flow relative to the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg). One-way ANOVA, Tukey’s post-hoc test (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001). Data are presented as mean ± SEM values
This greater preservation of BSCB integrity prompted us to evaluate the effect of hIgG treatment on functional vascularity, which is a measure of active blood flow. Power Doppler imaging was performed to evaluate the functional blood flow at 24 h post-SCI (Fig. 3h, i). Relative to the control buffer, functional blood flow after SCI was improved with hIgG (2 g/kg) (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test). In addition, functional blood flow was significantly improved between hIgG (0.4 g/kg) and hIgG (2 g/kg) (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p < 0.0001). Representative images of functional blood flow are seen in Fig. 3h.
hIgG significantly reduces neutrophil infiltration at 24 h post-SCI
The preservation of the spinal cord neurovasculature encouraged us to evaluate the changes in immune cell infiltration, as one physiological function of the BSCB is to limit the entrance of immune cells into the spinal cord [24]. Neutrophils are the first systemic immune cell to infiltrate after SCI, with the number of cells increasing between 3 and 6 h after injury, and peak infiltration observed at 24 h post-SCI [2, 22]. The literature has largely suggested that reducing neutrophil infiltration improves recovery in both rat and mouse SCI models [4, 5, 12, 15], although it has also been reported that neutrophil depletion worsens the neurological recovery after SCI [27]. Specifically, our laboratory and others have demonstrated that hIgG administration attenuates neutrophil infiltration into the cord after SCI [12, 15]. MPO is an enzyme found primarily in the azurophilic granules of neutrophils, and its activity is an excellent correlate to the absolute number of neutrophils in the cord. Thus, MPO is a specific and sensitive marker to quantify neutrophil infiltration into injured tissue [4, 15]. At 24 h post-SCI, MPO activity was found to be significantly higher in animals with SCI compared to sham animals. Our laboratory previously showed that hIgG (0.4 g/kg) significantly reduced MPO activity 24 h after SCI [15], and the present study reproduced this finding. Specifically, hIgG (0.4 g/kg) significantly reduced MPO activity as compared to the control buffer (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p = 0.0019). Further, we showed that hIgG (2 g/kg) had superior immunomodulatory effects relative to both the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg) (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p < 0.0001 and p = 0.0178, respectively). To complement the MPO assay, immunohistochemistry was performed to detect neutrophil infiltration at 24 h post-SCI, and unbiased stereology was used to quantify the infiltration in response to different hIgG doses (Fig. 4b). Importantly, in the injured rats treated with hIgG (2 g/kg), there were significantly fewer neutrophils found in the spinal cord relative to rats treated with hIgG (0.4 g/kg) and control buffer (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p = 0.0022 and < 0.0001). Furthermore, relative to the control buffer, hIgG (0.4 g/kg) reduced neutrophil infiltration (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001; Tukey’s post-hoc test, p = 0.0072) (Fig. 4c). This is aligned with our previously published results [15].
hIgG reduces neutrophil infiltration into the cord at 24 h post-SCI. a The MPO assay was used to detect MPO activity, which is an indirect measure of the neutrophil population in the spinal cord at 24 h post-SCI. Relative to the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), high-dose hIgG (2 g/kg) administered at 15 min post-SCI significantly decreased MPO activity at 24 h post-SCI. b Representative fluorescence images demonstrate neutrophil infiltration and the presence of hIgG at the injury center and 2400 μm rostral and caudal in the spinal cord at 24 h post-SCI. Neutrophils are green (PMN) and overlapping with DAPI (blue), while hIgG is red. Scale bar represents 61 μm. c Relative to control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), stereological counts demonstrate significantly fewer neutrophils in animals treated with hIgG (2 g/kg). Furthermore, there was a significant difference between the animals treated with control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg). One-way ANOVA, Tukey’s post-hoc test (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ***p < 0.0001). Data are presented as mean ±SEM values
hIgG changes the expression of both inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in the spinal cord at 24 h post-SCI
To explain how hIgG (2 g/kg) can impose immunomodulatory effects on neutrophils, we sought to identify if these changes are associated with altered cytokine production in the injured spinal cord. A pro-inflammatory or anti-inflammatory microenvironment in the spinal cord can influence the recruitment, activation, and effector functions of immune cells. Using the R&D proteome profiler array (Fig. 5a), relative to control buffer, hIgG (2 g/kg) treatment altered the levels of both anti-inflammatory cytokines (interleukin (IL)-10, fractalkine (CX3CL1), IL-13) and inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, TNF-α, CINC-2α/β, CINC-3) (multiple t tests; Holm-Sidak correction; IL-10, p = 0.0006; CX3CL1, p = 0.001; IL-1β, p = 0.002; IL-1β, p = 0.004; TNF-α, p = 0.0023; CINC-2α/β, p = 0.0032; CINC-3, p = 0.0029; IL-13, p = 0.07) (Fig. 5c). Representative images of the array membrane for respective cytokines are shown in Figs. 5a, b. The expression of the other cytokines detected by the R&D proteome profiler is demonstrated with a heat map (Fig. 5d).
hIgG (2 g/kg) modulates inflammation in the spinal cord after SCI. a, b Representative images of the membrane for various cytokines in the injured spinal cord after treatment with either control buffer or hIgG (2 g/kg). Changes in cytokines were assessed with the R&D ELISA Proteome Profiler array, which compares the relative levels of 29 cytokines. c Changes to cytokines expressed in the injured spinal cord in response to treatment The protein levels were normalized to time-matched sham (laminectomy only) controls. Levels of IL-10, CX3CL1, IL-1β, and TNF-α were significantly higher after hIgG (2 g/kg) treatment, but levels of CINC-2α/β, CINC-3, and IL-13 were significantly lower. d Relative differences of the 29 cytokines analyzed by the R&D ELISA Proteome Profiler array are shown with a heat map generated using the BROAD Institute’s R implementation of Morpheus. Data are expressed as mean Log2 (fold change) and as indicated by scale bar, blue indicates minimum level (reduction) and red indicates maximum level (increase). Multiple t tests, Holm-Sidak correction was performed (δp < 0.05). Data are presented as mean ± SEM values
High-dose hIgG may interfere with immune cell trafficking by binding to vascular cell adhesion molecule-1
At 24 h post-SCI, relative to control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), hIgG (2 g/kg) significantly increased the splenic weight (Fig. 6a). Conversely, MPSS (0.03 g/kg) significantly decreased the splenic weight. The spleen is a major source of immune cells after SCI, and gross structural changes in the spleen are adaptions to the immune response at acute time points [28]. As MPSS (0.03 g/kg) and hIgG (2 g/kg) had different effects on splenic weight, but both demonstrated anti-inflammatory effects at the injured spinal cord, this suggested potential changes in immune cell trafficking. Hence, protein expression of cytokines in serum after different treatments was evaluated. Using a commercially available rat cytokine array, we observed that hIgG (2 g/kg) upregulated IL-8, MIP-1α, CCL-2/MCP-1, and IL-5, while MPSS (0.03 g/kg) significantly downregulated the expression (Fig. 6b). Relative to the control buffer, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was also upregulated by hIgG treatment. However, of the hIgG-treated groups, expression was significantly lower in the hIgG (2 g/kg) group.
hIgG (2 g/kg) modulates serum cytokine expression and binds to vascular cell adhesion molecule-1. a At 24 h post-SCI, hIgG (2 g/kg) significantly increased the splenic weight, while MPSS (0.03 g/kg) decreased the weight. b hIgG (2 g/kg) enhanced the serum protein cytokine expression of numerous pro-inflammatory cytokines: IL-8, MIP-1α, CCL-2/MCP-1, and IL-5. VEGF was also upregulated. However, opposite to hIgG (2 g/kg), MPSS (0.03 g/kg) decreased the expression of these inflammatory cytokines and growth factor. c Representative confocal images (× 120) demonstrate that hIgG co-localizes with the spinal cord VCAM-1, with hIgG (red), blood vessels (LEA, green), and VCAM-1 (bright blue). Co-localization is indicated by white arrows. d A representative western blot of the spinal cord protein expression of VCAM-1 at 24 h post-SCI. e Densitometric analysis of the signal ratio between VCAM-1 and β-actin indicated that administration of high-dose hIgG (2 g/kg) at 15 min post-SCI failed to decrease VCAM-1 protein expression relative to the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg). One-way ANOVA, Tukey’s post-hoc test (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001). Data are presented as mean ± SEM values
Significant changes in the serum cytokine expression prompted the evaluation of relevant adhesion ligands, which are a major component of immune cell trafficking into injured tissue. Ligands used by neutrophils, such as vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) [29], are notable as neutrophils are the main population of infiltrating immune cells at 24 h post-SCI [22]. With immunohistochemistry, we observed that hIgG co-localized with spinal cord VCAM-1 (Fig. 6c). However, despite the previously observed anti-inflammatory effects of hIgG, VCAM-1 protein expression in the spinal cord was not reduced by hIgG (2 g/kg) (Fig. 6d, e).
High-dose hIgG significantly reduces lesion tissue volume at 24 h post-SCI, which translates to long-term neurobehavioral recovery and tissue preservation at 6 weeks post-SCI
While hIgG (2 g/kg) had acute benefits by modulating the acute neuroinflammatory response at 24 h post-SCI, it was unknown if these molecular changes would translate into improved functional and tangible tissue preservation at both short-term (24 h) and long-term (6 weeks) time points post-SCI. In order to analyze the effects of hIgG on neurobehavioral functional recovery, rats with SCI receiving either control buffer, hIgG (0.4 g/kg), or hIgG (2 g/kg) performed weekly behavioral assessments up to 6 weeks post-SCI (Fig. 7a). Functional recovery was tested using the inclined plane, BBB Locomotor Scale, grip strength, and tail flick. hIgG (2 g/kg) animals performed significantly better than those treated with control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg) (two-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001) (Fig. 7b). Improvements were mostly observed at weeks 4, 5, and 6 for these behavioral assessments. For the inclined plane, hIgG (2 g/kg) animals were observed to have improved whole-body and trunk motor function. The BBB indicated that hIgG (2 g/kg) animals had a greater hindlimb motion, suggesting that hIgG-treated (2 g/kg) animals had substantial weight support and extensive movement in all three joints, while control buffer and hIgG-treated (0.4 g/kg) animals had no weight support and less extensive joint movement. hIgG-treated (2 g/kg) animals also displayed greater forelimb grip strength. However, hIgG (2 g/kg) had no effect on improving the neuropathic pain, as indicated by a lack of differences observed in the tail flick test. Sham animals did not display functional deficits.
hIgG (2 g/kg) results in significant neurobehavioral improvement. a Illustration depicting the experiments and protocol applied. Adult female Wistar rats (250 to 300 g) received either a C7-T1 35 g clip-compression injury or sham surgery (C7-T1 laminectomy). At 15 min post-injury, a single bolus of hIgG (0.4 or 2 g/kg) or control buffer was administered to the injured rats through the tail vein. Functional recovery was assessed weekly by individuals blinded to the treatment groups for 6 weeks. b Relative to the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), hIgG (2 g/kg) led to a significantly better improvement in the whole-body and trunk motor function, gross sensorimotor movement/hindlimb function, and grip strength as evaluated by the inclined plane, Beattie-Basso-Bresnahan, and grip strength, respectively. Improvements were mainly seen in weeks 4 and 5 post-SCI. hIgG had no effect on neuropathic pain after an injury. Two-way ANOVA, Tukey’s post-hoc test (*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001 for comparisons between the control buffer and hIgG (2 g/kg), δp < 0.05, δδp < 0.01, δδδp < 0.001, δδδδp < 0.0001). Data are presented as mean ± SEM values
In order to determine if acute immunomodulatory changes can lead to improved tissue preservation at acute and chronic time points, thus supporting neurobehavioral improvement, spinal cord histological analyses were performed at 1 day and 6 weeks post-SCI with in vivo VHRUS and LFB/HE staining, respectively. Using VHRUS, relative to both the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), hIgG (2 g/kg) treatment was able to reduce the lesion volume (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.001; Tukey’s post-hoc, p < 0.0001 and p < 0.05, respectively) (Fig. 8a, b). There was also a reduction in lesion volume between the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg). A reduction in lesion volume can translate to increased tissue preservation. At 6 weeks post-SCI, LFB/HE quantification demonstrated hIgG (2 g/kg) was able to enhance tissue preservation by increasing the volumes of white and gray matters, as well as concurrently decreasing the lesion tissue and cavity volumes (Fig. 8c) (one-way ANOVA, p < 0.0001). While protection conferred by hIgG (2 g/kg) occurs both rostral and caudal of the epicenter, the protection was most evident at the caudal regions of the injured spinal cord. The preservation of white matter and gray matter, along with a concurrent reduction of the lesion and cavity, is demonstrated by representative LFB/HE images in Fig. 8d. Of note, the acute differences observed with VHRUS between the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg) were not detected with LFB/HE at 6 weeks post-SCI. Nevertheless, the preservation of tissue with hIgG is important, as it aligns with previous findings made by our laboratory and others [12, 13, 15].
hIgG (2 g/kg) results in significant tissue preservation at both acute and chronic time points post-SCI. a At 24 h post-SCI, relative to the control buffer and hIgG (0.4 g/kg), hIgG (2 g/kg) significantly decreased the lesion volume in the injured spinal cord. b From top to bottom, representative images of the SCI lesion for animals treated with control buffer, hIgG (0.4 g/kg), hIgG (2 g/kg), and quantified volumes of the lesion are shown. In vivo very high-resolution ultrasound (VHRUS) imaging in B-Mode (11 × 7mm) was used to quantify the acute lesion volume. c At 6 weeks post-SCI, hIgG (2 g/kg) conferred protection by increasing the white and gray matter volumes, while concurrently decreasing the cavity and lesion tissue volumes. Significant improvements were only observed between the control buffer and hIgG (2 g/kg). d Representative 3D reconstructions of the spinal cords from sham and injured rats treated with control buffer, hIgG (0.4 g/kg), and hIgG (2 g/kg). Dark blue indicates white matter, purple indicates gray matter, while lesion and cavity are indicated by yellow and light blue, respectively. Images of LFB/HE-stained spinal cord tissue from all treatment groups and sham, with tissue sections from the epicenter, 960 μm caudal and rostral from the injury site. For VHRUS, one-way ANOVA Tukey’s post-hoc test (*p < 0.05, **:p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001). For LFB/HE, one-way ANOVA, Tukey’s post-hoc test (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001 for comparisons between the control buffer and hIgG (2 g/kg), δp < 0.05, δδp < 0.01, δδδp < 0.001, δδδδp < 0.0001). Data are presented as mean ± SEM values
In this study, a well-characterized model of SCI was used to carry out a dose-dependent examination of intravenously administered hIgG’s potential to attenuate neuroinflammation after SCI in rats. Our current results demonstrate that hIgG (2 g/kg) is more effective than hIgG (0.4 g/kg) to treat SCI and provides evidence that the immunomodulatory effects of hIgG are mediated through preserving the spinal cord neurovascular unit. Specifically, high-dose hIgG (2 g/kg) has significant protective effects on the spinal cord vasculature. These benefits are associated with reduced neutrophil infiltration, decreased expression of pro-inflammatory enzymes, and a dominant anti-inflammatory environment in the spinal cord. These effects translate into reduced lesion volume in the spinal cord and greater functional blood flow after SCI.
High-dose hIgG for SCI treatment
In the healthy CNS, an intact BSCB limits the entry of large molecules (such as human immunoglobulin G) [15, 30]. As such, the normal concentration of human immunoglobulin G in a steady-state cerebrospinal fluid/serum ratio is 0.0027, with approximately 0.009 to 0.0017% of systemically administered immunoglobulin G reaching the healthy CNS. In the presence of CNS injury (i.e., SCI), a compromised BSCB allows human immunoglobulin G to enter into the CNS at a significantly increased. Here, we show that hIgG (2 g/kg) has significantly greater immunomodulatory effects than hIgG (0.4 g/kg) to treat SCI. Importantly, high-dose hIgG (2 g/kg) is used in other pre-clinical autoimmune disease models in both the peripheral and central systems, such as epilepsy [31], airway inflammation [32], chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy [33], and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura [34].
High-dose hIgG has effects on the spinal cord neurovascular unit
hIgG was found to co-localize with various components of the rat BSCB, such as astrocytes and pericytes, while accumulating in the vicinity of other components (blood vessels) and immune cells (microglia, neutrophils) of the spinal cord. Accumulation of hIgG due to the disrupted BSCB aligns with our previously published results [15]. The co-localization of hIgG on rat astrocytes and pericytes is of particular interest, as this suggests the ability of hIgG to modulate immune cell infiltration through the neurovascular unit [21]. Pericytes are an essential component of the BSCB and a sensor for neuroinflammatory signals produced by endothelial and parenchymal cells after CNS trauma [35, 36]. Of the 3 components in the spinal cord neurovasculature unit (astrocytes, pericytes, and vessels), the integrity of the BSCB is primarily determined by the extent of MMP-9 expression in pericytes after the inflammatory response. MMP-9 expression causes pericytes to detach and migrate away from the basal lamina and, hence, results in BSCB disruption. The role of pericytes in maintaining the barrier integrity under healthy conditions is seen when pericyte-deficient mice demonstrate barrier breakdown and hypoperfusion [37]. Interestingly, we show that hIgG (2 g/kg) significantly decreases MMP-9 expression. While the excessive proteolytic activity of MMPs is responsible for SCI pathophysiology, it should also be noted that MMP-9 activity is physiologically necessary for remodeling the extracellular matrix, tissue morphogenesis, and wound healing [24, 25].
An additional indicator of the protective effects of high-dose hIgG on the neurovascular unit is the preservation of tight junction proteins, as indicated by higher protein levels of occludin and ZO-1 after high-dose hIgG treatment. A more durable BSCB is beneficial, as reducing vascular damage prevents immune cells from permeating into the injured spinal cord, which effectively limits the spread of secondary injury cascades [38]. In our model of clip compression-contusion SCI, we have previously demonstrated that the BSCB is most disrupted at 24 h post-SCI and partially recovered by 2 weeks post-SCI. Importantly, this timeline corresponds with the period where there is a maximal MMP-9 activity, an enzyme whose biological substrates include multiple components of BSCB [24]. In the current paper, we provide evidence that hIgG (2 g/kg) significantly reduces vascular permeability at a period of time post-SCI where the BSCB is most compromised. The greater integrity of the BSCB and improved functional vascularity are potential downstream effects of the interaction between hIgG and the spinal cord neurovascular unit, while also being associated with reduced active MMP-9 expression. As there is a positive correlation between BSCB integrity, functional vascularity, and behavioral/tissue recovery after SCI [38, 39], the neuroprotective interactions of hIgG-astrocytes-pericytes merit further investigation. Early repair of the BSCB has important implications for the treatment of SCI.
High-dose hIgG has significant modulatory effects on immune cell populations after SCI
Neutrophils increase the extent of damage when entering into the injured tissue by binding to various adhesion molecules expressed on the inflamed endothelium, such as VCAM-1 [40]. Previous research has employed various methods to decrease neutrophil infiltration after SCI, demonstrating both beneficial and harmful effects. Thus far, pre-clinical studies for SCI have used antibodies to block neutrophil entry [4, 5, 27, 41, 42, 43]. This highlights that strict immunosuppression can impede recovery, as it indiscriminately eliminates both beneficial and detrimental aspects of neuroinflammation. Our finding that hIgG significantly reduces neutrophil infiltration (using MPO assay and PMN stereology) is supported by previous publications [12, 15]. Reduced neutrophil infiltration, in combination with the observed improvements in BSCB integrity, suggests a feedforward protective loop. While a more intact BSCB can limit neutrophil infiltration, those neutrophils that successfully migrate into the inflamed tissue can continue to perform pathological effector functions [24]. Reduced neutrophil infiltration after hIgG (2 g/kg) confers further protection by decreasing MMP-9 expression, effectively limiting leukocyte entry through the compromised BSCB. It is noteworthy that the ability of hIgG to reduce the expression of MMP-9 has been previously reported [44], but the mechanism is ill-defined. Furthermore, it was observed that hIgG co-localizes with VCAM-1, potentially suggesting that hIgG may impede the interactions between VCAM-1 and very late antigen-4 (VLA-4) [29], which would further limit neutrophil infiltration. Previous reports have demonstrated that blocking VLA-4 with monoclonal antibodies significantly reduces neutrophil infiltration in a mouse model of stroke and improves outcomes [45]. Furthermore, with in vitro inflammatory conditions, high-dose hIgG mediates immunomodulatory effects through interfering with leukocyte adhesion and rolling mechanisms [46, 47].
High-dose hIgG modulates the inflammatory environment after spinal cord injury
Here, we report a change in the expression of cytokines in the injured spinal cord after hIgG (2 g/kg) treatment. Cytokines are the main orchestrators of the neuroinflammatory response, both of which are small families of proteins capable of recruiting and activating the aforementioned immune cells after SCI [48].
The ability of hIgG to promote an anti-inflammatory environment after SCI has been previously reported by our laboratory, as hIgG (0.4 g/kg) has been shown to reduce inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-6, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 at 4 h post-SCI [15]. In the current study, we demonstrate that, relative to the control buffer, hIgG (2 g/kg) increases protein expression of both inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. This phenomenon may be attributed to the administration of a high dose of an immunomodulatory molecule derived from an organism different from the host, which can elicit a modest immune response due to multiple mechanisms, such as the activation of complement system, receptor clustering and activation on innate immune effector cells, and recruitment of immune cells. Past studies have indicated that polymorphisms and interspecies differences of hIgG influence the binding of IgG to Fcγ receptors (FcγRs) and may alter the downstream signaling cascades [49, 50], a limitation of the current study that warrants further research. Nevertheless, the immune response elicited when administering an exogenous molecule can lead to greater expression of IL-6 and TNF-α [51], a change observed in the current study. In vitro models indicate that hIgG can inhibit migration of neutrophils across endothelial cells stimulated with TNF-α and IL-1β [52], another phenomenon similar to what is reported in this manuscript. Reduction of neutrophil infiltration is also associated with decreased levels of neutrophil chemoattractants CINC-2α/β and CINC-3 after hIgG (2 g/kg) treatment [53].
Of note, the increased IL-1β after hIgG (2 g/kg) treatment can bind to the immune cell receptors and activate the p38 pathway to enhance transcription and translation of multiple cytokines [54]. These include TNF-α and CX3CL1, both of which are highly expressed after hIgG (2 g/kg) treatment. Importantly, the anti-inflammatory effects of hIgG (2 g/kg), through increased IL-10 and CX3CL1, can offset the inflammatory effects of IL-1β and TNF-α [55]. Furthermore, IL-10 favors a beneficial anti-inflammatory environment after neurotrauma by reducing MPO activity [56], edema, tissue damage, and apoptosis [57, 58, 59]. In regard to CX3CL1, it may exist in two forms and have different functions on immune cells expressing the corresponding receptor, CX3CR1 [60]. CX3CL1 is expressed mainly by neurons but can also be expressed by astrocytes under inflammatory conditions. In its membrane-bound form, CX3CL1 is an adhesion molecule for CX3CR1+ cells. However, under excitotoxic conditions (such as SCI), CX3CL1 can be cleaved into its soluble form, bind to CX3CR1+ cells, and maintain them in a quiescent state after injury [60, 61, 62]. As IL-10 can increase the levels of CX3CR1 mRNA [63], the greater levels of IL-10 may also mediate anti-inflammatory effects through a similar mechanism. Our findings of anti-inflammatory effects, whether they are directly or indirectly caused by high-dose hIgG, align well with the past literature. These include many mechanisms, such as reduction of integrin activation, modulation of the expression and function of FcγRs, neutralization of autoantibodies, regulation of cell proliferation, interference with activation of the complement cascade, and modulation of the cytokine network [10, 64].
In stark contrast, the administration of hIgG (2 g/kg) significantly upregulated multiple pro-inflammatory cytokines in sera after SCI, a phenomenon that has been reported in patients with immune disorders [65, 66, 67]. Here, we report that hIgG (2 g/kg) increased serum protein expression of neutrophil chemoattractants (IL-8, MIP-1α, CCL-2/MCP-1) and eosinophil activator (IL-5). Notably, pro-inflammatory cytokines are expectedly downregulated after MPSS (0.03 g/kg) treatment [68]. As SCI patients experience systemic immune deficiency [7], the ability of hIgG to enhance pro-inflammatory mediators may dampen the severity of immune suppression by mobilizing innate and adaptive immune cell populations that are reduced in pre-clinical models of SCI and SCI patients [7, 69]. Changes in cytokine secretion and immune cell effector functions correspond to alterations mediated by Fc and F(ab)2 components of hIgG [70, 71]. Specifically, the increase in inflammatory cytokines may traffic immune cells to the spleen, a major immune cell reservoir/source that's role in SCI pathophysiology has gained increased attention recently [72]. Neutrophils are found in the rat spleen and active after SCI [73, 74]. As hIgG (2 g/kg) alleviates neutrophil infiltration in the spinal cord and increases splenic weight, the increased levels of neutrophil chemoattractants may redirect neutrophils to the spleen. Future studies are needed to evaluate how hIgG modulates splenic immune cell populations after SCI.
High-dose hIgG significantly increases tissue preservation and functional recovery after SCI
Tissue preservation and neural repair after SCI are important, as the spinal cord is a complex structure with a large number of ascending and descending neural tracts that connect specific brain structures to precise locations in the body. In this study, we extend our previous findings, as well as others [12, 13, 15], by showing that hIgG (2 g/kg) results in significantly more potent immunomodulatory effects as mediated by acute molecular and biochemical changes. This translates into better functional recovery and tissue preservation at both acute and chronic time points post-SCI. As enhancing the survival of 5–10% of the fibers at the lesion center of the spinal cord helps drive the segmental circuits involved in the production of basic locomotion [75], relatively small improvements in neuroanatomical integrity after SCI can have a substantial, clinically relevant impact on neurological recovery and greatly reduce patient morbidity.
Extensive pre-clinical and clinical evidence has shown that hIgG therapy is safe, and adverse effects associated with its administration are mild and transient. Although MPSS is the only pharmaceutical neuroprotective therapy currently used for SCI in the clinic, it is potentially suboptimal due to the systemic immune deficiency exhibited by SCI patients and the dual nature of the acute inflammatory response. In the current paper, we show that high-dose hIgG is an easily deliverable therapeutic at the acute stage of SCI, and the neuroprotective effect is mediated, in part, by preserving BSCB integrity. This attenuates immune cell infiltration, promotes an anti-inflammatory environment, and enhances tissue preservation and functional recovery after injury. However, before hIgG can be used in the clinic to treat SCI, further optimization of efficacy and delineating its mechanism are required. This may include studying more clinically relevant time points to administer hIgG as well as determining which component of the hIgG molecule mediates the observed immunomodulatory effects. Overall, our study supports the growing trend of using immunomodulatory, rather than immunosuppressive, strategies to treat SCI.
The authors gratefully acknowledge Mahmood Chamankhah for optimizing the western blot as well as all members of the Fehlings laboratory for their dedication and support.
JC contributed to the conception and design, surgeries, collection/assembly of data, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing. JW contributed to the surgeries and collection/assembly of data. AB contributed to the collection/assembly of data, data analysis, and manuscript editing. JH contributed to the collection/assembly of data and data analysis. VS contributed to the collection/assembly of data and data analysis. MF contributed to the conception and design, data interpretation, financial support, and manuscript editing. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Baxter Healthcare Corporation is responsible for providing material support through the Baxter BioScience Grant. Michael Fehlings holds the Gerald and Tootsie Halbert Chair in Neural Repair and Regeneration. Jonathon Chio holds the Frederick Banting and Charles Best Graduate Scholarship.
All animal experiments were approved by the animal care committee at the University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) in compliance with the Canadian Council on Animal Care.
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Legal for Colorado bakery to refuse to write anti-gay message on cake
Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 4.7.2015 11:27 AM
Bakery owner Marjorie Silva, inside her Denver store, faced a discrimination complaint with Colorado's Civil Rights Division after she refused to write hateful words about gays on a cake for a customer last year. (Ivan Moreno/AP)
The Colorado Civil Rights Division has held that Azucar Bakery didn't discriminate based on religion when it refused to bake a cake with an anti-homosexuality message, reports the Denver Post (Anthony Cotton). I haven't seen a copy of the decision, but it sounds quite correct, for reasons I gave when the complaint first hit the news—it looks like the bakery discriminated based on the ideological character of the message (something that's not forbidden by state law) and not based on the customer's religion (something that is forbidden by state law) or based on the intended religious use of the cake (something that might be forbidden by state law).
According to ABC 7 News Denver,
[William] Jack went to the bakery … and requested two cakes shaped like bibles. He asked that one cake have the image of two groomsmen holding hands in front of a cross with a red "X" over them. He asked that the cake be decorated with the biblical verses, "God hates sin. Psalm 45:7" and "Homosexuality is a detestable sin. Leviticus 18:2", according to the Civil Rights Divisions' decision.
On the second bible-shaped cake, Jack also requested the image of the two groomsmen with the red "X". He wanted it decorated with the words "God loves sinners" and "While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Romans 5:8." …
The agency's decision found that the baker did not discriminate against Jack based on his creed. Instead, officials state the evidence shows Silva refused to make the cakes because the customer's requests included "derogatory language and imagery."
And indeed Colorado law bans discrimination only when it is based on "disability, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or ancestry." This means that a store may not specifically refuse to sell cakes to gays, or sell them to (say) Baptists. It may well mean that it may not specifically refuse to sell cakes for use in same-sex marriages, or in Baptist events. It may even mean that it may not specifically refuse to inscribe messages that identify buyers as gay (e.g., "John and Bill's marriage"), or as Baptist (e.g., "Baptist Church Picnic").
But nothing in the law bans discrimination based on ideology more broadly. (The ban on "creed" discrimination in such laws is simply another way of banning discrimination based on religion, as courts have held.) A store can refuse to sell to someone because he's a Nazi, or a Communist, or against abortion rights, or pro-abortion rights, or pro-gay-rights, or anti-gay-rights. A store can likewise refuse to inscribe cakes with Nazi, Communist, antiabortion, pro-abortion, pro-gay-rights, or anti-gay-rights messages, if it's discriminating based on the ideology of the message, rather than the religion of the buyer.
Here, the agency found—plausibly, I suspect—that the baker was upset by the anti-gay message, and would have objected to it regardless of whether the customer or the message was religious. (I read the "derogatory language and imagery" quote from the agency as descriptive, and not legally necessary; the store would have been equally free to reject messages that it saw as unpatriotic, or supportive of the wrong sports team, or anything else.) No discrimination based on religion, no violation of the law.
I do think there are serious Free Speech Clause problems with some application of public accommodation discrimination laws, such as to wedding photographers; but that is a separate matter. Here, the law doesn't even purport to prohibit refusals to write messages on cakes based on the messages' ideology.
For more on the story, see this Washington Post article (Morning Mix, Peter Holley).
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Lavender Jazz to perform on Friday
KORY STONEBURNER-BETTS
kjstoneburnerbetts@goshen.edu
On the evening of Friday, April 6, the current members of Lavender Jazz will take the Sauder Concert Hall stage.
This performance features the four senior members of the band: Sarah Shoue, Isaac Godshalk, Reid Wegrecki and Julian Harnish. Each senior will perform a personally selected piece with the rest of the Lavender Jazz ensemble.
Shoue will be performing a jazz standard entitled “Footprints,” composed by Wayne Shorter. Considering
the laid-back vibe that emanates from each note, “it’s my
favorite ‘rainy day’ or late evening kind of jazz,” said Shoue.
Even though the song may
sound relaxing to the listener,
the same feeling may not
extend to the musicians performing it.
“‘Footprints’ has been a challenging piece to work on,” Shoue said. “I very much
look forward to performing it.”
On trombone, Godshalk will be performing an instrumental rendition of Ella Fitzgerald’s jazz classic, “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most.”
Godshalk is looking forward to playing this song in the upcoming concert.
“Because we have very few mics, I’ll really be able to flow with music and just play,” said Godshalk.
The Latin Jazz standard, “Spain” by Chick Corea, will be performed by Harnish.
“This piece is challenging,” said Harnish. “It uses complex Latin Jazz rhythms and flips seamlessly through unique musical ideas.”
In particular, Harnish enjoys
a section of the song that
audiences are typically encouraged to clap along to.
“Typically, bands play it with minimal instrumentation, maybe with just piano and vibes,” said Harnish. “Yet it works so well with the fuller band sound
that came before it.”
The piece is one that Harnish considers to be a favorite, and
he is encouraged by the
motivation seen in his fellow performers.
One of the more unique solo selections to be performed this coming Friday originates from the mind of Wegrecki herself.
Wegrecki is excited to play “Bourbon St. Parade,” a piece that she composed.
The song is inspired by the parades of musicians that are famously known to march down the
historic Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, a historical hot-bed for jazz music.
Regarding the concert as a whole, the four seniors are
feeling optimistic in the days leading up to their collective performances. This is partially due to Greg Smucker, the guest director, and his changes in how the ensemble operates
on a technical level.
“It’s different than how we’ve operated before,” said Wegrecki.
“Working with directors is always a great experience because you learn [that] new ways of approaching is essentially the same thing.”
The concert will feature a shorter set list compared to past performances.
“We scaled back so that we can make sure everything sounds precise,” said Wegrecki.
Aside from the seniors’ selections, the Lavender Jazz ensemble will play a piece entitled “Scrapple,” written by Charlie Parker.
“Scrapple” is one of the only songs the ensemble will
perform outside of the senior solos.
“Lavender Jazz is focused on having and creating a fun,
genuine and laid-back
atmosphere for our listeners,” said Wegrecki.
“I think the concert
on Friday will reflect that. These songs are really iconic songs and fit with our theme of
playing classic jazz tunes.”
The Lavender Jazz performance is scheduled to
start at 7:30 at Sauder Concert Hall. It is free and open to the public.
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Ciociaria, Italy, travel
10 Things We Love About Ciociaria | Wild Heart of Italy
It’s over 2,000 years since Ciociaria was known as the hottest food and wine destination in Italy
So here’s a list featuring everything that makes our heart sing in this fabulously hidden secret gem of a region. It’s probably time everyone got to know about it again! In absolutely no particular order, as you could throw these into a hat and draw them out randomly:
It’s Etruscan soul
Kelly here – these were some of the first photos I ever took in Ciociaria, five years ago in the 18th century town of Sora – which lies along the Liri River at the junction of the region’s three valleys of Liri, Roveto and Comino. Sora was originally an ancient settlement site of the Italic Volsci tribe, before being conquered by the Romans circa 300 BC. These photos were snapped up a side laneway during the town’s Corpus Domini Infiorata (flower) festival in May, when the entire main street is covered with flowers depicting religious scenes. Can’t be sure, but it’s a fabulous story, always had a strong feeling that this festival is perhaps based on a pagan Etruscan-era festival that’s been shadowed in time… Just look at those sneaky magic symbols!
Cesanese Wine
This could actually be number #1, but you can’t always save the best for last! Drink like a Roman Emperor when you visit the hidden food and wine region of Ciociaria, as Cesanese is the indigenous variety of the region and it’s more than likely what Roman nobility were drinking back in the day (thousands of years ago). These days, Cesanese is making a strong comeback with more and more wine critics stating it’s poised to become one of the hottest rediscovered red wine varieties in Central Italy. Rome-based wine historian Andrea Gabbrielli: “Among the rare red wines of Lazio, Cesanese del Piglio is the most interesting. Today, the market wants wines with identity and personality and even though Cesanese is an antique variety, it represents an exciting new trend.” We take our Wild Heart Of Italy guests through the Piglio wine region of Ciociaria to visit a biodynamic vineyard specialising in Cesanese wine.
ps: can’t pronounce it? chez-an-aye-zee
It’s known the ‘City of Popes’ and was once the centre of the Medieval world with five of the earliest Popes ruling from this magical mountaintop village in Ciociaria…but just look at those magic symbols in the backstreets of its vicoli (laneways)! Peel back the layers in every medieval mountaintop village in the Ciociaria region, and you find a Roman temple underneath the village church. And underneath that is an Etruscan temple. and omg how to pronounce that beautiful looking name? an-un-yee
La Cascata
Know any other medieval villages in Italy with their own waterfall in the heart of town? Isola del Liri in Ciociaria is something else. The whole village promenades past the waterfall on Friday and Saturday evenings, just add gelato + prosecco and you’ve got yourself a magical evening. Full disclosure, we are totally biased on this one – Paolo was born here!
Ciambelle
The traditional fennel-flavoured ringbread of Ciociaria is a chewy sensation of goodness, and best bought fresh from a street stall to tear into bite size pieces as you wander through local market days. Also good: ciambelline. Little sugar-coated fennel biscuits for dipping into your wine. The Romans did this to flavour their wine so it was drinkable, but now it’s just a seriously fun (and delicious!) thing to do.
Subiaco Monastery
Hey the 1,000 year old Benedictine monastery is actually built into the side of a cliff and is pretty spectacular, but this place has THE BEST GIFT SHOP IN THE WORLD. Those delightful monks ramble out into the forests, foraging for wild berries and herbs, and then come back to the monastery to make some serious magical potions and health tonics – read wine and liqueurs. In amongst all the rosary beads and icons and postcards of frescoes, it’s wall-to-wall amazing beverages in there!
This is hands-down our favourite mountaintop medieval village in Ciociaria and was a beloved city of the Hernici Italic tribe thousands of years ago. The Romans took over around 300 BC. These days there’s a palpable feeling in the air of the town returning to its Etruscan roots, with many young people reviving ancient Ciociarian traditions in cuisine, craftsmanship and song. A truly breath of fresh air – To Veroli, Always Remain True 💜
The Ciociarian wild spirit
Fammi povera, che ti faró ricco. Give me the poor and I’ll give you the rich
It’s an ancient proverb about the vines, but it rings true today about the spirit of the people in the Ciociaria region. Deeply connected to their rivers, mountains, lakes and forests, the Ciociarians have endured many setbacks but they have kept their spirits alive through food, wine and song. The whole region is experiencing a sense of revival, and there are some incredible people doing incredible things. Like our friend Luigi, a local vigneron who listened to the ancient proverb and planted his vines in the calcium rock of the mountain. His first crop failed, but now his vineyard is flourishing. He’s producing some amazing local wines that taste of earthy minerals and the wild fennel he lets grow through his biodynamic vineyard.
We’re probably going to have to start another series straight after this one ‘The next 10 things we love about Ciociaria’ because there’s lots of beautiful villages we’ve missed this time. BUT these are the medieval mountaintop villages of Ciociaria that have completely stolen our hearts 💘
Oh Picinisco, just saying your name in local dialect is fun! pizz-in-iss-ko
Clinging to the Apennine mountains with soaring views of the Comino valley, Picinisco celebrated its 1,000 year old anniversary last year. BUT IT’S WAAAAY OLDER THAN THAT! There’s an ancient Roman road that leads the way through the valley to the foot of the village’s mountain pathway, and you only need to take a deep breath of the fresh air to feel its’ Etruscan spirit.
We searched for five years to find our ideal Ciociarian village for our Wild Heart of Italy food and wine experiences, AND. THIS. IS. IT.
✔️ Boutique luxury accommodation (in a diffused hotel in a restored Bishop’s palace within a medieval castle).
✔️ Utterly charming (in 10 minutes you’ve covered the entire village, but it’s SO much fun rambling through its cobbled stone laneways).
✔️ Perfect piazza for sipping prosecco and espresso (bonus: there’s a gelato shop).
✔️ Friendly locals (and what a creative bunch of happy souls they are! artists & vignerons & shopkeepers & bakers & chefs & cheesemakers & shepherds & artisans) They are truly what makes this little village so special
Ciociarians
We’ve already kind of alluded to this in a few of our posts in this series, but hands down while the scenery of the Ciociara region will knock your socks off it’s the Ciociarians themselves you’ll fall in love with. Gentle and kind and generous, with a huge serving of humour – and food! and wine! and song!
You will never leave this region hungry, but you’ll be hungry to come back for more.
We take small groups of fellow travellers with soul to Ciociaria with us on our Wild Heart of Italy food and wine adventures every September and May.
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Several of these factors such as intention to monitor and
Posted on January 29, 2016 by sirt1819
Several of these factors such as intention to monitor and leave a message attitudes toward monitoring have not been evaluated in longitudinal samples including minority groups. In addition, the strengths of the present study are that it includes both parent and youth reports, is a longitudinal design that allows examination of two time points and thus the change in smoking behavior between these time points, and also has a large sample size. Findings from this study have important implications for pediatric practitioners and for researchers interested in youth smoking prevention. First, our findings of uniform levels of smoking initiation in all racial/ethnic groups of youth suggest that there must be consistent, protective influences in nonsmoking youth, which we found to be the presence of certain FF.
Parents should be made aware that when there are high levels of FF such as connectedness, monitoring, and consequences for smoking behavior, that their teens are also aware of these parenting practices, and that these practices can translate into lower levels of smoking initiation in their teenagers. Further research is needed to determine how to best incorporate these practices into preventative interventions in ways that are palatable to parents and understood by youth. Second, our finding that lower levels of protective factors were present in smoking initiators, even prior to initiation, suggests that parents are differentially providing less strong parenting practices to youth not only when they have already started smoking but also prior to smoking onset.
Regardless of the timing of these parenting practices, we found that a decrease in perceived punishment in all youth and decreases in connectedness and monitoring in minority youth were associated with increased initiation. These findings are consistent with the concept that these parenting practices should be kept strong even as youth get older and are exposed to outside influences. Supplementary Material Supplementary Table 1 can be found online at http://www.ntr.oxfordjournals.org/. Funding This study was supported by National Cancer Institute grant CA142099-02 (Principal Investigator: E.M.M.G.). Declaration of Interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests related to this research. Supplementary Material Supplementary Data: Click here to view.
Acknowledgments The National Survey of Parents and Youth was conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse through a cooperative agreement that calls for scientific collaboration between the grantees and the National Institute on Drug Abuse staff. Data were provided by the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Over the past several decades, public health interventions Anacetrapib have been successful in reducing smoking in the United States by influencing both higher rates of quitting and decreased uptake.
For each of the 1000 resamples, only those markers, which remaine
For each of the 1000 resamples, only those markers, which remained significantly associated with survival time after adjustment for the prognostic effects of the remaining markers during forward selection (P<0.05) were selected. The most frequently selected markers were considered the most reliable prognostic factors. Out of the 1000 resamples, overnight delivery RHAMM, CD8+ TILs, Ki67 and RKIP were selected 990, 854, 244 and 69 times, respectively as prognostic factors. Multivariable analysis The receptor for hyaluronic acid-mediated motility and CD8+ TILs, determined to be the most valuable markers, were entered into a second multivariable analysis along with clinicopathological features that are available at the time before surgery, namely pT stage, pN stage and age at diagnosis (Table 3). Positivity for RHAMM (P<0.
001; HR=1.94 (1.44�C2.61)) and loss of CD8+ TILs (P=0.006; HR=0.63 (0.45�C0.88)) maintained their significant adverse effect on survival time. Table 3 Association of RHAMM and CD8+ TILs after adjusting for the prognostic effect of pT stage, pN stage, age and tumour diameter (multivariable analysis; Cox proportional hazards regression) Two-marker protein profile The receptor for hyaluronic acid-mediated motility and CD8+ TILs were combined into their four possible phenotypes (RHAMM+/TIL+, RHAMM+/TIL?, RHAMM?/TIL+ and RHAMM?/TIL?). The Kaplan�CMeier survival curve in Figure 1 highlights considerable differences between the four phenotypes with RHAMM+/TIL? tumours having significantly worsened (P<0.001) survival time compared to RHAMM?/TIL+ tumours.
Moreover, the 5-year survival rate for patients with RHAMM+/TIL? tumours was 30% (95% CI: 21�C40%) compared to 76% (95% CI: 66�C84%) for RHAMM?/TIL+ patients. Figure 1 Kaplan�CMeier survival curves and cancer-specific survival rates for combinations of RHAMM and CD8+ tumour infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) (P<0.001). Figure 2A illustrates the survival time in patients with early T1, T2 tumours with the adverse RHAMM+/TIL? phenotype. The 5-year cancer-specific survival rate of these patients was 48% (95% CI: 20�C72%), whereas for patients with the more favourable marker combination RHAMM?/TIL+, a 5-year survival rate of 84.4% (95% CI: 68�C93%) was observed. Compared to the unfavourable early cancers, late T3, T4 patients with RHAMM?/TIL+ tumours had a significantly better prognosis (P=0.
039) and 5-year survival rate of 71% (95% CI: 56�C82%). Only late T3, T4 patients with RHAMM+/TIL? tumours performed significantly worse than patients with early T-stage tumours of adverse RHAMM+/TIL? phenotype. Figure 2 (A) Comparison of Kaplan�CMeier survival curves and cancer-specific survival rates for early T1 and T2 patients with the highly adverse RHAMM+/TIL? phenotype compared Brefeldin_A with late T3 and T4 patients. (B) Comparison of Kaplan�CMeier …
One hundred fifty milligrams of homogenized lung and pancreas tis
One hundred fifty milligrams of homogenized lung and pancreas tissues was centrifuged, and viral RNA was extracted from 100 ��l of clarified suspension using the NucleoSpin RNA selleck chem II kit (Macherey-Nagel). One-step RRT-PCR. The isolated RNA was amplified using the published primers and probes from Spackman et al. (25), targeting the conserved matrix (M) gene of type A influenza virus. Five microliters of RNA was added to the reaction mixture, composed of 300 nM forward and reverse primers (M25F and M124-R, respectively) and 100 nM fluorescent-label probe (M+64). The amplification reaction was performed in a final volume of 25 ��l using the commercial QuantiTect Multiplex RT-PCR kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany). The PCR was performed using the following protocol: 20 min at 50��C and 15 min at 95��C, followed by 40 cycles at 94��C for 45 s and 60��C for 45 s.
In vitro-transcribed target RNA was obtained using Mega Short Script 7 (high-yield transcription kit; Ambion) according to the manufacturer’s instructions, quantified by NanoDrop 2000 (Thermo Scientific), and used to create a standard calibration curve for viral-RNA quantification. To check the integrity of the isolated RNA, the ��-actin gene was also amplified using a set of primers designed in house (primer sequences are available upon request). The reaction mixture was composed of 300 nM forward and reverse primers and 1�� EvaGreen (Explera, Jesi, Italy). The amplification reaction was performed in a final volume of 25 ��l using the commercial Superscript III kit (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA).
The PCR was performed using the following protocol: 30 min at 55��C and 2 min at 94��C, followed by 45 cycles at 94��C for 30 s and 60��C for 1 min. Histology and immunohistochemistry. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded pancreas sections were cut (3 ��m thick). Slides were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) (Histoserv, Inc., Germantown, MD). Representative photographs were taken with SPOT Advanced software (version 4.0.8; Diagnostic Instruments, Inc., Sterling Heights, MI). The reagents and methodology for influenza virus IHC were as follows: polyclonal antibody anti-type A influenza virus nucleoprotein (NP) and mouse anti-influenza virus A (NP subtype A, clone EVS 238; European Veterinary Laboratory), 1:100 in PBS-2.5% bovine serum albumin (BSA) for 1 h at room temperature; secondary antibody, goat anti-mouse IgG2a horseradish peroxidase (HRP) (Southern Biotech), 1/200 in PBS-2.
5% BSA for 1 h at room temperature. Antigen retrieval was performed by incubating the slides for 10 min at 37��C in trypsin (Digest-all Kit; Brefeldin_A Invitrogen). Endogenous peroxidase was blocked with 3% H2O2 for 10 min at room temperature. Before incubation with primary antibody, a blocking step was performed with PBS-5% BSA for 20 min at room temperature.
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d. ��5%). No significant change of Bcl-xL protein expression in cells incubated in the presence of the same concentration of MM oligonucleotide were observed (110% MM/Sal, s.d. ��9%; P>0.13). Concomitantly inhibitor purchase performed Western blot analysis of the cellular lysates demonstrated no changes in Bcl-xS expression levels after oligonucleotide treatment (Figure 2; 96% AS/Sal, s.d. ��5%; 86% MM/Sal, s.d. ��4%; both P>0.1). Prolongation of the incubation period to 72h led to no more pronounced downregulation of Bcl-xL protein expression (data not shown). Figure 2 Bcl-xL downregulation by Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotides (ISIS 16009): Western blot of Caco-2 cells 48h after a 4-h treatment with 200nm oligonucleotides in the presence of 10��gml?1 lipofectin; lane 1: saline …
Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotides lower the apoptotic threshold To study the influence of Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotides on facilitating apoptosis in Caco-2 cells, the relative percentage of apoptotic cells compared to untreated controls was assessed by flow cytometry. Cells with a sub-G0/G1 DNA content due to chromatin condensation were considered apoptotic (Nicoletti et al, 1991). Caco-2 cancer cells were incubated for 4h with saline, ISIS 16009 AS, or MM oligonucleotides at a dose of 200nM in the presence of uptake-enhancing lipofectin. After a 48-h resting period, Caco-2 cells were treated with IR. Increasing doses of IR (0�C12Gy) resulted in a dose-dependent rise in the number of apoptotic cells up to a doubling of apoptotic cells at a dose of 12Gy compared to nonirradiated cells.
Treatment of Caco-2 colon cells with ISIS 16009 Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotides alone significantly enhanced the rate of apoptotic cells compared to saline controls (Figure 3; P<0.05), whereas no significant increase of apoptotic cell death in the group treated with MM oligonucleotides was observed. However, the combination of Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotides and IR resulted in a pronounced increase of apoptotic cell death by about 300% compared to irradiated Caco-2 cells pretreated with either saline or MM oligonucleotides at all IR doses examined (Figure 3). These differences were highly statistically significant (P<0.001). The combination of ISIS 16009 Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotide and an IR dose of 12Gy approximately doubled the rate of apoptotic cells compared to AS oligonucleotide treatment alone (P<0.012).
No statistically significant differences were observed between the saline control and MM oligonucleotide pretreated Cilengitide cells supporting a specific Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotide mode of action. Figure 3 Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotides facilitate the induction of apoptosis in human colon cancer cells. Caco-2 cancer cells were incubated for 4h with saline (Sal), antisense (AS), or eight-base mismatch (MM) oligonucleotides at a concentration of 200n … Additionally, we investigated the combination of Bcl-xL AS oligonucleotides and the chemotherapeutic agent cisplatin.
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9 However, no significant inhibition was observed www.selleckchem.com/products/Roscovitine.html with lower concentrations of ibuprofen. We also treated cells with PLGA NPs, which had no effect on cellular proliferation and were nontoxic to cells. Therefore, the inhibition of proliferation was due to the intracellular release of ibuprofen from the NPs. The percentage of cells that had incorporated fluorescent-loaded ibuprofen PLGA NPs was >90% after 24 hours and remained at these levels after 48 hours. The NPs were already releasing ibuprofen by 2 hours after they were added to the cells; however, only a small concentration (<1 ��M) of free ibuprofen was detected in the culture medium (data not shown). We have no data on the antiproliferative activity of ibuprofen at such low concentrations.
On the other hand, we demonstrated that 200 ��M ibuprofen had no effect on proliferation of MKN-45 cells at 24 and 48 hours. We observed the presence of ibuprofen in cell lysates, demonstrating that the NPs released ibuprofen in the cells. The release of a therapeutic agent from PLGA NPs has repeatedly been shown to be biphasic, initially by diffusion through the polymer matrix, and later by diffusion of the therapeutic agent as well as degradation of the polymer matrix itself.38,39 Bulk erosion is the main degradation pathway of PLGA copolymers. This process occurs via the random scission of ester bonds in the polymer backbone, randomly throughout the device.40 The concentration of released ibuprofen increased rapidly over the first 2 hours and then, increased slowly over time, reaching a maximum at 24 hours.
However, the amount of free ibuprofen in cell lysates at 24 hours was approximately 75 ng, corresponding to <1% of the initially added ibuprofen carried by the PLGA NPs. Once conveyed within the cells, the ibuprofen exerted antiproliferative activity at approximately 5 ��M/L, a concentration >100 times less than that of free ibuprofen, suggesting greater efficiency, and less toxicity to cells. In addition, upregulation of ANGPTL4, a gene involved in proliferation and invasion processes, was triggered by these low concentrations of ibuprofen. Controlled and targeted delivery of an anticancer agent at the site of action is necessary to maximize the killing effect during the tumor growth phase, and minimize AV-951 exposure of healthy adjacent cells to the drug, thereby reducing drug toxicity. The success of drug targeting depends on the selection of the targeting agent, which should be abundant, have high affinity and specificity of binding, and be well suited to chemical modification by conjugation.
GIST882 cells were implanted
GIST882 cells were implanted selleck Ruxolitinib under the dorsal skin of BALB/c nude mice in three doses (3 �� 106-3M, 5 �� 106-5M and 8 �� 106-8M cells or vehicle; four mice per dosage). Tumour growth was monitored biweekly. All mice were euthanised with an excess of anaesthesia when the tumour size of the highest-dose group reached 16mm3. Before being killed, blood was collected by cardiac puncture and tumour tissue was collected for further analysis. Statistical analysis Continuous variables were compared by one-way ANOVA or Student’s t-test as appropriate. Relationships between variables were determined by the Pearson correlation coefficient. Continuous data are expressed as mean��s.e.m. A P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analyses were performed with GraphPad Prism 5.
0 (Graphpad software, La Jolla, CA, USA). Results High circulating levels of hK1 in a GIST patient We previously reported that hK1 levels are remarkably elevated in peripheral blood of patients with critical carotid artery obstruction and normalised after endarterectomy (Porcu et al, 2004). Only one subject of this series showed persistently high hK1 levels before and after revascularisation (1456 and 1681pgml?1, respectively). The patient was referred to us 8 months after endarterectomy because of the appearance of constipation. Computerised tomography scanning documented a solid mass (7 �� 6cm diameters) infiltrating the ileum and reaching the abdominal wall (Figure 1A). At power Doppler, the mass appeared irregularly perfused (Figure 1B).
Surgical resection resulted in a remarkable reduction of circulating hK1 (368pgml?1, 2 months after surgery). Histological examination of the mass revealed the characteristics of mixed spindle and epithelioid GSK-3 cell GIST, positive for c-Kit and negative for S-100 protein, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), desmin and CD34 (not shown). Vascular cells (EC) and GIST cells were positive for hK1 (red arrows, Figure 1C). The vascular endothelium was identified in consecutive sections by positive staining for von Willebrand factor (Figure 1D). Specificity of the reaction was confirmed by parallel staining of hK1-producing salivary glands and GIST specimens (Figure 1E and F). Normal gastrointestinal tissue was negative, thus confirming the aberrant expression of hK1 by GIST (Figure 1G). Figure 1 Clinical case. Representative CT scan images showing the presence of a tumour mass, highlighted by an asterisk, in the abdominal cavity (A). The mass appears irregularly perfused, as shown by Doppler imaging (B). Immunohistochemistry analysis confirmed … Retrospective analysis of hK1 expression in GIST We verified the expression of hK1 in a series of 22 GIST cases.
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However, potential differences between study treatments can be masked by second-line and later lines of chemotherapy when this end point is selleck screening library used (Di Leo et al, 2004). In study NO16966, there were no restrictions regarding crossover or salvage therapies after the completion of study treatment. It is therefore possible that crossover to the alternate study treatment was a confounding factor in the present analysis. To allow for this, we performed a separate analysis in which all patients randomised to XELOX and who received FOLFOX as second-line therapy were censored. The results were consistent with those obtained in the ITT population and again support the similar efficacy of XELOX vs FOLFOX4.
The question of whether or not capecitabine is non-inferior to 5-FU/FA when given in combination with oxaliplatin in metastatic colorectal cancer has now been addressed in six different randomised phase III trials (D��az-Rubio et al, 2007; Porschen et al, 2007; Rothenberg et al, 2008; Cassidy et al, 2008a; Comella et al, 2009; Ducreux et al, 2011), of which NO16966 is the largest. The other five studies, which involved 300�C600 patients each, were largely supportive of NO16966. In three of the studies, the efficacy of XELOX or OXXEL was shown to be similar to that of 5-FU/FA-oxaliplatin regimens (Rothenberg et al, 2008; Comella et al, 2009; Ducreux et al, 2011), whereas the remaining two were inconclusive with regard to non-inferiority (D��az-Rubio et al, 2007; Porschen et al, 2007).
Since the completion of the phase III trials, three separate meta-analyses of relevant studies comparing capecitabine or 5-FU/FA plus oxaliplatin in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have been performed (Arkenau et al, 2008; Cassidy et al, 2008b; Cuppone et al, 2008). Even though each meta-analysis included a different selection of phase II and III studies, the outcomes were very similar with respect to both progression-free survival (HR/relative risk 0.98�C1.04) and OS (1.02�C1.04). Thus, there is now strong evidence to support the non-inferiority of capecitabine when used in combination with oxaliplatin vs infusional 5-FU-based oxaliplatin regimens in the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, both in the first- and second-line settings.
It is therefore likely that other considerations, such as tolerability profile, convenience, patient preference and cost, will assume greater importance when selecting the fluoropyrimidine backbone of a chemotherapy regimen. Brefeldin_A With regard to tolerability, both XELOX and FOLFOX have a similar profile of adverse events, but XELOX is associated with more grade 3 diarrhoea and hand-foot syndrome, whereas FOLFOX is associated with more grade 3/4 neutropenia and febrile neutropenia (Rothenberg et al, 2008; Ducreux et al, 2011). This is supported by the updated safety data from NO16966 in the present paper.
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The epithelial http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Sunitinib-Malate-(Sutent).html cells were then lysed with 1% Triton X-100 (Sigma) in deionized water. Samples were diluted and plated onto LB agar plates to determine the number of colony-forming units (CFU). Bacterial viability assay Bacteria were pretreated with 100 ��g/ml meprin �� or meprin �� (expression and purification described previously [39], [40]) at 37��C for 120 min. Meprins were then inactivated and pretreated bacteria were compared to untreated bacteria. Numbers of CFU were determined from samples diluted and plated onto LB agar plates. Extraction of type 1 pili and total proteins Type 1 pili were extracted as previously described [15], [16]. Purified type 1 pili were subjected to HCl hydrolysis before SDS-PAGE analysis because fimbriae are resistant to SDS disaggregation.
After an overnight incubation at 37��C in LB broth, bacteria were centrifuged and resuspended in SDS-PAGE loading buffer (2% SDS, 50 mM Tris-HCl pH 6.8, 12.5% glycerol, 400 mM ��-mercaptoethanol and 0.01% Bromophenol Blue). Treatment of whole bacteria, purified bacterial surface components and recombinant human IL-8 with meprins Whole bacteria were pretreated for 120 min with exogenous meprin �� or �� (from 0.1 ��g/ml to 100 ��g/ml) in PBS. PBS supplemented with 4 mM EDTA pH 7.4, was then added (201) in order to inactivate meprin activity. The same protocol was used for bacteria in the absence of meprin or in presence of 100 ��g/ml of meprin �� and �� inactivated at 100��C for 15 min. Bacteria were then washed twice in PBS by centrifugation and resuspended in PBS for infection or in SDS-PAGE loading buffer for Western-blotting.
Purified type 1 pili were treated with increasing concentrations (1 to 100 ��g/ml) of meprin �� and ��, at 37��C for 120 min and subjected to SDS-PAGE and mass spectrum analysis. In addition, purified type 1 were also treated with 100 ��g/ml of meprin �� and �� inactivated at 100��C for 15 min. Recombinant human IL-8 (110 ng/ml, R&D systems) was treated with 100 ��g/ml of meprin �� or �� at 37��C for 120 min and was resuspended in SDS-PAGE loading buffer for Western-blotting. Western blotting Purified bacterial surface components or total proteins were subjected to SDS-PAGE on 12-17% gels. Protein concentrations were determined by Bradford assay and the gels were stained for protein with Coomassie brilliant blue.
Western immunoblotting GSK-3 was performed according to the procedure of Towbin [41]. Proteins were electroblotted onto nitrocellulose membranes (Amersham International), and the membranes were immunoblotted for type 1 pili (rabbit antiserum raised against purified type 1 pilus preparations, diluted 11,000), Lep (rabbit anti-Lep, diluted 11,000), OmpA (rabbit anti-OmpA, diluted 11,00), OmpC/F (rabbit anti-OmpC/F, diluted 11,000), flagellin (rabbit anti-H1, diluted 1500) and IL-8 (mouse anti-human; diluted 1/250; R & D Systems).
definitely Statistical Analysis All statistical analyses were performed in Prism Software (GraphPad, Inc.), and the statistical significance of data was determined as P<0.05. For comparison between two groups, either a paired or unpaired t test (Student��s t test) was used. One-way or two-way ANOVA was used to compare multiple groups. All values are expressed as the mean �� standard error of the mean (SEM). Results CysLT1R Antagonists Decrease Xenograft Tumor Growth A colon cancer xenograft model was employed to investigate the effects of CysLT1R antagonists on cancer growth in vivo. To examine the effects of CysLT1R antagonists on tumor initiation, we inoculated nude mice with HCT-116 cells pretreated with CysLT1R antagonists. Treatment was begun immediately with either ZM198,615 or Montelukast (5 mg/kg/day) on the day of inoculation.
The mice were sacrificed on day 21, before tumor volumes reached 1 cm3, according to ethical permission (Figure 1A). As shown in Figure 1B, tumor occurrence was significantly delayed in the Pre-ZM group (4 tumors) compared to the DMSO I group (12 tumors) on day 6. Furthermore, Montelukast pretreatment completely inhibited HCT-116 tumor generation. The mean tumor weight was significantly reduced in the Pre-ZM group compared to the DMSO I group (0.165��0.048 g vs. 0.372��0.082 g; Figure 1C). In addition, we examined the effects of CysLT1R antagonists on tumor progression by inoculating nude mice with non-pretreated HCT-116 cells. After recordable tumor initiation (on day 6), CysLT1R antagonist treatments were carried out for 2 weeks (Figure 1E).
On day 21, the average tumor size of the ZM198,615 and Montelukast groups was significantly smaller than tumors in the DMSO II group (490.1��66.21 mm3 and 336.9��55.38 mm3 vs. 711.6��82.6 mm3, P<0.05 or P<0.001, respectively) (Figure 1F). Similarly, the average tumor weight in the ZM198,615 and Montelukast groups versus the DMSO II group was significantly reduced (Figure 1G; 0.31��0.037 g and 0.22��0.036 g vs. 0.424��0.038 g, respectively, P<0.05). Figure 1D and H are representative tumor images taken from each group. In conclusion, these results support the hypothesis that CysLT1R is important for colon cancer growth. CysLT1R Antagonists Reduce Proliferation and Induce Apoptosis We next investigated the underlying mechanisms by which CysLT1R antagonists exerted their inhibitory effects on tumor growth.
HCT-116 tumor sections were stained AV-951 with the proliferation marker Ki-67 or the apoptosis marker M30 CytoDEATH. The most prevalent Ki-67 stained area was selected for each xenograft tumor and three high power field images within this area were further analyzed. The Ki-67 level in these selected areas was moderately decreased in Pre-ZM group (Pre-ZM vs. DMSO I group; Figure 2A and B) and statistically significantly (P<0.05) decreased in treatment groups (ZM198,615 vs. DMSO II group; Figure 2C and D).
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0��10?7. Genome-wide between-strata difference test to identify SNPs for replication Based on the results of the stratified GWAS of eGFRcrea and CKD, for each SNP we tested the hypothesis whether the effect of a SNP on eGFRcrea or CKD was the same between strata (null hypothesis), i.e. diabetes versus non-diabetes subjects, hypertensive versus normotensive, Sorafenib younger versus older, females versus males. We used a two-sample test defined as Z=(b1?b2)/(SE(b1)2+SE(b2)2)0.5, with b1 and b2 indicating the effect estimates in the two strata and SE(b1) and SE(b2) their standard errors [33]. For large samples, the test statistic follows a standard normal distribution. SNPs were selected for replication if they had a between-stratum difference P value��5��10?5, an association P value��5��10?5 in one of the two strata, and MAF��10%.
Independent loci were defined using the same criteria as described above. Eleven further SNPs, one per locus, were selected for replication from the between-strata difference test. Replication analysis Replication was performed for a total of 21 SNPs including 5 from the overall and stratified eGFRcrea analyses, 1 from the direction test on eGFRcrea, 4 from the overall CKD45 analysis, and 11 from the between-strata difference test. Replication studies used the same phenotype definition, and had available genotypes from imputed in silico genome-wide SNP data or de novo genotyping. The same association analyses including the identical stratifications were performed as in discovery studies. Details can be found in the Tables S2, S5 and S6.
Study-specific replication results for the selected SNPs were combined using the same meta-analysis approach and software as in the discovery stage. One-sided P values were derived with regard to the effect direction found in the discovery stage. Based on the P value distribution of all SNPs submitted for replication (the 10 from eGFRcrea and CKD45 and the 11 from the between strata difference test), we estimated the False Discovery Rate as a q-value using the QVALUE [34] package in R. SNPs with q-value<0.05 were called significantly replicating, thus specifying a list of associations expected to include not more than 5% false positives. Finally, study-specific results from both the discovery and replication stage were combined in a joint inverse-variance weighted fixed-effect meta-analysis and the two-sided P values were compared to the genome-wide significance threshold of 5��10?8 to test whether a SNP was genome-wide significant.
Between-study heterogeneity of replicated SNPs was quantified by the I2 statistic [35]. Replication genotyping For de novo genotyping in 10,446 samples from Brefeldin_A KORA F3, KORA F4, SAPHIR and SAPALDIA, the MassARRAY system at the Helmholtz Zentrum (M��nchen, Germany) was used, using Assay Design v3.1.2 and the iPLEX chemistry (Sequenom, San Diego, USA). Assay design failed for rs1322199 and genotyping was not performed.
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ANKARA, Turkey – Six former journalists and staff of an opposition newspaper in Turkey have returned to prison to serve their sentences after an appeals court confirmed their conviction on terror charges.
Cartoonist Musa Kart and five other employees of the Cumhuriyet newspaper entered prison in northwest Turkey on Thursday after an appeals court in February upheld their conviction on charges of aiding terror organizations.
The six were sentenced to less than five-year prison terms. Other Cumhuriyet employees, who were sentenced to more than five years in prison, can still appeal the verdicts at Turkey's Supreme Court.
The paper is one of few newspapers critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and their case has increased concerns over press freedom in Turkey.
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See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286401306 Pharyngitis and sore throat: A review Article in AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY · July 2011 CITATION 1 READS 1,463 9 authors , including: Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Sof t sets View projectsuperalgebras View projectMuhammad AkramUniversity of the Punjab 396 PUBLICATIONS 3,183 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Muhammad Asif The Islamia University of Bahawalpur 79 PUBLICATIONS 540 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Dr Syed Mohammad Ali ShahGovernment College University Faisalabad 70 PUBLICATIONS 255 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Ghazala ShaheenThe Islamia University of Bahawalpur 18 PUBLICATIONS 100 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE All content following this page was uploaded by Muhammad Riaz Ur Rehman on 20 June 2017. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 10(33), pp. 6190-6197, 6 July, 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB DOI: 10.5897/AJB10.2663 ISSN 1684–5315 © 2011 Academic Journals Review Pharyngitis and sore throat: A review Aamir Somro 1 , Muhammad Akram 1 *, M. Ibrahim khan 1 , H. M. Asif 2 , 1 Abdul Sami, S. M. Ali Shah 2 , Ghazala Shahen 2 , Khalil Ahmed 2 and Riaz Ur Rehman 2 1 Shifa ul Mulk Memorial Hospital, Faculty of Eastern Medicine, Hamdard University, Karachi, Pakistan. 2 College of Conventional Medicine, Islamia University, Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Accepted 17 March, 2011 Pharyngitis is a sore throat caused by inflammation of the back of the throat. It is one of the most common reasons for visits to family physicians. Throat may be scratchy and swallowing can be painful. Usually, a sore throat is the sign of another illness, such as a cold or the flu. In this review article, epidemiology, national perspective, regional perspective, pathogenesis, clinical diagnosis, clinical presentation and causes of pharyngitis was described. Key words: Pharyngitis, sore throat, inflammation. INTRODUCTION Among the many infections that confront clinicians every day, there is probably no more common and yet contro-versial one than acute pharyngitis caused by group A β -hemolytic streptococcus ( Streptococcus pyogenes ) and viruses (Susan et al., 2001). This illness concerns clinicians because not only is it an acute illness for an individual patient, but the potential spread of the organism and the resulting public health implications cannot be ignored either. At the outset of the 21st century, the acute pharyngitis and sore throat was unique and to date, the clinical management of these upper respiratory tract infections remains controversial. The clinical diagnosis is not specific. Laboratory data can be misleading and frequently misinterpreted. Epidemio-logical evidence suggests that the complexities and the controversies of these infections remain uncontrolled in all populations (Mcfarlane et al., 1998). A sore throat affects a person in many ways and the symptoms vary from one individual to another. Accor-dingly, some describe the peculiar symptoms of the disorder as a burning sensation, while others feel a tickling or scratchy sensation in the throat. By and large, a sore throat affects the person as a general sore feeling that starts at the back of the oral cavity, gradually spreading out into the region of the middle throat; these *Corresponding author. E-mail: makram_0451@hotmail.com. Tel: 92-021-6440083. Fax: 92-021-6440079. symptoms are generally felt along with varying degrees of pain in individual cases. A sore throat can usually be seen more as a symptom of another illness and arises as a result of inflammation in the sensitive tissues of the throat. The body responds by increasing the rate of circulation of blood in the throat as soon as the initial inflammation or irritation has begun. Therefore, the swelling and the pain felt in the throat and the subsequent reddening of the tissues is an actual reaction of the immune system, as the increase in the circulating blood transports and increased load of white blood cells and other substances to counter the initial infection, therefore, the actual symptoms present are merely signs that the body is fighting back the infection (Wiesner et al., 1973). Some of the usual causative agents of soreness in the throat-or the real triggers of the condition-are primary physiological reactions such as allergies, environmental factors such as dust and smoke and low humidity also play important roles. Additionally, soreness in the throat can be experienced as a result of viral infections and infection by other pathogens such as bacteria; the body may react to all of these factors and thus trigger the soreness in the throat. External events such as the draining of excessive mucus from the nose and from the sinuses down the back of the throat and even things like a postnatal drip are often followed by soreness in the throat and in such cases, the sore throat usually arises because of infection from viral sources or from an allergic reaction of the body to these physical intrusion. Moreover, the sensitive tissues in the throat are primary targets for the viruses that bring about colds and other throat infections. It normally takes several days at a stretch and a persistent infection for the development of a virally caused soreness in the throat. There are also diffe-rences in the way different sore throat causing pathogens elicit symptoms from the affected individual, for example viral infections commonly persist for longer periods but are comparatively mild to moderate in the symptoms that they bring about viz a viz bacterial infection (Andersson et al., 1987). Bacterial infections often strike suddenly and can bring out acute symptoms and give a lot of dis-comfort to the individual, a good example is strep throat, and this type of bacterial infection can quickly establish itself over some hours. Bacteria infect abruptly generate symptoms such as severe pain in the throat and other uncomfortable physical symptoms such as difficulty in swallowing; the presence of fever is also typical of bacterial infections (Glezen et al., 1957). EPIDEMIOLOGY Pharyngitis is prevalent all over the world, more com-monly in temperate climates especially during the winter and early spring months. In the United States, acute res-piratory tract infections in 1998 resulted in an estimated 84 million visits to physicians; of which 25 million were due to upper respiratory tract infection. According to the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, upper respiratory tract infections, including acute pharyngitis, are responsible for 200 visits to a physician per 1000 population annually in the United States (Peltola, 1982; Gonzales, 2001). CLIMATOLOGICAL SETTINGS From the tropics to the arctic, climate and weather have powerful direct and indirect impacts on human life. People adapt to the conditions in which they live, and human physiology can handle substantial variation in weather. Changes in climate are likely to lengthen the transmission seasons of important vector borne diseases. The epidemiology of pharyngitis derives largely from studies conducted mostly in the Northern or the tem-perate climate countries where pharyngitis is a common complain. In the tropical countries (mostly, though not in all), there are few prospective studies that provide data on pharyngitis, its epidemiology and clinical presentation. As a result, it is problematic to determine the magnitude of true differences between geographic settings, and to assess if apparent differences are related to geographic/ climatological or other factors (Hendrix et al., 1999). Long term studies in North America show the proportion of pharyngitis, that is, streptococcal has not varied for over 50 years, although the incidence of rheumatic fever and rheumatic carditis have declined remarkably. Somro et al. 6191 SOCIOECONOMIC SETTING There is a vast difference between the lifestyles of individuals from the high income and those from the low income population at large which reflects in the health of those individuals. The individuals from the high income bracket are in a position to exercise multiple options in addressing their health issues, like attending tertiary care centers or clinics from the private sector and can gain access to costly diagnostic tools as opposed to those individuals from the lower income population (Gonzales et al., 2001). The crowded living style of the low income population accentuates further their risk of contacting disease by their excessive exposure to infectious diseases that are spread by droplet. Usually, in the low income living areas, there are limited diagnostic facilities which are of course inadequate for the number of individuals living there, which further hampers the possibility of early diagnosis of disease and in turn does not allow that sector of the population to obtain early treatment or resolution of their disease by treatment where the needed diagnostic and treatment facilities themselves are grossly inadequate (Kaplan et al., 1972). HIGH INCOME COUNTRIES In high-income countries, pharyngitis is common in children ages 3 to 15 years. On average in the USA, each child has approximately one GABHS pharyngitis infection by age 5, with a mean of 3 episodes (range 108) by 13 years of age. After the availability of penicillin, the incidence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) declined by 50%. From 1935 to 1960, the incidence of acute rheu-matic fever in the USA ranged between 40 and 65/100,000 in all age groups. From the late 1960s, there was a marked decline in acute rheumatic fever, and since 1970, incidence of rheumatic fever has ranged from 0.023 to 1.88 per 1000,000 populations (Dajani et al., 1995). LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES Few studies have been conducted to ascertain the inci-dence and prevalence of GABHS in developing countries. The studies were non-standardized with regards to the laboratory investigation methods for throat culture diagnosis (Schwartz et al., 1985). Few precise estimates of the incidence of GABHS pharyngitis in low income countries are available. The reported incidence of culture-proven GABHS pharyngitis in prospective studies in a few sites appears to be much higher than that reported from the United States in the1950s: up to 900 versus approximately 200 per 1,000 child-years of observation (US Census, 2004). 6192 Afr. J. Biotechnol. NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Pakistan is a developing country and has poor health indicators. It ranks 136th of the 177 countries on the Human Development Index of the United Nations of 2007-2008 (US Census, 2004). In Pakistan, over a third of the people are living in poverty and have a fragile health structure; many patients cannot afford the costly treatment (US Census, 2004). The NHDR/PIDE 2001 Survey and the National Health Survey of Pakistan data show that from the low income persons of 45 years and above, as many as 45% suffer from poor health and 80% suffer from poor-to-fair health. Usually, the low income individuals are more suscep-tible to disease due to inadequate nutrition which of course lowered the individual’s immunity. Moreover, the lack of access to safe drinking water as well as un-hygienic conditions of consumption, storage and produc-tion of food would be expected to result in a relatively high frequency of infection disease amongst the poor (Poses et al., 1985). The respiratory tract infections are common in children as well as in adults. The estimated incidence of respire-tory infections in children and adults are 1192 visits to the physicians per 2000 population per annum. According to the National Health Survey, upper respiratory tract infection including pharyngitis and sore throat are respon-sible for 800 visits to a physician per 2000 population annually in Pakistan (US Census, 2004; WHO, 2008). REGIONAL PERSPECTIVE Karachi is the largest city and the economic hub of Pakistan with an estimated population of 10 million people of diverse ethnic and socioeconomic groups. The metropolitan area along with its suburbs comprises the world's second most populated city, which spread over 3,530 km 2 (US Census, 2004). The city credits its growth to the mixed populations of economic and political mig-rants and refugees from different national, provincial, linguistic and religious srcins that have largely come to settle here permanently. In Karachi, like other regions of Pakistan, acute phary-ngitis and sore throat is very common and frequent, and peak seasons for sore throat and acute pharyngitis are winter and early spring (November to April). Air pollution due to peripheral industrial area and a great number of automobiles in the Karachi city increases the risk of viral and/or bacterial sore throat and pharyngitis as well. PATHOGENESIS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES Unani perspective: Pathogenesis In the Unani system of medicine, the concept of tempe- rament is a main procedure of diagnosis (Galen, 1997; Ahmed et al., 1980). Temperament is regarded as a measure of equilibrium or homeostasis which exists at different levels of complexity in the body, starting at the simple cell, and passing through tissue and organs and complex organ systems, to the whole person, and how the individual interacts with the external environment. Temperament along with the humours (Akhlat) also protects the body from diverse types of offences as it maintains the optimal level of immunity and helps maintain the defense mechanism of the body (Breese et al., 1954). The taking of personal history as part of the temperamental evaluation is very important because at the end of this in-depth assessment, a person's dominant and subdominant temperament is determined. This provides guidelines for both the subsequent treatment of the clinical disorder, and the prevention of the disorder’s recurrence. In Unani medicine, the concept of cause relates to the etiology from which srcinates the existence or outcome of a certain state of the human body, is a state of health or disease. Ibn Sina describes three conditions for a cause to produce an effect. These conditions are: A. The cause must have sufficient active power to produce an effect. B. There must be a sufficient receptive component for the cause to have an effect. C. There has to be an appropriate period of contact between the active power and the receptive component. He further elaborated on four kinds of causes: A. Those associated with the humours/body fluids B. Those associated with the temperament C. Those associated with the governing/lifestyle factors D. Those associated with the functions of the body. These principles of cause and effect provide valuable insights to the understanding of all the pathological processes that take place within the body (Young et al., 1978). The concept of a single cause of a disease, whether it is a microbe, toxin or any other factor is not reasonable. Common sense and logic stress that every morbid condition is the result of many factors, occurring in com-bination, either sequentially or simultaneously. The existence of pathogenic organisms is expected, because this is the srcinal imbalance in temperament which provides an altered biotic environment in the living tissue in which bacteria, viruses and other microbes can thrive. This growth of microbes in the internal environment provokes a reaction from physis on the affected tissues; this reaction often manifests as symptoms of infection if the disease state becomes established. It is acknow-ledged that the microbes or germs do have a role in the
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Home English Premier League Leicester City and Burnley play to a goalless draw
Leicester City and Burnley play to a goalless draw
Lucky M
It was an occasion that was a mixture of sadness, celebration and commemoration for the man whose vision inspired Leicester’s unlikely Premier League title win in 2015-16. The Foxes and supporters of both sides delivered a fitting tribute to his memory and the four others who died after the game with West Ham United two weeks ago.
Leicester City’s emotional return to the King Power Stadium for the first time since the death of owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha in a helicopter crash outside the stadium ended in a draw with Burnley.
Supporters, led by squad members such as Harry Maguire and James Maddison, led a tribute march from the city centre to the stadium while the pitch was framed by hundreds of Leicester City shirts, flags and banners. There was also a two-minute silence before kick-off with Vichai’s son Aiyawa in attendance, with wreaths laid for both his father and the forthcoming Remembrance Sunday.
It was no surprise that Leicester started brightly then faded after the emotional and physical exertions of the past two weeks, which included a 12,000-mile round trip to pay their respects at the former owner’s funeral in Bangkok.
Leicester had the best of the first half, with Jamie Vardy‘s shot cleared off the line by Matt Lowtion, Rachid Ghezzak heading against the bar and Joe Hart saving at the feet of Demarai Gray.
Burnley grew into the game and will be satisfied with a point, although Chris Wood should have done better than lift a second-half chance over the top.
On this day, for once, the result was arguably secondary to the occasion – this was a day to remember the Thai businessman whose ambition and investment allowed Leicester City and their fans to live the dream.
James Maddison
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2009 October Signature Sports Memorabilia AuctionAuction #716
1904 Boston Red Sox Photographic Composite by Carl Horner....
1904 Boston Red Sox Photographic Composite by Carl Horner. Please note, as is apparent in the catalog imagery, that player identifications appear in period ink. From the same consignor providing this auction with the previous Horner composite dedicated to the losing team in the first World Series contest comes this equally spectacular specimen dedicated to the victors. In every regard of dimension, design and condition it mirrors that of its National League companion, trading only the personnel and identifiers for those who prefer the company of iconic moundsman Cy Young to that of the turn of the century's most illustrious shortstop Honus Wagner.
The Red Sox had been betting underdogs in this historic first Fall Classic, with the American League seen as an inferior upstart in much the same way the American Football League was considered in the mid-1960's before Joe Namath's Super Bowl III guarantee was fulfilled. Much credit for the Sox' victory was later handed to Nuf Ced McGreevy's "Royal Rooters," whose loud singing and catcalls from the grandstand rattled Honus Wagner to such a degree that he would commit six errors and bat just six for twenty-seven. "I was a joke in that Boston-Pittsburg Series," Wagner would later admit. "What does it profit a man to hammer along and make a few hits when they are not needed only to fall down when it comes to a pinch?"
If there is any difference between the Boston and the Pittsburg model it would be a slightly more prominent degree of dampstaining here, though once again it must be stressed that it also remains 100% clear of the composite itself. It is not even troubling enough that a replacement mat would be advised, though that would be a simple option in order to move the piece that much closer to perfection. As always, we would recommend viewing our online imagery to gain a close-up view of the piece that will hide no defect, though there is very little to hide. These matching composites were displayed at the Cleveland National Sports Collectors Convention this year, where they were among the most talked about and coveted pieces in the Heritage display. They will serve the same function in your private trophy room. Third party shipping is required.
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Are 2019 Eagles better or worse at defensive end?
Andrew Kulp
NBC Sports Philadelphia June 24, 2019, 2:58 PM UTC
Is Derek Barnett due for a breakout season? How much will the loss of Michael Bennett hurt? Andrew Kulp looks at whether the 2019 Eagles will be better or worse at defensive end.
Are 2019 Eagles better or worse at defensive end? originally appeared on nbcsportsphiladelphia.com
It was out with the old, and in with some more of the old for the Eagles at defensive end this offseason. Will the returning players make the unit better or worse in 2019?
Key additions: Vinny Curry (free agent, Buccaneers), Shareef Miller (draft, fourth round)
Key departures: Michael Bennett (trade, Patriots), Chris Long (retired)
Why they could be better: Derek Barnett's potential
Barnett had a nice rookie season with 6.0 sacks, including playoffs, and finished fourth on the club with eight tackles for loss and 16 quarterback hits, all while playing only 41 percent of the snaps. It was looking like he could take the next step in 2018, too, with 2.5 sacks four games into the campaign - until a shoulder injury struck. Then it was a matter of weeks before he wound up on the injured reserve list. Up to that point, it looked like the former 14th-overall draft pick was very much on the verge of a breakout season.
There's really no reason that can't still be the case. At least, nobody ever expects a shoulder injury to derail a defensive end's career. The Eagles are likely penciling him in for the starting job on the opposite end from Brandon Graham, and why not? As long as he's healthy, Barnett's body of work thus far suggests he's on his way to enjoying a successful NFL career.
Why they could be worse: Michael Bennett's proven production
One can assume the real reason the Eagles'decided to part ways with Bennett was over something (or things) behind the scenes. It wasn't the return - a fifth-round pick for Bennett and a seventh. It wasn't the contract, because the Patriots only wound up giving him an additional $1.25 million in base salary and no new years. And it sure as hell wasn't production, because the three-time Pro Bowler was the Eagles' most disruptive pass-rusher off the edge by a wide margin.
Bennett finished with 10.0 sacks last season, including playoffs, and it should've been 12.0 except for two blatantly incorrect roughing penalties. He also ranked fourth in the entire NFL with 30 quarterback hits, and narrowly finished outside the top-10 with 15 tackles for loss. Granted, Bennett turns 34 in November, and it's possible his personality simply wasn't a fit here. Regardless, the numbers speak for themselves.
The X-factor: Brandon Graham's inevitable decline
Everybody loves BG. The sack totals haven't always been there, save for the 9.5 he registered in 2017 - plus one pivotal strip sack in the Super Bowl - but he was always more productive than traditional counting stats indicated. Graham is 31 now, though, and last year was his least effective rushing the passer in a long time. His 4.0 regular season sacks and 1 forced fumble were his lowest since 2013, and this wasn't merely a matter of racking up a bunch of Mamulas, either, as he landed just 11 quarterback hits.
Fortunately for the Eagles, who just signed Graham to a new three-year deal worth $40 million in the offseason, there are reasons to believe he could bounce back. First, he was coming off of offseason ankle surgery and only rejoined the team in mid-August. Second, he was still stout against the run. Third, Graham showed signs of life in the playoffs with 1.5 sacks and a strip. So, was his down season a matter of circumstance, or is this the new BG?
Are the Eagles' defensive ends better or worse?
If he's 100 percent, Barnett has the ability to blossom into a star. He was well on his way last season. Yet, the Eagles are depending on him to replace Bennett's production, re-signed Vinny Curry to replace retired Chris Long's production, and Brandon Graham to stop aging so noticeably. It also wouldn't hurt if one of Shareef Miller, Josh Sweat or Joe Ostman became a reliable fifth rusher. The Eagles got younger, and arguably more talented, but there are too many questions to say the ends are better on paper.
More from the series
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Power rankings: Arnold Palmer Invitational
Ryan Ballengee
Devil Ball Golf March 14, 2017, 3:07 PM UTC
Mr. Palmer handed out the API trophy for the final time last year to Jason Day. (Getty Images)
It will be an emotional week in Orlando at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, as this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational will mark the first time the tournament has been played since Mr. Palmer passed away in September 2016 at the age of 87.
Four of the world’s top five players will be in the field, including defending champion Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, Henrik Stenson and Hideki Matsuyama. They’ll try to track down the title on Mr. Palmer’s Bay Hill course, with its renovated greens the centerpiece of a tournament presentation that aims to honor his life and legacy.
Here are our top five players for this week:
1. Henrik Stenson — Stenson is practically an automatic pick at Bay Hill. Putted lights out on Thursday and Sunday at Valspar, while he cards an awesome record at Mr. Palmer’s place.
2. Rory McIlroy — McIlroy looked good, albeit a little rusty, at the WGC-Mexico. He was T-11 in 2015 at Bay Hill, but his game should travel no matter a lack of long-term record.
3. Jason Day — The defending champion has faded from view a little bit early in 2017. Last start was a T-64 at Riviera. He’s gotta snap into the season soon.
4. Justin Rose — Remember when Justin Rose putted here with his eyes closed? Yeah, he’s not doing that now. Great at Riviera, loves this event.
5. Francesco Molinari — Molinari is the European version of Charles Howell III this year. He’s not gonna win, but he’s going to put a stud finish. Top-20 machine.
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Ryan Ballengee is a Yahoo Sports contributor. Find him on Facebook and Twitter.
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17 Saskatchewan Newcomer Entrepreneurs Celebrated at NEYA 2017
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN – The Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority’s entrepreneurship program Square One honoured businesses and individuals at the second annual Newcomer Entrepreneur of the Year Awards (NEYA), which was celebrated in Saskatoon on June 6 at The Sheraton Cavalier.
“Last night’s gala was a celebration of newcomer entrepreneurs who have demonstrated the drive and determination it takes to be a successful business owner in Saskatchewan,” said Alex Fallon, President and CEO of SREDA. “Their stories are unique and inspiring, and reflect their desire to contribute to our community. We are delighted they have chosen to live in Saskatchewan, to build a future here and to build companies that generate employment opportunities for local residents. We are a strong community and a stronger economy because of their contribution.”
The 2017 NEYA winners are:
Start-Up – Press’d Sandwich Stonebridge, Smitaben Patel
Smitaben moved to Canada from India in January 2010 and opened Press’d Sandwich in Stonebridge April 2016. Press’d is a sandwich store franchise offering healthy sandwiches for walk-in, take-out and catering. The store specializes in providing customers with a fresh healthy alternative to typical fried fast-food.
Growth – S&E Trusted Online Directories Inc., Sara Wheelwright
Sara moved to Canada from the United Kingdom in April 2006 and launched TrustedSaskatoon.com in 2011, TrustedRegina.com in 2012 and Trusted Marketing Services in 2014. The Trusted Online Directories are online directories that list and promote locally owned Saskatchewan companies that are run with integrity. Trusted Marketing Services is a full service marketing agency offering everything from social media management, website design, video creation, SEO and full creative services.
U39 – Complete Technologies, Andrey Olinov
Andrey moved to Canada from Moscow in 2009 and started Complete Technologies in 2011. Complete Technologies is an outsourced IT department that allows businesses to spend more time on other areas of their business. Complete Technologies uses the latest technology and industry leading tools to successfully maintain and improve their IT service with world-class customer service.
Connect – Kavia Auto Body Inc., Raj Kavia
Raj moved to Canada in 1983 and his father started Kavia Auto Body in 1986. Kavia Auto Body is a reputable auto collision repair facility that is SGI elite approved. They also offer auto glass replacement, paint less dent repair and have a fully transferable nationwide warranty. Kavia Auto Body uses modern tools from laser frame measuring equipment to resistance welding.
Employer – Memories Dining & Bar, Thomas Siarkos
Memories Dining & Bar is a full-service fine dining restaurant in Regina, Saskatchewan. Over the years, Memories Dining & Bar has sponsored and hired many newcomers to Canada from several countries around the world. The staff are treated like family, with many being with the restaurant from the beginning.
At the end of the evening, SREDA announced a special award called the NEYA Spirit Award. This award was presented to a business that best embodies the spirit of a newcomer entrepreneur. The 2017 NEYA Spirit Award was awarded to Vincent Lu of Ground Yoga. Since moving to Saskatoon Vincent has built a business around giving back to the community through his passion, yoga.
NEYA Spirit – Ground Yoga, Vincent Lu
Vincent moved to Canada from Taiwan in October 2010 and opened Ground Yoga in July 2011. Ground Yoga is a yoga studio in the Broadway District of Saskatoon. It’s an all-inclusive, welcoming space that is family owned and managed. Ground Yoga has 42 classes, 24 teachers, and utilizes an ‘Energy Exchange’ program for our 20 desk and cleaning staff. The schedule reflects a diverse range of classes for all ages and abilities.
Erin Lawson
P: (306) 664-0724 E: elawson@sreda.com
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Instrument of Slaughter
Marston, Edward
Investigating the murder of a conscientious objector during the height of World War I, Inspector Marmion and Sergeant Keedy find the case complicated by a lack of public sympathy and the popularity of a chief suspect.
Publisher: London : Allison & Busby, 2012
Branch Call Number: Mystery
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Roundcat Dec 14, 2016
There are several themes in this second book in the Home Front series. In England conscientious objectors were a new and disdained group, so solving the murder of one of them was not a high priority for Detective Inspector Marmion's superior. The next interesting theme is homosexuality. This is a motive in two of the incidents in the book, but the blame is shifted to hate for "conchies" in order to make it more socially acceptable. That said, I was trying to figure out who, of the list of suspects, could possibly have killed the victim and maimed the parson, but none of them made complete sense. The solutions to the mysteries, however, came as a complete surprise for a totally different reason in both cases. Even as the revealing event for the murderer was occurring, the person's name was not given. We discover the person's identity as the arrest is made. Quite a good piece of history, as well as an exciting mystery.
bookfanatic1979 Nov 26, 2013
This review is not going to make a lot of sense for anyone who hasn’t read the book yet. The book is well written, but the underlying motive seemed to be a little “out there.” I’m not saying it couldn’t have happened that way, but I would have liked more corroboration throughout the novel. I’m not sure if Alice’s subplot with Hannah was meant to be a foreshadowing of the main event, but it felt more like two random occurrences that just happened to have something in common.
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Home / Hubbub: UK's Gatwick Airport launches cup reuse trial as part of #CupCupandAway campaign
Hubbub: UK's Gatwick Airport launches cup reuse trial as part of #CupCupandAway campaign
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June 10, 2019 - 05:05
LONDON, June 10, 2019 (Press Release) -Gatwick Airport is launching the world’s first ever cup reuse trial.#CupCupandAway is the latest campaign created through the on-going partnership between Hubbub and Starbucks that is tackling single use plastic pollution. The campaign is funded by the 5p charge that Starbucks has voluntarily added to the cost of disposable cups across all their stores in Britain.
The month-long trial will provide an innovative approach helping customers to reduce disposable cup use throughout the international airport’s South Terminal. Starbucks customers will be given the option to borrow a free reusable cup for their drink instead of using a paper cup, which they can then drop off at one of five ‘Cup Check-In’ points throughout the airport before they board their flight. The option will be promoted by the Starbucks store team and reinforced through messaging at the airport and on social media.
The ‘Cup Check-In’ points will be at the airside Starbucks store with four more spread across the terminal so that travellers won’t need to go out of their way to return the cup before they board. Once collected, these cups will be washed and returned to store to begin their journey through the airport again.
Putting 2,000 reusable Starbucks cups in circulation throughout the South Terminal has the potential to dramatically reduce the number of paper cups thrown away. The trial is a significant development for Gatwick as it moves the emphasis towards reuse rather than disposal. Culturally this is a major shift as most people do not take reusable cups to airports and consequently Gatwick currently disposes of 7 million paper cups annually of which 5.3 million are recycled.
The ambition behind the trial is to help create a new culture of reuse on-the-go and explore how customers respond to dropping their cups back off to be washed and used again. The results will give a unique insight into the challenges of changing behaviour at a busy international airport. It will discover whether peoples’ concern about plastic waste can be translated into practical action if it is made easy and convenient. What is learnt will provide valuable insight into how to deploy a reusable trial in not only other airports but many other environments.
Hubbub and Starbucks will openly share the results from the trial as part of the continuing ambition to encourage a greater take-up of reusable cups. In the coming months the partnership will announce further campaigns around the UK built from pioneering cultural research that is currently being undertaken.
There is a recognition that disposable cups are still used by the majority and Starbucks is working with other major companies to design a new type of mass-market cup that is environmentally preferable to the one currently used.
Whilst this development work is underway, Hubbub is using the funding provided by the 5p charge on Starbucks disposable cups to test new ways to promote recycling on the High Street in Leeds, Swansea and Edinburgh. We have also launched a significant new Cup Fund which will help up to 15 busy locations introduce cup recycling facilities later this year.
Finally, as a way to engage children and communities in positive clean up activities, Starbucks funding has been used to support a ‘Plastic Fishing tour’, using a boat made of recycled plastic, which has been helping remove plastics from waterways in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and parts of Scotland.
WRAP publishes UK Plastics Pact guidance as part of plans to improve UK recycling rate of plastic packaging
UK supermarket chain Asda to stop offering plastic carrier bags with online grocery shopping
Avery Dennison shortlisted for Environmental and Sustainability Award of Label Industry Global Awards 2019 in Brussels, Belgium
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Another ‘Satoshi Message’ Attempts to Sway Public Opinion, But Fails
root 2018-11-18 Bitcoin Technology
It’s been a crazy week in cryptocurrency land as a large portion of the community watched the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network split into two chains on Nov. 15. Following the 24 hours of the BCH hash war, an interesting message was found stemming from block height 9 that claims there is an “issue with Segwit.” Of course, a few cryptocurrency developers have once again deemed the latest Satoshi signature as “fake” and have explained that the new message was likely another fluke attempt by Craig Wright.
Also read: Hash Wars: BCH Proponents Confident a Resolution Is in Sight
Cryptocurrency Community Scrutinizes Another So-Called Signed Message from Satoshi
During the second day of the BCH hash war, a few cryptocurrency enthusiasts came across a message that appeared to be a valid signature for Satoshi’s key in block 9. The address contained a message which warned of some issues with the Segwit protocol on the BTC chain. Furthermore, the owner of Coingeek, Calvin Ayre, tweeted out to his followers a small statement in regard to the block 9 key signature and stated that “Satoshi Lives.” Ayre also retweeted the message from a Twitter account called “@Satoshi” which led to a few other tweets about the message.
“I do not want to be public, but, there is an issue with Segwit,” explains the signed message and the tweet from the now deleted, but archived Satoshi handle. “If it is not fixed, there will be nothing and I would have failed — There is only one way that Bitcoin survives and it is important to me that it works. Important enough, that I may be known openly.”
The Satoshi Twitter handle also tweeted a message across the social media platform that said:
The message will be clear in Dec 2019.
Most of the cryptocurrency community believes the signed message is just another failed attempt by Craig Wright.
More Proof of Nothing
With all that’s going on in the BCH community and specifically Craig Wright, many observers believe the signature stems from him. Of course, a large majority thought it was just a PR stunt from Wright and company and quickly disregarded the message.
The message allegedly signed by Satoshi.
However, lots of people took a closer look at the message and agreed that it likely derived from Wright and even so the signature was still phony. For instance, the CTO of Purse, Christopher Jeffrey, detailed that the message appeared to be a valid signature from Satoshi’s key in block 9 but further stated that “anyone can mutate a hash for a valid ecdsa signature to produce a seemingly ‘new’ signature/message.” Jeffrey further said that he and a friend had fun creating fake Satoshi signatures in the past. “Looks like another failed attempt from Craig Wright if I had to guess,” explained the Purse developer.
Many respected bitcoiners explained that they considered the message to be phony and invalid.
CTO of Purse, Christopher Jeffrey.
In addition to Jeffrey’s statements, the BTC developer Gregory Maxwell showed the Reddit community on r/btc how easily the fake signature message can be accomplished. Jeffrey further explained on Reddit that he had long suspected that Craig would attempt this type of stunt. Overall, most of the BCH community members across social media channels like Twitter and Reddit didn’t seem to think the latest Satoshi message was legitimate. Craig Wright did respond to a Twitter handle called @Checksum0 who tweeted about the message during the day and said, “No, that is bamboozled — The last time it was spent from that address is 2009.”
Later on, Wright did tweet some more cryptic messages to his Twitter followers that seemed very similar to the block 9 message.
“I have done all I can for now to warn people — I will work to make the system right, it is not you, it is not your profit, it is sound money for the world,” Wright detailed. “If you cannot understand that, I cannot make you — I hope that your children will. About a year from now, I have something to release, but, right now, I cannot. So, the place is marked and saved, and in the time it takes, you will find what that is… when it is fixed — So, more cryptic markers,” the Nchain representative concluded.
What do you think about the so-called message from Satoshi warning about Segwit in Dec. of 2019? Do you think the signature attempt was phony and proved nothing? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.
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Hearing accessibility features in iOS
Get to know some of the powerful features that Apple builds into iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to support people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
iOS devices are filled with accessibility features like these, aimed at helping people who are deaf or hard of hearing use their devices:
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Hear phone calls and other audio more clearly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with Made for iPhone hearing aids. After you pair your hearing aid, you can control it with your iOS device.
Set up your Made for iPhone hearing aid
Use Live Listen, a feature that turns your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch into a remote microphone that sends sound from your environment to your Made for iPhone hearing aids or your AirPods.
Use your device as a mic with Live Listen
The LED flash on your iPhone or iPad Pro can blink when your device is locked and you receive a notification. This can be useful if you don't want to miss a notification while your device is locked.
Turn on visual alerts
Real-time text (RTT) phone calls provide instant transmission of a message as you compose it. Transcripts are saved in the call history of the Phone app, and you can upgrade a regular call to RTT.
Get started with RTT calls
Every iOS device comes with FaceTime, so you can have video calls with other iOS users wherever they are. And FaceTime's high-quality video and fast frame rate make it ideal for communicating with sign language.
Make video calls with FaceTime
Some video content from the iTunes Store includes alternative audio languages or other accessibility features such as closed captions (CC) and subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
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Find an overview of Apple's approach to accessibility, including stories of people who use Apple products to do amazing things.
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Today at Apple sessions help you do more with the products you love. You can find sessions that explore the features of iPhone, iPad, and Mac that assist those who are hard of hearing, and teach you how to communicate with FaceTime, Messages, and video recordings on Photo Booth.
Need more help with accessibility features? Contact Apple Support.
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Posts Tagged ‘doctoral candidate’
Liberals Saying Obama Sounds Like A Fool Because He’s Just So Darned Brilliant
Do you remember how liberals went off on Bush as stupid for eight years (not including the primary season leading up to the 2000 election) because of the way he talked?
Bush and the word “nuclear” was a favorite, of course. And there were always a few awkward sentence constructions from a president who – unlike Obama – wasn’t slavishly attached to a teleprompter:
Obama has relied on a teleprompter through even the shortest announcements and when repeating the same lines on his economic stimulus plan that he’s been saying for months — whereas past presidents have mostly worked off of notes on the podium except during major speeches, such as the State of the Union.
The same left that ridiculed George Bush over his every verbal slip are now rushing in with “intellectual” defenses as to why Obama sounds like a babbling fool every single time he can’t read his lines off a screen.
Case in point from today’s Los Angeles Times:
Meghan Daum: Obama’s fast brain vs. slow mouth
It’s not that the president can’t speak clearly; he employs the intellectual stammer.
Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate. “The guy can’t talk his way out of a paper bag!” a reader wrote to me recently. “Sarah Palin is a brilliant speaker. It’s the president whose sentences are undiagrammable,” said another in response to a column I wrote about Palin. It’s not just my readers, nor is it exclusively conservatives, who hold this view. A Google search of “does Obama have a speech impediment” turns up several pages of discussion among the president’s supporters and critics alike.Admittedly, the president is given to a lot of pauses, “uhs” and sputtering starts to his sentences. As polished as he often is before large crowds (where the adjective “soaring” is often applied to his speeches), his impromptu speaking frequently calls to mind a doctoral candidate delivering a wobbly dissertation defense.
But consider this: It’s not that Obama can’t speak clearly. It’s that he employs the intellectual stammer. Not to be confused with a stutter, which the president decidedly does not have, the intellectual stammer signals a brain that is moving so fast that the mouth can’t keep up. The stammer is commonly found among university professors, characters in Woody Allen movies and public thinkers of the sort that might appear on C-SPAN but not CNN. If you’re a member or a fan of that subset, chances are the president’s stammer doesn’t bother you; in fact, you might even love him for it (he sounds just like your grad school roommate, especially when he drank too much Scotch and attempted to expound on the Hegelian dialectic!).
If you’re not, chances are you find yourself yelling “get to the point already!” at the television screen every time Obama’s search for the right word seems to last longer than the search for Osama bin Laden. And thanks to its echoes of the college lecture hall, you may think it comes across as ever so slightly (or more than slightly) left wing.
That’s kind of ironic, given that the godfather of the intellectual stammer is arguably none other than the paterfamilias of the conservative movement, William F. Buckley Jr. With his slouch, his glazed-eyed stare and a speaking style that suggested the entire Oxford English Dictionary was flipping through his mind while he searched for a word like “dithyramb,” he makes Obama’s extemporaneous speech seem canned — not to mention pedestrian — by comparison. In fact, if the people critiquing Obama’s meandering speech patterns were to see an old “Firing Line” segment, I daresay they would think Buckley was drunk or otherwise impaired.
Granted, Buckley didn’t hold political office (he made an unsuccessful run for mayor of New York in 1965). He was more an observer than a decider, which is pretty much the opposite of what you need to be to lead a nation. Obama, as much as his critics might hate to admit it, is more than a phlegmatic egghead. He’s proved he can act decisively; whatever his faults, he’s leading the nation far more effectively — albeit less colorfully — than Buckley would have led New York. (When asked what he’d do if he won the mayoral election, he famously responded, “Demand a recount.”)
Obama’s problem is not that he’s an intellectual (for the sake of argument let’s define it as someone who is scholarly, broadly informed and distinguished as a thinker). It’s that he sounds like an intellectual. Unlike other presumed political brainiacs — Bill Clinton or Newt Gingrich, for example — he isn’t able to bury his ideas behind a folksy regional accent or good-old-boy affectations when he wants to. Nor is he effective at “keeping it real” when he falls into traditionally African American cadences that he clearly never used when he was growing up.
By speaking as though he hails from everywhere, he ends up being from nowhere. The result is that people look at him and see not a Hawaiian or a Chicagoan or even a black man, but a university man.
Of course, the president enables that stigma by stammering his way through town hall meetings and other public dialogues as though they were philosophy lectures. Irritating? Sure. But inarticulate? Sorry, folks, but you’ll have to find another adjective. And take your time. The right word is usually worth waiting for.
Okay. I understand. Obama sounds so stupid because he’s so damned BRILLIANT. And here, look. There’s a conservative out there who did the same thing.
Or not. I don’t recall William F. Buckley Jr. having moments like this one:
But that is a fact. And such things are hindrances to most of the mainstream media’s “narratives.”
I don’t recall Buckley telling us about the 57 states (with one left to go) he’s visited in those sophisticated tones of his:
Nor do I remember Buckley making a visit to Westminster Abbey and getting the date wrong by three years as Obama just got through doing:
I don’t remember Bush – who of course was a moron (just ask any liberal) doing anything this braindead either.
Nope. It’s brilliant, intellectual “university men” who ascend to such marvellous heights of intellect.
One fellow pointed out that “Bush could not pronounce Nuclear but he knew what it was (Iran, Obama).” And, of course, that stupid Bush was right, and those “brilliant” Democrats were all wrong.
THE NATION – Democrats rip Bush’s Iran policy – Presidential candidates say a new intelligence report shows that the administration has been talking too tough.
By Scott Martelle and Robin Abcarian
Democratic presidential candidates teamed up during a National Public Radio debate here Tuesday to blast the Bush administration over its policy toward Iran, arguing that a new intelligence assessment proves that the administration has needlessly ratcheted up military rhetoric.
While the candidates differed somewhat over the level of threat Iran poses in the Mideast, most of them sought to liken the administration’s approach to Iran with its buildup to the war in Iraq.
“I vehemently disagree with the president that nothing’s changed and therefore nothing in American policy has to change,” said New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. “We do know that pressure on Iran does have an effect. I think that is an important lesson.”
Delaware Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the new intelligence report indicated that Iran dropped its program before international pressure came into play.
“It was like watching a rerun of his statements on Iraq five years earlier,” Biden said. “Iran is not a nuclear threat to the United States of America. Iran should be dealt with directly, with the rest of the world at our side. But we’ve made it more difficult now, because who is going to trust us?”
The debate was aired without a studio audience over NPR, live from the Iowa State Historical Museum. It covered Iran, China and immigration, offering the contenders a chance to delve more deeply into subjects that often receive less detailed debate treatment.
Clinton and Biden were joined by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, Connecticut Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, Ohio Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, and former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel.
But why should it matter that Bush was right, and we are now facing a disastrous crisis that it’s just a damn shame that liberals basically ENTIRELY created with their abject REFUSAL to deal with a crisis, and their DEMONIZATION of anyone who tried? Bush said “nuclear” funny, and that’s really all that matters if you’re properly sophisticated and, you know, professorial. Bush was stupid even though he was entirely correct and the liberals who attacked him (including the three top liberals of the Obama administration with VP Biden and Secretary of State Clinton) were entirely wrong.
It doesn’t matter how many times we’re right and how many times they’re wrong. Because they won’t acknowledge the truth and because the facts don’t really matter worth a damn to them.
There’s a concept in psychology called “accommodation and assimilation” that fits liberals in their steadfast refusal to follow the rules of normal learning. In normal psychology, one assimilates new information into one’s worldview and accommodates one’s worldview as new facts come in that run contrary to the picture one has of the world. Liberals don’t bother with that nonsense. Rather, they rigidly adhere to their doctrines and simply paste-over whatever reality happens to get in the way.
I think of Harold Camping and his followers. It didn’t matter than he falsely predicted the end of the world before in 1994. It didn’t matter that the Bible that he’s doing all his “calculations” from specifically says no man can know the day or the hour of such things. It doesn’t even matter that his prediction for the end of the world on May 21 turned out to be wrong. Such facts don’t work, so so much the worse for the facts. Now we’re assured that the world will end on October 21. Really. Better get ready.
Like Harold Camping and his followers, liberals are immune from any genuine learning. They simply lack the character to deal with reality in an honest way.
Obama is brilliant because he graduated from Harvard, but Bush is stupid even though he graduated from Yale. Previous Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry was brilliant because he graduated from Yale, even though Bush had also graduated from Yale and even though Bush actually had a better accumulated grade average (77 versus 76) than Kerry. Oh, and by the way, even though Bush also actually had a higher IQ than Kerry. But so what? Kerry had that arrogant Massachusett’s tone that just sounded so… so smart. And of course, Bush was stupid because he had a few gaffes; ergo sum Obama is brilliant whenever he’s off his teleprompter because his gaffes are supposedly somehow kind of similar to brilliant people’s.
Or Bush was evil because of Gitmo, and rendition, and the Patriot Act, and domestic eavesdropping, and indefinite detentions, and military tribunals, etc. etc.; ergo sum, when Obama goes back on his demagogic rhetoric and pursues all the same policies that he demonized when Bush did them, it is Obama magnificently adapting his foreign policy. Bush was evil for using enhanced interrogation and Obama was righteous to dismantle the CIA program that relied on such intelligence – even though Obama should get all the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and even though enhanced interrogation and the CIA program that Obama dismantled were absolutenly essential to getting Osama bin laden.
Or Bush was a poor leader because he wanted to raise the debt ceiling versus Obama showing his magnificent leadership in demanding that we raise the debt ceiling. Or Obama standing for the Constitution when he attacked George Bush for wars that he got congressional approval for, versus being the bold defender of human rights when he launches a third war in Libya without bothering to get congressional approval. Or Bush was a partisan hack and a failure as a leader because he divided the country, but the fact that Obama divided the country far more than Bush EVER DID after promising to “transcend the starkly red-and-blue politics” and “end the partisan and ideological wars ” is entirely due to conservatives. Because Democrats have a moral obligation to attack a Republican president, but Republicans have a moral obligation to bow down before a Democrat messiah. That sort of thing.
One has to wonder how their heads don’t just explode from containing all the contradictions. But it turns out that when you live in your own little world – and particularly when you get to control the media and shape the “narrative” for society to consume – irritating things like facts and contradictions just don’t really matter.
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Posts Tagged ‘Why Obama needs Rahm at the top’
Barack Obama Oh-So Close To Being Jimmy Carter, Jr.
This article from a mainstream liberal does so many things. 1) It tells us the only thing that keeps Obama from already being the complete loser and failure Jimmy Carter was is Rahm Emanuel; 2) It tells us that Barack Obama has repeatedly ignored wise advice and paid attention to far-left liberal lunacy; and 3) It points out that the failure of health care isn’t Republican obstructionism, but Barry Hussein stupidity and his refusal to try to pass bills that Republicans could have supported.
I’m glad that even liberals are starting to recognize that this health care mess we’re in wasn’t the Republicans’ fault; it was Obama’s incompetence and hard-core liberal ideology.
Why Obama needs Rahm at the top
By Dana Milbank
Sunday, February 21, 2010; A13
Let us now praise Rahm Emanuel.
It is the current fashion to blame President Obama’s disappointing first year on his chief of staff. “First, remove Rahm Emanuel,” writes Leslie Gelb in the Daily Beast, because he lacks “the management skills and discipline to run the White House.”
The Financial Times’s Ed Luce reports that the “famously irascible” Emanuel has “alienated many of Mr. Obama’s closest outside supporters,” while the New America Foundation’s Steve Clemons lumps Emanuel in with the “Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency.”
They join liberal interests who despised Emanuel long before he branded them “retarded.” Jane Hamsher of firedoglake.com, together with conservative activist Grover Norquist, demanded a Justice Department investigation into Emanuel, who is “far too compromised to serve as gatekeeper to the president.”
As Emanuel would say: What the [expletive deleted]?
Clearly, “Rahmbo” has no shortage of enemies in this town, and with Obama’s approval rating dipping below 50 percent, they have ammunition. But sacking Emanuel is the last thing the president should do.
Obama’s first year fell apart in large part because he didn’t follow his chief of staff’s advice on crucial matters. Arguably, Emanuel is the only person keeping Obama from becoming Jimmy Carter.
Obama chose the profane former Clinton adviser for a reason. Where the president is airy and idealistic, Rahm is earthy and calculating. One thinks big; the other, a former House Democratic Caucus chair, understands the congressional mind, in which small stuff counts for more than broad strokes.
Obama’s problem is that his other confidants — particularly Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs, and, to a lesser extent, David Axelrod — are part of the Cult of Obama. In love with the president, they believe he is a transformational figure who needn’t dirty his hands in politics.
The president would have been better off heeding Emanuel’s counsel. For example, Emanuel bitterly opposed former White House counsel Greg Craig’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year, arguing that it wasn’t politically feasible. Obama overruled Emanuel, the deadline wasn’t met, and Republicans pounced on the president and the Democrats for trying to bring terrorists to U.S. prisons. Likewise, Emanuel fought fiercely against Attorney General Eric Holder’s plan to send Khalid Sheik Mohammed to New York for a trial. Emanuel lost, and the result was another political fiasco.
Obama’s greatest mistake was failing to listen to Emanuel on health care. Early on, Emanuel argued for a smaller bill with popular items, such as expanding health coverage for children and young adults, that could win some Republican support. He opposed the public option as a needless distraction.
The president disregarded that strategy and sided with Capitol Hill liberals who hoped to ram a larger, less popular bill through Congress with Democratic votes only. The result was, as the world now knows, disastrous.
Had it gone Emanuel’s way, a politically popular health-care bill would have passed long ago, leaving plenty of time for other attractive priorities, such as efforts to make college more affordable. We would have seen a continuation of the momentum of the first half of 2009, when Obama followed Emanuel’s strategy and got 11 substantive bills on his desk before the August recess.
Instead, Congress has ground to a halt, on climate legislation, Wall Street reforms and virtually everything else. Emanuel, schooled by Bill Clinton, knew what the true believers didn’t: that bite-sized proposals add up to big things.
Contrast Emanuel’s wisdom with that of Jarrett, in charge of “intergovernmental affairs and public engagement” — two areas of conspicuous failure. Jarrett also brought in Desiree Rogers as White House social secretary; the Salahi embarrassment ensued. Then there’s Gibbs. It’s hard to make the case that you’re a post-partisan president when your on-camera spokesman is a hyper-partisan former campaign flack.
No wonder Emanuel has set up his own small press operation and outreach function to circumvent the dysfunctional ones that Jarrett and Gibbs run. Obama needs an old Washington hand to replace Jarrett and somebody with gravitas on the podium to step in for Gibbs.
The failure of the president’s message also reflects on his message maven, Axelrod, who is an adept strategist but blinded by Obama love. A good example was Obama’s unproductive China trip in November. Jarrett, Gibbs and Axelrod went along as courtiers; Emanuel remained at his desk in Washington, struggling to keep alive the big health-care bill that he didn’t want in the first place.
In hiring Emanuel, Obama avoided the mistakes of his Democratic predecessors, who first gave the chief of staff job to besotted loyalists. Now in trouble, Obama needs fewer acolytes and more action. Rahm should stay.
If Rahm Emanuel doesn’t have a giant man-crush on Barack Obama, maybe he should stay. Certainly, if the Milbrank article has any truth to it, Rahm Emanuel would be the only one at the White House who has either common sense or a freaking clue.
It’s actually quite funny. Democrats are increasingly at each others’ throats while all the while telling everyone (and I’m sure trying to reassure themselves) that everything is right as rain.
Whether Rahm Emanuel stays, or whether someone else goes, Barry Hussein is an utter failure, and a future utter disgrace. You can change the whole rest of the team and it won’t matter, because their franchise player is an incompetent loser.
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Jordan's parliament just took a stand against 'honor' killings
Deputies in the parliament's lower house approved an amendment of Article 98.
By Rayana Khalaf Contributor
Jordan's lawmakers voted on Sunday in favor of amending a controversial article that allowed "honor" criminals to get reduced penalties for their crimes.
State agency Petra reported that the majority of deputies in the parliament's lower house approved the amendment of Article 98 of the penal code, which considered "severe anger" as a mitigating circumstance for "honor crimes".
The amendment still requires approval from the upper house, which is commonly regarded as a mere formality.
النواب يُلغي العذر المخفف في جرائم القتل بداعي الشرف pic.twitter.com/obwPhA6oyE
— Jordan News Agency (@Petranews) July 30, 2017
Before the amendment, Article 98 of the Jordanian penal code stipulated that those who commit "honor crimes" can benefit from reduced sentences if they were in a "state of great fury resulting from an unlawful and dangerous act on the part of the victim".
The article thus allowed judges to impose lenient sentences for crimes committed under the pretext of "defending" the reputation of the family or community in a fit of fury.
Some killers were sentenced to as little as six months in prison, according to The New Arab.
The new amendment no longer considers severe anger as a mitigating circumstance for those who commit crimes "against a female to preserve the reputation and esteem (honor)".
SIGI commends amendments of articles 62 and 98 https://t.co/9gFE8gRX3w
— تضامن/SIGI (@SIGI_Jordan) July 31, 2017
Sunday's amendment was praised by civil society and human right activists. Women's rights organization, the Sisterhood Is Global Institute (SIGI), commended the move and expressed its hopes that the amendment would provide more protection for women and children.
Minister of Justice Awad Mashagbeh also endorsed the modification, describing the previous version of the article as "unjust to women," according to Jordan Times.
"In some cases, the perpetrator kills his victim for random reasons then proceeds to accuse her of adultery or honor-related accusations," Mashagbeh said.
At least 15 to 20 girls and women in Jordan are burned, beaten, or stabbed to death by family members "because they are seen as having transgressed social codes of 'honor'," according to Human Rights Watch. The country witnessed an increase in such killings in 2016.
"My life is more important than the family's honor."
The parliament passed several additional amendments during Sunday's legislative session, including an amendment to Article 62, giving women the equal right to give consent on their children's surgeries and medical treatments.
More work needs to be done
Abolish 308 article from Jordan s penal code and safeguard our girls humanity dignity and rights NOW #JO #الغاء_308 pic.twitter.com/o9xSJW28Ys
— Samar Dudin (@SamarDudin) July 29, 2017
Activists are still rallying for the annulment of Article 308, which enables a rapist to escape punishment if he marries his victim.
Lawmakers postponed the long-awaited discussion of the article and are expected to vote on it later this week.
Article 308 was amended earlier this year, narrowing the cases under which a rapist could benefit from the article. But, activists are now demanding that the article be fully annulled.
Saudi unemployment continues to rise, here's what you should know
Military tourism in Israel: learn how to kill Palestinians for $115 a day!
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Editors' ChoiceMicrobiology
Bacterial Cooperation
Nancy R. Gough
Science Signaling, AAAS, Washington, DC 20005, USA
Science Signaling 11 Dec 2012:
Vol. 5, Issue 254, pp. ec314
Trillions of commensal bacteria live in the human gastrointestinal tract, so pathogenic bacteria experience extreme competition for resources. Pacheco et al. found that the commensal bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, which grows in intestinal mucin, produced fucose that the pathogenic bacterium enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) used to regulate its metabolism and effectively compete for nutrients in order to successfully colonize the intestinal epithelium. The locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) is an EHEC pathogenicity locus encoding its own transcriptional regulator, Ler, and a type III secretion system, and its expression is stimulated by host adrenergic hormones and by the microbial product autoinducer-3. However, induction of this locus is energetically expensive for the bacteria. The two-component systems that activate LEE also repressed z0462 and z0463, which encode a putative histidine kinase with homology to sugar sensors and a response regulator (a transcription factor regulated by a histidine kinase), respectively, thus comprising a putative two-component system. Transcriptional analysis of EHEC lacking either of these genes indicated that the system primarily functioned to repress transcription of target genes, including ler, which encodes the transcriptional regulator that stimulates LEE, and the fuc genes, which encode proteins needed for fucose metabolism. Expression of z0463 was increased in EHEC cultured with intestinal cells that produced mucus, which contains polymers of fucose, compared with those that did not. Liposomes containing z0462 exhibited autophosphorylation in response to fucose, but not glucose or ribose, indicating that z0462 was a fucose sensor, and thus was named FusK, and z0463 was named FusR as the fucose-sensing response regulator. Bacteria lacking fusK failed to repress ler in response to fucose, and repression of ler in wild-type bacteria was promoted by culturing the bacteria with B. thetaiotaomicron to degrade the mucin and release fucose. In vitro competition assays indicated that the ability of FusK-deficient bacteria to use fucose, which could confer a growth advantage in fucose, was countered by the overexpression of LEE, which is energetically expensive, because FusK-deficient bacteria did not have a growth advantage over wild-type bacteria when cultured in fucose-containing medium. When cultured in mucin in the absence of B. thetaiotaomicron, the wild-type bacteria had a growth advantage over the FusK-deficient cells that was negated by growth in the presence of mucin and B. thetaiotaomicron. In vivo competition assays in infant rabbits also showed that the wild-type bacteria that could sense and respond to fucose were more effective at gut colonization than were the FusK-deficient bacteria. A double mutant that could not respond to fucose and could not activate fuc genes was also outcompeted by wild-type bacteria in in vivo competition assays, suggesting that repression of LEE, not the ability to alter fucose metabolism, is the key to the competition. The authors propose that the FusK-FusR two-component system functions to repress the energy-expensive expression of LEE in the intestinal mucus layer, where the cells cannot infect the epithelium, and that once close to the epithelial surface, the response to the host adrenergic signal takes over, repressing FusK-FusR signaling and stimulating virulence through LEE.
A. R. Pacheco, M. M. Curtis, J. M. Ritchie, D. Munera, M. K. Waldor, C. G. Moreira, V. Sperandio, Fucose sensing regulates bacterial intestinal colonization. Nature 492, 113–117 (2012). [PubMed]
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The pathogenic bacterium EHEC relies on fucose produced by a commensal bacterium to regulate its metabolism to maximize effective intestinal colonization.
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Reaching for Student Activities’ STARS
Not all the new initiatives intended for Temple student organizations are a major thumbs-down. The Office of Student Activities has developed a new motivational program to provide opportunities and new techniques for student organizations through
08 November 2010 Lauren Hertzler Commentary, Opinion
Not all the new initiatives intended for Temple student organizations are a major thumbs-down.
The Office of Student Activities has developed a new motivational program to provide opportunities and new techniques for student organizations through the Student Training and Rewards System, or STARS.
The program was introduced at a mandatory meeting between Student Activities and registered student organizations at the beginning of the semester, but student members who did not attend could be struggling to understand its positive impact.
“The more active an organization becomes on campus, the more incentives they receive,” said Queer Student Union Vice President Connor Hesketh, a senior education major. “Organizations who host the most events, collaborate with other orgs and attend important workshops will have advantages over organizations who just want to exist on campus.”
Temple Advertising Club President Melissa Markowitz, a senior advertising major, said STARS makes her “excited to be participating in events that benefit my organization.”
She added that for the first time, student organizations are allowed to receive incentives for the work they do on Main Campus and in the community.
STARS sets encouraging and reasonable requirements for the more than 200 on-campus student organizations to benefit from potential incentives.
Registered student organization can each receive four stars. Every organization begins with one star, which requires the basic necessities to maintain a student organization, such as updating contact information and meeting regularly. With these requirements, incentives include eligibility for $500 in allocations and meeting space on campus, as well as a listing on the Student Activities website.
To get two, three or four stars, organizations must achieve more requirements, such as planning at least one event per year, collaborating with another organization to host a program and attending workshops on team-building, budgeting, goal-setting, inclusivity or leadership. Every requirement can positively benefit the organizations. Some incentives for the two-, three- and four-star organizations include eligibility to apply for as much as $2,500 in allocations, office space in the Village on the third floor of the Student Center and the organization’s choice of table location at Spring Fling.
These incentives are exciting for students like Hesketh and Markowitz since they motivate organization leaders to engage their members and are important for organizations to thrive.
Markowitz said TAC is currently a two-star organization and is working toward receiving a third star by the end of the month. Hesketh said QSU is currently a two-star organization and will be a three-star organization after attending one more workshop regarding inclusive statements.
The star titles distinguish training and rewards each organization has achieved. Student Activities Program Coordinator Maureen Fisher said it is not a ranking system.
“It’s not necessarily that we want to make some organizations look lower or higher on a scale, but we want to give opportunities for development,” Fisher said.
STARS provides organizations a clean slate and works in their benefit to achieve substantial goals.
“Anything that helps the students and the clubs succeed is a positive,” TAC Agency Director Ben Dailey, a senior advertising major, said.
Fisher said organizations would not be penalized for not setting goals higher than one star.
“It’s not about the negative repercussions of things,” Fisher said. “It’s more about being a stronger organization and giving organizations that are already strong – because we have so many of them – the ability to become even stronger.”
With STARS, already-active student organizations can flourish even more, and not-so-active student organizations can finally have the motivation to grow and succeed, creating a win-win situation for every student involved.
Lauren Hertzler can be reached at lauren.hertzler@temple.edu.
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Initial public offers of equity in Gulf Arab countries are set to boom, helped by lighter regulation and legal reforms as governments seek to diversify their oil-dependent economies, according to one of the region’s top IPO lawyers.
An exemption from Dubai IPO rules granted by regulators to real estate giant Emaar Properties, which will permit an offer worth up to $2.45 billion, is a sign of the times, said Husam Hourani, managing partner at Al Tamimi & Company.
“Emaar won’t be the last company to get an exemption,” Hourani said in an interview at the firm’s Dubai headquarters.
The total value of IPOs in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries peaked at a record $12 billion in 2007 and then plunged as markets froze up. Last year, GCC IPOs totaled roughly $2 billion.
IPO activity has recovered more slowly in the GCC, which comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), than it has in much of the world. Some Gulf firms have preferred to go to foreign markets such as London, seeking greater liquidity and less restrictive rules.
But Hourani said GCC regulators and banks were now making it a priority to encourage IPOs, to diversify their oil-dependent economies, subject companies to more market discipline and spread wealth more widely among their populations.
“This is a trend which has several factors behind it and is building up momentum,” he said, predicting the next peak in IPOs would match or even exceed 2007.
Al Tamimi, founded 25 years ago by UAE national Essam Al Tamimi, is one of the largest Middle East law firms that has stayed independent of the global legal giants. It has developed its financial practice partly through an emphasis on IPOs.
Hourani said peak activity in the UAE would not come before 2015, because companies generally needed to disclose financial statements for the past two years during IPOs, and corporate earnings had only really started recovering in 2013.
But the corporate mood has shifted, he said; Al Tamimi is currently working on seven proposed IPOs in the UAE and understands from authorities that a total of at least 20 are in the pipeline. The speed at which they take place will depend on the regulator, but some are expected by the end of 2013.
Earlier this year, Dubai saw its first two IPOs since 2009, a $175 million offer by Emirates REIT and a $75 million offer by retail and restaurant firm Marka; both were heavily subscribed.
IPOs are reviving partly because of a big rebound of share prices; Dubai’s main index has more than tripled since the end of 2012. But regulation is a key factor.
Emaar said last month it would list up to 25 percent of its shopping malls business on the Dubai Financial Market, after obtaining an exemption from a rule requiring minimum free floats of 55 percent of a company.
Marka’s IPO also benefited from benign regulators; it is a “greenfield” company which has only just been formed and has no financial track record. Greenfield IPOs were popular at the height of the UAE’s market boom a decade ago but then fell out of favor with regulators as financial storm clouds gathered.
Hourani said he did not expect greenfield IPOs to again become the norm, and that few if any more were likely. The new UAE Companies Law, awaiting final approval by authorities and expected to take effect by end-2013, would be more significant.
Among other things, it will reduce the minimum free float in IPOs on the UAE’s main markets to 30 percent from 55 percent, and permit company owners to conduct IPOs by selling existing shares rather than issuing new ones if they wish.
It will also allow IPO prices to be determined by book building – obtaining indicative bids from fund managers – rather than through a fixed-price evaluation method.
In Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest bourse, Al Tamimi is working on two proposed IPOs and is aware of a total of four in the pipeline. One under preparation is a blockbuster deal by National Commercial Bank, the largest bank.
Hourani said authorities had been streamlining IPO rules, partly to encourage some of the country’s many family-controlled firms to list as a way of making business more transparent.
Saudi Arabia has been preparing for several years to open its stock market to direct foreign investment, but has not taken the plunge. Hourani said time was needed to persuade a wide range of entrenched interests, including those in the financial industry, of the benefits of opening up to more competition.
However, a consensus on the benefits has been building, and the opening of the market now appears imminent, he said. “It seems before the end of the third quarter this year.”
Al Tamimi, which has 280 lawyers and offices in seven countries, most of them in the Gulf, saw its revenues jump 17 percent in 2013 and 20 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter of this year.
Its next expansion will be establishing an office in Egypt, reviving a plan that was suspended because of the turmoil that followed the country’s 2011 revolution, Hourani said. Iran is a possibility further down the line.-Reuters
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Los Azules Copper, Argentina
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LOS AZULES COPPER PROJECT COURT DATE SET FOR SUMMER 2011
Vancouver B.C.: TNR Gold Corp. (“TNR” or the “Company) advises that the litigation in the Supreme Court of British Columbia related to the Los Azules project in Argentina, involving TNR, Minera Andes Inc., MIM Argentina Exploraciones S.A. (“Xstrata”) and related entities, has been joined for hearing and scheduled for a new trial date of June 20 — July 15, 2011. The trial will be held in Vancouver.
As disclosed in our May 17, 2010 press release, the subject of the legal actions is TNR’s right to back-in to 25% of certain properties constituting the Los Azules project. The Los Azules project is an advanced exploration project currently reporting a National Instrument 43-101 compliant Inferred Resource. MAI and Xstrata are contesting TNR’s ability to exercise its back-in right. TNR is vigorously pursuing its claim and opposing MAI’s efforts to deny the back-in right.
We encourage interested parties to review the Amended Statement of Defence and Counterclaim in their entirety on our website for a better understating of our position. The link for this information is as follows:
https://tnrgoldcorp.com///i/pdf/TNR%20FiledAmendedStatementofDefenceCounterclaim.pdf
It should be noted that the Statement of Defence and Counterclaim are not intended to be, and should not be interpreted as, sources of factual, business or operational information about TNR or any of its affiliates. The Statement of Defence and Counterclaim contain assertions that have been prepared solely for use in connection with the legal dispute with MAI and Xstrata, have not been proven and should, therefore, not be relied upon.
ABOUT TNR GOLD CORP.
The Company is a diversified international metals exploration company focusing on the continued advancement of existing properties and identifying and acquiring new prospective projects. The Company has a portfolio of 18 active projects, of which 9 rare metals projects, including Mariana, will be transferred to the wholly owned subsidiary International Lithium Corp. upon completion of a proposed plan of arrangement.
The objective of the proposed plan of arrangement is to spin out the Company’s rare metals property interests into a separate public company, International Lithium Corp. This proposed plan of arrangement has been approved by the Company’s shareholders and the courts of British Columbia. The Company will now proceed with the spin out and will provide updates on the progress of the spinout in further news releases. For further details of the spinout, please refer to Stockwatch news dated May 26, 2010, or visit International Lithium’s website.
The recent acquisition of lithium, other rare metals and rare-earth elements projects in Argentina, Canada, USA and Ireland confirms the combined companies’ commitments to generating projects, diversifying its markets, and building shareholder value.
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Accrington Stanley v Ipswich Town
Saturday 5th January 2019 – 15:00
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Pre Match Thoughts - Mike
The Game Is Up
So here you have it, me the eternal optimist has conceded we are down, facing League One full in the face, that is the severity of our defeat at the hands of a hopeless Millwall side who somehow weathered an opening half storm to walk away with Three gifted points. I can't lie, I was convinced we would beat both Millwall & Rotherham, quietly confident in fact and for Forty Five minutes I felt quite smug as we played some really good football, moving the ball around quickly and confidently, finding our passes, creating chances and keeping it solid at the back, we just did not look like a team who are getting relegated, the big downfall once again is that we did not convert the Four or Five chances that came our way following Jack Lankester's 3rd minute opener which gave us the ideal start and we all know that we are good for a gift or Two at the back in every game and so it came to pass.
I hate making excuses for defeats but again the standard of refereeing left me, and lot of others, stunned, can an individual get so many things wrong ? OK a lot of them are not game changers but it doesn't half have an influence the more it happens and for me I can make an argument for all Three of Millwall's goals being caused by dodgy decisions, either in the build up or execution, the second in particular was laughable as it seems you cannot even make clean and impressive tackles anymore. There were some positives I guess, that first half saw great individual showings from a few Town players, how good was it to see Teddy Bishop back and crunching into tackles again, or Flynn Downes putting it about like a seasoned pro, I also thought Ellis Harrison had his best game in a Town shirt by a distance and led the line superbly, his hold up play was excellent and yet again he was fouled time and time again but had virtually no protection from the tosser in Black.
Looking at the league Table now makes for grim reading, yes we may be able to reel in Reading & Bolton that is only Seven points (ONLY !!) but Rotherham in the Fourth bottom spot are now a massive ten points clear and that looks beyond us although of course it would be down to Seven also if we should beat them on Saturday week. While it isn't impossible I just think such is the mess we are in we are doomed to the drop and I am finding hard to take right now, I try to tell myself it may not be as bad as it first seems but it's cutting no ice with me, it is a bloody disaster !! All we can do now is take each game as it comes and do a lot of praying, I see it that we need ten more wins to have a chance. And now the end is near, and so we face the final curtain.........
Some Respite, Or Is There ???
We break away from League duty this weekend for the excitement of FA Cup Third round day (Gulp), where fans up and down the country look out for those famous cup shocks (Gulp), where the minnows look to take a bigger scalp (Gulp), sadly I am describing us in every way only once again we are the hunted and not the hunter, The Wham Stadium, Accrington looks a damn good bet for one of those shocks and should it occur will only add more misery to an already desperate season. For various reasons we need to win this, just please give us a crumb or Two of comfort to cling to, a place in the Fourth round would be something to enthuse about I guess, I have forgotten what it feels like.
One thing about our trip to Accrington is that it will set us in good stead for next season where every other weekend will see a journey of this ilk, Spotland, Bloomfield Road, Adams Park, Highbury Stadium (Fleetwood not Arsenal !!!), yes the bristles stand up on the back of my neck just typing it.
I can't pretend I know much about Accrington Stanley (Who are they ?) but it seems their current form is pretty poor, especially at home so this will be a home banker. They are currently in Mid table which I guess probably exceeds their sensible aspirations, seeing as we supposedly signed two of their better players we know what to expect quality wise, a glance at their team sheet doesn't help at all as I know nothing about any of them so all joking aside this would be really bad should we not come back with a place in Round Four secure. With over One Thousand Tractor Boys and Girls making the 495 Mile round trip all I hope is that we play our strongest team and actually give it a real go. Surely even we can do this ??? 2-0 Town win. Wembley here we come !!!!
The Opposition – Accrington Stanley
The original town club, Accrington, was amongst the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, before resigning from the league after just five years. A team called Stanley Villa already existed at the time, named as such because they were based at the Stanley W.M.C. on Stanley Street in Accrington. With the demise of Accrington, Stanley Villa took the town name to become Accrington Stanley.
Accrington had been without a football team following the collapse of the original Accrington Stanley in 1966. The original team had been formed in 1891 and played in the Football League from 1921 to March 1962, but had spent its final four seasons in the Lancashire Combination. At a meeting at Bold Street Working Men's Club in 1968 the revival was initiated, and in August 1970 the new club played at a new ground, the Crown Ground. Eric Whalley, a local businessman, took control of the club in 1995 and began the development of the club's ground. After the club was relegated in 1999, Whalley appointed John Coleman as manager.
The club's rise to the Football League is attributed in part to the windfall of hundreds of thousands of pounds reaped by the sell-on clause in the December 2001 transfer of former Stanley star Brett Ormerod to Southampton, which paid Blackpool over a million pounds for his contract. Stanley had taken £50,000 from Blackpool in 1997, with the agreement that Blackpool would pay Accrington a quarter of what it might have received if it in turn transferred Ormerod to another team. The 2002–03 championship of the Northern Premier League followed quickly on Accrington's getting the cash.
Following the 2002–03 win of the Northern Premier League, the club was promoted for the first time in its history to the Football Conference. The club's first-ever game in the league was away to another re-formed club, Aldershot Town, on Sunday 10 August 2003. The game was shown live on Sky Sports and resulted in a 1–2 loss. The season was a success, with a final league position of 10th being achieved. The highlight of that first season in the 5th tier was a sensational run to the FA Cup 3rd round, only losing in a replay away to League One side Colchester United.
The following season saw the club become a full time professional outfit. The 2004–05 also resulted in a 10th-place finish.
The 2005–06 season saw the return of Stanley to the Football League. Finishing on 91 points, the club went on a 19-game unbeaten run stretching from October to March, leaving the club an easy passage to League Two after 46 years away.
The club was involved in a relegation battle throughout its first season in the 4th tier. A run of 5 wins in the last 9 games of the season led to a 20th-place finish and was enough to save the club from relegation in its first season back in the Football League.
The 2007–08 season produced more of the same, with the club involved in another relegation battle.5 wins in the final 12 games were enough to secure a 17th-place finish and another season in the 4th tier of English Football.
Performance during the 2008–09 season improved, with the club achieving a modest 16th-place finish in League Two.
The 2009–10 season was far better, with the club pushing for a playoff place at the turn of the year. A run of 9 wins in 10 League games saw the club with a chance of making the playoffs, only for this to fade in March/April.
The club reached the Football League Two play-offs during the 2010–11 season, one of the most successful in its history. A run of 1 loss in 19 games, from February till May, saw the club finish in a best-ever 5th position, eventually losing to League Two newcomers Stevenage in the Playoff Semi-finals.
2011–12 was a season of transition for the club. The loss of no less than six of the playoff-chasing side of the previous season was a tough act to follow. Following a shaky start to the season the arrival of Bryan Hughes in October transformed the club's fortunes. A run of 6 wins in 7 games over the Christmas period saw the club briefly enter the play-offs. However, following the sale of club captain Andrew Procter to Preston North End in the January 2012 transfer window, the third-longest serving management team of John Coleman and Jimmy Bell departed for Rochdale.
Former Burnley and club favourite Paul Cook was brought in as manager, along with the promotion of Leam Richardson from caretaker manager to full-time assistant. Only 3 wins in the final 17 games of the season was a pretty poor finish the season. However, this meant the club achieved a solid mid-table finish in 14th position.
On 18 September 2014, Coleman was confirmed as manager of Accrington Stanley for his second spell with the club.
On 17 April 2018, they were promoted to League One following a 2-0 win over Yeovil Town
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Accrington Stanley Last 5 Matches
15 Dec Southend Utd 3 - 0 Accrington
22 Dec Plymouth 0 - 3 Accrington
26 Dec Accrington 2 - 1 Shrewsbury
29 Dec Accrington 0 - 4 Peterborough
1 Jan Bradford 3 - 0 Accrington
Ipswich Last 5 Matches
15 Dec Ipswich Town 1 - 0 Wigan Athletic
22 Dec Ipswich Town 1 - 1 Sheffield Utd
26 Dec QP Rangers 3 - 0 Ipswich Town
29 Dec Middlesbrough 2 - 0 Ipswich Town
1 Jan Ipswich Town 2 - 3 Millwall
Marko's Caption Contest – THE DON CUP
Sorry it’s late, but here it is. Happy New Year to you all. Away from football, I hope all of you had a decent festive season.
Regarding this years Don Cup, I’ll say the same thing I said a year ago about eventual winner, Bluemike; “It’s his to lose.” Although I’m saying it to Nicscreamer this year. Ten point gap. (That sounds familiar) It’s up to the folks on his tail to reign that lead in.
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Nicscreamer 5pts
AylesburyBlue 4pts
Number9 3pts
Watership Down 2pts
MIDDLESBOROUGH SCORES
Ando 5pts
Derickipsw 4pts
Nicscreamer & Number9 3pts
Kerry Blue 2pts
NICSCREAMER 55
ANDO 45
TANGFASTIC 45
DERICKIPSW 43
FROSTY 43
BLUEMIKE 42
AYLESBURYBLUE 33
NUMBER 9 32
BLUEBLOOD 29
IPSWICHTOWNNO1 27
WATERSHIP DOWN 13
JOHNNYB 8
PATTHEGIMP 8
BLUEPETER 7
BARMY BILLY 6
BLUEWILF 5
SHED ON TOUR 5
MASSEYFERGUSON 3
MARVINBAY1973 2
KERRY BLUE 2
KL BLUE 1
OHIOTRACTORBOY 1
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Re: Accrington Stanley vs Ipswich Town Preview & Matchday Thread
Post by saint jude » Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:30 am
It's an achievement to be witness to another Third Round event of this competition. Not being morbid but each year you realize it may be your last. Voted for the opposition to take it, have divorced myself from any interest in this particular endeavor. That way it will be a lot easier as and when the team is eliminated. Old enough to have experienced an Ipswich FA Cup victory, it will not happen again in this lifetime, it is without any question.
Accrington 2 Ipswich 0
Post by BLUEBLOOD » Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:09 am
saint jude wrote: ↑
Don't you mean
Accrington WHO Ipswich 0
Location: Mid Suffolk
Post by Andym » Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:44 am
We will need to win a couple of matches next season to make it to round 3.
nicscreamer
Location: In front of my computer
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Post by nicscreamer » Thu Jan 03, 2019 9:32 am
We will win this one 4-1... Freddie will get his scoring boots back on after the Christmas break....
Shed on tour
Post by Shed on tour » Thu Jan 03, 2019 12:53 pm
Making the trip up to Accrington as it might be a while before I see us play in the 3rd round again.
Am I confident? No!. However, will go for a hard-fought victory.
Accrington 1 Town 2
Kerry Blue
Location: Listowel Co Kerry
Post by Kerry Blue » Thu Jan 03, 2019 5:26 pm
I'm going for a easy win for Town 3-0.
Caption. Now be serious and we could be on Strictly !!!!
TODD66
Posting Game Moderator
Location: Chester
Post by TODD66 » Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:00 pm
We win - simple as!
Don't care about the score or how, we just have to win.
Caption : "F**k yes - we have drawn Ipswich - 4th round here we come!!"
Post by Watership Down » Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:38 pm
I can see a result here. If not then the whole lot has gone to pot.
Caption:- I can't see the picture, am I blind.
Post by nicscreamer » Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:52 pm
Ah the caption pic appears....
Caption.... go on, sniff them both... mum which side, sister which side?
Post by Bluemike » Thu Jan 03, 2019 6:59 pm
All i wanna know is how close is the nearest pub to this ground cus it looks quite isolated lol
ashfordblue
Location: Ashford Kent / was Felixstowe
Post by ashfordblue » Thu Jan 03, 2019 7:32 pm
The Crown in Whalley Road, just behind the main stand, welcomes all visiting supporters
Post by Shed on tour » Thu Jan 03, 2019 7:34 pm
There is a sports bar at the ground for home and away supporters.
Had a look on the the football ground guide website and the pub they recommend for away supporters is The Peel Park Hotel in Turkey Street. It serves food and is listed in the CAMRA Good Beer Guide. The downside is according to google maps it is just over a mile from the ground.
Thanks for the info Ash and Tony, thats better than anticipated
Post by marko69 » Thu Jan 03, 2019 7:51 pm
Shed on tour wrote: ↑
The Peel Park Hotel in Turkey Street.....
Been watching a lot of Starsky & Hutch re-runs recently and in my best Huggy voice, “I suggest you Turkeys making the trip, you get yo’selves down Turkey Street for some good vibe libations before the evenins enner’tainment.”
Really hoping these previews get a tad easier to write for you due to one of two things, 1/ the team have a great January window and run in, or 2/ accepting League One becomes easier.
Reading “Fleetwood” will no doubt make everyone shudder at the moment.
I think if the team can stroke the ball around with ease like they did first half v Millwall, and IF someone like Sears can be a bit more clinical, should win this one and book a 4th round place.
0-2 win in this one.
Ref caption
Ref: No penalty Mr Coleman. What do you think of that decision?
John Coleman: (picture)
AylesburyBlue
Post by AylesburyBlue » Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:53 pm
Caption: ‘ give us a kiss you delicious looking b*stard’
Post by Frosty » Thu Jan 03, 2019 9:00 pm
"This is how you ride an imaginary E-Scooter mate"
Location: Out and about
Post by Ando » Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:37 am
Great preview Mike, seemed like it really came from the heart.
Caption comp
1 "my mum said we can have a sleepover after the game and stay up to watch match of the day".
2 "I think one of those false eyelashes you got me for Xmas is stuck in my eye"?
"Come here let me have a look"
phily bon bon
Post by phily bon bon » Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:32 pm
Great preview as always ,thank you Mike.
We wont win the cup but by god a win would be most welcome even its "only" Accrington Stanley. I can see a tight game regardless of the differing Leagues. 2-1 to Accrington I fear....I remember loosing to Morecombe and at MK dons so I would´nt be in the least bit suprised to Loose this one,our cup record of late is nothing to brag about.
Come on town prove me wrong.
Post by number 9 » Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:39 pm
Well at least we know the first team players will be selected to play because we don't have anyone else.
This has got 1-1 written all over it.
Caption: "Did you hear Huggy Bear is coming to the match?!!!!!!"
ipswichtownNo1
Post by ipswichtownNo1 » Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:26 am
Accers 2 - 1 ipswich.
Caption comp.
" See, i told you putting that kids playhouse next to the pitch would distract towns youngsters"
derick_ipsw
Post by derick_ipsw » Sat Jan 05, 2019 10:34 am
Caption. i have just seen who is driving the Ipswich bus...……..Kayden f**king Jackson, so much for the big move .
Post by ipswichtownNo1 » Sat Jan 05, 2019 12:33 pm
Not going today, will listen on the wireless. Hope you who are travelling have a good away day, keep us uo to date if you can.
Post by Bluemike » Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:03 pm
25 mins to go, been a good trip.
JohnnyB
Post by JohnnyB » Sat Jan 05, 2019 2:36 pm
Let’s go on a little run and have some cup excitement for a change
AS 0 Town 2 (Jackson x2)
Caption: “I am the evil puppetmaster, watch me fashion a crude automaton capable of penetrating the defensive walls of Scunthorpe, Walsall and Burton.”
Great atmosphere in the pub, if this is the shape of things to come next season bring it on
Post by derick_ipsw » Sat Jan 05, 2019 3:25 pm
Elder & Toto start along with Dozzell. Barts back in goal.
No Chabolah? Interesting. Hope it doesn’t mean he’s off
Dubai Blue
Location: Dubai, UAE
Post by Dubai Blue » Sat Jan 05, 2019 4:11 pm
Anyone seen a live stream for this one?
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Israel Highlights
Bethlehem - Jerusalem - Nazareth - Tiberias
Israel is a country that promises a religious and spiritual experience, excitement and pleasure, appealing tours and pleasurable adventures. Here, alongside Jerusalem's fascinating historic and archeological sites, there are amazingly modern tourist attractions for all lovers of culture, the arts, theater and music, architecture and gastronomic delights. Explore the unique sites of Israel when you book Israel tours with us, we will take you to the most beautiful cities including Jerusalem, Galilee, Haifa, Tel Aviv and Eilat and visit the wonderful ruins of this astounding country! In this 9 day tour package to Israel program you will visit the New & Old City of Jerusalem, Nazareth, the Dead Sea and many more sites ... Don't miss out on this fantastic Israel tour package!
Private transfer from Ben Gurion Airport to your Hotel in Tel Aviv and from the Hotel in Jerusalem to the Airport.
Meeting point on arrival at the Stematzky Bookstore at the Main Arrival Hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport.
6 Full day touring with all entrance fees as per the above itinerary.
7 nights accommodation on bed and breakfast basis at hotels as mentioned above.
One dinner at the hotel in Kibbutz Lavi / Galilee
Entry Visa.
Airfare (Your Sales Agent will get back to you with exact fares, if required).
Day 1 - Fri - Depart USA
Board your International flight from the USA to Israel.
Day 2 - Sat - Arrival, Tel Aviv
After arrival at Ben Gurion airport, you will be met by our transfer representative and transferred to your hotel in Tel Aviv.
Day 3 - Sun - Diaspora Museum, Caesarea, Druze villages
Depart Tel Aviv and drive to the Diaspora Museum for a visit.
Proceed along the coastal plain to Caesarea, capital of Judea under the Romans. See the excavations of the Crusader city and the Roman port, aqueduct and the amphitheatre that has been restored to its former glory as a concert venue. Continue via the Druze villages to Haifa.
Overnight in Haifa.
Day 4 - Mon - Haifa, Safed, Golan Heights
The tour of Haifa will begin at the summit of Mount Carmel where you will take in a breathtaking panoramic view of the Haifa Bay, Bahia Gardens and Western Galilee. Proceed to Safed, the center of Jewish mysticism, where you will visit the ancient synagogues and the artists' colony. Continue to the Golan Heights to see the former Syrian bunkers, Kuneitra and the new Israeli town of Katzerin. Dinner & overnight at Hotel Kibbutz Lavi.
Day 5 - Tue - Sea of Galilee, Nazareth
Start the day with a visit to Tiberias. Drive to Capernaum to see the ruins of the synagogue and octagonal Church of St. Peter. Proceed to Nazareth where you will visit the Church of the Annunciation. Drive around the new Jewish town and visit the Arab market. Drive via Beit Shean to Beit Alpha to see the remains of the mosaic floor of an ancient synagogue depicting the zodiac. Overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 6 - Wed - Jerusalem, The Old City
Visit the tomb of King David on Mt. Zion and the room of The Last Supper. Enter the walled city and walk through the newly restored Jewish Quarter. Visit the Roman Cardo, the Herodian Quarter and continue to the Western Wall. Walk along the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Proceed to Mount Scopus and then to the Mount of Olives for a magnificent panoramic view of the Old City. Continue to *Bethlehem (Visit is Subject to Availability), stopping at Rachel's tomb and visit the church of Nativity. Overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 7 - Thu - Jerusalem, The New City
Drive to the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem to see the Chagall stained glass windows. Continue to Yad Vashem, the memorial to the Holocaust and then to the Israel Museum. Visit the Shrine of the Book where the Dead Sea Scrolls are housed
At the same grounds of the Museum we will visit the Miniature model of Jerusalem
As it was 2000 years ago .We will see the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, and the Givat Ram Campus of the Hebrew University. Overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 8 - Fri - Qumran, Massada, Dead Sea
Drive through the Judean Desert to the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth, almost 1300 feet (400 meters) below sea level. Stop at Qumran to visit the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Drive along the shores of the Dead Sea to Massada. Ascend by cable car and tour the ancient fortress where the Zealots made their last stand against the Romans before committing mass suicide in 73 AD. Descend by cable car, time and weather permitting, an opportunity will be provided to float on the Dead Sea. Overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 9 - Sat - Departure
Transfer to the Airport for your flight back to the USA.
Visit to Bethlehem is subject to Availability.
Cities: Bethlehem - Jerusalem - Nazareth - Tiberias
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Leave a comment below to be entered in the WINNIPEG FRINGE FESTIVAL
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After breaking her foot, suffering a DVT, and a brush with death in 2013,
Yvette Dudley-Neuman wrote *The F Words! *
The script, generated from her passion, is part auto-biographical, part
research, and part whimsical fantasy.
Dudley-Neuman’s excited to give voice to an under represented portion of
older women, missing from the Canadian and International theatre mosaic by sharing *The F Words *with Winnipeg Fringe Festival audiences who will
embrace the main character, Fran, because they know and are “her”. This is
not to exclude the male population, as feedback has shown that the show
resonates significantly with men, who expressed their emotional engagement
and relation to topics of body image, ageism and isolation.
*The F Words* unpacks a woman’s unrelenting compulsion to explore self
image and feeling lost by delving into topics like ageism, fattism,
sexuality, self worth, spirituality, and female friendship. Unabashed and
bitter-sweet, this poignant comedy, intermingles an exploration of how
words and our relationship to them shapes, holds, imprisons or releases us.
Yvette Dudley-Neuman is relieved to be in Winnipeg where the Fringe
Festival patrons embrace everything! Her recent experience at RIFF was not
so welcoming. Dudley-Neuman arrived at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum with
the poster for her show, *The F Words, *but she had no idea that she was
about to be censored.
When Dudley-Neuman asked “Why her poster could not be displayed”, she was told that the Museum Staff had censored it because it was “suggestive.”
The poster features the title of the show and an image of Dudley-Neuman waving
along with the words, “Fab, Funny, Fierce! and the show times for the Fringe Festival. Museum Staff said, “We have camps for children in the building and that poster can not be displayed. It says, The F Word,”to which Dudley-Neuman replied, “Actually… it says WORDS… there is an “S” there.
The show is about lots of words which begin with the letter F. “So you are actually censoring me?” She was then told that the RSM was a government building and that as such, government buildings would not display her poster. Dudley-Neuman was confused and in-sensed. What about freedom of speech?
Dudley-Neuman is thrilled to be performing The F Words at Venue #9 (School
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When I arrived and the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina with the poster for my fringe show, The F Words, I had no idea that I was about to be censored.
It was about 8 pm in the evening when I approached the Regina Fringe volunteers at the table just inside the museum, and a fringe volunteer told me they were not allowed to put up my poster for The F Words. He was very apologetic and talked in hushed tones. When I asked why my poster could not be displayed, I was told that the Museum Staff had censored it because it was “suggestive.”
“Suggestive… REALLY?”
The poster features the title of my show and an image of me waving along with the words, “Fab, Funny, Fierce! and the show times for the Regina International Fringe Festival.
And then the RIFF (Regina International Fringe Festival) volunteer advised me to see the Museum Staff at the front desk. I approached the museum staff with my poster and a cheery disposition and I was told once again that my poster was offensive and could not be displayed because of it’s suggestive title. “We have camps for children in the building and that poster can not be displayed.
When I inquired further I was told, “It says, The F Word,” to which I replied, “Actually… it says WORDS… there is an “s” there.
The show is about lots of words which begin with the letter F. So you are actually censoring me?” I was then told that the RSM was a government building and that as such, government buildings would not display my poster.
Upon leaving the museum, I was gob-smacked, confused and in-sensed. What about freedom of speech? The RIFF did not inform me that my poster would be subjected to censorship when they took my $550 registration fee.
If the government of Saskatchewan would not display her poster in their buildings, why did the Minister of Culture, Gene Makowsky attend the opening media morning of the RIFF and congratulate her on her show?
I get it about the kids… but the camps are over at 5 pm… why couldn’t my poster be displayed after 5 pm… just for the evening of shows?
I’d love to know what you all think about this?
Please leave a comment below!
The F Words features a woman’s unrelenting compulsion to explore self image and feeling lost by delving into topics like ageism, fattism, sexuality, self worth, spirituality, and female friendship. Unabashed and bitter-sweet, this comedy, intermingles with an exploration of how words and our relationship to them shapes, holds, imprisons or releases us.
The F Words features the ferociously fearless talent of Yvette Dudley-Neuman, a professional performer from Coquitlam, B.C. who has shared her work at the Edmonton, Vancouver and Theatre on the Edge Fringe Festivals.
The script, generated from her passion, is part auto-biographical, part research, and part whimsical fantasy. She’s excited by the opportunity to give voice to an under represented portion of older women, missing from the Canadian and International theatre mosaic by sharing The F Words with an audience who will embrace the main character, Fran, because they know and are “her”. This is not to exclude the male population, as feedback has shown that the show resonates significantly with men, who expressed their emotional engagement and relation to topics of body image, ageism and isolation.
Dudley-Neuman is an award winning Actor, Singer, and Writer, committed to exhibiting new and established Canadian works that encourage opportunities for Canadian artists to share and hone their talents.
Fierce, funny & fearless, follow Fran & friends on this fast-paced frolic. Experience Fran’s unrelenting compulsion to explore The F Words from Fat, Forty, Forgotten & F**cked to F??? Winner of Honourable Mention (Theatre BC Play Writing Competition) this multi-media solo-show is “lively, tough, sexy, hilarious, relatable & transformational!
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Regina Fringe & The F Words!
Yvette is coming the the Regina Fringe July 11-15, 2018 with her solo show,
The F Words: Fab, Funny Fierce! BUY TICKETS
4 STARS This award winning show is “lively, tough, sexy, hilarious, & transformational!” “The “F” Words is an F-ing great play & the perfect show to catch at the Fringe! It’s vividly insightful, upliftingly musical, & educationally punny. I guarantee you’ll come away laughing & with an expanded vocabulary.”- Plank Magazine
Wednesday July 11, 2018 8:45pm
Friday July 13, 2018 3:00pm
Saturday July 14, 2018 7:15pm
Sunday July 15, 2018 5:00pm
Performances are at the Saskchewan Express Musical Theatre Studio
(2272 Pasqua Street, Regina)
Yvette Dudley- Neuman is a professional Performer, Singer & Writer committed to producing work that encourages opportunities for women to share and hone their talents.
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United Solo, Michael Moore & Me!?!
acting, theatre
For 2018 I am contemplating entering my solo show, The F Words, into United Solo in New York City. In fact the applications are now open and the early-bird deadline is tomorrow. I know this because I just took a quick peak at the website to check. I have checked several times already and I still haven’t committed to it by just signing up.
Today I see that Michael Moore won the United Solo Special Award
Here’s what United Solo had to say, “At the United Solo Gala held on Sunday, November 19, 2017 at Theatre Row in New York many artists were recognized with awards for their achievements in the art of solo performance. On behalf of the United Solo Academy, Omar Sangare, the Artistic Director of the festival, presented the United Solo Special Award to Michael Moore for his show, “The Terms of My Surrender.”
During its ten-week run, the United Solo Festival offered 120 stage productions representing six continents. Nearly 60 shows sold out, and were presented several times due to popular demand. “
I feel overwhelmed and a little anxious when I think about the possibility of my show being in a theatre right after Michael Moore’s show and yet, I want to try. Some little voice is niggling at me in the back of my mind, and I know who’s voice it is too. It’s my Nana’s voice, in her thick Greek accent saying “Nothing from nothing… is nothing.” and I know exactly what she means. If you have nothing and you do nothing you will still have nothing…. so today I will get my application in. I hear you Nana and I will try.
You can check out more about United Solo at http://www.unitedsolo.org and please cross your fingers for me that I get in and will have the opportunity to present my show at the United Solo Festival held on Theatre Row on 42nd Street in New York in 2018!
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NasreenPejvack-EdwardBlodgett-MaryCooper-SanaJanjua with Virginia Gillespie at Word Arts LIVE! 26 March 2017
I will be part of this upcoming series in 2017. Check it out!
Source: NasreenPejvack-EdwardBlodgett-MaryCooper-SanaJanjua with Virginia Gillespie at Word Arts LIVE! 26 March 2017
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Local Nielsen ratings snapshot -- Feb. sweeps finals edition
Missed by that much. WFAA8 came within less than inches of winning all four major local news battlegrounds, but settled for dominating victories at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. in the just-concluded February sweeps ratings wars.
The 6 a.m. laurels went to Fox4's Good Day, which rallied in the second half of the 20-day period before surviving a strong finishing kick by WFAA8's Daybreak on Wednesday's sweeps sign-off. The difference in the total homes Nielsens ended up as a statistically insignificant 244 homes, with Fox4 logging a 4.05 rating and WFAA8 a 4.04.
Fox4 had a bit more breathing room at 6 a.m. among 25-to-54-year-olds, the main advertiser target audience for news programming. It won that one by a comparatively whopping two-tenths of a rating point.
WFAA8 won the 10 p.m. wars for the fourth straight sweeps period in total homes, and for the third consecutive time among 25-to-54-year-olds. NBC5 previously had dominated those competitions for five years dating to Feb., 2002.
WFAA lost year-to-year audiences only at 5 p.m. in total homes, but still won comfortably in that measurement.
Fox4 took the early morning golds for the third straight sweeps period after running second last February to NBC5 in total homes and WFAA8 among 25-to-54-year-olds. The station also registered significant gains in the early evening newscast competitions, moving into second place in three of the four key ratings measurements.
CBS11 won't be shouting from the rooftops, but can take some comfort in showing year-to-year ratings gains in all four major newscast time periods. There's a kinda hush over at NBC5, though. The Peacock lost major ground across the board.
Also of note: Fox4's 9 p.m. local newscast, aided on some nights by American Idol lead-ins, averaged 172,928 D-FW homes in the sweeps. That beat the ratings averages of all competing network programming, which was a mix of originals and repeats in a strike-torn season. Fox4 ran a close second to ABC programming among 25-to-54-year-olds. Both are impressive showings, with Fox4 raking in all of the advertising revenue while its rivals get only a small slice of local ad time within their respective network programs.
Here are the complete results from the principal newscast battlegrounds, with gains or losses from February 2007 in parentheses. (Also note that there's been a bit of ratings inflation from year to year. Based on revised Nielsen estimates for this season, a rating point in D-FW equals 24,356 homes and 29,445 viewers in the 25-to-54 demo. Last February, the respective net worths were 23,800 homes and 28,700 viewers of the 25-to-54 persuasion.)
10 P.M.
TOTAL HOMES
WFAA8 -- 241,124 (+34,064
NBC5 -- 160,750 (-34,410)
CBS11 -- 155,878 (+15,458)
Fox4 -- 121,780 (+19,440)
25-to-54-YEAR-OLDS
WFAA8 -- 147,225 (+15,205)
Fox4 -- 85,391 (+19,380)
CBS11 -- 79,502 (+10,622)
Fox4 -- 98,642 (-1,318)
WFAA8 -- 98,398 (+5,578)
NBC5 -- 75,504 (-33,976)
CBS11 -- 43,841 (+5,761)
NBC5 -- 55,946 (-4,324)
CBS11 -- 119,344 (+7,484)
Fox4 -- 94,988 (+6,928)
WFAA8 -- 94,224 (+16,734)
WFAA8 -- 136,394 (-18,306)
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A few of our recent musings
Live in Baltimore
Last November we gathered in Baltimore, MD to shoot a series of live videos for Will’s record Tell All My Friends. We felt like these videos where an important way to express the energy we experienced over the last several tours while playing these songs. We also introduced a previously unreleased song, You Are My Joy. Scroll down for all 4 videos we shot.
"Not In a Hurry" from Tell All My Friends during our live session in Baltimore
"Feeling Low" from Tell All My Friends during our live session in Baltimore
"Need You More" from Tell All My Friends during our live session in Baltimore
Previously unreleased, this is You Are My Joy. The fourth and final video from the Baltimore series. Goodnight!
New Project Coming June 22
Today we released the first single "LOVE" off an upcoming record (title to be announced soon) which features 9 new tracks from Andrea Marie, Brock Human and Will Reagan. Each track will be accompanied by an original lyric video, produced by our team at York House in LA.
With this we leave you with a short vision for this project:
"Each track becomes a simple invitation to look. A one word prayer to draw your gaze. Not just a passive act of simply observing but a call to recognize and appreciate the depth of this moment. The one thing we share with all of creation and Christ: an eternal now. Our hope is that each song becomes a doorway to an effortless contemplation, a meditation and a reminder of your irrevocable belonging"
– United Pursuit
VIDEO, AUDIO
Love (feat. Brock Human)
/ləv/
“A merely external practice of silence and enclosure will never do anything by itself to guarantee the inner transformation of consciousness which the contemplative life requires. We have to reexamine all our practices with a serious willingness to admit that our present conceptions may simply be inadequate. They need to be made much deeper and much more alive – and perhaps given an entirely new perspective. In this way we will show ourselves truly alert to the new needs of a new generation, aware that in this alertness we are being open to grace, obedient to the love of the Holy Spirit…” Thomas Merton, Contemplation
RE17 sessions are now streaming!
At Reunion '17 we had the honor hosting so many of our favorite thought leaders and teachers. We're excited to share many of those talks with you today. This includes many of the main speakers and breakout sessions. Also take a look at our landing page for RE18– here you'll find a showcase of the sessions.
Here are a few of the highlights from this year. Be sure to check out the Reunion YouTube channel for the full collection!
Tour Photo recap!
In March we visited a handful of new cities throughout the Midwest and had an absolute blast. In memory of those nights we thought we'd share a few photos. (A huge thanks to everyone who came out!) The energy of gathering in the round has been intoxicating and we hope you'll join us for more nights like these.
Tagged: tour
From the upcoming record Tell All My Friends
Out today, Simple Gospel B-Sides, five previously unreleased songs recorded the same night as the original album. The songs will be on Spotify and every streaming platform soon, until then we're excited to release these tracks early to Monthly EP subscribers. If you're a current subscriber, you'll find access in your inbox. New to the monthly EP? Try the monthly EP and get these b-sides as a free immediate download
Your Love is in the Room (feat. Brock Human)
Oh How We Love You (feat. Will Reagan)
From the Start (feat. Andrea Marie)
Waste it All (feat. Chris McClarney)
Take a Moment (feat. Will Reagan)
Join Monthly EP, get the B-Sides
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Khorāsān
or Khurāsān
Province (pop., 1996: 6,048,000), northeastern Iran.
Its capital is Mashhad. The region was first named by the Sāsānian dynasty, in whose language it means "Land of the Sun." It was overrun by Muslim armies с 650. Under Arab rule, it encompassed a vast territory including what is now southern Turkmenistan and northern Afghanistan. It was conquered с 1220 by Genghis Khan and с 1380 by Timur. Its current frontiers, as a province of Iran, were defined in 1881. Its population is composed of many ethnic groups as a result of numerous migrations and invasions over the centuries. The languages spoken are Turkish, Persian, and Kurdish. The province gives its name to the handcrafted Khorāsān carpet.
▪ historical region, Asia
also spelled Khurasan
historical region and realm comprising a vast territory now lying in northeastern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and northern Afghanistan. The historical region extended, along the north, from the Amu Darya (Oxus River) westward to the Caspian Sea and, along the south, from the fringes of the central Iranian deserts eastward to the mountains of central Afghanistan. Arab geographers even spoke of its extending to the boundaries of India.
The history of the area stretches back to very ancient times, being part of the Achaemenid empire of the 6th and 5th centuries BC and the Parthian empire of the 1st century BC. (Khorāsān is sometimes loosely identified synonymously with Parthia.) Khorāsān was first named, however, by the Sāsānians (Sāsānian dynasty) (beginning in the 3rd century BC), who organized their empire into four quarters (named from the cardinal points), Khorāsān being literally the “Land of the Sun.” After the Arab conquest in AD 651–652, the name was retained both as the designation of a definite province and in a looser sense. At first the Arabs used the area as a march, or garrisoned frontier, but soon large colonies of Arabs moved in, especially around Merv, and a meld of Islāmic and eastern Iranian cultures ensued. Later Khorāsān regained virtual independence under the Ṭāhirid, Ṣaffārid, and Sāmānid dynasties (821–999). Successively it formed part of the Ghaznavid, Seljuq, and Khwārezm-Shāh kingdoms but was overrun by Genghis Khan in 1220 and again by Timur (Tamerlane) about 1383. The Iranian Ṣafavid kings (1502–1736) fought over it against Uzbek invasions. It was occupied by the Afghans from 1722 to 1730. Nāder Shāh, born in Khorāsān, broke the Afghan supremacy and made Meshed the capital of his Iranian empire. Ferdowsī, author of the Shāh-nāmeh (“Book of Kings”), and Omar Khayyam, the celebrated poet and sage, were born in the region. Khorāsān's current Iranian frontiers were defined in 1881 and in a convention of July 8, 1893.
Khorāsān, as a result of its troubled history, is peopled by a great variety of ethnic groups: Turkmen in the northwest; Kurds around Bojnūrd and Qūchān; Tīmūrīs and Jamshīdīs (Chahar Aimak) in the east, some of whom are still nomadic; farther southwest, Ḥeydarīs; and southeast, Baloch. The highlands in the south are home to a settled population of old Iranian stock. Here and there are found Berberis of Mongol origin, Arabs, Roma (Gypsies), and a few Jews in the towns. The largest cluster of settlements and cultivation stretches around the city of Meshed northwestward, containing the important towns of Qūchān, Shīrvān, and Bojnūrd. The languages spoken in Khorāsān are Turkish, Persian, and Kurdish.
In its physical geography, the northern part of Iranian Khorāsān contains two parallel ranges: an eastern prolongation of the Elburz Mountains and an independent ridge, the Koppeh Dāgh. Limestones and igneous and metamorphic rocks prevail; peaks include Kūh-e Hazār Masjed (10,321 feet [3,146 m]) and Kūh-e Bīnālūd (10,536 feet [3,211 m]). A great salt desert, Dasht-e Kavīr, with quicksandlike marshes, enters Khorāsān from the west. Sand dunes are widespread. There are many oases, large and crowded in the north but small and isolated in the south. The southern highlands, which are known as Kūhestān, have peaks reaching 7,000–9,000 feet (2,100–2,700 m). The climate is cool in the summer and cold in the winter. The north and northwest have sufficient rainfall for grasslands and scrub forests of alder, oak, juniper, and hornbeam; the south has little vegetation. Khorāsān's only permanent rivers are the Atrak, the Kal-e Mūreh, the Rūd-e Shūr, and the Kashaf Rūd, all more or less salty in their lower courses.
Modern Iranian Khorāsān is largely agricultural, producing fruits, cereals, cotton, tobacco, oil plants, saffron, and some silk. Livestock are plentiful; wool, lambskins, and goat hair are exported, and poultry is also raised. The mineral products include turquoise, salt, iron, copper, lead, zinc, chromium, magnesite, and coal. Cement, processed foods, ginned cotton, carded wool, sugar, pharmaceuticals, animal fodder, and textiles are the manufactured products. Handicrafts include jewelry, rugs and carpets, furs, dolls, glassware, and handloomed cloth. A railway and roads link Meshed, a thriving city, with Iran's capital, Tehrān.
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For Rescued Baby Clouded Leopard, It’s Nursery Then Jungle Camp
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8/24/2015 IFAW-run wildlife rehab center in India develops a kindly curriculum to get orphaned big cats back into the wild. By Vicki Croke Scared, sick, and tiny, the orphaned clouded leopard cub has made it to safety. So far, experts don’t know how he was separated from his mother or who took him from the … Continue reading For Rescued Baby Clouded Leopard, It’s Nursery Then Jungle Camp
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The Brothers Wild
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Frank and john Craighead's groundbreaking study of grizzly bears helped save the carnivores from extinction. For the twins from Chevy Chase, it was just another chapter in a lifetime of adventure.
Elephant Company
The remarkable story of James Howard “Billy” Williams, whose uncanny rapport with the world’s largest land animals transformed him from a carefree young man into the charismatic war hero known as Elephant Bill.
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Secrets of the Dead
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Destination: Southern Africa
Southern Africa holds something for every traveler and budget. Explore a world-class cosmopolitan city or take a world-class safari. Here you'll… more
Southern Africa holds something for every traveler and budget. Explore a world-class cosmopolitan city or take a world-class safari. Here you'll find some of the world's wildest places and rarest creatures.
Hi, I’m Patty Kim. Today we’re headed for Southern Africa, a place that holds something for every traveler, for every budget – cosmopolitan cities, world-class safaris, not to mention record-setting sights that will take your breath away. Here’s where you’ll find some of the world’s wildest places, as well as some of its rarest creatures.
Chances are, if you’re heading to this region, you’re heading for the most popular stop – South Africa. But there’s a whole slew of other places like Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Malawi that also have plenty to offer travelers.
When’s the best time to go? Generally, during the drier, cooler months from around May to October6, though parts of South Africa are pleasant all year round.
With an abundance of national parks and game reserves in southern Africa, a safari should be at the top at any traveler’s to-do list. The wide variety of terrains – savannah, desert, forest, wetland and highland – provide an ever wider variety of animals…and places to encounter them.
The original safari hunters made a list of the toughest animals to hunt – the Big 5 – lions, leopards, rhino, elephants, and Cape buffalo. Today’s modern safari spotters might soon discover that while elephants and even lions are easy to catch sight of, many other animals, including the elusive leopard, are harder to find.
Sharpen your eyes…. and your odds with a few simple tips – go out at dawn and dusk, when animals are most active; head for water, where animals come to drink ….make sure to look near…and far…left…and right…on tree branches…and underfoot. With a bit of practice you’ll capture some amazing photographs.
Some of the best known parks and game reserves in the region include South Africa’s Kruger Park, Namibia’s Etosha, Zambia’s Luangwea National Parks, and Botswana’s Moremi Wildlife Reserve, in the heart of the Okavango Delta, stretching over 6,000 square miles, the largest inland delta in the world.
The Okavango River once fed into a large lake…now vanished under the Kalahari Desert.
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The Zambezi River flows eastward into Mozambique and out to sea.
Across the Mozambique Channel off the southern African coast are Africa’s Indian Ocean Islands, including Comoros, the Seychelles, Mauritius, the French island of Réunion, and Madagascar.
Each island competes for best tropical paradise, and it’s easy to see why.
When you’re ready to wind down, head for cosmopolitan Capetown and pamper yourself with some fine dining and sample some local wines.
Remember, Southern Africa is big – nearly the size of the continental United States. No matter where you plan to travel — city, plains, falls, or desert, you’re bound to have an unforgettable adventure.
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Characters / Hatsukoi Zombie
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A list of characters in Hatsukoi Zombie. It's a work in progress.
Tarou Kurume
The Protagonist of the story. After a head injury he winds up being able to see first love zombies.
All Just a Dream: In chapter 20, after being hit by a football, Tarou wakes up holding hands with Eve, who has suddenly materialized, and immediately goes for a kiss with her. Then he really wakes up, and the "girl" he's about to kiss is a quite few decades older.
Brilliant, but Lazy: He has some skills due to being diversely educated in his childhood, but he prefers to not use a lot of energy due to it.
Buxom Is Better: He definitely prefers big boobs, if Eve is anything to go by. Exploited by Ibusuki and Ebino in the final arc, as they have the latter get a revealing bikini to appeal to his tastes and make him fall for her.
Can't Hold His Liquor: It's also genetic as he mentions that he and his family have an extremely low tolerance. He's also gotten drunk from the smell.
Cannot Spit It Out: He has a gut feeling that Ibusuki is a girl after a certain point, but he's afraid that if he pursues that route and gets it resolved, Eve will disappear. So in order to prevent that, he keeps a lid on it.
Education Mama: Has one in his childhood, forcing him to learn everything to the point that he developed a Lazy Bum stance in the beginning of the story.
Funny Afro: His hair is occasionally grabbed and deformed (or used as a flowerbed) by irritated people.
Generation Xerox: It turns out that his grandfather can see first love zombies too, and had a similar situation to Tarou with his zombie Kyouko.
He Cleans Up Nicely: Tarou does his part in getting the female vote by dressing up and getting shoes to give him more height. He does look better, but the trope is subverted; he's still rather plain compared to Ibusuki and the handsome ladykiller Koigaura, which serves to make them stand out in comparison.
Strong Family Resemblance: Evidently, the men of the the Kurume family share pattern baldness. It first shows up as a simple large forehead, but eventually they lose more and more of their hair until it's reduced to the sides. Tarou's father and paternal grandfather have this problem, which worries Tarou immensely.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tarou is quite cynical, calculating and egocentric, but he occasionally shows signs of caring more than he lets on for the loves of people around him.
Master of None: As is common in his family, he attended multiple classes in all kinds of subjects and is good at almost everything. However, since he is so lazy and his mother made him do too many different things, he never specialized himself in anything.
The Matchmaker: Tarou ends up having to play this role due to his ability, much to his own dismay.
Mistaken for Gay: Thinking that he will make Eve disappear, Tarou hurriedly goes to confess his love to Ibusuki. Of course, since he isn't really in love, it doesn't work... but now the whole school thinks he likes guys. After a while, he gets tired of trying to refute the rumors and decides to just go with it instead.
Mistaken for Pedophile: His sister correctly surmised that Tarou's FLZ is based off of Ibusuki, that it began to manifest when he first fell in love with her as a child, and that he cares for it. What Tarou's sister didn't realize was that Eve grew unlike most FLZs, and isn't physically a child anymore—meaning the image she has in her head revolves around Tarou doting on and being enthralled by a seven year old tulpa.
Oblivious to Love: It took him an awful long time to realize that Ebino likes him. To be fair, it took Ebino a long time as well to realize her feelings for Tarou and there are moments when he feels very attracted to her, which causes Eve to doze off or even fall asleep. He also doesn't realize that Ririsu still likes him, though this again is not exactly his fault, as she pretends to be a boy and is thus not interested. However, he has suspected (or at least wished) for a while that his first love is a girl.
Sweet on Polly Oliver: It's notable that he still is attracted to Ririto, even if he is left to believe that his first love was a man. He still would rather it's actually a girl, and Eve is a constant reminder of this, as she hits all of his preferences.
Ririsu/Ririto Ibusuki
Tarou's first love from kindergarten, who left Japan ten years ago. She disguises herself as a man. Soon after Tarou can see the First Love Zombies, she transfers to Tarou's school and class as "Ririto" Ibusuki. Like Tarou, she can see Zombies and has done so for the last ten years.
Aborted Declaration of Love: It looks like Ibusuki prepared to tell Tarou about her actually being a girl and confess her love to him, but she stops herself with the former, and she intentionally drowns out her voice with the sound of festival drums so Tarou won't hear for the latter situation.
A-Cup Angst: While it helps passes her into being a boy, she is hyper sensitive about her chest size.
Berserk Button: Just mention the word "breasts" (like in "chicken breasts") in her hearing range can drive her nuts.
Bifauxnen: She dresses as a boy, though she doesn't intend to do so forever.
Blessed with Suck: How she saw her abilities to see FLZs, at least at first. You would think that being able to see that people are crushing on you is a pretty cool power, but it only made her scared (especially when she woke up and saw those flying girls), more self-conscious about herself and a bit sad that the one she knows is based off of her (Eve) has very little resemblance to her at all.
Bokukko: Due to crossdressing, she took up the habit of addressing herself as "boku". However, she continues to do so at her own comfort even when she dresses feminine.
Dude Magnet: In the past, she already attracted every boy around her. Since she can't ignore their attraction to her, she started to crossdress, which had the unfortunate side effect that she now looked like a beautiful bishounen, attracting the girls around her. And some men are still attracted to her, even though they don't know she is a girl.
Tarou is still very much attracted Ririsu, despite being led to believe that his first love was a guy. His first confession in high school was fake, but the whole school now thinks he is into men, especially because earlier he never showed interest in any woman. Subverted, as Tarou actually wishes "Ririto" is a woman, like his "ideal" woman and First Love Zombie, Eve.
Haran Koigaura, The Casanova of the school, is instantly attracted to Ririto, not noticing that Ririto is supposed to be a guy. At the end of the student council president election, he falls for Ririto and desperately wants to deny that he could be into (very cute) men.
Even the Girls Want Her: In her masculine disguise, every girl in her school has fallen in love with her, and quite a few outside of it find her handsome as well. Of all these girls, Kohaku stands out for still crushing on her despite knowing she's a girl.
I Just Want to Be Normal: Over the course of the story, the reader learns that Ririsu is extremely annoyed by the Zombies (which kind of forced her to crossdress) and would love nothing more than stop seeing them. However, when she and Tarou learn that his great-grandfather can see Zombies as well and apparently knows how to stop seeing them, she is hesitant to learn how, as then she wouldn't have a good reason to stick with Tarou anymore.
Lust Object:
To numerous boys when she left Japan and started seeing First Love Zombies. She crossdresses to prevent this.
Also to Misao, much to "Ririto's" displeasure.
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: She can't stand the idea of having to look at First Love Zombies anymore and wants to be less of a burden on Tarou, so her ultimate goal is to get cured of her affliction and then exit his life forever so he can have closure. In the last arc, she also adds getting him together with Ebino to this plan.
The Matchmaker: As reluctant as Tarou when she becomes this. Also tried to push Tarou and Ebino together to put Eve to sleep.
New Transfer Student: Ibusuki starts the manga as a second year transfer, but eventually leaves come the end of that year. She transfers into another school under her real name and gender in the epilogue.
Recursive Cross Dressing: She almost winds up be redressed as a girl in various situations.
Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: "Ririsu" sound phonetically similar to how "Lilith" is pronounced in Japanese. Lilith, in the Old Testament, was Adam's first wife before he had Eve, fitting for a person who became Tarou's First Love.
Spoiled Sweet: Ririsu is a genuinely nice person, who slightly has an issue with her bust. She also comes from the very wealthy Yame family and is its designated heir.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: After Ririsu gained the ability to see First Love Zombies, she realized that she could see a boy's crush and many crushed on her since from an early age on she was very cute. However, Zombies are modeled after the thoughts of their hosts and she doesn't like boys having perverted thoughts about her, which is why she began to dress as a boy and become "Ririto" instead. This again caused the girls to crush on Ririto, which incurred clingy girls and the jealousy of the boys. No matter how Ririsu dresses, she'll turn heads left and right.
Sweet Polly Oliver: Ririto "Eve" Ibusuki is a guy, but his mother made him wear girl's clothes when he was a child. Tarou isn't too pleased about the reveal. Or at least that's what Tarou is told. It turns out Ibusuki is a girl, but pretends to be a guy to prevent other guys from crushing on her and seeing First Love Zombies of herself. So she's a girl crossdressing as a guy who pretends he used to crossdress as a girl.
Tsundere: Very much. Tarou is her first love and before she and him were separated, she wished to kiss him and even told his elder sister, Kazuki, that she would like to marry Tarou and become Kazuki's sister one day. She is very angry about the fact that he can't remember what happened ten years ago (especially the part where she asked him to kiss her and he headbutted her instead), but she is nonetheless happy when she sees Tarou's First Love Zombie, Eve, who is modeled after Ririsu, and unlike other Zombies, isn't dormant but sparkles, and she can't help but blush when Tarou calls her beautiful. Except when she sees Eve's cleavage. Because she lacks that. And if anyone, especially Tarou, ever accidentally brings up that Ririto must be a guy, since he doesn't have noticeable breasts, she will react very violently. She also is half-embarassed/angry and happy when Eve changes her clothes based on what Tarou is thinking about, especially when it's based on what Ririsu was wearing.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Subverted, as she still is sweet inside, just with a few things that tick her off. Back when she was five years-old, "Eve" was a sweet kid, who fell in love with Tarou. She slowly started to resent him, though, when she accidentally caused a divorce between her parents after she told her father about his First Love Zombie, and her father proceeded to leave Ririsu and her mother to pursue his first love. She also had no interest in seeing the boys who are crushing on (and lusting after) her, going for extreme measures like pretending to be a man to avoid this.
What Does She See in Him?: After Mei and Kazuki learn that Ririsu is aware of First Love Zombies and that Tarou loves Eve, they begin to wonder why she still likes him.
Tarou's First Love Zombie based on Ririsu. She was created when ten years ago Ririsu and Tarou confessed to each other and attempted to kiss. However, confused about suddenly seeing two Eves, Tarou accidentally headbutts the real Eve, which gives her the ability to see First Love Zombies and makes Tarou unable to see them. Only after he gets hit by a baseball does he start to see the Zombies again, and with them his First Love Zombie.
Adam and/or Eve: Like the biblical Eve, our Eve originated from her loved one and soulmate (Adam's rib vs. Tarou's feelings for his first love).
A Form You Are Comfortable With: She can actually take the appearance of any kind of girl, but only sticks with the ones she thinks Tarou will like.
Assist Character: Due to developing a consciousness of her own & being able to interact with Tarou, Tarou is able to use her to interact with the other "first love zombies".
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Justified, as she notes that Tarou never put real thought into her naked body, so she lacks nipples and genitals for the time being.
Deep Sleep: As a First Love Zombie, she gets put to sleep or a coma whenever a first love begins to be realized or when Tarou has doubts about his first love.
Enemy Within: The original version of her, kept way in the back of Eve's subconscious until the final arc, is filled with resentment towards Ibusuki for leaving and expresses her selfish desires more openly, while our Eve is a people pleaser and, while wanting to be with Tarou, wants what Tarou needs for him to be happy.
Everything's Better with Sparkles: When a guy's first love begins to be realized, their First Love Zombie glitters and intensifies. This usually means, in Eve's case, that she'll glow when Tarou has feelings for Ibusuki.
The Fashionista: Having more agency over herself than other First Love Zombies, Eve can change herself as she wishes, which often includes changing her outfits. She copies any outfit she sees and can change into it instantly, resulting in a very diverse style.
Magical Girlfriend: Though not quite getting towards "girlfriend" yet, Eve serves this purpose for Tarou, especially given that he can see her and they interact almost daily.
Never My Fault: When Tarou figures out that Eve, Ibusuki, and Ebino were all collaborating to make Tarou fall in love with the latter and put Eve to rest, Eve (in Heartbreak mode) absolves herself of any personal involvement with the plans and puts the blame on Ibusuki for lying to both her and Ebino.
Punny Name: Her Romanized name, Ibu, is taken from Ibusuki's childhood nickname.
Sleep-Mode Size: Her true form is based off of child Ririsu, and she occasionally returns to that form if something major happens in the late series.
The Reveal: Eve, apparently, was always a Heartbreak Zombie, turned from Ririsu's initial moving away (which means he interpreted her leaving him as rejecting his feelings outright). In order to be closer to Tarou, Eve developed a more palatable form and built off from there. She's also the reason why Ibusuki can even see Zombies.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: Eve is a sweet, joyful and slightly ditzy girl, representing Tarou's ideal. But unlike most other first love zombies, she has developed a consciousness of her own.
Mei Ebino
Tarou's childhood friend from elementary school. She also is responsible for the volleyball team.
The Ace: Captain of the volleyball team, and proficient in both sports, academics, and in domestics as well.
Big Ol' Eyebrows
Boobs of Steel: She has a large rack and has physical strength to match.
Cool Big Sis: In addition to school work, she also looks after her numerous younger siblings, and tends to them with an almost motherly proficiency.
Gag Boobs: She's has a large rack and the manga won't let you forget it. Exploits this in the final arc to make Tarou really look st her as a woman.
Green-Eyed Epiphany: A large part of why she realizes her love for Tarou is the fact that she got jealous of Ririto, who she learned was Tarou's first love.
He Is Not My Boyfriend: In Chapter 80, her parents ask her if either Tarou or Ibusuki is dating her. She has to repeatedly insist that she's not, but her family thinks it's going to happen one way or another anyway.
Ignorance Is Bliss: In order for Ebino to fully cooperate with the "date Tarou and get him away from Eve" plan, Ibusuki omits the fact that Eve will go into Deep Sleep when Tarou falls for someone else, instead telling her that she'll disappear like she would if his first love is fulfilled.
It's All My Fault: After she learns that the baseball she hit Tarou accidentally with caused him to see First Love Zombies (again), she blames herself for Tarou falling in love with what she assumes is just a delusion. Ririsu eventually clears up any misunderstandings and explains everything.
Love Epiphany: After the school play, Ebino finally admits to herself that she's fallen in love with Tarou.
Lust Object: Almost half the male population in school has Ebino as their basis for their First Love Zombies, and all of them vary in how skimpy or fanservice-y they can get.
School Idol: She's one being a Statuesque Stunner Academic Athlete with a very generous bosom.
Tomboyish Ponytail: Being the sporty character, she always has her hair tied back like this.
Wakasanomiya High School
Mimata Noa
A Gyaru from the same class and she likes Mikanojou.
Chubby Chaser: She has a thing for chubby boys and turns out to be attracted to Miyakanojou Shizuka, a fat otaku who also fell for her but is in denial. They manage to hook up with Tarou's help. She is infuriated when he slims down.
Genki Girl: She always full of energy.
Yaysujiro Ryuu
One of Tarou's closest friends.
Childhood Friends: He grew up with Tarou and Ebino.
Shubuai Misawo
A second year student who dubs herself the First lady killer and is obsessed with Ririto.
Cute But Psycho: She is obsessed with crushing the love of people.
Karma Houdini: Despite her attacking Ririto, she doesn't get punished.
Haran Koigaura
A playboy who's called in to be Mosawo's running opponent in the Election arc. He ends up taking a real shine to Ibusuki.
Armored Closet Gay: He really doesn't want to admit to himself that his first love may be a man, which is represented by FLZ sparkles floating up and being forced back down whenever he pulls himself together.
Sweet on Polly Oliver: Falls in love with Ibusuki during the election arc.
The Kurume Family
Kazuki Kurume
Tarou's little brother.
Precocious Crush: Has one on Mei. He confesses to her during Tarou's Christmas party and birthday, but when he's rejected he continues to hold out for her.
Strong Family Resemblance: He looks just like a younger Tarou, but shorter and without the scar.
Tarou's Grandfather
Shadow Archetype: He is largely a version of Tarou that decided to choose his "Eve" instead of his "Ibusuki" or anyone else. He had no real intentions of looking for his first love, coming to realize that he loved Kyoko instead. Even if he got married and had a kid, he didn't love the woman romantically and kept all his love for Kyouko, who in confessing to her made her virtually the same kind of anomaly as Eve.
Kyouko
The First Love Zombie of Tarou's grandfather.
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: Her more attractive physical traits emphasize her long black hair.
Kuzuko Kurume
Tarou's elder sister.
Tarou's Father
In Love with Love: Unlike Tarou and his grandfather, Tarou's father never gained the ability to see First Love Zombies. However he was fascinated with the concept to the point where his own FLZ (which he's unaware of) is an amalgamation of every single FLZ in existence.
Suzuko Kurume
Ojou
Shipper on Deck: She is a huge supporter of Tarou/Ririto.
Sweet on Polly Oliver: She does have a crush on "Ririto".
Yaoi Fangirl
Tarou's mother
The Ebino Family
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Film / Green Room
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"Now. Whatever you saw or did... is no longer my concern. But let's be clear... it won't end well".
Green Room is a 2016 horror thriller written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier and starring Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots and Patrick Stewart.
Punk band the Ain't Rights are on tour, and it isn't going terribly well. When they're offered the chance to play a show at a venue near Portland, Oregon, they jump at the chance to make enough money to get them back home. But after discovering that the club is owned by neo-Nazi Skinheads, they witness a murder, and the band is forced to fight for their lives.
Things don't go so well for our heroes.
Green Room contains examples of:
Action Girl: Amber surprisingly turns out to be one.
Action Survivor: The band is way out of their depth dealing with the neo-Nazis, and realistically make many mistakes throughout the film, which gets three of the four killed.
Affably Evil: Darcy, who has a gentle, almost grandfatherly approach to mentoring the young Skinheads. He uses his kindly personality to try to convince the band to surrender. (Depending on your interpretation of the character, possibly more Faux Affably Evil.)
Air-Vent Passageway: Subverted. At one point Sam suggests trying the bunker's duct but Pat brushes her off saying that they wouldn't fit through.
Angry Guard Dog: The pit bulls owned by Clark that Darcy sets on the band.
Anyone Can Die: Three of the four band members don't make it. The Skinheads aren't so lucky either, with Gabe and Werm being the only ones alive at the end.
An Arm and a Leg: Pat gets his arm royally messed up by the skinheads. We don't see it happen, but we do see the aftermath and it ain't pretty.
Attack! Attack! Attack!: Pat recalls that this is how the band won a round of paintball against U.S. Marine veterans. It inspires him and Amber to formulate a proactive plan, even if based on completely different principle.
Bad Boss: Darcy verbally, and at one point physically, attacks Gabe for acting to protect Werm after he killed Emily "under [his] roof" suggesting that Gabe should have let him go to prison instead. He also implies that the heroin that he gave to Werm and his band to take (and that, except for Werm, they are later shown to have taken) is in fact poisoned in an attempt to remove the band as a loose end.
Badass Bystander: Amber turns out to be one.
Bad-Guy Bar: Darcy's music venue — because, well, it's a white supremacist bar.
Bait-and-Switch: The entire setup in the basement against the remaining two Red Laces, but most notable is Amber apparently jumping down. The skinhead fires his last shell, knee-capping her, throws the shotgun away and runs for the pistol, only to find that the body belongs to Emily and the gun has the magazine removed, while Amber smiles in his face from the top.
Bald of Evil: Darcy. The other skinheads have shaved their hair short as well.
Beard of Evil: Clark has one.
Beware the Quiet Ones:
Amber starts off as the quietest, most reserved member of the group, but transforms into a total badass.
Soft-spoken club owner Darcy is the film's Big Bad.
Big Bad: Darcy, the sadistic, neo-Nazi owner of the club, who is absolutely terrifying despite speaking softly and looking like a nice, glasses-wearing old man, due to being played by Patrick Stewart.
Bittersweet Ending: Pat and Amber survive, but almost everyone else dies including all of Pat's bandmates, and Pat's mutilated arm means that he'll probably never play bass again.
Bookends: The first word of the movie is "shit," and the last word of the movie is also "shit" with a line "Tell someone who gives a shit."
Boom, Headshot!: How Daniel and Darcy die.
Bottomless Magazines: Averted. The count of shells for the shotgun is a plot point, especially after Pat took the shells for himself. And by the end of the story, all ammunition have been fired.
Brick Joke:
Early on, while giving an interview, all band members list their Desert Island Bands, all being rock or punk rock. Later on, in the thick of it, Sam reveals it's in fact Simon & Garfunkel, while Reece reveals it's Prince. This even extends to Amber, since even if she wasn't part of the interview, her listing of Madonna along Slayer is funny by itself.
Only at the very end does Pat think of his Desert Island Band. Amber suggests he tell "someone who gives a shit".
Chekhov's Gunman: Subverted. The wounded dog that runs away? No, it's not going to attack Pat and Amber (or even Gabe, as he was sent out to find help at a nearby farm) for a Downer Ending. It just came back home and lies next to its dead owner, hurt itself and slowly dying.
Chekhov's Skill: When Reece shoves Tad into a door, Tiger says, "Ease up, Jiu-Jitsu!" Reece later uses his jiu-jitsu to put the bouncer in an armbar and a rear-naked choke.
Counting Bullets: The shotgun has three shells left. Amber loudly counts them after each shot and repeats them to make sure Pat knows when the last of the attackers will run dry.
Amber: Zero.
Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover shows Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, and Imogen Poots standing in formation as if facing some danger together. In the actual movie Patrick Stewart is the danger.
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass:
Reece, who at first doesn't seem any different from the other members of the band, turns out to be the most physically imposing and strongest among the protagonists. He's the most willing to handle a firearm and shows more proficiency than anyone else, including the bad guys, in a number of submission-grappling moves.
Pat as well, who, despite seeming flaky and unreliable and being the first band member to get wounded, kills several of the neo-Nazis, including Darcy, and survives the film.
Cruel and Unusual Death: All of them.
Dare to Be Badass: Subverted. Pat attempts to give a pep talk about the time a friend of his single-handedly wiped out a team of ex-Marines in paintball by just outright charging them. Reece cuts him off. Later, at Amber's request, Pat finishes the story.
Dead Man's Trigger Finger: Darcy dies this way, fortunately missing.
Decoy Protagonist: Reece looks like he could lead the group out of their misery but then he suffers a Surprisingly Sudden Death.
Defector from Decadence: Gabe ends up siding with Pat and Amber, as he has seen enough of Darcy's evil through the entire night and simply doesn't want to go to prison.
Developing Doomed Characters: The film starts by following the band through their road trip to their latest venue, a radio interview, and a gig in a diner.
The Dragon: Gabe starts out seeming to be this to Darcy, but later turns out to be more of an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain. Clark better fits the role.
Dissonant Serenity:
Just before leaving, Werm calmly compliments the Ain't Rights and asks the name of their penultimate song, explaining that was when he committed the murder.
Discussed when Pat and Amber sit stunned on the green room sofa and wonder why they're not panicking.
Dressing as the Enemy: Pat buzzes his hair to look like a skinhead. This confuses everyone long enough to set up a trap in motion.
Duct Tape for Everything: Pat's mutilated arm is duct-taped to lessen the bleeding. He then tapes Amber's thigh after she's shot.
Dwindling Party: The band members are picked off throughout the film. By the end, only Pat and Amber are still alive.
The Dying Walk: Darcy performs one in his final moments.
Elite Mooks: The Red Laces, who are basically the soldiers of the neo-Nazi gang.
Emotionless Girl: Amber, probably due to being exposed to the horrors of the gang and their actions throughout her life. She also suggests having had a traumatic life before the events of the movie which may have numbed her to trauma and violence.
Establishing Character Moment: When Tad can't deliver on his promise, Reece angrily grabs and threatens him, establishing him as the most physically dominant of the band.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Clark, Darcy's right-hand man, is more than happy to train dogs to fight and kill. He also genuinely cares for them on some level, and asks the last Red Laces to let a mortally wounded dog die fighting. After Clark's death, that same dog finds his body and lies down to die next to him.
Evidence Dungeon: When Darcy opens the trunk of Daniel's car, no further exposition is needed as all the evidence about his and Emily's runaway plans lay open.
Extremely Short Timespan: Most of the film takes place over one very long night.
Fauxshadowing: A few shots in the climax focus on the injured fight dog roaming out into the woods, a loose menace to our heroes. In the end, it shows up and simply sits down beside its late owner.
Fall Guy: The two 'true believers' that agree to stab and get stabbed to cover for the initial 911 call and get the police off the scent of the real stabbing taking the wounds and the prison time respectively.
Feedback Rule: Downplayed. There is a slight feedback after Darcy announces the end of the "movement" party and steps away from the microphone.
Fire-Forged Friends: Amber goes from a random person the band is locked with to closest ally Pat has and lives to the very end. They don't exactly like each other by the end, but still make a great team.
Five Stages of Grief: Lampshaded when Pat asks Amber if it's normal they aren't panicking anymore. At this point of the plot, they are all in Acceptance stage, fully expecting to die.
Fluffy the Terrible: The monstrous white supremacist whom all the other neo-Nazis hold in awe? Darcy.
Foreshadowing: In the radio interview at the beginning of the film, Reece mentions that he doesn't expect to live until he's seventy. He's absolutely right.
For Want of a Nail: If Pat hadn't gone back to the green room to get Sam's phone, he wouldn't have witnessed the scene of Emily's murder, and he and the rest of the band wouldn't have been caught up in fighting for their lives against a group of neo-Nazis.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Darcy wears glasses and is the Big Bad.
Gambit Roulette: The fight plan assumes the last of the Red Laces will drop his shotgun and run for the handgun instead. There is absolutely no guarantee he will do that and it was depending on a chance.
Gorn: When people die in this movie, it is absolutely ugly. And there's a lot of dying going on.
Gory Discretion Shot: Played straight and then Subverted: initially we don't see what's happening to Pat's arm when Darcy's goons are trying to take the gun from him, but once the others pull him away from the door, we see in graphic detail that his hand has been hacked nearly clean off and is barely still attached to his arm.
Green-Eyed Monster: Werm killed Emily when he learned that Emily was going to run away with Daniel.
Grumpy Old Man: In just about every scene, Darcy gives the impression he'd rather be doing anything other than this.
Gun Struggle: In the basement between Pat and one of the skins over the shotgun. Broken by Amber killing the skinhead with the handgun.
Gutted Like a Fish: How Amber kills Big Justin.
He Knows Too Much: The band. Although it's also played with in that Darcy would rather have let the band talk about the murder and Werm go to prison as a result to protect his drug business at least until he finds out that Emily and Daniel were planning to leave and take incriminating evidence with them.
Heroic BSoD: Sam has a minor one when they're first locked in the green room; Pat has one after his hand is nearly cut off.
Hope Spot:
When they discover the drug bunker beneath the changing room. However, it doesn't provide a way out.
When Daniel defects, it looks like he might get the band out of there. He dies almost immediately.
Improvised Weapon: Few, but most notably the dry powder fire extinguisher, which is used extensively throughout the second half of the film and is very effective at blinding and choking. Sam also attempts this with a broken fluorescent light, but she doesn't end up using it on anyone.
I Need a Freaking Drink: Sam almost instantly goes for it when finding a shot left on the bar. She drops the glass mid-swing when Daniel is suddenly shot.
Karma Houdini: Werm, who did the murder that kicked everything off, is last seen safe and sound watching television while his bandmates get high on heroin. Although the heroine was (heavily implied to be) tainted, he apparently didn't take a shot himself.
Killed Mid-Sentence:
After Daniel switches sides and shows the remaining band members where ammo is held, along with a shotgun, he is killed while saying "I know where we keep—", catching buckshot with his face. His killer even remarks about how Daniel was "too slow."
When confronted by Pat and Amber, Clark only manages to say the word "Listen—" before being blasted with the shotgun by Amber.
Kill the Cutie: Sam gets mauled by one of Clark's attack dogs.
Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club: The venue is a front for Darcy and company's heroin dealing.
Let's Split Up, Gang: Proposed by Sam, ends up getting Reece and Tiger killed.
Machete Mayhem: The Red Laces bring one along. It ends up being used against them.
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: While the "minor crime" is murder, from Darcy's perspective the murder of some random girl by a resident musician of the club is a trifling matter. Darcy can't let cops investigate his club because of the drug empire he's got in the basement.
Mohs Scale of Violence Hardness: A solid 9. While the violence isn't as rampant as other horror movies, the death scenes in this movie are very, very graphic, as brief as they may be.
MookFace Turn: Several.
Daniel switches sides and helps the protagonists, and it's revealed that he was planning on leaving from the beginning and is also holding incriminating evidence against Darcy and the skinheads for a past crime they've committed.
Finally, Gabe turns when he realizes that Pat and Amber have killed the remaining Red Laces and he's had to spend a night witnessing the full extent of Darcy's evil, rather than hearing tall stories.
My Nayme Is: The Ain't Rights' name, is spelled incorrectly (the "Arent Rights") on the sign for the venue, much to the band's chagrin.
No Hugging, No Kissing: Sam is simply a member of the band and not in any relationship with any of the boys in it. There's also no sexual tension between Pat and Amber and no romantic subplot of any kind going between them.
Oblivious Janitor Cut: There is a cut-away to Gabe cleaning the club while Pat and Amber fight two mooks in the green room.
Obvious Trap:
Yes, Pat, reach out into the hallway to give Darcy your gun. Nothing bad could possibly happen.
Invoked verbatim by the remaining two Red Laces when Pat jumps into the basement and pretends to fight with someone. They know it's a ruse, but they still need to get inside and finish him off.
Oh, Crap!:
The look on Pat's face when he stumbles on the murder scene.
The last Red Laces face when he realizes he was tricked.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Tiger. Unless it's a case of Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Darcy and the group of neo-Nazis. Darcy refers to the heroin he gives to the house band Cow Catcher as "my dope, nigger stamps" and later mentions that it is likely poisoned by saying "really gotta watch that nigger dope; bad batch doing the rounds."
Precision F-Strike: "Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks, FUCK OFF!!!"
Pretty Little Headshots:
Justified, as the handgun used for inflicting those is of really small caliber.
Averted with Darcy and horrifically averted with Daniel.
Psychos For Hire: The Red Laces. One who hacks Reece to death has a big grin on his face when he's done.
Punk Rock: The whole film is set within the punk scene, with the protagonist's band being an example of Hardcore Punk, while the villains are a group of white-supremacist Skinheads (versus non-racist Skins, who, as the film alludes to, exists too).
Refuge in Audacity: Pat and Amber are the last survivors of the night and trapped in the green room. With the skinheads' arrival imminent, Amber shaves Pat's head and gives him her jacket while she hides in the sofa. When the skinheads break in, Pat's skinhead impersonation puts the killers off-guard long enough for him to bait them into a trap.
Rockers Smash Guitars: The hunched-over figure in the film poster is a covert nod to this trope, replacing the guitar with a machete to combine the film's themes of rock music and horrific violence.
Running Gag: People calling the amps in the hallway a "fire hazard" even after dealing with the murder.
Shout-Out:
The band references quite a few musical bands, including various groups as their "desert island band." Pat wears a Minor Threat shirt and Sam wears a Dead Kennedys shirt throughout the film.
A Dragonlance book is visible in the Ain't Rights' van at the very end.
The drugs given to Cow Catcher (probably to poison them) are "nigger-stamped." Gabe asks if they're "Grove Street." This is a reference to Grove Street from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, a neighborhood with a majority-black population and a notorious drug problem.
Sickening "Crunch!": Can be heard when Reece breaks Big Justin's arm.
The Siege: The band, Amber, and one of the club's bouncers are trapped in the titular green room, trying to fight off the venue's owner and his neo-Nazi mooks on the other side of the door.
Stealth Pun: The neo-Nazis correct the band's name from the Ain't Rights to the "Aren't Rights," making them literal Grammar Nazis.
Surprisingly Sudden Death:
Reece, despite being the most physically imposing band member, is mortally wounded the moment he crawls out a window.
And then again with Daniel, the trained killer who knows the club inside and out. Shot in the head in mid-sentence.
Sociopathic Hero: Arguably, Amber. She's the most comfortable with killing of any of the protagonists, seemingly unfazed when unzipping Big Justin's stomach (whilst Reece completely freaks out) with the box cutter and multiple other kills. She is also fine using the blood-soaked corpse of her friend to draw the fire of the skinhead with the shotgun in the bunker before killing him with a double tap on the skin shortly after whilst he's grappling with Pat. She is also the most comfortable dealing out multiple other gunshot and close combat kills throughout the second half of the movie; seemingly registering no emotional reaction besides determination.
This Means Warpaint: Pat and Amber put on camouflage paint before their showdown with the two mooks.
Those Wacky Nazis: The villains.
Too Dumb to Live: Knowing that they're playing at a skinhead bar in the middle of nowhere, the band decides to open with a cover of the Dead Kennedys' "Nazi Punks Fuck Off", a well-known anti-Nazi punk song. Thankfully, the spectators are more annoyed and belligerent than violent and actually end up enjoying the set.
Played straight when Sam suggests everyone split up to find an exit out of the venue when it's clear there are enemies wanting to kill them lurking all around who know the place much better than they do. Unsurprisingly, they're immediately overwhelmed and two are killed.
Two Shots from Behind the Bar: There was a shotgun hidden behind the bar and Daniel was in the middle of retrieving it, but was killed in the process, with the very gun he was searching for, already removed by the rest of the gang.
The Unfought: Werm, the big, creepy leader of the club's house band Cow Catcher kicks everything off by murdering Emily. He's last seen eating noodles next to his unconscious (and presumably poisoned) band members. Amber wants to track him down, but hasn't by the film's end.
The Un-Reveal: Pat's desert island band. He thinks of it in the end, but Amber doesn't want to hear it. It is heavily implied to be Creedence Clearwater Revival, as their song "Sinister Purpose" is the first to be played as the credits roll.
Violence Is Disturbing: Is it ever. All of the violence in the film is sloppy and brutal, with the effects of things like knife and gunshot wounds portrayed with nauseating realism.
Weaksauce Weakness: Fight dogs vs. microphone feedback. Dogs really hate that sound.
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Justified as an actual plot point. The band can't be shot, since that would make it hard to explain why they have gunshot wounds and blow the cover story about them being attacked by dogs while supposedly siphoning gas. But when three of them are already mauled by dogs, Pat is fair game to shoot.
The Worf Effect: Reece, the toughest and most assertive band member, is the second band member to die, in the same sequences as Tiger, establishing the threat of the Nazis and that anyone can die. The minimal effort required for that only drives the message further.
You Can Barely Stand: By the end of the story, Pat and Amber are wounded, bleeding and after an entire night of a siege and fighting for their lives. They just sit there, with no strength left.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Darcy heavily implies that he has arranged for Werm and the rest of the house band Cow Catcher to poison themselves by giving them free drugs with 'nigger stamps' that has been poisoned. Seemingly confirmed when all but Werm are shown unconscious or dead with needles still in at least one of their arms at the end of the film.
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Witnessing a Teacher Breathe Life into History – Volpa, Belarus
April 28, 2017 Naomi Epstein 2 Comments
Volpa, Belarus
Note – This is post number five and our final stop on our Heritage Trip to Belarus. Once again, we were dealing with the time period in which Dora lived, but since our relatives from here are from my husband’s side, this post is not strictly part of the “Dora posts” series.
The amazing history teacher Teresa Kudrik and former principal Yuri, in the school’s museum. They gave us a very warm welcome and a fascinating tour.
Imagine you are a student in a small rural school, in a small, sleepy village. One day your teacher takes your class out for an unusual kind of “treasure hunt” around the village, a sort of “story in a suitcase”. At each stop along the way, you meet Basya (one of the older school girls played Basya, dressed up in the old style), supposedly a Jewish girl who once lived here, who tells you what once used to happen on this spot. The girl’s name was taken from a class photo. In the last years before the Nazi’s took over a few Jewish girls studied in the local school.
The “Mikveh” once stood here.
The synagogue in Volpa was such a unique building that it was known the world over. Poland named it a national treasure in 1929. The only drawback was that it wasn’t heated. In winter it could only be used on the Sabbath and the congregation would try to rush the services because of the cold! It was made of wood and burned quickly during the war.
Imagine Basya explaining that Jews had different places to buy food because of the dietary laws. She would have used this photo to show that all the children were neighbors and could play together.
A picture found in a villager’s attic. The two neighbors & friends bound forever in the same frame, a Christian boy and a Jewish one (alone in the photo).
Now you must imagine how the walk around the village ends – with Basya revealing that only her spirit could remain in Volpa, since she perished along with all the other Jewish residents (only one survivor).
Can you imagine planning such a tour for the school children?! I was dumbfounded to learn of this project that the amazing history teacher Teresa Kudrik organized. Teachers can work magic, you know! Even more so to learn that Teresa had been on a course at Yad Va-Shem in Jerusalem!
The school has a small but very impressive museum devoted to the history of the place. They raised tobacco here.
In the Jewish section of the museum they used pictures from the Volkovysk Yizkor Book (Memorial Book), where Volpa is mentioned. This was the first place on the trip where we found the complete list of names of the former Jewish residents that perished. We did not encounter such a list in Antopol or in Volkovysk. It was also our first encounter with someone who was delighted (in fact, the first real smile we encountered on the trip!) to hear that Roni’s grandparents were from Volpa and was happy to receive copies of the few photos we have from those days, for the museum.
The section on local Jewish history
It was thanks to former principal Yuri that we got to visit the museum and tour the school.
Our guide, Andrei Burdenkov, also smiles when he isn’t busy listening and translating for us!
As a teacher, I was also very interested in the school itself. It was very modern looking and attractive. We got to see the fine computer lab and the biology lab. I was surprised to see chalk boards in use but Andrei explained that chalk is abundant in these parts. The classes are very small, the number of residents in such villages is dwindling.
The highlight of our tour!
We took a short walk around town before heading back to the cemetery. We had actually started with the cemetery, if you could call it that. We never would have found it on our own, it is so very easy to miss entirely. Andrei had coordinates. There’s barely anything to see, tall grass (with ticks!) and no fence. But at the museum we learned that a memorial marker had been erected there and so we returned to find it.
Local mailboxes
Spring must be roof mending time.. The winters around here are harsh.
What is left of the cemetery of Volpa…
Volpa cemetery memorial
A memorable visit indeed!
Our guide, Andrei Burdenkov, prepared this video “Driving through Volpa”
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Adele says:
Amazing! Thank you so much for documenting and sharing!
Zehava says:
A most inspiring story!
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Victoria Gold Corp. Announces Eagle Feasibility Study Underway
Toronto, ON - Victoria Gold Corp. (VIT.TSX-V) ("Victoria" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Wardrop , A Tetra Tech Company, ("Wardrop") has been engaged by Victoria to complete a NI 43-101 compliant Feasibility Study ("Feasibility Study") for the Eagle Gold Mine project ("Eagle").
Feasibility Study Now Underway
On March 9, 2010, Victoria announced the results of a Preliminary Feasibility Study which highlighted the development of a mine at Eagle with production to start in 2013 and to average approximately 170,000 ounces of gold per year with cash operating costs to be below US$500/oz.
Wardrop will coordinate the preparation of the Eagle Feasibility Study and incorporate previous work from the Preliminary Feasibility Study. Wardrop will be responsible for defining elements such as resource and reserve estimation, principal mine design, planning and financial modeling and engineering.
Wardrop will also further examine mine optimization scenarios. Completion of the Feasibility Study is the final step in proving up Eagle in advance of production. Wardrop is an internationally recognized engineering firm with considerable northern mining project experience and brings a wealth of knowledge to the advancement of Eagle. Wardrop will lead the development team of BGC Engineering, Kappes Cassiday & Associates and Stantec, each of which was involved in the Pre-Feasibility Study, which allow for strong continuity and accelerated delivery of the Feasibility Study. The Feasibility Study is expected to be completed by Q4 2011 at a cost to Victoria of $4 million.
"This is another important milestone for the Eagle Gold Mine project and for Victoria. Wardrop has assembled a top team of mining professionals and has a proven ability to advance northern mining projects such as Eagle" said Chad Williams, President and CEO of Victoria. "We continue to advance Eagle toward development in a timely manner following the submission by Victoria of the Eagle Project Proposal to the Yukon Environmental & Socio-Economic Assessment Board (see news release dated December 20, 2010) and the initiation of this Feasibility Study."
About Dublin Gulch - Eagle Gold Project
The Dublin Gulch property covers a large area of 28 kilometres by 15 kilometres and contains the Eagle Gold Deposit which hosts a National Instrument 43-101 compliant Probable Reserve of 1,751,000 ounces of gold contained in 66,141,000 tonnes of ore grading 0.823 g/t calculated at a gold price of $900/oz. The Dublin Gulch property is road accessible year-round and is situated in the Mayo Mining District of Yukon Territory, Canada. Dublin Gulch is 100% owned by Victoria.
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed as accurate by Dr William Keats, P.Geo, Manager, Exploration Yukon, Victoria Gold Corp., as the Qualified Person.
About Victoria Gold Corp
Victoria is a high-growth gold company with a focus on adding value per share through efficient exploration, project development, and accretive acquisitions. Maintaining a low risk profile through project diversification, sound financial management, and operating in secure jurisdictions are key priorities for Victoria's management team. Victoria currently holds approximately Cdn$26 million in unrestricted cash and cash equivalents.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange, nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This press release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward‐looking statements". All statements in this discussion, other than statements of historical facts, that address future exploration drilling, exploration activities, anticipated metal production, internal rate of return, estimated ore grades, commencement of production estimates and projected exploration and capital expenditures (including costs and other estimates upon which such projections are based) and events or developments that the Company expects, are forward looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in forward‐looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward‐looking statements include metal prices, exploration successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward‐looking statements.
This press release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward‐looking statements". All statements in this discussion, other than statements of historical facts, that address future exploration drilling, exploration activities and events or developments that the Company expects, are forwardlooking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in forward‐looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward‐looking statements include metal prices, exploration successes, continued availability of capital and financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward‐looking statements.
This news release and the information contained herein does not constitute an offer of securities for sale in the United States and securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or exemption from registration.
Katie Fedorowicz, MBA
Investor Relations Coordinator
Tel: 416-866-8800 Ext. 226
kfedorowicz@vitgoldcorp.com
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Anaheim Considers Changes to Permit Parking Program
Scott Smeltzer, DAILY PILOT
Vehicles line up on Juno Avenue in Anaheim on Monday, April 10.
The Anaheim City Council will consider overhauling its permit parking program at its March 27 meeting, a move aimed at alleviating parking problems in crowded residential neighborhoods.
For years the city has heard complaints from homeowners and apartment dwellers of scarce parking in their neighborhoods, generating illegal parking problems in alleys, excessive trash and fueling disputes between neighbors.
Until last year, when all petitions for new permit parking zones were put on hold, the city managed requests for permit parking street-by-street, with no broader plan for how to handle the problem city-wide.
In some neighborhoods, especially those near apartment complexes with inadequate parking, that policy caused cars to spillover from one street to another as each street in a neighborhood converted to permit-only.
The new plan would make all city public streets eligible for permit-only parking, and create larger parking districts to prevent the spillover problem.
The proposed program also includes a “Good Neighbor” policy that requires permit holders to abide by a set of rules, such as prohibitions on blocking driveways and trash cans, and requirements that permit holders be considerate and courteous to each other and the surrounding neighborhood.
Each parking permit will cost $30 and last two years, after which the permit will need to be renewed. Each household can purchases up to 100 guest permits each calendar year for $1 each.
The process to petition for permit-parking also has been streamlined in response to complaints from residents that the process is too expensive and takes too long.
A $500 application fee is required with each petition, to offset the city’s costs for processing the petition. The cost is meant to be shared among households in the petition area, according to a staff report.
That fee will be reduced in some cases to no more than $50 per household, to address smaller petition areas (for example, a street with six homes would pay a $300 fee).
The city will no longer require petitioners to hold a neighborhood meeting to discuss a transition to permit parking, a requirement that typically added an extra month to the petition review process.
And rather than requiring each petition for a permit district go to the City Council for approval, the Public Works Department will be given authority to administer the program themselves.
The draft plan includes a number of changes:
Permits will be issued to each household based on the number of bedrooms: 1 permit for 0-2 bedrooms; 2 permits for 3-4 bedrooms; 3 permits for 5 or more bedrooms
Grandfather in all existing permit parking districts, as of April 10, 2018
Homeowners will be required to demonstrate they are using all available on-site parking, such as garages and driveway space, before they can receive a permit
Apartment property owners will be required to demonstrate that all leases require the use of garages and on-site parking for an operable vehicle. If property owners fail to ensure compliance, the entire property and all tenants could lose the ability to get a street permit.
Prohibit the parking of oversized vehicles (longer than 22 feet, wider than 7 feet and taller than 7 feet) on public streets
Prohibit parking “for sale” cars on certain city streets
Create a process to revoke parking permits if the permit holder violates the municipal code, vehicle code or the permit parking ordinance
Read a full summary of the program here.
Contact Thy Vo at tvo@voiceofoc.org or follow her on Twitter @thyanhvo.
Anaheim City Council
Anaheim to Begin Enforcing Parking Ban on RVs and Oversized Vehicles
Enforcement of a ban on street parking oversized cars, including RVs, began this week in Anaheim after the City Council created new fines for violating the ban, sparking fears among homeless people living in recreational vehicles about whether they can remain in the city.
Anaheim Approves New Rules for Neighborhood Parking Permits
Under the new rules, any neighborhood is eligible to apply for permit-only parking.
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Open mike 31/12/2013
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:32 am, December 31st, 2013 - 160 comments
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karol 1
31 December 2013 at 7:50 am
So NSA can and does hack specific computers globally – said to target the most threatening of individuals and groups. Could be used for cyber warfare.
Stuff:
A German magazine has lifted the lid on the operations of the US National Security Agency’s hacking unit, reporting that American spies intercept computer deliveries, exploit hardware vulnerabilities, and even hijack Microsoft’s internal reporting system to spy on their targets.
Der Spiegel’s revelations relate to a division of the NSA known as Tailored Access Operations, or TAO, which is painted as an elite team of hackers specialising in stealing data from the toughest of targets.
Citing internal NSA documents, the magazine said at the weekend that TAO’s mission was “Getting the ungettable,” and quoted an unnamed intelligence official as saying that TAO had gathered “some of the most significant intelligence our country has ever seen.”
Der Spiegel said TAO had a catalog of high-tech gadgets for particularly hard-to-crack cases, including computer monitor cables specially modified to record what is being typed across the screen, USB sticks secretly fitted with radio transmitters to broadcast stolen data over the airwaves, and fake base stations intended to intercept mobile phone signals on the go.
The NSA doesn’t just rely on James Bond-style spy gear, the magazine said. Some of the attacks described by Der Spiegel exploit weaknesses in the architecture of the Internet to deliver malicious software to specific computers. Others take advantage of weaknesses in hardware or software distributed by some of the world’s leading information technology companies, including Cisco Systems, Inc. and China’s Huawei Technologies, the magazine reported.
weka 1.1
Did you see this in the RSS feed?
The FBI warns US students travelling overseas that they have no privacy from foreign governments etc, and how to protect themselves.
http://www.thepaepae.com/ironic-the-fbi-warns-us-student-travellers-their-communications-may-be-intercepted-and-retained/33764/
Aww 2
Isn’t it time we recouped the billion dollar accommodation supplement by placing additional taxes on LL’s?
karol 2.1
And then Landords would just raise the rent – needs rent cap, too. Or just stop the supplement & providew more state housing.
Murray Olsen 2.1.1
State housing is the answer to many problems. We need so much of it that private landlords end up begging on the street for tenants. Or I would accept just begging on the street.
phillip ure 3
“..The How to Win the Class War satirist turns the spotlight on the shadowy global ‘plot’ –
– to claw back working-class gains..”
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/30/susan-george-secret-capitalist-cabal-behind-european-austerity
phillip ure..
chris73 3.1
I thought it was going to be about the attractive actress Susan George…ah well
“..Record highs of the public supporting legal cannabis for adult consumption..”
http://www.alternet.org/drugs/it-was-historic-year-marijuana-10-biggest-moments
I think all drugs should be decriminalized for personal use, anyone convicted of a crime while under the influence of drugs should be sent to a prison hospital for treatment instead (as well as serving time)
Prohibition only helps organized crime
phillip ure 4.1.1
while i admire/agree with yr drug-beliefs/preferred-policies..
..is that just ‘cos it is part of yr libertarian/randite package..?.
chris73 4.1.1.1
It may well be but I think that prohibition strengthens gangs, doesn’t stop what its supposed to do, costs far too much money and is just plain wrong
If someone takes steroids then they’re dumb but not a criminal (substitute any type of illegal drug if you want) and as such shouldn’t be in prison
phillip ure 4.1.1.1.1
i’m not arguing with you on this one..
..but.. http://whoar.co.nz/?s=libertarian
so much else in that package is just greed-driven/fuck-everyone-else nastiness..
..eh..?
Draco T Bastard 4.1.1.1.1.1
Seen this one?
phillip ure …
chrs 4 that quality-link..i’ve thrown it up on whoar..
..added it to the litany/archive..
..phillip ure..
weka 4.1.2
Not hard to make a case for legal restriction on P, or rohypnol, or opiates, or steroids, or… we could make a long list. This is the problem with basing your ideas on your ideology – not all drugs are the same or have the same impacts. Better to think things through in the real world.
phillip ure 4.1.2.1
weka..like most/many new zealanders..i could walk out my door..
..and get any of those drugs you list..if i so chose..
..there are minimal degrees of separation..twixt dealer and consumer..
..say..slowly..after..me:..
‘prohibition..does..not..work’..
..and nobody is advocating weekly specials on ‘p’ @ the supermarket..
..but there is a middle ground somewhere between those dual-insanities..
..currently we have the utter fucken madness of a drug-war/prohibition..
..with the only winners the crims/gangs..and cops who love messing about in helicopters/4wd’s
..and as for opiate-addicts/speed-users..?
..there is this brilliant schema whereby they are hooked on nazi-smack/methadone..
..a drug far more addictive/harder to kick..than the problems it purports to treat..
..those ‘insanities’ i referred to are rife/legion around drugs..
..and how we as a society deal with them..(pun intentional..)
weka 4.1.2.1.1
You have misunderstood what I meant. I was responding to chris’ ideological stance that all drugs should be decriminalised. I think each drug should be assessed separately and in context. I said nothing about prohibition being effective, so please don’t start projecting your issues with drugs onto me.
“like most/many new zealanders..i could walk out my door..
Nope, that’s a distortion of perception based on your own experience. You know how to access drugs because of the kind of life you lead, therefore you think everyone does. While I know some people where I live who would know where to buy P locally it wouldn’t be easy, and most people would have no idea. And again, talking about drugs as one class of substance doesn’t make any sense. It depends on the drug and on the context. You really think that most people in Winton or Waimate know how to access heroin? That’s just daft.
chris73 4.1.2.1.1.1
31 December 2013 at 12:23 pm
Its not ideological its simply when you ban something you create a market for it and all that does is benefit the gangs so what I’m saying is keep the sentences if they commit a crime while on drugs but they should spend their time incarcerated getting clean.
However if the drugs are for personal use thats a different story and they shouldn’t be charged…if someone wants to shoot up with whatever or smoke whatever then thats their business.
However I’d be more then ok if NZ followed Portugal’s example because what NZ is doing at the moment is not working.
weka …
So we should make all drugs freely available? How about statins or rohypnol?
chris73 …
I’ll go with the way Portugals going as they’re doing better then we are in regards to dealing with drugs
I have no idea what Portugal is doing, and you haven’t answered my question, so once again I’m going to assume that you are engaging in disingenuous dialogue here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal
phillip ure 4.1.2.1.1.2
the thing with drugs weka..is that those who want them..manage to find them..
..i am not suggesting those who don’t want to can..
..’that’s just daft’..
..and as for finding what you need in the most unusual/unexpected places..?
..the ‘wintons’ of this world..?
..the stories i could tell..
Of course YOU can find drugs in Winton, that just proves my point (I probably could too. Those with the know how, can).
I wasn’t talking about people who don’t want drugs, but you were the one that said anyone in NZ could access whatever drugs and I just pointed out that that is bullshit. If my mother wanted to buy P this week I seriously doubt she would be able to. And I’ve known numerous occasions when cannabis just hasn’t been available despite much wanting. What you actually mean is that serious drug users can access drugs relatively easily, and you might also mean that people starting out using can access some drugs easily. That’s not what you said originally though.
Now it’s highly unlikely that my mother would want to buy P, granted. But it is untruthful to say that NZ is divided into people who never want to use drugs, and those who are already actively seeking. I don’t think prohibition is smart, and we could have much better harm-minimisation models in place, but prohibition does work at a level ie it restricts access to some people.
you really are a total pedant..aren’t you ..
..anyone who ‘wants’ them..geddit..?
..and you don’t half bang on and on about s.f.a/strawman-bullshit..
..do you..?
..and your rejoinders that you ‘don’t know’..and that reason enough for dismissal..?..try fucken google..eh..?
..try googling portugal/drugs..just for fucken starters..eh..?
..just so you can get a faint grasp of the facts..before you fucken pontificate..
..is that too much to ask..?
the time you spent writing yr 1.04pm could have been spent googling portugal/drugs..
..and you would have increased the sum total of yr knowledge..
..don’t be so lazy/sneering..in yr dismissals of a serious subject..
Wow, really classy Phil. Let me join in: you have to be one of the least logic-literate people who comment here. You want me to follow your line on drugs, I put up some counter arguments and all you can do is rant. Whatever. That’s all you seem capable of to be honest. Once we get past the initial “I believe x, y, z” stage, all you can do is post assertion without back up or logic.
Chris is well-known for posting shit and then refusing to talk about it in any meaningful way. I can read the wiki page on Portugal’s drug policy, but it won’t tell me what CHRIS thinks, will it? If Chris were engaging in genuine dialogue I probably would be willing to read the wiki page, but since he’s not and since he avoids responding to the substantive points I bring up there doesn’t seem much point.
Honest to god, I don’t know why some people expect to come here and post their ideas without them being examined.
.” I can read the wiki page on Portugal’s drug policy, but it won’t tell me what CHRIS thinks, will it?”
– Well yes it will if you could be bothered to read the link, I really don’t feel like arguing the toss with someone who can’t even bothered to read the link
Fuck off Chris, you weren’t willing to argue the toss even before you posted the link. When you bother to respond to my actual points, I’ll be willing to follow your links. But I am pretty sure that if I go read the wiki page and come back and ask questions or critique your comments, I will just get the same evasive shit from you.
btw, the wiki article is fairly long and involved, so it’s not that I just can’t be bothered, it’s that you are asking me to invest substantial time and thought when you can even be arsed explaining yourself in a paragraph or two.
I agree with you on this one, chris73. To the extent that they are a problem, drugs are a health problem and should be treated as such. I think Phil also hits on an important point about who prohibition serves – the police getting special weapons, tactic, and helicopter rides certainly enjoy them and don’t want to lose them. The drug laws also hand them ready made excuses to violate our privacy at will. I’ve lost count of the number of times cops said “I can smell cannabis smoke and will be searching your car/house/person.” If I’d ever been a young Maori at any stage I imagine it would have been much worse.
amirite 5
And the New Year orders have been dished out, pays to be PMs wife’s fashion supplier or to just make shitloads of money on your worker’s expense:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9564756/New-Year-Honours-2014
Sanctuary 6
At this time of the year, I would like us all to stop whatever we are doing, pause for a minute, doff our flat caps, clutch them to our chests, and fight back the tears as we consider the crimes inflicted on the true victim of the GFC, the great recession, and National’s war on the poor – Josie Pagani.
http://www.pundit.co.nz/content/the-left-must-stand-up-to-abuse
Dear oh dear.
Still, Pete George agrees with her, so at least the two most reasonable people in the country are on the same song sheet. They should form a political party together. Oh, what would be a good name for it? I bet even the fly on the wall of their meetings would drop to the floor quite dead from the nausea induced by all the wallowing self-pity.
The “broader left” has gone to bed, turned out the lights, and left Josie Pagani sitting in the dark in the lounge and still she doesn’t get it. I am not sure how else the “broader left” can get through to her that her brand of “leftism” is no longer really welcome in that particular broad church. There is no future for a Blairite apologist and a neo-lib sell-out in the “broader left”. It has moved on, Ms. Pagani has not.
And a particular swipe at standardistas from Pagani.
Actually, it wasn’t necessary for Bradbury to take a swipe at Pagani while commenting on the appointment of Espiner to RNZ’s Morning Report
OTOH, Pagani doesn’t take criticism well.
Tim 6.1.1
There’s another post on TDB by Trotter (The Heartland Myth). I immediately thought of Pagani.
It reminded me of all those ‘movers and shakers’ sprinting over the Rimutakas in their Pajeros to get back to nature and away from the hubub (in Martinborough). Having bought their primitive little weekend ‘getaways’, they’re now busy doing their best to develop and enlarge them, with all the modcons, and generally make the place a suburb of Wellington. There’ll be another road tunnel next. (Joyce’s highway to nowhere)
RedLogix 6.1.1.1
Fuck that’s a sizzler Tim.
Sanctuary 6.1.2
It seems to me the main crime of the Standard in the eyes of Josie Pagani (and to be fair, middle class commentators like Russell Brown) is to take class and socialism seriously.
Firstly, to a whole generation of third way 40-somethings the idea of taking politics seriously as a vital front in a class war is simply an anathema they can’t get their heads around. Remember, anyone white and over 45ish was brought up in the privileged welfare state of pre-revolutionary New Zealand and has largely through connections of job, community and class retained their privileged place in our society. This complacent group seems to have no place for radical politics in their mental image of a bucolic New Zealand and find thinking about it unsettling. They find the idea of actually having political enemies you don’t personally like simply because of what they represent similarly difficult to comprehend.
Secondly, all of this bourgeoise class formed their political beliefs at a time when third way identity politics WAS the acceptable face of the left. The idea that the left is every bit as much about radical economic reform and redistribution and that the new-right’s class war demands a response first and foremost as a radical economic agenda complete with the potential for violence unsettles them. The idea that the political assumptions of a such a well-informed, intelligent, and self-regarded middle class group as them could turn to be entirely wrong is regarded as absurd.
Finally, the ruling liberal bourgeoise elite is bound more together in it’s associations and interests than apart in it’s economic agenda. I hate to pick on her, but again Deborah Russell illustrates this point perfectly. Selected as an “ideal” Labour candidate, she started in the Young Nationals at Otago University (and recruited/is a close friend of the ultra-neoliberal David Farrar) and
“…Started her career as an accountant working for Deloitte and Treasury. She subsequently completed a PhD in Philosophy at the Australian National University. She went on to be a senior tax policy analyst for the IRD, and is now a senior lecturer in taxation at Massey University. Dr Russell chairs the Labour Party Economic Policy Committee…”
In other words, she is the perfect Paganiist candidate – a technocrat capable of segueing easily between political parties and a perfect middle class manager of the neo-liberal status quo. Deborah Russell, Josie Pagani, (and Russell Brown) would all undoubtably enjoy the company of David Farrar well ahead of their supposed allies on the left. Chardonnay socialists, indeed.
So really, the Standard is doing a stirling job of kicking against the pricks, and reminding the establishment elites that a whole lot of more radical thinking exists outside the comfortable cocoon of the top 20% of our society. David Cunliffe’s elevation to the top job was at least partially due to the fact sites like the Standard have short circuited the monopoly on communication held by the central cadre establishment elites of the Labour Partty, and Cunliffe’s election on the basis of party support was a rare victory of that membership over the establishment Labour elites of the “left” like Josie Pagani. The lack of performance of senior neoliberal Labour MPs and the selection of candidates like Deborah Russell show the reclaiming of the Labour party by the left is a project that is far from complete, but we are on the way to re-invigorating the Labour party and creating a powerful left that isn’t afraid to confront the privileged elites.
karol 6.1.2.1
Hmmm… agree with this, Sanctuary:
But not your generalisations about those of us over 45 yrs, identity politics, etc.
I am 60+ and have long been for both socialism and feminism. I am well educated, but not in the realm of business – and most of my friends and colleagues of my age group have worked more in the public sector, and have little or no connections with right wing poliies and/or commentators.
And, like many of various age groups, I stopped party voting Labour a few elections ago.
You original claim is more fitting to a select few in fairly privileged positions amongst “third way”, (allegedly) left wing, politicians, and media commentators.
Sanctuary 6.1.2.1.1
Like all comments describing broad generational shifts, I agree it is a generalisation. There are plenty of over 45s who never brought into the neo-liberal party, and there were plenty who should have known better (Ken Douglas, anyone?) who succumbed to the innate corruption of power and of luxury.
But equally, it would be a lie to say the allure of comfortable middle class success as measured by consumption hasn’t turned most of the heads of an entire generation of middle class liberal identity politics warriors, who now retain their social liberalism (as it pertains to them) but are informed by very little else from the left these days, and who who are not really interested in challenging the economic status quo.
karol 6.1.2.1.1.1
Oh – yes, it is true of a lot of comfortable middle class liberals – whether I would describe them as “an entire generation” is another matter.
And like RL, I have had the privilege of a middle class education, worked pretty hard, and I feel I would likely be out of place at a Brown or Pagani BBQ.
is that len or rusell..?
karol …
Actually, probably both Len & Russell.
Tim 6.1.2.1.1.2
Yes – to Ken Douglas (and others). Couldn’t frikken believe it! Well, at least not until I discovered a few former members of the Tramways Union who have apparently bought into it all too. It explained a lot!
Tim 6.1.2.1.2
The thing about our ‘over 45 years’ cohort is that those of us that bucked the trend and despise neo-liberalism and that 3rdway 4th Reich kaka are/were generally punished in some way for it.
I can think of a few in academia whose careers seem to have stalled, others in the corporate- public service who never rose to positions they are worthy of, and especially others in banking sector whose careers effectively stalled.
Sorry if it offends but I ‘generally’ find the likes of Pagani bloody hideous specimens. The only good thing about it is that they sometimes vote Labour rather than Nact. If Labour doesn’t get its shit together very soon by ridding itself of its 80’s mutation, it’ll become a twee little boutique clique propped up by the likes of Pagani and her ilk. It should at least have the decency to give up its name, or get with the programme!
Best comment ever Sanctuary. Needs to be a post.
Remember, anyone white and over 45ish was brought up in the privileged welfare state of pre-revolutionary New Zealand and has largely through connections of job, community and class retained their privileged place in our society. This complacent group seems to have no place for radical politics in their mental image of a bucolic New Zealand and find thinking about it unsettling. They find the idea of actually having political enemies you don’t personally like simply because of what they represent similarly difficult to comprehend.
I am exactly one of these people. Yes I’ve worked pretty damned hard most of my life, but that privilege you describe has always been my backstop. I’ve had my ups and downs but I always knew I could stage a recovery. That pre-neolib NZ defines me.
But the Brown’s and Pagani’s would hate it if I turned up at one of their summer barbecues; they would sense instantly I’m not one of them.
Yeah, for all her mealy mouthed religiousity you can imagine the unanimity of outrage from Josie Pagani and David Farrar if an archbishop said that he “could think of no better use for church property”after a rioting mob ripped up his fence pailings to smash bank windows and attack police in Queen Street.
RedLogix 6.1.2.2.1.1
Best belly laugh for days 🙂
Scrimgeour may well be The Standard’s long-lost spiritual Uncle.
Me too. Let’s do it! I’ll bring along Sir Les Patterson
QoT 6.1.2.3
I agree with this comment, except for the categorisation of Deborah Russell. Yes, she started out a Young Nat, but that’s hardly the worst thing in a party which still has Phil Goff on the front bench.
And her political views (and ability to articulate them) are a far fucking cry from the mealy-mouthed waffle spouted by either of the Paganis. I would direct readers to her blogs to make their own assessment:
http://deborahfrussell.net/posts/ (more economic/tax theory posts)
http://beefaerie.wordpress.com/ (more feminist/personal posts)
Disclaimer: Deborah is a friend of mine so I’m obviously biased, even if I do find her ability to be friends with people like David Farrar both baffling and admirably open-minded.
Colonial Viper 6.1.2.3.1
Well, some of her former workmates know her as someone who demands extra privileges and concessions for herself that other workers around her do not get.
Yes, she started out a Young Nat, but that’s hardly the worst thing in a party which still has Phil Goff on the front bench.
Glad you see the least bad in situations.
A simple test for how economically left wing someone is versus how economically establishment they are is the issue of the 40 hour work week. More specifically: should penalty rates apply for those who work overtime. Why not ask her next time you catch up for a coffee.
No doubt you have already vetted that she’s plenty solid on issues of identity politics, of course, so we can be confident there.
QoT 6.1.2.3.1.1
God, you’re a sad little man sometimes, CV. Especially taking that jab after an unsubstantiated snipe about her working life.
What is so hard to understand about the idea that the left can focus on more than one thing at a time, including things that don’t personally benefit you, and that Labour doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting to power in 2014 if it continues down the same, well-trodden, utterly-unsuccessful path of ignoring the votes and voices of women, Maaori, and LGBT folk?
Colonial Viper …
Firstly, the intellectual liberal elite Left show only a passing ability to focus on the severe issues affecting broad swathes of the under class and the working class. They get bloody tenacious about issues of identity politics though. Would they be just as keen on the 40 hour working week, criminal liability for worker death, import substitution and picking and supporting winners for new manufacturing industries. Yes I thoroughly support having gender balance on the bridge of the Titanic, but I see other issues as being pressing first and foremost. You can focus on what you like, and if you can multi-task, go for it.
Secondly, I view Maori socio-economic issues as being quite separate to issues of boutique identity politics. You may want to conflate them; I don’t. The cruel irony is that the destruction of the working class and of blue collar jobs has hurt Maori and PI families amongst the most…there’s some useful observations to be had there as to why the socially liberal neolibs on both the Left and the Right were quite OK with that.
Thirdly, your analysis of the electorate is just shite. How many voters think that Labour needs to take even stronger stances on feminist and LGBT issues? Perhaps abortion on demand should be put on to the agenda for the 2014 campaign? How about equal female representation in company shareholdings and on corporate boards? I always look forward to the next round of gender based policy suggestions which will efficiently lose Labour the votes of both men AND women in the electorate.
PS as for your friend Deborah Russell; ask around, Welly is a small town and plenty of people have seen her in action.
QoT …
It’s okay, I get it. Henceforth the definition of “identity politics” is “anything which is normally called identity politics which Colonial Viper doesn’t like“.
The fact that you – much like the current Minister of Women’s Affairs – think that gender representation is all about corporate boards kind of says everything. You don’t have a single fucking clue about identity politics – including the identity politics you agree with – and you’ve never bothered to read a single damn comment anyone has ever made on the topic.
Otherwise you would have picked up that identity politics and economic politics are thoroughly interlinked and the only people demanding they be treated separately and unequally are you, the Paganis, and Chris Trotter.
RedLogix …
I feel like a ping-pong ball in a clothes-dryer, CV nails it and so do you. You’re both fucking right.
It’s not like I’m trying to take some half-arsed bob each way bet here. You each say things that resonate strongly, because identity and economic politics are not just mutually intertwined branches – at root they spring from the same motivation.
You are both arguing from positions of knowledge and strength. Neither of you can prove the other wrong; you are both right.
McFlock …
They can’t both be right – one’s arguing that economic and non-economic issues can be confronted simultaneously, the other is already writing a speech blaming affirmative action for costing labour the election.
I do agree that many of the parliamentary left have not focused on the crucial issues for the underclass and the working class – many of the thigns CV has mentioned. But what elements of so called “identity poltics” have been focused instead.? eg – recently Labor flagship policies have beeen focused on housing polciy for the middleclasses and their children; raising the age of super, anit asset sales etc – and unde rthe last Labour led government?…. working for families, interest free student loans…. etc.
So who are the liberal left elites that CV is criticising, on the back of criticising Deborah Russell – it seems that CV has a bee in his bonnet about gender politics and can’t resist a swipe at it using the diminuitive term “identity politics”.
And, you know, if you look back at most of my posts, they focus on issues re- poverty, social security, TPP, criticising the powerful elites, the undermining of democracy, etc – but one mention of gender poltics or sexual poltics, and he gets all agitated.
So, it does look like you are having a bob each way, RL.
The destracting issues of gender politics come as much from the way the MSM responds to anything feminist or to do with sexual politics – does that mean they should be pandered to?
PS: I don’t have much of an opnion on Deborah Russell – not that familiar with her views or writings.
CV’s right when he says that if the left leads the next election with a narrow identity issue (however worthwhile) that’s a gimme for smearing like the ‘man-ban’ episode – then the 800,000 will stay home again.
CV’s wrong when he thinks the left will set aside their personal motivations and specific interests to swing in behind a full metal jacket marxist anti-capitalism agenda. Same election result.
Now you are all a bunch of very clever people (really). Someone must have a sense of how to steer through this.
Well, I must say, I’m less about political strategising than about debating the issues.
I don’t have a lot of faith in parliamentary Labour, still – so will continue to vote Green. They are less afraid to state they support state housing and action against poverty.
It seems to me parliamentary Labour spends too much time trying to second guess the voters, and not enough focusing on their core values.
I noted also that, the woman in question re this thread, Deborah Russell, said in one of her blog posts that she does not support gender quotas – more that people should be mindful of issues like gender inequalities.
Must the left always pander to the MSM?
And, you know, if you look back at most of my posts, they focus on issues re- poverty, social security, TPP, criticising the powerful elites, the undermining of democracy, etc
Which is true. And I cannot quibble, you’ve done far more than me on this.
But do you not share just a little of CV’s frustration? Because while your work is spot on, and vital – somehow there is this lost in translation moment when hits the big world outside of political blogs.
I’m vividly aware that I’ve just done a ‘yes but’ on you. Could I ask you not to read that intent in it please?
RL, CV’s frustration seems to me to be misplaced – admittedly he also is critical at the likes of David Parker, Shearer, etc. But he misdirects too much of the blame at gender and sexual politics – eg, you mentioned the “man ban”. To me that was a bit of a side issue among Labour remits, but it got beaten up by the right and the MSM – so why be so timid?
Why not say, yes we support gender equality. In our flagship policies, we are strongly focused at the moment on working for those on low pay, unemplotyed, on benefits etc.
Where is the conviction politics?
And what about the frustration of those of us who also want to talk about some pressing gender and sexuality issues some times, when we keep getting told to STFU about it – what about our frustration?
A lot of it actually seems to be about Labour Party insider issues, and is outside the frame of reference for many of us lefties not so positioned.
Nobody’s talking about “leading” the campaign with a single narrow identity issue. CV seems to be arguing that non-economic issues should not even be included in the party manifesto for fear of what the cetacean might call it.
Personally, I think the best solution is to simply be honest do everything we can.
In my opinion the biggest weakness is not a debate even on issues like abortion, the biggest weakness is that labour and the left in general can’t argue economics as well as the tories – because economics is all bullshit. Economic argument isn’t about fact, it’s about faith. Smile&wave trumps graphs of “gdp by government party” over the past 100 years.
The ‘left’ won’t be leading anything next election. There will be Labour, the GP and Mana. Do you have any concerns about how the GP and Mana are going to run their election campaign?
If Labour leads with an issue that lets the MSM smear them like the manban, then they’re just really fucking stupid and probably don’t deserve to be on govt. And if they do do that, it’s not feminist’s fault, or any other group of people. It’s Labour’s fault. You can’t solve this problem by having a go at so called identity politics. If you want further evidence of Labour’s ability to loose the election consider the retirement age issue (which should be a so called identity issue, but ironically is not).
Another question for you: if Labour somehow dropped all identity politics, do you honestly believe that it is all of a sudden going to apologise for neoliberalism and get itself on the right track re its economic policy?
Karol,
“it seems that CV has a bee in his bonnet about gender politics and can’t resist a swipe at it using the diminuitive term “identity politics”.”
The revelation today that Maori are excluded from the criticism sheds a whole new light on things.
Indeed. And I saw CV say something pretty similar re presenting issues to the MSM earlier today, and he in fact wrote an on to it piece of media work that Labour could use so that Labour controlled the message instead of the bigots and hyenas in the MSM. So why not do this with things like gender equity?
The destruction of the global civilisation is being completed via the following forces.
1) Trans-national corporates including the banks and MSM as the primary drivers turning every aspect of our world into commodities to be leveraged and consumed. Including people, men and women, LGBT or straight, white or coloured.
2) Fossil fuel and resource depletion making our current forms of technology, transportation and agriculture completely unsustainable. This will lead to widespread starvation and poverty, of both men and women, LGBT or straight, white or coloured.
3) Climate change making our biosphere unlivable for most species including our own, and of course, of both men and women, LGBT or straight, white or coloured.
As far as I am concerned, over the next 20 years these are the tier one issues and everything else is tier two and tier three. For the simple reason if the tier one issues aren’t handled, nothing else will matter and the regression of civilisation and civil rights will be severe and unavoidable (it is already happening now).
BTW some Marxian analysis is useful to understanding these issues, but “full metal jacket Marx” can’t answer the situation we find ourselves in because Marx didn’t deal with the dynamics of energy depletion, perpetual war and propaganda that we find ourselves in.
Correct weka. It won’t happen.
Establishment political parties were never intended to be the bulk of the Left. They were supposed to be the parliamentary embodiment of mass labour and proletarian movements. Those movements have long since dwindled away while the political embodiment that is the Labour Party continues trundling along.
Progress on your “tier two” issues doesn’t mean inactivity on “tier one” issues.
Yeah well, we’ll see.
I could be a touch mischievous and note that National just won two elections by hiding it’s real convictions, while hinting just enough to reassure National heartland that their privileges were not going to be touched.
The left has a wholly different proposition to sell that we are tempted prop up on the nearest patch of moral high ground; something a cynical media and right wing now exactly how to undermine.
Look, the core messages of the left – social and economic justice, fairness and equality are not extremism. They are just plain common sense that make for a better life for everyone. Clean rivers and beaches, safe water and food, safe towns and cities, wilderness and fair public access – these are the ordinary best interests of ordinary people.
But sell this as ‘we know best’ and they’ll hate it.
The big failing in your analysis is that women are crucial to the change you want. Absolutely crucial. In fact I would say we are completely and utterly fucked if we don’t start paying heed to women’s voices, particularly the voices of women from cultures where women have had more equity than in the West. If one wants women to be involved we have to let them have some say in setting the agenda. Otherwise it is as it ever was, a white-dude game. Personally I don’t believe the white-dudes can solve this on their own.
The movements I am involved in all have committments (ableit to varying degrees) to gender equity, disability rights, queer politics, honouring the Treaty etc. And unlike Labour, they’re active in doing something about the issues you say are tier one. That is in no way a coincidence, because all those areas of politics have just spend decades understanding and addressing the very power issues that have created the global problems and they did so by examining their own oppression and privilege.
women are crucial to the change you want.
As always. But this time the change is bigger than ever before. This time it reaches beyond abolition, beyond suffrage, beyond equality – this time suppressing one of the symptoms of the patriarchy will not be enough.
This time an entire mode of behaviour, the root cause of everything CV identifies as Tier 1 issues, must be confronted.
The things that CV names are the result of cultures that are inherently patriarchal/domination based. That isn’t a coincidence. It’s not only a matter of women (and others) deserving ‘equality’. It’s about acknowledging that the fundamental power structures have come out of men’s culture. We have a far better chance of finding good responses to the crisis if we allow all voices to be heard, instead of this idea that we can use current systems and power structures to deal with them. You can’t dismantle the master’s house using the master’s tools.
And to be clear, this isn’t me blaming men (most men have had a raw deal from the past 5,000 years too). And it’s not me saying that women are better than men. It’s about analysing the core power structures, the ‘root cause’ if you like, something that CV fails to do, and then being able to see other ways for humans to be and organise.
Women bring a great deal to the table in terms of solutions, so it’s esp ironic seeing CV arguing for prioritising of tier one at the same time as trying to silence the voices of those who are best in a position to make the needed change.
Well, I will take your word for it and try to give her the benefit of the doubt. After the ease of the betrayal of New Zealand’s welfare state by people with exactly the same sort of CV as Ms Russell I am deeply suspicious of her class. I guess that I put the onus of proof of her loyalty to a socialist prescription on her. She has to earn my trust, not expect my respect.
weka 6.1.2.3.2.1
Maybe she can be invited to guest post on ts in the new year and people can check her out then.
thechangeling …
Honestly that would be wonderful. I want to know what my local candidate really thinks about various economic, social and political ideas because these will be translated into policy later on. There have been clues, and I have come to some conclusions, but I hope they are wrong.
I doubt she “expects your respect”, and I don’t insist you think any particular way about her. That’s why I provided links to her blogging, so you can see for yourself what topics she’s addressed and from what perspectives.
Sanctuary …
I have already read that stuff. As Colonial Viper notes, her credentials as a flag bearer of feminist identity politics are not in doubt.
But what are her economic views? It is impossible to tell from her writings. Her stuff on tax is the sort of technocratic writing you would expect from the modern academic/bureaucratic expert. What is missing is any hint she might be a socialist. Is she a socialist? Is she even a social democrat? For example, I note that before her selection she was already chair of the Labour Party Economic Policy Committee. Now, Labour keeps wheeling out it’s plan to raise the retirement age to 67, despite this being a more or less ACToid policy that is deeply unpopular with the electorate. David Parker is a particularly keen defender of this policy. The enthusiasm for this policy must come from somewhere within the party policy formation process. What, then, is Ms. Russells views on this? It would be impossible for her not to have an opinion on this matter given her role as as chair of the Labour Party Economic Policy Committee. If she is also a supporter of this policy it would provide to me a valuable insight on whether or not she is just another upper middle class neoliberal cuckoo in the socialist nest.
It would be great if she (along with other candidates) would make a guest post giving a general description of their economic and social philosophies. A failure for her to do so, given the general interest in her as a litmus candidate for the future of Labour, would be worrying, given the number of Labour supporters who read this site – and by extension those who, so recently, expressed their new found power to over-rule and direct the central party elites on the matter of the party leadership.
Ms Russell looks like a fine expert quite capable of translating broad social democratic directives into complex legislation in areas like tax. But I am not so sure the wider Labour party membership is any longer of a mind to unquestioningly accept direction from such technocrats on matters of policy. Bob Semple’s first day as minister of works in 1935 was spent with officials telling him how Labours plans were unaffordable and would lead to inflation. He heard them out and at end of the day, he told them “..to crank up the printing presses, because we start on Monday”. The experts are often not right. We need MPs capable of facing down the technocrats, not identifying with them.
This post begins with a quote from Marx.
Though I would say, following Marx, a worker should be paid more than just what is needed to survive physically.
Draco T Bastard …
The experts are often not right. We need MPs capable of facing down the technocrats, not identifying with them.
And that is especially true ATM because our entire financial system is determined by the private banks for their own benefit and not by the government for the benefit of the people.
Anne 6.1.2.3.2.3
Absolutely weka.
It’s not a case of the so-called man ban being wrong, it’s a case of Labour falling into the same old trap time and again. I’ve had this argument with a couple of Labour women who just refuse to see it. That remit could have been worded in such a way that the intent would have been more than clear. But by introducing the authoritarian sounding quota system into the mix, it was obvious to many members what would happen. It did happen with bells on and it could so easily have been avoided.
Labour has already gained two further women into the caucus so it is now only a few percentage points off the target anyway. It brought Shearer down and despite my support for Cunliffe I found that a sad way for Shearer to end his leadership.
stargazer …
1 January 2014 at 1:28 am
wow anne, “authoritarian sounding quota system”? so you’re calling a proposal whereby any LEC could have voluntarily chosen (without any coercion whatsoever from anyone outside the LEC) to consider women-only candidates, and they would have had to implement that by a democratic vote by the LEC, “authoritarian sounding”. let me repeat, a voluntary choice brought in by a democratic vote by a particular LEC. no quota involved.
for goodness sake, at least get the actual policy correct. i have no problems with criticisms of the policy or the way the caucus leadership at the time handled it, but at least criticise what was proposed, not some policy that exists only in your head.
Anne …
You stargazer are no doubt referring to the remit that was passed at the last conference – a conference I didn’t attend. I am talking about the original remit from the previous conference, and that was the one that played straight into the hands of NAct. So, before you start profiling me as some sort of anti-feminist type:
No-one was/is against the laudable aim to have a 50% gender balance. Savvy?
No-one is stopping any LEC voluntarily choosing a specific candidate of a specific gender – or ethnicity for that matter – if that is the wish of the delegates. It happens all the time.
What was originally proposed were mandatory-like settings (don’t ask me what they were because I’ve forgotten and don’t care any more) that were to be achieved by certain time limits. It read almost like a commandment – thou shalt do this by such and such a time, and thou shalt do that by such and such a time.
I knew the intention was a genuine effort to raise the profile of women politicians, but there were delegates like me who have been around politics for years and some of us knew that the MSM would react in a negative way. And that is what happened. No-one dared say anything at the time because we would have been shouted down.
I want to see a Labour/Green government in power and, in the first instance, that transcends any individual boutique issues no matter how important they may be.
Anne, I understand you are talking strategy and dealing with MSM spin, but you are also playing into the hands of anti-feminists… and behind them misogynists, especially evident with the use of this anti-feminist dog whistle:
individual boutique issues
This is just pandering to the gender conservatives.
1 January 2014 at 10:17 am
I understand you are talking strategy and dealing with MSM spin, but you are also playing into the hands of anti-feminists…
No I’m not karol.
The aim of those in the Labour Party who want to see a 50% gender ratio is going to become reality very soon. That’s a given. We’re almost there. After the 2011 election there was a small drop in women MPs but that was simply the way the axe fell on election night. It had nothing to do with a lack of women candidates. That drop has been partly rectified with the election of two women Labour MPs in the past few months. All going well, I predict that the ratio will be close to 50% if not 50% after the next election. That is why I personally felt that the authors of the original remit may have over-reacted to that drop in 2011.
Yes: boutique issue was a bad choice of words. Note to self – don’t do what you’ve just criticised others for doing. Couldn’t think of a more appropriate way to put it…
The term “boutique identity politics” is certainly prejudicial. I use it to describe politics which is divorced from helping the bottom 50% of society and which will finally, concretely change the lives of only a few percent (if that) of the population and with basically zero challenge to our political economic status quo.
An example is the the new target % for females in the Labour Caucus. Going to 45% would garner one or two more women in the current caucus, or thereabouts. The cost: Labour Conference caused not a bump for Labour in the Roy Morgan, but a fall which was clearly bigger than the margin of error. Each of those potential new MPs cost in the Roy Morgan three or so percentage points of polling loss relative to National. Labour support was lost across the board from both men and women. Of course, it’s just a single poll. But the loss of polling momentum at year end after Conference was palpable exactly when things should have been accelerating.
NZ First nor the Greens had to take this politically costly approach to get their caucus gender balance right. In the end, I fully support the aim of having a caucus which fairly represents the demographics of the nation, but it could have and should have been done in a different way. One which cost less political capital and avoided losing votes from both men and women in the electorate.
1 January 2014 at 6:47 pm
@ CV
I don’t know whether this will end up in the right place, but thanks a million for your comment at 10 54am. You have put it so much better than I did.
What the hell is the use of having progressive economic and social policies that are going to improve the lives of so many more people, if a Labour led govt. can never be elected to implement them. Whether we like it or not that is the reality of the situation.
As you have intimated, it’s a case of being very careful how you present policy (especially social policy) so as not to allow our opponents and the MSM misrepresenting them in such a way as to alienate a large portion of the population.
Thank you Anne. It is, and continues to be, a pleasure to serve.
Murray Olsen 6.1.2.4
Careerist politicians like Deborah Russell remind me of WWF wrestlers. Once they’ve learned the basics of play acting enough to get in the ring, they do it for the first party that offers them a contract. They can just as easily play cloth cap class warrior as they can play Randian super hero, then all wander off together to the same barbecues once the performance is over. They don’t take it personally because it’s all just role playing.
But yeah, Sanctuary, please be careful about the issue karol raised. I’m a couple of years off sixty and never saw the third way as anything but treachery. I got sick of Bomber’s ravings about baby boomers as well. I take your point about generalisations, but I think the Labour caucus has been the prime mover in destroying class consciousness. Many people my age may have gone along with it because it was the path of least resistance, but they didn’t start it.
IIRC Roger Douglas, David Caygill and Mike Moore could all give rousing pro worker Marxist style speeches when they needed to and if it was expected at a Labour Party membership meeting.
I’m sure many of you remember. It was a totally fine front of falsehood.
tinfoilhat 6.1.2.4.1.1
I don’t know why you persist with Labour CV, come over to the Greens we’d be more than happy to have you.
Anne 6.2
Dear oh dear Sanctuary.
Josie must have seen your comment on yesterday’s Open Mike and the little clutch of responses including mine. Actually I thought they were mild…
If you want a giggle, pop over to pundit and read another confused piece from Josie Pagani about religion. Honestly, that women is the very definition of the immodestly clueless.
Edit: agree karol. Bomber does go over the top sometimes. Still, there’s no need for Pagani to lump us all in the boat. Asking for negative comment.
A succinct and well-written post from Josie that those on the left would do well to heed coming into an election year 🙂
Anne 6.3.1
Yes Chris 73 it would be succinct and well written if it was correct. She’s succumbed to the same over-extended verbal precocity for which she’s criticising Bomber. If she wants to be part of public political commentary then she has to accept strong criticism from time to time and even learn from it.
You don’t go into a deep sulk every time some leftie commenter disagrees with you as happens here on a daily basis. You take it on the chin because, for the most part, you know it isn’t personal.
Yes but to be fair its quite amusing
phillip ure 6.4
i finally went and had a look at this pile of self-serving/whining/saying-nothing piece from pagani..
..and there are laughs-out-loud to be had fromn the tutt-tutt-fest pagani and george have in the comments-thread..
..but for pagani to even call herself ‘left’ is a joke..
..she is a neo-lib..thru and thru..and the neo-lib labour is where she thrived..
..a marker of her neo-libness/lack of labour was her constant attacks on the one (pathetic in scope) anti-poverty move labour ’11 announced..
..that sad excuse for anything policy of promising to include beneficiary families in working for families..incrementally…by 2018..(!!)..
..(it worked out at about $3.50 a week..each year..until 2018..i called it the cup of cappucino bribe..)
..pagani was rending her clothes and gnashing her teeth at this ‘foolhardy’-policy..
..as far as pagani is concerned…those one n four nz children living in poverty can just ‘rot’..
..pagani is a hideous excuse for/of a ‘labour-activist/voice’..
..she represents everything that is/was wrong with neo-lib labour..
..she belongs with the tories..
..and the sooner the better..
..or maybe with dunne..?..her and p.g. are so simpicato..
..they could flap their hands about and do nothing..together..
RedBaronCV 6.5
I read it, read it and reread it.
What is her main point, that a single blogger called her and Espiner as less than left wing, which is an opinion only? And following on from that opinion, the way Pagani & Espiner approach their media duties may reflect these views? And somehow, holding this view is abuse or intolerance or lacks respect of what, them, their opinions, something else? TS somehow perpetuates this abuse by allowing us to post? All criticism of them is abuse?
But hey, somehow it’s okay when the media subject Len Brown to torrent of negative criticism for $300. Okay for Jackson & JT to slag off a young woman’s views? Colour me confused.
Pagani of all people should know about the creation of a narrative. Look at single mothers, abused by a media narrative that paints them as loose moraled, unwilling to work, vaccinate their kids etc etc.
The reality – they are young women looking after children, usually on very limited incomes, doing all the hard work of raising said children, taking the huge economic hit on their careers and earnings, doing far more than virtually any other group of adults in society whilst being vilified as if they were responsible for all society’s ills.
That sort of narrative is abuse Josie, not having an opinion on whether or not a media person has right or left wing views
“..Pagani of all people should know about the creation of a narrative. Look at single mothers, abused by a media narrative that paints them as loose moraled, unwilling to work, vaccinate their kids etc etc.
The reality – they are young women looking after children, usually on very limited incomes, doing all the hard work of raising said children, taking the huge economic hit on their careers and earnings, doing far more than virtually any other group of adults in society whilst being vilified as if they were responsible for all society’s ills…”
i would like to nominate the above for political-paragraph-of-the-year..
..i haven’t seen it said better..
RedBaronCV 6.5.1.1
Thank you Phillip – I’m deeply touched.
greywarbler 6.5.1.1.1
RedB
I like two!
Well said, and perhaps along the lines of what has recently been discussed about propaganda and Bernay? single and solo parents (solo have had partners, spouses) could be flavour of the month by mid next year. It was interesting to read how he turned cigarette smoking for ‘nice’ women from a blot on society to a brave and smart display of emancipashun. From consternation to fascination in five-ten easy steps!
Anyone to join a kitchen cabinet on ideas and method?
TS somehow perpetuates this abuse by allowing us to post? All criticism of them is abuse?
Indeed. Attitudes of the privileged elite.
The underclass and working class are fair game of course. But them? No, that would be unacceptable and anti-social!
McFlock 6.5.1.1.2.1
Attitudes of the privileged elite.
When were you last down pits?
Draco T Bastard 6.5.2
Pagani of all people should know about the creation of a narrative.
Yep, she does – she’s trying very hard to create one and is getting upset that she’s being called on it.
Anne 6.5.2.1
Insightful comment DTB.
One of the key goals of actioning propaganda is to ensure that those who are being propagandised do not consciously realise it at the time.
Harriet 6.5.2.1.1.1
And another is to not get caught doing it.
So who’s best up to do the talking you think?
Rogue Trooper 6.6
great writer that Sanctuary
mickysavage 6.7
I must say that the quality of all the comments under Sanctuary’s at 6.0 show how wrong Pagani is about the Standard.
P.S. Happy New Year to all the Standardistas, may next year be marked by a glorious turfing out of the National party wide boys and with it their nihilist political culture that would make the most boorish Philistine blush.
It’s a struggle today to respond to comments – maybe my Chrome browser? keep getting a message at the top of my browser that flash plugin has stopped working or isn’t loading. Slow response to my keyboard strokes.
Sacha 8.1
Your first comment has drawn the attention of the NSA. 🙂
Without a doubt. 👿
Sacha 8.1.1.1
Installing keyloggers now..
karol 8.1.2
Heh. A google search indicates there’s a conflict between two versions of shockwave flash installed on my computer- one for windows & one for google chrome specifically. I couldn’t see where in my programmes to delete the chrome version – so disabled it. But that didn’t seem to fix it. It’s still there and crashing.
Draco T Bastard 8.1.2.1
Uninstall and re-install Chrome.
karol 8.1.2.1.1
yes, I tried that yesterday – not sure if I did it correctly as it continued to be a struggle (made obvious for me making a lot of typos/spelling errors yesterday).
Today it seems to be working fine.
Morrissey 9
Mr Brown’s Boys
“The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.”—JEAN GIRAUDOUX
Part 1…. http://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-30122013/#comment-750859
THE STORY SO FAR: The long-suffering headmaster of the Public Address Academy, Mr Russell Brown, has made yet another of his notorious misjudgments. This time he has invited the notorious National Party race-baiter Matthew Hooton into the Hard News class to deliver an outrageously insincere speech about how he allegedly feels after the death of Nelson Mandela. The decision to allow Hooton to hijack the show is a controversial one, and causes great anger. However, Mr Brown can always count on a core group of sycophants, bullies and class monitors to obey even his most absurd diktats. So when he instructs the class to “Please be respectful of each other”, this core group of sycophants, bullies and monitors takes it as its duty to “make nice” to Hooton, and pretend that he is genuine, rather than a disgusting impostor. We join the action just as Hooton is starting to deliver his infamous speech…..
MATTHEW HOOTON: Isn’t it a strange, melancholy and nostalgic day? Mandela really was the greatest figure of the 20th century.
SEVERAL VOICES: Fuck off, racist!…. He’s a friend of John Ansell, for Chrissakes!… Fuck off, you lying little turd!… SHUSH! He’s starting to speak…
HOOTON: In the way I view the world, being a child of the 1980s, he was alongside Reagan, Thatcher and Gorbachev in the sense of bringing tyranny to an end.
OUTRAGE AND UPROAR FROM CLASS: What the FUCK!!!?!?!!?…. W-w-w-what did that smirking, smarmy prick just say?!!???!
MR BROWN: [apoplectic, veins throbbing in forehead, beard twitching] I have repeatedly asked everyone here to show good faith and respect. If you can’t do that, please leave the discussion!
Thus temporarily suppressed, the dissenters in the class subside into either a resentful silence or uttering sotto voce wisecracks. For the next few minutes, MATTHEW HOOTON is free to say whatever he likes, and to bask in the praise of the bewildered, the drug-impaired and the sanctimonious….
HOOTON: But he stood so much further above them because he personally had been persecuted and imprisoned, and yet he forgave.
RICHARD ASTON: [perfervidly] There is a hole in the fabric of things where Mandala once was.
….That bizarre contribution elicits a burst of snickering, snorting and tittering, even from the most sanctimonious git in the room, CRAIG RANAPIA. Mr Brown enters a memo into his PalmPilot: “Set drug dogs onto Aston ASAP.”….
MORRISSEY BREEN: [sotto voce] What the FUCK is Aston smoking?
HOOTON: If it means anything as a 9 year old, I suppose I was pro-tour but I also remember being very impressed with the bravery of those who stood on the field in Hamilton, and watching all that unfold on television.
MORRISSEY BREEN: [sotto voce] Bu-u-u-u-u-ulllll-SHIT.
SIMON G: [warmly] This is a very nice speech, Matthew.
HOOTON: In retrospect, I think the very conservatism of the white population helped with the transition to democracy – these old school lads were taught to respect their state president no matter who he was.
….Much nodding of heads, and several cries of affirmation: “Good point”…”Yes it was the WHITES who freed South Africa.”…. “I hadn’t thought of that before, Matthew” …. “He’s from the LIBERAL part of the National Party isn’t he!”… “I don’t trust him.”…. “Shush, don’t be negative TODAY OF ALL DAYS!!”…”I don’t trust him”…. “Neither do I”…” He’s a notorious liar”…”Shush! This is not the time for that sort of talk!”…”Sorry Craig”…”Sorry Craig, I’ll shut up now”….
HOOTON: His wonderful book, Long Walk to Freedom, and other accounts of his life, show he was not some sort of innocent saint but a hard-nosed pol. He was the sort of leader who would think about what suit to wear when leaving prison. Mandela was a guy who would do attack ads with the best (or worst!) of them. To me, that is much better than being a mere saint. But whatever it is to be a saint, he was also one of them.
DRIPPY “LIBERAL”: Thanks, Matthew! You’ve nailed it!
HOOTON: [with a show of sincerity and humility] Sorry for talking so long. I hope Mr Brown doesn’t mind. I am not sure why I have wanted to bash all this out. Or why Public Address seems the right place to say it.
MARK THOMAS: Great speech Matthew. Thanks.
ADAM POPE Thanks Matthew for having the courage to say that. Public Address was absolutely the right place to say it.
PAUL WILLIAMS: Thanks Matthew. I’m glad of this opportunity for us to display our grief. I also have a profound sense of loss today.
SIMON G: I think one of Mandela’s remarkable achievements was the number of minds he changed – not just official stances for public consumption, not just the re-writing of history, but people genuinely “getting it”. Yes, it can be done.
DRIPPY “LIBERALS” AND SYCOPHANTS: Yeah, RIGHT ON. Matthew’s changed his mind, he really has!…. He’s a GENUINE GUY, he really is! …. Oh yes…. It’s the new, caring, sharing right wing….
HEBE: For Nelson Mandela, today we’ll let you in the club Matthew. I was going to write more later but I won’t: you’ve said much of it, and eloquently.
.…And then, as suddenly as it was imposed, the enforced silencing of dissent disappears. One of the more astute members of the class has not been at all impressed by Hooton’s vaudeville display of mock sincerity….
WILLIAM BLAKE: Only Matthew Hooton could use Mandelas’ death to give respect to Reagan, Thatcher and de Klerk.
MR BROWN: [scowling] I did ask you to show respect for each other.
HOOTON: [sneering] You really have missed the point.
TONY J RICKETS: I guess one of the things about him is the way he brings out the best in people (de Klerk, Bolger, Matthew for example). Some folks just do that.
The head prefect and class bully quickly moves to seize back control….
CRAIG RANAPIA: [sanctimoniously] You know what, William, I know a lot of expat South Africans who were absolutely convinced that apartheid’s end was inevitable – in an unspeakably brutal civil war. Everyone who played a part in avoiding what would have been a humanitarian disaster deserves our gratitude. And a little of Mandela’s grace.
DRIPPY “LIBERALS”, NINNIES AND SYCOPHANTS: Yeah! …. Everyone played a part, especially the white South Africans! …. Yeah! …. Matthew and Craig are so ON TO IT!..And today is NOT THE DAY to argue and to be NEGATIVE!
….Despite the best efforts of head prefect Ranapia and class monitor Rickets, however, the disgust at Hooton’s antics cannot be entirely suppressed…..
KRACKLITE: Oh great, Hooton sees an opportunity to tell us all about how he likes to think of himself. Get over yourself and show some respect Hoots, this isn’t about you.
MR BROWN Yeah, it is. It’s a place where people share their experience. That’s the heartbeat of it.
SACHA: [glowering at KRACKLITE with a look that could split a rock] Not called for. You can do better.
END OF PART 2.
http://publicaddress.net/hardnews/mandela/
“MORRISSEY BREEN: [sotto voce]”
If only you’d actually been part of the conversation, eh, rather than bravely reimagining its sequence some time later. Fortunately people can go read it for themselves.
To give some context, it’s rare for any of the post authors at Public Address to ask for particular behaviour from commenters like this instance, and the place self-moderates quite successfully. Like many, I was surprised to see Hooten write a comment there – and like many, criticised aspects of it without invective. As a fellow aspie, I especially didn’t want to see Kracklite/Rhinocrates heading in that direction.
Nothing exceptional there, but whatever blows your skirt up I guess. It’s like reading your regular distortions of Question Time or radio broadcasts, Morrissey. I should just remember to read your writing as drama rather than documentary, and encourage others to do the same.
Morrissey 9.1.1
1.) If only you’d actually been part of the conversation, eh, rather than bravely reimagining its sequence some time later.
Errrr, I WAS a part of the conversation. I actually made my debut on Public Address to refute Hooton’s appalling abuse of Russell Brown’s goodwill….
http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/hard-news-mandela/?p=303247#post303247
2.) Fortunately people can go read it for themselves.
Indeed they can. That’s why I have provided a link in both parts of the drama so far.
3.) To give some context, it’s rare for any of the post authors at Public Address to ask for particular behaviour from commenters like this instance, and the place self-moderates quite successfully.
Really? So how come Matthew Hooton was free to make the most absurd and provocative statements about Mandela? What “self-moderation” was operating there?
4.) Like many, I was surprised to see Hooten write a comment there – and like many, criticised aspects of it without invective.
To call out a hypocrite and a liar is not invective, it is simply rigour and honesty. Kracklite, and several others, commented acerbically and accurately about the bizarreness and untruthfulness of Hooton’s post; they did not employ invective at all.
5.) As a fellow aspie, I especially didn’t want to see Kracklite/Rhinocrates heading in that direction.
What? So Kracklite/Rhinocrates is to be forbidden or discouraged from entering into robust debate? Have you (caringly) informed him of this?
6.) Nothing exceptional there, but whatever blows your skirt up I guess.
7.) It’s like reading your regular distortions of Question Time or radio broadcasts, Morrissey.
Ahhhh, here we are, at the nub of the issue. What’s your problem? The fact I send up Hekia Parata occasionally? My lack of respect for Public Address heroes like Barack Obama? Or the fact I pinned down Chris Trotter for his windy endorsement of Deep South lynch law?
8.) I should just remember to read your writing as drama rather than documentary, and encourage others to do the same.
Dramatised documentary in this case. And I don’t think you’re really an astute viewing or listening guide.
“they did not employ invective at all”
You may have missed reading Kracklite’s original comments before he edited them.
Misrepresentation of fact is fine in drama. Again, fortunately people can read/watch Question Time or rely on more credible commentators to find out what really happened if they’re not just seeking entertainment.
“And I don’t think you’re really an astute viewing or listening guide.”
Morrissey 9.1.1.1.1
I read Kracklite’s comments. Like anyone with a conscience, he was disgusted by what Hooton was up to, and genuinely concerned that Russell Brown did not seem to appreciate just how foolish Hooton was making him look. To challenge a cynical impostor like that needs firm and unequivocal language—but Kracklite did not use invective. If you want to experience invective in all its ugliness and mindlessness, go and visit the sites of some of Hooton’s close friends—like John Ansell.
Misrepresentation of fact is fine in drama.
No it’s not. It’s no more acceptable in a third-rate movie like Argo or that recent hatchet job on Julian Assange (the Benedict Blunderpatch vehicle that tanked at the box office) than it is on the lips of a politician or a cynical pollster.
Again, fortunately people can read/watch Question Time or rely on more credible commentators to find out what really happened if they’re not just seeking entertainment.
“More credible commentators”—like Matthew Hooton or Fran O’Sullivan or John Armstrong or Colin Espiner or Chris Trotter? My honesty and integrity is better than any of theirs, and you know it. And what on earth is your obsession with Question Time? I have hardly ever even mentioned it, leave alone transcribed it; that’s because Parliament’s stenographers do the job for me.
Actually, the standard of your commentary is the very opposite of hilarious.
greywarbler 9.1.2
Morrissey 9.1.2.1
Ahhh, my old friend greywarbler—the man who couldn’t understand how South African and South American liberation movements have anything in common.
Where have you been lately, mate? Reading? (Though, judging by your ill-advised gesture of support for poor old Sacha, I would doubt that.)
rhinocrates 9.1.3
As a fellow aspie, I especially didn’t want to see Kracklite/Rhinocrates heading in that direction.
Sorry Sacha, I have a great deal of affection and respect for you, but I’m also a Scot and I don’t need your husbandry. In short: do NOT patronise me.
That anthropomorphic oil slick Hooton can gild his tongue all he likes, but he shouldn’t be welcomed purely for that alone. “Good manners” are only superficial and often deceptive, so it’s idiotic to think that their simulation is synonymous with “good faith”. I am amazed that people are taken in by that bullshit and I would be ashamed to associate with fools who think mere puppetry means something more.
I also find it rather odd that Craig Ranapia’s frequent use of obscenity and abuse of people who disagree with him is taken so lightly. His claim that PA was a “safe” place when so many had commented that they found his behaviour intimidating – as it is intended to be – is rather… “odd”.
Actually, “hypocritical” is a word I would use, a quality he shows in abundance when accusing others of the same.
As for my increasing estrangement from Public Address: Hard News, it is something that stirs me more to sorrow than anger.
Rhinocrates/Kracklite, I hope you enjoyed your brief speaking part at the end of Part 2. Along with this writer (i.e., moi), Craig Ranapia, and the increasingly tense and harried Mr Brown, you’ll feature more prominently in Part 3, which is coming soon….
By the way: I can think of no better description of our friend Hooton than “anthropomorphic oil slick”. Brilliant stuff!—although Sacha will not be happy that you’re “going down that road”.
chris73 10
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/9566351/Hollywood-struggles-against-new-film-meccas
– “There’s no place in the world that we could make these sequels more cost effectively,” says producer Jon Landau. It is neither the archipelago’s volcanoes nor its glaciers that are attractive, because the Avatar movies will be shot indoors. Sure, Peter Jackson’s award-winning special effects infrastructure is there, but the deciding factor was the money. “We looked at other places,” says Landau. But in the end, “it was this rebate.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/9564445/Iron-sand-exports-get-boost
– More good news for NZ
Its going to be a good year for all NZ
Draco T Bastard 10.1
No, actually, it’s not. It’s all bad news as we pay and pay and pay with our resources and our money.
Morrissey 10.2
National Party logic: we give lots of money to wealthy U.S. corporations, but treat the poor in New Zealand as criminals.
Thank God there’s less than one year of this regime left.
phillip ure 10.3
@ c73..did you miss the analysis showing that subsidising peter jacksons’ moat + other flicks..
..after weighing up all the financial benefits/subsidy-costs..
..has left new zealand taxpayers in the hole to the tune of $168 million..
..how can ‘more’ of that be ‘good news’..?..
Murray Olsen 10.4
Jesus H Christ, Piss73, how on earth is it good news that films are being made in Aotearoa because we effectively pay a big studio to do it, and rip holes in our industrial relations laws to make it even easier for them? Try walking upright some time. It only hurts for a few weeks while the muscles get used to not cowering in abject surrender. After a while it even feels good. Bloody Key is like the clumsy rich kid at primary school who pays other kids to like him. Let him do it with his own money. We can do better.
The Great Malaise drags on
There’s something dismal about writing year-end roundups in the half-decade since the eruption of the 2008 global financial crisis. Yes, we avoided a Great Depression II, but only to emerge into a Great Malaise, with barely increasing incomes for a large proportion of citizens in advanced economies. We can expect more of the same in 2014.
/shrug
tricledrown 11
Conman73 Primary Industry cyclical given NZ steel profitability.
Avatar is a subsidy in the race to the bottom.
The Film industry is in decline world wide proped up by the welfare you detest.
Video game development is the profitable side.
Joyce got nothing for our $200+
Of taxpayers money, these video game development jobs are the future of the this industry.
So its jusy a feel good election bribe as paddy gower said.
karol 11.1
Well summarised, tric.
Cseventytree
You’ve let the Cat out of the bag
Nationals election strategy
Baffle the peasants with Bullshit
Back to the Bolger years
Key will be running round the country opening little factories etc Good News stories .
Your handlers won’t be pleased
C7tree
chris73 12.1
Pfft if history has shown us anything its that the labour caucus will find someway to stuff things up before the election
tricledrown 12.1.1
Cup of tea choyce 73
greywarbler 12.2
tricledown
My imagination is working. These little factories – what will they be making?
Making gingerbread houses with a baked milk-powder base?
Motor-bicycle hubs out of strips of pine tanalised wood (with special moisture proof treatment.) Light and strong!
Cow paintings revealing their wacky inner selves?
Dried cow pats impressed with an effigy of John Key, Jesus or Mary, or the Dalai Lama (to show how international we are). For that nostalgic home-farm fragrance so unexpected in the city’s concrete jungle.
Special sandals with hemp-woven soles. Trick is that these are made from high potency hemp hitherto burnt on bonfires by police laughing merrily. The ingredient will be absorbed through the sole of the foot. Brand name being considered – Happy Feet. (The harvesting of this pest plant is so expensive that an economic case for cost recovery has produced this cranky idea from some smoke-filled room.)
This is just a small sample of the tremendous wave of creative and clever businesses that John Key could visit and grace with the invisible or dead hand of government or both perhaps.
If anyone wants to read another diatribe on how government is spoiling everything for the USA middle class and the nation’s productivity, here is a link. And it is as well considered as the title.
Dead Hand of Governent Impoverishes the Middle Class
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chriss-street/dead-hand-government_b_860852.html
Morrissey 13
Who will be the lead mourner at Obama’s funeral?
Fast forward thirty-seven years. The venerable ex-President Barack (The Great Liberator) Obama has finally died from smoking-related complications. President Justin Bieber will speak, of course, but it’s important that the keynote speech, the very first of all the official eulogies to be delivered in RFK Stadium, is delivered in accordance with the tradition laid down by the South African government way back in December 2013, when Obama himself was chosen to lead the mourning at the memorial service of another liberation hero, Nelson Mandela. [1]
That tradition is to select someone who stands for the very opposite of what the dead person stood for in his lifetime, and to get that person to deliver the lead eulogy. As an exercise in enforcing collective obedience and heroic repression of the urge to laugh or to vomit, it is extremely valuable.
So the question is: what liberal, democratic activist from the late 2040s can be found to swallow his or her scruples and pretend to have been inspired by Obama, in the same way as Obama pretended he had been inspired by Mandela? Is there any democratic activist who has the ability to keep a straight face as he (or she) addresses the crowd about someone who actually fought against democracy and freedom throughout his dire eight years of presidency?
Probably not. Maybe Chris Trotter would have, but he’s long dead.
So, the question has to be asked: is there anyone in the entire world who would be shameless enough to deliver a mealy-mouthed, utterly insincere eulogy for the late President Obama, just as President Obama delivered a mealy-mouthed, utterly insincere eulogy for the late Nelson Mandela.
Well, it so happens that there is someone who is just perfect for the job of leading the show of mourning for Barack Obama in the tradition, laid down by Obama himself, of eulogizing a person one would have persecuted and imprisoned if one had had the power to do so.
He is getting long in the tooth: in 2050 he will be 104 years old. But, thanks to the miracle of daily monkey gland injections, the drinking of gallons of Amrit Ras and the yearly blood sacrifice of a mewling sycophant [2] on the world’s longest-running TV series The Apprentice, this world leader, and former president (2020-4), is still going strong.
Yes, step forward LORD DONALD TRUMP (May God Bless His Holy Name)…..
Ex-President Lord Trump’s Eulogy for Barack Obama
To Michelle and the Obama family; to President Bieber and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests – it is a singular honor to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. To the people of Kenya – people of every race and walk of life – the world thanks you for sharing Barack Obama with us. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph. Your dignity and hope found expression in his life, and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy.
It is hard to eulogize any man – to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person – their private joys and sorrows; the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone’s soul. How much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process killed and imprisoned and persecuted millions around the world.
Born in August 1961, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by elders of his cannibal tribe – Barack would emerge as the first great liberator of the 21st century. Like Anders Breivik, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success.
….continues insanely in front of braindead, silent crowd, just like the one in Johannesburg in December 2013….
[1] Now discredited and rarely mentioned any more.
[2] The lucky Ivy League grad. is selected with a doom-inflected “You’re DEAD!” by the Great Man himself, and dispatched by his septuagenarian son Donald Trump Jr. and the captain of the winning team, with cudgels, live on air. Always a top-rating episode, more so when the winning captain is a female.
I considered your commentaries factual and accurate until you claimed Justin Bieber as president. The president must be born in the US and A.
Morrissey 13.1.1
Damn! What was I thinking, Murray? I forgot he’s Canadian!
Okay, then, the president in 2050 will be Jenna Bush.
lprent 14
Gardeners breakfast for lunch at bluskin in Waitati. Burp!
Invercargill here we go…
Rogue Trooper 15
A Serious Man “receives with simplicity all that happens”- Rashi ( An Outline of an Anarchist ‘Theory of Knowledge’ ) Now, think about those ‘ Super ‘… Lions …
Rogue Trooper ( John James Elijah , formerly, Wayne Leslie Barrow bd: 16.2.67 ) is now honourably discharged.
And, if you think your wealth, or Technological familiarity makes you better than me… “You’ve got another thing coming”! .
ps: Please read the letter .
-John, signing off, Over and Out! 😉
Colonial Viper 15.1
Well, it has been, and always will be, an honour my friend.
ghostrider888 15.1.1
same, too kind, yet life rolls on. Thanks, special mention to… (off to refresh and recall)…
ghostrider888 16
All The Best for The New Year…( and Not Fade Away….
Edit: White Rabbits (just in anticipation).
“When the ‘truth’ is found to be lies” …It’s been swell.
greywarbler 17
Sanctuary at 6.1.2 has a thoroughly good thought piece everyone on TS should read. Don’t miss it. This part struck a bell with me -referring to the over 45s and our comparatively cosy lives grown on a base of good government services and opportunity..
Secondly, all of this bourgeoise class formed their political beliefs at a time when third way identity politics WAS the acceptable face of the left. The idea that the left is every bit as much about radical economic reform and redistribution and that the new-right’s class war demands a response first and foremost as a radical economic agenda complete with the potential for violence unsettles them.
The idea that the political assumptions of a such a well-informed, intelligent, and self-regarded middle class group as them could turn to be entirely wrong is regarded as absurd.
In “Death of the Liberal Class” Chris Hedges stated it very clearly: the intellectual socially liberal middle class and elite were never supposed to be the functioning political Left.
The functioning political Left is supposed to be organised groups of the underclass, of labour, and of socialist community and activist organisations.
So we shouldn’t be disappointed in the politics of this group of intellectual socially liberal middle class of 45 plus. They have their place in society and they’re doing exactly what is expected of them.
And they’re definitely not going to like what actually happened in the USA which forced Roosevelt and his business backers to accept the New Deal and save capitalism. In essence, wide spread civil resistance forced those in power to implement the socialist policies of the New Deal.
Tracey 18
Is chris still running about excitedly salivating at the day he too can have clothes as beautiful as his emperor?
weka 19
What’s with the two strings of sausages at the bottom of the page?
Jokerman 19.1
Credits: (you all know who you are) and Uturn 😎
weka 19.1.1
BM 19.1.1.1
They’re links of sausages, which is a perfect background image for that heading.
Naked chris… you do get that gangs thrive on the impoverished or those in poverty? Drugs are a mere subset of that.
Given the extraordinary levels of naïveté shown recently by some of the big-hearted, generous “liberals” around the place, it is timely to remind ourselves just how nasty, cynical and downright dishonest Matthew Hooton, the beneficiary of their misplaced trust, actually is. Few have summed up this horrible backroom operative better than Nicky Hager did the best part of four years ago…..
The last wails of the angry Hollow Men
by Nicky Hager, Pundit, March 19, 2010
http://pundit.co.nz/content/the-last-wails-of-the-angry-hollow-men
And so the saga of the Brash email invesigations ends, not with a bang, but with continued denials by those exposed
When my book The Hollow Men was published over three years ago, the National Party-aligned PR man Matthew Hooton wrote a furious newspaper column saying that the source material for the book had obviously been illegally hacked and that he and others were going to investigate and bring me to justice. Time has proved him wrong on both points.
Egged on by Hooton, former National Party leader Don Brash complained to the police about my leaked materials, prompting a long police investigation. The police, predictably, found no evidence of hacking or crime. Instead of accepting these findings, Hooton accused the police of political bias and he, Brash and a small set of right-wing commentators demanded a new police inquiry. Under this angry criticism, the police launched a high-level second investigation. A total of three years of police investigation ended last week and, despite all those wasted police resources, the conclusion was once again that hacking was “highly unlikely”.
As the newspapers reported, the police found no evidence of “hacking of any sort, no evidence of any interception or use of similar devices. No evidence of anything, really – in fact there was absolutely no trail to follow.” Adding in all the evidence, they wrote, “the chances of illegal electronic entry become more remote. The general consensus is that this was not the manner in which the emails were obtained.” Elsewhere in the report they said they were “confident that the Parliamentary computer was not hacked” and that “there was no evidence to implicate Mr Hager as having committed a criminal offence in obtaining and publishing the emails and documents.”
For everyone except the grumpy cabal who pushed for the police investigation, this was the end of the matter. But before forgetting about the whole thing, the release of the police report gives an interesting political snapshot.
You probably haven’t seen the two police reports (they weren’t released on the Internet) but they are pleasingly detailed and unambiguous. I don’t think anyone who reads them will give any credibility to Hooton and cos original allegations of hacking and crime. This makes the responses from Brash, Hooton and other National Party figures (who would presumably have seen the reports) all the more interesting.
The first person to comment was Hooton, using his Monday morning commentator spot on Radio New Zealand. You would hope that a news organisation, where he had previously loudly aired his views about hacking and stolen e-mails, would have put it to Hooton that the police had found no evidence to support his allegations. Alas no. Instead Hooton, the PR man, simply scooted around the fact that he’d been proven wrong and came up with a new and even more far fetched allegation. “The only strange thing about it,” he said, “was that there was some information in the book that only could have come from [National Party donor] Diane Foreman’s home, and couldn’t have come from Parliament and that’s still unresolved.” Sigh. It does not reflect well on Radio New Zealand that they continue to employ this shameless spin doctor as a commentator.
The next person to respond to the police finding was John Key, at his weekly Monday afternoon press conference. This was disturbing in a different way. Leaving aside that some press gallery journalists seemed primarily interested that the prime minister had said a rude word (“bollocks”), the remarkable thing was that a three year investigation by police professionals had made no impression on Key at all. The insight that this small event gives into the mind of the prime minister is that he didn’t just dodge the unpalatable information like Hooton, he simply didn’t believe information that didn’t suit him. Thus his conclusion, at the end of a police inquiry that disproved the hacking theory as comprehensively as was possible, was to tell the reporters that he believed the parliamentary computers had been hacked “but I can’t back that up”. Maybe this is how things are in the world of currency trading that he comes from: there’s no such thing as solid fact or principle; everything is fluid and adjustable.
A few other people made similar comments, repeating the now familiar claims about hacked parliamentary computers and theft. The joke is that this short list of people had something rather obvious in common. Pretty well all the people proclaiming that there had been wrong doing were people who had been exposed in my book doing what I described as dishonest, dodgy or manipulative things themselves. Don Brash, John Key, Matthew Hooton (PR adviser to Brash), Richard Long (chief spin doctor for Brash) and John Ansell (advertising consultant to Brash). They naturally felt hurt and angry about their secret actions and discussions being revealed to the public.
But for three years they have turned this on its head and painted themselves as the victims – avoiding responsibility for their own actions and attacking me for exposing them. For all but the utterly partisan and self interested, the police investigation should at last have put an end to that.
*For further insight into the emails debate and Nicky’s discussion of how they were sourced, see here….
http://pundit.co.nz/content/good-pr-relies-on-bad-journalism-the-stolen-e-mails-story
Anne 21.1
Thanks for that Morrissey. Will read the links shortly. I have enormous respect for Nicky Hagar and had the pleasure of meeting him earlier this year. He came across to me as a very genuine person. No sign of pretensions and not a hint of arrogance about him. No surprise then that his ‘targets’ in the The Hollow Men are some of the most arrogant individuals in NZ. He is highly regarded overseas and is credited with bringing the ultra secret Echelon system of surveillance out into the fresh air for the world to see – a kind of a mini Edward Snowden.
No wonder Brash/Key and their cohorts (including Matthew Hooton) went to such lengths to discredit him.
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Hi! Is this the right Webpage/Site to join Shortland Street Appreciation Society? Or has my computer been hacked by NSA/Fox Non News/Right Wing Bastards R Us/Grassy Knoll Conspiracy Activists
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Amusing myself on twitter.
#libertarianismin4words wait, Hayek supported welfare?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/05/14/friedrich_hayek_on_the_welfare_state.html
#libertarianismin4words wait, Hayek supported welfare? http://t.co/lFpYnl9Gs9
— Jack P (@theoden_tid) December 30, 2013
joe90 23.1
#libertarianismin4words fun – free-baby market.
Ecosse 24
No Ecossemaid, Are You Parnoid!? This is the Bananas in Pyjamas site!
Going off in Wanaka tonight.
God I feel old with such heavings of young people.
mac1 26
Happy New Year, everyone.
mickysavage 26.1
Same to you Mac1.
Francis 26.2
May the new year bring change for the better 🙂
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Mi amiga de Caracas recommendar:
Illapu, historico, mas de des, futura de NZ ???
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1997, ★★★, Drama
Lawn Dogs (1997, John Duigan)
5 August 2018 Andrew Wickliffe Leave a comment
There’s a lot going on in Lawn Dogs. Lots of good things, lots of strange things, lots of bad things; the worst is probably housewife Kathleen Quinlan’s lover molesting her daughter, Mischa Barton. The film doesn’t want to deal with it. Lawn Dogs is lots of visual splendor, courtesy director Duigan and cinematographer Elliot Davis–set in a affluent Kentucky subdivision–and the film uses that visual splendor and the film’s general quirkiness to pivot away from ever dealing with the more difficult elements. On one hand, the story needs it to maintain its lyrical quality. On the other, it means there’s only so far the film can get.
Because even though it’s from ten year-old Barton’s perspective, it’s filtered. Barton knows what’s going on with mom Quinlan and the late teenage lover, David Barry Gray, but never shows how that knowledge affects her. She gets around to telling her parents–Christopher McDonald is the dad–about it, only to recant because Gray’s father is more affluent than McDonald and McDonald’s got political ambitions; Barton then recants. For a moment, Quinlan is about to become more than a precisely performed caricature and then Lawn Dogs drops that idea. McDonald only gets some depth at the very end, so it’s exactly disappointing but it’s a definite decision Duigan and writer Naomi Wallace are making with the narrative distance. These people are pushed back. Barton’s closer, Sam Rockwell–as the neighborhood lawn mower and Barton’s secret buddy (Rockwell’s twenty-one)–is closer. But McDonald and Quinlan? They’re so far back and so two dimensional and played for such dark humor, they don’t even cast shadows.
At the start of the film, Barton–who’s recovering from two open heart surgeries and being a social pariah before the family moved back to Kentucky for McDonald’s political ambition–happens across Rockwell’s trailer. He runs her off, she keeps coming back. Eventually he relents and allows himself to be befriended. The film is split, mostly, between Barton and Rockwell. While Barton gets a lot of time but not a lot of insight (she’s ten after all and living partially in a fairytale of her own mental construction), Rockwell gets a little less time but there’s the insight. It’s subtle, but it’s clear. Wallace’s script makes sure–without exposition–Rockwell’s character is clear. The most efficient aspects come when it’s how the rich people treat Rockwell, the subtle ways they humiliate him and, in some cases, objectify him. And his poverty. There’s a lot about class in Lawn Dogs, even if Barton’s too young to really understand it and Rockwell’s not going to talk about it. It’s quietly devastating; he wants to protect her from the damage she does with her privilege. She’s ten, after all.
Bruce McGill is the subdivision rent-a-cop. He’s worked his way up; not enough to live in the subdivision, but enough to crap all over Rockwell every chance he gets. McGill’s got the third best part in the film. He’s just pretending to be a caricature so he can fit in with the rich people.
The film hints at a timeline–Barton’s got her last heart doctor checkup–but doesn’t stick to it. It’s about she and Rockwell’s friendship and how the discovery of it destroys lives. Along the way, there’s a bit of fun, a lot about how living with crappy parents McDonald and Quinlan weighs on Barton (even if she can’t express it), and then some about Rockwell. There’s this vignette, completely separate from the rest of the film, where they visit his parents–Beth Grant and Tom Aldredge–in a mobile home park.
From the first shot of the park, it’s clear this lower working class existence is far more rewarding than the sterile perfection of the subdivision. Kids playing, for instance. In the subdivision, there’s only this one other kid–Miles Meehan–who’s younger than Barton and an already accomplished sociopath. The interlude with Grant and Aldredge, which deepens Rockwell’s back story without actually informing his character at all, is fantastic stuff. It just doesn’t much matter to the rest of Lawn Dogs because even if Barton gets to see Rockwell’s soul laid bare… she can’t really understand it. She’s ten.
One of the film’s greatest successes–of the actors, the direction, and especially the script–is never to make Rockwell and Barton’s friendship creepy. Rockwell’s character is aware of its inappropriateness, but he’s filled with (a previously unknown ability to capacity for) compassion for Barton. Meanwhile Barton has cast Rockwell in her mental fairytale, though his role keeps changing. Though the fairytale thing is really only first and third act. It doesn’t keep up through the second, which is too bad. At least in Barton’s understanding of her life through the fairytale’s lens, there’s some effort to show her understanding.
The acting from the leads is great. Rockwell’s better, obviously, because some of Barton’s performance is just about being a naive kid. It doesn’t always need a lot. Duigan and editor Humphrey Dixon edit the performances to maximum effect. It’s not so much Barton is wise beyond her years than Rockwell isn’t wise enough for his own. They’re wonderful together.
Good music from Trevor Jones; he toggles ably the cockeyed modern fairytale, the yuppie condemnation, the rural poverty, and the working class redemption. Again, there’s a lot going on in Lawn Dogs and–at the very least–Rockwell and writer Wallace (and McGill) get it. Even if Duigan wants to avoid it by doing some gorgeous composition with cinematographer Davis. The film’s gorgeous and quirky and intentionally distracted from itself.
The other supporting performances–Eric Mabius as Gray’s friend and a rich boy with an illicit crush on Rockwell, as well as Angie Harmon as a rich girl having an illicit affair with Rockwell–are good. Gray’s the weakest performance in the film, but also the thinest part. He’s just a dangerous predator.
McGill is really good. He gets overshadowed, sure–and rightly, Barton and Rockwell are great–but he’s really good.
Lawn Dogs is an accomplishment. Just could’ve been more of one if Duigan and Wallace wanted to deal with the tougher issues they raise instead of avoid them.
Directed by John Duigan; written by Naomi Wallace; director of photography, Elliot Davis; edited by Humphrey Dixon; music by Trevor Jones; production designer, John Myhre; produced by Duncan Kenworthy; released by The Rank Organisation.
Starring Mischa Barton (Devon Stockard), Sam Rockwell (Trent Burns), Christopher McDonald (Mr. Stockard), Kathleen Quinlan (Mrs. Stockard), Bruce McGill (Nash), Eric Mabius (Sean), David Barry Gray (Brett), Angie Harmon (Pam), Beth Grant (Mrs. Burns), and Tom Aldredge (Mr. Burns).
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2006, ★★★, Comedy
The Oh in Ohio (2006, Billy Kent)
14 October 2007 Andrew Wickliffe Leave a comment
Short movies–under ninety minutes–are having a creative resurgence of late. I’m thinking primarily of Ed Burns’s Looking for Kitty as the model (and it was well under ninety), but The Oh in Ohio is another fine example. The way the filmmakers keep Ohio short is very interesting. They end the movie during the last five or six minutes of the second act. There is no third act. There’s a lot of suggestion to what might be coming in the third act, even foreshadowing to a pleasantly surprising, comedic ending, but it isn’t in the film. There are a handful of fade-to-black scene transitions and when the last one came, I was not expecting the film to end. It was a deft–a term I’ve only used one other time here on The Stop Button–unexpected narrative move and nothing in The Oh in Ohio prepared me for it.
There’s very little in the way narrative drive–there’s an abject lack of conflict after the first act–and I kept waiting for a crisis needing resolution and one never arrived. In some ways, the film summarizes instead of plays out in scene, but has enough solid scenes going to give the illusion they’re where the most important events are playing out. Or it might not be deft and the screenwriters just got lucky. Either way, it’s interesting because for a narrative to play out in the traditional structure only to stop, canceling its traditional trajectory, raises a lot of questions about where a story should in terms of creating the fullest experience. The Oh in Ohio could have tacked on another fifteen to twenty-five minutes and it would never have ended quite as well. Because romantic comedies–and The Oh in Ohio is a romantic comedy–tend to have their own pattern and they don’t do it for narrative quality but because romantic comedies really only have seventy or eighty minutes worth of story and they need push it so people won’t dismiss them for running under ninety (or ninety-five, ninety-five sounds more respectable still). So The Oh in Ohio shows cutting and closing sooner, on a high point, might be the way to go. I can think of one or two romantic comedies right now with too long endings, where cutting earlier would have worked better.
Other than its narrative innovation (or possible innovation, I’ll check with the patent office), The Oh in Ohio’s got Parker Posey and she’s excellent, but it’s also got a great Paul Rudd performance. Rudd frequently disappoints, but not in this film. Danny DeVito’s good, so is Keith David. Liza Minnelli has a fantastic cameo.
The laugh-out-loud comedy scenes mix well with the not-laugh-out-loud ones and there’s still the traditional narrative going on to hold things together. I also use the word “quirky” sparingly (though, apparently, three times to date), but The Oh in Ohio is a quirky film and I feel like I shouldn’t have had to remember on my own. Someone else should have been talking about it.*
* I have a feeling they were not, because when I went to go to look for DVD reviews, I found four. Apparently, the superstars at HBO Home Video decided to pan and scan the Panavision frame to an HD-friendly 1.85:1, which really bothered me during the scenes when the framing was so obviously off–like when a car drove off frame but was still audible and the scene didn’t cut until it had time to traverse (out of frame, obviously) the rest of the shot.
Directed by Billy Kent; screenplay by Adam Wierzbianski, from a story by Sarah Bird, Kent and Wierzbianski; director of photography, Ramsey Nickell; edited by Paul Bertino and Michael R. Miller; music by Bruno Coon; production designer, Martina Buckley; produced by Miranda Bailey, Francey Grace and Amy Salko Robertson; released by Cyan Pictures.
Starring Parker Posey (Priscilla Chase), Danny DeVito (Wayne the Pool Guy), Miranda Bailey (Sherri), Paul Rudd (Jack Chase), Keith David (Coach Popovitch), Tim Russ (Douglas), Mischa Barton (Kristen Taylor), Liza Minnelli (Alyssa Donahue), Robert John Burke (Binky Taylor) and Heather Graham (Justine).
Cyan PicturesDanny DeVitoHeather GrahamKeith DavidLiza MinnelliMischa BartonParker PoseyPaul RuddThe Oh in Ohio
Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott), the final cut
Doomsday Book (2012, Kim Ji-woon and Yim Pil-sung)
Deadpool (2012, Tim Miller)
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Virginia Roberts, also known as The Heartographer, is an online dating coach. Virginia sometimes supplements her coaching business with writing, software testing, linguistic work, and event planning.
Virginia perfectly sums up a lot of my thoughts about creating the ideal setup through lots of small improvements:
I suppose that means most of my “ideal setup” factors involve a bunch of boring little incremental tweaks that slightly improve the looks and functionality of my overall setup. Sort of like each new iPhone, I guess!
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OmniFocus for Mac, part of our favorite app for GTD suite for OS X and iOS, was updated to version 2.1 this week. The new version includes a new look that better matches OS X Yosemite, new Today and Share extensions, as well as a bevy of bug fixes and improvements.
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Alto’s Adventure is a brand new iOS game that is both delightful to play and beautiful to look at. Join Alto on an endless runner adventure down the slopes on a snowboard, collecting stray llamas, picking up coins, and performing tricks along the way.
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Mac OS X makes it incredibly easy to partition external hard drives into multiple “drives.” Creating partitions on a drive means you can see multiple “drives” from OS X, but they’re all contained on the same hard drive.
Bradley shows us how to create multiple partitions on a single hard drive using the built-in Disk Utility application on OS X.
Behind the App »
Inquisitive, a Relay.fm show produced by Myke Hurley, launched a new series called Behind the App that takes a look at how the App Store changed our idea of “applications” on computing devices.
“Behind the App” takes a look at the App Store and how it has changed nearly everything in the consumer electronic space. Myke recorded hours and hours of interviews with developers, telling the story of the iPhone, the history of iOS app development and how to make a living writing code.
This is a fantastic new vein in Myke Hurley’s show, and it’s an interesting dive into such a fascinating subject. Myke moves the show along by interviewing prominent figures in the app development community, such as Marco Arment, Guy English, Jason Snell, and more.
Making Music on iOS: Guitar Amps, Effects Apps & Hardware »
Our friends over at MacStories wrote a detailed and interesting article on playing guitar through iOS devices. I grew up playing guitar before the iOS days, so this was completely fascinating to me. It’s amazing how powerful these devices are when you plug in an analog interface. Achieving these types of results before was incredibly expensive and far less portable. This is a great piece of writing by Charlie Sorrel.
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Chicago Rapid Transit Mystery Photos – Solved
April 28, 2015 April 29, 2015 David Sadowski 8 Comments
Image #820 shows CTA 2730 at Van Buren and Ashland, on the reroute of the Garfield Park “L” used between 1953 and 1958. A sign hanging on the front of the car indicates this train connects with a Chicago, Aurora & Elgin train leaving DesPlaines Avenue at 6:12 pm. The #9 Ashland streetcar, bussed in early 1954, actually ran on Paulina at this point. This slide is dated August 1955, but you would think expressway construction would have been further along by then. Perhaps the date is wrong and the picture was taken earlier.
Based on the many entries we received, our readers had a field day with our Chicago Rapid Transit Mystery Photos contest. Here are all 21 photos from our original post, with locations and other interesting information added to the captions.
We thank everyone who participated. There were many good submissions, but probably the best overall entry came from Andre Kristopans. Edward Maurath also provided us with lots of great historical tidbits, even though his entry came in past the contest deadline. He gets an honorable mention.
Although one person wrote that identifying the locations was not difficult, no one seems to have gotten all the information 100% correct. The most difficult picture to pin down was #809. There is only one location on the outer end of the Lake Street “L” where the street takes a jog like the one seen in the picture, and that is at Harlem Avenue.
Image #807 also threw some people for a loop, but it is clearly taken at Rockwell, since the “L” train has just descended the ramp from Western. Also, one of the storefronts in the picture houses the Rockwell Upholstering Service.
Keep an eye on this site for more “mystery photos” in the future!
PS- According to John Bromley, the photos with the fuzz at the top of the frame were probably shot by John Stern. If they were all taken at about the same time, the time frame would be somewhere between late 1949 and early 1951. This can be inferred due to there being A/B skip stop service on Lake and Ravenswood, but not Douglas. The Normal Park and Kenwood branches are already being operated as shuttles in these pictures, and the wood Logan Square train photo would have to predate the opening of the Dearborn-Milwaukee subway on February 25, 1951. The Douglas Park “L” was cut back to 54th in 1952.
(This picture was not officially part of the contest.) There is probably no way anyone could guess it, but this picture on CTA car 2787 was taken on the last day of Humboldt Park “L” service, May 3, 1952. Edward Maurath notes, “Car 2787 was built by Barney and Smith for the Metropolitan as number 787.”
Image #818 shows CTA 6066-6067 at Logan Square terminal, most likely in the early 1950s. (Charles K. Willhoft Photo)
Image #817 shows a Normal Park shuttle train on the inbound track at 63rd and Harvard, ready to proceed south. As Robert Leffingwell notes, “The Normal Park branch was so close to Harvard Ave. that it didn’t have to cross over to the southbound track.” This picture was probably taken circa 1949.
Image #816 shows CTA 3161 (originally 161), at Randolph and Wabash circa 1949. Edward Maurath notes, “To me this is by far the most valuable picture in the set because it shows on of the original Lake Street cars. Pictures of any of the wooden cars bought by the Lake Street Line are almost as scarce as hens’ teeth. Unlike the wooden cars of the other three lines which were painted Pullman green, Lake Street wooden cars came from the factory painted Tuscan red… Notice that the controls are on the left side. This is because the Lake Street Line ran left-handed until 1913.”
Edward Maurath says, “Nearer car (in Image #815) is 392, originally made for the South Side Line in 1905 by American Car and Foundry.” The location is Kimball and Lawrence, terminal of the Ravenswood “L” (today’s Brown Line). This photo was taken circa 1949. Litter was apparently a problem then too.
Image #814 shows a Lake Street “L” train at Clark and Lake circa 1949. Edward Maurath says, “The car number is in the range [1700–1734]. It was originally made for the Northwestern line by American Car and Foundry in 1903 and did not acquire the initial ‘1’ in its number until 1913. Those cars were transferred to the Lake Street line early on.”
Image #813 is looking west at Marshfield Met Main with a westbound CA&E train at the auxiliary platform. Edward Maurath notes, “Wooden cars acquired by the Chicago, Aurora and Elgin second hand from the North Shore Line at Marshfield Jct, a very busy place. …Tracks curving to the north went to the Logan Square and Humboldt Park branches, while tracks curving to the south went to the Douglas Park branch. When these tracks were removed in 1953 to make room for the Eisenhower Expressway, the north and south tracks were connected to form what was later called ‘the Paulina Connector.’ ” An inbound Logan Square “L” train is visible at right.
Andre Kristopans says that Image #812 shows a “Kenwood shuttle EB leaving Lake Park/Ellis approaching 42nd Pl terminal.” The date is circa 1949.
Image #811, according to Andre Kristopans, shows a “Normal Park shuttle between Harvard Englewood and Stewart Jct – appears inbound.” Edward Maurath notes that car “223 was made by Jewett in 1902 for the South Side Line, then known as the ”alley L’.”
Image #810 shows, as Andre Kristopans notes, a “Kenwood shuttle at (the) Indiana pocket.” Edward Maurath adds, “By this time the Kenwood Line had been demoted to a shuttle. Notice the remains of where the Kenwood Line used to have a double track connection to the main line. The car would appear to date back to the 19th century. View is looking east.” The time is circa 1949.
Image #809 is one that I don’t think anyone guessed correctly. It’s obvious that this is the outer portion of the Lake Street “L” where it ran on the ground. But the street takes a jog just behind the “L” car, and the only place this could be is Harlem Avenue. On the west side of Harlem, it’s Forest Park. This appears to be the back entrance to the Marion Street station. The “L” was relocated onto the C&NW embankment in 1962. This picture was probably taken around 1949.
Edward Morath says Image #808 shows “Nearer car 2100 built by Pullman in 1894. Train is leaving Damen station headed northwest.” This is presumably a Logan Square train on what is now today’s CTA Blue Line. The photo was probably taken circa 1949.
Image #807 shows an outbound Ravenswood train at Rockwell, circa 1949. The train has just descended a ramp from the Western station.
Andre Kristopans says that Image #806 is “looking east from Exchange on the Stock Yards branch.” The time is circa 1949.
Edwatd Maurath says that Image #805 shows a “Very old South Side gate car headed east towards Exchange Station, looking west towards same bridge as in #806. From the shadows, it appears to be around noon.” We are on the Stockyards branch circa 1949.
Image #804, according to Andre Kristopans, shows “Randolph/Wabash with Garfield local to Desplaines on (the) Inner Loop track.” Edward Maurath adds, “Nearest car is 2871 (originally Metropolitan car 871) built by Pullman in 1906. Notice the so called “monitor” roof found on all the later Metropolitan cars.”
Image #803 shows a very old Met car heading into the Oak Park Avenue station on the Douglas “L” circa 1949. Douglas Park trains did not get A/B “skip stop” service until 1951. In 1952, the line was cut back to 54th Avenue and service west of there was provided by an “interurban” bus.
Image #802 shows the old Harvard Theatre, which was at 6312 S. Harvard Avenue. This is the same area as Image #811, on the Englewood “L”, and the time is around 1949. According to the Cinema Treasures website, the 750-seat Harvard Theatre closed in the 1960s and has since been demolished:
http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/5345%5B/caption%5D
[caption id="attachment_1016" align="alignnone" width="665"] Image #801 shows the Kimball Yard on the Ravenswood “L”, today’s Brown Line, looking northwest. It’s hard to imagine it looking like this, considering how tight space is in this yard today. A southbound Kimball bus (a Brill 2000-series) is at left, and the date is circa 1949. Check out the duck pond.
Image #800 shows the same area as Image #813, a CA&E train of wood cars at the Marshfield auxiliary platform circa 1949. (The Great Third Rail, CERA B-105, says on page II-7 that “CA&E maintained its own westbound loading platform just west of Marshfield junction on the Garfield ‘L’ line.”) These cars were ex-North Shore Line and were purchased by CA&E in 1946, ironically the last passenger cars bought by the railroad. The Douglas branch curves off to the left. Today, the Eisenhower Expressway runs through this spot.
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8 thoughts on “Chicago Rapid Transit Mystery Photos – Solved”
Ron Smolen says:
In Image 801.. The Kimball bus is a Gas Brill 2000 series bus
Andre Kristopans says:
More specifically, a ACF-Brill C-44, series 2500-2605 series.
Robert Leffingwell says:
Img 817. The Normal Park branch was so close to Harvard Ave. that it didn’t have to cross over to the southbound track.
thetrolleydodger says:
Thanks… I will correct the caption.
Edward Maurath says:
Correction to my comments on #814: The car was made by American Car and Foundry, not Saint Louis Car Company. I regret the error.
Thanks… I will update the caption.
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part three: forgiveness
Posted by thevoiceinmyhands on May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018
This is your daily reminder: Scandinavians do everything better (Also, choose love)
It was only our third or fourth rehearsal when, after a particularly tense interaction between Belinda McClory’s Tilly and Emily Tomlins’ Egg, Belinda looked at Liv and said ‘you’ll need to remind me to choose love, because it’s so much easier to fight’.
It is easy to fight; it feels good to fight. When rage is building in your guts, vibrating down through your legs and making fists of your fingers, it feels right to fight. It’s a feeling that anyone with a sibling, and especially sisters, would likely know well, and likely have surrendered to many times throughout their childhood, adolescence and beyond. My sister and I always knew where to stick the knife in to get the best reaction, and often it was just so much easier to lash out than to calmly walk away.
Watching Tilly and Egg have it out onstage is mesmerising. Seeing the complexity of sisterhood explored with such intimacy and care is a joy not often offered in our theatres. But although I love to see them play and giggle and look out for one another, I also want to watch them fight. I want them to take out twenty years of pain through harsh words and the cutting cruelty of dismissal and rejection. Somehow it feels more satisfying than the painful journey through the molasses of talking it through, working it out, behaving like adults I guess you could call it. Call me Lady Gaga circa 2009 because I want their love and I want their revenge.
But, as Gaga so eloquently points out, that would be (a) bad (romance). Humans are famous for their cognitive dissonance, the ability to accept two opposing truths at the same time. But even for us, love—or perhaps empathy or compassion for those of us who find the ‘L’ word too sticky—and vengeance—in whatever violent or indifferent form it may take—are simply too colossal and demanding to coexist. You cannot hold something with love in one hand and beat it with the other. You have to choose. This is true on every level of our lives, from our personal relationships to our social institutions.
The tension between the two sisters — one ‘free’ and one ‘not free’, as is noted in the character notes at the beginning of the script — embodies a much larger question of how we as a society manage our grievances. While Tilly has built a successful, if lonely, life for herself, using her own experience within the foster care system to fuel her desire to help others, Egg has spent her life in and out of prison. Tilly, through cruelty or carelessness, never lets her forget it. Egg’s cycles of incarceration and recidivism reflect the troubling reality of our prison system: quite simply, it is broken. In 2015-2016 the recidivism rate in Australia rose to 44.6%, up from 39.5% in 2011-2012. If the purpose of prisons is to prevent further criminal behaviour, these numbers don’t bode well. As barrister Julian Burnside has pointed out ‘if your car only started half the time, would you say it works?’
The justice system is perhaps where the dichotomy of love/vengeance comes into focus most sharply on a social level. In an article for The Conversation’s Beyond Prison series, Kathryn Snow and Lynn Gillam argue that our prisons are ‘ineffective and even counter-productive’ because our political policies and cultural narratives lack a clear understanding of exactly what prisons are for. It’s fairly safe to say that the overall goal is to reduce criminal behaviour, but is it through a system of compassion, that focuses on the rehabilitation of the offenders, or retribution, that focuses on punishment?
Studies have suggested that punishment as a means of changing behaviour is only effective in certain conditions, with certain people. Those who are future-oriented, have good self-monitoring and regulation skills, and who can make the connection between their behaviour and negative consequences months later, may well respond positively. But for those lacking these attributes, the effectiveness of punishment relies on a number of conditions — including the severity and immediacy of the punishment — that simply cannot be met by our current justice system because of modern human rights laws and legal ethics. As Andrew Day, Professor of Psychology at Deakin University, writes, ‘many of the conditions required for punishment to be effective will not exist in any justice system’.
And yet, in Australia, it is increasingly clear that the narrative we have built around our justice system is one that focuses pointedly on punishment over prisoner welfare — it’s a narrative of retribution and not of compassion. This is evident in the fact that our rates of incarceration are rising—from 187.2 prisoners for every 100 000 Australian adults in 2014, to 216.2 in the third quarter of 2017—while crime rates are actually falling. In Victoria, from 2002 to 2012, crime rates fell by 1.6%, but incarceration increased due to longer prison sentences; an increased use of prison sentences in the higher courts; and fewer people being granted bail. It’s reduced welfare — the bureaucratic embodiment of a lack of compassion — not crime rates, that have the closest correlation to increasing incarceration.
In which case, prevention should be easy: just support at-risk communities through welfare and essential services [pretty obvious, hey?]. ‘Justice reinvestment’, a policy that was originally developed in Texas, a notoriously conservative state, aims to redirect prison funding into services like education, healthcare and housing, and has been proven to lower crime rates in disadvantaged communities. Reinvestment programs are being tried and tested across Australia, including in Cowra, where the community has recently undertaken a three-year research project under the leadership of Dr Jill Guthrie. The research team proposed that eight categories of crimes — including traffic offences, justice procedure offences and drug offences — should be dealt with by non-custodial sentences, which would save the community $23 million over ten years. That money could then be spent on key services in health, education, housing and employment to help prevent crime.
But it can be difficult to sell these kinds of preventative spending policies to the general public, as any cursory glance of the comments section on any of these articles would tell you. It seems that Australians subscribe to a very simplistic narrative when it comes to our justice system. We buy into morality play tropes of good guys and bad guys—you do the crime, you do the time—ignoring complex compounding factors like poverty, trauma and colonisation. It just feels good to fight the bad guys and win. That’s why crime is such a hot-button-election-swinging topic in Australia. In the context of our national narrative, politicians who are seen to be locking up bad guys must be the good guys and must be worthy of our vote. That’s why we see Liberals trying to stir up racialised public fury over ‘African gangs’ in the lead up to a Victorian election. In Australia — where racism and classism is built into our the very foundation of our nation — people from low socio-economic communities, immigrants and especially Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are disproportionately represented in prison populations, and in this falsely simplistic narrative of crime and punishment.
It is strange for a nation so enamoured with the idea of the ‘underdog’ and a ‘fair go’ to reject complex narratives in our justice system. We romanticise the criminals of our colonial history— bushrangers are just a bunch of larrikin lads rising up against the British ruling class. We forgive them for murder and robbery and weave heroic narratives around them because they are the victims of an oppressive system (and because they are white; the Indigenous Australians who were also fighting the colonisers during the Bushranger era were not afforded any such sympathy).
Nowadays, many amongst the prison population have stories that reflect that same narrative: they engage in criminal behaviour in response to trauma, poverty or institutional discrimination at the hands of an indifferent (at best) or cruel government. According to the Council of Australian Government Figures, Indigenous Australians are twelve times more likely to be in prison; 63.7% of male and 45.3% of female Victorian prisoners were unemployed when they were imprisoned; and 87% of female prisoners in Victoria were victims of sexual, physical or emotional abuse, with the majority being victims of multiple forms of abuse. Even if, on a personal level, we recognise that the factors motivating criminal behaviour are complex and socially constructed, our justice system steamrolls that nuance with its propensity for punishment. By imprisoning vulnerable people without proper support and rehabilitation—which would acknowledge that there were external factors that led to their criminal behaviour—we are reinforcing a narrative that casts them as inevitable villains.
We see in my sister feather how the internalisation of that narrative can eat away at a person. We see Egg both resist and fall into the character assigned to her — a petulant child who never takes responsibility for her own actions. She baits Tilly to anger with indifference and lies. Tilly struggles to maintain her composure: though she claims she didn’t come to fight she finds herself lashing out and reinforcing the narrative that Egg is exactly where she deserves to be. The roles prescribed by our judicial narrative are passionately reinforced: Tilly is the capable one and Egg is the deadbeat.
This binary relationship is defined and shaped by the sisters’ evolving relationship with ‘them’, the invisible figures behind the security camera, the police, the justice system itself. The validity and stability of these identities are therefore reliant on the objectivity of the system, which, clearly, is non-existent. From the outside, we tend to see the system as an impartial object, dehumanised, which is perhaps why we allow it to dehumanise those people that come to live within its confines. The justice system is not a solid, unbiased, independent, artificial structure, but a carefully constructed web of people, from guards to social workers to CEOs and policy-makers, all vulnerable to the influence of cultural narratives.
When it suits us, we prefer to see the system as impartial and unprejudiced — Tilly outwardly refuses to believe that fear of punishment would prevent people, like Egg, from looking to the police for help; it helps alleviate her own guilt in ‘failing’ to help her sister. But she also questions the morality of the system in the way it dehumanises inmates, as the compassionate gesture of providing mammograms turns out to be motivated by research, and not to save lives. In those moments, the system is not a reliable structure in Tilly’s eyes, but a group of spaghetti-breathed guards, flawed and human, who should be capable of compassion.
And herein lies the pathway to a more effective justice system: it should take human, not structural form, whereby it is not only capable of being compassionate, but expected to be. In Scandinavian countries [you can always rely on Scandinavians to show us the way], the justice system is focused on restorative justice, rather than punishment. This manifests in open prisons and shorter prison sentences, but is best summed up by Kirsti Njeminen, governor of Kerava prison in Finland, who says that prison guards and administrators are like ‘parents’ to their inmates. Parents are expected to bear the brunt of their children’s misbehaviours with good humour and compassion, while gently guiding their children through the process of building appropriate moral structures.
In Finland and other Scandinavian countries, this is what the prison system aspires to: they favour the ‘moral-creating and value-shaping effect of punishment’ rather than ‘punishment as retribution’. Though inmates have their freedom of movement restricted within open prisons, they all have access to rehabilitative services such as education and healthcare, and all facilities incorporate “cognitive-behavioural programs rooted in social learning theory”. Often inmates are referred to as clients rather than prisoners. It works. Norway has an incarceration rate of 75 per 100,000 people and recidivism rate of 20%. Adapting these kinds of compassionate spaces, services and language would completely shift the narrative that surrounds prisons in Australia. We need to make this change, move away from the narrative that serves as a faux self-fulfilling prophecy by painting vulnerable people as villains.
When their mother leaves them, Tilly is forced to take on a parental role in her relationship with Egg. It is a huge burden for a child to shoulder. In an ideal world (i.e. Scandinavia) the prison system could alleviate the burden of this relationship by adopting that parental role. In Australia, with a system that favours retribution, the system eliminates the burden by regarding Egg as unworthy of the relationship at all, unworthy of parental guidance and compassion.
It can be difficult to reject this black-and-white, hero-and-villain narrative that is prevalent in Australia, especially if a crime has a clear and vulnerable victim. Karrie Thompson, a victim’s advocate, argues that prison gives victims ‘closure’: it feels good to fight back, and to win. But, as Justin Burnside points out, ‘you go to prison as punishment, not for punishment’. Prison, if necessary, must be a space of rehabilitation, not retribution. Prison-as-rehabilitation has none of the moral judgement that is inherent in the concept of prison-as-retribution. Retribution is cyclical, and if we pack our narratives, and our prisons, with vengeance we will never find a satisfying resolution. To quote Shakespeare, ‘blood will have blood’, or to quote Jean Tong ‘blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood will have blood … [ad infinitum]’ (Jean wrote an incredible coda to Macbeth called Macdeath which should be a compulsory addition to any production of the Scottish play IMHO).
In my sister feather, I want Egg and Tilly to fight. I want the play to be full of yelling and hurled objects. I want them to demand blood in payment for their pain. But no-one wants to see that play. And hopefully no-one should want to see that play out in our judicial system. Allowing two sisters the time and space to sit peacefully with their pain, trying to find a way out of it together, quietly and with dignity, is a reminder — to everyone — to choose love.
Postscript: the justice system is incredibly complex, and full of many wonderful people working hard to make it better and fairer. This article merely skims the surface of the issue of incarceration in Australia, and I encourage you to investigate further. Let’s change the narrative.
This is the third in a series of critical responses being published weekly on the VIMH blog by playwright (and assistant director) Fiona Spitzkowsky about the my sister feather rehearsal room.
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Abbotsford Gang Associate Has Firearms Convictions Overturned
Rajinder Singh Dhillon was convicted of four firearms charges in 2010 after an Abbotsford Police officer found an AK-47 in the trunk of his vehicle. But now those convictions have been overturned on appeal.
When the gun was found on Aug. 15, 2006, police had been called to a Subway parking lot after 911 calls of a fight between a dozen or so males.
When the officers arrived, there was no fight, but there were known gang associates, including Dhillon and his friend Brian (Shrek) Dhaliwal (pictured above) – a Bacon brothers’ associate.
An officer asked Dhillon who owned the car, parked on an angle in the lot, and he said it was his. He granted police permission to search it. And they found the gun.
But Dhillon appealed and won his case Wednesday. The B.C. Court of Appeal ruled there were no grounds to search the car, rejecting the Crown’s position that it had been done with officer safety in mind. It said his Charter rights had been violated. And the Court said that even when someone consents to a search, police still must have legal grounds to do the search. In this case, police did not have those grounds, the judge ruled.
Just after the gun was found, Dennis Karbovanec and Lance Wust pulled into the parking lot, the judge noted, which police had said futhered their belief there was a threat at the time.
Here’s my story:
Here’s the full ruling:
When riding the brake is a good thing I review Penang Delight Cafe
Kim doesn’t make the news; she only reports it. You are further proof, there are only 12 year trolls left on this blog.
They (the gangsters who use to post on here) died young. Yet never in a gangsters world I suggest “only the good die young. “. That song can put things into perspective. Big shot is an even bigger classic.
Yay,yay. Tell us something new.
Lien says:
Greetings! Very useful advice within this article! It is the little changes that make the most important changes.
kp/ chris blah blah blah says:
Oh not you again, you bullshitting retard. How many personallities do you have talking to yourself today, you no mind fuck?
Do your parents know you are up all night playing gangster wannabe. You don’t have a clue how fucked up you really are, do you?
KP wants mad attention says:
I’ve had a few people in my life die to gang violence so don’t act like you’re the only fuckin one you goof
RSG says:
ACTUAL SENTENCES IMPOSED
Curtis Wayne Vidal
[72] The actual sentences imposed after giving credit for time spent in custody prior to sentencing are as follows:
(a) On Count 4, imprisonment for two years;
(b) On Count 3, imprisonment for one year, concurrent with the sentence on Count 4;
(c) On Count 5, imprisonment for one day, concurrent with the sentences on Counts 3 and 4;
(d) On Count 9, imprisonment for 6 months, concurrent with the sentences on Counts 3, 4 and 5;
(e) On Counts 6 and 7, imprisonment for 18 months on each count, concurrent with each other and consecutive to the sentences on Counts 3, 4, 5 and 9; and
(f) On Count 8, imprisonment for one year, concurrent with the sentence on Counts 6 and 7 and consecutive to the sentences on Counts 3, 4, 5 and 9.
[73] The total actual sentence of imprisonment is therefore three and 1/2 years.
So when is this retard getting out Kim?
Morons... says:
Too many nerds on here fantasizing about their imaginary gangster lives being a “wolfpack” member… You idiots they aren’t even called Wolfpack on the streets… lmao What the fuck do you goofs get out of cheering a gang on in a blog?? Biggest retards have been posting on here wowow…
realgs says:
None of the billys or dhaks guys are hiding there out everywhere and none of them are hiding there faces say what you guys want sitting behind a computer the real gs will prevail
Where are they hanging out if your so sure they are not hiding? They are not in Surrey, Langley or Richmond? So? I am very curious to where they could be?
Bud you dont have to tell me who runs the streets i am pretty clear on that and no what’s up. Where’s Billy and Dhak at lol. Just curious?
yeowmayngggg says:
how do you know they are not in Surrey, Langley or Richmond? So? I am very curious to know how you are so confident about your claims.
I know what they all look like and the old hangouts and they are empty. I used to always see them in various gyms but now, nothing. I would love to know where they are hanging out now just so i know how to avoid a shoot out. Not like i am hunting them or anything. Btw is this the normal weather for this country very depressing like London, grey. KP if you know both sides then can you help me out and tell me where i can find them. Did they all go south slope or something. I mean everyone knows Larry and James are in Kelowna but i want to know where Dhak and Billy’s crew is, the only crew i have found so far is on hastings the Russians and their runners and they are not really a threat. Dhak better show his face soon to, and funerals do not count(cops watching) Basically Dhak is looking like a hide out. I guess its because Billy Tran does not really want to fight with WP, not because of man power but because in the past they got along fine way before WP. Billy Tran will not get involved in this war. Dhak is on his own with his so called 100 guys (lmao) Hey KP i will talk with you on here whats up man?
Joker says:
You are such a goof im sitting here shocked at the shit you say… Billy HATESSSSSS Loonie so I dunno wtf you are talking about?? Anyone that is low enough to SIDE with loonie is fuckin asking for it.. From the looks of it though they are currently winning.. But Billy is smart. He isn’t one to retaliate right away… I am not going to even say anymore these blogs are such a joke.. can;t believe geeks like you post here wow you don’t know shit.. quit with your false theories you GOOF.
Solid says:
Clicl click boom. F_ckem all. Everyone of them are bitches hiding like a rat in the night, they think we don’t know who they are under that hoodie “right”. We no who they are, they no guts to show their inbred f up faces. The world will be a better place with out them. Waste of time reforming or sticking them in jail we end up paying for these waste of skins exactly what they are waste of skin.
I do not understand how anyone can think that the hit on JB and or Larry and Riach was a pro hit. Hit men get paid half upfront and half after its done. They only had one vehicle and one killed one target of 3 if that was the plan. This hit was planned but not pro. Anyone who thinks its a pro hit watches to many movies and is a borderline retard. If this hot was pro there would have never been so many shots fired and the shooters watched all 5 people get in to the ride. The only way the hit men would have shot at all of them including the girls is if all 3 were targets and they did not have as much experience as though because they fucked themselves over by shooting Larry and the HA niece. Its not possibly that if Jon was the target that they would have shot the whole jackpot of them. Not a chance no boss who orders a hit would allow that unless they were RS like the Surrey 6. Lance Wust is a PC ask anyone, clearly your a little on the outside. It is sad that the girls got shot and that was no pro hit. Organized? maybe but not by much.
Panago says:
Shrek has an eye problem. O and if he is reading this he should invest in a trainer and go to Harry Rosen and get a stylist. If ur making money at least look decent. And not like a bum. Like nice pants. Where’s the flood. Fuckin shrek.
EL CHAPO says:
Capris a little gay , not gonna lie , if he was goin to the local 7-11 to grab a slurpee , air maxs and a black tee , all good , but your showing up for a memorial , throw on some jeans and a dress shirt at least DUDE!!!
Amreeta Dhaliwal says:
I think he would look good with blond tips
wp forlife says:
Wp has the resources to do whatever whenever billy tran is a real hideout yes he is and dhak everyone knows ran from the bacons he didn’t step enough said ?
NO THATS FUCKED UP, YOUR A QUEER , NOT ONLY ARE YOU A DRY SNITCH BUT A BUTT PIRATE TOO!
Why did you reply like 15 times to yourself?
Kp says:
His bro was indicted with my supposed buddy years ago. Fucked up kids, n yet they own properties but haven’t been arrested for years
U kids would rather look at the young n exceptional, including kim
As I have explained many times on here, reporters in Canada can’t accuse people by name of crimes for which they have not been charged, convicted or even IDed as suspects. I would love to write more about the higher levels in organized crime in B.C. But when they manage to avoid charges or convictions, it is hard for the media to report on suspicions about what is going on. I acknowledge I write more about mid-level gangs. I have also written about triads and HA whenever there are cases I can link back to them. I will also continue to try making those higher level links in the future. But people should also understand the legal limitations of what I can write.
i give the truth to u n u puke it back haha I tell the truth, he was surreys most wanted like 5 years ago
just wondering........... says:
COURT OF APPEAL FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA
R. v. Dhillon,
2012 BCCA 254
Date: 20120613
Docket: CA038220
Respondent
Rajinder Singh Dhillon
Appellant
The Honourable Mr. Justice Donald
The Honourable Madam Justice D. Smith
The Honourable Mr. Justice Hinkson
On appeal from: Provincial Court of British Columbia, January 28, 2010
(R. v. Dhillon, Abbotsford Docket No. 65321-2C)
Counsel for the Appellant:
K. Beatch
R. Thirkell
Counsel for the Respondent:
M. Levitz, Q.C.
Place and Date of Hearing:
Place and Date of Judgment:
Written Reasons by:
Concurred in by:
Reasons for Judgment of the Honourable Madam Justice D. Smith:
[1] Rajinder Singh Dhillon appeals his convictions on four firearm offences. The alleged offences occurred on August 15, 2006, at Abbotsford, B.C. They include:
Count 1: did posess a firearm, AK-47 Rifle, while not being the holder of a licence under which he may possess the firearm and a registration certificate for the firearm, contrary to s. 91(1) of the Criminal Code.
Court 2: did carry a concealed weapon, AK-47 Rifle, contrary to s. 90(1) of the Criminal Code.
Count 3: was an occupant of a motor vehicle in which he knew there was a prohibited weapon, an AK-47 Rifle, for which he or any occupant of the motor vehicle was not the holder of an authorization or licence under which he or any other occupant may transport the prohibited weapon, contrary to s. 94(1)(b)(i) of the Criminal Code.
Count 4: did possess a prohibited device, cartridge magazine, while not being the holder of a licence under which he may possess it, contrary to s. 91(2) of the Criminal Code.
[2] The central issue at trial was the lawfulness of a search of the trunk of Mr. Dhillon’s motor vehicle and the attendant seizure of the firearm discovered therein. The trial judge found that the search was conducted for officer safety reasons, incidental to an investigative detention, and did not violate Mr. Dhillon’s s. 8 Charter right to be secure against unreasonable search and seizure. In the alternative, if Mr. Dhillon was not lawfully detained for an investigative purpose, the trial judge held that the firearm was admissible as evidence in the trial pursuant to s. 24(2) of the Charter based on the test prevailing at the time from R. v. Collins, [1987] 1 S.C.R. 265.
[3] On appeal, Mr. Dhillon submits the trial judge erred in finding that the search of his vehicle was for officer safety reasons incidental to an investigative detention and therefore reasonable. He says the only authority under which the investigating officer undertook the search was Mr. Dhillon’s consent, which the investigating officer acknowledged at trial was not obtained in compliance with the preconditions for valid consent established in R. v. Borden, [1994] 3 S.C.R 145. In the absence of valid consent, which the Crown now concedes was not properly obtained, Mr. Dhillon submits that the search of the trunk was unreasonable, the firearm seized was not admissible, and, in the absence of the firearm evidence, he should have been acquitted of all the charges against him.
[4] In the alternative, Mr. Dhillon submits that if he was detained before the search of the vehicle (as found by the trial judge), his detention was arbitrary and therefore contrary to s. 9 of the Charter. He says there were no “reasonable grounds to suspect in all the circumstances that [Mr. Dhillon was] connected to a particular crime and that such a detention [was] necessary”: R. v. Mann, 2004 SCC 52, [2004] 3 S.C.R. 59 at para. 45. In support of that submission, Mr. Dhillon relies on the investigating officer’s acknowledgment at trial that he had no reasonable grounds to detain Mr. Dhillon.
[5] In the further alternative, Mr. Dhillon submits that if he was lawfully detained pursuant to an investigative detention, he was not advised of the reason for his detention or of his right to counsel, contrary to ss. 10(a) and (b) of the Charter. Relying on R. v. Suberu, 2009 SCC 33, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 460, he contends that an individual subject to an investigation detention must be informed of his s. 10 Charter rights “without delay” (para. 2). He maintains, based on R. v. Debot, [1989] 2 S.C.R. 1140 at 1147, that if he was lawfully detained, Cst. Doucette’s failure to advise him of his s. 10 Charter rights triggered a violation of his s. 8 Charter right to be secure from an unreasonable search and seizure.
[6] In the face of violations of his ss. 8, 9 and 10 Charter rights, Mr. Dhillon submits the trial judge erred in failing to exclude the evidence of the firearm pursuant to s. 24(2) of the Charter.
[7] For the reasons that follow, I am of the view that the appeal must be allowed, the convictions quashed and an acquittal entered. As a result of my conclusions on the issue of whether Mr. Dhillon was detained, I find it unnecessary to address Mr. Dhillon’s alternative claim of a s. 10 Charter breach.
Background circumstances
[8] On August 15, 2006, Cst. Doucette was dispatched to the parking lot of a Subway restaurant in Abbottsford, B.C. in response to a complaint of fighting amongst a group of 12 South Asian males. Upon his arrival with his partner, he observed 7 to 9 South Asian males in front of the Subway restaurant. He also observed a BMW motor vehicle with its passenger door open and parked at an angle to the linear parking stalls. Two more officers arrived at approximately the same time as Cst. Doucette and his partner.
[9] Cst. Doucette informed the group of males that he was investigating a complaint about a fight. In response, he was advised that there had been no fight. He saw no evidence of a fight and concluded that the complaint was unfounded. He did, however, recognize an individual in the group, Mr. Dhaliwal, from previous police dealings and from police intelligence, as someone who was involved in violent criminal activity and associated with firearms. Mr. Dhaliwal’s presence at the scene raised Cst. Doucette’s suspicions that weapons might be present.
[10] Cst. Doucette was also concerned about the manner in which the BMW was parked, as it suggested to him that someone might have exited the vehicle in a hurry. Upon inquiring as to its ownership, Mr. Dhillon came forward. Cst. Doucette asked Mr. Dhillon if he had any identification and Mr. Dhillon produced his driver’s licence from the middle console of the vehicle.
[11] Cst. Doucette then looked inside the open passenger door and observed a pair of scissors and some rolling papers in the middle consol. In his experience those items were typically associated with the use of marijuana. He did not see or smell any burnt or fresh marijuana.
[12] The possibility of drugs in the vehicle also made Cst. Doucette suspicious that there might be weapons in the vehicle. He said that in his experience the two were often connected. While he had not seen any drugs or weapons inside the main body of the vehicle, he was concerned about what might be inside the trunk. He asked Mr. Dhillon if there was anything inside his vehicle that he “needed to worry” about and “if he had any … drugs or weapons in the car”, to which Mr. Dhillon replied “no”. He then asked Mr. Dhillon if he would consent to him searching the vehicle, to which Mr. Dhillon replied that “he didn’t have any problem with it” as “there was nothing in the vehicle.” When Cst. Doucette asked Mr. Dhillon how to open the trunk, Mr. Dhillon walked around to the driver’s-side door and pushed a button below the steering wheel that opened the trunk.
[13] Cst. Doucette asked Mr. Dhillon to step back before he opened the trunk. Inside the trunk he noted a long object covered in towels. Upon removing the towels he discovered a Norico assault rifle (an AK-47 knock-off), a prohibited firearm, with an attached 30-round magazine. He immediately arrested and handcuffed Mr. Dhillon, conducted a pat-down search of his person, and placed him in the back of a police vehicle. The interval between Mr. Dhillon identifying himself to Cst. Doucette as the owner of the vehicle and his arrest was about four to five minutes.
[14] Shortly thereafter, two other males arrived at the scene. Cst. Doucette knew both individuals to be associated with a criminal gang, to carry handguns and to wear body armour. He was also aware that both men had previously been involved in shootings. He immediately called for more backup and directed the other police officers present to handcuff and search all 11 males now in the group.
[15] Forty-five minutes later, Cst. Doucette advised Mr. Dhillon that he was under arrest for a firearms offence and that he had a right to counsel. About an hour later, at the detachment, Mr. Dhillon was provided access to a telephone for the purpose of contacting legal counsel.
[16] At trial, Cst. Doucette testified that the legal authority on which he conducted the search of Mr. Dhillon’s vehicle was Mr. Dhillon’s consent. He acknowledged that at the time he had only “a suspicion that someone who used the vehicle may have been using drugs at some point”. He also acknowledged that before he searched the vehicle he did not have reasonable grounds to arrest Mr. Dhillon or detain him for investigative purposes on any drug-related or weapons-related offence. He similarly acknowledged that he did not have reasonable grounds to obtain a search warrant.
[17] In response to questions about what he believed his options to be at the time, Cst. Doucette responded:
Q You would agree with me though that you could have secured that trunk until backup arrived, could you not?
A Yes.
Q In fact, you could have prevented any of the people there access to that vehicle until backup arrived, could you not?
Q So there was no immediate officer safety concern?
A Well, once we see Mr. Dhaliwal, Mr. Karbonavic, Mr. Wust, I have no idea who’s driving by. I have no idea. Peardonville leads right to the highway. Anybody could drive by and do anything.
Q What does that have to do with what’s in the trunk of the vehicle?
A I have no idea who’s associated. I see seven to nine people where they said there was 12. How do I know three people aren’t driving around?
Q It wouldn’t have changed the fact that you could secure the vehicle.
A I could secure the vehicle.
Q To you had no grounds for a search. You sort of characterized this as a search based on a suspicion?
A It was actually a consent search. I asked him for consent. He consented to the search.
Q And your reasons for doing it were that you might find evidence —
A We might find weapons or drugs.
Q Because at that point you had nothing on any of the people there?
A That’s correct.
Q No grounds to charge them with anything, no reason to detain them any longer?
A They weren’t detained.
Q You would agree though that you were exercising control over the movement of Mr. Dhillon at this point?
A I didn’t exercise control of his movements. I asked him for his driver’s licence. He went to get it. I asked him how the trunk opened. He went to open the trunk. Never once did I tell him to go open the trunk. I said how does the trunk open. He went and popped it open.
[18] In sum, Cst. Doucette acknowledged that: (i) he did not have reasonable grounds to arrest Mr. Dhillon; (ii) he did not have reasonable grounds to detain Mr. Dhillon for investigative purposes (for an assault, drug-related offence or weapon-related offence); (iii) he therefore did not have authority to conduct a search for officer safety reasons incidental to an investigative detention; (iv) he did not have reasonable grounds to obtain a search warrant for the vehicle; and (v) he was relying solely on Mr. Dhillon’s consent as the legal basis for his search of the vehicle.
The trial judge’s reasons
[19] The trial judge found that Cst. Doucette’s actions did not breach Mr. Dhillon’s Charter rights and that the firearm was admissible evidence at the trial. She concluded, based on the cumulative effect of all of the evidence, that the only rational explanation and inference was that the firearm was in the trunk of Mr. Dhillon’s vehicle with his knowledge and consent.
[20] In particular, the trial judge held that Mr. Dhillon’s s. 9 Charter right not to be arbitrarily detained had not been breached, as he was lawfully detained pursuant to an investigative detention. This ruling appears to have been based on several findings of fact, including that Cst. Doucette had probable (i.e., reasonable) grounds to believe there were drugs in the car:
[9] At this point because of the fact there were a large number of young males there, with only four officers, and with the reputation of Mr. Dhaliwal in his mind and the probable involvement of drugs given the paraphernalia, Cst. Doucette wanted to check the trunk for possible weapons.
[26] … Cst. Doucette’s evidence was that he looked inside the vehicle for safety reasons for both himself and his fellow officers. Once the constable saw the drug paraphernalia in the console, he became concerned as in his experience drugs are very frequently involved in conjunction with firearms. That, coupled with the manner in which the vehicle was parked, and the suspicious presence of the males, including a known violent offender, the officer had reason to be concerned about what would be in the vehicle, including the trunk of the vehicle.
[Emphasis added.]
[21] Based on the presence of drug paraphernalia in the vehicle, the manner in which the vehicle was parked, and the presence of a known violent offender in the group of males, the trial judge concluded that Cst. Doucette had both subjective and objective grounds to detain Mr. Dhillon for investigation in regard to the complaint of a fight:
[29] In the case at bar, given the fact that the police were responding to a call generated by a member of the public regarding a violent offence, the presence of Mr. Dhaliwal, the way the car was parked, the drug paraphernalia in the car, Mr. Dhillon’s involvement with the group of young men, it was reasonable for [Cst.] Doucette to form the belief that Mr. Dhillon was involved in some manner with the fight that they were caused to investigate. It would be naive and unrealistic to expect that the police when investigating an assault would accept the word of a group of people there when they deny an assault ever took place, especially given the known violent person within the group. Up to the point where the accused is arrested, interference with his liberty was minimal, only to the extent required for the officers to do their duty in checking out a potential assault.
[30] I find that the officers had both objective and subjective grounds to detain the group of men which included Mr. Dhillon for investigation. I find that Mr. Dhillon was not arbitrarily detained in that period of four minutes such that his s. 9 Charter rights were violated.
[22] Having found that Mr. Dhillon was lawfully detained for investigative purposes, and relying on the authority of Mann, the trial judge held that the search of Mr. Dhillon’s vehicle for officer and public safety reasons was reasonable as incidental to Mr. Dhillon’s investigative detention:
[35] In any event, Cst. Doucett, having found drug paraphernalia, was concerned about the safety not only of the officers but also of the group of men present and members of the public because of weapons frequently being found along with drugs.
[23] The trial judge also found no breach of Mr. Dhillon’s s. 10 Charter rights to be informed of the reason for his detention and to retain and instruct counsel without delay. In her view the 45 minute delay was not intentional but due to the volatility and potential danger of the situation.
[24] In the alternative, the trial judge stated that if she was wrong in finding that Mr. Dhillon had not established any Charter breaches, she would have admitted the firearm pursuant to s. 24(2). Applying the Collins framework, she found that the real evidence was non-conscriptive and reliable, the violation of Mr. Dhillon’s privacy interest in the trunk of his vehicle was minimal, and Cst. Doucette was at all times acting in good faith. She concluded that the administration of justice would be brought into disrepute if the evidence of the firearm was excluded as evidence at the trial.
(i) The appellant’s position
[25] Mr. Dhillon submits the trial judge erred in analyzing the lawfulness of the search as incidental to an investigative detention when Cst. Doucette acknowledged that the only basis for his search of the vehicle was Mr. Dhillon’s consent. He submits that Cst. Doucette did not obtain a valid and effective consent from Mr. Dhillon. Nor did he subjectively believe that he had reasonable grounds to detain Mr. Dhillon. In the absence of a valid consent and a lawful investigative detention, Mr. Dhillon contends that the search of his vehicle was an infringement of his s. 8 Charter right, that the evidence of the firearm obtained from the trunk should not have been admitted as evidence at the trial, and that he should have been acquitted on all charges.
(ii) The Crown’s position
[26] Counsel for the Crown (who was not counsel at trial) concedes that Cst. Doucette failed to obtain a valid consent from Mr. Dhillon to search his vehicle. Counsel also agrees that the evidence at trial did not support a finding that Mr. Dhillon was subject to an investigative detention when the trunk of his vehicle was searched. This position differs from that taken by the Crown at trial, where the judge was urged to find that Mr. Dhillon was subject to an investigative detention. Counsel on appeal submits this change of position is justifiable, as the issue of whether an individual is detained is a question of law and therefore subject to review on a standard of correctness.
[27] Counsel maintains, however, that even in the absence of a lawful investigative detention, the search was not unreasonable as it was a justifiable use of a police power in the exercise of their duties to preserve the peace, prevent crime and protect life and property: see Dedman v. The Queen, [1985] 2 S.C.R. 29, and R. v. Waterfield, [1963] 3 All E.R. 659, [1964] 1 Q.B. 164 (Ct. Crim. App.). This common law test for the justification of police powers has become known as the Waterfield doctrine and was adopted by the Supreme Court of Canada in Dedman.
[28] In the alternative, the Crown submits that it remains open to this Court to find that the trial judge was correct in finding that the search was incidental to a lawful investigative detention, as this is a question of law subject to review on the standard of correctness.
1. Was there a valid consent search of the vehicle?
[29] Both parties agree that Mr. Dhillon’s consent for the search of the trunk of his vehicle was not obtained in a manner required by the long established jurisprudence. The Crown properly concedes this issue. Borden was decided 12 years ago and sets out the requirements for a voluntary consent: (i) the individual must be advised of his right to refuse or withdraw his consent at any time; (ii) the individual must be made aware of the consequences of his consent to the search; and (iii) the individual must be informed of his right to counsel in order to have explained to him the consequences of his consent to the search: Borden at 162. The requirements for an informed consent were not met in this case and accordingly Mr. Dhillon’s consent was not valid or enforceable.
2. Was the search of the vehicle incidental to a lawful investigative detention?
[30] Detention for Charter purposes exists where there is “a suspension of the individual’s liberty interest by a significant physical or psychological restraint”: R. v. Grant, 2009 SCC 32, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 353 at para. 44. Psychological detention occurs where an individual “submits or acquiesces in the deprivation of liberty and reasonably believes that the choice to do otherwise does not exist”: R. v. Therens, [1985] 1 S.C.R. 613 at 644, cited in Grant at para. 28. The determination of whether there has been detention is an objective test: Grant at para. 31. Where there has been no physical restraint and no legal obligation to comply with a demand by a police officer, the question is whether “a reasonable person would conclude by reason of the state conduct that he or she had no choice but to comply”. The relevant considerations in those circumstances include (at para. 44):
(a) The circumstances giving rise to the encounter as they would reasonably be perceived by the individual: whether the police were providing general assistance; maintaining general order; making general inquires regarding a particular occurrence; or, singling out the individual for focussed investigation.
(b) The nature of the police conduct, including the language used; the use of physical contact; the place where the interaction occurred; the presence of others; and the duration of the encounter.
(c) The particular characteristics or circumstances of the individual where relevant, including age; physical stature; minority status; level of sophistication.
Lawfulness of detention
[31] If a detention is found to have occurred, it is necessary to determine whether that detention was arbitrary contrary to s. 9 of the Charter. A detention is not arbitrary if it is authorized by law, either statutory or common law. In Mann, the Court posed the following questions: (i) whether at common law there existed a police power to detain individuals for investigative purposes; and (ii) whether a concomitant common law power of search incidental to an investigative detention existed. The Court traced the existence of both powers back to Waterfield, where the Court recognized that duties imposed on police officers by statute or at common law may engage associated police powers such as the power to arrest, detain and/or search (Mann at paras. 24-26).
[32] In answering the first question, the Court in Mann held that a lawful detention at common law is one that is based on reasonable grounds. Reasonable grounds to detain for investigative purposes exist if the detention is “reasonably necessary on an objective view of the totality of the circumstances, informing the officer’s suspicion that there is a clear nexus between the individual to be detained and a recent or on-going criminal offence”: Mann at para. 34. In Mann, the Court emphasised that “[t]he power to detain cannot be exercised on the basis of a hunch, nor can it become a de facto arrest.” Subsequently, in R. v. Kang-Brown, 2008 SCC 18, [2008] 1 S.C.R. 456, the Court described the reasonable suspicion standard for an investigative detention (at para. 75):
“Suspicion” is an expectation that the targeted individual is possibly engaged in some criminal activity. A “reasonable” suspicion means something more than a mere suspicion and something less than a belief based upon reasonable and probable grounds. As observed by P. Sankoff and S. Perrault, “Suspicious Searches: What’s so Reasonable About Them?” (1999), 24 C.R. (5th) 123:
…the suspicion must be supported by factual elements which can be adduced in evidence and permit an independent judicial assessment. What distinguishes “reasonable suspicion” from the higher standard of “reasonable and probable grounds” is merely the degree of probability demonstrating that a person is engaged in criminal activity, not the existence of objectively ascertainable facts which, in both cases, must exist to support the search.
[33] Objectively reasonable suspicion includes both a subjective and an objective element. The importance of establishing both elements was underscored by Mr. Justice Frankel, for the majority, in R. v. Reddy, 2010 BCCA 11:
[67] As is the case with the power of arrest, an officer invoking the power of investigative detention must subjectively believe that the requisite standard has been met, and the officer’s belief must be objectively reasonable: Mann at para. 27; R. v. Greaves, 2004 BCCA 484, 189 C.C.C. (3d) 305 at para. 33.
[34] In addition to the requirement of reasonable grounds to suspect that an individual is involved in criminal activity, Mann requires that, to be lawful, an investigative detention must be reasonably necessary in order to justify the otherwise unreasonable interference with an individual’s liberty:
[34] …The evolution of the Waterfield test … calls for investigative detentions to be premised upon reasonable grounds. The detention must be viewed as reasonably necessary on an objective view of the totality of the circumstances, informing the officer’s suspicion that there is a clear nexus between the individual to be detained and a recent or on-going criminal offence. Reasonable grounds figures at the front-end of such an assessment, underlying the officer’s reasonable suspicion that the particular individual is implicated in the criminal activity under investigation. The overall reasonableness of the decision to detain, however, must further be assessed against all of the circumstances, most notably the extent to which the interference with individual liberty is necessary to perform the officer’s duty, the liberty interfered with, and the nature and extent of that interference, in order to meet the second prong of the Waterfield test. [Emphasis added.]
Search incidental to investigative detention
[35] Where there exist reasonable grounds to suspect that a detained individual is connected to a particular crime, officer or public safety concerns may justify a search incidental to that detention, which will typically involve a pat-down search of the detained individual (Mann):
[40] The general duty of officers to protect life may, in some circumstances, give rise to the power to conduct a pat-down search incident to an investigative detention. Such a search power does not exist as a matter of course; the office must believe on reasonable grounds that his or her own safety, or the safety of others, is at risk. … The officer’s decision to search must also be reasonably necessary in light of the totality of the circumstances. It cannot be justified on the basis of a vague or non-existent concern for safety, nor can the search be premised upon hunches or mere intuition. [Emphasis added.]
[36] Thus, a lawful search incidental to an investigative detention requires “reasonable grounds” (i.e., an objective basis) for concerns about officer and/or public safety, and that the search be “reasonably necessary” to ensure the preservation of the officer and/or public safety.
Was the search of Mr. Dhillon’s vehicle incidental to an investigative detention?
[37] In my view, the trial judge erred in principle and in fact in finding that Mr. Dhillon was subject to an investigative detention and therefore in finding that the search of Mr. Dhillon’s vehicle was reasonably necessary as incidental to that investigative detention. In my view, the facts do not support a finding that Mr. Dhillon was detained; nor does the evidence support a finding that Cst. Doucette’s subjective belief rose above a hunch or mere suspicion of criminal activity to the required level of reasonable grounds to suspect that Mr. Dhillon was involved in a recent or ongoing crime.
[38] On this issue, the Crown acknowledges the paucity of evidence to support such a finding. Cst. Doucette testified that he did not exert any control over Mr. Dhillon. He did not physically restrain Mr. Dhillon or direct him to go anywhere or do anything other than to step back away from the vehicle when he was searching the trunk. He did not ask him to open the trunk. His only requests of Mr. Dhillon were to produce his driver’s licence and “how to open the trunk”. Furthermore, Cst. Doucette testified that he had not detained Mr. Dhillon.
[39] Based on the test in Grant, these facts do not support a finding that Mr. Dhillon had been detained. The only evidence that might support a finding that Mr. Dhillon was psychologically detained was his compliance with the requests made by Cst. Doucette (to produce his driver’s license and how to open the trunk). However, in my view these factors fall short of establishing an evidentiary basis for a finding that Mr. Dhillon believed his had “no choice but to comply”: Grant at 44. In responding to Cst. Doucette’s request to search the trunk, Mr. Dhillon statement that “he didn’t have any problem with it” because “there was nothing in the vehicle” does not appear to demonstrate compulsion.
[40] Nor did the trial judge explicitly find that Mr. Dhillon had been detained. While this finding may be implicit in her finding that there was a lawful investigative detention, her analysis focused solely on whether there were reasonable grounds to detain, not whether there was in fact detention. As this Court made clear in R. v. Whitaker, 2008 BCCA 174, it is not sufficient that the police may have had a legal basis to exercise certain powers if they did not in fact exercise those powers. It is not enough, for example, for the Crown to assert that the police had reasonable grounds to obtain a warrant if they did not in fact obtain a warrant. The question for the court is the lawfulness of the actual police conduct, not the potential basis for the exercise of police power. As Mr. Justice Frankel observed in Whitaker, albeit in the context of an unlawful arrest:
[65] The Crown argued, in brief, that even if the police did not have reasonable grounds to arrest Mr. Whitaker, his detention was not arbitrary because he could have been detained under the common law power of investigative detention recognized in R. v. Mann [citation omitted]. The difficulty with this argument is that the police did not invoke the common law power of investigative detention; they invoked the statutory power of arrest, with its more extensive power of incidental search of the person. When the police have wrongfully arrested someone, their actions cannot be defended on the basis that they could have detained this person on some other basis. In deciding whether the police infringed Charter rights they are to be judged on what they did, not what they could have done: R. v. Charley, (1993), 22 C.R. (4th) 297 (Ont. C.A.) at para. 5. [Emphasis added.]
[41] Further, in my view, the trial judge also erred in finding that Cst. Doucette had reasonable grounds to detain Mr. Dhillon. The duration of the encounter between Cst. Doucette and Mr. Dhillon, before Mr. Dhillon’s arrest, was only four minutes. During that period Cst. Doucette did not form a subjective belief that Mr. Dhillon had been or was involved in a fight, and found nothing to support the complaint of a fight, which he concluded was unfounded.
[42] The trial judge considered this aspect of Cst. Doucette’s evidence when she stated:
[24] It was Cst. Doucette who dealt with Mr. Dhillon and Cst. Doucette gave evidence that Mr. Dhillon was not in the officer’s mind detained. This, of course, goes to the good faith of the officer.
[43] However, the judge appears to have ignored this evidence when she found that Cst. Doucette subjectively believed that Mr. Dhillon was implicated in a fight and that his subjective belief was objectively reasonable:
[29] In the case at bar, given the fact that the police were responding to a call generated by a member of the public regarding a violent offence, the presence of Mr. Dhaliwal, the way the car was parked, the drug paraphernalia in the car, Mr. Dhillon’s involvement with the group of young men, it was reasonable for [Cst.] Doucette to form the belief that Mr. Dhillon was involved in some manner with the fight that they were caused to investigate. [Emphasis added.]
[44] By implication, the trial judge appears to have rejected Cst. Doucette’s subjective belief that the complaint of a fight was unfounded. In such circumstances, R. v. Feeney, [1997] 2 S.C.R. 13 requires that an explanation be provided:
[31] …The trial judge noted that Sgt. Madrigga testified that he did not think he had sufficient grounds to arrest until he observed the blood on the appellant, but did not advert to this evidence in concluding that reasonable and probable grounds to arrest existed prior to the entry into the trailer. In order to conclude that, objectively speaking, reasonable and probable grounds for arrest existed, one must conclude that the officer on the scene was unreasonable in reaching a different conclusion. The trial judge, however, did not explain his dismissal of the officer’s evidence in this respect. In my view, such a failure to clarify the basis for his finding that the objective test was satisfied constituted an error of law. …
[34] In my view, as the lack of subjective belief on the part of the officer would suggest, the requirement that, objectively speaking, reasonable and probable grounds for an arrest exist prior to forcible entry is not met. The objective test as set out in Storrey, [[1990] 1 S.C.R. 241], is whether a reasonable person, standing in the shoes of the officer, would have believed that reasonable and probable grounds to make the arrest existed. Any finding that the subjective test is not met will generally imply that the objective test is not met, unless the officer is to be considered to have an unreasonably high standard.
[Italic emphasis in original; underline emphasis added.]
[45] The Crown submits the trial judge provided a form of explanation for her implied rejection of Cst. Doucette’s evidence as to his subjective belief that he had not detained Mr. Dhillon, when she postulated (at para. 29):
It would be naïve and unrealistic to expect that the police when investigating an assault would accept the word of a group of people there when they deny an assault ever took place, especially given the known violent person within the group.
[46] However, as noted above, Cst. Doucette testified that he formed the conclusion that the report of a fight was unfounded. While the facts noted by the trial judge may have been relevant to assessing the objective reasonableness of a subjective belief that a fight had occurred, no subjective belief existed in this case. Cst. Doucette stated that the only legal authority upon which he conducted the search was Mr. Dhillon’s consent, even though he subsequently acknowledged that Mr. Dhillon’s consent was not obtained in a manner that made it valid and enforceable. He did not purport to search the vehicle incidental to an investigative detention of Mr. Dhillon, as he acknowledged that his bare suspicion that he might find drugs and/or weapons in the trunk of the vehicle did not rise to the level of reasonable grounds to detain Mr. Dhillon.
[47] As in Feeney, the trial judge’s apparent rejection of Cst. Doucette’s evidence on this issue, without explanation, is an error of law. The law requires both a subjective and an objective basis for an investigative detention. Even if the trial judge’s finding that there was an objective basis for detention were accepted, the complete absence of a subjective basis in this case is fatal to the finding that there was a lawful investigative detention.
[48] Cst. Doucette’s concern that Mr. Dhillon might be in possession of drugs and/or weapons did not rise to the level of reasonable suspicion. Accordingly, his search of Mr. Dhillon’s vehicle could not be justified as incidental to an investigative detention for officer and/or public safety reasons.
3. Was the search of the vehicle justifiable under the Waterfield doctrine?
[49] The Crown submits that even without an investigative detention, the search was justified as reasonably necessary for officer and public safety reasons based on the Waterfield doctrine. Counsel maintains that because of the nature of the suspected crimes, Cst. Doucette was facing circumstances that had a potentially high risk of violence and he therefore had a duty to search the trunk of Mr. Dhillon’s vehicle for the protection of the public and the officers who were present.
[50] In my view, such an application of the Waterfield doctrine would extend it far beyond its proper scope. A review of the doctrine’s historical roots and subsequent evolution in Canadian jurisprudence bears this out.
[51] Waterfield was an English case involving a criminal prosecution for charges of dangerous driving and assaulting a police officer. On the charge of assaulting a police officer, one of the elements of the offence required that the police officers be “acting in the due execution of their duty” at the time of the assault. The assault had occurred when two police officers attempted to stop the accused from driving away in a vehicle that was under investigation in relation to a previous dangerous driving incident. The question arose as to whether the officers were entitled to prevent the removal of the car without charging or arresting the accused. In order to determine whether the officers were acting in the course of their duties (within the meaning of the statute imposing the offence), the court articulated what has come to be known as the Waterfield doctrine:
In the judgment of this court it would be difficult, and in the present case it is unnecessary, to reduce within specific limits the general terms in which the duties of police constables have been expressed. In most cases it is probably more convenient to consider what the police constable was actually doing and in particular whether such conduct was prima facie an unlawful interference with a person’s liberty or property. If so, it is then relevant to consider whether (a) such conduct falls within the general scope of any duty imposed by statute or recognised at common law and (b) whether such conduct, albeit within the general scope of such a duty, involved an unjustifiable use of powers associated with the duty. [Emphasis added.]
[52] In England, the Waterfield test was never applied beyond those cases where the requirement that an officer be acting “in the execution of his duty” was an element of the offence charged. Indeed, Waterfield was only cited in a handful of decisions and was never used to recognize entirely new investigative powers: see James Stribopoulous, “A Failed Experiment? Investigative Detention: Ten Years Later” (2003) 41 Alta. L. Rev. 335 at para. 27.
[53] In Canada, Waterfield was initially applied in a similar manner. (See R. v. Stenning, [1979] S.C.R. 631, and R. v. Knowlton, [1974] S.C.R. 443.) Waterfield took on a new life with the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Dedman, [1985] 2 S.C.R. 2. Dedman involved a charge of failing or refusing to comply with a roadside demand (for a breath sample) arising out of a random roadside vehicle stop program. A question arose as to whether the police officer had the authority to require the accused to stop at the roadside check-point. The majority framed the issue as follows (at 28-29):
[T]he actions of police officers must find legal justification in statutory or common law authority. The ambit of their authority, as distinct from their liability, is not to be determined by the limits of criminal or civil responsibility. Police action may be unlawful for lack of statutory or common law authority although neither criminal nor tortious. The issue in the present case may be likened to one of vires. The contention is that the allegedly unauthorized and hence unlawful nature of the signal to stop affected the validity of the subsequent demand for a sample of breath.
[54] Applying the Waterfield doctrine, the majority held that the officer was acting within the “general scope of the duties of a police officer to prevent crime and to protect life and property by the control of traffic” (at 35). In finding that the use of the power associated with that duty was justifiable in the circumstances, the majority set out the following criteria for the second branch of the test (at 35):
The interference with liberty must be necessary for the carrying out of the particular police duty and it must be reasonable, having regard to the nature of the liberty interfered with and the importance of the public purpose served by the interference.
[55] Waterfield was later applied in R. v. Simpson (1993), 12 O.R. (3d) 182 (Ont. C.A.) to recognize what is now the most commonly-used branch of the ancillary powers doctrine: the power of investigative detention. Simpson found that police have the power to detain an individual to determine if he or she has been involved in criminal activity, provided they have some “articulable cause” for the detention. That standard for investigative detention became widely applied across the country, although the Supreme Court did not endorse the power to search incidental to an investigative detention until Mann. In Mann, the majority applied the Waterfield doctrine to find there was a limited power to search (for protective reasons) incidental to an investigative detention where there exist “reasonable grounds to detain”.
[56] Prior to Mann, the Supreme Court had unanimously affirmed the use of the Waterfield doctrine in R. v. Godoy, [1999] 1 S.C.R. 311. In Godoy, the Court recognized a police power to forcibly enter a private home to investigate a 911 call and provide assistance to the caller. This application of the Waterfield doctrine reflected a subtle but significant difference in its use: from that of a defence to criminal charges (for failure to establish an element of an offence) to one that was now used to establish a positive police investigatory power. In this new application of the doctrine, it is the exercise of the police investigatory powers that produce the evidence for the charges laid (i.e., the fruits of the investigation) rather than the conduct of the accused during the exercise of what may be entirely unrelated police powers.
[57] The Waterfield doctrine was again used to justify police actions in R. v. Clayton, 2007 SCC 32, [2007] 2 S.C.R. 725, a decision that bears some similarities to the case at bar. In Clayton, police received a 911 call indicating that a number of black men were openly displaying handguns outside a strip club. The caller identified four vehicles associated with the men. Police arrived and blocked entrances to the parking lot and almost immediately stopped a vehicle containing two black men (not one of the vehicles identified by the caller). Police became suspicious and asked both men to get out of the vehicle. On searching the men, both were found to have loaded handguns.
[58] In Clayton, the Court clarified the relationship between the common law, including the Waterfield doctrine, and the Charter. Madam Justice Abella, for the majority, characterized the relationship as follows:
[21] The statement that a detention which is lawful is not arbitrary should not be understood as exempting the authorizing law, whether it is common law or statutory, from Charter scrutiny. Previous decisions of this Court are clear that where a detention by police is authorized by law, the law authorizing detention is also subject to Charter scrutiny: R. v. Hufsky, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 621; R. v. Ladouceur, [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1257. The courts can and should develop the common law in a manner consistent with the Charter: Dagenais v. Canadian Broadcasting Corp., [1994] 3 S.C.R. 835, at pp. 875-78. The common law regarding police powers of detention, developed building on R. v. Waterfield, [1963] 3 All E.R. 659 (C.A.), and Dedman v. The Queen, [1985] 2 S.C.R. 2, is consistent with Charter values because it requires the state to justify the interference with liberty based on criteria which focus on whether the interference with liberty is necessary given the extent of the risk and the liberty at stake, and no more intrusive to liberty than reasonably necessary to address the risk. The standard of justification must be commensurate with the fundamental rights at stake. [Emphasis added.]
[59] The majority found that the police were justified in detaining the men (by stopping the vehicle) based on the existence of reasonable grounds to believe there were handguns in a public place, which posed a genuine risk to public safety. After the initial detention, the Court found that the police were further justified in continuing the detention and conducting a protective search based on reasonable grounds to suspect the accused were in possession of handguns, because of their behaviour and the fact that they matched the racial description in the 911 call.
[60] In concurring reasons, Mr. Justice Binnie (for himself and two others), differed regarding the approach to be taken in recognizing new common law police powers. He would have adopted a procedure whereby the court would first conduct a Waterfield analysis to determine whether the alleged police power existed at common law, and then subject that common law power to an express s. 1 Charter inquiry (paras. 59-60, 78-79). Justice Binnie went on to agree with the majority, however, that the circumstances in Clayton supported a finding that the initial detention and subsequent search were authorized at common law and consistent with the Charter. In particular, he found that the decision to stop all vehicles leaving the parking lot (not merely those identified in the 911 call) was justified as being as “tailored” a reaction as the circumstances permitted.
[61] The use of sniffer dogs at a bus terminal has also attracted consideration under the Waterfield doctrine. In Kang-Brown the issue was whether the police were justified in using a sniffer-dog to search the luggage of the accused at a bus terminal after his behavior raised their suspicions that he might be in possession of illegal drugs. It was undisputed that the police did not have reasonable grounds to believe an offence had been committed at the time of the sniffer-dog search. Five members of the Supreme Court accepted that where an investigative technique is minimally invasive (as with the use of a sniffer dog) the police may be justified in employing that technique on the basis of a lower “reasonable suspicion” standard.
[62] Of those five, Justice Binnie (for himself and Chief Justice McLachlin) found that the reasonable suspicion standard had not been met on the facts of the case. While he agreed that “police are entitled to call in aid sniffer-dogs where they have reasonable grounds to suspect the presence of contraband”, Justice Binnie found on the facts of the case that the police had acted on speculation only (paras. 25-26). The search was therefore a violation of s. 8 and the evidence was excluded under s. 24(2). He found that the “reasonable suspicion” standard was Charter-compliant because the nature of the search was minimally-invasive and highly accurate, and the objective of the search was narrowly targeted. He rejected the more extreme position taken by Mr. Justice Bastarche, who would have found police authority to conduct “generalized” (i.e., random) sniffer-dog searches in public places such as bus terminals, where there is a reduced expectation of privacy.
[63] In concurring reasons, Mr. Justice LeBel (for himself and three others), rejected the lower “reasonable suspicion” standard and disagreed with Binnie J. that, in the absence of legislative action, it is the role of the courts to fill the gaps in the law of police investigative powers. In LeBel J.’s opinion, “the approach adopted by my colleagues in this case will in practice jeopardize critical elements of the constitutional rights guaranteed by s. 8 and of that section’s underlying values” (para. 10). He further expressed concern that “[t]he extension of common law police powers as proposed in this case would shortcut the justification process and leave the Court to frame the common law rule itself without the full benefit of the dialogue and discussion that would have taken place had Parliament acted and been required to justify its action” (para. 14).
[64] Thus, while the Supreme Court has not been unanimous on the manner in which the common law ancillary powers doctrine interacts with the Charter, it has consistently held that the doctrine cannot be used to avoid Charter scrutiny of police action (per Clayton). In order to survive Charter scrutiny, police powers must be exercised in a manner that balances the rights (including privacy rights) of individuals. This has been achieved primarily by requiring police to have an objective basis for searching an individual or property. That objective basis had typically been met by establishing reasonable grounds to believe an offence has been committed.
[65] With the decision in Kang-Brown, the Supreme Court has now recognized two situations in which that objective basis may be on a lower standard of “reasonable suspicion”. The first permits a limited safety search in the context of an investigative detention. The second arises where the nature of the search is of a targeted and minimally-invasive nature, and authorizes a search even in the absence of an investigative detention. However, even under this lower standard, the objective basis for suspicion must be linked to a particular offence rather than a mere generalized suspicion of criminal activity.
[66] To date, no court has recognized a police power to search based on a standard lower than that of objectively reasonable suspicion. The use of that lower standard to conduct a warrantless search, absent an investigative detention, was only justified in Kang-Brown because of the minimally-invasive nature of the search (both in terms of the search itself and the narrow category of information the “sniff” could reveal). In the case of a vehicle search, the nature of the privacy interest affected is much higher, both because the search is more invasive and because the scope of information that could be obtained through the search is much broader.
[67] This Court has had occasion to consider Waterfield in a number of recent decisions. In R. v. Chuhaniuk, 2010 BCCA 403, the Court, applying Waterfield, found that police have the authority to conduct “security checks” of premises on the same property as a place on which they are lawfully executing a search warrant. It is notable that the Court limited that power to circumstances where there are “reasonable grounds to be concerned that there is a possibility that someone who poses an immediate risk to their safety or the safety of others is in such other place or premises” (para. 65). On the facts of that case there was no objective basis to support any safety concerns which would have required a search of the outbuildings. Thus, again, the possible expansion of police powers was linked to the existence of reasonable grounds to believe the action was necessary to protect officer or public safety. While I am not persuaded that a free-standing power to search for officer safety reasons should be recognized, if such a power were to be recognized, in my view it would, at a minimum, require this level of objectively reasonable grounds.
[68] In Reddy, this Court found that a detention and subsequent search by police officers violated Mr. Reddy’s Charter rights because the police did not have a reasonable suspicion that any offence had been committed. The circumstances involved a 911 call in which the caller expressed concern about two men who had been sitting in a parked vehicle for several hours. When police arrived, the driver (Mr. Reddy) did not provide identification but gave his name, which allowed the officer to discover that he was subject to a cell-phone prohibition and had been connected with a previous weapons offence. Mr. Reddy was asked to exit the vehicle so it could be searched for cell-phones and while the search was being conducted he ran from the scene. Handguns were then found in the vehicle. After finding there were no reasonable grounds for an investigative detention, Frankel J.A. said this about the lawfulness of the search:
[72] The trial judge opined that police officers are “justified” in searching a vehicle even though no specific offence is suspected, because “the courts rely on the police to monitor compliance with probation orders and the public relies on the police to maintain order”. He went on to find that, in this particular case, the fact that Mr. Reddy took flight gave Constable Todd “good cause to search the vehicle”. I am unable to accept either of these conclusions.
[73] To begin, there is no support for the proposition that, when the police have a bare suspicion that a person in a vehicle is in breach of a condition of a probation order, they have authority to search that vehicle for evidence of that breach. Further, even when police officers lawfully detain someone reasonably suspected of being in breach of a probation order, they do not have a general power to search incidental to that detention for evidence of the suspected breach. It is clear from Mann that police officers may only conduct relatively non-intrusive protective searches incidental to a lawful investigative detention, and that such searches can be undertaken only when the officers have a reasonable basis for believing that their safety, or the safety of others, is at risk: para. 45. More specifically, as Iacobucci J. stated in Mann, “[the decision to search] cannot be justified on the basis of a vague or non-existent concern for safety, nor can the search be premised upon hunches or mere intuition”: Para. 40.
[69] These comments are apposite to the circumstances in this case. While on the facts of Reddy there was a detention (though not a lawful one), the objective basis for the detention and the search was lacking. The circumstances of this case do not provide any stronger objective grounds to support a reasonable suspicion that a crime has occurred or reasonable grounds to believe the search was necessary for officer or public safety. Indeed Cst. Doucette admitted to having nothing more than a bare suspicion (based on the identity of one of the members of the group), to support his concerns for officer and public safety. He further admitted that the vehicle could have been secured until more officers arrived, which runs directly counter to the argument that the search was necessary for public safety reasons. In those circumstances, it cannot be said that the search was either objectively reasonable or necessary, and thus the search fails on the second branch of Waterfield.
[70] In short, while the Waterfield doctrine has developed a robust history in Canada, it has been limited by constitutional constraints and, in particular, by a requirement that police show an objectively reasonable basis for the exercise of any powers. This criterion is reflected in the second branch of the Waterfield doctrine, which requires that police conduct not involve an “unjustifiable use of police powers”. Canadian courts, to date, have held the exercise of a common law police power is only justified where its use is objectively reasonable and necessary. Thus, even if the Waterfield doctrine could be found to support the use of police powers based on concerns about safety rather than concerns about the commission of specific criminal offences, in my view at the very least those safety concerns would have to be objectively reasonable before they could serve as a free-standing justification for the use of police search powers.
[71] In my view the circumstances of this case do not support an application of the Waterfield doctrine to justify police conduct that was otherwise in breach of the Charter.
4. Was the evidence of the firearm admissible pursuant to s. 24(2) of the Charter?
[72] The trial judge found, in the alternative, that if there was Charter-infringing conduct by the state, she would nevertheless admit the firearm into evidence pursuant to s. 24(2). In support of that determination she found that the evidence was real and non-conscriptive; the breach of Mr. Dhillon’s Charter right(s) was not serious, as the officer had acted in good faith out of concern for officer and public safety and in what he considered to be a volatile situation; and, finally, the consequence of not admitting the evidence would be the collapse of the trial on very serious charges for which there was a strong public interest in a trial of the merits.
[73] Section 24(2) of the Charter provides:
Where, in proceedings under subsection (1), a court concludes that evidence was obtained in a manner that infringed or denied any rights or freedoms guaranteed by this Charter, the evidence shall be excluded if it is established that, having regard to all of the circumstances, the admission of it in the proceedings would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
[74] While, generally speaking, a trial judge’s determination of the admissibility of evidence in the face of Charter-infringing conduct is entitled to deference, that standard of review does not apply where the judge’s findings in support of that determination have been overturned. In those circumstances, this Court must engage in its own analysis.
[75] Of additional import, is the change in the analytical framework for considering the admissibility of impugned evidence under s. 24(2) since the trial of these charges. In R. v. Grant, 2009 SCC 32, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 353, the Supreme Court set out a new approach for determining if the admission of impugned evidence would bring the administration of justice into disrepute. That approach involves the consideration and balancing of the following factors:
1. The seriousness of the Charter-infringing state conduct;
2. The impact of the breach on the Charter-protected interests of the accused; and
3. Society’s interest in an adjudication of the case on its merits.
[76] In my view, the Charter-infringing conduct in this case was serious. Proceeding with a search in the admitted absence of reasonable grounds and without a valid consent (the requirements of which had been well established for at least 12 years) does not demonstrate good faith. Absent exceptional circumstances, deliberate, negligent or willfully blind state conduct does not equate with good faith (Grant at para. 75) and the impugned conduct cannot be justified.
[77] The effect of the state’s non-compliance on Mr. Dhillon’s Charter-protected interests was also, in my view, significant. Even a search of a motor vehicle, where there is a reduced expectation of privacy, cannot be justified where there are no reasonable grounds or valid consent for the use of that police power. As was noted in R. v. Harrison, 2009 SCC 34, [2009] 2 S.C.R. 494, one of three companion decisions to Grant:
[31] …being stopped and subjected to a search by the police without justification impacts on the motorist’s rightful expectation of liberty and privacy in a way that is much more than trivial. As Iacobucci J. observed in Mann, the relatively non-intrusive nature of detention and search “must be weighed against the absence of any reasonable basis for justification” (para. 56). [Emphasis in original.]
[78] Finally, in balancing society’s interest in a trial on the merits (particularly one involving very serious charges) with the interest in ensuring state compliance with Charter-protected rights, a court must focus on the long-term effect that non-compliance would have on the “overall repute of the justice system”, rather than the “immediate reaction” to the circumstances of an individual case (even if they are egregious) (Grant at 68).
[79] In all of the circumstances, I am of the view that the admission of the firearm into evidence would bring the administration of justice into disrepute. Accordingly, the evidence shall be excluded. The effect of that determination is that Mr. Dhillon must be acquitted on all four charges.
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Super Freak says:
thanks for the copy/paste Michelle
I’m not Michelle but your very welcome anyways
The link was already up there. There are also two other rulings on the Provincial Court site that are interesting to read.
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wphitrs says:
Dhak a pc ? Billy a nobuddy? Billys and dhaks guys hiding out ? Any thing else russel peters or was that it for your comedy skit ? Whatsup with loonie and larry? Is larry still hooking up his coward buddies with his fellow patch members nieces and daughters to be used as shields ? Whatsup loon you done hiding you coward?
all lies says:
Bahahaha billy and dhak aren’t bosses like you say hahahaha and 3 dead ??? Check the fucking news there you blind or something ???? Khunkhun in a wheelchair ?? That little goof is half dead hiding in some hole he would be done by now and dhak would have nobuddy after that manny is missing his parts you don’t see these guys anywhere that’s because there hideouts and dhaks been a pc and will stay a pc
Malakai says:
Whoaaaaaaaa!!! Too much info.
Wolfpack wolfpack wat u gna do wat u gna do when the bullets come for u
combined says:
Billy Tran is #1 and dhak is #2 combined they are unstopabble
Probably the most stoppable gang ever. Delete delete delete they’re like computè buttons but easier to press
Aaaawhoooo says:
How Are they unstoppable? Billy has smoked peeps in the past. But only wp that has got bit is jb. Other than that wp has smoke 14 peeps lol. Wp is Canada wide with waaaaaay more loot, no way in he’ll dhaks/duhre/billy crew will win yo
who is billy that everyone is taking about?
someguy says:
billy tran
John was done by someone else not billy or dhak for all we know it was inside job trying to pull off where that hit took place is next to impossible it had to have been hired professionals yeah the hit itself did not seem all that successfull but none the less something as dramatic as something you see in a movie took place and the ones responsible were not appre hended by the law not yet any way so once again everyone needs to stick to the facts and not go off on lie after lie just to make your post look juicy
ur an idiot. That is all
Jon (not John). Was done by his ex lover. They had an on again off again alternative relationship. Jon kept threatening to come clean and tell everyone they were gay because he was tired of sneaking around. His lover thought decided maybe Jon had fallen too hard for him so he had to make him quiet.
Rana Ranj says:
This hit was definitely thought out carefully. If one was to look back at that day, there was a reported drive by shooting to an apartment building in the 1000 block of Harvey Avenue around 12 pm. Possible diversion from the gunmen or just a coincidence? The scene outside the Delta Hotel occurred around 3 pm. Of course, the getaway vehicle was later found torched, further proving this was well planned.
As for the possible suspects, I think everyone was looking at the Dhak/Duhre group because CFSEU issued a warning 1 month later telling the public to stay away from them. From there, everyone started assuming they were responsible. Could it be an inside job? Anything is possible. None of us can even say who the intended target was that day. JB? LA? JR? All 3? And why were they targeted? Their alliance? Retaliation from an earlier incident?
In my opinion, if an arrest ever does happen, I’m probably going to be shocked at who was behind it.
toBorNot2B says:
If I had to bet my money would be on dhak guys.
Rat, Snitch, inform. says:
If you say so, your allowed to believe what you want. But its different when you know who the enemies are and why they are hitting certain people. Not professional in any way, the only thing that is shady the fact that cops got nothing. Lie after lie is the BS people write who have know clue about who does what. For instance, it would be impossible to know certain facts without direct contact. Jaime for instance has his X gf’s name tattooed on the inside of his right bicep, and got all the work done by the man from the same shop that did all the RS tattoos, **n house. No need to start a pissing contest we just may have different views. I just tend to explain my facts in detail rather than blast other people.
Biggest Gang in BC says:
The biggest gang in BC is the RCMP who lie, cheat, steal and back their brothers in blues lies and BS. They are fake and deserve to be disbanned and a new policing force should exist. We can barely afford building a new prison but fuck face Harper just cost us 1 billion dollars to build this fucked up bridge during the countries worst 5 year gang war in history and its not stopping. We should all have the right to have guns and wear vests that is BS of course only if your a non criminal.
Gmoney Ice'd Up says:
Couldn’t agree more – reminds me of a rhyme I once heard in some rarely heard rap song:
It’s the worlds biggest crew, its the boys in blue
stick together like glue and make lies come true
Those pants rock, really shows respect to your buddy dead showing up in capri pants. He just may start a fad, the man purse dieded of so did the flashy clothes. Man the guy is one ugly fucking blue coke farmer.
Hey Kim can you link the story of people getting busted for murders before the kelowna hit!?
I don’t know which story you are talking about….You have to be more specific.
you said there were takedowns in surrey here is what you said yesterday:
“It ran about 10 days ago on the front page and included ALL the murders against the one faction since the Kelowna murder.”
Here is the story again….but please remember that you can find ALL my stories by searching the blog….it is kind of tedious to have to go into our archives and pull out stories that are already on here to repost them:
Reprisals aimed at settling gang scores; Since August hit on Jon Bacon, 12 gangsters have been slain or wounded
Fri Jun 1 2012
Just as police predicted last September, associates and friends of the Dhak-Duhre gang have been systematically eliminated in deadly executions by rivals.
Duhre associate Gurbinder Singh (Bin) Toor is just the latest victim in a series of violent attacks believed to be in retaliation for the high-profile Kelowna shooting last August that left gangster Jon Bacon dead and Hells Angel Larry Amero and Independent Soldier James Riach wounded.
Since then a loose alliance of gangsters – some in the HA, some in the IS and some linked to a Middle Eastern gang based in Ontario – have been settling scores and have wounded or killed 12 people linked to the other side, including Toor.
“Violence is unfortunately all too common an occurrence between rivals in the gang world. Clearly with the number of shootings we’ve experienced here in the last several months, tension remains high,” Supt. Tom McCluskie, head of the Gang Task Force, said Thursday.
“It’s time to stop the violence. It’s time to walk away. How many more have to get killed before the message sinks in?” McCluskie, whose unit is part of the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, issued the first public warning last fall that gang tensions had escalated to the point where many people were in danger.
Toor, who grew up in Squamish, was shot to death about 9: 30 p.m. Wednesday outside the Port Moody Recreation Centre as he arrived for a ball hockey game.
His team’s schedule was posted on the Internet, making him an easy target.
While he had a criminal history dating back to 2000, friends told The Sun that he was trying to leave gang life and look after his young daughter.
“We are very saddened with the loss of Bin Toor,” said Robert Moxness, an executive member of the B.C. Ball Hockey Association.
“He was a highly respected team member in our tight-knit ball hockey community. Given his young family, Bin was trying very hard to distance himself from the gang life, but unfortunately, it caught up with him.”
Toor had been friends with the Duhre brothers since childhood. When Sandip Duhre was shot to death in Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre in January, Toor was at his funeral.
“Bin’s mistake was showing up for Dip’s funeral,” one Duhre associate said Thursday. “I know he was trying to change. His daughter was his life.”
The associate, who has received several police warnings about threats to his life, said Toor was also recently warned by police. He expressed frustration that police warn gangsters about plots to kill them, but don’t head off the killings.
“Since 1995, the Duhre group have done nothing but stick up for people being extorted by the Hells Angels,” he said.
McCluskie said police are doing their duty by visiting gang-involved criminals they believe might be targets.
“In some weeks we are delivering as many as half a dozen. This in itself should send an obvious message to all gang members,” McCluskie said.
And police across the province are working hard to lay charges in the out-standing murder cases, he said.
Former Solicitor-General and Van-couver-Fraserview MLA Kash Heed said he is concerned about the “serious firepower utilized by a particular group in our public spaces at this particular time.”
“Law enforcement needs to do what it can to hold these people accountable for their complete disregard of human life,” Heed said.
The Vancouver Police homicide team is investigating Toor’s murder under an agreement with the much smaller Port Moody municipal police. VPD Const. Lindsey Houghton said Thurs-day that anyone who witnessed what happened should call investigators at 604-717-2500.
Houghton said it is lucky that more people weren’t hit when the shooter opened fire.
“It’s an extremely busy recreational centre,” Houghton said. “This is a brazen shooting in a very public place and it is disturbing to us and it is unacceptable and people should find this extremely unacceptable in our communities.”
Houghton said gang violence continues to plague the region.
“Whether it is the parking lot of a busy recreation centre or downtown in the café of a busy hotel, those incidents put the public at risk,” he said. “People who are looking to perpetrate these events will not hold back.”
And Chief Jim Chu said all policing agencies across the region are concerned.
“As the police chief, I have always said that one of my concerns about gang violence on the streets is of course crossfire and innocent victims being caught up in it,” Chu said.
SHOOTINGS TARGETING FRIENDS/ASSOCIATES OF THE DHAK-DUHRE-UN GROUP:
. May 30: Gurbinder Singh (Bin) Toor, 35, shot to death in Port Moody
. April 28: Thomas Gisby, 47, shot to death in Mexico
. Feb. 27: Harm Gill wounded and two others targeted in Surrey shooting
. Jan. 19: Sean Beaver shot to death in Surrey, second man wounded
. Jan. 17: Sandip (Dip) Duhre executed in the lobby of Vancouver’s Sheraton Wall Centre
. Jan. 16: UN gang member Sal Sahbaz shot to death in Mexico
. Jan. 16: Thomas Gisby targeted with explosive device near Whistler
. Oct. 22, 2011: Stephen Leone shot to death in a vehicle in Surrey. Manjinder Hairan and 15-year-old boy wounded
. Oct. 2, 2011: Billy Woo found slain near Squamish
. Sept. 16, 2011: Jujhar Khun-Khun critically wounded in Surrey shooting
just wondering what happened to Cory Conkin ………..? why was he murdered ?
I thought you said there have been arrests… I guess I read wrong, My bad.
I think that’s why I was confused about which story you meant.
KIM why are you duckin this?? We wanna see this article…
You are being obnoxious. I am hardly “ducking” anything. ALL my articles are on here and if you are too lazy to go back and search one out that you want to re-read, it is not really my job to search it in the archives and repost it for you. And in this case, I didn’t know which one you were even asking about until someone finally specified the story. I have now reposted it, but in future please just look it up yourself.
Rat, Snitch, inform says:
Dave Lally gets busted in December 2011, 1.5 months later his butt buddy and bff gets murdered in a massive open hit Sandip Duhre. How is he still even alive, what is the status of the case Kim? And the case against Dave Lally and Jesse Warren. i find it very odd how Dave Lally is not in remand nor is jesse warren.
How is Tyler Willock doing with his sentence which in under the minimum sentence for a gun possession. Oh wait i heard he got out already, and he moved to Kelowna with Matt the Rat. Tyler is a joke his dad is a millionaire but he chose gang life instead he is still an IS member and from what is heard from someone who he did time with he said sorry for talking shit about Kevin Leclair and the debt he owed and paid off the 38,000 he owe him. Mike, Alberts brother accepted payment. Since Tyler did not rat out anyone he in a go for IS again and James Riach has been having people put money in his account but only after he took a beating again in jail and paid the debt. Albert is very much in RS and did not leave the gang. He sold his house in Langley off the bypass and moved, i do not know where at the moment. He still hangs out with Dave here and there, and keeps a low profile, he like Sunny moved when the heat was on, Sunny moved to Surrey in the house he had built( he is still alive,wow). Brian is running the show with him in abby, it has never been better for RS than right now and since rumors are flying that the Surrey 6 case is going to fall apart Jaime is preparing to get out after he serves his sentence. His parents just bought a new place and are staking cash. RS alone was a easier target the killing of John united 3 groups they outnumber any gang in BC 3-1 easily. The people they kill are high profile while the other side has only been able to kill John. He was a retard any and should have been wearing a vest. Do you not find it funny that being under 24 hour surveillance he was killed just like Dip. Sometimes the police let dogs be dogs. I find it is nice once in a while when the police cant stop a hit. Not the publics threat though, they should have killed Jon at the boat. Well that is that, I like standing on the outside watching, while hearing what goes one inside.
RIP Alfred Walcott, guess DK never came clean about everyone he a…….just said the minimum to get by. Snitch. Yo RS you have a snake in the house in fact many, or should i say snitches new ones. New cases and the iron fist coming down on you. I can hang out and chill even drink a beer with the guys but i laugh at how RS can not figure out snitches are slipping in. Nice job checking the backgrounds of who you let in. Problem is, they are already in. Yo Matt Campbell where are you hiding bitch, lots of folks want to say hi.
kalifornia says:
uhhhh…..Alberts in jail for life….
BillClinton says:
Are you dumb? Albert is facing life right now in jail so stop your bullshit with your whole post you joke.
Canucker says:
Who are you? And is Aflred Walcott the UN member who was shot, the guy who used to be a Bacon friend, so your saying Dennis was involved? this is a theory i have not yet heard. This story old anyway half these people who were around back then are dead or in jail.
snitch alert says:
lol SPEAKING of snitches……………………
Cock face says:
Google Clayton Eheler informant and Curtis Vidal they on the blast from way back if anyone wants a pic of them retards. These guys should be done for life they roll with Dave Lally and the Duhre bro’s. Just like Lance the “PC” Wust. Heard he is ratting out that whole crew and switched sides to RS and gave up DIp, who cared so much about Lance. Gang bangers always snitch or switch. They should televise the take downs more often.
I don’t think lance is pc buddy but squealer sure is. Jk he doesn’t go to jail, his buddies do
The wolf pack may be winning this war but Jaime is getting cocks all over his face in Kent so he can keep his wolf pack and enjoy life in jail. The wolf pack is destroying the competition and and calculating their hits. If they learned from the past they will move ahead for good. I think they are go to wipe out SD and then Billy will step in and either make a deal or make the war evolve worse than before the problem with these wars is when the key players are hunted and keeping a low profile the gangs go after runners and lower level guys. This is going to get very bad, its only because of the weather that we have not had more hits. I wonder where Lotus is sitting or thinking in all of this. I hope they a kill each other with out one bullet missing its target.
nothingrite says:
Yeah dhak and billy are nothing that’s why they have a 100 guys right ? Khunkhun isn’t a shooter he’s just another close friend of dhaks who’s retired like the rest of the main guys playing the broke card so no government can touch their money. 11 to 1 ? More like 21 to 3 for billy and dhaks side. You guys got gurm dip and steven guy and managed to injure khunkhun and manny last I heard manny has a prosthetic arm and khunkhun is in a wheelchair but their alive so settle down. Billy and dhak haven’t even unleashed their elite hitters yet and once they do they’ll jus add onto the body count. Its 7 to 1 for billy and dhak you guys don’t stand a chance
Really, jb on your side…. That’s it. Dip,stephan,axle aka your Mole, costa was a tp mole now he’s gone,, toor gone, gisby, bud that got his wig peeled in med aka sabaz aka bird shopper bahahaha. I made 2 attention.pts, only shooter u can afford is khun no aim khun! Lmfao, obviously billy don’t care bout peanut jr sd or he wouldahooked up his guys. Lmfao. Hez waiting for sd go get dropped then he gonna beg for mercy aawhoooooo
What are you guys doing up at 4am? The bar just close or you coming off the X high.
Dhak and crew lost mad loot when gisby got smoked, wp have way to much smarts,Intel, and paper for the shrimp to keep up with. He has no paper or balls or he would have responded. It’s 14to1 grow a pair or find better shooters than goof khun khun, all u fucksare bin lading right now. Hidding in turbine is same as hidding in the hills Bahahahaah aaaawhhhhhooooooo
real shit.
Kim can you post a link of the surrey takedowns of people getting charged for murders??? Why wasn’t that on here!? I don’t get the van sun to my house.. Thanks!
Not quite sure what you mean? Can you name the victim or one of the accused names?
curious says:
What was the sentence for Wayne Scott, and what is going on with the Sargeant’s daughter who was charged with the dial a dope ring in Kelowna?
Wayne Scott’s sentencing was put off again – this time until Sept. And it looks like Lisa McKinnon was in provincial court in Kelowna yesterday for a “fix date” but no results were entered, which is strange. Usually a new date is put into the data base right away. I can check again Monday.
did shrek go to school with one of the bacon brothers?
Jarrod testified at his cocaine trial that Shrek was a childhood friend.
Sukh Dhak has these guys running scared, that’s what a real surrey g would do..Surrey = Sukhs territory..nobody can fucking take over right now.
Give your head a shake. IDIOT. Anyone can get shot.
Dirty Bitches says:
Surrey G. How about Surrey runaway. He know the power and capability of his enemies and has vanished. He is cool man just a fucking rat, snitch, goof, rapist, skinner and a dipper. He is done gone and over on the east coast protected and being cultivated into the latest and greats pretenda-Anton. This guy is a fucking snitch and Anton makes him look like a school girl. He is going to rat be a witness and then get sold the fuck out by the police. Used like a abby whore like Vanessa and Jessica Bre*on try to erase that they fucked every G from Hope to Vancouver. No last names, Kim can just frig off. Oh dang is Jb’s X with her X and has a kid and Jarred’s X have a kid with Narly(rhymes with her name) man these women will do anything.Crazy
how is he hiding when he just recently attended tom gisby’s funeral about a month ago, lay off the crack pipe your smoking you cracker jacker. ur little buddies are not as hardcore as you think they are. why are they running scared and hiding back east if they are so tough, yeah thats what i thought lmao. all ur butt buddies running out of fear and bunch of hide outs lmao go kill urself
Your an idiot
gringo says:
@NOBODY……by the time they are done? LOL they better get started then because i have it about 11-1 in favour of the other side. They must not be “itching” to hard since they have taken everything dry u idiot.
nobuddy says:
Keep rooting for them but remember dhak and billy got 100 guys each no problem and they all itching to pull the trigger by the time they’re done they’re going to take the deathtoll from 20 on wolfpacks side to the 40-50’s
Who have they killed in on the Wolf Pack side, Only Jon Bacon- All the RS guys before Jon Bacon was killed that were killed cant be counted as wolf pack. Wolf Pack started not long before Jon’s death, Not sure what your talking about? Name the 20 Since the wolf pack started the only 1 is Jon. You cant count go back to school. Wolf Pack cut the heads off the snakes of the High Level players. The only key man on the WP side killed is Jon.
elephant in the room says:
they could have killed them all. BUT they didnt. staying tuned…
wpfor life says:
Larry is the one you shouldn’t b messing with who the hell is billy and dhak they are nobuddies compared to him he’s teamed up with terry and loonies crew its like putting your hand into a fire that just had a tank of gasoline dropped onto it wolfpacks going to burn their enemies alive
shut the fuck up “nobody” u loser. go learn how to write a proper sentence not some run on paragraph none of us can understand. SD doesn’t run shit on the inside, he’s a scared little punk who’s true colours come out when he’s locked up. His brother was a G and he will never fill that void no matter how hard he trys he’s a fuckin coward.
BIG HERRY PANIS says:
WHO WANTS TO SUCK MY BIG HERRY PANIS ,
EMPIRE WHAT
power of suggestion works in mysterious ways ……..I have been wondering mmmmmmm exactly who is Empire can you please fill me in if you don’t mind me asking ?
there a bunch of chumps
are they associated to any of the other gangs?
Dhak was never pc everytime he ends up in there he ends up running his unit and his end of the jail you guys don’t even know anything that’s why you run your mouths oh no big wolfpack on the prowl big time clean up crew nice job fellas nice job you got the elite hitters gunning for you big mistake lmao wolfpack lol washed up rs and is go and suck biker dick and bikers the ones who are actually smart and strategic are just using them as they can so many itiods at their disposal why not fellas why not get them billy and dhak unleash your mayhem on these haters
dorizans r retards, I know so many fobs that keep it chill. Don’t use violence u fucks
YOUR ALL BEAKIN OFF WITH BIG ASS HAIRY BALLS BEHIND A COMPUTER AND WITH UR CREW BUT ALONE LMAO ………..GOOD LUCK BUDDY
Greenies says:
This police should have got dhillon to open trunk so he could have shot him with the rifle right by. Police would have been cleared after other police force investigated and the gun could have been displayed on a table at a press conference.
It takes a real hero to give the police an gun. Especially when its a illegal ak in your very own trunk. Idiot!
real talk says:
All you wannabees on here cheering on this war like its a fuckin hockey game disgust me. You little punks and wannabe gangsters don’t know shit about the game, because if you did, you wouldn’t be sitting behind a computer sucking these gangsters dicks. This is serious shit and people are dying, no fuckin joke. You little punks think you are tough talkin trash from the sidelines haha, obviosuly none of you who are talkin smack personally know any real g’s or anyone who has lost their life to the game. Why don’t you little computer warriors pick up a gun and hit the streets, then let’s see how tough you are. Bunch of wannabe’s and dick suckers on here don’t know shit. Killing and getting killed is no joke and nothing to laugh over, but obviosuly you little wannabe dicksuckers don’t know anything about that because you are not even remotely involved in the lifestyle.
YOUR THE ONE POSTING THAT ZERO INNOCENT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED……SO CLEARLY YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT …………EITHER YOUR PART OF THE SOLUTION OR PART OF THE PROBLEM. TAKE YOUR PICK SINCE YOU HAVE AN ADGENDA I CAN’T FIGURE OUT ……..GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT SO THEIR IS RELEVANCE TO YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE
all you real scoop faggs, google , EL CHAPO GUZMAN , you CANADIAN FAGSSSS
Oh really???!!! El chapo. Fuck ur stupid. Could you even pronounce Joaquin?
could you pronounce anything? , with my dick in your mouth
SHUT UP “real talk” FAG
I’m a fag because I’m speaking the truth about you keyboard warriors? How you guys are cheering on bloodshed when you obviously have no clue what its like out there? None of you punks have balls, just a bunch of straight wannabe’s who wish they were accepted by some of these crews. Keep licking the balls of people who will never accept you, and would treat you like a bitch if they ever met you. Real G’s don’t talk shit, they get shit done and make shit happen.
the only one who wants acceptance is you , im happy with who i am , i dont need another mans guidance , you stupid gang fag. i bet you and your boys tell each other how cool you are!!!
the only shit you make happen , is when you sit on the toilet and push ,GOOF
Really messed up says:
Real talk, you’re a real idiot.
” A bunch of straight wannabes who wish they were accepted by these crews” That has to be one of the most fucked up things I have ever heard. And who’s the ball licker, Real talk? Maybe you?
Do you ever think that if these morons were half ways smart they might stay out of jail or might live past thirty? What a fucking moron,real talk you dumb fuck. Yeah real g’s don’t talk shit they make it happen. These useless tits couldn’t organize a one man parade, probably the reason they live like they do. So Mr. Real Talk the next time you’re blowing one of these real G’s, maybe realize they are only smarter than you. Retard.
From Nanaimo says:
yeh whatever real talk. I work for a living and pay my taxes i dont need a gun. Have fun getting shot or ending up in prison you stupid fucking goofball. LOL what a govone this guy is eh?
tyrone biggums says:
okay dont get all crazy and mean….but it seems like the dhak gang has been losing more members then the other side….am i wrong? i am a crackhead and all so i might be…got any smoke?
Not really dude, most of the guys hit are Duhres I think, Dhak has remained mostly untouched and unphased.
who gave me a thumbs down? don’t judge me cuz of my love for all things crack….and did i say something wrong? the only people getting killed seem to have some connection to the dhak group…i am not a patchlicker or the like(unless that patch is made out of crackrock) so please dont hurt my feelings….now, who’s got smoke?
can you explain your post using language that the average person/or in my case a crackhead would understand? got some smoke? are you a gangster? you must have smoke….
Gimbo says:
Kim can I delete my own replys? I accidentally wrote my comment by hitting the reply button when it supposed to be in a upfront comment section
I deleted the one comment as you accused the guy of murder when he is not facing any charge.
Wolfpack awwwhooo, funny how many rats dhaks has, Manny hhas so many bust not no time….. Straight rat lol how bout his side kick davie aka stephan..oops he got smoked lol, poor bastard peanut worker getting smoked for heads. Lmao. Suk should just take the lead!get it over with. Cause if u go in you know u are checking in lol. Big gangster in pc bahahaja
Aaaawwwwwhooooooo. K
yea talking of rats. RS was full of rats..Anton and Dennis their 2 major guys also ratted. look at U.N and all these other guys..nobody ever ratted from these crews..even Clay himself could have been out but he decided not to become a rat and took the 30 years..thats what u call a real G..Gurm was a real G, Sukhs a hot headed guy but he runs the show too and keeps it real as he can..Sandip got alot of respect in the inside and outside for who he was..same as the Adiwals even though they aren’t relevant here..these are the real ogs of lowermainland..some dead and some alive..now don’t get started on RAts..wolfpack is full of rats and they gonna get it after the Gisby hit.
Any predictions idiot?
Dennis The Menace says:
Just stop howling please, just stop
johnny dangerous says:
Get off larry’s dick already man. You sound like a straight fag. Half the people on here claim pc rat goof this, blah blah blah. U dumbasses don’t know shit, and sound like bigger idiots for talking smack. Why don’t you post your real name and talk shit you loser, rather than being a wolfpac cheerleader! Did they give you pom poms and a frilly skirt?
I seen this guy at the rodeo looked like he had a stroke. Also his friends wear so much Ed hardy bling like they are wearing fancy Indian suits lol v
And why don’t u dress better shrek
Reformed says:
I wonder if the flood ever came so those pants could be useful?
Lol... says:
Kim where is this new article you wrote about people being taken down in surrey? Is it true Sukh is a rat?
zee says:
can you please post it thanks
the PC guys a wannabe talking to himself
Private Contractor says:
Beefed up, not smarter. They just made new alliances that will fall apart and kill each other from the inside out. They will have another informant like Anton and go down, they never learn and it makes guys like me money. More gangs to deal with and since the police are tied up. Is time to rake in the cash. Everything has a price, so does a head and a gangsters private life and all their secret private information. They seem to think their devices are protected, or by writing things on a wash board is old. They had better learn sign language soon. Some guys are 3 steps ahead. Technology is the enemy of the gangster. They will all fall, HA just made a splash on the radar.
K i asked kim if she could confirm not you wannabe dry rats… For all I know what you are saying is rumors to make matters worse and fill others heads with BS.. I can tell you both are the same person.
What do you purpose? What should be done, i am smack in the middle of this. Not gangster, not cop. Private Contractor, should we take up arms against them all? Wipe out the gangs? Make a clear question for a clear answer. I have the intel but it comes at a cost and not money.
ROFL says:
His hot wife went down because of him too!
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Again the writer's opinion about the above has to be what he feels personally and not other's opinions. Back to all posts. Before publishing the critique one has to check, and recheck for any errors or mistakes. Even if you have seen it a hundred times, you need to watch it again and you learn how to analyze a film. Every frame feels like a painting worth sitting." Tone: "Despite the insane loneliness and high stakes of being stuck alone on Mars, The Martian's witty script keeps humor and excitement alive in every scene. For works of fiction or paintings, you will need to ask yourself what evidence the author presents in an attempt to explain his or her thesis. Did the clothing choices fit the style of the movie? Happy movie watchingand writing! How effective or ineffective is the cinematography?
More in-depth research is not usually necessary. This is a film directed by Spike Lee that was released in 1989. But thats not all: It is also important to conduct an analysis of film reviews and integrate what other people think of the movie into your analysis. Movies are the quintessential art form of our time, and like all art, they spark controversy, provide a venue for self-reflection, and greatly influence our culture. Even if the author did not specifically mention opposing opinions, you can still mention common oppositions in your critical analysis. It is desirable to give a sketch of the plot of the movie so that the reader knows what to expect in the film and has an idea of what the film is all about. Remember that a single essay can cover more than one of these types of analyses. Deciding how good each thing is will help you come to a more accurate conclusion. Your thesis should be a brief statement that summarizes your overall evaluation of the work being critiqued. Such an approach will not work if you have to prepare a film analysis essay.
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Give your review at least one editorial pass, and critical review essay movie maybe two or three, before you consider it to be editorially sound. How is it conveyed? Part 3 Composing Your Review 1 Create an original thesis based on your analysis. Pay attention to details you might have missed the first time around. Are there any special characters? For example, you might state something such as, "The Baroque background music was a jarring contrast to the 20th century setting." This is a lot more informative then simply saying, "The music was a strange choice for the. Since movie critique gives details only about the actor's role in the film, as a gesture of good journalism one should use the character name when describing the plot with respect to the character. According to the University of North Dakota, movies are the following: A form of entertainment Documents of the place and time in which they are made A form of art and self-expression A way to tell a story The University.
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Care needs to be taken, as these reviews should be unbiased or impartial. Ask yourself whether your review stayed true to your thesis. However, it is necessary to be clear and concise. Opinions should be detailed and explained in a way that the reader is in a position of making their own opinion of the issue being liked or disliked. But remember, try to balance the positive with the negative. Where to start: Start your Do the Right Thing essay with general info about the movie, director, etc. Most critical reviews will be a mix of positive and negative. Taking notes allows you to jot down little things you can return to later.
The more you can plan your paper before you begin writing, the easier it will be to write. If you don't have access to the internet, the credits at the end of the movie are a great place to find the names of certain actors and actresses. You then write about why you chose that rating. In this way you are giving your readers a feel for the movie and continuing to express your critique of the film at the same time. Does the film connect with you on a personal level? Question Can the critical appreciation be written in question/answer form? Since you don't have the same taste in movies as everyone else, you need to be able to tell people if they will enjoy the movie, even if you didn't. A movie review would not be genuine if written without watching. Identify the main ideas of the work in order to analyze its structure.
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Two more beautiful campaign films: Vanessa Bruno, Marni for H&M
Rachel Arthur February 5, 2012
Following on from the Prada, Victoria, Victoria Beckham and T by Alexander Wang post below, here’s a quick look at two further SS12 campaign releases this week.
First up is Marni’s H&M spot, shot by none other than Hollywood director Sofia Coppola. The ad stars actress Imogen Poots, and was filmed in Marrakesh, Morocco, at a house that Coppola once went to with friends. It is set to the soundtrack, Avalon, by Bryan Ferry:
There’s a great behind-the-scenes video here, too, in which Coppola says she wanted to do something artful that would represent Marni.
And Kate Bosworth returns to Vanessa Bruno again this season, in a beautiful film called Moonlight.
Directed by Stephanie Di Giusto, it comes accompanied with a conceptual passage describing it to be about “a stellar girl, a radiant girl who clutches onto the moon and arrives in an unknown land, on unmarred ground, as immaculate as her white ensemble”:
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Sorry, Ivanka and Jared’s Private Email Use Was Nothing Like Hillary’s
One is illegal. One is not.
September 27, 2017 By David Harsanyi
This week, I’ve received a stream of angry emails, condemning me as an utter hypocrite for failing to write about the New York Times report that found at least six officials, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, have used personal accounts to engage in official government business—just like Hillary.
One of the problems with compulsory, 24/7 Donald Trump loathing is that it demands that a person get worked up over abuses both real and imagined. There are plenty of the former, but this happens to be very much the latter. Despite this, there are now an amazing number of stories written by establishment media framing the Trump administration’s email use as proof of massive hypocrisy. It’s also a very popular take on Twitter.
In the most obvious terms, the biggest difference between the two cases is that everything Hillary Clinton did was illegal and nothing, as far as we know, that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump did was against the law. More specifically: neither Kushner nor Ivanka Trump are cabinet appointees. Neither of them emailed classified documents (certainly not eight “top secret” documents) on an unsecured secret server. Neither of them deleted tens of thousands of government documents after they were subpoenaed “in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.” Neither of them lied to the American people about having sent them.
Now, if you really want to make it illegal for government officials to have any private email accounts, please call your local representative and ask them to sponsor a bill to make that happen. It is not illegal as long as relevant documents are preserved for history, which seems to be the case here. Even Barack Obama communicated with private email accounts using a pseudonym.
A1 versus A18 and this was well before the FBI or Congressional Republicans got involved. pic.twitter.com/EQ8kpvYHun
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) September 27, 2017
We already know that many liberals and journalism professors believe that the media exists to assist Democrats in their campaigns, but folks who peddle the sort of thing you see in the tweet above probably don’t really understand what Hillary Clinton did wrong. (Though there is, of course, the tiny chance that they’re being dishonest.) So the only conclusion we can reach is that there wasn’t nearly enough coverage by the New York Times about Hillary’s activities.
Yes, it is true that Americans only later found out about Clinton favor trading. But even before the FBI and Republicans investigated her shifting story about the 9/11 Benghazi attack, Clinton was a cabinet level member who had exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business. This alone was unprecedented.
“It is very difficult to conceive of a scenario—short of nuclear winter—where an agency would be justified in allowing its cabinet-level head officer to solely use a private email communications channel for the conduct of government business,” a former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration explained at the time. Before any investigation was launched by the FBI or Congress, the State Department had already informed Clinton that she was breaking federal record-keeping regulations and asked her to hand over all her emails.
Then Hillary lied about having sent classified emails on television—many times.
Then she tried to illegally destroy documents that should have been preserved under federal law.
Then the FBI explained in great detail how lucky she was not to be indicted.
And only then did Democrats nominate her.
Many of the same people who believe Clinton didn’t deserve scrutiny for her actions now want to investigate Kushner. Okay. Anyone who attempts to circumvent transparency should be accountable for their actions. As many experts (buried deep in these stories, far removed from the dramatic headlines) have explained, incidental use of private email happens. The problem of illegality occurs when a person sets up separate infrastructures for correspondence that are outside of government control and transparency. Not only has his lawyer forwarded the private emails to be archived (which seem to include around 100), nothing in them comes close to the scope of Hillary’s work.
From the Washington Post:
These dozens of emails typically discussed media stories about the Trump White House, planning for coming events, and some reactions and logistics. A person who has reviewed the emails said several contained nothing more than links to news stories.
“We’re finding with the latest revelations—they didn’t mean any of it. It’s just the height of hypocrisy,” Clinton told a radio show this week. Hillary’s lack of remorse over her reckless and illegal behavior is unsurprising. Her fans continuously excuse her shameless abuse of power and privilege, why wouldn’t she? So it’s important to push back against those who try and revise history to delegitimize the election by making these kinds of ludicrous comparisons.
David Harsanyi is a Senior Editor at The Federalist. He is the author of First Freedom: A Ride Through America's Enduring History with the Gun, From the Revolution to Today. Follow him on Twitter.
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The report also addresses how Rolling Stone’s editorial policies might be reconsidered to prevent future failure. And it evaluates how journalists might begin to define best practices when reporting...
by The Frontliner April 6, 2015
This report is intended as a work of journalism about a failure of journalism. Last November, Rolling Stone published “A Rape on Campus” by Sabrina Rubin Erdely. Its principal narrative recounted a horrible gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity. Early in December, Rolling Stoneeffectively retracted that narrative. Several weeks later, the magazine contacted the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about conducting an investigation of what had gone wrong. Rolling Stone provided access to Erdely’s reporting records as well as drafts of the story. The authors enjoyed the freedom to investigate and write about any subject related to “A Rape on Campus” that they judged to be germane and in the public interest. The magazine agreed to publish Columbia’s review in full on its website, after a legal review, but without editing. Rolling Stone also pledged to publish mutually agreed excerpts in its print magazine.
Over several months, the authors conducted interviews and investigations that ranged widely in scope. Yet the final report is not intended to be encyclopedic. The report has several intended purposes. One is to illuminate the key reasons Rolling Stone’s failure was avoidable and to draw lessons. In that respect, the report focuses on several of Rolling Stone’s failures of reporting, editing and supervision but not on every single misstep that might be inventoried. Another purpose of the report is to assess independently and through fresh reporting some of the subjects Rolling Stone covered in the story, beyond Jackie’s account of sexual assault – particularly the timeline of how UVA handled Jackie’s information. The report also addresses how Rolling Stone’s editorial policies might be reconsidered to prevent future failure. And it evaluates how journalists might begin to define best practices when reporting about rape cases on campus or elsewhere.
Rolling Stone’s staff cooperated fully during the review. Coll and Coronel agreed to Rolling Stone’s request not to name the story’s fact-checker in its report on the grounds that she was a junior employee without ultimate decision-making authority. Several participants from the magazine did decline to answer certain questions that they said invaded attorney-client privilege. Neither Columbia nor the authors individually received compensation for the work. Rolling Stone agreed to reimburse expenses.
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To read the Anthropology in Outerspace series, head here!
This series examines representations of anthropology in science-fiction. Emma, Marie-Pierre and Rayna discuss cases from various TV series, movies and books and what they reveal about popular perceptions regarding this science and its branches (archeology, linguistic anthropology, biological anthropology and sociocultural anthropology).
In preparation for this series, we wished to list examples of representations of anthropologists and anthropology in science-fiction: an anthropologist in a Twilight Zone episode? A description of ethnography in a sci-fi magazine? Margaret Mead being mentioned in a book about little green men? The scenario of a Star Trek episode introducing perspectives and concepts closely related to anthropology? TGA readers provided fascinating such examples to consider.
List examples you can think of in the comments below! Feel free to add examples from other genres of pop culture as well and to share your own work on science-fiction and anthropology!
The ever growing list:
Dr. Daniel Jackson, archeologist and linguist, from Stargate SG-1
Vash, archeologist, from Star Trek TNG
Jean-Luc Picard, starship captain and archeology enthusiast, Star Trek TNG
Dr. River Song, archeologist, Doctor Who
Dr. Barron, anthropologist, from the episode ”Who Watchers the Watchers?” in Star Trek TNG (S3E4)
Dr. Norm Spellman, anthropologist, Avatar
Milo Thatch, cartographer & linguist in Disney movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
R. Potney Smithe, anthropologist, in Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates (2001)
Shinichi Chujo, linguist in Mothra (1961)
Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist in Bones (2005-Present)
Added from comments/Twitter conversations
Twilight Zone episode, Mr. Dingle, the Strong : A Venusian and a two-headed Martian walk into a bar and give Burgess Meredith the strength of five hundred men as an anthropological experiment.
Star Trek DS9 “Rapture”: Captain Sisko becomes obsessed with an archaeological puzzle.
Star Trek TNG “The Chase”: Dr. Richard Galen, Picard’s old archaeology professor, needs help with a puzzle.
Star Trek ENT “Three Days and Two Nights”: Ensign Hoshi Sato is a linguist. The plot involves linguistic immersion.
Star Trek TOS “Who Mourns for Adonais?”: Lt. Carolyn Palamas is the “A & A officer,” which the episode tells us stands for “Archaeology, Anthropology, and Ancient Civilizations.”
Star Trek VOY: “Tsunkatse”: Chakotay says he’s going to the match in Star Trek VOY: “Tsunkatse” as an anthropologist. In “Bliss,” part of his bliss is being offered a part-time professorship in anthropology. It’s not called out, but his interactions in “Initiations” could count too.
Star Trek VOY : Seven of Nine’s parents, observing a Borg cube trying to understand Borg “culture” or “way of life”.
Star Trek TNG episodes “Devil’s Due” and “The Bonding” include archaeologists characters.
Alien vs. Predator (2004) features archaeologists.
Halo franchise is based on archeology and religion.
China Miéville, fantasy fiction author, has a degree in anthropology (Embassytown, Iron Council, etc).
Mass Effect trilogy: the character Liara T’Soni is an expert in ancient Prothean culture, and was working at a dig site when first introduced.
Star Trek TNG “Homeward” (S7E13): Worf’s adoptive brother Nikolai Rozhenko, a bona fide anthropologist, is trying to save a culture from the usual prime directive misunderstandings and goes native in the end.
Citizen of the Galaxy: In the juvenile novel Citizen of the Galaxy by Heinlein, the slave boy Thorby meets an anthropologist on a ship who is the only person who will befriend him at first because he does not understand proper behavior. She teaches him about moieties and the morays of the culture of the people on board the ship.
Jeff Vandermeer’s book Annihilation.
Hort, the anthropologist in Monument, by Lloyd Biggle Jr.
X-Men: Xavier has a PhD in Anthropology and one great enemy of the X-Men, Bolivar Trask, is a prominent anthropologist.
The Mote in God’s Eye, a novel by Niven and Pournelle features the anthropologist Lady Sandra “Sally” Bright Fowler.
The entry on “Anthropology” in the Science Fiction Encyclopedia (http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anthropology ).
Apeman, Spaceman (anth 1968) edited by Leon E Stover and Harry Harrison.
Anthropology through Science Fiction (anth 1974) edited by Carol Mason, Martin H Greenberg and Patricia S Warrickand.
A collection of critical essays on the theme, Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction (anth 1987) edited by Eric S Rabkin and George Edgar Slusser.
Chad Oliver’s Shadows in the Sun. Author himself is a practicing anthropologist.
Citizen of the Galaxy novel by Heinlein.
Examples from other genres of pop culture
Betty Draper from Mad Men studied anthropology in college.
In Community, Betty White plays Professor June Bauer, who teaches Anthropology 101 and is rather eccentric.
In The Nanny Diairies, Scarlett Johansson plays a college graduate who works as a nanny but wishes to work in anthropology.
Harrison Kipp, Professor of Archaeology at Night Vale Community College (Welcome to Night Vale).
Anthropologie, the store.
Noah the pirate slave and anthropologist from Archer
Indiana Jones, archaeologist : Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) & Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
Lara Croft, Tomb Raider video games and movies.
Charlotte Lewis, cultural anthropologist on the ABC show Lost.
amehatrekkie August 13, 2018 at 02:48
chakotay has a lot of fun studying the planet in the episode “blink of an eye,” where for every second on the ship, a day passes on the planet. at one point the doctor is sent there; on the ship a few minutes pass for them to retrieve him because of a glitch with the transporter, 3 years passed on the planet. they’re able to see various nation-states develop technology from the shamanistic tribal society to a medieval to modern and even past their own technical level. this is one of my favorite episodes not just of voyager but the franchise overall.
Rachael Sebastian April 11, 2018 at 10:25
In Star Trek Discovery, Michael Burnham is a Xenoanthropologist
Stefan B. September 9, 2017 at 19:52
The protagonists of James Cameron’s Avatar are kind-of anthropologists. I often use this example when people ask what anthropologists do.
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kutukamus November 20, 2015 at 14:28
Phoonzang—the Godot-like (somehow) character in the game ‘Crusaders of the Dark Savant, is without doubt (though never explicitly mentioned) is an anthropologist (among many other things).
meles_ludens November 5, 2015 at 04:49
Star Wars – The Galactic Institute of Anthropology published such notable works on Mandalorian culture as Mandalorians: Identity and Language and Mandalorians: Identity and Its Influence on Genome. It’s not a part of the canon now, but it was mentioned before the Disney took over.
Also, SW Universe mentions “sentientologist” who is scientist studing all sentient beings in galaxy and they culture, bilogy and hisotry, wich includes anthropologists – http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sentientologist
Some Lovecraft stories includes ethnologists
piersmahout November 3, 2015 at 04:26
and do I remember an anthropologist in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy?
Jacky Garbutt November 2, 2015 at 20:51
Double whammy with WASTELAND OF FLINT by Thomas Harlan.
An alternate history science fiction novel with the Mexica in charge of Earth, which follows a xeno-archaeologist investigating the remains of an extinct advanced culture on a distant planet.
doesnt matter November 2, 2015 at 18:32
Seven of Nine’s parents (Star Trek: VOY), observing a Borg cube trying to understand Borg “culture” or “way of life”
Anonymous November 2, 2015 at 18:30
Seven of Nine’s parents (Star Trek: VOY), observing a Borg cube
Stephen Gonzalez November 2, 2015 at 13:22
Dan Sylveste is an archaeologist in Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space novel. From the wikia “At the beginning of Revelation Space he is an archaeologist working on Resurgam and studying the ruins of the ancient Amarantin, convinced that their history holds the key to why no alien species has yet survived long enough for humans to make contact.” http://revelationspace.wikia.com/wiki/Dan_Sylveste
Kim Williams-Shuker November 2, 2015 at 12:13
Mary Doria Russell (author of The Sparrow and Children of God) has a doctorate in biological anthropology.
drtmperes November 2, 2015 at 08:04
Ross Gellar on “Friends” was an Anthropologist (though they sometimes confused the definition of what an Anthropologist is, but….).
Don’t forget the archaeologists in the Alien prequel film Prometheus
I’d rather forget the entire film -_-
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Moreno Tiziani December 28, 2014 at 16:33
I was reading “Shadows in the sun”, by Chad Oliver, last month: Paul Ellery is an anthropologist that discovers a “strange” reality in a little town in Texas (example: http://jerryshouseofeverything.blogspot.it/2012/12/forgotten-book-shadows-in-sun.html)
Marie-Pierre Renaud December 29, 2014 at 11:24
Thanks a lot for the info! Much appreciated!
Evan Conaway December 26, 2014 at 11:33
What about the Archaeology profession in World of Warcraft and all the so-called “Archaeology Trainers” and the Assistant-Associate-Full professor development! 😀
Very good point! Thanks for reminding us of that one!
Karin Rita Gastreich September 25, 2014 at 08:44
Hadley Rille Books has entire series based on archaeology and archaeologists, in both its science fiction and historical fiction collections. This is a small press, so they don’t get a very wide distribution, but their RUINS anthologies have a loyal following, including RUINS TERRA and RUINS EXTRATERRESTRIAL. Other anthologies of note would be FOOTPRINTS and ORIGINS. The latter is a collection of short stories about human evolution based on the archaeological record. All of these anthologies were edited by Eric T. Reynolds. Another book from HRB’s science fiction list is the novel TRANSCENDENCE (not to be confused with the recent movie) by Chris McKitterick, which features an archaeologist working on one of Jupiter’s moons. There’s probably more, but these are the titles I’m most familiar with. Hope this helps!
Marie-Pierre Renaud September 28, 2014 at 21:58
Very helpful indeed! We’ll have to look these up! Thanks for the suggestions!
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Moreno Tiziani September 20, 2014 at 13:24
Hort, the anthropologist in “Monument”, by Lloyd Biggle jr. But also in X-Men: Xavier has a PhD in Anthropology and one great enemy of X-Men, Bolivar Trask, is a prominent anthropologist.
Thanks we’ll add it to the list!
Mr Mwenda September 14, 2014 at 04:23
Yo,
If it’s not too late, The scifi novel ‘The Mote in God’s Eye’ by Niven and Pournelle features the anthropologist Lady Sandra “Sally” Bright Fowler.
Not too late! We’ll need to keep researching this topic and appreciate any suggestion that will help us do so!
Hal September 7, 2014 at 16:35
If you want to follow up on this, consider the entry on “Anthropology” in the Science Fiction Encyclopedia (http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anthropology )
Other examples can be gleaned Apeman, Spaceman (anth 1968) edited by Leon E Stover and Harry Harrison;Anthropology through Science Fiction (anth 1974) edited by Carol Mason, Martin H Greenberg and Patricia S Warrickand A collection of critical essays on the theme, Aliens: The Anthropology of Science Fiction (anth 1987) edited by Eric S Rabkin and George Edgar Slusser.
Marie-Pierre Renaud September 7, 2014 at 21:39
Very useful! Thank you!
Chad Oliver’s Shadows in the Sun is a prime example, and several of his other works feature anthropologists. He should know – he was a practicing anthropologist all his life.
Great! Thanks for the suggestion!
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Erin S September 3, 2014 at 14:42
In the juvenile novel Citizen of the Galaxy by Heinlein, the slave boy Thorby meets an anthropologist on a ship who is the only person who will befriend him at first because he does not understand proper behavior. She teaches him about moieties and the morays of the culture of the people on board the ship.
Thank you for this example!
Alex Oliveira August 27, 2014 at 21:53
The best example in Star Trek TNG is still “Homeward” were Worf adoptive brother Nikolai Rozhenko a real bona fide anthropologist is trying to save a culture from the usual prime directive misunderstandings and going native in the end.
Marie-Pierre Renaud August 28, 2014 at 13:38
Another great example from Star Trek! Thanks!
Vincent Krasauskas August 27, 2014 at 14:56
The character from the Mass Effect trilogy, Liara T’Soni, is an expert in ancient Prothean culture, and was working at a dig site when first introduced.
Great point! Thanks for providing this example!
Anonymous August 27, 2014 at 12:15
Although not directly referencing anthropology per se, I always found the Next Generation episode “Darmok” to be an interesting examination about how culture affects language and communication.
I think you’ll find our upcoming series interesting then: we do discuss this episode!
tribble314 August 21, 2014 at 01:58
There’s a few more in Star Trek:
– Lt. Carolyn Palamas in TOS: “Who Mourns for Adonais?” (At first I confused her with Lt. Marla McGivers in “Space Seed,” but she’s a historian.)
– Chakotay says he’s going to the match in VOY: “Tsunkatse” as an anthropologist. In “Bliss,” part of his bliss is being offered a part-time professorship in anthropology. It’s not called out, but his interactions in “Initiations” could count too.
– TNG episodes “Devil’s Due” and “The Bonding” have archaeologists too, but not very prominantly.
Oh, a few more episodes:
– Captain Sisko becomes obsessed with an archaeological puzzle (DS9: “Rapture”)
– Dr. Richard Galen, Picard’s old archaeology professor, needs help with a puzzle in TNG: “The Chase”
– Ensign Hoshi Sato is a linguist. Mostly the writers give her jargon, but her plot ENT: “Three Days and Two Nights” involves linguistic immersion.
Thanks! These were added to the list!
Anthropology in Outerspace | The Geek Anthropologist August 19, 2014 at 16:07
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Why White Nationalists Love Bashar al-Assad
Mariam Elba
September 8 2017, 3:54 p.m.
It shouldn’t be surprising that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has become an idol among white nationalists in the United States.
During the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally several weeks ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, Baked Alaska, an infamous far-right YouTuber, livestreamed an encounter with a demonstrator wearing a T-shirt that read “Bashar’s Barrel Delivery Co.” The shirt alluded to the Assad regime’s frequent, horrific use of barrel bombs — weapons employed to indiscriminately target rebel-held areas of Syria.
That rally-goer shouted, “Support the Syrian Arab Army!” and “Assad did nothing wrong!” They gloated over how Assad can “solve this whole ISIS problem” with just two chemical bombs. James Fields, the 20-year-old white supremacist who allegedly rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer, posted a portrait of Assad, in military regalia and aviator sunglasses to Facebook. A superimposed caption read: “UNDEFEATED.”
There’s a simple explanation for how the American far-right became curiously infatuated with the Arab totalitarian leader: Their hearts were won over by the Assad family’s years-old propaganda campaign at home in Syria. Assad’s authoritarianism uses the same buzzwords as the far-right to describe the society he’s trying to build in his own country — a pure, monolithic society of devotees to his own power. American neo-Nazis see Assad as a hero.
As the chaos of Charlottesville and its aftermath was unfolding, Assad addressed a group of diplomats in Damascus about the ongoing war in Syria. “We lost many of our youth and infrastructure,” he said, “but we gained a healthier and more homogenous society.”
Whereas white nationalists aim to create a healthy and homogeneous society through racial purity, for Assad it means a society free of any kind of political dissent, excluding any Syrian living outside the territory his regime controls. Anyone who does not fit Assad’s specific definition of what it means to be Syrian is up for execution.
Alexander Reid Ross, a lecturer of geography at Portland State University and author of the new book, “Against the Fascist Creep,” said Assad is a figure that is central to a realization of “Eurasianism.” The notion “holds that Russia will lead the world out of a dark age of materialism and toward an ultranationalist rebirth of homogenous ethno-states federated under a heterogeneous spiritual empire,” Reid Ross said.
In other words, the Assad dynasty, with the strong backing of Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian state in Russia, is the Middle East’s leading force toward creating a society that is spiritually, socially, and politically “pure.” Cosmopolitanism, with diversity in political thought and social identity, is an obstacle for those aiming to realize this vision.
Assad is a key figure in confirming the white nationalist worldview. “Holding on to Syria,” Reid Ross said, “marks for them a crucial foothold in a larger geopolitical mission — one that has everything to do with that spiritual purity associated with family, tradition, and nation.” To the far right, Assad is at the front lines in the fight against the Islamic State and, more broadly, the forces of “Islamic terrorism” in the Middle East under a nationalist banner that looks very much like their own.
And the admiration doesn’t run in only one direction. The Assad regime has cultivated relationships with far-right white nationalists for decades. One of these was allegedly Alois Brunner, who actually died in Damascus in 2010. There is reason to believe that Brunner advised Bashar’s father Hafez al-Assad on torture techniques used in Syria’s infamous prison system, even as the regime has denied ever harboring Bruner.
Syrian children hold portraits of President Bashar al-Assad during a gathering in support of the ruling Ba’ath party at a school in the government-held side of the northern city of Aleppo on Nov. 17, 2014.
Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images
In spite of the Assad regime’s track record of being the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war — which has likely left half a million dead and spurred a massive exodus of refugees — the United Nations, the United States, and certainly Russia are all looking for solutions to the Syrian crisis that keep Assad in power. Assad’s relationship-building and connections with fringe politicians in the West has contributed to creating international legitimacy for his continued rule, as well as fueling a propaganda machine that paints the dictator as one of the final Arab leaders standing up against American imperialism and “Islamic extremism.”
Radwan Ziadeh, a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, and a prolific, longtime Syrian dissident, said that the Assad dynasty’s central strategy in forging international legitimacy was to cultivate an image as a guardian of Christians in Syria and the wider region.
This mythos he built around himself has worked well in garnering support for the Assad family from outside Syria. Aside from Brunner and other Nazis taking shelter in Syria, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke visited Damascus in 2005, addressing a “demonstration” in support of Assad’s fight against Zionism, propping up Assad’s image as an anti-imperialist. (Palestinian refugees within Syria have suffered greatly under Assad’s sieges.)
Even more recently, as journalist Alex Rowell recently pointed out, far-right politicians from the French National Front, Golden Dawn in Greece, and Vlaams Belang in Belgium, among many others, met with Syrian government officials in Damascus over the past few years. The meetings came as the regime began to gain momentum against opposition forces with the help of Russian military intervention and support.
The Ba’ath Party, a multi-national party which was led by Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez al-Assad in Syria, held meetings with international far-right parties. The Iraqi Ba’ath Party met with the National Front in France and Die Republikaner in Germany, both far-right parties in the E.U., according to Reid Ross. “The radical right and fascists see them as nationalists like them,” he told The Intercept.
Though Assad has also won some support from international political forces on the left, Reid Ross argued that the support from the right is crucial to Assad’s success. “The most important international support for Assad stems from a white supremacist base and a white supremacist administration in the U.S.,” he said.
Assad’s vision of creating a “healthy” and “homogenous” society is what white nationalists have aspired to create for themselves. We don’t need to look as far back as Hitler’s Third Reich to see what their world vision could be. We only need to look at Syria today.
“He destroyed Syria,” Ziadeh said. “The population of Syria dropped before 2011 from 23 million people to into 17 million and you have millions displaced inside the country. It’s a country in ruin.” What’s left, Assad hopes, is a society that uniformly supports his rule.
Correction: Sept. 8, 2017, 2:36 p.m.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly referred to the death toll of the Syrian civil war as being in the millions. Around half a million people have died in the war.
Top photo: Syrians walk past a portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on April 7, 2017.
Mariam Elba[email protected]theintercept.com@mariamaelba
SWinWS
September 20 2017, 6:55 p.m.
Myopic juxtaposition, well done, Mariam Elba and Intercept Inc.
Vivek Jain
See Danny Haiphong’s excellent piece:
The Intercept’s Attack on the Oppressed is Why I Write
https://www.blackagendareport.com/intercepts-attack-oppressed-why-i-write
SWinWS Vivek Jain
This Intercept (hit) piece is total conflation: meant to stir misdirection within the Anti-war movement. I will continue to source my information from Black Agenda Report. Thank you, Mariam Elba and the Intercept for your continued/consistent reputation for spouting the narrative put forth by Empire and absolute lack of dissecting power structures and their modes to divide us into race and class.
There is no doubt that the Assad regime is authoritarian and did in 2011 responsd to peaceful protests with violence from his security police. But it’s also obvious that other forces in the region capitalized on this internal struggle and transformed it into a full blown civil war being carried out by proxies that have no interest at all in a truly democratic Syria.
The use of fundamentalist foreign fighters from several Arab and non-Arab countries has been well documented. So trying to draw an equivalence between Assad as an authoritarian figure and right wing elements in the US is an analogy that only works if you freeze Syria in time and also only see the Batthists in overly simplistic terms. Authoritarian equals authoritarian, so one is the same as the other. This is not only sloppy thinking but dangerous as well.
The Syrian conflict has shifted dramatical over the last five years and characterizing ‘good guys and bad guys’ is silly labeling, not analysis. The Russians are using Syria to maintain their only warm water port on the Mediterranian, but also to block Syria as a pathway for jihadists to infiltrate the Caucuses.
A little research will show that the CIA began just such an infiltration process in 1983 under then Director Casey. The US has no interest in Syrian democracy and this has been demonstrated by our totally ignoring the on the ground movements of the Arab Spring. Remember, we love elections, as long as they can be controlled, but we’re not to keen on popular democracy.
So support for, or opposition to Assad involves multiple, complex international forces, most of which frankly have nothing to do with the white nationalist movement in the US. Good journalism really requires better than this.
September 14 2017, 11:37 p.m.
I am curious to know why be made aware of the translation mistake which is the cornerstone of this piece, The Intercept has yet to post either a “Correction” or at very least a “Clarification”. I know for certain they have been made aware by e-mail, web board, and comment section. A search on Google will even yield knowledgeable and well thought out interpretations of the Assad speech in question. Very disappointed with the editorial staff for publishing this piece and for not being proactive concerning needed corrections.
Monolithic society? You are either a complete imbecile who knows nothing about the subject matter for which you are writing or a paid propaganda artist. Syria is one of the few places in the entire Middle East where secular religious and cultural practices can be exercised without fear of persecution. Or perhaps you prefer the monolithic “allies” like Saudi Arabia where homosexuals are butchered in public and women are brutally oppressed?
gazooks Robert
I’ll take both door #1 and #2 in combo imbecile and propaganda artist, Robert.
Now we have all the evidence we need to know for a certainty that the DoD and its commercial weapons dealer adjuncts in the senate have been arming ISIS since their CIA inception as provided by the Pentagon itself.
So, what exactly is this piece doing here at the Intercept? Why, it appears to be mere quid pro quo for CIA funding of the Intercept. Payback is a bitch, eh?
about the “expert” for this
The case of Radwan Ziadeh and the lies of Ambassador Robert Ford (the known Zionist propagandist for House of Saudi)
http://angryarab.blogspot.coml/2017/06/the-case-of-radwan-ziadeh-and-lies-of.html
goldhoarder
Is the interecpt becoming another neocon megaphone? http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/09/how-the-intercept-smears-syria-by-mistranslating-an-assad-speech.html
lidia goldhoarder
Just imperialist one, no matter what sort of imperialist.
Check their propaganda (“article”) on North Korea.
HippoDave goldhoarder
September 15 2017, 4:38 a.m.
Seems like it (p.s. I think a new term of “neolibcon” or “neoconlib” since both parties just love warmongering. And I love MOA, but “is MOA becoming another biased subjective bullshit site?”
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/09/the-rohingya-of-myanmar-pawns-in-an-anglo-chinese-proxy-war-fought-by-saudi-jihadists.html#more
Not nearly as pathetic as this article, but also not good. At all.
FreedomForAll
Umm. Glenn. What the fuck is this?
By the way of “Nazi salute” by Syrian children
One could google “FSA Nazi salute” and got some pictures. But I am not as ready as intercept to publish something I am not sure about.
Hal C
However, the oath of allegiance by the Lebanese army, and the salute to the flag utilizes the Roman salute – possibly influenced by Vichy France shortly before independence was officially gained in 1944 – still continues to be used by the state today. (Wikipedia)
At 0:06 here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBbYBZhbxpU
I hope someone is held accountable for making the decision to publish such bilge.
September 12 2017, 11:21 a.m.
Funny to read how the inhabitants of the country call themselves an exceptional nation surprised the manifestations of Nazism))))
Tahau
This article is full of crap! Immediately, it suggests the author is a Neo-Liberal/Neo-Con; which are indistinguishable. If Mariam Elba is saying that the recent liberation of Dir Ez-zor by the SAA and Russia, from a bunch of US Regime supported ISIS murderers, is an act of totalitarian terror; then she is either psychologically unhinged or she is being paid by one of those ‘Lobby Think Tanks’, sponging off the US taxpayer. This doesn’t even bode well for young people, especially women.
I can tell this young troll, that there are many Indigenous people around the World, who have cheered on Assad and the people of Syria. As Indigenous people of the Pacific here in New Zealand, Maori activists have seen the US Military Regimes colonial expansion turn to mush; thanks to its Indigenous populations. We also supported the ‘Standing Rock’ people; against the corporate stooges of the US Military Regime.
All amounts of propaganda by the West to demonize the people of Syria and Assad’s Govt, are starting to unravel. The so called ‘White Helmets’, have been exposed as a PR (made in the West) wing of the Al Qaeda Terror Network. The White Helmets presence at executions, have been dismissed. Their images are lies that Ms Elba and co, wish to pass off as real. Like the images of young Syrian boy Omran Daqneesh, who was exploited by the White Helmets for Western propaganda purposes. All phony, all fake and all lies. What a frigg’n joke! Its no wonder they got nominated for an Oscar.
There is an obvious disconnect between this unfortunate individual Ms Elba and the real World.
lidia Tahau
And do not forget Zionist colonizers of Palestine (and Syria) publicly preferring IS to Iran – all out of care for Syrians, sure.
HippoDave Tahau
Great post. And yes, I think folks like the Maori, the Rohingya, the Aborigines, Native Americans, innocent Syrians, Palestinians, can commiserate with each other.
Jewish people (some in Israel, more in the US) and Black Americans also commiserate. And I’m sure many others who have been subject to horrid persecutions. Indigenous people in Central America, Armenians, Cossacks, Romani, etc.
If you haven’t read Black Agenda Report, it’s authors are in solidarity with Palestinians, Native Americans, Syrians, Yemenis, and other folks under the thumb, killed and used by the millions, from Imperialism. Which didn’t end after the British, Dutch, Spanish empires. It just now wears a new face.
That photograph of the children doing the eerie salute. I’m assuming just like the swastika that hand and arm gesture had others meaning prior to amoral groups adopting it?? OR is the simpleton teen or young adult shown in the photo with the children really this brainwashed?
Zara Wendell
It’s the Roman salute, Wendell, not the Nazi salute.
FatDrunkAndStupid Wendell
The Roman Salute was a symbol of fealty in antiquity. Unsaid in that caption is the fact Assad’s army had recently saved all those women from almost certain death. So the adulation demonstrated is not exactly unwarranted.
Shame on the Intercept for printing such nonsense. Who the hell loves Bashar but the fact is that he still has the support of a large segment of the Syrian population. I am not a supporter of the leader but I support a secular type of government which the Baath party represents which by the way was founded by a Christian Arab let that sink in. It seems to me that since the US invasion of Iraq one secular Arab government after another has fallen only to be replaced with either a failed state or a more uniformly religious i.e. Muslim state and Bashar is the last hold out I suppose Miriam would like to see this happen in Syria as well. I’m sure she’d love to be in a hijab someday. I know that the Ba’ath government is seen by Christians as the protector of their survival which predates Bashar. Let’s see who would it serve for Bashar to fall and Syria to fracture well none other than the usual culprits Saudi Arabia, the USA, Israel, Turkey you get the picture. This article seems like a paper like something I might have written in a high school current affairs class rather than an aspiring serous and insightful news Web site. Oh and by the way I’m not a white nationalist but a secular left wing guy from the Middle East.
deschutes Allen
Great post. You hit the nail on the head when you said – “since the US invasion of Iraq one secular Arab government after another has fallen only to be replaced with either a failed state or a more uniformly religious i.e. Muslim state”. Bingo. That is Israel’s (and accordingly USA’s) main objective: to eliminate all Baath secular Arab regimes surrounding them and replace them with Balkanized, hyper-religious Muslim fiefdoms which are constantly at war with one another, posing no threat. Secular Arab regime’s like Assad’s must be eliminated as they are so much stronger.
GilG Allen
What happened to that Christian Arab that co-founded the Baath party?
Why does the “secular” gov’t not allow Christians to run for President?
Zara GilG
What the hell is wrong with you, Gil? Are you actually trolling people suggesting the Syrian government oppresses Christians?
GilG Zara
I asked two questions. I am suggesting that Allen only told part of the story about the Syrian Baath party and that the govt is not totally secular. Please explain how that is trolling.
cone of uncertainty
Conservatives, nationalists (i.e., anti-globalists, including white ones), are tired of adventurous, aggressive Bushes and Obamas and Clintons trying to wreck stable civilizations to create havoc.
The Intercept and the rest of the progressive left appear to want the latter.
Wendell cone of uncertainty
Sure, if they are for a segregated society/nation, they are more than welcomed to do so. These groups may have to find their own land (or Planet) to get started, because guess what?? They are severely outnumbered, if they or YOU think, you will forcibly take a nation meant for all races and and turn it into your own. You’ve had several centuries to do this and succeeded for some time… times up. Humdrum white nationalists, Neo-clowns, KKK losers, are on borrowed time . They will faded away, losing more influence and power in the coming decades. As for the non-white nationalists, separatist, anti-globalist, same thing (although I understand globalism can be bad in some instances). They might last longer but ultimately they to will phase out as well.
lidia Wendell
Yeah, as if Killary is ANY better than Trump. Libyans could politely disagree.
And, anyway, it is not “globalism”, it is imperialism, and Obama had not for nothing been named “the deporter-in-chief”
KKK are just small-time thugs, USA prezes are murdering wholesale all over the world and then calling it nice names.
Anyway, racism is just a side effect of colonialism – “founding fathers” ahd been colonizers, ethnic cleansers and slavers – so, naturally, they had been racists. Today’s imperialists need racism to murder non-white people without too much problem. Obama had also mass-murdered a lot of non-whites.
Only the end of imperialism(capitalism) will end racism. NOT imperialist lies and crimes.
Whendovescry
It’s just bizarre to me how many people, who clearly know next to nothing about this civil war on the other side of the planet, insist on picking a side. I suppose once your government gets involved you have a responsibility to educate yourself, but you don’t have to give yourself over to irrational tribalism. It seems that the Sunni majority never accepted the Alawite led dictatorship of the Assad family, but it also seems clear that had the Sunni’s won they would have put in place a brutal theocratic regime. It was basically a coalition led by National Socialists versus a coalition led by Jihadists. As is often the case, it was not a conflict of good versus evil, but a contest of lesser evils.
GilG Whendovescry
lidia GilG
No wonder that G the Zionist like a post full-chock of lies.
lidia Whendovescry
W started with the good advice to educate yourself, and then went on repeating the imperialist/Zionist propaganda.
The majority of Syrian army are Sunni, and they fight Wahhabi terrorists, supported by USA/GCC/Zionist colonizers of Palestine.
These Wahhabi murder not only Alawites, but also ALL non-Wahhabis, including Sunnis.
And also equates Syrian governments with Nazis (while USA/Zionist colonizers back very real Nazis, for ex, in Ukraine)
In short, W parrots stupid lies.
Whendovescry lidia
Team Assad Fan
The majority of the Syrian army are conscripts (led by mostly Alawite commanding officers) and it has suffered massively from defections which is why they were losing badly until the Iranians and Russian showed up to save them.
Team USA imperialists/Gulf Royals/Zionist colonizers of Palestine.
1) Proof for such claims (ie about mostly Alawite commanders)
2) Sure, and deserters were all because they did not liked Alawites, not by any other reason . And how “massively”? NN, please.
3) Syrian army had held several years against forces backed by USA imperialists/Gulf Royals/Zionist colonizers of Palestine and many others. Still, the majority of Syrians (and Sunnies) still lived in land under As’sad rule, because they fled “moderate” AQ and IS, if they were able. As’sad got support even from many of his former foes in Syria- ie liberals, after they saw what does “liberation” by AQ/IS meant. And now the great majority of Syrians hate USA and other backers of “moderate” AQ/IS.
4) Lies about Syria being =Hitler’s Germany still are lies.
It is a fight NOT of Sunni against Allawi, but USA imperialists/Gulf Royals/Zionist colonizers of Palestine, AQ and IS against the majority of Syrian people, other anti-Zionist resistance (Iran, Hezballah, Palestinian fighters) and Russia.
By the way, Palestinian fighters if they are Muslims all are Sunni, and they fight against “moderate” Zionist pals -AQ and IS
1)”The majority of the Syrian military are Sunni, but most of the military leadership are Alawites. Alawites make up 12 percent of the Syrian population but are estimated to make up 70 percent of the career soldiers in the Syrian Army.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Armed_Forces
2&3) The proof is they were losing badly for years to bunch of amateurs. No functioning national army could lose more than half the country if they really had the support of their people. I don’t care how much money the Gulf States were throwing at these people, that’s nothing compared to the overt aid rendered by the Russians and Iranians to prop up Assad.
4) I didn’t say he was Hitler, but Baathism is a form of National Socialism
1) “estimated” by whom? By the same “authorities” who gave us “Saddam WMD”?
2-3) “bunch of amateurs”? Armed, trained, promoted and helped by NATO and Zionist colonizers of Palestine? Sure, and I am a Queen of England
4) NO , Baathism is NOT a form of National Socialism. It is a typical anti-colonial nationalism with more or less leftist program. Nazis were a tool of imperialist/colonizing capitalism . Of course, real Nazis, like Ukrainian ones are celebrated officially and USA ruler had nothing against it.
You can’t argue with faith and you can’t tell someone who’s love that they aren’t…
W has NOT proved the propaganda lies he(?) had posted.
No wonder that W is trying to change the subject.
Zara Whendovescry
That wikipedia entry’s source on the SAA’s massive “defections” cites the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, whose mission is the following (bold mine):
Established in 1985,[1] the institute’s mission statement says that it seeks “to advance a balanced and realistic understanding of American interests in the Middle East and to promote the policies that secure them.”[2]
Also, that defector mentioned in the article who says he fled to Lebanon-how do we know he’s really Syrian? And where was this report filed from? It’s not clear whoever wrote it even set foot in Syria to talk directly to military officials.
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1670515/syria-increasing-efforts-build-military-after-substantial-loses
“No functioning national army could lose more than half the country if they really had the support of their people.”
Huh? The state did have quite a bit of support from the citizenry. Sharmine Narwani went to Syria in 2011 and she found that even some members of the opposition wanted the current government to remain in power, just with reforms and changes.
http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrian-snapshot-i-view-capital
“Baathism is a form of National Socialism.”
Hm. Wikipedia says Ba’athism is unrelated to National Socialism (Nazism). Are the Ba’athists scientific racists? Eugenicists? Backed by Wall Street and the British empire to take on the Soviets/Communists?
NO, they are not. Unlike the Nazis, who were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialism_(disambiguation)
You’re just making crap up and making lazy generalizations. And you’re also lecturing people about taking a side, when you obviously came here to troll us and spread lies that support one side. You should learn something about this conflict instead:
https://www.transcend.org/tms/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/RobRothSyriaPrimer-whats-really-happening.pdf
“…it seems…”
Based on what?
“…irrational tribalism…”
It is not irrational to side with the Syrian people when they’re the ones being attacked by the West, idiot.
Gladio Whendovescry
Just as the minority of israelis in Palestine murder the citizens of Palestine who protest against the jihadist leader of israelis. Perhaps your geniousity could explain how this identical situation is a lesser of 2 evils…
Whendovescry Gladio
Just another tribal conflict on the other side of the planet. The only reason I have to care is that members of one tribe have conned the American government into funding their brethren.
Another “knowledge” of W.
It is NOT a ‘tribal”, but a colonialism by Zionists (who are, by the way. NOT a “tribe”, but an ideology ) and resistance by colonized Palestinians, who resist colonization just like any other people had.
Holy goddamn hell, you’re a sociopath, aren’t you?
Greg Whendovescry
News Flash. Sunni’s make up the majority of the Syrian Arab Army. Bashar Al-Assad’s wife is is Sunni, this naive and divisive mentality is indicative of how ignorant you are of the conflict.
Red Frog
The Intercept – solidly in the camp of the governments of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Gulf States, Israel, the U.S. CIA, the U.S. All opponents of imperial intervention in Syria are not lovers of Bashad Assad. In fact, on the left, almost none are. But the policy of destroying another middle-eastern state by the U.S. has resulted in a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. Both refugee and death.
“Democratic” jihadis unite, you have nothing to lose but your place in heaven.
The Intercept – owned by an American billionaire, who has fooled 3 really good reporters – Scahill, Greenwald and Turse – into fronting for his site.
Zara Red Frog
If they were “fooled” by the obviously fascist Omidyar, they aren’t very good journalists, especially since others were not fooled at the time.
Now I don’t know about you fellow reader but I can only speak for myself, I have never seen any Syrian propaganda before in my life (though now I’m curious). However, I have seen endless amounts of anti-Assad propaganda from the Fake News mainstream media here in the United States. Where to begin?
I could go on but the message is clear: Assad is a big evil Bogeyman and the United States has to take him out. Where have we heard this narrative before? Iraq. After the Iraq War, let’s just say I am a little skeptical of this narrative. Also, how do we know that replacing Assad will be better for Syria? Look at Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan. Arguably, these countries are now worse off than before our intervention and nation-building.
deschutes Alejandro
Yes, you’re spot on: the idea is to make Syria just like Iraq or Libya, i.e. failed states controlled by extremist Muslim fiefdoms like ISIS, al-Queda, etc. Notice how the media, as in this article always demonize the target for removal, but never offer any replacement leadership. The country is left to dissolve into chaos and self-destruct. Seems that this is by deliberate design courtesy of USA, Israel, EU, etc.
Assad destroyed Syria? So, if a bandit broke into your house and made a chaos, that is you who is guilty? Is it the logic of the author?
Assad did nothing wrong, your article is poop-tier propaganda.
There are so many falsehoods and blatant inaccuracies in this Assad hatchet job hit piece is defies imagination. One obvious ridiculous claim is that Syria is, or wants to be homogenous: utterly, completely the opposite of what Syria is, i.e. a mixed bag of Christians and Muslims of different faiths. What’s more, you know this article is laughably bad when the author glibly cliams “IN SPITE OF the Assad regime’s track record of being the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war “… What? Says who? Says Ms. Elba nobody? No references, just a hollow bullsh!t claim. Might as well listen to Nikki Haley at the UN for other comical factoids pulled out of either woman’s backside. I mean, the USA, Saudi Arabia and Israel certainly don’t have anything to do with perpetrating Syria’s civil war….do they. No, of course not. Saudi Arabia? LOL!
As has been remarked upon by others, the Intercept is one odd duck of a ‘news’ website. Sometimes a good article pops up; but more often than not you come across a piece of sh!t like this turd hit piece by Ms. Elba, regurgitating the Russia is evil doer mantra along with Assad is now a neo-nazi. Jesus christ what nonsense propaganda. Ms Elba should find a new job methinks. Maybe Wendy’s is hiring smiling faces?
pretzelattack
this propaganda piece is getting trashed in multiple places, as it deserves. she is apparently basing it on mistranslating one word as homogeneity and then claiming that assad and white racists share the same concept, which would be extremely sloppy if it weren’t intentional.
Benito Mussolini pretzelattack
It’s sloppy, but there may be something to it. His name is an advertisement for the SS. A SS ad. You can’t get more Nazi than that.
Voice from Europe Benito Mussolini
How about NATO’s new headquarters ? An aerial view says it all….
Erich Mühsam
How’s Pierre?
Swisscheese
These threads uncovers the illogical arguments of most of commenters who come to TI. They start by questioning the author’s professional integrity and even her education. Then they attack her for writing what they disagree with.
When we (really two of us) push those commenters to refute the article by challenging the facts the author presents, they start talking about Zionism, Deep State, Israel, Palestinians etc. issues that have absolutely nothing to do with the article. Finally, a few explains that the sources used by the author are not credible. That could be a fair argument, but none of them could tell us which organization we should trust in handling and validating evidence of atrocities in Syria. We should not trust the evidence presented by the UN, Western powers, human rights groups or News organizations. So, who should collect, validate and present the evidence? None of them have an answer.I have that feeling those same commenters would trust the UN or any news organizations that present evidence of atrocities against Western powers.
So, basically they are just resorting to unnecessary exercises instead of clearly stating their view that atrocities from the enemies of Western powers should not be reported. At least a commenter have the courage to state it. His baffling argument is that it’s not “socially responsible ” to report on Assad because, although Assad is “bad”, he is an official enemy of the US. We still do not know how he would conclude Assad is “bad” without those types of articles since he does not trust Western governments reports, and I seriously doubt he has been to Syria.
lidia Swisscheese
S is lying one more time. The critics of this piece of imperialist propaganda pointed to many lies in it (starting with “millions” victims of As’sad), with the mistranslation of As’sad words used as a basis.
No wonder that S and G the Zionist are main defenders of this hasbara.
And when a well-know bordello owner claims some woman is not decent it is not very smart to believe in such “authority”.
And, of course, S lies too when claims that the position of us is “atrocities from the enemies of Western powers should not be reported”. Me, for ex, had named a source (anti-imperialist one) whose report I would believe.
We just say that the backers of imperialist/Zionist crimes are NOT credible and had been caught many times , and that their lies already had helped to start many imperialist wars and ruin many states.
Of course, G the Zionist defends this hit peace NOT because it could help to made Syria another Libya, but because G cares SO much about Syrians (who are victims of both Zionist colonizers’s crimes and crimes of their favs – AQ and IG).
swisscheese lidia
“S is lying one more time.”
There has to be a least a first time in order to use the term “one more time”
“Me, for ex, had named a source (anti-imperialist one) whose report I would believe.”
He is a professor who gives his opinion and analysis on political situations. That was not what I asked you. Let me ask again to the rational readers, not to you, because you are (like Gladio and Harrell) so full of nonsense that you cannot comprehend rational views.
1) Syrians accuse Assad for using chemical weapons on them. That is a serious crime.
2) Tell us who according to you guys, are supposed to collect, study, evaluate and present the evidence of that crime. And what kind of evidence would be necessary to prove such a crime.?
3) That’s set. (2) above is all I asked. I am not interested in your opinion of Israel, Palestinians, Zionists etc. I would like to know because according to you guys, the UN, Western governments, human rights organizations, global news networks are not credible. I am not interested in why you guys think there are not credible. I am not interested in what a political commentator thinks about Assad neither.
Bigby Suvins swisscheese
Let’s see where the UN, Western government, human rights organizations, global news networks also got things wrong (I mean…besides Syria). Perhaps Kosovo? Too long ago? How about Libya? That too recent and painful a memory? These are both excellent examples and proof that this has happened before.
The UN is only as strong as its internal opposition and outward leadership to oppose US control of the organization. Some administrations it is heavily US controlled, sometimes less so. This is not blanket condemnation of the UN, so don’t accuse me of that. Or sure, go ahead and do, but you know you are full of shit. The UN does do some great work and usually has good intentions, but consistency is not its strong suit.
And many human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights are easily duped and manipulated. Recently such groups were used as tools to enhance a more bellicose approach with Russia (2012 was a particularly bad year for such human rights organizations), but if you look at the history, many human rights organizations have gotten worse and worse since the end of the Cold War. They have strayed from their purpose of defending specific political prisoners and now often simply just condemn whole governments as being in violation of human rights. And they are very inconsistent about it. The United States government, a much bigger instigator of human rights violations than any nation on Earth, is mostly ignored but all of Syria and the Assad government is nearly universally considered human rights violators. Ditto Maduro in Venezuela (while the coup-driven opposition is ignored). We see the same thing with Milosevic in the former Yugoslavia (while any opposition was ignored even though it probably had greater crimes against humanity). China is another example, while Saudi Arabia is mostly ignored, or only occasionally brought to attention.
Another minor example to proves the point — Pussy Riot disrupts a church service (imagine that happening in this county — the reaction would be to put Pussy Riot to death) while being almost completely nude and screams obscenities to the audience. Now, I am sure Pussy Riot had some real points to be made, but getting nearly naked and swearing during church service ain’t the best approach. And of course they got arrested. The western circus media, with the help of Amnesty International turned this into a Russian suppression and Putin is a Nazi festival, even though the Pussy Riot protest had nothing to do with Putin and everything to do with the Russian Orthodox Church. The US and Amnesty acted as if Putin was the cause of the protest and that his reaction (he didn’t order the arrest, people) was indicative of how oppressive RUssia is and how they have so many political prisoners, like Pussy Riot. Now, once again, I like Pussy Riot. I also am not a fan of Putin. Just like I am not a fan of Obama or Trump. But, I like to try and be a little honest when I criticize a leader. Amnesty International, doesn’t seem to be on the same page as me. They were happy to go marching off with Hillary Clinton in demonizing Russia for any little thing possible.
And recently in Syria we have this story, reminiscient of the story of the iraqis pulling the plug of baby incubators in Kuwait — https://www.amnestyusa.org/reports/human-slaughterhouse-mass-hangings-and-extermination-at-saydnaya-prison-syria/
This story was easily picked apart by anyone with two or more brain cells. This was a propaganda piece, much like the White Helmets “saving the day stories.” Just follow the money.
swisscheese Bigby Suvins
Swisscheese:
“I am not interested in why you guys think they (UN, Western governments…) are not credible.”
“Let’s see where the UN, Western government, human rights organizations, global news networks also got things wrong”
You wrote a long comment about the point that I am not interested in. I have very serious questions for you:
Did you even read what I wrote? Or if you did, did you understand it at all?
Zara swisscheese
Why? How can you expect to discuss these things in good faith then?
Do you think these institutions are credible? Why?
swisscheese Zara
1) Because I do not have to have any interest in what you are talking as you do not have to have any interest in what I am writing. BUT I am willing to answer your questions if you answer mine. You have not answered my question:
WHAT ORGANIZATION SHOULD GIVE YOU THAT EVIDENCE?
2) You believe there are not credible. And?
1) “Syrians” could be bought or just Wahhabis and hate As’sad for other reasons
2) Not somebody who had given us such great “evidence ” of “Babies thrown out of incubators”, for ex. And NOT “Bellingcat” either.
3) And I have nice bridge to sell, all I ask is to believe me. And, unlike AI, I had NOT been caught lying about bridges for sale.
By the way, AI had not even apologized, they just “regretted” their leis, which helped to ruin a country.
Of course, S is lying when he says that there were NO arguments against this hatched job of an article.
And sure, S is not interested in anything relevant, because all what is relevant is against him.
Hitler accused communists of setting fire to Reichstag. S would NOT be interested in why Hitler could lie.
Dreyfus had been persecuted as a spy by the French army. S would NOT be interested to know who was Dreyfus and who were his accusers (and his defenders too).
In BOTH cases it had been NOT “proper authorities” who helped to defend these innocent people. They defenders were journalists, novelists, just common people. they had not believed the accusers, because they knew better. Unlike S.
GilG lidia
I think you should leave your personal life out of this and stick to the facts.
No one backed any Zionist crime. You repeatedly make this charge and have been challenged to back it up with evidence. I will not assume all Assad supporters lie just because you do Lidia. The claim of millions of deaths was corrected before I even read the article. There have indeed been millions of victims. That you would deny this only proves your lack of knowledge about the situation in Syria. As for the supposed mis-translation I have no idea if that is indeed the case. The only evidence given is a link to a twitter user who is anonymous.
I’m curious, where are you from?
G the Zionist could not refute my arguments, so he(?) turned to attacking my character. Usual for Zionsits, I have a lot of experience with hasbarists
Of course, G the Zionist has another “arguments” , ie lies as he breathes. “There have indeed been millions of victims.”
The mistranslation fact had been supported much more than “a link to a twitter user who is anonymous”
In short, G is a typical Zionist.
You didn’t present any arguments you just wrote a bunch of disjointed nonsense. There have in fact been millions of victims. Victims don’t only include those killed but those wounded or displaced. Regardless of who you have experience with you must lose a lot of arguments if you don’t understand basic things like that.
If you have another source for the mistranslation claim provide it. otherwise you have nothing.
Why are you so embarrassed to admit where you are from lidia?
I have to leave G the Zionist with his “There have in fact been millions of victims” claims.
Even among Zionist G is something.
Here is my proof the fact that you are unaware of this speaks volumes.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/number-syrian-refugees-passes-million-170330132040023.html
G the Zionist cannot read? Just being curious.
And the displaced Syrian fled because of NATO/GCC/Zionist colonizers crimes and crimes of their pals -AQ and IS.
As soon as AQ and IS is being booted out, Syrians return in mass – to live under As’sad, who this piece of propaganda calls a Nazi
“Almost 500,000 refugees return in 2017 – UN
The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says more than 440,000 internally displaced Syrians and about 31,000 of those who fled abroad have now come back.
Most of them have returned to Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus …”
All the places cleaned up by Syrian army and its allies.
There were over 5 million refugees, didnt they teach math where you grew up lidia.
The intercept bleeding credibility FAST holy shit what’s happened to them since trump? Smells bad, real bad
Kukulkan
Assad is The Lion of The Desert. He has cemented his place in History. Avirtual David vs Goliath. His Army is one of the most cohesive loyal battle hardened armies in the whole region equipped with modern hi tec weaponery which has been tested on the battlefield. His local enemies are worried. There is nothing not to admire. He and his struggle was utterly Demonized and dismissed by the MSM Fake News. Is he an angel a ” Gandhi”? no.. but he’s displayed courage steadfastness and an idomitable Will. Should we be so lucking in he west to have a leader like him.
@john anderson
i was hoping mona would jump in at this point
John, you’ve been active in the space where Greenwald writes for some 7-8 years, and had at one point stated you found his readers and supporters arrogant, or something along those lines. As a primary Greenwald supporter in the past, I guess I was a target of this critique.
Look below you. See how Gil G, swisscheese, and the obvious hasbara troll, Jack Green, have just run rampant here now, and almost all of Greenwald’s highfalutin (that is, intelligent & well-informed) readers who perturbed you are now gone. For myself, I won’t participate here very much at all any more.
Glenn has abandoned this site to corporate control and whatever Betsy Reed et al wish; whatever they want he goes along with and defends. Oh, his own work is still very good, but you won’t see him opposing the gross decline in commenting quality or article quality: He hasn’t the guts or honesty. These are things I should have recognized and said well before now. I did know, very well, he was capable of such immoral and blinkered behavior.
-Mona- -Mona-
Let me add this: This site, with Glenn’s full knowledge, permitted swisscheese to drive Sufi Muslim away. She’s a fine, intelligent and thoughtful woman, but that jerk would not leave her alone and was and is incapable or unwilling to understand anything she wrote.
She politely asked this swisscheese person to leave her alone, and he refused. Glenn and the powers that be would not ask that he do so, so it appears she has left. That is just one reason I now despise this site and what Glenn has let himself become.
Susan Bonn-Shea -Mona-
Mona-
So- you came back because why?/
Like the rest of us, dear Sufi could just change her nym once in awhile, and have some fun.
Oh, that’s right “wordz hurtz” in the crybully crowd full of “safe spaces,” where only they get to slander, malign, and play unfairly.
Or did you come back cuz this article that explains CLASSIC GANG STALKING cause and effect; practice and practitioners (on both sides)?
https://theintercept.com/2017/09/06/how-right-wing-extremists-stalk-dox-and-harass-their-enemies/
-Mona- Susan Bonn-Shea
CLASSIC GANG STALKING M
I am sincerely sorry for you. Most people holding your beliefs appear to have mental illness. Because I insist these are delusions you dislike my commentary. [shrug]
swisscheese Susan Bonn-Shea
Sufi Muslim -swisscheese
September 4 2017, 12:11 p.m.
I am sure you have a good sense of humor in real life, but here, I say, lighten up!
I mischievously needled you today to get a reaction out of you, and I succeeded.
There is nothing less or more to it.
Live your life joyfully and with a sense of humor.”
Slavior -Mona-
Fully agree. Longtime GG fan and intercept fan, but the change is undeniable. They started asking for money and maybe they saw that the money coming in had strings attached. Such a shame but its yet another example of the state of things.
GilG -Mona-
Ironically the actual meaning of highfalutin fits you and your sycophants to a tee, and just like a self proclaimed intelligent and well informed person to get it so wonderfully wrong.
Adjective[edit]
highfalutin (comparative more highfalutin, superlative most highfalutin)
(informal) Self-important, pompous; arrogant or egotistical.
Gladio GilG
i’m your huckleberry
-Mona- GilG
Your ad hom, non sequitur again detracts from what you, as a Zionist, will not face about the horror and violence YOU support: Zionism and anti-Semitism aren’t flirting. They’ve been in a committed, long-term relationship. Zionism is a disease and Zionist are racists who have slaughtered thousands. None of which has shit to do with the tragic betrayal Glenn has done.
My comment was neither a non sequitur,i commented on what you wrote, or an ad hom, i only called you what you called yourself. However your reply is both. Too too funny. You really are highfalutin Mona.
Swisscheese GilG
To come to a private organization and demand that a commenter who did not violate any rules be banned because another commenter does not want her arguments be challenged shows a matchless level of arrogance. Then, she exposes her irrational behavior by coming here continuously while thrashing the site, the authors’ private lives, and of course even the commenters who ignore her.
That commenter’s absurdity is not worth of the attention she scavenges for.
Gladio -Mona-
i will miss your participation as i have already
s.f.
-Mona- Gladio
Gil and swisscheese are lovingly now welcome here– Glenn Greenewald protects their participation and does not care, at all, about the loss of his many, many original supporters. (I have his emails abjuring us to go elsewhere, and his abandoning Sufi Muslim.)
As Gil glommed on to, Glenn lets us be regarded as “highfalutin” disposables. Isn’t that great and noble of such a faithful guy, who has no loyalty to those with him when he was small? Glenn is now beloved by such as Gil.
In the evolution of progress, the path diverged. I would challenge the shapers to ofer their perspectives for some debate here and see how the good people, the commenteers, respond. There is too much talent and too many professionals here to simply abandon.
Uh-huh. Reason dictates parameters, and you don’t seem included.
Humans who will destroy others without reflection should not be looked to for “evolutionary progress.” Glenn Greenwald destroys lives on a personal level — he cannot, literally cannot, look at or accept that. My moral error was failing to say so much earlier.
“Glenn Greenwald destroys lives on a personal level — he cannot, literally cannot, look at or accept that” Imagine that sort of behavior coming from an anti zionist.
so Im guessing he still won’t talk to you Mona.
Huh? Where did I say I love Glenn? Wow I not sure what this place will miss more, if you really ever go Mona, your propensity for telling lies or you repeated claims about what a big brain you have. Glenn didn’t let you be regarded as ” “highfalutin” disposables” you regarded yourself as such. Do you ever get embarrassed by what you write. Do yourself a favor Mona instead of taking that next drink just go to bed.
Do yourself a favor Mona instead of taking that next drink just go to bed.
A drink, Gil? Well, that would be nice if it could fix things.
But no, Glenn stole the money paid to me after a wrongful death suit when my son died. Alcohol isn’t going to fix that. But that’s just how he rolls.
I shut up about it for about a decade because he’s so damn good on issues I care about. That was a bad choice on my part. It left other vulnerable people with no warning.
And here you are, and others like you, taking over comments (and Betsy Reed running content above). He’s content with that because he never actually was about truth *if it got in the way of his goals. This I did really know from the outset when he began blogging, but kept it to myself, which I never should have done.
john anderson -Mona-
well my more or less constant finger pointing at those i deemed arrogant was in the context of commentary that was mostly intelligent and usually made sense, which is no longer the case here
-Mona- john anderson
Yes, I figured you thought that. As you know, I never called you a troll, and disagreed with those who did.
What’s happened here is regrettable. Glenn is still 95% correct and, frankly, a genius, in what he posts above the line. But as a human being he’s an asshole, throwing anyone under the bus to follow the path of least resistance, including a corporate path. This came home to me when, last fall, he pridefully explained that they got this site’s “social media director” from the Wall Street Journal. I mean, I didn’t even know what to say to THAT.
People change even as they remain the same.
HippoDave -Mona-
I can understand that. Near to taking this site off of my own list. This article is just so much lower than low it’s almost unimaginable for what this site claimed to start as. Completely ridiculous, no appreciation for actual facts, asserting things akin to “17 agencies agree”. Not just disappointed with this article, but any editor or e-i-c who would ever green-light it. Does such an editor here double as the editor of Kurt Eichenwald? If not how would one ever know, having green-lit this utter piece of shit article.
I’ve ignored within milliseconds any “Omidyar controls this site’s narratives” claims for years. Since, at least originally, it was “fearless”. But now–well I’m too tired to even also find any connection, or dismiss such.
But 1/20 or so “fearless” articles (and some of the long-form and numbered things are still good), or one GG a month about media manipulation (please take thine plank out of the thyne own eye, unless it’s in your contract to never criticize this site or any writers on it)? Might even be a lesser hit:miss ratio than a Salon or Huffpost. Or hell, Fox News or MSNBC.
Anyway, I’ve appreciated reading your posts over the years.
But sure, go go White Hats (Hussain). Destroy Assad (this shit) because White Nationalists love him for dubious reasons, and also who cares if the point is peace instead of WAR.
Do pedophilies love Assad? Next Intercept article–YES!! Look at these coincidences instead of objectivity!
Anyone who even acknowledges that Assad is a dictator, yet Syria is still a sovereign nation, will be next slammed as a white nationalist, or next a pedophile. Do serial killers love Assad? What a journalistic scoop if so!
Herschel L.
Heather Heyer was not killed by a car, she didn’t even get hit by one.
She died of a heart attack. She was a severely obese smoker, yet the media uses pictures that make her look barely overweight.
No Patience For Garbage
A shocking new low in what is allowed to pass for ‘journalism’ at The Intercept. The US, under Obama/Clinton/Kerry and its regional allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Jordan etc., bear full responsibility for the total destruction of Syria, half a million (at least) deaths, millions more lives utterly ruined and this salute to total ignorance and cheap propaganda is a profound disgrace to decent people everywhere.
Great defense. Are the Dreamers any worse off than they were before Donald felt compelled to punch down for a little love from his base. Yes they are. But what he did can be undone in a second. Has he bothered to undo it?
A reminder to everyone left of fascist: Donald betrays everyone if he feels like it. He is, and has always been, completely untrustworthy.
He declared open season on the Dreamers. The GOP got the message and Donald will never do anything to mitigate the harm he caused.
seedeevee
This is bad propaganda.
Joshua H.
This Elba character needs to be fired and shipped back to CNN/MSNBC where propagandists like her belong, and then Glenn Greenwald needs to write a proper journalistic article on Syria.
ChuckF
If author worries about ““homogenous” society”, she should rather turn her attention to countries like Somalia, India, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia or Sudan….
USA or Europe are the most diverse countries and societies that can be.
Has she really been worried about homogeneous ideologies she would turn to areas where it really exists, not attacking societies where it doesn’t.
Virginia Tilley
It’s extraordinary to read through this comment section – especially finding a desiccated old propaganda chestnut like “Zionists made the desert green” rearing its zombie head from the muck. The article itself is such a cheap piece of specious logic and cheap shots that it hardly deserves the more cogent responses here: I concur with those who’d expect to find this kind of thing in Breitbart News rather than The Intercept (although possibly it was included here as a kind of token gesture to those charging The Intercept with lack of “breadth” for not publishing this kind of tripe, the editors being fully aware that it was garbage and letting it suffer the inevitable denunciations as such). Otherwise, it may be worth noting what characterizes most of this comments section: the Manichean bias, ubiquitous in the West, to assume that that all conflicts involve a struggle of good against bad, that one side therefore has to be a good guy, and that if evil neocons are attacking someone or some regime then it must be that good guy. This is false reasoning. Two things can simultaneously be true: (1) the Asad regime is a nasty piece of work, long prone to torture and repression and extra-judicial killings (hardly a new discovery), and (2) if human rights are really the issue, then international efforts to overthrow that regime are objectively a far worse piece of work in killing hundreds of thousands and generating unprecedented refugee flows, smashing the ancient mosaic of the society probably past repair, and generally ramping up the scale of human suffering to a horrifying degree. It’s also not irrelevant that efforts to overthrow the regime threaten the whole UN Charter in blatantly violating international law, even under the dubious mantle of R2P (the “responsibility to protect” doctrine that waves the flag of humanitarian righteousness but whose real potential stands before us in the figure of smashed Libya). Finally, it takes only a broad appreciation of the region’s geopolitics and history to recognize how these US/Israeli-fostered efforts aim to reduce Syria to the status of Iraq – that is, a broken state that can pose no threat to Israel’s hegemony in the region, whether in limiting Israel’s parameters of action in southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights or by providing sanctuary and supplies to Hezbullah and Hamas. It was exactly that kind of dangerous maneuver that the Charter was written to preclude, so we must worry if it’s heading for the ash heap of history. I’d therefore suggest that principled observers can oppose Asad’s authoritarianism and denounce his human rights abuses (those actually documented, that is) AND oppose the neoconservative aims behind efforts at his regime’s overthrow. One doesn’t preclude the other. If the real question is whether the regime should “be allowed” to stand, that’s no debate, as international law provides no legal way to overthrow it. But defending Asad’s regime against illegal attack by nefarious forces need not extend to denying that it is one seriously ugly regime.
HippoDave Virginia Tilley
Your post just here should’ve been the actual above-line post. This particular author is either ignorant, so should try tackling things she knows about first instead of vomiting forth mainstream lies and propaganda; or cognizant so trying to push forth a BS narrative. Either way–imo the utter worst article this site has ever produced. It’s almost the opposite of what good journalism is supposed to be about.
Judith Miller would be touched. Maybe there should be an award for this type of “journalism”.
Against the intent of the New World Order
One point should be differentiated and cleared. Western powers have created the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the offshoot. have armed them, and financed them under false pretenses as ” supporting the rebels” and then for 6 years with the accumulative force of the west, navy, air, and ground, claiming to be fighting ISIS when public opinion turned against the so called “rebels”, although with this infiltration ISIS grew more in power and areas in Syria and Iraq lost regions to them, until the direct penetration by Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah.
Now comparing the Assad government to those of the western backed “False rebels” ISIS, and Al-qaeda affiliates, clearly defines the difference.
This article is dressing and generalizing this war and this western interference as the fault of the Assad government. Then comparing and tying the resistant axis to those who represent racism, poorly educated, and hate criminals while white washing the western crimes in this war.
The Assad government is not the bell of the ball, but Syria before the war had all religious factions, Christians and all their different dominions, Muslims and their different dominions living in peace and away from danger. This should be taken in consideration.
The difference is clear. from Western backed genociders, and thuggery in the name of religion versus an iron fisted ruler that the country flourished and was in peace ( take in consideration the west has sanctioned Syria for more than 40 years).
What has the Intercept become?
It was a beacon of real news and a thorn in the side of US foreign policy ambitions and now it’s nothing more than this leftist opinion cum rag.
“White supremacists support an Alawite Muslim Dictator that allows for a secular multi-cultural society because of Syrian propaganda.”
Where is Glen Greenwald?
Like, what the fuck is going on?
deschutes Jesse
Indeed. This is easily one of the most disingenuous, crap hatchet job articles to show up here in a long time. Mariam Elba is really, really bad.
Take a look around: I’ll bet you can find this article on other “news” sites like-
-National Review
-Drudge
-Weekly Standard
-Council on Foreign Relations
So much for the Intercept being a ‘Left’ or liberal news website :-D
We are talking about an Islamic nation here. Assad runs a secular regime. The alternative is something like al Qaeda. The neocons and DC don’t give a damn about these people, it’s all about the continuing campaign of world domination and destruction.
Assad is the ideal BiggerHammer to get things done his way– the bottom low for leadership and abuse of the public trust. No accountability, lots of control, no reason ability, no decency, no fairness, lots of power and funds, no honesty, no care for anyone else, just kill and kill and kill– the epitome of what every mean person aspires to.
lidia Roch
R’s rant is the ideal parroting of USA imperialist propaganda. No accountability, lots of control, no reason ability, no decency, no fairness, lots of power and funds, no honesty, no care for anyone else, just lie and lie and lie to whitewash USA imperialist/GGC/Zionist colonizers of Palestine mass-murder.
And, of course, who needs facts, when R and others are ready to repeat such righteous nonsense
What a disgraceful piece of war-mongering propaganda. Fake news at its worst. Mariam Elba should be fired IMMEDIATELY.
photosymbiosis
This, another in a long line of BS neoliberal pieces published at the Intercept, has drawn some interesting responses – not just idiotic, it’s also dishonest:
While the white supremacists in the U.S. and elsewhere want a society where one race (and its dominant religion) rules supreme, the Syrian president called for the opposite. A society that is non-racist and non-sectarian. The homogeneous aspect of that envisioned society is its common rejection of racism and sectarianism. Assad essentially called for “e pluribus unum”, the opposite of what white supremacists want to achieve.
The radical (willful?) misinterpretation of Assad’s speech in the Intercept is in line with other propagandist claptrap in U.S. media. It is highly opinionated nonsense based on the factually false translation and interpretation of a speech, which expressed the opposite of what the Intercept author asserts.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/09/how-the-intercept-smears-syria-by-mistranslating-an-assad-speech.html
Time to move The Intercept over into the dancing PR monkey bin, I think. American media in general, across the entire spectrum, is hitting rock bottom these days. It’s turned into a wholesale plutocratic enterprise devoid of honest analysis, historical context, and factual basis.
Voice from Europe
What worries me more than the few crazy people described in this piece, is the fact that readers of the Intercept are confronted with such pieces of delusional worldviews by socalled ‘journalists’. It all smells so much of total brainwashed activism camouflaged as freedom of speech.
Why don;t U do an expose of your boss, that Pierre guy of EBay fame and show us all the ‘color revolutions’ he’s donated money to?
BTW, still waiting for that Ed Snowden info on Israel, but I understand you don’t want to PO your close buddies!
Nete Peedham Catman
Go to the search function here. Search “Israel”.
Steve McMahon
“a small inaccuracy can save hours of explanation.” — Saki
I’m gay and I am a big fan of Glenn Greenwald, I would even go as far as say I have a crush on him, I would follow him into the bowels of hell to fight the army’s of hell, but this article is psyco and It’s obvious that there is something wrong with Mariam Elba. I never dreamed as a gay person that I would be labeled a white nationalists. I guess this is what it’s come to. Dear Intercept, this place is a mess you need to clean this crap up it’s all over the place.
GilG It's Me
Just curious. Why do you think you have been labeled a white nationalist?
Alan1917 GilG
I think what he means is that he supports Syria’s right to defend itself from the US-backed Islamic terrorists and/or US-backed, supposedly moderate “rebels” trying to overthrow the (secular) Syrian government with the support of a massive US aerial bombardment campaign launched by Obama and continued by Trump, despite earlier suggestions that he would abandon it.
Assad is Syria’s (elected) head of state, and thus responsible for national defense. You don’t have to be a Nazi to believe in a semi-colonial country’s right to defend itself from imperialist terror, and in fact, if you look at the track record of most fascist movements and regimes, you will see that in general, sooner or later, they support imperial terror and are inspired by it. That’s one of the facts that makes Mariam Alba’s article so uniquely depraved, and I think “It’s Me” would mostly agree with that assessment, and is alarmed, as I sort of am, to see Glenn Greenwald’s name being dragged through the mud by association with a news source that would publish something like this. Of course, the Guardian publishes plenty of imperialist propaganda, and Greenwald used to write for it, but somehow that wasn’t the same. He was just an employee there, and the Guardian existed long before he was even born, whereas The Intercept is new, and its reputation thus far has been about 80% built on Greenwald’s prestige. Laura Poitras is a part of this picture as well, but she seems to have already sold out on her own with her recent smear job on Wikileaks…
GilG Alan1917
Thanks for the reply Alan but even if what you suspect It’sMe meant by his comment none of what you wrote explains how anyone labeled him a white nationalist. The article doesn’t claim Assad is a white nationalist. It’s main point is that Assad seems to have attracted a bunch of white nationalists to his cause. I am hoping you put the words elected and secular in parenthesis because both terms are questionable as it applies to Assad and Syria.
As for Greenwald’s name being dragged through the mud, who is doing the dragging? As for imperialist propaganda, are the pro Russia articles imperialist propaganda? And why is propaganda no matter where it comes from acceptable?
Also, if It’sMe is a gay man as he claims, I wonder why he supports a ruler in whose country homosexuality is crime.
Maybe because by Syrian law (usually such laws are “heredity” of colonizers, by the way) a gay man could(!) be sentenced to 3 years in jail. But It’sMe is aware “moderate rebels” (IS and AQ) are sure welcome gay man and treat them much better!
Of course, during the times (not SO long ago) when gay men had been prosecuted in Western imperialist states, a lot of gay men defended imperialism and served in imperialist armies.
Why does it need to be a zero sum game? Why can’t one be opposed to both Assad and IS? While some laws may have been left over from colonial days very doubtful that this one is. It more likely the result of Islamic law being the basis of Syrian law.
1) G the Zionist, amid other lies, lies about my position
I said before that there are people who are anti USA imperialism/GCC/Zionist colonizers and their puppets AQ and IS AND against As’sad.
2) Of course, such people do not believe in propaganda of USA imperialism/GCC/Zionist colonizers and their puppets AQ and IS
3) As a matter of course, I have found this “article” by link of the blog of one of such people – the Angry Arab aka As’ad Abukhalil, and it was not recommendation, but a ridicule.
4) A LOT of such laws in many states are left over from colonial rulers.
“The majority of the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations, formerly known as the British Commonwealth, still criminalise sexual acts between consenting adults of the same sex and other forms of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.
This has been described as being the result of “the major historical influence” or legacy of the British Empire. In most cases, it was former colonial administrators that established anti-gay legislation or sodomy acts during the 19th century and even earlier. The majority of countries have retained these laws following independence.”
I wasn’t quoting what you said. I asked why it had to be a zero sum game and why one can’t be against both.
I know English is probably not your first language, you still have not admitted where you are from, but I in no way lied about your position.
You continue to use slander as the basis of your attacks on my position. Is this something they team in school where you are from.
G the Zionist “asked” without reading my stated opinion. I would call it being lazy. Or being a liar. And it is a fact, not a “slander”.
Yes, English is not my mother tongue and also not my only one. I know better or worse 3 more.
You think asking a question is lying? Sorry but the country where you received your education should be as embarrassed about their educational system as you are about admitting where you are from.
lidia Alan1917
You are talking to a Zionist. Zionism is a settler colonization of Palestine (and Syria too). So your anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist arguments would be futile.
HippoDave It's Me
Not gay but have an intellectual crush on GG for his past work. His recent work? I forget the excuse he made for not posting as much (writing a new book?)
But he’s a founder, even if not currently an editor (?) of this site. This article is completely totally psycho as you note. Even if breach of contract anyone such as GG should put $ lost if such a breach behind integrity.
Agreed, total mess. I think the clowns are now in control. Maybe if I write a nice essay about how Turkey is soooo good and the Armenian Genocide never happened I’d be hired too. Standards are apparently out the window. Truth–bye bye. Anything can be published here, with zero push-back by the Editors or Founders or anyone. Completely fucking ridiculous. Complete abandonment.
And I still think GG may still be intellectually honest, even moral. His silence about terrible articles on the own site he co-founded though? Big, big “hmmmm”. Big “why not write a comprehensive article skewering the other shitty ass writers here”? Why not? Champion of puncturing bad media, yet this is his own dream of such, yet no criticism?
If GG ever writes an article about WHY he didn’t, now, or in past, write such an article, it would be an octopus of bad logic. Or of course, just selfishness, which would justify everything. But as a supposed logician not concerned with money? No. And SHAME.
Whatever GG, dude. $$ or a contract more important I guess. Please retweet this article GG with “oh so cogent!” or retweet with “these views do not reflect the Intercept” or whatever legalese which doesn’t include you’re actual thoughts (assuming even that you have a problem with this article).
Canis Impetum
What a load of steaming crap. This is the dumbest thing I’ve read this week.
Jerome Fryer
“Assad’s authoritarianism uses the same buzzwords as the far-right to describe the society he’s trying to build in his own country — a pure, monolithic society of devotees to his own power.”
This is totally untrue. Assad’s government are, with foreign backing (mostly from Iran and Russia), taking back parts of Syria overrun by groups aspiring to this. Syria was, and will remain under Assad, a secular country with a diverse society.
Then this fabrication gets linked to American neo-Nazis? That is insane.
The author of this propaganda piece should be ashamed, as should The Intercept for publishing it. This really is a new low.
At least try to separate opinion pieces from journalism — not everyone needs someone telling them what to think.
metni
After some considering a few past articles which sounded like msm blather, this wtf piece has the familiar miasma of neocon spin it has convinced me to cancel my subscription to The Intercept. Even Mr. Greenwald whose past insight was so refreshing, seems to have been compromised.
Nete Peedham metni
You were wasting your time here anyway. “Neocon spin”?
You failed reading comprehension.
metni Nete Peedham
Your gratuitous blather reveals the lure of trolling is beyond your ability to control.
Dex Triumph
According to the article the Alt-right rejects “Cosmopolitanism, with diversity in political thought…”
This is the most laughable statement in the entire article.
Today’s cosmopolitans reject any thought that do not conform to their extreme left wing views. They call for safe spaces from thought, try to prevent rallies of other political thought holders, ban websites with non-conformist views.
As a good piece on this article on Altright. com pointed out, the author thinks that the Alt-right wanting “a healthy and homogenous society” is evil and Hitlerian. I assume then that she thinks the societies of the Japanese, the Chinese, the Koreans are also evil. Of course I understand her thinking: Every country can remain homogenous except White countries.
There is a twitter with responses on this “article” I suppose it could be interesting
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/906509239375552512
Alan1917 lidia
Thank you, Lidia! The discussion you linked to and the discussion in this comment section here are both so much more insightful than Elba’s rant of plagiarized imperialist hysteria that I am starting to really wonder about The Intercept.
My impression was that it was created to be some sort of cutting-edge news source that goes where the Guardian no longer dares to tread, a last bastion of free speech for those in the know, and yet here it proves itself equal to the Washington Post, but without offering even the reassurance that you are at least getting the official lies straight from the mouthpiece of the CIA. Publishing stuff like this on an obscure site like The Intercept… It just makes no sense at all!
rs lidia
Many thanks for the link….is being read by my friends and colleagues who were horrified when they saw the title of the article and read its contents….. still can not believe this on The Intercept!
lidia rs
you are welcome. Not surprise that the most keen defender of this “article” is a Zionist. After all, Syrian army and its allies are just booting out the darlings of Zionist colonizers – AQ and IS.
Wow Intercept, what happened to you? I am incredibly sad this story is spewing the same propaganda the mainstream news used to portray what is going on in Syria is a civil war, when its really a foreign instigated conflict waged under the cover of a civil war. Am very disappointed.
Joe Shmoe
Syria under Assad is diverse. Where do these interventionists suppose all these Yazidis, Christians, Alawites, Assyrians and Circassians came from? All the fighting rebels are Sunni Islamists that are completely intolerant to these other Syrian identities. The rebels are the ones slaughtering Syria’s minorities. Assad isn’t pushing for a “pure” and homogeneous Syria. That would be the Islamist Rebels who seek a theocracy. Assad supports secularism and has overseen a relatively pluralist state.
jsinton
Frankly, I could care less. Assad has been in an existential battle against the forces aligned against him, with the US orchestrating the Zionists, the Saudis, and other assorted guardians of evil. Your reference to the “barrel bombs” thing leaves me to wonder how you feel about nice expensive bombs made in US and dropped on women and children in Yemen. Your time would be better spent trying to convince the US to pull out of Syria, where it has no justification or legal right to be, instead of smearing the alt-right and Assad in the same blow. Who are you trying to help, anyways? The headchoppers? Neocons? Fascists Zionists? Give me a break.
This article is absolute nonsense. Sorry, but when you talk about Assad and Syria, you should be talking about heterogeneity and the mosaic of cultures and religions that have been nurtured and have thrived.
I don’t know where the Intercept finds these commentators or why it is doing such a wretch job on more and more of these issues.
I used to look forward to reading Greenwald’s work, but now I read his journal with deep skepticism.
Naseer Ahmad
Congratulations on making The Intercept even more irrelevant than it already is. Syrian children giving the “Nazi” salute? Your editor should be ashamed.
Nete Peedham Naseer Ahmad
USA under Obama/Clinton bangs war drum against Assad. Trump comes in and shows sympathy to Syria. Nazis support Trump. Russia is sympathetic to Syria.
I can understand stuff like this happening very easily.
Anthony N Nete Peedham
Trump came in and demonstrated sympathy to Syria how? By bombing its airbases?
synecure Nete Peedham
You sound a tad like an apologist for this pathetic story. “Trump…shows sympathy to Syria”. Really? Maybe you should switch to analyzing news on Candy Crush blogs.
Zara Nete Peedham
You’re a dumbass not paying attention engaging in apologetics for yet another dumbass (Elba) who’s not paying attention (or lying).
From the NYT on the death of Hafez al-Assad (bold mine):
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/11/world/hafez-al-assad-who-turned-syria-into-a-power-in-the-middle-east-dies-at-69.html?mcubz=0
“The bloodless power grab he staged in November 1970 brought stability and the first modern construction of roads, schools and hospitals. Mr. Assad followed the Soviet model…”
Also…(again, bold mine):
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/the-real-defenders-of-democracy-syria-and-the-struggle-against-the-international-despotism-of-wall-street/
“For over half a century, Syria has been governed by the Baath Arab Socialist Party, which is guided by the party’s motto of unity (of the Arab world), freedom (from Western domination), and socialism (in contrast to Washington’s preferred paradigm of free enterprise, free markets and free trade.) The party presided over the drafting of Syria’s constitutions, which mandate government ownership of the commanding heights of the economy and a significant role for government in the guidance of the economy, i.e., socialism.
Ba’ath Arab Socialists have been seen in Washington as “Arab communists” [9] and the state they lead as “socialist Syria.” [10]
Or are you one of those nimrods who thinks communism/socialism=Nazism?
G-Rome Nete Peedham
Trump ….”sympathetic to Syria”? You’re either delusional, ignorant or an inept apologist for this lousy story.
GilG Naseer Ahmad
Shouldnt it be the adults who taught the salute that should be ashamed?
Shouldn’t G the Zionist be ashamed of many Zionist crimes, including, of course, support for real(!) Nazis, like today’s Ukrainian rulers whose troops include quite open Ukrainian Nazis?
But, of course, being a Zionist means one does not need to be ashamed
I havent defended any Israeli crimes. I havent taught any little kids a Nazi salute. What do you think I should be ashamed of?
G the Zionist just does not see any Zionist crimes. G is too busy caring about Syrians (not because of Zionist crimes against Syria, of course)
By the way, today’s queen of England had BEEN taught the real(!) Nazi salute. (There is a film )
Unlike what G the Zionist calls “Nazi saute” by Syrian children.
I said I haven’t defended any of Israels crimes. I did not say there weren’t any.
Is it that you don’t read English well or are you just obtuse?
G has said that he(?) is a Zionist. Of course, Zionists always try to spin the truth, and to attack the opponents, because they could not admit the simple facts – that Zionism is a settler colonization of Palestine, with all crimes usual for colonialism.
Zara Naseer Ahmad
And it should be pointed out that’s the Roman salute, not the Nazi salute. The Nazi salute has the arm completely rigid motioning upward, the Roman salute allows for the arm simply to be extending straight out, not up. You can see some kids in the photo with their arms simply extended forward.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-the-Roman-salute-and-the-Nazi-Fascist-salute
It’s not the kind of thing most people are aware of; thought I’d mention it.
My conclusion from this piece is that the Deep State tentacles have reached inner body parts of The Intercept.
Amazing, I do not expect such a neocon assassination piece from the Intercept. But I guess I was wrong.
Presumably the author would have preferred that Assad was not helped by the Russians or the Iranians so that Syria could not be in the hands of ISIS an AlQaeda. Great job.
Where is Ms Iona Craig? She should be writing about Syria!
At first I thought the author was just deluded. Then, when she quoted the words of cretinous Alexander Reid Ross, I realized she is actually quite insane.
GilG EdG
Mr. Ross looks like he has solid ant facist cred. What is it that you think make him cretinous?
I am Assyrian. I am a supporter of President Dr Assad. I want you to get your troops out of my Freaking country. We don’t want you there! Stay out! You’re the terrorists that are destroying our country with every dollar you gave the terrorists.
Take this news from an Assyrian. And stay the hell off my land.
And no. I’m not white. My People are related to Israel and The Arabs in terms of Genetics. So non of the “Nazi” bashing will be accurate.
blimbax
I used to think much more highly of The Intercept, even though I did not agree with the political orientation of some of its writers. The articles seemed to be based on facts.
But this piece is an embarrassment. It is drivel. What on earth has happened to The Intercept? Does it no longer have standards? This “article” really ought to have been published in the New York Times, a publication known for slanted, factless opinion pieces passing as “news” articles. Indeed, the guilt-by-association element of this article, which forms its core, is very much the stuff that NYT and WaPo articles are made of.
Blambix blimbax
Look up the owner of theintercept.com
So, Assad = white supremacists in Charlottesville, so time for regime change?
It is as if people are losing their minds. Forget the idea that he is fighting ISIS and al Qada, but hey, I guess women, gay, etc rights only count in Western countries.
Propaganda nice to see the author of this article using Hitler’s strategy.
Sillyputty
This piece is simply a regurgitation of one written on this Alt-right-Assad-bro theory almost a month ago on August 14 in WaPo.
Is this what The Intercept is becoming? A rehash of mainstream articles already in existence, yet done more poorly? .
Erelis Sillyputty
Whoa. Seems these articles come out in rush everything the Syrian military is close to critical victories. Man, rehash is is right.
liam Sillyputty
Greenwald and company have lost their moral compass. Obviously they know about all the Deep State and media colluding propaganda ploys being used against Syria…..like Bana Albed, the White Helmets, the FSA being al-Nusra Front terrorists….they make not a mention of it in this ‘article’. This is absolutely disgusting reporting. Those terrorists sawed the head off a 12 year old boy last summer. Do folks seriously think Greenwald had no idea what that was all about. This article ignores all that and instead looks like the crap that Langley might pay a fresh out of school student to write. Heck she had the death count off by half a million people. That, in itself, is shameful.
rs Sillyputty
From WaPo……
In a video posted on Twitter, three men who participated in the Charlottesville protests hailed Assad’s use of barrel bombs to subdue communities that turned against him. One is wearing a T-shirt that says: “Bashar’s Barrel Delivery Co.”
During the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally several weeks ago in Charlottesville, Virginia, Baked Alaska, an infamous far-right YouTuber, livestreamed an encounter with a demonstrator wearing a T-shirt that read “Bashar’s Barrel Delivery Co.”
Just a coincidence??
Benito Mussolini Sillyputty
Sometimes you can replant a propaganda meme, and it will germinate in new, more fertile soil. It has been difficult to generate new enthusiasm in the US public for regime change in Syria, after the somewhat mixed results of regime change in Iraq and Libya. Antifa, however, might be persuaded to fight the fascists in Syria. The Washington Post is probably not a good conduit to antifa, but based on the comments, The Intercept doesn’t appear to be either. The only people expressing enthusiasm for the article are a few neocons who long ago were already sold on the idea of a war in Syria.
For this reason, I don’t think the CIA had anything to do with this article. Part of what makes propaganda effective, as the CIA knows very well, is the bond of trust between the author and the reader. The author should start by writing a couple of articles that pander to prejudices of the readers. This convinces them the author is on their side. Then, and only then, you plant the propaganda meme. If you fail to do the groundwork, the readers may rebel, and the article has the opposite effect to that intended.
Therefore, I can only conclude the author is an amateur, clumsily trying to do her own propaganda. This only makes things tougher for the professionals. So I hope in future, the Intercept will stick to publishing articles that have been approved by the CIA.
john anderson Benito Mussolini
as a fellow amateur i really wonder what this author is trying to accomplish
it’s one thing to slag on russia for fun but quite another to promote regime change with anything less than a major tv network on board
sure antifa might be recruited but without drugs and sex ops it’s a futile undertaking
Benito Mussolini john anderson
I agree totally. I recommended The Intercept run this through the CIA for a reason.
Are you sure you’re an amateur?
J. Spicoli Benito Mussolini
Rank (adj), “amateur”..
Johnny Turdburgla’ was the postman who got caught ‘meadow muffing’ the hedges of a private residence out in the great PacNorWest..
https://youtu.be/dTc_ax5f4Q4
john anderson J. Spicoli
untrue … i was arrested for living in a house i didn’t own, which was plead down to a misdemeanor
everyone makes mistakes, however taking a dump in someone’s yard was not one of mine … why you’re hanging on to that stupid news story for so many years is weird to say the least
also, i was a government analyst not a postman … rrheard was the postman, before he became a lawyer
I looked into Asad and his war crimes. When you read about his war crimes, there is a lot ominous implications and foreboding but little in terms of actual specific crimes and very little when it comes to actual numbers.
Crimes that are actually pinned down actually pretty mild even when compared to our bombing during Vietnam war where we deliberately targeted hospitals
There is a Wikipedia article on list of massacres during Syrian civil war. This is the list of massacres by all sides, it seems to include millitary as well as civilian casualties. It also includes cases where civilians died but may not have been specifically targeted.
Assad got a lot of blame on for chemical attacks and this was widely reported and hyped. Later investigations quietly absolved Syrian government for chemical attacks, but this was not reported in the US, leaving people with mistaken impression that Assad gassed his own people.
Don’t get me wrong, Assad is no angel. But for a dictator, Asad is not that bad. Here are some crimes that I found:
Early in the war some militias associated with Syrian government committed some atrocities against civilians. As far as I can tell, the number of victims is in low hundreds.
Syrian government forces have targeted civilians for bombing, but it is unclear how much because media in the US treats any use of a barrel bomb as some sort of horrible crime. Barrel bomb is just a primitive bomb dropped out of the helicopter. There is nothing especially heinous or horrible about barrel bombs vs. some other.
There are reports of Syrians government arresting and torturing people. The number of those is in tens of thousands.
Swisscheese Mirza
“Later investigations quietly absolved Syrian government for chemical attacks”
What investigations absolved Syrian government for chemical attacks?
J. Spicoli Swisscheese
I have yet to find evidence to substantiate said claim, but if true, here’s hoping that they weren’t the same investigations that accused the Syrian Government of using ‘chem weapons’, on a hunch..
Swisscheese J. Spicoli
What evidence would you accept?
1. Truthful evidence.
2. Any organization that provides number 1.
What the hell is “truthful” evidence? Pictures? Videos? Signed documents? Eyewitness statements? Medical reports?
Well, a better way to ask the questions is:
What would make a former Syrian government official statement truthful?
What would make medical reports confirming that chemical weapons have been used truthful?
What would make pictures from Syrian prisons scientifically proven to be real truthful?
What would make retrieved Syrian government documents truthful?
re: “What would make..”
1. Validated evidence.
2. See above.
3. See above the see above.
4. See above the see above the see above.
Spicoli: accept only truthful evidence. Truthful evidence means evidence that is validated. Validated by whom?
Who must validate the evidence to make it truthful?
Individuals claim chemical weapons have been used on them. Doctors in the area performed tests on those individuals and concluded that chemical weapons have been used on them. Who must validate the doctors’ findings in order to use the doctors’ findings as “truthful” evidence that chemical weapons have been used on those individuals?
(According to many commenters here, validation from the UN, AI, HRW, and many international news organizations cannot be used. Hence why I am asking)
Eric Gregory Swisscheese
Actually, there was plenty of dissenting opinion on the veracity of the story that Assad was responsible for the attack. Thing is here on the US, where search results on Google are scrubbed or deprioritized so as to for the narrative our deep state wants you to believe, you have to know what you are looking for to find it. And I do.
First off, you have to be able to remember that this is exactly the same narrative that was tried in 2013 and was admitted to be completely false. But Americans aren’t good at that remembering thing, look how easily we forgot that we were less into the Iraq war.
Another, most obvious reason to doubt that Assad committed this gas attack was: why the hell would they do the one thing that could endanger the sure path to victory that they were on, with U.N.chemical weapons due to show up and, up till the attack, very successful peace negotiations under way? And no, “Assad is just a horrible monster” is not a valid answer, it is a stupid answer.
Beyond that, seymour hirsch, who blew the lid off the fraudulent 2013 accusations, and Ted Postol, MIT Professor emeritus in weapons science and technology, both cast the second attack into serious doubt. Here are numerous sources:
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/seymour-hersh-casts-doubt-on-aprils-syrian-gas-attack/I
https://americanfreepress.net/seymour-hersh-assad-innocent/?print=print
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-19/mit-scientist-debunks-false-flag-nerve-agent-attack
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-chemical-weapons-attack-in-syria-is-there-a-place-for-skepticism/
https://amp.ibtimes.co.uk/mit-expert-claims-latest-chemical-weapons-attack-syria-was-staged-1617267
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2017/04/66712.html
Swisscheese Eric Gregory
That is a long comment without answering the question:
What organization should bring the evidence?
Mirza Swisscheese
I looked into it again, and I guess I was wrong about Syrian government being absolved (although Russian investigations did absolve them), but UN reports that I saw did not assign blame.
“UN reports that I saw did not assign blame.”
Are you sure? This the last UN report:
“Government forces continued to deliberately target civilians, including through the use of chemical weapons against civilians in opposition-held areas. As part of an aerial campaign in northern Hama and southern Idlib, on 4 April the Syrian air force used sarin in Khan Shaykhun, killing over 80 people, most of whom were women and children. The aerial campaign also targeted medical facilities throughout the area, resulting in a severe weakening of their ability to provide assistance to victims of the sarin attack and a consequent increase in the number of civilian casualties. In Idlib, Hamah, and eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syrian forces used weaponized chlorine. These attacks constitute clear violations of international humanitarian law and the Convention on Chemical Weapons, the report notes, which the Syrian Arab Republic ratified in 2013 following a previous sarin attack.” 2017
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22030&LangID=E
And another in 2016
“The Panel found what it described as “sufficient evidence” of three cases of chemical weapons use – two chlorine gas attacks on civilians by the Syrian air force, and another use of “sulphur-mustard” gas by the terrorist group ISIL, or Daesh – in Syria between 2014 and 2015.” 2016
KB Swisscheese
The UN is not credible.. They have Saudi as the head of Human rights council and are known to be corrupt. Any country who has money can buy them.
And “Al qaeda” is NOT opposition. It’s a terrorist organization. So it was held by terrorists.
Swisscheese KB
“The UN is not credible”
Okay. I did not ask anybody whether the UN is credible or not. I asked the following questions
What organization should bring you that evidence?
EdG Swisscheese
The report about Khan Shaykhun has been discredited. There was no deliberate use of sarin gas by Syrian government forces. In fact, the reports from civilians in the affected area show that a) sarin was not used at all and b) the alleged explosion was ground-based.
Swisscheese EdG
So, we should not accept evidence from the UN? Is that what you are saying? If yes, then tell us
1) What evidence should we accept?
2) What organization should provide us that evidence?
Carnyx Swisscheese
The UN investigation into the Ghouta chemical attack published on 16th Sept 2013 did not aportion blame. The OPCW investigators were on the spot of Ghouta within a couple of days and were able to take samples and investigate in person (which they couldn’t do in the case of Khan Sheikoun because the local rebels wouldn’t let them), they found that the rockets used in the chemical attack were fired from the north, were Russian made and that they had a range of about 2 to 3 miles, and hence they were fired from inside rebel held territory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN_investigation_of_chemical_weapons_use_in_Ghouta
Those who still blame the Syrian govt for the attack argue that SAA forces sneeked unseen into rebel held terrority, fired the rockets and then quickly left.
Swisscheese Carnyx
Whom the UN blamed in the following reports?
“Government forces continued to deliberately target civilians, including through the use of chemical weapons against civilians in opposition-held areas. As part of an aerial campaign in northern Hama and southern Idlib, on 4 April the Syrian air force used sarin in Khan Shaykhun, killing over 80 people, most of whom were women and children. The aerial campaign also targeted medical facilities throughout the area, resulting in a severe weakening of their ability to provide assistance to victims of the sarin attack and a consequent increase in the number of civilian casualties. In Idlib, Hamah, and eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syrian forces used weaponized chlorine. These attacks constitute clear violations of international humanitarian law and the Convention on Chemical Weapons, the report notes, which the Syrian Arab Republic ratified in 2013 following a previous sarin attack.” September 2017
“The Panel found what it described as “sufficient evidence” of three cases of chemical weapons use – two chlorine gas attacks on civilians by the Syrian air force, and another use of “sulphur-mustard” gas by the terrorist group ISIL, or Daesh – in Syria between 2014 and 2015.” October 2016
I’m sure.. well, at least until the ‘Official Report’ is released on September 18th and I can scrutinize its findings instead of relying on their current unsubstantiated rhetoric..
ps – Please provide a reference w/ respect to the panel’s “sufficient evidence” claim.. Much Appreciated..
You said you would only accept truthful evidence. You describe truthful evidence as evidence that is validated. I asked you who should validate the evidence.
You can scrutinize whatever you want. That is not what I ask you. I asked you a simple question: who should validate the evidence to make it truthful?
A report from 3 days ago. I stand corrected.
About the one in 2016?
dhinds Swisscheese
http://www.mintpressnews.com/former-department-of-defense-science-adviser-debunks-claim-assad-behind-syrian-chemical-attacks/226993/
Jack Dresser Swisscheese
These false flags have been described in detail by Seymour Hersch and others. For starters, see Hersch’s London Review of Books article, “The Red Line and the Rat Line” that also links Libya to Syria via Hillary.
Swisscheese Jack Dresser
“see Hersch’s London”
I am not interested. I would like just an answer to my questions.
Such junk from a junk web site. You betcha. WN just love Assad. In fact it’s in their creed to worship Assad for….. some reason.
Silly garbage.
I’m not a WN but I am very happy Assad is killing the jihadi rats trying to overthrow him.
I promise you I swear to God this is Paid Political Propaganda. Surprised anyone at all would believe it.
And likewise Kim Jong-Un would only target areas without asians.
presenting, NATO to the rescue…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4867212/Nato-chief-World-dangerous-generation.html
“In spite of the Assad regime’s track record of being the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war — which has likely left half a million dead and spurred a massive exodus of refugees — the United Nations, the United States, and certainly Russia are all looking for solutions to the Syrian crisis that keep Assad in power.”
Either the author is totally ignorant or lying……
No mention 1000+ factions, ISIS, so called Rebels and all the other countries helping them directly or indirectly….
People DO READ and get their information from more reliable sources!
Chris Drake
This is probably the most confused, fact-free article in the Intercept I have ever read. It is so Orwellian and so close to being pure propaganda that it resembles the slander against the democratically elected government and president of Syria that has been routinely issued by the CIA and Al Qaeda, Isis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and other international terrorist groups that are still harassing the peaceful Syrian people. This kind of CIA and terrorist propaganda is fictional and designed to demonize the elected government of Syria for the purpose of illegal regime change, as in Iraq and Libya. The main reason is that Syria has a social democratic government that puts the welfare of its people before the welfare of international banks and corporations, so the US wants to put a stop to this situation and open Syria up to foreign investment and economic exploitation, including the building of a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe that would go across Syria. Because Assad resists economic imperialism, refuses to support any one religion, and asserts Syria’s sovereignty and independence, he is demonized by the US and by conservative, authoritarian theocracies like Saudi Arabia.
Almost everything about Syria in this article is fact-free. Ms. Elba is just as misinformed about Syria as are the white supremacists. For example, Assad is not calling for neo-Nazi-style “homogeneity.” Syria is one of the most heterogeneous, multi-ethnic, and multi-faith societies in the Middle East, and citizens of all faiths and ethnicities are treated equally and have an equal right to National Health Insurance, robust Social Security, and free education, including college. When president Assad spoke of a “homogeneous” nation (if that translation is in fact correct) he was presumably referring to ordinary Syrian citizens as opposed to the many tens of thousands of international terrorists, including ISIS and Al Qaeda, who invaded Syria solely for the purpose of overthrowing the secular Syrian government and establishing a theocratic fascist state in which all Syrians who do not believe in the Wahhabist Sunni religion would be killed or otherwise “ethnically cleansed.” Here, as elsewhere, Ms. Elba’s article has things precisely backwards. It is the CIA- and Saudi-supported terrorists who want a fascist-style homogeneity, and it is Assad who welcomes home all kinds of Syrian refugees, even former terrorists if they formally renounce terrorism. There are in fact 6 million internal Syrian refugees, and almost all are people who fled from terrorist-held areas and came to government-held areas. In the first six months of 2017 alone, 600,000 refugees from the formerly Al Qaeda-held part of Aleppo returned home from Turkey to now-liberated Aleppo.
Equally fact-free is the claim by Ms. Elba that Assad uses chemical weapons. No objective, clear proof has ever been provided to support any of the allegations that Assad has used chemical weapons. And that is only natural, since Assad has nothing to gain by them and doesn’t need them. Just look at the news: Syria is winning decisively using conventional weapons! Only Al Qaeda and ISIS have anything to gain by using chemical weapons, and they are known to possess them. Assad has nothing to gain and everything to lose with chemical weapons, and he is an intelligent man.
Did an editor even look at this article? I am losing respect for the Intercept.
stigira man
Syria was founded on Secular Arab Nationalism, a post-colonial form old Arab socialism meaning nationalization of natural resources and economic egalitarianism.
What it means is that there is no dominant state religion like it was in Ottoman Empire Saudis, Iran or U.K.before and Now and instead Interests of different religions, desert tribes or ethnic groups are represented via certain political key, with overall leader as a arbiter of fairness of the political arrangement.
That was a political prescription for Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, North Yemen etc., in 1960-ties as it was in Lebanon before 1975 as a response to arbitrary British partition of MENA aimed to create religious conflicts a flagship of those conflict became Palestinian conflict with Zionists even before WWII.
Arab nationalism suppose to be an antidote for sectarianism.And it worked for decades as Yugo-nationalism worked in Yugoslavia.
Those facts make any connection between White supremacists ideology borrowing from Nazi race theory that itself comes from US developed theory of eugenics and genetic purity of WASP race and Arab Nationalists an impossibility since Arabs are neither Arian nor of Nordic type that makes for pure white race.
In case of MENA Arab nationalism means nothing else but realpolitik a recognition preference of many smaller post colonial, in their artificial boundaries, Arabic nation states to be created instead of one unified Arab Empire unifying all Arabs regardless of their religion and politics, an idea Saudis and their British master opposed since West wanted arabs weak and divided.
Moreover, all Arab nationalists, Syria was founded on Secular Arab Nationalism, a post-colonial form old Arab socialism meaning nationalization of natural resources and economic egalitarianism.
Arab nationalism suppose to be an antidote for sectarianism.And it worked for decades as Yogo nationalism worked in Yugoslavia.
Those facts make any connection between White supremacists ideology borrowing from Nazi race theory that itself comes from US developed theory of eugenics and genetic purity of WASP race and Arab Nationalists and impossibility since Arabs are neither Arian nor of Nordic type that makes for pure white race.
Moreover, all Arab nationalists aligned themselves after WWII with Soviet Union a champion of anti-colonialism meaning being anti “western colonial forces” that enslaved them, Hafez Assad (father) was one of those leaders who aligned himself with staunchly anti Nazi global forces hence neither he or his son raised and living in anti Nazi, multi ethnic London can be Fascist or Nazi ideology sympathizer unless he belongs to self-hating Arabs.
The TIC piece is an Orwelian CIA made to order propaganda with twisted hijacked meaning of sounding similar words with no analytical or historical thought behind it.
Arab nationalists aligned themselves after WWII with Soviet Union a champion of anti-colonialism meaning being anti “western colonial forces” that enslaved them Hafez Assad (father) was one of those leaders who aligned himself with staunchly anti Nazi global forces hence neither he or his son raised and living in anti Nazi, multi ethnic London can be Fascist or Nazi ideology sympathizer unless he belongs to self-hating Arabs.
stigira man stigira man
Sorry for double copy of text of two paragraphs in the end.
Erelis
Sorry another post. As for the intentions of the Russians to keep Assad in power. Well, of course that is the propaganda slant of the neocons. But Putin recently said the Russian interest was in keeping the Syrian government intact, not keeping Assad in power as the primary motivation. Maybe Putin saw what happened when the US decapitated the governments of Libya and Iraq.
And not much publicized in the neocon controlled press is the fact the Russians offered early on a plan to gradually push out Assad rather than let the country fall into total bloodshed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/15/west-ignored-russian-offer-in-2012-to-have-syrias-assad-step-aside
West ‘ignored Russian offer in 2012 to have Syria’s Assad step aside’
Russia proposed more than three years ago that Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, could step down as part of a peace deal, according to a senior negotiator involved in back-channel discussions at the time.
Former Finnish president and Nobel peace prize laureate Martti Ahtisaari said western powers failed to seize on the proposal. Since it was made, in 2012, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions uprooted, causing the world’s gravest refugee crisis since the second world war.
Ahtisaari held talks with envoys from the five permanent members of the UN security council in February 2012. He said that during those discussions, the Russian ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, laid out a three-point plan, which included a proposal for Assad to cede power at some point after peace talks had started between the regime and the opposition.
But he said that the US, Britain and France were so convinced that the Syrian dictator was about to fall, they ignored the proposal.
I believe at the time of the Russian proposal something like 10,000 people were tragically killed. The refusal by the Western powers to negotiate a peace looks to have been more a factor in the mass of people who died by supporting ISIS and Al Queda (moderate rebels is a myth created to cover support for jihadists.)
Holy shit. Who knew that Billy Bob Joe basement living gamer and member of the Aryan Brotherhood closely followed the pronouncements of a Arab Shia dictator? So the ideologies of American neo-Nazis align with the ideology of the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party?!?! What the heck has McKay been giving out private lessons on journalism?
As for White posting a picture of Assad calling it “undefeated” is simply stated without context, and nobody can verify the context. But there is a much simpler explanation if there is in fact very wide spread approval of Assad among the neo-Nazis and aligned groups that has absolutely nothing to do with the ridiculous notion that they are ideological brothers.
The extremists hate anything and everything associated with Jews and Israel. And Assad is fighting the forces of “Zionism”–and still standing. And you know the old cliched adage about the enemy of my enemies. Fill in the rest from there….
lidia Erelis
1) Zionists (without “”) are backing ISIS and AQ in Syria and bomb Syrian army and its allies
2) So yes, As’sad is fighting Zionists or their proxies
3) http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/WATCH-Alt-right-leader-asks-for-Israelis-respect-as-white-Zionist-502699
Zionist colonizers of Palestine had long history of collaboration with racists, including Nazis. Of course, Zionists are racists too, as any colonizer usually is.
But the article is b…s… anyway
Jack Green lidia
Palestinians say “The Jews are our dogs!”
Palestinians say “The Jews are the descendants of apes & pigs.”
Palestinians have been oppressing Jews for centuries.
In 1839, the British consul, William Young, said that the poor Jew in Jerusalem…lives from day to day in terror of his life….Young attributed the plight of the Jew in Jerusalem to “the blind hatred and ignorant prejudice of a fanatical populace,”
JEWS IN JERUSALEM.
New York Times December 29, 1878
Crowded together in the worst lodgings, or in the dark cellars under a synagogue building, without food, fuel, or water –even water at Jerusalem being a commodity of price – numbers died of starvation and various diseases, while others went raving mad. Those who could labor were denied employment by the bigotry of the Mussulmans and of the Oriental Christians.
Notice the date. This was before the first Zionists arrived in Palestine. Notice the word bigotry.
lidia Jack Green
JG is parroting Zionist propaganda to try and spin the facts – that Zionists are colonizers of Palestine.
And in 1878 Jews were very much discriminated upon in USA.
What facts do you think I’m spinning?
What’s wrong with colonizing?
What is wrong with colonizing? Really, and what is wrong with slavery? Or with ethnic cleansing? Or with mass murder, or with robbery of natives’ land?
To colonizers colonizing is OK, of course, as to a robber robbery is OK.
Zara Jack Green
I’m going to move into your house, Jack, eat your food, use your electricity, wear your clothes, etc. If you do what I want I might not kick you out.
That’s what’s wrong with colonizing, you phenomenal ass.
Jack Green Zara
The Zionists started arriving in 1882. They did not eat anyone’s food, use anyone’s electricity, wear anyone’s clothes.
They did drain the swamps thereby reducing the mosquito population thereby reducing malaria thereby increasing the life expectancy of both Jew & gentile. They did bring poor quality land into production thereby improving the economy for both Jew & gentile.
EdG Jack Green
Your “drain the swamps” argument is nonsensical. Mussolini made the trains in Italy run on time while also using those trains to deport Jews to extermination camps. Using your economic rationale, he must have been a great guy, right?
Jack Green EdG
Draining the swamps helped the Arabs.
Making the train run on time didn’t help the Jews.
“Draining the swamps helped the Arabs”
The first thing Zionist colonizers did, they evicted Palestinians tenant farmers from the land they bought (often using very dubious means). Palestinians (who JG calls “Arabs) lost their livelihood which they had had for many generations.
Then, of course, Zionist colonizers ethic cleansed 90% of Palestinians from their colony in 1947-48, and the reminding Palestinians had been living under different kinds of aparteid ever since.
So much “help” for Palestinians, sure.
Jack Dresser Jack Green
Palestine was an ancient and well-developed culture, the western arc of the Fertile Crescent, with 11 cities, over 500 villages, olive groves, fruit orchards and a prosperous agricultural export economy when the Zionist terrorists ethnically cleansed Palestine and expelled 3/4 of its population of almost a million into UNRWA refugee camps in 1948-49 and have since prohibited their return in violation of international law and their own pledge as a condition of their 1949 admission to the UN.
http://www.al-nakba-history.com/origins1948/pixofarablifebefore.html
This article is obscenely dishonest and based purely on misleading false equivalencies that pander to the dominant centrist American consensus. The author seems to herself believe that American white nationalists have a coherent worldview and a firm understanding of what is happening in Syria that should be of consequence for informed analysis in the west. The answer to her question – which is why do a handful of the more nerdy substratum of online white nationalists profess to support Assad – could simply have to do with the fact that he has blue eyes and pale skin, is vilified by ad nauseum by the mainstream press, and that his government is fighting and Islamist insurgency backed by most of the developed world. I doubt it is much more complicated than that. Much of the far-right online discourse in America revels in basic contrarianism. Just because some racists and neo-nazis are anti-intervention does not make Assad’s Syria a white nationalist ethnostate. The irony here of course is that Assad’s militant enemies are in fact the ones fighting for a mono-ethnic (Sunni Arab) quasi-fascist state based on puritanical reference to a lost age. Assad and his backers are fighting to preserve a pluralistic, multi-ethnic, multi-confessional society. Furthermore there are what one could easily identify as ethno-nationalist soldiers in the European fascist mould fighting in Syria – but they are fighting against Assad – as in the case of Turkish Grey Wolves bolstering various rebel brigades in north Aleppo.
What is also truly shocking about the disingenuousness of this article is that this publication’s founder funded Ukrainian regime-change to the benefit of real-life, seig-heiling, neo-Nazis who now have prominent positions in key Ukrainian ministries. Apparently it is irrelevant to this discussion that Ukrainian neo-Nazis – now the most militarily and politically empowered group of white nationalists on the planet (by virtue of receiving US arms and diplomatic backing) are vocally anti-Assad and seek open collaboration with rebel groups fighting him in Syria. Of course it would be ridiculous to conclude from this that this makes their ideologies even remotely co-soluble. So why on earth should this assumption to be taken seriously when applied to American white nationalists and Ba’athists in Syria? What the author seems stubbornly unwilling to contemplate is the simple fact that there have repeatedly been times when isolationism on the right shares the same goals, with much different premises of course, with anti-imperialism on the left. Ba’athism is fundamentally an anti-imperialist political cause, based on Arab unity against western militarism and coercion. It is quite possible to be incidentally anti-imperialist, for misguided reasons, as much of the libertarian right is in the United States. This does not besmirch principled anti-imperialism.
This article is nothing more than a desperate attempt to smear anti-imperialism in the US, addressed myopically to a misinformed public for whom imperialism is a profound aspect of the status quo.
Ironically, the envisioned consequence of this smearing is the visiting of more violence and needless suffering on one of the parts of the global south most victimized by US aggression. This is in effect a plea for further white domination of the world in the form of US imperialism.
Trustimperialism
I have never read a more hateful piece of propaganda in my life. What the Intercept is saying is that if we don’t want to overthrow Assad — we adore him and are white supremacists. In reality the United States armed very racist jihadists to overthrow Assad:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n08/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
As we know these groups the US armed, like ISIS and Al Nusra, are the ones who want a homogeneous society. They kill gays, enslave women and regularly engage in ethnic cleansing. This article is really hateful propaganda to suggest that if you don’t support these hellish racist groups you somehow are a white supremacist. This disgusting doublethink is being exposed as you read this, the whole article was based on faulty translations:
And if the author cheers the killing of hundreds of thousands to displace the horrible Assad, then why did she vote for a candidate that lionizes KKK grand wizards?
“Today our country has lost a true American original, my friend and mentor Robert C. Byrd.”
– Crooked Hillary on KKK Grand Wizard, Senator (D) – West Virginia
If white supremacist ideology is so horrible we can kill hundreds of thousands to stop it, why doesn’t the Intercept write a series of pieces on how the US funded white supremacist Nazi groups to overthrow the Ukraine?
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/06/12/u-s-house-admits-nazi-role-in-ukraine/
These groups, supported by Obama, were waving confederate flags after the coup.
Moral of the story: The author doesn’t care about white supremacists — it is only being used to attack anyone that did not support Obama’s idiotic regime change policy in Syria:
“Assad Must Go!”
– Dear Leader Obama
Obama’s policy was so stupid, Jihadists we armed began to fight each other:
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html
Ms. Elba and the whole of AI need a brain enema big time. These lieing sacks of pus need to be exposed as the propagandist they are end dissapear back into sewage pit from which they came.
Where’s my waitress? I need a double.
Perhaps the author of this piece is heavily confused and can’t seperate fact from fiction, but it is the editors who should really be ashamed that they ran this piece on TI.
The only thing that is good about this article is that it does the opposite of what was intended: it does not stain those who are critical to US interventionism (and journalists that do the necessary cheerleading), it stains the intercept with all its editors and journalists.
For more, just read the comments from your readers for once or go to
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-intercept-tries-to-conflate-opposition-to-us-syria-intervention-with-neo-nazism-8317d5fa2ec
Alan1917 Willem
Yeah, I thought The Intercept was supposed to be some sort of “alternative” or “independent” news outlet. People and institutions get co-opted so quickly these days!
TimN
My God, really? Yeah, I get the connection we children are supposed to make here. Nazis are bad! Assad is a Nazi lover! Therefore Assad “must go!” Next time shorten it up a bit, okay?
Erelis TimN
That syllogism is about right. I would extend it this way:
American Nazis like Assad.
This means Assad is a Nazi.
Anybody supporting Assad is a Nazi supporter.
Passer by
NeoCon propaganda
AriusArmenian
This article is nonsense.
If a white nationalist thinks many apples are red and I also think many apples are red, does that make me a white nationalist? Or does it merely mean that we correctly and separately agree that many apples are red, with that having no bearing on the similarity of our political beliefs?
This entire article is one big logical fallacy. America, please start educating your children again.
can’t believe The Intercept published this…. what a disgrace to journalism.
Great essay. The author must have been paid by the US government, or maybe Israel.
1) US White nationalist support is in no way necessary for Assad to stay in power. He has his people, Russia, Iran supporting him.
2) The segment of the Left that supports Assad does so because it is against US Imperialism. The US has no right to dictate what goes on within other countries. And anybody that has been following the Syria situation knows that Israel and control of oil/gas resources are also at stake.
3) This strikes me as an odd piece of pro-war propaganda
kurringai
Caitlin Johnstone:
“Just as the tide turns in Syria and even the most virulently pro-establishment voices are forced to concede that the regime change they’ve been pushing for has failed, The Intercept has published a shockingly awful article titled “Why White Nationalists Love Bashar al-Assad”.
Nowhere in this insipid piece does the author once refer to any of the unforgivable evils that the west has inflicted upon Syria, its relentless anti-Assad propaganda campaign or its foundational role in fanning the flames of war and arming known terrorist factions against the Syrian government. Instead, The Intercept’s newly-recruited Miriam Elba opts to refer to Syria’s only legitimate government as “the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war”. The Intercept’s editors even initially allowed through the absurd and since-corrected claim that Assad is primarily responsible for “millions” of deaths, when even the most ridiculous establishment propagandists are aware that the total death toll in the Syrian conflict is around half a million.
Instead of even once acknowledging the role of US and NATO interventionism in perpetuating the Syrian conflict, Elba instead focuses exclusively on how evil the Assad “regime” is, on how much white nationalists “love” the Syrian leader, and on Assad’s arguably grossly mistranslated use of the single word “homogenized”.”
Shocking piece of echo chamber stupidity. Almost everything in this article is rubbish. But the telling thing is how she uses the world ‘homogenous’ against Assad – in the supremacist sense.
He, in conjunction with the Syrian Army, the Christian church, almost all Sunni organisations (Salfists and American-supported puppets aside) , Alawite and Shiite support, retook the country from the West and its Islamist allies. The only thing between a sort of totalitarian homogeneity and it’s destruction has been Assad – oh and about 85% of the population.
thom prentice
LOOKS LIKE A CIA DEEP STATE PLANTED STORY ON INTERCEPT!
Clive Ray
This piece of ‘journalism’ regurgitates so many debunked regime-change-enabling propaganda lines about Syria that it destroys all credibility as to the opinion it expresses about white supremacists. Is the real purpose of the Intercept to slip this kind of propaganda through the letterbox together with the freesheets?
Sure, Assad is bad and the fact the neo-Nazis support him should tell us something. But see, every time you attack an official US adversary, you’re doing nothing more than carrying water for imperialists, and you help pave the way for another “humanitarian intervention” that will devastate yet another country. There’s no moral justification for this kind of reporting, plus it’s also banal/mainstream.
Swisscheese Jose
“Sure, Assad is bad and the fact the neo-Nazis support him should tell us something”
“There’s no moral justification for this kind of reporting, plus it’s also banal/mainstream.”
1) How would you know Assad is “bad” without “this kind of reporting.”? Do you go to Syria and find out yourself?
2) What the hell!!! Are journalists not supposed to attack a government because it is an official US adversary?
Jose Swisscheese
It’s a pretty simple argument, so I’m not sure why you fail to get it. Sometimes you are forced to choose between bad outcomes. However terrible Syria’s government might be, Syria is not a country that goes around invading and destroying other countries at will. It doesn’t pose that kind of global threat.
Journalists can do whatever they want, but ideally, they should act with social responsibility in mind.
If it is a simple argument then why are you incapable of explaining it.? Again, this is the point:
You describe Assad as “bad”. And then, you stated those kinds of articles are not justified. Explain to us how would we, the public, know whether Assad is “bad” without those kinds of articles that tell us what Assad has done.
Or let’s put it another way. How you Jose, know Assad is bad? Assad said he is not bad. Assad media says Assad is not bad. Iran, Hezbollah, Russia say Assad is not bad.
The US government and its allies said Assad is bad. So, do you trust the US government and its allies when it comes to Syria? If no, then tell us how do you know Assad is bad? Have you gone to Syria and discovered that Assad is bad or you have read articles from journalists like the one above telling you Assad is bad?
Or maybe you trust the journalists telling you and us that Assad is bad, but you think it is not a good idea for a journalist to inform the public about the atrocities that a government, a UN member is committing. In that case, how would you know whether Assad or the US is telling you the truth since you do not believe a third party should inform you about what Assad is doing?
Yes, social responsibility by telling the public that country X is a very dangerous place and it is run by a very dangerous man. So, you Jose, can think whether it is a good idea to go on a vacations to country X. And yes, the Syrian government does invite foreigners to visit Syria.
Dan Good
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2017/09/how-the-intercept-smears-syria-by-mistranslating-an-assad-speech.html#more
Wow…I could not finish it…I have read my share of fallacious articles, poorly researched ones and obviously both ignorant and biased but this one takes the cake. I like to say that the Syrian war is the greatest exposer of intellectual dishonesty I have found, and I keep being proven right.
I shoudl have known, whenever Murtaza Hussain retweets anything with the word Assad in it, know sight unseen that it is primarily an anti-Assad piece, and naturally an ignorant, poorly researched and downright deceptive one.
GilG
For all you Assad fans. From Amnesty International:
Between 2011 and 2015, every week and often twice a week, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death. In five years, as many as 13,000 people, most of them civilians believed to be opposed to the government, were hanged in secret at Saydnaya.
https://tinyurl.com/ycgzrtkl
Paul Larudee GilG
Yes, well I believe that Santa Claus visits a billion homes on Christmas Eve, thanks to his flying sleigh and reindeer. AI did not even follow its own rules for evidence in compiling that report from unreliable and biased second hand sources, and even then extrapolating it to five years based on a few months’ data. It’s part of the demonizing strategy designed to harness the gullible to the imperialist agenda (especially the left imperialists). Check Rick Sterling’s report in Consortium News. AI is not a trustworthy source.
GilG Paul Larudee
No Paul, you believe what agrees with your politics. Is AI is only credible when it says bad things about those you hate?
Are you this Paul Larudee? http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2005-09-20/article/22355?headline=Joining-the-March-Toward-Freedom-By-JIM-HARRIS-and-PAUL-LARUDEE
Are you going to address the problems Mr. Larudee mentions wrt with the AI report, or not?
Address what exactly? He made charges but supplied no evidence to back up his claims. I accept that he may be telling the truth about how he feels about Santa.
He mentions Rick Sterling’s report on Consortium News that calls into serious question the AI report. I guess you’re too lazy to Google the damn thing yourself.
Furthermore, there’s this:
https://off-guardian.org/2017/02/10/amnesty-international-admits-syrian-saydnaya-report-fabricated-entirely-in-uk/
I suggest you google Rick Sterling and see who he is before promoting him as a reliable source Zara.
G the Zionist and S both promote as a reliable source source bodies about which one does not even need to google to list their (very deathly) constant lies.
rs GilG
What Amnesty International ( AI ) claims should be taken with more than a pinch of salt…… need to be sceptical…. lost credibility big time when supported NATO for Afghanistan and invited Madeleine Albright to talk on Afghan Women’s Human Rights.. yes the same one who justified killing of half a million babies in Iraq!!
http://blog.amnestyusa.org/asia/we-get-it/
Swisscheese rs
This is a better way to solve your concerns:
What kind of evidence would you accept in order to believe that Assad is a violent murderous dictator? And tell us what organization should provide that evidence?
What kind of evidence would S would provide that USA/GCC/Zionist colonizers are NOT violent murderous aggressors against Syria? And that the same USA had NOT called “violent murderous dictator” and worse Chaves? And that USA had NOT attacked and ruined many states under some false pretexts?
And would S claim that AI is NOT known for some reporting falsely blaming foes of imperialists and whitewashing crimes of imperialists’ pals?
For ex, AI reaction on Zionist bombing of Gaza was “Israeli forces displayed ‘callous indifference’ in deadly attacks on family homes in Gaza”
While about Qaddafi AI said “al-Gaddafi forces committed serious violations of international humanitarian law (IHL), including war crimes, and gross human rights violations,which point to the commission of crimes against humanity. They deliberately killed and injured scores of unarmed protesters; subjected perceived opponents and critics to enforced disappearance and torture and other ill- treatment; and arbitrarily detained scores of civilians. They launched indiscriminate attacks and attacks targeting civilians in their efforts to regain control of Misratah and territory in the east. They launched artillery, mortar and rocket attacks against residential areas. They used inherently indiscriminate weapons such as anti-personnel land mines and cluster bombs,including in residential areas”.
Of course, Zionist had committed all the crimes AI accused Qaddafi of and much more, but AI language about these crimes are quite different.
I will read your comment thoroughly if you answer the one simple question I asked.
S is trying to wiggle, no problem to me.
Peoples are not only could be pro-Assad or pro-imperialism.
I know some people whom I would believe about As’sad crimes, because he is anti-USA imperialism and not pro-As’sad
As’ad Abu Khalil is one such person. Of course, he could mistake too, and sometimes he does, but he then admits his mistake.
And he had been against As’sad long before USA rulers started to call As’sad names. Because As’ad Abu Khalil is an anarchist, and is against more or less any government in the world. But still he could admit that some governments are less bad than others. He sure knows that Iran is less bad than Saudi Arabia and that Russia is less bad than Zionist colonizers of Palestine. And, of course, he knows enough about Syria to tell. And he thinks about AI the same as me and other commentators here, because he knows.
No. I asked simple questions. If we cannot accept evidence from AI, HRW, United Nations, News organizations, then tell us what kind of evidence should we accept and who should give us that evidence. Your first answer was a long comment about US, Zionist, Libya….that had nothing to do with my questions. Then now you gave the name of a professor, an academic and a political commentator. The professor is not the one going to Syria to investigate chemical attacks. He isn’t the one who goes to Syria to study air samples, to perform medical tests on those who claim they were victims of chemical attacks.
The professor does not have access to classified satellite imagery or Syrian military flights records. Basically the professor does not have neither the mandate, nor the capability to gather evidence of Syrian government chemical attacks and present it to us or to a court. The professor is just giving his opinion. You can agree with him, but that is not what I asked you.
For the last time these are the questions:
What kind of evidence would you accept in order to believe that Assad is a violent murderous dictator?
And tell us what organization should provide that evidence?
Feel free to ignore them if you are incapable of answering them.
As I have said, S is trying to wiggle.
AI, HRW, United Nations, News organizations are ALL deeply discredited, it is a fact, but S prefers to ignore that. G pretends that they are trustworthy, because they have the means. But to have the means does not equate not being caught many times on the same-directed lies . I have mentioned some of the lies which had helped to ruin several countries.
If a cop is a well-known murderer and got out Scot-free, he is not a cop, he is a murderer. If AI, HRW, United Nations, News organizations had been lied many times and had not changed at all, they are not trustworthy.
And, by the way, anti-Syrian propaganda have been also using one “bellingcat” who is much less qualified than As’ad AbuKhalil. And the methods of “gathering evidence of Syrian government chemical attacks” (mind you, NOT just gathering facts on the ground, but looking for Syrian gov guilt, how trustworthy ) and the conclusions of such gathering had been questioned by the experts too. By T.Postol, for ex.
In short, S ignores
1) the “trustworthiness” of his “authorities” on Syria, who had been many times wrong at the same case – when USA/Gulf royals/ Zionist colonizers of Palestine wanted to ruin some state. Libya was one such case, but G claims it is irrelevant
2) the many experts who had NOT been compromised, unlike G’s authorities, who had been right many times before, but had been ignored till the countries in question been ruined already.
In short, G is acting in bad faith.
lidia lidia
I am sorry for the mistape.
“G” should be S (Swisscheese)
Do you have a reading comprehension?
“AI, HRW, United Nations, News organizations are ALL deeply discredited”
Yes, you already said it. Now tell us since you believe they are “discredited”, then
1) What kind of evidence should we accept?
2) Who should give us that evidence because you believe we should not accept evidence from AI, HRW, UN, News organizations.?
At this point if you have to ask this question, you might want to accept that you’re backing the wrong side.
You don’t need to back any sides to answer that question. If you believe AI, HRW, United Nations, News organizations reports do not prove Assad has committed atrocities, then please tell us what evidence should we accept and tell us who should give us that evidence?
I think you’re missing my point. You’re literally doing what desperate car salespeople do when they can’t sell their shitty wares on the merits with your “What would it take…” line. Maybe you should think about what that says about the validity of your position.
The neocons have lost, Swisscheese. People don’t believe Assad is a monster, because he isn’t one.
Why do you care about what the commenters on some pseudoprog rag think, anyway, if you’re so convinced you’re right?
I am willing to make it even easier for you:
Let’s say five Syrian refugees come to you and say Assad regime has used chemical weapons against us. That is a serious crime, right? Tell us
What kind of evidence would you need in order to conclude that the Syrian refugees are telling the truth or are lying?
At a minimum I would have to be certain they are not being sponsored by the Western powers, NATO, Israel or the Gulf States.
There would also have to be clear and documented means, motive and opportunity for the Syrian government to have done something like this. At some point Assad may have had the means and the opportunity to use chemical weapons against his own people, but the motive given has never made sense. So there has never been any reason for me to believe it.
OMG!!! This is the easiest way I can do it for you:
Let’s say five Syrian refugees come to you and say Assad regime has used chemical weapons against us. That is a serious crime, right?
Amnesty International. NO, it is not credible.
The UN. NO, it is not credible
The Japanese department of Justice: YES it is credible.
You must have a least ONE organization to provide us in order to determine who was responsible for such serious crime.
Also, maybe you want to think about familiarizing yourself with the substantive reasons people have given for not trusting these institutions and the reports they release, if you want an answer to your question.
I don’t care about why they don’t trust them. People trust or mistrust whomever they want. I want to know who should bring the evidence since they do not trust those institutions?
“I don’t care abut why they don’t trust them.”
Well, then, this is why you’re so bewildered by the commenters here. You’re not paying attention to what they’re actually saying.
Seriously, swisscheese, you ask a question like “What will it take for you to believe X” and are surprised people aren’t responding to it? A question like this shows your bad faith; it reveals something about you–that you are not interested in what’s true, only what you can convince people of.
Why is Amnesty International using shoddy evidence-gathering techniques? Why is HRW taking money from the Qatari government, one of the worst human rights abusers in the world? Are you ok that these things are going on? Have you resolved these contradictions? One might wonder not why people don’t believe Assad is a monster but why you remain committed to the idea that he is. Why hasn’t the fact that these organizations are compromised swayed your opinion? And why, if invoking said compromised institutions is the best the regime change advocates in the political establishment can do to sell Assad=butcher to the masses, is it unreasonable to think maybe there’s no basis for believing Assad is bad at all?
“A question like this shows your bad faith; it reveals something about you–that you are not interested in what’s true, only what you can convince people ”
The question says what must be done in order to convince you. You must be able to provide us metrics in order for you to decide whether X is guilty.
Attacking me reveals your inability to solve problems, it does not reveal anything about me. You already stated human rights organizations are not credible. Then put them to the side. I am not interested in your opinion about them anymore. Put human rights organizations, Western governments, News networks, and the UN to the side, and tell us who should bring the evidence to you in order for you to be convinced that X is guilty of using chemical weapons.
Mark Warner GilG
Look, I just don’t care until they start dumping babies out of incubators or trying to purchase aluminum tubes.
GilG Mark Warner
That’s exactly what I’m saying. You don’t care about any babies unless when those babies are politically inconvenient for you. Thanks for confirming Mark.
Is G pretending not getting the hint – that the AI “report” on Syria is about as credible as USA imperialist propaganda about Saddam “dumping babies out of incubators” used to start first Gulf war or “trying to purchase aluminum tubes” used to start the second war against Iraq? Both were lies, of course.
Or is G really does not get them?
The testimony about Saddam dumping babies out of incubators was given by a Kuwaiti, Nayirah al-?aba?. Try getting your facts straight.
TimN GilG
“Hanged to death?” You simpleton.
GilG TimN
So the turn of phrase is what you find objectionable. Wow you really are smart.
Chris Drake GilG
The article you refer to is a well-known artifact of fake news that is not based on facts. Are you aware that Amnesty Intl., which began as an honorable organization, has degenerated into an organization that often issues propaganda that demonizes the countries that are the enemies of its largest donors, beginning with the US? This particular myth about Syrian prisons has been debunked many times. You can see an example of propagandizing by Amnesty Intl. on “Democracy Now!” at the end of 2016, I believe, where an Amnesty executive tries to demonize the Syrian troops liberating Aleppo from Al Qaeda. After the Amnesty executive gives a list of horrors allegedly done by the Syrian Army, Prof. Stephen Cohen of Princeton and NYU deconstructs each allegation and shows how it is fake news ultimately coming from Al Qaeda itself, which is often taken as a news source by the NYT and WaPo by way of the Human Rights Observatory of Syria in England, which is connected to MI5.
Please study up. Assad is young and smart, and he is constantly becoming more democratic year by year. Are you aware that Syria promulgated a new democratic constitution in 2012 and that under this constitution Assad was democratically reelected against two opponents in a free election in 2014? Foreign public opinion firms have also carried out polls in Syria, and Assad always gains a majority of support in each poll. When Aleppo was liberated from Al Qaeda last December, did you see all the crowds dancing and singing and celebrating in the streets of Aleppo? And four days ago, when the siege by ISIS of Deir Ezzor in Syria was broken by the Syrian Army, did you see the news clips of the people of Deir Ezzor dancing and cheering in the streets and waving signs showing pictures of Assad? If you didn’t see them, I suggest you learn more about Syria and about why Assad is popular in spite of the international terrorist war against the Syrian government sponsored by the CIA, MI5, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
GilG Chris Drake
Are you aware that of the 24 people who attempted to run against Assad 21 were excluded some for being women or Christian?
If he was so popular why was no opposition allowed the first 2 times he stood for election?
liam GilG
Is that the same Amnesty International who gave an award to al-Nusra Front ‘reporter’ Bilal Abdul Kareem? The guy who praised Abdullah al-Muhaysini, the leader of al-Nusra Front, and was filmed praising a guy wearing a suicide vest during the Syrian army’s liberation of Aleppo last December? By the way, whatever happened to those “last Messages from Aleppo” campaign? Did Amy Goodman ever find those 100, 000 children she swore wear trapped under Russian bombs in the city? Try watching the “Tapestry of Terror” video on Live Leak for an idea about what Amy, Amnesty and Bilal were up to with the US backed terrorists.
Loshenheim
The white nationalists support assad because they hate obama and he fully supported the rebels. Its as simple as that.
Obviously white nationalists need to be denounced, but the point should be made that we are only in syria in the first place in order to gain greater access to the regions natural resources. Not because “Assad is a bad guy”
This is without a doubt the worst article I have ever read on this site. When I come here, I expect, at the very least, honest journalism with the type of nuance one would expect to parse through the ever-complicated nature of international geo-politics.
Leaving aside the obvious contradictions of White Nationalists (implied racists and Muslim haters) finding a brown non-American Muslim in far off country to be their hero, Mariam’s attempt to connect the far right with Russia and America’s battlefield enemies is quite overt and transparent.
There is little that I can say here that hasn’t been said below. It is a relief, though not a surprise, that the majority of Intercept readers quickly saw through this canard. It is upsetting, however, to witness the further slide of the Intercept into Russophobia and pure propaganda. This used to be a source I highly respected. Now, not so much. The editors should be ashamed of themselves.
Denis Lee
Yikes! “why” would you even write this article? Rather than reporting this is painting. Creative painting. Why?
Propaganda at its best, this reaks!
Steven L Fornal
This is a hatchet job. I’m firmly opposed to White Nationalist/Purists of any kind. I am equally opposed to the regime change program led by the US in many nations including Syria.
The Syria “revolution” is yet another ploy funded by America to rid the Middle East of any ruler they do not like; always seemingly corresponding to Israel’s enemies.
The ruse is clear to see. Ms. Elba needs to delve more deeply into what is actually happening; she needs to hear Assad speaking about what his “regime” is all about and stop listening to American Exceptionalists’ explanations of the state of the world
by rehashing the past maybe we can fight the white supremacists on the Assad issue with a strong Clinton-style anti-Assad stance, or a weak Sanders-style anti -Assad stance
NavyVet
“In spite of the Assad regime’s track record of being the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war”
Statements like that need to be supported with facts. The author fails to do so. There are however some facts that directly dispute this statement:
1. The civil war was instigated by Jihadis financed by the West and Arab Gulf states.
“That the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood played a key role in the uprising that erupted three months later was confirmed in 2012 by the US Defense Intelligence Agency. A leaked report from the agency said that the insurgency was sectarian and led by the Muslim Brotherhood and Al-Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner of Islamic State. The report went on to say that the insurgents were supported by the West, Arab Gulf oil monarchies and Turkey. The analysis correctly predicted the establishment of a “Salafist principality,” an Islamic state, in Eastern Syria, noting that this was desired by the insurgency’s foreign backers, who wanted to see the secular Arab nationalists isolated and cut-off from Iran.”
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2016/10/22/the-revolutionary-distemper-in-syria-that-wasnt/
2. The “moderate” rebels have repeatedly walked away from peace talks. So, when Assad has tried to deescalate the situation, the Jihadis (rebels) have walked away from the table.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/04/syrian-opposition-rejects-deal-to-create-safe-zones
3. Rebels have bombed people they agreed to protect. See the below linked suicide bombing of refugee children who were trying to evacuate cities under siege and for whom the rebels had guaranteed safety. I’m unsure what could more thoroughly “perpetrate escalation” than needlessly bombing people you specifically promised not to harm. The MSM tries to obscure the fact that this attack was carried about by rebel fighters, but it almost certainly was. The Jihadis have a long track record of using suicide bombs in Syria against both military and civilian targets. The Syrian army does not use suicide bombs. It has stockpiles of military-grade ordnance, an air force and tanks.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/15/syria-aleppo-bombing-evacuees-rebels-killed
Perhaps the writer of this piece could be bothered to learn a little bit more about the subject matter before penning pieces. It might save her the embarrassment of jotting down statements that are demonstratively false.
BAP NavyVet
Wow how disappointing from The Intercept. Maybe white nationalists like coffee too so we should all stop drinking it? We have all seen how well regime change and oil industry imperialism after scare stories have gone in Iraq and Libya, really surprised that you are supporting more of this. The country is in ruins after the US funding Isis sympathetic militants. You really should be ashamed of yourselves for running this story :-(
Levi Tate
The core of Mariam Elba’s screed is rotten.
Mariam’s core paragraphs are these two:
“Assad’s authoritarianism uses the same buzzwords as the far-right
to describe the society he’s trying to build in his own country —
a pure, monolithic society of devotees to his own power.
American neo-Nazis see Assad as a hero.
As the chaos of Charlottesville and its aftermath was unfolding,
Assad addressed a group of diplomats in Damascus about the ongoing
war in Syria. “We lost many of our youth and infrastructure,”
he said, “but we gained a healthier and more homogenous society.”
“bzzzz”, hit the buzzer. Mariam’s argument falls apart like rotten fruit.
Mariam said, “Assad uses the same buzzwords as the far right”.
And then she hit us with what Assad supposedly said.
Except Assad never said that.
Assad never said that.
Mariam, the core of your screed falls apart from their. (The motivation
for your screed is an entirely different matter – supporting regime
change. But that is for another post altogether, and hopefully most
people see through you and realize your true motivation.)
Assad never said “homogenous society”. He spoke in Arabic and you handed us a
self-serving translation.
“we gained a healthier and more homogenous society” – a bad translation.
What he said would be better understood as “E Pluribus Unum” –
(The Motto of the United States of America, by the way.)
“When each person loves the other as much as himself, it makes one out of many” – Cicero
One out of many
From many one
Assad was talking about a society with social bonds. As opposed to
the balkanized territory Hillary Clinton has sought. (Balkanize –
shatter Syria into smaller mutually hostile states)
Assad wasn’t using “the same buzzwords as the far right” he was
expressing a vision we all know so well.
What we in the US want is a country where differences are respected;
though we have differences we are cohesive, we have a working society
bonded together through the ideas set down in our Constitution.
Carnyx
The Golden Dawn opposed austerity in Greece, so obviously everyone opposing neoliberal economic policies must be nazi!
I support Black Lives Matter and Assad. What does that make me?
guy John
Inconsistent.
Jay Mucci
What is happening to The Intercept??? This article is godawful and sounds like something the Washington Post would write. You guys are really losing it.
I am fed up with this supposedly progressive publication’s promotion of imperialism and regime change. Iraq and Libya are in ruins and yet they want to repeat the process in Syria. Disgusting. Bashar al-Assad is the democratically-elected president of Syria with popular support, and the Western powers need to get over it. You can’t have it all.
The fact that white nationalists like Assad is the least important thing to know about both the white racists here and the Syrian civil war. It’s like emphasizing that Hitler was a vegetarian. It’s not terribly relevant. Yes, some racists like Assad, perhaps because they like the fact that he has killed a lot of Muslims. But that is no reason for thinking the rebels were the better choice.
The fact is that a great many non racist people opposed American support for the rebels because as bad as Assad is, a rebel victory would probably be worse, likely leading to genocide for religious minorities. And US intervention has a track record of making things worse. This article seems designed to demonize anti interventionism with the not terribly subtle approach of finding some white racists who like Assad.
Paul Larudee
September 9 2017, 10:43 a.m.
A security state is the logical consequence of US co-opting of liberal regimes everywhere. It is the only way to maintain independence from US and western imperialism. At least Syria remains non-sectarian, defends women’s rights and equality, offers free education up to Ph.D. and MD, free health care and subsidized staple foods. There exist better governments, but I’m not sure the US would qualify as one of them.
How is a govt whos constitution syayes only a Muslim can be president secular.
Carnyx GilG
Do you consider the UK to be a secular state? It’s constitution declares that the head of state (the monarch) must be a Protestant.
1) The UK does not have a constitution. You are referring to an act of Paliarment in the 18th century that even the current monarch disagrees with.
2) Tell us the powers of the British monarch compared to the Iranian supreme leader or the Syrian president.
1) The UK has a constitution based of several laws and customs that have developed over the ages, it doesn’t have a written constitution but written ones are not the only form. The prohibition on non-Protestants as head of state dates from the 1701 Act of Settlment which is still in effect.
2) Prince Charles who has called for reform is not in fact the sitting monarch, the sitting monarch has not expressed an opinion. The personal opinion of Charles is irrelvant.
3) The British monarch on paper still has significant executive powers, especialy in states of war and emergency, but it is customary not to use them. The royal prerogative is normally held by the PM giving him/her the powers of an elected monarch. The sovereign authority of the UK is invested in the ‘Crown in Parliament’ not in the people of the UK who are in fact subjects to the sovereign, everything the state does is in the name of the monarch not the people. Article 2 of the Syrian constitution defines the Syrian people as the holders of sovereignty and the President acts in their name.
1) That means it does not have a codified constitution as opposed to Iran or Syria that have a code (called Constitution), which possesses FUNDAMENTAL status.
2) Prince Charles is part of the monarchy. He is the heir apparent of the 85 year old Queen. He is the official representant of the Queen. Yes, you may have your opinion that his views are “irrelevant”.
3)” it is customary not to use them. ”
Compare that to Syria and Iran.
“The royal prerogative is normally held by the PM giving him/her the powers of an elected monarch. ”
Can the PM be Catholic/Muslim/Jew..?
“not in the people of the UK who are in fact subjects to the sovereign, everything the state does is in the name of the monarch not the people”
Is the Queen the ultimate authority to decide what candidates the people can vote for? Compare that to Syria and Iran.
1) All states have a constitution, some are specifically stated in a single document, others aren’t, it is simply wrong to state the UK doesn’t have one.
2) Prince Charles’s opinions do not determine the British constitution. Any reform to the Act of Settlement will face significant resistance, possibly even violent in the case of Ulster Protestants, but also in England because the monarch is also head of the Church of England which is an established church (unlike say the Church of Scotland). Ulster Loyalism is specifically based on the idea Britain is a Protestant state, the Act of Settlement is one of the main symbols of that claim, and therefore for N Ireland being part of the UK (since it has a Protestant majority).
3) It is customary for the monarch not to use executive powers they still have on paper in the UK, thus the UK has in practice a non-executive head of state, the US has an exective head of state like Syria.
Technically yes, in practice there hasn’t been any non-Protestant PM in the modern era. Tony Blair converted to Catholicism only after leaving office, he stated he delayed due to political considerations although he secretly practised catholicism while in office. Disreali was of Jewish descent however he converted to Anglicanism when he was 12.
To stand in elections a party must be registered with the Electoral Commission (and in conformance with it’s conditions) which answers to Parliament, it on occasion refuses to register a proposed party. Historically several Republican and Radical parties have been banned on royal authority (United Irishmen, United Scotsmen, Friends of the People), these powers still technically exist although not often used.
1) Let me rephrase it again: the UK does not have a CODIFIED constitution. Iran and Syria have a CODIFED constitution that has FUNDAMENTAL status. Do some research to determine what fundamental status means in law.
2) Prince Charles is part of the monarchy. The heir apparent of the 85 year old Queen. The official representative of the Queen. Yes, you can have the opinion that it is “irrelevant” that he thinks the monarch can be either Catholic or Protestant. Now compare his opinion to the supreme leaders of Syria and Iran?
“Any reform to the Act of Settlement will face significant resistance, possibly even violent in the case of Ulster Protestants”
So far none of the resistance to the reform has been violent. Can Muslim members of the Syrian or Iranian executives marry a Catholic under Syrian/Iranian laws?
3)”Technically yes” Example: Tony Blair. Now compare that to Syria and Iran? Would a Muslim officials allowed to convert to catholicism under Syrian/Iranian laws?
4) I notice you avoid clear comparison between the UK and Syria/Iran.
5) If you are suggesting that the UK and Syria/Iran are similar in terms of secularity then your argument is completely irrational. Not even rational Syrian/Iranian legal scholars would accept that nonsense. Iran and Syria have a CODIFIED constitution. You cannot run for office in Iran unless the RELIGIOUS SUPREME LEADER say yes. This is not a “custom” that can be ignored. In Syria, the people choice for the supreme commander must be Muslim. In the UK, the people choice for prime ministet can be Muslim, Catholic, Jew…and if the elected PM ( who has power to send British Special Forces to combat without the consent of neither the parliament or the monarch) has a majority, then the protestant monarch cannot even stop him/her from gaining power.
We have digressed, partly due to your whataboutery, and er … bravery in thinking you know enough about the British constitution, to take on all comers.
The question is not whether the Syrian constitution is desirable but whether the new requirement that the head of state be a Muslim by itself disqualifies Syria from being regarded as secular. I’m arguing it does not, I’m arguing it Syria is more secular than the UK, of which part (England) has an established church, whereas Syria does not have a state religion even if it requires the President to be of the same religion as the majority of it’s population. I have no idea why you keep bringing up Iran, which is neither part of Syria nor the UK. Iran is a Islamic Republic, it is in no way secular and makes no claim of being so. Why not bring in Saudi Arabia, which makes no claim to be seculer either, hell, what about Bhutan maybe we could throw that in.
I suspect the new Syrian constitution introduced the new Muslim President requirement as a sop to insurgent Islamism and to emphasise that Assad’s own Alawite sect are Muslim, something being denied by some Sunni Jihadi types, although some of them argue that Alawites are in fact worse than Kufr because they have betrayed Islam. It’s a retrogressive step, but doesn’t by itself disqualify Syria from being secular.
Iran? Fair enough. Let’s forget about Iran?
“thinking you know enough about the British constitution, to take on all comers.”
More than you, obviously. Syria has a CODIFIED constitution. It isn’t a matter of “custom” for Syrian main course of legislation to depend on ISLAMIC jurisprudence. That CODIFIED constitution ensures that ISLAMIC jurisprudence has FUNDAMENTAL status.
The U.K. does not have a codified constitution. Tomorrow the British parliaments and the commonwealth decide that the monarch’s religion is irrelevant, then no courts in the U.K. can say that decision is unconstitutional.
“The question is not whether the Syrian constitution is desirable but whether the new requirement that the head of state be a Muslim by itself disqualifies Syria from being regarded as secular. I’m arguing it does not, I’m arguing it Syria is more secular than the UK”
That is an irrational argument. The Syrian head of state’s tremendous powers come from a CODIFIED constitution that insists that he must be Muslim and enforces laws on the land based on ISLAMIC jurisprudence. Example: divorce laws that are more favorable to men than women are based on Islam. Legal proceedings for honor crimes are based on Islam.
The British PM’s (whether he is Catholic, Muslim, Jew…) powers do not come from a codified constitution. Example: a catholic PM can (and has) deploy special forces anywhere around the world without the consent of the British monarch who is commander in chief. The monarch cannot even prevent that PM from taking power if he/she has a majority.
Your argument is extremely simplistic: “UK is less secular than Syria because the UK parliament states the monarch who has extremely limited powers mostly based on customs must be protestant, and the U.K. has a state religion, which cannot even be used as a main source of laws.”
Syria must have a Muslim head of state with tremendous CODIFIED powers who must ensure that laws of the land are based on ISLAMIC jurisprudence.
Although the constitution was overwhelmingly approved by popular referendum, and although everyone agrees that it is a major improvement, this is a legitimate criticism, and one which is openly shared by many Syrians. It was intended as a concession to the Islamists and a means of taking the issue away from the Muslim Brotherhood, but it didn’t work and is widely considered to be a flaw. Virtually every other provision of the constitution, such as the outlawing of parties based on religion or ethnicity, is anti-sectarian.
The referendum was held at a time when huge numbers of Syrians living in rebel controlled areas were unable to vote. How is that overwhelming approval?
This constitution also states that law is based on Islamic law. It doesnt matter how these provisions made it into the constitution, the fact that they are there and are in practice disqualify the govt from being termed secular.
If all of the voters in “rebel” controlled areas had voted against the referendum, the result would still have been overwhelming approval. At least 80% of the population was in the government areas. In fact, that’s where most of the displaced voted with their feet, and where they voted.
No government in the world is completely secular. It is a matter of degree. The US chooses Sunday to be its “day off” and makes Christian holy days official holidays. There are plenty more examples. Syria is by far the most secular Arab country.
The US does not require Sunday to be the day off.
Syria may indeed be the most secular Arab country. That does not make it secular.
These ‘rebels’? The White Helmets Terrorists – Further Extensive Evidence of Direct Collusion with Islamic Terrorist Groups – (Set 4) https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/09/08/the-white-helmets-terrorists-further-extensive-evidence-of-direct-collusion-with-islamic-terrorist-groups-set-4/
The Intercept is so focused on white nationalist idolization of Assad, that it has apparently missed an even bigger story: white nationalist idolization of Kim Jong Un. Their concept for a white nation appears to be based on the Korean concept of ‘Juche’, which is defined on the DPRK website as:
The Korean people value the independence of the country and nation and, under the pressure of imperialists and dominationsts, have thoroughly implemented the principle of independence, self-reliance and self-defence, defending the country’s sovereignty and dignity firmly.
Essentially, what the white nationalists dream of: setting up their own state and closing the borders to all other peoples – is what the DPRK has already achieved. It therefore follows that white nationalists must idolize Kim Jong Un.
I haven’t filled in the last piece needed to make this case: finding a post on Facebook where a known white nationalist says something nice about Kim Jong Un. I refuse to have anything to do with Facebook since it was taken over by white nationalists. This is therefore an opportunity for some young web savvy journalist at The Intercept to get a scoop. I’ve already done over half the work, but I will gladly relinquish any rights to this story and allow others to take all the credit.
GilG Benito Mussolini
You asked for proof of a white mationalist idolizing Assad and you received it. Nice attempt at moving the goal posts and moving the discussion away from the thread. Fail.
Benito Mussolini GilG
You’re guilty of thinking inside the box. White nationalists aren’t necessarily limited to idolizing Assad. They also idolize Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and as posited in my preceding post, Kim Jong Un. Maybe white nationalists are in the idolatry business. If so, my comment was overly conservative – white nationalists idolize everybody!
Orville Benito Mussolini
Want White Nationalists idolizing NK? Try this long (and funny) article!
https://www.nknews.org/2013/05/white-power-and-apocalyptic-cults-pro-dprk-americans-revealed/
Benito Mussolini Orville
Thank you for that. However, it’s a bit frustrating to make an attempt at satire, and then learn that if falls well short of reality.
“The Juche movement in North America has been hampered in its development because of the study group’s former chairman John Paul Cupp’s deviationism from Kim Il Sungist Thought”.
September 9 2017, 9:55 a.m.
Your article is pure propaganda and your blog should give credence that Bashar was elected in 2014 and your article goes back to 2005 to drum up crap about David Duke. You should be ashamed at publishing this hit piece-how much you getting from the CIA.. Oh BTW yes I am white not a christian and do not subscribe to white nationalism.. I suggest your just jumping on the divide and conquer bandwagon to clickbait your shite..
harrylaw
The prosecution of a Swedish national accused of terrorist activities in Syria has collapsed at the Old Bailey after it became clear Britain’s security and intelligence agencies would have been deeply embarrassed had a trial gone ahead, the Guardian can reveal.
His lawyers argued that British intelligence agencies were supporting the same Syrian opposition groups as he was, and were party to a secret operation providing weapons and non-lethal help to the groups, including the Free Syrian Army. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/01/trial-swedish-man-accused-terrorism-offences-collapse-bherlin-gildo
The real reason the West wanted Assad to fall was the ‘arc of resistance’ Iran, Iraq. Syria and Hezbolla. Syria was merely the ‘low hanging fruit’. Israel’s interest was permanent sovereignty over the Golan Heights plus all its oil and water. The Saudis did not want a strong Iran to have any hegemonic interests in the region, hence Israel is now teaming up with Saudi Arabia to confront Iran. The Islamists always said that after they had defeated Assad they would destroy Hezbollah, probably with the assistance of Israel. Enter the bear, and all these machinations have come to nothing. Thank goodness for that.
As someone who actually browsed /pol/ for some 5+ years now, I can tell you how absolutely off the mark you are. There is no overarching intellectual reasoning behind the “alt-right”‘s support for Assad. Nobody has been swallowing years-old Syrian propaganda written in Arabic. The support for Assad is not based on anything more than a simple knee-jerk reaction to the so-called Establishment’s opposition to him: The alt-right sees the Syrian question as one more instance of neocon/neolib hypocrisy, and a particularly glaring one at that.
In the scheme of things I’m guessing they judge Assad the lesser of two evils when compared to America and the West.
Really, this is journalism?
Syrian Armenian
Appalling article. Full of generalizations, no facts, no sources. Just an empty opinion piece, one like many others propagated by the Islamist supporting “Syrian revolutionaries”. It’s a poor attempt to try and garner support in the West by painting Assad as an acolyte of the far right Neo Nazi fringe.
I am a Syrian Armenian and what Assad has protected in Syria is a multi-religious and multi-ethnic society.
There has always been Muslim Brotherhood (Islamist fanatics) operatives with backing of foreign powers, seeking to undermine the harmonious inter-faith relationship in Syria.
In early 2000s, the Syrian government even funded the rebuilding of synagogues.
Deeply disappointing to see Glenn’s website post such authenticated crap. Someone who I respect for his sincerity and accurate journalism.
Barmak
Look at those Nazi children in that photo! The children are white supremacists. The children are doing the Hitler salute. It’s the usual propaganda that’s focused on demonizing children. The so called “moderate rebels” routinely send suicide bombers to mass murder Syrian children in schools and Kindergartens. They routinely execute children. Sometimes the child victims are beheaded. But that’s okay in their view because the children are Nazis, non-believers, or what have you. These same children could also be portrayed as “Islamic terrorists” if the war party was talking to a different audience.
All you comment crabs took the bait lol …. Mariam Elba knows exactly what she’s fishing for …. this is a writer to keep up with. Well done, TI.
TheRichestNeedMore JB
Certainly one to keep up with if you’re possessed of kindergarten-level credulity and type things like “lol”
JB TheRichestNeedMore
“Kinder-gart-en”? What is that, some Nazi training camp shit? No thanks, Adolf!
Jack Dresser
I’m frankly astonished and appalled that The Intercept would trash its reputation publishing this flagrant neocon propaganda piece, scapegoating Assad for the attempted gang lynching of Syria by the US, NATO, the Saudis, Qatar, Turkey and Israel, each with its own nefarious motives, planned and prepared since 2008 including appointment of Rob’t Ford as US ambassador in 2011 fresh from collusion with infamous John Negroponte in destroying the secular, socialist, terrorism-free state of Iraq, transferring to Syria what the Pentagon calls “the Salvador option” launched by Hillary/Obama after destroying the successful, secular, socialist state of Libya and murdering Gaddafi who was threatening Western control of Africa, looting Gaddafi’s arsenals and shipping the weapons to Turkey to arm the mercenaries and Wahhabi fanatics assembled for the kill under the cover story of a “civil war.” Assad met with his legitimate domestic opposition, developed a revised constitution approved in 2012 by a large plebiscite majority that included massive turnout at Syrian embassies worldwide, and was re-elected in 2014 by a large majority that trusts Assad and the SAA to protect their treasured secular society. Knowing he was targeted as #3 behind Saddam and Gaddafi as an obstacle to imperial control of the Middle East, Assad responded swiftly to the predictable CIA infiltrator violence scenario used from Mossadeq to the Ukraine, and he with the SAA have battled to preserve the sovereignty, territorial integrity, diversity and fiercely secular society valued by the Syrian people against the invading Salafist ideologues and profiteers recruited, trained, funded and logistically supported by the above cabal. I suggest The Intercept solicit articles by honest and knowledgable journalists free of imperial warmongering taint who know and visit Syria such as Eva Bartlett and Vanessa Beeley.
JB Jack Dresser
tl;dr “Jack” …. my god I’d kill to see your company’s playbook.
Micahel
(lol) “Pierre”
You guys have no fucking clue, do you? lol
stigira man Jack Dresser
It seems like Glenn was effectively removed from editorial responsibilities for a year now, and a series of quasi-journalistic CIA inserts ensued.
What’s ironic that TIC journalism stooped so law in many cases that reached levels of propaganda and willful ignorance and evidence free group-think, speculations and conspiracy theories Glenn recently embarked on a crusade to fight against in …NYT.
This piece is an example of such a pure conspiracy theory Glenn is fighting NYT for.
Gladio stigira man
yep. OpMock might be in play here.
Now it’s NATO’s turn. The code name for their operation looks like DIY
unbelieveable.
GilG stigira man
Wait, so you are claiming the CIA has installed writers at TI AND you are accussing others of promoting conspiracy theory? Too funny.
Robert Jack Dresser
Spot on, these peeps are paid propagandist..
Assad won partly because he represented a multi-ethnic, diverse, non-sectarian and pluralist society. All minorities flocked to government areas during the war because of Assad’s track record of offering protection to minorities. That includes the Coptic Christians, who were especially badly persecuted. The Syrian Arab Army is 70% Sunni. Mariam Elba is a fool who has been blinded by a toxic combination of bad (non-existent?) training, poor education, and white hatred.
Pierre Bush
This was quite possibly one of the worst one sided articles I have read on The Intercept. This author cherry picked details & blanetly lied at times to fit info into the narrative and left out huge portions of information that disproves their argument (such as China being a huge backer of Syria, the rebels groups consist of Al Qaeda linked groups who stone women, and the Palestinians actually fight in a militia for the Syrian govt). I except better from The Intercept than this poorly written article
T Selch
Bye The Intercept.
Rania Masri
So, Glenn, explain something to The Intercept readers: You refuse to publish Rania Khalek’s on the ground, investigative reports on Syria and from Syria, but you do allow the publishing of this drivel, this absolute drivel?
First TYT, now TI shows its true corporate propaganda colors. Glenn and Jeremy, you need to gtf out of there.
I have much more faith in the Intercept than the rest of you. I’m confident that Ms. Elba will not further embarrass its claim to journalistic excellence in the future.
JB Paul Larudee
“Paul” lol
At first the article says Assad doesn’t mean ‘ethnic homogenity’, but political, then it says he’s akin to white nationalism which does preach ethnic homogenity, the article doesn’t even make sense.
Assad is fighting to preserve a religiously diverse cosmopolitan Syria against violent sectarians who want to drive all minorities out, that is why the cities have stuck by Assad while the majority of his armed opponents are either foreigners (see below) or they come from poor rural areas on the drought striken peripheries (or from originally poor rural backgrounds but who have moved into some of the poor housing estates around Damascus in the last few decades). Assads supporters include the local religious minorities (Druze, Christians, Shia, Alawites) and many of the Sunni majority. The SAA is an overwhelmingly Sunni army, Damascus and Aleppo are both predominantly Sunni cities, yet they supported Assad.
According to the fairly anti Assad SOHR over 58 000 foreign anti-Assad fighters have been killed out of a total 115 000 anti-Assad fighters killed, that means up to 50% of all opposition fighters killed are not even Syrian. What kind of “revolution” is it that is half composed of foreigners, what kind of “civil war”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Syrian_Civil_War#Foreign_anti-government_fighters_killed
Futher many opposition fighters, the ones that actually are Syrian, are poor folk paid by foreign sources to fight.
There is a peaceful opposition to Assad who for now support him in their disgust with the armed opposition, you can read an example below.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/syria-revolution-aleppo-assad.html
Aleppo didn’t rise up against Assad, it was invaded by fighters from the countryside, Damascus didn’t rebel. Cosmopolitan Syria has been fighting for Assad, the armed opposition is fighting for an exclusive Sunni theocratic state.
Why is the Intercept publishing such pityful disinformation?
next, the intercept ties support for bernie sanders to secret assad sympathies.
Ahh, that settles it now. There’s no longer any excuse not to line up behind the McCain-Clinton push for another painless regime change in the mideast.
This article presents an interesting topic, but unfortunately the thread between Assad and white supremacists is bare. Maybe if parallels were explored between kids from the US supporting Assad and kids from the US rushing to join the fight against Assad then there would be a question worth pondering. Such as what draws American extremists on various political spectrums to causes that they should otherwise have zero connection? Now, I don’t want to pile on the author for a lack of understanding regarding this horrible “civil war”, but it is not that difficult to search a few WikiLeaks cables on Syria and Assad, the CIA in Syria, or simply read a few brief articles regarding regime change. Assad may very well be a monster, but perhaps his paranoia and barbarity is fueled by constantly worrying about invasion from Western Powers, and not being beaten and raped to death like Gaddafi. Either way, I hope her next article has some substantial reporting – if she writes another article for TIC.
Jesus, I can’t believe this tripe in The Intercept of all places…..and the author is off on the death count by over half a million people! Jesus, what were you guys thinking hiring her. To know that the US narrative on the Syrian war is all lies, sim ply look here: The White Helmets Terrorists – Further Extensive Evidence of Direct Collusion with Islamic Terrorist Groups – (Set 4) https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/09/08/the-white-helmets-terrorists-further-extensive-evidence-of-direct-collusion-with-islamic-terrorist-groups-set-4/ and here: Massive White Helmets Photo Cache Proves Hollywood Gave Oscar to Terrorist Group
https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/02/27/massive-white-helmets-photo-cache-proves-hollywood-gave-oscar-to-terrorist-group/ and here: “Now You See Me” – Over 100 White Helmet Self-Posted Facebook Images Expose Fake Humanitarian Group as FSA Terrorists Linked with Al-Qaeda
https://clarityofsignal.com/2017/05/01/now-you-see-me-over-100-white-helmet-self-posted-facebook-images-expose-fake-humanitarian-group-as-fsa-terrorists-in-bed-with-al-qaeda/
Johan Vanderhaus
So if a white guy isn’t qualified to write about the Middle East because he isn’t ethnically Middle Eastern, how are you qualified to write about White Nationalism? You’ve got most things wrong btw, they mostly like him because he is a huge thorn in the eye of what white nationalists call the ZOG. A lot of it is about how they see Putin, Assad et al. as a bulwark against a great global Jewish conspiracy.
I like Assad with the understanding he is a tyrant among many tyrants. The Syrian state had a lot going for it before the manufactured dissent and the uncivil proxy war fought on Syrian soil. But more than Assad and all the other petty tyrants of the world, I really dislike the Alt-Right more than anything else. Let’s compare the Syrian state under Assad and Saudi Arabia under the rule of the house of Saud. Where would you want to live? I’ll play nice, the articles title is leading and lacking. Lastly, of course the Alt-Right would revel in any tyrants ugly acts, it is who they are.
Nancy Hammond
What a shameful article. This was not a civil war. The Syrian govt did not ‘escalate’ this onslaught onto a civilian population. My friends have survived thid with grit and resilience. The destruction of infrastructure, schools, hospitals, sectors of industry like the pharmaceutical industry. Using water as a weapon of war, depriving millions in major cities. Shame on you Mariam Elba. Your reporting is disgusting
Knights in white helmets,
Feigning a friend,
Too bad you pressed ‘send.’
Oh, Intercept, you silly goose!
Kay Maisie
Or a cheer up gift for professional mourners from The Intercept’s new senior news editor.
Where to invade next?
GilG Maisie
covering for tyrants
while gassed children sob
I pretend to be progressive
but I support a Baathist slob
Maisie GilG
Just because someone doesn’t support corporatist, warmongering and imperialist propaganda, and mocks it openly, it doesn’t follow that the person supports Assad.
If you don’t want regime change in Israel or Saudi Arabia, your own flawed thinking would dictate that you support their atrocities and oppressiveness – an idiocy that even a muddled authoritarian like you wouldn’t embody.
Who said anything about regime change?
What have I posted that would make me an authoritarian? Or is that just your go to insult when you have no facts to present?
Why is criticizing Assad warmongering?
You must be confused with the tyrant that slaughters Palestinians.
Jack Dresser Gladio
Actually, Syria has integrated a half million Palestinian refugees, treated them better than has any other Arab country, and provided them full citizenship with all the benefits (health care, higher education) of their well-developed socialist state. Most Palestinians are Sunni, as are the majority of Syrians, and support Alawite Assad since the Baathist Party is resolutely secular, as it was also in Iraq, including gender equality. When we attacked Iraq, more women than men were enrolled in universities.
GilG Gladio
Over 3000 Palestinians have been killed in Syrian war. Why did you change your name barabbas? Where you banned?
They Have Sold Their Soul Maisie
agathon
There are only a few choices here… The author is
1. a complete incompetent and ignoramus
2. a brainwashed, lazy, Leftoid zombie
3. CIA plant
This is the author’s retweet…. would one say she is totally biased against those who did not swallow all the “so called Syrian rebels
a. k. a. Al Nusra or Al Qaeda or whatever’s ” propaganda???
Mariam Elba Retweeted
??Verified account @joeyayoub 8h8 hours ago
Again and again, ‘leftists’ who whitewash Assad are no different from the fascists and white nationalists https://theintercept.com/2017/09/08/syria-why-white-nationalists-love-bashar-al-assad-charlottesville/ …
Assad desired the war and the Western alliance had no hand in FUELING the long, devestating war? Uh huh.
And Assad is the primary perpetrator of the long war?
This has been neo-con narrative for many years. Has it not been the West that has been supporting the Jihadists?
Whereas white nationalists aim to create a healthy and homogeneous society through racial purity, for [China] it means a society free of any kind of political dissent, excluding any [Chinese] living outside the territory his regime controls. Anyone who does not fit [China’s] specific definition of what it means to be [Chinese] is up for execution.
JB john anderson
lol … Ok, ohhhhhhhkay, everyone can stop the “most obvious alt-righter trying to be smart” comment contest now …. john “strong, generic white name; great choice” anderson has won the day. Well done, john! Or was it Eric? “Richard”? … “Michael”?! Oh no, not “Ann” too?!
lol gotta love those clearly fake FULL name choices! You guys suck! lol
What’s Wrong with Featuring Minority Journalists Because they are Minorities
Glenn Greenwald wrote the follwing in his recent piece about the NYT’s Op-Ed Editor, quoting Zaid Jilani, “The Times editorial page currently does not have a female minority columnist and, despite frequently writing about conflicts in the Middle East, employs no regular Arab American or Muslim American writers.”
It would seem that featuring this article could be in response to cries of hypocrisy against Greenwald and Jilani.
As we see here with this article and the glaring mistake of “millions killed” in the Syrian Civil War — not to mention other contentious issues raised — the primary reason to feature the work of a journalist must be the quality of that journalist’s work. The fact that a journalist is an Arab-American could add to the sophistication of that journalist regarding the Middle East if he/she had lived in the Arab world, grew up with race/gender-based experiences that offer unique insight into the Middle East, and so on.
From Elba’s biography page on the magazine she edits, there is nothing that distinguishes her qualifications or experiences from any other person who earned a master’s in Near Eastern Studies.
Please note: my apologies to Elba for taking the focus off the content of your article. I’ll be the first to acknowledge your race and gender are not necessarily related to the content of your article in the slightest. However I think it’s appropriate to raise this issue in the greater context of The Intercept.
Definitely the worst article I have ever read here and quite possibly one of the most underhanded and devious pieces I’ve read in any venue from which I expect reasonably honest discourse.
I mean… wow.
JB Michael Wilson
“Devious” … lol my god, Gladys, don’t faint from the vapors! … Ya drama queen …
Robyn Gilbertson Michael Wilson
Agreed. SO disappointing to read this on TI.
Jay Mucci Michael Wilson
I totally agree, Michael. This is Washington Post-level bad.
Ken Jerome
BullShit I don’t care what the white nationalists do but if you think Assad is responsible for a civil war and not US, Israel and Saudi backed mercenaries I wish you would go work somewhere else: this is a great news source but this story is worthless.
Eric Saunders
This is one of the worst articles I have ever read at The Intercept. The way in which the author tries to link Syria to the villains du jour – white nationalists – makes this article come across as a propaganda piece aimed at liberals. I don’t see what the point is now, given that the Syrians have beaten back the West’s regime change operation.
JB Eric Saunders
“Du jour”? Good god, man, are you French, or Russian? Make up your mind!
Eric Saunders JB
So anyone who opposes deadly, illegal, US regime change operations is French, Russian, or a white supremacist now?
Oh yeah, for sure man. You hadn’t heard?
“It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.”
? Upton Sinclair
So this is The Intercept’s idea of “diversity and the range of opinions” ? “ ….the goal is to critique, and then the task is to invent something ( cheap, easy, and superficial) to say. …”
non se . qui . tur
/ nän sekw?d?r /
A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
Ex. We were talking about the conflicts in syria when she threw in some non sequitur about Alois Brunner.
We know that the USA/UK armed and pushed the original protests in Syria.
We know that the USA/UK, SA and The Gulf States armed and paid the “Rebels” creating yet another regime destabilizing Al Queda powered revolution. And we know that those “Rebels” fed into ISIS one way or another.
There were jihads from 8 countries fighting in Syria and Iraq. The intersection that the so called “White” nationalists have with the Syrian Regime is that they seem Assad defending Christians, Copts, Maronites and Catholics. All of whom existed in Syria before the Western supplied insurgency. They see them as fighting Radical Islam. Jihads or Assad? I’ll take Assad. Was it the NG pipeline? Or just the NeoCon’s, Israels and SA’s war with Iran?
Before the Arab Spring Syria was one of the most secular and pluralistic countries in the Middle East. Sure, it has had a family regime in power for the last decades. Most countries in the ME don’t fit our Western description of a democracy — especially notable among those are our Gulf States allies who are funding and supporting ISIS.
In 2013 the WP did an article that half of all Americans couldn’t identify Syria on a map; I doubt this percentage would be higher among white nationalists. The narrative we hear most about Syria in our country is that Assad is a brutal dictator. The most prominent counter narrative to this is that he is justified because he must fight ISIS.
If you are prone to not trust the MSM, as I’m sure most white nationalists are, I would hazard a guess that you would be more inclined to see Assad in this latter prevailing counter narrative, i.e.: a guy who is tough on “Islamic terrorists.” That kind of narrative seems like it would play great with white nationalists (along with the anti-Israel/Jewish stuff).
This makes more sense than the story Elba is telling that white nationalists like Assad because he is “…the Middle East’s leading force toward creating a society that is spiritually, socially, and politically ‘pure,'” — that’s the first time I ever heard that, and understanding the societal ethos that surrounds that statement starts to imply an understanding of Syria that would be lacking in someone who doesn’t know where Syria is on the map.
It would be enlightening for Elba to explain how the Assad regime, which has a long track record of ruling a relatively stable and pluralistic country (relatively!), who comes from the minority Alawites and maintains power by creating alliances with other groups, is now motivated by creating a society that is “pure.”
Elba doesn’t say “racially pure” in the context of Assad. But she should go to lengths to explain the difference between loyalty to the ruling regime — this is the kind of “purity” she’s talking about in Syria — and racial purity which is a white nationalist thing. She makes a tenuous link between the two primarily with the concept of purity; basically a link based on semantics.
Bill Bill
I should clarify — I’m not saying the Arab Spring brought down secularism and plurality in Syria. It set the wheels in motion for the civil war, which did.
Citizen_Fur Bill
This is…actually really good. Most the Assadist defense on this site is comical in its stupidity, but this well articulated context.
It’s important to note that Assad is indeed a brutal tyrant who has massacred and tortured thousands of his citizens. But that is true along side what you said, not in opposition to.
Bill Citizen_Fur
Thanks — I agree with you.
lidia Citizen_Fur
What is CF calls “comical in its stupidity”?
Pointing to USA backing Wahhabi terrorists in Syria and beyond?
Pointing to non-sectarian character of As’ad rule?
Pointing to the mistranslation of As’sad words?
And USA rulers massacred and tortured thousands of their citizens. Even more. Would CF call them brutal tyrants?
So if Assad is a fascist does it make ISIS fighting fascimsm in Syria antiFa?
Just examine a video were hundred Muslim children are executed by ISIS by machine guns for refusing to fight Assad regime.
This whole piece is an absurd, an insult to journalism, and to considerable intelligence of those still remaining TIC readers. Every word in it is a lie, fabrication, conjectures, smears and innuendoes only enlightening us to uttered ignorance and devious intentions of the author.
Bashar Assad is a flawed man and is as a president in no small part responsible for fate if Syrian people under clear and present US aggression via ISIS/Al-Qeada proxies, but none of those flaws are discussed or mentioned here only black propaganda of hate, what while supremacists would have been proud of.
His biggest flaw is that as a British educated Eye doctor, husband of Palestinian Christian has been unwittingly and unwillingly trusted into vicious MENA politics after his father died, as fully westernized person with good standing within British elites he did not feel well enough a soul of Syrian nation and instead was infatuated with the neoliberal ideas of globalization, (his wife wanted to become an investment banker after STUDY at LSE) neglecting his nation built on Arab nationalism (not on fascism) with anti-colonial roots of Arab para socialism, meaning nationalization of natural resources and economic egalitarianism .
Commenters at Intercept always get into unecessary exercises instead of going directly the point. Instead of writing all that bs about the article they could simply say criticism of Assad is off limit.
AtheistInChief Swisscheese
You’re a fuckin’ idiot!
Swisscheese AtheistInChief
Attack the argument, not the commenter.
Example: refute the article with documented facts. Leave the author’s education alone.
weknowtheirdream
Now I now why I don’t read The Intercept any more.
JB weknowtheirdream
Very happy to now that we all know now what you now.
No what I mean?
Ivan DelSol
I support The Intercept in publishing opinion pieces, even when they’re wrong. As long as it’s not a consistent pattern of publishing pro-war propaganda pieces, I understand the desire to give voice to the occasional misguided soul that thinks something like “Regime Change War in Syria is a Good Thing” and wants to use white nationalist support for Assad as a vector to make her case. That said, this article is dead wrong. So wrong. And the guilt-by-association tactic is extremely transparent.
For most of us that oppose the war, it’s not about supporting Assad, it’s about knowing that living under Assad is better than living in Libya or Iraq. The US has a habit of “helping” countries by utterly destroying them.
Those who like Assad do so for the reason that he is mean and nasty. He fulfills their fantasy of leaderships= mean/nasty.
The comments below are nothing but a nasty slough of whiny, anonymous opinions, and this is a paraphrasing of about ohhhhh about 99% of them:
“Wahh wahh wahh! The Intercept is biased, and doesn’t talk about X, Y, Z. Wahh Wahh Wahh!”
*scrolls through comments and reads alllllllll about X, Y, Z … realizes they haven’t been erased by The Intercept … wonders what the fuck are these commenters going on about … scans the comments again and finds mainly ad hominem attacks against Ms. Elba … makes an educated guess that most of this article’s commenters are either biased, irrational loud mouths or propagandists paid to be here*
lol …. You laid it on waaaaay too thick, guys, and for that, I’ll now read everything Ms. Elba writes. Thanks!
pros54
Miriam, you just propounded a conspiracy theory that can only build up in the minds of propagandists for the Saudi Wahabists and their Western enablers.
“the Assad regime’s track record of being the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war “,
You are really something. Is Saudi Arabia now funding “theintercept,” that is the only way I can make sense of this propaganda running on this website.
HippoDave
Wow. What a load of crap. Other posters have pointed out a lot of things wrong with this. It’s a shame they had to spend any time doing that instead of other productive things. I’ll just contribute by what I found was the most ridiculous assertion, which isn’t a quote of another but rather the author’s voice and apparent belief:
“Anyone who does not fit Assad’s specific definition of what it means to be Syrian is up for execution.”
GilG HippoDave
” It’s a shame they had to spend any time doing that instead of other productive things.”
Yeah the posters on these threads have so many productive things to do. too funny.
As for the statement about Assad executing anyone not fitting a specific definition of what it means to be Syrian, perhaps it is hyperbolic but not by much.
Richard Pearce
Oh those so demonic ‘barrel bombs’, as opposed to the angelic American ‘solution’ to the problem of snipers using the roofs of buildings full of civilians to kill those trying to rescue the civilians and the civilians who are trying to flee, blowing up the entire building.
Now, as a bit of a MacGyver (solving problems with what is on hand) if faced with such a situation and actually caring about brown lives, I’d see that the problem was that all the usual military hardware was designed to take out the people in the entire building, and what was needed was a bomb that could be dropped on the roof and NOT penetrate it, then explode in a shower of shrapnel. So, I’d need a container, preferably metal, that was basically nothing but blunt or round edges, and easily obtainable in quantity. Guess what fills that bill to a t. Shove explosives (not too much, or too powerful, the need is for a spray of shrapnel across the roof, not making a crater or a lethal shockwave) and whatever is on around that will work as shrapnel, drop from a hovering helicopter, and guess what you have, and weapon that reduces civilian casualties.
And the people of Syria who have been rescued from the armed thugs who blitzed their way into cities and towns with waves of car bombs have been pretty clear that it wasn’t the barrel bombs or the forces who used them that they found demonic.
GilG Richard Pearce
Yes indeed the defenders of Assad’s brutality “actually caring about brown lives” sheesh
Ann Garrison Richard Pearce
Don’t forget the depleted uranium that the Pentagon promised not to use and used anyway.
highly recommended piece for everyone here:
Who Rules America? The Power Elite in the Time of Trump
http://petras.lahaine.org/b2-img/PetrasWhoRulesAmerica.pdf
Miriam:
the article from Bulgaria
https://trud.bg/350-diplomatic-flights-carry-weapons-for-terrorists/
Miriam: please do a story on Dilyana Gaytandzhieva’s report about weapons smuggling under diplomatic cover:
Journalist fired for exposing how CIA ran weapons to terrorists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD5VW_z6pG0
The ‘altright’ are not known for their ability to penetrate past a wall of propaganda to realize the truth. Indeed, the inability to do so is a prerequisite. A prerequisite that the author apparently meets, it’s likely that the only reason she isn’t part of that ‘movement’ is the other prerequisite, the right skin tone.
Syria is not Assad. Syria is millions of normal, none-too-rich people trying to get along with no great passion for either Israel or Iran or Amerikkka or Russia or the Global Kleptocracy that runs this sordid show.
They want dinner on the table, a roof over their bed and their loved ones to be safe.
Instead they have CIA-backed terrorists and mercenary-aided paramilitary groups supplied by their hostile neighbours looking to slice up their neck of the woods, whilst America and Russia test each others’ insanely-dangerous weapons systems over their back yards, destabilise the entire region, create millions of refugees pouring into a Europe that does not want them, cause insane hatred for these sorry victims of geo-political warcrimes and the pointless turd cherry on their crap cake is a bunch stupid idiot hacks at The Intercept too feebly incapable of any form of investigative journalism to even scratch the surface of a horror that has been running now for over six years and with no end in sight writing bollocks like this in their pathetic little war on whatever they are told to bitch about this week by their paymasters.
Watch out – Glennwald loves to write about sh!tty journalism. He might grow a conscience and realise what a sack of digital sh!t this website has become.
Mariam Elba has no conscience and sides with al Qaeda, Netanyahu, the CIA, the Saudis and Hillary Clinton.
Casey Levi Tate
Found the Nazi!
Being anti-fascist doesn’t make you Pro Neoliberal. That’s a false equivalency. Most Anti-fascists are, however, communists.
Take it from a fellow communist we are not friends with any of them. Not with Hillary and the CIA that oppress us at home. Not with the Saud and especially not the Turks who oppress our Kurdish brothers. And no, not with the Israeli’s who so many of whom define the word ‘bourgeoisie’.
That doesn’t mean we are your friends either. In this case enemy of my enemy is not my friend, because fascism and communism can never coexist.
Levi Tate Casey
Say, Roseanne Roseannadanna,
Just what are you talking about? And what are you smoking?
I am a Nazi because……?
Explain it to me.
The article is a pro regime change in Syria article.
Mariam Elba is trying to sell another reason to hate Assad and support regime change.
She is getting in bed with a lot of nasty characters which I named.
Where oh where did I mention Antifa? Where?
Honestly, I found your post spooky.
The regime changers have tried to enlist support for taking out Assad:
“Assad uses barrel bombs!”
“Assad is a dictator”
“Assad kills his own people”
“Assad uses chemical weapons”
“Assad is a White Supremacist”
The first four have lost traction, they haven’t got the job done.
Assad now has the upper hand against ISIS and al Qaeda.
They have been throwing the kitchen sink at Assad, anything
that enlists support for regime change. Now, in desperation,
those pursuing regime change have come up with another reason
to hate Assad, to support war to get rid of Assad – “Assad is a White Supremacist”.
It is as credible as warmonger Hillary saying she wants to protect
civilians by bombing the carp out of their country. Hillary would
have us believe that she is a great humanitarian as she rolls her war machine across the landscape. People should have long ago wised up to her. She has appealed to our sense of humanitarianism. Who doesn’t support humanitarianism? It is Hillary’s go-to pretext and call for war.
Mariam Elba is joining in, throwing anything, the kitchen sink, White Supremacy, whatever, to enlist support for regime change. Who isn’t against fascism? Who? White Supremacy is her pretext for supporting war in Syria. It is a pretext, don’t buy into her con game.
John Levi Tate
It is pretty pitiful isn’t it? Assad – who leads a country renowned for racial tolerance and has granted asylum to tens of thousands of African refugees despite being in the midst of a brutal war and subject to crippling economic sanctions – is a white supremacist.
Joel Levi Tate
And the Bilderbergs and the CFR and the illuminati and the lizard people
While I can imagine tenuous connections between some alt-right and some pro-Assad, I can’t for the life of me ascertain where this (fledgling?) theory that Ms. Alba promotes here is actually coming from, and she doesn’t explain her position of knowledge with enough corroboration well enough to convince me.
One commenter on Twitter went as far as saying Omidyar has “gone full Bezos” over at The Intercept.
This, despite assurances the “shadow editor” Omidyar hasn’t a job here.
Paraphrasing some commenters below:
The Intercept: “All the newbs that’re unfit to print.”
BenjaminAP Sillyputty
Pierre Omidyar doesn’t need labor power.
Who’s hired, and why. That’s all.
Zara Sillyputty
Good Christ, Sillyputty. The way media works and the way propaganda is disseminated in the US has been delineated over and over and over again. Why do you continue to claim ignorance on this matter? Richard Pryor talked about this shit in the 1970s ffs.
For a bunch of Chomsky fanboys/girls you people seem not to be all that familiar with perhaps his most famous work. Maybe read Manufacturing Consent, perhaps?
JayTe
I have to say I’m shocked that the Intercept would publish such a deluded article. Not only does Ms. Elba fully accept the mainstream narrative about Assad but she seems to accept it for just about every other non western world leader all the while being completely oblivious as to what is happening in the west. It takes a special type of delusion to equate Bashir Al Assad, the leader of Syria, a diverse multi-ethnic, religious and cultural nation where people see themselves as Syrians before anything else and which Assad has helped to foster to white supremacists!?! As well as comparing the Syrian Army who are fighting against Islamic State, Al Queda et al which primarily consists of foreigners with only a very small group of native Syrians opposition groups all of whom are supported financially and logistically by the US and its allies!?! And comparing their false flag operations where they dropped chemical weapons or completely obliterated areas housing civilians by missile strikes from the US and its allies to the Syrian Army and its allies who have been successful in keeping the country together. Well all I can say is I feel truly sorry for Ms. Elba as it is abundantly clear that her delusions about what is actually going on in the world know no bounds.
Joel JayTe
Easy with the run-on sentences. Your main point was swallowed by your wordiness and use of exclamation points
This has to be the mother of all conspiracy theories!Not only was the death toll in the original version of this semi-book review of ReidRoss’s“Against the Fascist Creep” wildly exaggerated, but so is the influence of the minuscule “white nationalist” movement!.It shouldn’t then be surprising that someone so recklessly deluded as to believe that the Syrian death toll is “in the millions”could likewise believe that straggly US “white nationalists” are directly to blame. Or that she could seriously suggest that the US has been looking for ways to keep Assad in power! And then to drag evilly disparate forces from Golden Dawn to National Front to the ghost of Saddam Hussein into this spiraling web of Assad international intrigue! Guilt by association never reached such heights!And,of course, the predictable hysterical conclusion to this wild screed:Assad as Hitler!This whole rant simply has no credibility – let alone any solutions.
Rightsallright
Laughable propaganda piece . . . . . . . . . . (of sh$%).
So the most secular regime in the Middle East is now associated with white skinheads? You extrapolate this because Assad refuses to kneel down before the West’s Banking cartel and hand over the keys to the country? Just step aside and allow US contractors to rape every natural resource from The Syrian People’s inventory? I refer you to of factual history of this: Afghanistan (minerals and opium), Iraq (oil and back to petro-dollar), Libya (Oil, gold now stolen, and now sticking to petro-dollar), Egypt, and Venezuela (currency manipulation and boycotting oil purchases until CIA gets congruent regime change).
And once again, US airstrikes in Syria until an entire nation is in rubble. Just forget about the fact that ISIS is actually a CIA operation to destabilize cities in the region and warrant massively destructive air strikes. Just as in the other ravished countries, the US policy is to destroy them to the point that the country has to accept the IMF’s usury loans to permanently enslave the people, while the billionaires steel the nations true wealth: gold, minerals, and energy production. What’s even more pathetic, the poor and lower middle class of the US are the one’s joining the military to go rape and steel from other poor people around the world. How patriotic.
So yes, some of us support a nation and a People’s autonomy. This is a part of being a patriotic Libertarian. Try to connect this belief to racism, skinheads, or whatever Leftist propaganda you wish. But the facts reveal the undeniable truth. The turmoil in Syria never was and never will be about “racism”. This “racism” has been the narrative by “The Empire” to denigrate, divide, and destroy most nations around the world. Syria is just fighting for independence, and Russia and the US are like two giants having a wrestling match on Syrian soil, destroying everything they touch. God bless Syria’s goal of being free to govern themselves, without the “take the silver or get the lead” US policy for diplomacy via the IMF.
Joel Rightsallright
“ISIS is actually a CIA operation to destabilize cities in the region and warrant massively destructive air strikes”
Really dude? Lay off that Infowars
Also, leftists (not liberals) actually tend to support (or at least tolerate) Assad and have been vocally opposed to US airstrikes. But I guess nuance is passe
What is this crap doing in The Intercept? This is an attempt to justify the British imperial doctrine of regime change wars with the purported justification of “Responsibility to Protect,” only with the added propaganda twist that if some right-wing redneck bozo supports a foreign leader, even a democratically elected one, then we are in our rights to bomb that nation and arm legions of terrorist mercenaries to destabilize it. Gag me.
ronnie mitchell
Time for me to end my settings on FB that give priority to articles from TI, the writer Mackay made me think of it many times but now I’m removing TI from my FB followings list.
I hope GG gets this Wapoop level of disinformation removed from the site and apologies are offered for this pile of crap.
Zara ronnie mitchell
I wouldn’t bet on it, but it sure would be nice if that happened. As far as I know GG has never apologized for anything.
Bill ronnie mitchell
GG is the reason I’m a reader at The Intercept. I don’t think he would have a problem with other journalists at The Intercept expressing viewpoints that differ from his own, as long as those viewpoints/reports are backed up with facts that aren’t misrepresented. That said, the fact that Elba and the editor(s) at The Intercept missed the “death toll in the millions” part is quite alarming and a solid strike against a factual foundation for this article. If anything, this article needs more factual foundational support, not less!
I would only guess that GG and the others at the top are trying to help new journalists establish themselves. When an article with at least one demonstrable glaring flaw is published on The Intercept though there’s no arguing it takes away credibility, and your reaction to de-prioritize TI on FB is perfectly justifiable.
Why is the Intercept promoting smear by association –trying to link white nationalists and other loathsome groups with Assad — as a substitute for analysis of geopolitics?
What are the reasons that the US government has illegally pursued destabilization of Syria? Why has the US government sided with terrorist groups?
Bill Vivek Jain
Great points
Do strongmen in the Middle East exist in a vacuum–in the absence of any involvement by the US ruling class?
Could a similar article be written about the Obamabots or the Trumpettes? American presidents are totalitarian misleaders and they have their unhinged followers who will defend their lies and terrorism.
GilG Vivek Jain
“American presidents are totalitarian misleaders and they have their unhinged followers who will defend their lies and terrorism.”
and apparently so does Assad.
Implying that all white nationalists idolize Assad perpetuates negative stereotypes about white nationalists. Such stereotyping in general reflects our expectations and beliefs about this group, but stereotypes tend to be negative and prejudicial. It is unfortunate that white nationalists must cope with biases and beliefs that are potentially limiting.
In future, the author, rather than engaging in lazy generalizations, can attribute such idolization to specific individuals from the white nationalist community, rather than smearing an entire group of people.
You are correct. The author should of made it clear it is just the white nationalists in the TI comment section that support Assad.
So white nationalists are as stupid as I thought.Swallowing the bullshit propaganda about Assad.
This article is part and parcel of that propaganda.
Really, the Intercept has fallen lower than ever expected,not that I ever trusted Pierre Omidyar with all of his “interests” in Ukraine and India and elsewhere
But this takes the cake
For those who are interested, English translation of the Syrian Constitution (the latest version I could find):
https://www.scribd.com/doc/81771718/Qordoba-Translation-of-the-Syrian-Constitution-Modifications-15-2-2012
For all those claiming Syria has a secular government. From the document linked above:
1. The President has to be part of the Muslim faith.
2. Islamic jurisprudence doctrine is a primary source of legislation.
John GilG
And Article 3 of the 2012 Constitution was one of the demands of the rebels. The previous Constitution, implemented by Assad’s father, did not require the President to be a Muslim.
GilG John
Please document that claim.
There were no presidential election under Assad’s father, and no opposition parties for that matter.
Wait, huh? I thought the accusation that Assad is a dictator was based on his persecution of Muslims…I’m soooo confused…
Are you, Fountain-of-Truth-Gil, trying to say Assad is running his country like a totalitarian Islamic state? The very thing the alt-right is, you know, paranoid about the US turning into? Can you guys get your stories straight?
Gah.
“Religiously pluralistic” is probably a more accurate term to describe Syrian society than “secular”. But with Syrian women free to wear or not wear the hijab and serve in the armed forces, with multiple Christian and Islamic sects coexisting in the country, by all means, GIL, continue your stupid pedantry.
Who said “Assad was a dictator based on his persecution of Muslims” Zara?
I have no guys that I need to keep my story straight with. If you have found inconsistencies with what I have posted then state them. If all you have is to put words in my mouth that I have never even said or implied then you have no argument. Nice to see you at least admit that the term secular to describe the Syrian gov’t is inaccurate.
President of Lebanon could be only a Christian (and Christians are minority in Lebanon)
So, Lebanon is as evil as Syria? Or even worse?
By the way, was there ever a non-Christian prez of USA?
I didn’t say Assad was evil because only Muslims can be president. I said the fact that only Muslims can be president exclude Syria from being considered secular. Assad is evil for reasons that have nothing to do with religion.
The reason why white nationalist support Assad is due to their love for Vladimir Putin, not any understanding of the Assad dynasty at all. If they were aware of the ethnic dynamics in Syria or the region more broadly, their heads would explode. Syria is ethnically, religiously diverse and it always will be, short of mass genocide that would be perpetrated by the likes of ISIL. The article is unfortunately poor, it is Russia, through their media outlets that encourage people to support Assad. Many Nazi’s tune into RT and Sputnik, that is where the white nationalist kids are getting these ideas.
joe Nick
That’s not true. I support Assad (if support means being against US intervention) and I am no fan of Putin (although I’d be against going to war with him too.) A lot of you try to speak for white nationalists rather than hear what they have to say themselves, probably because what they actually say goes against the narrative you want to create. White nationalists are against globalism and that includes any and all globalists war. I didn’t support going to war with Iraq, I didn’t support going to war in Afghanistan, and I don’t support intervening in Syria. Also against going to war with North Korea. It’s all nonsense and the only people who benefit from these wars are the rich corporate class who want a system of global capitalism that is controlled by them.
lol none of this is even accurate
Interesting article. Many of the comments take issue with the article but I don’t see any that actually refute with facts anything Ms. Elba has written. Hmmm.
Christopher GilG
Copying and pasting reams of UN reports that contradict the article is a bit of a chore, you know, to be fair. And shouldn’t be necessary on THIS web site.
GilG Christopher
Don’t copy and paste. Provide a link to a UN report that counters the claims in this article.
Not sure what you mean about ” necessary on THIS web site”.
Can you confirm that Assad has “become an idol among white nationalists in the United States”?
yep. check out James Alex Fields facebook page with the portrait of Assad and the words “Undefeated” under it.
https://tinyurl.com/y87s7kw9
most white nationalists probably think Assad is some sort of aftershave
rick GilG
Yes, very interesting. And stupid.
I just did a “Laugh In” reference. Appropriate for this article.
GilG rick
you might as well post sock it to me. It still doesn’t refute claims made by the article.
Gil rejects documented fact that Israel supports Al Qaeda, including in Syria (If Israel does it, Gil is fine with whatever it is). He’s an ardent Zionist which is why he is defending against critiques of this piece.
Joel -Mona-
He didn’t reject anything. He’s looking for the documented fact” that you speak of rather than people saying things like “Gil rejects documented fact that…” without providing the documented facts. So how about it?
And don’t start with the “this site doesn’t warrant it” or “my time is too valuable” or “you’re not worth it” If this is an important issue to you, enough to call someone a “zionist” then back up your statements.
GilG Joel
Well I am a Zionist, if you go by Mona’s definition which is anyone who doesn’t believe Israel should cease to exist.
Ask her to tell you about her claim the Glenn Greenwald stole money from her then kicked her to the curb.
-Mona- Joel
You: “enough to call someone a “zionist”
Gil: “Well I am a Zionist”
Gil does, indeed, defend the existence of Israel is an ethno-religious supremacist state which ethnically cleansed the indigenous Arabs and pens them up in Gaza, which is the core of Zionism. Gil, as I said, is an ardent Zionist. And as such, very pissed at all who point out Israel’s loving on Al Aqaeda.
And don’t start with…
Yeah, ok. You have a nice night.
Huh? thanks for proving my point Mona. too funny.
or do you think you somehow just refuted something from the article. wow.
The article is self-refuting as a piece of war-mongering propaganda. Assad is a nasty of piece of work, and so the latest “Hitler” for neocons and Zionists who want Muslim-majority nations on everyone’s mind with thoughts of war and plunder. Pay no attention to that nasty, ethno-religious, apartheid state called Israel whom the United States uniquely and slavishly supports in its abominable atrocities.
NO! Let’s keep going after the latest Muslim reincarnation of Hitler: Saddam, Qaddafi, Assad. Over and over, endlessly. Once more into the breach!
Um, your the one that is saying pay no attention. For someone who loves to yell about whataboutery you are not shy about using it whenever it suits your politics to do so. Yes lets not talk about the war that has killed 500,000 people in the last 6 years not to mention over 3,000 Palestinians who you claim to care so much about. Are you saying that you and your moron friends here on TI are too stupid to pay attention to two issues at once ? Or is it that you put politics above human rights? It must be one or the other. Pointing out the support Assad is receiving from white nationalists is not asking for a war on Syria, you are going to have to find another excuse. BTW you still have not offered any refute to anything the author wrote. Too funny.
john anderson GilG
the special nature of zionist evil has been explained to you many times, try to pay attention
GilG john anderson
ha. thanks again for proving my point John.
Please tell me about the “special nature of zionist evil” John. The mask always drops.
Please tell me about the “special nature of zionist evil” John.
Mona can’t jump in because she has once again been exposed as a major hypocrite. Come on Mona how about some more whataboutery or at least a good excuse for your own exceptionalism that allows you to use it.
Why am I NOT surprised that G the parrot of USA imperialist propaganda is a Zionist? That is, a supporter of Zionist colonizers of Palestine, ethnic cleanser, mass-murderers, torturers, robbers and rapers. And, of course, Zionist colonizers of Palestine are also backing IS/AQ in Syria.
Sure, to be a friend of colonizers means one could be a friend of their Wahhabi puppets and a foe of their foes – ie the anti-Zionist resistance. Syria is a part of the later.
And, of course, the friend of Zionist colonizers of Palestine is also a very loose with the facts, as his friends are. Many commentaries pointed to open lies or simply fantasies published by the author
1) the 100% absence of facts about USA/GCC/Zionist role
2) the mistranslation of As’sad words
3) the inflated NN of Syrian victims
4) the usage of a known Zionist darling as a credible sourse
But the colonizers’ friend G just ignore them, and prefers to “joke” and character smear people who point to abovementioned facts
What facts have I gotten wrong lidia?
Not surprised to see the defenders of the murderous Assad make up lies about those who call him out.
G ignored all the facts I have listed who had been pointed by other comments and claims that there were NO facts. So, G ignored the facts.
Of course, G the “humanitarian” is NOT going to call “murderous” USA prezes or their best pals – Saudi royals and Zionist colonizes of Palestine. No wonder.
You said I was “loose with the facts” either state what those facts I was loose with lidia , or admit you lied.
G the Zionist pretends not to read my comment or not to understand it.
OK, one more time to esp. gifted G
G has claimed that the critics of the article had not used facts to refute it. As a matter of fact, they had. I listed some of the facts, which G ignored. I call it being “loose with the facts” – that is, calling that something was absent while it was present.
wake thehellup GilG
“Refute” what “facts”? There are scant few facts to consider and the few there are, aren’t relevant to the core of complaints against this tripe of an article.
Sigh. Here’s a refutation:
“…for Assad it means a society free of any kind of political dissent…”
Horseshit. Assad has talked about what constitutes political dissent in his view. (I also noted this 5 months ago in my response to TI’s April 12th podcast, so this is not new information. There is no excuse for people who are actually seeking the truth about Syria to remain unaware of what his position is.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ZU-r5sDeY#t=4m24s
Furthermore, the Syrian government has engaged in reconciliation efforts with its political opponents. You can see a report on the various reconciliation efforts here, along with an index of these reports below:
http://syria.mil.ru/en/index/syria/reconciliation_centre_bulletins/[email protected]
http://syria.mil.ru/en/index/syria/reconciliation_bulletin.htm?objInBlock=25&blk=12079583
Say it with me now: #thatswhataNaziwoulddo
Rucio
There are many reasons that the right and alt-right might have for admiring Assad (primarily for defying “liberal” regime change and imperialist intervention – the same reasons supporters from the left are maligned), but the uniculture fantasy presented here seems ridiculous. First, the Charlottesville demonstration was for preserving memorials to the Confederacy, that is, the REBELS. Second, Assad securing his authority is not a racist project but the simple requirement of absolute rule. If there has been any racist project afoot, it was obviously (inherently) that of the EU/US there. The rest of this piece is even more of a mess (eg, the author seems to imply that destroying ISIS is racist!).
Pierre News fully expresses Chomsky’s propaganda model. I thought a few years ago its coverage of Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela would be particularly sensitive acid tests, but it wound up quite a bit more naked than I imagined.
paleblue BenjaminAP
Please elaborate, as I don’t know what “Chomsky’s propaganda model” means.
MrTuvok
The article does not make sense. How can you not point to the fact that external powers, the CIA and the US included, have tried to destroy Syria – and failed? How on earth can you make it to be about “white nationalists”? Are you out of your mind?
Christopher MrTuvok
I’m willing to give the author of the article the benefit of the doubt of possibly being emotionally invested in the situation over there. But after how many times we’ve been exaggerated to, and outright lied to about governments in the Middle East, I’ve got a bit of a cynical eye toward this article. Blaming Assad for what foreign governments and insurgents did in Syria is absurd on its face. Not that he isn’t necessarily guilty of crimes but… I can’t name a living US president who isn’t, either.
Joel MrTuvok
Because that wasn’t the subject of the article. To go into all of the details you mention, it would be a 50 page article. There’s been plenty of other topics on those subjects. It’s fine to disagree with the article’s thesis but you can’t realistically expect the entire history of US foreign policy toward Syria to be covered in this one opinion piece about white supremacists
NavyVet Joel
It shows the author’s glaring ignorance not to mention CIA / Gulf state war escalation when making statements like this, “In spite of the Assad regime’s track record of being the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war”
The primary perpetrators of escalation have been the West and the Gulf states. Indeed, there would be no civil war absent foreign meddling.
Additionally, she fails to mention the numerous peace conferences from which the US-backed “moderate” rebels have simply walked out. It’s as if she has no interest whatsoever in examining the actual facts of the matter, but is instead pushing a narrative that she has decided on a priori. You know, propaganda.
MrTuvok MrTuvok
Posting a link to Moon of Alabama here for reference. MoA concludes that “The publishing of the piece confirms again that the Intercept is in not the “fearless, adversarial journalism” it set out to be, nor is it a leftish-progressive outlet as some had expected. It is just a minor rag flogging narrow U.S. mainstream nonsense with pinches of neocon claptrap in-between.”
MoA claims also that this article is based on a misinterpretation of Assad’s speech:
Jeff D
“The notion ‘holds that Russia will lead the world out of a dark age of materialism …'”
Russia will be a galactic hero if it does that. Overpopulation and overconsumption are BY far the biggest problem in the world, and one of the main things driving overconsumption is materialism.
I agree with the negative comments about this false story. This is American propaganda at its worst. Assad is no more of an asshole than 99% of the other leaders of countries. But he rubbed the U.S. the wrong way, so now we get bombarded with garbage like this.
AtheistInChief Jeff D
Assad is no more of an asshole than 99% of the other leaders of countries.
Exactly! Almost every “leader” I can think of are borderline sociopaths.
I can’t believe I read that entire article. Terrible is all that comes to mind. And that would be a compliment.
This article makes me laugh.
Zara Zara
Only thing funnier than this article is people who are just now realizing how shitty TI is on Syria. Guys, one of their founding editors and “star” journalists tried to censor a Syrian nun from speaking at an antiwar conference almost 4 years ago—that wasn’t a clue?
Andrea Dworkins Daughter
“We don’t need to look as far back as Hitler’s Third Reich to see what their world vision could be.”
Yeah- because it might look like “Israel.” Or any other apartheid state based in genetic nepotism.
(cough cough…. ahem) In the larger picture, the ROLE of this article is just another hit job to make Syria the enemy so that the deep state thieves predators and murderers can bilk Americans for more military money and prep the youth of America to be so-called heroes at the expense of their lives, which the political whores are willing to sacrifice for the benefit of their wallstreet pimps.
Bashar al-Assad is the leader of a country that allows for the co-existence of a variety of differences. Sadly, the revolters of Syria oppose differences and want an extreme state.
Anything pro AL-Assad is like being pro syphilis, however, not as bad as AIDS.
I am struck by the similarity of Al-Assad and the TV series “Tyrant.” When the old dictator was asked “Why do you not give your people freedom? His answer”Freedom to do what, kill each other.” Freedom in the Mideast may not mean what we think it does.
Christopher Fred Cowan
Oh, yeah, sure, certainly the reality in Middle East is as reductionist as a schlocky television show made by white people in a completely different hemisphere of the world.
Fred Cowan Christopher
Only wish raise the question of how the killing might end. How will there be any peace in Syria without a strongman backed by major power(s). Would the killing magically stop if AL-Assad fell and Russia and the US left (They should) or would different factions fight it out for ultimate control. Are dictators or occupations the only ways to achieve pacification if not real peace.
Would the victors embrace AL-Assad’s defeated forces or start digging mass grave? Is freedom to kill the opposition to the point of pacification victory? The US and Russia should get to hell out and let the people who live there make there own show under their own direction. Humanitarian aid is all we should provide. I would not expect a happy ending but would love to be proved wrong. It any case it is none of “white people in a completely different hemisphere of the world” business. Our intervention and arms only make it worse.
Like my mother always said, “love one another, with racist, gendered hate.”
And then she would shovel down whole bakeries full of chocolate pies, and loudly exclaim “these are delicious, but nothing tastes better than roasted Syrian babies!”
And sometimes, she would muse on about how if we don’t stomp on maggots, then they will grow into flies.
Which I always found to be sort of a weak excuse for her eating them after she stomped on them.
Is it lashon hara to speak of my mother thus?
rrheard
Mariam Elba is co-editor for Muftah’s Egypt and North Africa pages. Mariam is a New York-based, Egyptian-American freelance writer covering grassroots initiatives, popular media, and cultural representation in American Muslim communities and in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt. She has bylines in PolicyMic, Waging Nonviolence, Truthout, and Muftah. Mariam holds a BA in English and History from CUNY Baruch College and a MA in Journalism and Near Eastern Studies at NYU. She has written about emerging social infrastructures in public transportation in urban Egypt and the history of modern sha’abi (popular, working class) music in Egypt, as well as the material conditions in which it emerged. Mariam hopes to continue writing on everyday trends among marginalized and disenfranchised populations in the Middle East and the United States.
https://muftah.org/author/mariamelba/
No disrespect intended Ms. Elba, but to put it rather bluntly, maybe this topic was a bit outside your professional or personal expertise.
And not to be critical of adjunct PSU professor Alexander Reid Ross, given PSU is one of my alma maters and I believe in many departments a fine public university [particularly school of government from which my degree was granted], and notwithstanding the possible merits of adjunct Prof. Ross’ book (which I have not read) published by AK Press (an anarchist press) with the following explanation for what they believe in:
human beings are at their best when they are living free of authority, deciding things among themselves rather than being ordered about.” Anarchism means abolishing the state and all coercive social relations. It means a society in which individuals create and control their own collective organizations to meet their social and economic needs [isn’t that what government by sovereign citizens is? ed.]. These organizations would federate and democratically coordinate (rather than compete) among themselves without any government oversight.
. . . I can only guess that maybe it is outside Prof. Ross’ expertise given he’s teaching geography and given his PACT MA is from The European Graduate School which has been in existence since 1994, and a BA in International Studies from Trinity College (which I’ll concede is a fine college of longstanding).
In any event, this piece lacks nuance, insight, depth and historical context regarding the Assad regime, Syria and “Eurasianism” as a movement (its roots, reality, depth and breadth worldwide) and not sure what it adds to any dialogue on any topic to say Assad has fascist fans/supporters in the US just as Marine Le Pen of France has right-wing or fascist fans and supporters in US including one Donald Trump.
Seriously, I’m all for getting new blood in at The Intercept, but this piece smacks of Mackeyesque phoning it in level journalism instead of the long form in depth pieces we hoped would be on constant offer at The Intercept. Quality over quantity please.
AtheistInChief rrheard
this piece lacks nuance, insight, depth and historical context regarding the Assad regime
It would be forgivable, if these were the only sins of this piece (and I can see that you’re doing your level best to be kind). What this piece really does is manufactures tenuous connections between groups and people, that in reality are non-existent connections. It makes assertions without providing any evidence of substance. She’s just making crap up.
Granted, that I’m not fully immersed in the politics of Syria, but from what little I do follow, this piece is a goddamn outrage, and should have been spotted as BS, by anybody working as an editor at The Intercept.
Citizen_Fur AtheistInChief
“What this piece really does is manufactures tenuous connections between groups and people, that in reality are non-existent connections. It makes assertions without providing any evidence of substance.”
This is more or less the model for The Intercept these days, as is a lack of any kid of editorial direction. It’s basically a blog host.
GilG rrheard
It sounds to me that Ms. Elba’s credentials make her far more qualified then you on this topic. Other than silly attempts at personal smears and hackneyed cliche do you have anything of substance to say that refute the articles claims?
rrheard GilG
@ GilG
Believe what you choose. I’m not trying to convince someone like you of anything because that would be futile and a waste of my time.
As far as refuting the author’s “claims” they are so poorly sourced as to amount to nothing more than thinly veiled guilt by association assertions and those aren’t worth refuting for your benefit or hers.
If a person has an MA in journalism from NYU I’m quite confident she knows the difference between specious crap and well-sourced and argued journalism. This piece is closer to the former than the latter.
Swisscheese rrheard
Support your argument by telling us what is wrong with the sources and exposing the lack of sources. Even if the author had a C average in the lowest university in the world, that has nothing to do with the point of the article. Whether you were an A average student at Harvard Law School is completely irrelevant to the jury that has to decide based on evidence, not the education background of the prosecutor or the defender. You are telling us more about yourself than about the author by writing a bunch of bs about her education.
And seriously man, if you think it is a ” waste of time ” to argue with whomever disagrees with you. Then, just ignore those who disagree with you. That line is old and nonsensical. You keep answering them by attacking them and not their argument and then you claim it is a waste of time.
Someone like me? Would that be people who take issue with your post or do you have aomething more specific in mind.
You are very good at personal attacks on the author, the rest of your comment proves that is all you have in the way of argument.
Zionists are “like” G, because G is a Zionist. Why not say that Zionists (well-known for their “care” for Syrians and other non-Jews in the ME) are not credible in this (and not only this case).
Who ever taught you logic should be arrested lidia. Where did you receive your education?
Never mind who taught hasbara to G, hasbara is still just stupid lies, like claiming that Syrian children give “Nazi salute”. They sure do not.
ISIS is going down and Assad should be next. He’s earned it a thousand time over. He’s a mass murderer and torturer. Anyone giving this sicko Assad a pass needs their head examined.
lidia Carpenter
Sure, and all USA prezes were/are NOT mass murderers and torturers.
And all Zionist colonizers of Palestine were/are NOT mass murderers and torturers.
I bet C has NOTHING to do against them.
ELLIOTT COLLA
A great example of Godwin’s law in action.
The Intercept will have a hard time unjumping this particular shark.
WHAT A HORRIBLE PRO-JIHADI, PRO-REGIME CHANGE PROPAGANDA, trying to smear multicultural secular nonsectarian socialist state as some Nazi heaven.
What a gross publication. This is where the owner of this news outlet shows himself.
Hannah Rush DeRS
Those are my thoughts as well. This does not even qualify as journalism. I had come to expect MUCH better of “The Intercept.”
One or two more pieces like this and I doubt I will ever even bother to look at this publication’s headlines again.
deschutes DeRS
It is shockingly, brazenly bad. Maybe the worst I’ve come across at this seemingly lost website. It is almost like a deliberate joke intended to insult the reader’s intelligence.
Robert Ford was US Ambassador to Syria when the revolt against Syrian president Assad was launched. He not only was a chief architect of regime change in Syria, but actively worked with rebels to aid their overthrow of the Syrian government.
Ford assured us that those taking up arms to overthrow the Syrian government were simply moderates and democrats seeking to change Syria’s autocratic system. Anyone pointing out the obviously Islamist extremist nature of the rebellion and the foreign funding and backing for the jihadists was written off as an Assad apologist or worse.
Ambassador Ford talked himself blue in the face reassuring us that he was only supporting moderates in Syria. As evidence mounted that the recipients of the largesse doled out by Washington was going to jihadist groups, Ford finally admitted early last year that most of the moderates he backed were fighting alongside ISIS and al-Qaeda. Witness this incredible Twitter exchange with then-ex Ambassador Ford: http://www.globalresearch.ca/you-wont-believe-what-former-us-ambassador-robert-s-ford-said-about-al-qaedas-syrian-allies/5504906
What did I just read? What on the Earth did make you to publish this piece. This is the stupidest article I ever read on the Intercept. Seriously! Syria was a multi-ethnic and multi-denominational country and the only areas that still are under Assad’s control. It is the other, jihadist side, backed by the Obama’s administration and various warmongers in DC, that turned Syria into blood bath that is now.
deschutes Alex
Spot on. Something is rotten in Denmark at the Intercept. Or maybe it was meant as a joke? I mean, so obviously bad and full of sh!te as to see if you’d even notice? Testing the depths of stupidity amongst its readers?
What a blatant load of propaganda. I expect this from the Guardian, but not here. I was considering contributing as well. Not now though. Not until things improve.
DeRS NavyVet
The Intercept’s issue is while it is a strong libertarian, free speech outlet, it de-facto supports CIA/StateDep regime change policies in places like Syria, Ukraine and elsewhere where the owner of this outlet has invested his own money along with USAID, Soros and others.
NavyVet DeRS
What a shame. Greenwald is a highly intelligent guy who seems to have a firm grasp on state propaganda. I’ve heard him speak. Does he know about this article?
What a pathetic example of crude propaganda and nonsense standing reality on its head. The Syrian gov’t is fighting for an secular, multi-faith, semi-socialist government. The country has a diverse national assembly, many opposition parties, most of the Army soldiers are Sunni and the religious leaders are largely united against the jihadi bloodshed and chaos. Trying to over-turn that for the past 6+ years have been wahabi-supremacist Saudi Arabia, zionist supremacist Israel and US supremacist USA and its junior partners. How far can ISO and the Intercept descend?
How can you call a govt that requires one must be of a certain religion in order to run for PM secular? Not to mention the fact the rules effectively require Baath party approval for all candidates.
This article is extremely poor, The Islamist assault on Syria led and financed by Saudi Arabia and several GCC states plus Turkey, all backed by “the West” with the US sending large consignments of arms to Saudi Arabia then on through Turkey to the Wahabbi head choppers, one consignment consisted of 15,000 tow missiles all in order to regime change the Assad government, who, with almost 80% support from all segments of Syrian society, almost mirrors Putin’s support in Russia.
How naive this writer is, maybe if we all sat round a table and reasoned with Islamic State and AlQaeda they would all lay down their arms and sing kumbaya with her, I suspect she would lose her head.
Funny how both the alt left and alt right are attacking the intercept for giving a voice to Assad’s victims.
Who are the “alt left,” again?
Michael Weddington Ali
There is no alt left. No one calls themselves alt left. It is a smear tactic invented to conflate the real left with the self-named alt right.
Which victims did the article give voice to?
Also, I’m not “alt-left”, and I despise con man Trump and his Nazi lackeys with a passion. So where are you getting this crap?
The first sentence sort of summarizes this article for me. It’s not at all surprising that White Nationalist authoritarians would agree with a nationalist authoritarian like Assad. I mean, these are people that believe all religions and races should be segregated into their own countries.
The part about them thinking Russia will take them out of “the dark ages” is kind of interesting though. I’ve heard some people beleive some weird nonsense connecting Russia to Revelations and Nostradamus, but haven’t really looked into it, because well, … it’s weird nonsense.
This seems preposterous. I don’t think one in a hundred Americans know *what* Assad’s politics is. The only thing they know is that he kept his unmentionables unmentioned. If Syria is a jailhouse, then these people generally don’t want the inmates getting loose. Just as with American jails, they couldn’t care what gang rules it.
Intercept, seriously?!
I can’t believe I just read this. Okay, the Intercept wants to show a variety of opinions but honestly, even an opinion must be based on something.
Let’s put it in a different way: Assad was in HIS country, with an uprising which could have been settled between the parties, within Syria and among Syrians. But someone, and we all know who, decided to sponsor militias, moderate rebels, ISIS, Al Nusra etc etc and illegally started bombing within Syria.
Id the war has started and has protracted for so long, blame the West. Don’t write this kind of ….
Folks, please e-mail Glen Greenwald, point out this article, and explain that not filtering such blatant propaganda from appearing on this website is ruining his brand that he so carefully cultivated.
So when I clicked through the link the Google translation actually says: “……saying that in return it has won a HARMONIOUS healthy society.”
Which interpretation is correct? It makes a huge difference.
The simpler explanation is that Russia supports them, and Russia is funding fascist movements across the globe, including those here in the US.
Proudprimate Juniper
The simpler minds will fall for your McCarthyite clichés. Anybody paying attention will already know, Russia is operating in conformity with international law, the US and its co-conspirators are in violation thereof. The fact is, Syria, like Libya and Iraq, refused to play by the IMF’s rules. Moreover, they refused to allow the Qatar-Bulgaria pipeline to be built through their land, since this would hurt their allies, Russia and Iran, who have stood by them for many years. But the Anglo-American hegemony has pursued a predatory posture against Russia for 200 years, called “The Great Game” by Kipling. See “The Geographical Pivot of History” by Halford John Mackinder, 1904.
IrregardlessNH
This is really infuriating, shoddy journalism. Doesn’t The Intercept have a supervisory editorial staff?
Basically the article’s entire premise is grounded upon an out-of-context inference of the meaning of “healthy” and “homogeneous” (the address of which if read in its entirety was a rather admirable statement of fact).
I’m no great fan of Assad but he’d probably make a better POTUS than our current balloonhead, or his ‘pragmatic’ war criminal election opponent.
And au contraire, “the Assad regime’s track record of being the primary perpetrators of escalating Syria’s civil war”, the ‘civil war’ is the direct result of NATO imperialism and the ‘Mediterranean Dialogue’ (look it up).
Can an Intercept post like this be deleted and apologized for after the fact?
Western media lies about Syria exposed (Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1VNQGsiP8M
liam ronnie mitchell
Excellent info. Eva, Vanessa and Carla Ortiz have been excellent at exposing the truth about Syria. If Glenn Greenwald wants to save his and the Intercepts reputation he would do well to cover the stories of these remarkable women who have been at the forefront of getting the truth out about Syria. It is also notable that the Intercept has never even touched upon the White Helmets terrorist scam. There’s no way Glenn Greenwald doesn’t know what is up with those murderous terrorists and the lies that are being foisted on the citizens of the world regarding them. Its disgusting. Glenn knows…and we know he knows. To see the horro of all the lies about Syria simply watch “Tapestry of Terror” which exposes the whole terrorist support scam that the US and western governments are orchestrating. Link here: https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b5a_1490533325
Not even ‘top shelf’ propaganda (no applause for those terrorists wearing the ‘White Helmets ?) but good for those thoroughly indoctrinated by western media.
I have no hope for the brainwashed author of this misinformation but maybe others would like to hear from a ‘credible’ source, one based on verifiable facts on the ground.Btw the way one will note many of te bs talking points of the above article debunked
Vanessa Beeley On Aleppo, White Helmets, MSM Lies and Syria’s Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evu9tuRB5hA
Ben No
The Intercept had a good run for about half a year. Party’s over I guess.
As someone with seven members of my family who’ve been murdered by ISIS and “moderate rebels” in Syria who were enabled by the CIA, this article is trash.
This article may contain more misrepresentation than anything else.
ecrujones
Usually The Intercept brings pretty good information, but when you guys stoop to publishing this sort of propaganda, it tarnishes your halo somewhat.
Tying your enemies to the most odious and reviled groups and people in existence is a pretty transparent propaganda tactic, and it would be more effective I guess if most of the folks who are against regime change in Syria are simply admirers of Bashar al-Assad. I don’t really care who likes Assad or what contacts he’s had with the far-right in Greece, but I do care that Syria was a stable country before it was attacked by a conglomeration of countries seeking to destroy it.
If Syrians are ready to get rid of Assad, then that is THEIR prerogative, not Israel’s, not the United States’, not Saudi Arabia’s, not Turkey’s. This is the point the Mariam Elba’s of the world need to get through their exceedingly thick skulls.
So some “editor” at “The Intercept” read this article and decided it was worth publishing.
what a crock of total shit.
This is the kind of article that just makes one shake one’s head at the Intercept. I mean, this is a theme I’ve never heard before, entirely invented out of nothing. Anyone who bothers to look into Syria’s history over the past decade quickly realizes that Assad was being embraced by western countries around 2008, with plenty of puff pieces about his great record on modernization and democratic reforms and so on. However, Assad refused to cut economic ties with Iran – that’s why he became the bad guy. If there’s a single document that explains why the U.S., Israel and Saudi Arabia were so keen to overthrow the Syrian government, it’s this May 25, 2009 US State Department cable, in particular this bit:
First, the Syrians and Iranians agreed Iran should export oil to Syria through the Iraqi pipeline network from Basra and Kirkuk to the Syrian port of Banias. Next, the Syrians announced they had increased the pace of construction on a gas pipeline from Aleppo towards the Turkish border in anticipation of receiving Iranian natural gas through Turkey (see paras 3-4 above). Further, both sides expressed a desire to link their electrical grids via the Deir Ezzor power station in eastern Syria and the Al Qaim station in western Iraq. Finally, the two delegations agreed they should facilitate bilateral trade by connecting their railroad network, with the Iranians noting their existing track is only 10km from the Iraqi port of Um Qasr.
All that aside, if there’s a foreign government that the “White Christian Pride” movement shares a lot with, it’s the neoNazis in Ukraine – but the Intercept won’t touch that issue, apparently because the Omidyar Network is backing the Ukrainian government that was installed by Victoria Nuland after the coup against the previous government. That’s a don’t-discuss issue, isn’t it? The only conclusion that makes any sense is that the Intercept’s editorial staff and owner corporation generally supports the neoliberal empire project; it’s kind of pathetic really, to read this kind of nonsense masquerading as journalism.
Sometimes everyone you don’t like isn’t in league against you. White supremacists generally aren’t big fans of Syrian refugees entering the US, and would probably admire anyone who promised to stop them. It is certainly possible that white supremacists are allied with Syria and Russia to take over the world, but I would like to see more evidence.
The Intercept needs a good night’s sleep.
Person Benito Mussolini
This is one of the flimsiest articles I have ever read at the Intercept. You don’t like Assad? Why not try to hurt Assad’s credibility by saying some Charlottesville neo Nazi loser posted something nice about Assad on his facebook page? Nevermind the fact that they are white Christian supremacists and Assad is Muslim. If anything in this case, Trump has shown love to both white nationalists and Russia. And Putin has shown love to Trump and Syria. So there is a cousin’s cousin’s cousin thing going on here. But by the time you are 4th cousins twice removed, it ain’t a strong relationship.
This is a symbol of the Ur-Sinistra and The Cabal Propaganda.
Wowza..Propaganda-elite..yikes
I visited Syria and saw the country for myself. Mariam Elba is a lying liar who lies. Yes Assad is a dictator – but he is a dictator who fiercely protected, and continues to protect, a multi-ethnic and multi-denominational Syria while the US and its allies have backed Sunni jihadists who wanted to turn Syria into another Saudi Arabia. There is a reason that all of the Christians in Syria support Assad.
Mariam Elba is a lying liar who shills for sharia law while dishonestly pretending to oppose intolerance.
Nete Peedham James
Yes, James, I’m SURE that you’ve “visited Syria”.
dana Nete Peedham
Syria was a top tourist destination for Christians until the US and its mercenaries, aka “moderate rebels” destroyed, plundered, looted its world heritage sites.
James Nete Peedham
I’ve been to 72 countries. I’ve been to Colombia and watched 12 year old girls sell themselves in the streets while policemen watched (Colombia is the USA’s #1 ally in Latin America). I’m sure you won’t believe me on this either.
What is more important is the points I made about Assad staunchly defending freedom of religion while the US and its allies backed “rebels” that openly admitted they wanted to turn Syria into an islamo-fascist caliphate.
The_Observer James
Not just Christians but in the areas that the Syrian regime have liberated from ISIS, al Nusra, al Qaida, etc there has been celebrations and people return to their homes. You don’t do that if you fear a “tyrant”. Also, the local tribesmen ally themselves with the Syrian regime against their foes and why not. The tribes have been living with the regime before this attempt at regime change by the USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.
I live in Australia, am Christian, and wish the Alawite Assad victory.
I wonder how the author reconciles her “Assad is Nazi” theory with the Left’s strong support for the Syrian government’s fight against Salafist and western imperialism. Does that make him simultaneously a Nazi ally and a Leftist? Maybe more nuance is warranted?
Also, Syria has been under assault by a very real and brutal transnational ideology of intolerance and social purity, namely the imperial Salafism promoted by Saudi Arabia et. al, so of course it has relied on a narrative of national unity and identity. Isn’t a “nationalistic banner” the right one when you are defending a by far more secular pluralistic nation-state against a genocidal transnational ideology? What kind of banner does the author suggest the Syrians rally behind in this situation? Just because an entity opposes a perceived transnational force of domination doesn’t make them a Nazi. There are different such forces, some imagined and some quite real.
Finally, if your question is why the Alt-Right guy likes Assad, shouldn’t you at least make an effort to ask himself or someone who thinks like him? Here we only see hypotheses meant to incriminate Assad by association.
Zara Navid
Good comment, and thank you for bringing this up.
A parallel can be seen to the 1930s in Germany when both Communists and the early fascists opposed capitalism. For completely different reasons, of course. Communists did–and still do–oppose capitalism because it is exploitative and oppressive and ultimately homicidal. The early Nazis opposed capitalism because it created a complacent bourgeoisie that was unengaged in the fight to reinvigorate the German nation.
Of course, the early Nazis’ anti-capitalism does not make capitalism and exploitation and death squads good and worthy of support, nor does the alt-right’s present-day anti-imperialism, embraced for completely different reasons than, say, the Marxist-Leninists, mean that imperialism is good. But the author does indeed try to tarnish Assad by way of association. And to these imperial/ISO/counterrevolutionary twats all nationalism is seen as bad, I guess, even if it is embraced by a people who have been historically under attack from colonialists and Zionists (like the Syrian people) who want to take their resources and dominate them. From a revolutionary socialist perspective, however, nationalism is good for the oppressed; it leads to dignity and liberation.
But making Assad into a Nazi is all the colonialists and their allies in the MENA have got, really. He and the SAA have won this war.
non sense
Interesting you fail to mention one little thing that Assad regime also promote and that is secularism. A society void of Islamic sharia law!
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By Amtul Q Farhat on May 25, 2019 • ( 1 Comment )
One-third of Canadians don’t want politicians to wear religious symbols: poll
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While most Canadians firmly back the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and strongly support the idea of diversity, a new poll suggests a third of Canadians would ban their elected officials from wearing religious symbols.
A majority of Quebecers canvassed in the survey agreed that federal, provincial and local politicians shouldn’t be allowed to wear hijabs, crucifixes or turbans on the job.
Nationally, 49 per cent of respondents said they would not favour such a ban, but 37 per cent said they would support it.
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Should politicians were school kids uniforms? Look all the same? If a Jewish person wanted to get elected showing that he was a Jew why should he not continue to wear his kippa? Same with a Sikh, or a Muslim. Or a Catholic priest.
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1st Source Bank recently participated in Junior Achievement's "JA in a Day" to bring financial education to 358 students at Warren Primary Center in South Bend. Thirty-four bank employees engaged the students in activities ranging from reading stories about earning and saving money to the kindergarten classes to demonstrating business profit and loss through activities in the fourth grade classrooms.
“Our team at 1st Source has always believed in straight talk and sound advice and they are proud to partner with JA to share their life and business experiences with children,” said Christopher J. Murphy III, 1st Source Chairman and CEO. “1st Source has been a strong supporter of JA over the years because the programs are proven to help young people understand economic concepts and prepare for a successful future. We have funded and applaud the expansion of JA within our community in the hope that it will lead to more innovative programs touching all of the children in our community.”
“Teachers welcome JA in their classrooms because the hands-on learning activities engage students and coordinate with the classroom curriculum,” says Dr. Carole Schmidt, Superintendent, South Bend Community School Corporation. “We also value the community volunteers who share JA and their real world experiences with our students.”
JA in a Day is one new opportunity being implemented to increase JA’s hands-on programming for youth in South Bend. It was the kickoff event of the merger of JA of Michiana with Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana. As a stronger organization, JA serving Michiana can now significantly increase its service to students in St. Joseph County. The goal is to serve an additional 102 classrooms across St. Joseph County with educator-requested JA programming during the 2013-14 school year. As a result, 4,050 pre-kindergarten through high school students in 180 classrooms (a 34% increase) are expected to benefit from JA experiences, with the support of an anticipated 180 educators and 220 adult/parent volunteers.
Photo: Jenny Zimmerman of Junior Achievement of Michiana presents Chris Murphy with 358 gumballs to represent the 358 children impacted at JA in a Day. Dr. Carole Schmidt also pictured.
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The Former iBilik & Propwall Founder Spills All On His New Prop Startup, Land+
Iylia Aziz
They say that third time’s the charm.
Ng Say Joe’s hoping that’ll be the case. But judging by how his previous startups, iBilik and Propwall, saw success as individual platforms dealing with the local property scene and were both sold at a total of RM13.5 million to Star Publication, he might not have to fear much.
Now his latest venture called Land+ aims to bring a fresh take into an industry he’s an expert in.
After selling his ventures, Joe remained in the property industry.
He was saddened to see little improvements when it came to giving the right solutions to seeking home owners.
It wasn’t just based on his own perception; other property agents chimed in with their dissatisfaction too.
“Services like iProperty & PropertyGuru keep increasing their subscription fee while iBilik is full of duplicated and low quality room listings ever since I left. So I started Land+ as a solution for both property owners & agents with no cost,” said Joe.
Land+ is essentially a real estate search engine for people to find property in Malaysia and Singapore easily through the use of advanced map navigation and machine learning algorithms. Think of it as a single platform for you to find all available property in one marketplace at a real-time basis.
It’s not exactly a new groundbreaking service but Joe never claimed it to be one. He did highlight the few differences that separates Land+ from its competitors.
Targeting direct owners to list their properties for no price.
Some platforms may require people to be an agent or pay an annual subscription fee before they can post their property listings but Land+ lets anyone do so for free. A bonus for those seeking a new marketplace to broaden their listings.
Bringing a “Pokemon Go” element into their app.
Yes, you read right. When you boot up their app, you’ll see their main navigation interface is done in the form of a map. So you could roam around the area you’re interested in and watch the app update you on what properties are nearby.
“I studied the elements that made Pokemon Go so addictive. It incorporated augmented reality into the phone map, which made people somewhat feel like treasure hunting in the real world,” said Joe.
“I wanted to rethink real estate in the era of smartphone that’s not possible with a computer browser.”
Marketing it as an all-in-one platform.
Rather than focusing on a niche, Joe wants Land+ to be a platform that combines auctions, properties and rooms, which the latter is usually ignored.
“Since I also founded iBilik, one of Malaysia’s leading room rental websites, I realise the importance of sublets,” added Joe.
It’s not just the type of properties. Land+ doesn’t split according to countries, as Joe prefers to combine all countries on a single unified platform, following the likes of Airbnb, Agoda and Uber.
And it’s all done on an app, which isn’t as common as we thought.
Image Credit: Land+
You would think most property platforms in Malaysia would want their own app, seeing as how dependent we are on our smartphones nowadays.
After a quick search, we found only one other prominent proptech platform that also has an accompanying mobile app.
“We want to be seen as a fast and efficient mobile-first real estate platform rather than some old and clunky website from the Dotcom 1.0 era where users have to print, sign and scan a registration form and wait for 3 days for approval.”
“With Land+, users can start listing their properties immediately right after installing our app,” said Joe.
“It is a huge risk, but wasn’t it riskier before?”
He sees bright things for Land+ in 2018 where he hopes to roll out more interesting and novel features for the app while also potentially expanding to more countries.
The idea isn’t necessarily fresh but Joe’s planning on investing RM1 million of his own funds into the startup which says a lot on how idealistic he is on Land+.
The platform’s surrounded by goliaths that dominate the top hits for Google property searches but this isn’t the first time Joe’s placing his bets on a risky thing.
He reminisced back in 2009 when he only had RM200k in his bank, after leaving his 5-figure salary job for his first startup.
“I had also just gotten married and it was right after the Great Recession here so the risks were higher. Compared to now, even if I lost all my RM1 million investment, I’m still better off than when I first started in 2009,” said Joe.
Land+ is the newest property tech venture from the founder of iBilik and Propwall.
After selling his startups to Star Publication, Ng Say Joe was bothered by the lack of innovation and improvement in the local proptech scene.
This led him to build Land+ as a fast and efficient mobile-first real estate platform for Malaysians and Singaporeans to find property.
You can download Land+ from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
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Jersey Boys – Bristol Hippodrome REVIEW
‘Oh what a night… late December 1963’ – one of the most well known Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons tunes. But little did I know they had written some of my favourites from the 60s including “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”. This was all revealed to me in the 2018 production of Jersey Boys.
So yes I like 60s music. Yes I was definitely the youngest person in the audience. Yes I missed out on the nostalgia element that everyone else was there for. But the question is take that element away and is it still a good show? Or is judging the show without that element not fair?
Personally I didn’t experience the nostalgia element, having being born in 1997… so be aware of this when reading my review. However I’ve grown up surrounded by 60s music so I’m not completely adverse to it.
The first half an hour of the show was a shock to the senses. They sped through the first years of the groups life in a frantic 30 minutes filled with scene changes and rapid script delivery. This left me feeling frazzled and not knowing where I was or whose story I was watching.
Luckily things soon calmed down and the production fell into a good pace. The constant breaking of the fourth wall from each of the band members as they passed the narrator baton between them kept you close to the story. Although I may argue that it was overused and became a lazy form of storytelling as they relied on it heavily for key moments in the story.
Songs interspersed with the dialogue helped give the show some moments to breathe before the pace picked up again. These moments were obviously why people had bought the tickets as the audience hung on every word of each song, erupting in prolonged applause after each rendition. From ‘December 1963’, ‘Sherry’, ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ and ‘Walk Like a Man’ there was just hit after hit to be enjoyed from this production. As well as a few extra thrown in that you wouldn’t necessarily associated with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
I cannot fault this production on its execution. Everything was so slick, the scene changes, the dance moves, the staging, even the hair styles. They have nailed the concept of simple yet effective and applied it in most areas giving the production a 10/10 for professionalism.
I feel I can’t finish the review without mentioning the guys themselves. Frankie Valli (played by Michael Watson) may have been the name in lights but in this show it is understudy Peter Nash as Tommy DeVito that takes on the lead role. The four main guys I feel lacked the suave charisma that I wanted from a 60s band but I am told the characterisation was true to the real group.
The production fell a little flat in places and I feel it lacked texture overall. But if what you’re after is a big shot of nostalgia washed down with a healthy glug of sing-a-long fun then look no further.
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What are the Top Six Social Video Trends for Brands in 2015?
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By Greg Jarboe, www.reelseo.com
Our friends at Unruly have just published a timely report entitled, “9 Social Video Trends of 2014”, and we will take a look at six of them in this post. One is about the World Cup becoming the most shared event of all time, which is a trend that online video marketers can’t cash in on until 2018. Two are about programmatic video opportunities and viewability standards, which appear to be on Unruly’s “wish list” for the coming year. But, six of the social video trends discussed in the report are ones that you can take to the bank in 2015. Let’s take a look at them in detail:
#1 The Speed of Social Video Sharing Has Doubled
According to Unruly, the percentage of shares a brand video attracts online in its first three days of launch has almost doubled in 12 months. In 2013, 25 percent of shares occurred in the first three days following a campaign launch. Fast forward to 2014 and that number increased to 42 percent! This year, two-thirds of all brand video shares occurred within the first week of launch.
This change in pace, brought on by the increase in always-on video consumption across mobile devices, affects critical distribution strategy for brands and agencies. The increase in viral velocity that Unruly has seen in 2014 means that it’s more vital than ever to launch hard and fast in this critical launch phase in 2015 or risk losing out on potential online buzz.
#2 Facebook is Shaking up the Video Ecosystem
This was the year when Facebook, the world’s largest social network, challenged YouTube, the world’s largest video platform for share of consumer views and share of advertiser dollars. Although, Compete PRO’s latest report shows that YouTube.com had 166,140,660 unique visitors from the U.S. in October 2014, while Facebook.com had 165, 213,207.
Nevertheless, Facebook rolled out sponsored video ads for brands within the newsfeed with a $1 million-a-day price tag. Facebook also made its view counts publicly available – an alternative to the YouTube counter that has long held sway with advertisers and pundits alike. So, online video marketers can expect the horse race to continue in 2015.
#3 Brands are Using Video Marketing to Get Emotional
Our friends at Unruly first told us that a video’s sharing potential is based of emotional response back in July 2012. How we feel about a video is the most critical factor in prompting us to share video content with our social networks. The stronger we feel about an ad, the more likely we are to want become advocates for the brand behind the commercial.
Today, most brands “get it.” From epic love stories to exhilarating World Cup warm-ups, the ads this year had one common thread – strong emotional storytelling – as brands thought hard about their emotional DNA and created ads that made a strong emotional connection with their target audience.
And it appears that many brands were listening last year when Unruly said, “Advertisers should stop trying to be funny if they want their ads to go viral!” Funny was definitely out of fashion this year, with only 2 ads which tried to make us laugh making it into this year’s top 20 most popular global ads, compared with 8 in last year’s Viral Video Chart.
After the jokes and pranks of 2013 – which Unruly has dubbed “the year of the prankvert” – advertisers tried to spread a little bit of happiness and joy in 2014. Exhilaration also took center stage, fuelled by the excitement surrounding the World Cup, while brands such as Budweiser, John Lewis, and Sainsbury’s had us reaching for our tear-soaked handkerchiefs.
My personal favorite was “Sainsbury’s OFFICIAL Christmas 2014 Ad.” Made in partnership with The Royal British Legion, it commemorates the extraordinary events of Christmas Day, 1914, when the guns fell silent and two armies met in no-man’s land, sharing gifts – and even playing football together.
I pulled out one of Unruly’s “Will It Share?” scorecards, which was left over from the TrueView Advertising Training Workshop that I taught at the 2014 Reel Video Marketing Summit. I wanted to see if I could identify the psychological responses that Sainsbury’s social video triggered for me. Two were on the intense end of the 10-point scale: “in tears” and “deeply nostalgic”. And one was on the strong end of the scale: “enlightened”.
#4 Brands are Doing Well by Doing Good
Brands also used their online ads to promote good causes in record numbers this year, with a third of 2014’s top 20 videos promoting social causes. From providing school meals for children alongside the World Food Programme (Activia & Shakira’s “La La La”) to raising awareness for countries in crisis (Save the Children’s “Most Shocking Second a Day”) through promoting safe driving practices (“Eyes on the Road” by Volkswagen), brands and charities used the emotional depth and global reach of social video to raise awareness for social campaigns integral to their brand values.
Whilst not providing an individual video in the top 20, the most talked-about social video campaign for social good this year was undoubtedly the Ice Bucket Challenge, which drenched millions with ice cold water across the globe to raise awareness for the neurodegenerative disease ALS. The campaign gave massive exposure to the disease and across the millions of video uploads from celebrities and members of the public alike, generated a billion views on YouTube and 10 billion views on Facebook. Most importantly, it has helped to raise more than $115 million in donations since July 29.
#5 “Trackvertising” is Off the Charts
Is that an ad or a music video? That question was asked a lot this year, thanks largely to the success of Activia’s successful World Cup collaboration with Colombian pop princess Shakira. The brand’s video “La La La” overtook Volkswagen’s “The Force” to become the most shared ad of all time, with 5.82 million shares and over a quarter of a billion views as of 18 November, 2014.
This trend prompted Unruly to coin the term, “trackvertising.” A “trackvert” is a music video co-released by a brand and an artist, where the collaboration is clearly announced either in the video title, video description or within the video itself. Other examples from 2014 include:
Featuring the likes of Elton John, Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder and a slew of other musicians, BBC Music released “God Only Knows” (693,461 shares) to promote its music channel in October.
Released during this year’s World Cup, Beats by Dre released “The Game Before The Game” (444,384 shares) featuring athletes from around the globe showing how they use music to prep for a match.
Cornetto released a video of teenage romance this June with Turkish star Yalin in its “Aşk Diye” video (345,195 shares).
Music videos are the most shared type of video content on the social web, with an average share rate of 7.1% compared to brand videos at 2.1%, and music triggers deep-seated emotional responses, which are critical to brands as emotional intensity is the most significant variable in driving social activity. So, I expect more brands will collaborate with artists to create “trackverts” in 2015.
#6 “Fempowerment” is Taking Center Stage
Dove may have started the ball rolling back in 2006 with its “Real Beauty” campaign, but in 2014 there was a noticeable shift in the way brands market to women. The fact women control two-thirds of family purchasing decisions, according to Nielsen, undoubtedly helped to push this trend into the spotlight.
Leading the way in 2014 was Always’ “#LikeAGirl” ad, showing what young girls really think it means to act “like a girl”.
Another ad in 2014 that stole people’s hearts was Under Armour’s “I Will What I Want”, featuring American ballet dancer Misty Copeland with her triumphant underdog story. This traditionally tough brand elicited moments of inspiration and female strength that connected with anyone – male or female – who has tried to prove someone wrong.
So whether it was connecting with future mothers (“Dear Future Mom”), sassy little girls explaining equality (“Potty-Mouthed Princesses Drop F-Bombs for Feminism”), or breaking down gender stereotypes (#ShineStrong), femvertising was headline news in 2014. And I expect it will continue to be one of the trends that you can take to the bank in 2015.
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Facility funding to richer clubs while Wests Tigers, Manly miss out
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12:00AM July 27, 2017
Brent Read Senior sports writer
Plans by Wests Tigers and Manly to build state-of-the-art training facilities are on a knife edge as the state government delays an announcement on centres of excellence funding to deal with issues in their proposals.
It is understood the Tigers and Sea Eagles were ranked in the bottom two positions among the NRL clubs who applied for a slice of the $40 million set aside by the state government as part of its stadiums strategy.
The Tigers submitted a $57m plan in March to build a centre of excellence at their current base at Concord Oval — chief executive Justin Pascoe described the development, which also incorporated a multipurpose community facility, as being vital for the evolution of the organisation to remain competitive in the NRL.
The Tigers were hoping to receive about $10m from the state government, but it is understood there were concerns with their proposal on at least two fronts — one surrounded finance and the other around the ambitious nature of the plan.
The Sea Eagles wanted to build a more modest $20m facility at their base on Sydney’s northern beaches. They were also aiming to secure about $10m of state government money, but it is believed there are also concerns surrounding their side of the financing.
Sources told The Australian there were “complexities” with both submissions. Both clubs, along with the others who applied for a share of the centre of excellence fund, were vetted by a six-person panel that included representatives from government, the NRL and the clubs.
They ranked each of the bids and then passed on their advice to the state government — Sports Minister Stuart Ayres is ultimately charged with dictating how the $40m will be distributed.
It is understood Newcastle, South Sydney and the Sydney Roosters were the three top-ranked clubs. Wests Group, which is buying the Knights licence from the NRL, has committed $10m towards a centre of excellence in the shadows of their home ground in Newcastle. That figure is expected to be matched by the state government.
South Sydney have been working on a new $32m facility at Maroubra in Sydney’s eastern suburbs that would be funded through a combination of their own funds, Randwick Council, the federal government and the state government’s centre of excellence pot.
The Roosters have also put forward a proposal that would result in them moving from their current home adjacent to Allianz Stadium to a new facility. If those three clubs receive the funds they are pursuing, it would leave precious little to be shared among the other clubs who have pitched up to the state government.
It is believed Canterbury, St George Illawarra and the Cronulla Sharks have applied for a share of the state funding. Ayres said the government was still assessing the respective bids and expected to have a decision within weeks. “The NSW government is assessing submissions for the NSW Rugby League Centres of Excellence program, with successful projects expected to be announced in coming weeks,” he said. The $40m package was set aside by the state government last year as part of the $1.6 billion investment in Sydney stadiums. The state government is yet to announce its final plan for the distribution of that money as it works out what proportion of money to invest in ANZ Stadium as opposed to Allianz Stadium.
The initial plan was to turn ANZ Stadium into a modern rectangular venue that would continue to host rugby league as its major tenant. South Sydney and Canterbury already play out of the venue while Wests Tigers and St Georgie Illawarra have deals with the venue.
The rest of the money would be used to refurbish Allianz Stadium. Lobbying has continued for more money to be directed to the Moore Park precinct at the expense of the ANZ Stadium redevelopment. The result has been a delay in finalising the future for both grounds, which has forced the NRL to delay a decision on whether it will take future grand finals to Brisbane or elsewhere.
Tiger_Steve last edited by
Didn’t we used to use all the facilities at Homebush? I seem to remember in Sheens time the Tigers office and training facilities were at Homebush. Maybe I’m way off here??
gallagher last edited by
If we have a $57ml COE plan and miss out on the $10ml from the govt, surely we can still go ahead with a $47mil COE.
Or will the club just continue to kick stones down the street.
balmain boy last edited by
That is pretty disgraceful from the government and NRL . The rich get richer and the poor get poorer! The clubs that have nothing have larger and more ambitious plans to try and catch up. Formal complaints would need to be lodged.
Until we get this COE we will be a basketcase. Clubs which already have some of the best facilities in the comp can get even better while there’s no support to those trying to build themselves up from scratch?
Snake last edited by
There is obviously not much funding from the club or stack holders looks like Pascoe is just pulling rabbits out of his hat ,looking like just another blow hard CEO in the conga line the clubs has had over the years.
tiger05premier last edited by
Why do the rorters need a COE? Every player they have are already developed in other areas and than they just use their endless salary cap rorting money pit to buy them
fergiefurr last edited by
sadly this COE never even sounded like getting off the ground to me.
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I hope the state govt step up and just increase the pot or pull us up the ranks. I would be gobsmacked if they didn’t help the Tigers get it up given it will be a community facility sitting right in the middle of a major urban redevelopment precinct on Parramatta Rd.
Some of the funding might be from private investors expecting a rate of return. That rate could change if there is no equity from the state govt.
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Admin used to be in a building at Underwood Rd in homebush… They trained at Concord back then I think as well as Cambo and LO.
Champagne tastes on a beer budget = Wests Tigers
Needaname last edited by
Can’t say I’m surprised.
These pipe dreams were never going to come to life.
I mentioned a couple months ago that hinging on the result of this centre of excellence in the inner west puts our future in Sydney on a slippery scale.
Leaving it all in the governments hands I’m not surprised they’ve decided our fate.
Seams like the clubs and government want to move us to the south west corridor or out of Sydney completely.
I’m disappointed to say the least that our management / board is so naive to think that the government would hand us money just because we are a basket case and we are desperate.
It’s simple West or Bust!
Either Cambelltown or Perth.
Yossarian last edited by
Roosters huh? You can only shake your head and hope it’s based up on the Central Coast at least. I’m guessing nobody gets anything in the end.
Cultured_Bogan last edited by
Just get a Wests fan in as PM. Pretty sure Manly and St. George saw funding under Toned Abs and Johnny Howard.
Must say that I do recall, when, during one of the Coach/CEO Q&A sessions …. Pascoe talked up this proposal , and Ivan jus gave him this “really?” look.
Found it amusing at the time.
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Why can’t uncle harry build us a facitlty and write it off as a bad debt. No one would ever question that we would never be able to fund it!
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Written by chailimsydney July 16, 2018
What about if we hide behind a table and sneak past the guard? Some insights in storytelling and innovation.
I wanted to challenge my kids to think different in storytelling and problem solving, so introduced them to Role Playing Games (RPGs). For those unfamiliar with RPGs, you choose a character and play through a guided adventure as that character, fighting, finding treasure and generally reacting to the story told by your guide.
With me leading as the Story Teller (the guide), they (The Girl, aged 8, and The Boy, aged 6) chose an avatar (a Lego character for convenience) and were armed with a limited set of health, rechargeable magic spells, and a dice. They also drew a map of their journey as they went.
That question in the title? Within 2 minutes of starting the game, they were already picking the gaps in the story. Fantastic isn’t it, how quickly the mind starts to innovate when open to challenge?
It can be so empowering to balance adaptation while retaining focus on the end goal. After a sudden betrayal by one of the characters they were trying to help, they realised the need to understand a situation before rushing in, and used this to save time and effort while solving smaller side quests and still make progress in the overall quest.
Sometimes they adapted by testing new tactics – such as targeting the hearts of the bad guys when fighting. In RPGs, fighting is resolved with dice to see who wins by rolling higher numbers. Even though targeting the heart is a more difficult roll, they still chose to pursue that option. In accepting the risk and challenge, they innovated a solution (that I had not predicted) to a problem that was blocking their progress. As reward, they got more valuable treasure than they would have otherwise received.
By working together and questioning the story as I told it, they chose not to accept the rules wholesale, but as a guidebook to solve quests and tell their story. When presented with a dragon whose best friend was the magic rhino they had killed the day before, they negotiated a clever win-win compromise to get out of an impossible battle, and even scoring a ride home at the end of their quest.
The kids absolutely had a blast, and at the end, we looked at the map they had drawn and identified other side quests that they had uncovered but not completed along their journey. They’re mapping a much larger story to tell in their RPG project.
By adapting to challenges, they went far beyond the story I thought I was going to tell, and told a more fulfilling one. Maps, risk, reward, solutions. They’re all familiar terms in office innovation, and connect with different types of stories, whether at office or at play.
We know how curiosity and discovery in play can benefit creativity and innovation. It’s also important that innovating is fun, by making us engage with the story directly to turn it into something unexpectedly better, and even when targeting the heart of solving problems in novel ways.
The only problem is whether to begin a new story, or solve the remaining quests on this one.
Any comments, ideas or quests I can throw at my kids in future? Roll the dice and message me.
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The Health Issue: An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death In the early 20th century, the German biochemist Otto Warburg believed that tumors could be treated by disrupting their source of energy. His idea was dismissed for decades — until now....
Montana governor says he’s open to idea of supporting Keystone XL pipeline Montana Gov. Steve Bullock said Monday during an online meeting about climate change that he's open to supporting the Keystone XL pipeline "if it's done right,'' a departure from other Democratic pres...
Mexico rejects idea to keep Central American asylum seekers Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said Monday that his country would reject a proposed solution to the immigration and tariff stand-off with the U.S. that would involve it keeping Central Americ...
"Zakir Musa's Death Ended New Idea Of Militancy In Kashmir": Top Cop Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh said on Tuesday said that with the killing of the chief commander of Ansar Gazwatul Hind Zakir Musa, the new idea of militancy had ended...
Floyd Mayweather laughs at idea of Conor McGregor rematch Floyd Mayweather isn’t warm to the idea of a rematch with Conor McGregor. Though McGregor, the UFC superstar who lost to Mayweather by TKO in a 2017 boxing megafight, has publicly stated he want...
Fisker's Bold New Turn Indicator Innovation Is Really a Resurrection of an Old Idea You might recall that noted designer of the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Henrik Fisker, is designing a new, all-electric SUV. So far, those of us in the turn-indicator appreciation and admirati...
Apple CEO says U.S. scrutiny 'fair,' but rejects idea company is a monopoly Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook denied that the company is a monopoly as the U.S. government gears up for a potentially unprecedented probe into whether the iPhone maker and other technology giants...
Former Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein: Trump's tariffs aren't a bad idea The United States may be feeling the pain of tariffs now, but they will hurt China in the longer term, says former Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein....
'An Idea Whose Time Has Come': Congress Hears the Case for Reparations on Juneteenth The contributions of African Americans to this country—and the matter of what the federal government still owes them for those contributions—will take center stage on Capitol Hill today as the House h...
Malaysia rejects idea of Russian involvement in MH17 downing KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has rejected the implication that Russia may have been involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine in 2014. M...
MBA students face off in challenge to create the next best idea in impact investing An inaugural competition challenged MBA students to come up with investment portfolios that have a positive social and environmental impact without sacrificing financial returns. The contest could poi...
No-say Nissan had tech that drove Fiat Chrysler-Renault idea TOKYO (AP) — Nissan wasn’t consulted on the proposed merger between its alliance partner Renault and Fiat Chrysler, but the Japanese automaker’s reluctance to go along may have helped brin...
See the Greatest BET Awards Looks Ever: From Lil' Kim's Colorful Bikini Ensemble to Beyoncé's Blinding Gown It's that time of year when celebs serve bawdy and face! The biggest and brightest stars will make their way to the 2019 BET Awards on Sunday, June 23. What's more? Fierce femmes......
The Ice Bowl and beyond: Packers legend Bart Starr's six greatest games There’s no disputing that winning the Ice Bowl was the pinnacle of Bart Starr’s career. Here are the top five other highlights from QB’s career. ...
Katherine Schwarzenegger Proves That Chris Pratt Is Already the Greatest Instagram Husband Chris Pratt is adding a new profession to his already impressive resume: Instagram husband! The Jurassic World star snapped a stunning photo of wife Katherine Schwarzenegger and her......
Eleven Years After The Greatest Match Ever: A Federer-Nadal Wimbledon Liveblog Novak Djokovic awaits in the final. Either Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal will join him after today’s semifinal. GOATs are grazing everywhere the eye can see. Roger has mastered the grass and Wimbledon...
Opinion: Is coach Steve Kerr one of NBA's greatest? He will be if Warriors win this title With all the headwinds facing the Warriors now, winning this title may be enough to put Steve Kerr on the same tier as the best who’ve ever done it. ...
Kelly Ripa Just Made Us Feel Old With Her Latest--and Greatest--Family Throwback Kids grow up so fast these days. For many loyal daytime TV fans, they feel like they've had a front-row seat to watching Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos' kids go from kids to......
Valentina Vezzali: Six-time Olympic champion… but this bronze was her greatest moment "We revisit Valentina Vezzali’s bronze medal match from London 2012 – a bout that proved you should never give up. Head to the Olympic Channel to watch the full episode: https://oly.ch/2Wz9Z5z"...
Bill Gates calls failure to fight Android his “greatest mistake” Enlarge / Bill Gates speaks to Village Global. (credit: Village Global) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently gave a wide-ranging interview to VC firm Village Global, and at one point, the topic ...
Racing lines: Why Niki Lauda was sport's greatest 'comeback king' The man's incredible determination will have a lasting impact on more than just Formula One Tiger Woods was rightly lauded for his Masters victory last month, his first golf Major in 11 years. Nothin...
7-Eleven Japan shut down a mobile payments app after only two days because hackers exploited a simple security flaw and customers lost over $500,000 FlickrCC/Mike Mozart On July 1, 7-Eleven Japan launched a mobile payment app, called 7pay, that had the security flaw of allowing anyone to reset any other user's password, ZDNet reported. Bad actor...
"Your Flagship Road Schemes Were My Idea": Yashwant Sinha Blasts Centre Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha today claimed that the central government's flagship projects - the National Highway Development Project (NHDP) and the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) -.....
Renault-FCA merger idea remains good opportunity -France's Le Maire The idea of a merger between Renault SA and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) remains a good opportunity, but nothing has changed in terms of the conditions the French government has set, French Finance Minister Br...
Guggenheim names Anheuser-Busch a 'best idea' on its shift away from traditional brands Shifting focus to Michelob Ultra from Bud Light, a strong innovation pipeline, and premiumization across the portfolio have increased Guggenheim's conviction in Anheuser-Busch's growth traje...
He spent his career putting gangs in jail. A radical idea changed everything Despite years of tough policing, Oakland couldn’t get a handle on gun crime. Was the solution a community-based approach?Want the latest news on our investigation? Sign up to our newsletter Ersie Joyn...
Kelly Clarkson Has an Idea for Taylor Swift About That Scooter Braun Drama Kelly Clarkson is offering some advice to Taylor Swift amid her music battle. In late June, the "ME!" singer took to Tumblr to react to the news that Scooter Braun had acquired......
Gaia rebooted: New version of idea explains how Earth evolved for life The controversial Gaia hypothesis sees Earth as a superorganism adapted to be perfect for life. A weird type of evolution may finally show how that actually happens...
Baltimore mayor floats idea of boxing matches to reduce gun violence Let’s get ready to rumble? Public boxing matches might be a way to reduce gun violence in Baltimore, the city’s new mayor says. Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young, who took office last month, floated the unor...
Andrew Scheer wants an energy corridor across Canada. Here’s how the decades-old idea could work The notion of a pan-Canadian corridor dedicated to rail, power lines and pipelines has been around for at least half a century but it looks like it's about to get a big publicity boost....
Behar turns on fellow Dem's $1G a month idea: 'Not a long-term solution' "The View" co-host Joy Behar turned on fellow Democrat Andrew Yang's plan for a universal basic income Monday and said the idea of a constant federal stipended is unsustainable. ...
Mexico president floats idea of recall referendum in March 2021 Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday proposed holding a recall referendum on his presidency on March 21, 2021, if Congress cannot agree to a constitutional change permitting the vo...
'Biggest compliment yet': Greta Thunberg welcomes oil chief's 'greatest threat' label Activists say comments by Opec head prove world opinion is turning against fossil fuelsGreta Thunberg and other climate activists have said it is a badge of honour that the head of the world’s most po...
Quentin Tarantino lauds Sergio Leone as “the greatest of all Italy’s filmmakers” in new essay Perhaps more than any other director working today, Quentin Tarantino owes his success to the filmmaking greats who came before him. The years he spent working in a video rental store, obsessively wat...
'The greatest game of all time' : Celebrations continue for England's World Cup triumph – video The celebrations continued after a dramatic and tantalisingly close final saw England crowned Cricket World Cup champions by beating New Zealand.Speaking the morning after Sunday's final, Joe Root sai...
The real story behind The Greatest Showman is one of exploitation. It’s time we told it | Rhoda Roberts New First Nations cabaret Natives Go Wild will reveal the shocking true history of Indigenous people and the circus – through song, dance and humourThe character of PT Barnum – the founder of the Barn...
Cody Bellinger, having the greatest season in Dodgers history, wants World Series rings like his dad Cody Bellinger, who is having the greatest season in Dodgers history, wants to match his dad with a World Series ring. ...
Opinion: World Cup puts U.S. women, families in touch with history, our Greatest Generation Six months after U.S. women tour Omaha Beach with 99-year-old World War II veteran Steve Melnikoff, their families get a similar opportunity. ...
White House backs off 'backdoor rebate' idea for lowering drug prices The White House has thrown out a plan to upend the drug pricing rebate model that President Trump's health chief once said could be the "most significant change" in how medicines are priced....
Chris Stirewalt on Marianne Williamson: Press will 'eat up' idea of 'hippy lady with crystals' Fox News politics editor Chris Stirewalt predicted that long-shot presidential candidate Marianne Williamson would get "tons" of press attention due to her reputation as a "hippy" and spiritual guru....
Foxconn Plant to Open in 2020 With Fewer Jobs Than Promised, and State Rep Has 'No Idea What They’re Actually Going to Be Doing' After months of growing confusion and anger, the people of Wisconsin are finally getting some answers about the manufacturing plant that Foxconn is building in their state. Though even those answers a...
Canada rejects idea of halting extradition of top Huawei executive to United States Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Thursday dismissed a suggestion that Ottawa block the extradition of a top executive from China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd to the United States, saying...
‘Users have no idea’: Mozilla exec says Amazon Alexa recordings ‘shocked’ his family Alan Davidson, the vice-president of global policy, trust and security for the company that makes the Firefox browser, appeared at a Canadian committee....
Anthony Joshua will watch Madison Square Garden’s greatest fights before going out to defend his titles Madison Square Garden’s proud boxing history is not lost on Anthony Joshua The post Anthony Joshua will watch Madison Square Garden’s greatest fights before going out to defend his titles appear...
A New Toni Morrison Documentary Gives the World’s Greatest Living Writer Her Flowers, and Plants New Seeds Toni Morrison had to figure out a way to talk to Muhammad Ali. It was the mid-’70s and at the time, she was his editor, tasked with bringing his autobiography to the world. But Ali wouldn’t speak to h...
Greatest day in motor sports: Ranking the Monaco Grand Prix, Indy 500 and Coca-Cola 600 There are three huge and iconic motor sports races on Sunday. For the Win ranked the crown jewels from best to worst. ...
Jon Voight declares Trump 'greatest president since Abraham Lincoln' in late-night video Actor Jon Voight expressed his support for President Trump, declaring him "the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln" in a two-part video message posted on Twitter on Friday night....
Boxing News at Five: Ruiz Jnr’s trainer says rematch is a bad idea for Joshua, Valdez wants Frampton before moving up Manny Robles believes Anthony Joshua rematching Andy Ruiz Jnr will prove a big error, and Oscar Valdez has told his team to go get Carl Frampton The post Boxing News at Five: Ruiz Jnr’s trainer says r...
Not a baaad idea: Pilot project to bring grazing sheep to Living Prairie Museum A pilot project to test the feasibility of grazing sheep as a way to manage vegetation is coming to the St. James-area museum – one of the few remaining areas of Winnipeg still home to native tall gra...
Lewis Hamilton wins F1 Monaco Grand Prix to kick of motor sports' greatest day Lewis Hamilton won the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday to extend his championship lead over Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas. ...
Greatest golf ever played: An oral history of Tiger Woods' dominant win at 2000 U.S. Open In the 100th edition of the U.S. Open, in his 100th tournament as a professional, Tiger Woods delivered a tour de force in 2000. ...
Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just Works’ Back in 2017, Elon Musk had grand visions for the Hyperloop test track built by The Boring Company, his tunneling firm, in Los Angeles. It would have proprietary vehicles with varying capacities for p...
'Wrong, plain and simple': 50 years later, NYPD apologizes for Stonewall riots Commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday that "the actions taken by the NYPD were wrong." ...
Aston Martin boss: Brexit strategy "laughable", EV policy "non-sensical", idea of full autonomy "absurd" Aston CEO Andy Palmer hits out at Driving the Future event in London Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer has described the government’s strategy for Brexit as “laughable”, its EV-focused policy as "non-sens...
Rafael Nadal won his 12th French Open: The 'King of Clay' dominated Dominic Thiem cementing his status as one of the greatest players in the history of men's tennis Clive Mason/Getty Images Rafael Nadal won his 12th French Open title on Sunday, defeating Austrian Dominic Thiem in four sets. Nadal and Thiem traded powerful shots early, but as the match wore on, N...
Scott Disick Declares He's "the Greatest Leader That's Ever Lived" in New Flip It Like Disick Promo Scott Disick has a real passion for real estate. In fact, fans will get to witness this passion firsthand when Flip It Like Disick premieres Sunday, Aug. 4 on E! However, the Keeping Up......
| Greatest story ever sold: Media rush to tell Thai cave story The appetite for the dramatic story of the Thai cave rescue remains insatiable ahead of the one-year anniversary of the incredible mission to extract the 12 boys and their coach....
Jake Gyllenhaal lauds sister Maggie as "The Greatest Gyllenhaal" during Whitney Houston song parody Did you know “love” is actually synonymous with “Gyllenhaal”? Because, fun fact, it is. And James Corden wants you all to know with this Whitney Houston parody professing his love for Jake Gyllenhaal....
Tony Romo is the greatest in his sport. That sport being celebrity golf, of course. The CBS analyst and former Cowboys quarterback wins his second straight American Century Championship, saying this one was a much less stressful victory than in 2018....
Ex-Jaguars coach Jack Del Rio said he had 'no idea' team would draft Blaine Gabbert Jack Del Rio said he wasn't even in the room when the Jaguars traded up to select QB Blaine Gabbert with the No. 10 pick in the 2011 NFL draft. ...
Sorry, 'Game of Thrones' fans: HBO chief shoots down Arya Stark sequel idea "Nope, nope, nope," HBO chief Casey Bloys told The Hollywood Reporter, dashing fan's hopes of getting a spinoff about Arya Stark's next adventure. ...
Boris Johnson vows to make Britain 'greatest place on Earth' if he wins battle for Number 10 Boris Johnson has vowed to make Britain the "greatest place on Earth" if he gains the keys to Number 10 as he said he will united the country by delivering Brexit....
CBOE ADDS PUT BINARY OPTIONS ON S&P 500® INDEX (SPXsm) AND CBOE VOLATILITY INDEX® (VIX®): PROVIDING A NEW DIMENSION TO SIMPLE STRATEGY CHICAGO, September 22, 2008 - Beginning Tuesday, September 23, Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) will add put binary options on the S&P 500 Index (SPX)—ticker BSZ—and on the CBOE Volatility Index ...
Blood In The Water: These People Enjoying A Very Casual Conversation About Miyazaki Movies Have No Idea That There Is An Absolute Miyazaki Freak Lying In Wait Among Them For now, the mood is light and cheerful at a house party in Los Angeles, where a group of acquaintances are chatting about movies, but in reality, they’re all standing at the edge of a delicate precip...
England's cricket stars celebrate alongside fans at The Oval after winning the World Cup in 'greatest game ever' Ben Stokes leads all-night party to toast cricket win Champagne and pizza celebration at £500-a-night hotel Bleary-eyed heroes greeted with cheers from fans at Oval...
Caboom! Keanu Reeves is gifting us his greatest summer with ‘Toy Story 4,’ ‘Always Be My Maybe’ Keanu Reeves is so totally back on top of pop culture ('Toy Story 4,' 'John Wick 3') that this summer is officially dedicated to his awesomeness. &#...
Cori 'Coco' Gauff says ultimate goal is to be the 'greatest' ever following Wimbledon run Cori "Coco" Gauff magical Wimbledon run is just the start for the 15-year-old. She wants to 'be the greatest' because 'anything (is) possible.' ...
'Voice' alum Jordan Pruitt: 'Greatest joy' will come when abuser is in 'orange jumpsuit' Singer Jordan Pruitt, a "Voice" contestant in 2012, explains how her abuser groomed her for years before doing anything sexual. ...
Behind the Scenes in the Food Biz: Four Culinary Memoirs It’s hardly glamorous but still enticing, as reported by a young black chef, an obsessive blogger, a prickly female restaurateur and the man who made Noma famous....
Man who set fatal Queens fire staged a sex assault to frame ex-boyfriend The man torched a Queens home — killing himself and two others — was busted days earlier for staging a home invasion sex attack he hoped would get his ex-boyfriend arrested, police and law enforcement...
Serena and Halep chase milestones in Wimbledon final Serena Williams no longer wants to obsess about elusive Grand Slam "number 24" and Simona Halep is desperate to win Wimbledon more than to stop the American reaching that milestone but there will be n...
How to Support the Amazon Prime Day Strike For the second year in a row, Amazon workers are planning to strike on Prime Day. In 2018, Amazon warehouse workers in Germany, Poland, and Spain went on strike during Prime Day; this year, fulfillmen...
Facebook denies being a social network after it got sued (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) This week, Facebook responded to a lawsuit relating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal by claiming it isn't a social network and not somewhere you can make frie...
TV tribes: the style mantras of your 4 favourite TV shows, decoded From Eleven's makeover in Stranger Things, to Big Little Lies blow-dries and Love Island's look-but-don't splash Lycra, summer TV is all about the aesthetic...
Tropical Storm Barry gains strength as it heads towards New Orleans New Orleans residents stocked up on supplies and prepared their homes on Friday as a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry threatened severe rain and flooding when it comes ashore as possibly the first A...
'Hawkeye' Jeremy Renner headlines Summer of Jeep ad campaign The actor best known as Hawkeye in 'The Avengers' films is the new face and voice of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ Summer of Jeep ad campaign. ...
Murder victim’s sons jump their mother’s killer at hearing, attack captured on video A sentencing hearing for a man found guilty of fatally shooting an Ohio mother two years ago ended abruptly after the woman’s sons attacked the convicted killer. The shocking courtroom assault h...
Tucson man sentenced to life in prison in girlfriend’s death TUCSON – A man was sentenced Friday morning to natural life in the killing of his girlfriend in 2017. On June 11, Mario Jesus Dorame was found guilty of killing Maria Dolores Escobedo. Mario Jesus Dor...
Jordan buckling under pressure of growing refugee crisis Jordan’s dangerous geopolitical position, surrounded by civil wars and taking in overwhelming amounts of foreigners, could seriously threaten the survival of one of the only stable regimes left in the...
Yankees, Mets may face reversal of fortunes on wagering front With the All-Star break in the rearview mirror, are the Yankees and Mets poised to experience reversals of fortune for bettors trying to make a fortune at sportsbooks? Give it some serious thought. Be...
Czech Social Democrats to decide Monday whether to quit government Czech Social Democrats will decide on Monday whether to leave the minority government led by Prime Minister Andrej Babis due to a long-running spat over replacing one of their ministers, party chief J...
Cardi B Claps Back After Jermaine Dupri Calls Today's Female Rappers "Strippers Rapping" Cardi B has a few words for Jermaine Dupri. After the 46-year-old artist likened today's female rappers to "strippers rapping," the "Bodak Yellow" star took to social......
The petty, wonderful and delightfully weird rise of Horns Down The anti-Texas sign that unites the Big 12 and rivals beyond has been around for more than 60 years but really took on a life of its own over the past 12 months....
Google admits over 1,000 private Google Home recordings were leaked More than 1,000 private conversations recorded by Google Home devices have been leaked after it was revealed that Google lets human subcontractors listen to and transcribe recordings....
Oprah Winfrey opens her private road during Maui fire to help evacuations Oprah Winfrey got a "big mahalo" for opening her private road on her property in Maui to help people quickly escape a brush fire that broke out Thursday....
5 new releases we love: David Berman returns, Bleached sobers up, and more There’s a lot of music out there. To help you cut through all the noise, every week The A.V. Club is rounding up A-Sides, five recent releases we think are worth your time. You can listen to these and...
Shouldn't Let "Minor Speed Bumps" Come In Way Of Relations With US: Envoy Hopeful that India and the United States will find a "mutually satisfactory" solution to their bilateral differences, the Indian Ambassador to the US Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that the two countries...
'Britons will soon feel the slap': Iran threatens UK after British navy sends second warship to Persian Gulf The British Navy sent another warship to the Persian Gulf region after one of its destroyers fended off three Iranian ships attempting to harass a British tanker....
Nationwide wave of immigrant arrests to commence this weekend, Trump says A nationwide wave of arrests of immigrants facing deportation will commence this weekend, U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday, confirming that the plan, intended to discourage a surge of Centra...
Embattled Puerto Rico gov apologizes for profane tirade Puerto Rico’s governor has apologized for profanity-laced comments he made in a private chat to describe a former New York City government official and a federal control board overseeing the island’s ...
Swiss prosecutor probes plane maker over Saudi, UAE business Switzerland’s federal prosecutor says it has opened a criminal investigation in connection with a Swiss airplane maker’s sale of training aircraft to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose m...
Lack of breastfeeding costs global economy nearly $1B every day: researchers A new website developed by researchers in Canada and Asia showed that the world could have saved $341 billion each year if mothers breastfeed their children for longer, helping prevent early deaths an...
Prime Day and Whole Foods: What you should know By Nathan Burrow Amazon Prime Day 2019 will begin July 15, and we're getting ready to bring you all the best deals on Wirecutter picks and recommendations from our expert staff. Bookmark our Dea...
Here's What's Wrong With My $500 Low-Mileage Jeep Cherokee Earlier this week, I purchased a gorgeous 2000 Jeep Cherokee with only 106,000 miles on the clock for $500. It was a smokin’ deal, but not quite as smokin’ as some of you might have initially thought,...
China vows to impose sanctions on US firms supplying Taiwan military US approved sale of tanks and missiles to Taiwan this weekBeijing calls sales ‘a serious violation of international law’China has said it will impose sanctions on US firms involved in a deal to sell $...
The angry chef or the Michelin guide: which giant ego are you rooting for? | Dale Berning Sawa The standoff between Marc Veyrat and the famous guide isn’t about cheddar – it’s about power and who has the last wordMarc Veyrat, a French chef and Bob Dylan lookalike (he’s as famous for his Micheli...
Journalist released after 15 months in ICE detention A Memphis journalist who was arrested while covering an immigration protest and detained by US immigration officials for more than 15 months has been released, his attorneys said....
Trump considering replacing Dan Coats as intel chief, holding meetings to discuss possible replacements President Trump is considering replacing Dan Coats as director of national intelligence and is holding informal meetings with potential candidates, national security sources told Fox News....
Prominent liberal church ousts pastor after alleged sex toy shopping spree A famous liberal Manhattan church has parted ways with its first female senior minister after complaints she brought fellow ministers on a sex toy shopping spree and gifted one of them an unwanted vib...
What Kylie Jenner Can Teach Us About M&A Coty’s next big idea needs to look less like CoverGirl and more like Kylie Jenner, the youngest of the five Kardashian-Jenner sisters, who created a beauty powerhouse. Control of Ms. Jenner’s Kylie Co...
Former NHL great Jeremy Roenick drives ball off tee hanging out of caddie's mouth Former NHL great Jeremy Roenick is among the former celebrities and athletes taking part in the American Century Championship this weekend in Lake Tahoe....
Man busted using password-breaking software to hack women’s accounts A man gained unauthorized access to more than 100 women’s Facebook, iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail accounts — all of which were password-protected — using password breaking software....
Alleged Iranian hacker who aided cyber espionage attacks on the US unmasked For years, “Mr. Tekide” has been well-known as a red flag within international cybersecurity communities. The alias has managed to evade being publicly identified despite being deemed a top malware de...
Look Back at Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn's Road to Marriage Ed Sheeran has confirmed he is indeed a married man. On Friday, 28-year-old British pop star dropped his new album No.6 Collaborations Project, which includes the song "Remember the......
Watch: Chimpanzee pushes zoo worker during escape Security cameras at a Chinese zoo recorded footage of guests and employees running for safety while being chased by a chimpanzee that briefly escaped its enclosure....
Mining, Manufacturing Pull Down IIP Growth To 3.1% In May The Index of Industrial Production (IIP) had expanded by 3.8 per cent in May 2018. The index grew at 4.3 per cent in April and 0.4 per cent in March this year....
Facebook Now Shows You Where Advertisers Get Your Data—Here's How to See It The next time you see Facebook ads for, say, erectile dysfunction pills or egg freezing, you can check to see why you were targeted by those brands and where the companies got your data.Read more......
Amazon just released their Prime Day Preview—here are the best deals to look out for Prime Day is coming and Amazon just gave us a sneak peak of the best deals to look out for on Amazon devices, 4k TVs, and so much more. ...
The Walking Dead is currently "working on" bringing Lauren Cohan back The Walking Dead has seen its share of world-shifting, fairly damaging changes over the past few years. With longtime cast member Danai Gurira gearing up for her final appearance as Michonne, the show...
Nick Lutsko's new video for "Sideshow" is a papier-mâché nightmare You might know Nick Lutsko from his brilliant (and shockingly catchy) musical parodies of Donald Trump, Alex Jones, Fox News, and Pizzagate, but the Chattanooga-born songwriter and Super Deluxe vetera...
Chess player caught cheating with phone during tournament The International Chess Federation says it has suspended a player at a tournament in France after the man was “caught red-handed using his phone during a game.”...
New Cases Against R. Kelly Involve Hush Money, Sex With Minors and Withholding Food and Water Two new federal indictments charge the R&B singer with making child pornography, obstructing justice and other crimes relating to sex with underage girls....
US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St notches record highs on Fed rate-cut expectations All three major indexes posted record closing highs on Friday as solid expectations for an interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve continued to propel shares while investors awaited next week's kic...
EMERGING MARKETS-Latam currencies climb to 15-month high on Fed optimism Latin American currencies scaled a 15-month high on Friday as hopes of an interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve later this month boosted investor confidence, while stock indices in the region ...
U.S. House passes $733 bln defense policy bill after Trump threatens veto U.S. House of Representatives approved a $733 billion defense policy bill on Friday, defying President Donald Trump's veto threat by including provisions like a clampdown on funding for his planned wa...
Undocumented migrants occupy Paris Pantheon for right to remain The Pantheon in Paris houses the tombs of some of France's greatest citizens. The migrants occupied the building to call for the right to stay, and for a meeting with the prime minister....
Williams back at Silverstone in his 50th year as team boss The British Grand Prix at Silverstone has always been a season's highlight for Frank Williams and this weekend is no exception even if his 50th year in the sport sees his team last and without a poin...
Details of R Kelly charges revealed - including kidnapping Details of the charges against R Kelly have been revealed, including kidnapping and that he and members of his entourage recruited women and girls to engage in illegal sexual activity....
Early risers may have lower breast cancer risk (Reuters Health) - Women who like to wake up early every day may be less likely to develop breast cancer than women who prefer to sleep in, a recent study suggests....
TVS Apache RTR 200 FI E100: All You Need To Know TVS Motor Company has launched India's first motorcycle which runs on ehtnaol, the TVS Apache RTR 200 FI E100, priced at Rs. 1.2 lakh. But before you think of buying it, here are a few things you......
Ford To Use Volkswagen's MEB Platform To Manufacture 6 Lakh EVs The agreement with Ford has further strengthened Volkswagen's electric strategy and supports the growth of the e-mobility industry on a global level....
WSJ: Facebook reaches $5 billion FTC settlement The inevitable has happened for Facebook. After weeks of reports that the company was working to settle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over its privacy practices, the two parties have finally...
Jon Favreau is already working on season two of 'The Mandalorian' Disney's The Mandalorian is still months away from its premiere, but that isn't stopping plans for round two. Jon Favreau told Collider that he's already in pre-production for a second...
Facebook agrees to pay FTC $5 billion fine for various privacy violations Due to a slew of privacy violations, Facebook finally reached a settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that will see the social networking giant pay out a hefty fine of $5 billio...
Friday’s Daily Brief: UN chief meets cyclone survivors in Mozambique, Human Rights Council investigates Philippines state violence, UN weather agency tracks Arctic fires In today’s Daily Brief: UN chief António Guterres condemns airstrikes on Syrian hospitals and meets survivors of Cyclones Idai and Kenneth in Mozambique; the UN Human Rights Council votes to investiga...
2020 Democrats keep calling for ‘a conversation’ to avoid having actual conversations Many 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have called for “conversations” around key policy areas. The only catch? It is often employed to avoid said conversation....
Kamala Harris claims her campaign is being targeted by Russian bots: 'We already know we are' Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif, claimed on Friday that "Russian bots" have already attacked her presidential campaign during her appearance on "The Breakfast Club."...
Jeffrey Epstein worth more than $500 million, paid potential witnesses, federal prosecutors say Prosecutors called Jeffrey Epstein — who had been friends with presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton — "a serial sexual predator who is charged with abusing underage girls for years."...
FTC Approves $5 Billion Settlement Against Facebook Over Cambridge Analytica Debacle: Reports The Federal Trade Commission, which has been investigating Facebook in the wake of its massive Cambridge Analytica scandal, has voted to approve levying a massive $5 billion fine against the social me...
Djokovic wins longest point ever recorded at Wimbledon Novak Djokovic won the longest point ever recorded at Wimbledon in his semifinal victory over Roberto Bautista Agut ...
Apple's spaceship HQ valued as one of the world's most expensive buildings The firm paid $6m into an affordable housing fund but critics say it must do more to help solve Silicon Valley’s social issuesApple’s donut-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, California, has been value...
Iceland criticized Duterte’s drug war, so he accused its people of ‘eating ice’ “What is the problem of Iceland? It’s just ice,” the Philippine president said Friday during a rambling speech in Manila. Despite its name, Iceland is not a land of ice. It is unusually temperate for ...
NY magazine group once known for swanky shindigs is moving to DC MPA — The Association of Magazine Media, a century-old nonprofit trade group whose swanky events used to attract A-listers from Barack Obama to Norman Schwarzkopf, is shuttering its New York City head...
Tennessee Governor Totally Cool With the State Celebrating KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest was an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and every July 13, Tennessee’s governor honors the racist bastard. That won’t change this year thanks to Gov. Bill Lee....
U.S. shale firms put up $16.5 mln to build West Texas charter schools Twenty top U.S. energy companies agreed to contribute $16.5 million to open new schools in West Texas, where an influx of oil and gas workers have strained schools, roads and other civic services....
Roger Federer tops Rafael Nadal in first Wimbledon meeting since 2008 final Roger Federer waited 11 years to get another shot at Rafael Nadal on Centre Court. This one was a semifinal, not a final. It was settled in four sets, not five....
| Behaviour was wilder in my day, says Wimbledon referee Wimbledon referee Andrew Jarrett insisted that on-court behaviour was much worse in his playing days despite record fines being handed out at this year's tournament....
How to use the PlayStation 4’s hidden trophy reveal (and other tricks) Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Despite it being almost six years old at the time of writing, ...
GM: 76ers betting on growth of Harris, Simmons The 76ers are betting that Tobias Harris and Ben Simmons can step into the closer role that had been occupied by Jimmy Butler, who is now with the Heat....
Defending champion Tony Romo leads celebrity event Defending champion Tony Romo birdied six of his final 11 holes to take the first-round lead in the American Century Championship at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course ...
Brewers sign RHP Shelby Miller to minor league deal The Milwaukee Brewers have added to their pitching depth, signing veteran right-hander Shelby Miller to a minor league contract ...
Federer Downs Nadal To Set Up Djokovic Duel For Wimbledon Title Roger Federer is the third oldest man ever to play in a Grand Slam final after 39-year-old Ken Rosewall featured in the 1974 Wimbledon and US Open finals....
Iran plotting new wave of terror attacks amid tanker row, warns US General IRAN is feared to be plotting a new wave of terror attacks amid the worsening tanker row in the Middle East, a US General has told Daily Star Online....
Cuba sees tourism dropping after Trump travel restrictions HAVANA – Tourism to Cuba will likely drop 8.5 percent this year in the wake of tighter US restrictions on travel to the Caribbean island, the government said on Thursday and the decline in arriv...
‘Pandora’ star Oliver Dench follows great aunt Dame Judi’s path Pandora | Tuesday, 8 p.m., The CW The CW’s sci-fi drama “Pandora” is more than “Riverdale” in outer space, but you can count on the photogenic cast to face amorous dilemmas. “There’s potential for man...
‘London Kills’ star Hugo Speer: I was a bad kid — now I play a cop “London Kills” won’t miss a beat when the five-episode second season of the bingey British crime drama premieres Monday on Acorn TV. “One of the best things about it was the way we shot it,” say...
Japan sets up working group on impact of Facebook's Libra ahead of G7 Japanese authorities have set up a working group to discuss the impact Facebook's proposed Libra digital coin could have on monetary policy and financial regulation, government sources said, ahead of ...
Jeffrey Epstein: prosecutors accuse financier of witness tampering Epstein, who was charged with federal sex trafficking crimes Monday, transferred $350,000 to two potential witnessesJeffrey Epstein, the American financier who was charged with federal sex trafficking...
Special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony postponed by one week Mueller, who is set to report on the findings of the Russia investigation, will testify before Congress 24 JulyThe special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before Congress about the findings of the...
Cressida Cowell: ‘Books are better than films at teaching children creativity and intelligence' The new children’s laureate and How to Train Your Dragon author talks about how to get kids reading and why we need the space to make mistakesThere is a primary school across the road from Cressida Co...
Emotional Intelligence: The Social Skills You Weren't Taught in School How much of what you learned in school do you still remember? Even more importantly, how much of it do you actually use on a daily basis? Though we may not need to know the Pythagorean theorem or what...
Vegas cashes in with 62 at John Deere Classic It was another day, another 62 on the PGA Tour as Jhonattan Vegas became the latest player to post the score en route to a one-stroke lead after the second round of the John Deere Classic on Friday....
As Democrats spotlight poor conditions in migrant facilites, VP Pence touts centers Mike Pence touted the work of agents and the care given to migrants during a detention center tour in Texas as House Democrats lambasted the administration during a hearing featuring Rep. Alexandria ...
With rapper A$AP Rocky still detained, manager John Ehmann’s hotel room in Sweden is raided: source Rapper A$AP Rocky’s longtime manager, John Ehmann, had his hotel room raided Friday morning after he was served a search warrant in Stockholm while his client Rocky sat in a Swedish jail, Fox News has...
Trump says U.S. envoy to Japan will run to be Tennessee senator U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty will run to be the next Tennessee senator, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter on Friday, giving Hagerty his strong endorsement....
Sports: Serena Chases a Grand Slam Record at Wimbledon This is the third Grand Slam final for Serena Williams since she gave birth to her daughter. She lost the first two — can she win Saturday at Wimbledon?...
Lawyer defends pervy gym owner by likening him to ‘hands-on’ Joe Biden A defense attorney put his foot firmly in his mouth Friday while arguing for leniency for a gym owner convicted of sexually abusing two of his customers — by likening him to the infamously touch...
Deal struck for Mueller to appear, give extended testimony before Congress on July 24 Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller will give extended testimony as part of a deal for him to appear before congressional lawmakers later this month, Democratic Party officials said Friday. ...
Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400s does not change strategic orientation: minister Turkey's purchase of Russian S-400 missile systems does not mean a change of the country's strategic orientation, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar told his U.S. counterpart by phone on Friday, add...
Everything you need to know about methylphenidate Methylphenidate is a stimulant drug that doctors prescribe to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. Learn about how it works, its side effects, and typical dosages here...
Didi Gregorius has started spreading the news again on Twitter The Yankees’ first win of the second half produced Didi Gregorius’ first emoji-filled tweet of the 2019 season. Gregorius, who started the year on the injured list as he rehabilitated from Tommy John ...
BNP Paribas backs away from U.S. private prison industry France's BNP Paribas SA on Friday said it will no longer finance U.S. private prison operators, the first foreign bank to distance itself from a sector shunned by domestic peers amid controversy over ...
Elena Delle Donne’s status is unclear, but Mystics welcome back Emma Meesseman Washington's leading scorer and rebounder continues to undergo testing in the concussion protocol before Saturday night's showdown with the first-place Las Vegas Aces....
U.S. regulators approve $5 billion Facebook settlement over privacy issues (Reuters) — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5 billion settlement with Facebook this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a sou...
It's Here. Elon Musk's Startup To Reveal How To Link Brain With Computers Tesla Founder and CEO Elon Musk's startup Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces - something that only exists in sci-fi movies at the moment - to connect humans and......
Mueller's testimony pushed to July 24 in a deal with House lawmakers that allows more time for questioning Associated Press Former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee on July 24 — pushing the hearings back one week fro...
Why Facebook's stock jumped despite facing a record-breaking $5 billion FTC penalty: 'A slap on the wrist' (FB) AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana Facebook's stock rose around 1% after news broke that it is facing a record-breaking $5 billion penalty from the Federal Trade Commission. Investors are breathing a collecti...
It won't be hard for Facebook to afford a $5 billion settlement with the FTC, but there may be other costs beyond money (FB) Getty Facebook is facing a record penalty of about $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission — but for the tech giant, that's only about as much as the revenue it generates in a month. What ...
Tucson native & Sahuaro High alum Alex Verdugo hits another homer against Red Sox BOSTON – Tucson native and former Sahuaro High School standout Alex Verdugo hit a home run at historic Fenway against the Boston Red Sox on Friday night. Verdugo was 2-4 and continues to hit ove...
Sunnyside player earns All-American status TUCSON – Sunnyside soccer star Manuel Quiroz recently made a national All-American team. He helped lead the Sunnyside soccer squad to an undefeated season and 5-A state title. Here’s more...
Anti-ICE protesters pull down American flag, raise Mexico flag, vandalize 'Blue Lives Matter' flag Authorities in Colorado restored an American flag Friday evening after protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled down the star-spangled banner a...
‘There was blood on the walls’: what to do when teen parties go wrong When my son threw a Facebook bash for 25 friends, it spiralled out of control. So why did I encourage him to have more? We were enjoying a final barbecue with our two younger children on the last nigh...
Great Brittany: exploring the Emerald Coast With its belle époque resorts, long empty beaches and medieval castles, the Emerald Coast is big on laid-back charm – and perfect for a family adventureWe’re sitting on an empty beach, a wide sweep of...
No gorings in fastest bull run at Pamplona in 2019 Health authorities say there were no gorings after a provisional survey of the injured during in the seventh bull run of this year’s San Fermin festival in the Spanish city of Pamplona...
Fiers wins seventh straight as A's top White Sox 5-1 Mike Fiers pitched into the eighth inning to win his seventh consecutive decision, Oakland hit three solo home runs and the Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 5-1 ...
Yueill, Hoesen help Earthquakes rally, beat Galaxy 3-1 Jackson Yueill and Valeri Qazaishvili each had a goal and an assist, Danny Hoesen scored, and the San Jose Earthquakes beat the Los Angeles Galaxy 3-1 ...
Fashion icon: Wildest styles from Russell Westbrook Russell Westbrook is known for blazing his own, very unique sartorial trail. Take a look back at some of his wildest styles over the years. ...
Why do billionaires keep presenting themselves as America's great new hope? | Nathan Robinson From Ross Perot to Tom Steyer, rich megalomaniacs run for president by preying on voters’ disillusionmentThe past week saw both the passing of Ross Perot and the entry of Tom Steyer into the president...
Kim Darroch's fall from grace casts chill over Washington ambassadors Fellow envoys say they have made similar observations about the Trump administration and deplore the lack of support from Boris Johnson for their UK counterpartIt was like a tennis match with an empty...
Russia delivers more air defense equipment to Turkey Russia flew a fresh shipment of advanced air defense equipment to Turkey on Saturday, the Turkish Defence Ministry said, continuing to implement a deal that is likely to trigger U.S. sanctions against...
"Be Kind": Neesham Urges Indian Fans To Re-Sell Their WC Final Tickets James Neesham wants Indian cricket fans to re-sell their World Cup 2019 final tickets on the official platform, to give other fans a chance to watch their team play....
'Dota Underlords' beta tests its first battle pass In another sign of gaming trends folding in on each other, Valve's own 'Auto Chess' spin-off of Dota 2 is testing out a battle pass. The still-in-beta Dota Underlords is free to play, s...
Redemption awaits Algeria’s Youcef Belaili if form holds against Nigeria From a ban for drug use in 2016 to an enduring strike partnership with Baghdad Bounedjah, destiny appears to be on the side of Djamel Belmadi’s unheralded mavericksIn March 2016 a shot at the Africa C...
Stranger Things' Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton Adorably Grill Each Other With a Lie Detector Test Well, this is one way to get to know your significant other. TV and real-life couple Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton each found themselves in the hot seat when they sat down to take a......
9th Circuit rules in DOJ's favor in sanctuary cities case The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled in favor of the Trump administration, saying the Department of Justice could give preference in awarding grants to cities that would use the money t...
"We Are Ready Too": Yeddyurappa Game For Karnataka Floor Test Challenge A day after Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy asked the Speaker to arrange for a trust vote to confirm its strength in the state assembly, BJP leader BS Yeddyurappa today indicated that he was.....
6 Killed, Over 8 Lakh Affected As Flood Situation Worsens In Assam Over eightlakh peoplehave been affected in 21 of the 33districts of the flood-hit Assam. Dhemaji and Lakhimpur in Upper Assam and Bongaigaon and Barpeta in lower Assam are the worst-hit districts....
Serena Williams v Simona Halep – Wimbledon women's singles final – live! Follow all the action from Centre Court, 2pm BST startFederer and Nadal serve up a contest for the agesEmail Katy with all your thoughts; tweet @KatyMurrells 1.57pm BST Halep says: “Of course, I respe...
Clashes erupt as thousands march in Hong Kong against Chinese traders Several thousand people marched in Hong Kong on Saturday against traders from mainland China in what is fast becoming a summer of unrest in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory....
‘It’s our problem’: Brazilian drama brings Amazon rainforest battle to screen Aruanas aims to make the environment an ‘everyday topic’ at a time when politics is dominated by the interests of agribusinessDeep in the Brazilian Amazon, an environmental activist meets with a journ...
Simona Halep stuns Serena Williams to win first Wimbledon title • Romanian storms to 6-2, 6-2 victory on Centre Court• Game-by-game report: how all of the action unfoldedSimona Halep played a near-flawless final on Saturday to become the first Romanian woman to wi...
The US World Cup team is loudly, proudly claiming the applause women deserve | Arwa Mahdawi Celebrating yourself in a world which tells you you’re worth less than men is an act of resistance – and it’s angering insecure menSign up for the Week in Patriarchy, a newsletter on feminism and sex...
A look at Serena Williams' dominant career Unless you've been living under a rock the past two decades, you know that Serena Williams has carved out a legendary tennis career. But, if you're a rock dweller, here's a refresher on...
Hitting the Books: Gravity's mystery may prove our multiverse exists Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought pro...
Recommended Reading: The legacy of female players in 'FIFA' How female characters in FIFA led to a diversity movement at EA Dean Takahashi, VentureBeat Discussions on diversity and equal pay have taken over in the week following the 2019 Women's World C...
Valtteri Bottas edges out Lewis Hamilton for British F1 GP pole • Finn fastest by 0.006sec ahead of Mercedes teammate• Leclerc third for Ferrari, Red Bull’s Verstappen fourthValtteri Bottas took pole for the British Grand Prix, putting in a fine performance in qua...
Ex-teacher Brittany Zamora sentenced to 20 years in prison for molesting student Ex-Goodyear teacher Brittany Zamora will be on probation for the rest of her life and must register as a sex offender. ...
Alternative To Lakshman Jhula Over Ganga Soon: Trivendra Singh Rawat The Uttarakhand government has decided to build a bridge across the Ganga in Rishikesh as an alternative to the iconic Lakshman Jhula which was closed due to safety reasons, Chief Minister Trivendra.....
Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton Return to Wimbledon for a Duchesses' Day Out It's the duchess' day out! Meghan Markle and sister-in-law Kate Middleton attended day 12 of the 2019 Wimbledon Tennis Championships together on Saturday to watch the Duchess of......
Asus Max Pro M2 Gets Digital Wellbeing, Improved Call Quality in India Asus Max Pro M2 is currently receiving a FOTA update that brings the June 2019 Android security patch, Digital Wellbeing, upgraded earpiece performance, and other optimisations....
Chandrayaan-2: All You Need to Know About India's Second Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-2 ISRO mission will be India's first space mission to conduct a soft landing on the moon. Here's every key detail you need to know about it....
The Russos are teasing some kind of Community thing at Comic-Con It’s one of those weird little touches of modern pop culture that the guys who spent the last few years directing some of the most explosive, expensive, and box-office-smashingly bombastic films in Ho...
Wolff surprised by Mercedes front row lockout at British GP Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff said he was 'surprised' to see Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton claim the front row in qualifying for the British Grand Prix...
Computer password inventor Fernando Corbato dies at 93 Computer security just lost one of its founders. Fernando "Corby" Corbato, credited with inventing the computer password, has died at the age of 93. The MIT researcher devised the concept of passwor...
Geraint Thomas battles back after suffering second Tour de France crash • Thomas De Gendt wins stage eight in St-Étienne• Julian Alaphilippe leads by 23 seconds from Giulio CicconeGeraint Thomas bounced back from a second crash in the Tour de France to keep his hopes of a...
Simona Halep stuns Serena Williams to win first Wimbledon title – video report Simona Halep played a near-flawless final on Saturday to become the first Romanian to win a Wimbledon singles title. Her 6-2, 6-2 win wrecked Serena Williams’ latest bid for a record-equalling 24th gr...
Halep’s triumph shows why ‘chilled’ approach is working "Simona Halep swept aside Serena Williams to claim a maiden Wimbledon title. Previously, she talked about this being her \u0027chilled year\u0027, but this victory would suggest she has no intention o...
How you can see which companies found you on Facebook Facebook's new ad-transparency features can give valuable context into how companies find you, but it’s not likely to stop a tracking industry. ...
Fire crews fight unoccupied structure fire early Saturday Fire crews were called to an unoccupied structure fire early Saturday morning. Officials say crews responded to the fire at close to 5:30 a.m. Saturday. Tucson Fire Dept. assisted South Tucson Fire De...
A feast for the photographer's eye – in pictures Colour has been a lifelong obsession for New York-based photographer Lucia Fainzilber, and her latest project, The Cookbook, explores nine different shades. “Each of these dishes,” she says, “presents...
Next Big Thing in ETFs: Less Transparency Capital Group, Legg Mason and JPMorgan plan exchange-traded funds that bet on stocks without daily disclosure of investments, drawing on a small New Jersey firm’s model....
How cricket in India became one of the most valuable opportunities in sports The Indian Premier League, or IPL, is a relatively new league, but it is already one of the richest cricket tournaments on the planet. In 2018, the IPL was valued at $6.3 billion, according to financi...
Kamal Nath Orders Probe After Pellet Guns Allegedly Used Against Tribals Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath said on Saturday that an inquiry by a magistrate has been ordered into alleged use of pellet guns against tribals in Burhanpur district, and no guilty person.....
Balasaheb Thorat Named Maharashtra Congress Chief By Party "President" Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat was appointed as the president of the party's Maharashtra unit today, replacing Ashok Chavan in the wake of the party's drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha elections. The...
Police Constable Beaten To Death By Mob In Rajasthan A police constable was beaten to death in Rajasthan's Rajsamand district on Saturday, in the latest incident of mob violence that have triggered concern across the country....
How the internet has changed the way we talk People of a certain age were trained to use exclamation points to indicate excitement or even anger. And they never imagined that a simple period at the end of a sentence could get them into hot water...
Russia Launches Major New Telescope Into Space MOSCOW — A Russian Proton-M rocket successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit Saturday after days of launch delays, Russia’s space agency said. Roscosmos said the tel...
Brazil's healthcare firm Hapvida launches $700 mln share offering - filing Brazilian healthcare company Hapvida Participacoes e Investimentos SA launched a share offering that may raise up to 2.63 billion reais ($704 million), according to a securities filing on Friday....
Molymet drops plans for battery parts factory in Chile Chile´s Molymet has dropped a project to build battery parts in Chile, the second of three companies to pass on the deal little more than a year after winning guaranteed access to cheap Chilean lithiu...
Bruce confirms talks with Newcastle over managerial vacancy "Sheffield Wednesday boss Steve Bruce confirmed he has held talks with Newcastle United over the vacant manager\u0027s post but said he is waiting for both clubs to agree a compromise deal."...
| WATCH: Today in History Highlights of this day in history: Live Aid concerts held in London and Philadelphia; A French revolutionary is stabbed in his bath; Civil War draft riots erupt in New York; A power blackout hits the...
Dwight Gooden’s arrest is a damn shame Dammit. That was the only reaction. That was the only way to respond to the news. It’s been the only way to react to the worst of the news involving Dwight Gooden since April 1, 1987, when an EMIT scr...
Yankees’ surprise stud suddenly nearing return Cameron Maybin is anxiously waiting to pick up where he left off. Since his third-inning exit from a strained left calf on June 21 against the Astros, Maybin has missed 15 straight games. But he feels...
Motor racing: Leclerc fastest in final British GP practice Charles Leclerc led team mate Sebastian Vettel in a Ferrari one-two in final practice for the British Grand Prix on Saturday with Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton third for Mercedes....
Tour de France: Frenchman Alaphilippe to wear yellow jersey on Bastille Day Belgian breakaway specialist Thomas De Gendt has won the eighth stage of the Tour de France. More importantly for French cycling fans: French rider Julian Alaphilippe is set to wear the yellow jersey ...
Aston Martin Valkyrie hypercar debuts at British GP Aston Martin Valkyrie runs at the British Grand Prix Aston's 1160bhp multi-million-pound hypercar has been driven in anger during the British Grand Prix weekend The new 1160bhp Aston Martin Valkyri...
Kwitkowski explains how Ineos helped Thomas avoid losing time after crash "Geraint Thomas suffered a crash with 16km to go in Stage 8 of the Tour de France 2019 - but good teamwork ensured that the defending champion didn\u0027t lost time."...
Best 4K TVs for gaming: 5 TVs to get the most out of your PS4 and Xbox One Best TVs for Gaming Buying Guide: Welcome to TechRadar's round-up of the best 4K TVs for PS4 and Xbox you can buy for any budget in 2019.If you've yet to game on a 4K TV using Xbox One X or ...
What You Need to Know About Resistant Urinary Tract Infections U.T.I.s are one of the world’s most common infections but many of the drugs used to treat them have become less effective as resistance to antibiotics grows....
Watch reigning NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes launch a football out of Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is known for his arm strength. Watch him fire a football from the field out of Arrowhead Stadium. ...
Egypt opens Bent Pyramid to tourists, unveils new archaeological finds The Egyptian government has opened an unusual pyramid to the public for the first time in decades. Its Antiquities Ministry also put on display a host of significant archaeological finds recently disc...
Ariel Winter Opens Up About Diets, Fitness and Her New Favorite Food Nowadays, Ariel Winter is focusing on keeping fit and healthy--while nurturing her newfound love of mint chocolate ice cream. For years, the 21-year-old Modern Family star has been......
Chess Grandmaster Caught Using His Phone While On The Toilet During A Tournament Latvian-Czech chess grandmaster Igors Rausis is reportedly under investigation after he was caught checking his phone while on the toilet in the middle of a tournament he was participating in. Rausis ...
Kuwait moves to protect its ports amid Gulf tensions Kuwait's navy and ports authority will prepare security plans to protect the key OPEC exporter's ports, state news agency KUNA said on Saturday, amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West....
Arnold's rejected Predator cameo was supposed to be a Force Awakens, Luke Skywalker kind of thing Although it’s since faded from view—like some sort of technologically advanced killing machine that pretty much nobody actually wanted to look at, as it happened to turn out—there was once a time when...
"Great Leaders": Vettori Hails World Cup Captains Morgan, Williamson Eoin Morgan has made England the most-feared ODI side since an embarrassingly early exit in 2015 while Kane Williamson has built on the legacy of Brendon McCullum....
Southern Arizona family raising awareness for domestic violence TUCSON- A Southern Arizona mother is grieving the loss of her daughter who was shot and killed just a few weeks ago. On Saturday the family held a carwash off Alvernon and Grant to raise money for em...
The best 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray players you can buy right now These days it's not hard to find streaming services that offer 4K movies and TV shows on-demand - Netflix and Amazon are certainly leading the charge but it's only a matter of time until mor...
Moore pain for bookies as Aidan O’Brien’s Ten Sovereigns wins July Cup • Ryan Moore lands July Cup after ride is backed from 10-1 to 9-2• Victory is huge boost to stud value of Ten SovereignsThe bookmakers have spent the past few weeks dodging Frankie Dettori’s mounts wh...
Niantic is shutting down Field Trip, its first app Niantic built its reputation on location-based games like Pokémon Go, Ingress and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, but its roots are in its Field Trip app for finding nearby activities. And believ...
Prime Day pro tip: Find extra deals with Amazon's app By Nathan Burrow Amazon Prime Day 2019 will begin July 15, and we're getting ready to bring you all the best deals on Wirecutter picks and recommendations from our expert staff. Bookmark our Dea...
New Zealand's first buyback event since Christchurch collects 224 guns Police in New Zealand said 224 banned firearms were turned over in the country's first buyback event since a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch....
How to Automatically Close Safari Tabs on Your iPhone I probably use my phone to search for at least a dozen things on the web every day, often more. For each search or visit to a favorite website, I instinctively open a new tab. Eventually, that means I...
Tringale and Landry co-lead John Deere Classic, but clustered leaderboard sets up exciting final round Cameron Tringale and Andrew Landry co-lead the John Deere Classic, but 13 golfers are within four shots entering Sunday's final round. ...
Top Puerto Rico officials resign in group chat scandal that ensnares governor Two of Puerto Rico's top government officials resigned on Saturday following the publication of a bombshell group chat in which Governor Ricardo Rossello and his closest allies exchanged controversial...
Bryce Harper fires insane 310-foot throw from right field to third base for out vs. Nationals Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Bryce Harper fired a 310-foot throw from the outfield to retire ex-Nationals teammate Victor Robles at third base. ...
IndyCar drivers Takuma Sato, Sebastien Bourdais trade blows in post-practice scrape in Toronto Veterans Takuma Sato and Sebastien Bourdais came to blows following an incident during the final lap of practice for the Honda Indy Toronto. ...
Islamic extremist attack on Somali hotel leaves 26 dead Islamic extremists blew up the gate of a Somali hotel with a car bomb and took over the building for more than 14 hours, leaving 26 people dead before Somali forces who besieged the hotel overnight ki...
Scarlett Johansson Speaks Out About Political Correctness and Casting Scarlett Johansson made headlines this weekend over her recent comments about political correctness and casting. The 34-year-old actress discussed the topic during a recent interview for......
After PNB, Allahabad Bank Alleges Rs 1,700 Crore Fraud By Indebted Firm Allahabad Bank on Saturday became the second state-owned bank to report a major alleged fraud by bankrupt steelmaker Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd this month, adding to concerns about a banking industry.....
At least 24 Yellow Vests lost eyes in violent protests. Now they're more determined than ever It was a warm afternoon in March. David Breidenstein says he looked on as some of the more radical yellow vest protesters set fire to Le Fouquet's, not just a restaurant but a symbol of wealth and pow...
33-year-old woman found stabbed and decomposing in Bronx apartment A woman was found stabbed to death inside her Bronx home, police said Saturday. Cindi Olivo, 33, was discovered face up on the floor of the bedroom in her home on University Avenue near West Fordham R...
NFL notebook: Security guard presses charges against Elliott Security guard Kyle Johnson has pressed charges against Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott over a May 19 incident in Las Vegas, Fox 5 Las Vegas reported....
MLB notebook: Nationals ace Scherzer on 10-day IL The Washington Nationals placed ace right-hander Max Scherzer on the 10-day injured list on Saturday due to back issues. The move is retroactive to July 10....
Tell us about your pop culture weekend: July 12-14 Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, ...
Blackout gives New York's governor opportunity to blast New York City's absentee mayor One consequence of New York City's Saturday night blackout: It shined a bright spotlight on the long-running feud between two prominent Democrats, the city's mayor and the state's governor....
UPDATE 7-Blackout disrupts Manhattan, darkens Broadway theaters A wide swath of New York's Manhattan borough was plunged into darkness Saturday after a transformer explosion knocked out power to subways, stores and Broadway theaters, but the city's main utility sa...
How experts say you can fix your credit over time So your credit rating is horrible. Over the years, you used credit recklessly. You paid bills late. You didn’t keep track of cumulative card debt — or what it was doing to your creditworthiness. The g...
A roller-coaster ride ahead for U.S. farmers thanks to extreme weather U.S. farmers already dealing with a difficult growing season will feel like they're on a roller-coaster ride in the days ahead as the up-and-down weather goes to two extremes....
Keto Diet For Weight Loss: These Keto-Friendly Chicken Dumplings Are Completely Maida-Free Momos come in different varieties but their classic recipe includes maida that is used as its base. But wait, what if we say you can now make dumplings that are completely devoid of maida!...
43 Dead, 24 Missing In Floods, Landslides In Nepal At least 43 people, including 18 women, were killed and 20 others injured in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in various parts of Nepal, the police said....
At Delhi Slum, Rohingya Pin Hopes On Education For A Better Life Life may be all about slums, cramped lanes and one-room hutments for Rohingya refugees in Delhi's Kalindi Kunj Camp, but the younger generation of the community is setting its sights on becoming......
Crew of Detained Iranian Oil Tanker Is Released in Gibraltar Police in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar released the four-member crew of a detained Iranian oil tanker, authorities said, potentially easing tensions between the U.K. and Iran after a we...
Locals compete in cardboard canoe race Intrepid sailors competed Saturday in a race of cardboard kayaks. Participating kids and teens joined 15 teams that designed and built the boats just before the race. The festivities, sponsored by Con...
The New Zealand government paid gun owners $288,000 for their weapons after semi-automatic ban in the wake of the Christchurch shootings TVNZ via AP New Zealand officials said the first of more than 250 planned gun buyback events was a success. The buyback events were launched after the government banned certain types of semi-automat...
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‘King of Pop’ a Legend who never died, ‘Micheal Jackson’ was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist Michael Jackson started his career when he joined the band Jackson Brother in 1964. He then became a lead vocal with his older brother Jermaine. He started his solo career in 1971.
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Name Michael Jackson
Occupation Singer, Songwriter, producer, dancer, philanthropist
Website michaeljackson.com
Net Worth $825M
Real Name Michael Joseph Jackson
Nick Name The Gloved One, Wacko Jacko, MJ, King of Pop, Mike, Mikey
Date of Death June 25, 2009
Place of Birth Gary, Indiana
Place of Death Holmby Hills, LA
Nationality American
Ethnicity African-American
Body Measurement Chest- 38′
Waist- 28′
Biceps- 13′
Sexual Orientation Straight
Status Divorced (Passed away)
Zodiac Virgo
Eye Colour Black
Billboard revealed that the estimated net worth of Michael Jackson is more than what it was when he was alive. It comes about near $825 Million USD. The MJ Inc. acquired a total revenue of not less than $1Billion USD a year after his death due to artist’s new record deal with Sony Music, his successful concert film.
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Father Joe Jackson
Mother Katherine Jackson
Sibling (Sisters)
Rebbie Jackson
Joh’Vonnie Jackson
(Brothers)
Jackie Jackson
Marlon Jackson
Brandon Jackson
Spouse Lisa Marie Presley (1994-1996)
Debbie Rowe (1996-1999)
Children Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson Jr
Prince Michael II
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Being the eight children in the family of ten children, Michael Jackson grew up in Gary, Indiana, in a small two-bedroom house. Michael Jackson’s mother Katherine Esther Scruse dreamed of performing as a country singer but ended up working at Sears to keep the food supply for the family of 12 going.
Whereas Joe Jackson, who is a multitalented man had been a boxer as well as a great musician. Joe Jackson assembled all his children to make a band The Jackson Five.
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Michael Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley’s daughter in May of 1994. The couple got divorced in 1996.
Michael Jackson and Lisa Presley (Image Source)
Debbie Rowe, who was helping Michael Jackson with his vitiligo treatment and got very close and the duo got married in 1996 but the marriage ended in 1999. After his death, the children of Michael were raised by their grandmother Katherine and their god-mother Diana Ross.
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Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest at 25 June 2005. The pop star was in a lot of pressure to get fit for a grueling run of 50 shows at London’s O2 Arena. A lot of tabloids speculated that the pop star’s extreme use of painkillers may have caused his cardiac arrest.
It’s been seven years since Michael Jackson passed away suddenly at the age of 50. The trial that took place in 2011 which convicted Conrad Murray, Jackson’s physician of involuntary manslaughter. The superstar died because of the fatal cocktail of medications in his system which included an excessive amount of the surgical anesthetic propofol which Murray administered and helped Jackson fell asleep.
A book named “83 Minutes: the Doctor, the Damage, and the Shocking Death of Michael Jackson”, confirms all in detail. The book clearly shows the events that occurred between the time Murray left a heavily drugged Jackson alone in his bedroom and the moment Michael Jackson arrived on a gurney.
The book also explores the many factors that conspired over the years to end the King of Pop’s life so prematurely. The authors have used the testimony and evidence from Murray’s trial for the book.
The book goes so nitty-gritty on the details surrounding Jackson’s death but doesn’t have room to fully address larger issues such as so-called VIP syndrome that enables the rich and extremely famous to receive special treatment.
A public memorial service for Michael Jackosn was held on 7th July 2009 after 12 days of his passing away at Staples Centre in LA. The memorial service was preceded by a private family service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park’s Hall of Liberty and followed by a gathering in Beverly Hills for MJ’s family and close friends.
MJ’s closed, solid-bronze casket plated with 14k gold and lined with blue velvet. The memorial began with music and a eulogy from Pastor Lucious Smith. The service was broadcasted live around the world from the US to Slovakia to parts of Asia.
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Paris Jackson recently came to the scene and talked about her father’s death. According to her, Michael Jackson was murdered and it was a setup. She also claimed that everyone in the family knew that Michael was murdered. When she was asked about her claims she said that there were a lot of people who were after her father’s life.
She did not say much about the culprits as she said that it was like a chess game where she would not give out more information than that in the beginning
MJ began his career as a lead singer for the Jackson 5 in 1964. His childhood pictures hows his doe eyes, cherubic face and sweet voice that made him the object of many adolescent crushes. By the tender age of 18, the star was becoming increasingly insecure about his looks and he had acne prone skin and his nose which disturbed him a lot.
Michael Jackson underwent his first rhinoplasty at the age of 21 after he broke his nose during a dance rehearsal. In 1989 at Soul Train Awards, MJ unveiled his thinner nose, heavy red-eye, and prominent cleft chin. In a memorable 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jackson admitted that his skin color has transformed because of a disease called Vitiligo.
At the 1995 charity event, Michael Jackson appeared with a wide-eyed, squared jaw, and shorter hair which made him completely recognizable. In 1997, Michael debuted another look with longer, straighter hair and fuller lips. By November 2001, MJ had a forehead lift or brow lift which created a permanently startled look.
At Jesse Jackson’s 66th birthday party MJ’s appearance highlights his prominent cheekbones, chin, and lips. Doctors said he might have been addicted to plastic surgery.
Michael Jackson Plastic Surgery (Image Source)
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Michael Jackson’s house, Neverland Ranch, which is located in Los Olivos, California was bought by the pop star in 1987. The mansion was built in 1982 and was a brainchild of MJ himself. The name of the mansion “Neverland Ranch” was kept from a fictional island in Peter Pan. The size of the mansion is nearly 3,000 acres, the main house was built by William Bone in 1982.
The mansion has every luxury you can think of. Starting from the pool, tennis court, train station and rides mimic Disney, an exotic petting zoo, dance studio, guest house, movie theatre and many more. Michael Jackson abandoned this fantasyland after the controversy of his alleged child molestation started to swirl around.
Also, the financial trouble made him sell his fantasy land. The mansion is now called Sycamore Valley Ranch which is on sale for $67M.
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For those who know and followed the pop star are aware of the fact that Michael Jackson suffered from various problems like stress, drugs and some more. Michel’s acquaintances have said that he was kinda addicted to the heavy use of pain drug Demerol. Michael Jackson was diagnosed with a skin disorder Vitiligo which results in white patches on the skin.
Earlier, Jackson and some of his siblings accused their father of physical and psychological abuse but emphatically rejected the abuse allegation. But the physicians speculated MJ had body dysmorphic disorder. During 1990s MJ became dependent on drugs, mainly painkillers, and sedatives that his health started to deteriorate. He went to rehab in 1993.
Jackson was highly influenced by musicians which included Little Richard, Bees Gees, James Brown, the Isley brothers etc. Michael Jackson has explored a variety of music genres including pop, soul, rhythm and blues, funk, rock, disco, post-disco, dance-pop and new jack swing.
He dictated his songs into a sound recorder and preferred to beatbox and imitate instruments vocally rather than use instruments. Since, the sand since childhood, his voice, and vocal style did change over the years from boy soprano to tenor.
He is called as a King of music videos because he transformed the music video he’s working on into an art form and promotional tool through his various ideas.
The year 2008 marks the 25th Anniversary of the all-time classic Thriller Album. To celebrate the anniversary Jackson and Sony released Thriller 25. The album featured the unreleased song from the original “For All Time.” This song was an outtake from the original sessions, as well as remixes by younger artists who had been inspired by him.
Michael Jackson has recorded 10 studio albums, two posthumous studio albums, 72 complication albums, 3 soundtrack albums, 7 remix album, and one live album.
Michael Jackson was inducted onto Hollywood walk of fame in 1980. His awards include many Guinness World Records, including for the Most Successful Entertainer of All-time, 13 Grammy Awards, 26 American Music Awards.
He was a double-inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2010, he was inducted into the Dance Hall of fame as the first dancer from the world of pop and rock ‘n’ roll. In 2014, Michael Jackosn’s father Joe Jackson accepted the honor of his induction into second class into the Rhythm and blues Music Hall of Fame.
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Micheal Jackson moonwalked for the first time at a live solo performance of “Billie Jean” and the move became popular among West Coast street dancers who were using a precise, mechanized style of movement called popping. Jackson said in his memoir that he learned the move from some friends and he worked on it in a studio.
As he was already a great dancer he picked up the moonwalk quickly and with perfection. In 1983, as he performed on national television, Michael was able to popularise the move better than the other groups who tried to.
He started to choreograph the moonwalk cleverly in his sequence of moves: the moonwalk followed by a spin and then his trademark toe-stand with its freeze frame pose.
The moment is a particular part of dance history because MJ budged the gap between West Coast street dance and the East Coast break dancers. The moonwalk fit perfectly into physically demanding, the almost gymnastic genre known for floor spins, fast footwork and named steps like worms.
In his dance videos, Michael Jackson set the foundation for singers with strong dance abilities to follow for years. His style deeply influenced his sister Janet Jackson and later to Britney Spears and Beyonce too. His impact on dance history is just another reason why Michael is so richly titled as King Of Pop.
We can all agree that MJ’s death devastated thousands of fans all over the world. But at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 18, 2018, history was made as a man who was dead performed in front of everyone. MJ’s performance was a result of new technology, year of planning, filming, choreography.
MJ performed in a hologram form with a five-piece band and 16 dancers live on stage. Michael Jackson appeared in a gold jacket, white t-shirt, and brick red trousers. BBMA producers Dick Clark Productions built a special stage especially for Michael Jackson’s hologram to perform his signature moves, moonwalk its way through to perform his recently released “Slave to the Rhythm”.
The practice of resurrecting dead artists for posthumous performances was popularised by the appearance of Tupac Shakur’s hologram at 2012’s Coachella festival.
Evan Chandler accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing his 13-year-old son Jordan Chandler in 1993. There were reports that Evan confronted his ex-wife of Jordan and Jackson but she dismissed the conversations. But Evan threatened Michael to go public with whatever evidence he found against him.
They settled out of the court at $25M but Michael Jackson said that settlement was not an admission of guilt. The charges were initially dropped.
On August 18, the Los Angeles Police Department issued a warrant against Micheal Jackson and began a criminal investigation against him. The warrant allowed the cops to search and investigate Neverland Ranch and 30 children who were friends with Michael Jackson about their friendship.
The children said that he was not a child molester. The long going investigation was verdict as Michael Jackson not guilty because no evidence was found against the star.
Michael Jackson Mug Shot (Image Source)
Everyone knows that Michael Jackson is known for his highly philanthropic activities. His philanthropy manifested not only in the support of numerous charitable organizations and initiatives but Michael also was keen empathic and willing to help individual people. Michael Jackson was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice in 1998 and 2003.
The pop star was included in the Guinness Book of Records for ‘A Pop Star Who have supported Charity the Most.’ Michael Jackson along with Lionel Richie in 1985 wrote “We Are The World” a charitable single which aimed to raise funds for the relief of famine and disease in Africa.
The song was recorded by a group of 44 stars and it raised 63M. In 1986, UNCF established the Michael Jackson Endowed Scholarship Fund.
In 1992, Michael Jackson established his own charitable organization Heal The World Foundation whose mission was to help children of the world and provide them with food, water, medicine, fight child abuse, promote children’s rights and raise the living standards for the children.
The official account of Michael Jackson on Twitter (@michaeljackson) has 2.18M followers.
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Sorry, That Cute Robot From the Star Wars Movies Is Totally Impractical
Rolling isn’t the best way to move around a sandy planet. Flying is okay, though.
BB-8 in (unrealistic) action. (Courtesy NMUSAF)
By Tony Reichhardt
In today’s issue of the journal Science Robotics, Robin Murphy of Texas A&M University takes a cold look at some of the technology featured in recent Star Wars films—specifically, the BB-8 astromech droid—and, well, not to spoil everyone’s fun, but the ball-shaped bot turns out to be not very realistic. In fact, writes Murphy, when biomechanics expert Dan Goldman of Georgia Tech tried rolling a toy version of BB-8 through sand-like material, it couldn’t move at all. The feasibility of this particular droid, and even old-school R2D2, is “questionable,” concludes Wright.
Ah well. Actually, NASA already knew that sandy terrain is hazardous for rolling robots, even ones with expensive, custom-built wheels. The Spirit rover eventually died on Mars after getting stuck in a sand pit in 2009, and drivers of Curiosity have to be careful to avoid terrain with slippery sand.
Apart from solving these mobility problems for planetary rovers, space engineers are still trying to figure out what are the best kinds of robot sidekicks to use alongside astronauts in space. Robonaut, the humanoid helper that looks a little like Star Wars’ C3PO and has been up on the station since 2011, is coming home soon, having never quite fulfilled its potential to become a working member of the crew.
.@Astro_sabot and I packed up Robonaut for return to Earth for repairs and refurb. We look forward to his return. pic.twitter.com/xLXGOm4KsA
— Joseph M. Acaba (@AstroAcaba) February 14, 2018
This May, another, smaller robot helper—looking like a flying version of BB-8—will be sent up to the station for testing. Called Astrobee, its designers hope roboticists will use it to create tools for astronauts to use in their everyday work. Already, engineers are thinking of different ways the cube-shaped Astrobee could be equipped to grip objects, as these videos show:
One job often considered for turning over to robot helpers is photography onboard the station. Japan’s space agency JAXA recently experimented with another flying space-bot, called Int-Ball, which most of the time stayed velcroed to the wall of the Japanese Kibo lab module. Every once in a while, the astronauts brought it out to test its mobility, rotation and other basic functions.
These tests showed that Int-Ball worked generally as advertised, according to Yuusuke Arai, principal investigator for the project at JAXA, although “we had some challenges to cope with external disturbances such as Kibo internal airflow, [space station] attitude control, and lighting conditions.”
JAXA is making improvements for a future version, with a launch date to be determined. “Our final target is to accomplish zero crew time on the photography task,” says Arai.
It’s not exactly charging into battle like the Star Wars robots, but it’s a start.
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IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new offerings designed to speed the delivery of Web and cloud applications to the employees, partners and customers who rely on them. The offerings are part of a multi-phase initiative that integrates IBM WebSphere technology with Akamai's (NASDAQ: AKAM) application delivery network.
The continuing rise of interactive Web applications, such as collaboration and supply chain management, and the rapid growth of mobile applications are placing new demands on businesses' data centers and Internet infrastructure. When these systems are overburdened, it becomes difficult to deliver the intended user experience, resulting in poor application adoption, lost revenue and productivity. At the same time, businesses today have high expectations for Web application availability and performance. They are increasingly attracted to the flexibility of cloud delivery models, but they don't want to sacrifice application performance.
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As part of its relationship with Akamai, IBM is introducing WebSphere Application Accelerator for Public Networks, which is available now. In the future, IBM plans to make two additional offerings, WebSphere Application Accelerator for Hybrid Networks, and a supporting product – IBM DataPower Edge Appliance XE82.
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By monitoring the strain on data center resources, IBM expects the Edge Appliance to add a new layer of intelligence to the new WebSphere Application Accelerator solutions. Through this blend of locally owned and remotely rented network and computing infrastructure, clients will be able to boost application availability and speed both inbound and outbound network traffic.
In addition to its role in bringing Akamai inside clients' firewalls, IBM's DataPower Edge Appliance XE82 also is expected to help clients using IBM WebSphere Application Accelerator for Public Networks achieve faster application delivery while reducing data center, infrastructure and network costs.
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It’s finally here! It’s my “Gay Firefly with Magic” adult science fiction debut, Empire of Light’s official book birthday and part of me still can’t believe that this day is actually here and that there are real, actual copies of this thing I wrote out in the world, and people are sending me pictures of it in the wild, along with live-reading updates, and awesome reviews. This is a thing, you all! And it feels pretty fucking fantastic.
But I also wanted to talk a little bit about some of the things that happened on the way to getting this book into everyone’s hands, because so often we celebrate the successes without mentioning all the other shit that happened along the way of publication. So, here are some of the ingredients that helped make this book:
Writing out of spite:
I started writing this book when I honestly didn’t see a lot of queer books written by queer folk with queer protagonists (and antagonists, and supporting characters…basically queer EVERYONE) out there. I started writing Empire of Light at a time when I got The Look whenever I mentioned I wrote a book with queer main characters, felt distinctly unsafe as a queer person at conventions, and can’t count the times that I was flatly told I shouldn’t write what I write or that it would never sell. I’m really, really glad this has changed and that as I kept going, I not only found SO MANY more queer books (and fantastic authors to support!) but an amazing community that has my undying love because of how magically badass they all are.
Writing through extended breaks:
Part of the reason it took this many years for this book to finally see the light of day is because I absolutely had to take breaks. I first started writing seriously after I had immigrated to the U.S. and survived one of the most toxic and dangerous times of my life and in many ways finding writing and the community with it, finding a purpose and something that drove me, absolutely saved me—while also bringing snarky, sweary, and twisty af characters to life. My writing journey definitely took a few hard stops, like when I took extended breaks to let a manuscript sit, or when I had to take nearly two years off because I was finishing my teaching degree, studied full-time, worked as a student teacher, and held a full-time job because there was just me and somehow I had to eat and keep a roof over my and my cats’ head. And yes, extended breaks suck. This one certainly did and I honestly thought I had broken myself and my writing with it for a while. But I got back into it, not the least because people kept pushing me, cheering me on, and demanding I keep doing this thing. So, to those of you who never gave up on me, thank you can’t adequately describe the words I have for what you did for me.
The Emo-Coaster that is Publishing:
When I first started to write serious and learn about the publishing process, I thought that all I had to do was get an agent, who would sell my book, and I’d be set. Yeah, I was a naive baby writer, but hey, we all start somewhere. The truth is that a) publishing moves at a rather glacial pace (until it does not), b) there isn’t really a one-size-fits-all model (when is there ever?), and c) sometimes you can do everything right and things still go to hell. Empire of Light took me years to write into a readable version, more years to edit and finally scrape together the courage to query, and then, after nearly a year in the query-trenches, when I finally was in that magical place where I had to choose between three agents who wanted to represent me, things still didn’t quite pan out. My agent was lovely and I loved working with her. I got a handful of very complimentary rejections, and yes, if anything is harder than querying, it’s being on submission, but ultimately my agent couldn’t continue working due to health reasons and we parted ways. That was a bit of a rock bottom moment for me that honestly stalled my writing something fierce and I thought this book was pretty much dead, since big publishers had seen it. But then I went out and submitted it to smaller presses who didn’t require an agent and negotiated my own deal with NineStar Press, who have been absolutely lovely to work with.
So, yeah, this book took one hell of a winding road to get to where it is now and looking back, there are certainly things I could have done better. But, you know what? There are so many things I learned while writing, editing, querying, and working with my publisher, that I wouldn’t want to trade in for the world, because every little bit that went into this book is learned experience, is treasured memories, is a hoard of armaments and things I’ll know to do better, or differently, or to continue learning about for the next one. Because there will always be a next one.
But today, it’s the book birthday of my very first. And damn if that isn’t something.
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Damian Nettoyer is the Empire’s go-to gun. He kills whoever they want him to kill. In exchange, he and his rag-tag gang of crooks get to live, and Damian’s psychokinetic partner and lover, Aris, isn’t issued a one-way ticket to an Empire-sanctioned lobotomy.
Then Damian’s latest mark, a suave revolutionary named Raeyn, kicks his ass and demands his help. The first item on the new agenda: take out Damian’s old boss—or Raeyn will take out Damian’s crew.
To protect his friends and save his own skin, Damian teams up with Raeyn to make his revolution work. As Aris slips away from Damian and his control over his powers crumbles, the Watch catches on. Damian gets way too close to Raeyn, torn between the need to shoot him one minute and kiss him the next.
With the Empire, Damian had two policies: shoot first and don’t ask questions. But to save the guy he loves, he’ll set the world on fire.
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Destiny skips its date with Wales
Failure to reach a first Rugby World Cup final is a harsh and barely-deserved reality after France shut out 14-man Wales to scrape through by one point.
by Paul Rhys
What counts as a tragedy?
Losing a World Cup semi-final 9-8 to France certainly doesn't, in the scheme of things.
But as 14 Welshmen stood frozen in attitudes of despair at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday night, it was hard not to grieve for a first Rugby World Cup final appearance that will now never happen.
Wales dominated France offensively despite playing with a man down for 62 minutes out of the 80, after their inspirational young captain Sam Warburton was sent off for a dangerous tackle on Vincent Clerc.
They then played with all the skill and adventure that has made them the neutrals' favourites in New Zealand as they came within a post's width of snatching victory.
"I just felt that our destiny of having a chance of making the final was taken away from us with the red card," said Wales coach Warren Gatland.
"I think it's a travesty for the competition because clearly the team who should be playing on Sunday night isn't going to be," his assistant Shaun Edwards added.
All of Wales' heroism against the odds doesn't change one fact.
France beat them, and Les Bleus can count this as a famous victory against a team that, despite being one player short, was better than them.
But whether they face either New Zealand or Australia in the final on October 23, their stubborn defence and accurate place-kicking will be almost as much to fear as the attacking rugby they are occasionally capable of.
"I think we had a guardian angel tonight," France coach Marc Lièvremont said.
"I think there are a lot of people annoyed that we have qualified, but we played with our hearts."
The French have made it to the final having played one good game at this tournament – and as they themselves admitted before Saturday, that was only against England.
Wales went into their semi-final as favourites and were soon 3-0 up through a James Hook penalty, before losing prop Adam Jones to an ankle injury, and Warburton to a permanent spot in the sin-bin.
Two missed penalties by Hook allowed opposite number Morgan Parra to boot France into a six-point lead early in the second half.
And when Welsh scrum half Mike Phillips outfoxed the French defence for a 60th-minute try, Hook’s replacement Steven Jones hit the post with a conversion that could have won the match.
The majority of New Zealanders in a crowd of 58,629 at Eden Park were firmly on the side of Wales, but their hopes and fears now turn to Sunday's semi-final against Australia.
A nightmare scenario would be an Australia v France final on New Zealand soil, with neither of those sides holding any place in Kiwi hearts.
Australia are the common foe, while France knocked the All Blacks out in the quarter-finals of the last World Cup.
This rugby-mad nation of four million is desperate to clear the final hurdle. If not, a rugby-mad nation of three million awaits them in the third-place playoff on Friday.
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‘Disturbing in the extreme’: Ray..
‘Disturbing in the extreme’: Ray Hadley condemns abhorrent act in last night’s NRL
George BurgessNRLrugby league featuredSouth Sydney Rabbitohs
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Ray Hadley has taken aim at NRL player George Burgess over an abhorrent eye-gouging incident.
The South Sydney forward was put on report in just the 7th minute of last night’s loss to the Wests Tigers.
Cameras clearly captured the Englishman sticking his fingers into the eye of Tigers star Robbie Farah.
And it’s not his first time either.
Burgess was suspended for four games after eye-gouging a New Zealand opponent while playing for England last year.
Ray Hadley says there’s “no room in modern day Rugby League” for the grubby act.
“In the time that I’ve been involved in Rugby League, there are two things that most people abhor.
“One is gouging and the other is biting.
“Gouging has to be wiped out of the game. You’re talking about someone’s eyesight.”
Click PLAY below to hear Ray’s comments in full
Burgess has since been charged by the Match Review Committee.
Due to his prior history, he’s been referred directly to the NRL Judiciary, with a lengthy ban expected.
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Inter Prepare Initial €70m Offer for Wantaway Manchester United Forward Romelu Lukaku
Ed Alexander 11 Jul 2019
Inter are lining up a €70m offer for Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku in a deal which would initially see the Belgian move to Italy on loan.
The hitman has been plagued by inconsistency since arriving at Old Trafford in 2017, with the Red Devils paying Everton £75m for a forward who had scored 25 league goals the year prior. In his two campaigns with United, Lukaku amassed 16 and 12 top-flight goals respectively, though it's his all-round performance that has frustrated supporters.
Inter are set to capitalise with a cut-price bid as both player and club look to end their association, according to Italian journalist Fabrizio Romano.
The Nerazzurri have offered to take Lukaku off of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's hands and have suggested the fee be paid in installments over the course of two years.
The Serie A side are willing to spend an initial €10m on the loan, before forking out €30m over the following two summers to bring up the total sum to €70m.
Lukaku has seemed destined to depart United since Solskjaer was handed the manager's job on a full-time basis in March, with the Belgian struggling to find a meaningful role within the new coach's system.
More to the point, a switch to Inter has looked a strong likelihood since the close of the last Premier League campaign and recent reports imply a deal is nearing completion.
Officials from the Italian outfit flew to the United Kingdom in early July to discuss a transfer with Red Devils' representatives, though they were allegedly unwilling to meet the £75m asking price.
That makes it more believable that the aforementioned offer would be tabled by Inter, meaning they would not incur the wrath of Financial Fair Play by stumping up an eye-watering fee all at once.
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Use Facebook, Social Media for Job Search and Networking
Using Facebook to Find Your Next Job
Connect with friends, colleagues who may know of opportunities
by Kerry Hannon, April 22, 2015 | Comments: 0
Connecting with people on Facebook could help your job search.
En español | When it comes to job-hunting on social media, LinkedIn gets a lot of attention, and with good reason. It has crafted a niche as the professional networking site.
But a survey from the Society for Human Resource Management found that while a whopping 94 percent of employers who responded said they trolled LinkedIn to find job candidates, 54 percent also tapped Facebook, which has 1.39 billion monthly users — four times the size of LinkedIn.
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You can reconnect with past colleagues and pals from across the decades, who may now be working in industries or at companies that interest you. If you're retired and looking to pick up part-time or contract work, or self-employed, this can be a good way to find opportunities.
Simple and subtle networking in the virtual world is essential for everyone in the job market today. Here's why: Employers hire people they know, or know through their contacts.
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In the recent survey "The Long Road Back: Struggling to Find Work After Unemployment," AARP's Public Policy Institute found that of 2,155 people ages 45 to 64 who had been unemployed at some time during the past five years, 46 percent said reaching out to their network of contacts was viewed as the most effective step in their job search.
If you're inclined to ask people you know to help with your job search, you're more likely to find these folks on Facebook.
While LinkedIn leans toward higher-paying professional or management positions, Facebook can help if you're looking for nonexecutive work or part-time positions, or you are a business owner ramping up a clientele.
"LinkedIn is seen by many as the site for white-collar workers," according to Aliah D. Wright, an expert on HR technology and social media trends and author of A Necessary Evil: Managing Employee Activity on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the Hundreds of Other Social Media Sites. "Many recruiters who work in other industries and are recruiting for blue-collar workers often turn their efforts to Facebook and other social channels in order to find talent."
"Some company recruiters have recognized the value of having their employees network for them," Wright says. "They're asking their employees to share job openings with their friends on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other niche social sites they may use."
Before reaching out to colleagues and potential new contacts, make sure your Facebook page is first class.
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Set up a strong profile
Focus on work and education, including where you worked the past 10–15 years, omitting any places you worked for fewer than six months. Add professional skills and education. Your contact information should include links to your website or blog (if you have one). You may also want to include your email address, but people can also contact you using Facebook's message feature.
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Be discreet
If you already have a Facebook page, scroll through it and remove any inappropriate photos or comments. Look for photos you may be tagged in that are posted by someone else. If you don't want to be identified in the photo, go to the upper right corner of the image and remove it, or untag yourself. Review your privacy settings and consider limiting what you share.
For most content, you have the following options:
Public: Share with anyone on or off Facebook.
Friends: Share only with people you befriended on Facebook.
Only Me: Visible only by you.
Custom: Share with specific friends or groups of friends or not share with specific friends or groups of friends.
Selected Groups: You can create groups, such as Family, Friends and Coworkers, add specific Facebook friends to each group, and share selectively with those groups.
Change your privacy settings by clicking the icon in the upper right corner of any Facebook page, clicking Settings, and then click Privacy in the navigation bar on the left.
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In the search bar, type "people who work at" and the name of the company. It should call up a couple of people you know who work there. Then click on "see more" and see your other friends who work there, plus a roster of other people on Facebook who work at the company. You'll have to click through each person to see whether you have mutual friends. It's not perfect, but you will find friends who work at companies you are interested in learning more about.
You might also consider signing into Glassdoor via your Facebook account. This career and jobs database has a reputation as a place to track an employer and sleuth out anonymous salary information and other scoops provided by anonymous insiders. By integrating Glassdoor with your Facebook account (and giving it access to your friend list), you can see where your Facebook friends work.
Follow companies or organizations that interest you
A lot of businesses have Facebook pages and by clicking the "Like" button and the "+Follow" button you can see their posts and status updates on your newsfeed.
If you are in business for yourself, create a page for your business. The benefit is you can keep your personal and professional status updates separate. I have an author page, for example, that I use to promote my expert articles, speaking engagements and books. I also have my personal Facebook page. I do post many professional items on my personal page because I like my friends to see what I'm up to. Plus, it's a great way to market my business at the same time.
Check out Facebook groups
There's a wide range of special interest and local job search and industry groups. Most are closed groups, which means you have to ask to join and then an administrator must approve you.
Many of these groups list hourly jobs that run the gamut from employers looking for carpenters, electricians or plumbers to local auto dealers who need a part-time salesperson or a child care center that needs a teaching assistant.
"It's not the be-all and end-all in a job search, but it is one place to look," says Deana Duvall, coadministrator of the Facebook group page for those looking for work in three Maryland counties. "There is a little something for everyone from weekend work to jobs where you need a college degree."
Duvall's group, Now Hiring Carroll, Frederick or Howard County Maryland, has over 9,000 members. The requirement: Only residents of Maryland or employers hiring in Maryland will be added to the group. Employers may post jobs available in those three counties.
"Our page is very local and our jobseeker members range in age from someone in their 20s to around 70," says Duvall. "It's a place where small businesses, like a frozen yogurt shop, can advertise for free for a retail counter person, or a part-time clerical position — something that they would have to pay for on the bigger job boards like CareerBuilder, Indeed, Monster or even the local newspaper."
Duvall's group also features posts on local job fairs and listings from job boards.
Her advice for job seekers: "Before you post a comment on the site, clean up your grammar. And no texting slang — say, typing the number 2 instead of 'to,' " she says. "And to appear professional, stay away from emojis, too."
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Reppler and SimpleWash are Facebook timeline scanning tools that scrutinize your pictures and timeline posts for tone, appropriateness and any signs of someone hacking your account. To use either tool, log in with your Facebook account and give it a few minutes to scan your timeline. Repeat the scan every couple of weeks to make sure your timeline is still clean.
BranchOut analyzes your Facebook friend network to help you identify all of your professional connections, including your friends and your friends' friends, providing access to 3 million available jobs. To use BranchOut, click in the People or Jobs box, type the name of the person or the job title you're looking for, select a category to search, and click the Search People or Search Jobs button.
The first time you use the service, it requests that you log on to your Facebook account, so it can obtain the information it needs to do its job, including accessing your friend list, email address, work and education history, and your friends' work and education history.
Assuming you agree to the terms and service, click Okay. BranchOut displays the relevant jobs matched by title, location and company name. You can search for people by company name and see which of your friends or friends of friends work at that company.
Kerry Hannon, AARP jobs expert, is a career transition expert and an award-winning author. Her books include What's Next? Finding Your Passion and Your Dream Job in Your Forties, Fifties and Beyond and Great Jobs for Everyone 50+: Finding Work That Keeps You Happy and Healthy … and Pays the Bills. Follow her on Twitter @kerryhannon.
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#MiddleGradeMay: Because of the Rabbit
Because of the Rabbit by Cynthia Lord. Grades 3-5. Scholastic, 2019. 192 pages. Reviewed from galley provided by publisher.
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Fifth grader Emma (formerly homeschooled) is starting public school for the first time and Scared and Excited are in a race to see which will win out. Emma's number one goal in fifth grade is to make a best friend; she's been lonely in homeschool since her older brother decided to start public school, and she figures she'll find one the very first day.
But it's not as easy as she thought it would be. There are a lot of weird rules in public school, it takes way too long to get through each day (at home she was usually done with her lessons by lunchtime), and most of the kids seem to already have established friend groups. Each day, Emma longs to get home to the newest addition to her family: a pet rabbit that she and her game warden dad rescued and that Emma has named Monsieur Lapin in honor of the forest stories her Pepere used to tell her.
It turns out that Lapi might just be the key to making a new friend, but not the first friend Emma would have chosen. Jack, a kid who sits in her desk cluster and who has special needs, LOVES animals. Emma has a list of things she's looking for in a best friend: likes the things she likes, always chooses her side, accepts her for herself... and Jack ticks a lot of those boxes. But, while the other kids in class are mostly kind to Jack, no one hangs out with him outside of school. If Emma befriends Jack is she branding herself a weirdo? Can she find the strength to navigate school and stay true to herself?
This is the sweet, realistic story that we've come to expect from Cynthia Lord. Emma is a likeable character who is easy to root for, even when she's sometimes making questionable choices. I loved the strong sense of setting, a small community in the mountains of Maine and Emma's house on the lake and all the nature all around them.
And even though this is a gentle story, it packs a bit of a punch, as well. I found myself getting emotional towards the end as Emma tackles something that is really hard for her to do, even though it's the right thing to do. The characters really felt real to me and that makes sense since a lot of this story was inspired by elements of the author's life - she has an adult son with autism, her children were homeschooled and her daughter went from that to public school, and they even keep rabbits.
Readalikes:
Young animal lovers will eat this book with a spoon. Hand it to readers who enjoyed A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold (Walden Pond, 2017), which also features a neurodiverse character obsessed with animals.
Readers who enjoyed the adventures of a former homeschooler starting middle school in graphic novel All's Fair in Middle School by Victoria Jamieson (Dial, 2017) will also be interested in Emma's journey.
And readers who like school stories about unlikely friends like Save Me a Seat by Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan (Scholastic, 2016) will love reading about Emma's quest to make a friend.
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By James Wright, Special to the AFRO, [email protected]
In the early 2000s, Seat Pleasant was in the waning days of the crack epidemic that started in the 1980s but the city was still not a popular place to live.
A group of citizens, led by resident Pamela Boone, decided that the Seat Pleasant Police Department needed help in fighting the city’s crime rate. She, Rogers Reynolds and other residents formed the Citizens for Public Safety Advisory Council (CPAC) to support the police department and encourage citizens to get involved in fighting crime.
Pamela Boone, chairman of Seat Pleasant’s Citizen’s for Public Safety Advisory Council, decided to get involved in helping the police in her area several years ago. (Courtesy Photo)
“We have been in existence for a number of years,” Boone, who has lived in Seat Pleasant since 1983, told the AFRO. “There were five of us and we approached [former] Seat Pleasant Police Chief Elliott Taylor about forming a group and he supported it.”
Boone, a retired human resources supervisor with the FBI, said at the time there were no community organizations, such as a civic association, where citizens could bring their issues about the police department to except the Seat Pleasant City Council and its mayor. In Prince George’s County, most municipalities and unincorporated areas have civic or citizens associations to address those concerns outside of local elected leaders.
Boone said the residents of Seat Pleasant did not have a formal way of working with the police and her neighbors and the “residents wanted that.”
“We created CPAC to bridge the gap between the community and the police,” she said.
Seat Pleasant is located in the central western part of Prince George’s County, bordering the District of Columbia’s Ward 7 sharing Eastern Avenue. The city has 4,769 residents that are 91 percent Black, 5 percent Latino and 2 percent White.
Seat Pleasant consists largely of working-class and low-income residents with a large number of senior citizens. Its crime rate is largely the same as nearby municipalities like Capitol Heights.
Seat Pleasant Police Chief Devan A. Martin recently reported crime is down in the city due to the use of technology and stronger community engagement by his police officers. He noted that violent crime is down 21.5 percent, residential burglaries are down by 33.3 percent, robberies of commercial establishments and citizens are down by 70 percent and homicides/murders are down by 75 percent.
Martin also noted vehicle impounds increased by 38.38 percent and calls for service have increased by 3.50 percent. Property crime is up 19 percent due to thefts from automobiles and stolen vehicles.
Seat Pleasant Mayor Eugene Grant believes in CPAC. “At the heart of a successful community is an engaged citizenry,” Grant said in a statement to the AFRO. “The efforts and leadership of residents like Pamela Boone has been tremendous. Through her leadership she has helped to bridge the gap between civilians and the police department.
“CPAC has been instrumental in disseminating information to the general public. They host forums, set up information booths at community functions and volunteer where needed.”
CPAC is in the process of becoming a 501(c)3 so it can raise money and set up an organizational structure to further its mission, Boone said.
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SubjectsInterest management (3)Games (2)HLA (2)A star (1)Beowulf cluster (1)View MoreAuthors
Kumar, Pawan (6)
Kumar, Pawan (6)Mehdi, Qasim (6)Mehdi, Qasim (6)Gough, Norman (2)View MoreYear (Issue Date)2006 (2)2007 (2)2004 (1)2005 (1)Types
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Efficient path finding for 2D games
Kumar, Pawan; Bottaci, Len; Mehdi, Qasim; Gough, Norman; Natkin, Stephane (University of Wolverhampton, School of Computing and Information Technology, 2004)
In this paper we investigate different methods and algorithms from artificial intelligence that can be used for achieving efficient path finding within games and virtual environments. Path finding is a computationally expensive problem that is solved by searching. We investigate different optimization techniques and further develop techniques which can be incorporated within the existing algorithms to make path finding for 2D static environments faster, computationally less expensive and requiring minimum use of resources.
Recursive Interest Management For Online Games
Kumar, Pawan; Mehdi, Qasim (The University of Wolverhampton, School of Computing and Information Technology, 2006)
Performance and scalability in multi-player online games and distributed simulators mainly depends on the effectiveness of the deployed interest management schemes. These schemes aim at providing messagefiltering mechanisms that reduces the communication overheads. However, in order to do so, they incur computational costs that are quite significant and are not suitable for scalable real time systems. In this paper, a recursive algorithm for interest management is presented that can be applied for systems that use multi-dimensional routing spaces for interest management. The algorithm’s simulation shows that it is more efficient and scalable than existing approaches.
Constant-Time Complexity Interest Management for Online Games
Gallego, Francisco; Kumar, Pawan; Mehdi, Qasim; Bernab, Abel; Llorens, Faraon (The University of Wolverhampton, School of Computing and Information Technology, 2007)
Data Distribution Management (DDM) services are very important to online services in general and, in particular, to online Computer Games. Many previous works have addressed the problemof minimizing bandwidth usage by avoiding sending unnecessary data to clients, which is often referred to as InterestManagement. Many good algorithms have been developed to calculate clients’ interests, having O(n2) complexity in worst case, but none of them have paid attention to the time dependencies of the data. In this paper we present a novel algorithm for Interest Management which reaches a O(1) complexity by profiting from time dependencies of data related to clients’ interests. Our results show that this approach improves previously existing ones in time performance, and it is specially suitable for its use in online computer game servers.
Federated-Distributed Simulation of Rigid Bodies in Computer Games
In this paper we detail our prototype rigid bodies simulation environment that was developed for testing and evaluation of federated simulation development kit (FDK) in computer games. Also we discuss the algorithms that were developed for rigid bodies simulation including the dynamic collision detection, numerical methods and discuss the approach used for distributed rigid bodies using FDK.
Content Adaptation and Shared State Distribution for Multiplayer Mobile Games
Mehdi, Qasim; Kumar, Pawan; Salim, Aly; Bechkoum, Kamal (The University of Wolverhampton, School of Computing and Information Technology, 2006)
Typically games on mobile devices are limited to standalone single player games that are not only simple but also are limited by the device capabilities on which they are being played. With the advancement of networking technology, mobile multiplayer games have started to evolve. Nevertheless, these games are played on homogenous devices that have limited functionality and performance. For performance, scalability and heterogeneity, it is important that mobile multiplayer games be played on heterogeneous devices and able to support large number of players for an immersive experience. This demands that players not only receive the content as quickly as possible but also the content be adapted to the device capabilities. Further as different devices have different computing capabilities; it seems reasonable to distribute resources dynamically among the mobile players’ devices so that the overall shared state is maintained in a consistent state. In this paper we highlight the issues related to multiplayer gaming on mobile devices and provide a proposal for content adaptation and shared state distribution for multiplayer games on mobile devices based on dynamic scripting approach
High Level Architecture For Distributed Agent Simulation In Computer Games
Kumar, Pawan; Mehdi, Qasim; Gough, Norman (University of Wolverhampton, School of Computing and Information Technology, 2005)
Multi Agent System (MAS) have been in existence for quite a long time and have been a focused area of research in different paradigms over the years. As a result, several test beds and simulation tools exist for their deployment in software engineering problems. However, these test beds are suited for specific agents types and environments and lack support for interoperating with other agent architectures and environments. Further, they do not exploit the power of modern distributed and parallel computing environments. Here at RIATec, there is a powerful escience Beowulf cluster that provides ample resources for distributed simulation of MAS. Such simulation has several possible target applications such as in computer games and training virtual environments and therefore it is important that such simulation is reused. Moreover, good visualization, rendering and interactive tools are needed for evaluating, testing and interacting with the system. In this paper, a proposal for a reusable architecture and visualization test bed based on Highlevel architecture (HLA) and Unreal technology is provided for a high performance MAS simulator.
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As Language Grows More Profane, Office Talk Takes A Turn For The Curse
• July 20, 2017
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By Kim Ode Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Benjamin Bergen, author of "What The F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves" says that language is always evolving, which often causes tension, but Bergen says we may be in the midst of the biggest generation gap ever.
Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
There's a reason we call it the "f-bomb."
Like a bomb, the particular profanity beginning with "f" can be a powerful weapon.
Yet in offices, hallways, conference rooms and cubicles, people are dropping the f-word into daily banter with no more ill will than lobbing a pencil.
Mostly, this is driven by young people who've grown up hearing it in movies, music and cable TV and reading it on social media. They don't consider it a BFD to say it, and are surprised when others do.
"We are in a time of flux," said Benjamin Bergen, author of "What The F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves." Language is always evolving, which often causes tension, but Bergen said we may be in the midst of the biggest generation gap ever.
"A few centuries ago, a student's 'zounds' or 'gadzooks' would turn an English teacher's face purple," he said. In 1972, heads spun when comedian George Carlin famously named "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television", which technically still is true, at least for broadcast TV.
But TVs today are mere appliances to digital natives, outpaced by a new world of screens on computers, phones and pads funneling content for which we, as subscribing viewers, are our own censors.
Bergen describes a 20-year-old waking up to check her Twitter feed "and can see [the f-bomb] a hundred times before breakfast." So when she arrives at work and wonders aloud with profane curiosity who emptied the coffeepot without starting another, she believes she's simply expressing her dismay.
Some co-workers may not miss a beat, may even laugh. But such language can become a problem if someone _ likely older, but not always, overhears and takes offense.
(A distinction: We're not talking about using the word to berate or intimidate others, but as an energetic adjective to elevate a strong emotion, even express enthusiasm.)
Karen Gureghian is a human resources consultant with HR Business Partners in Minneapolis. Her work often takes her into offices where she has to sit in common spaces and so hears the ebb and flow of conversation.
Sometimes, she said, two people use similar language and neither one is offended, "and that's OK. But if you're in a hallway and people overhear you and they're offended, that could contribute to a hostile work environment."
Dropping an f-bomb "isn't illegal, so to speak," she added. "But sometimes it's pretty bad. I'm not offended, but after a while, it can get kind of off-putting and makes me wonder about that person and their judgment.
"Are they getting their point across, or have they misread the room?"
WHAT'S REALLY OFFENSIVE? SLURS Workplaces are creatures of tradition, management and stereotype.
Language is influenced by age, class, environment and culture.
Little wonder, then, that expectations can clash, sometimes unexpectedly.
One millennial who responded to a Facebook query about workplace profanity said he and his friends feel like they're navigating a world where they're the pottymouths, so strive to dial it back. Yet as a white-collar engineer who inspects power plants, he encounters rampant profanity among some older, blue-collar employees.
"I am pretty much expected to reciprocate if I want them to respect me and listen to my recommendations," he said, preferring to remain nameless because he was describing clients. "It can be a struggle with being taken seriously versus being professional, but you learn the proper balance over time."
While their profanity may surprise him, it doesn't offend him. What does, he said, is a casual use of "homophobic/racist/misogynist language."
Bergen said that jibes with several recent studies in which people were asked to rate vulgar words from most offensive to least offensive.
In one, where college students rated 92 words considered taboo, a word that also means manure came in 49th. The f-bomb rated no higher than 13.
Among the dirtier dozen were words with sexual or religious roots.
"But the words they considered most offensive were slurs," Bergen said, terms that denigrate people based upon skin color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental abilities.
In a way, Bergen said, this is good news: While young people may find the f-word no big deal, they are offended by slurs that target and are specifically meant to hurt people.
A study last year of 1,500 office workers by Wrike, a management software company, found that almost seven in 10 millennials said they swear at work, compared with a little more than five out of 10 baby boomers.
About a third of millennials explained that swearing can help strengthen a team, and that can reflect enthusiasm for their work. In their view, an f-bomb is just an adjective, used without overthinking it too much.
Yet at times, Bergen said, a little overthinking wouldn't hurt.
"If you've judged your audience right and they, too, think this is an informal context, then they will judge you to be funnier, more honest, more accessible, more casual," he said. "But if you've miscalibrated, and they don't like you, then profanity will make you seem unhinged, out of control, irrational, undisciplined."
OVERUSE DILUTES POTENCY By many measures, our culture is more profane than it was a generation ago.
Martin Scorsese's 2014 film, "The Wolf of Wall Street" included a record 506 f-bombs. The previous record holder was Spike Lee's 1999 serial-killer drama "Summer of Sam," which contained 435 instances of the word.
Twitter and Facebook, considered semi-private forums, don't screen for potentially offensive content (although they both ban hate speech and threats). Twitter counsels "block and ignore," while Facebook notes: "Please keep in mind that something you don't like on Facebook may not go against our Community Standards." Three words: Winnie the Pooh.
Minnesota Vikings fans avidly post with profanity on the team's official Facebook page, according to a cybersecurity company that studied pages of the 12 playoff teams in January 2016. Vikes fans were second only to Houston in using naughty words.
Even three in four millennial moms admit to swearing in front of their kids, according to a survey of 1,000 millennial parents by Kraft, makers of the modern mother's little helper, boxed mac and cheese.
Kraft made a Mother's Day video on YouTube about alternative swearwords that parents can use around their little ones. Host Melissa Mohr, an English professor who wrote "Holy Sh(ASTERISK)t: A Brief History of Swearing," suggested saying, "What the frog?" or, "Get your shiittake mushrooms ready for soccer practice."
The sheer preponderance of profanity in some ways works to dilute its potency.
"There's this treadmill that profanity is on," Bergen said. "A word may be innocuous, then gets conscripted to perform a new profane duty, then falls off the end."
Laurie Bennett, responding to the Facebook query, said this: "I think social media has actually cleaned up my language in real life. I find so many posts offensive, it drives me in the other direction."
NORMS COME FROM THE TOP So what the heck is a workplace to do?
"The standards need to come from the top," said Gureghian, the human resources consultant. Yet these days, who's at the top may be changing.
According to the Wrike study, 80 percent of millennials said they were more likely to swear if their boss does; only 60 percent of baby boomers said the same.
"As baby boomers are starting to retire, they're not there to enforce things," Gureghian said. "They used to be the ones to say, 'This is the way we operate.' Now some of my clients say the kids have taken over. So maybe this is the new norm."
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Buying energy from the sun?
How could an organization force solar energy to be bought from them? Something like:
A large structure (in space presumably) fully/partly blocks sunlight reaching Earth, so anyone here wishing to unblock a portion must pay the price. Of course this introduces many more problems of heating, lighting, etc., but perhaps the organization is trying to encourage moving to their new off-planet habitat, whatever.
Does this seem plausible? What other scenarios could cause sunlight to be "owned"?
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$\begingroup$ If they have the resources needed to block out the sun, why do want payment from Earth? $\endgroup$ – KSmarts Jan 13 '15 at 22:27
$\begingroup$ Mr. Burns already tried to do so? $\endgroup$ – Ghanima Jan 13 '15 at 22:29
$\begingroup$ @KSmarts I dunno, tyrannical people always want more stuff no matter what! And maybe they need funding for the next dastardly plan. $\endgroup$ – mjr Jan 13 '15 at 22:45
$\begingroup$ "And maybe" hardly ever makes for a cohesive product. $\endgroup$ – JohnP Jan 13 '15 at 22:50
$\begingroup$ If you already have sufficiently advance technology, why not just sell energy/electricity gathered from the sun using microwave power transmission en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_transmission $\endgroup$ – tls Jan 14 '15 at 6:48
I don't understand why everyone is saying a sunshield is going to be expensive.
You need something reflective. But molten metal blown up to balloon thickness seems reasonable to me. If you've got some robots set up for this, and some nickel-metal asteroids (or better yet, found some silver asteroids), it seems like this should be feasible and reasonably economic (say, compared to moving the Moon).
However, this is Not a good look, since you're pretty much going to fubar the Earth. Weather, ecosystems, atmosphere/water cycles, etc - see other answers for those effects.
I think you'd be better off just freezing the world, then going and getting what you want from the now cold, dead planet. Why bother with 'getting paid'? The only reason to do that is to coerce people to work for you, and if you massively screw up the planet it's going to be difficult to get people to work with you - or to trust them if you do.
INSTEAD OF A SUNSHIELD, OUTSELL 'EM!
A better look would be for you to start generating electricity at better rates than anything could be done on Earth, and selling it at massively less cost. If you've got a lead, and have figured your shit out - you will be the only power game in town - and that'll be an instant monopoly. Anyone else is welcome to generate power, but it'll cost them too much to play. This means you're going to have to undersell solar power, fossil fuels, nuclear plants, etc. You put all the utilities into serious decline - since most of them haven't really implemented grid rates (getting paid for their grids) and still rely on producing energy to make (most) of their money. You'd do this super-quick, toss of their stock into nosedives and buy them up. You probably need to read some on how corporation commissions in states handle those monopolies, as to what type of things you could expect to have to deal with. But if you came at them real quick, you'd own a large chunk (or all) of each of them (you can then force out small stock-owners with reverse-splits, etc. and large owners might've sold their stock when it went into decline (think pensions, mutual funds, etc)). You can also sell power only to utilities you like (ie: that you own / are cooperating with you) and force everyone else to trade with/buy from them.
This will have some effects. Namely, very cheap power for quite a long time on Earth. You'll want to keep the rates low so that you're the only game in town, and nobody keeps old nuclear plants, old fossil fuel plants, solar-cell producing plants, etc around to compete with you. You'll want to figure out a distributed power distribution system, so that people don't even want to bother with solar cells. After you've driven the competition into the dust, bought up and torn down all of their power plants, allowed the fuel distribution industry to wither on the vine, made direct power for every vehicle from your orbital satellites - so you now own all the gasoline stations, all the oil companies, pipeline companies, all of the car companies are beholden to you, etc. THEN you can start jacking up the price. If you do it sooner, you'll allow people to use old technology to compete with you. Or, you'll get someone who wants to run solar the way you do. You want to prevent growing any competition by being the best and cheapest, so that nobody can compete with you - until you have a huge setup, and can produce so much that you can stifle any competition.
This setup (roughly; Shipstones were better batteries, instead of power-gen) was the background for Friday by RAH. You'd have to pretty carefully look at the very few hints nosed around in that book, as the plot lines (mostly) ignore that.
$\begingroup$ "I don't understand why...". Never use your ignorance / lack of understanding as an argument. "...why [is everyone] saying a sunshield is going to be expensive[?]" Because of the huge area you need to cover. Sure, a thin film does not use very much material for one square meter. But when you need hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the stuff... and hold it in place... and prevent angry people whose sunlight you just stols from ruining it and make it the biggest tin foil ball you ever saw... the costs multiply exponentially and the zeroes keep adding to your expenditures. $\endgroup$ – MichaelK Jun 19 '16 at 10:09
$\begingroup$ I would also point out that this sheet of metal would have to be in space (otherwise people could just take it down pretty simply) and sending stuff to space is not cheap. Now getting all of that material together to make a sunscreen is going to be ridiculously expensive and without a doubt more expensive than any profit made by selling solar energy (if we're only concerned about the financial aspect). $\endgroup$ – everyone Aug 3 '17 at 12:37
Tax your energy use, even if you produce it yourself. I'm reminded of television tax in England. They don't cover your antenna with a faraday cage until you pay them; they send in the lawyers.
$\begingroup$ Politics definately seems the way to go; they do just this kind of thing already. $\endgroup$ – Erik Jan 14 '15 at 9:14
$\begingroup$ It's like copying bits. That's already free, it's just illegal if you don't have a licence to those bits. The best part about this analogy is that electricity and light are both electromagnetic radiation. $\endgroup$ – Wayne Werner Jan 14 '15 at 20:21
$\begingroup$ Electricity is radiation? $\endgroup$ – JDługosz Jan 14 '15 at 21:36
$\begingroup$ @jdlugosz Yep. That's why cell phones and living near power lines give you cancer </sarcasm> $\endgroup$ – KSmarts Jan 15 '15 at 16:37
$\begingroup$ How odd: a downvote out of the blue with no comment. And there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the post. Maybe somebody doesn't know what votes are for on SE and is saying "I dislike this"? $\endgroup$ – JDługosz Jan 27 '16 at 17:39
As already stated, the resources required to do this are so great that anyone capable of doing this would gain nothing out of pestering us to pay them. We on earth have nothing like the resources that would be consumed creating (and maintaining) a sun shield.
In addition if the shield was closed for any length of time at all it would ruin our ecosystem. Ignore humans for a second, all the plants in the wild would die or wither, those that eat them would likewise suffer, and the issues would propagate up. Our weather would also be screwed up (much of it is driven by the heat from the sun creating winds). The entire ecosystem of any area in shade would collapse quickly, and in turn ecosystems nearby would fail, a domino effect that would be quite drastic. We would end up with massive expenses just trying to survive the ecosystem collapse even if you only blocked light from areas that humans don't habitat in. This is an all or nothing thing, if we can't stop you from blocking any light we might as well let you block it all because we're just as doomed in either case.
A more probable situation is a structure on earth which blocks sunlight. Perhaps when we created the space elevator we discovered that it had some negative effects on light. Maybe skyscrapers blocked out the light of everyone nearby (we have had very small issues with this, and ironically we have had issues with skyscrapers reflecting too much light, creating death-rays of heat where they focused the sunlight as well).
Another option is to claim that so many solar powered satellites were put in earth's orbit that they started to block a non-trivial amount of sunlight. Each individual satellite is pretty trivial, but at the rate that we are producing space-junk theoretically enough satellites could one day orbit the earth to block out a small percentage of the sun. This wouldn't be so much of an "everyone on earth is in the dark" scenario as "everyone on earth gets 5-10% less sunlight, which makes everything cooler and still has negative impacts on society. Of course we already have programs in place to remove obsolete satellites, so all of these satellites would have to be active for this to be realistic, and it would be less of an intentional stealing of sunlight than an accidental side effect; which the goverment would likely step in to regulate and address pretty quickly.
You could likewise theorize that a space station or other large structures in near-earth orbit could affect sunlight similarly. Alternatively you could simply claim that we have messed with our enviroment enough that it has started reflecting sunlight (something similar to greenhouse effect in reverse, which could happen if a change of technology resulted in different pollutants being released into the air which reflected more sunlight then they allowed). This would result in a global drop in sunlight, but not be all that controllable.
Generally speaking, the only realistic situation where someone is desperate for sunlight is something that happens as an accidental side effect of some other technological growth. It is very hard to imagine any situation where it would be economically beneficial to do so, or something that a government would allow anyone to get away with for that matter. Likewise any blocking of sunlight would have to be something happening in near-earth orbit or closer, blocking only a small subsection of the earth.
The only way I could imagine this being intentional is if you claimed that the world governments collaborated to build solar shades for beneficial ecological reasons. Perhaps the rise of global warming and increased water levels were getting so great that we decided to raise a partial solar shade to block a small percentage of sunlight to cool the earth. This would presumably be a net gain for most of earth, negating part of the harm of global warming, but could still harm some individuals on earth who would prefer the increased light. This seems the most plausible explanation for why all the earth would be blocked, and why some would be paying or negotiating to have light increased. However, the key thing to note in a scenario like this is that the vast majority of light must be making it to earth. This would mean fighting over that 10% of light that is being blocked which would help my crops grow better, not avoiding freezing to death in the dark. Also note that there are many issues (enough to justify a separate world building question) that would need to be considered and discussed to make this plausible. For instance the solar shield would almost have to include solar panels which generated energy and fed it back down to earth, since we would need to make up for the lowered solar energy reaching earth's surface by relaying on far more electrical energy.
A city planet
Take Coruscant, from Star Wars. It's a planet covered entirely by one large, sprawling, complex city. I'm not sure if there's a canonical reference to how high the tallest buildings are, but from the seeing aerial$^1$ views it looks like they're taller than cities on Earth. Taller buildings mean bigger shadows; bigger shadows means more darkness; more darkness means less area on the ground - if any - to collect solar power.
On a planet covered in one city, the upper levels would become rather valuable, and not just as rooms with views. These rooftops would be the only places where you could gather solar power, because they would effectively drown out all other power-collecting locations. If you own a lot of rooftop space, you can generate a lot of electricity.
However, in a city planet, you'd probably have other sources of electricity, so you'd have to eliminate those before solar became the dominant power source. More to the point, could these panels really provide enough electricity to power the whole city? Perhaps, if there are auxiliary power sources that can't meet the population's demands, so solar is needed to fill the energy gap.
Now we have to figure out why solar is the only option. Here's how I'd eliminate the other sources:
Nuclear: No nuclear fuels are found in the planet, and they cannot be synthesized
Fossil fuels: The civilization consumed these long, long, long ago.
Hydropower: The planet is entirely land, which is why it was easy to cover it in a city. Where was the liquid water? There are some novel solutions to that, such as that the first settlers were extraterrestrial colonists.
Wind: The city has disrupted wind patterns around it, and nothing more the breezes can exist. Roof-mounted turbines are expensive and are not feasible because of maintenance issues.
$^1$These same scenes show that some areas are open, allowing light to go through, so Coruscant isn't the best example.
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$\begingroup$ I do think you need to remember that Star Wars was a fantasy, with zero connection to real science. A city planet just doesn't work: if you could somehow build one, that would wipe out the life-support systems, and higher life forms would become extinct. $\endgroup$ – jamesqf Jan 14 '15 at 7:01
$\begingroup$ The example you're looking for is Trantor (or ecumenopolis). Which, IIRC may be the first time a world-wide city was contemplated. $\endgroup$ – user3082 Jan 14 '15 at 7:40
I like the user3082 answer, definitely, make the price cheaper and you in the game.
After you managed how to build big structures in space - no problems with funding, no problems with people, there is a lot to sell: computer power, constructions in space, satellites, deep solar system missions, humans transportation, just plain materials in space. As being first you will get a lot of money from everyone.
But let say, shit happens, you will charge everyone, how to do.
You say, hey, earthlings, you have a problem with climate change, you fear your crops will burn out, the land will be covered by melting water from poles, winter is too harsh or too mild, sweating from hot summer. How lucky you are - call your government now 111-111-111, let them pay us, we will do the job.
So as for climate change countermeasures you establishing structure in L1 (Lagrangian point) which is 1'500'000km (0.01 a.e.) away.
The structure is a pretty big in size - something 14000 km in diameter. It does not have to be massive, and it does not need to be made from metal or be reflective. It can be made from transparent materials too - just focusing light so that it miss the earth - some sort of Fresnel lens maybe from graphene, prisms etc any optics also in the game. Using glass have advantage SiO2 is abundant, it's about 61-65 percent by element composition in the lunar regolith, with 28 percent of Mg, Al, Fe, Ti. So the lunar soil is a good composition for that - mirrors, optics, construction materials.
Let's say average construction is 1 ton per square meter. You have to have some control structures, to be able dim and illuminate different and precise areas of earth, but be not too precise, let say 5km spot is ok.
14000 km diameter, 1 tonne per square meter This is a lot, 1.5386e+14 meters2, let say 1.6e+14
Energy consumption for glass production is around 9 GJ/tonne (from here, page 5), let say 10GJ/tonne
So production of entry construction needs 1.6e+24 J, mostly in form of heat. Probably it will be a reflective variant with a metal coating (easy like so, and optical prisms to compensate or even regulate the spectrum of light.
It is a lot of energy, but what helps is that we need just heat, that simplifies the process a lot. To be able to produce such structure in 1 Year, we need just 317 W of energy per square meter.
Holly moly, I have to recalculate:
10 GJ to produce 1 m2==1 tonne: 1e+10 / 365 / 24 / 3600 == 317.09791983764586504312 W
Very important number actually, specially in comparison with energy we have on earth orbit in space, which is roughly 1350 J/m2/sec or 1350W/m2
It is important because it means, such structure, when supplied with materials, may grow 4 times in surface area per year (4.2573 times actually, efficiency is already included in 10GJ/t, and it may be even better for larger quantities).
It actually may grow even faster because of a second limiting factor, after material supply, is energy collection. And heat collector is simpler structures, roughly speaking just thin foil of any metal available, from lunar soil, hundreds time less in mass and in production energy. Even or basalt-glass coated with metal will be lighter by mass per square meter and less energy to produce.
So exponential grow of our light management structure mostly limited by the speed of exponential grow of energy collector and our ability to get raw materials to that collector-processor for production.
Energy collector construction
Interesting work with glass, as you may see making desired form and complex, may be done simple, and without gravity, way bigger structures, and complex structures may be formed that way. Material for that is abundant, no need to refine, no need to process it chemically. Glass may be reinforced with metal, and other approaches to strengthen glass if needed.
As we need mainly heat, no need in solar panels, no precise machines in huge quantities, complex chemical processes etc, a just sheet of glass, coated with metal, which is evaporated by heat we collect.
Yes, you may have to have metal for actuators, simple processors to guide stuff. Actually, processors are not needed, an old Vacuum tube is ok for all parts. And it's a great excuse for some "miss-happening".
Where is my money
f this, take my money
Forcing to buy energy is a least interesting part, of what you may do, but if you wish:
as part of you care about earth climate and stabilizing temperature, you have to restrict solar energy input to some places. And as climate model is unstable and not linear and depends on bunch of factors, it so happens that our predictions show we have to dim that area, ahh there is your solar array oh so sad, but earth future is important etc etc. If model do not shows say its hardware malfunction, we working on improvements, but you know it's far far away.
You have to realize what it means, to have control over all light to earth.
It means not direct, but control over earth climate. Precise, flexible, fast control over the climate. We may not have good prediction model, if we may predict for a minute it's ok, it's good enough, we may just react and anyway we will get what we will. If you wish 1000 square km frozen in Sahara - it will be so. Wish melt iceberg - 1 sec phh done evaporated. Wish to disinfect large area from bio hazard - ultraviolet 1000000 times more then usual - everything will die in seconds. You wish for the pole to stay frozen, to save Amsterdam - freeze everything around that pole, freeze Gulfstream, make a big new pole in the middle of the pacific ocean(let it be night forever there). Control air flows mean control rain water distribution, and for Agriculture, it is very important.
When it's ready, or even in time of building, you may start to collect money. Forcing isn't interesting, because you will get way more just by doing what peoples like to buy, what they need and ready to pay.
too hot to live - cool down that city. I heard it's a problem in some places in the US as an example. Some places in Saudi Arabia are harsh to live, as I heard, and with global warming they may be too hot to live at all (I do not know true or not, but +45 Celsius in shadow may be a problem) China have problems in some places, specially after building some dam and messing with river flows.
save crops from burn out
restore ozone layer - less cancer less medical treatment save money
solar dependent energy generation - sell them 19 additional hours of sun shine, instead of average 5-6. It makes them 4 times more profitable, faster investment returns.
Illuminate them 2-3-4 times more, and with the spectrum which is most efficient for them - less overall heat more energy production in less surface area. (it will just boost their energy productions 10 times with same equipment, so they may sell it cheaper than anyone - who will not cooperate, will be just out of business)
boost crop productions, extend grow period, create 2 seasons for vegetables to grow. They will get twice crops as usual, or same in less space.
boost fish food grow in oceans - bust fish production.
Just take money from countries, they all have problems which may be solved with control over solar light. Just tax counties by 0.1% of their GDP for climate solving problem. It will be 70'000'000'000 $ per year. For everything else charge separate - I bet it could be done at least 10 times more such way.
Stability in L1.
To keep that structure in L1 reactive mass is not needed. Any perturbation will grow e times (2.718) in 23 days. That is true for a point mass, small objects. It means if the object is off by 1000km from L1 point position, in 23 days it will be off by 2718 km, 23 days later by 7389 km, 20000 km in first 2 months. Farther object is from L1, relatively bigger is the force. L1 is influenced by Venus(something around 300km in 23 days on closest approach), Mars, Jupiter, sun movements and so on.
That is true for this large structure too, but it has more control over that situation. Сounterweights on tethers will help in the situation. It's pretty complex stuff and I haven't calculated it deep enough to make oversimplification from results - but looks doable. Force it self is tiny, in absolute values - so even not strong materials will be ok for that all.
moon mining for building such thing is a separate topic, and probably most tricky part here, doable, but I will probably stop here.
MolbOrgMolbOrg
Google for "artificial space clouds". Several kilos of lithium or barium, or some other alkali metal in upper atmosphere create a cloud a couple of hundreds of kilometers in diameter that take some ten minutes to dissipate and it can scatter up to several percents of the light.
So a sattellite with a gun and a hundred ton of alkali metals on board can block several percents of the light on quite a big area for a long time. Several percents of the light don't sound much but that would be enough for quite a climate change.
Update. That's how it looks
And you have to drop metal in upper levels of atmosphere. In open space it would dissipate in a matter of minutes.
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Why go to all the expense of creating a huge solar shield when you've already got one? Just strap a few enormous rockets to the moon and maneuver it into a geosynchronous orbit! Instant solar eclipse all day, every day.
Now, granted, a solar eclipse is only in totality over a small portion of the Earth, but there's the threat. If anyone refuses to pay up, fire your maneuvering thrusters and place the moon over their state/country and park it there for the summer. After a summer without German beer, I guarantee you Germany will pay whatever price you ask. Start nudging it over toward France once Germany caves and explain to them that champagne doesn't really need to come from Champagne...
But don't stop there! There are some regions that may be willing to pay to have no sunlight for at least a few days per year. Make them pay for shade as well as making them pay for sun!
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$\begingroup$ Wouldn't that have a lot of unintended tidal effects? $\endgroup$ – Twelfth Jan 13 '15 at 23:54
$\begingroup$ More blackmail! >:D $\endgroup$ – IchabodE Jan 14 '15 at 0:00
$\begingroup$ How much energy would it take to move the Moon? That seems more expensive than making a sunshield. $\endgroup$ – user3082 Jan 14 '15 at 6:54
$\begingroup$ To me it's a matter of the raw materials as well as the energy involved. The moon provides the materials for the rocket and the fuel, and it becomes less expensive to move each time you do it. Also, it's hard to be sneaky about sending tens of thousands of rockets from Earth to start the sun-shield construction, whereas it's easy to justify sending mining facility self-assemblers to the moon. $\endgroup$ – IchabodE Jan 14 '15 at 17:35
A planetary scale structure blocking sunlight would be too large to make sense. Generally. However, if the planet is otherwise too close to the star to be habitable, such a structure could have been build by an advanced alien race or a golden age of technology civilization for terraforming. Sunlight payments could then be used to pay for maintenance costs. Which would be very large as it would need constant corrections to avoid colliding with the planet.
But the structure would probably still be controlled by the planetary government, colonial power, or an evil empire. Something vital to global climate would be owned by the "powers that be". Although a temporary situation where "the shell" gets hijacked by some other organization, which then uses it for extortion might be possible. But this really requires technology beyond what you'd probably be comfortable having available to build. The scale is that big.
Otherwise controlling solar power simply means controlling the places solar power could be built or having a monopoly on the necessary technology.
If the society has collapsed and technology is based on "magic artefacts" and "magical rituals" inherited by the Ancients, all available solar cells might be controlled by a single organization that owns the "magic forge" that allows their manufacture and whose inner circle has access to the proper rituals to operate the forge. Similar situation might exist if the technology was acquired from the Gods who came from the Heavens in their flying ships.
If people live inside an artificial structure and the right to go outside is controlled, the one controlling access to the outside would have control over who can operate solar power plants and the people controlling the structure would have control over where people can get their power. Space stations, arcologies, and underground shelters are examples of this.
If a world is advanced enough, all available land or the all the rights to build solar power might be owned. Practically, as people would probably retain rights to install solar power on their own house and property, this would imply a population density high enough that almost everyone would have to live in an apartment complex or arcology.
The simplest explanation would probably be that the organization has so much political influence that it is illegal for others to install or operate solar power. As solar power plants pretty much need to be visible from above in some way and require either large size or advanced technology, this would be enforceable.
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Two Rams make the HBCU Buzz ‘30 Under 30’ list
By Isaiah Green | For WSSU News & Information
Cornell W. Jones, a host and producer for ESPN, stands outside the ESPY Awards.
Montrell "DJ Trellz" Davis performs during the 2017 CIAA Basketball Tournament.
Two young Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) alumni have received national recognition for their work.
Montrell “DJ Trellz” Davis ‘15 and Cornell W. Jones ‘11 were named to the HBCU Buzz “HBCU Top 30 under 30” 2019 class.
Trellz earned a bachelor’s in marketing from WSSU grew his career as a DJ as a student. In 2017, he was named “CIAA DJ of the Year” and also appeared, wearing a throwback basketball jersey of alumnus Stephen A. Smith in a video that aired on ESPN’s “First Take.”
Davis, a native of Whitsett, is a graduate of Eastern Guilford High School. He currently lives in Winston-Salem. Trellz makes it a point to mentor students and continues to DJ for campus events.
Jones, a native of Manassas, Virginia, is a host and producer for ESPN’s of “OffSCenter,” a segment that’s part of the “SportsCenter” franchise. He also does voice-overs of College basketball billboards on ESPN. The mass communications major has interviewed over 50 athletes and celebrities for ESPN, including Kevin Hart, Ice Cube and Mark Whalburg.
At WSSU, Jones made the Dean’s list for seven semesters in a row. He also led the WSSU cross country team to a 2010 CIAA title. He served as Mr. WSSU during the 2010-2011 school year and was also chosen as Mr. HBCU in 2011. In November, he married Vanita Oakes ‘14, a former Miss WSSU and Miss CIAA 2014. The couple and the wedding party made an entrance at their wedding reception to a live performance of the anthem “Get Up,” performed by the Red Sea of Sound.
This is the fifth year HBCU Buzz has selected its “HBCU Top 30 Under 30” class. The list includes HBCU alumni from a variety of industries, including sports, STEM, entertainment, media, business, public service and fashion.
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Emergency responders were evacuating people in Durham, N.C., when a gas explosion killed 1
Posted 11:00 am, April 10, 2019, by Web Staff and CNN Wire, Updated at 10:15AM, April 11, 2019
DURHAM, N.C. – The cars near the site of a gas explosion that killed one person in Durham, North Carolina, on Wednesday look like they’ve been in accidents.
Windows are blown out. Air bags are deployed. Some have dents and dings. The roads are awash in glass, so much so they glisten. The air reeks of dust and pollen.
Some 60 emergency responders and cleanup people are on the scene of the blast, which happened hours earlier after someone smelled gas.
Wednesday night, officials disclosed that the man who was killed was Kong Lee, the 61-year-old owner of the Kaffeinate coffee shop.
Authorities said 17 people, including a firefighter, were hospitalized. Six people were critically wounded, said Lee VanVleet of Durham County Emergency Medical Services. Eight of the injured are employees of Duke University, school President Vincent E. Price said.
Emergency responders were evacuating the area when the blast erupted, Durham Fire Chief Robert Zoldos said.
The blast occurred just after 10 a.m. in the busy area of Brightleaf Square, where people grab a morning coffee and visit other shops. A contractor boring under the sidewalk hit a 2-inch gas line, said Durham police spokesman Wil Glenn.
The search-and-rescue mission has given way to a cleanup operation. Workers were using heavy-duty backpack blowers to clear debris on the ground and firefighters were spraying the remaining hot spots with water.
One of the critically injured patients was taken to the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center in Chapel Hill, VanVleet said. A Dominion Energy employee who responded to the initial gas leak was among the injured, police said.
The firefighter’s injuries are serious but not life-threatening, Zoldos said. He was in surgery, the chief said.
Authorities asked people to avoid the Brightleaf Square area and warned that parts of downtown will be closed, possibly for a couple of days, as they conduct their investigation.
Maverick’s Smokehouse & Taproom, though closed to the public, brought in employees to help feed the emergency crews.
Sounded like a bomb, office worker says
A witness described a scene like a war zone, with first responders scrambling to ferry injured people to safety after the blast.
“Half the block is destroyed,” Jim Rogalski told CNN via text message. “Lots of injuries. Our office across the street was blown out. It was terrifying. Glass and debris everywhere. No one killed in our office but several injuries — deep cuts, head lacerations.”
“The ceiling tiles and structures collapse(d),” added Rogalski, whose workplace is across the street from where the blast occurred. “Windows blown out a block away. Our office was filled with glass, dust and debris.”
A human resources employee told Rogalski and his co-workers that authorities were investigating a gas leak across the street and they should remain inside. About 15 minutes later, they heard what sounded like a bomb, he told CNN.
“The first second was stunned silence, then lots of scream(ing) in the building. Several of us shouted, ‘Is anyone hurt?'” he recalled. “The injured were quickly taken to an exit.”
Another person who works nearby said firefighters entered his building and told employees that workers had hit a gas line, and “we heard the big explosion right after they told us they may evacuate us.”
The blast shook the structure and blew out its windows, said the witness, who declined to give his name.
“It sounded like the building was going to collapse, and we left immediately,” he said.
Police arrived quickly, within about a minute, Rogalski said, and he went outside to find throngs of people and paramedics trying to help the injured. Firefighters soon arrived and pushed everyone back about four blocks in case of another explosion, he said.
“Paramedics pulled writhing people on the street to safety,” he said, adding that he saw bystanders using their own shirts to treat injuries.
The Durham School of the Arts is nearby and reported no injuries but said it was sending students home early. Students without transportation will be taken to the Brogden Middle School auditorium to wait for their parents, the school said.
The building where the blast occurred is a former Studebaker dealership that now appears to host other businesses, including a coffee shop and a mental health clinic. Aerial video showed the two-story building missing its roof and back wall, the inside filled with charred debris.
Four other buildings were damaged, officials said. The city observed the 150th anniversary of its founding on Wednesday.
Update: Duke Hospital is preparing to triage people as a result of the explosion. Traffic along Emergency Drive is limited to emergency vehicles only. https://t.co/bnFTAmHci6
— Working@Duke (@WorkingatDuke) April 10, 2019
A gas explosion has occurred at 115 N. Duke St. Duke St. from Chapel Hill Rd. to Morgan St. is closed. AVOID the area. pic.twitter.com/9UdKMiKx7h
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Beach info for Point Pleasant Beach
JENKINSON'S BEACH: Just under a mile long, running from the Manasquan Inlet south to the amusement rides around Trenton Avenue. You can walk the boards for free and treat yourself to an array of fast food, arcades and various rides.
COST: Season: $95, $70 for seniors, $50 for children 5 to 11. Half-season (Memorial Day to July 31 or Aug. 1 to Labor Day): $70, $35 for children 5 to 11. Daily: $9 weekdays, $10 weekends and holidays, $3 daily for children, free for children 4 and younger. Season rates include access to beach and bathhouse. Ramp to the beach and wheelchair available. Group rates available.
AMENITIES: Beach chairs and umbrellas available for rent. Admission to the aquarium is $14, $9 for patrons 65 and older, $8 for children 3 to 12; free for children 2 and younger.
LIFEGUARDS: On duty at Jenkinson’s Beach from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through the weekend after Labor Day when the beach is open, weather permitting.
An APP photographer captured a romantic marriage proposal at sunrise in Point Pleasant. Ryan Ross and Joe Strupp, Asbury Park Press
Martell's Beach, off Central Avenue, 308-310 Boardwalk
COST: Season: $125. Daily: $9 Tuesdays to Fridays, $10 Saturdays to Mondays, free for children 12 and under with an adult.
AMENITIES: Beach chairs cost $5. Restrooms are inside the complex, which features a tiki bar and full-service restaurant. No coolers permitted.
Bradshaw's Beach, at the foot of Washington Avenue
COST: Season: $100. Daily: $10 ($5 for police, fire or EMS). Children under 3 are free. Active or veteran military members are free with ID.
AMENITIES: Outdoor showers and porta potties available.
Maryland Avenue Beach, at the foot of Maryland Avenue
COST: Season: $100, $65 for seniors. Daily: $10 ($5 for police, fire or EMS). Children 12 and younger admitted free with an adult. Active or veteran military members are free with ID.
PARKING: Point Pleasant Beach has both free and paid parking. The free parking in the streets is very limited and is on streets that run perpendicular to the beach. All other streets have metered parking. There are a couple municipal lots where tickets may be purchased at kiosks. There are also various privately owned lots that have prices that vary.
INFORMATION: Jenkinson’s Boardwalk, 732-892-0600; Martell’s, 732-892-0131; Jenkinson’s Aquarium, 732-899-1212
Swimmers jump the waves at Jenkinson's Beach in Point Pleasant Beach. (Photo: Peter Ackerman/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Beach info for Point Pleasant Borough
River Avenue beach, Maxson Avenue beach
COST: Season: $20 (ages 6 to 59), $10 (ages 60+). Daily: $3 (ages 6 to 59), $1 (ages 60+). Free admission for children 5 and under. Free admission for active or retired military with ID. Season badges can be purchased at Tax Assessor's office in Borough Hall on Bridge Avenue, daily badges purchased at either beach.
LIFEGUARDS: On duty 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily during the summer. Beaches are open from June 22 to Sept. 22.
PARKING: Free on the streets, but space is limited. River Avenue beach has a small parking lot available for free.
AMENITIES: The beaches have playgrounds and showers. No flotation devices are permitted. The beaches are wheelchair accessible. Maxson Beach and River Avenue Beach are one block apart on the Manasquan River. Restrooms available when the lifeguards are on duty.
B2 Bistro & Bar: 709 Arnold Ave. 732-295-0709. Casual/American. AE, D, MC, V. (H); b2bistro.com
The Ark Pub & Eatery: 401 Sea Ave., Route 35 North. 732-295-1122. Seafood/American. AE, D, MC, V. (H); thearkpubandeatery.com
Boardwalk Bar and Grill: 401 Boardwalk. 732-714-2241. American. AE, MC, V. (H); jenkinsons.com
Lobster mac and cheese at Red's Lobster Pot. (Photo: COURTESY OF MARISA TANNER)
Broadway Bar & Grill: 106 Randall Ave. 732-899-3272. American/seafood/Italian. AE, D, MC, V. (H)
Europa South: 521 Arnold Ave. 732-295-1500. Spanish/Portuguese. AE, MC, V. europasouth.com
Frankie’s: 414 Richmond Ave. (Route 35 South). 732-892-6000. American. AE, D, MC, V. (H); frankiesbarandgrille.com
Jack Baker’s Lobster Shanty: 83 Channel Drive. 732-899-6700. Seafood/American. AE, D, MC, V. (H); jackbakerslobstershanty.com
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Jack Baker’s Wharfside Restaurant and Patio Bar: 101 Channel Drive. 732-892-9100. Seafood/American. AE, D, MC, V. (H); wharfsidenjcom
Jenkinson’s Pavilion Bar and Restaurant: 300 Boardwalk. 732-899-0569, ext. 147. American. AE, MC, V. (H); jenkinsons.com
Joe Leone’s Italian Specialties: 510 Route 35 South. 732-701-0001. Italian market. D, MC, V. (H); joeleones.com
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Kali-O’s Juice Box: 627 Arnold Ave. 848-232-4297. Fresh juice/smoothies/smoothie bowls. AE, D, MC, V. (H); kaliosjuicebox.com
Local Urban Kitchen: 1805 Route 35. 848-232-3451. Organic breakfast/lunch. AE, D, MC, V. (H); localurbankitchen.com
White truffle mac and cheese at The River Market in Point Pleasant Beach. (Photo: Doug Hood Staff Photographer, Gannett)
Marlin’s Café: 1901 Ocean Ave. 732-714-8035. Continental. AE, D, MC, V. (H); marlinscafe.net
Martell’s Tiki Bar: 308-310 Boardwalk. 732-892-0131. Continental/American. AE, MC, V. (H); tikibar.com
Prime 13: 710 Arnold Ave. 732-202-6483. Seafood/steak/wood-fire grill. AE, D, MC, V. (H); .prime-13.com
Red’s Lobster Pot: 7 Inlet Drive. 732-295-6622. Seafood. AE, D, MC, V. (H); redslobsterpot.com
River Market: 522 Bay Ave. 732-451-2808. New American AE, D, MC, V. rivermarketpointpleasantbeach.com
The Poached Pear Bistro: 816 Arnold Ave. 732-701-1700. Innovative American. AE, D, MC, V. (H); poachedpearbistro.com.
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Shipwreck Point: 20 Inlet Drive. 732-899-3800. AE, D, MC, V. (H); shipwreckpointsteakhouse.com
Shrimp Box: 75 Inlet Drive. 732-899-1637. Seafood. AE, D, MC, V. (H); theshrimpbox.com
Spike’s Fish Market and Seafood Restaurant: 415 Broadway. 732-295-9400. Seafood. AE, D, MC, V. (H)
Surf Taco: 1300 Route 35 South. 732-701-9000. Coastal. AE, MC, V. (H); surftaco.com
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5 Habits Of Highly Desirable Women
By Monica Parikh
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-20188/5-habits-of-highly-desirable-women.html
Last week, I had an illuminating conversation with one of my clients, Ken. A surgeon with a thriving practice in New York City, Ken has the good looks of a Hollywood actor, and the down-to-earth charm of a Midwesterner. Unsurprisingly, people adore him.
Despite the sheer number of eligible women who find themselves smitten, Ken still finds himself yearning for what he describes as a “cool” woman.
“How do you define that?" I asked. "What would make you settle down?”
“I'd love a woman with a strong sense of herself. Someone who reads interesting books. And has strong opinions. Someone who is a little weird — a unique person. Finding someone ‘cool’ is much harder than you would imagine.”
It made me wonder: Are there certain traits that fuel desire?
I turned to my good friends Carolyn Byrne (a matrimonial attorney) and Aimee Hartstein (a relationship therapist), as they have witnessed hundreds of relationships progress from dating to marriage.
Together, we compiled the traits of certain women who seem to rack up a long line of suitors (and/or usually have a partner who is completely smitten). Below are the (uncommon) traits these enviable women share:
1. They don't rush into sex (especially not with people they don't know well).
Cool women enjoy sex, but prefer to wait if they are looking for serious commitment. Far from being constrained by “The Rules,” they understand that when introduced too soon, sex comes at a heavy price.
“Sex releases Oxytocin — the body’s love drug. Many of my female clients have sex early and the release of chemicals has them mistaking a virtual stranger for their ‘perfect match.’ This illusion typically ends in devastation,” said Aimee the marital therapist.
Cool women see dating as an opportunity to evaluate different suitors, which necessitates a certain detachment and level-headedness. By putting sex on the backburner, these women can also distinguish between men looking for a relationship versus those just looking for a good time. Cool women are in no rush to move quickly, and aren’t pressured by anyone's impatience.
2. They are passionate — about their own lives.
Cool women do not cling to or suffocate their partners. They understand that men enhance their lives, but are not their lives.
“I often wonder whether a client really needs a dissolution of their marriage or instead a dismantling of their co-dependency. People benefit from separate interests and time apart, so that they can fuel their individual aspirations and appreciate coming together again,” said Carolyn Byrne the matrimonial attorney.
Whereas many women mistakenly merge their lives with their partner’s in hopes of greater closeness, cool women understand that independence actually fuels desire. Take, for example, a girlfriend who leaves her spouse annually to mountain climb around the world. Her husband brags about her fearlessness and counts down the days until her return home.
Cool women don’t waste time gossiping or worrying about the latest carb-free diet. They are busy milking life for all it’s worth and rarely lack for a funny story based on their own experience. These women have separate careers, interests, and/or bank accounts.
3. They are emotionally stable and resilient.
Cool women are overwhelmingly agreeable and content, reserving their anger for when it’s truly necessary.
“Most of us have had a job with a demanding and nitpicking boss,” said Aimee the relationship therapist. “Although these workplaces are dreadful, many unwittingly create the same type of atmosphere at home through constant nagging, fighting and drama — especially over small slights. For a relationship to be welcoming, love, support, and appreciation must be at the forefront.”
Cool women understand that happiness emanates from within, as opposed to an external source. They create stability by tending to their emotional needs from a variety of sources, thereby lessening the pressure on their partner. They spend time with girlfriends. They take classes that fuel their passions. They exercise regularly to burn off stress. Cool women inherently understand that a balanced life equals a happier relationship.
4. They know their boundaries, and aren't afraid to communicate them.
Cool women aren’t afraid to speak up, even if it ruffles a few feathers.
A male friend once dated a woman who would clean his house after sex ... and would do so naked. When he told this story for the first time to his (now) current girlfriend, she looked him dead in the eye and said, “That’s never happening with me. So, don’t even think about it.” Guess with whom he is head over heels in love? Yup:the woman who set boundaries with him.
Doormats don’t fuel desire. Cool women are not difficult or high-maintenance, but do expect a certain standard of treatment and aren’t afraid to voice their needs. By making their boundaries known, they attract partners who are deeply respectful and courteous.
5. They don't put the cart before the horse.
In a world that overwhelmingly pressures women to conform -- what to eat, how much to weigh, when to marry and have children — cool women march to the beat of their own drum. They are worried less about arriving at a certain destination, and more about their companion for the ride.
“It’s incredibly devastating to wake up mid-life and realize that your life choices do not reflect you, but were merely an effort to keep up with the expectations of friends, family and society. I have many clients going through divorce who regret not putting more forethought into their choice of partner, as it’s the greatest predictor of lifelong happiness,” said Carolyn the matrimonial attorney.
Cool girls take their relationship day by day, evaluating how their partner treats them along the way. They would rather be with the right partner than any partner.
And by the way, I reviewed this list with Ken, the eligible bachelor. He couldn’t agree more.
For further insight and to receive “25 Questions to Rate a Potential Partner” click here. And to join our Facebook community, click here.
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The Z Axis International Conference to Explore "Great City, Terrible Place" in India
00:00 - 7 December, 2014
Courtesy of The Z Axis
Curated by the Charles Correa Foundation, the Z Axis is an annual conference bringing together pioneers, thought leaders, influencers, professionals, and students in the fields of architecture and urban design to create an intellectual community focused on issues related to the context of India and the developing world. Fifteen speakers will gather from across the globe to explore the theme of Great City…Terrible Place, including Charles Correa, David Adjaye, Alfredo Brillembourg of Urban Think Tank, Spain's "guerrilla architect" Santiago Cirugeda, Simone Sfriso of Studio TAM Associati and more.
"To [most people], the most important quality a city can have is not actually visual at all. It is: SYNERGY! - a multiplier that transforms society into much more than the sum of its parts," says Charles Correa. Citing the seductive myth of the Mediterranean "City Beautiful" ideal, Correa proposes instead that the overwhelming influx of rural migrants into urban centers of the developing world demonstrates that "people have to choose... and that’s when they almost always opt for a great City – even though it might simultaneously be a terrible place." The conference seeks to explore in depth the broader questions of what truly makes a city great, and how to design solutions to meet the complex challenges facing cities of the developing world.
The program invites professionals and meritorious students to participate and attend the conference, which will be held in the Kala Academy in Panaji, Goa. Taking place between March 20-22, the conference concludes with the Climactic Session, a conversation between the iconic Charles Correa, Balkrishna Doshi, Mahendra Raj, and Raj Rewal. Three architects and an engineer who "scripted the architecture of an independent India," these individuals will discuss the their thoughts and hopes for the opportunities and creative potential of the country today. For more details about the event, visit the page here.
The Z Axis International Conference
http://zaxis.info
Charles Correa Foundation
Kala Academy
Dayanand Bandodkar Marg, Campal Panjim, Goa 403001
Sadia Quddus
Events Charles CorreaBalkrishna DoshiRaj RewalMahendra RajPratyush ShankarRyan LoboMadhura PrematillekeBrinda SomayaPrem ChandavarkarRahul MehrotraAlfredo BrillembourgUsman HaqueChristopher BenningerSantiago CirugedaSimone SfrisoKunlé AdeyemiDavid AdjayeTon VenhoevenPeter Bishop
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